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HSBC Navigator survey shows trade optimism outweighs geopolitical tensions
Global / 05-11-19 / by Maddy White
Despite geopolitical tensions mounting, nearly half of companies across the world are more optimistic about their growth compared to a year ago, with firms also recognising the role of global trade as a "force for good" and feeling the pinch to act sustainably, finds new extensive global research from HSBC.
The Navigator survey, which was carried out over August and September, quizzed more than 9,000 firms across 35 territories to find out where businesses see themselves today and in the years to come.
Exporters are currently facing a raft of challenges, from conflicts in the Middle East to the US-China trade war and Brexit, as well as growing pressure from consumers around sustainability amid the so-called 'Greta effect'. However, the Navigator report from HSBC shows that, far from being downtrodden, nearly half (47%) of companies surveyed are in fact more optimistic about growth than a year ago and about a fifth (22%) – the high-growth firms – are extremely positive, expecting growth in excess of 15% in the next 12 months.
That isn't to say that companies aren't feeling the impact of geopolitical risks. The survey found that overall, 64% of global firms are affected, with this figure rising sharply in certain regions, up to 76% in North America and 77% in Mena.
"The biggest surprise to me is just the overwhelming optimism," Stuart Nivison, global head of client network banking at HSBC, tells GTR. "We didn't expect to find firstly the level of optimism and secondly that almost half the companies were more optimistic than they were a year ago."
Nearly eight out of ten (79%) respondents say they expect an increase in sales in the next year, with 81% feeling positive about their international trade possibilities. The main reasons for this, Nivison says, are twofold: new markets, and investment in technology and digitising processes. The 12% of companies that expect their businesses to shrink are under pressure from external rather than internal factors, with the single biggest threat an uncertain political environment followed by increasing competition and inability to secure financing.
Reasons for trade optimism (%agree)
For Nivison, some countries in Asia are notably upbeat. "I spent most of my career in Asia. There are themes that come across in Asia which echo what I hear when I talk to companies. You have got several countries which are benefiting from changes in supply chain structure and they are overwhelmingly positive about growth. A very high proportion of firms in countries like Vietnam, India, Indonesia and Bangladesh say they will see an increase in growth over the coming year. Some of the large multinationals are rebalancing parts of their supply chains and those are the countries that are frequently mentioned."
Optimism around technology investment, meanwhile, is coming as an increasing number of companies which have previously sold their goods locally respond to demands from buyers to become more digital. As Nivison points out: "They start getting more online orders from regions like France and Vietnam, places they never thought of selling. New markets and technology complement each other."
Sustainability: "no longer a PR exercise"
While having a sustainable supply chain benefits the environment and society, it also makes a strong business case by improving firms' bottom lines. The Navigator report reveals the top motivations for implementing sustainable practices, which include improving operational efficiency, meeting standards set by regulators, gaining a competitive edge and increasing sales.
Top 10 motivations for sustainable practices
"Businesses are not viewing sustainability as they might have done 10 years ago as a PR exercise, where sustainability often sat in the public relations department. Now, the whole supply chain strategy and sustainability strategy are C-suite discussions," he says.
Businesses are feeling the squeeze to become more sustainable from competitors (36%), customers (34%) and governments (32%), and nearly two-thirds of companies believe they have a role to play in delivering the United Nations' (UN) sustainable development goals (SDGs).
While sustainability has become a priority, it remains far from a nailed down process for supply chains, companies and banks. Nivison says: "The message we got was not really anything to do with SDG-linked loans or deals; it was more that the UN is not going to be able to do this on its own. Supply chains and companies are saying, 'the UN can set whatever goals it wants to, but it has got to have something that helps to drive them'." He says that businesses need to look at the whole ESG impact of their supply chains, and this is what will have a "snowball" effect on firms rolling out legitimate sustainable initiatives, and not just have single companies "looking at how many paper cups they use."
Nivison says the biggest test now is inertia and companies not adapting to a rapidly evolving world when they desperately need to. But he adds: "I think the encouraging things for me are that businesses are optimistic, not pessimistic, and they are thinking about very positive things like new markets and about digital investment and innovation."
"We asked companies if trade is a good or a bad thing. We could easily have got responses that said 'trade is terrible for me. I'm going to just source domestically or I'm going to sell domestically', but that wasn't the case. Trade is being seen as a force for good by the vast majority of companies because it encourages regional development and drives innovation," he concludes.
Tags: Brexit, Global Trade, HSBC, Navigator, Stuart Nivison, sustainable, Trade War, US-China trade war


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import Base.close, Base.start, Base.next, Base.done

export tabix, query

type Tabix
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end

function Base.close(tbi :: Tabix)
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    finalizer(tbi, Base.close)
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# Iterator stuff

type TabixIterator
    ptr :: Ptr{Uint8}
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    next_line :: String
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end

function finalize(tbii :: TabixIterator)
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    if (ptr == C_NULL) # Zero search results
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The kitchen is my playground, even when I'm lazy enough to cook...as long as I have my food cheats around.
I was going to finish off my last pieces of ready-to-cook meatballs from Rustan's (it's my first time to try their blend and it actually has good flavor). After preparing the rice grains for cooking, I placed a double broiler on top of the rice cooker. Should save me time and effort in cooking two different items at once.
While waiting for it to cook, I pulled out a can of diced tomatoes and sun dried tomato pesto. Grabbing half an onion from the fridge, I sliced it thinly. After sautéing the onion in olive oil, I poured the diced tomatoes and added a couple of teaspoons of the sun dried tomato pesto. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Pour the sauce on top of the meatballs, sprinkle with parsley and voila!
For some reason, decision-making becomes more difficult when you're given an opportunity to go on a free shopping spree. I was able to get a gift certificate from a US online store for the amount of a 3-digit figure (in US dollars). It was much worse than being a kid in a candy store. I lose my impulsiveness to buy things and end up analyzing the product against its value.
As I was going through the items in the store, I ended up choosing more items for A than for myself. That, plus the fact that the ones I was looking at would deplete more than half of what I could spend already! There's also shipping cost to consider as the items will be coming from the US.
A is a tea and coffee person. I learned how to drink hot tea from him as he would usually make one at home. There's a tea for drinking before a meal. Different one after a meal. Another one for a cold beverage use. As for coffee, it's an ongoing learning process for him.
The one on the right is a tea press that was given to us as a wedding gift. He'd use the whole thing for loose tea leaves and use the carafe only if he would brew one in a sachet. He would use the carafe for coffee before wherein he would buy ground coffee and transfer the amount he would consume into a sachet.
I'm particular about the things that he would look at when we would go out. We were in Dimensione at the Fort before when I saw him going through Bodum's line. Next thing he knew, he already has a coffee press. No need to buy the sachets anymore.
I'm not much of a coffee drinker, but I do like the taste of a freshly ground one. One time we were in Starbucks, A asked me for a quick lecture on the impact of the grinding date to the taste of the coffee. We wouldn't buy ground coffee in Starbucks because we don't consume much coffee as well and the smallest pack that they have is 400g. So, I've introduced him to Rustan's coffee line. This way, he can try different flavors without having to buy a large quantity. Though I've noticed that it would still take him weeks to finish off 100g. The flavor's become ho-hum by that time. I figured that buying coffee beans would be better and just grind a certain amount when needed. So I got him a KitchenAid coffee grinder.
I've seen A grab this item a number of times in Dimensione, but wouldn't buy it. I've offered to buy it for him, he wouldn't let me. I think he's waiting for it to go on sale. At least now, we don't have to wait for the sale and would get the item for free. I also got one for myself. Cost of shipping to Manila for the 2 travel press is just the same as buying 1 here.
As my support to his coffee exploration journey, I've added this DeLonghi espresso/cappuccino maker in the cart. I think that would cover it for him.
So what's the thing about about going on a free shopping free? I ended up buying things not for myself. I don't mind anyway. As long as A's happy with it. Well, I still have some amount left to spend. Maybe I'll get myself that stick blender that I've been salivating for years.
All in all, i feel so blessed for being able to get these items for A.
Our major obstacle in looking for a place is finding one that would allow big dogs in the unit. Although some condos so allow pets as who can accommodate Snuz, the units are rather dim with not much source for natural light..
We do have our hearts set on 2 properties so far: Paseo Parkview in Salcedo Village and Galleria de Magallanes in Magallanes Village.
What A and I both liked about it is that it has no obstructions and both units are facing the park. Although the one in Magallanes is directly in front of a park, it's a rather long walk to the place if you're planning on commuting. Plus, the unit won't be available until sometime in July or August. We don't mind the wait, it's just that condo admin has no idea yet whether the current tenant will extend.
Paseo Parkview is more commuter-friendly and closer to the business district. I don't think we'd have a problem looking for a unit here. We just need to show the available units to our geomancer so he could check out the chi in the space.
Other places we're considering are La Maison in Rada (available units in July), Greenbelt Mansions in Palanca, and LPL Manor in Leviste (no available units to date).
While trying to come up with something to eat for dinner, I decided to make dessert first since it's that time of the week to clean our fridge. There are 3 parts to this recipe: chocolate cookie crust, cheesecake filling, and the cherry topping. And here's the recipe. Remember, am just using our oven toaster for this and it doesn't have a thermometer. So I couldn't really say how high the oven was, but we have the one with a heat coil at the top and bottom.
Pre-heat oven. Mix everything together in a bowl and pour into a 9-inch cake pan. If you don't have one, just use any oven-friendly container and pack about 1/4" high. Bake for 8 minutes. Let it cool.
Beat together cream cheese and sugar. Adjust sugar amount to taste. Add in egg and continue beating until smooth. Blend in vanilla. Pour over chocolate cookie crust and bake for 12 mins. Let it cool.
Pour the cherries and the syrup in a pan. Add in sugar and bring to a boil. Dissolve a little cornstarch in water and add to the rest of the ingredients in the pan. When the syrup starts to thicken, turn the heat off. Let it cool.
Top it over the baked cheesecake and place in the fridge.
There's hardly a break time in making this dessert as you'd end up doing something else related to it while waiting for the rest of it to cool.
A has been complaining about his increasing waistline. I'd like to think that I had nothing to do with it as food consumption is all about having everything in moderation. The least I can do is adjust what I cook.
1. Prepare caramelized onions by combining oil and butter in a pan. Once the butter is melted, add in the onions and brown sugar. Cook for around 5-10 minutes until the onions have caramelized. Add in the garlic and mushrooms.
2. Make the honey-mustard sauce by mixing all the ingredients in a bowl.
3. Assemble the sandwich by spreading on the honey-mustard sauce on the bread. You could place iceberg lettuce before adding on the sautéed mushrooms and caramelized onions or you can add them directly on the bread.
I wasn't expecting it to actually give me a sense of fullness, but it was suffice to keep us from eating more than what we had on the plate.
With the hot weather and nothing to do at home, plus I haven't eaten anything yet for the day, I started to crave for fresh lumpia. Closest one I could go to is Goldilocks, but I didn't want to eat chunky veggies today. Then I thought of DEC (Diao Eng Chai) in Wilson, but was lazy to take 2 jeepney rides.So I ended up going to Globe Lumpia House all the way in Raon (One long FX ride, but at least it's in an airconditioned vehicle).
My dad first brought me here decades back when he would drag me around walking for hours then bribe me with food. He said he used to take my mom here when they were going out (I hope his memory serves him right).
It's not much of a place. Found under the overpass stairs of Globe Building in Raon. One thing I'm fascinated about this place is that it only has 2 items on the menu - lumpia for Php16 and Sarsi for Php10. No such thing as food presentation and plating. No other branch exists.
It has an open kitchen upfront with a short freak show act of how fast manong lumpia maker assembles one unit. Believe it or not, they can sell around 500 pieces a day...just one item on the menu. Who would've thought!
Dine-in patrons would usually order a couple of pieces since one unit is just the size of a regular tanda (rice flour wrapper). Takeout ones order in last meal serving quantities. Which would explain the number of units they're able to sell in a day.
Despite the very humble facade and setup, you'd see photos there of the owner with celebrities who have visited the place. I saw one with Charlene Gonzales-Muhlach and some other people whom I have no idea who they are.
Would I brave the distance and the heat next time just to eat fresh lumpia? Definitely. Now going there on a rainy day is another matter.


Laurent and Martine Perrachon demonstrate their know how by presenting their wines at numerous events in France, Belgium, the UK, and the USA. Below is a list of forecoming events. You are also welcome to visit them at the Domain.
23-24 mars 2019 Liège, Château de Colonster Salon "Privinliège"
Novembre 2019 Juliénas Journées Portes Ouvertes des Vins Perrachon.
Décembre 2019 St-Alban (22) Portes Ouvertes, La Ville Marqué.


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I just got an Email saying they are going Public with an IPO.
I wonder how this will impact their products moving forward. More money = more development?
Likely neither but may expand their range of products.
Iirc they also have quite a bit of debt to cover.
I think they mainly need to improve their lens in the GoPro. Get rid of the distortion so everything does not have the fisheye look. But they will probably try to make a cinema camera etc... with the new money.
I thought they were going places with the Protune announcement and Hero 3 but that seemed to never really materialize. Maybe they did run low on resources. The longer they wait the harder the space will be to dominate as the "little cameras" seem to be getting better by the day. GoPro will only have the get-wet and super rugged market as anything else can be covered just as well along with an LCD screen by the point and shoots.
I purchased a Panasonic LX-7 for $300 and one of its purposes was to be a "GoPro" type camera. Less distortion in the lens, great IS and image quality and the LCD is there for framing.
I agree with you Tim on that. It wouldn't take much foot gopro to lose massive market share overnight.
Put a dive case with a wide angle adapter on a canon S100 and what's the point of a gopro?
They are probably dying to diversify which is where I hope the extra cash goes.
A dive case and wide angle adapter is going to increase the size and weight way over the advantage the GoPro has in size and weight. GoPro is primarily a small lightweight rugged action action cam.
GoPro losing massive market share, don't think so, maybe you know something i don't. Have you read WHY GoPro has such huge market share? It's not the camera .... it's the Brand, it's the Marketing, it's all the millions of users posting videos of their activities online promoting GoPro at no cost to them. GoPros focus from here on wont be on the hardware, that's easy to do, a number of company's already have a camera as good or better, but what they don't have is GoPros vision on what drives the Brand.
Yes they will diversify, again not so much into hardware, but into areas that monetize their media content uploaded by others. Think, GoPro TV, Ad sales, media rights, etc, that's where GoPro is heading and that's the area they're hiring experts to develop.
They have shareholder Foxconn (Apple Product Manufacturer as well as Gopro) to exploit and are forming many other partnerships, the future is very bright indeed.
Do the research mate, it's not about the camera. ... Oh and GoPro have next to no debt, not sure what gave you the idea they had "lots of debt to cover", there's plenty of money in the bank and heaps more on the way.
Last edited by Ian Newland; June 15th, 2014 at 12:50 AM.
The idea that GoPro has debt to cover comes from the fact that I've done research on their IPO. "Loads of cash on hand" does not mean they don't have significant debt. Debt isn't a bad thing, just that it means it's going to eat up a chunk of the $400m they are raising.
The idea that they could lose massive market share overnight comes from being somewhat well versed in business and knowing how this happens to companies just like GoPro, over and over and over.
Overall, I think they're caught between being a 1 SKU company and future media empire. But at this point it could go either way. Media is risky and Sony could snuff them out in a year by undercutting their flagship model by 50% and buying up all the Ken Blocks. On the other hand, GoPro could solidify by using some of their incoming cash to snap up the newer hotter companies like DJI and increasing their footprint.
The other option could be as simple as profit taking, depending on the dispensation strategy of the shares. I haven't been following the IPO at all but it wouldn't be too farfetched for the principles to want to see some return on their investment at a point when GoPro's market position is at a high point, increasing likelihood of aggressive up-bidding in the short term after IPO, much like Facebook.
And as Dylan says, the writing IS on the wall especially with DJI issuing the Phantom 2 with a non-GoPro camera built in. Time to either consolidate the market or shut them down. Now would be an ideal time to acquire DJI if the price is right if that's where GoPro wants to go.
No wonder Woodman wants to cash out.
I've thought a bit about investing in their IPO but ultimately I don't think I will.
One concern is that they will be losing a bit of talent once some of their staff realizes they're now millionaires (or close to it).
Also, from the prospectus, you can see GoPro's profits are declining as the years go by.
Their deaf ear regarding audio quality is revealing of their company's attitude towards us, the users.
Oh, by the way, do you realize their HQ is located directly over a fault-line?
Whether to invest or not depends on whether you are looking to "buy and hold" or "go for the ride".
I PERSONALLY don't think GoPro is a long term "buy and hold", based on fundamentals but there is likely to be volatility with upside potential if you are willing to watch the markets.
You forgot the scores of Chinese companies that produce knockoffs of gear that are potentially in violation of international patent and/or trademark/IP rights.
The system Loyal 3 that will be used by us peons to buy their stock only sells once a day. If you're anticipating a day trading experience, "going for the ride," Loyal 3 is not the way to go. But on the other hand, it's the only way to buy the stock at this point.
Interesting. As I mentioned earlier I haven't been watching the IPO. I was only speaking from my days working at a full service brokerage a LONG time ago as a marketer to a broker. My exposure was to the big markets (TSE/NYSE et al) These days I invest in ME.
Pretty much backs up what I said above.
"The quality of smartphone cameras continues to increase, as does the durability of the devices that house them, but GoPro has one advantage its mobile competitors can't build against. "I don't see anyone effectively competing with them because focusing on the quality of the hardware is missing the point," Stephen Baker, a VP of industry analysis for the NPD Group said. "Go Pro wins because of its ecosystem, because people want to be associated with the brand. It is about lifestyle and not hardware — which is a good thing."


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THE ART & POLITICS OF CULTURAL APPROPRIATION
The latest issue of Art Review carries, under the headline 'The truth about "cultural appropriation"', an edited version of my recent talk on cultural appropriation at London's Rich Mix. Here is an extract:
One of the key arguments of many such critics is that one speaks through one's identity; that one speaks, as writer Nesrine Malik has put it, 'as a': 'as a woman', 'as a Muslim', 'as an immigrant'. And those who are not 'as a' must take their cue from those who are, especially if they happen to be privileged by being white or male or straight. 'Lived experience', as Malik has put it, 'is on its way to becoming the superior and most veracious form of truth.' And as the novelist Kamila Shamsie has observed, 'What started as a thoughtful post-colonial critique of certain types of imperial texts somehow became a peculiar orthodoxy that essentially denies the possibility of imaginative engagement with anyone outside your little circle.'
What is really being appropriated, in other words, is not culture but the right to police cultures and experiences, a right appropriated by those who license themselves to be arbiters of the correct forms of cultural borrowing. Such policing is deeply problematic, both artistically and politically. It deadens creativity and it assaults imagination. The importance of imagination is that we can take ourselves beyond where we are, beyond our own narrow perspectives, to imagine other peoples, other worlds, other experiences. Without the ability to do that, both artistic creativity and progressive politics shrivel.
Take the debate about Dana Schutz's Open Casket (2016), a painting derived from photographs of the body of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African American murdered by two white men in Mississippi in 1955. Till's mother had urged the publication of photographs of her son's mutilated body as it lay in its coffin. Till's murder, and the photographs, played a major role in shaping the civil-rights movement and have acquired an almost sacred quality.
Schutz's painting caused little controversy until it was included in the prestigious Whitney Biennial Exhibition in New York. Many objected to a white painter depicting such a traumatic moment in black history, and for that depiction to receive the accolade of a Whitney Biennial presentation. The British artist Hannah Black even organised a petition to have the work destroyed.
In the same Whitney Biennial was a painting by Henry Taylor titled The Times They Ain't Changing, Fast Enough! (2017) which depicts the death of Philando Castile, an African American man horrifically shot dead in his car by a policeman, in 2016. Taylor's painting, unlike Schutz's, has received little criticism, but rather has been praised for its 'hauntingly vivid depiction' of the shooting of Castile.
In my view neither painting has significant artistic merit. For critics of cultural appropriation, however, the real difference is not aesthetic, but identitarian. Schutz is white and Taylor black. To subsume aesthetic considerations to those of identity is to render art meaningless. It is also politically troubling. The campaign against Schutz's work, as the American critic Adam Shatz has observed, contains an 'implicit disavowal that acts of radical sympathy, and imaginative identification, are possible across racial lines'. Or, as Shamsie tweeted (in response to the controversy over Lionel Shriver's defence of cultural appropriation at last year's Brisbane Writers Festival) '"You – other – are unimaginable" is a far more problematic attitude than "You are imaginable".'
Many critics of cultural appropriation insist that they are opposed not to cultural engagement, but to racism. They want to protect marginalised cultures and ensure that such cultures speak for themselves and are not simply to be seen through the eyes of more privileged groups. The American critic Briahna Joy Gray acknowledges that 'The idea that only black artists have the right to address Emmett Till's murder through art seems wrong.' But, she argues, critics of Dana Schutz 'have a point' about 'exploitation': 'Depicting Till is not a problem but using Till to garner profit and acclaim would be.'
It is true that cultural engagement does not take place on a level playing field, but is shaped by racism and inequality. Racism ensured that the great black pioneers of rock 'n' roll never received their due, whereas many white artists, from Elvis Presley onwards, were feted as cultural icons. Yet, as the poet Amiri Baraka once observed, the issue here is not that of cultural appropriation at all: 'The problem is that if The Beatles tell me that they learned everything they know from Blind Willie [Johnson], I want to know why Blind Willie is still running an elevator in Jackson, Mississippi. It's that kind of inequality that is abusive, not the actual appropriation of culture because that's normal.'
Preventing the Beatles from drawing on the work of Blind Willie Johnson or other black singers would have done little to improve black peoples' lives. It would not have overthrown Jim Crow laws in the 1950s. It would not rid America of discrimination in the labour market today. Nor will preventing Dana Schutz 'profiting' from painting Emmett Till protect the Emmett Tills of today.
Only mass social and political campaigns to transform the very structures of society – such as the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s – can bring about such change. Otherwise, social justice comes to be seen not as the erasure of exploitative structures but merely as the possibility of 'cultural fairness' within them. The campaigns against cultural appropriation are an implicit acceptance that the playing field cannot be levelled, and that the best we can do is fence off certain areas.
Read the full essay in the Art Review.
The painting is Chris Ofili's 'The Holy Virgin Mary'. (For the relevance of the painting for my argument you will have to read the full essay...).
by Kenan Malik on December 8, 2017
Categories: Culture & Books • Tags: amiri baraka, cultural appropriation, culture, dana schutz, emmett till, henry taylor, identity politics, kamila shamsie, racism
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Racism consists in a) dividing people into "races", e.g. "blacks" and "whites" and then b) assigning different rights to them based on that classification. So denying a "white" painter the right to paint a certain topic while a "black" painter is allowed to do so is just an instance of racism itself.
If we start from a principle of equality of people we must not do b). If we don't do b), then a) is unnecessary and useless.
To overcome racism, we have to stop thinking and acting in terms of racial distinctions. This also means that defining your "identity" in terms of racial concepts (e.g. defining yourself as a "black" person or a "white" person) is a very bad idea.
I am a member of an international family with some members from West Africa, some from East Africa, some from Europe and some from New Zealand. Some of us have ancestors in several areas. For example, my daughter has German and West African ancestors. But we don't think of ourselves as being of different "races". Why should we do so? For what purpose would such a distinction be useful? I need a stronger sun screen than my wife and a different type of comb, but for that, we don't have to think of ourselves belonging to different races. Our bodies also differ in many other ways, so what is all that fuzz about skin color about? I also need a different type and strength of glasses, but that does not mean I belong into the "astigmatic" race and she into the "myopic" one. We don't devide ourselves into groups with different rights depending on the type of glasses we are needing, so why should we divide ourselves into comb- or sunscreen-based types?
Thinking about us in terms of "race" is simply not useful for any purpose, so why do it? Racial distinctions have been invented to have a pretext for assigning different rights to different people in order to exploit some of them. If you say everybody has the same rights then why make such distinctions? They are unnecessary and have proved to be extremely destructive during the course of history. So let's stop making such distinctions.
The problem is not that a "white" artist paints about a topic belonging to the "black" community; the problem is that the people who make that an issue are still distinguishing themselves and others into "blacks" and "whites". This is an unwise thing to do. The Dana Schutz case demonstrates that you just get into racism if you do so. The problem cannot be overcome by defining racial identities each with their holy districts and taboos, but only by dissolving them completely.
We should also generally question the concept of "identity". Why do we have to define ourselves as members of some separate group, instead of defining ourselves as individuals (and that is what "identity" should really mean).

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Gilbert Bell
March 8, 1933 — December 26, 2009
Gilbert Donald "Don" Bell, 76, of Pleasant Hill, Missouri, was born Wednesday, March 8, 1933 in Pleasant Hill, the son of Gilbert Walton and Elizabeth Iona (Storms) Bell. He departed this life at 3:39 p.m. Saturday, December 26, 2009 at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas.
He was a United States Navy Veteran.
On January 14, 1969 Don was united in marriage to Eva Christine Vancil in Miami, Oklahoma.
Gilbert was as a registered Pharmacist for over 50 years and worked for the Katz/Osco Drug Stores for 42 years. He was a life member of the Pleasant Hill United Methodist Church and an active member and Past President and Treasurer of the Pleasant Hill Lions Club.
He was preceded in death by his parents.
He is survived by his wife Eva of the home; daughters Debbie Bell and companion Bart Walstrom, of Fort Worth, Texas and Jan Pruitt and spouse Mark of Overland Park, Kansas; son Tim Soldner and spouse Eileen of Pleasant Hill; sister Joyce Dowell and spouse Ron of Pleasant Hill; grandchildren Lindsay, Matthew, and Nathan; nieces and nephew Coyita Miller, Ceola Knisely, and Kelsie Clark; other relatives and friends.
Funeral services were held Wednesday, December, 30, 2009, at the Pleasant Hill United Methodist Church. Reverend Carl Knapp, minister of the church, officiated. Interment was in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery with military honors by the Pleasant Hill VFW Post #3118 Honor Guard. Casket bearers were Dave Betts, Kelsie Clark, Ron Dowell, Randy Knisely, Mark Pruitt, and Bart Walstrom.
The Pleasant Hill Lions Club held a Rose service just before service time.
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Gainesville, Fla.--Investing in solar energy sounds like a great idea when it's sunny, but what about when it's not? What happens during a hurricane? Can you still have power when the power lines go down?
More than 12 million Floridians lost power as a result of Hurricane Irma, including one of Power Production Management's newest customers in Gainesville, Florida, Eugenio Pereira, who's only had his solar system connected for about three weeks. Pereira was without power for more than 24 hours, but instead of watching all the food in his fridge spoil and wandering around aimlessly in the dark, he decided to put his solar system to good use.
Pereira did extensive research before purchasing his 6.867 kW SunPower DC system and knew he'd be able to use his inverters to power certain appliances--despite not being connected to the grid.
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A BBC interpretation of Benedict Cumberbatch as Richard III as he speaks of his desire for the throne.
A BBC depiction of Oscar nominated Benedict Cumberbatch as Richard III.
BBC, "Richard III (Benedict Cumberbatch) dreams of the throne - The Hollow Crown: Episode 2 - BBC," Early Modern British Theater: Access, accessed April 20, 2019, http://embta.english.ucsb.edu/items/show/311.


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Tyler Perry Pays Off More Than $400,000 of Items on Layaway at Walmart for the Holidays
9:37 AM PST, December 7, 2018 - Inside Edition Staff
Playing Parents Cry After Tyler Perry Pays $434,000 Worth of Walmart Layaways
Tyler Perry is certainly in the holiday spirit, giving more than $400,000 to pay off layaway items at two Walmarts in Georgia.
He announced the donation in an Instagram video Thursday. "If you have a layaway at either place and it was in there as of 9:30 this morning. Then I have paid for all of your layaways for Christmas. So Merry Christmas," he said.
Many were filled with emotion at the director's generosity. Tears were flowing throughout the stores as people realized what Perry had done. He paid for products for 1,500 people, according to a Walmart spokesperson.
"My mom didn't know how she was going to pay because of the bills and she was going to have to take out a loan," one child told local station WGCL. "She started to cry and so did I because we were so thankful."
Perry said he initially wanted to keep the donation a secret, but it didn't work out that way.
"I know it's a hard time, a lot of people are struggling and I'm just really really grateful to be able to be in a position to do this…." Perry said of the gift.
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Polymer implants
Making polymer-based skull implants more bone-like to improve outcomes for patients requiring cranial injuries repaired. A research collaboration with PolyActiva.
The potential of miniature implants to deliver controlled doses of medicine over many months is expected to revolutionise health care and improve treatment for an increasingly wide range of conditions over the next decade.
Crucial to these delivery systems is the interaction between the medicine and the polymers that form 'the backbone' of the implants, says Professor Greg Qiao.
Implants provide a set-and-forget' approach to medication, delivering a controlled, targeted dose of medicine each day, as the drug molecules 'peel off' their polymer framework at a specified rate.
Professor Qiao says potential applications have been limited because of adverse chemical reactions between many medicines and the polymers available. However, the University of Melbourne recently partnered with the medical technology company PolyActiva to improve the stability of polymers for implants, which will expand treatment options for many diseases.
The project focused on a treatment for glaucoma
The PolyActiva project initially focused on a treatment for glaucoma, which is the leading cause of blindness worldwide. The standard treatment involves daily eye drops. But people often forget to apply their eye drops, Professor Qiao says. And only a small portion of the drug ends up at the site of action anyway.
PolyActiva's alternative is a small polymer cylinder implant, injected into the eye, to release a controlled daily dose of the drug for up to six months.
We were able to improve PolyActiva's polymerisation process with a new method that creates more stable polymers. These can support a wider range of medicines, including the drugs for glaucoma, over six months or even more.
Professor Greg Qiao
The project was funded through a Victorian Government Technology Voucher, an Australian Government Researchers in Business Grant and an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant. The Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Monash University was also a research partner in the project.
Prof Greg Qiao
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The Otay Water District has designs on using two camera-equipped drones to inspect and survey the topography of its facilities, a move that will take personnel out of potentially dangerous situations.
(TNS) — When it's time to inspect facilities, such as water tanks, or survey the topography of its properties, the Otay Water District now turns to technology it has embraced in the past year: drones.
The water agency, which serves more than 225,000 customers in eastern and southern San Diego County, uses two camera-equipped drones to get a bird's-eye view of its vast and mostly remote sites and facilities, which include 40 potable water reservoirs, more than 20 pump stations and a treatment plant.
Among other water agencies in the region and across the state, the Otay Water District is ahead of the curve in adopting the technology, said Adolfo Segura, the agency's administrative services chief. He said he anticipates that other water districts will follow suit; the Lakeside Water District already has shown interest.
He said drones are efficient at surveying sites and facilities while keeping employees out of potentially dangerous scenarios.
For example, drones are flown over water tanks to observe conditions, eliminating the need for water operators to climb ladders to the top of the tanks, which are generally at least 25 feet tall.
The agency also uses the drones to monitor the progress of the ongoing expansion of the Roll Reservoir in the Otay Mesa area.
With more infrastructure projects anticipated, Segura said the agency expects to use the drones in the future to capture images to create 2-D and 3-D models of a site to plan for construction.
It's not just facilities that the agency inspects with drones. The technology is also used to monitor the vegetation and wildlife on the agency-owned land. The main goals are to protect the fauna, as required by state law, and to assess the risk of a wildfire.
The long-range hope is that the images and videos taken using the drones will help the agency analyze over time the impacts of climate change on the vegetation and facilities, which could be susceptible to damage caused by weather conditions, Segura said. He added the state has called on water districts to keep tabs on the effects of climate change.
He said it's common practice for photos captured by the cameras mounted on the drones to be used in quarterly reports shared with the agency's governing board.
The agency has other potential future uses in mind. One example: using drones equipped with thermal imaging cameras to check for cracks in pipes and water leaks, with the thermal imaging detecting signs such as moisture.
So far, the public hasn't had major concerns about the drones, Segura said. While the use of drones by public agencies such as police departments draw some concerns about privacy, Segura said he believes that's not the case with the water agency because the drones are flown over district-owned land that is remote, not above communities.
Following a weeks-long pilot program, the agency began to use drones in late 2017. While two employees are trained to fly the remote-controlled devices in compliance with the regulations set by the Federal Aviation Administration, the agency plans to train water operators who inspect facilities and test water quality on a regular basis.
The Otay Water District "will continue to leverage (the technology) wherever we can, according to regulations," Segura said.
Segura said he is aware of one other water agency that uses drones: The San Diego County Water Authority. Mike Lee, the agency's public affairs supervisor, said the San Diego County Water Authority uses drones to survey its facilities and land, particularly in areas with rugged terrain that are difficult to access.
It's not the first time the Otay Water District embraces innovative technology. In 2004, the agency equipped vehicles with automated meter readers, which allow the devices to "read" a one-way radio signal from residential water meters up to a half-mile away, eliminating the need to go onto customers' properties to take water-use readings. The agency began to upgrade the so-called AMRs in 2017 and expects to replace all by 2023.
"It's an agency heavily invested in technology … but for good reason," Segura said of the Otay Water District.
The agency serves customers within 125 square miles that includes Chula Vista, Otay Mesa, Jamul, Spring Valley, Rancho San Diego and unincorporated communities near El Cajon and La Mesa.
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http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | "I came from a place of struggle," insisted Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis after The Dallas Morning News revealed that key details of the life story she had successfully shopped to the mainstream media were false. She wasn't a 19-year-old mom when she was first divorced, but 21. She lived with her second husband in the very comfortable Mistletoe Heights neighborhood of Fort Worth, Texas, not in a trailer park made famous by a thousand admiring profiles. She lived in the trailer park for just a few months. One of Davis' struggles, apparently, is with the truth.
Davis isn't the first politician to campaign falsely as an up-from-poverty candidate. William Henry Harrison, scion of a wealthy family, campaigned in 1840 as the "log cabin and hard cider" candidate against Martin Van Buren. It worked, though Harrison didn't live to relish his success. The story about his two-hour inaugural address, which caused him to catch pneumonia, is probably untrue — he didn't fall ill until three weeks later. It may have been the snakeweed or leeches that gave him the septicemia that killed him, or it may have been the office seekers, who reportedly crowded the White House to the point he couldn't find a place to rest when he felt sick.
You might suppose that reflections on the Internet age — and the impossibility of hiding the truth — will now follow the tale of Harrison's successful deception. Not really. What's surprising about the Davis tale is that someone actually took the trouble to question her account, because her "narrative" appeals so strongly to the liberal imagination. We just love the "little woman who conquers the world' stories, especially if (well, OK, only if) she favors abortion throughout the nine months of pregnancy, a higher minimum wage and universal pre-K.
Davis did grow up in difficult circumstances — her parents divorced, and Davis went to work early. She also made poor decisions, moving in with a boyfriend at the age of 17. Her story of working hard to better herself, first at community college and then at Texas Christian University and Harvard Law School is a tribute to her tenacity and intelligence.
But it requires a pretty calculating coldness to omit from her story husband No. 2, Jeff Davis, the lawyer she married when she was 24 and lived with for 18 years. It was he who paid her tuition at TCU and Harvard Law, cashing out his 401(k) and borrowing money to do it. It was he who cared for her two daughters while she went to Boston to study law for three years. And it was he who got custody (with no contest) after the divorce. He notes ruefully that she left the marriage at a key juncture: "It was ironic," he told the Dallas Morning News, "I made the last (Harvard) payment, and it was the next day she left."
No outsider can ever know what goes on in a marriage, and it isn't our place to speculate, but Davis herself made her single-mother-beats-the-odds personal story a key part of her campaign. Just before the Dallas Morning News story broke, Davis was the subject of a fawning profile on the "Today" Show. Maria Shriver introduced the story of the plucky gubernatorial aspirant over chyrons touting "Doing it all" and "On her own two feet." Her personal story, we were told, "resonated across this country." Davis visited the trailer park with Shriver and spoke of having to scrape together enough money to keep the lights on, sometimes working two jobs. Her 18-year marriage to a man who committed himself to her welfare and went into debt to help her achieve her career goals was practically airbrushed out, mentioning in passing — "she married again for a time" — to explain the appearance of her second daughter. The rest is Harvard triumphalism and her star turn filibustering an abortion law in the Texas Senate.
Davis achieved success the way most successful people do — through hard work and the support of a loving family. She, and the press who lionize her, seem all too eager to suggest that she somehow did everything all by herself. This false heroic tale is a common trope on the left these days — women doing it all by themselves. It's more than partisan hackery. It reinforces the very damaging notion that women don't need husbands. Many, many women are swallowing this propaganda and acting on it. They, their children and our society are suffering mightily as a result.


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Set in a Galaxy far, far away, Star Wars combined old-fashioned science fiction storytelling with cutting-edge special effects provided by Industrial Light & Magic. One effect, the Death Star briefing, featured a wire-frame version of the space station, one of the first uses of wire-frame animation in a major motion picture.
Apple II introduced
Sold complete with a main logic board, switching power supply, keyboard, case, manual, game paddles, and cassette tape containing the game Breakout, the Apple-II finds popularity far beyond the hobbyist community which made up Apple's user community until then. When connected to a color television set, the Apple II produced brilliant color graphics for the time. Millions of Apple IIs were sold between 1977 and 1993, making it one of the longest-lived lines of personal computers. Apple gave away thousands of Apple IIs to school, giving a new generation their first access to personal computers.
Atari VCS prototype
Atari launches the Video Computer System game console
Atari releases its Video Computer System (VCS) later renamed the Atari 2600. The VCS was the first widely successful video game system, selling more than twenty million units throughout the 1980s. The VCS used the 8-bit MOS 6507 microprocessor and was designed to be connected to a home television set. When the last of Atari's 8-bit game consoles were made in 1990, more than 900 game titles had been released.
C3PO protocol droid
C3PO and R2D2 in Star Wars
C3PO and R2D2 play a critical role in 1977's blockbuster hit movie Star Wars. Throughout the movie C3PO served as an ambassador-like robot that is knowledgeable of customs, traditions and over 6,000,000 languages. C3PO's companion robot, R2D2, served as a mechanic, computer interface specialist and co-pilot for the film's main protagonist Luke Skywalker.
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Commodore 1530 Datasette
The built-in Commodore 1530 Datasette (data+cassette) is the primary storage device for the newly released Commodore PET. The device converted digital information from the computer into analog sound signals which were stored on compact cassettes. The method was cost-effective and reliable, but also very slow.
ROM chips
The Atari Video Computer System (VCS) video game console is introduced. It was one of the first successful consoles that used interchangeable cartridges with factory programmed ROM chips to store the software. At first, designers planned to use an internal ROM chip that contained several pre-programmed games. This method was used in many predecessor consoles, but Atari's choice on using cartridges in part led the VCS to becoming one of the most popular video gaming systems of all time.
Tandy Radio Shack introduces its TRS-80
Performing far better than the company projections of 3,000 units for the first year, in the first month after its release Tandy Radio Shack´s first desktop computer — the TRS-80 — sells 10,000 units. The TRS-80 was priced at $599.95, included a Z80 microprocessor, video display, 4 KB of memory, a built-in BASIC programming language interpreter, cassette storage, and easy-to-understand manuals that assumed no prior knowledge on the part of the user. The TRS-80 proved popular with schools, as well as for home use. The TRS-80 line of computers later included color, portable, and handheld versions before being discontinued in the early 1990s.
The Commodore PET (Personal Electronic Transactor) introduced
The first of several personal computers released in 1977, the PET comes fully assembled with either 4 or 8 KB of memory, a built-in cassette tape drive, and a membrane keyboard. The PET was popular with schools and for use as a home computer. It used a MOS Technologies 6502 microprocessor running at 1 MHz. After the success of the PET, Commodore remained a major player in the personal computer market into the 1990s.
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What follows are soft foods suggestions for after oral surgery. Some may not be consumed immediately after surgery. Post-surgically, patients may have to advance their diets more slowly, because some surgical sites may be very fresh and limit diet. The soft food diets will vary from one person to another depending on the severity of the wound and type of oral surgery. Diets may need to be advanced slowly. Gradually as the healing of the surgical sites progresses, patient may advance their diet from liquid, to soft, to mashed and semi-solid foods until a normal diet can be resumed. Dr. Maranon and his staff will discuss special dietary considerations for those patients undergoing extensive surgical procedures or requiring special diets. Unless special dietary considerations are indicated, the following are foods that can be considered during the recovery process.
Instant breakfast, Ensure, Boost Slim Fast.
Rich cream soups or soft vegetable soups pureed or without large pieces that are hard to eat.
Well-cooked stewed or braised chicken or meat.
Plain ice cream, frozen yogurt. Sorbets, gelato, fruit mousse, puddings and custards, smoothies, Jamba juice, malts or shakes. These must be eaten with a spoon or a glass or cup. It is very important not to use a straw during the first 24 hours). Be careful to avoid berry seeds and desserts available in stores that contain various additions such as nuts, dried fruits, crushed candies, etc. that may fall into the extraction sites.


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Everyone wants to get the best prices on whatever they're renting, and dumpsters are no exception. Perhaps you're a homeowner in Highland who is starting a fresh home improvement task, and realized that you'll be making a large amount of junk that is just too much for average garbage disposal choices. No matter what your disposal requirements, there is likely going to be a dumpster option that will work for both your budget and your job.
It's vital to try and predict your costs prior to rental of your dumpster, that way you don't go over budget at the end. The main choices that impact your costs is the weight of your waste, materials you're getting rid of and amount of time you'll need the dumpster for. You'll also want to ask the rental company if there are any charges for permits in Highland that may add to your budget.
Deciding on which size dumpster to rent is going to be the most affordable decision you make. You don't want to find yourself in a position where you go over your weight capacity, so it's better to overestimate and have a little room left over, since you can probably find more garbage to fill it up anyway. When renting a dumpster the most used sizes selections you'll have will be 10, 20, 30 and 40 cubic yards. An ideal sized dumpster for a medium job, such as cleaning out a garage, would be a 20 cubic yard option. In order to ensure you're getting the right size it's a good idea to tell your rental company in Highland exactly what types of waste you'll be disposing of.
Weight capacities and material restrictions are additional factors you'll want to consider when selecting a dumpster to rent. Even if you have space to spare in your dumpster, you may still go over your weight limit depending on the garbage disposed of. Almost all dumpster rental companies will have weight capacities on each load, and will charge a premium if the customer exceeds that limit. Weight restrictions will be based on local regulations in Highland in addition to possible landfill fees. Be careful not to over fill your dumpster, as it could actually damage our property or crack your driveway. It's always better to overestimate your weight rather than underestimate it, so be sure to discuss your job with the dumpster rental company first.
To help determine the best size of the dumpster you'll need, consider the types of objects you're going to be putting in it. If you're just getting rid of large items, such as furniture or appliances, then it might be more cost effective to simply hire a junk removal service. If you are only planning on to clean out some old furniture or junk in your garage, you could likely get away with a 10 cubic yard dumpster. You'll want to check with your rental company in Highland to see if there are objects that they prohibit before you decide to go with a dumpster option. Often times objects like ovens, refrigerators, mattresses and batteries will not be allowed.
In order to gauge your dumpster costs you can examine different factors like size, weight and types of waste you're using. Most of these factors will be used by the rental company to figure out cost, and they will likely offer you a free estimate. Larger dumpsters are always more expensive than smaller ones, regardless of the weight you're putting in them. Disposal of the waste is a sizable cost consideration for rental businesses, since they have to pay for dumping based on the size of each container along with paying higher moving costs.
Doing business with a local dumpster rental company in Highland will probably be a wise choice. Local companies usually have an established dumping arrangement with waste management facilities, which will save you time and paperwork. The disposal process can be smoother with a company that knows the local environmental regulations. By giving your dumpster company as many details as possible about your waste materials, you can make sure you get the best deal and correct sized container.


Listen to Lord John Krebs talk about badgers and the culls.
'The Life Scientific' broadcast BBC Radio 4 Tuesday 21 May 2013.
Probably the most authoritative report on badgers and bTB is by the Independent Scientific Review Group chaired by Professor John Krebs, which was published on 16 December 1997.
Much of the content of Krebs has now been challenged by prominent scientists but, with the proposed slaughter of badgers in Somerset, Gloucestershire and other counties during 2016, one would assume that this document would be easily accessible online from DEFRA.
But no, it does not appear to be there. In the National Archives, the Government response can be found but the Report is not alongside, This, therefore, only gives one side of the story.
Also interesting is the response to a Freedom of Information request in 2011.
"Unfortunately the complete Krebs Report is not on the Defra website so I am unable to send you a link to it. The reason I cannot send you a copy of the complete report is because the report has a file size of 52MB whilst the maximum the Defra email system can handle is 5MB.
You may be able to find a copy of the report in a library near you, larger libraries in particular may have a copy. If you send Defra your postal address a copy of the report will be copied to a CD and sent to you."
Things may have moved on in technology but this statement is rather odd. Certainly the report has 196 pages but the size is only 4.23MB (zipped) or 4.61MB (pdf), well within their 5MB email attachment size.
On B-R-A-V-E you will find both the Krebs Report (please download, 196 pages too big to publish outright) and the Government response.
The Krebs Report is a 4.23MB download so, for convenience, it is zipped. It is quicker to download this way; then you will have the option to open or save the pdf file to your PC (recommended).
The Krebs Report has been downloaded times.
"To review the incidence of tuberculosis in cattle and badgers and assess the scientific evidence for links between them; to take account of EU policies on reducing and eliminating the incidence of tuberculosis in cattle; to take account of any risk to the human population; and accordingly to review, in the light of the scientific evidence, present Government policy on badgers and tuberculosis and to make recommendations".
2. Professor Krebs was assisted in his review by Professor Roy Anderson FRS, Professor Ivan Morrison, Professor Douglas Young, Professor Tim Clutton-Brock FRS, and Dr Christl Donnelly, as well as by two research assistants.
3. The Government is most grateful for the vigour, and rigour with which Professor Krebs and his Team have tackled their remit. It believes that their report represents the best available scientific advice across this area. It follows that the Government is disposed to accept their recommendations in principle, subject to further consideration of the public expenditure, legal and practical implications. Further details of the Government's response to individual recommendations are set out below.
7. The current policy, known as the "interim strategy", involves the removal and culling of badgers from certain farms. These are farms where there are cases of bovine TB, and where, following an investigation, it is presumed that there is no other cause of the disease than infection from badgers. Notwithstanding the limited badger culling under the "interim strategy", the annual incidence of bovine TB has been increasing in South West England since the late 1980s. In addition, the disease has been spreading to areas where there is no recent history of infection in the West Midlands and South Wales. The number of herds with outbreaks in Great Britain increased from 125 in 1991 to 471 in 1996.
8. Professor Krebs is not the first chairman of a committee which has looked into the links between bovine tuberculosis and badgers. He was preceded by Lord Zuckerman (1980) and Professor Dunnet (1986). This is evidence of the intractability of the problem.
9. Professor Krebs' Team points out that although there is substantial evidence for an association between TB infection in badgers and cattle, the evidence that badgers transmit TB to cattle in the natural situation is all indirect. Moreover, even though the sum of evidence strongly supports the view that badgers are a cause of bovine TB outbreaks, there has been no proper experimental study to enable firm conclusions to be drawn about the effectiveness of badger culling. The report therefore recommends that such a trial should be carried out (Chapter 7. Section 14. Recommendation B(i).
10. Outside the areas subject to the trial, it recommends that no badger culling should be undertaken (Recommendation B(ii)), because this is unlikely to add to the information gained from the experiment. The Government accepts this recommendation, pending the results of the culling trial (see paragraphs 12-15 below). The "interim strategy" will therefore be replaced with a "no culling strategy" outside the areas subject to the experiment. However, there will also be further work on improved husbandry in these areas, provided this can be agreed with the farming industry (see paragraphs 16-17 below).
11. This "no culling" policy will apply from now on. However, there are a number of badger removal operations which have already begun under the existing " interim strategy". The Government will, resources permitting, take through to a conclusion those operations which have already been started.
12. The Team recommends that a randomised block experiment be put in place to determine the effectiveness of culling in reducing TB breakdowns in cattle herds (Recommendation B(i)). A minimum of 30 10km by 10km squares would be selected from areas which are bovine TB 'hot-spots' ie where there have been large numbers of outbreaks in the recent past. 10 of these would be randomly assigned to a " proactive" strategy of culling of all badgers. A further 10 areas would be randomly assigned to a " reactive" strategy of culling of badgers if there have been cattle TB cases which appear to be associated with badgers. This " reactive" strategy would be an enhanced version of the current " interim" strategy: all of the social groups of badgers with access to the farm where there had been cattle TB would be removed. A final 10 areas would be randomly assigned to a "no culling" strategy.
13. The Government agrees that unless a policy trial of this sort is undertaken, it will not be established with certainty whether culling of badgers influences bovine TB cases; nor, even if it does, whether badger culling is cost effective, and which culling strategy is the more effective. It is therefore favourably disposed to Recommendation B(i), subject to examining in more detail the public expenditure, legal and practical implications of the form of trial recommended. It would expect staff in the MAFF Wildlife Unit currently involved in badger culling to be redeployed to assist with the trial if this goes ahead in the form envisaged.
14. The Government also agrees with Professor Krebs that such a trial should start as soon as is practicable, subject to culling beginning at times of year when the number oflactating sow badgers is minimised (see paragraph 15(c) below).
(a) B(i)a that an independent Expert Group be formed to oversee the trial. The Government accepts this recommendation, and will form this Group as soon as possible. The Expert Group will press on with work on detailed design of the trial, but the trial will not begin until after the end of the consultation referred to in paragraph 4.
(b) B(i)b that there should be an estimate of recolonisation times for setts in areas subject to the " reactive" and " proactive" strategies. The Government agrees that better information on recolonisation times would be useful and will consider how this might be done with the expert group.
(c) B(i)c that lactating sow badgers should be culled in the "reactive" and " proactive" trial areas. Under the " interim strategy", such sow badgers are spared, because culling such badgers will also inevitably lead to the death of their cubs. The Team has concluded that the effectiveness of the interim strategy is undermined by failure to remove lactating sows. The Government accepts that culling of such badgers across the country as a whole would be undesirable on welfare grounds. However, it agrees that not culling such badgers in the "reactive" and "proactive" trial areas would reduce the power of the experiment. On these grounds, the Government is inclined to accept the report's recommendation here, but will seek as far as is possible to undertake culling at times of year when the number oflactating sow badgers is minimised.
(d) B(i)d that further measures should be taken to enhance the efficiency of badger removal operations. The Government agrees on the need to avoid delays in carrying out such operations, and will consider whether more can be done within resource constraints. It will also examine how farmers might take a greater part in monitoring badgers and preparing for culling, without compromising badger welfare.
16. The Team suggests that improved husbandry methods by cattle farmers may play an important role in reducing bovine TB outbreaks. In particular, it recommends (B(iii)) that MAFF should work with the farming industry to evaluate the effect of different husbandry methods, with the industry taking the lead and primary responsibility for implementation, and MAFF providing advice and determining any incentives that might be provided.
17. The Government has for some time been issuing advice to farmers on keeping badgers and cattle apart. It agrees with Professor Krebs that this advice has not always been heeded, and that farmers should be encouraged to take ownership of this issue. The Government will pursue discussions with the farming industry on establishing an experimental comparison of different husbandry methods. Such an experimental comparison is likely to have to take place outside the areas selected for the culling experiment, to avoid compromising the latter. It will be important for the industry to take the lead here, but the Government will make available advice from MAFF and the independent Expert Group which will be established to oversee the culling policy trial.
19. The Team recommends extending the use of integrative modelling in this area (recommendation D(i)).
21. The Government believes the report's recommendations here provide some very helpful suggestions for the research strategy in this area in the future. This is of course subject to the public expenditure implications, which will have to be looked at carefully. In addition, it will be important for the research programme to remain closely linked with policy. For example, as the Team recognises, development of a cattle vaccine, which could take 15 years, will need to be complemented by further work to enable infected animals to be distinguished from vaccinated animals. This is not possible using the currently available bovine tuberculosis skin test. If an effective vaccine is developed, there would also need to be discussions with the European Commission to seek amendments to current EU legislation so that properly vaccinated cattle would not be subject to trade restrictions.
(b) the Government will in the meantime discuss with existing contractors how their research in the year April 1998 - March 1999 can take account of the Krebs Report. These discussions with contractors will begin urgently.
23. The Team recommends that MAFF should review the amount spent on research both in absolute terms and as a proportion of the total MAFF TB budget (recommendation D(v)). The Government will undertake such a review as part of the work leading to the putting in place of a new research programme by April 1999. The Government can make no commitments on future levels of expenditure on TB research in advance of that review.
24. The Krebs report draws attention to the mechanisms in New Zealand for contribution by the farming community to the costs of both bovine TB research and bovine TB control (again, recommendation D(v)). The Government is interested by the New Zealand example, and is sympathetic towards the principle of farmers being asked to make a financial contribution to control of a disease when the control programme exists primarily for their benefit. However the practical implications would have to be assessed carefully before such an approach could be adopted in this country.
25. The Team recommends there should be a better co-ordinated approach to research through partnerships with industry, universities and other funding agencies (recommendation D(iv)). There is already regular liaison between MAFF and other UK funders, but the Government will look to build closer links on to the existing arrangements and also to create closer links with international bovine TB research, notably that in New Zealand and the Republic of Ireland.
26. The Committee notes that in the past data collected by Government on bovine TB have not always been made available to researchers outside Government. It recognises that there have been welcome signs of a change of approach but seeks a clear commitment to accessibility of data in this area (recommendation D(ii)).
27. The Government is happy to give that commitment. It agrees with the principle that data collected using public money should be made available to facilitate research. There will of course be a need to respect legal requirements for example those on data protection and those relating to intellectual property rights, and to take account of resource constraints, but the Government believes this is possible within a general policy of accessibility of data.
28. Finally, the Team recommends that the incidence of bovine tuberculosis in humans should be kept under review in the light of the increasing incidence in cattle (recommendation D(vi)). The Government recognises this is a prudent measure even through the current incidence of bovine TB in humans is very low (only 32 confirmed cases in the UK in 1995, the majority of which were probably the result of reactivation of infection acquired in the past before current control measures such as milk pasteurisation had been introduced). The Government will continue to monitor M. bovis infections in humans as part of the routine surveillance of tuberculosis.
29. There are two related issues to be considered in the light of the report.
30. The first is the level of compensation for farmers. At the moment farmers whose cattle are slaughtered because they have bovine TB receive compensation equivalent to either 75% of the animal's market value, or 125% of the average monthly market price two months before valuation, whichever is the less. Cattle slaughtered because they have been in contact with affected animals are compensated at their full market value.
31. The Government recognises that like other diseases, bovine TB is liable to lead to disruption and economic losses. In the light of its provisional conclusions on the Team's report, the Government has considered requests for increasing compensation to farmers. It does not however see grounds for asking taxpayers to meet a larger share of farmers' losses. As the report points out, there are other means in place for ensuring that bovine TB does not pose a threat to public health. In the longer term, the Government will consider whether compensation should be maintained at the same level for those farmers whose husbandry practices take no account of the risk of bovine TB in their herds.
32. The second issue is the future of the Consultative Panel on Badgers and Tuberculosis, commonly known as the Badger Panel. The Panel brings together farming, conservation and animal welfare groups with an interest in badgers and bovine TB. It offers advice to Government. The Panel has not met since Professor Krebs began his work.
33. The Government does not believe that there will continue to be a role for the Badger Panel under the new arrangements. The only areas where badger culling takes place will be subject to the supervision of the Expert Group (paragraph 15 (a)). The Government will, of course, continue to consult as necessary on policy on badgers and bovine TB as it does on other policies where there is a wide public interest.
34. The Government believes that the Krebs Team's report provides a good basis for the further work needed to understand the links between badgers and bovine TB and to underpin policies in the longer term. It considers that in the meantime, there will be benefits both from abandoning the "interim strategy" and from a better focussed research programme which offers the prospect of a substantial reduction in disease. It accepts the Team's recommendations in principle, subject to further consideration of the public expenditure, legal and practical implications. The Government also believes that it is in the long term interests of both farmers and those concerned about badger conservation for this further work to be carried out: and in particular, for the proposed trial on the effects of badger culling to proceed as rapidly as possible.
35. It recognises that policy in this area has to proceed through a partnership of Government, farmers and conservation interests. It therefore looks forward to receiving comments by 27 February 1998 on how Professor Krebs' recommendations should be implemented.


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