For many children across the United States, October means Halloween - a time to dress up in costumes and get delightfully scared in haunted houses.
As adult business professionals, some of us may be getting scared for real, as we realize the final quarter of the year is beginning.
Are you on track for your 2010 goals? If not, I hope some of these Nuggets will give you the boost you need to get back on track.
1. You've "heard" me say this before, and I'll say it again: Nobody cares about your laundry list of services and products. The only thing your prospects really care about is how you'll create valuable outcomes that they can't (or choose not to) create for themselves. When you're out networking, talk value rather than products, tasks, or processes.
2. While some people may disagree, effective follow up is actually FUN. It's easier to do when you focus on the results you want to get from your follow-up activities. It makes you stand out - indeed, you'll appear unique - because so few people follow up in a timely mannner. And, lastly, doing it now minimizes your stress and improves your outcomes.
3. Make a small but mighty investment in a high-quality business card holder. This can be as much a part of your business image as your suits and shoes.
Your tag line can be one of your most powerful networking tools. Consider the one on the business card of Char Jebens, BSN, president of Always Graceful Living, LLC. She clearly tells her senior-citizen prospects and clients that her focus is "helping you identify small life changes that enable you to keep up with your grandchildren." Notice how in a single sentence she alludes to both her prospect's pain - being unable to enjoy the grandkids - as well as the result they're really hoping for - being able to keep up with and delight in those children. Brilliant!
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Women in Networking presentation - Four EEEEasy Steps to Crafting Your One-Minute Business Showcase - Wednesday, 10/27/10, 4:30 p.m., OffiCenters International Plaza: 7900 International Drive, Bloomington, MN, 55425.
Oakdale Networkers presentation - Networking Nuggets - Tuesday, 11/9/10, 11:30 a.m., Sergeant Pepper's: 930 Helena Avenue North, Oakdale, MN, 55128.
American Society for Training and Development, Twin Cities Chapter, Annual Conference break-out session - Giving Voice to Your Value -Wednesday, 11/10/10, 9 a.m., St. Paul RiverCenter.
The unknown is often frightening. Two of the best antidotes to this fear are (1) committing yourself to ongoing learning and (2) simply taking purposeful action. Not only will these activities enhance your business outcomes, but, hey - they're a lot more appealing than hanging garlic around your neck to keep the scary things at bay.


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All I can say is WOW! Love this gorgeous serenade/melody by Elgar - I originally heard it beautifully played in the key of E by John Williams as an overdubbed duet on his 1986 Echoes Of London album.
Never thought it could work well as a solo till now - Xuefei's arrangement in D is AMAZING and the way she plays it is even MORE AMAZING - the phrasing of the melody, the drama - she makes it look easy at the rather brisk tempo (there's some crazy stretches in there!), it's NOT. Her guitar sounds so clear, lush, and powerful too with very tasteful vibrato and rubato. Love it also when she plays the melody so expressively on the bass strings so cello-like. RESPECT!!!
Beautiful - she's an outstanding guitarist who continues to get better as the years go by! Here playing a Paul Fischer guitar I see.
Very, very nice. Technically exceptional and so musical.
The key change to D does impact the work to a great degree, it adds a certain emotion and tenderness absent from the E major rendition. Thanks for sharing.
Anyone know what guitar does she use? I stoped on time when she was using Smallman.
This is a Paul Fischer guitar.


A mentor and dear friend introduced me to a boy mom she thought I should know (She was right. She usually is, right, I mean. She is wise. I love her deeply). We exchanged numbers and emails and pleasantries, and I believe we tried to get together, in fact I think we planned to get together, but it did not happen. It wasn't time. Our sons began middle school together a few months later, and when we ran into each other, we said "hello," promising to get together like earnest but busy mommies do, but never did. It wasn't time.
Fast forward two years, and we discover that not only are our sons in the same middle school, but now they're in the same extracurricular jazz program. And, we plan, earnestly, to get together again. What is it about this woman, I wonder? Soon I'll know, but it wasn't time.
and shortbread with my new friend.
We actually MADE A PLAN to meet for coffee, or something, and the Universe intervened…I came down with the kind of migraine that not only makes me miss appointments, if sleep will come, I sleep through appointments. I remember my son coming home from class that night and saying, "M's mom missed you, you guys were supposed to get together, remember??" Argh, missed again. It just wasn't time.
I remembered today, despite my cold, that we'd made a plan, and determined NOT to miss this opportunity. I pleaded with my overprotective beloved to get out of the house after resting ALL day. I did rest ALL day. But I made it. It was time.
Though the promised favour be deferred long, it will come at last, and abundantly recompense us for waiting.


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Home Government NEO: Can Bibi hustle a pardon to avoid jail?
NEO: Can Bibi hustle a pardon to avoid jail?
by Jim W. Dean, with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow
"With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half." ~ Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor of the German Empire, 1871-1890
[ Editor's Note: Bibi wraps up the year still out of jail and continuing to charge everyone who is after him as involved in a coup to remove him. One thing you have to give him credit for, he ain't no quitter.
My NEO piece below was a review of the situation after no political figure or party has been able to put a government coalition together to avoid a third election, something dreaded by all except Netanyahu.
He is still interim prime minister, collecting a badly needed paycheck with his legal bills, and with next election round he has more time to wiggle out of his legal jam. The news this week was that the reformers who had filed a Supreme Court case to block him from running due to his indictment were turned down.
The three judges ruled that there was no precedent to block him from running, and the only legal issue that could arise would be if he wins, and could he then take office while under indictment.
As an inducement for Bibi to pull out of the last battle to form a government, giving him a pardon was floated from multiple directions, including the Attorney General and even President Rivlin. But Bibi just smiled and bided his time, remaining on the offensive with all of his detractors, refusing to give up the world wide pulpit his has to stay in the game.
So like it or not, it is not just the Israelis who are stuck with him for at least the next six months, but the whole world. What did we do to deserve this I ask?
But it does look like he will have to share the political scandal stage. Read below about the two new major cases with the ex-Navy and some close to Bibi being indicted in the submarine affair, and then a corruption sex drama in judicial appointments with a handsome senior judge bedding down and attractive female one wanting to climb the ladder by bedding down the former…JD ]
– First published … December 30, 2019 –
An exhausted Israeli public is getting a temporary respite from Israel's two failed attempts to form a government by a hopelessly divided Knesset.
The political party battle lines remain hardened, as no compromise was possible to put a majority coalition together. It seems the political egos must be served first, and the country's interests come second.
March 2, 2020 is set for the next polling date. Early polls show Benny Gantz' party, Blue and White, picking up 2 to 4 seats, and some shifting relations among the minor parties.
For example, the Labor party once ruled Israel for three decades until it was unseated by the former head of the Irgun terror organization, Menachem Begin. It now fears not making the minimum vote needed to be allotted seats and is looking for another party to join.
Smaller political parties looking to form new alliances
The Jewish Home-National Union's Bezalel Smotrich told Channel 12 news he has called for the small rightwing parties to unite. "We need to learn from past mistakes. In the [April] election we ran with two lists and the New Right didn't pass the electoral threshold.
If it hadn't been for that we'd already be nearing a year with a good right-wing government." Smotrich called for a single slate representing the religious right.
Another unnamed top rightwing official reported to Channel 12 news that, "There will not be another blind following of Netanyahu… "A fourth election is not an option and would be unforgivable."
Not everybody is on the join together train. New Right chief Naftali Bennett reiterated his party's intention to run independently in March. As acting Prime Minister, Netanyahu appointed Bennett defense minister until a new government plays musical chairs with all the ministries once again in Israel. These are hard fought for positions for all the publicity they can generate for those wanting to run for the PM slot someday.
Bibi is using political turmoil as his prosecution shield
So far Bibi seems to be winning on the political-legal stage in terms of blocking any real movement on his formal indictment and prosecution. A multi-layered legal battle is now joined where he will use every tool at his disposal to avoid sitting in a court room.
Attorney General Mandelblit did not want to rule on whether Bibi could continue to be Prime Minister after his three corruption charges, passing that decision on to the Supreme Court. He considered the question a theoretical one, as Bibi has no government until the new Knesset is elected and he has coalition votes to form a government.
Bibi could have a two for one present on that issue. He has stated he plans to request parliamentary immunity but must wait until a new Knesset is in place to do that. The delay might buy him enough time to build political support to fight his criminal cases, as his strategy has been to attack anyone involved in his prosecution as members of a coup out to illegally oppose them.
He has always lived by this rule politically, relentlessly attack anyone who disagrees with you, so he has fallen back on what has worked well in the past. My bet is that the Supreme Court will rule on the case out of patriotism not wanting the state to drift endlessly month after month, when so many important issues are on the table.
Resigning prosecutor Shai Nitsan speaks publicly
State attorney Shai Nitsan who ran the Bibi investigation resigned last week, leaving the State prosecutor's position open. There is disagreement between acting Justice Minister Amir Ohana and Attorney General Mandelblit as to how quickly an acting new State Prosecutor can be appointed. One is saying in a few days, and the other claims not until a new government is formed.
An angry Shai Nitsan was able to respond in the Jerusalem Post to Bibi's ruthless attacks against not only him but the whole prosecution team as part of a coup attempt to dethrone him.
He stated that, while Bibi charged him with being on a personal jihad to remove him from office, "It is not my personal position [to indict]. A team of 25 people sat down – I have no idea what their political views are – and everyone thought an indictment needs to be filed."
Can Bibi parlay a pardon?
Netanyahu is an old hand at buying time to wiggle out of tough spots. Even before the last deadline for forming a government, President Rivlin publicly came out for a pardon on December 4 for Bibi if he would resign from politics and confess to the charges. He took a pass on that, even though Mandelblit also gave his approval.
Since then, kingmaker Avigdor Lieberman, who represents the Russian emigres' party, stated he would go along with a pardon to remove the stumbling block that Bibi has had in forming a new government.
He stated that he wanted Bibi to "retire with dignity", that there was a "sense of fatigue" with Netanyahu in the Knesset, feeling he had become a burden. Regarding whether there would be legislative support for a pardon he said, "I'm sure there will be wall-to-wall support. I think everyone here feels the man had contributed quite a bit and should be let go with proper respect, but no one wants to see him [here] anymore."
This is pie in the sky dreaming for Lieberman. If such an allowance were made for Netanyahu to "retire with dignity", he would go down in history for creating the Bibi Loophole for every corrupt politician following behind him, and there seem to be quite a few in line right now.
More big political corruption scandals go public
One such case involves the ex-head of the Israeli Bar Association, Efi Nave, who will be charged with bribery and breach of trust; along with Eti Craif, a judge on the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court, for charges of bribery and destroying evidence.
Nave was one of the nine members of the powerful Judicial Appointments Committee that rules on both placement and promotions for judges in Israel's three-tiered judicial system. Prosecutors claim that Nave was promoting the attractive Judge Craif's career in return for a romantic relationship.
The other case is much more serious, as it could become the biggest graft case in Israel's history, and includes two of Netanyahu's closest former aides. Bibi's former chief of staff, David Sharan is accused of accepting bribes from David Shimron who has been Bibi's personal lawyer, confidant, and second cousin.
Shimron is accused of helping Michael Ganor, the agent for the German ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems, helping conceal the transition with money laundering assistance. Eliezer Marom, a former head of the Israeli Navy has also been charged.
Those charged are a "who's who" of the military and political elite of the country, further hurting the reputation of the special country that cannot be criticized publicly, and that screed being used to enrich top officials who feel it is their due to be able to make some extra money on the side behind the power of their reputations and past high positions.
Will Bibi be tarnished with another major corruption scandal?
Netanyahu has not been mentioned in the case at this stage, but anyone thinking that he would not have known about a major deal in the works like this would also believe in the tooth fairy. This case has all the seeds of a long soap opera. The Times of Israel reports,
"Ganor initially signed a deal to become the prosecution's key witness in the case in which he reportedly admitted to bribing a string of senior officials in order to help secure contracts for the company with Israel's Defense Ministry.
But in a shock move in March, he told police that he wished to alter key parts of the testimony he gave in the case. Ganor claimed that while he stood behind the facts he had given to police, the payments he gave were consulting fees and not bribes. He said police had pressured him to describe the circumstances so that they shored up the claim he had acted to bribe senior state employees.
That move reportedly came after Miki Ganor discovered that signing a state witness agreement had put his name on an international banking blacklist and blocked his access to tens of millions of shekels held in banks in Cyprus and Austria."
Will this case intersect with Bibi's corruption case? We will know in due time. The Mideast has a long reputation for corruption, and not undeserved. At Veterans Today, with each year that goes by, we learn more and more it is just about everywhere, hard-wired into the political system where money is its mother's milk.
Jim W. Dean, managing editor for Veterans Today, producer/host of Heritage TV Atlanta, specially for the online magazine "New Eastern Outlook".
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Marriages and relationships
"Netanyahu has been married three times
On 23 December 2016, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution calling for an end to Israeli settlements…
The resolution was then "proposed again by Malaysia, New Zealand, Senegal and Venezuela"—and passed 14 to 0."
One article claims he is only a citizen of Israel. Others claim he renounced US
citizenship two times.
He is obviously intelligent and earned degrees in architecture and management from MIT.
However he believes in violent revolution for Israel against all the values of the U.S. All U.S. support of Israel must be stopped immediately . He was reportedly a pal of Fred Trump. Now he is a pal of President Trump a blatant conflict of interest. Reportedly he had 40 bodyguards when he visited the U.S. He must have many enemies. How many does Trump have? The whores in Congress evidently love him. Let them move to Israel then. Netanyahu evidently hates most of their neighbors and routinely bombs innocent civilians and children in Syria and other areas over there with our aid. They steal land from Palestinians and did 9/11/01. Disgraceful!
MIT, where Netanyahu earned two degrees, is considered one of the top "private" schools in the country although they are at the Government Money Trough big time. How about it all you great physicists and mathematicians at MIT? Are any of you smart enough to figure out that Israel did 9/11/01 with the aid of Bush, Cheney and the four star generals? Did any of you smart folks figure out that the four star generals did not lift a finger to "defend" our country on 9/11/01? Has the cat got your tongues? Perhaps these "distinguished" professors, some very arrogant too, are not so smart after all; or they have a blatant conflict of interest this time with TRUTH. Many of them apparently favor Israel over the United States which gives them all those billions of public dollars.

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MOVIE REVIEW: 'Tusk'
Strange, intriguing plot drives Kevin Smith's 'Tusk'
Biden should fire Karine Jean-Pierre
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Wallace Bryton (portrayed by Justin Long) is pitted in one of many, increasingly quirky, tension-building conversations with Howard Howe (Michael Parks) in "Tusk." more >
By Peter Suderman - Special to The Washington Times - - Thursday, September 18, 2014
Here it is — the weirdest movie of the year. "Tusk," writer-director Kevin Smith's tale of torture and transformation, is horrific, darkly comic and deeply bizarre, often all at once.
It's also surprisingly engaging, at least for the first hour, until the movie takes a turn for the goofy that doesn't quite work.
Part of what makes the first half of "Tusk" work so well is its unnerving simplicity. The movie follows Wallace Bryton (Justin Long), a successful Internet radio host, on a trip to Canada to interview a teenager who became a Web-video sensation after accidentally cutting off his own leg while swinging a sword on camera.
Wallace is a kind of professional snark-slinger — an expert in funny but mean-spirited ridicule who interacts with the world exclusively through pop-culture references and clever insults. His intent is to make fun of the poor kid, to transform him into another vehicle for the sick amusement of Wallace and his show's fans.
But when he arrives, the kid is dead, and Wallace ends up chasing a different story based on an unusual note he finds posted in a bathroom bar. That story quickly leads him to an old, wheelchair-bound man named Howard Howe (veteran character actor Michael Parks), who is not at all what he seems. Howe has plans for Wallace, and from there the movie's twisted story unfolds.
Much of the movie's first half pits Wallace against Howe in increasingly quirky, tension-building conversations. These scenes are long, slow and masterfully acted and written.
Mr. Smith, one of the icons of indie cinema in the 1990s, built his reputation on his ability to craft nimble, funny, existentialist dialogue. In films like "Clerks" and "Mallrats," he captured the circular rhythms and pop-infused sensibility of bored and aimless Gen Xers.
In "Tusk," his target is the cruel, nihilistic wit of the Internet generation, embodied with sleazy gusto by Mr. Long (who first came to fame in a series of ads for Apple computers). But instead of pairing Mr. Long with another of his own kind, Mr. Smith sets him up against someone who turns out to be far more cruel and mischievous.
Howe is an exquisitely deranged horror-flick villain, played with intense and often hilarious midnight-movie menace by Mr. Parks, and written with a kind of meticulous specificity by Mr. Smith.
I won't spoil the details of Howe's big plan, but let's just say it's not an accident that Wallace's name sounds an awful lot like "walrus." Essentially, Howe plans to use and abuse Wallace for his own amusement, just as Wallace planned to do with the young man he originally intended to interview.
The scenes between Howe and Wallace become increasingly disturbing as the movie goes forward, but the story loses momentum in the second half thanks to the appearance of Guy Lapointe, a French-Canadian detective hunting down Wallace's captor, played by an uncredited superstar in a bit of stunt casting.
In the end, those overlong scenes, which tend to involve Lapointe monologuing at length to Wallace's girlfriend Ally (Genesis Rodriguez) and best buddy Teddy (Haley Joel Osment), are a poor tonal fit with the movie's main plot. Ultimately, they make the movie something of an uneven mess.
They're odd, but they're not sufficiently bizarre to go with the rest of the movie. This is a film that thrives on weirdness, but in the end, too much of it is not weird enough.
TITLE: "Tusk"
CREDITS: Written and directed by Kevin Smith
RATING: R for bizarre horror-movie violence, language, sexual situations
MAXIMUM RATING: FOUR STARS


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Rivers State Police denies Arrest of Journalist
Rivers State Command of the Nigeria Police has denied the report of
arresting a journalist, Kench Okenyi, over a report on alleged age falsification of the state Commissioner of Police, Joseph Mukan.
The Command public Relations Officer, SP Nnamdi Omoni who made this known in a press statement sent to BEN TV said the public should disregard and discountenance the report as same is self-serving and is only intended to overreach the Command.
Punch Newspaper before now reported that Okenyi was arrested on Friday by a police team led by one CSP Chris Amanyi.
According to the platform, the journalist was released around midnight on Saturday, as he was also allegedly denied access to a lawyer and his relatives.
The State PRO, while reacting to the report said the attention of the Rivers State Police Command has been drawn to the damning report credited to the Punch Newspaper of Tuesday, 17th November, 2020, where it was reported that Rivers Police arrested and detained a Journalist over a report on Commissioner of Police.
According to him, "Ordinarily, this phantom report should have been ignored for lacking in merit but in order not to allow the public form a dangerous impression therefrom, it has thus become expedient to react and state the true facts as follows:
I. That on 13/11/2020 the duo of Mark Lenu and Kenechi Okenyi, Port Harcourt based online Journalists were invited by the Commissioner of Police over an unverified report credited to Kelechi Okenyi of portcitynews.
II. That at the behest of the Commissioner of Police, both of them were in the CP's Office and after they were presented with relevant facts contrary to what he (Kenechi Okenyi) had published, they became sober and immediately pleaded for forgiveness and further suggested to standdown the story with a Refuttal to that effect, following which the CP in his fatherly disposition, cautioned and allowed them to go the same day, unconditionally.
It is pertinent to state that Kenechi Okenyi whose act amounted to libel was never detained nor harassed in any manner whatsoever.
The Refuttal dated 13/11/2020 and credited to Kenechi Okenyi, the publisher of the libelous report, was voluntarily made by him and published by TPCN without any form of intimidation and/or molestation but on his own volition. This fact is verifiable and in tardem with the the Refuttal by his colleague, Mark Lenu published on 16/11/2020 in his News Eye Blog.
Consequently, the Command wishes to use this medium to state in the umpteenth that Mr. Kenechi Okenyi was never arrested, detained nor harassed in anyway contrary to the report of Punch and any other media house for that matter.
He noted that the Command has overtime maintained a healthy working relationship with the Media, being the watchdogs of the society and cannot but sustain the existing relationship in the overall interest of the public.
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Are Flavor Cases Fizzling? Two More Courts Grant Motions to Dismiss
Since 2019, a staggering number of "flavor" lawsuits have been filed, with dozens of putative class actions filed in a single month and more than 100 in 2021 alone. While some lawyers appear to have an insatiable appetite for filing these suits, courts appear to find them mostly unpalatable. The complaints allege that packaging on food and beverage items is false and misleading because the challenged products do not contain certain ingredients or because the flavor is achieved by using ingredients other than or in addition to what consumers "expect" to be the source of the flavor. Manufacturers of plant and dairy milk, yogurts, ice creams, creamers, cereals, chips, cakes, cookies and brownies have faced such claims. Vanilla, lime, butter, milk, strawberry, smoked, chocolate and fudge flavors have all been dragged into court. All of this litigation begs the question – will the gluttonous plaintiff's class action counsel ever be satiated? It seems that, by and large, the federal courts are not swallowing the case theme. Two back-to-back decisions from the Southern District of New York, Boswell v. Bimbo Bakeries USA, Inc. and Kamara v. Pepperidge Farm, Inc., chucked flavor claims on the basis that a reasonable consumer could not be misled by the product labels. In Boswell, the court dismissed plaintiff's claims that she was misled by the packaging on Entenmann's "All Butter Loaf Cake." The district court noted that this was "the latest in a long string of putative class actions brought by the same lawyer" and identified six prior cases that had been dismissed.
In purging Boswell's claims without leave to amend, the court noted that it was not bound to accept non-factual matter or conclusory statements in the complaint as true and must consider whether the claim is facially plausible. The plaintiff sought to pursue claims under New York's consumer protection laws and the district court held that to state such a claim "a plaintiff must allege that a defendant has engaged in (1) consumer-oriented conduct that is (2) materially misleading and (3) that plaintiff suffered injury as a result of the allegedly deceptive act or practice. To satisfy the second element, "a plaintiff must plausibly allege that the deceptive conduct was 'likely to mislead a reasonable consumer acting reasonably under the circumstances.'" The district court noted that "context is crucial" in determining whether a reasonable consumer would have been misled by a particular advertisement. Thus, a court must consider "the challenged advertisement as a whole, including disclaimers and qualifying language."
The district court concluded that Boswell failed to meet her burden, noting that the label description "All Butter" is ambiguous. The court recognized that "[t]aken literally, the description could be understood to mean that the product is entirely butter — although no reasonable consumer would adopt that reading because the product is obviously not a stick of butter and 'All Butter' modifies 'Loaf Cake.' Put differently, any reasonable consumer would be aware that the product is, notwithstanding the label 'All Butter,' likely to contain other ingredients commonly found in cake, such as flour, sugar, milk, and eggs[.]" In addition, the court noted that "All Butter" could merely be descriptive of flavor, denoting that the product tastes only of butter and does not include a second flavor such as almond, chocolate or cinnamon. The district court concluded that because the false advertising claims failed that Boswell's claims for negligent misrepresentation, breach of express and implied warranty, fraud and unjust enrichment also failed because the product label does not represent the contents on the container, among other reasons. The court dismissed the complaint without leave to amend because the problem with Boswell's claims was substantive such that amendment would be futile.
Days after the Boswell decision, the plaintiff's claims in Kamara met a similar fate. In the case, a "Golden Butter" cracker product was challenged because, in addition to butter, the product contained "a lesser quantity of vegetable oils." The consumer alleged that "Golden Butter" on the packaging was misleading because "a reasonable consumer would have falsely concluded that the crackers were 'all or predominantly made with butter.'"
The court concluded that the allegations were implausible and dismissed the complaint as unsavory. The court found it persuasive that the packaging indicated that the product contained butter, and a review of the ingredients list confirmed that butter predominated over other oils and fat sources in the crackers.
The decisions in Boswell and Kamara confirm that the reasonable consumer standard continues to apply and provides a basis to attack implausible claims at the pleadings stage. While the case theory seems to be fizzling, the appetite for these cases by the plaintiffs' bar is not. Food and beverage manufacturers continue to face the risk of a challenge and should consider evaluating the overall context of statements on their labels to help minimize the risk of facing similar claims.
Copyright © 2022, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP.National Law Review, Volume XI, Number 320
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Mr. Guite focuses his litigation practice on class actions, involving ERISA, insurance, false advertising, commercial, construction and products liability matters. He regularly represents employers/plan sponsors, plan administrators and insurers in ERISA and fiduciary litigation involving health and welfare benefits, retirement benefits and compensation plans defending claims brought by individual participants or beneficiaries. In addition, Mr....
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"The Chancellor had a difficult path to tread in putting together his first Autumn Budget. Overall, the announcements have a small impact on the Exchequer, with changes averaging less than £2 billion on tax receipts of over £725 billion. However, there are significant changes lurking beneath the surface.
"First-time buyers receive a welcome benefit in the form of an SDLT cut, worth up to £5,000 on the purchase of properties up to £500,000. Wales gets control of SDLT from April 2018 and had already announced an increased zero-rate band – up to £150,000. The Scottish Government will no doubt consider whether to respond in their draft Budget on 14 December 2017.
"There had been speculation that the Government would cut the VAT registration threshold, following a report from the Office of Tax Simplification. In the end, the Chancellor chose to freeze the threshold at £85,000 for the next two years, which is estimated to bring an additional 4,000 businesses into VAT per year – and raise £10 million. There will be a consultation on possible cuts to the threshold. It's clear that a high threshold can incentivise business structures to avoid registration – but equally, it reduces costs and administration for the UK's smallest businesses.
"The Chancellor has picked up two issues in the public eye. There is a position paper on digital businesses, which suggests introducing turnover tax on models that rely on the collection of information from 'users' as a driver of value for the business. It will be essential to ensure that any changes do not disadvantage smaller, growing businesses which often make losses initially. Acting in accordance with a global consensus would be the most effective way to levy tax; the Digital Economy Taskforce will report to the G20 in April 2018. In addition, there will be a consultation on a 20% royalty withholding tax where royalties end up in a zero tax location.
"Foreign owners of commercial property will in future be liable to UK capital gains tax on gains accruing from April 2019. The government will consult on the scope of the measure and suggests it will not apply to foreign pension funds and certain institutional investors. In the UK, real estate investment trusts and pension funds are not taxed on property investment gains. A separate measure will introduce limits on interest deductions that can reduce UK tax liabilities on rents.


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Basic Punk Rhythm Guitar--Snare Feels Like Down Beat
I'm a pretty good guitarist, and I can play some tricky rhythms (weird time signatures, syncopation, some of the easier djent stuff) but I've always had trouble when my drummer starts to play anything that sounds punk. I like punk music a lot so this confused me at first, but I realized that it's because whenever I hear bass-snare-bass-snare played that fast, I feel the snare is the down beat since it stands out so much and that screws me up.
I programmed some drums into my sequencer and tried practicing over that and slowly speeding it up until it gets to the point where I get the downbeat mixed up. I'm gonna keep working on that, but does anybody have any other advice on this? This is a fundamental issue in my playing and I'd like to fix it.
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It sounds like the hihat is confusing you rather than bass-snare pair (drummer here). You might ask your drummer to play the hihat tightly closed and/or increasing the dynamics between the on-beat neck strokes and off-beat tip strokes which would after some time burn into your chip. – user1306 Dec 1 '12 at 0:29
Thanks, I know it's mainly the snare because I programmed a simple beat with just kick and snare and had the same issue, but I'll play along to some of our recordings to make sure that that's not also confusing me. – Mason Dec 1 '12 at 7:03
Actually, the fact that you've analyzed your playing to the point where you can describe where you're going wrong means you're halfway there, so good job so far.
Some additional practice suggestions:
Try feeling macrobeats: instead of listening for a pulse on every beat, listen for every two beats, or every full measure--thus de-emphasizing the snare:beat relationship.
Try changing your drum sequence to desensitize yourself to the snare sound and listen more for the bass drum sound. For example, instead of sequencing |:bass-snare-bass-snare:|, try |:bass-snare-snare-snare:|
Try practicing 16th note syncopations in a completely different context. Since punk music uses that 8th note rhythm pattern at a very fast tempo, when you are lining up with the snare, you are phasing yourself by an 8th note. In slower music, i.e. half tempo, that would be the same as phasing by a 16th note. So, I would suggest approaching that concept intentionally, so you get used to what it feels like to play long strings of syncopated 16th notes. You can do this in many ways--I might improvise over chord changes, or alter the rhythm of a standard tune, or just play scales. Specifically, you could set yourself up with a metronome that plays distinct downbeats and upbeats at about q = 80, and then practice your scales on even 8th notes, syncopated by a 16th note in either direction, switching phase on your way up or down the scale, playing equal-length dotted 8th notes... Essentially, my suggestion would be to practice your familiarity with different rhythmic permutations so you are used to hearing emphases on odd parts of the beat.
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Thanks a lot! I wasn't sure what kind of answers I would get, but these seem like really good ideas. I tried feeling the macrobeats before, that's what I do automatically but I do it wrong right now. That'll probably be better for picking up speed after I get it in my head that the snare isn't on a down beat. The |:bass-snare-snare-snare:| idea sounds like a really good idea, as does intentionally syncopating to get used to the way that feels. I'm gonna try these out tomorrow thanks! – Mason Nov 29 '12 at 6:20
I've made a lot of progress, I'm gonna practice more to make sure I retain it but I'm feeling the beat the right way now. If anyone has the same issue, the bass-snare-snare-snare beat helped a lot, I looped a measure of that followed by a measure of bass-snare-bass-snare (with cymbals to mark chord changes) and practiced over that at varying speeds. Trying to feel the macrobeats actually ended up helping a lot, just tapping the macrobeat with my hand to some punk songs for a while made a big difference, and I think of it that way when I play. I'm gonna mess with some syncopation now. – Mason Dec 1 '12 at 7:09
One idea might be to just play your guitar solo and focus on emphasizing the upbeat. "dana NANA dana NANA" sort of idea. It may be easier to keep track of where you are that way and not phase-shift over. And maybe count out loud at the same time, again emphasizing the upbeat: "one TWO three FOUR" or "one AND two AND" depending.
Another option is to invert the emphasis of a "normal" song. In addition to being pretty fun (IMO) it will let you directly compare the different emphases via something you're familiar with.
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Have you tried eighth-note hits on the bass drum (bbS-bbS-) instead of quarter-notes (b-S-b-S-)? Sometimes a variation like that, either straight or swung, can be easier to lock into. I'd try to find some pattern you can lock into more easily, then set up your sequencer to alternate between the two.
That generally tends to be easier, the issue is when I'm playing with a real drummer and they're playing a punk beat they usually just hit the bass drum on the down beat (or do some sort of heal-toe thing that adds another hit right before the snare.) It's not really the speed that gets me it's the different feel, the other responses have helped me a lot but I'll try practicing this way a bit there's always room to improve with this sort of thing. – Mason Jan 6 '13 at 20:15
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Sometimes the Windows 10 network connection will be classified automatically as public or private and it is not in the way as it should be. As this will affect firewall rules you sometimes get by a domain group policy. The effect is that your software cant communicate anymore when this was done wrong.
1. Open an Admin PowerShell Command Prompt.
3. Check the name from your network connection. Keep in mind when you have Security features like credential guard and/or HyperV enabled you will see more "Unidentified networks". You can safely ignore them. Here in my example the network is called "CAP".
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A Queer Novel About Falling In and Out of Love in Seoul
Smoke a frozen Marlboro Red with your best friend. Fall in love (stupidly). Dance in a sweaty gay club in Itaewon. Go on vacation. Fall in love, again (perhaps even more stupidly). Eat frozen blueberries alone. These are some of the many things Love in the Big City makes you want to do, inducing nostalgia for things you may or may not have experienced. Sang Young Park's English debut novel depicts the life of a lonely gay man in Seoul with verve, vulnerability, and a hearty dose of ironic humor.
Like the flashing 24-hour neon lights of Seoul, the prose is filled with exuberance and brilliance; simultaneously, it also illuminates those seemingly insignificant, quieter details, the overlooked corners of life. Young, the first-person narrator of the novel, meanders through jobs, relationships, and life goals. The novel is divided into four sections, loosely centered on Young's relationships with four different people. Given the title, I was expecting the book to be an exploration of modern urban romance. What I wasn't quite expecting was how Park also probes at different ways of loving (like the narrator's friendship with Jaehee) or lack thereof (his tenuous relationship with his ailing mother). Ultimately, for me, Love in the City is about both the absurd comedy and aching tragedy of growing up; more accurately, of growing up and then realizing there's not really anywhere left to go.
I corresponded with author Sang Young Park and translator Anton Hur over email, where we chatted about the role of humor in Park's work, the ecology of Seoul, and the current-day movement of queer Korean literature in translation.
Translations from Korean to English in this interview are done by Anton Hur, the translator for Love in the Big City. This interview was produced with support from the Literary Translation Institute of Korea.
Jaeyeon Yoo: How did you decide on the structure of the novel? Could you speak more about the title idea of "love," and how it's explored in the different sections?
Sang Young Park: As you mentioned, this novel is a kind of exploration of the different kinds of love that happens in a city. I wanted to cover friendship and maternal instinct and love between lovers, which includes sexual love as well. We often put all of these emotions under the umbrella of the word "love." As a writer who enjoys exploring emotions, I wanted to show all the facets of an emotion that is so often reduced to a single word. I think the word "love" is often used in a positive sense, but the love that I've experienced hasn't been unambiguously positive so much as complicated and sometimes even violent. I wanted the main character Young to show the reader the A to Z about love, which is what drew me to the structure I ended up with. It's because I wanted to show a different kind of love in every chapter that I ended up with four interconnected stories, a composite novel.
JY: The narrator of this book has an irresistible way of talking. I admire the dexterity of your prose, how he's able to shift between varying moods even within a paragraph; ironic, vulnerable, crass, wistful—he's got it all. Were there any particular inspirations for his voice?
We often put all of these emotions under the umbrella of the word 'love.' I wanted to show all the facets of an emotion that is so often reduced to a single word.
SYP: To be honest, the narrator's voice includes a lot of my own values and tone. I have what's basically a cynical worldview but at the same time, I try every day to overcome such cynicism with laughter. I think this attitude comes through in my style.
JY: Yes, I was struck by how the narrator uses dark humor and irony as a coping mechanism, not only for dealing with his medical condition but also for heartbreak, mother-son issues, and financial troubles. Could you talk more about the role of humor in your writing?
SYP: I think life is basically tragic. Everyone has their cross to bear, and it's how you accept this fact that's just about the only thing we get to choose. I've always thought laughter and humor was my defense mechanism and only weapon. Which is why the characters in my work also have no choice but to laugh in the face of sadness. I may write a bit differently in the future, however.
JY: Speaking of the narrator, I noticed that there are some clear similarities between the main narrator and what we learn of you, Sang Young Park the author. The narrator is referred to as "Young-ah," studied French, and is an aspiring author, constantly scribbling stories. I read this as intentional emphasis on the act of self-creation/representation—could you speak more about these choices?
SYP: For some novels, making assumptions about the distance between narrator and author takes on a literary and political meaning. I thought about this distance a lot while writing Love in the Big City. This novel is and always will be a work of fiction, and the "Young" in the novel isn't me. But by adding certain details that I, the writer, happen to be familiar with, I hoped the novel would read with more verisimilitude.
JY: You state in your wonderful essay on K-pop that "the ecology of cities has shaped every aspect of my thinking, writing, and way of living." Many Anglophone readers won't be as familiar with Seoul, and I wonder: how would you describe the "ecology" of Seoul, and how has it shaped your fiction? Perhaps a different way of framing this question is: what drew you to write about this city, which is as much of a character in the novel?
In Seoul, the neon signs are on 24 hours a day, you can get a drink at any time of the night, things change very quickly, and you meet all sorts of passionate people.
SYP: Seoul is one of the world's largest, most populous, and most dynamic cities in the world. I've traveled to many cities during my twenties and thirties, mostly to those places referred to as metropolises, and of those, I still found Seoul the most fun. The neon signs are on 24 hours a day, you can get a drink at any time of the night, things change very quickly and it's always the state of the art, and you meet all sorts of passionate people. I think that's the Seoul that shines through in my work. Moreover, Seoul is a place where minorities can maintain their anonymity, which makes it extra meaningful in the particular context of my narrative. All these thoughts coalesced to create the city in my novel.
JY: This book also got me thinking about the expectations around growing old(er). Could you talk more about these societal pressures of aging in Korea, which surface throughout the novel, and how these pressures might operate differently for queer people like the novel's narrator—who already don't fit into the heteronormative "get married and have a nuclear family" model?
SYP: Things are different now, but just a few years ago, we were very much in the thrall of "nuclear family romanticism." There was this belief in a "normal family," and a young man and woman coming together to have babies was considered the ultimate answer to the question of life. This ideology enabled all sorts of violence against anyone who attempted to break the mold of the "normal family," a violence against not just queer folk like the ones in my book but all individuals.
JY: I've been very excited to see more queer South Korean literature surface in the Anglophone world! Do you think it's a growing movement, or simply that readers are now more aware of the Korean authors that are writing queer literature?
There has always been queer literature in contemporary Korean literature—the first modern Korean short story is a queer story.
Anton Hur: If you're asking about Korean queer literature in general, I think it's a combination of both. There has always been queer literature in contemporary Korean literature—the first modern Korean short story is a queer story, and I've talked about queer Korean literature at length elsewhere.
But if you're asking about Korean queer literature in translation, that's a different story altogether. This latest plethora of queer Korean translations is definitely a deliberate movement on the part of certain Korean translators including Soje, Victoria Caudle, Paige Aniyah Morris, me, and a few others working very much in concert and as a movement. We very deliberately set out to translate outside of mainstream Korean literature and to bring out queer representation into translation. "What gets translated into English" is an extremely political question; note that the generation of translators before us are mostly missionaries or old white academics translating middle-aged cishet Korean men. We basically took out a legal pad, wrote "What would really piss off these dinosaurs?" at the top, and began listing them one by one.
JY: I know you previously translated a short story by Sang Young; what drew you to his writing?
AH: Basically what it came down to was, I read his sentences and thought, "This would lend itself really well to English translation." Because some authors really don't, and that's fine, but Sang Young's prose was very translation-ready. I asked him no questions during the translation, except one, which turned out to be a minor error that was corrected in printings later than the edition I owned. Because I have a certain style, the author I'm translating has to have a style that combines well with mine. (Translators who don't think they have a style are either delusional or lifelessly flat.) It's alchemical, and I know it when I see it. My mind immediately begins to translate the sentences as I read them, and that's when I know I have a winner.
JY: You did such an amazing job at crafting a distinct Anglophone voice for this narrator! What were some distinguishing characteristics about Sang Young's prose in Korean, and how did you try to convey these in English?
AH: Thank you! Sang Young's prose is very Anglo-Saxon. It drips with irony and humor. My instinct was to play this up and almost exaggerate it. I think the book in Korean is more chill than my translation, but I require a work to approach me as much as I approach it. I don't want my translation to read like an academic exercise, I want it to "work" in English as well. My authors have been very generous in this regard when it comes to translating them. They're much more interested in what I come up with than me mindlessly adhering to some polite idea of what a translation ought to be.
JY: Love in the Big City is deeply rooted in Seoul, scattered throughout with many local references; how did you choose what to contextualize?
'What gets translated into English' is an extremely political question; note that the generation of translators before us are mostly missionaries or old white academics translating middle-aged cishet Korean men.
AH: I feel like Sang Young does extremely well in contextualizing the different places. I recall that whole thing in the book where the horrible pseudo-progressive straight couple thinks Young lives in Apgujeong, and you don't need a footnote or whatever to explain what Apgujeong means to Korean readers because Sang Young's contextualization is so clear. So this wasn't really an issue in this translation, or really any of my translations as I recall. I think we should give readers more credit. I don't think any reader steps into the world of a book and expects to understand every single nuance of every single thing. We should help the reader, and I feel like I help the reader a lot—some have said I help them to a fault—but readers, on the whole, have been extremely generous in their readings of my translations, especially for Love in the Big City.
JY: What are you most excited for Anglophone readers to encounter in this book?
AH: I just want them to know that queer Korean culture exists. I used to have, say, Korean Americans come up to me and go, my parents say there are no gay people in Korea, and I'd be like, your parents when they lived here were obviously not very observant because there have always been queer people in Korea. There are queers in the Annals of the Joseon Dynasty for effing sake, give them a copy. But now, instead of the Annals, everyone can read Love in the Big City and have a lovely dinnertime book club chat about the topic. I am invested in the narratives that surround Korea and its literature. I think we have a really dynamic and incredible literary culture and it has been my mission as a translator to showcase that and change the colonialist and racist discourse around Korean literature to something that actually matches my lived experience as a Korean reader.
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After the Arab Spring: learning to love nature again
From "protect by punishment" to "protect by involving people": read about the peaceful revolution that is changing nature conservation in North Africa and the Middle East
The Endangered Barbary Macaque is benefiting from the work of local NGOs in Algeria © Elzbieta Szulmajer
By Shaun Hurrell
Our relationship with nature is dependent on more than the way the wind blows and the flowers bloom. During a period of societal turmoil, for example, nature can become an unlikely political symbol.
In Tunisia, Awatef Abiadh saw it happen during the Arab Spring: "The Protected Area system was established by the government without any consultation with local communities", she says. "Declared by law. Full-stop."
As such, during the Tunisian Revolution, people turned their resentment of an oppressive regime to collateral damage. "Locals ransacked Ichkeul, Bouhedma and Chaambi National Parks, taking threatened species like oryx and gazelle, and cutting many trees in anger against the government", she recalls.
For Abiadh, this showed there was a lack of harmony between local people and nature across the region, and today inspires her work for the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF), which has invested in bringing people together for conservation in the Mediterranean for the last five years.
During the uprising, protected areas in Tunisia became the unlikely symbol of the regime and were ransacked.
"I grew up in the countryside in Kairouan where I learned my first lessons about nature," says Abiadh. "We needed to use and exploit nature to earn our life, but we loved it and kept it close."
Abiadh started a career as a teacher, but in 2007 whilst working as a lecturer, she became involved with a series of wildlife surveys on Tunisian islands, because her supervisor was seasick and suggested she go instead.
Volunteering and a passion for conservation followed, and today she works as the Programme Officer for North Africa for the CEPF Mediterranean Hotspot, granting projects and helping non-governmental organisations (NGOs), large and new, with their social and environmental challenges.
"Since we started in the hotspot, we have contributed to a 180-degree change in conservation, from 'protect by punishment', to 'protect by involving more local people'", she says.
The project closest to her heart, and family home, is led by Notre Grand Bleu (NGB; "Our Big Blue"), a local group of nature enthusiasts and divers that emerged out of the Arab Spring into a fully-fledged NGO, and were granted by CEPF to protect the Kuriat Islands – and their Endangered turtles – from bad tourist management and fishing.
Kuriat is a positive story of hope, where NGB succeeded in forming the first ever co-managed committee for nature conservation in Tunisia. Jamel Jrijer, NGB, said: "Engaging locals in conservation activities gives them a sense of belonging and creates commitment to good environmental practice."
Kuriat is a story of hope: for the first time, a participatory approach was used in creating a nature reserve in North Africa.
KURIAT IS A STORY
OF HOPE.
A PARTICIPATORY
APPROACH WAS
USED IN CREATING
A NATURE RESERVE
Together with 18 stakeholders including government, research, tourism, and fishing, NGB are close to creating a Marine Protected Area that everyone is behind. Whilst the Arab Spring helped mobilise North African civil society, some organisations of course already existed.
AREA-ED, in neighbouring Algeria, was founded in 1998 and has worked to create the National Parks Babor and Tadabort, providing crucial high-altitude habitat for an endemic and Critically Endangered Algerian fir tree, resident fluffy monkeys, barbary macaque (Endangered), and bark-climbing Algerian Nuthatch Sitta ledanti (Endangered) – all threatened by fire, illegal logging and overgrazing.
A CEPF project in 2014 allowed AREA-ED to work in new ways. "Both of these projects are the first times a participatory approach has been used in creating protected areas in North Africa," says Abiadh. One lesson that has emerged from all 106 CEPF grants in the Mediterranean is that nature conservation is a powerful way of bringing diverse people together, and even just time spent in nature can be transformational for some.
When you see the smiles on people's faces at a turtle hatchling release on the Kuriat Islands, it's easy to understand; but perhaps nowhere is it more important than in trying to rebuild a country in Civil War: Libya.
With free press and other forms of civil activity banned during the 42-year long rule of Colonel Gaddafi, nature surveys, campaigns, and many things conservationists take for granted in their daily work in other countries, were impossible.
But since the Arab Spring and despite the Civil War in 2011, NGOs are forming in Libya, with some even receiving international funding.
This, thanks in part to support from CEPF – the first donor to directly fund a local environmental NGO in Libya since the Arab Spring began.
The pioneers of this movement, of which a large proportion are female, are fresh with energy and enthusiasm, and are seeing Libya's nature with new eyes (and binoculars). They include CEPF grantees the Libyan Society for Birds, who organised a birdwatching trip for local Scout children on World Wetlands Day and are furthering the country's ornithological knowledge; and the Libyan Wildlife Trust (LWT), who are introducing ecotourism to Alqarabolli.
These groups are lacking in experience, however: six years is not long enough to work out a country's conservation priorities, especially a country whose environmental laws were set in the 1990s by a ruthless dictator.
Now, with a 51 CEPF exchange project, conservation organisations from the Middle East are sharing their lessons and expertise to help build Libyan NGOs, including also the Oxygen Society, who aim to bring fresh air into people's lives in Alqarabolli by creating cultural activities relating to nature.
The first exchange, in Jordan in May 2016, was hosted by Sweimeh Association Charity, a small local NGO on the shores of the Dead Sea that works with villagers to conserve the surrounding natural habitat. "It was such a success", said Thuraya Waheeba, Oxygen Society. "I learnt a lot about establishing NGOs, ecotourism and integrated socio-economic development."
"In stark contrast to Libya," says Sharif Jbour, CEPF Project Officer for the Middle East, "civil society in Jordan is mature, with a governmental mandate to support not only large NGOs, but smaller-scale groups mostly formed by interested members of local communities, operating in and around important natural sites. This model is unique in the region and beyond Arabia."
Add the fact there is no language barrier, and it was the perfect location. The Libyan NGOs also visited nature reserves managed by Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature (RSCN, BirdLife in Jordan), who have a 100% local-employment policy and natural handicraft workshops. "Jordan's rich biodiversity is beautiful, and inspired some new ideas to suit our conditions in Libya", says Abdalnaser Binnayil, LWT.
Six years ago you would not have expected a Libyan environmental organisation to be in existence, let alone exploring ecotourism as a means of nature conservation.
Despite a low level of species endemism (4% unique to the country) Libya certainly has some great natural assets. With nearly 1,770 km of Mediterranean coast and a vast semi-arid region leading to the Sahara Desert, there are reefs and ponds; plus salt marshes and mud flats for migratory birds. "Ecotourism is a realistic opportunity for Libya once conditions allow," says Abiadh.
"Wherever people have free time, they enjoy spending it in nature. In Tunisia, we have ecotourism projects that are still receiving a lot of local visitors, and from abroad e.g. Algeria."
However, rather than a rosy picture of NGOs blossoming out of political turmoil and civil war in North Africa, of course the reality is a lot more complex, more problematic, with not all civil society mobility being positive (think: more weapons, terrorism). But for a nascent nature conservation movement, CEPF has laid the seeds, and the green shoots are sprouting.
"Young people are now seeing Libya's nature afresh", says Abiadh. "The role of civil society organisations is crucial to conciliate local people with nature from the outset." Maybe, just maybe, this will contribute to a more stable region.
This work is through the investment of the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) in the Mediterranean.
Find out more at www.birdlife.org/cepf-med
The Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) is a joint initiative of l'Agence Française de Développement, Conservation International, the European Union, the Global Environment Facility, the Government of Japan, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the World Bank. Additional support in the Mediterranean Basin is provided by the MAVA Foundation. A fundamental goal is to ensure civil society is engaged in biodiversity conservation.
CEPF is more than just a funding provider
A dedicated Regional Implementation Team (RIT) (expert officers on the ground) guides funding to the most important areas and to even the smallest of organisations, helps build civil society in the region, and shares learned lessons and best practices such as those featured in this booklet. In the Mediterranean Basin Biodiversity Hotspot, the RIT is entrusted to BirdLife International and its national Partners LPO and DOPPS.
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