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Regarding the service during Covid-19
We are now working to our normal School Nursing service offer.
Chathealth text messaging service for those aged 11-19
School Nursing Instagram - for advice and support.
If you have concerns about your child's emotional health and well-being – we can help. Call our duty line number 0300 123 7572 for more information.
Watch our new animation! Please click on this YouTube link to view our exciting animated film that will guide you through our School Nursing Service and what we offer. Our service is aimed at children and young people aged from 5-19 years, who attend mainstream schools in Hertfordshire. The film will also inform you how to contact us and refer into our service.
Our School Nursing Service is part of the Hertfordshire Family Centre Service. The Service brings children's centres, health visiting and school nursing together to provide a more joined up service for children, young people and their families from pregnancy through to when a child reaches 19. There is a range of different support groups, activities and services on offer for children and their families to help them be healthy, grow and develop. Families can access available services from any Hertfordshire Family Centre, allowing them to fit sessions and services around busy family lives. For more information, visit the Family Centre Service website.
The School Nursing Service works together with children and young people their parents/carers and school staff, to provide a comprehensive efficient and accessible service which:
Helps children keep healthy during their school days and for the rest of their lives
Prevents ill health in children and the local community
Supports children with medical needs and those needing medication
Ensures that educational potential is not hampered by unmet health needs
Monitors and supports families in relation to Hertfordshire Safeguarding Policies
When your child commences school at the age of five, care is transferred from the Health Visiting Service to the School Nursing Service. The service has four distinct areas that it offers to children attending a Hertfordshire mainstream school. Please be aware that this service is not commissioned for children attending private schools.
School aged immunisations are offered to all Hertfordshire children including those who are home educated.
Emotional wellbeing and mental health workshops
The Children's Wellbeing Practitioners are pleased to offer the following workshops to parents and/or young people focused on emotional wellbeing and mental health. Click on the relevant leaflet to see more details about the workshop.
The workshops are:
Adolescent sleep difficulties
Supporting Your Child with Sleep Difficulties
Supporting Adolescent Emotional Wellbeing
Supporting Your Child's Emotional Wellbeing
All workshops will be delivered virtually via Microsoft Teams. Please see the Eventbrite link on the leaflets for further details.
Online referrals:
Parents, teachers, GPs and other healthcare staff can now refer a child to the school nursing service via an online form. Make a referral now via the Family Centre Service.
Health for Teens and Health for Kids websites:
Click on the logo to visit a dedicated website for children aged 4 to 11.
Click on the logo to visit a dedicated website for young people aged 11 to 19.
These local websites are managed by the School Nursing Service, to provide children and young people with health and wellbeing advice and guidance.
Designed with various interactive tools and educational materials, the websites also provide relevant signposting to other services in Hertfordshire and contact details for the School Nursing Teams in each school.
Text messaging service
Chat Health is the school nurse text messaging service for all secondary school aged pupils. It is a confidential service and available Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm. Young people can message for advice on all kinds of health issues such as sexual health, emotional health and wellbeing, bullying, healthy eating and any general health concerns.
The text number is: 07480 635050
Read more about the service on the Health for Teens website.
The Hertfordshire School Nurse Service comprises of
School Nurses: are Specialist Community Public Health Nurses who are highly qualified nurses with an additional degree in public health, which specifically relates to the health needs of the school aged population.
Community Nurses: are Registered Nurses with a variety of experiences from different complimentary areas to school nursing.
School Nurse Assistants: have experience and specific training to work with children and young people.
Children's Wellbeing Practitioners (CWPs): are our newest additions to the school nursing service. They are trained to deliver manualised guided self-help for anxiety, behavioural difficulties and low mood. Children's Wellbeing Practitioners work with the parents of children in primary school and directly with young people in secondary school.
The School Nursing Teams works closely with education, social care and other health professionals, to help children and young people to remain healthy and to ensure that any health needs are met.
Four core areas
The service has four distinct areas that it offers to children attending a Hertfordshire mainstream school. Please be aware that this service is not commissioned for children attending private schools.
1. Community (Your neighbourhood)
In the community there are a range of health services for children young people and their families. School nurses lead in ensuring that you know about these services and that they are made accessible to everybody. We work with local communities to ensure they are equipped to deliver local services.
2. Universal Service (Offered to every family)
School nurses lead and deliver the healthy child programme from 5 to 19 years to ensure a healthy progression for each and every child and young person. This includes promoting positive physical and mental health, supporting parents, and assessing the health and development of children and young people.
3. Universal Plus (Further support for families)
School nurses are able to support parents, children, young people and families when they need extra help. Some examples include support with specific parenting issues and depression, asthma, emotional difficulties and bullying.
4. Universal Partnership Plus (Families who need additional support)
School nurses are able to provide ongoing support, with extra support from a range of local services working together with the family to deal with more complex issues over a period of time. Some examples include special educational needs, drug and alcohol misuse, child and adolescent mental health services, looked after children and young carers. Health visitors and school nurses work together to protect and ensure children are safe Sometimes it may be in the child's best interests for some aspects of their health to be assessed or to be monitored regularly. If so parents are kept informed at all times of our involvement and of any action considered necessary.
School Nursing Service information poster
How the Service is provided
The School Nursing Teams works closely with education, social care and other health professionals to help children and young people to remain healthy and to ensure that any health needs are met.
Who is eligible for this Service
The School Nursing service work with all school aged children and young people that attend Hertfordshire mainstream schools.
Aged 4 - 5yrs: School Entry (Reception)
In reception all children will be seen for screening of height, weight, vision and hearing as part of a targeted school health surveillance programme. Any issues identified will, with your permission, be monitored or referred to a specialist service. An online health questionnaire, (The Lancaster Model) is also offered to parents/carers of reception children to complete, during the reception year. From this, health advice, support and school nurse intervention can be provided if health needs are identified.
Height and weight results are, with parental consent, included in the National Childhood Measurement Programme.
As part of the National Childhood Measurement Programme, children's height and weight is measured and recorded. Year 6 children are also invited to complete the online Lancaster Model questionnaire in the school setting. Parental consent is sought for this. Support and health advice can then be provided for any issues or unmet health needs that arise from the questionnaire results for individual children and health trends and issues can be identified that may emerge for schools. School Nurses will work in partnership with schools to address any issues that may arise for their school.
Aged 11yrs: Secondary School Entry (year 7)
From this age students are encouraged to take more responsibility for decisions regarding their own health since most of them have sufficient knowledge and understanding to do so (Children's Act 1989). Therefore during secondary education, the school health programme will be arranged directly with the schools wherever there is a need.
What will happen at your appointment
The school nurse will be happy to meet with the child/young person at home, school or possible venue of choice and advise you on many health matters including the following:
Dental health growth and development
Healthy weight and physical activity
Emotional health and wellbeing
Sexual health advice and guidance
Drug and alcohol misuse
Adolescence/Puberty
Bed Wetting/Soiling
Bullying/Emotional Support
Health Eating/Exercise
Emotional, Mental Health & Wellbeing and Behavioural Support
The nurse can also make appropriate referrals to other services if required.
Please note: Children's Wellbeing Practitioners will meet with the parent(s) or carer(s) of children in primary school.
Health for Kids and Health for Teens websites
Two local websites managed by the School Nursing Service, aims to provide children and young people with health and wellbeing advice and guidance.
Designed with creative materials and interactive tools, the websites also provide relevant signposting to other services in the county and contact details for the school nursing teams in each school.
Health for Kids has been created for those aged four to 11.
Health for Teens has been created for those aged 11 to 19.
Other useful websites and services
Here are lots of useful websites and services that you might find helpful to you and your child.
SEND information for Children and Young People aged 5-25 - Resources for Parents/Carers
SEND information for Children and Young People aged 5-25 - Resources for Education Staff
Contacting your School Nurse
Wherever you live in Hertfordshire, you can contact your school nurse via the Hertfordshire Family Centre Service on 0300 123 7572.
Have you heard of the Local Offer?
If you are a young person with, or have a child with special educational needs and disabilities, (SEND) the Local Offer is Hertfordshire's central source of information for SEND services and support. Visit www.hertsdirect.org/localoffer for an easily accessible one stop shop.
Making a referral
How to make a referral:
Whether you are a parent, teacher, GP or other health professionals or agencies, you can refer a child to the School Nursing Service using an online form. Make a referral online via the Family Centre Service.
Young people can also self-refer into the service.
Meeting the criteria for a referral:
The referral criteria can be read here.
GP's should contact the School Nursing Service at the local base to discuss any concerns.
The service threshold for referral to more specialised services or withdrawal of the service will be on one (or more) of the following:
Where there is significant evidence of risk to the safety of the professional (assessment related to the risk of this to any children must be made in line with Safeguarding Children policy) and appropriate action taken
Where the client refuses intervention (assessment related to the risk of this to any children must be made in line with Safeguarding Children policy) and appropriate action taken
When the family move out of the Hertfordshire area, unless the children remain in a Hertfordshire School
In the case of significant mental health needs of a child or parent the School Nurse would be expected to facilitate referral to a specialised service and to continue contact with the family working in collaboration with the other specialised professional i.e. child and adolescent mental health.
If you would like to share your story, please contact the Patient Experience team on 01707 388036 or email pals.hchs@nhs.net.
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PICMET's "Medal of Excellence" recognizes extraordinary achievements of individuals in any discipline for their outstanding contributions to science, engineering and technology management. The award was instituted in 2004.
Dr. Atalay's education in theoretical physics includes training and research at a number of universities – Georgetown, UC-Berkeley, Princeton and Oxford. He has spent the preponderance of his career teaching at the University of Virginia and Mary Washington.
Dr. Atalay's best-selling book, Math and the Mona Lisa (Smithsonian Books, 2004), has appeared in 14 languages. His last book, Leonardo's Universe (National Geographic Books, 2009), is in two languages, English and Japanese. His upcoming book is entitled Creativity and Genius: Inside the Minds of Leonardo, Shakespeare, Newton, Beethoven, and Einstein.
He travels around the world lecturing at academic institutions and on ships of the Crystal Cruise Line. For more details, see his website created at the behest of National Geographic, www.bulentatalay.com.
Dr. Sadik Esener is the Wendt Family Endowed Chair at the Biomedical Engineering Department at the School of Medicine of The Oregon Health and Sciences University in Portland, Oregon. He is the Founding Director of the Cancer Early Detection Advanced Research Center at the Knight Cancer Institute. He is also a Professor in abstentia at the Electrical and Computer Sciences and NanoEngineering departments at the University of California, San Diego.
Dr. Esener is an internationally known expert in cancer nanotechnologies, photonics and opto-electronics, and he has been closely involved with many startup companies based on technology developed in his laboratories; he holds more than 20 issued patents in these areas. In the recent past he has served as the director of the NanoTumor Center, a Cancer Nanotechnology Center of Excellence funded by NCI, the DARPA-funded multi-university Center for Chips with Heterogeneously Integrated Photonics (CHIPS), the 3D-Opto-Electronic Stacked Processors industry/university consortium; and the Fast Readout Optical Storage (FROST) Industry consortium. He has authored more than 180 journal publications and 250 conference abstracts.
Dr. Esener is a member of IEEE, OSA, and SPIE, and cofounded San Diego-based Nanogen, Optical Micro-Machines, Parallel Solutions, Genoptix, Devacell, Cellix, Orimedix, Ziva and Call/Recall Inc's. Dr. Esener also serves as the co-chair of Sabanci University Board of Trustees.
As CEO, Mr. Scott Roth sets the strategic vision for the company. Prior to joining Jama, Mr. Roth served as Executive Vice President & General Manager of the Email Optimization business unit for data solutions provider Return Path, where he led a global team of more than 250 employees spanning product management, engineering, sales, services, channel and marketing. Scott brings more than 15 years of SaaS business-building experience including roles with Salesforce.com, ExactTarget and Webtrends. At ExactTarget, Scott helped the organization achieve more than 50 percent annual growth, expand into Europe, Asia and Latin America and complete a successful IPO on the New York Stock Exchange prior to its $2.5B acquisition by Salesforce.com.
Dr. Karl Hampton Vesper is an emeritus from the University of Washington, where he held full professorships in: (1) Management, where he started the entrepreneurship course in 1970, (2) Mechanical Engineering, where he taught machine design, and (3) Marine Studies, where he taught ocean systems design. His most recent formal academic appointment was in 2011 as Visiting Regents Chairholder in Entrepreneurship at Texas Tech University. Characterized in 1979 by Business Week as the "generally recognized dean of entrepreneurial studies," he subsequently became first holder of the Roger Babson Professorship in Entrepreneurship at Babson College and of the Carma Professorship in Entrepreneurship at the University of Calgary, as well as second holder of the Schoen Professorship in Entrepreneurship at Baylor University and a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar at Trinity College, Dublin. Subsequently in 2001-2002, he was appointed as Visiting Professor in Bioengineering in the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego, and later a Visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship at the University of Hawaii, Hilo. His academic interest in entrepreneurship began shortly after completing an Air Force officer tour as Flight Test Engineer at Edwards AFB, California, in 1957.
He also worked industrially as Assistant to the President of a high-performance electromotive products company, and as business manager of an oceanographic consulting and instrument manufacturing company where he helped raise venture capital. He holds BS, MS, and PhD degrees in Engineering from Stanford and an MBA from Harvard. His hobbies include motorcycles, snowboarding, surfing, and learning from his grandchildren.
Dr. Jay Lee is Ohio Eminent Scholar, L.W. Scott Alter Chair Professor, and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Cincinnati, and he is the Founding Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry/ University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) on Intelligent Maintenance Systems (IMS www.imscenter. net), which is a multi-campus NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center which consists of the University of Cincinnati (lead institution), the University of Michigan, Missouri University of S&T, and University of Texas-Austin. The Center has developed partnerships with over 85 companies from 15 countries since its inception in 2001. In addition, he has mentored his students and developed a spin-off company, Predictronics, with support from the NSF Innovation ICorps Award in 2012. He also served as an invited committee member for White House Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) Advisory Group in 2013.
His current research focuses on Industrial Big Data Analytics, Cyber-Physical Systems, as well as Prognostics and Health Management (PHM). He led the IMS Team and developed the well-known Watchdog Agent® (a systematic platform for data analytics toolbox used by over 80 global companies) as well as the Dominant InnovationTM (a methodology for product and service innovation design that has been used by many Fortune 500 companies).
Currently, Dr. Lee also serves as advisor to a number of global organizations: he is a member of the Manufacturing Executive Leadership Council; member of International S&T Committee of Alstom Transport, France; Scientific Advisory Board of Flanders' MECHATRONICS Technology Centre (FMTC) in Leuven, Belgium; Scientific Advisor Board of SIMTech, Singapore; and member of the Advisory Committee of MIRDC Taiwan. In addition, he serves as editor and associate editor for a number of journals including IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics and International Journal on Prognostics & Health Management (IJPHM). In addition, he is also a De Tao Master in Innovation (http://www.detaoma.com/Jay_Lee/).
Previously, he served as Director for Product Development and Manufacturing at United Technologies Research Center (UTRC), E. Hartford, CT, as well as program director for a number of programs at NSF during 1991-1998, including the Engineering Research Centers (ERCs) Program, the Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers (I/ UCRCs) Program, and the Materials Processing and Manufacturing Program. He also served as advisor to a number of universities including Cambridge University and Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Lee is a Fellow of ASME, SME, as well as a founding fellow of the International Society of Engineering Asset Management (ISEAM). He is a frequently invited speaker and has delivered over 200 invited keynote speeches at major international conferences and has over 20 patents and two trademarks. He received a number of awards, including the most recent NSF Alex Schwarzkopf Technological Innovation Prize in Jan. 2014, MFPT (Machinery Failure Prevention Technology Society) Jack Frarey Award in 2014, and the Prognostics Innovation Award from National Instruments in 2012. He mentored his students to participate in PHM Data Challenge Competition and won the 1st prize five times since 2008. He is also an honorary advisor to Heifer International, a charity organization working to end hunger and poverty around the world by providing livestock and training to struggling communities.
Dr. Steven Eppinger is Professor of Management Science and Innovation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management. He holds the General Motors Leaders for Global Operations Chair and a joint appointment in MIT's Engineering Systems Division. Professor Eppinger teaches interdisciplinary courses at both the master's and executive levels in product design and innovation, engineering project management, and digital product management. He has coauthored a leading textbook entitled Product Design and Development (McGraw-Hill). Currently in its sixth edition, the text has been translated into several languages and is used by hundreds of universities and more than a quarter million students. Dr. Eppinger's research is applied to improving complex technical projects in a wide range of industries and is the basis of the book titled Design Structure Matrix Methods and Applications (MIT Press). Professor Eppinger is the Co-Director of MIT's System Design and Management Program. He served as Deputy Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management for five years. He received S.B., S.M., and Sc.D. degrees from MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Dr. Alan L. Porter is Professor Emeritus of Industrial & Systems Engineering, and of Public Policy, at Georgia Tech, where he is Co-director of the Technology Policy and Assessment Center. He is also Director of R&D for Search Technology, Inc., Norcross, Georgia (producers of VantagePoint and Thomson Data Analyzer software). He is author or co-author of some 230 articles and books, including Tech Mining (Wiley, 2005) and Forecasting and Management of Technology (Wiley, 2011). Current research emphasizes "forecasting innovation pathways" for newly emerging technologies. This entails text mining of science, technology & innovation information resources to generate Competitive Technical Intelligence. Dr. Porter received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Caltech (1967) and a Ph.D. in Engineering Psychology from UCLA (1972). He served on the University of Washington faculty through 1974, joining Georgia Tech in 1975.
Dr. Eliezer Geisler is a distinguished professor in the Stuart School of Business at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He holds a doctorate in organizational behavior from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University (1979). Dr. Geisler is the author and co-author of over 100 papers in the areas of the management, evaluation and metrics of R&D, innovation, science & technology, knowledge management and the management of medical technology. He is the author and co-author of 14 books, including: Managing the Aftermath of Radical Corporate Change (1997); The Metrics of Science and Technology (2000), also translated into Chinese; Creating Value with Science and Technology (2001); Installing and Managing Workable Knowledge Management Systems (2003, with Albert Rubenstein), Knowledge and Knowledge Systems: Learning from the Marvels of the Mind (2007), and Change in Organizations (2013). He was the founder and editor of the Department of Information Technology for the IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management and is the co-founder and associate editor of the International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management. He co-founded the international Health Care Technology Management Association and the series of conferences on the Hospital of the Future. Since 2001 these conferences were held in the Netherlands, U.S.A., United Kingdom, Denmark, Austria, and Italy. At the Illinois Institute of Technology, in 2003-2012, he founded and directed the IIT research Center for the Management of Medical Technology. Dr. Geisler consulted for major corporations and for many government departments and agencies. He served on over a dozen editorial boards for major journals in the fields of technology management and organizational behavior. He was chair of the College of Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship (COLIME) of the Institute of Management Sciences (INFORMS). Dr. Geisler has served on the board of directors of Mount Sinai Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois. His research was funded by, among many others, NASA, NSF, and IBM. His current research, teaching, and consulting activities focus on the organization and commercialization of technology, and on the nature, progress and diffusion of human and organizational knowledge, and the management of knowledge systems.
Prof. Dr. rer. oec. habil. Hans Georg Gemuenden is a full tenured Professor at the Berlin University of Technology (TU Berlin). He has the Chair for Technology and Innovation Management. He received his "Diplomkaufmann" (equivalent to an MBA) and his Dr. rer. oec. at the University of Saarbrucken, and his habilitation degree at the University of Kiel.
He was chairman of the TIM Division of the Association of University Professors of Management from 2000-2002. He was representative-at-large of the TIM Division of the Academy of Management from 2009 until 2011 and responsible for the best dissertation award in 2011. In January 2013 he became the editor of the Project Management Journal.
He was a member of several supervisory boards (Thyssen- Krupp Technologies AG, Hauck & Aufhauser, InnoZ). He hosted several international conferences: the IMP conference in Karlsruhe (1996), the G-Forum in Berlin (2006), and the IRNOP (2009) in Berlin.
He has published in Organization Science, Research Policy, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Creativity and Innovation Management, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Business Research, Management International Review, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, R&D Management, International Journal of Project Management, and Project Management Journal.
Alejandro Cruz is Minister of Science and Technology, Costa Rica.
Alejandro Cruz was appointed Minister of Science and Technology of Costa Rica on February 15, 2011. Previously, he was involved in various positions with the Costa Rica Institute of Technology, a public university that started in 1973. He served as a President of the University from 1995 to 2003.
During his term in the Costa Rica Institute of Technology, the University acquired a strategic position in the development of Costa Rica by introducing new technology programs and building strong ties with the attraction of foreign direct investment and the support of small and medium enterprises.
Mr. Cruz has also been associated with the National Rectors Council (CONARE) and the National Center of High Technology (CENAT), both supported by the State Universities. Another important academic challenge for Mr. Cruz, was the creation and initial operation of the Central American Council for Accreditation of Higher Education (CCA), where he served as Founder and Vice President.
In the area of planning and developing a country vision for Costa Rica, Mr. Cruz was coordinator for the initiative called "Estrategia SIglo XXI," which is a long-term strategy based on science, technology and innovation. This effort was supported by numerous professionals from academia, industry and government.
Mr. Cruz worked for the Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE) from 1983 to 1987. He has also served as both advisor and consultant for various government agencies, academic institutions and private companies.
Since his retirement in 2009, Mr. Cruz was dedicated to his family farm and business until President Laura Chinchilla designated him Minister of Science and Technology.
Mr. Cruz has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Costa Rica and a Master of Science from the State University of New York (SUNY) and Syracuse University.
He is married to Isabel Guzmán and they have four children.
Prof. Dr. Nuket Yetis is President of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBITAK) since August 2008; she was Acting President from 2004-2008. Her initiation of a thorough restructuring translated into an over 33-fold increase in financial support provided to universities as well as private and public research institutes within the Turkish Research Area in 2006 compared to 2003, while the number of TÜBITAK employees increased only 6 percent. The overall support increased more than five-fold while the granted fellowships and scholarships displayed an even sharper increase. Among other tangible results were doubled revenues for TÜBITAK's own research institutes through their products and services.
Prof. Dr. Yetis was director of the Turkish Institute for Industrial Management from 2000-2003. During her tenure there, she led management reform and restructuring projects for more than 75 organizations, the number of employees increased 40 percent, and operational revenues increased 20-fold. The Institute logged a 110 percent financial self sufficiency in 2002.
She was Dean of Marmara University's Faculty of Engineering (MUFE) from 1994-2000. She led Continuous Quality Improvement activities at MUFE, making it the first Turkish public organization to become a finalist for the European Quality Award in 2000. MUFE was the first applicant and finalist for the European Quality Award in higher education.
Prof. Dr. Yetis was Associate Dean of Marmara University's Faculty of Engineering from 1990-1994. She has been among the leading founders of the Faculty of Engineering, and she established master's and doctoral programs in Engineering Management. She was Assistant Professor in the Department of Business Administration, Marmara University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, from 1985-1989; and she was an instructor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Istanbul Technical University from 1982-1985.
Prof. Dr. Yetis received the Ph. D. in Industrial Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, and an MBA in Operations Management and B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Bosphorus University.
A successful technocrat of global standing, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw heads India's leading biotechnology enterprise, Biocon. She is highly respected in the corporate world and has recently made it to the 2010 Time 100 list of The World's Most Influential People. Her pioneering efforts in biotechnology have drawn global recognition both for Indian industry and Biocon.
After completing her Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology from Bangalore University in 1973, she went to Ballarat Institute of Advanced Education (now University of Ballarat), Australia, to study brewing and qualified as a master brewer in 1974. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw started her professional career as trainee brewer in Carlton & United Beverages in 1974. In 1978, she joined as a Trainee Manager with Biocon Biochemicals Limited in Ireland. Collaborating with the same Irish firm, she founded Biocon India in 1978.
Ms. Shaw chairs Karnataka's Vision Group on Biotechnology and also served on the Board of Science Foundation, Ireland. She presently serves on the Advisory Council of the Government's Department of Biotechnology, where she has been instrumental in bringing government, industry and academia together to chart a clear and progressive growth path for biotechnology in India. She is also part of the Prime Minister's Council on Trade and Industry in India and the US-India CEO Forum. Ms. Shaw also serves as Member, Governing Body and General Body, of the Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission, an autonomous body of the Government of India. She is also a founder member of the society for the formation of "Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine." Ms. Shaw has most recently been nominated as Member of the Board of Trade, Directorate General of Foreign Trade, Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
Ms. Shaw is the recipient of several prestigious awards including the Nikkei Asia Prize 2009, for Regional Growth; Express Pharmaceutical Leadership Summit Award 2009 for Dynamic Entrepreneur; the Economic Times "Businesswoman of the Year"; the Veuve Clicquot Initiative for Economic Development for Asia; Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Life Sciences and Healthcare; "Technology Pioneer" recognition by the World Economic Forum; and the Indian Chamber of Commerce Lifetime Achievement Award. Her most cherished awards are the national awards, PADMASHRI (1989) and PADMA BHUSHAN (2005), presented to her by the President of India, for her pioneering efforts in industrial biotechnology.
Dr. Frederick Betz recently retired from the Graduate School of Management and Technology at the University of Maryland University College. Previously, he was a program officer in engineering at the National Science Foundation. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of California at Berkeley, after which he changed fields to management science and taught in business schools. His research has been in management science and in the management of engineering and technology. His recent books include Managing Technology, Strategic Technology Management, Managing Technological Innovation, and Executive Strategy: Strategic Management and Information Technology.
Dr. Fariborz Maseeh is a worldwide expert in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS). After earning a doctorate in engineering from MIT, Maseeh founded IntelliSense in 1991. It was the first company of its kind for the custom design, development and manufacturing of next generation MEMS devices – tiny, computer-controlled chips used in products ranging from cardiac pacemakers to aircraft landing gear. Under Maseeh's leadership, IntelliSense became the world's fastest-growing MEMS corporation, twice named to both The New England Technology Fast 50 and The Forbes Fast 50. Maseeh has published numerous scientific articles on topics such as business strategy, fabrication technologies and design and software for MEMS, in addition to securing a number of patents and trademarks. He currently serves on the boards of several technology firms, engineering schools—including the University of California at Irvine (UCI) and the University of Southern California—and non-profit organizations such as the Boys & Girls Club of Boston and the Children's Hospital of Orange County Foundation for Children. Maseeh considers himself a "venture philanthropist," applying business concepts to his philanthropy. He considers his gifts as investments and looks for causes with clear objectives and broad markets. Maseeh serves as a UCI Foundation trustee and sits on engineering advisory boards at UCI's Henry Samueli School of Engineering, the University of Southern California, and Portland State University (PSU). He has endowed several chairs in engineering disciplines at MIT and PSU. He is chairman of the Children's Hospital of Orange County Foundation and serves on a number of community boards, including the Boys and Girls Club of Boston. As the recipient of the prestigious 2006 Ellis Island Medal of Honor for his outstanding contributions to America, he joins a remarkable group of awardees, including six Presidents, several Senators and Congressman and Nobel Prize Winners.
Dr. Veziroglu graduated from the City and Guilds College, the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, with degrees in Mechanical Engineering (A.C.G.I., B.Sc.), Advanced Studies in Engineering (D.I.C.) and Heat Transfer (Ph.D.). After serving in some Turkish government agencies as a Technical Consultant and Deputy Director of Steel Silos, and then heading a private company, he joined the University of Miami Engineering Faculty, and served as the Director of Graduate Studies, Chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Associate Dean for Research and Director of the Clean Energy Research Institute. Since May 2004 he is on leave from the University of Miami, and is establishing UNIDO-ICHET (United Nations Industrial Development Organization – International Center for Hydrogen Energy Technologies) in Istanbul, Turkey as its director. He has published some 350 scientific reports and papers, edited 200 volumes of proceedings, and is the Editor in Chief of the monthly scientific journal; International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. He has been an invited lecturer and/or consultant on energy research and education to many countries and to several universities and research organizations in the United States. Dr. Veziroglu has organized several conferences and symposia on Alternative Energy Sources, Environment, Hydrogen Energy, Heat and Mass Transfer, and Remote Sensing, including the first major conference on Hydrogen Energy. He is a member of some twenty scientific organizations, and is a Fellow of the British Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is also the Founding President of the International Association for Hydrogen Energy. Dr. Veziroglu has been the recipient of several international awards, including Turkish Presidential Science Award, 1975, Honorary Professorship, Xian Jiaotong University, Xian, China, 1981, I. V. Kurchatov Medal, Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow, U.S.S.R, 1982, Energy for Mankind Award, 1986, Twenty-Five Years' Service Award, American Nuclear Society, 1987, Turkish Superior Service to Mankind Award, 1991, Honorary Doctorate, Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey, 1998, Honorary Member, Argentinean Academy of Sciences, 2000, and Honorary Doctorate, Donetsk State Technical University, Donetsk, Ukraine, 2001. In 2000, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Economics for both envisioning the Hydrogen Economy, and striving towards its realization.
Bob Colwell was Intel's chief IA32 microprocessor architect from 1992-2000, and managed the IA32 Arch group in Intel's Hillsboro, Oregon facility through the P6 and Pentium 4 projects. He was named the Eckert- Mauchly award winner for 2005, the highest honor in the	field of computer architecture, for "outstanding achievements in the design and implementation of industry-changing microarchitectures, and for significant contributions to the RISC/CISC architecture debate." He was named an Intel Fellow in 1996. Previously, Colwell was a CPU architect at VLIW pioneer Multiflow Computer, a hardware design engineer at workstation vendor Perq Systems, and a member of technical staff at Bell Labs. He has published many technical papers and journal articles, is inventor or co-inventor on 40+ patents, and has participated in numerous panel sessions and invited talks. He is the Perspectives editor for IEEE Computer Magazine, and writes the At Random column. He is currently an independent consultant. Colwell holds the BSEE degree from the University of Pittsburgh, and the MSEE and PhD from Carnegie Mellon University.
Daeje Chin is the Minister of Information and Communications in Korea. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University, in 1970 and 1974, respectively. He continued his studies with another M.S. in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1979, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1983. After working as a Research Fellow at the H-P IC Lab and the IBM Watson Institute for several years, he joined Samsung Electronics as a Chief Research Fellow in 1985, and held progressively higher positions including Director of Research, Executive Director, Chief Executive Director, Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, Representative Director, and President of various divisions until 2003. He was appointed to his current position as the Minister of Information and Communications in year 2003.
Kiyoshi Niwa is a Professor in the Department of General Systems Studies at the University of Tokyo. Before joining the university, he was with the Advanced Research Laboratory (1985 to 1994) and the Systems Development Laboratory (1972 to 1985), both of Hitachi, Ltd., Japan. Since 1988 he also has been a Senior Research Fellow in the IC2 (Innovation Creativity and Capital) Institute at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. From 1989 to 1991 he was a Visiting Professor of the Engineering Management Program at Portland State University, USA. His research and teaching interests include technology and research management, knowledge management, and organizational intelligence. He has published many papers in journals such as IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management; IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics; AI Magazine; Knowledge Engineering Review; and the Journal of the Japan Society for Management Information. He is the author of the book Knowledge-Based Risk Management in Engineering (Wiley Series in Engineering and Technology Management) published by John Wiley in 1989, and is a co-editor of PICMET '91, '97, '99, and '01. He is also the co-author of the book Technology Management Strategy (in Japanese) published by Seisansei-shuppan in Tokyo in 1999, and translated into Korean in 2001. Dr. Niwa received his BS (1970) and MS (1972) in chemistry (physical chemistry) from Waseda University, Japan. While working as a research scientist at Hitachi, he received his Dr. of Engineering (1986) in systems science (knowledge management) from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. He serves as the editor of the Journal of the Japan Society for Management Information and on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Knowledge Engineering Review, and The International Journal of Decision Support Systems. He is the PICMET Director of International Activities.
Rosalie A. Zobel was born in England. She received a bachelor's degree in physics from Nottingham University, UK, in 1964, and a PhD in radiation physics from London University in 1967. She started her career in the Information Technology industry in ICL in 1967, and later held positions as a systems engineer in CERN (Centre Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire), Geneva, Switzerland, the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, UK, and the Max-Planck Institut für Plasmaphysik, Garching, Germany. At the latter she became operations manager of the first CRAY Supercomputer centre in continental Europe. In 1981 she moved to the USA and took up a position in the AT&T Headquarters, Basking Ridge, USA. She held positions as senior marketing manager for open systems software both for the USA and international markets, and was responsible from 1983-1986 for the international UNIX business. In 1986 she became senior marketing manager for information technology products in AT&T Japan. She returned to Europe in 1988 as Deputy Head of Unit of the European Community's ESPRIT Business Systems unit. In 1991 she launched the initiative in Open Microprocessor systems (OMI). From 1995 she was the Head of unit "Business systems, multimedia and microprocessor applications", and EU-coordinator of the G7 Pilot Project "Global Marketplace for SMEs". From 1999-2002 she was Director of "New Methods of Work and Electronic Commerce". From 2003 she is Director of "Components and Systems" in the Information Society and Media Directorate-General of the European Commission.


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Highest marks in the country for Forresters trainee
Jack Dean wins awards for achieving the highest marks in the country
Passing your patent and trade mark exams is no mean feat - but this year one Birmingham trainee won two prizes for scoring the highest marks in the country. Here Jack Dean talks about life as a trainee patent attorney at Forresters.
Ask most patent attorneys what one of their biggest achievements to date has been and they will generally say the same thing – passing their law exams. To find out you have passed your exams is an opportunity to celebrate.
However, there are a small number of trainee patent attorneys that do so well they win awards for achieving the highest marks in the country. This year Jack Dean was one of them and he was presented with certificates and cash prizes for getting the highest marks in his trade mark law and design & copyright exams. Jack joined Forresters' Birmingham office in February last year after completing a master's degree in chemistry at the University of Oxford. He said he was thrilled to have passed the exams, which had to be taken under lockdown conditions.
"It was a pleasant surprise to receive the awards, as I'd just been keeping my fingers crossed that I would pass," said Jack. "This year the exams had to be taken online, and it was stressful doing this at home, as they invigilated using video calls. I think we all worried about what would happen if the WiFi went down, or we couldn't get into the video calls.
"Since passing the exams and receiving the awards my family and friends have been very proud, and I've had lots of congratulations messages. In October I will be doing the four UK final exams and if I pass those I'll be a fully qualified UK patent attorney."
For design & copyright Jack received 86% and was presented with the Mike Higgins Prize, and for trade mark law he achieved 88% and was awarded the Keith Farwell Prize. "Forresters realised quite early on, in the move to working from home, that it was going to be harder to provide training," he said. "They set up a weekly training meeting for all the trainees and our supervisors from the Birmingham office. We could go through a topic that was relevant for our work, such as how to engage with clients and how to perform our daily work. As exams came closer the meetings focused on what we would need to know to get good grades, and other complicated areas of law.
"The meetings were great because we were able to see what other people were struggling with, or sometimes they would pick up on a point you hadn't thought about yourself. My high grades are a testament to the quality of training offered by Forresters."
Forresters recently announced that ten of its trainees, across four of its offices, passed their IP Law exams. Trainees usually spend their day researching clients' inventions and ideas, and finding out how they are unique and different from what is already on the market.
"My work is very deadline driven and to draft a new patent application you have to understand the technology you are working with," says Jack. "A lot of my day is working on cases, researching and drafting new applications. Everything I work on is then checked by a qualified attorney, we then discuss any areas that need extra work, or more research.
"Once work is done I've then spent time focusing on my studies. It's been harder working and learning in the same space – when you finish your work and do your studying you are still in the same room and at the same desk. I am looking forward to getting back into the office and having that change of scene, and seeing people again."
Earlier this year Forresters revealed that it was bucking the national trend by continuing with its highly regarded training programme. According to research from the Association of Employment and Learning Providers, six out of ten employers stopped all new apprenticeships when the coronavirus took hold. However the firm, which has been recognised as one of Europe's Leading Patent Law Firms for 2020 in the prestigious Financial Times listing, has decided to continue its investment in growing talent and developing a skilled and qualified workforce.
Jack said he was attracted to working at Forresters because it's a firm with a long history and a very good reputation – particularly when it comes to training. "When I left university, intellectual property seemed really interesting as it brought a new dimension to the sciences I'd learnt in my degree," he said. "I have always enjoyed reading and so this appealed as a way of using science and logical thinking, while also doing plenty of research.
"Forresters has a really good reputation for the way it works with clients, and the training it provides. Before I joined Forresters I had met some of the people that worked at the firm, and they came across very well and were really nice. They encouraged me to apply to become a trainee patent attorney and it was the best move I made. Now I'm looking forward to an interesting and exciting career as a patent attorney with Forresters."
Jack's supervising partner is Russell Sessford, who started his career as a trainee with Forresters and has now been with the firm for 16 years. "We are delighted to see all our trainees doing so well in this year's exams, and Jack's outstanding results are the icing on the cake," said Russell. "I've worked with Jack for the last year and it's great to see that all his hard work has paid off.
"At Forresters we don't just prepare our trainees for their exams, we also involve them in client cases to ensure they develop the practical skills needed to become successful attorneys. I'm looking forward to seeing how Jack's career develops at Forresters and I'm sure he will be instrumental in our firm's continued success."
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Fire Breaks Out at Bob Seger's Home in Orchard Lake
George McIntyre
George McIntyre Published: November 1, 2021
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Fire crews responded to a call at the home of musician Bob Seger over the weekend. A small fire was reported at the singer's home which is located on Laplaya Lane, near Old Orchard Trail and Hiller Road in the Detroit Suburb of Orchard Lake.
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What Are the Details?
First responders were summoned to the singer's family home around 6 am on Sunday. Smoke was reported inside the home and officials tell Detroit TV station WDIV-TV that everyone was able to safely evacuate from the home before fire crews arrived.
The Detroit News reports that firefighters had to break through walls and ceilings in order to extinguish the blaze. Someone in the home reported that smoke had been coming from an electrical outlet.
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There were no injuries reported from the fire. It is unclear as to whether or not Seger was home at the time of the incident.
No Cause For the Fire Has Been Determined
Fire crews were able to put out the fire which was reportedly inside the singer's home. The exact location inside the home is unclear, and as of yet, authorities have not been able to determine a cause for the blaze.
According to Zillow, the home Seger shares with his wife Juanita is 18,368 square feet. It has eight bedrooms and 10 bathrooms. It's currently valued at $9.6 million.
Keep reading to see how many songs you remember that refer to Michigan in the lyrics.
Our Top 16 Songs That Mention Michigan in the Lyrics
Right off the top of your head, you can think of two or three songs that mention Michigan or Michigan cities in the Lyrics, right?
But we decided to dig a little deeper and came up with 16 songs that mention the Mitten State. Surprisingly, Michigan-born artists like Stevie Wonder and Madonna don't make the list, but Bob Seger has a whopping three songs that make mention of his home state.
Let us know if there are any essential Michigan songs that need to be included.
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In December, month of lists for excellence, there are many articles that, by way of summary, condense the key of the year, a trend clearly visible in the field of video games. In this period, could not miss a progress with some of the proposals outstanding which will come in 2020, marked by the feeling of closure stage and by the irruption, in the final straight, the new generation of consoles, the standard-bearer for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X.One of the hits insurance will be Cyberpunk 2077, which is available for PS4, Xbox One and PC from April 16. The adaptation of the well-remembered role-playing game created by Mike Pondsmith carried out by CD Projekt Red looks spectacular as could be seen in its first trailer. Influenced by the futuristic design referred to in its title, the work of science fiction develops in Night City, a megalopolis corrupt obsession with the body modification. The user embodies a mercenary in search of an implant that ensures immortality. The proposal has generated andxpectación by the participation, as a secondary iconic, Keanu Reeves.Naughty Dog, the company behind Uncharted, struck in 2013, The Last of Us one of the games most famous of the decade. His arrival coincided with the period of splendour of the stories of survival in a particular context because of the threat of infected. Your evocation film and its journey emotional explain its impact, aspects that the gamers wish to rediscover in a sequel focused on the implications of the actions of Ellie. After successive delays and changes of date, The Last of Us Part II will be on sale for PS4 on the 29th of may.In times of nostalgia, the proposals around popular imaginaries always arouse interest. Soon, on the 17th of January, will come to Xbox One, PS4 and PC Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot, video game around the figure of the beloved Goku and that allows you to relive the moments and confrontations that both captivated a generation. The embodiment of the universe Dragon Ball Z, this is suggestive by the wide repertoire of characters, and for the enjoyment of the fight in the middle of the destruction in vast landscapes, includes the revelation of aspects never explained.The movie universe of Marvel closed stage this 2019 with the monumental Avengers. Endgame. And in the context of video games, Crystal Dinamics, and Square Enix will bring the may 15 (PS4, PC, Xbox One, Stay) Marvels Avengers, in which superheroes have been illegalised and equipment, separated for years, should get together to save the world. A chance to re-spend hours of leisure accompanied by Captain America, Iron Man, Black Widow, Hulk, and Thor.In the catalog own Nintendo Switch figure Animal Crossing: New Horizons, expected delivery of the sympathetic saga. The video game is on track to enjoy the life on a deserted island that you can customize to your taste and in which the objective is to collect materials, create tools and furniture, make friends with the neighbors and do relaxing activities. Some elements of enormous addictive potential. You will arrive on the 20th of march.As before mentioned the factor nostalgic, also await the remakes of Final Fantasy VII and Resident Evil 3 as well as Street Fighter V: Champion Edition. On the other hand, the expectation also surrounds concerning Halo Infinite, Doom Eternal, Bayonetta 3, Bleeding Edge, Half-Life: Alyx and Ori and the Will of the wisps.
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Japan Patent Act Amendment: How to Compensate Inventors Now?
The most recent amendment to Japan's Patent Act, effective April 1, 2016, modifies the right of an employee inventor to "reasonable" compensation in response to calls for change from companies, but falls short of creating a bright-line rule on acceptable compensation.
Since 1921, Japan's Patent Act has included a general framework for granting an employee inventor the right to reasonable monetary compensation for transferring to her employer her right to receive a patent. Inventors had not sued their employers in significant numbers based on this right, however, until a rash of high-profile suits in the early 2000s, one of the earliest and most prominent being the "blue diode" case. Concerned about the financial risks under a system in which the courts would, after the fact, re-evaluate what a reasonable compensation should be, employers prompted the Diet to amend the Patent Act in 2004. The 2004 amendment stated that payment paid pursuant to a company policy is "reasonable" (and hence acceptable) if employees were consulted about the policy, the policy was disclosed to the employees, and employee inventors were given a chance to comment on the payment paid.
The 2004 amendment embodied the changes desired by employers, and there was an expectation that their compensation policies would be insulated from second-guessing by the courts. However, the procedures for justifying a compensation policy and payments made thereunder were complicated to follow and document, and due to the vague standards for employee consultation under the Act and the fact-intensive nature of any employee dispute, an employer could never be sure that its policy would pass court scrutiny. As a result, there were renewed calls on the Diet to revisit how inventor compensation should be addressed under the law.
The 2015 amendment of the Patent Act (the "2015 Amendment") confirms an inventor employee's right to receive reasonable compensation, but expands the forms of compensation and modifies how it is determined. Acceptable compensation under the pre-amendment Patent Act was arguably limited to money. The 2015 Amendment allows the employer to compensate the employee with not only money, but also "other economic benefit". Guidelines issued by the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry on April 22, 2016 (the "Guidelines") clarify that "other economic benefit" includes stock options, foreign study opportunities, and extra vacation days, but excludes honorary titles and appreciation certificates.
Discuss with potential inventor employees the company's proposed compensation policy before adopting it. The inventor employees can appoint a representative to discuss on their behalf. The discussions do not need to result in an agreement.
Make the final compensation policy easily accessible to potential inventor employees by, for example, displaying it on the company intranet or a bulletin board. The policy must clearly state what factors will be used to calculate the invention compensation.
Give the inventor an opportunity to ask questions and to give feedback about the fairness of her specific compensation. The employer must respond in good faith and with due process to the questions and opinions of the employee, but the employer and inventor do not need to reach an agreement.
The 2015 Amendment also allows, for the first time, an employer to cause the right to receive a patent to vest directly in the employer rather than the employee. To do so, the employer must have an internal policy announced to its employees that calls for such vesting. Direct vesting in the employer does not change, however, the employer's obligation to reasonably compensate the employee inventor.
A company whose employees create patentable inventions in Japan should establish an invention policy that sets forth an inventor compensation formula and calls for patent rights to vest directly in the company. The company should understand and follow the procedures published in the Guidelines issued by the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry so that its policy and compensation formula can be strongly defended in court if necessary. The outcomes of disputes with employee inventors over compensation will hinge on the company's execution and documentation of those procedures.
 - Patent Act (Law No. 96 of 1921), Article 14.3; Patent Act (Law No. 121 of 1959) before the 2015 Amendment, Article 35.3.
 - Tanaka v. Olympus Optical Co., Ltd., Japanese Supreme Court decision of April 22, 2003.
 - Patent Act before the 2015 Amendment, Article 35.4.
 - Amendment of Patent Act that was promulgated on July 10, 2015 and became effective on April 1, 2016.
 - Patent Act after the 2015 Amendment, Article 35.4.
 - Patent Act before the 2015 Amendment, Article 35.3.
 - Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry Notice No. 131.


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With the pandemic we are facing, a lot of clubs have suffered many financial consequences. We imagined salary reductions, football close to that reality and few investments. Against all odds, movements are still going at full steam in Europe.
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It is difficult for big clubs to invest billions in this transfer window. With the budgets reductions, due to the drop in profits from the box office and club items sales on match days, the movement in this next window has to be purely strategic.
A good business strategy is to bet on players at the end of their contracts with their clubs, or those dismissed by their new managers. Two very clear examples of this situation are defender Thiago Silva, and striker Luís Suárez.
Suárez was dismissed by phone from Barcelona, because Koeman is no longer counting on his services. The most likely path of the striker is Juventus, to partner up with Cristiano Ronaldo, after Pirlo's decision to dismiss Gonzalo Higuaín.
Thiago Silva was informed that he would not continue in PSG, and even after achieving the final of the Champions League, he could not reach an agreement. With this, he went to Chelsea as a free agent.
Chelsea has been a team with a very average defense and Thiago Silva will help a lot on bringing experience and technique, without much expense.
The midfielder Rakitic got on board in the dismissal boat of Barcelona. Who approved that idea big time was Sevilla who hired his former player, with a much lower cost than the former sale.
Chelsea's striker William was transferred to his rival, Arsenal, for £100,000 a week. The Brazilian's contract was closing at the end of the season, and he did not reach an agreement with the blues.
There are other strikers who are also good options for big clubs, but these ones should put their feet on the ground when it comes to settling their wages. I'm talking about Higuaín himself, and also about the Uruguayan Edinson Cavani.
Higuaín cost Juventus 90 million euros, along with a high wage. The Argentinean does not have an immediate club interest nowadays, and he will probably have to lower his costs to settle with a good team.
Cavani left PSG in the middle of the season, and hasn't settle with another club since. Many clubs showed interest in the player, but few brought concrete proposals to the table.
This is because the Uruguayan still puts himself in a rare condition in the market, and raises his demands. Who showed a lot of interest in his signing was Benfica, but news coming from Portugal report that the striker asked for more than 10 million euros per year, and did not come to terms with the club.
JUST ONE BIG CARD PER CLUB?
For those clubs who already have a big squad, they can afford to bet on one or two signings to close the season. Manchester City are still waiting for Lionel Messi's situation with Barcelona to unfold.
According to the newspaper Sport, the English club will pay up to 750 million euros to count on the Argentinean if he leaves Barcelona for free. At this moment, the Citizens are not thinking about paying up a fortune to Barcelona, and are waiting for the release of the Argentine.
Messi did not show up at the Spanish club to take the tests at this beginning of season, and has already informed that he will leave the club. In an official announcement, La Liga informed that the Argentine can only leave Barcelona if he pays up a fine of 700 million euros.
The case should unfold during next week.
Another English club has also opened the safe. Manchester United signed the youngster Van de Beek from Ajax for a total of 45 million euros. In addition to the Dutch midfielder, United is also following Leipzig's defender Upamecano, and has yet to make a final move on Borussia Dortmund's Jadon Sancho.
England seems to be the center of transfer movements in Europe at the moment. A few weeks ago, Chelsea made some good deals with the signings of Timo Werner and Ziyech.
Liverpool may also appear in this window if the club reaches an agreement with Thiago Alcântara.
Bayern Munich's CEO said he is still waiting for a proposal from the English side, and should facilitate the departure of the midfielder who was brilliant in this last Champions League final.
NEYMAR "HIDDEN" FOR ANOTHER YEAR
This week, Brazilian player Neymar dropped a statement to PSG's official magazine, ensuring his permanence in the French club for the next season. It is a reality that in football nothing can be guaranteed with 100% certainty, but it was the Brazilian himself who gave the information.
Neymar hit the crossbar in the task of taking the Parisian team to its first Champions League title, aswel as in winning the prize for best player in the world. He will try to do it next season, where once again he will be hidden in the dull games of the French league, and only showing the world his real talent when playing in the Champions League.
If Messi is really to leave Barcelona, the Brazilian would be the number 1 player to replace him, but now that door has been closed.
The English clubs are reinforcing themselves, and PSG needs some pieces in order to be more competitive, because their only 3 stars in the front were not enough to beat a stronger Bayern Munich side. Let's wait…
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Nymph Fishing for Larger Trout and Tying in the Round
Channeling Charles Brooks and developing the Thompson Stone.
By Dana Sturn
I'm sitting in my living room reading an archived Sports Illustrated story on my iphone (google "he's got a very fishy look si"). Though written in 1979, it tells of a time when something resembling an iphone wasn't even the stuff of Star Trek reruns . . . because the series wouldn't appear for another five years. The story features a former intelligence officer who used to sit at the bottom of the Madison River, breathing through a length of shower hose, watching insects and trout.
That man was Charles Brooks.
I never saw this story when it was originally published. I was in ninth grade, and my trout fishing was limited to one weekend each year when my father would take me to Loon Lake in the British Columbia interior to troll flatfish and worms for pan-friers. But one trip I saw a fly-fisher, and knew someday that's what I would be.
Country Pleasures
Ten years later I was a high school teacher suddenly able to afford my own fly tackle. I lived in a little town in eastern British Columbia, only a few hours drive from Calgary, Alberta, which I later discovered was the spiritual center of western Canadian fly fishing. I was lucky enough to have relatives there, and would visit a few times each month. Soon I was spending every other Saturday hanging out at Country Pleasures, the iconic Calgary fly shop.
A little shop with big character, "the Pleasures" featured paintings of tarpon and trout, many by the late Jack Cowin. A rack of Sage and Orvis rods sat just over there—mostly too expensive for my meagre salary. And in the middle of the store, beneath well-stocked bins of hand-tied flies, was the book case. Here I discovered Gierach and Gingrich, Schwiebert and Swisher, and a fellow west coaster named Roderick Haig-Brown. Maclean was there too, along with one of anglit's newest heroes, a fellow named Duncan. Oh and McGuane. There was always McGuane. One of the proprietors was named Jim McLennan, and he turned out to be that Jim McLennan. Despite the misgivings of one of his co-owners, a crusty fellow convinced that only a dry fly was fishing, Jim introduced me to nymph fishing and the works of Charles E. Brooks.
On McLennan's recommendation I bought Nymph Fishing for Larger Trout, and read it cover-to-cover. Right there on page 4 was where I first read the shower hose story:
"In 1961," Brooks wrote, "I felt I might learn more about nymphs, both real and artificial, if I went down under the water. I had a face mask; I rigged a tube from an old shower hose, hitched up my jeans, and went down for a look."
Brooks relates how he noticed that a drifting artificial fly would "turn and roll over and over." The real bugs didn't. Brooks noted that "almost always, only the back of a natural nymph would be visible [to a feeding trout] as they drifted along a few inches above the bottom."
These careful observations led him to create the Brooks series of nymphs, stonefly patterns tied "'in the round', unflattened , and without different back and belly colors." No mater how much these flies tumbled and spun, they looked the same to the trout. Brooks claimed that flies worked better that way, and I believed him.
The Brooks Method
Nymph Fishing for Larger Trout covers all of the great nymphing strategies. Within its pages you'll find Skues, Hewitt and Sawyer, and the Leisenring Lift. But the method that really grabbed me was the one that shares the author's name. The Brooks Method was "Danger Close" fly fishing in fast, heavy water. Put the sneak on a trouty looking spot, and high stick a full sinking line with a short leader through the currents, feeling for the take, and taking care not to lose your footing.
Though I tried this method, I never really took to it. The gear wasn't versatile enough. Where I fished in southern Alberta, a day on the stream might require several tackle changes: deep nymphs in the morning; dry flies midday; an indicator nymph on a big deep flat after lunch; and streamers in the evening. I already carried way to much stuff in my vest to add another reel outfitted with a full-sinking line. So I learned the high-stick floating line technique from Jim McLennan, and later realized that it was much like the Brooks Method minus the full-sink line. It took a long time, but eventually I discovered the black magic that allowed me to randomly lift the rod and pull big trout off the bottom.
In the Round
I've always been a rather hasty tyer. Fly tying was a means to an end rather than anything I might actually enjoy. Those quaint visions of winter evenings spent sipping scotch in my tying parlour were always lost on me. But once I adopted Brooks's tying strategy I actually became interested, because my efforts were met with almost immediate success on the water. It turned out that Brooks was right: flies really did work better when tied in the round.
One of the biggest brown trout of my life took my rough tie of a Brooks Stonefly nymph in a rocky, wild piece of water along a grassy bank on the Bow River south of Calgary. The fly was moving along at a good pace, and the trout must have snapped it out of the drift beside the rock I was covering, because the line suddenly jumped upstream. Once it realized it was hooked, the big fish eased its way into the current and headed downstream, with me splashing along behind it. I eventually netted it, and its tail stuck out so far beyond the frame that I realized I needed something bigger if this whole nymph fishing for larger trout thing was going to become a habit.
The Thompson Stone
I don't know if Charles Brooks ever fished steelhead, and at the time I was studying his methods I had no idea that Nymph Fishing for Larger Trout would eventually take me to the banks of British Columbia's Thompson River and to a strain of wild steelhead that would come to define my fly fishing life.
On the Thompson it was tough not to notice the abundant golden stonefly shucks that adorn most every rock. I'm not sure of the genus of these bugs—my friend and noted aquatic entomologist Rick Haefle could probably give them one look and let me know, but it's fun just to think of them as golden stones, and so I do.
Coming to steelheading from a trout fishing background, I began to wonder if steelhead would take a golden stone imitation. But the problem with Thompson steelhead is that they are—or sadly were, as the river is now closed to angling—notoriously difficult to catch on a fly. So fishing a pattern for a day, or two, or even three or more might not tell you anything about whether or not these fish would take it. It wasn't until about seven years into my time on the Thompson that I had a four-fish morning in the same run, finally convincing me that Thompson steelhead liked golden stonefly imitations a lot. And that fly was my Thompson Stone, which owed pretty much everything to the thinking of Charles Brooks.
The Thompson Stone didn't start out tied in the round. In fact, the first versions were tied on the Partridge Bartleet Supreme Atlantic salmon hooks. When I dropped the original in the currents and watched it drift past, as I held the leader to mimic the effects of a tight line wet fly swing, I noticed it tended to fish either sideways or tipped upside down. It rarely fished as I imagined it would, upright and looking natural. At the time I was experimenting with tube flies, and I wondered if a Thompson Stone tied on a tube might be a solution. Perhaps if I used a heavier hook it might keep the fly oriented as I intended. So I did . . . and had the same problem.
I recalled something about tying in the round as a solution to this turn and tumble of a traditional tie, and so I simplified the pattern and tied it as Brooks might. In the currents the fly now looked the same from every angle, and I stopped worrying about how it was fishing and started actually fishing it.
My presentation owed something to Brooks as well, fishing a sunk fly on a tight line, feeling for the take. Because the Thompson Stone was tied with wire it wanted to sink, so I let it. Then when the line tightened the fly would rise in the currents. Steelhead took the fly most often during the back half of the drift, as the fly rose and then drifted along just under the surface. Years later I learned that none other than the venerable Harry Lemire was fishing a nymph-style fly in a similar fashion as a solution to situations where steelhead were tough to seduce.
The Thompson Stone is an impressionistic tie that looks a little bit like a stonefly and a little bit like a caddis pupa, and enough of each that steelhead seem to find it irresistible no matter where I find them. It's one of my top steelhead producers, and one of only four steelhead flies you'll regularly find in my vest.
Nymph fishing for larger fish, whether 20-inchers on a blue-ribbon stream or 20-pounders on a steelhead river, has become the focus of my moving water angling. And even on lakes, where I chase big rainbows spring and fall, I'm adapting the skills Brooks taught and the in-the-round tying method that gives me confidence in my flies during those long fishless days.
Becoming a good nymph fisher is harder than it looks, but you'll know you have it when you set for no apparent reason and are rewarded with the pulse of life on the line. It's a long drift from the bottom of the Madison to just subsurface on BC's greatest steelhead river, but Charles Brooks pushed me off and pointed the way. Seek him out. There's much to discover while fishing a Brooks Stonefly on a tight line.
Dana Sturn
Dana Sturn is a steelhead devotee and the founder of Spey Pages. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia and can be found each year, minus 2020 of course, swinging up chinook and steel on the Dean River, among other places. Follow him on IG @danawsturn
Arek Kubale – August 26, 2021
Del's Merkin Permit Fly
This pattern goes by several different names—Del's Merkin Crab or Del Brown's Permit Fly, to name a few. Semantic differences aside, three things are certain—it was invented by Del Brown, it resembles a merkin crab, and it is one of the best permit flies ever invented. But why is it so popular? The primary explanation would be the number of permit taken on this fly, which is relatively astronomical. But when you take a closer look you'll see another reason—it's paradoxical simplicity. I say paradoxical because this fly doesn't look simple at all in its finished form. And yet it consists of relatively few ingredients: two feathers that mimic pincers, a yarn body, Sili Legs and dumbbell eyes. Nothing more, nothing less.
Chris Santella – August 26, 2021
Steelhead (Pacific)
On the taxonomical chart, steelhead are classified as rainbow trout—albeit rainbow trout that have access to the salt and migrate to and from the ocean. (Some recent studies at Washington State University have suggested that rainbow trout might actually have evolved from steelhead that became landlocked and unable to migrate back to the Pacific.) When they first hit fresh water, steelhead are a study in monochromatic tones—gunmetal gray/silver/white—hence their nickname, "chromers." The longer they linger in their home rivers, the more they assume rainbow characteristics—fine spots, and a band of red/magenta along their flanks. (Some bigger fish may boast two bands of red.) Chrome-bright fish with just a hint of magenta on their gill-plates are something to behold!
Boots Allen – August 26, 2021
Yellowstone's Fall Lake-Run Brown Trout
Autumn is a special time in the West. Summertime crowds dissipate, air temperatures are crisp, foliage display rich hues, and wildlife is robust and easily visible as animals initiate their fall migrations and rutting activities. For fly fishers, autumn brings another bonus—the fall spawning run made by brown trout on rivers throughout the Rocky Mountain region. While stream-resident brown trout runs are super popular in the angling community, I'm personally more intrigued by the lake-runs. These are the fish that pour out of stillwater environments and into scores of streams with the sole intent of passing on their genes to another generation.


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Extension of CGT to non-residents holding UK real estate
The Government published draft legislation (Finance (No.3) Bill) on Friday 6 July 2018 implementing its proposals to extend CGT to gains arising to non-residents holding UK real estate from April 2019.
UK Capital Gains Tax (CGT) has already been extended to certain non-residents holding residential property in recent years; however this new extension will bring almost all non-resident owners of UK land within the scope of UK tax on their gains, and will remove a key tax benefit currently enjoyed by non-UK investors in real estate. The Government has agreed to add a trading exemption to ameliorate the rules for real-estate heavy trades such as retail and hotel chains - although this regime appears more limited than existing exemptions which may still be available. Significantly, the Government has also published a framework for further discussion in relation to the treatment of offshore collective investment vehicles and exempt investors (including Channel Islands unit trusts). This is in response to the concerns highlighted that they were likely to suffer multiple tax charges on the same disposal.
Key points from the legislation
The new regime will take effect from April 2019. The Government was not persuaded by calls to postpone the commencement of the rules in respect of collective investment vehicles citing the uncertainty it would bring to the market and investors. In a nod to simplification, the Government also decided to implement the changes by effectively re-writing the existing legislation.
As expected, historic gains will be protected and investors that have held assets since before April 2019 will only be subject to tax on a disposal to the extent their asset has increased in value since April 2019. Non-resident companies and unit trusts will be taxed at the corporation tax rate (currently 19 per cent) while individuals and other entities will be taxed at capital gains tax rates (currently 20 per cent for higher and additional rate taxpayers). Companies who subsequently become UK resident after April 2019 will retain the ability to calculate their gains or losses using the April 2019 rebasing so as to not dis-incentivise on-shoring.
The new rules will apply to certain sales of interests in "property rich" vehicles, as well as to direct sales of UK land assets themselves. A property rich vehicle is one that ultimately derives at least 75 per cent of its gross asset value from UK real estate and has a substantial indirect interest in that land. Guidance will inform what level of due diligence is required to assess the 75 per cent property rich test. Assets matched by an intercompany liability are excluded so that the test cannot be manipulated by related party transactions.
Gains on a disposal of an indirect interest will be chargeable where the person making the disposal holds (or has held in the last two years) a substantial indirect interest. This means a 25 per cent or greater interest in the vehicle is necessary and designed to exclude smaller investors who may have insufficient knowledge of the entity they are invested in. The Government has simplified the 25 per cent ownership exemption by only looking back two years, instead of the proposed five years. Sensibly, the Government has removed its proposal to use the "acting together" connected party test and will rely on the existing TCGA interpretation of connected persons (under section 286).
The new trading exemption prevents a charge arising where the real estate in an entity being disposed of is all but an "insignificant degree" used in the course of a trade. Insignificant is not defined, but HMRC is known to consider that less than 5 per cent is insignificant in other areas of tax. The substantial shareholdings exemption for trading companies appears to continue to be available and to be more generous where the conditions can be met.
In the time available, the Government was not able to finalise the draft legislation for offshore collective investment vehicles and exempt investors. Instead the Government set out a framework to deal with these issues. Offshore funds which are not closely-held and who agree to certain reporting requirements will be eligible for special tax treatment. Offshore funds such as Jersey Property Unit Trusts will be able to elect to be treated as transparent (although HMRC also indicate that they may be able to effectively access an exemption - pushing tax onto investors - as well). In more widely held funds, the intention is to allow an exemption for the fund itself. Investors will then be charged to tax on the gain on their interests in the fund. In exchange the fund must report details of the investors, disposals of interests by the investors and the value of interests, and the Government indicates it is considering the appropriateness of withholding tax on certain disposals.
Even with this extension of CGT investors may still prefer to structure their exit as the sale of the vehicle holding the asset, as this will offer the buyer a Stamp Duty Land Tax saving. It is also worth noting that the recent widening of the Substantial Shareholding Exemption, a relief from UK corporation tax on gains for the disposal of shares in certain companies, may also benefit certain non-UK institutional investors holding UK land through companies. Overseas pension schemes will continue to be exempt from UK CGT on disposals of real estate and interests in property rich vehicles.
Certain of the UK's tax treaties preclude the UK from taxing gains realised by non-residents on sales of interests in vehicles holding UK land, subject in some cases to certain conditions being met. The treaties will "trump" domestic legislation so investors based in these jurisdictions may escape the new regime. The UK Government says it is in discussion with Luxembourg on this issue, one of the key jurisdictions that would preclude taxing gains. However the new regime includes anti-avoidance measures designed to counteract attempts to restructure property holdings in a way that takes advantage of favourable tax treaties from 22 November 2017 (the date the measure was first announced).
Non-UK entities that are currently outside the scope of UK CGT on residential property gains, by virtue of being widely held (for example certain funds), will be subject to tax on all gains realised on their UK property assets under the new regime. The Government has harmonised the new rules with the existing regimes for non-resident CGT and abolished ATED-related CGT on disposals by non-residents of residential properties. The existing regime for developers and traders (including the Transactions in UK Land rules introduced in 2016) is not affected.
This is a measure which has to some extent been expected by observers of the UK market for some time and certainly since the changes to taxation of residential property held by non-residents. The UK has been almost unique among jurisdictions in the developed world for not applying tax to non-residents on gains made on their UK real estate assets. This is the case throughout the rest of western Europe and the United States, for example. Therefore the UK move, while clearly unwelcome for investors, represents an alignment of the UK position with most other jurisdictions in which those investors might invest. That said, it will also remove one of the most attractive features of UK real estate for non-UK investors, and with around 28 per cent of the UK's investment grade commercial property held by non-residents this will inevitably have an impact on the market. It is welcome that the Government has listened to the industry and in particular seems to have adopted a constructive approach to offshore fund vehicles where many had been concerned that the stigma of being offshore might have led to a harsher treatment. Given the trading exemption and the special treatment for collective investment vehicles and exempt investors, the Government has been in listening mode to minimise the impact on the UK real estate market.
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FINNISH steelmaker Outokumpu has renewed its contract with DB Cargo to move stainless steel by rail from Sheffield, continuing a relationship that dates back to 1977.
Three to four trains each week will continue to run from Tinsley to Immingham and one a week to Liverpool for the contract, with each train carrying around 1,300 tonnes of stainless steel for export.
The steel travelling via Immingham continues by ship to Gothenburg, in Sweden, and then by rail to finishing plants in Avesta and Degerfors.
Steel transported to the Port of Liverpool is destined for the American market. Special demountable 'cassettes' are used to carry the steel and allow it to be switched between rail wagons and ships quickly and efficiently.
British Rail first began moving stainless steel on behalf of Outokumpu (then British Steel) in 1977, when the melting shop in Sheffield was opened.