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El huracán Julia fue un huracán categoría 1 que tocó tierra en Nicaragua y fue el segundo ciclón de la temporada que sobrevivió al cruce del Atlántico al Pacífico y provocó severos impactos en partes del Caribe y Centroamérica. La duodécima depresión tropical, décima tormenta nombrada y quinto huracán de la Temporada de huracanes en el Atlántico de 2022 y la decimoctava tormenta tropical de la Temporada de huracanes en el Pacífico de 2022, Julia se originó a partir de una activa onda tropical en el Océano Atlántico tropical convirtiéndose en depresión tropical temprano el 7 de octubre y horas después en una tormenta con nombre. Tomó un curso hacia el sur a través del Mar Caribe y pasó frente a la costa de Venezuela en el momento en que se convirtió en un ciclón tropical. Solo una tormenta registrada, la Tormenta tropical Bret (1993), ha rastreado más al sur sobre América del Sur. El 8 de octubre, se convirtió en el quinto huracán de la temporada y luego tocó tierra en Nicaragua. Emergió en el Océano Pacífico como una tormenta tropical tarde el 9 de octubre, convirtiéndose en la segunda tormenta de la temporada en sobrevivir al cruce entre la cuenca del Atlántico y el Pacífico. Luego, la tormenta se movió brevemente a lo largo de la costa de El Salvador, antes de moverse hacia el interior y debilitarse sobre Guatemala como depresión tropical y posteriormente se disipó el 10 de octubre.

Julia trajo fuertes lluvias que causaron inundaciones repentinas que amenazaron la vida y deslizamientos de tierra mortales en el norte de Venezuela y Colombia y gran parte de Centroamérica. En Las Tejerías, en el centro-norte de Venezuela, al menos 54 personas murieron cuando el lodo y los escombros inundaron el pueblo causando daños catastróficos. En Centroamérica fuertes lluvias y vientos, inundaciones repentinas, marejadas ciclónicas, derrumbes totales y parciales de viviendas, caída de árboles, crecidas de ríos y arroyos mortales fueron los daños más graves que se reportaron en toda la región. Julia en total máto a 93 personas a su paso; 54 en Venezuela, 14 en Guatemala, 10 en El Salvador, 6 en Honduras, 5 en Nicaragua (no oficial), 2 en Panamá y 1 en Trinidad y Tobago y México respectivamente y además dejó un daño total estimado en $ 466 millones.

Historia meteorológica

En la mañana del 2 de octubre, el Centro Nacional de Huracanes (NHC) comenzó a darle seguimiento a una activa onda tropical sobre el Atlántico tropical central para un posible desarrollo gradual. Una área extensa de baja presión con un centro mal definido se formó dentro del sistema el 4 de octubre, cuando se acercaba al sur de las Islas de Barlovento. Una misión de cazadores de huracanes en el sistema al día siguiente encontró vientos en la superficie con fuerza de tormenta tropical, pero determinó que no tenía un centro de circulación bien definido. Debido a la amenaza que el sistema en desarrollo representaba para las áreas terrestres en el sur del Mar Caribe, el Centro Nacional de Huracanes (NHC) inició avisos sobre él como Potencial Ciclón Tropical Trece a las 15:00 UTC del 6 de octubre mientras se encontraba a unos 240 km (150 millas) al este-sureste de Curazao. Más tarde, después de que las imágenes satelitales y los datos de radar indicaran que la perturbación había alcanzado suficiente circulación y convección organizada, y después de que los datos del vuelo de cazadores de huracanes mostraran la presencia de vientos de alrededor de 55 km/h (35 mph) al norte del centro, el sistema fue designado como la Depresión Tropical Trece a las 03:00 UTC del 7 de octubre mientras se encontraba situado a 100 km (65 millas) al oeste-suroeste de Curazao. Poco después, el sistema tocó tierra como depresión en Falcón, Venezuela con vientos de 55 km/h y más tarde tocó tierra en Uribia, La Guajira en Colombia también con esa intensidad. Un fuerte estallido de convección profunda se desarrolló cerca del centro de la depresión a medida que avanzaba por la Península de la Guajira en la madrugada del 7 de octubre, y poco después se fortaleció hasta convertirse en la Tormenta tropical Julia sobre el suroeste del Caribe a las 15:00 UTC de ese día. Posteriormente, el estallido de convección profunda que había desarrollado en la mañana fue eliminado por la cizalladura del noroeste, y el centro de la tormenta en niveles bajos quedó expuesto durante las siguientes horas, pero aun así Julia mantuvo la intensidad de tormenta tropical mínima. Cuando disminuyó la cizalladura del viento aumentó la convección persistente y profunda sobre el centro, y la tormenta comenzó a intensificarse progresivamente a partir del 8 de octubre. Julia continuó intensificándose y los cazadores de huracanes descubrieron que se había convertido en un huracán alrededor de las 23:00 UTC del 8 de octubre al tener vientos de 120 km/h (75 mph) y una presión central de 990 mbar mientras se encontraba ubicado a solamente 15 km (10 millas) al sur de la Isla de San Andrés. Julia alcanzó su intensidad máxima como un huracán de categoría 1 a las 06:00 UTC del 9 de octubre con vientos de 140 km/h (85 mph) y una presión mínima de 982 mbar. Alrededor de las 07:15 UTC de ese día, Julia tocó tierra cerca de Laguna de Perlas, Nicaragua en su máxima intensidad. Luego, el sistema se debilitó gradualmente a medida que avanzaba hacia el oeste sobre Nicaragua y fue degradada a una tormenta tropical a las 15:00 UTC de ese día, aunque mantuvo una circulación bien definida y persistió convección profunda cerca del centro. Todavía siendo tormenta tropical, Julia cruzó hacia la cuenca del Océano Pacífico oriental cerca de las 00:00 UTC del 10 de octubre convirtiendo a la temporada del 2022 en la primera en tener dos ciclones tropicales que sobreviven al cruzar del Atlántico al Pacífico desde la Temporada de 1996. Mantuvo una banda de convección profunda sobre las partes sur y este de su circulación, las áreas que aún no interactúan con el terreno montañoso del interior. A las 12:00 UTC del 10 de octubre, el centro de la tormenta cruzó la costa de El Salvador, a unas 35 millas (56 km) al oeste de San Salvador, y luego se debilitó a depresión tropical. Más tarde ese mismo día, Julia degeneró en un remanente bajo que se extendía desde la costa de Guatemala hasta el extremo sureste de México.

Preparaciones e Impacto

Caribe

El 5 de octubre, el fenómeno provocó fuertes tormentas eléctricas en varias de las Islas de Barlovento y la costa caribeña de América del Sur. Más de 2 pulgadas (51 mm) de lluvia cayeron en Trinidad y Tobago en menos de media hora, lo que provocó importantes inundaciones repentinas. Esa inundación resultó en una muerte, después de que una mujer fuera arrastrada y se creyera ahogada.

La vicepresidenta de Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, dijo que en tan solo ocho horas cayó el equivalente a un mes de lluvia.
 Las fuertes y continuas lluvias por el paso de Julia como disturbio y luego como depresión tropical, causaron desbordamientos de ríos, inundaciones, deslizamientos de tierra, colapso de viviendas, fallas en el servicio eléctrico y árboles caídos en al menos 8 de los 23 estados de Venezuela siendo estos, Carabobo, Falcón, Miranda, Aragua, Mérida, Trujillo, Táchira y Guárico, además del Distrito Capital. Según el presidente Nicolás Maduro, se registraron afectaciones en 120 de los 335 municipios del país. 22 mil viviendas fueron afectadas por inundaciones y 17 colapsaron parcial o totalmente. Un derrumbe afectó parte de la autopista Valencia-Puerto Cabello, uno de los puertos más importantes del país ubicado en el estado Carabobo, al oeste de Caracas. En Las Tejerías, en el centro-norte de Venezuela, al menos 54 personas murieron y 60 desaparecieron cuando el lodo y los escombros inundaron el pueblo
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En la tarde del 7 de octubre Julia pasó al norte de la Península de La Guajira, en el extremo noreste de Colombia, con vientos máximos sostenidos de 65 kilómetros por hora, según el NHC. Eso produjo lluvias intensas en el norte de Colombia, con la consecuencia del riesgo de inundaciones y deslizamiento de tierras. Se reportaron más de 19 mil familias damnificadas.

El 8 de octubre las alertas se pusieron en el archipiélago colombiano de San Andrés y Providencia que dos años atrás habían sufrido el embate de los huracanes Eta e Iota y el presidente, Gustavo Petro, declaró la alerta máxima y le pidió a las empresas hoteleras que acogieran en sus instalaciones a los vecinos más vulnerables. El gobernador del archipiélago decretó la suspensión de clases a partir del 7 de octubre. Se dispusieron de seis refugios en la Isla de San Andrés y otro más en la Isla de Providencia. El espacio aéreo quedó cerrado y se estableció un toque de queda entre las 6:00 de la mañana del 8 de octubre y las 6:00 de la mañana del 11 de octubre. El Instituto Meteorología del archipiélago alertó sobre precipitaciones acumuladas fuertes y extremas que podrían superar los 120 mm, tormentas eléctricas, ráfagas de viento, y marejada ciclónica en el área del archipiélago. El archipiélago se quedaró sin electricidad el 8 de octubre a las 2 de la tarde. En la Isla de San Andrés según se reportó los daños fueron leves y se reportaron dos personas lesionadas, 2 viviendas destruidas, 101 averiadas, así como caída de árboles en el área y además los fuertes vientos arrancaron los techos de hojalata de varias casas. La Defensa Civil de Colombia informó que se rescataron a 34 personas que estaban atrapadas en un ancianato en esa isla por el Huracán Julia.

Centroamérica

Se habilitaron más de 600 albergues en la zona del impacto directo de Julia. Más de 13000 personas fueron albergadas en casas de familias, en casas solidarias y además se utilizaron más de nueve refugios y 24 albergues, que acogieron a casi 2000 personas para que pudieran enfrentar los primeros momentos del impacto del fenómeno.El 9 de octubre, el Gobierno decretó alerta roja para todo el territorio nacional, dejando sin efecto la alerta amarilla que impusieron el 8 de octubre. La tormenta tropical Julia salió de Nicaragua en la tarde del 9 de octubre y dejó un reguero de destrucción tras quince horas de azote: unas 2.000 viviendas vueltas escombros y 3.000 inundadas. Más de 1.500 familias fueron afectadas a su paso por la costa caribeña del país centroamericano como huracán de categoría 1. Las intensas lluvias provocaron que 70 ríos se desvordaran. En la ciudad de Nandaime, en el Departamento de Granada, las corrientes levantaron adoquines de las calles y arrancaron árboles. Alrededor de un millón de habitantes de la región costera de Nicaragua se quedaron sin electricidad e internet debido a la caída de las líneas. El Sistema Nacional de Desastres de Nicaragua dijo en Twitter el 9 de octubre que todo el país estaba en "alerta roja", luego de que las fuertes lluvias provocaran la inundación de varios ríos. Cinco personas murieron en Nicaragua luego de ser arrastradas por las corrientes de los ríos por las fuertes lluvias que dejó Julia.

Ante la formación de Julia, se emitió una vigilancia de tormenta tropical desde la frontera con Nicaragua hacia el oeste hasta Punta Patuca. Primeramente se emitió una alerta amarilla el 7 de octubre para el departamento de Gracias a Dios y para los municipios aledaños al Río Ulúa. Se pronosticaron lluvias en el país de hasta 400 milímetros de precipitaciones. El gobierno informó que se tenían activados los centros de operación de emergencias regionales y departamentales y que todas las dependencias del gobierno estarían para facilitar los recursos logísticos. Se habilitaron más de 1200 refugios a lo largo y ancho del país. Más de 12 mil personas fueron evacuadas en más de 140 albergues habilitados en 8 departamentos del país. Se suspendieron las clases el 10 de octubre por tres días ante el acercamiento de Julia y en el norte del país fue cerrado un aeropuerto. Posteriormente el gobierno emitió una alerta roja en diez departamentos y una alerta amarilla en otros ocho. Se activó una alarma de evacuación obligatoria en La Lima, cerca de San Pedro Sula debido al incremento del caudal del Río Chamelecón. Se reportaron más de 144 mil personas afectadas en todo el país, más de 800 viviendas dañadas o colapsadas, más de 70 centros educativos dañados y más de 100 mil hectáreas de cultivo dañadas. Aunque Julia no tocó tierra en el país, las bandas externas del ciclón provocaron fuertes precipitaciones que contribuyeron a inundaciones repentinas, desbordamientos de ríos y deslizamientos de tierras mortales. Las fuertes lluvias e inundaciones comprometió la seguridad alimentaria del país. El Instituto Nacional Agrario (INA) señaló que las pérdidas en la agricultura están en el entorno de los $60 millones de dólares. Las afectaciones más severas fueron en los cultivos de banano y palma aceitera. Como resultado 6 personas murieron en el país como consecuencia de los embates de Julia.

La Comisión Nacional de Emergencias decretó una alerta amarilla de preparación para la Zona Norte y el Pacífico Zur y decretó una alerta verde informativa para el resto del territorio nacional. El Instituto Meteorológico Nacional (IMN) recomendó precaución por saturación de alcantarillado y por posibles inundaciones repentinas. Se pronosticaron lluvias intermitentes para el 9 de octubre en el Valle Central y las clases fueron suspendidas temporalmente en todo el país a partir del lunes 10 de octubre en todas las escuelas públicas. Julia afectó de forma indirecta a Costa Rica pues su centro no tocó tierra en el país. Se produjeron inundaciones en la costa del Pacífico especialmente en los cantones de Golfito, Corredores y Puntarenas. Un río se desbordó en Puntarenas afectando a varias viviendas. Más de 300 personas tuvieron que ser albergadas en el país debido al temporal. Se registraron 260 milímetros de precipitaciones en el Cantón de Golfito y los alrededores y se habían registrado además más de 400 eventos de inundaciones en toda la nación.

En el 8 de octubre, el gobierno declaró alerta naranja para todo el territorio ante el acercamiento de la entonces tormenta tropical. Ante la declaratoria, el Ministerio de Educación informó que los centros escolares públicos y privados además de las universidades deben suspender las clases de forma presencial y virtual el lunes 10 de octubre. También se informó a la población pesquera y demás actividades de recreación en ríos, playas y lagos suspendan sus actividades hasta el martes 11 de octubre. También se prepararon 67 albergues habilitados para dar refugio a más de 3000 personas. El mismo día se decretó un estado de emergencia nacional por el huracán.

En el 9 de octubre, el gobierno cerró, hasta nuevo aviso, los parques nacionales, espacios turísticos administrados por la Corporación Salvadoreña de Turismo y el Instituto Salvadoreño de Turismo así como las Áreas Naturales Protegidas. El mismo día, según el gobierno, los albergues alcanzaron una capacidad para atender a 4000 personas refugiadas. El gobierno terminó por declarar alerta roja por Protección Civil por causa de los vientos en todo el territorio nacional. En la tarde se realizaron las primeras evacuaciones de 14 familias en el sector conocido como La Punta de la playa El Tamarindo del municipio de Conchagua; algunas familias no querían dejar sus viviendas, por lo que Protección Civil se valió del estado de emergencia para obligarlos a desplazarse a un albergue. Luego se procedió a la evacuación de poblaciones en riesgo en la franja costera y en lugares vulnerables a desbordamientos.

Para el 9 de octubre el Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales indicó que habrían ráfagas de viento con velocidades de 50 a 70 kilómetros por hora. En diferentes municipios se reportaron caídas de árboles, impidiendo el tráfico y dañando carros. El desprendimiento de ramas obstaculizaron las vías en varias carreteras principales; las carreteras también fueron afectadas por derrumbes. En los municipios orientales de Concepción de Oriente, Conchagüa, Intipuca, Lislique, Nueva Esparta y Polorós se reportaron vientos de hasta 93 kilómetros por hora, sintiéndose vientos de hasta 62 kilómetros por hora en la zona oriental y en la zona costera occidental.

El 8 de octubre las autoridades de protección de Guatemala activaron una Alerta Roja institucional ante el impacto que pudiera tener Julia en el país y se indicó que nueve departamentos del noroeste y el departamento de Izabal podrían ser los más afectados. Se suspendieron las clases presenciales el 10 de octubre. Un derrumbe en el municipio de Panzós en el departamento de Alta Verapaz provocó que cinco personas quedaran atrapadas bajo la tierra. El presidente de Guatemala, Alejandro Giammattei declaró el estado de calamidad en el país el día 10 de octubre ante la emergencia provocada por Julia. En el municipio Morales, Izabal el desbordamiento de un río provocó el cierre temporal de un tramo de la carretera que conduce hacia el Océano Atlántico. 167 mil hogares se quedaron sin energía eléctrica en todo el país además de daños en hidroeléctricas. Se reportaron casi 50 movimientos de masa, más de 130 inundaciones y afectaciones en más de 50 carreteras y 9 puentes, de ellos 3 destruidos y en más de 80 centros educativos. Se informó además que más de 2700 personas fueron evacuadas en toda la nación. Se reportaron al menos 14 fallecidos en el país como consecuencia de las fuertes lluvias, inundaciones, deslizamientos de tierras, derrumbes, entre otras causas provocadas por Julia.

El Ministerio de Educación de Panamá suspendió las clases en todo el territorio nacional el 10 de octubre. El incremento de lluvias y vientos sobre el país causó varios deslizamientos de tierras, inundaciones, deslaves y desbordamientos de embalses. Mas de 200 personas tuvieron que ser evacuadas en el distrito de Tierras Altas, en la Provincia de Chiriquí. El Sinaproc decretó alerta amarilla (amenaza creciente de un fenómeno natural) para todo el país con excepción de la provincia de Panamá y alertó que las precipitaciones podrían incrementarse. Varios lugares quedaron incomumicadas por las inundaciones como Cerro Punta y Volcán, debido a un deslizamiento de tierra que cerró la vía a la altura de la Nueva Suiza, indicaron las autoridades. Los servicios de emergencia de Panamá confirmaron el 10 de octubre dos muertes como resultado de las fuertes lluvias, con alrededor de 300 personas evacuadas de las comunidades cercanas a la frontera del país con Costa Rica.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 El archivo consultivo del Centro Nacional de Huracanes (NHC) sobre la Huracán Julia (2022)

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SAS flexes AI ambitions with Viya platform expansion
Michael Vizard@mvizard
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Greater reach
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iPhone activation will require an Internet connection; an iTunes Store account or a major credit card; the latest version of iTunes available at www.itunes.com and a PC or Mac with a USB 2.0 port and one of the following operating systems: Mac OS X v10.4.10 or later; Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 2 or later; or Windows Vista Home Premium, Business, Enterprise or Ultimate Edition. iPhone requires a new 18-month contract with O2. Existing O2 customers will have the option of keeping their existing phone number and upgrading their account to work with iPhone while new customers can also simply and easily transfer their current mobile number to O2.
O2 is a leading provider of mobile services to consumers and businesses in the UK. These services include voice, text, media messaging, games, music and video, as well as always on data connections via GPRS, EDGE, 3G and WLAN. Every month, O2's 17.8 million customers send well over a billion text messages. O2 UK is part of Telefónica O2 Europe which comprises mobile network operators in the UK, Ireland and Slovakia along with integrated fixed / mobile businesses in Germany and the Czech Republic. Telefónica O2 Europe also owns 50 percent of the Tesco Mobile and Tchibo Mobilfunk joint venture businesses in the UK and Germany respectively as well as having 100 percent ownership of Be, a leading UK fixed broadband provider.
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What will China's Black Monday mean for the UK?
August 31, 2015 by manager
This was supposed to be the year when normality returned to the global economic landscape. Growth was looking more established and the legacy of the financial crisis was dimming. The US central bank and the Bank of England looked poised to affirm the recovery by finally starting to raise interest rates after keeping them for years at emergency levels. Even the eurozone, having come close to unraveling once again, by this month appeared to have put the latest Greek crisis behind it.
All that changed on China's "Black Monday" last week, when the stock market sell-off that had been rumbling along for weeks turned into a rout. A near 9% fall in the main Shanghai Composite index, its biggest one-day drop since 2007, reverberated around global markets, sending other bourses from Sydney to Wall Street tumbling. In London, dramatic moves on the FTSE 100 were reminiscent of the worst days of the last crash.
The worries went well beyond China's immature stock markets: there were growing signs that the country's real economy was slowing at an even sharper pace than officials in Beijing had feared, awakening fears that the global economy was headed for a fresh crisis. China's GDP growth last year of 7.4% was already the slowest for 24 years; it was also the first time this century it had fallen short of the official target. Now there are doubts China can hit this year's lower target of around 7%. Despite a string of interventions by policymakers, including a shock devaluation of the yuan this month, the world's growth engine appears to be spluttering.
It is too soon to tell if China's wobble will spark a new global downturn. By the end of last week, stock markets in Europe had regained their Black Monday losses. But jitters have not gone away as investors, businesses and policymakers brace for more Chinese shockwaves. From the property market to petrol prices, what does the turmoil in China mean for the UK?
At the luxury end of the UK property market there are fears that wealthy Chinese investors burnt in the sell-off will have less to spend in Britain. But so far estate agents report that turmoil at home has only served to increase the attractiveness of property in the UK.
"The Chinese are increasingly focused on diversifying their assets and uncertainty over the performance of the stock market reinforces this. There is anecdotal evidence that Chinese buyers have intensified their interest in 'safe haven' global property markets, including London, as a result of the recent stock-market volatility," says Tom Bill, head of London residential research at Knight Frank.
Rob Weaver at residential crowdfunding platform Property Partner says: "With the recent financial turmoil in China, eyes from the east will focus even more sharply on the capital as a safe haven to park foreign investors' cash. Financial crises often put London back in the frame."
For the wider housing market, the prospect of interest rates staying at their record low for longer should support demand and buoy prices, economists have said.
In commercial property little impact was expected from events in China, says Jeff Matsu, senior economist at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. "You have to look through this and stay the course. If you get distracted by movements in markets that can be dangerous as an investor."
Shares and pensions
UK shares, like all European markets, have been buffeted by the dramatic swings on China's exchanges. Almost £74bn was wiped off the FTSE 100 index on its worst day last week, as it tumbled 4.7% following the new Black Monday.
But by the end of the week it had recovered the losses, buoyed by brighter economic news from the US and more emergency measures by China's policymakers to shore up their rattled markets. Still, over August as a whole the index suffered its worst monthly loss since May 2012, down 6.7%. Financial experts advise pension savers with money in shares not to worry about short-term volatility. The more important question is what the longer-term returns look like.
There are two big factors at play in the FTSE's ups and downs. First, there is the level of risk investors attach to shares in general. As sharp falls in Chinese stocks shook investors' nerves around the world last week, they ditched those assets seen as riskier, including shares, in favour of so-called "havens" like gold and government bonds. But most analysts think equities are likely to remain an attractive investment as the global economy continues to recover, albeit slowly. Equities will also probably remain attractive as long as yields on assets such as bonds remain low and commodity prices hover around multi-year lows.
The second factor weighing on the FTSE is the importance of mining and energy company shares in the index. They suffer when worries rise about Chinese demand for commodities such as iron ore, oil and copper. Shares in miners Glencore and Anglo American hit fresh all-time lows last week. If concerns intensify over China's economic slowdown and wider global growth, these sectors are likely to suffer further losses and keep the wider FTSE under pressure.
The debate has been heating up over when policymakers at the Bank of England will opt to lift interest rates in the UK from their record low of 0.5%, where they have been for more than six years. The latest turmoil on Chinese markets and worries about the global economic outlook provide further food for thought for the nine members of the Bank's monetary policy committee.
Last month, Bank governor Mark Carney indicated that the turn of the year could bring the first UK rate rise since the global financial crisis and, speaking in Jackson Hole on Saturday, Carney said: "Developments in China are unlikely to change the process of rate increases from limited and gradual to infinitesimal and inert."
But, with the growth outlook less certain and inflation kept low by cheaper commodities, the Bank and the Fed may well hold off, economists reckon. Next May looks the most likely time for a UK rate rise, says Andrew Goodwin, at the consultancy Oxford Economics. But there are plenty of risks that could push it back still further, most notably stemming from China.
"A hard landing for China could lead to much lower growth and inflation in the UK which, in turn, could potentially delay the first rate hike until 2017 or beyond," says Goodwin.
In the US, traders have also scrambled to scale down their rate-rise bets after a key member of the US central bank's rate-setting committee appeared to play down the chances of a move next month. Bill Dudley, the president of the New York Federal Reserve, said a September rise was now "less compelling" than it had been just a few weeks ago.
With confidence shaky in the UK's longstanding European trading partners, businesses have been looking to emerging economies, particularly China, for new opportunities.
The British Chambers of Commerce has warned that the growing trade links mean uncertainty in China will be felt in some way in the UK.
Furthermore, many British companies in supply chains could also be affected if China's trade with the eurozone is hit, says Adam Marshall, the group's executive director of policy.
"Yet UK firms doing business with China should hold their nerve. China remains rich in opportunities for UK exporters, both in the short and longer term," Marshall adds.
For now, China remains a relatively small part of Britain's export market, notes John Hawksworth, chief economist at the consultancy PwC. "Unless things get a lot worse in China, the impact on the real economy in the UK should not be that great.
"China accounts for less than 5% of UK exports, even including Hong Kong, so the direct trade effects of a slowdown there will be limited outside a few sectors such as luxury cars and consumer goods." But after the manufacturing sector contracted in the latest quarter, businesses themselves appear more worried. Almost half – 47% – of companies polled by manufacturer's organisation EEF said they were concerned about a possible sharp slowdown in China. That comes on top of lingering fears about Greece leaving the eurozone, with only 22% of the 284 manufacturers surveyed saying they were not concerned about a re-escalation of the crisis in Greece.
"For some sectors in manufacturing, the slowdown in China is not a new story. We've seen exports of vehicles to China, for example, on the slide since the end of last year," says EEF chief economist Lee Hopley.
But the worries go beyond exports and the manufacturing supply chain, she says. "The more widespread impact, at least in the near term, is likely to be the knock to already-delicate confidence levels."
Oil prices have tumbled over the last year and that is boosting household budgets for many Britons. China is the world's biggest energy consumer, so signs of an economic slowdown helped push down the oil price last week: at one point benchmark Brent crude was below $43 per barrel compared with a peak of $115 last summer.
Some of that fall is feeding through to fuel prices and should help keep inflation low in the UK. Inflation has hovered around zero for most of this year while average wages are growing by more than 2%, leaving workers better off in real terms. That pattern looks set to continue with low oil prices and it should bolster consumer spending, the main driver of Britain's economic growth.
"A lower oil price will boost household budgets in the UK, Europe and the US, which should feed through into spending. The $70 fall in the oil price over the last year puts $6bn more into the pockets of oil consumers each day – a level of economic stimulus even central bankers would be proud to notch up," says Laith Khalaf, senior analyst at stockbroker Hargreaves Lansdown.
The depreciation of the Chinese currency will also help dampen British inflation through cheaper imports. Taking services and goods together, China was the second-biggest source of imports to the UK last year, behind the US.
Aside from the yuan weakening against the pound, there have been other effects on sterling as investors reassess the outlook for UK interest rates against the backdrop of turbulent global stock markets.
The prospect of borrowing costs staying lower for longer has pushed the pound down against the US dollar. Last week sterling fell to its lowest level against the dollar for more than a month. The pound also weakened against the euro for the fourth week running.
Those moves bring a little respite for UK exporters, who say they have been struggling because the strong pound makes their goods more expensive to overseas buyers. For UK holidaymakers, however, it means that those who booked their holidays late in the summer have found that their overseas spending money does not stretch quite so far as it did for those who headed abroad in July.
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Growing market Between 1993 and 2013 China's share of global GDP rose from 1.7% to 12.2%, in contrast to Europe and America, the UK's traditional trading partners, whose share of GDP fell over the same period. Exports to China have risen over the last decade and now account for 3.2% of UK exports – the sixth biggest destination for UK businesses. China is the largest foreign market for British cars.
Imports grow Chinese imports to the UK rose even faster, to 7% of UK imports in 2014, making China the second largest import partner after America.
But they outstrip exports Due to imports growing faster than exports, the UK's goods trade deficit with China has widened to stand at £22.1bn in 2014, second only to the gap with Germany.
Direct investment Foreign direct investment (FDI) between the UK and China has also grown. UK investments held by Chinese citizens rose from £119m in 2004 to £950m in 2013, according to the Office for National Statistics. China is also an increasingly important destination for UK investment. UK citizens held £6bn of FDI assets in China in 2013 – more than treble the amount in 2004.
UK in China
There are far more UK businesses operating in China than Chinese businesses in the UK, according to the Office for National Statistics. In 2012 there were 61 Chinese-owned businesses in the UK, compared with 654 UK-owned companies operating in China. That accounts for 2.8% of UK owned enterprises abroad.
Biggest export Motor vehicles top the list of UK exports to China, the world's biggest car market and the largest single market for British-built cars after the UK. Last year, more than 137,000 UK-built cars were exported to China, an increase of almost 15% on 2013, according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).
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Aristotle, born in Stagirus in northern Greece, spent twenty years studying under Plato at Plato's Academy in Athens. On Plato's death in 347 he left Athens for the court of Hermeas, and afterwards went on to Mytilene. At the invitation of Philip of Macedonia he became the tutor of his 13 year old son Alexander (who became Alexander the Great). Aristotle returned to Athens in 335 to establish his own school at the Lyceum. His students acquired the name 'peripatetics' from their master's habit of walking about as he taught. What remains of Aristotle's works embrace a wide range of subjects, including logic, philosophy, ethics, physics, biology, psychology, politics and rhetoric.
With the sudden death of Alexander in 323 BCE., the political landscape changed and Aristotle fled from Athens to Chalcis in Euboea. Within a year he had died from an illness.


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The American dream personified: Joey Vento
Joey Vento of Geno's Cheesesteak
GLENN: And I said, what's wiz? And you just looked at me like, oh, you rookie. Joey Vento is here, and he's in trouble. He has been for how long? How many years has this been?
VENTO: It's five years now it's going on.
GLENN: Five years. You put a sign up at Geno's Cheesesteak that says?
VENTO: This is America. When ordering, please speak English.
GLENN: The problem is nobody likes that. Nobody wants that. How dare you, you racist hate monger you. And you've been, for five years you've been fighting and you've won. Have they ever taken you actually to court?
VENTO: The human relation committee took me to court and I won.
GLENN: Okay. But it doesn't stop there.
VENTO: Oh, no. Every day they come back still to thwart me, to call me a racist. And the biggest thing is that it's the Mexicans now come. They wave their Mexican flag in front of the store or they call me a racist. In fact, I just got notice the other day, people were coming up telling me I'm known now as the racist steakhouse in Philadelphia because of my stand on English.
GLENN: Hang on just a second. Hang on just a second. It is really interesting that a guy from Philadelphia — do you have the audio from the Black Panther from yesterday? Because I believe he's from Philadelphia, is he not? Yeah.
VENTO: Yes.
GLENN: The guy who says speak English is a racist.
PAT: But wait. What race is English? What race is that language?
GLENN: I'm not really —
PAT: I was just curious.
GLENN: Okay. So he's a racist, but this guy? No, the government has no problem with this guy.
VOICE: I hate white people, all of them. Every last iota of a cracker, I hate him. We didn't come out here to play this game. It's too much serious business going on in the black community to be out here sliding through South Street with white, dirty cracker whore [ BLEEP ] on our arms and we call ourselves black men with African garb on. What the hell is wrong with you, black man? You had a (inaudible) with a white girl on your damn arm. You want freedom? You are going to have to kill some crackers. You might have to kill some of their babies.
GLENN: Okay. So going to kill some of their babies and again you're — I don't know if they are going to continue to let us broadcast. Joey, your hate speech was again?
VENTO: My hate speech? Speaking English? How did that become a hate speech?
GLENN: Whoa, whoa, whoa!
PAT: Speak English.
GLENN: Slow down! Slow down! Jeez, listen to the hate speech coming out of that guy! By the way, the kill cracker babies, that's fine, but Joey —
PAT: That's okay.
GLENN: — you are a menace to society.
VENTO: Isn't that amazing?
GLENN: It's amazing.
VENTO: It's amazing.
GLENN: The same city, the same city. Now, what is happening with you? Because they are coming in and they're fining you? This is my favorite law, ever. Go ahead.
VENTO: All of a sudden Geno's Steaks, everybody knows I have the cleanest joint in the city. But all of a sudden —
GLENN: It is, it's amazing.
VENTO: All of a sudden — you know, the city came out one time not long ago where they say they were lucky if they can get around to inspect every restaurant every two and a half years. I've already had four different inspections in less than a year.
GLENN: Four of them.
VENTO: Four of them. Oh, yeah. I told you one of the violations was I had my bracelet that my mom gave me before she passed away and the necklace that my wife bought me and that was considered excess jewelry making the steaks. So that's a violation.
GLENN: Excess jewelry?
VENTO: Excess jewelry.
GLENN: All right. Hang on just a second. I want you to turn the camera to the other side and I want you to be able to see — show everybody the medallion for the Insider Extreme. I mean, that is as big as my son's head.
VENTO: There's the bracelet from my mom.
GLENN: There's the bracelet from your mom. And that's excess?
VENTO: That's excess jewelry making your steak sandwich.
PAT: What if those had fallen right into the steak? I mean, could have killed somebody dead.
GLENN: You'll never be able to fly again: I'm sorry, sir, the metal detector is going off. I know, I've got a giant medallion.
PAT: Geno's medallion. Joey Vento dropped a medallion in my steak.
GLENN: All right.
VENTO: But listen, Glenn. They just picked the wrong guy. I'm too old and stubborn to back off. I put my money where my mouth is. I built that business with the $6 I had in my pocket when I started 43 years ago. And this the greatest country in the world to allow a guy like me, with diversity, with lack of money and a family reputation, I achieved the American dream. And that's what we want for everybody to come into this country. It's just that when you come in, we want you to come in the right way. You don't sneak across the border. You come here the right way, you play by our rules.
GLENN: How did your family come in? Did your family come in through Ellis Island?
VENTO: Ellis Island, the same thing.
VENTO: And here, just want to walk across the border, I'm totally against that. I'm totally against the anchor baby problem that we have in this country. I don't know. Our government has to be as guilty as the illegals for allowing this to happen.
GLENN: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
VENTO: All you do is tell them if there's a way you can sneak across the border and pop that baby out, it will be American citizen and we'll pick up the tab for the rest of their life.
GLENN: Yeah. We're the only country in the world that does that and we started it for good reason. It was started during reconstruction. It was started after the Civil War to make sure that nobody was going to play any games, et cetera, et cetera. But that time has passed. That time has passed. We're not worried about slave immigrant — or slave children anymore. We're not worried about that. It is now being abused.
VENTO: That's correct.
GLENN: All right. So now you are doing a fundraiser in Philadelphia at Geno's next week?
VENTO: That's right, July 14th from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
GLENN: Love this. Love this.
VENTO: We're going to be doing, this here is a fundraiser because Joey Vento and Geno's Steaks supports Arizona's law and I say every chance you get, people, you want to go on vacation, go to Arizona. It's a great place. I was there myself personally. Ask your going to love it there.
GLENN: All right. So your fundraiser, you are raising funds for — I mean, you are just going to send an envelope of cash down to Arizona?
VENTO: Whatever way we can get the money there, through e‑mails, it's going to come through. We're going to have a dunk tank. Maybe I can get the mayor, put him in there, we should draw a lot of money.
GLENN: Mayor of Philadelphia?
VENTO: Mayor of Philly.
GLENN: I don't think he likes you.
VENTO: No, he doesn't.
GLENN: I have a feeling he doesn't like you. All right. So it's at Geno's all day? What day is it again?
VENTO: It's July 14th from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. at Dom Giordano's.
GLENN: All right. So we'll —
VENTO: I'd like everybody to come down.
GLENN: You got it. We'll see you again. Thank you very much.
VENTO: Thank you.
GLENN: Thank you very much and thanks for the cheesesteaks. All right. We'll be back in just a second.
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GLENN: I'm sorry, just having cheesesteak. Sure, it's 10:00 in the morning but having a cheesesteak. Joey Vento from Geno's Cheesesteaks in Philadelphia is here and I asked him to stay because in the commercial break I went — we were having a conversation and he said, Glenn, you know, the reason why I stand up so strongly, the reason why I am the way I am is because of what I overcame. And I don't know what you feel comfortable sharing on the air here, but if you will share what you shared with me off the air. This is the most incredible story I think I've heard.
VENTO: Well, like I said, growing up, you know, I had everything, you know. Me and my dad, we had a steakhouse in that same neighborhood that I'm at now and my father's place was called Jim's steaks. And I worked at a very young age at that time, 8, 9 years old, 12 years old, I was running businesses with my dad. And at the age of 18 I decided let me go in the Service, you know, and kind of lock horns with my dad a little bit like we all do. So I figured take a little break. I'm 14 — while I'm in the Service, there's a man that evidently owed my father money and my father gets him whacked.
GLENN: Now, was your family, was this just — I mean, I've never had this conversation with anybody before. You know, I've seen him — is this a Soprano situation? I mean, how do you ask somebody that?
VENTO: Well, unfortunately my father made a bad move there. It was a bad decision. I come home.
GLENN: Yeah.
VENTO: A very bad decision.
PAT: Was that just a random like out‑of‑the‑blue thing or was he involved in —
VENTO: No, no, it was just out of — random. My father was a businessman, you know, and for whatever reason. But I came home, tried to salvage a business which was hard because I go visit my dad. Now, my dad, he wants me to go after the two guys that went after — that ratted on him. I said, Dad, why would you want me to do that and wind up in jail? And my father kind of disowns me there. He divorced my mom. So we kind of lost everything. In fact, I opened up a few places on my own locally, corner stores and just couldn't quite make it. And I decided to come back into this neighborhood. And at that time there was a steakhouse called Joe's steaks there, which was our competitor, along with the pat steaks and my father was Jim's steaks. And I talk about this because I love my family. I didn't condone what my family did, but I loved him, you know, and I'm doing this because I had to pay a price for that.
GLENN: You didn't, you didn't follow in the footsteps and didn't play the game that the family played.
VENTO: No, no.
GLENN: You were — and your family, I'm guessing, was not popular with police officers.
VENTO: No, because my brother, unfortunately, never got along with cops. And my brother probably invented the drug business, Steve Vento, standup guy. And I love my brother. We were tight. He had his way of life. He was, you know, he wasn't a bully type guy. In fact, later on when he died, he died in '91 at the age of 49 years old.
GLENN: Holy cow.
VENTO: Right. He was in prison most of his life for either drug‑dealing — in fact, he tried to break out of Eastern Penn with a mercenary. I think it was $700,000 he paid to the mercenary who in turn, they go to the Feds. Of course, he chickens out. Now, his son has to get involved and —
GLENN: Same story is repeating itself.
VENTO: Right. Now, his son takes over. He escaped not knowing that the mercenary is FBI agents. So they have to go through the motions to get the conviction. And the deal was he's going to lower the ladder and his father would have certain markings on it. Well, if anybody else comes up, no, no, we shoot them. And we also bring the rockets. And what was the rockets for? To blow the four towers, okay?
VENTO: But there's always something, good comes out of something and you don't realize it. Years later — in fact, it must have been maybe a year and a half ago, Dom Giordano does a show down at my store and this black guy comes in. He's got a young black boy with him. He says, Mr. Vento, he says, could I talk to you for a minute? I said, yeah, what's the matter? He says, I was in that yard the day your brother was planning that escape. He says, and all I could say is, that one crazy white boy.
GLENN: (Laughing).
VENTO: He said, I'll tell you just like it was. He says, I got my black ass and I sat down at that wall and I didn't move, he says, but after that happened, I came out and I said to myself, I'm never going back to jail and here's my son. And this kid brought up, spoke beautifully, raised him. He said, and I learned, your brother taught me a lesson. Some things bad, there's always something good comes out.
GLENN: Amen, brother.


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Stigma in medical settings as reported retrospectively by women with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH) for their childhood and adolescence
Heino F.L. Meyer-Bahlburg, Jananne Khuri, Jazmin Reyes-Portillo, Maria I. New
Objectives To perform a qualitative study of stigma experienced in medical settings by children and adolescents with congenital genital ambiguity (CGA). Methods 62 women with classical congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) of variable severity took part in a qualitative retrospective interview that focused on the impact of CAH and its medical treatment, with an emphasis on childhood and adolescence. Categorization of stigmatization was based on deductive content analysis of the interview transcripts. Results Many women recalled experiencing the genital examinations in childhood and adolescence as adverse, stigmatizing events, leading to avoidance reactions and self-perception as abnormal, particularly when the examinations included groups of trainees. Some women also experienced as adverse the nonverbal and verbal reactions of individual physicians who were unfamiliar with CGA. Conclusions Genital examinations constitute salient events for children and adolescents with CGA. They are easily experienced as strongly stigmatizing, especially when combined with teaching.
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https://doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/jsw034
ambiguous genitalia
congenital adrenal hyperplasia
disorders of sex development
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Meyer-Bahlburg, H. F. L., Khuri, J., Reyes-Portillo, J., & New, M. I. (2017). Stigma in medical settings as reported retrospectively by women with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH) for their childhood and adolescence. Journal of Pediatric Psychology, 42(5), 496-503. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/jsw034
Meyer-Bahlburg, Heino F.L. ; Khuri, Jananne ; Reyes-Portillo, Jazmin ; New, Maria I. / Stigma in medical settings as reported retrospectively by women with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH) for their childhood and adolescence. In: Journal of Pediatric Psychology. 2017 ; Vol. 42, No. 5. pp. 496-503.
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AU - Reyes-Portillo, Jazmin
AU - New, Maria I.
N2 - Objectives To perform a qualitative study of stigma experienced in medical settings by children and adolescents with congenital genital ambiguity (CGA). Methods 62 women with classical congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) of variable severity took part in a qualitative retrospective interview that focused on the impact of CAH and its medical treatment, with an emphasis on childhood and adolescence. Categorization of stigmatization was based on deductive content analysis of the interview transcripts. Results Many women recalled experiencing the genital examinations in childhood and adolescence as adverse, stigmatizing events, leading to avoidance reactions and self-perception as abnormal, particularly when the examinations included groups of trainees. Some women also experienced as adverse the nonverbal and verbal reactions of individual physicians who were unfamiliar with CGA. Conclusions Genital examinations constitute salient events for children and adolescents with CGA. They are easily experienced as strongly stigmatizing, especially when combined with teaching.
AB - Objectives To perform a qualitative study of stigma experienced in medical settings by children and adolescents with congenital genital ambiguity (CGA). Methods 62 women with classical congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) of variable severity took part in a qualitative retrospective interview that focused on the impact of CAH and its medical treatment, with an emphasis on childhood and adolescence. Categorization of stigmatization was based on deductive content analysis of the interview transcripts. Results Many women recalled experiencing the genital examinations in childhood and adolescence as adverse, stigmatizing events, leading to avoidance reactions and self-perception as abnormal, particularly when the examinations included groups of trainees. Some women also experienced as adverse the nonverbal and verbal reactions of individual physicians who were unfamiliar with CGA. Conclusions Genital examinations constitute salient events for children and adolescents with CGA. They are easily experienced as strongly stigmatizing, especially when combined with teaching.
KW - ambiguous genitalia
KW - congenital adrenal hyperplasia
KW - disorders of sex development
KW - stigma
U2 - 10.1093/jpepsy/jsw034
DO - 10.1093/jpepsy/jsw034
JO - Journal of Pediatric Psychology
JF - Journal of Pediatric Psychology
Meyer-Bahlburg HFL, Khuri J, Reyes-Portillo J, New MI. Stigma in medical settings as reported retrospectively by women with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH) for their childhood and adolescence. Journal of Pediatric Psychology. 2017 Jan 1;42(5):496-503. https://doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/jsw034


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European Convention on Human Rights – still relevant post-Brexit?
By Sophie Miller-Molloy on March 3, 2022
Posted in Best Practice, Employment
Following the last post on European Works Councils post-Brexit, UK employers should be aware of the continued relevance of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and keep on top of recent developments to ensure they are prepared to respond if human rights issues are raised in the workplace.
Is the UK still committed to the ECHR?
For now, the UK is still a participant in the ECHR, and UK Human Rights cases can still be heard by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The commitment was established in 2019 in a political declaration between the EU and the UK. The declaration highlights the UK's ongoing commitment to respect the framework of the ECHR. The parties also declared that future arrangements should be underpinned by long-standing commitments to the fundamental rights of individuals, including giving effect to the ECHR.
The Brexit Trade Agreement codifies this commitment, but only to an extent – there is no specific mention of the ECHR and the drafting is vague on the consequences of withdrawing from the commitment.
The UK's ongoing commitment to the ECHR is therefore uncertain as there is nothing to prevent the UK from withdrawing as a participant or limiting the application of the ECHR, e.g. by repealing or amending the Human Rights Act 1998 (which made available, for the first time, a remedy for breach of the ECHR in the UK courts). For the time being, we advise UK employers to keep on top of case law developments from the ECtHR, such as the recent high profile judgment of Lee v United Kingdom [Application no. 18860/19] (often referred to as the "support gay marriage cake case").
ECHR Case update: Lee v United Kingdom [Application no. 18860/19]
The key takeaway from this case is that litigants should plead Convention rights expressly (or in substance) domestically before applying to the ECtHR.
The Claimant had brought a claim for breach of Northern Ireland anti-discrimination laws against a bakery following their refusal to supply him with a cake iced with a message in support of legalising same-sex marriage. The Supreme Court ultimately dismissed the claim, following which Mr Lee complained to the ECtHR on the basis that the Supreme Court's interpretation of the anti-discrimination laws had infringed his rights to the following European Convention Rights:
private and family life (Article 8)
freedom of thought and conscience (Article 9)
freedom of expression (Article 10)
freedom from discrimination (Article 14)
The complaint about the Supreme Court's judgment was inadmissible. The Claimant had not invoked those Article rights domestically and so the ECtHR held that the Claimant had not exhausted his domestic remedies. As such, the claim could not be heard by the ECtHR.
After years of press attention, the final conclusion of this case – it being rejected on procedural grounds – falls someway short of previous headline-grabbing decisions at earlier stages in the litigation. However, the main takeaway from this decision is an important one, namely that Convention rights and the "substance" of the Convention complaint have to be raised in domestic courts first in order to proceed to the ECtHR. If litigants do not do this, it is unlikely the ECtHR will entertain such claims.
As mentioned above, these cases will only continue to be relevant for UK employers for as long as the UK remains committed to the ECHR, so we will be interested to see how this develops in the coming years. For now, we would advise staying on top of these developments in case proceedings do go down the ECtHR route or where Convention rights are raised at an early stage in a dispute.
Tags: Brexit, ECHR


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Kamala's Nutty Green Vision: Ban Plastic Straws, Limit Red Meat
By: Admin - Climate DepotAugust 13, 2020 11:51 AM
https://climatechangedispatch.com/kamala-nutty-green-vision-ban-plastic-straws-limit-red-meat/
Climate Change Dispatch / by Hannah Bleau /
Joe Biden (D) announced Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) as his running mate on Tuesday — someone who holds far-left positions, particularly on climate change, an issue central to the progressive wing's vision for America.
Despite initially positioning herself as a more "moderate" candidate during the primary, Harris holds a common vision with the far-left, proposing a ban on plastic straws and altering the food pyramid as part of a greater effort to address climate change.
Biden, whom many have described as a "moderate" candidate, has demonstrated his willingness to embrace radical left-wing policies.
While the Biden-Sanders Unity Task Force displayed Biden's ease in moving further to the left, his choice for a running mate reinforced that reality.
While climate change remains among the least important issues for Americans moving into the 2020 election, it remains a central piece in the Democrat Party's overall platform, and Harris's vision is just as radical as those of Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) — champions of the Green New Deal.
"We must have and adopt a Green New Deal," Harris said during a debate last summer. "On day one as president, I would reenter us in the Paris Agreement and put it in place so we would be carbon neutral by 2030."
That same summer, Harris teamed up with Ocasio-Cortez to advance the "Climate Equity Act," which would rate economic regulations "based on its impact on low-income communities, which are disproportionately affected by climate change because they are often in flood zones, near highways or power plants, or adjacent to polluted lands known as brownfields," according to the New York Times.
Harris doubled down on her radical positions during CNN's Climate Change Town Hall last September, expressing support for both banning plastic straws and creating incentives to end the use of single-use plastic altogether.
"I think we have to create incentives to ban these — we have to create incentives, and there is no question that we have seen innovation takes place when leaders lead," she said.
"I think we should, yes," Harris said when asked if we should ban plastic straws. "I'm going to be honest, it's really difficult to drink out of a paper straw…we've got to kind of perfect that one a little bit more."
She added that officials should "encourage innovation."
"And I think we can do a little better than some of those flimsy plastic straws. But we do need to ban the plastic," she reiterated.
When you're finally old enough to drink but can't get too loose in front of big mom #ThanksgivingWithBlackFamiliespic.twitter.com/HKynEziFMZ
— Darrin Owens – Madam VP Kamala Harris Stan Account (@darrinlance) November 26, 2019
During that same forum, Harris said she would "support changing dietary guidelines — the food pyramid" to reduce red meat consumption as part of a greater effort to address climate change.
"I've actually worked on this issue in the past, and it's about consumer awareness," Harris said, reminding the audience that she, too, enjoys a burger from "time to time."
"I strongly believe the American consumer is left without the information that you need and deserve to have about what it is that you are putting in your body or surrounding yourselves with and the health implications of those things," she said.
"The California Democrat added that included upon that list 'should be a measure of the impact on the environment,'" as Breitbart News reported at the time.
Despite her advocacy for consumer awareness, Harris gleefully participated in the Polk County Democrats Steak Fry in Iowa in September — which featured over 10,000 sizzling steaks — even busting a move at the event:
I don't know if you heard, but I'm moving to Iowa!
Thank you, @PolkDems, for putting on a fantastic #SteakFry and giving us the opportunity to bring our campaign directly to Iowans. We're going to win this thing by coming together and fighting for the best of who we are. pic.twitter.com/z6gu9sBe6g
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) September 21, 2019
Notably, Biden assisted organizers in grilling the steaks, demonstrating no concern for the purported impact red meat has on the environment:
There's a lot at "steak" in this election. #SteakFrypic.twitter.com/GTKxYoqo5C
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 21, 2019
Filed under: agriculture, gnd, Harris, plastics


If you're exhibiting at ISE 2016, you have just one day left to enter the ISE 2016 Best of Show Awards.
Organised by NewBay Media, the Best of Show programme recognises new and outstanding products exhibited at ISE 2016. Don't miss tomorrow's deadline for your chance to win one of this year's awards.


We started 2017 with one of our favourite events of the year, Berlin Fashion Week. Lapàporter joined the SEEK exhibition and teamed up with the organising crew of BFW for a different kind of showcase. We displayed our most recent product, the crossbody iPhone cases, a product resulted from a beautiful collaboration with the talented girls from MIJUNE (check our previous blog post for more details about them).
Besides our cosy C-66 corner within SEEK, our new designs were worn by special members of the SEEK and PREMIUM crew, a total of 18 cross-body cases in different styles and colours. Each staff member combined it with their own style and the results were absolutely stunning check them out on our Instagram! We were very happy to see how each of them wore it in a different way and most of all, that the cross-body case looks amazing also as a necklace!
Berlin Fashion Week is always a good opportunity to meet new people in the fashion industry, to better understand the up-coming trends and of course, to make new friends. Our closest neighbours, Josine and Joeri, taught us more about the unisex clothing approach of their Amsterdam based label, YUNIT Studio and we were happy to share the challenges we all face in our day by day designer life.
Another great challenge during that week was to attend this fair together with my little 14-month-old daughter, for the first time. Unfortunately, during this week Dady and best babysitter grandma were not available so I was running back and forth between day care and exhibition. In the afternoon she did spend a couple of hours with us at the fair. Thanks to my assistant all turned out to be totally doable and fun. Baby girl proved to be a real fashion aficionada and tried on many articles to the joy of other exhibitors and visitors.
Many people came by our stand and we would like to thank everybody for their interest in our products! We are now already busy processing all the new orders and we can't wait to share with you the next journeys of the most practical iPhone cases ever! Thank you, Nina, for helping and for stopping by! Thank you, Ramona, for diving into this new job right before BFW (Ramona is my new assistant, I'll tell you more about her soon)! Thank you one more time, SEEK and Premium, for the opportunity and looking forward to more collaborations like this one in the future!


Painted one freezing January night in Leake Street.
Been wanting to paint something with the words from this old Kissing The Pink track for quite a while.
So I closed my eyes and gathered up the easiest to grab paint at the top of the box, it ended up being all greens.