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We are very pleased about your interest in our company. Data protection has a very high priority for the management of fraufett.net. A use of the web pages of fraufett.net is basically possible without any indication of personal data. However, if a data subject wishes to use our company's special services through our website, personal data processing may be required. If the processing of personal data is required and there is no legal basis for such processing, we generally seek the consent of the data subject.
The processing of personal data, such as the name, address, e-mail address or telephone number of a data subject, is always in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation and in accordance with the country-specific data protection provisions applicable to fraufett.net. Through this privacy policy, our company seeks to inform the public about the nature, scope and purpose of the personal information we collect, use and process. Furthermore, data subjects are informed of their rights under this privacy policy.
fraufett.net, as controller, has implemented numerous technical and organizational measures to ensure the most complete protection possible for personal data processed via this website. Nevertheless, Internet-based data transmissions can generally have security holes, so that absolute protection can not be guaranteed. For this reason, every person concerned is free to submit personal data to us by alternative means, for example by telephone.
The privacy policy of fraufett.net is based on the terminology used by the European directive and regulatory authority in the adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO). Our privacy policy should be easy to read and understand, both for the public and for our customers and business partners. To ensure this, we would like to explain in advance the terminology used.
Among other things, we use the following terms in this privacy policy:
Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter the "data subject"). A natural person is considered to be identifiable, directly or indirectly, in particular by association with an identifier such as a name, with an identification number, with location data, with an online identifier or with one or more special characteristics expressing the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of this natural person can be identified.
b) the person concerned
Affected person is any identified or identifiable natural person whose personal data is processed by the controller.
Processing means any process or series of operations related to personal data, such as collecting, capturing, organizing, organizing, storing, adapting or modifying, reading out, querying, using, with or without the aid of automated procedures; disclosure through submission, dissemination or any other form of provision, reconciliation or association, restriction, erasure or destruction.
Restriction of the processing is the marking of stored personal data with the aim to limit their future processing.
Profiling is any type of automated processing of personal data that involves the use of such personal information to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular aspects relating to job performance, economic situation, health, personal To analyze or predict preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, whereabouts, or relocation of that natural person.
Pseudonymisation is the processing of personal data in such a way that personal data can no longer be assigned to a specific data subject without additional information, provided that such additional information is kept separate and subject to technical and organizational measures to ensure that the personal data not assigned to an identified or identifiable natural person.
(g) controller or controller
The controller or controller is the natural or legal person, public authority, body or body that, alone or in concert with others, decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data. Where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union law or the law of the Member States, the controller or the specific criteria for his designation may be provided for under Union or national law.
A processor is a natural or legal person, public authority, body or body that processes personal data on behalf of the controller.
i) receiver
Recipient is a natural or legal person, agency, agency or other entity to whom Personal Data is disclosed, whether or not it is a third party. However, authorities which may receive personal data under Union or national law in connection with a particular mission are not considered to be beneficiaries.
j) third parties
Third is a natural or legal person, public authority, body or body other than the data subject, the controller, the processor and the persons authorized under the direct responsibility of the controller or processor to process the personal data.
Consent is any expression of will voluntarily and unequivocally made by the data subject in the form of a statement or other unambiguous confirmatory act expressing to the data subject that they consent to the processing of the personal data concerning them is.
The person responsible within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation, other data protection laws in the Member States of the European Union and other provisions with a data protection character is:
fraufett.net
Carmen Fett
E-Mail: imprint [at] fraufett.net.de
Website: www.fraufett.net.de
The websites of fraufett.net use cookies. Cookies are text files that are stored and stored on a computer system via an Internet browser.
Many websites and servers use cookies. Many cookies contain a so-called cookie ID. A cookie ID is a unique identifier of the cookie. It consists of a string through which Internet pages and servers can be assigned to the specific Internet browser in which the cookie was stored. This allows visited websites and servers to distinguish the individual's browser from other Internet browsers that contain other cookies. A particular Internet browser can be recognized and identified by the unique cookie ID.
By using cookies, fraufett.net can provide users of this website with more user-friendly services that would not be possible without the cookie setting.
By means of a cookie the information and offers on our website can be optimized in the sense of the user. Cookies allow us, as already mentioned, to recognize the users of our website. The purpose of this recognition is to make it easier for users to use our website. For example, the user of a website that uses cookies need not reenter their credentials every time they visit the website because this is done by the website and the cookie stored on the user's computer system. Another example is the cookie of a shopping cart in the online shop. The online shop remembers the items that a customer has placed in the virtual shopping cart via a cookie.
The data subject can prevent the setting of cookies through our website at any time by means of a corresponding setting of the Internet browser used and thus permanently contradict the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies can be deleted at any time via an internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all common internet browsers. If the data subject deactivates the setting of cookies in the Internet browser used, not all functions of our website may be fully usable.
4. Collecting general data and information
The fraufett.net website collects a series of general data and information each time the website is accessed by an affected person or an automated system. This general data and information is stored in the log files of the server. The (1) browser types and versions used, (2) the operating system used by the accessing system, (3) the website from which an accessing system accesses our website (so-called referrers), (4) the sub-web pages, which can be accessed via (5) the date and time of access to the website, (6) an Internet Protocol (IP) address, (7) the Internet service provider of the accessing system and (8) other similar data and information used in the event of attacks on our information technology systems.
When using this general data and information, fraufett.net does not draw any conclusions about the person concerned. Rather, this information is required in order to (1) correctly deliver the contents of our website, (2) to optimize the content of our website and to advertise it, (3) to ensure the continued functioning of our information technology systems and the technology of our website, and ( 4) to provide law enforcement authorities with the necessary information for prosecution in case of a cyberattack. Fraufett.net evaluates this anonymously collected data and information on the one hand statistically and further with the aim of increasing data protection and data security in our company in order to ultimately ensure an optimal level of protection for the personal data processed by us. The anonymous data of the server log files are stored separately from all personal data provided by an affected person.
5. Contact via the website
Due to legal regulations, fraufett.net's website contains information that enables us to contact our company quickly and to communicate with us directly, which also includes a general address of the so-called electronic mail (e-mail address). If an affected person contacts the data controller by e-mail or through a contact form, the personal data provided by the data subject will be automatically saved. Such personal information provided on a voluntary basis by a data subject to the controller is stored for the purposes of processing or contacting the data subject. There is no disclosure of this personal data to third parties.
6. Routine deletion and blocking of personal data
The controller shall process and store the personal data of the data subject only for the period necessary to achieve the purpose of the storage or, if so required by the European legislature and other legislators in laws or regulations, that of the controller subject to was provided.
If the storage purpose is omitted or if a storage period prescribed by the European directives and regulations or any other relevant legislature expires, the personal data will be routinely blocked or deleted in accordance with the statutory provisions.
a) Right to confirmation
Each data subject has the right, as granted by the European Di- rective and Regulatory Authority, to require the controller to confirm whether personal data relating to him / her is being processed. If an affected person wishes to exercise this right of confirmation, they can contact an employee of the controller at any time.
b) Right to information
Any person affected by the processing of personal data shall have the right granted by the European legislature and the legislature at any time to obtain from the controller information free of charge concerning the personal data stored about him and a copy of that information. In addition, the European legislator and regulator has provided the data subject with the following information:
the processing purposes
the categories of personal data being processed
the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data have been disclosed or are still being disclosed, in particular to recipients in third countries or to international organizations
if possible, the planned duration for which the personal data will be stored or, if that is not possible, the criteria for determining that duration
the existence of a right to rectification or erasure of the personal data concerning them, or to the limitation of the processing by the controller or a right to object to such processing
the existence of a right of appeal to a supervisory authority
if the personal data are not collected from the data subject: All available information about the origin of the data
the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, in accordance with Article 22 (1) and (4) GDPR and, at least in these cases, meaningful information about the logic involved and the scope and intended impact of such processing on the data subject
Furthermore, the data subject has a right of access as to whether personal data has been transmitted to a third country or to an international organization. If this is the case, then the data subject has the right to obtain information about the appropriate guarantees in connection with the transfer.
If a data subject wishes to avail himself of this right to information, he may, at any time, contact an employee of the controller.
Any person affected by the processing of personal data has the right granted by the European directive and regulatory authority to demand the immediate correction of incorrect personal data concerning them. Furthermore, the data subject has the right to request the completion of incomplete personal data, including by means of a supplementary declaration, taking into account the purposes of the processing.
If an affected person wishes to exercise this right of rectification, they may, at any time, contact an employee of the controller.
d) Right to cancellation (right to be forgotten)
Any person affected by the processing of personal data shall have the right granted by the European Directives and Regulators to require the controller to immediately delete the personal data concerning him, provided that one of the following reasons is satisfied and the processing is not required:
The personal data has been collected for such purposes or otherwise processed for which they are no longer necessary.
The data subject withdraws the consent on which the processing was based in accordance with Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR or Article 9 (2) (a) GDPR and lacks any other legal basis for the processing.
According to Art. 21 (1) GDPR, the data subject submits an objection against the processing, and there are no legitimate reasons for the processing, or the person concerned objects to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 (2) GDPR.
The personal data was processed unlawfully.
The deletion of personal data is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation under Union or national law, to which the controller is subject.
The personal data were collected in relation to information society services offered pursuant to Art. 8 (1) GDPR.
If one of the above reasons is correct and an affected person wishes to initiate the deletion of personal data stored at fraufett.net, they may, at any time, contact an employee of the controller. The employee of fraufett.net will arrange that the deletion request be fulfilled immediately.
If the personal data of fraufett.net were made public and if our company is responsible for deleting personal data as the person responsible according to Art. 17 (1) GDPR, fraufett.net will take appropriate measures, including technical ones, taking into account the available technology and the implementation costs To inform other data controllers processing the published personal data that the data subject requires the data controller to delete all links to such personal data or to copy or replicate such personal data has, as far as the processing is not necessary. The employee of fraufett.net will arrange the necessary in individual cases.
e) Right to restriction of processing
Any person affected by the processing of personal data has the right granted by the European directive and regulatory authority to require the controller to restrict the processing if one of the following conditions applies:
The accuracy of the personal data is contested by the data subject for a period of time that enables the person responsible to verify the accuracy of the personal data.
The processing is unlawful, the data subject refuses to delete the personal data and instead requests the restriction of the use of personal data.
The controller no longer needs the personal data for processing purposes, but the data subject requires them to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.
The person concerned has objection to the processing acc. Art. 21 para. 1 DSGVO and it is not yet clear whether the legitimate reasons of the person responsible outweigh those of the data subject.
If one of the above conditions is met and an affected person wishes to request the restriction of personal data stored by fraufett.net, they may at any time contact an employee of the controller. The employee of fraufett.net will initiate the restriction of processing.
f) Data transferability
Any person affected by the processing of personal data shall have the right granted by the European Di- rective and Regulatory Authority to receive the personal data concerning him / her provided to a controller by the data subject in a structured, common and machine-readable format. It also has the right to transmit this data to another person without hindrance by the controller to whom the personal data was provided, provided that the processing is based on the consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR or Art. 9 (2) Subparagraph (a) of the DSGVO or on a contract pursuant to Article 6 (1) (b) of the GDPR and processing by means of automated procedures, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a public-interest or public-authority task; which has been transferred to the person responsible.
Furthermore, in exercising their right to data portability under Article 20 (1) of the GDPR, the data subject has the right to obtain that the personal data is transmitted directly from one controller to another, insofar as this is technically feasible and if not so the rights and freedoms of others are impaired.
In order to assert the right of data transferability, the data subject may at any time contact a fraufett.net employee.
Any person concerned by the processing of personal data shall have the right conferred by the European directive and regulatory authority at any time, for reasons arising from its particular situation, against the processing of personal data relating to it pursuant to Article 6 (1) (e) or f DSGVO takes an objection. This also applies to profiling based on these provisions.
fraufett.net no longer processes personal data in the event of an objection, unless we can prove that there are compelling legitimate reasons for processing that outweigh the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject, or the processing is for assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims.
If fraufett.net processes personal data in order to operate direct mail, the data subject has the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data for the purpose of such advertising. This also applies to the profiling, as far as it is associated with such direct mail. If the data subject objects to processing by fraufett.net for the purposes of direct advertising, then fraufett.net will no longer process the personal data for these purposes.
In addition, the data subject has the right, for reasons that arise from their particular situation, against the processing of personal data concerning them, with fraufett.net for scientific or historical research purposes or for statistical purposes pursuant to Art. 89 (1) GDPR objection, unless such processing is necessary to fulfill a public interest task.
In order to exercise the right to object, the data subject may directly contact any fraufett.net employee or other employee. The data subject is also free, in the context of the use of information society services, notwithstanding Directive 2002/58 / EC, to exercise his right of opposition by means of automated procedures using technical specifications.
h) Automated decisions in individual cases including profiling
Any person concerned by the processing of personal data shall have the right, as granted by the European legislature and the legislature, not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which has a legal effect on it or, in a similar manner, significantly affects it; unless the decision (1) is necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract between the data subject and the controller, or (2) permitted by Union or Member State legislation to which the controller is subject, and that legislation provides for appropriate measures to safeguard the rights and freedoms and the legitimate interests of the data subject; or (3) with the express consent of the data subject.
If the decision (1) is required for the conclusion or performance of a contract between the data subject and the controller or (2) it is with the express consent of the data subject, fraufett.net shall take appropriate measures to protect the rights and freedoms and the authorized persons Interests of the data subject, including at least the right to obtain the intervention of a person by the controller, to express his / her own position and to contest the decision.
If the data subject wishes to rely on automated decision-making rights, they may, at any time, contact an employee of the controller.
i) Right to revoke a data protection consent
Any person affected by the processing of personal data has the right, granted by the European directive and regulatory authority, to revoke consent to the processing of personal data at any time.
If the data subject wishes to assert their right to withdraw consent, they may, at any time, contact an employee of the controller.
8. Privacy Policy on Use and Use of Facebook
The controller has integrated components of the company Facebook on this website. Facebook is a social network.
A social network is an Internet-based social meeting place, an online community that usually allows users to communicate with each other and interact in virtual space. A social network can serve as a platform for sharing views and experiences, or allows the Internet community to provide personal or business information. Facebook allows social network users to create private profiles, upload photos and socialize via friend requests.
The operating company of Facebook is Facebook, Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. The person responsible for the processing of personal data, if an affected person lives outside the US or Canada, is Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbor, Dublin 2, Ireland.
Each time one of the individual pages of this website, which is operated by the controller and on which a Facebook component (Facebook plug-in) has been integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the person concerned is automatically activated by the respective Facebook Component causes a representation of the corresponding Facebook component of Facebook to download. An overview of all Facebook plug-ins can be found at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/?locale=en_US. As part of this technical process, Facebook receives information about which specific subpage of our website is visited by the person concerned.
If the person concerned is simultaneously logged in to Facebook, Facebook recognizes with each visit to our website by the data subject and during the entire duration of the respective stay on our website, which specific underside of our website visited the person concerned. This information is collected through the Facebook component and assigned by Facebook to the respective Facebook account of the data subject. If the person concerned activates one of the Facebook buttons integrated on our website, for example the "Like" button, or if the person concerned makes a comment, Facebook assigns this information to the personal Facebook user account of the person concerned and saves this personal data ,
Facebook always receives information via the Facebook component that the data subject has visited our website if the data subject is simultaneously logged in to Facebook at the time of access to our website; this happens regardless of whether the person clicks on the Facebook component or not. If such a transfer of this information to Facebook is not wanted by the person concerned, it can prevent the transfer by logging out of their Facebook account before calling our website.
The data policy published by Facebook, which is available at https://de-de.facebook.com/about/privacy/, provides information on the collection, processing and use of personal data by Facebook. It also explains which options Facebook offers to protect the privacy of the data subject. In addition, different applications are available, which make it possible to suppress data transmission to Facebook. Such applications can be used by the data subject to suppress data transmission to Facebook.
9. Data protection regulations for the use and use of Google Analytics (with anonymization function)
The controller has integrated the component Google Analytics (with anonymization function) on this website. Google Analytics is a web analytics service. Web analysis is the collection, collection and analysis of data about the behavior of visitors to websites. Among other things, a web analysis service collects data on which website an affected person has come to a website (so-called referrers), which subpages of the website were accessed or how often and for which length of stay a subpage was viewed. A web analysis is mainly used to optimize a website and cost-benefit analysis of Internet advertising.
The operating company of the Google Analytics component is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA.
The controller uses the addition "_gat._anonymizeIp" for web analytics via Google Analytics. This addendum will shorten and anonymise the IP address of the data subject's Internet access if Google accesses our websites from a Member State of the European Union or from another state party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.
The purpose of the Google Analytics component is to analyze visitor flows on our website. Among other things, Google uses the data and information obtained to evaluate the use of our website, to compile for us online reports showing the activities on our website, and to provide other services related to the use of our website.
Google Analytics uses a cookie on the information technology system of the person concerned. What cookies are, has already been explained above. By using this cookie Google is enabled to analyze the usage of our website. Each time one of the pages of this website is accessed by the controller and a Google Analytics component has been integrated into it, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the person concerned is automatically initiated by the respective Google Analytics component To submit data to Google for the purposes of online analysis. As part of this technical process, Google receives information about personal data, such as the IP address of the person concerned, which Google uses, among other things, to track the origin of visitors and clicks, and subsequently make commission settlements possible.
The cookie stores personally identifiable information, such as access time, the location from which access was made and the frequency of site visits by the data subject. Each time you visit our website, your personal information, including the IP address of the Internet connection used by the data subject, is transferred to Google in the United States of America. This personal information is stored by Google in the United States of America. Google may transfer this personal data collected through the technical process to third parties.
The affected person can prevent the setting of cookies through our website, as shown above, at any time by means of a corresponding setting of the Internet browser used and thus permanently contradict the setting of cookies. Such a setting of the Internet browser used would also prevent Google from setting a cookie on the information technology system of the person concerned. In addition, a cookie already set by Google Analytics can be deleted at any time via the Internet browser or other software programs.
Furthermore, the data subject has the possibility of objecting to and preventing the collection of data generated by Google Analytics for the use of this website and the processing of this data by Google. To do this, the person must download and install a browser add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. This browser add-on informs Google Analytics via JavaScript that no data and information about website visits may be transmitted to Google Analytics. The installation of the browser add-on is considered by Google as a contradiction. If the data subject's information technology system is later deleted, formatted or reinstalled, the data subject must reinstall the browser add-on to disable Google Analytics. If the browser add-on is uninstalled or disabled by the data subject or any other person within their sphere of control, it is possible to reinstall or re-enable the browser add-on.
Additional information and Google's privacy policy can be found at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ and http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/en.html. Google Analytics is explained in more detail at https://www.google.com/intl/de_de/analytics/.
10. Privacy Policy for Use and Use of Instagram
The controller has integrated components of the Instagram service on this website. Instagram is a service that qualifies as an audiovisual platform, allowing users to share photos and videos, as well as to redistribute such data across social networks.
The operating company of Instagram's services is Instagram LLC, 1 Hacker Way, Building 14 First Floor, Menlo Park, CA, USA.
Each time one of the individual pages of this website is called up by the controller and an Instagram component (Insta-Button) has been integrated, the internet browser on the information technology system of the person concerned automatically becomes the respective Instagram component causes to download a representation of the corresponding component of Instagram. As part of this technical process, Instagram is aware of which specific bottom of our website is visited by the person concerned.
If the person concerned is simultaneously logged into Instagram, Instagram recognizes with each visit to our website by the data subject and during the entire duration of the respective stay on our website, which specific subpage the person concerned visits. This information is collected through the Instagram component and assigned through Instagram to the affected person's Instagram account. If the person concerned activates one of the Instagram buttons integrated on our website, the data and information transmitted with it are assigned to the personal Instagram user account of the person concerned and saved and processed by Instagram.
Instagram always receives information via the Instagram component that the person concerned has visited our website if the person concerned is simultaneously logged in to Instagram at the time of accessing our website; this happens regardless of whether the person clicks on the Instagram component or not. If such information is not intended to be transmitted to Instagram by the person concerned, the latter can prevent the transmission by logging out of her Instagram account before calling our website.
Further information and Instagram's privacy policy can be found at https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388 and https://www.instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.
11. Legal basis of processing
Art. 6 I lit. A GDPR serves our company as the legal basis for processing operations in which we obtain consent for a particular processing purpose. If the processing of personal data is necessary to fulfill a contract of which the data subject is a party, as is the case, for example, in processing operations necessary for the supply of goods or the provision of any other service or consideration, processing shall be based on Art. 6 I lit. b DSGVO. The same applies to processing operations that are necessary to carry out pre-contractual measures, for example in the case of inquiries about our products or services. If our company is subject to a legal obligation which requires the processing of personal data, such as the fulfillment of tax obligations, the processing is based on Art. 6 I lit. c DSGVO. In rare cases, the processing of personal data may be required to protect the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person. This would be the case, for example, if a visitor to our premises were injured and his or her name, age, health insurance or other vital information would have to be passed on to a doctor, hospital or other third party. Then the processing would be based on Art. 6 I lit. d DSGVO are based.
Ultimately, processing operations could be based on Art. 6 I lit. f DSGVO are based. Processing operations that are not covered by any of the above legal bases are based on this legal basis if processing is necessary to safeguard the legitimate interests of our company or a third party, unless the interests, fundamental rights and fundamental freedoms of the person concerned prevail. Such processing operations are particularly permitted because they have been specifically mentioned by the European legislator. In that regard, it considered that a legitimate interest could be assumed if the data subject is a customer of the controller (recital 47, second sentence, DSGVO).
12. Beneficial interests in the processing that are being pursued by the controller or a third party
Is the processing of personal data based on Article 6 I lit. f DSGVO is our legitimate interest in conducting our business for the benefit of all of our employees and our shareholders.
13. Duration for which the personal data is stored
The criterion for the duration of the storage of personal data is the respective statutory retention period. After the deadline, the corresponding data will be routinely deleted, if they are no longer required to fulfill the contract or to initiate a contract.
14. Legal or contractual provisions for the provision of personal data; Necessity for the conclusion of the contract; Obligation of the data subject to provide the personal data; possible consequences of non-provision
We clarify that the provision of personal data is partly required by law (eg tax regulations) or can also result from contractual regulations (eg information about the contracting party).
Sometimes it may be necessary for a contract to be concluded that an affected person provides us with personal data that must subsequently be processed by us. For example, the data subject is required to provide us with personal information when our company concludes a contract with her. Failure to provide the personal data would mean that the contract with the person concerned could not be closed.
Prior to any personal data being provided by the person concerned, the person concerned must contact one of our employees. Our employee will inform the individual on a case-by-case basis whether the provision of the personal data is required by law or contract or required for the conclusion of the contract, whether there is an obligation to provide the personal data, and what would have resulted from the failure to provide the personal data.
As a responsible company, we refrain from automatic decision-making or profiling.
This Privacy Policy has been approved by the BDSG us DSGVO Privacy Policy Generator the German Society for Data Protection, in cooperation with the law firm for media law WILDE BEUGER SOLMECKE | Lawyers created.


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Facebook Publishes New Guide to Creator Studio for Instagram
Following the addition of Instagram post scheduling tools into its Creator Studio app, Facebook has now published a new overview of how to make best use of Creator Studio to manage your Instagram presence.
The eight-page guide (as shared by social media expert Matt Navarra) covers all the basics of Creator Studio for Instagram, including how to connect your Instagram account to the app, how to use the content library to manage your posts, and an overview of its analytics tools.
And yes, there is also a section on how to schedule your Instagram posts through the tool.
There's also a section on IGTV publishing and scheduling, and an FAQ listing, which provides advice on the specifics of gaining access and using the tool - including this note:
It's a handy resource, particularly for those who are looking to use the app for Instagram scheduling. You can access the full guide at this link.

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Cheboygan County COVID-19 cases currently at 32
Kortny Hahn
khahn@cheboygantribune.com
The number of confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 in Cheboygan County is now 32, with no change over the weekend, although surrounding counties did see an increase in their numbers.
District Health Department Four and the Health Department of Northwest Michigan do not update their case numbers over the weekend. As of Friday afternoon, District Health Department Four was reporting a total of 164 confirmed positive cases in its four counties. The Health Department of Northwest Michigan was reporting a total of 232 cases in its four counties.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is reporting a total of 32 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Cheboygan County, with six probable cases. These numbers have not changed since what was reported by the local health department on Friday.
Probable cases are people who have known contact with someone who has tested positive for the virus, has developed symptoms of the virus, but have not been tested for the virus themselves. These cases are treated the same as positive cases by the health departments, complete with contact tracing, determining where a person has been and who they have been in contact with, and monitoring their symptoms. These cases become confirmed if the person tests positive.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is also reporting a total of 111 confirmed positive cases of the virus in Alpena County, with 14 probable cases. There are also seven confirmed positive cases and one probable case being reported in Montmorency County. Presque Isle County is now reporting a total of 15 confirmed cases of the virus in the county, with two probable cases. These are all the same number of cases reported by the local health department on Friday, except for one less probable case in Alpena County and one more confirmed case of the virus in Presque Isle County.
On Friday, there were also a total of 135 people who were considered recovered from the virus in the region, or still alive 30 days after the initial onset of their symptoms. If someone passes away after the 30 days, they are removed from the list of recovered individuals.
Of these 135 people who were reported as recovered from the District Health Department Four on Friday, 98 are from Alpena County, 20 are from Cheboygan County, five from Montmorency County and 12 are from Presque Isle County.
In the Health Department of Northwest Michigan's jurisdiction, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is reporting a total of 35 confirmed positive cases and three probable cases in Antrim County. In Charlevoix County, there are 38 confirmed positive cases, with four probable cases. In Emmet County, there are 49 confirmed cases of the virus, with seven probable and in Otsego County, there are 113 confirmed positive cases of the virus being reported, along with 18 probable cases.
There are also 20 recovered people being reported in Antrim County, 23 recovered in Charlevoix County, 23 recovered in Emmet County and 93 recovered in Otsego County.
On Sunday, Aug. 2, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services reported a total of 426 new confirmed positive cases of the virus throughout the State of Michigan. These additional cases bring the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the state to 82,782 since the first case was reported in March.
On Sunday, there were also no new confirmed COVID-19 related deaths reported in the state. Since the first death reported in the state several months ago, there have been a total of 6,206 virus related deaths reported in the state.
Each weekend, the state also updates the number of people who are considered recovered from the virus. As of July 31, there are 60,002 people in the state who are considered to have recovered from the virus. These are people whose initial onset of symptoms was July 1 or before.
As of Sunday, the total number of cases in the City of Detroit totaled 12,733 cases, with 889 probable cases. Wayne County was reporting a total of 12,956 with 656 probable cases. Oakland County now has a total of 11,521 cases, with 3,256 probable cases.
Kent County is reporting a total of 6,567 confirmed cases of the virus, with 631 probable cases. Genesee County now has a total of 2,802 cases of the virus, with 695 probable cases being reported. There are also 93 confirmed out of state cases that have been reported to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, along with one probable case, of people who have been tested in the state. There are also seven people who have been tested where it is unknown which county they are from, as well as six probable cases.
The Michigan Department of Corrections is reporting a total of 4,145 cases of the virus in its facilities, with one probable case. Federal correctional institutions in the state are also reporting a total of 190 confirmed cases of the virus in its facilities, with four probable cases.
With the continued presence of COVID-19 in the area, people are being asked to continue to follow social distancing guidelines, wear cloth face masks when in public that cover their mouth and nose, and wash their hands frequently. It is also important to disinfect frequently touched surfaces, as well as continue to follow other guidelines put in place by the health department.


Earlier this week, nurses belonging to the National Nurses Union (NNU) and other activist groups kicked off a national campaign for a financial transaction tax, also know as the Robin Hood tax, with a flurry of activity in 15 cities across the US. In San Diego, nurses and other activists combined their Robin Hood event with a town hall meeting that was the first stop of a 12 city Medicare for All bus tour, sponsored by the California Nurses Association, an affiliate of NNU, Physicians for a National Health Program, and Campaign for a Healthy California.
In a recent op-ed column appearing in the Guardian, NNU Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro explained why the US needs a Robin Hood tax, a small tax on risky speculative financial transactions that nearly brought down our economy in 2008. According to DeMoro, such a tax could raise hundreds of billions of dollars for public investment in health care, public and higher education, and badly needed infrastructure projects. Such an invest would put millions of people back to work.
Revenue generated by a Robin Hood tax could also be used to fund the expansion of Medicare and make it available to all. The Medicare for All bus tour hopes to show Californians that there is a better way to deal with the health care crisis than the present approach.
Since leaving San Diego, the Medicare for All tour has made stops in Bakersfield, San Bernadino, and Santa Ana. The physicians and nurses participating in the tour conduct free basic health screenings followed by a town hall meeting where participants are urged to share their stories about the health care problems they face or have encountered.
The beginning of the Medicare for All tour coincided with the national actions for a Robin Hood tax. In Washington DC, members of NNU, Jobs with Justice, National People's Action, the National Organization of Women, Occupy Our Homes, AIDS activists, and others gathered in the halls of Congress as Senators questioned JP Morgan Chase's CEO Jamie Dimon about the bank's recent multi-billion losses on risky financial speculation.
Those outside the hearing donned red shirts and green Robin Hood masks and waited for Dimon to finish testifying, so they could ask their own questions. Dimon chose not to face them and left through a back door.
Robin Hood demonstrations or activities were held in New York City, Washington, DC, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, San Diego, Boston, Dayton, Miami, Atlanta, El Paso, Las Vegas, Minneapolis, Portland, Oregon.
The campaign for a Robin Hood tax released this video featuring actor Mark Ruffalo, musician Tom Morello, and economist Jeffery Sachs, urging people to join the movement for a fair tax on financial speculation.
Raising such a huge amount in the name of public investment is a very good thing as Romney is also looking the same for the US as now a days medical costs have been rising so much that there will be a time where US will be under bankruptcy for Medicare investment !


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Bembridge House, also known as Green-Rankin-Bembridge House, is a registered historic building located across from Drake Park in the Willmore neighborhood of Long Beach, California.  The ornate and well-preserved Queen Anne Victorian house was built in 1906.  Musician and school teacher Dorothy Bembridge lived in the house from 1918 until she was murdered there in 1999.  The house was acquired by Long Beach Heritage in 2000.

Description
Bembridge House, located at 953 Park Circle Drive, Long Beach, California, is a Queen Anne Victorian house that was built in 1906.  It has 18 rooms, and has been preserved with its original high ceilings, woodwork, and many of the original furnishings.  It is considered the most ornate Victorian residence in Long Beach with hand-carved woodwork, stained and leaded glass, and a tiled fireplace.   In 1981, the Los Angeles Times described the house as follows: "It is the city's only perfectly preserved Queen Anne mansion, an intricate arrangement of turrets, pillars, angles, beveled Tiffany glass windows, and white-on-blue scrollwork reminiscent of Wedgwood."  Long Beach Heritage calls Bembridge House "the single most important example of this style of architecture remaining in Long Beach today", and notes that it is considered by many to be "the most significant residential historic landmark structure" in Long Beach.

History
The house was built in 1906 by Stephen and Josephine Green.  He was one of the founders of City National Bank, a wealthy businessman who came to Long Beach from Seattle and Los Angeles.  Green planted exotic shrubs and flowers around the house and also built an aviary for his collection of foreign birds and a barn where he kept Shetland ponies.

Green was reportedly an unpopular man who had legal disputes with his neighbors.  He reportedly suffered "a stroke of apoplexy" and died at the house after an encounter with a neighbor.  His funeral was held at the house.

Thomas Rankin purchased the house in 1918 following Green's death.  The house remained in the Rankin family for more than 80 years.  After the death of Thomas Rankin, the house was inherited by his children, Dorothy Bembridge and Neil Rankin.

Dorothy Bembridge was a musician and a Long Beach school teacher until her retirement in 1968.  Bembridge lived in the house starting in 1918 and noted that the interior was never renovated.  She believed the curtains and soft floors created "a perfect acoustical environment" for frequent piano concerts held at the home.

In 1969, the house was threatened with demolition when the City of Long Beach sought to expand the adjacent Drake Park.  At the time, historical preservationists lobbied to save the structure.  Bembridge sought to have it preserved as a music center. In comments to a local newspaper, she said:"I pray it can be saved. It's a wonderful old house — as solid as the Rock of Gibraltar. There's not a break in the foundation; not a crack in the walls. It's absolutely the only one of its kind in town that has not been  altered. It would have special charm as a music center. The tower serves as a natural megaphone, making the acoustics remarkable. Many say they have never heard anything like the sounds that ring out from the Steinway in this  old house."

In 1981, the Long Beach Cultural Heritage Committee designated Bembridge House as a Long Beach Historic Landmark.  It was among the second group of structures to receive the designation.  At the time of the designation, Bembridge told the Los Angeles Times that she was "content at last that the home she's lived in since 1918 will be preserved in all its magnificence."

In 1999, Bembridge was strangled at the house at age 89.  Her body was discovered in the backyard on November 4, 1999.  Daniel William Borunda, a 51-year-old man who had done odd jobs for Bembridge and had been sent to prison for burglarizing her home in 1990, was eventually convicted of Bembridge's murder and sentenced to 60-years-to-life in prison.  Borunda had been released from prison in October 1999, a few weeks before the murder. Police and prosecutors asserted that the motive was burglary and revenge.

After Bembridge's death, Long Beach Heritage purchased the house in 2000 for $325,000. The group has restored the house to its original state and it is open for tours.

In 2002, Long Beach Heritage received a $72,000 grant from the J. Paul Getty Trust to develop a master plan to preserve the main house, carriage house and aviary, and to restore landscaping and for seismic strengthening and improved access for the disabled.

Bembridge House, located at 953 Park Circle Drive, Long Beach, California, was also listed on the National Register of Historic Places in February 2005.

See also
 List of City of Long Beach Historic Landmarks
 National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Angeles County, California

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in California
Houses in Long Beach, California
Landmarks in Long Beach, California
Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Los Angeles County, California

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Home › Neosystems Blog › Podcast Season 2 Episode 1 – FAR Part 9 Contracting Qualifications
Podcast Season 2 Episode 1 – FAR Part 9 Contracting Qualifications
February 18, 2020 | BY: Neosystems
Join host Erin Keating and expert Eric Crusius as they discuss what FAR Part 9 is and how government contractors should handle cybersecurity compliance.
Erin Keating: Welcome to NeoCast. Join our experts each week as we discuss strategies and solutions for your businesses in managed IT, cybersecurity, government contracting, and much, much more. Sharing is caring and we've got top shelf advice to help you navigate today's biggest challenges. Let's get to it. Hello and welcome back to NeoSystems' NeoCast Podcast. We are in a series called GovCon Rules. We're talking through several different things that are impacting both civilian and defense contractors when dealing with the government and new cybersecurity certifications that are needed and new contractor certifications and requirements that are needed.
Erin Keating: We have our lead expert here, Eric Crusius, partner with Holland & Knight, and we are onto our season two. Last season, we focused on the third party cybersecurity certification and this season, we're going to focus on FAR Part 9 contracting qualifications and talking through how contractors should handle cyber security compliance. So, with that, welcome to the podcast today. Eric, thanks for joining us again.
Eric Crusius: Thank you.
Erin Keating: So, our first topic in our first episode here is going to be what is FAR Part 9. So, let's just kick it off with that. What is FAR? And remember, we might have some younger folks that are just joining the industry and may not even know what FAR stands for. I'm your resident layman that needs it explained. So, if you don't mind explaining what FAR is and then what FAR Part 9 refers to and why it's important to contractors, that would be a great way to kick us off.
Eric Crusius: Sure. Well FAR stands for Federal Acquisition Regulation, and those are kind of the rules of the road by which the government operates when awarding or not awarding contracts to contractors and the process after the contract is awarded to be compliant with these rules. The FAR contains all these rules of the road, at least in theory so contractors have a central clearing house where they know which rules and regulations they need to be compliant with. That being said, there are the supplements to the FAR.
Eric Crusius: Even though the FAR was put into place to be this one standard guide, agencies have come up with their own regulations that they supplement the FAR with. The best known, of course, is the DFARS, Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement. A lot of people think the S is just plural, but it's actually Supplement. So, other agencies have their own supplement, like GSAR, General Services Administration Regulation supplement. So, there's a lot of different rules and regulations out there.
Eric Crusius: Despite the fact that the government likes to make things more standard, of course, everyone likes to have their own customized regulations. Within the FAR, there are parts and sub parts and within that, there is FAR Part 9. FAR Part 9 deals with whether a contractor is essentially worthy of doing business with the federal government because they have the requisite responsibility to do business with the federal government.
Erin Keating: Okay. So, why is it important to the contractors? What things are they looking for within Part 9?
Eric Crusius: So, the last thing, generally speaking, or just about the last thing the government does prior to awarding a contract is they look to see if a contractor is somebody they want to do business with. Is this a contractor that has the responsibility to do business with the government? If they don't, they don't get the contract. It's as simple as that. There are ways that the government does that. Initially, what they'll do is they'll look on what's called SAM, the System for Acquisition Management.
Eric Crusius: Sam.gov lists all the contractors that have been suspended or debarred and can't do business with the federal government. So, the contracting officer hopefully is checking SAM and looking to see whether they're about to award a contract to a contractor that can do business with the federal government. Believe it or not, there are exceptions where they can award smaller contracts especially to contractors that are suspended and debarred. But that's a conversation for another day.
Erin Keating: Oh, great.
Eric Crusius: But I knew you'd be comforted by that.
Erin Keating: Yes.
Eric Crusius: But even if a contractor is not suspended or disbarred, the agency should still look to see, does this contractor have the requisite responsibility to do business with the federal government? Obviously, not being listed on SAM is a good place to start, but sometimes the agency will go look further. Sometimes, with small businesses, a contract is awarded to a small business. Then if the agency is unsure whether that small business is up to the task, they will refer it to the small business administration and they'll make a separate determination on responsibility. So, it's kind of an overview of responsibility and why it's important.
Erin Keating: Does responsibility go with how you treat your employees, your financial stability, things like this? Or are there specific requirements within Part 9 that are more broad ranging or more singular to be that?
Eric Crusius: It's really, if you look at the different factors, I always like to look at the endgame. So, if I have to try a case one day, I'll look at what the jury instructions are going to be two years from now to see what the jury's going to look at, and that's how I know I'm going to fashion a case leading up to that point. When looking at whether a contractor is responsible or not, I'll look at the debarment standard. What does the government look at when they decide whether they're going to debar a contractor?
Eric Crusius: Those are the factors I'll look at to determine whether, well, I don't personally determine, but help clients through process on whether they are responsible or not. So, to answer your question, of course, I'm a lawyer. I get paid by the word. So, you get these long answers-
Erin Keating: Yeah, that's great.
Eric Crusius: … for your questions.
Erin Keating: I like it that we're giving you practice.
Eric Crusius: Yeah.
Erin Keating: You're welcome, Holland & Knight.
Eric Crusius: I'm sure they're very appreciative. You do look at holistically what the contractor's doing and probably treatment of employees is somewhere in there. If they're not complying with labor laws and paying their employees underneath through minimum requirements, that can go to responsibility for sure. Yelling at their employees probably will not, although that's not really a good thing to do. But they lay out a multipart test as far as if a contractor should be debarked or not.
Eric Crusius: There's a whole process that contractors go through if the government decides they want to suspend them. Nobody has a constitutional right to do business with the government. But on the other hand, there is a constitutional right to have due process in various aspects of your life, and I would argue that this is one of them.
Erin Keating: Right. So, that leads me to my next question. If the government does happen to think that you're a contractor that's not responsible, what happened?
Eric Crusius: There's a number of ways the government finds that out. One, it's how you're performing on the contract. If they see you've promised certain things and you're not even trying to fulfill them, that may indicate to them that you're not responsible. Another is sometimes, if you've been accused of something, even if it hasn't been proven, the government to protect itself may suspend a contractor. It does that by sending out a letter, giving the contractor time to respond to the letter as to why they should not be suspended or debarred.
Eric Crusius: Then kind of specific to cybersecurity, you've had this process the last couple years that's actually pretty interesting with especially these foreign technology companies like Kaspersky, like Huawei, where the government has gone out and proactively not just tried to suspend or debar a contractor, but they've actually passed laws debarring the contractor from doing business with the federal government. That's been in the last couple of years, National Defense Authorization Act.
Eric Crusius: Those laws have been kind of messy because what has happened is that those companies, like Kaspersky, like Huawei, have gone to court and to challenge them on constitutional grounds. Kaspersky lost their lawsuit and they lost it on appeal and Huawei's is still pending. In fact, there's some argument in September on their lawsuit and then we expect a decision not too long after that. But the government saw that this was a, and I'm just talking mainly about cybersecurity now, the government saw that this was kind of a messy process.
Eric Crusius: So, in the last year's National, actually it was after the last year's National Defense Authorization Act. It was at the very end of 2018. Right before Congress left town, they passed a law that establishes a Federal Acquisition Security Council, FASC, of course, because we live and die by acronyms here. The Federal Acquisition Security Council, what it does is it allows the government to consider evidence that a contractor is not worthy of doing business with the federal government, or product or service specifically, because of risks inherent in their cybersecurity posture. Or maybe they're tied to the Chinese government or something like that, at least in accusation.
Eric Crusius: The council will make a recommendation as to whether this contractor should be excluded from doing business with the federal government. At that point, the company has a chance to put in essentially a brief or evidence arguing why the government's wrong. Then that recommendation is forwarded on to the specific agencies. So, for any DOD agencies, it's DOD. Any civilian agencies, it's Homeland Security. Then their separate intelligence agencies are separate and apart.
Eric Crusius: So, you have that whole process and then once that happens, if the agency decides to exclude a certain product, service, or company, the contractor has the opportunity to go to court and challenge that in an orderly process. Very orderly. The court that they have the opportunity to go and challenge is a federal appellate court. It's not even a trial court, which is very interesting because I think they expect it to be on the papers. But we've had this ad hoc process of companies getting essentially suspended and debarred, even if it wasn't through the regular process.
Eric Crusius: Then they've tried to stand up this new process, which has not been tested yet, but it just was passed late last year. That's an interesting way that we see this happening in the cyber realm. In the non-cyber realm, the general processes that you have, an agency that decides to suspend a contractor, the contractor has a right to come in and say why they shouldn't be suspended. Then the spent suspension and debarment authority has the opportunity to make a decision on that. You as the contractor, if you think they are wrong, you have the opportunity to go to court and challenge it.
Eric Crusius: Very hard to overturn those things in court because the courts will presume that the government is acting in good faith in is acting within the bounds of their requirements. If there's no basis for it, a court challenge may very well be fruitful, but if there is some basis for it and there's something the government can hold on to-
Erin Keating: Anything, yeah.
Eric Crusius: Yeah, you're not going to have a lot of luck.
Erin Keating: Right. So, in speaking about that, we talked about some of the factors, like if you're not doing the work that you said that you're going to do or not even showing that you have an attempt to do the work that you said that you could do. What are some other factors that the government would use to determine whether a contractor is responsible?
Eric Crusius: Right. So, they look at a few things. One, if a contractor has been subject of a criminal proceeding, that would weigh heavily towards them not being responsible. Believe or not, there are things that happen where there is a criminal proceeding and the contractor is responsible, depending on the nature of the criminal proceeding. What the government will look for, let's just say something wrong happened in the government's eyes. There's a criminal proceeding.
Eric Crusius: Maybe there was a falsification of records or something like that. There's some fraud upon the government. The contractor promised something it didn't deliver and knew it couldn't deliver, all those kinds of things maybe. Then the contractor looks to see what, I'm sorry, the government looks to see what the contractor has done to remedy that situation because FAR Part 9 is all about present responsibility. It's not about punishment.
Eric Crusius: So, if you've done something really terrible as a contractor, but you've cleaned house and everyone that did those bad things is gone, long gone, and you've put these new processes in place to ensure it won't happen again, you're probably going to be a responsible contractor and the government will do business with you. But they want to see that and they want you to agree to it even separately, contractually through an administrative agreement.
Eric Crusius: So, they'll look for certain things. They'll look to see whether you've internally investigated what happened. Maybe a third party has internally investigated, such as a prosecutor, and how that's been resolved and what they have found. Did the contractor fully cooperate with the agencies while this was happening or was it trying to hide the ball? Right. If it's trying to hide the ball, it hasn't learned its lesson, so it's not going to be presently responsible.
Eric Crusius: Did the contractor, as I kind of noted just a few minutes ago, take disciplinary action against the employees involved? Usually, that disciplinary action, if it's serious enough, will amount to dismissal. You have to burn the house to save the village kind of thing. You do have to get rid of the bad eggs or the ones who are a part of the problem. What kind of processes has the contractor instituted to be sure that this won't happen again. So, those are kind of some of the things that they'll do. Is there a recognition among management that this was wrong and it shouldn't happen again and management is taking a leading role to ensure it won't happen again?
Erin Keating: I think that's actually very heartening to hear. I only wish that we could apply that across the government and our criminal justice system and so forth, speaking personally. But that's good to know that the government is willing to look at those circumstances and then help, which we talked about if a contractor is suspended or debarred, it looks like there are things that they can do, not just appeal things, but from this last moment here that they can remedy privately and then be able to prove that to the government that they are doing it, whether it's been forced upon them or not. Anything else that that contractors should be thinking about if they have in fact been suspended or debarred and what they can do?
Eric Crusius: Certainly, if they have been subject to suspension or debarment or they fear they've done something that may subject them to suspension or debarment, there are certain, and this is not applicable all across the board, but there are certain FAR regulations that encourage contractors to self-disclose, voluntarily disclosed some wrongdoing, depending on if it's like a False Claims Act violation, a Title 18 violation, which is a criminal violation, or part of the criminal code.
Eric Crusius: If the covers those things, there may be an opportunity or a requirement, they call it mandatory disclosure, to disclose these things. But it, in effect, almost always acts as a get out of jail free card so that way you as the contractor can move on and the government can move on and you've taken the steps necessary to make sure that won't happen again.
Erin Keating: Now, just out of curiosity, and this is coming back from previous episodes we've done that I have a question about, because we did mention public companies vs. companies. Are there any differences? Does the government see a public company vs. a private company any differently?
Eric Crusius: Not officially, but I would say that a large public company is usually given more slack because the government's usually more reliant on those companies and probably, there's a recognition that these companies have more processes and controls in place. So, I would say they're probably starting from ahead of the private companies because it's easy to show that you've done things to make sure that whatever the wrongdoing was won't occur again.
Erin Keating: The governance that being a public company necessitates probably gives a level of comfort to the government, knowing that there's at least some gate that you're going through in order to survive as a public company vs. a private company.
Eric Crusius: Absolutely.
Erin Keating: So, that makes sense. Yeah. So, how can a contractor show itself to be responsible? So, I know that you say don't show up on the SAM list or the SAM website. But are there other things that it can … We've been talking about certification requirements. We've been talking about the NIST 800-171 and things that you can just remain in compliance with. What's out there for someone to be able to readily show the government that they're responsible?
Eric Crusius: I don't know that there's anything, any kind of guide that's out there. It's just about doing good work and doing it in a timely manner and staying on the right side of the law. It's doing all the things that as a company you hopefully strive to do on a daily basis. Keeping your head down and just doing the work and performing is really the best way. That being said, there's so many gray areas surprisingly that pop up during the performance of a contract that you don't anticipate and it can be difficult for contractors to see what's the right decision here and how far do I need to go to ensure I'm presently responsible?
Eric Crusius: There may be such a thing as going too far. Government doesn't want to hear from you every second to know that you're performing properly and nobody's been arrested. But there may be times that additional information is needed and should be provided. So, I would say that while there's no guide, I think a lot of it's just common sense, just trying to do the right thing, keeping your head down.
Erin Keating: Well, I would say that I've definitely been learning a lot about what it's like to do business with the government and it doesn't necessarily sound off the top of my head that it's easy per se. It sounds like a lot of alphabet soup you've got to sort through. I'm assuming that's a majority of the work that you do with your clients is helping them to understand what they might be at risk for from a legal perspective.
Eric Crusius: Yeah, and I may have mentioned this on an earlier episode, I don't remember at this point, but I call what government contracts lawyers do, we're specialized generalists because we're specialized in the field of government contracts, but government contracts covers everything. It covers cybersecurity, it covers employment law, it covers contract law, covers real estate. There's this whole separate body of government contracting real estate law. So, yes, and I think it's our responsibility to know a wide breadth of law and help contractors go through that because they have a hard enough time running a business. They don't need to worry about these other things too.
Erin Keating: Right. Well, I think that this wraps up what we needed to know about FAR Part 9. I look forward to the next episode where we're going to talk a little bit more in depth around why cybersecurity compliance is important under FAR Part 9. But thank you again, Eric, for being with us today. Any parting thoughts for our audience listening as far as FAR Part 9 is concerned?
Eric Crusius: I would just say that, especially as, and this is kind of previewing the next episode, but as far as cybersecurity is concerned, if you are saying as a contractor that you're compliant with a provision, make sure you're compliant with it. Right? The government does not like to find out later down the road if there's been a cybersecurity breach that you're not, and that will go towards your present responsibility. So, it's something to just keep in mind.
Erin Keating: Great. Well, I look forward to deep diving into this next episode and appreciate your time today, Eric. Thank you so much.
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Machiavelli on Liberty and Conflict
David Johnston, Nadia Urbinati, and Camila Vergara (eds.), Machiavelli on Liberty and Conflict, University of Chicago Press, 2017, 423pp., $50.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780226429304.
Reviewed by Kenneth Winston, Harvard University
This volume originated at a conference in 2013 at Columbia University to celebrate the 500th anniversary of The Prince. It was an opportune occasion, as the editors note, to examine the foundations, meaning, and legacy of Machiavelli's thought. The result is an engaging, insightful collection of sixteen essays by scholars from Australia, England, France, Italy, and the United States presenting contemporary lines of research and interpretation. In subject matter, they range widely: from small-scale readings of selected texts, to historical and contextual studies of leading ideas, to assessments of Machiavelli's continuing influence.
The editors have divided the essays into four sections: on Machiavelli's relation to previous, especially ancient, political thinkers; Machiavelli's political realism and moral provocations; the features and problems of republican polities; and Machiavelli's influence as reflected in a few 20th century thinkers. However, the essays overflow or elude these categories, as one would expect in dealing with a thinker as complex -- and elusive -- as Machiavelli.
I should emphasize that I approach this collection not as a scholar of Machiavelli but as a long-time teacher of practical ethics to mid-career practitioners, including government officials and other laborers in the public sector. Practitioners discover that Machiavelli speaks directly and candidly to their professional preoccupations and concerns. With his resistance to philosophical system, they appreciate his genius in uncovering truths about ethics and power which otherwise remain concealed in the idealizations of most theorists. He grasps their experience and speaks credibly about it. Because of that, they are eager to ponder (even if not necessarily follow) his advice.
Why does Machiavelli speak so powerfully to people of experience? In the first instance, it is because of his down-to-earth treatment of moral conundrums and the well-known (albeit controversial) teaching that a good person is not necessarily a good leader -- leadership requires skills that a good person may lack. And, conversely, that a good leader is not necessarily a good person -- the goodness that forms an integral part of good leadership gets its content from the leader's public responsibilities, which set it apart from, and sometimes in conflict with, personal beliefs and aspirations.
Equally important is Machiavelli's message that practical moral thinking is strategic. By this I mean that pursuit of the public good is contingent on available resources and the authority to act. It recognizes the recalcitrance of the world, including the difficulty of aligning interests with the public good, as well as the role of fortune and thus the importance of opportunism in the pursuit of moral ends. It is also as much about appearances and communication (persuasion and the arts of oratory) as about substance. As a result, the good practitioner is someone with the requisite competence to act effectively for the public good in circumstances that are conflictual, fleeting, and partially out of control. Hence the importance of Machiavelli's focus on the qualities of the good leader, especially the virtue of prudence. These themes speak powerfully to practitioners.
Although written by academics, the essays touch on these themes in various ways. I will briefly discuss the essays -- I do not have space for all of them -- that address three related issues: the autonomy of politics from ethics, the problem of dirty hands, and conflict in political society.
[1] The (possible) autonomy of politics from ethics is a thread that runs through many of the essays. In an elegant bit of textual analysis, Erica Benner observes what she regards as a kind of ambivalence in Machiavelli's realism, based on different perceptions of human nature. In one set of passages (reflecting the conventional view of Machiavelli), human beings are so universally untrustworthy that rulers are required to adopt a purely instrumental posture toward morality and thus believe they are justified in committing evil deeds as necessary. In other passages, however, a different kind of realism shows through. Benner sees Machiavelli displaying more confidence in the human capacity to develop relations of trust and collaboration, which are critical for good governance and require a non-instrumental view. This is a persuasive riff on the adage that the best way to appear to be good is to be good; it holds out the possibility of a benign reading in which politics and ethics are fully integrated. Benner's second kind of realism is only suggestive, however, and takes for granted the conventional reading of Machiavelli as an amoral theorist.
The conventional view is shared by Harvey C. Mansfield and Paul A. Rahe, in their contributions, but most of the authors in this collection adhere to a humanist reading of Machiavelli as a moralist grappling with some of the complexities (not to say, dark corners) of common morality. Curiously, no one observes that the issue of autonomy from ethics arises in every major profession; it is not peculiar to politics. Although the scale is different, every profession develops a distinctive code of conduct and poses the question whether, in cases of conflict, its practitioners are exempt from common morality. What is it about professional (or public) life that generates this idea? It is easy to see that practitioners take on new responsibilities and new duties. Do they, thereby, have permission -- conferred by a special ethic -- to engage in acts that would be immoral if performed by someone else?
Quentin Skinner's essay is helpful here, although it does not provide a full answer. He observes that Machiavelli's account of the princely virtues builds on the work of classical Roman moralists and draws the same distinction they draw between personal virtues (such as charity and piety) and political virtues (liberality, clemency, good faith). The latter are distinct in being qualities that contribute to prudent conduct in public affairs. What Skinner adds is that, when Machiavelli contends that rulers sometimes must act in defiance of the virtues (that is, immorally), it is the personal virtues that Machiavelli sees as obstacles, not the political virtues. (Thus, the good leader is not necessarily a good person.) In a corrupt world, Machiavelli says, people are confused sometimes about what these virtues require or are thought to prescribe. The prudent ruler is skilled in discerning what is or is not consistent with political virtue.
This is important because it highlights Machiavelli's awareness of how personal and political virtue can diverge and conflict, illustrating the disorderly character of moral life in our non-ideal world. When scholars focus on Machiavelli's instruction about consciously committing evil (when necessary), they typically fail to notice this disorderliness and thus the numerous -- and perfectly cogent -- ways ethical conflicts can arise. They treat morality as a clear, uniform, unproblematic set of requirements, without recognizing that its personal, professional, conventional, and aspirational dimensions produce constant instability and test the limits of human powers. In such a world, even the most conscientious person can face intractable problems.
[2] An inevitable outcome of this moral fragmentation is the problem of dirty hands, which practitioners frequently encounter -- or believe they encounter -- in their daily work. (It is because of the widespread belief that it is so important to work through the problem with an astute observer like Machiavelli.) The term dirty hands, briefly, refers to situations in which it appears that the morally better course of action is to do something morally wrong. Which, of course, is paradoxical: how can it be morally better to do something morally wrong?
Reading Machiavelli through the lens of Max Weber, Giovanni Giorgini observes that Machiavelli did not advocate a new morality and did not believe that politicians enjoy a special dispensation from common morality. Thus, implicitly, he rejects a special ethic. Rather, politicians sometimes confront tragic dilemmas, which are part of common morality. But what are tragic dilemmas? Giorgini observes that, while the existence of true dilemmas has no place in Christian thought, they were effectively portrayed in Greek tragedy and Machiavelli learned from them. But how are we to understand dilemmas today? Giorgini notes that Machiavelli never says the end justifies the means, but how then are we to understand Machiavelli's teaching on committing evil? Even if Giorgini is right, as I believe he is, it is only the beginning of discussion.
Here as elsewhere, constructive interpretation of Machiavelli would be aided by contemporary work on practical ethics, but such references are missing from these essays. An extensive literature on moral dilemmas exists: why they arise, how to frame the problem, what solutions do or do not make sense. (I have in mind the writings of Thomas Nagel, Bernard Williams, Martha Nussbaum, David Luban, and others.) This work offers conceptual distinctions, frameworks, forms of practical argumentation that would be helpful in reading classic texts. Consistent with her benign reading of Machiavelli, Benner sees his appeal to necessity, not as an invitation to moral deviation, but as an occasion for exercising imagination and devising alternative (moral) courses of action. Benner seems to acknowledge that this is a bit wistful; at any rate, it strikes me as an evasion. Benner insists on the difficulty of coming up with plausible instances of unavoidable wrongdoing, but she does not discuss any of the standard cases in the literature. Meanwhile, she misses the nuance in Machiavelli's famous discussion in Discourses I.9 of Romulus killing Remus, where he consistently uses the language of excuse, not justification.
Stephen Holmes employs Benner's two kinds of realism to argue that the prudent ruler, recognizing the need to maintain the loyalty of subjects in times of adversity, will have the foresight to invest in institutions and policies that incline citizens to offer support in a crisis. This includes the rule of law, respect for personal property, and avoidance, so far as possible, of a politics of fear and cruelty. In a clever rhetorical inversion, Holmes suggests that, to maintain such loyalty, the prudent ruler is "forced to be good." This phrase neatly captures Benner's hopeful reading of Machiavelli, but it reflects the same dichotomous choice: either Machiavelli is completely amoral, or he is unproblematically moral.
[3] The problem of dirty hands is perhaps the most obvious manifestation of fragmentation and conflict in moral life. But Machiavelli goes a step further in his discussion of ideal polities by stressing the virtue of social conflict for preserving liberty. Many of the essays touch on this topic in one way or another, and I learned more from them than from any of the others. In one formulation, the central question is whether conflict or harmony is the preferred political ideal, or in more contemporary terms, is Machiavelli best understood as a republican or as a democratic theorist? Jean-Fabien Spitz and John P. McCormick argue against the republican reading, largely because it is less useful, they believe, as a resource for reinvigorating contemporary democracies.
McCormick's pro-democracy interpretation is well known from his book Machiavellian Democracy; here he extends it to his reading of Machiavelli's Florentine Histories. Spitz offers a more direct argument, targeting in particular the republican reading of Machiavelli promoted by Skinner and Philip Pettit (who is not included in this collection). These authors, Spitz says, "fear majority rule much more than elitist domination" and favor institutional mechanisms "that are meant to prevent political conflicts (something Machiavelli was not afraid of) but that, in fact, tend to enhance the power of experts over the power of the people." When it is claimed that the popolo and the grandi share an interest in order, stability, and predictability, that opens the door to the rhetoric of harmony, which is a cover for elite domination. Machiavelli's view, rather, is that the desire to dominate is less decent than the desire not to be dominated. Because of the natural emergence of both desires (in different classes), the latter -- and its expression in political conflict -- is crucial to maintaining liberty and a well-ordered state.
It is important to stress that Machiavelli praises only a regulated kind of civic conflict, as may occur in a well-ordered republic, that is, where there are good laws and properly functioning institutions. Both Benedetto Fontana and Luca Baccelli, in separate essays, distinguish two kinds of conflict, which Fontana refers to as positive and negative and Baccelli as healthy and pathological. The first is conducive to a republic's viability and resilience; it enlarges citizenship and enhances freedom. The second is exemplified by the kind of factionalism that destabilizes a republic, especially divisiveness generated by conflicts over wealth and property among elites. Jérémie Barthas adds to this analysis in his essay by focusing on Machiavelli's sustained argument, while in office as well as in his writings, against the use of mercenary armies and in favor of "people in arms," which shifts power away from aristocratic and toward democratic elements. Barthas elaborates Machiavelli's insights about public debt and the financial system generally as key mechanisms by which the aristocratic "military-financial complex" exercises its influence.
In an interesting aside on this theme, Gabriele Pedullà argues that, in using Rome as a model of the good polity, Machiavelli attempted to counter the widespread criticism of Rome in the humanist literature of the 14th and 15th centuries, which favored princely rule over the tumultuous Roman republic, and the tendency in contemporary public discourse to blur the boundaries between Rome and Venice as possible exemplars. Machiavelli sharpens the distinction between Venice and Rome by emphasizing the former's preference for aristocratic dominance and commitment to harmony among social classes as against the latter's more fractious -- but liberty-preserving -- constitution. The tendency of later historians to accept the sharp distinction between Venice and Rome, Pedullà says, shows Machiavelli's success in shaping our thinking about his time.
I suppose Machiavelli's stance on conflict is troubling to theorists who are inclined to resist the idea that permanent social antagonism is a virtue. But, while Machiavelli does place great emphasis on constitutionalism and the rule of law in a well-ordered republic, he does not lose sight of the inevitable tendencies toward oligarchic control and corruption which generate a need for continual vigilance and even insurgency. As Marie Gaille observes in the final essay, this point was stressed in the 20th century by Louis Althusser: democratic citizens express their moral agency precisely by inscribing a resistance to institutionalization.
The extended attention to social conflict in democratic polities is especially salient given our current political crisis. On this topic, as with Machiavelli's teaching on morality, the essays in this collection are valuable in forcing us to deal with intrinsic features of the non-ideal world we live in, however disorderly and disagreeable. In the pursuit of ideals, what matters to practitioners is that the ideals are realistic, and the pursuit is informed by knowledge of the conditions under which they are likely to be fulfilled or frustrated. This is the quality that gives to Machiavelli's work its enduring significance.