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Shelf Awareness for Monday, May 23, 2016
Toadstool Bookshop in Keene, N.H., Moving
The Toadstool Bookshop in Keene, N.H., is moving, likely at the end of July, to new quarters at Main and Emerald Street in the former McCues Building, the store said on Facebook.
The new site offers "more room and our own parking lot with plenty of free and convenient parking spaces." Toadstool also wants to have a café in the space and is looking for someone to run it.
Toadstool has stores in Milford and Peterborough, too. Its Keene store is currently in the Colony Mill Marketplace.
Waterstones to Sell E-books via Kobo
U.K. bookseller Waterstones will stop selling e-books directly on its website and instead sell through Kobo, the Bookseller reported. Waterstones will notify customers of the change starting June 14 and explain how Waterstones digital libraries can be transferred to Kobo's platform.
Waterstones managing director James Daunt said Kobo will provide customers "seamless continuity, and ultimately an excellence of service we ourselves are unable to match." Last year he told the Bookseller that Waterstones had "no presence in e-books" and wouldn't try to acquire an e-book platform, something it had earlier tried in connection with Tesco's Blinkbox, a deal that failed.
Rakuten Kobo CEO Michael Tamblyn said: "We are pleased to be working with Waterstones, where we can help a great print retailer by supporting their customers who also love to read digitally."
Last October, Waterstones also stopped selling Amazon Kindles in most of its stores. Daunt said at the time that sales were "pitiful" and that the display space could be put to better use.
BISG's Making Information Pay's Indie Accent
The Book Industry Study Group's Making Information Pay summit, to be held this coming Thursday, May 26, in New York City, focuses on "publishers making a profit by making a difference"--how embracing corporate social responsibility can improve operational efficiency, reduce risk exposure, increase innovation, encourage staff loyalty and greatly improve bottom lines.
The first session--Books on the Ground: The Long-Term Benefits of Meeting Readers in Real Life--focuses on a subject close to our hearts, independent bookstores, and aims to remind publishers "why connecting with present and future readers 'on-the-ground' where they work, live, play and shop is vital to the long-term success of both the industry and the communities we serve." Moderated by Shelf Awareness editor-in-chief John Mutter, the panel features three amazing booksellers: Jessica Stockton Bagnulo, co-owner of Greenlight Bookstore, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Margot Sage-EL, owner of Watchung Booksellers, Montclair, N.J.; and Suzy Staubach, longtime general books division manager at the UConn Coop Bookstore, Storrs, Conn.
Obituary Notes: Susan J. Tolchin; Robert W. Gutman
Susan J. Tolchin, a political scientist "who explored the workings of political patronage, women in politics and, most presciently, the electoral power of voter anger in several popular books, most of them written with her husband, Martin Tolchin," died May 18, the New York Times reported. She was 75. Their books include To the Victor...: Political Patronage from the Clubhouse to the White House; Pinstripe Patronage: Political Favoritism from the Clubhouse to the White House... and Beyond; and Glass Houses: Congressional Ethics & the Politics of Venom.
Robert W. Gutman, whose influential biographies Richard Wagner: The Man, His Mind & His Music (1968) and Mozart: A Cultural Biography (1999) "helped upend popularly held ideas about both composers' lives," died May 13, the New York Times reported. He was 90.
Paul Currie: Taking Foyles Farther into the Future
Paul Currie
"I see ourselves really as a lifestyle retailer rather than a high street library," Paul Currie, CEO of Foyles, the famous London bookshop with six locations in England, said in a recent interview. "The days of bookshops being libraries on the high street or libraries in a mall are gone. Reading is now a lifestyle statement."
Before being appointed CEO of Foyles in April 2015, Currie was chief operating officer at Hamleys toy store and global v-p of retail sales and operations for cosmetics company Molton Brown.
"It's a very different animal, but it has the same principles," said Currie on the switch from toys and cosmetics to book retailing. "You buy something, you sell something. You make a margin. You invest that margin back into the business."
Foyles' flagship store.
Foyles, once an old-school English bookshop, has made major changes over the past decade under previous CEO Sam Husain, who began modernizing the company and in 2014 led the move of the flagship Charing Cross Road location into a "bookshop of the future."
Under Currie, the company is making more strides--taking the bookshop of the future farther into the future, with initiatives that range from merging online and in-store operations and having staff use digital devices on the floor to managing operations costs and buying more efficiently. There's also a new emphasis on customer service that takes an unusual approach.
"[Customer service] was something we thought we did [well] but really, when you analyzed the situation, we weren't," explained Currie. Booksellers spent too much time behind the till, shelving and ordering--and not talking to customers, he said. "We were reversing into type, which was very task driven retail service--shelving, shelving, shelving. And we thought that was service."
He named Janette Cross, a long-time Foyles employee, head of customer experience, and Cross created a system for training all Foyles employees, booksellers and otherwise, in customer service. The system, called Project Barnum, divides bookstore customers into a few general categories, teaches booksellers how to spot them and what kind of service best suits each type of customer.
"There may be customers who come in and say [through body language] leave me alone until I'm ready," Currie offered as an example of one category of customer. "There will be the other type of customer, who is something like me, who needs help immediately.... And then there's another type of customer, our extremely loyal customer, who would live in this store if they had the chance."
In the past, Currie continued, Foyles booksellers may not have recognized these different sorts of customers and that they needed different types of service. Currie added that Barnum "helps us deliver a greater, more bespoke tailored service to our customers, and therefore engage more customers."
Another of Currie's major, early initiatives was overhauling Foyles' online operations. Before his arrival, Currie said, Foyles was "quite a siloed operation," with the company's Internet and e-commerce business effectively at odds with its core in-store business. The online store discounted deeply, had different price structures than the physical stores and a separate marketing strategy. Currie recalled that customers would ask booksellers why they were selling the same books online for 40% or even 50% less than in stores. "Basically they were saying, are you ripping me off?"
The Internet business was losing a lot of money, and to correct that, Currie "harmonized" in-store and online prices and integrated online and physical marketing as well as online and physical buying. With everything now under one roof, Currie said, in-store teams now feel comfortable referring customers to the Foyles e-commerce site if a specific book is not in store. Looking ahead, Currie said he believes that the future of Foyles is to share its e-commerce platform across all parts of the business.
"We work holistically as one business now, but multi-channel," said Currie. "That has plugged a massive loss in our internet business, brought all of our trading divisions together, and removed the confusion the customers had."
The newest Foyles, in Birmingham.
The newest Foyles opened in Birmingham, England's second-largest city, last September. It is a 4,000-square-foot store, in Birmingham's central train station. This new branch, Currie explained, marks a "new chapter" in the company's business, one that fuses Foyles' physical and digital operations.
"I said, let's use this as a model store," recalled Currie. "Let's distill all of our ideas into one place."
Project Barnum was invented in Birmingham and first employed there for both recruitment and staff training. The store is peppered with video screens, on which customers can watch a plethora of video content developed by publishers to complement the physical books. Also created and implemented at the Birmingham store was the path system, in which every bookseller is equipped with a digital device that can be used to search that store's inventory as well as the entire Foyles database, and carry out transactions.
By July of this year, Foyles will roll out the path system and digital devices into its other stores, and has already begun integrating video screens and Barnum training. Currie intends also to refocus on social media, relaunch the Foyles newsletter as more of a digital magazine and revamp the loyalty program. And later this year Foyles will open another location, in Chelmsford, a city of about 110,000 people some 30 miles northeast of London.
Despite his plans to integrate digital and physical operations and his belief that this is the future of Foyles, Currie is adamant that he has no intention of taking people off the sales floor, of using technology to de-staff.
"It goes across all of our channels: we are investing in people," said Currie. --Alex Mutter
Image of the Day: Brooklyn Children's Authors
On Saturday, May 21, the Brooklyn Public Library hosted Spring into Stories, a Children's Author & Illustrator Festival, as part of the 75th anniversary celebration for the Central Library. All the participating artists live in Brooklyn. Pictured (l.-r.): Brian Floca, Mike Curato, Misako Rocks!, Nina Crews, Selina Alko, Sean Qualls, Sophie Blackall, Kate Milford, Rita Meade.
Detroit's Pages Bookshop: 'An Oasis'
Pages Bookshop hosted the latest episode of the Detroit Free Press podcast Detours: "The store has been in business for one year this month, and owner Susan Murphy talks about the shop's neighborhood vibe and regular series of author events, many of them spun from Detroit-connected books."
"It is a nice place. This is an oasis for sure," said co-host and arts journalist Rob St. Mary.
"It's been great," Murphy said of her first year in business. "The neighborhoods are very supportive. And it's a very tight-knit community as well. But the sales have been right where I wanted them to be."
Taschen Library Sells at Auction for $2.7 Million
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A "Taschen library," containing 444 Taschen books, including 60 Collector's Editions, sold for for $2.7 million Thursday night at a gala auction in Cap d'Antibes, France, to benefit amfAR, held during the Cannes Film Festival as part of Cinema Against AIDS.
The library is housed in a glass-walled pavilion designed by Jean Prouvé and includes Sebastião Salgado: Genesis, launched in conjunction with the touring exhibition, the SUMO-sized Annie Leibovitz, and an edition of Taschen's long sold-out Helmut Newton SUMO, a gift from Benedikt Taschen's private collection.
The Taschen bid was part of a total of more than $25 million that was raised for amfAR's AIDS research programs, dedicated to advances in HIV prevention, treatment and care.
Michael Martens Leaving Dark Horse
Effective August 30, Michael Martens, v-p, trade sales, at Dark Horse, is leaving the company. He told icv2.com, "Late last year I had one of those 'how did I get here' moments. I've been here 22 years, and I've been working for 34 years in the comics industry. It dawned on me that there were some other things I wanted to do both professionally and personally."
He added: "Professionally I want to continue working with publishers, on a contract or consulting basis. It doesn't have to be in graphic novels. I've fallen in love with the book trade and the people; I like book people because they read and support the First Amendment."
Martens has been instrumental in building the book market for Dark Horse and most recently was deeply involved in the company's move to distribution by Penguin Random House. Before Dark Horse, he worked for 12 years at Capital City Distribution.
Book Trailer of the Day: Blue Man World
Blue Man World (Black Dog & Leventhal), the first book by the Blue Man Group, on the occasion of its 25th anniversary.
Media Heat: Gov. John Hickenlooper on CBS This Morning
Today Show: J. Kenji López-Alt, author of The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science (Norton, $49.95, 9780393081084).
CBS This Morning: Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper, co-author of The Opposite of Woe: My Life in Beer and Politics (Penguin Press, $30, 9781101981672). He was also appear tonight on Late Night with Seth Meyers.
Fresh Air: Susan Silverman, author of Casting Lots: Creating a Family in a Beautiful, Broken World (Da Capo, $24.99, 9780306824616).
Dr. Oz: Joe Wicks, author of Lean in 15: 15-Minute Meals and Workouts to Keep You Lean and Healthy (Morrow, $24.99, 9780062493668).
Good Morning America: Andi Dorfman, author of It's Not Okay: Turning Heartbreak into Happily Never After (Gallery, $25, 9781501132469). She will also appear on Entertainment Tonight.
Live with Kelly: Tanya Altmann, author of What to Feed Your Baby: A Pediatrician's Guide to the 11 Essential Foods to Guarantee Veggie-Loving, No-Fuss, Healthy-Eating Kids (HarperOne, $17.99, 9780062404947).
Diane Rehm: Barry Meier, author of Missing Man: The American Spy Who Vanished in Iran (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27, 9780374210458).
Meredith Vieira: Jonathan Scott and Drew Scott, authors of Dream Home: The Property Brothers' Ultimate Guide to Finding & Fixing Your Perfect House (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $30, 9780544715677).
Also on Meredith Vieira: Bethenny Frankel, author of I Suck at Relationships So You Don't Have to: 10 Rules for Not Screwing Up Your Happily Ever After (Touchstone, $16, 9781451667424).
NPR's the Takeaway: Basma Abdel Aziz, author of The Queue (Melville House, $15.95, 9781612195162).
Awards: SCBWI Crystal Kites
The Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators announced winners of the 2016 Crystal Kite Member Choice Awards for 15 regional divisions. The prizes are a regional complement to SCBWI's annual Golden Kite Awards. The Crystal Kites are chosen by other children's book writers and illustrators. This year's Crystal Kite regional division winners are:
Atlantic: Ada Byron Lovelace & the Thinking Machine by Laurie Wallmark, illustrated by April Chu
Australia/N.Z.: A is for Australia by Frané Lessac; and Blue Whale Blues by Peter Carnavas
California/Hawaii: Under a Painted Sky by Stacey Lee
Canada: A Brush Full of Colour by Margriet Ruurs
International Other: The Safest Lie by Angela Cerrito
Mid-South: Top Secret Files of History--WWII by Stephanie Bearce
Middle East/India/Asia: The Adventures of Squirky the Alien #3: Who is the Red Commander? by Melanie Lee, illustrated by David Liew
Midwest: Wherever You Go by Pat Zietlow Miller, illustrated by Eliza Wheeler
New England: Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
New York: The Truth About Twinkie Pie by Kat Yeh
Southeast: Outer Space Bedtime Race by Rob Sanders, illustrated by Brian Won
Southwest: Audacity by Melanie Crowder
Texas/Oklahoma: Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton by Don Tate
U.K./Ireland: Mind Games by Teri Terry
West: If You Ever Want to Bring an Alligator to School, DON'T! by Elise Parsley
Sherman Alexie: The Sacred and the Profane
Sherman Alexie is a poet, short story writer, novelist, filmmaker, performer and winner of the National Book Award for Young People's Literature for The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Little, Brown). His debut picture book is Thunder Boy Jr. (Little, Brown, May 10, 2016), illustrated by Yuyi Morales. A Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, Alexie grew up in Wellpinit, Wash., on the Spokane Indian Reservation and now lives in Seattle with his family. Here, he talks with Shelf Awareness about Mork & Mindy, scaring his sister, cultural chameleons and his path to writing young people's literature.
I think it's safe to say at this point that you've chosen to be a storyteller in life. When you were growing up, were you surrounded by people who liked to tell stories?
I was surrounded by a couple types of storytellers. Those in the more traditional tribal mode, like my grandmother, who told a lot of old stories--not just ceremonial stories, but really reached back into the past for mythology and spirituality. And then I was also surrounded by, you know, alcoholic entertainers. My dad was hilarious and would go on and on about all the stuff that happened to him when he was a kid growing up, and as an adult. So I guess I was surrounded by sacred traditional storytellers and profane liars.
I was also coming of age with American stand-up comedy. The golden age was the mid-'70s through the mid-'80s. So, having the TV on meant you learned storytelling comic rhythm. So, all that was combined. I think I'm as much a product of Mork & Mindy as I was of powwow.
Did you always have a way with words?
Uh, yeah... he says as he stutters. But I think it's part of tribal communication, certainly in the Native American world. They are incredibly quick-witted folks. My sisters who were not that academically gifted can just destroy me in arguments. They can just slap me up and down. I grew up in a highly verbal environment. Very funny, very caustic. So you had to become adept with language, spoken language, or just stay home.
Did you have people who encouraged you to write?
My big sister always thought I was going to be a writer. She read a few of my papers when I was in third or fourth grade and said, "Oh! You're going to be a writer." Once I wrote her a story about her trailer house being haunted. And it scared her so much that she never wanted me to write her another one.
Haunted by... ghosts?
By skeletons. Yeah. Trailer-house hallways are narrow, so when the skeletons are walking down towards her room they're brushing the walls and making a squeaking noise, and so I wrote on the page Skweee! Skwee! Skwee! For years afterwards I could scare her by making that noise: Skwee! Skwee! Skwee!
Do your own kids have a tie to their heritage?
Yeah, they have a tie to that, they have a tie to everything we are. What I'd like to hope is that I kept more good stuff than bad from my heritage. And I hope my kids do the same thing. I mean, they're standard Commie leftie Seattleites. You know how that is.
Do they seek out books by Native American authors?
They read what they want. They pick out their own books. Going with the theme of Thunder Boy. I mean, I've done my best and their mom has done her best to let them find their own name. I think all too often family and tribal tradition is just synonymous with wanting your kid to be like you. Trying to control destiny. And I try not to do that. I'm sure if you asked my kids, they'd tell you I fail, I try.
How old are they now?
18 and 15.
Sherman Alexie takes Thunder Boy, Jr. to the Galloway School in Atlanta, Ga., on May 18, at an event arranged by Little Shop of Stories.
I remember you saying to a crowd of teens in Seattle that books saved your life.
Oh yeah. Well, there's no guaranteed pathway out of poverty, out of social oppression. Nobody around you knows how, nobody has gone that way before. And what you have to start doing is imagining yourself in a different place, imagining yourself as a different person. And the way you begin to do that is to read. I couldn't afford to experience the world. I couldn't go places. So, books were the cheapest, easiest way to transport myself into other people's realities, which enabled me to start thinking about changing my own reality.
What's it been like visiting Native American schools?
I think because my career has become so strange and huge and because I'm on Colbert and stuff, Native people are surprised when they meet me, how Native I am. I think they probably expect me to be much more assimilated. Culturally, racially, geographically. So I think one of the delightful things that happens when I visit Indian schools is when I go into my full-on Indian mode and I sound like their uncles. It narrows the distance between us. It opens up their possibilities. To think somebody who grew up pretty much the way they're growing up now has become who I am. Once they realize how much I am like them I think it gives the stories more power. I love it when anybody reads my books. But when kids like me, when some indigenous kid reads my books and identifies, there is something more powerful about that.
What is your "full-on Indian mode?"
The action, the idioms, everything changes. It's subtle. By and large Natives are not so overtly different from white folks in the way we move through the world. Because there are so few of us, we have far more extensive assimilation skills than a lot of other ethnic groups. Because we don't belong anywhere, with any community. White, brown, black, whatever. We don't belong, so we have to constantly be assimilating. I think we're cultural chameleons. We are spies in the house of ethnicity. Everybody tells us their secrets. And everybody loves us.
That's a good position for a storyteller to be in.
From the right wing to the left wing. We're beloved for all sorts of romantic, stereotypical reasons. There's nothing sadder than a non-Native who actually gets to know us and realizes that we're just as awful as everybody else. We're exactly as awful... and only as good.
You said earlier that people were surprised by how unassimilated you are. That surprises me.
Well, that's because I'm talking to you. And we're speaking in the dominant culture's mode. We're speaking Shelf Awareness vocabulary.
Speaking of that mode, as you well know there's a lot of consciousness-raising going on in the children's lit community--and nationally--about issues of diversity. I read in the Horn Book blog that Mary Hoffman and Caroline Binch's bestselling Amazing Grace was reissued for its 25th anniversary without its original 1991 illustration of an African American girl dressing up as Hiawatha.
Oh wow. That strikes me as going too far. I mean, you either publish the book as it is or you don't publish the book. Oh, man. That strikes me as liberal censorship. What would we say if a conservative press pulled something disturbing to them out of a book, a classic? My response is, don't publish that, publish something new, damn it! With the amount of money they're putting into that book they could probably publish five new books! If you want to pull that Hiawatha image, then why not publish five Native American books with no stereotypical images whatsoever? I am disturbed by the removal of an image from an original book. Even though it's my side of the political fence doing it. But that doesn't mean I have to agree with it. I empathize with the political argument, but it's censorship. I have no more patience with liberal censors than I have with conservative censors.
Does anyone ever approach you about making the Absolutely True Diary movie?
Constantly. Whenever Hollywood starts talking to me I feel like they want me to sign a treaty. I feel very 19th century. And it always seems like such a contradiction. I feel like the most liberal business in the world, Hollywood, is also being the most colonial. I haven't worked there in quite a few years. That contradiction drives me away, keeps me away.
You're on tour with Thunder Boy, Jr. these days. How is it talking to very young children vs. your usual crowd?
It's what I do. I'm a DAD! I've been pointing out backhoes for 18 years now. Backhoe! Backhoe! Bulldozer! Crane! --Karin Snelson, children's & YA editor, Shelf Awareness
Review: Vinegar Girl
Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler (Hogarth Shakespeare, $25 hardcover, 9780804141260, June 21, 2016)
Vinegar Girl is the third in Hogarth Shakespeare's line of retold classics by the Bard (The Gap of Time, Shylock Is My Name). Anne Tyler's delightful, clever novelization sets The Taming of the Shrew in present-day Baltimore, Md., holding faithfully to Shakespeare's plot and concept but presenting far more complex characters, with absolutely charming results.
Kate is 29 and lives with her absent-minded microbiologist father, Dr. Battista, and her younger sister, pretty and air-headed Bunny. She serves as housekeeper and chaperone, not that they appreciate her efforts. She also works at a preschool, where the kids adore her but the adults have trouble with her sense of humor. Her real passion is gardening. As Vinegar Girl opens, Dr. Battista faces a problem: his gifted foreign assistant, Pyotr Cherbakov, is in the U.S. on an extraordinary-ability visa that's about to run out. Dr. Battista feels sure he's on the verge of a breakthrough, but he needs Pyotr to be able to stay a little longer. The reader realizes well ahead of Kate that what her father has in mind is an arranged marriage.
The prickly Kate feels she's been taken advantage of long enough; she finds Pyotr pushy, and she isn't looking for a husband, anyway. Kate repeatedly corrects him: she is not a "girl" but a "woman." As she sees more of him, though, it appears that some of his awkward heavy-handedness may be related to his difficulties with the English language. And her father's plan to satisfy the immigration authorities doesn't mean she'd have to be married forever....
Vinegar Girl's modern setting and language enliven a classic tale of controversy and gender politics. The novelistic form illuminates the inner workings of Shakespeare's characters, revealing attractive nuances. Tyler's Kate is more soft-hearted, and a view of her inner workings exposes her insecurities. This Kate is quite sympathetic in both senses of the word: she empathizes with her eccentric father and the homesick Pyotr, and calls upon the reader's sympathies. Pyotr is awkward and lonely, but appealingly smitten by Kate's independent nature. Even Dr. Battista (despite his objectionable motives) and the maddening Bunny are revealed as intricate and ultimately likable characters.
Readers unfamiliar with The Taming of the Shrew will have no problem enjoying this novel, which is funny, fun-loving and uplifting. Those who know the original well will be intrigued by Tyler's riffs: Is the new Kate less shrewish, or simply better characterized, her motives and anxieties better understood? In either case, the surprising ending, which deviates from Shakespeare's in important ways, makes for a heartwarming conclusion to a quirky, timeless tale. --Julia Jenkins, librarian and blogger at pagesofjulia
Shelf Talker: Anne Tyler successfully reinterprets The Taming of the Shrew in a modern, pleasingly nuanced novel.
by Anne Tyler


We knew their names, now we know how scary they are.
Another update, another leak. Or several leaks.
Some Fortnite: Battle Royale dataminers found pictures of in-game cosmetic items in the game files after today's 6.02 update. These are all Halloween-themed, as first predicted by dataminers like @The1Jaren and @MystxcLeaks. They found the names of some of these items in files of the previous update, but at that point they were not able to find any pictures.
Finally, they did. The moderator at the r/FortniteLeaks subreddit published them all with their in-game description.
r/FortniteLeaks – v6.02 – Cosmetics!
There are six new skins, and five of them share the spooky cartoon look that previous skins with the theme have, like the Skull Trooper. A female version of the skin is also coming, called the Skull Ranger, along with the return of the male skin to the item shop today.
Two pumpkin-head skins, Jack Gourdon and Hollowhead, are coming to add more skin options for those who are tired of Tomatohead as the only vegetable character. Two skins are themed after medieval plague doctors and wear a mask with a metal beak-shaped nose. It looks like the Plague skin is a male version while Scourge is the female version.
Another of the new skins is called Bullseye, which looks just like the other rare and human skins in the game. She wears a hat with goggles and a shirt with a shooting target stamp.
Three new back blings fit the Halloween theme perfectly. There are two capes that can match any of the new spooky skins and a wooden support filled with green potions that should match the Plague Doctor skins.
The dataminers also found two pickaxes, Herald's Wand and Carver. A glider called Lamplight wraps up the group of cosmetics that will make players ready for some Halloween-themed matches.
The Crypt Cruiser and the Skull Sickle have also appeared in the datamine. They might be a good clue that this whole list will be in the Item Shop soon, possibly even this week, since they are available today for players to buy with V-Bucks.


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Collapse of Chicago Climate Exchange Means a Strategy Shift on Global Warming Curbs
By Ed Barnes, | Fox News
(AP2009)
The closing this week of the Chicago Climate Exchange, which was envisioned to be the key player in the trillion-dollar "cap and trade" market, was the final nail in the coffin of the Obama administration's effort to pass the controversial program meant to combat global warming.
"It is dead for the foreseeable future," said Myron Ebell, director of the Center for Energy and the Environment with the Competitive Energy Institute, which had fought the measure.
That assessment was echoed by environmentalists as well.
"Economy-wide cap and trade died of what amounts to natural causes in Washington," said Fred Krupp, president of the Environmental Defense Fund, which had supported the plan.
The CCX was set up in 2000 in anticipation of the United States joining Europe and other countries around the world to create a market that would reduce the emission of greenhouse gases. Under the system, factories, utilities and other businesses would be given an emissions target. Those that emitted less fewer regulated gases than their target could sell the "excess" to someone who was above target. Each year, the target figures would be reset lower.
The Exchange was the brainchild of Richard Sandor, an economist and professor at Northwestern University, and it was modeled after a successful program that was launched in 1990 and helped control acid rain in the Midwest. It was initially funded by a $1.1 million grant from the Joyce Foundation of Chicago, and President Obama was a board member at the time.
After the Democrats won the White House, the House and the Senate in 2008, businesses and investors flocked to the exchange, believing Congress would quickly approve the program. And it almost happened.
The House of Representatives passed a bill proposed by Democratic Reps. Henry Waxman of California and Ed Markey of Massachusetts, which would have made cap and trade law. But the Senate couldn't muster the votes, and everything went downhill from there.
"When those that voted for the measure in 2009 went home on July 4th after the vote, they met widespread outrage among their constituents," said Nick Loris, an analyst with Heritage Foundation. Conservatives renamed the idea "cap and tax," and they began an assault on the program.
In the last week, following the Nov. 2 Republican takeover of the House of Representatives, the slide became an avalanche. Investors in CCX, including Sandor and former Vice President Al Gore, sold the exchange to a company involved in commodities trading.
Sale records show that Sandor cleared more than $90 million for his 16 percent stake in the company.
Meanwhile, the White House has dropped all references to cap and trade from its web site; and, unlike the heralded climate summit in Copenhagen last year, a 10-day meeting in Mexico beginning Nov. 29 on the next steps to battle global warming has not even mentioned publicly by the administration.
"The pieces of the puzzle just kept breaking off," Loris said. "And Obama has given up on it."
But both Loris and Ebell say that isn't necessarily cause for celebrating.
"I would like to have a party and say we won, but the truth is were are still in the middle of it," Ebell said. "The problem is now that the administration changed strategy and is using existing laws and regulations, like the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act and EPA regulations to implement its agenda. And unlike the cap and trade effort, it is much harder to get the public excited about rule changes."
"Obama will try a piecemeal approach," Loris said. "And they have a much better chance of becoming law than cap and trade ever did."
Republicans in the new Congress, for their part, will try to pass a law "to stop all regulation of greenhouse gases using existing legal authority," Ebell said. "And we are pretty sure we can get 60 votes in the Senate on it."

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Home News No Point Launching Bitcoin ETFs Until the Industry Is 'Legitimate': BlackRock CEO
No Point Launching Bitcoin ETFs Until the Industry Is 'Legitimate': BlackRock CEO
The CEO of the world's largest asset manager talks about the possibility of a Bitcoin ETF from his company, BlackRock, and how the anonymity offered by cryptocurrencies adds to their risk factors.
Shilpa Lama
Like many of its Wall Street peers, BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, has been slowly cozying up to crypto. However, the company has no plan whatsoever to launch an exchange-traded fund (ETF) for digital assets anytime soon, said CEO Larry Fink at the New York Times DealBook Conference in Manhattan on November 1, 2018.
1 A Bitcoin ETF Can Be Problematic Unless the Industry Matures
2 Bitcoin's Anonymity Is Not a Virtue
3 'Huge Believer in Blockchain'
More specifically, Fink said that BlackRock would rather wait for the industry to become "legitimate" before making any such move.
A Bitcoin ETF Can Be Problematic Unless the Industry Matures
Interestingly, Fink's statement has come at a time when many in the crypto community are eagerly waiting for regulators to warm up to crypto ETFs with the hope that it will open the floodgates for institutional money to flow into the industry.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has so far held firm against all efforts to convince it about the merits of multiple Bitcoin ETF applications. The regulatory body maintains that a rush decision on the matter wouldn't be appropriate considering the "significant investor protection issues that need to be examined."
However, Fink clarified that just because BlackRock is not interested in an ETF for crypto at the moment doesn't imply that it will never happen.
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"I wouldn't say never, when it's legitimate, yes," he explained, adding:
"It will ultimately have to be backed by a government. I don't sense that any government will allow that unless they have a sense of where that money's going."
As of December 2017, the net worth of assets under BlackRock's management stood at a whopping $6.29 trillion, cementing its position as the largest asset manager in the world.
Bitcoin's Anonymity Is Not a Virtue
Fink stretched that ETFs "ultimately" require government-backing, which is hard to achieve if the people at the helm of the state machinery are not convinced that the financial instrument seeking their approval won't be used for illicit activities. This is where he raised the issue of Bitcoin's anonymity — often deemed a virtue by crypto proponents, but actually a risk factor in Fink's opinion.
He pointed out that it is easy to leverage Bitcoin's anonymity to pursue illegal and unethical activities including tax evasion. Fink's concern sounds legit considering that the digital currency made it easier for traders in dark web marketplaces to sell illicit goods and services including guns and drugs. Although, there is evidence that Bitcoin has lost much of its charm as the preferred digital currency on the dark web, especially in the wake of growing popularity of more privacy-centered coins such as Monero.
'Huge Believer in Blockchain'
Fink towed along the line adopted by many Wall Street CEOs including J.P. Morgan's Jamie Dimon and said that while BlackRock is somewhat skeptical about cryptocurrencies, the company is a "huge believer in blockchain."
He added:
"The biggest use for blockchain will be in mortgages, mortgage applications, mortgage ownership, anything that's labored with paper."
On a related note, Fink's remarks have come just ahead of the Nov 5 deadline set by the SEC to complete the review of proposed policy changes related to a series of pending Bitcoin ETF applications.
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Shilpa is a management graduate and a network engineer who is deeply passionate about blockchain technology and artificial intelligence. She has been associated with several leading science & tech publications throughout her career as a journalist and columnist.
Full-time foodie, semi-skilled musician, wannabe novelist.
Email: shilpa.lama@blokt.com
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EUR-Lex - L:1998:133:TOC - EN
Document L:1998:133:TOC
Official Journal of the European Communities, L 133, 07 May 1998
Display all documents published in this Official Journal
of the European Communities
English edition Legislation
Contents I Acts whose publication is obligatory
Commission Regulation (EC) No 949/98 of 6 May 1998 establishing the standard import values for determining the entry price of certain fruit and vegetables 1
Commission Regulation (EC) No 950/98 of 6 May 1998 fixing the representative prices and the additional import duties for molasses in the sugar sector 3
Commission Regulation (EC) No 951/98 of 6 May 1998 altering the export refunds on white sugar and raw sugar exported in the natural state 5
Commission Regulation (EC) No 952/98 of 6 May 1998 fixing the maximum export refund for white sugar for the 37th partial invitation to tender issued within the framework of the standing invitation to tender provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1408/97 7
* Commission Regulation (EC) No 953/98 of 6 May 1998 laying down detailed rules of application for the importation of olive oil originating in Tunisia 8
* Commission Regulation (EC) No 954/98 of 6 May 1998 supplementing the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 2301/97 on the entry of certain names in the 'Register of certificates of specific character' provided for in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2082/92 on certificates of specific character for agricultural products and foodstuffs (1) 10
* Commission Regulation (EC) No 955/98 of 29 April 1998 concerning the classification of certain goods in the Combined Nomenclature 12
Commission Regulation (EC) No 956/98 of 6 May 1998 amending the import duties in the cereals sector 14
Commission Regulation (EC) No 957/98 of 6 May 1998 amending representative prices and additional duties for the import of certain products in the sugar sector 17
* Council Directive 98/25/EC of 27 April 1998 amending Directive 95/21/EC concerning the enforcement, in respect of shipping using Community ports and sailing in the waters under the jurisdiction of the Member States, of international standards for ship safety, pollution prevention and shipboard living and working conditions (port State control) 19
II Acts whose publication is not obligatory
98/297/EC, EURATOM
* Council Decision of 27 April 1998 appointing a member of the Economic and Social Committee 21
* Council Decision of 27 April 1998 appointing two members of the Economic and Social Committee 22
98/299/EC
* Commission Decision of 24 April 1998 rejecting the application submitted by Renak International GmbH (Germany) for an exemption pursuant to Commission Regulation (EC) No 88/97 from the anti-dumping duty extended to certain bicycle parts originating in the People's Republic of China 23
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Acts whose titles are printed in light type are those relating to day-to-day management of agricultural matters, and are generally valid for a limited period.
The titles of all other Acts are printed in bold type and preceded by an asterisk.


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Inglenook was named by Major H. Lockhart who with Hafferty and Manchester built a mill there in 1885, The three men owned ajoining land which went north from Inglenook to about where the Victo Biaggi ran on Ten Mile River. Major Lockhart's unfilled dream was to erect a wharf just west of where the Grange Hall in Inglenook is located.
The mill was completed in 1885 and began a thriving business. In its first six months of operation it supplied the timber for the wharf at Fort Bragg and ties for the first mile of track from the newly erected mill in Fort Bragg to Pudding Creek. The mill also supplied the timber to build the Little Valley Lumber Co. mill a mile or so north. The mill made wooden pipes from redwood for the Fort Bragg water system.
In its heyday Inglenook had a post office, a school and interestingly no saloons. The school was moved to the Grange when the school at Camp 1 burned down to accommodate the influx of pupils. For many years it was a busy place.
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When using PEG, it is best to write Statements = Statement+, or Statements = Statement Statement*.

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Students Raise Funds to Purchase VGo for Homebound Classmate
During the first week of October, a coin jar was placed in each Lovelady elementary classroom and at the front office to collect money for the annual Coin War, a donation drive where students are encouraged to bring spare change from home that will be given to a charity.
Instead of a traditional charity this year, students chose to donate money to the Region VI Education Service Center's VGo program, which brought a robot to the district for sixth grader Morgan LaRue to use while she recovers at home from recent surgery.
"We usually kind of fish around for something that is related to the school in some way, and this year we chose to help put money toward purchasing another robot, which has allowed one of our students, Morgan LaRue, come to class and join us at school," Elementary Principal Debbie Harrelson said.
The VGo robot is a machine that is controlled wirelessly with a laptop, and uses a two-way camera so the laptop user can see on their screen everything that the robot sees and hears. Because of this machine, Morgan can sit in bed and, through a computer, experience a normal school day.
Morgan, a sixth grader at Lovelady, is recovering at home from a life-saving surgery, and starting this week she still will be able to attend classes daily - with help of a machine she has nicknamed "MoGo."
The school raised a total of $2,545.08 and presented a check to Region VI representatives at the school board meeting Monday, Nov. 19, to help buy another VGo for other districts in the region to use.
"I think it's just awesome of the school to do that," Ashley LaRue, Morgan's mom, said of the donation.
"Nothing will take the place of being able to be there with your friends and being in that classroom," Region VI systems engineer Kip Robins said.
"That teacher asks a question and being able to hear those other responses - you don't get that on a piece of paper and we have the technology now to get all that," Robins explained.
The robot has a screen that will show Morgan in real time so her teachers and friends can talk to her, and the VGo has speakers so when she talks, everyone can hear. By using her mouse or keyboard, she will control the device's movement in real time.
"She's not going to be able to come to school – but with this she'll be able to go about her day and interact with friends and go about her day just like if she was here. "She'll actually be able to change classes, be with her friends during lunch, so it will actually be an interactive day," Lovelady ISD technology assistant Dakota Ham said.
Morgan went after school about six weeks ago to learn how to use the device she then nicknamed MoGo, the week before she had to go to Houston for limb salvage surgery.
She has a rare form of bone cancer, osteosarcoma, and had a tumor in her right leg that had to be removed. Doctors replaced the missing bone with a titanium implant that will expand as she grows, which she had done in 2010 on her left leg and made history as the first patient in the United States to have the expandable implant.
"I just think it's beyond amazing that the school district and Region 6 was able to provide such an opportunity for her. It has been such a tremendous help compared to the first time we went through this," Morgan's mom, Ashley LaRue said.
The district was able to get the VGo from Region 6 Education Service Center for the entire school year, at which point then the district may purchase one of its own. For all of the perks of the machine, the cost would be roughly $6,000, Ham said.
In late September, VGo was brought to the school where Ham began to test the machine, and he learned how to control it so he could later teach Morgan, and also to get students acclimated to a robot roaming the halls.
Basically, the machine is controlled by a single computer, which Morgan now has, over an Internet connection. Using the computer, Morgan calls the machine and it connects - and her full screen becomes the video that VGo is capturing. With either the arrows on the keyboard or a mouse, Morgan controls how the machine moves, like rolling down a hall, turning and stopping, and if she runs into something she gets a "bump" message. Additionally, there is a remote control that comes with the machine that Morgan's teacher will have to operate VGo it if need be. Once the day is done, or VGo is running low on its six-hour battery, it returns to a rechargeable doc in the technology room.
Morgan has used the VGo to go to school twice so far, joining her class around 9 a.m. once they got back from first period band and began working on math and science. She was able to sit up in her bed while wearing her pajamas and participate in the school day.
"When she used it, she rolled right into class and got to do the same lesson that the other students were doing," LaRue said. "She was able to say hello to her friends and they could see her, and she enjoyed that."
Even though she had used VGo to go to class, a teacher still went to Morgan's home to go over instructional material with her later in the week. Instead of the teacher having to recap the entire lesson, Morgan was able to just ask a couple of questions and then complete her work.
"It will put her back more in a regular routine… that will give her daily instruction and more of an opportunity to be right on target with her class instead of only having that instruction a couple of times a week," LaRue said.
Currently, the VGo is on loan to Lovelady from Region VI for the rest of the school year, and is the only one the center owns.
However, with the help of the students' donation, Robins said he can see the program expanding.
"When we don't need VGo here anymore, VGo will go to another school and we'll continue to grow this program for students just like Morgan - students that run into hard times like this," Robins said. "And this will be a program that will continue to grow, and always remember that this program started in Lovelady and we appreciate it . . . This is a reflection of the parents and teachers here and we appreciate it very much.
Credit: Jenna Duncan | Houston County Courier, November 25, 2012 – Vol. 123, No. 95


The garden patch is growing. Here is a good picture of the middle flower bed which we installed in June about 4 years ago. The pathway was added last year. The trellis and all the flowers and bolders on the right side of the path were added this year. On Sunday, we mulched all of those flowers and planted 22 different herb plants just to the right of them. The second plant to the right with the purple flowers is Anise, the plant that is attracting all the bees that I posted photos of yesterday.


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Home > CULTURE > OTAKU > A Look Back at Chrono Cross: the Underappreciated JRPG Classic
What's With All the Hate?
After spending almost 1500 words absolutely gushing about my favorite video game ever, Chrono Trigger, I got to thinking, "What about the sequel?" Chrono Cross was released very late in the original PlayStation life cycle. While it was a critical hit, gaining nines and tens from most reviewing sites, it rubbed the fans the wrong way and has largely been forgotten. Why? What happened to it? Why isn't it seen as the incredible, innovation in gaming like its predecessor? Well, let's look at a few things.
Chrono Cross' gameplay is amazing. It's unique in turn-based battle systems and was kind of a hybrid of the traditional battle systems at the time and the more action-RPG systems that would become the standard in the coming years.
Japanese RPGs were going through an interesting time of growth. The traditional battle systems had become a bit stale, and Square was looking for something new. Chrono Cross is unique in that instead of only being able to cast one spell or attack, you had a stamina bar, and you could do multiple attacks or spells depending on the type or power of the attack or spell. For example, you could do one powerful attack, or one weaker attack and weaker spell. This gave players much more freedom in how they wanted to play the game. Furthermore, you don't level up by grinding through tons of enemies, you level up by just fighting regularly, and the more you use one style of attack those skills will level up. For example, if you're a brawler, and just do powerful attacks, your character will level up that way, and your magic skills will be weaker.
Like I said, this was very new and unique, and many core fans didn't like it. They missed the Chrono Trigger system. Chrono Cross' system seemed terribly confusing to them, and completely alien. In Chrono Cross, the way you played the game also affected the story in many ways, and many first time players didn't know this. So you could play through the game completely and not get the perfect ending because of some arbitrary decision you made in battle many hours earlier.
I Have How Many People in My Party?!
Many JRPGs are known for their vast parties, but Chrono Trigger kept the party small and developed each character. Each character had their own arch. You got to know each character well, to they point where they felt like a personal friend to you, the player. Chrono Cross did away with that and went for breadth rather than depth. In Chrono Cross, the party is huge and varied. You have a skeleton, a clown, cat people, dog people, knights, and many many more. While the more the merrier, you lost the same connection you had with the original team.
He Doesn't Look Like Goku!
Another thing that put off many core fans was the very different art style. Akira Toriyama did do some of the original designs, but the final designs were done by Nobuteru Yuki. Many people missed the hand-drawn style of the original. I think this decision was one of prudence and that Akira Toriyama's style would not have fit in the 3D world they were going for. The technology was not there yet. This vast shift in design paradigms can be rather shocking to people. They are used to seeing the Chrono world in one way, and when they suddenly see it in a very different way, they can't get past it.
Where's Chrono?
One big disappointment to many people is that none of the main characters (explicitly) return to the game and (SPOILER ALERT) at the game's half point you find out that most of them have died in between games. I remember the game being marketed as a sequel to the original and took that to mean that it was going to be a direct sequel. This was honestly false advertising. The game was never intended to be Chrono Trigger 2. The game's director Masato Kato said the following:
"We didn't want to directly extend Chrono Trigger into a sequel, but create a new Chrono with links to the original. Yes, the platform changed; and yes, there were many parts that changed dramatically from the previous work. But in my view, the whole point in making Chrono Cross was to make a new Chrono with the best available skills and technologies of today. I never had any intentions of just taking the system from Trigger and moving it onto the PlayStation console. That's why I believe that Cross is Cross, and NOT Trigger 2."
One of the biggest problems people had with the game was the story. It is incredibly complex. Chrono Trigger dealt with time travel and going back and forth on the same timeline. But Chrono Cross does something much more interesting, In Chrono Cross, you deal with multiple timelines or parallel universes. You as the main character, Surge, accidentally travel to another world very similar to your own only to find that in that world you are dead, and your life or death effects the whole world. That is such a cool idea! And I think that, while very confusing, it is realized very well. To understand everything you have to do a little bit of research, but it is an incredibly rich and detailed world created.
But when the game came out in 1999, the idea of multiple parallel dimensions hadn't really sunk into the public consciousness like it has now. With nerd culture bring so prevalent and shows like The Big Bang Theory, and Rick and Morty, these ideas are much more palatable to the general audience. If Chrono Cross were released today I think its story would get a lot more recognition.
Chrono Cross was fighting an uphill battle trying to tell a new story in the same Chrono universe, but that is not what people wanted. Fans of the original wanted another adventure with Chrono and friends. There is one aspect of the game however that everyone can agree on; the music in the game is incredible. I think it is one of the best game soundtracks of all time. Yasunori Mitsuda, who scored the original, came back to do the music for Chrono Cross, and it is amazing. The game should receive wider acclaim for its music alone. If you have never played Chrono Cross, try it out. It is still fun and enjoyable today!
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1. How to fix the NHS: a doctor's prescription | The Spectator
I'm a doctor, and I don't care about the NHS. In this country, that's an almost heretical statement — but it's true. What I mean is that I have absolutely no interest in ensuring its survival simply because it's a great national treasure. What I care about is making sure that we have the best possible and most cost-effective healthcare system. And as it happens, despite the strikes, panic and doom-mongering, I think the NHS — by which I mean a nationalised healthcare model — is the best option available, if only someone were brave enough to make the right changes in the right way.
URL: http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9343402/how-to-fix-the-nhs/ - 175KB - 20 Oct 2014
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2. Labour's private hospital stitch-up: Shocking evidence of how the Left sabotaged NHS success story
Shocking evidence of how Labour and union figures had the first privately run NHS hospital declared a failure has been uncovered by the Daily Mail.There are growing calls for an inquiry into how Hinchingbrooke in Cambridgeshire was rated 'inadequate' by the Care Quality Commission watchdog – only months after winning an award for patient care.But the Mail has learned that:Individuals who helped draw up the CQC's damning report have close ties to the Labour Party and unions which oppose NHS privatisation.The local NHS body, which suddenly slashed the hospital's funding and imposed arbitrary fines, is heavily influenced by Labour activists.
URL: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2913987/Labour-s-private-hospital-stitch-Shocking-evidence-Left-sabotaged-NHS-success-story.html - 353KB - 17 Jan 2015
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3. Ed Miliband's attack on NHS privatisation left in tatters | Daily Mail Online
Labour's shadow health secretary Andy Burnham was challenged in a 'car crash' TV interview last night to say how many private health firms he would stop from providing treatment for NHS patients.
URL: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2929801/Miliband-s-attack-NHS-privatisation-left-tatters-figures-reveal-Labour-outsourced-TWICE-Coalition.html - 382KB - 28 Jan 2015
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4. No other country lets foreigners exploit its health system the way we do. Health tourism is...
Recently, David Cameron estimated that the cost to the British taxpayer was £20million. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said it was £200million. The truth is far more shocking, says J. MEIRION THOMAS.
URL: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2341903/No-country-lets-foreigners-exploit-health-way-Health-tourism-threatening-bankrupt-NHS.html - 232KB - 21 Jun 2013
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5. Double standards II?
The day before yesterday we looked at the different approaches to the health and financial sectors when large companies make mistakes. I agree with those who wrote in to say one of the worst features of banking was the way the state bailed them out instead of making them pay their own losses and sort themselves out, whilst protecting depositors rather than bondholders and shareholders. You may recall I was against the bail outs at the time. One of my reasons for opposing the equity bail out was the likelihood it would fuel resentment at bankers on a large scale. Today I want to look at the different approach we take towards serious error in the public and private sectors.
URL: http://johnredwoodsdiary.com/2012/07/16/double-standards-ii/ - 181KB - 17 Jul 2012
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6. Damning report into Stafford Hospital scandal criticises 'failure on every level' and makes 290...
Loved-ones of the 1,200 people who died after entering two 'hell-hole' Staffordshire hospitals are calling for nursing staff and management to face prosecution for their appalling standards of care.
URL: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2274296/Damning-report-Stafford-Hospital-scandal-criticises-failure-level-makes-290-recommendations.html - 241KB - 06 Feb 2013
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7. Exclusive: the NHS report that Labour tried to block » Spectator Blogs
It emerged this morning that Labour MPs took the extraordinary step of blocking the publication of the Health Select Committee report into the NHS – because the conclusions backed up government reforms. I have just been handed details of this report, and it's clear why Labour wanted it suppressed: it contradicts the party's attack message. Here are the main points:
URL: http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/isabel-hardman/2015/03/exclusive-the-nhs-report-that-labour-tried-to-block/ - 110KB - 11 Mar 2015
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8. Fury of pensioner who confronted Health Secretary outside NHS meeting | Mail Online
The Health Secretary was accused of talking 'codswallop' in a confrontation with an angry pensioner outside Downing Street today.Arriving at a summit to rescue his NHS reforms, Andrew Lansley was berated by 75-year-old June Hautot for 'privatising' the health service.She jabbed her finger at him, shouting: 'Codswallop. Don't lie to me, I'm sick of you.'The former Unison branch secretary refused to back down as Mr Lansley tried to get through the security gates at Downing Street.
URL: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2103572/Fury-pensioner-confronted-Health-Secretary-outside-NHS-meeting.html - 163KB - 20 Feb 2012
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9. When I criticised the NHS, my elderly mother was harassed – which helps explain the mess...
Three years ago, at the very moment that he was presiding over the abominations at Mid Staffs – and, as we now know, several other hospitals – Andy Burnham, then Health Secretary, was calling me 'unpatriotic' for pointing out the poor performance of the NHS in international league tables.I mention it, not to have a go at the poor fellow – the rest of the country is already doing that – but to explore the connection between the tendency to shout down any criticism of the NHS and the number of British hospitals which are, as the Keogh Report put it, 'trapped in mediocrity'. Any organisation that is treated as being beyond reproach is bound in time to become flabby, self-serving and producer-centred. It happened to the mega-charities. It happened to the United Nations. It would be surprising if the NHS were an exception.
URL: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100226912/by-howling-down-all-criticism-those-who-think-theyre-defending-the-nhs-are-making-it-mediocre/ - 61KB - 17 Jul 2013
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10. Sir Gerry Robinson: Tesco could really teach the NHS a thing or two - Telegraph
The businessman who presented a BBC series on how to fix the health service believes doctors must face up to the future
URL: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10141241/Sir-Gerry-Robinson-Tesco-could-really-teach-the-NHS-a-thing-or-two.html - 71KB - 26 Jun 2013
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11. Time to get real about NHS costs | Vanessa Feltz | Columnists | Comment | Daily Express
SHOULD we have to pay towards our NHS treatment?" I asked a top London GP. "of course", he replied, "but it'll never happen. No government would risk the unpopularity of trying to drive such a policy through.It would mean annihilation in any election. What's more the very notion of parting with so much as a penny for what we all think should be free at the point of service goes so profoundly against the grain, people would take to the streets and riot."Senior doctors are insisting the current level of care provided gratis on the NhS is unsustainable. Their solution is to draw up a list of "core" services. Anything on the core list would be free. Anything deemed less than essential would be charged for. of course the list doesn't yet exist, so there's no knowing if blood tests, ultrasound scans, pregnancy tests, condoms, breakfast, lunch and dinner and bed baths would be considered "core" or chargeable.
URL: http://www.express.co.uk/comment/columnists/vanessa-feltz/409980/Time-to-get-real-about-NHS-costs - 85KB - 25 Jun 2013
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12. NHS charging taxpayers millions for private patients who have already paid for treatment | Mail...
A former NHS officials says trusts are being 'double-billed' on a regular basis, a practice which could be costing up to £150million a year.
URL: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2555320/NHS-charging-taxpayers-millions-private-patients-paid-treatment.html - 296KB - 10 Feb 2014
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13. The great hospital robbery: Defibrillators, baby heart monitors, even beds - thieves are walking out of NHS wards with vital equipment | Daily Mail
NHS chiefs appear to be so blasé about the losses they don't even have a national picture of how much equipment is being stolen.
URL: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2208065/The-great-hospital-robbery-Defibrillators-baby-heart-monitors-beds--thieves-walking-NHS-wards-vital-equipment.html - 174KB - 25 Sep 2012
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14. Keogh review: 11 NHS hospitals to be placed in special measures as Jeremy Hunt reveals thousands of patients needlessly died
Labour faced its 'darkest moment' yesterday over its stewardship of the Health Service as a devastating report laid bare an appalling catalogue of failings at 11 hospitals where 'thousands' of patients needlessly died.Voters are told that Labour is the only party in whose hands the NHS is safe, but David Cameron and Jeremy Hunt said the study proved the opposite to be true.Labour had presided, they said, over a culture of 'cover-up' where targets were more important than people and ministers' reputations more important than care.A damning review by the NHS medical director, Sir Bruce Keogh, into 14 hospitals with higher-than-expected death rates found that all had 'ingredients' of Mid Staffs, the hospital where up to 1,200 died on filthy wards.
URL: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2365120/Keogh-review-11-NHS-hospitals-placed-special-measures-Jeremy-Hunt-reveals-thousands-patients-needlessly-died.html - 274KB - 17 Jul 2013
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15. Jeremy Hunt: Why the NHS is crossing the Rubicon - Telegraph
The Francis effect following the scandal of bad treatment at Stafford Hospital is leading to more nurses, less box-ticking, and greater transparency
URL: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/nhs/10617243/Jeremy-Hunt-Why-the-NHS-is-crossing-the-Rubicon.html - 65KB - 06 Feb 2014
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16. Our love for the NHS lets junior doctors strike over reasonable reforms | Daily Mail Online
The doctors' response has been a series of strikes, and next month they will up their game with the first all-out strike in NHS history, refusing to treat emergency patients for two days.
URL: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3508833/SIMON-JENKINS-love-NHS-killing-lets-junior-doctors-away-striking-reasonable-reforms.html - 376KB - 25 Mar 2016
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Ford invited us out to the their Sustainability Luncheon and we learned all about how Ford is using bio-based materials to produce its cars, I had no idea! Special thanks to Cherri and Mayra. The founder of Ford, Henry ford was passionate about sustainability. As we all know, plastic leaves a huge carbon footprint. Ford is trying to reduce its dependence on petroleum products by substituting those products with a soybean based foam, denim, and by recycling plastic bottles. They are currently testing the possibility of using other materials such as shredded. and retired money, dandelions, tomatoes, coconuts, and corn and sugar cane!
Emily Tangerine and I, preparing again to feast!
Kenia and Chef Rivas of KMR Gourmet treated us to a delightful menu using many of the sustainable materials also found in Ford's cars!
Chipotle tomato bruschetta's Latin Tropical Salad.
This dish was Emily and I's favorite! The bruschetta itself was sweet, almost like a cookie which pair well with the sweet and tangy fruit salad on top.
Loved the scallops which were super spicy and covered in a creamy sauce. The flowers were edible too!
One of the highlights of the meal was the tres leches cake! We were each treated to a huge piece of the light and fluffy cake, soaked in condensed milk equaling super moistness to the extreme!
OMGgggg it all looks and sounds so delicious! Such tasty car parts, and a novel idea for a cute dinner party.
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A Pet-Friendly Midtown Park
Only accessible by a foot bridge, Bryson City's Island Park is cut off from the mainland by the Tuckasegee River that runs through the center of town. The park, just four short blocks from Everett Street, offers a secluded unspoiled landscape for fresh water anglers, picnickers, kayakers, tourists, hikers, bird watchers and nature enthusiasts.
Driving / Walking Directions
From Everett Street go east on Island Street (one way) along the Tuckasegee River. Just past the Appalachian Rivers Aquarium (0pening in the spring), the road/sidewalk turns north on to Ramseur Street. After one short block, go right on to Bryson Street. Island Park is straight ahead. To leave, go west on Bryson Street.
Near the picnic area, there are steps for launching kayaks and canoes to play in the water and enjoy the mid-stream rapids called 'Devil's Dip.' This area and further up the island is also ideal for fly fishing in waders.
Island Park is pet friendly for leashed dogs. About a quarter of the 4.5-acre park is open and shaded with picnic tables, trash cans and dog waste stations. The rest is heavily wooded with roughly a half-mile of dirt trails that circle around the island and through its center.
Along your walk, near the center of the island, stands what may be Bryson City's largest and oldest tree, a tulip poplar with a 20-foot circumference. At the eastern tip of Island Park, you'll see the remnants of an old stone wall. And just a few yards upstream you can see the mouth of Deep Creek.
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Bryson City's Island Park
Entrance located at intersection of Ramseur and Bryson streets
Open daily from dawn to dusk
Pet-friendly (dogs on leash)
No drugs
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No admittance after dusk.
The park is patrolled by the Bryson City Police Department.
Anglers enjoy the waters around the island park because of the wide variety of fish species found there, including brown trout, rainbow trout, brook trout, carp, river redhorse, small and large mouth bass, catfish, white bass, walleye, and rock bass. The park is within the 2.2 mile section of the Tuckasegee River that's designated as Delayed Harvest Trout Waters, which means catch and release rules apply from October 1 until the first Saturday in June. More about fishing in the Smokies.
Just outside the park, on Island Street, there's a handicapped access fishing pier over the Tuckasegee.
For some local lore, read the story of 'Ironfoot, the Hermit of Island Park.'
Dating back to its revitalization in the 1980s, Island Park has served as a recreational destination for tourists and locals alike. The trails were created by Bryson City resident R.T. (Buddy) Abbott, to whom the park is dedicated.
In 2004, the island was devastated by severe wind and flooding from Hurricane Katrina that left the island closed to the public for several years. Up until the year 2008, the island was only accessible by a swinging foot bridge, but due to years of weathering a new, fixed concrete bridge was erected in its place.
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About a quarter of the park is open and shady
One of three riverside picnic tables
Possibly the town's oldest and largest tree
Trout caught at Island Park
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The Island Park Wall
Even among locals, the stone wall at the upper end of Island Park is somewhat of a mystery. Most mentions of the Island Park wall incorrectly refer to it as a 'flood wall,' but little more is mentioned.
With the wall protecting less than 20% of the island, Bryson City historian Don Casada says the wall was never intended to control flooding. It was a diversion wall. The sharp 'V' shape of the wall at the upper end of the island would have meant logs, particularly flood-borne timber or deadwood, would not have stacked up.
Casada explained that since the 1890s, a sawmill has been located immediately across the narrow channel separating the island from the town. Early on, the mill owners purchased land for logging in areas like Deep Creek and Kirkland Creek so that logs could be floated down the Tuckasegee to the sawmill.
To capture the floating logs, a boom would have been stretched across the Tuckasegee to divert logs into the narrow channel. And the sawmill would have had another boom installed across the channel to collect the logs, and a crane to lift the logs from the water up to the mill area.
The lumber mill may very well have constructed the wall. But it was more likely a project of the Works Project Administration (WPA) a depression-era work relief program. In a February 1939 article in the Asheville Citizen, Fred J. Cohn, Director of WPA Information Service for NC, noted "Bryson's Island has been developed as a recreational center and a wall constructed to [sic] prevent flooding…"
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Indigenous communities in Mexico say 'no' to political parties and demand self-rule
Mexico held local elections on 6 June. But some Indigenous communities refused to participate. The party-political system, they insist, has not benefited them; so they want to govern themselves.
And they're not alone. Because some communities have already broken free from this system, and now govern themselves.
Saying 'no' to political parties
In numerous Indigenous communities in the Mexican state of Michoacán, the INE electoral authority didn't install ballot boxes. In some cases, it had already reached agreements with communal authorities. Because ahead of the election, the Consejo Supremo Indígena de Michoacán (Supreme Indigenous Council of Michoacán) had led a protest outside INE offices to demand respect for Indigenous self-rule and non-participation in party-political elections.
In other places, however, local people actively blocked and protested the INE's entry. One such place was Arantepacua. Here, abuse of authority led to protests in 2017, which police brutally repressed. This massacre only increased the community's demands for self-rule.
Today is Election Day in Mexico & more than 20 indigenous towns in #Michoacán decided to expel political parties & to manage resources on their own. Solidarity to communities that have chosen indigenous self-determination & kicked out political parties!
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Michoacán is one of the Mexican states that has suffered most at the hands of powerful drug cartels. And in a warzone where government authorities have been of little help, many local people have organised to defend themselves. Under the presidency of Enrique Peña Nieto (2012-2018), local self-defence groups fought major battles with drug cartels. Such battles continue today.
The right to self-rule
Mexico's constitution guarantees the right to self-determination for Indigenous communities. Via citizens' councils, they can get direct public funding to use for defence, health, infrastructure, and so on. In practice, this has almost never happened; but the Zapatista uprising in 1994, the Indigenous-led Cultural Survival campaign group says, "provided an important political opening for the negotiation of indigenous autonomy in Mexico at the national level".
In Michoacán, the town of Cherán inspired others when it constitutionally insisted on self-rule in 2012. This has ushered in a period of relative peace after years of violence. As Reuters insists, "most locals agree the process has been worthwhile".
Environmental protection is also of great importance in Cherán. The town has a large "rainwater capture system", for example. And it has "replanted more than one million trees since achieving autonomy".
Now, Reuters says, around 50 communities in Michoacán want to govern themselves:
Locals say that after years of government corruption and soaring crime, they are better off managing public resources themselves.
Michoacán's IEM electoral authority says there are now 20 communities in the state with self-rule, or which are in the process of achieving self-rule.
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Man Kicked in Head by Cop Re-Arrested After FOP Demands Charges
Published June 16, 2016 • Updated on June 16, 2016 at 6:30 pm
Chicago Police on Thursday arrested a man who was captured on a video getting kicked in the head by an officer as he struggled on the ground with another officer after a foot chase earlier this week.
Shaquille O'Neal, 33, faces felony charges in connection with his Thursday arrest and the earlier arrest Monday.
Police used a Taser on O'Neal during Thursday's arrest because he allegedly resisted officers, Anthony Guglielmi, chief spokesman for the Chicago Police Department, told the Chicago Sun-Times.
O'Neal, a convicted felon, originally was arrested at about 3:15 p.m. Monday after running from officers on the West Side. Police said he was spotted in a drug deal and he was chased to the 3900 block of West Grenshaw in the Lawndale neighborhood, where an officer struggled on the ground to handcuff him.
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Police said O'Neal bit the officer and appeared to grab the officer's neck.
A cell-phone video taken by a bystander showed another officer walk up and kick O'Neal in the head. That officer has been placed on desk duty by police Supt. Eddie Johnson and relieved of his police powers pending an investigation.
Terrance Hobson, who said he took the video, planned to turn it over to the Justice Department on Thursday afternoon. Hundreds of thousands of people have viewed the video, which was posted on Facebook.
Police said three bags of heroin were recovered from O'Neal after he was taken into custody Monday.
O'Neal was released late Wednesday without being charged "pending further investigation," infuriating Chicago's Fraternal Order of Police.
When O'Neal was re-arrested Thursday, he resisted officers and a Taser was used on him, Guglielmi said. He was taken to a hospital where the barbs used to connect the Taser to high-voltage electrical wires were removed from his skin.
O'Neal has been charged with aggravated battery on a police officer, aggravated battery by strangulation and possession of a controlled substance in connection with Monday's arrest and aggravated battery on a police officer and resisting arrest in connection with Thursday's arrest, said Sally Daly, a spokeswoman for Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez.
All of the charges are felonies, Daly said.
O'Neal's arrest came after the FOP's president, Dean Angelo, registered his outrage over O'Neal's release Wednesday. Angelo posted an angry message on the union's website declaring, "Enough is enough."
He said the decision to release O'Neal on Wednesday allowed police officers to be "victimized" and "subject to criminal behavior" without consequence, particularly after the police officer involved was reassigned to desk duty.
"It's just another disappointing display of, what we consider to be a consistent, anti-police [attitude]. The police are just wondering what it takes to get considered as a viable part of society," Angelo later told the Chicago Sun-Times.
But Daly said Thursday that the state's attorney's office needed to review additional video and other evidence before deciding whether to charge O'Neal.
"We don't rush to charge, no matter who the victim is," Daly said.
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EU ministers agreed on Tuesday to resume accession talks with Turkey on November 5th after a three year break.
Originally scheduled in June, negotiations were put on hold after the EU accused Turkish police of using excessive force against anti-government protests earlier this year.
'Firstly I would like to share good news and congratulate our Turkish friends after the Commission progress report. The Council gave green light to the opening on a new negotiation chapter with Turkey. After more that three years break, negotiations are gaining a momentum and I hope to see a speedy progress. First step would be an accession conference at ministerial level agreed today scheduled on 5th November in Brussels', said Lithuanian Foreign Affairs Minister Linas Antanas Linkevi?ius.
The move comes after Germany dropped its strong opposition against Turkey's EU membership following episodes of police violence in Istambul and Ankara.
But earlier this month, the European Commission praised recent judicial reforms in Turkey.
'We got the report of the EC about the situation in Turkey. Turkey had a good reaction. It is getting better and this is the right signal: the way of getting dynamic. This is really the signal to Turkish population that EU is ready to extension. Now Turkey has absolutely to work and improve on Justice and Rights', said German Minister of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Michael Link.
Talks on Turkey's EU accession started in 2005, 18 years after Ankara applied for EU membership.


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Home » BCS Library System wants to get rid of late fees
BCS Library System wants to get rid of late fees
UNIVERSITY STATION, Tex. (KBTX) – Libraries across the country are eliminating late payment charges, and now the BCS Library System plans to do the same.
It is a trend that is growing throughout the country, and Library Manager Larry J. Ringer, Jessica Jones, has been trying to make the initiative a reality for some time.
Jones said they don't even benefit enough from late payment charges to keep it available. In addition to this, he said they don't like to tell people who have late fees that they could restrict entry to the library.
"It's easier to maintain positive relationships if we're not always asking people for something," Jones said.
In the library, when fines accumulate at more than $ 20, users can no longer take out books.
The mother and patron of the library, Gia Haque, loves the idea.
"It would be a book you lost, and you would be so ashamed," Haque said. "Like my God, I don't know how much money I have accumulated."
Haque said this could also be beneficial for her.
"I know when I get books, especially if my daughter loves them; I want to keep them for a longer period of time, "said Haque.
Jones wants everyone to enjoy the library and all its advantages.
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"Another thing we found is that the people who have late fines and can't pay them are the people who need the library most," Jones said.
Jones said the Library Advisory Board approved the initiative, and now they expect the city council to approve it.
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