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303 F. 3d 1132 - Martinez v. Signature Seafoods Inc
Federal Reporter, Third Series
303 F.3d
303 F3d 1132 Martinez v. Signature Seafoods Inc
303 F.3d 1132
Arthur MARTINEZ, Plaintiff-Appellant,
SIGNATURE SEAFOODS INC; Lucky Buck F/V, Official # 567411, her machinery, appurtenances, equipment and cargo, in rem, Defendants-Appellees.
No. 01-35768.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Submitted July 8, 2002.*
Filed September 11, 2002.
Eric Dickman, Dickman Law Group, Seattle, WA, for the appellant.
Tom Montgomery, Montgomery Scarp, PLLC, Seattle, WA, for the appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, Marsha J. Pechman, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-00-01293-MJP.
Before HALL, TASHIMA, and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.
CYNTHIA HOLCOMB HALL, Circuit Judge.
This case requires us to determine whether triable issues of fact exist as to whether a seaworthy fish processing barge that is towed across navigable waters twice a year can qualify as a "vessel in navigation" for certain purposes of the Jones Act, 46 U.S.C. § 688. We hold that they do, reverse the district court, and remand for further proceedings.
On July 8, 1997, defendant Signature Seafoods, Inc. ("Signature Seafoods") hired plaintiff Arthur Martinez to work as a fish processor in a processing plant aboard the barge known as the Lucky Buck. During the period of his employment with Signature Seafoods, Martinez lived aboard another barge, the Speedwell, that was tied to the Lucky Buck.
In the course of his employment, Martinez developed pain in his hands, and was diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome. He was sent back home to Seattle, Washington. After disputes with the Alaska Department of Labor regarding his entitlement to benefits under both the Jones Act and Alaska's workers compensation system, Martinez filed this personal injury suit in district court, raising claims under the Jones Act and the federal maritime doctrine of unseaworthiness.
Defendants responded by filing a motion for summary judgment, claiming that Martinez is not covered by the Jones Act because he was not a "seaman" within the meaning accorded to it by the Act at the time of his alleged injury. The district court agreed, finding that Martinez lacked seaman status as a matter of law because neither the Lucky Buck nor the Speedwell was a "vessel in navigation." Martinez appeals, contending that triable issues of fact exist as to whether the Lucky Buck qualifies as a vessel in navigation.
I. Standard of Review
We review the district court's grant of summary judgment de novo. Pool v. Vanrheen, 297 F.3d 899, 905(9th Cir.2002). The Jones Act provides a cause of action for "any seaman" injured "in the course of his employment." 46 U.S.C. § 688. The issue of seaman status under the Jones Act "is a mixed question of law and fact, and it often will be inappropriate to take the question from the jury." Harbor Tug & Barge Co. v. Papai, 520 U.S. 548, 554, 117 S.Ct. 1535, 137 L.Ed.2d 800 (1997). Summary judgment should not be granted unless "the facts and the law will reasonably support only one conclusion." McDermott Int'l, Inc. v. Wilander, 498 U.S. 337, 353-54, 111 S.Ct. 807, 112 L.Ed.2d 866 (1991).
II. Characteristics of the Lucky Buck
The Lucky Buck was originally built as a derrick barge, but was rebuilt in 1992 as a "factory seafood processing barge." It is now used as a floating fish processing factory. The Lucky Buck is a documented vessel with the United States Coast Guard. However, it was granted permanently moored status in July 1997. While the Lucky Buck has no means of self-propulsion and must be towed in order to move, it is relocated twice a year. In June of each year it is towed from Seattle, Washington to its mooring site in Neets Bay, Alaska, and it is towed back to Seattle each October. While Signature Seafoods employees are never on board the Lucky Buck while it is being towed, the Lucky Buck does carry incidental supplies on its voyages between Washington and Alaska.
The Lucky Buck has a shaped raked bow, a flat main deck, a flat bottom, flat sides, a square raised stern, and is equipped with a bilge pump. It also has living quarters used by fish processors and administrators while it is moored in Alaska. Pursuant to Coast Guard requirements for vessels, the Lucky Buck is equipped with navigational lights. Other than these lights, however, it has no navigational equipment — specifically, the Lucky Buck has no rudder, keel or propeller. Nor is it equipped with life rafts.
In Neets Bay, Alaska, the Lucky Buck is moored by four anchors and a cable affixed to shore. It floats 200 feet off shore and is accessible to land via a floating walkway. The Lucky Buck receives water from a pipe connected to the shore.
III. Application
There is no generalized test in the Ninth Circuit for determining whether a craft is a vessel in navigation, although prior cases provide some guidance. Cases involving strange-looking, special-purpose craft, far different in structure and purpose from traditional seafaring ships, have presented jury questions as to whether the structures are vessels in navigation. For instance, in Estate of Wenzel v. Seaward Marine Servs., Inc., 709 F.2d 1326 (9th Cir.1983), we found that triable issues of fact existed as to whether a submerged cleaning and maintenance platform used to clean the hulls of ships qualified as a vessel in navigation. We noted that the term "vessel" has such a wide meaning under the Jones Act that "except in rare cases, only a jury or trier of facts can determine [its] application in the circumstances of a particular case." Id. at 1328. In Gizoni v. Southwest Marine, Inc., 909 F.2d 385 (9th Cir.1990) (Gizoni I), aff'd, 502 U.S. 81, 112 S.Ct. 486, 116 L.Ed.2d 405 (1991), we held that a floating platform used at the time of the accident to transport a rudder could be a vessel in navigation, even though it had no independent means of propulsion. See id. at 387-88. The platform at issue in Gizoni moved over the water and often transported equipment and ship parts around a dock. Id. at 387.
Notwithstanding these cases, Signature Seafood argues that Kathriner v. UNISEA, 975 F.2d 657 (9th Cir.1992), compels a determination that the Lucky Buck is not a vessel in navigation. We disagree.
In Kathriner we addressed whether a former liberty ship that was converted into a fish processing plant could qualify as a vessel in navigation. The Unisea was permanently anchored to a dock and had not moved (with the exception of a repositioning in 1987 to permit the construction of new docks) between 1975 and 1992. Id. at 659. The Unisea was hooked up to city sewage, city water mains, telephone lines, and cable television. Id. The propulsion engine, shaft, propeller, rudder, and all navigational equipment, navigational lights, and engine controls had been removed. Id. Most significantly, a large opening was cut into its hull to allow for dock traffic. Id. at 660. We held that the Unisea was not a vessel in navigation as a matter of law, reasoning that floating structures should not be classified as vessels in navigation if they are "incapable of independent movement over water, are permanently moored to land, have no transportation function of any kind, and have no ability to navigate." Id. We distinguished Gizoni and Estate of Wenzel on the grounds that the structures in navigation in those cases "were not connected to land, were capable of transportation, and could be steered and controlled." Id.
While also a fish processing factory, the Lucky Buck is distinguishable from the Unisea insofar as it is actually seaworthy. Specifically, the Lucky Buck is not permanently moored,1 and unlike the Unisea, which was completely unfit for offshore use, the Lucky Buck has the ability to navigate the seas. Compare Estate of Wenzel, 709 F.2d at 1328(citing Hicks v. Ocean Drilling and Exploration Co., 512 F.2d 817 (5th Cir.1975) (fact that barge could be towed from one point to another was sufficient navigational ability to satisfy the Jones Act)). Most importantly, in contrast to the Unisea, the Lucky Buck has a transportation function, as it carries the fish processing plant, crew quarters, and incidental supplies between Seattle and Alaska twice each year. Even if the transportation function of the Lucky Buck is incidental to its primary purpose of serving as a floating fish processing factory, that fact does not preclude a finding that it was a vessel in navigation. See Gizoni v. Southwest Marine Inc., 56 F.3d 1138, 1142 (1995) (Gizoni II).
In addition, while there is no evidence that the Lucky Buck has actually traveled anywhere other than Alaska to serve as a fish processing vessel, there is evidence that the barge was designed as "a fish processing vessel which operates in and processes fish ... on the coasts of Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and/or California." The fact that it was designed to be transported among various fish processing sites raises a substantial factual issue about its status. Cf. Brunet v. Boh Bros. Constr. Co., Inc., 715 F.2d 196 (5th Cir.1983) (evidence that barge was designed to transport crane from one job site to another on a fairly regular basis raised question of barge's status as vessel in navigation). In sum, this is not a case where the facts and the law will support only one conclusion.
As an alternative to their reliance on Kathriner, defendants urge us to adopt a test established by the Fifth Circuit to determine whether a work platform qualifies as a vessel in navigation. See Bernard v. Binnings Constr. Co., 741 F.2d 824, 831 (5th Cir.1984) (a structure is not a vessel in navigation as a matter of law if (1) it was constructed and used primarily as a work platform; (2) it was moored or otherwise secured at the time of the accident; and (3) although it was capable of movement and was sometimes moved across navigable waters in the course of normal operations, any transportation function it performed was merely incidental to its primary purpose of serving as a work platform).2
We have never adopted such a test, which would be in tension with our rejection in Gizoni II of a proposed jury instruction stating that in order to qualify as a vessel in navigation, a structure must have a non-incidental transportation function. In addition, this test is considerably more restrictive than the standard articulated in Kathriner. Even if we were to adopt the Fifth Circuit's approach, the Lucky Buck would not be precluded from vessel in navigation status as a matter of law. The fact that the Lucky Buck was constructed as a vessel "which operates in and processes fish ... on the coasts of Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and/or California" could lead to a reasonable inference that its primary intended purpose was not to serve as a stationary work platform, but rather that its value derives from the fact that it is a mobile barge capable of transporting the fish processing factory from place to place.
Finally, defendants argue that the Lucky Buck was not a "vessel[] in navigation at the time of Mr. Martinez' alleged injury." It is true that the Lucky Buck had been moored for several months prior to Martinez' injury. However, this fact does not mean that as a matter of law the vessel was "out of" navigation. Chandris, Inc. v. Latsis, 515 U.S. 347, 373-74, 115 S.Ct. 2172, 132 L.Ed.2d 314 (1995) (collecting cases); Brunet, 715 F.2d at 199. Moreover, defendants' reliance on the relationship between Martinez and the barge is misplaced. Defendants point out that Martinez was never aboard the Lucky Buck while it was in navigation, and that there is no evidence that Martinez ever had any duties related to maintaining or moving the Lucky Buck. However, the test for whether an employee qualifies as a seaman under the Jones Act clearly separates the status of a vessel from the employee's relationship to it. See Chandris, 515 U.S. at 368, 115 S.Ct. 2172.
Because the district court concluded that the Lucky Buck was not a vessel in navigation, it never reached the issue of whether Martinez' connection with the Lucky Buck is sufficient under the Jones Act to confer seaman status. While we have discretion to address an issue not raised below, including when the issue presented is purely one of law and either does not depend on the factual record developed below or the pertinent record has been fully developed, Delange v. Dutra Constr. Co., 183 F.3d 916, 919 n. 3 (9th Cir.1999), we decline to do so here. The issue has never been fully briefed, even on appeal.
For the foregoing reasons, we reverse the district court's determination that the Lucky Buck is not a vessel in navigation as a matter of law.
REVERSED and REMANDED.
This panel unanimously agrees that this case is appropriate for submission without oral argument pursuant to Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2)
While the Coast Guard has granted the Lucky Buck "permanently moored status," the record reflects that it is towed to and from Alaska each year
At least two other Courts of Appeals have considered the Fifth Circuit's approach and have adopted modified versions of itSee Tonnesen v. Yonkers Contracting Co., 82 F.3d 30, 36 (2d Cir.1996) (adopting Fifth Circuit test in part but replacing first prong of test with "whether the structure was being used primarily as a work platform during a reasonable period of time immediately preceding the accident"); DiGiovanni v. Traylor Bros., Inc., 959 F.2d 1119, 1123 (1st Cir.1992) (en banc) ("if a barge, or other float's `purpose or primary business is not navigation or commerce,' then workers assigned thereto for its shore enterprise are to be considered seamen only when it is in actual navigation or transit") (emphasis in the original).


English teaching from Year 1 to Year 6 takes place in specific English lessons, but also is incorporated across all other subjects. The National Curriculum for English provides the basis for planned learning. This is exemplified, expanded, informed and ignited through cross-curricular topics and the children's own responses.
At Harleston CE Primary Academy our aim is to help, teach and encourage children to develop as enthusiastic, confident, independent users of language through the spoken and written word. We recognise that language is central to all learning and we appreciate that language empowers children to communicate creatively and imaginatively, as well as allowing them to engage with others at an early age.
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A great emphasis throughout the school is placed upon the development of spoken language skills. Confidence and competence is developed through a variety of activities, which are integrated into both English lessons and throughout the curriculum. Children are taught to participate in group discussion and debates, drama activities and song. The children's active roles as school council members and eco-rangers further supports this learning.
The ability to read and write well is a vital skill for all children, paving the way for an enjoyable and successful school experience.
At Harleston Primary, children are taught to both read and understand words in a whole text. They take part in independent, paired, shared and guided reading sessions giving depth and breadth to their reading experiences.
We understand that as soon as children are able to crack the basics of reading, then reading books becomes enjoyable, which is what we all want. Reading is taught initially using a synthetic phonics programme, before moving onto the Oxford Reading Tree reading scheme.
Phonics is the systematic teaching of the sounds, or 'phonemes', that accompany the written letters ('graphemes') in English. It is designed to teach children to become confident and fluent readers by the end of Year 2.
All children in Early Years and Key Stage 1 have a 20 minute phonics session every day where they are introduced to new sounds and practice the sounds that they are familiar with.
At Harleston Primary, we follow 'Letters and Sounds', a document published by the Department for Education. It is broken down into 6 parts, or 'phases'.
Phase 1 is completed in Nursery and focuses on sounds in the environment, instrumental sounds, body sounds, voice sounds and rhythm.
Phase 2 begins in Reception. Children are taught 19 letters of the alphabet along with the sound that goes with them.
Phase 3 is also started in Reception. During this phase, the remaining 7 letters of the alphabet and their sounds are taught. Digraphs (where two letters make one sound) eg. /sh/ and /ch/ are taught in this phase for the remaining sounds in the English language.
During Phase 4, children are taught to segment (break down) and blend (read fluently) longer words. Phase 4 is a chance for children to practice and apply the phonics skills they have already learnt.
Phase 5 is taught throughout Year 1 and focuses on different ways of spelling the same sound eg, /oi/ and /oy/ and different ways of pronouncing the graphemes they already know eg, /ear/ in 'hear' and /ear/ in 'bear'.
Phase 6 is taught throughout Year 2. This phase focuses on consolidating all of the other phases, as well as introducing 'rules' for reading and spelling, such as prefixes, suffixes and when to double or drop a letter.
Opportunities are also given during Key Stage 2 using the synthetic phonics approach for further consolidation of reading. Some pupils undertake specific intervention programmes if they experience difficulties with reading, using the 'Sound Discovery' programme. Children read a variety of texts, including poetry, contemporary fiction, classic fiction and non-fiction.
Reading needs to be for pleasure and throughout the school teachers read to the children to ensure that they have a broad range of quality authors in their repertoire. Listening to their teachers read also allows the children to gain a further love of reading.
We also celebrate and encourage reading during our book week, where we hold many events, including shared reading between classes, favourite book assemblies and an extreme reading competition.
We hold regular reading cafes across the school, where we welcome parents and carers into the classroom, in order to share a book, model effective teaching of reading and then to carry out an activity related to the book with their child.
We also have a number of volunteers who read with children throughout the week as well. The schools asks all children to read at home daily for at least ten minutes and communicate about that reading through the home school diary.
At the end of Year 1, children will undertake a statutory phonics screening check. This is a short assessment to make sure that children have learnt phonics to an appropriate standard.
There are 40 words in the screening check which children are asked to read on a one-to-one basis with their teacher. T he check is made up of 'real words' (eg. 'mud') and 'non-words' (eg. 'splog') and children need to apply their phonic knowledge to read all words.
Preparation for the check takes place during the daily phonics session, but you can help your child at home by practising phonics on a regular basis.
In writing, spelling, grammar and handwriting are taught alongside developing the ability to structure and compose their own pieces of writing. Links are made to other curriculum areas and we endeavor to make writing opportunities purposeful, meaningful and stimulating.
Each child in school has their own individual next steps in learning for writing. These are specifically for your child's personal learning needs, and will be different to other children's.
Teachers work to help your child achieve their personal next steps in learning at every opportunity. There are some very useful website addresses to help support and improve punctuation, reading, writing and spelling, which you can access via the links below.
Children's command of vocabulary is key to their learning and progress across the whole curriculum. Teachers will therefore develop vocabulary actively, building systematically on children's current knowledge. They will increase pupils' store of words in general. Simultaneously, they should also make links between known and new vocabulary and discuss the shades of meaning in similar words. In this way, children will expand the vocabulary choices that are available to them when they write. It is particularly important to introduce children into the language which defines each subject in its own right, such as accurate mathematical and scientific language.
Reading is an essential life skill for the 21st century. Our school library aims to contribute to our pupil's learning and development by providing an extensive range of up to date, relevant reading material.
Traditional, classic, modern classic, contemporary and many latest releases in fiction materials are available. This is supported by a well-stocked non-fiction library.
E-books are also available to read on our iPads, as well as the wealth of electronic reading materials available on classroom interactive white boards.
As well as providing information for learning in a variety of formats, we also want our library to encourage a real love of reading for pleasure to develop readers for life. The children visit the library once a week, and are encouraged to borrow a book to read for pleasure and enjoyment.
co.uk – An on-line book retailer but when you register you have access to extracts from a range of books particularly newly published books.
meettheauthor.co.uk – where you can see authors introducing their books in their own words (does contain adult books).
cambridge.org or dictionarylink.com – on-line dictionary sites. Could be used to compare different dictionaries and find meaning/spelling of unfamiliar words.
org.uk – support writing for history topics in a newspaper style.
woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk – Follow the punctuation link for a range of on-line punctuation activities.
woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk – Follow the spelling link for a range of on-line spelling activities.
Choose the right book using the "five-finger rule"
Ask your child to open the book at any page around the middle of it and read that page. Each time a word is not known, a finger should be raised. If five fingers are raised before the child finishes reading the page, the book is too hard. If no fingers are raised, the book is probably easy for your child but can be used to build reading fluency. If two or three fingers are held up, the book is likely to be at a good level for your child's reading to improve.
Ask your child to sound out an unknown word. Look at the letters in a difficult word and ask your child to pronounce each sound or phoneme. Then, see if your child can blend the sounds together to pronounce the word. Offer help to memorize irregular words. Explain that words like where, hour, or sign are hard to sound out since they don't follow normal sound patterns.
Ask your child what word or idea would make sense in the plot of the story if he/she gets stuck on an unfamiliar word. Encourage your child to look at illustrations, pictures, titles, or graphs to figure out the meaning of new words.
Challenge your child to figure out new words, but always supply the word before he/she becomes frustrated. After your child has read a story, reread it aloud yourself so that he can enjoy it without interruption.
Let your child see you reading, and share your excitement when you enjoy a great book of your own.
Whether it's 10 minutes every night before bed or an hour every Sunday morning, it helps to set aside a specific time for reading.
Find a quiet comfortable place to listen to your child read.
Play around with funny voices to impersonate animals or unusual characters in stories. Take children to the library to enjoy a selection of books.


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The Science of Becoming the Self You Were Born to Be
Senka Holzer
For decades, psychologists, and researchers have studied core values, what Dr. Senka Holzer's calls "psychological DNA."
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In the past few seasons, Mr. Lebow has participated in some of the nations pre-eminent Young Artists Programs. In 2012-13 he appeared in several roles with Seattle Opera, including the leading role of Eduardo in their Young Artists production of Verdi's UN GIORNO DI REGNO. As a member of San Francisco Opera's Merola Program, he sang Contino Belfiore in Mozart's LA FINTA GIARDINIERA. In summers of 2011 and 2013, he was a member of Santa Fe Opera's prestigious Apprentice Program.
Concert appearances include Carnegie Hall debuts in both Weill Hall and Stern Auditorium. In the spring of 2013, Mr. Lebow appeared as guest artist with the New York Festival of Song, at both Caramoor and in New York City.
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The American College of Critical Care Medicine (ACCM), which honors individuals for their achievements and contributions to multidisciplinary critical care medicine, is the consultative body of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) that possesses recognized expertise in the practice of critical care. The College has developed administrative guidelines and clinical practice parameters for the critical care practitioner. New guidelines and practice parameters are continually developed, and current ones are systematically reviewed and revised.
Special thanks to E. Wesley Ely, MD, for his contribution to the section on delirium.
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The Climate Change Crisis: Where on Earth are We Going? Will Steffen
Jul 4, 2019 | Policy Commons Blog, Policy Pod
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Date And Time: Wed, 3 July 2019 5:30PM – 6:30PM
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The Climate Change Crisis: Where on Earth are We Going?
Will Steffen
Emeritus Professor, The Australian National University
Councillor, Climate Council of Australia
The climate change narrative is changing rapidly. As evidence mounts that the impacts and risks of climate change are with us now and are accelerating, the words "crisis" and "emergency" are increasingly connected with climate change. This talk will present the latest science on climate change – observations of worsening extreme weather events, the challenge of meeting the Paris temperature targets, and the rapidly disappearing carbon budget. We'll also note the links between climate change and Earth's rapidly degrading biosphere, as well as the longer-term Earth System perspective on the crisis. Finally, the talk will explore potential solutions to the climate change challenge, and the nature and magnitude of the societal changes that are required.
Will Steffen is an Earth System scientist. He is a Councillor on the publicly-funded Climate Council of Australia that delivers independent expert information about climate change, an Emeritus Professor at the Australian National University (ANU); Canberra, a Senior Fellow at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Sweden; and a Fellow at the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm. He is the chair of the jury for the Volvo Environment Prize; a member of the International Advisory Board for the Centre for Collective Action Research, Gothenburg University, Sweden; and a member of the Anthropocene Working Group of the Sub-committee on Quaternary Stratigraphy.
From 1998 to mid-2004, Steffen was Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, based in Stockholm. His research interests span a broad range within climate and Earth System science, with an emphasis on incorporation of human processes in Earth System modelling and analysis; and on sustainability and climate change.
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New York: An Indian-origin consultant has been arrested for participation in a multi-million-dollar fraud that falsely billed a heath and retirement fund, New York federal prosecutor Preet Bharara announced on Thursday.
Shivanand Maharaj conspired to submit false invoices to the fund "for consulting work never actually performed", Bharara said. The co-head of information technology at the fund, Enrico Rubano, approved the payments and received a cut, he added.
They were charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud for their use of electronic communications to carry out the alleged scheme. The court complaint said the amount involved was over $3.4 million.
They were to be produced before federal Magistrate Judge Andrew J. Peck later on Thursday.
The invoices used in the alleged scheme that ran from 2009 to 2015 were for work not done at all or which were done by the fund's employees or other companies and most of the invoices were for less than $5,000 each, according to court documents.
The health and retirement fund that Rubano worked for was not identified by name in Bharara's statement or in the court document.
The document said that the two of them had also used a third person with no background in IT to submit fake invoices and give them kickbacks. That person, who was not identified, was described as a cooperating witness or approver, who will not be prosecuted in return for government cooperation.


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Nina Zanjani, född 1 september 1981 i Iran, är en svensk skådespelare.

Biografi
Zanjani, som är av iransk börd, kom med familjen från Iran som sexåring. Hon är uppvuxen i Gråbo i  Lerums kommun och senare bosatt i Stockholm men numera i Göteborg.
Zanjani var elev på Stockholms Elementära Teaterskola (SET) 2001–2002 och gick ut Teaterhögskolan i Stockholm 2007. Hon har medverkat i Dramatens uppsättningar av Festen och Woyzeck och spelade Josie i Backateaterns uppmärksammade uppsättning av Rona Munros Järn 2005.

Hon spelade den ena huvudrollen i Helena Bergströms regidebut Se upp för dårarna som dottern Yasmin. I november 2007 hade pjäsen Don Carlos premiär på Göteborgs stadsteater, där Zanjani spelade drottning Elisabeth. Hon medverkade även i Night Rider av Björn Runge på samma teater och i Nathan den vise på Stockholms stadsteater samt i SVT:s dramatisering om Selma Lagerlöf, som sändes den 26 och 27 december 2008.

Zanjani hade även en av huvudrollerna i Josef Fares film Farsan med premiär i februari 2010.
Hon har även medverkat i alla nya Wallander-filmerna där hon spelade polisen Isabelle, åtminstone fram till och med Indrivaren, där hon slutar sin anställning hos ystadpolisen.

Hösten 2010 medverkade Zanjani i föreställningen Klaras resa på Stadsteatern i Göteborg där hon spelade huvudrollen Klara. Klaras resa blev framröstad som årets bästa föreställning av teaterfolket och vann ett prestigefyllt pris hösten 2010. I december 2015 tilldelades hon Carl Åkermarks stipendium för sina insatser för Sveriges kulturliv.

2012 medverkade hon i Göteborgs Stadsteaters uppsättning av Bibeln. 2014 gjorde hon rollen som Eliza i George Bernard Shaws Pygmalion på Göteborgs Stadsteater.

Filmografi (i urval)

Teater

Roller

Priser och utmärkelser
2012 - Marianne & Sigvard Bernadotte Art Awards
2013 - Gunnar Sjöbergs teaterstipendiefond
2014 – Medeapriset
2015 – Carl Åkermarks stipendium av Svenska Akademien
2018 - Stora ljudbokspriset, kategori ungdom

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Externa länkar

 Nina Zanjani på Göteborgs stadsteater

 Nina Zanjani på Göteborgsoperan

Kvinnor
Födda 1981
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Home Regenerative Medicine/Tissue Engineering 3D Printing Layer by Layer: 3D Bioprinting on the Rise
Technologies for 3D bioprinting are already being used to fabricate relatively simple artificial tissues and structures such as cartilage, skin, and bone, as well as blood vessels and cardiac patches. (This image depicts a 3D bioprinted vertebra in a petri dish.) As 3D bioprinting technology matures, it may be used to fabricate complex organs such as retina, liver, and lungs. [Dr_Microbe / Getty Images]
Regenerative Medicine/Tissue Engineering
December 2018 Vol. 38 No. 21
Layer by Layer: 3D Bioprinting on the Rise
3D Cell Cultures, Microfluidic Systems, and Organoid Models Could Climb the Best-Seller Lists
By Chris Palmer, Chris Palmer
The ability to design three-dimensional (3D) models and prototypes has enabled advancements in many industries. 3D printing, also called additive manufacturing, is the process of creating a 3D model by laying down successive layers of material that build upon each other. When the "ink"—plastics, polymers, metal alloys, or other substances—is infused with living cells, the process is referred to as 3D bioprinting.
Both 3D printing and 3D bioprinting are increasingly being used to advance healthcare. According to a recent report, Global Bioprinting Market: Focus on Product, Application, Technology, Country Analysis, Patent Analysis, Market Share and Competitive Landscape—Analysis and Forecast (2018–2025), the global 3D bioprinting market will reach at least $4.7 billion by 2025.
A significant goal underlying the growth of 3D bioprinting technology is the potential to bridge the enormous gap between the demand and the supply of organs for transplantation. Developments in 3D bioprinting technologies have made possible the printing of relatively simple tissues and structures—sheets of skin or cardiac patches, for example. As the technology matures, more complex organs, such as the retina, liver, and lungs, may follow.
Although researchers are still working to print (and gain FDA approval for) functional human organs, 3D bioprinted tissues already have found numerous applications in drug discovery, testing drug toxicity, tissue engineering, consumer product testing, bone transplants, and cosmetic dentistry.
The advantages of 3D bioprinting, when compared with other tissue fabrication techniques, include fabrication of anatomically correct shapes, fabrication of porous structures, use of multiple cell types, and controlled delivery of growth factors and genes. One of the biggest challenges to overcome includes driving down the resolution of the printing technique enough to enable vascularization of tissues and organs.
The possibilities and challenges of this exciting field were discussed at the SelectBIO: 3D-Bioprinting and Tissue Engineering conference held recently in Boston. A handful of the scientists who spoke at the conference also discussed their research and insights on bioprinting and tissue engineering with GEN.
He Who Controls the Ink…
While a primary focus of the early days of the 3D bioprinting revolution has been advancing printer technology, the thing that the printer spits out—the ink—has received far less attention. That's where Boston-based company Cellink comes in.
"When I started the company, I realized that there were a lot of printer manufacturers building expensive systems," said Erik Gatenholm, co-founder and CEO at Cellink. "But nobody had taken the approach of focusing on the inks."
Gatenholm saw a wide-open opportunity to design and commercialize a suite of standardized biomaterials for bioprinting human tissues and organs.
Cellink's bioinks consist of variety of materials—including gelatin, collagen, alginate, or other natural polymers—and infused with human cells. The inks are custom-designed for specific tissue types and are compatible with the majority of 3D bioprinters on the market.
When Gatenholm first launched Cellink in 2016, he tried to partner with 3D printing companies or bioprinting companies, but none wanted to collaborate with such an early-stage company. So, Cellink decided to develop its own cost-effective, mobile line of printers. Coupled with the firm's bioink, Cellink now offers complete 3D bioprinting package solutions for customers, which primarily include academic institutions and pharmaceutical companies. The company has at least 500 systems in use in labs around the world.
Gatenholm said that although Cellink's bioinks are currently mostly used to create tissue for the purpose of researching and developing new drugs, they have the potential to be used to print replacement tissues for use in humans. While no 3D printed tissue has yet received FDA approval, Gatenholm thinks one of the earliest types to be approved may be cartilage or skin, which are relatively homogenous and should be less complex to manufacture.
In the meantime, Cellink is focused on offering more user friendly yet more advanced systems as well as better bioinks and biomaterials.
3D Printing, but with Lasers
While the prospect of 3D bioprinting new tissues to replace worn out ones has driven much of the interest in the technology, in the near term most of the advances in the field will come from printing miniature copies of different tissues for drug testing and improving our understanding of basic cell biology. And, if Doug Chrisey, Ph.D., professor, Jung Chair of Materials Engineering, Tulane University, has his way, those tiny replicas will imitate the cellular heterogeneity of, and reside in the same microenvironments as, the full-size versions in our bodies.
"Conventional cell cultures often comprise a single cell type," Dr. Chrisey said. "What we're trying to do is mimic an entire tissue construct, which is made up of biochemicals, scaffolding, and a great deal of heterogeneous cells that are present in a specific combination."
Dr. Chrisey and his team have pioneered the use of a technology called laser direct-write (LDW) printing to create structures on the order of a few cubic millimeters on a cell-by-cell basis. This technique gives the researchers the ability to precisely deposit a variety of different cell types with near single-cell spatial resolution.
The team starts by culturing cells that it wants to deposit. Because most cells in the body are adherent, they cut off the cells' pseudopod binding sites, leaving the cells in a temporary balled-up, nonadherent state. The cells are then loaded into a biopolymer film that is placed above a receiving substrate such as a petri dish or glass slide. A computer then triggers a precise pattern of 248-nanometer excimer laser bursts that produce tiny gas bubbles in the biopolymer. These bubbles propel cells forward and deposit them directly onto the receiving substrate in layers that can be stacked up to form 3D tissues.
Dr. Chrisey and his team have used LDW printing to create many types of complex tissues, including collagen fibers, muscle fibers, and neural circuits. They also found that deposited cells rapidly organize into physiologically functional tissues and that metastatic cancer cells tend to migrate more toward vasculature than non-metastatic cells.
Building Modular Units
Advances in 3D printing are benefitting biology not only through the prospect of printing biological tissues, but also in making it cheaper and more efficient to design tools that biologists use in the lab. One such biologist making the most of modern 3D bioprinting technology is Noah Malmstadt, Ph.D., associate professor of chemical engineering and materials science, biomedical engineering, and chemistry at the University of Southern California.
Dr. Malmstadt and his colleagues use 3D bioprinting techniques to build modular microfluidic systems utilizing standardized parts without having to rely on costly clean room fabrication methods. They primarily use their microfluidics systems to simplify fluid mixing underlying miniature diagnostic tests and high-throughput microbioreactor processes.
Routing fluids through 3D assemblies of microfluidic modules allows for rapid and more precise fluid mixing. One such assembly his research team has designed is a device with a parallel network of four 250-micron-wide tubes. Forcing nonmixing fluids, such as oil and water, through the tubes allows the team to produce an endless stream of nearly identical microdroplets. Each droplet acts as a micro-scale chemical reactor in which chemicals can be mixed with high-levels of precision. The team has used the device to develop a reliable method for producing gold nanoparticles, which have been shown to be an ideal medium for delivering drugs to individual cells. This method has the potential to greatly reduce the cost of generating gold nanoparticles, which currently run $80,000 per gram.
Going forward, Dr. Malmstadt is experimenting with using materials in his printing process that minimize adhesion, and therefore don't gum up the 150-micron-wide channels he is trying to create. "That'll really allow us to increase the density of channels on a device and minimize overall device size," he prediated.
The next big step, though, for Dr. Malmstadt will be integrating off-the-shelf components—including photodiodes, heaters, and sensors—into his devices. "That would really bring our costs down," Dr. Malmstadt explained. "We're inspired by the microelectronics industry and their cost-minimization procedures. That's really what's driving us and our technology forward."
Taking 3D Printing to the Next Level
While many researchers are expanding the potential of 3D bioprinting by focusing on characteristics such as spatial resolution and embedded vasculature, others are looking at a more literal expansion of the technology—moving it from three dimensions to four.
4D bioprinting—the printing in 3D of an object with the engineered capability to respond over time to its environment and change in shape (e.g., deforming, twisting, or growing in size) or function (e.g., cellular differentiation, change in cell polarity, or even organ development)—is just one of the many avenues of 3D bioprinting that GE Healthcare is pursuing.
Like many companies involved in the 3D bioprinting field, GE Healthcare also supports the development of novel bioink materials and bioprinting instrumentation. But, according to William Whitford, strategic solutions leader for bioprocesses at GE Healthcare Life Sciences, the healthcare conglomerate is quite interested in peripheral technologies aimed at improving and streamlining the 3D bioprinting process, including imaging analysis and data management tools.
"Imagine you've printed a series of organoids and want to see how they respond to certain chemical or biological challenges," Whitford suggested. "We support the development of high-power microscopes that will let you track those responses in fine detail."
In addition, GE Healthcare has long been interested in the storage, processing, and transfer of medical images in a digital format. This expertise extends to the digital design models that direct the 3D bioprinting process itself. "Many 3D bioprinted objects are very basic, but they're becoming much more complicated because we're moving into multi-material, multi-mode bioprinting that requires sophisticated model construction and control of the printer," Whitford noted. "GE Healthcare is supporting the 3D bioprinting field in the development of digital modeling and data management tools."
Treating Rare Liver Diseases with 3D Bioprinted Tissue
Although approximately 17,000 patients in the U.S. are on the waiting list for a liver transplant, only 6000 liver transplants are performed each year. For patients awaiting a liver transplant, a 3D bioprinted liver tissue may help extend survival until a liver is available.
Using its 3D bioprinting technology, Organovo has developed a liver therapeutic tissue, called NovoTissues®, which demonstrated robust function in two models of rare liver diseases, 1) α-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) and 2) hereditary tyrosinemia type 1 (HT-1), says Benjamin Shepherd, Ph.D., senior director, therapeutics, Organovo Holdings.
Organovo's technology incorporates human liver cells into a printable bio-ink to generate sections of liver tissue by the controlled patterning and deposition of specific cell types. The formed tissues exhibit dense cellularity and develop extensive cell–cell interactions akin to native tissue, resulting in prolonged tissue viability and function outside of the body, according to Dr. Shepherd. These tissues are then implanted into the setting of established animal models of liver disease to test for safety, therapeutic efficacy, and viability.
Organovo's NovoTissues for the treatment of AATD was granted orphan drug designation by the FDA in 2017. When the bioprinting technique was evaluated in a model of AATD, the implanted tissues rapidly engrafted, demonstrated graft retention, and displayed clear evidence of disease modulation through a 90-day evaluation, notes Dr. Shepherd.
Characterized by a patient's inability to metabolize the amino acid tyrosine, HT-1 causes severe liver damage, and current treatment options are often limited to organ transplantation. Organovo's bioprinted liver tissue demonstrated retention and sustained functionality postimplantation in mouse models of this rare inherited disease, notes Dr. Shepherd, adding that the diseased animals showed improvement in liver health and extended survival compared to non-treated animals.
"The success of Organovo's bioprinted therapeutic tissue in the above preclinical studies highlights its applicability in treating conditions like HT-1 and AATD, where there is critical unmet need for progressive, novel therapies," says Dr. Shepherd.
Hybrid Additive Manufacturing
Source: 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing, Vol. 5, No. 3
Producing synthetic scaffolds with adequate physical, chemical, and biological properties remains a challenge for tissue engineering. Internal architecture, surface chemistry, and material properties have strong impact on the cell's biological behavior.
This requires sophisticated systems not only able to process multiple materials with different characteristics—creating fully interconnected, 3D porous structures with high reproducibility and accuracy—but also able to modify their properties during the fabrication process.
A study ("Hybrid Additive Manufacturing System for Zonal Plasma-Treated Scaffolds") by Liu et al. which appeared in 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing, Vol. 5, No. 3 (published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.), introduced a novel additive manufacturing system comprising a multiprinting unit (screw-assisted and pressure-assisted printing heads) together with a plasma unit that enables the surface modification of printed scaffolds. Poly(ε-caprolactone) scaffolds with a lay-down pattern of 0/90° were fabricated using the screw-assisted printing head, and a plasma jet unit was used to uniformly modify each layer (either a specific region of each layer during the printing process or the external surface of the printed scaffolds).
Scaffolds were produced using different plasma exposure times and different distances between the plasma head and the printed layer while using fixed printing conditions. Produced scaffolds were morphologically, mechanically, chemically, and biologically characterized. Results show that the distance between the plasma head and the printed material has no significant effect on the mechanical properties, whereas the increase of the plasma deposition velocity improves the mechanical properties.
As expected, plasma treatment increases hydrophilicity and consequently the biological performance of the scaffolds. Results also show the potential of the proposed fabrication system to create functional gradient or scaffolds with tailored properties.
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We are proud to share an article published in Wallpaper Magazine online about dpa project Hilton Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, please click here to read this article in full.
We are pleased to share an article published in the January/February edition of darc magazine, regarding a new project recently completed by dpa's Oxfordshire studio, The Kollázs Brasserie & Bar at The Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace, Budapest.
Please click here to view this article in full.
We are very proud to be working with Crystal Cruises International (CCI) and AD Associates on the design of CCI's new luxury liner, Esprit. Details about this project have been featured in the 'Drawing Board' section of Mondo Arc – please click here to view this article in full.
Further details and images of this exciting new project will be posted in the 'Leisure' section of our website very soon.
dpa were recently invited to participate in designing an installation for the inaugural darc Night Awards, held on 24th September 2015. This was a unique event held to celebrate the darc awards and to also showcase a series of light installations from collaborations between lighting designers and manufacturer partners.
dpa participated by creating a light installation called "Light Tunnel", which has been featured on the cover page of the latest Mondo Arc India Magazine. Please click here to see the magazine in full.
dpa Lighting Consultants were delighted to be involved in creating the Night of Heritage Light on 1st October, and seeing one of these World Heritage sites in a way that nobody has before. This project shows the potential of light to present the world around us in a completely new way, but it also demonstrates the versatility of light and the technology behind it.
Lighting is an art as well as a science, and it's been really exciting and a lot of fun for us to take part in this event with the SLL. We hope it will inspire the next generation of lighters, and remind others of the huge role lighting plays in their daily lives.
Light Tunnel creates the illusion of a seemingly impassable route by utilising a series of full height lit vertical lines placed carefully so the participant perceives a barrier that prohibits them from travelling through. The use of mirrors to the ceiling, walls and the edges of the lit profiles provides infinite inter-reflections, extending reality and the sense of obstruction so one is left to discover the pre-defined passage. Dynamic control of the installation alters the appearance of the Light Tunnel, ensuring continuous way finding adjustment amongst the blurred visual boundaries.
The installation used homogenous illuminated double faced tunable white and RGB modules complete with mirrored side facias. Each light element was installed at floor to ceiling within a secondary tunnel structure designed to conceal the existing building fabric with mirrors continuing along the entire ceiling length.
For the Mike Stoane Park Event 2015, Tommaso Gimigliano and Ingo Kalecinski from our dpa London studio, continued their research and experimentations into wearable light, wellbeing and boundaries.
Following their previous creation, the NeckLED, this year the two designers focussed their attention on hands and created two self-illuminated rings that represent a metaphor for a wearable aura of light, able to instil wellbeing and define the boundaries of a personal micro-cosmos of warmth and comfort. Stylistically this exercise concentrates on enhancing the beautiful minimalism and complexity of the lenses used in the lighting industry to collimate the light beam of the LED light sources. The lenses become gigantic precious stones mounted on an essential ring-like brass structure housing the battery and the light source as well.
The creations are titled, Jas & Jo LED in honour of the two models and fellow dpa team members Jasmin and Johanna, who kindly wore them in these photographs and on the evening of the event.
To see more images from this event please click here.
Iain Carlile, has recently written an article for the September/October 2015 edition of The Society of Light and Lighting's Newsletter. To read this article in full please click here.
Nick Hoggett, Partner of dpa has recently been interviewed by 'Lighting Illumination in Architecture' magazine, and shares his thoughts and experience on global architectural lighting design.
illumni lighting design magazine has recently published two dpa projects on it's website, H&M Dublin – Ireland and The Waldorf Astoria, Ras Al Khaimah.
To read these articles in full please click here.
We are pleased to share an article that has been published on illumni's online website about dpa project The Langham Hong Kong. Please click here to read the article in full.
Ingo Kalecinski, Senior Designer in dpa's london studio, together with a collective of other designers with a passion for light set up GNI projects, a team committed to creating innovative and experimental installations with light.
As part of the UNESCO International Year of Light 2015, GNI and nine other high profile international artists were invited by Light Collective to create a piece for 'Lumieres: The Play of Brilliants', which is currently being held at the Elephant Paname Gallery in Paris.
Please click here to find out more about this installation.
Lux Magazine has recently published an article about Bentley Bistro & Bar, Abu Dhabi – please click here to view this in full.
Lux Magazine has recently published an article about Yuan Chinese Restaurant, Dubai. Please click here to view this article in full.
Iain Carlile has written a technical article for the latest issue of The Society of Light and Lighting's Newsletter, Volume 8. Issue 2. March/April 2015. Please click here to view this in full.
We are very pleased to announce that dpa project The Perfectionists' Café by Heston Blumenthal has been awarded 'Highly Commended' in the recent Lighting Design Awards held on 19th March. Congratulations to Michael Curry and Declan Sullivan who designed this scheme from our Oxfordshire Studio.


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What is included in a local authority search covering Authorpe? There are two parts to a local authority search – Local Land Charge Register search and CON29. The second part of the search – Enquiries of the local authority – supplies information relating to whether the roadway abutting the property is public or private, proposals for new road schemes, rail schemes or building consents relating to the land. The replies can also include outstanding statutory notices, breaches of planning or building regulations or the existence of a compulsory purchase order. Environmental factors, such as whether the house stands on contaminated land or in a Radon gas affected area are also covered but see out comments on Environmental Searches also.
Do you recommend that we order an Environmental check on the property that we are buying in Authorpe? Yes we including this in our quote. We would always recommend an environmental search on the properties you intend to purchase which is available from a number of search providers including Argyll Site Solutions. The environmental search results provide details of present and past environmental risks together with a statement from an environmental consultant confirming whether or not the land parcel, based upon the information revealed by the search, might be officially names as contaminated land by the London Borough/council.
What is a water authority search ? A drainage search confirms to a new buyer that the home they are interested in is connected to the mains water supply and mains drainage. This is particularly significant in parts of Authorpe which are not built up as there may be a a private drainage system.
Why use Kenneth Elliott & Rowe Solicitors t/a 1st Move Conveyancing for your move in Authorpe?
We are a CQS (Conveyancing Quality Scheme) accredited firm of solicitors providing conveyancing to clients in Authorpe. Our processes and procedures have been approved by the Law Society,
Mouzzam was very professional and got the job done efficiently. He always called me back and replied to my emails promptly which always helps when you;re feeling under pressure. When I asked him to chase the other solicitors he did so immediately and just got things done! Thank you Mouzzam.
How long do conveyancing searches take? This depends on how quickly each organisation takes to respond.Many local authorities will turn searches round in about a week, some in a matter of days, but some can take up to six weeks to respond.
Always check what you are buying? We will always send you a document known as the 'title plan' (sometimes called filed plan}. This will show the full outline of the property you are buying – the boundary will usually be marked red. One of the most common mistakes a buyer makes is not checking the plan properly. It is a best to go to the land parcel to check that what is shown on the plan agrees with what you think you're purchasing on site. All too often clients mistakenly think that a piece of land at the side or rear of the house is theirs,only to later discover that the legal title to the house doesn't include this area. Always be satisfied that the title plan matches the physical position at the property.
What are the title deeds? The title deeds are the documents showing ownership of a house or flat. Historically these were originally paper documents – there are known as 'unregistered title deeds' but these days the Land Registry stores evidence of the title electronically – this is referred to as a registered title. The original paper deeds are usually stored by your mortgage lender or solicitor. If these deeds are lost this can cause problems. Registration has been compulsory for all dealing with the deeds for some times now although this was brought in at different times across the country. For the time scale in Authorpe you should check with your conveyancer. Thankfully most deeds are now registered and cannot be destroyed. The cost of obtaining 'official copies' of the title are included in the conveyancing quote.
FAQs in Authorpe
Are you on the panel of Atom Bank? Yes we act for all major lenders and many smaller lenders.
We see that you do not have an office in Authorpe? Is this a issue? No because like all modern law firms we count on technology to assist us in our work to ensure that matters are dealt with quickly. Your proximity to our office is not important. We are also authorised by the Solicitors Regulation Authority to carry out work throughout England and Wales (which obviously includes Authorpe).
If you are a first time buyer what additional payments can we anticipate? If you are using a Help to Buy ISA or Lifetime ISA your conveyancer are required to make certain steps to make sure release of those ISAs including any bonus. If you complete the quote you will see there is an option for Help to Buy ISA or Lifetime ISA. Please chose yes if you have one. You will usually save on SDLT which will be nil up to three hundred thousand pounds. If you press "yes" to the "First Time Buyer" toggle on the conveyancing quote the correct rate will calculate for you.
If we are buying a leasehold what additional expenses can we anticipate? This is one tricky area where we cannot give you all the figures up front in our quote. This is because leases vary in their requirements and also the costs charged by freeholder and management companies also vary. They can also be two parties to deal with i.e a landlords and managing agents who both charge. These charges therefore vary considerably with some leasehold purchases the fees can be as low as £10 but in extreme cases the costs charged can be around £550. This is why the government is considering regulating this area.
I am the executor of our fathers estate. Do you deal with sales by administrators? Yes. As administrators of the Estate you can sell and our legal costs remain the same as our standard quote for this type of Seller.
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About Authorpe.
Authorpe is a village and civil parish in the East Lindsey district of north-west of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated between the A16 and the A157 roads, 6 miles (10 km) south-east from Louth and 4.5 miles (7 km) north-west from Alford.
Authorpe is mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book as "Agetorp", in the South Riding of Lindsey Hundred of Louthesk. Noted are 5 villagers, 1 smallholder and 4 freemen, with 3 ploughlands and 8 acres (0.03 km2) of meadow. In 1066 Godric was Lord of the Manor, by 1086 transferred to Ansgot of Burwell, who was also Tenant-in-chief.
The former church of Saint Margaret was built of greenstone, dated from the 15th century and was restored in 1848. It was declared redundant by the Diocese of Lincoln in July 1980, and demolished in 1982. Authorpe Hall Farm is a Grade II listed building built of red brick, dating from the 16th century with 18th-century additions, and 19th-century alterations.
Authorpe railway station served the village between 1848 and 1964. Authorpe Hedgehog Care Centre is located in the village. The village also has a chapel, and former brickpits.[citation needed]


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It is not easy to start out as an arbitrator
25/09/2017 Piotr Nowaczyk, Independent Arbitrator, Poland
Arbitrators are late starters. Actually, it is hard to start out as arbitrators. At first, you have to establish yourself as a barrister, solicitor, judge, academic, diplomat, businessman, politician or expert. It is only later in life that you become an arbitrator. Meanwhile, young legal eagles are champing at the bit. They are dying to get their first case. A rude awaking comes at the first interview, when they have to field these brutal questions: "How often have you acted as arbitrator?" "How many awards have you made?" "What is your experience with arbitration?"
The young hopefuls are stumped for an answer. Imagine a patient asking a budding orthopedist eager for his first knee operation: "How many knee operations have you conducted, Doctor?" If the flustered doctor says "Not even one, but I'd love to make a start," the patient will go to see a real specialist, preferably one with more than 100 knee operations to his name. What should you do to get the first case?
The arbitration community is well aware of the sheer brain power and potential of young lawyers. How can we retain these enthusiastic people without discouraging them from arbitration altogether? After all, the first nominations come when you are about 40 years, and you usually do not become a fully-fledged arbitrator before you turn 50. Meanwhile, arbitration conferences are often attended by more lawyers than there are arbitration cases in the host country. Conference attendees outnumber the arbitrators on the lists of recommended arbitrators of a given institution. The largest and oldest arbitration institutions deal with scores, if not hundreds, of cases a year. The number of ad hoc proceedings is unknown. We would all like to believe that there are thousands of such cases, but that is not true. Two surveys by in-house counsel of major corporations were done in this area and commented on depth by Loukas Mistelis and Crina Mihaela Baltag. While in 2006 an overwhelming 76% of survey respondents confirmed that their corporations opt for institutional arbitration proceedings, while only 24% choose ad hoc arbitration. By 2008 those preferring institutional arbitration changed to 86% over 14% for ad hoc proceedings. So, if the total number of institutional arbitration cases in all major arbitral institutions is no higher than 5000 - 6000, the number of ad hoc may be much lower. The current number of existing ad hoc arbitrations is still a mystery. There is a myth that ad hoc arbitrations are legion. They are not, at least in some regions. Meanwhile, my impression is that there are still more lawyers interested in arbitration than there are cases to be heard.
Various programs and organizations are open to young lawyers. Featuring among these are: Young International Arbitration Group (LCIA), Young & International (ICDR), Young Arbitration Forum (ICC), Young Austrian Arbitration Practitioners (YAAP), Young International Arbitration Group (YIAG), Circle of Young Professionals (FIDIC), ASA Below 40 (Groupe ASA des Jeunes Practiciens de l'Arbitrage) and many other "pet projects."
You do sometimes wonder what it is that young lawyers see in arbitration. Are they drawn to tradition, culture, money, fame or an active lifestyle in the late 80s. Arbitrators such as George Dobry, Judge Howard Holtzmann, Fali Nariman, Igor Pobirchenko, Pieter Sanders, Tadeusz Szurski, and many others active octogenarians are good examples of an active life, where the calendar age loses its bite have no limits? What is so special about the life of an arbitrator that so many people are eager to try it?
Arbitration is as old as mankind
Arbitration is as old as mankind. It was known in ancient times. There is proof of its existence in Greek ancient comedies, Phoenician tradition, and philosophical studies on the origins of society. Whenever I think of Friedrich Engels' book "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State" (once a must-read in Communist Poland), it occurs to me that arbitration must have come into being after the emergence of the family, as well as ancestral and tribal communities. Decidedly after the emergence of private ownership, but clearly before the creation of the State. After all, there were disputes between members of ancestral communities, nomadic tribes and the Aborigines, who never established the State. Someone had to resolve those disputes. At the risk of oversimplification, I might just as well imagine an arbitration between the Flintstones. Or in the Neolithic Age. There is no scientific proof, but the very thought of it sends your imagination soaring. After all, someone had to resolve a controversy over the distribution of loot, a disputed club or a fair and buxom cave dweller?
There is ample proof of arbitration in the writings of various peoples, long before the dawn of our era. Belles lettres, including ancient literature, yield interesting examples in this regard. There is an ancient Greek comedy entitled "Men at Arbitration" (Epitrepontes) originating from the turn of the third century B.C. We do not know exactly when the play was written, but we have long sections of it. The author, Menander, was active at the same time as Philemon, although he was less known. He died prematurely, apparently drowning while bathing in the harbor of Piraeus in 291 B.C.
The dispute is between two slaves. One of them (Daos the shepherd) finds an abandoned infant and gives the foundling to another shepherd (Syriskos). However, Daos wants to keep the valuable jewellery found along with the child. They refer the dispute to a passer-by (Smikrines) for resolution. The dialogue between the dramatis personae is a classic example of an ad hoc arbitration agreement. It features all the indispensable elements, such as the conclusion of an arbitration agreement, the appointment of an arbitrator and even a query about his availability, a public order clause and, last but not least, the finality of the award. For reasons unknown, only the arbitrator's fee is mysteriously missing.
At a certain arbitration conference I heard a Lebanese arbitrator asserting with pride in his voice: "We, the Phoenicians, have devised arbitration." It must be borne in mind that the Lebanese are extremely proud of the historical traditions of ancient Phoenicia. On hearing this assertion, an exasperated Italian conference participant retorted: "What do you mean, the Phoenicians? You, the Phoenicians, devised money, but not banks or banking law. What makes you think your people devised arbitration?" "Of course, it was us," – said the Lebanese – "because we had to immediately resolve disputes at our ports. The ship is loaded with merchandize, the captain wants to sail away, the sun is setting, the wind is changing, and suddenly a trade representative of the recipient disputes the quality of the merchandize. Three impartial specialists had to be found immediately to resolve the matter."
Apparently, that was the way in which merchants resolved their disputes not only in Phoenician ports. In ancient times, arbitration courts were set up at ports, market squares and fairs.
Arbitrators enjoyed a well-established status in Roman law. This is where the Latin term arbitrarium comes into play. An arbitrator (arbiter ex compromisso) appointed by the parties accepted the appointment (receptum arbitri). The enforceability of the award was monitored by the preator. For the purpose of enforceability, the praetor could apply measures of enforcement ex officio. The parties secured the enforcement of an arbitral award by a peculiar promise. They took an oath and paid a specified amount of money as security deposit. This is how com-promissum – an obligation that could even be subject to compulsory enforcement – came into being. With the passage of time, an amicable settlement of disputes became the domain of private (civil) law and ius gentium – international public law.
However, the State gradually restricted and even eliminated arbitration, firstly from criminal law, then gradually from civil law too. The development of modern institutions entailed the burgeoning of public courts. Arbitration became something of an exclusive and elitist alternative form of dispute resolution. And there have been good reasons for that. As the eminent author S. Boyd put it: "An institution which has survived and prospered for so long in competition with the courts administered by the state can only have done so because it offered, or at least was believed to offer, a real alternative to the system of dispute resolution administered in the ordinary courts of the land. Procedurally it has never really been in doubt that arbitration does offer a real alternative to the courts. Privacy, informality and the ability to choose one's own tribunal would be high on most people's list of the perceived advantages of arbitration; others might mention the more doubtful supposed benefits of speed and economy. From these points of view there is little doubt that arbitration offers a real procedural alternative to litigation: not necessarily better, but certainly different".
Piotr Nowaczyk
Piotr Nowaczyk is a chartered arbitrator, a qualified mediator, FIDIC accredited adjudicator, and...
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oh my…. Finding a moment to come here and sit for a spell is becoming more and more difficult. I create those type of babies that adore me so much they can't be set down, even for the briefest of spells and it seems bobbling, babbling baby on my knee and typing is becoming err… hard. So bear with me. I will visit. But, likely less frequently. For now.
A few weeks ago we ordered Oak Meadow's Kindergarten curriculum. I was truly hesitant. While I believe our life style is that of self-directed learning, and will continue to be so, for now, I wanted something to direct me! These long winter days, where the sky turns black far before we are ready, made me yourn for a bit more of a routine than we had prior. Let me tell you, I am loving this little change. The lessons are brief, and seasonal, and oh so sweet. The stories are thought-provoking and beautifully written. They entice the boys to play the sweetest type of pretend games and inspire their drawings in a whole new way. And you know what else? They are proud of their work. Miles holds his Main Lesson book up to show his daddy each time there is a new addition with those famous crescent moon eyes and crinkled nose and you can literally just feel the enthusiasm beam from him.
This is not to say they haven't been busy (really busy) with other endeavours. An ongoing obsession with dog sledding to the north pole has all but consumed my boys. Librarians, neighbors, family, and pets are all very much involved. We are becoming quite the fact books on The Arctic and it is almost as intriguing to the grown folks as the little ones it turns out. Sitting on the couch recovering from a (nother) wild bed time routine, Lee and I dreamt of actually vacationing up there on the steppe. We smiled at each other with a knowing truth that we had caught the bug. Those arctic fox pups are just too fluffy to resist I suppose.
Education can take so many forms. It looks different in every family. In every child. In every human! But one thing they all have in common is when real learning takes place, it is so very enjoyable. I think about our choice to home school more these days as we have now entered the time where we can register Miles with the state and I have never felt more confident. From the hammering in the basement, as he chips away at the "dogsled" he is building, to the research books on the arctic, to the songs in our morning circle, this boy is learning, and enjoying himself immensely. And that is all any mama really can ask for, isn't it?