A decent yoga practice is one of the most effective things anyone can do to sustain themselves, and when it comes to sustainability for the planet, yoga holiday companies are leading the way inside the wellbeing holiday industry.
Yoga is accessible to anyone who wants to try it, from the stiff-bodied and injured to the flexible and strong, from children and students to their grandmas and grandpas, from mums and dads to professionals.
Don't be overwhelmed by the increasing range of yoga 'styles' out there – in essence, the yoga that most people in the West practice in one form or another is Raja, the yoga of physical and mental control.
Here's our pick of some of the best yoga holidays out there that are also making efforts to take care of the planet as well as you.
This glorious back-to-nature retreat overlooking Loch Awe and set amidst forests, streams and waterfalls is run by owners who are genuinely committed to green living. Come for Ashtanga-based yoga breaks with delicious vegan meals as well as an outdoor bath by a wild river, an underground sauna and a solar powered hot tub. It's completely off grid and heated by hydro electricity which is made onsite, and the water is heated by solar thermal systems. All food waste is composted (or fed to the chickens), and as much other waste as possible is recycled. Eco-friendly shower gels are made by Faith in Nature, and they sell bamboo toothbrushes. Read more.
This delightful 60 acre private island is a working organic olive farm where they pick and produce their own table olives and olive oil. Come for week-long holidays with hand-picked teachers, stay in white-washed houses and enjoy delicious Mediterranean veggie meals using locally-sourced food. It's off grid, they use solar power for heating and light, collect and filter rainwater, and use grey water for the garden. Cotton slippers are made with coconut fibre cut-offs, and reusable water bottles are provided. All waste is recycled, wet waste composted, and 100% natural and biodegradable bathroom products and insect repellent are made by a local mum and daughter team. Read more.
Classical hatha teacher Tamsin Chubb offers yoga holidays at her rural home in Gascony and in India. Come to cleanse, learn about Ayurveda, have treatments, do twice-daily yoga classes and enjoy walking, wild swimming, markets and cultural sights. Tamsin treats her staff like cherished family members, buys her organic produce locally and uses her own garden fruits in cooking. She collaborates with Mossy Earth, so guests can give a tree to re-wild areas that have suffered de-forestation. In India, Tamsin gives back 10% of her profits to support a school for orphaned children, and provides one local school teacher with yoga teacher training each year. Read more.
An organic farm and eco-village circled by the Galgiriyawa mountains where monks still live in remote temples and caves, Ulpotha offers yoga holidays with a changing rosta of international teachers, ayurveda treatments and a silky-smooth natural lake to swim in. It runs a free Ayurvedic clinic for the local community, and the whole estate is run by a committee of six villagers, who make all the decisions about finances, staffing and supplies too. No plastic is used here, and the owners are passionate about water conservation and traditional farming methods. Seeds from the main staple – organic red rice – are offered freely to any local farmers who are willing to grow it organically. Read more.
Set up by inspirational London-based yoga teacher Francesca Quaradeghini, these brilliant yoga retreats run all over the world and include family-friendly offerings. Choose a chateau in France, private houses in Italy and Barbados, Alladale in Scotland or Knowlton Estate in the UK – or go to the beautiful Ashok Tree Retreat Centre in Tamil Nadu, Yogoloji's 'give back' retreat in India. Here its charity, The Ashok Tree Foundation, is run exclusively by volunteers and puts yogic principles into action. There's a free primary school on site, free Ayurvedic consultations and treatments with an Ayurvedic doctor for villagers and free wellness clinics for local women, while Ayurvedic herbs and organic food are grown onsite for children and retreat guests and regularly distributed to the elderly. Retreat guests can choose to get involved as much or as little as they choose. Check out the charity here and the company here.
A cosseting destination spa near Rishikesh, Ananda offers different kinds of yoga classes and retreats including a Self Realisation programme with personalised one-on-one hatha yoga sessions and daily meditation. The spa supports organic local farmers and sources 90% of its ingredients locally. It uses reusable glass water bottles with a water bottling plant on site, recycles water for its gardening, recycles its rubbish and sends its food waste to a local pig farm. Ananda also collects a voluntary monetary contribution from each guest and pools an equivalent amount towards vocational training of underprivileged girls, also helping to employ them. It has adopted local schools for underprivileged children, and helps to maintain these schools. Read more.
Looking for more yoga holiday ideas? For full, in-depth reviews of yoga holidays and more ideas including sustainability credentials check out Queen of Retreats, Caroline's curated collection of retreats that have all been reviewed and rated by either herself or other trusted writers and wellbeing buffs.


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Egan Bernal returns to competition at the Tour of Denmark
The 2019 Tour de France and 2021 Giro d'Italia champion Egan Bernal will compete again in the Tour of Denmark on Tuesday, August 16, eight months after his serious accident while training in Colombia.
"Egan Bernal has made remarkable progress in recent months to return to racing with the team, testament to the cyclist's focus and dedication, the rigorous efforts of his medical team and the many who have supported him throughout his recovery process. return to high competition", ", indicated the INEOS Grenadiers team in an official statement.
Further on, it specifies: "After an evaluation this past weekend, the Team INEOS Grenadiers medical team authorized the Colombian to return to compete from this very Tuesday, being part of the INEOS Grenadiers line-up at the Tour of Denmark."
On his part, owner Egan pointed out: "After what happened to me in January, the moment I was waiting for finally arrived. The one to compete again with my teammates. I cannot express how difficult the last eight months have been for me, both physically and mentally. That day and the journey I have undertaken since then will be a part of me forever, it is something I will never forget."
"Just as I will not be able to forget the support I have received from my family, my girlfriend, the INEOS team and my fans. As human beings, we truly trust each other in our times of need, and this year has been a time of need for me. I can't thank everyone who has been there for me enough. That support has been invaluable in motivating me every day to work very hard to be able to compete again. To all of you, a sincere thank you." Egan concluded.
"When you think about where Egan was just eight months ago, it's amazing the progress he's made. He has shown the world the true strength of his character and has shown remarkable courage to get himself competitive again. We are still in a process with By Sergio Urrego
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Q: Must "Eldest" Always Apply To People? If you have a collection of things that are related to one another, can you use "eldest" to denote the oldest, or should that term only be used with respect to people?
Another question on this site: What's the difference between "eldest" and "oldest"?, partly explains when "eldest" may be used, but doesn't clarify if it must always pertain to a person or persons, or whether "eldest" can be also applied to things which are not people.
To give an example, I wrote in a comment elsewhere today:

As a lifelong Phone Phreak, I can only look back on what was once the Bell System with fond memories. It, and the Bell operating companies that Verizon originated from, are as much a thing of the past as the Pullman Company that manufactured our eldest Red Line trains.

I chose to use "eldest" rather than "oldest", because I wanted to express a certain respect for something that was built in a previous era, yet has endured longer than expected. I wanted to suggest the sort of respect one would associate with an elderly person who had reached a ripe old age.
To explain, here in Boston, there is a family with three or four models of Red Line trains. They're related to one another, but from different generations. The oldest were manufactured in 1969 by a once great American company whose name was synonymous with train car (and luggage). These trains have far exceeded their expected lifetime, but are still in service every day.
Was it grammatically correct to use "eldest" in this context?

A: Thanks to anthropomorphic personification you can treat anything like a person.  Just think of it as a person.  For example, my computer sometimes gets moody and won't talk to me until I give her a little break from work.
That said, What's the difference between "eldest" and "oldest"? In a nutshell it's that the set of things being compared in age must be related in some way for eldest to have meaning.  If it could be said that your four models of Red Line trains are from the same family (and you already have) then referring to one as the eldest is simply keeping the family metaphor going.
So, it's not literally true, but it is grammatically correct.  Grammar doesn't care about literal truth.

A: A common term in card games is the 'eldest hand', the hand first deal a card.  The word definitely does not apply only to people.

A: Maybe the difference is more obvious with elder-older.
elderly - somewhat old but with some prospect still ahead
elder, eldest is suggesting rank, influence, respect, importance
older, oldest is just about age
her eldest son could mean oldest surviving child or first-born, so it contains a grain of respect
No, you do not have to use it with people, but it is suggesting a different perspective anyway. However it is still an anthropomorphic adjective.
elder may have the meaning of earlier days, my elder custom = previous custom that I do not hold any longer, but it is still anthropomorphic.

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The Education of and "In Honor of Pie as Art"….
Inviting folks wandering around Traverse City to stop by the Art-Off and Pie Social at Right Brain Brewery on Saturday, June 11th, 3-6 PM….and….
"….The thing about a pie crust is the way it feels. Pie crust, ingredients combined with human hands, becomes a living thing. And, like any other living thing and with the human who's hands mix, shape and roll it out; it breathes. If there is no breath, there is no life or goodness going into that pie. And then, what is the point?
Pie therapy. A way to bring life. as I know it, back into balance. Much needed, as always, in this present moment. All lists of this and that are inconsequential. Conversations and tellings cease. A gathering of ingredients, an open-space with elbow room. Counter tops at the proper height. Pie as art, and in the making. Ahh….I'm feeling I'm in the right place for pie-making, and it's been a very long time.
Pies happen often. The pies I bake are ceremonial. There is a real and unspoken need for them. My pies have taught me their purpose; to be shared and eaten with intention and reverent thanks. A crust carefully concocted with a filling inspired; binds those sitting round it. Around it and within it, as it were.
Sometimes it feels right to make declarations, once you realize them. And, so I'll make two: I'm not a kitchen witch. Like many good women before me, I'm a pie witch. And like this Summer Solstice day, and this pie-making endeavor I'm embarking on, it seems good energy is coming into balance already.
As I tie on my grandmothers' purple checked and cross-stitched Cinderella apron, I wonder out loud to my son, will this new heat box do it's part? How many pies can I fit in this tiny tot of an easy-bake oven? He wanders in and out of our little kitchen as I work. These rituals have been going on for most of his twenty-something life, and it gives me a mama-thrill that he is here with me now, on the longest day of this year, to witness, and to later partake.
My pies are created for artistic delight, well-being, and, for love. And sharing is essential. Eating a pie alone is like trying to take over the world. Pies are not for selfish eaters. I pity the fools who have mocked and perverted pies in Hollywood movies. Like pie therapy, there is also pie karma. So, if you live alone, I suggest you think about the sharing part well in advance of rolling out the crust. I myself schedule one or two "Pie Socials" each year for a larger, community gathering and pie-healing through my O'k CSAe bizness.
In my new little oven, I was able to bake four; one big mama, two little pot pies, and a turnover. Good even heat, not much bubbling over. Pulled out and cooling 40 minutes later, shared with my family and with our new neighbors.
Combine above ingredients, let sit for 15 minutes.
Once the crust ingredients are mixed, maybe a little crumbly still, but mostly wet and softly-breathing…put the pie crust bowl into the refridge to chill for 10 minutes more. Pre-heat the oven to 425 degrees.
Roll cold crust, fill with your lovely filling, lay at least 6 chunks of butter on top of filling, roll out top crust, cut your signature design on the top, sprinkle with a bit of sugar and put it in the oven.
Bake ten minutes at 425, then turn the oven down to 350 degrees. Usually another 30 minutes check to see if the filling is bubbling. Let it bubble out a few more minutes, before removing it from the oven.
In order to have a Community Garden we need to gather a community of people, and so we plan to host a series of monthly Community Garden Gatherings to both mobilize our on-site gardeners, as well as encourage other folks in Tc neighborhoods to consider beginning their own gardens, to do the same.
I've been a community gardener since 1980, when I was a college art student, living in an apartment in Lansing, Michigan. That adds up to 31 years, and I can hardly believe it.
This summer, I'll write a few garden notes each week and share thoughts about my experiences as a community gardener. I'll also like to share some of the of results of a survey that was written by and given by students in the Tc/NW MI Permaculture Design Course, last winter to a handful of our 2010 barns property Community Gardeners.
What did you gain by having a Community Garden experience?
Numbers are an interesting language for me, and not one that I tend to use very often. But with the task of next steps for our Urban Farming Collective project and Little Artshram mission, and, with great respect for the folks who participated, and those who use the "number language" I see great value. This question and the responses, are especially telling of a possible need to grow and move beyond what has obviously been and will continue to be beneficial, singular experiences for gardeners; to perhaps an opportunity to deepen and connect "to a sense of community and making new friends".
Does that sound silly or too touchy feely? A sense of community and making new friends? To me it sounds like a darn, good idea, which is easier said than done, in these virtual world times.
Mostly through volunteer efforts, Little Artshrams' organization has put in several years of design and development for the community garden on the barns property and now also sponsors a tiny, little garden on Front St., as well. Even when space for a community garden is provided, managed and shared it doesn't mean that we easily practice and immediately re-learn some of those forgotten skills of being together and sharing land to benefit ourselves and our families. We are creatures of habit, and the "habit" of our post-industrial world has been to consume and take over; and now we are all waking up to the reality that we must re-learn conservation, and what "limit to growth" means.
My teaching ground, providing a perfect classroom and place to relearn and practice those skills, has been several community gardens, in both Lansing and Traverse City, and also the woods and forests where I grew up in Central Michigan, and where I now live in Northern Michigan.
All of the garden plots I've rented have been laid out in so many square feet, which also replicates a fenced-in, land-owning and property line system. Nothing like the random, guild-growing forests. Whether I'm conscious of it or not, even the most well-meaning of us, still operate within a paradigm or thought-system that we are to be separated, and that fences are good and necessary especially where deer and other wilder than human life-forms roam. I don't necessarily disagree when it comes to protecting the garden that I plant. But we also set ourselves up as gardeners and earth-loving caretakers, to think of ourselves, only connected by choice. It's one of those tricky things that a non-fixed, big-brained species must deal with. Bless our well-meaning, big-headed, individual hearts and feet!
At the community garden, we encourage everyone to respect the boundaries between neighboring plots. But, we are also believers of promoting the "Mother-Earth reality check" that there is indeed a large, wide net cast over us, connecting us all in a community garden. Pretty much, it's not to be ignored.
And, also, not to be ignored is the humbling part of that reality check, which despite all good and loving "mothering" intentions, the truth is that a net is woven with "many holes, gaps, and even a few tears in it"…(quoting in part author, Lousie Erdrich). Which of course also, means many hands make light work, and also many hands make much work!
So what is this BIG work, when all we wanted was a little piece of ground to grow food on because we live in the city, or our yards are full of shade from magnificent trees, or perhaps covered with concrete and asphalt? Well, community gardening creates a pretty BIG family, and the good news is we don't have to get along, and the bad news is we don't have to get along. So what is the plan? How do we share land and garden together?
Through our Little Artshram work, I'm learning to encourage, as both guide and working agreement, a reference and reverence to nature as our teacher or mediator. As a gardener I'm learning to mimick and plant a garden as naturally occurs in this greater, wide Mother-Earth net, with fantastic results. Likewise, we can organize community projects and gatherings with a framework of principles and ethics to guide us, similarly, remembering that we are part of nature working, not separated from it.
We can become better gardeners or "soil-managers", get a grip on our desire for "quick results" and also help temper our tempers during difficult times, while choosing to respect and honor what perennial plants teach us about time and growth patterns.
Here's an easy to remember growth-cycle lesson passed on from one of my teachers: "First year, sleep; Second year creep; Third year leap".
It seems like, if we humans are willing to go into our "plant-minds" and we keep applying that growth-cycle in seasonal rounds….which means the cycle repeats and repeats itself…..we will become more deeply connected, in a self-renewing, self-fertilizing system.
Community gardening can humbly teach us we are all beginners, taking advice and direction ultimately from a little plot of earth on a planet that we are privileged to share with a few, million other plants, animals and other species.


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New U.K. Kitemark Scheme To Comply With Novel Food Rules
BusinessE.U. Novel Food
Futher evidence U.K. CBD companies will have to comply with the E.U. Novel Food directive have emerged in the last few days.
Following a press release from the Centre for Medical Cannabis (CMC) saying it is looking to launch a new CBD Kitemark scheme, in collaboration with the Food Standards Agency (FSA) – CBD Testers contacted the CMC and the FSA.
This is what the CMC told us: "We have had a clear message from the FSA that the industry can no longer operate in the legal grey-area in which it currently sits. No current initiatives focus on legal compliance, which is necessary for an industry of this scale. We are currently working with FSA, and members, on the details of the kitemark and more specifics will be announced early Q4."
Authorities Seeks Novel Food Compliance
Its earlier press release, which prompted the follow up questions, it outlined its position on the new Kitemark scheme; 'The Cannabinoid Industry Quality Charter'.
"The (Kitemark) move comes following a series of high-level meetings with senior officials in U.K. government departments and regulatory agencies which they clearly highlighted the need for 'novel foods' compliance in order for products containing CBD to be fully legal in the U.K. marketplace."
Just to recap, quickly, in January this Year the E.U. ruled CBD a 'Novel Food' and those who make and sell CBD need to secure an authorization from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
This costs a minimum of £200,000 and the European Industrial Hemp Association has led the way in demonstrating that cannabis, and CBD have been in use across Europe, and elsewhere for thousands of years – and therefore should not be classified as 'novel'.
With CBD retailers fearful U.K. Trading Standards officers are poised to pounce and strip their shelves of product all eyes are focused on the FSA.
CBD Sales Cannot Continue
The FSA is the regulatory body responsible for ensuring compliance with E.U. and U.K. government regulations and it is playing a waiting game, saying it is working with the industry on developing a 'proportionate response'. It told CBD Testers that this position hasn't changed and its spokesperson added: '(we are) currently considering the best way to allow CBD food-related products currently on the market to move towards compliance.
Continuing: "This will include the timely provision of acceptable safety information, without which sales of the product to the consumer could not continue. We will update our position when we have completed those considerations." And, it also provided CBD Testers with the following, attributed to Michael Wight, Head of Food Safety Policy at the FSA.
Pleased to See Novel Food Compliance
"We are aware of the Cannabinoid Industry Quality Charter launched by the Centre for Medicinal Cannabis and are pleased it advocates compliance with the Novel Food Regulations.
"CBD extracts are considered novel foods under E.U. law and we expect companies to comply with the novel foods process, which includes providing safety information to the EFSA in support of their specific products. We will continue to monitor food safety aspects of CBD and will undertake further risk assessments if needed."
The FSA confirmed it has spoken to all of the main trade bodies including; The Cannabis Trades Association (CTA), CannaPro, The European Industrial Hemp Association, The British Help Association and the CMC.
Smokescreen For Regulation
The largest of these is the CTA, with over 900 members. It believes the Novel Food ruling it little more than a 'smokescreen for the authorities to clamp down' on the unregulated CBD industry.
Its chairman Mike Harlington recently told CBD Testers that 'in conjunction with EFSA' it is working on on a 'legal route, that doesn't involve a (Novel Food) application, is more likely to eventually lead to market stabilisation, and isn't going to take 2 years plus to happen'.
CannaPro, which likewise has its own regulatory standard, has recently cancelled the certificate of one company for compliance failures. Peter Reynolds, of CannaPro, believes the latest developments show how quickly the industry is changing.
Most Businesses Will Not Survive
"It was the small businesses that built this industry and while some of them will still survive, most will not. Many of these, and their trade bodies such as ourselves, want to resist Novel Foods, and the EIHA has done some excellent work on this, but the industry is now being taken over by big business."
He went on to say that the CMC is a relatively new entrant into the CBD arena and it has been successful in securing high-profile media coverage for its initiatives due to its 'wealthy backers and well-honed PR machine'.
However, he believes there may still be some breathing space for CBD companies with the U.K.'s looming Brexit proving too much of a distraction for regulatory agencies and government. Mr Reynolds said: "They really don't know what to do, until October 31, when we will be out or there will be a further delay.
Brexit Breathing Space
"So I don't think anything's going to happen until then, and even after that the chances of any significant enforcement measures against small shops won't happen, and we'll more than likely trundle along." But looking ahead to the future he sees the CBD industry changing 'significantly'.
He added: "Longer term it is quite clear that from now on CBD is for big business and there will three to four major producers, with Novel Food authorisations, delivering white label products, with all the big retailers getting on board."
The FSA would not be drawn when pressed by CBD Testers for any guidance regarding timelines for potential changes to its existing stance.
The post New U.K. Kitemark Scheme To Comply With Novel Food Rules appeared first on CBD Testers.
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Rebuilding with care
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Carolyn Kincade creates oral implants to help restore confidence, function
Carolyn Kincade's role in helping cancer survivors improve their lives following treatment is both challenging and fulfilling. The 33-year-old osseointegration technologist is sensitive to the fact that those she helps have good days, as well as tough ones.
For five years, she has worked with a team of health professionals to create dental implants and prosthetics, rebuilding faces for people who have undergone major head and neck surgeries. Restoring a person's confidence is an outcome not lost on Carolyn.
"Essentially we bring back the smile," says Carolyn (Bachelor of Technology in Technology Management '17, Dental Laboratory Technology '07). "We're making them something unique and customized to them so they can enjoy dinner with their family, go out in public or just enjoy life."
Edmonton's Institute of Reconstructive Sciences in Medicine (iRSM) opened Carolyn's eyes to what would be possible in her career. She knew the world-leading clinic was where she wanted to be when she first toured the facilities as a NAIT student.
As part of a team of surgeons, prosthodontists, researchers, dental assistants, hygienist and industrial designers, she works with cancer survivors from Alberta and across Canada.
"We're making them something unique and customized to them so they can enjoy dinner with their family, go out in public or just enjoy life."
Carolyn says her studies at NAIT provided the hands-on experience and technology-based training she wanted and allowed her to jump into industry.
"The introduction of digital technology into the dental world has been absolutely amazing," she says. "NAIT has been nothing but useful in my role here at iRSM."
That experience gave her the skills needed to transform the lives of patients who have seen their facial features severely altered by the life-saving surgeries to remove tumours. A piece of leg bone can be used to replace part of the jaw, but not without changes to physical appearance, hence the need for oral implants.
Carolyn relies on a blend of new technologies such as 3D printers and traditional materials such as wax and artificial teeth to create customized oral prosthesis.
The hands-on work requires precision and a keen eye for details, studying patient photos and reference materials, but also close collaboration with patients and their friends and family.
"If they had a big gap in their front teeth [before surgery], some patients want that reproduced in their final prosthesis," she says. "Others will be like, 'No, I always hated that. Let's get rid of that.'"
Handing over a finished implant to a patient can be one of the final stages of rehabilitation after months or years of treatments and staring down mortality.
"Delivery days are the best days. It's the happiest thing for a patient so it's really exciting to be able to see the happy ending.
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Tracking Experiments Across Multiple Google Ads Accounts [Case Study]
By Dan Rocklin | @punkrocklin | Sr. Account Strategist at Brainlabs | November 11, 2020
Testing new ideas is a core component of digital marketing strategy – in fact, our agency believes it is the core component. Experimentation, whether it be ad copy, a landing page, a bid strategy, or new campaign type, allows each advertiser to hone in on the most effective tactics for them, and iterate on successes without risking huge downsides.
That test and learn approach gets complicated, though, when testing one change across multiple campaigns or accounts. Last month, I outlined some general tips for managing an advertiser whose campaigns are spread across multiple CIDs (and reflected on the legacy of a 2001 Palm d'Or nominee). In this month's post, we'll expand on that topic, taking a deep dive into tracking and presenting test results when testing a change across multiple accounts.
One of our clients advertises multi-family housing for roughly 250 different properties, each with their own advertising account and goals. One aspect of working with this client that is particularly exciting and gratifying is the ability to evaluate tactics more quickly in the aggregate more quickly than we would be able to if just looking at the data for one particular account. In this particular case, we have been testing the inclusion of Responsive Display Ads in remarketing campaigns that had previously been running just image ads. (note: for a primer on Responsive Display Ads, see Andrew Harder's excellent post on the topic here).
One issue that made measuring the performance of these RDAs relative to the traditional image ads tricky is that the RDAs were not added and enabled all at the same time. As such, we had to devise a method for tracking performance for each RDA relative to the image ads in its same campaign group only after the RDAs had been enabled in that campaign. Otherwise, we would risk including data from image ads that had been running previously, which would capture differences in performance due to seasonality as well as ad type. To try to pull and update that data manually across so many different campaigns and accounts would have been an unreasonable investment of person hours.
The Solution: Automated Data Queries And Google Sheets
Instead, we created a query (using Supermetrics, but also possible with other tools such as the Google Ads add-on) to pull data for each account into a Google Sheet, segmented by ad type, campaign name, and date. We then created a separate tab to record the date the RDA was implemented for each account. Finally, we created a client-facing tab that presented the performance of the RDAs relative to the image ads for each account. You can see a screenshot of that table below:
This approach allows the client to see how the RDAs are performing in the aggregate, as well as the performance for each particular campaign and account. In this case, you can see that the RDAs typically outperformed the traditional image ads. From here, this data can help you unlock more productive conversations like:
Do we recommend the thing that was tested for all accounts moving forward?
For the accounts where the test did not outperform the legacy strategy, are there commonalities that could explain the performance?
Are there any major outliers where we'd recommend removing one ad type or the other from the campaign?
For those of you interested in duplicating this sort of approach in your own work, here are some of the technical aspects related to how we set up this reporting table. In hidden columns there are sumif formulas that reference the raw data being fetched by our automated query. Those sumif formulas reference both the campaign name and the date such that each cell is only pulling in data for dates post-test-launch and for the intended campaign and ad type. For example, the formula to sum impressions for a campaigns' RDA impressions looks like this (with the referenced columns and cells identified in parentheses):
=sumifs('Raw Data'!F:F (impressions),'Raw Data'!$D:$D (date),">="&$F21 (date launched),'Raw Data'!$L:$L (campaign name and ad type concatenation),$C21(campaign name)&"Responsive Display Ad")
Testing is more important than ever when managing the digital marketing of a complex business. Sometimes, though, the structure of that business makes it difficult to conduct tests in an organized manner that allows for an analysis of both aggregate and specific data. Creating a system for doing so in advance is essential to ensuring that you'll be able to make data-driven decisions. The case above outlines one particular strategy for presenting and analyzing experimental data across multiple CIDs, but aspects of that strategy could be adapted to a variety of situations, including intra-account data across multiple campaigns. The main takeaway from this is not necessarily that the strategy outlined here should be duplicated exactly, but rather that it is essential that account managers consider how they can present the results of those tests efficiently and effectively
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Reports of a painful injury to Australia's leading wicket-taker could have expected the back-page treatment in past Ashes campaigns; particularly if the bowler in question was a spinner and his ailment a finger dislocation. But Nathan Hauritz's career has seldom been one for the headlines.
Yes, Nathan Hauritz. The player who has taken nine wickets in the series - four more than the combined haul of Graeme Swann and Monty Panesar - without creating so much as a ripple. The man whose courage in returning to the field barely an hour after his spinning finger was contorted at right angles has attracted only scant mention. The only Australian bowler, along with Ben Hilfenhaus, considered a certainty for Edgbaston.
Had any of the aforementioned scenarios concerned, say, Shane Warne, tales of success and derring-do would presumably have dominated television bulletins, newspaper columns and a good chunk of cyberspace. As it stands, Hauritz will head to Birmingham only slightly less anonymous than he was in the period leading in to Cardiff, but with an importance to the team growing by the match.
The final month of the Ashes series promises to be a painful affair for Australia's frontline spinner. The finger dislocated by a thunderous Andrew Strauss drive on the first morning at Lord's is still causing him discomfort, particularly early in his spells. But, cognisant of his place in Ricky Ponting's plans, Hauritz is not entertaining notions of a break or a back-seat role. His lot is to grip it and grit it.
"The finger was extremely painful at first," Hauritz told Cricinfo. "I was pretty concerned for a while that I wouldn't be able to grip or spin the ball. But I had a few things to numb the pain, and then getting two wickets pretty quickly after I came back on to bowl helped me forget about it a bit.
"It probably needs four weeks' rest to be fully right, but that's obviously not going to happen in this series. It's pretty painful for the first few overs of a day, and it will probably be like that for a while until I'm warmed up. I'm not all that concerned, though. I can still grip the ball okay. It's just going to be a case of plenty of ice when I can and sucking it up."
A nominee for cricket's equivalent of the Purple Heart he may be, but Hauritz isn't expecting his deeds to win over England's fans and media anytime soon. Upon arrival in the UK, the 27-year-old found himself thrust into an unusual position - headlines - but with the Sun's "No-Hoper Hauritz" setting the tone, it was notoriety he could have lived without.
"I read a fair bit of what was being said about me early on in the tour, and I obviously heard a bit in the crowd," he noted with self-deprecating resignation, not bitterness. "It just got to a point where I was sick of seeing bad stuff, so I stopped reading after the game in Hove and just focused on what it was I had to do. I had copped an absolute hiding to that point, and because I hadn't bowled all that well, a lot of it was probably the truth. But I didn't need to read that. I knew that that wasn't my best game, but on the whole I was bowling okay and just had to get used to the conditions."
And the fans? "At Lord's you seem to get more respect from the crowd, but in Cardiff I got slagged off a fair bit," he continued. "That said, probably the funniest one I've got so far was when I was going out to bat at Lord's [in the second innings] and one of the old MCC members leaned over and said, 'I'll see you soon, youngster.' I was out five balls later and as I walked back he just said, 'I told you so.'"
That Hauritz can laugh in the face of failure says much for the quiet confidence he now possesses. It was not always thus. Barely two years ago, with his first-class career in freefall at Queensland, a desperate and despondent Hauritz opted to leave home and head south to the spin-friendly climes of Sydney. He did so with no state offer on the table - indeed, NSW had just completed a successful swoop for the West Australian, Beau Casson, and were not in search of another slow bowler - but a humility and willingness to allow some of the best spinning minds in the country to recalibrate him.
Success came slowly. Ranked behind the centrally contracted Casson, Hauritz first found his mark in the Blues' one-day side and later the NSW second XI. Infrequent first-class appearances followed, gradually increasing as Casson's confidence and form tapered.
"When I made the decision to move down to NSW, there was no Australia for me, I guess," he recalled. "I was in a rut and at a stage where the opportunities weren't coming for Queensland, but deep down I still felt I was good enough to play for Australia. So I came down to NSW, really wanting to learn about spin. Just working with guys like Greg Matthews, Murray Bennett and David Freedman helped me learn what it was to be a spinner. Being used as an attacking option for NSW really opened my eyes and changed my mind to what spin bowling could be. It was fantastic to have that backing, and not just be brought into the attack for a few overs here and there around the 65th over of a match."
Then came the most stunning development of all. Despite modest state form, Hauritz was called into the Australian squad for the Adelaide Test against New Zealand after Jason Krejza, the nation's senior spinner at that point, rolled his ankle at training. While surprised at the recall, Hauritz was also quietly confident that, both mentally and mechanically, he was a bowler far improved from the one who had sparkled and faded at Wankhede Stadium four years prior.
"When I was going out to bat at Lord's, one of the old MCC members leaned over and said, 'I'll see you soon, youngster.' I was out five balls later and as I walked back he just said, 'I told you so' "
"The last time I played for Australia, I was definitely overawed when someone came at me and tried to whack me around," he said. "I didn't really know how to respond. Now I see a situation like that as a challenge, and I have plans and experience to draw on. I was extremely lucky that the Australian selectors were really keen to play a finger-spinner back then.
"Really, I didn't know anything. I didn't know my action, I didn't know what to do under pressure. I am still learning - especially about how to bowl to individual batsmen and which field setting to use. But I know 300 times more now than I did then."
Benched for all three Tests of Australia's triumphant tour of South Africa, Hauritz arrived in England unsure as to what his Ashes objectives should be. A few Tests? A wickets target? Or something altogether loftier? Answers were elusive as the Australian brains trust sought to strike the right balance for its youthful attack.
There is no such mystery now. Rounding the bend for Birmingham, Hauritz finds himself in the decidedly Warne-esque position of leading the series wicket-takers' list, along with Hilfenhaus, and in a position to chart a course ahead. He has done so without the prodigious turn, prolific bursts and all-round melodrama of his spin-bowling predecessor, but with stealth and consistency, insidiously working his way through the England batting line-up. More, he hopes, is to come.
"A lot of people on the scene have criticised me for being too defensive, but it's pleasing to know that things might be changing," he said. "My first wicket, Kevin Pietersen, was really satisfying. I had copped an absolute hiding in the press over here, everyone saying I was no good, and to get a batsman like him on a wicket not doing a lot was fantastic. I enjoyed the Matt Prior one too, just with the spin and bounce.
"I feel I am much more consistent these days. I guess I always had the belief that I was good enough to play at the top level, but it was a matter of finding that consistency and learning how to bowl that same ball over and over. I wasn't patient or consistent enough before I came to NSW. Now I really do back myself when I have the ball in my hand."


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Iconic view of Table Rock further protected
Our nationally-accredited land trust recently completed a conservation project further protecting the iconic view of Grant Meadow and Table Rock in Pickens County. Nestled at the base of Table Rock and hugging Cherokee Foothills Scenic Highway 11, the recent addition of 21 protected acres joins a 36-acre property that was placed under a conservation easement in 2013. A grant from the South Carolina Conservation Bank made this conservation success possible.
The Grant family, owners of this beloved property, feel strongly about preserving the meadow's beauty and long distance views for generations to come.
"My dad had acquired this property in 1950. I took an interest in it early on helping clear it and fence it for pasture land, which started my appreciation and love for this land. Being close to Table Rock State Park, my family enjoyed spending time and making memories there. I was able to acquire the additional 21 acres from my brother before he passed away this year and I knew I wanted to keep it protected for the future. The view is a favorite photo spot for visitors young and old, and I feel very blessed to have a part in protecting its beauty" said Hoyt Grant.
Grant Meadow will continue to be managed as a hay meadow, ensuring its iconic view remains unobstructed. In addition to breathtaking views, the property contains two tributaries of the South Saluda River and prime soils (having physical and chemical characteristics as determined by the USDA).
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True Detective: What's next
Tuesday, 21 April, 2020, by The Meadows
True Detectives 19 Victorian wins. Currently 21 wins from 35 starts.
True Detective chalked up his twenty-first career win on Saturday night at The Meadows, bringing his prizemoney total to $325,785.
He earned a Group 1 title back in November, when he took out the Hume Cup at The Meadows. Since then, he has continued to go from strength to strength over both the 600m and 700m trips.
Trainer Jeff Britton says he was particularly impressed with his win two starts ago at The Meadows, when he got much further back than usual.
"I thought he was out of the race, but then the way that he ran home was incredible – he broke 12 seconds. There was a lot of trouble in the race, but he blew them away in the end," says Jeff.
True Detective's win on 11 April 2020.
The greyhound's successes have not just been limited to Victoria; back in January, he won the Garrard's Gold Cup Final at Albion Park, and soon thereafter was victorious in the Summer Distance Plate Final at Wentworth Park.
"He'd been running around in some 700m races, and had probably been struggling a bit; even though he won that race at Albion Park, it wasn't super convincingly. But that day at Wentworth Park, he went 41.87 and he beat home dogs like Blue Moon Rising – and I think that's the night that he really announced himself as a stayer," says Jeff.
True Detective is owned by Wade Gallagher and George Farrugia. George liked what Little Grey had already thrown, and so they purchased the entire Black Magic Opal – Little Grey litter from New South Wales breeder Bruce Fletcher, after selecting Black Magic Opal as the sire themselves.
Wade and George have been involved in greyhounds together for a number of years, and for Wade, his interest in the dogs dates back to his primary school days.
"My father Wayne used to operate the photo finish at the Mt Isa greyhounds and gallops. We would listen to the Sandown greyhounds together, and my interest probably stems from there," says Wade.
He's owned a number of greyhounds over the years, and these days, has an interest in around 15 dogs with his family and George.
Racing greyhounds with family gives Wade an enormous amount of pleasure.
"Dad's retired now, and I send him the fields. Racing is all about family and friends for us," says Wade.
Wade says that True Detective is the best greyhound that he and his family have ever been involved in, although concedes that Steinbrenner, which he also co-owns with George, is "probably the fastest dog I've owned, but he's the kind of dog that needs to do everything right at the elite level."
Townsville-based Wade adds that he would love to win a race like the Melbourne Cup or the Australian Cup, but also says that he'd love to win a race like the Sandown Cup.
"The Sandown Cup is a time-honoured race, and has that prestige."
Jeff Britton confirms that True Detective will be heading towards the Sandown Cup next month.
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New 'Star Trek' Movies Confirmed By Paramount, But There's a Catch
Ryan Britt
Like gossip barely overheard in the corner of Quark's bar on space station Deep Space Nine, its been hard to understand exactly what is going on with new Star Trek films. Last year, fans were stunned (pun intended) to discover Quentin Tarantino might helm a Trek movie, while Simon Pegg maintains a sequel to Beyond will still happen. Now, the latest news makes it sound like both things are happening. Or maybe not?
On Wednesday, multiple people who attended Cinema Con reported Jim Gianopulos, chairman-CEO of Paramount, did, in fact, confirm there are two more Trek films in development. However, there were zero specific details offered outside of this number. Speculatively, these two films could simply be Simon Pegg and Doug Jung's sequel to Beyond and whatever the Tarantino project ends up looking like. Back in 2016, Skydance and Paramount seemingly confirmed that a sequel to Beyond was already in the works that would feature the return of Chris Hemsworth as George Kirk, James T. Kirk's father who died in the 2009 film titled just Star Trek. However, since then, no one involved (including Hemsworth and Chris Pine) seem to have any clear idea as to the status of such a project.
Previously, Simon Pegg has said that the Beyond sequel and anything happening with Tarantino's Trek pitch is "separate." Now, the confirmation from Gianopulos would seem to back that up. If there are exactly two Trek films in the pipeline from the film studio, it stands to reason one is Beyond sequel, and one is the possibly hardcore R-Rated Tarantino concept.
Unless of course, neither of those projects is happening at all. Since late last year, there have been talks that Viacom (the parent company of CBS) could merge with Paramount once again, which would put the TV rights and the film rights to Star Trek all back under one roof. As of Thursday, Paramount has yet to comment on the status of the talks with CBS.
So, what are these two new Trek movies from Paramount? Are they separate concepts that might wrap up the Kelvin universe, and then take the franchise in a new direction? Or are they something a little more ambitious all together?
Because of the TV canon and film canon of Trek was reunified, it could mean this franchise could boldly attempt more interconnection. The USS Enterprise appeared in the season finale of CBS's Star Trek: Discovery; could that same version of the Enterprise crossover into a new film? A Spock said, "there are always possibilities." The second season for Star Trek: Discovery does not have a release date at this time, but began filming earlier this month.
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The Nature of Warhol
Exploring the wild side of the pop icon.
New York City's Feldman Gallery is buzzing--literally.
Battery-operated "bees" protrude from frames on coils and springs, their tiny wings whirring as part of an exhibition about the importance of the pollinators and the threats they face.
In the back of the gallery, owner Ron Feldman is discussing the origin of another piece of art about animals in danger—perhaps one of the least-known works from one of the country's best-known artists. In the early 1980s, the gallery commissioned a series of 10 portraits from Andy Warhol in the pop art style of the celebrity images he was famous for. But instead of Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley or Elizabeth Taylor, the subjects were the black rhinoceros, bald eagle, giant panda, African elephant and six other endangered species.
"He had his own nickname for this—it was Animals in Makeup," says Feldman about the neon-hued portraits. Feldman and his wife commissioned the Endangered Species series after hearing Warhol discuss beach erosion in Montauk, the small coastal town on the far tip of Long Island where the artist owned property. Inspired to propose an environmental subject for a commission, Feldman pitched endangered animals. Warhol, he says, "instantly said yes."
The Montauk property that was the catalyst for the series is an old coastal compound of fishing cottages surrounded by nearly 20 acres of rocky beach, bluffs and grass that Warhol purchased in 1972. Most of it now belongs to The Nature Conservancy, which manages it as a preserve and hosts art and nature programs there.
Hardly anyone would peg Warhol—New York City cosmopolitan, capturer of American celebrity and consumer culture, a man who seemed "almost allergic to fresh air," as one friend wrote in 2001—as an outdoorsman. Yet the Andy Warhol Preserve and the conservation-themed art it inspired raise the question: How did nature influence this famous urban artist?
"I THINK HAVING LAND AND NOT RUINING IT IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ART THAT ANYBODY COULD EVER WANT TO OWN." —ANDY WARHOL
I'm sure that for nearly everyone, his interest in nature would seem out of character for Warhol," says Matt Wrbican, chief archivist at the Andy Warhol Museum, the country's largest museum dedicated to a single artist.
Warhol was born in Pittsburgh and pursued art in New York City, two of the industrial and commercial centers of America. His work itself is commercial and industrial. Some of the most recognizable pieces feature consumer goods like Campbell's soup, and he created much of his work in a studio called The Factory. Even his appearance—with his signature silver wig—seemed manufactured.
Yet Wrbican has uncovered many examples of a relationship with nature in Warhol's work in the museum's archives. It started with discovering an essay in which a childhood friend of Warhol's discusses going with him to a Pittsburgh park to draw insects. Illustrations from early in Warhol's career include images of butterflies, birds, trees, cats and dogs. Among Wrbican's favorite pieces of Warhol's nature art are two prints from the 1950s entitled "Happy Butterfly Day" and "Happy Bug Day." They "appear to encourage New Yorkers to pay attention to nature," Wrbican says.
Last year, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas organized the first-ever exhibition about the influence of nature throughout Warhol's career to "tease out this story that was right in front of our faces," says curator Chad Alligood. The exhibition included early nature illustrations, parts of the Endangered Species series, the cover of a book about endangered animals that Warhol illustrated, and many images of flowers, the subject of more than 10,000 works throughout Warhol's career. "His approach to the natural world was constantly trying to preserve the beauty," Alligood says. After all, Warhol wrote in his autobiography: "I can never get over when you're on the beach how beautiful the sand looks and the water washes it away and straightens it up and the trees and the grass all look great. I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own."
INSPIRING LANDSCAPES: The Nature Conservancy sponsors workshops for artists throughout the year at its Warhol Preserve at the tip of Long Island. © Rameshwar Das
Warhol's former getaway on Long Island's far northeastern shore was built as a fishing retreat in the 1930s and named Eothen, Greek for "from the east" or, more poetically, "at first light." Although its white clapboard cottages and the 5 acres they sit on are still private property (an art dealer bought them last year for $50 million), the 15 acres of adjacent open land are a nature preserve. Just before the driveway in front of the cottages, a Conservancy trailhead leads through a thicket of American holly, bayberry and black oak. The vegetation soon shrinks to low shrubs including native shadbush as the trail opens up to reveal views of the Atlantic Ocean crashing against a rocky beach. "It's like our own mini Grand Canyon here," Conservancy preserve manager Paul D'Andrea says, looking out on the clay-rich cliffs and bluffs that tower over much of Montauk's coastline.
The landscape is grand, indeed, and also rare. D'Andrea explains that the preserve is one of the best remaining examples of Montauk moorlands, a maritime grassland habitat characterized by sandy soil remnants from a glacier ("Long Island is one whole glacial deposit," D'Andrea says), mild temperatures and ocean winds. Over the past century, Montauk's grasslands have been destroyed by development and conversion to forest as the cyclical wildfires that once cleared woody growth have been suppressed. "There is very specific vegetation that grows here in the salt spray," D'Andrea says, pointing out that not only do the plants tolerate the saline droplets, but some even need blowing sand to reproduce. "It's very special."
D'Andrea points his binoculars toward a few cormorants flying in place against the strong sea winds. This is also a "huge and important area for migratory birds," he says. Montauk is a crucial feeding ground and rest stop on the Atlantic Flyway. It is also home to some rare animals, including the eastern newt, spotted turtle and bog copper butterfly. And the erosion Warhol spoke of is still an issue. On the beach in front of the Warhol preserve, D'Andrea draws a line in the sand with his foot to mark where a bluff, at least 10 yards inland from his line, used to be. "Erosion is happening faster than we want," he says.
When Warhol purchased Eothen with his film-making partner Paul Morrissey in 1972, Montauk was a remote fishing village known for good surfing. It retains that character, although there is some evidence of encroachment from the ritzy Hamptons lifestyle up the road. In a New York Times interview from 2006, the agent who sold the property to Warhol said the artist was uninterested when she showed him vacation homes in Southampton and East Hampton but perked up when they reached the end of the island in Montauk, with its rustic motels and wild beaches.
Warhol owned the Montauk property for 15 years, during which he visited occasionally and invited a caravan of stars to stay, including the Rolling Stones, Jackie Kennedy, Truman Capote and fashion designer Halston. When he died in 1987, the land's ownership was divided between the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Morrissey. They gave 15 acres to the Conservancy in 1992, with the agreement that the preserve would host visual arts programs. Now, artists and local students visit the preserve, which is not otherwise open to the public, as part of Conservancy organized workshops and field trips throughout the year.
PICTURE PERFECT: Artists who regularly participate in workshops at the Warhol Preserve often find themselves especially drawn to the rocks, whose colors and patterns capture the eye. © Rameshwar Das
Long Island artist and environmental activist Rameshwar Das holds slides of photograph negatives up to the window at the old farmhouse that serves as the Conservancy's East Hampton chapter office. Outside, another artist, one of a group of plein-air painters who frequent nearby preserves, sets up an easel in front of a tree.
Das has been coming to Montauk since he was a kid and says he loves the "rich mix" of seaweed and rocks and skate's egg cases—what his grandmother used to call mermaids' purses—that wash ashore on its beaches. He led environmental photography classes here for 22 years and is now on a volunteer committee that plans the Warhol preserve's art programs. He also helps select participants for an annual artist-in-residence program, which includes a week of lodging in nearby Montauk and access to the preserve to pursue artistic endeavors.
His slides capture hundreds of scenes on the preserve: tall bluffs, art students on field trips, shadbush, with "its great twisty trunks and white flowers," and rocks. Lots of rocks—big, small, close up and grouped together. "The rocks are extraordinary out here. That's always fun, seeing what the ocean has rearranged every season," says Das.
The preserve has been a muse for many artists and inspired such works as a stop motion film created from wildlife camera trap images, designs drawn with tidal pattern measurements and a performance art piece based on a rare flower. The Warhol preserve, Das says, "has enabled The Nature Conservancy to see more involvement of artists with the environment, which is a natural fit."
It is a natural fit—even if sometimes, as with Warhol, a surprising one. Though a relationship to the environment, just like art, is subject to interpretation. Warhol put it simply in one of his books: "Land really is the best art."
NATURE STUDIES: Visiting artists at the Warhol Preserve frequently offer workshops in photography, painting, print making and more to students in the area. © Field Kallop


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B.C.'s Land Owner Transparency Act
Authors: Saravan Veylan, Tessa Rowland
Categories: Real Estate
The B.C. government is making a further attempt to ensure tax collection and curb the housing market, as part of its Homes For B.C.: A 30-Point Plan for Housing Affordability. The government is in the process of enacting Bill 23- 2019: Land Owner Transparency Act (the "Act"), which is currently in its first reading. The Ministry of Finance first solicited feedback on the Act's White Paper through a public consultation from June to September 2018.
The Act will establish a public registry (the "Registry") that collects information regarding beneficial land ownership and makes it accessible to the public.
Currently, the land title system in British Columbia requires that only the legal, or registered, owner of the property be disclosed in the land title office. This allows for the beneficial interest in real property to be vested in another entity – whether an individual, a partnership, a corporation or a trust – without registering such interest. The proposed Act would require the disclosure of the ultimate beneficial owner of an interest in land to the Registry and make such interest available to public scrutiny.
The Reporting Requirements
The province's Land Title and Survey Authority will administer the Registry. The Act creates a number of new concepts, including reporting bodies (relevant corporations, trustees of a relevant trust and partners of a relevant partnership), transparency declarations and transparency reports.
Under the Act, a transparency declaration, which will attest to whether the transferee is a reporting body and, if so, what type of reporting body, will be required in the following circumstances:
on any application to register an interest in land in the name of a reporting body;
any time there is an change of interest holders or beneficial owners (even when this does not result in a transfer of legal title of land); and
during an initial prescribed transition period. In this period, all reporting bodies who are registered owners of an interest in land will be required to file a transparency report.
Under section 11 of the proposed Act, the registrar must refuse an application to register an interest in land if a transferee fails to submit a transparency declaration. That way, the transparency declaration will become an additional mandatory component of the land title registration process and must be accompanied by a yet-to-be determined filing fee.
In addition to transparency declarations, reporting bodies will be required to file transparency reports concurrent with registration. These transparency reports will be the source of the beneficial ownership information contained in the Registry.
At this time, the reporting requirements vary slightly depending on which type of reporting body the transferee is. In respect to corporations, information which must be disclosed includes:
Identification information about the corporation, including name of the corporation, address of head office and incorporation or business number;
Identification of each individual who directly or indirectly owns or controls 10% or more of the issued shares or otherwise falls under the definition of a corporate interest holder as provided by the Act;
Each corporate interest holder's date of birth, last known address, social insurance number or individual tax number, residency status pursuant to the Income Tax Act (Canada), the date on which they became an interest holder, and the nature of the interest of the reporting corporation; and
Information about the person completing the report.
Given the complex structure of some reporting bodies, section 21 of the Act prescribes that a reporting body must take reasonable steps to obtain and confirm the accuracy of the information it provides in a transparency declaration. We note that the Act provides no guidance on what measures are considered reasonable steps.
In the event that the prescribed information cannot be obtained, the reporting body must still complete a transparency report outlining the information it was able to obtain, what information it was unable to obtain, and the steps taken to obtain or confirm this information.
In the event that a reporting body fails to file a transparency declaration or provides false or misleading information, an enforcement officer may impose an administrative penalty. In the case of an individual, this penalty would be the greater of $25,000 and 5% of the assessed value of the property, and in all other cases, the greater of $50,000 and 5% of the assessed value of the property.
Access to Registry Information
Basic identification information disclosed under the Act will be made public, and a member of the public may search the publicly accessible information for a prescribed fee.
The Act will attempt to balance the need for increased transparency while at the same time taking into consideration privacy concerns associated with a public database. At this time, the Act proposes to address privacy concerns by restricting access to sensitive information to authorized government authorities only. Furthermore, under section 40 of the Act, vulnerable individuals, such as victims of domestic violence, can apply to have their personal information omitted from being made public.
Legislative Trend
It is further worth noting that the Act falls in line with recent changes to the Canada Business Corporations Act, R.S.C., 1985, c. C-44 (the "CBCA"), which as of June 13, 2019, will require corporations registered under the CBCA to create and maintain a new type of register that lists all individuals with "significant control" over the corporation.
In accordance with the amendments, an individual will be deemed to have "significant control" if he or she owns 25% or more of the voting rights attached to the corporation's outstanding voting shares. Also included in this definition are individuals acting jointly who meet the 25% threshold and who have the ability to exert influence. These individuals must be identified under the new "Control Register."
This definition of control falls in line with the Act's definition of a corporate interest holder. The Control Register will require a corporation to include similar information to that required by the transparency declaration under the Act.
The government of British Columbia published a news release dated April 2, 2019, which suggests that a similar amendment to the Business Corporations Act, S.B.C. 2002, c. 57 has been proposed whereby private companies would be required to keep and maintain records on beneficial owners.
This new register would include information on registered owners, beneficial owners and owners that have indirect control. The new transparency register would enable corporations to maintain the information required for transparency declarations.
The Act also mirrors changes already made to information collection required by the Property Transfer Tax Return, updated in 2018 to include reporting on corporate interest holders of purchasers.
As mentioned, all reporting bodies that have a registered interest in land when the Act comes into force will be required to file transparency reports within the prescribed transition period. While there is no indication on how long the prescribed transition period will be, requiring pre-enactment reporting bodies to prepare and file transparency reports will likely take far longer to complete and be a larger administrative burden than the government envisions for reporting bodies and lawyers alike.
Pre-enactment obligations aside, the reporting requirements pursuant to the Act are onerous enough that compliance will necessitate additional time, money and resources. It is presently unclear whether liability will fall to lawyers or other professionals to ensure their clients report as necessary.
The Act appears somewhat inconsistent with the purpose of a Torrens system, the land title and transfer system implemented in British Columbia. The hallmark of the Torrens system is indefeasibility of title, meaning the name registered on title is conclusive evidence of its interest, ownership or otherwise. Requiring disclosure beyond what is registered on title could potentially call into question a lawyer's opinion of good and marketable title, especially if the Act acknowledges instances of unattainable or imperfect reporting despite "reasonable steps."
If implemented, the Registry will be the first of its kind in Canada. The ultimate aim of the Act and the Registry is to provide tax authorities and law enforcement with information to limit tax evasion, identify tax fraud and limit money laundering, which has become increasingly common in British Columbia's real estate market. The introduction of the Act comes at a time where both the federal government and the provincial government are making amendments to their respective corporate legislation in an attempt to provide greater transparency.
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Two Gies College of Business professors have been named 2019-2020 Associates for the Center for Advanced Study (CAS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Associate Professor of International Business Marcelo Bucheli and Professor of Marketing Dolores Albarracin are being recognized for their exceptional scholarly achievement.
Each year, University of Illinois faculty are invited to submit scholarly or creative proposals for consideration by the Center's permanent professors. Faculty members with winning proposals are appointed Associates and Fellows and are awarded one semester of release time to pursue their projects in the coming academic year. Professors, Associates, and Fellows are invited to participate in CAS events and have opportunities to present their work to the CAS community.
Bucheli will study the creation and growth of the global coffee market during the 20th century. It will be a historical study that analyzes the role of the Colombian Coffee Growers' Federation in shaping global markets through a combination of corporate and political strategies. Bucheli has taught business at Illinois since 2005 and specializes in international business and business history. Before coming to Illinois, he taught business history at Harvard Business School. He earned his PhD in History from Stanford in 2002.
Albarracin's project will test an original model of secrecy and conspiracy theories with a probability sample of US inhabitants and a transformative big data study of social media. In the era of post truth, the project will illuminate how conspiratorial thinking about politics, science, and health polarizes audiences and jeopardizes democratic life, and how social media incubates these processes.
Albarracin is a Professor of Marketing at Gies College of Business in addition to her duties as a Professor of Psychology. She earned her master's degree in psychology from the University of Illinois in 1994, and then she completed her PhD in social psychology at the University of Illinois in 1997. Her research focuses on attitudes and social cognition, motivational processes, and applications of social cognition to disease prevention programs.
Established in 1959, the Center for Advanced Study is charged with promoting the highest levels of scholarship and discourse. Today CAS supports the extraordinary resources at the University of Illinois by encouraging and promoting exemplary scholarship in all areas of knowledge.


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ITA announced today that it has been awarded an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). The contract is known as One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services (OASIS).
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White City was a railway station on the Sunbury railway line (then the St Albans line) of the Melbourne suburban rail system in Melbourne, Australia. It was located approximately 700 metres west of Tottenham railway station. The next station down the line was Sunshine.

History

The station was opened on 10 December 1927, to serve the new White City greyhound racing track, named after the site of the 1908 London Olympics. The station was originally called Coursing Platform and was renamed White City on 25 August 1929.

Workmen's trains from the city began stopping at the station on 10 June 1940, serving employees at local industries, such as the Olympic Tyres factory, but it was not until 28 June 1948, that trains returning to the city stopped at the station, when an afternoon "up" service was provided from the station's single platform, using the crossover at the up end of the platform. White City was made a regular suburban station in December 1949. The station only ever had one platform, on the westbound track, even though fifty services a week stopped there at its peak. Due to its proximity to Tottenham station, White City's signals were operated from there.

In the early 1980s, Tottenham station and its area underwent extensive alterations. The line was raised in order to eliminate the level crossing at Ashley Street, and a new high-level island platform was provided. As a consequence, it was decided to remove the nearby White City station. On 4 October 1981, White City was officially closed. It was later demolished, and no trace of its existence remains.

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References
Victorian Railways signal diagram: West Footscray to Sunshine (1977)

Disused railway stations in Melbourne
Railway stations in Australia opened in 1927
Railway stations closed in 1981

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It was about 12:30 p.m. on this day in 1963 that President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. It was the only successful assassination of an American president carried out in the last hundred years, and the only presidential assassination ever caught on film. Almost every American alive at the time remembers where they were when they heard the news.
I was a teenager,19, when it happened; and like most, I remember exactly where I was, and what I was doing. I had been working for the telephone company, it was getting close to Christmas and the union had called a strike. My Dad, Mom and I were all union members and were on strike. I had gone to Sears, thinking some Christmas pocket money would be nice, and turned in an application. I was called back and interviewed and on 11/22/ 1963 at 10:30 a.m., I was at Sears in Long Beach taking a test, as part of the process for gaining employment.
The test takers were in a room seated at tables, we'd been there about 1/2 an hour, when the woman in charge of giving the test came in and said: "I really don't know what to do, but I thought I'd better tell you, the President's been shot". I didn't believe her, "people don't shoot the President of the United States, in these modern times," is what I was thinking. I was also thinking, "this is part of the test, to see how we'll re-act." I finished my test and left the room, and found out it was true. It was a horrid day, and if you were over 10 years old that day, I know you remember where you were and what you were doing.
This is truly how Americans felt on this date.
I also remember the exact place and time. I was 20 and in school as an x-ray technologist. A patient I was x-raying told me about the shooting, and I remember thinking he was telling me a cruel joke. It's amazing how when you think back on that day how clear it all becomes.
I graduated from high school that year and was living at the "Y" in Orlando Florida. I came home from work and all the girls were gathered around the tv watching.
I remember my teacher crying when we came into his classroom ... and I'd never seen a grown man cry before.
I wasn't alive, so I don't remember, but I can imagine how you would. I was 15 when Reagan was shot and remember that in detail. I can imagine how much more that would be in one's mind in a different era and when he was actually killed.