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Taco Bell Makes Ready Pac Its Scapegoat
Taco Bell announced that it has dropped its produce supplier in the Northeast, which was Ready Pac. In its press release, the company said:
The company also switched produce suppliers in the region even though it has no indication they were associated with the illness. "We are not willing to take any risk with the publics safety…"
But, of course, firing a company for which there is "…no indication they were associated with the illness…" is not going to help the public's safety.
In fact it is a PR stunt that evades responsibility by attempting to shift it to a third party. After all, Yum!Brands is one of the largest foodservice operators in the world. In addition to Taco Bell, it owns Pizza Hut, KFC, Long John Silvers and A&W, plus an international division and a Chinese division.
What's more, the problems with green onions are well known. Taco Bell itself had a Hepatitis A Outbreak in 2000.
So we are dealing with an enormous company that has the money, the scale, the technical capabilities and notice of the need for vigilance — all the prerequisites for a world-class food safety plan.
Look at it this way: Green onions are a critical control point in the Taco Bell HACCP plan.
This means that Yum!Brands' Quality Assurance people should have been in the scallion fields, approved the growing and packing techniques, approved the HACCP plan at grower, packer and processor level.
Yum!Brands is a big buyer, big enough to get Ready Pac to open a separate scallion packing operation just for Taco Bell. If Yum wanted rodent traps every five feet in the field or a different irrigation system, a simple willingness to pay for it would have been all that was required.
So in the absence of a specific allegation that Yum!Brands was somehow defrauded, to drop a supplier is mealymouthed, an attempt to make it look like it was betrayed, that this problem is someone else's fault when really there is no indication that Yum!Brands got anything except for the food safety system it elected to buy.
Dumping a supplier so unceremoniously means more food safety problems down the road. The Pundit estimates that the Taco Bell business was more than half the business at Ready Pac's facility in Florence, New Jersey. If the message to suppliers is that if there is a problem we will dump you overboard whether you did anything wrong or not, the message is also "don't tell us your problems."
This attitude is inimical to the attitude of shared responsibility for food safety that is essential for success.


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Developer Chosen for 5th & I
Labels: 5th and I, Donohoe Companies, hotel, Mt. Vernon Triangle, Neil Albert
The District of Columbia announced this morning that it is partnering with developer Donohoe Companies to bring a high-end hotel, retail outlets and jazz club to the soon-to-be booming Mount Vernon Triangle. In a press conference held this morning, Washington DC Mayor Adrian Fenty laid out the changes that will soon be coming to the District- owned site at 5th and I Streets NW and praised developments in the area as a whole.
"It's important that we move these projects fast, that we get them out to developers who know what to do with them and I think that...in less than a year we've demonstrated that we're not just holding onto these properties," said Fenty. "We're allowing them to be developed for the benefit of the community."
Those benefits will take the shape of a 475,000-square foot development, titled Arts at 5th & I. The project will center around a new 260-room ME Hotel from luxury Spanish hotelier, Melia and also include - promoters say - a bicycle retailer, hardware store, book store/café and new outlet for the Zenith Art Gallery. Perhaps most exciting for local residents, who lobbied the city for more entertainment-oriented projects in the neighborhood during the 6 month bidding process, will be the addition of a new music venue in the form of the Boisdale Jazz Club – the first US location from the London-based chain of nightclubs.
A new apartment complex sporting 166 apartments will also be springing up on the site, with the developer pledging to a minimum of 50 affordable-housing units within the building. Rounding out the proposal is a 238-space underground parking garage. Groundbreaking is a projected 18 months away, following approval by the City Council.
Jad Donohoe of the Donohoe Companies outlined future plans for not only 5th and I, but the rest of the Mount Vernon Triangle area as well. "We're going to take this lot and then move up 5th Street and take out those vacant properties," he said. "[Donohoe is going to] redevelop that entire street and build on the investment that the city has already made in CityVista."
The District's selection of Donahue comes at the end of a 6 month bidding process that saw JBG, Buccini/Pollin, Potomac Investment Properties, and the winning Donohoe-managed joint proposal that included Holland Development, Spectrum Management, and Harris Development, all vying for a contract to build on the coveted Ward 6 parcel. With regards to how Donohoe's joint proposal edged out the competition, Deputy Mayor Neil Albert said:
I took a look at their work and was very impressed with it. The community wanted entertainment as part of the development and they had a jazz club, which was well received…and then, they were going to pay us $7 million for this piece of land. They definitely had the best proposal. And that's not just our rating, but community support was overwhelmingly in support of this proposal.
The 5 & I site was transferred into the city's portfolio in October 2007 in the wake of the National Capital Revitalization Corp.'s (NCRC) dismantlement. DC's Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development then issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) early this year. The District is negotiating subsidies for the project with Donohoe at present and hopes to generate approximately $85 million in tax revenue from the Arts at 5th and I project.
Good to see a mixed-use proposal that seems responsive to locals' wants awarded with a development contract through a competitive bidding process. I think the height and density are pretty appropriate for a site so close to Gallery Place and right on Mass Ave.
If such praise may now allow me a single criticism, the 238-spot underground parking garage seems like a bit of overkill. Certainly, the hotel wants some underground parking, as do apartment-dwellers and visitors, but are 238 places necessary? Can't we learn the lesson from the (admittedly larger) humongous empty parking garage under DCUSA in Columbia Heights?
The corner of 5th & I is less than a quarter-mile from the Chinatown-gage entrance to the Gallery Place Metro station. It's a five minute walk! I guess I should be happy that their plan includes "bicycle parking well beyond code." With no shortage of car parking in the area, though, are 238 spots needed?
Eh, overall it seems like a good plan. Maybe i'm just used to complaining. Green Roofs sure have become the "it" thing in DC development...
Justin on Sep 19, 2008, 6:28:00 PM said...
hell yes.
pqresident on Sep 19, 2008, 10:25:00 PM said...
if the lack of street parking in the area is any indication, then having the garage spaces is a welcome portion of the project.
Something about "international jazz club chain" makes me want to yak.
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7 2-out runs in 6th lift LA past Nats 10-4 for 2-1 NLDS lead
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Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner (10) celebrates his three-run home run off Washington Nationals relief pitcher Wander Suero with teammates Enrique Hernandez (14) and Max Muncy (13) during the sixth inning in Game 3 of a baseball National League Division Series on Sunday, Oct. 6, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Justin Turner's homer capped a startling and record-setting seven-run rally in the sixth inning as the Dodgers roughed up starter-turned-reliever Patrick Corbin, and Los Angeles beat the Washington Nationals 10-4 on Sunday night to take a 2-1 lead in their NL Division Series.
Russell Martin and pinch-hitter Kiké Hernández added a pair of two-run doubles in the sixth as LA became the first team in major league history to score that many runs in one postseason inning with two outs and two strikes.
The Dodgers can advance to the NL Championship Series for the fourth consecutive year by closing the best-of-five NLDS in Game 4 at Washington on Monday, when LA sends Rich Hill to the mound against Max Scherzer.
The Dodgers entered the sixth trailing 2-1 after Juan Soto's two-run homer for Washington off eventual winner Hyun-Jin Ryu in the first and Max Muncy's solo shot off Aníbal Sánchez in the fifth.
Sánchez, who struck out nine, was replaced for the sixth by $140 million lefty Corbin, who hadn't made a relief appearance since 2017. He was charged with six runs.
Martin tacked on a two-run homer in the ninth.
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You will find below the horoscope of Sean Kingston with his interactive chart, an excerpt of his astrological portrait and his planetary dominants.
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Kisean Anderson (born February 3, 1990) better known by his stage name Sean Kingston, is a Jamaican American pop singer and rapper.
Kisean Anderson was born in Miami, Florida, but he was predominantly raised in Kingston, Jamaica after moving there at the age of nine. Today he uses the moniker "Sean Kingston" to represent Kingston, the capital of Jamaica.
Sean Kingston, through a venture between Epic Records and Koch Records, released the single "Beautiful Girls" in Summer 2007. The single, based on the bass line and lyrical "association" of the 1961 hit "Stand By Me" by Ben E. King, reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks and topped the UK Single Charts.
Here are some character traits from Sean Kingston's birth chart. This description is far from being comprehensive but it can shed light on his/her personality, which is still interesting for professional astrologers or astrology lovers.
In a matter of minutes, you can get at your email address your astrological portrait (approximately 32 pages), a much more comprehensive report than this portrait of Sean Kingston.
Warning: when the birth time is unknown, which is the case for Sean Kingston, a few paragraphs become irrelevant; distributions in hemispheres and quadrants are meaningless, so are dominant houses and houses' accentuations. Therefore, some chapters are removed from this part.
Like the majority of Earth signs, Sean Kingston, you are efficient, concrete and not too emotional. What matters to you is what you see: you judge the tree by its fruits. Your ideas keep changing, words disappear, but actions and their consequences are visible and remain. Express your sensitivity, even if it means revealing your vulnerability. Emotions, energy and communication must not be neglected; concrete action is meaningless if it is not justified by your heart, your intellect or your enthusiasm.
The predominance of Water signs indicates high sensitivity and elevation through feelings, Sean Kingston. Your heart and your emotions are your driving forces, and you can't do anything on Earth if you don't feel a strong affective charge (as a matter of fact, the word "feeling" is essential in your psychology). You need to love in order to understand, and to feel in order to take action, which causes a certain vulnerability which you should fight against.
Air is under-represented in your natal chart, with only 9.02% instead of the average 25%. Air symbolizes the values of communication, exchanges with others, but also adaptability and flexibility abilities: if you don't get out of your cocoon to talk, to show interest in others, and to socialize, you may have problems understanding others. Because of your lack of flexibility or of your refusal to adapt yourself, you may be suddenly overwhelmed by events. You should get into the habit of talking, of phoning, and of thinking in terms of "mobility, flexibility, adaptability, change" in every circumstance. It will spare you so many troubles!
Sean Kingston, the Cardinal mode is dominant here and indicates a predisposition to action, and more exactly, to impulsion and to undertake: you are very keen to implement the plans you have in mind, to get things going and to create them. This is the most important aspect that inspires enthusiasm and adrenalin in you, without which you can grow weary rapidly. You are individualistic (maybe too much?) and assertive. You let others strengthen and improve the constructions which you built with fervour.
After this paragraph about dominant planets, of Sean Kingston, here are the character traits that you must read more carefully than the previous texts since they are very specific: the texts about dominant planets only give background information about the personality and remain quite general: they emphasize or, on the contrary, mitigate different particularities or facets of a personality. A human being is a complex whole and only bodies of texts can attempt to successfully figure out all the finer points.
You need to concentrate on a subject, Sean Kingston, to deepen your research and to follow your reasoning through with persistence and determination. You are the very type of the thinker who needs time and isolation to meditate at length and allow his serious, methodical and rigorous mind to show its worth. Your feet are firmly planted on the ground and to get your attention, ideas must be followed by implementation, for instance as in the case of mathematics applied to physics. You focus on the essential and you look at the world around you with clear-sightedness. You are not very talkative and you act with caution. You may come across as cold and ambitious even though your comments are always sincere and practical. However, be careful not to isolate yourself and to appear as a lofty and intolerant person.
Sean Kingston, it is obvious that you do not easily fall in love. But when you do, your feelings are deep, quiet, serious, and above all, lasting. Your need for security is indispensable for your well being and to enable you to give. You offer security and stability with your sense of duty even though you mix up responsibility and love. The charm of your partner does not only include physical features or aroused sentimental attraction, but also intellectual and moral qualities: you fiercely need authenticity and seriousness because this is the way you are. In general, your loves are not numerous and you become able to express yourself quite late in life. Your quiet and stable feelings are really worth it. If you do not get what you want, the danger is that you may seek refuge in cynicism and that you isolate yourself.
Sean Kingston, you are so resistant and so solid that you are able to cope with any challenge, any ordeal. You behave with persistence, rigour and discipline. You are so obstinate and patient that no effort is impossible to you, as if sensitivity and emotions were unable to divert you from your goals. With calm and lucidity, even coldness, you face up to things and you plan on a long-term basis. Nothing and no one can prevent you from fulfilling your responsibilities. You are a rock, a hard worker, and your iron will equals your resistance to blows. Your practical sense is at the service of your ambition which is real and energetic, even though it may not be obvious. Sexually, you are active and vigorous. If you show more warmth, you may become an excellent lover; indeed, being demonstrative is not your major concern.
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Imagine someone you know who is really happy and fun to be around. It feels good, it feels safe, their happiness is infectious, you could spend hours in their company. You feel energized, light and alive.
Now imagine someone that complains a lot, is a drama queen, is unhappy and constantly moaning. What does it feel like to be around them? Not so nice is it? I bet you feel tired, miserable, exhausted and uncomfortable. Maybe there's times you have to go and rest after a phone conversation or a meet up with this person. You don't feel energized at all. You feel tired and drained.
Chances are that someone is an energy vampire. An energy vampire is someone who cannot sustain their own energy or life force so they feed off others who are at a higher energetic level. They are unhappy and struggle to find the joy within so they seek it outside of themselves.
Having energy balance in your body is essential for your health. Your energy is a very delicate balance and you become sick or perhaps don't feel 100% when your energy flows are disturbed or blocked. Your body functions at its optimum when in energetic balance. It's important to maintain that energetic balance each day.
The best way to maintain your own energy and protect yourself from those energy vampires is to protect yourself energetically. Imagine a human-size clear bubble in front of you. There is a zipper on the bubble which when unzipped, allows you to walk right into that clear bubble. While inside that bubble, you turn and face the zipper again and zip the bubble back up and viola! You're energy field is protected.
This practice is best done everyday, right away in the morning before you start your day. Try it out!


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Okay, so maybe this isn't a 'hidden treasure' because Croatia is pretty famous for its beaches. But when I picture a sunny country famous for its beaches, I don't imagine intimate little coves with small pebble beaches close to the warm, azure ocean. So I guess in a way the beaches of Croatia were a hidden treasure to me, as each little cove was unique and hidden from the next one!
Italian cuisine is surprisingly apparent in Pula: pizza, pasta and gelato are all staples and times it certainly felt like we were dining in a far-flung corner of Tuscany. The ice-cream was sooooo delicious and we ended up indulging in one every single day, exploring flavours from cranberry cheesecake to banana (melon was my favourite).
Croatia is one of those places I feel is often forgotten about when it comes to travel destination. A lot of people tend to think of the Greek Islands, the South of Spain, France, or Positano in Italy. But never Croatia! I wonder why, and this post is proof that this is such a hidden gem that everyone should really be heading towards. In all honesty, I'm kind of glad that not a lot of people go, however, because that means that the city/country is still more local and has stayed true to it's culture without the masses of crowds and influx of tourists :) I'm glad you've had such a wonderful trip!
Your photos are really amazing, Grace! Thanks for sharing experience!
Oww, nice post! The photos are amazing, thanks for sharing! I visited Croatia when I was little, but I wasn't very lucky that year (buckets and buckets of cold rain and fierce wind and a traumatizing pizza with ketchup). However I agree, Croatia is gorgeous and if I'll have again the chance to visit it, I definitely would!
These pictures are so nice.
I absolutely adore Croatia, scenery's so stunning! Can't believe you watched Mamma Mia 2 there! I watched it and it's defi my new favorite film, so many incredible actors and singers! Great pics!
Croatia definitely has been in my must travel to list! I love how beautifully your pictures justified to the each point you made here!
Wishing you have an amazing weekend!
It looks like an amazing place!! Thanks for sharing!!
I love Croatia so much! I've been there once already and this year I am comming back. I never visited Pula (this time I'm also going to the southern part so am not going to see it either, but I have to say it looks stunning. Hope you had fun there, I had a lot!
That beach is beautiful! Lovely photos you have here dear. Thanks for sharing!
Your pictures are so lovely! I've never been to Croatia before... I love to travel though, so I'd never complain if I got to take a trip there!
I'm not a big fan of real Italian food. I like the Americanized kind better. I lived in Italy for three years, and I just couldn't get into pizza without pepperoni or pasta with clams (in their shells) in it. Maybe Croatian Italian food is different though.
Thanks for sharing! I love seeing other parts of the world!
Croatians twist on Italian cuisine is incredible and thank you so much for the lovely comment Hun, you're so sweet!
These pictures are so lovely, croatia is indeed beautiful.


A large-scale exhibition of works by the most renowned Russian painter of the 19th century Ilya Repin (1844-1930) will present a modern interpretation of his art. The exhibition, located on three floors in the largest exhibition halls of the Tretyakov Gallery, will include more than 180 paintings and more than 130 graphic works. In addition to well-known paintings (Barge Haulers on the Volga, Unexpected Return, Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire), little-known works were selected for the exhibition, and they will be a real discovery for the public. The highlight of the exhibition will be the display of the large-format canvas Ceremonial Sitting of the State Council on 7 May, 1901 from the collection of the State Russian Museum. Until 18.08.19.
The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography presents an exhibition of photographs by Jean-Daniel Lorieux —one of the most famous French photographers, a legend of fashion photography, and a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Lorieux ranks alongside such huge names in photography as Helmut Newton and Guy Bourdain. His works are exhibited around the world, including Paris, Hong Kong, and Los Angeles. Jean-Daniel Lorieux studied art at Art et Metiers ParisTech in France. In 1960, he was sent to the front to serve as a photographer during the Algerian war. On his return to Paris two years later, he continued to work in photography, and took an internship at the famous Parisian Studio Harcourt. While there, he adopted the technique of working with light and shadow. Studio Harcourt has gained worldwide recognition for its black and white studio portraits with harsh, contrasting lights that create a very dramatic effect. Until 23.06.19.


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LPDF: Self-build housing could help homes crisis
The Bacon Review, which recommended a package of proposals to expand opportunities for custom and self-build housing, could help tackle the housing crisis, according to the Land Promoters and Developers Federation (LPDF).
LPDF said the proposals could encourage people to design or build their own home, stimulating the small to medium enterprise (SME) building sector, enabling the government to get closer to its target of 300,000 new homes built each year.
The Bacon Review, commissioned by prime minister Boris Johnson in April, asked Richard Bacon MP to develop a plan for a major scaling up of self-commissioned new homes – across all tenures – to boost capacity and overall housing supply.
RICS: New buyer demand continues rise
This, he said, should include "increasing the availability of serviced plots of land across England."
The LPDF, which offered evidence to the review, represents member companies which are able to deliver serviced plots with planning permission as part of their normal role in meeting the need for developable housing land.
Paul Brocklehurst (pictured), chairman of LPDF, said: "This is a very positive report which gives hope both to potential self-builders and future buyers of custom-built homes.
"It also opens up a new market for small and medium sized companies whether they are in the business of releasing serviced sites or providing custom built homes for clients.
"As a sector we aid diversity of delivery and this would create more opportunity for people to enjoy the homes and space they desire.
"A number of Richard Bacon's recommendations could be enacted quickly through secondary legislation or Written Ministerial Statement and we would encourage the government to do so, whilst they formulate the detail of the impending bill on planning reform for the longer term.
"We believe there is a huge potential for releasing smaller sites on the edges of towns and villages which would appeal to self-builders and those wishing to buy custom built housing.
"Crucially, it could play a part in helping the government achieve its target of building 300,000 new homes per year in an effort to relieve the current housing crisis."
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Everyone's a Critic: Food and Culture in a Digital Age
Code: SR6 | Type: Panel | Genres: , Historical Fiction, Food
Monday, May 14 2012 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM	 Ticketed (see details)
Carrington Hotel, Katoomba, 15-47 Katoomba Street, Katoomba Venue & Transport Info
Elizabeth Meryment, Charlotte Wood, Geordie Williamson (facilitator)
Writing about food often involves touching on the most important issues in our culture in a way that is palatable to a wider audience. There was once a small handful of food and cultural "critics", but what is happening now in this new digital age where suddenly everyone's a critic?
Charlotte Wood, author of Love & Hunger: Thoughts on the Gift of Food, and journalist and food writer Elizabeth Meryment talk to Geordie Williamson, literary critic for The Australian.
Presented with Varuna, The Writers' House.
Monday 14 May all-day pass $60/$50
Monday & Tuesday 2-day pass $90 (no concession)
Single Sessions (unless otherwise indicated): $15
Elizabeth Meryment (Australian)
Elizabeth Meryment is the food writer and restaurant critic for Sydney's The Sunday Telegraph and has co-authored four books of food writing including The Foodies' Guide to Sydney 2011 and 2012 and Eating and Drinking Sydney 2012. Her food journalism has appeared in major publications around Australia including The Weekend Australian Magazine, The Weekend Australian, Body & Soul, The Courier-Mail and the Herald Sun. She writes frequently on challenging topics including sustainability, ethical farming and the rise of social media and food blogging.
Charlotte Wood (Australian)
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A 25 year old man has today been arrested on 106 charges related to Commonwealth fraud and identity crime.
Today's arrest follows a joint investigation between the Financial and Cyber Crime Group, State Crime Command and the Criminal Law Investigations area of the Australian Taxation Office (ATO).
It is alleged the man has been linked to 63 fraudulent tax return lodgements via myTax, from September 2015 to July 2016.
During the investigation, officers identified 42 bank accounts allegedly opened in the man's name, linked to 54 unique tax file number (TFN) identity take-overs. The alleged fraud totals $566,762.
The Financial and Cyber Crime Group along with a number of other units within the Queensland Police Service have been working closely with the ATO over the last few years.
"This is pleasing and a further development in our inter-agency relationship which does not bode well for offenders," Detective Superintendent Terry Lawrence of the Financial and Cyber Crime Group said.
ATO Deputy Commissioner Will Day said the joint investigation is a strong example of the results that can be achieved when agencies work together, sharing intelligence and investigation tools.
"The ATO uses sophisticated data analysis tools to catch criminals who attempt to break the law," Mr Day said.
Mr Day also said this is a timely reminder to all taxpayers to keep their identifying information, like tax file numbers, bank account details and their date of birth, secure.
"Fraudsters can steal personal identification information using various methods from sources outside of the ATO.
"This information is then used to impersonate ATO clients and lodge fraudulent tax returns," he said.
If you think your personal identifying information (including TFN) have been lost, stolen or misused, or you have been the victim of identity crime, you should contact the ATO Client Identity Support Centre on 1800 467 033 as soon as possible. The ATO will work with you to get your account back in order.
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Enrique Iglesias and Anna Kournikova are parents for a third time!
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The famous couple welcomed their third baby to the world on January 30, and the proud dad shared a photo of the newest member of the family on February 13, calling his newborn daughter "my sunshine."
Kournikova also shared a picture of herself with the new baby with the same caption.
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Iglesias' older brother, Julio Iglesias, Jr., broke the news a few days earlier on a Chilean radio program.
After being asked about rumors circulating that the pair was expecting, Julio Iglesias' oldest son said "I'm already an uncle" two times before specifying that the child in question had already been born. "My brother already has three. They're happy, they're very happy," he said.
Rumors about the pregnancy have swirled around the couple for months, with reports from Spanish-language media that Kournikova had stayed home instead of going to Iglesias' concert in Madrid in December because she had "a baby bump that was too far along."
The couple has two other children, twins Nicholas and Lucy, who were born in December of 2017.
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A couple months ago, Jenn sent around an email about an event at BAM somehow involving (my love) Sufjan Stevens. Not wanting to miss out on another BQE, Kurt, Christian, and I agreed to go without really grasping the details.
Apparently Jenn was the only one who really knew what was going on until we convened at the BAM Opera House. Turns out we would be watching a documentary on the screen while Sufjan and another musician (Raymond Raposa of the Castanets) would be playing the soundtrack.
I think my favorite part of the night was when Kurt leaned over to me and said, "Now, which one is Sufjan?" Great. Didn't I just go 400 miles to see Kurt's favorite band...again?! He can't even identify one of my favorite artists?! Jeeez!
The film was called Beyond this Place and documents a "son's attempt to reconnect with his perpetually stoned father by taking a 500 mile bike ride through the Pacific Northwest."
I can't say it was the most exciting hour and a half I've ever spent but it wasn't too bad. The topic wasn't so interesting or relatable but the film was done pretty well. The music was good but really only in the background. I think I enjoyed the Q&A with the director more than the actual movie. It was interesting to hear about his motivation for starting the project and how his relationship has changed/not changed at all with his father. Eventually we learned that Sufjan and the director grew up together in Michigan and that was how they ended up collaborating.
Needless to say, the evening was nothing what any of us suspected, but it was great to get out and do something different. Thanks for the heads up, Jenn!


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From the time I saw the title "The Better Half," it was clear Mad Men was going to be doing one of those episodes where the subtext basically becomes text for an hour. This is an episode full of dualities and conversations about different aspects of people. Its also an episode about marriage and significant others both current and former. Sure, this is an episode that literally has Megan playing twins who are "two halves of the same person" and ends with Peggy, torn between Ted and Don, searching for someone to understand her as both doors close, leaving her alone in the middle of the hall. But Mad Men is on its mid-season roll right now, and so much of tonight is done so well, its hard to begrudge it a bit of the highlighting it loves to do.
This notion of duality comes down to something pretty simple, at the end of the day: everyone contains their own worst impulses; everyone is their own evil twin. Peggy is both the progressive "pioneer" living on the Upper West Side and the terrified "reactionary" who accidentally stabs her boyfriend with a bayonet (the type of sentence I did not expect to have to write). Don is the man who seduces his ex-wife, mostly on a whim, and also the man who fundamentally wants to make his marriage work (when its convenient for him). Pete says tonight that he's being "pulled in a thousand directions at once," as if he's special for having various versions of himself vying for supremacy. Joan doesn't buy it for a second, telling him "I can't solve those problems, Pete. I have those problems." All of us have better and worse impulses, and all of us are in a daily struggle for which will win out. I may not love the way the show went into "The tooth isn't the only thing that's rotten!" mode this week, but I still respect the story it told and the theme it wanted to explore.
The show doesn't spend much time with it this week, but there's a great moment in the ongoing consideration of the similarities and differences between Don and Ted. The two are fighting over which campaign to present to margarine when Peggy stops by the meeting. Each wants to win her to their side, but only Don is petulant at her refusal to choose between the two. When he confronts her later, she says "You're the same person sometimes. The difference is he's interested in the idea, and you're interested in your idea." She thinks of Ted as a man searching for truth, a pure creative force not corrupted by vanity. Don replies, "He's interested in his idea. Don't let him fool you." While the show has painted Ted as near saintly in comparison to the rest of the cast and has been spending this season revealing Don at his worst, I'm not sure Don's response is entirely wrong. In this instance, and in the instances we've seen, Ted comes off as a good, kind, considerate, open-minded person. But Ted, too, has a dark side. He too has his vanities. And while we may respect the man for trying to keep away from Peggy, we can't forget he also kissed her despite being married. Ted looks very good at the moment, but maybe his mask is just more firmly in place. Maybe he's just been in a position to have his good side on display all this time, and if his worse half comes out, we'll see something quite different.
The Don and Betty story in "The Better Half" is a great thing to behold, as Betty reveals her great understanding of Don even as she seems to miss some fundamental truths about herself. She is back on top, feeling attractive again and getting the responses she is used to from men. We see an echo of the way she met Henry at one of his events, and its very clear that Betty loves the attention as much as she loves any man providing it to her. When she sleeps with Don, its not because he has seduced her and not because she wants him back, its an act of self-validation, of regaining the confidence she lost with her weight gain by proving the man she was married to before all that is still attracted to her. There is something refreshing about the honesty between Betty and Don in these scenes. They understand each other very well at this point, and both get something out of their dalliance without really treating it as anything more. Of course, Betty's willingness to treat it as just that gets to Don a little bit, and he finds himself staring at his ex-wife across the restaurant with new-found respect and even desire. She isn't the trophy wife he left behind, she's someone who understands him enough to know what she is doing will drive him crazy.
Peggy and Abe'a break up also brings up the idea of people in a relationship forming two halves of a whole, with the same dangerous potential repercussions as when we let our darker impulses out. Even as Peggy was infatuated with Ted, she could rely on her relationship with Abe to keep her safe from great emotional harm, until suddenly the floor fell out from under her. What I loved about this storyline is that, even as Abe breaks up with Peggy for what he sees as political differences (and what are, pretty apparently to me, "not wanting to be attacked and murdered in her own home" differences), he is revealing just how similar these two actually are. As he condemns Peggy for the way she uses her life to fuel her advertising, he draws from his own experiences to complete an article he is writing. These two always lived to work, and while I'm not particularly sad to see Abe go, I did like that aspect of their dynamic.
Roger is a man who has spent so long being defeated by his worst impulses that people have pretty much stopped trusting his better ones. We see the bad come out when Roger takes his four year old grandson to see Planet of the Apes (which is getting a lot of love this season) and his daughter basically bans him from seeing his grandson without supervision. Hurt by this, Roger immediately runs to Joan, attempting to get another young child from his bloodline back into his life, but Joan will have none of it. He may be Kevin's biological father, but Joan knows that when the chips are down Roger can't be counted on and will only confuse her son. The fact that Roger only tried to get back in with his son after being removed from contact with his grandson underlines Joan's concerns: even when Roger seems like he's trying to do the right thing, there are usually ulterior motives behind his actions. His better impulses are almost always trumped by worse ones, to the point where he really can't be trusted or relied on at all. This, I expect, is why Roger is still one of the most sympathetic characters on the show. He never quite understands why people don't trust him or why they can't rely on him. He is ruled by his baser impulses, but he doesn't seem to understand why people don't think he has better intentions.
At work, we see Peggy's best intentions at play as she tries to find a mid-point between Ted and Don's polarized campaigns, and again her worst as she tries to get a reaction from Ted to the news of her break up that he has already told her he won't give. We also see Pete trying desperately to be his best, attempting to be a part of the margarine meeting even as its clear to everyone, including the largely silent Harry, the realy fight is between Ted and Don. Yet we also see him as his worst, as he meets with Duck Phillips (Duck Phillips!) and considers abandoning the agency entirely. Duck tells Pete all that matters is family, which is especially funny coming from a man who has lost his family (and sent his dog out into the mean streets of the city). The answer sounds pat because it is. We know family can't solve the problems of these characters, it can only mask them for a while until the facade begins to decay. People are in constant war with their worse impulses, struggling to be the better half, or to be worthy of the person their with. No one is, though, not permanently, and despite their best efforts, the darkness will come for all these characters again, and their darker sides will run free once again.
-"I'll look at it very carefully and then I'll form an educated opinion. That's what professionals do."
-"There's no Bobby 1 anymore." "Because of Bobby Kennedy?" "No. He went home."
-Don actually singing "Father Abraham," hand movements and all, was a highlight of the episode for me, and a moment where the show underlined that, yes, sometimes better impulses win out. Don is deeply skeptical of the whole thing, but he loves his kid (now), and so he does the little dance with him.
-"I love the way you look at me when you're like this. But then I watch it decay. I can only hold your attention for so long."
-"Just because you climb a mountain doesn't mean you love it."
-"That poor girl. She doesn't know that loving you is the worst way to get to you."
-"I don't know why I thought you'd be braver...you're in advertising."
-On the next Mad Men: Roger leaves the room.


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America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) recently released the results of a census indicating that 4.5 million Americans are now covered by High Deductible Health Insurance Plans (HDHP's) that include Health Saving Accounts (HSA's). This represents an annual growth rate of 43% over the previous year.
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Perhaps the most compelling finding from the census was that approximately 25% of all new HSA plan enrollees were previously uninsured. This provides strong evidence that consumer-directed health plans, and the lower premiums that typically accompany them, may indeed be helping to reduce the large number of uninsured Americans.


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Papal Blessing at Castelgandolfo
During the summer months, this excursion from Rome gives you the opportunity to spend some time with the Pope at his summer residence
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During the summer months, this excursion permits us to leave the Capital and spend some time with The Pope at his summer residence.
Pick up at the hotel (if in city center)
It is a 4 hours long tour with guide.
Tour is available every Sunday during the Summer (when Pope is available) at 07:30
Entrance is forbidden in shorts, miniskirts or uncovered shoulders.
Tour must be reserved with 1 working day advance
Languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Russian
Attention: there is no return to the hotels; the bus will make the following stops: Via Veneto - Piazza Barberini - Piazza Venezia - Piazza della Repubblica - Stazione Termini and GLT terminal.
Cancellation policy: No penalty for cancellations up to one business day prior to departure. No refund for further cancellations and no show.
Leaving Rome we pass by the enormous ruins of the Baths of Caracalla before taking the Ancient Appian Way and passing the Chapel of "Domine Quo Vadis?". The tour will then proceed to the south of Rome, through characteristic hills many of which are of volcanic origin, known as 'Colli Albani\'.
The Pope\'s summer residence is very near the volcanic lake of Albano and the Papal Blessing will take place in the square facing the Papal palace of Castelgandolfo.
At the end of the blessing return to Rome to the vicinity of your hotel.
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Haile speaks about the Ethiopian crisis in athletics, from EME News (sources: L'Equipe)
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PARIS (FRA): Legendary Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie (42) was visiting Paris during the weekend as prominent starter of the Half Marathon. About the recent cases in his country he said for L´Équipe: "I was surprised by the number, I did not expect it will be that many. And I was surprised that Ethiopian athletes are involved in doping scandals. I was sorry. I do not understand why. Now the situation is very serious. Believe it or not, now, in my country, everybody speaks only about that." And he added: "I agree that we should clean our sport, it is very important, no doubt about it. No question of criticizing the IAAF or WADA, they must work well. But what I do not like is that we suspend a country as a whole. It's the easy way. Remember that in Russia there are athletes, who work hard, who suffer, who sweat every day without doping. Take the example of terrorism: the terrorists can not represent the millions of people of their country. We can not ban everyone together. For cheaters, I think we can not be content with a suspension of two or four years, there needs to be something else, a very serious punishment."
Larry Eder
Bio: Larry Eder has had a 44 year involvement in the sport of athletics. Larry has experienced the sport as an athlete, coach, magazine publisher and now, journalist and blogger. His first article, on Don Bowden, America's first sub 4 minute miler, was published in RW in 1983. Larry has published several magazines on athletics, from American Track & Field to the U.S. version of Spikes magazine. He currently manages the content and marketing development of the RunningNetwork, The Shoe Addicts and RunBlogRun. Of RunBlogRun, his daily pilgrimage with the sport, Larry says: "I have to admit, I love traveling to far away meets, writing about the sport I love, and the athletes I respect, for my readers at runblogrun.com, the most of anything I have ever done, except, maybe running itself."
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Q: How to use a spring boost web service project from another one I'm kind of new to java / Spring boot,
I'm building a microservice solution and I have two projects, lets's call both apps mainApp and eventApp
both mainApp and eventApp are spring boot web REST API's.
the eventApp has a simple CRUD (@RestController, @Service, @Repository, etc) that manage all the event related stuff.
from the MainApp I need to be able to create, update, fetch the events from the EventApp
something like:
Event newEvent = EventApp.EventService.createEvent(...somePayload)

but I need to keep both EventApp and MainApp as webapps (users should be able to interact with the EventApp CRUD itself)
how can I achieve this?

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I've been away from my craft room far too long!
The Cutting Edge Challenge #3.
I ended up going with a monochromatic color design.
I guess if you can't decide what colors to use, pick one and go with it!
to color the card front under the cut out spaces.
called waxy flax by scrap works...can't even tell you how OLD this stuff is!
It made great balloon strings.
Then I die cut letters and splashed on some sequins and called it done.
The shading on your card looks terrific! Thanks for playing along with us at The Cutting Edge Challenge!
Oh my gosh, Doni - this is super cute! I so love using the negative of die cuts, and you've colored them beautifully!! Thanks so much for playing with us at the Cutting Edge Challenge - we're so glad you did!


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It's Time to Reform the Orphan Drug Act
Nicholas Bagley
That's the title of a new piece at the New England Journal of Medicine's Catalyst, and it's from Amitabh Chandra, Craig Garthwaite, Ariel Dora Stern, and me.
While the Orphan Drug Act has stayed the same, drug markets have changed dramatically over the past 3 ½ decades. Most significantly, the market price for orphan drugs is now remarkably high: in 2017, the average price for the top 100 orphan drugs was $147,308 a year per patient. (This is only an estimate.) Manufacturers have been accused of slicing prevalent diseases into smaller subcategories, sometimes characterized by genomic biomarkers, allowing firms to secure ODA incentives for a drug that is likely to be used in a large patient population. And the growing use of auxiliary or "surrogate" endpoints in clinical trials for orphan drugs has reduced the time and expense required for clinical research, because they set lower thresholds for indicating treatment success—e.g., slowing a tumor's growth vs. longer survival.
As a result of these trends, the Orphan Drug Act rewards some drug manufacturers for bringing drugs to market that in all likelihood would have been produced without additional incentives. The incentive structure is an especially poor fit for orphan drugs that target such rare conditions, or are so challenging to manufacture, that the market will not support similar products from multiple firms. Because these "natural monopoly" drugs will never face meaningful competition, they may be very lucrative even without the ODA benefits.
With some regularity, manufacturers will also secure FDA approval for new orphan indications for a drug that's already in widespread use. That practice has been tarred as abusive: if we already know the drug works for that particular indication, we don't learn much from studies that drugmakers conduct to demonstrate the drug's efficacy for that indication. We're rewarding wasted effort.
That's often true. But it's not always true. Take adalimumab (Humira), for example. It's a blockbuster drug with multiple orphan indications. For most indications, we found that orphan drug approval didn't yield any change in prescribing patterns. That suggests clinicians didn't learn anything new from the orphan studies. But after approval for one indication—a skin disorder called hidradenitis suppurativa—usage increased. In that case, if not the others, the Orphan Drug Act's incentives appear to have spurred some useful clinical research.
There's a lot in the paper, which I suspect will be somewhat controversial. But I think we make sound suggestions about how to reform an Act that's getting a bit long in the tooth.
@nicholas_bagley
Nicholas Bagley is a professor at University of Michigan Law School, where he teaches and writes in the areas of administrative law, regulatory theory, and health law. Prior to joining the Law School faculty in 2010, he was an attorney with the appellate staff in the Civil Division at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he argued a dozen cases before the U.S. Courts of Appeals and acted as lead counsel in many more.


Today, the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (DCRA) unveiled 'Safe & Simple,' a new initiative aimed at improving customer services for DC residents and businesses. As part of the initiative, DCRA announced three new services that the agency will begin offering immediately: online scheduling for appointments at the agency's Permit and Licensing Centers, a new how-to guide for obtaining a deck permit, and online scheduling for permit-based inspections.
The online appointments for the Permit and Licensing Centers allows DCRA customers to select an appointment time online before visiting DCRA, which will reduce wait times once at the agency. Customers can make online appointments for assistance with permitting, licensing, and records requests, including with the Office of the Surveyor. The new scheduling tool also allows customers to make appointments with other District agency offices located within the Permit Center, including the Office of Planning, the District Department of Transportation, and DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services. Customers can schedule an appointment here.
In addition, DCRA's new deck guide provides step-by-step instructions to help homeowners and contractors prepare a compliant application, with special attention on commonly challenging areas such as zoning requirements and relevant construction codes. Homeowners and contractors who follow the guide will, in most instances, be able to obtain a deck permit in just one business day. The new how-to deck guide is available here. DCRA plans to release additional how-to guides for basements and other common renovations later in 2017.
The three new services announced today add to a growing list of improvements—including the DC Business Center Portal— offered by DCRA.


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Q: Looking for the best equivalents of prefetch instructions for ia32, ia64, amd64, and powerpc I'm looking at some slightly confused code that's attempted a platform abstraction of prefetch instructions, using various compiler builtins.  It appears to be based on powerpc semantics initially, with Read and Write prefetch variations using dcbt and dcbtst respectively (both of these passing TH=0 in the new optional stream opcode).
On ia64 platforms we've got for read:
__lfetch(__lfhint_nt1, pTouch)

wherease for write:
__lfetch_excl(__lfhint_nt1, pTouch)

This (read vs. write prefetching) appears to match the powerpc semantics fairly well (with the exception that ia64 allows for a temporal hint).
Somewhat curiously the ia32/amd64 code in question is using
prefetchnta

Not
prefetchnt1

as it would if that code were to be consistent with the ia64 implementations (#ifdef variations of that in our code for our (still live) hpipf port and our now dead windows and linux ia64 ports).
Since we are building with the intel compiler I should be able to many of our ia32/amd64 platforms consistent by switching to the xmmintrin.h builtins:
_mm_prefetch( (char *)pTouch, _MM_HINT_NTA )
_mm_prefetch( (char *)pTouch, _MM_HINT_T1 )

... provided I can figure out what temporal hint should be used.
Questions:

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*Are there read vs. write ia32/amd64 prefetch instructions?  I don't see any in the instruction set reference.

*Would one of the nt1, nt2, nta temporal variations be preferred for read vs. write prefetching?

*Any idea if there would have been a good reason to use the NTA temporal hint on ia32/amd64, yet T1 on ia64?

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*Are there read vs. write ia32/amd64 prefetch instructions? I don't see any in the instruction set reference.

Some systems support the prefetchw instructions for writes

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*Would one of the nt1, nt2, nta temporal variations be preferred for read vs. write prefetching?

If the line is exclusively used by the calling thread, it shouldn't matter how you bring the line, both reads and writes would be able to use it. The benefit for prefetchw mentioned above is that it will bring the line and give you ownership on it, which may take a while if the line was also used by another core. The hint level on the other hand is orthogonal with the MESI states, and only affects how long would the prefetched line survive. This matters if you prefetch long ahead of the actual access and don't want to prefetch to get lost in that duration, or alternatively - prefetch right before the access, and don't want the prefetches to thrash your cache too much.

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*Any idea if there would have been a good reason to use the NTA temporal hint on ia32/amd64, yet T1 on ia64?

Just speculating - perhaps the larger caches and aggressive memory BW are more vulnerable to bad prefetching and you'd want to reduce the impact through the non-temporal hint. Consider that your prefetcher is suddenly set loose to fetch anything it can, you'd end up swamped in junk prefetches that would through away lots of useful cachelines. The NTA hint makes them overrun each other, leaving the rest undamaged.
Of course this may also be just a bug, I can't tell for sure, only whoever developed the compiler, but it might make sense for the reason above.

A: The best resource I could find on x86 prefetching hint types was the good ol' article What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory.
For the most part on x86 there aren't different instructions for read and write prefetches.  The exceptions seem to be those that are non-temporal aligned, where a write can bypass the cache but as far as I can tell, a read will always get cached.
It's going to be hard to backtrack through why the earlier code owners used one hint and not the other on a certain architecture.  They could be making assumptions about how much cache is available on processors in that family, typical working set sizes for binaries there, long term control flow patterns, etc... and there's no telling how much any of those assumptions were backed up with good reasoning or data.  From the limited background here I think you'd be justified in taking the approach that makes the most sense for the platform you're developing on now, regardless what was done on other platforms.  This is especially true when you consider articles like this one, which is not the only context where I've heard that it's really, really hard to get any performance gain at all with software prefetches.
Are there any more details known up front, like typical cache miss ratios when using this code, or how much prefetches are expected to help?


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US seizes mega yacht owned by oligarch who's close to Putin, Viktor Vekselberg
Washington – American and Spanish law enforcement agents took control of the mega yacht Tango anchored in the luxurious Spanish island of Palma de Mallorca on Monday after the US Justice Department obtained a warrant for the $ 90-million vessel's seizure.
The warrant and subsequent raid targeted Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg, who was sanctioned by the US government in 2018 and again last month following Russia's deadly invasion of Ukraine. The financial penalties blocked the billionaire from participating in the US economy and prevented him from utilizing American banks to conduct business transactions.
According to the Justice Department's warrantdating as far back as 2011, Vekselberg and other unnamed conspirators attempted to avoid detection in the US by paying for the yacht through shell companies and other money laundering techniques.
"Vekselberg and those acting on his behalf and for his benefit caused US dollar transactions for the Tango to be sent through US financial institutions, after a time which Vekselberg was designated by the Treasury Department," the warrant unsealed Monday alleges.
Civil Guards stand by the yacht called Tango in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Monday April 4, 2022. US federal agents and Spain's Civil Guard are searching the yacht owned by a Russian oligarch.
Francisco Ubilla / AP
The Tango, designed and built exclusively for the oligarch, who has an estimated net worth of $ 6 billion, had been sent to Spain for repair. Investigators say the Spanish government then alerted the Justice Department to its whereabouts on March 13.
Prosecutors in Spain obtained a "freezing" order on the vessel, paving the way for the FBI and other American law enforcement agents to seize the ship.
Monday's operation was part of the Justice Department's new Task Force KleptoCapture, an interagency law enforcement group aimed at holding sanctioned Russian elites accountable, as Russia continues its aggressive invasion of Ukraine.
"Today marks our task force's first seizure of an asset belonging to a sanctioned individual with close ties to the Russian regime. It will not be the last," Attorney General Merrick Garland said Monday. "Together, with our international partners, we will do everything possible to hold accountable any individual whose criminal acts enable the Russian government to continue its unjust war."
FILE – In this file photo taken on Tuesday, May 31, 2016, Russian businessman Viktor Vekselberg attends the Russian International Affairs Council in Moscow, Russia.
Pavel Golovkin / AP
The Associated Press noted 64-year-old Vekselberg, who was born in Ukraine, has long had ties to the US, including a green card he once held and homes in New York and Connecticut. He's the main owner of the Renova Group, a global conglomerate he founded 30 years ago which is based in Moscow with major assets in oil and mining. He owns a stake in Rusal, Russia's biggest aluminum producer, among other investments.
Vekselberg and his cousin, Andrew Intrater, were investigated by special counsel Robert Mueller after the attorney for adult film star Stormy Daniels released a memo that claimed $ 500,000 in hush money was routed through Columbus Nova, an investment company run by Intrater and reportedly affiliated with Renovato a shell company set up by former President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, according to the Associated Press. Columbus Nova denied that Vekselberg, who was Intrater's biggest investor, played any role in its payments to Cohen. Vekselberg and Intrater met with Cohen at Trump Tower, one of several meetings between members of Trump's inner circle and high-level Russians during the 2016 campaign and transition.
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text: La terza stagione del cartone animato I Saurini e i viaggi del meteorite nero è stata trasmessa su Rai 2 e Rai Yoyo dal 15 settembre 2012 al 24 marzo 2013.


This seminar's focus is on the position and role of Food Corporations. Civil society organisations (CSOs) spend much time and energy trying to influence and sometimes confront huge corporations which dominate the UK, EU and global food systems. Support from academics to CSOs in this work is patchy. On some issues – obesity, food products, safety – there is a tradition of academic-NGO liaison, but on wages or conditions, there is less. This seminar is a chance to consider what is going on in the corporate food world and the nature of food corporate power.
In this presentation we set out and raise a number of key questions about the place and role of food corporations in global and UK food supply. In the developed world most of us rely on food business in one form or another to provide our food. But how this is done and carried out is the crux of food industry problems identified and analysed by civil society organisations and often shown to be hugely problematic. Food business itself is also confronting critical challenges to its usual business models – from sustainability and environmental challenges to the widespread recognition and continuing problem of the health qualities of many products. Then there is the challenging business environment with competition and business tendencies shaping or re-shaping global markets and logistics chains. But business itself is fragmented: global giants sit side-by-side with 100,000s of small enterprises all vying for the consumer food dollar. It therefore becomes a question of power: the ability to act, to set the rules of the game. We consider such dynamics in context for civil society and academia.
The previous session looks at the big food producers. But what do we mean by Big Food and should we refer to the multinational corporations as 'Big Snack' instead? "We all need food", they say, but can we distinguish between food we need and food we don't need, and what tools do we need to do this? If we categorise food producers into better and worse, which ones are being invited to help with policy formation at global level? Food companies like to say that they "add value" – but what is added value? Convenience? Nutrition?
Food companies say they only produce what people want and "there is no money providing things people don't want". Is this the case? Or do they actually generate the demand that they gain from? What language do they use to describe their own marketing activities? Why is it so important that their products are branded with easily recognised logos?
And do we need these companies to feed the world? How exactly are they feeding the world right now and where are they opening new markets? Similarly, how are they feeding the next generation, and are they really worried about obesity – or is obesity good for business?
The paper will attempt to empirically and conceptually trace the changing nature of corporate food governance and financialisation in the UK and Europe, especially since the food, financial and fiscal crisis emerged from 2007-8. The emphasis will be on the exogenous and endogenous vulnerabilities that are currently being exposed. It will also question the degree to which new landscape pressures built around the new ecological and political vulnerabilities associated with centralised and privatised systems of supply chain control and the onset of 'stranded assets' will provide new spaces of possibility for more sustainable and distributed systems of food governance to take hold.
The IUF was the first international trade union organization to advocate the need for transnational corporations to recognize and negotiate with international trade unions at global corporate level, and was the first to actually enter into such agreements. Over the past two decades, these relationships have gained ground with a growing number of the leading TNCs in the food sector (though not of course all), and the bargaining agenda has broadened to include relationships in the supply chain, though this work is just beginning. The short presentation will discuss the experience of these negotiations (what has been achieved, what needs to be done, what are the possibilities and the limitations) and their relationship to efforts to transform the global food system.
Social sustainability can refer both to social attributes that are to be sustained (which ones? who decides?) and to the social processes through which sustainable development is defined, contested, pursued and resisted. This presentation draws on research into how social sustainability is being interpreted and acted on in the UK's 'conventional' food supply – often seen as the epitome of unsustainability. It shows that there are informed and energetic activities underway, but that the business mentality may 'at the end of the day' (which is what sustainability is concerned with) thwart these efforts.
In this talk I want to critically interrogate the concept of corporate social responsibility. CSR has become a major industry in recent times as large corporations take on responsibilities once considered the purview of governments. I argue that despite their emancipatory rhetoric, discourses of corporate social responsibility are defined by narrow business interests and serve to curtail interests of external stakeholders. CSR has become an ideological movement designed to consolidate the power of multinational corporations. I discuss the corporate capture of sustainability and social responsibility and show how CSR is sometimes used as a weapon to neutralize anti-corporate resistance movements. I conclude by outlining alternate visions of CSR that can make corporations more accountable.
Dave's presentation draws on the experience of working with shop stewards from a number of transnational food corporations with operations in the UK, and summarises the impact of financialisation on their working conditions, employment relationships and relations with management. He then gives a brief historical overview of union strategies to build international bargaining power for unions in food TNCs and the impact of new organising and campaigning methods, drawing on recent experience in the meat processing industry. Dave's presentation concludes with some reflections on the relationships between NGOs and trade unions in the food industry.
Patti's talk will focus on IBFAN's experience in bringing in World Health Assembly Resolutions and helping governments end irresponsible marketing that continues to threaten child health and survival. She will show the importance of on-the-ground monitoring – looking at what companies do rather than what they say. She will also show how the Public Private Partnership /multi-stakeholderisation of policy setting at local, national, regional and global level, has thrown NGOs and policy makers off track, allowing corporations to pretend that voluntary agreements are win win solutions that are more effective than regulation.
In his talk, Nick explains how the mining of fresh, relevant data complete with case studies and context gives you a potent mix that can capture the news agenda. This investigative approach driven by innocent questions gets results. In the past, Nick has established the size and scale of the British financial lobby, the growth of the City's funding of the Conservative party and the growth of Government spending on housing people in temporary accommodation at a time of benefit cuts. This "data plus" approach can be applied to the food sector.
The Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) was formally established on 25 June 2013 by an Act of Parliament. It was set up to ensure supermarkets treat their suppliers lawfully and fairly.
The appointment followed a 2008 Competition Commission Market Investigation into the groceries sector. The Competition Commission found that, while the sector was broadly competitive, some large retailers were transferring excessive risk and unexpected costs to their direct suppliers. This could discourage suppliers from investing in quality and innovation; small businesses could fail and, ultimately, there could be potential disadvantage to consumers.
Following the Commission's recommendation, the government introduced the Groceries Supply Code of Practice (the Code) in 2010. This was designed to regulate the relationship between the 10 groceries retailers with UK annual turnover of more than £1 billion (the large retailers) and their direct suppliers.
The GCA was established on a statutory basis when retailers declined to self-regulate.
Christine Tacon – the first Adjudicator – is responsible for monitoring and encouraging compliance with and enforcing the Code. The GCA is funded by a levy on the large retailers. Suppliers, trade associations and other representative bodies are encouraged to provide the GCA with information and evidence about how the large retailers are treating their direct suppliers. All information received is dealt with on a confidential basis and the GCA has a legal duty to preserve anonymity.
1. What do you think is the most important issue regarding food and corporations?
2. What can academics do to address/solve this issue?
3. What can civil society do to address / solve this issue?


Hull to Zeebrugge service departs every day at 6.30p.m. and arriving at Zeebrugge port at 8.45 am.
On board you can enjoy a great range of bars, restaurants, entertainment and even a casino before retiring to your cabin for a good night's sleep.
Zeebrugge is the most important port in Flanders. From here you will be in easy reach of France, Holland and Germany either by the superb continental motorway network or via train using the TGV Thalys service.
Connect with Europe's train network by catching a bus from Zeebrugge's Leopold II Dam terminal to Bruges Central Railway Station which costs about euro 3.50 per person.


A high-top profile gives the Nike Vandal High Women's Shoe outstanding hoops style. An adjustable 2-tone strap captures the b-ball look of the original, while midsole cushioning provides comfort.
High-cut collar with adjustable strap captures the look of the original Nike Vandal.


House Majority PAC's new Executive Director will be Capitol Hill and campaign veteran Abby Curran Horrell. Horrell has almost two decades of experience in Democratic politics, most recently serving as chief of staff to Congresswoman Annie Kuster of New Hampshire for the last six years.
House Majority PAC's leadership team will also include Courtney Ryan as Deputy Executive Director for Finance and Elis Ribeiro as Chief of Staff. The leadership team will build on House Majority PAC's successful $95 million organization that made groundbreaking investment to win the House in 2018. Horrell, Ryan and Ribeiro join veteran strategist and campaign operative, Robby Mook, who was previously named as the new President of the organization.
Prior to working for Kuster, Horrell worked at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), where she served as the Northeast Political Director in the 2012 cycle and on the independent expenditure team in the 2010 cycle. She managed former Congressman Baron Hill's successful comeback bid in 2006, and has held additional senior roles in campaigns at the presidential, gubernatorial, US Senate, and US House level. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia and lives in Alexandria with her husband and two young children.
Courtney Ryan was House Majority PAC's Finance Director during the record-breaking 2018 cycle and helped double the organization's fundraising between 2016 and 2018. She was also on HMP's finance team in the 2016 election cycle. Prior to joining HMP, she was a candidate fundraising director at the DCCC, where she advised dozens of congressional campaigns across the country. Courtney was also a fundraising consultant to several federal and state campaigns and organizations, and served on the development team at America Votes. She is a graduate of Villanova University.
Elis Ribeiro has over ten years of experience working in Democratic politics. She has served as the Chief Operating Officer at House Majority PAC since 2015. Prior to joining HMP, she served as the Operations Director of the DCCC's Independent Expenditure. In the 2012 cycle, she served as a Regional Operations Director at Obama for America, President Obama's national re-election campaign. She has worked on US Senate and gubernatorial campaigns in Ohio. She received a B.A. with honors in Political Science and History from Case Western Reserve University.


The homes value declined from $300,000 in 2008 to $282,713 in 2011.
The home was worth $-17,287 less in 2011 than it was back in 2008.
The homes value declined from $300,000 in 2008 to $220,771 in 2011.
Home has depreciated -26.41% in 3.75 years at an average rate of -7.04% per year.
This equates to a Compounded Annual Growth Rate(CAGR) of -7.852%.
The home was worth $-79,229 less in 2011 than it was back in 2008.


A month ago, Sisters Of Suffocation even on stage with (the brothers or) Suffocation and now the new full-length a fact: Anthology Of Curiosities. With ten new songs, including the request number Boundaries. Once again worked the four tree-hugging death metal ladies together with producer Martin Furia.
There are some differences with the Brutal Queen. The new material sounds a bit heavier than the songs on the ep. Also, the songs recorded live and that raw live-feeling very good about on the plate. The songs sound honest and let technical progress. Innovative is the clean vocals that occasionally pops up and contributes to the variation.
Also musical, there is a lot of variation. For example, opener Shapeshifter thrashes riffs and is there a lot of melody in the harmonious riffs of The Hunger. This Is Not My Home shows the technical and brutal side of Sisters Of Suffocation and I Swear is compelling and narrative. This Is My Home is associated with I Swear. The common theme is body horrors, and this is because of the different vocals and atmospheric and creepy passages well reflected.
It remains noteworthy how low the grunts by Prince. It's hard to find women to impersonate her. They exchange grunts with fierce, almost possessed screams (in Limb From Limb they switch very quickly between the two) and as reported earlier there is also room for clean Sung passages, which contribute to the narrative character of some songs.
Not all the tracks are equally memorable, but what makes strong, the plate is the alternation of brute pieces and stages with more depth and feeling, the alternation of brutal death, thrash melodeath, and what progressive elements prima riff work. The Hunger, I Swear, Our Bodies Will Rot, Psychosurgery, and Boundaries will at many favorites, but the other numbers do not amount to much. Sisters Of Suffocation delivers Anthology Of Curiosities with a plate on which you the fun and enthusiasm of the ladies good learn. Well done girls!
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