I've decided to start doing author interviews on Facebook messenger in lieu of doing book reviews, which I'm terrible at. This interview is with Sarahbeth Caplin, who has written seven books, most notably her memoir about her faith journey as a secular Jew who became a Christian, then got caught up in a toxic evangelical college ministry where she met her husband Josh before they escaped together. The crazy thing we discovered through our interview is that a major part of Sarahbeth's conversion experience was reading several teen Christian books she borrowed from my first cousin Mary Sley when they were neighbors growing up in Hudson, Ohio!!! It was a great conversation that I'm sure you'll enjoy.
MG: So tell me about your book.
SC: Basically I got asked so many times in college what motivates a secular Jew to become a Christian, I started joking about writing a book…and eventually I did just that. It's called Confessions of a Prodigal Daughter. Here's the description: In a bittersweet twist of fate, I started out "too Jewish" for my Catholic friends in elementary school, but not Jewish enough for the kids I met at summer camp, with their youth group logos and wristbands. In Israel, I didn't feel I had the right to call myself Jewish at all. Now I was too Christian for Jews everywhere, but still too Jewish to completely fit in with my new bible study friends. In my most pessimistic moments, I wonder if I'll never fit in anywhere, with anyone. It's interesting because Christians are called to be pariahs, to go against the ways of this world. But I am a special kind of pariah.
SC: Off topic, but I didn't know you were a cousin of the Sleys until Sarah posted a link to your book, which I ordered. I grew up next door to them.
MG: What?!!! Did you know about their mixed Jewish Christian heritage?
SC: Yup. Their father is Jewish right?
MG: Oh I didn't know Mary had theology books. What were they like?
SC: Prayer of Jabez, the Columbine biographies, Chicken Soup stuff with a Christian bend. Not theology specifically.
MG: Right. So was that part of your whole becoming a Christian story?
SC: It started with books, yes. The market for Jewish books for teens was practically nonexistent. There was one Judaica shop that had lots more Jewish books you couldn't find at Barnes and Noble, and before the internet my mom would drive me there, 45 minutes away. It closed when I was in high school.
MG: Wow. So what was in your mind as you were devouring these books? What did you think you were looking for?
MG: And the first two girls were the Columbine girls?
SC: Right. I remember hiding Rachel's Tears under my bed so my mom wouldn't find it. Probably why I never returned it to Mary. It was in such poor condition I was too embarrassed.
MG: Ah… so how old were you when Columbine happened? Was Columbine impactful to you when it happened or was it reading about it after the fact?
MG: So what was it about Rachel Scott that made her so attractive as a hero?
SC: Probably just because she seemed a lot like me. We could have been friends if we were closer in age. Similar interests, personalities. And unlike Joan of Arc, she wasn't quite this larger than life, Wonder Woman-type figure who was declared a saint.
MG: So you read about the Columbine girls, you were inspired by their stories, and then what happened?
SC: I'd say it was mostly Rachel Scott and Joan of Arc that had the biggest impact. I came to the realization that the things I would need to develop the kind of faith my role models had just didn't exist in my Jewish community. Girls like Rachel (a better example than 15th-century Joan of Arc in this regard) had youth groups, youth pastors, age-appropriate bible studies and stuff. Even community itself was lacking for me, since my synagogue was small and had very few kids in it. If most attendees were anything like my parents, they attended out of obligation, not spiritual devotion. My rabbi was pretty useless in helping me out with developing a spiritual life, but I can't really blame her. I was an odd kid. I wanted a "personal relationship" with God and got told that Jews didn't "have" that. Pretty crushing. Basically I was told if you're Jewish and wanted more of God, you became Orthodox. Not at all what I was looking for. Judaism as I understood it was spiritually unfulfilling, which is funny because now that I'm reading more about it as an adult, I don't feel that way anymore…but the God-in-the-flesh thing that Christians have still doesn't exist in Judaism, and ultimately that was the biggest draw for me: a God who knew what it was like to be human and feel what humans feel.
MG: So a couple of weeks ago I read Chaim Potok's The Chosen which is about an orthodox hasidic Jewish in Brooklyn in the 1940's. I was captivated by the mystical aspects of the spirituality that was being described. As I'm reading your reflections and thinking about my own story, I'm realizing that what attracts me now would have bored me out of my mind at age 16. And this outrageous statement came into mind. What if Christianity is a religion for teenagers and Judaism is a religion for adults? At least the evangelical, personal, emotive version of Christianity that's built around a rock concert worship service and heart-throb motivational speaker. How does that idea sit with you?
MG: So when did you officially become a Christian and how did your family respond?
SC: Almost a decade ago…and now you're asking for spoilers. They were not thrilled, and yet not surprised I think they were mostly afraid that I'd become one of those screaming street preachers yelling about how everyone is going to hell. We didn't have the best examples of Christianity in our community so I think that fear was valid. From the classmates who "lovingly" wrote me notes about not going to hell, to the Jews for Jesus literature with my dad's name on it that we would find in our mailbox, pamphlets on the windshield of our car after Shabbat services…low-key stuff, but still unsettling and unkind. Luckily my childhood wasn't too anti-semitic.
MG: It sounds like your understanding of your spiritual longings has evolved over the decade since you became a Christian. Can you share a little bit about that without giving away the story?
SC: That's pretty much asking for a book-length response. I'd say personal experience had a lot to do with it, from a borderline abusive experience in college ministry to a failed stint at seminary to my father's death from cancer, all of which produced a sort of spiritual crisis.
MG: Is it all right to ask about your abusive campus ministry experience? I was in a toxic campus ministry myself.
SC: You've heard of Cru?
MG: Oh yeah! Some of my best friends are ex-Cru folks who bonded with me over our escape from toxic evangelicalism.
SC: That's actually where I met my husband, so I guess it wasn't all bad. But part of how we bonded was over how toxic our experiences were there.
MG: Right. So how long did it take you to figure out something wasn't right?
SC: About a year. I thought the problem was me for not being godly enough.
MG: So what kind of pressure was there to be more godly?
SC: Mostly having to do with evangelism. Very manipulative evangelism.
MG: Ah did you have a quota of people to bring?
MG: Right. So was this the whole "find a way to bring Jesus up in every conversation" thing?
MG: Ha. So did you ever try to do it to random strangers?
SC: I went around in groups on campus where others did most of the talking. Coming from the other side, I knew how students felt ambushed.
MG: I've often wondered how it's ever actually worked. I guess if you're in a vulnerable enough place, then a stranger can push you into a sinner's prayer.
SC: I think the group went out of its way to target lonely freshmen away from home, with posters advertising pizza parties that mentioned nothing about the religious components. The posters were also under fire with the school for not printing their logo clearly enough, per university requirements. So people read 'pizza party' and had no idea it was sponsored by a Christian group.
MG: Yup. So given your unique spiritual journey and hybridity of heritage, is there a form of evangelism that you would feel comfortable with today?
SC: I wouldn't call it evangelism so much as simply being myself. I talk about faith the way most people talk about their interests and personal relationships. But writing about faith is definitely something I'm better at than speaking about it.
MG: Right. So let me make this a loaded question that I'm thinking about asking my incoming student leaders in my campus ministry this weekend as we plan for the spring: do you think people need Jesus and if so why? Your answer may help me decide whether to ask the question or not.
SC: Yes, because I think mankind is in desperate need of redemption. I don't believe in total depravity, however. If people followed Jesus' example of humility and servitude I think we would have a much better world. I had to think about my answer…not sure what the implications are there.
MG: So what does Christian salvation look like to you now?
SC: I share C.S. Lewis' thoughts on this – if Jesus is the only way, we'll be very surprised at who we see in heaven, because sometimes non-Christians demonstrate better understanding of the heart of Christ than a lot of self-proclaimed Christians do.
SC: I don't know if that answers your question. To be honest, I'm still working through a lot of this. I got messages out of 'love' from certain people when my father was dying, asking if he was 'saved' yet. The thought of suffering for eternity just for believing the wrong things really enraged me. Especially when he suffered for 13 years with cancer.
MG: Absolutely. I'm still trying to figure out a better narrative of salvation myself. Where do Jesus' cross and resurrection fit into the picture for you? Note: I'm asking not as an evangelical litmus-tester but a post-evangelical exile trying to find a better story.
SC: Not really sure how to answer that. The cross is tricky for me. On the one hand, it's the event that kick-started a long history of anti-semitism. That's a big reason I don't wear a cross. On the other hand, Christianity was instrumental in providing a context for my own suffering – and the understanding that it can be redeemed.
MG: Ah yeah, the anti-semitism was totally not on my radar screen.
SC: I've struggled for most of my adult life with suicide and depression, so the narrative of redemption has been more than just helpful or inspirational. It's been a literal lifeline. Just one reason why the prosperity gospel never made sense to me…I've known plenty of people who praise God for finding foreclosed homes that sell super cheap, dollars on the sidewalk, and lost car keys, and I'm like…are we reading the same bible?
MG: So what are you writing about now?
SC: I've stepped away from book writing for the time being to focus on freelancing. I actually write for an atheist blog, mostly news-related pieces having to do with religion, and for the Huffington Post.
MG: Ah interesting. How has this experience of writing religion news interfaced with your spiritual evolution?
SC: It's weird that I'm making more money than I ever did writing for a blog that reaffirms why a lot of people left religion…not exactly what I dreamed of doing. But it's a lot of topics I'd be speaking out against anyway, like the evangelical worship of Donald Trump. If anything I hope it's encouraging to the atheist audience that there are Christians out there who are just as outraged as they are.
MG: Right. How do you hold onto hope when there's so much to be cynical about in religious news?
MG: Indeed. So if you could sit down with your eighteen-year-old Cru-indoctrinated self, what would you say to her?
SC: Stay long enough to meet Josh; then leave.
MG: Haha. Sounds like a variation on what my youth pastor friend used to say, "Come for the girls and stay for God." I guess sometimes you come for God, find the life partner, and get out.
SC: Took a little longer than it should have.
MG: So is there anything else you'd like to add or talk about?
SC: This post may be helpful in answering some questions on the spiritual side of things.
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Video shows why Milan should be patient with €28m signing
By Isak Möller - 12 April 2020, 20:04
Last summer, AC Milan signed Rafael Leao from Lille for a fee of €28m. However, the Portuguese striker has struggled to break through, spending a lot of time on the bench in his first season.
He has made 22 appearances for the Rossoneri thus far, but only ten of them from start, bagging two goals and two assists in the process. For next season, though, it might be wise to keep him rather than selling or loaning him out.
As we know, Milan will focus a lot on young players, hoping to follow the footsteps of RB Leipzig with Ralf Rangnick at the helm (hopefully). Take a look at the video below, which highlights Leao's qualities.
Rafael Leao – Lord Knows
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It's that time again. Monthly favorites!
I did this as soon as I got home from work today so that I didn't forget. I also decided to do this post a little differently. Not too different, but this won't be a photo based post.
Off topic note, I wanted to thank everyone who has visited this blog. THANK YOU! Beauty Parfait has reached a little over a 1,000 page views in two months (I'm not sure how good that is in the beauty blogging world, but it works for me!), I'm entirely grateful to those of you who have visited.
Back on topic, onward we go!
Urban Decay Get Baked palette. I actually rediscovered this palette after going through my make-up stash. I've used it mostly through the month of February for work. I'm uncertain, but I do believe this is now discontinued. Not terribly sure. It came with a mini primer potion as well as a 24/7 eye pencil.
Tarte Amazonian Clay Shimmering Powder in Champagne. I got this in a gift set that I purchased. Another product that I rediscovered this month that I had, when I was searching for a highlighting powder.
Rimmel London Match Perfection Concealer in Fair. I've only been using this for less then a week (still counts right?) and I love it! I will be doing a review later.
Nicole by O.P.I. Scarlett from the Selena Gomez Collection. I searched all over the place for this polish and when I finally found it, it was the only color I'd wear. I actually received several compliments on it.
M.A.C. This one is an oldie but goodie. Viva Glam Cyndi I (discontinued). Very few reds that I can wear out there that don't make me look like a vampire. This was, yet again, another rediscovery.
Bath & Body Works Love Love Love. I have the lotion at work, which I use constantly. For some reason this month I've been reaching for this one the most out of my perfumes/body sprays. It's a light scent and not over powering at all.
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The cause of the five-point gap that separated Indiana and Iowa Thursday night can be traced to any of a few factors, depending on the lens through which one views the game.
It could have been Iowa's 3-point shooting or its scoring edge off of turnovers, or the foul trouble that limited Juwan Morgan to just 22 minutes. Perhaps it was Iowa's ability to quell every Hoosier run with a timely stop or silencing bucket. Indiana played well enough to have won the game had any one factor swung its way, yet poorly enough that none did. Ultimately, that five-point margin was a matter of execution and consistency – and Indiana's lack thereof when it most mattered.
Schematically, the Hoosiers bore a close resemblance to the team that escaped East Lansing Saturday night with an upset win over Michigan State. The ball moved crisply, save for the time it took Indiana to figure out Iowa's 2-3 zone, and IU finished the night with 17 assists on 26 made field goals. The team generated 1.09 points per possession, nine dunks, and 21 three-point attempts, nearly all of which were clean looks. Romeo Langford had 22 points on just 12 shots while Morgan scored 17 points in his limited time on the floor. De'Ron Davis, despite attempting just two shots, dished a game and career-high seven assists. Indiana's process was good and its approach well-intentioned.
The results told another story.
The same jumpers that snapped the nets on Saturday caromed off the rim Thursday night. The loose balls that always seemed to bounce IU's way seemingly deflected into Iowa's hands. Indiana dug itself in such a hole in the first half that a 36-31 margin in the second couldn't quite pull within striking distance of the Hawkeyes. Most notably, Iowa outscored Indiana 19-9 off of turnovers, and IU sliced its turnover figure in half in the second period, its early struggles were too much to overcome.
Indiana struggled to contain the combination of Iowa's shooting and Tyler Cook's relentless interior scoring. Cook finished with 21 points and seven rebounds, and when the Hoosiers made a point to force the ball out of his hands, Iowa's shooters punished them. The Hawkeyes hit 10 of their 25 3-point attempts, including four by Joe Wieskamp in the first half and three daggers from Jordan Bohanon late in the second to keep Indiana at arm's length.
"Our defense wasn't able to finish possessions tonight. We had that on Saturday. We were able to get one-time stops and rebounds and be able to hang in there. Tonight, we fouled, we didn't come up with the loose ones, the long ones, and they made some big ones and tough ones at the end of the clock.
Despite its inability to find consistent rhythm on either end of the floor, Indiana played Iowa to a draw in Morgan's 22 minutes – an imperfect measure of his impact, but a telling one nonetheless. He managed 17 points on just nine shot attempts, with four rebounds and just one turnover to boot.
But his foul trouble was of equal consequence to his team. Morgan had two personals in the first half, and picked up his fourth just 3:11 into the second. Regardless of the merit of those calls, it is incumbent upon Morgan to realize his value and be smarter about how he plays defense. It's the senior's nature to swipe at the ball and take risks on defense – often with the reward of prodigious block and steal numbers – but the cost of him risking foul trouble far outweighs the benefit of his gambles.
Davis helped weather Morgan's absence, but Indiana indisputably missed having its best player on the floor. Still, Davis has now given IU two consecutive strong performances and appears to once again be a reliable presence off the bench. The mere fact of having a trustworthy option to spell Morgan and Justin Smith gives Indiana, who has dealt with depth concerns for most of the season, a significant lift. Thursday night, Davis kept Indiana afloat as Morgan battled foul trouble. His passing was crucial in solving Iowa's zone as he connected the dots from the high post, swiftly spotting shooters behind the arc or cutters from the short corner.
He fits with most any forward on IU's roster despite limited shooting range, and has learned to read defenses more quickly and accurately while his bruising presence on the block forces defenses to account for his scoring. As a result, he has become a crucial connective tissue for a developing offense that desperately needs it.
Foul trouble mandated that Davis play 23 minutes Thursday, and he even played alongside Morgan down the stretch when Smith sat – a look Indiana hasn't shown often this year. Davis' role this season was complicated by injury and the presence of better options. Credit the junior for reinventing himself and fitting in just the same.


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Golden Globes 2021: Cher is your overwhelming choice to receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award
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Cher is your overwhelming choice to receive the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 2021 Golden Globes according to our latest poll results. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association generally announces their life achievement recipient a few months before, so we offered 12 people all over 50 who deserve recognition.
The Oscar, Grammy and Emmy winner picked up 34% in our poll. The next closest person was Jane Fonda with 15% and then Julie Andrews with 12%. For the other nine people featured, they finished as follows: Glenn Close (11%), Mel Brooks (8%), Jessica Lange (5%), Tom Cruise (4%), Brad Pitt (4%), Sally Field (3%), Julia Roberts (2%), Steve Martin (1%) and Eddie Murphy (1%).
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Nigeria rebels threaten more attacks if Buhari is reelected
The Niger Delta Avengers hope to change Nigeria's president through polls, but threaten violence if vote fails.
Oil accounts for the bulk of Nigeria's foreign exchange earnings [Adam Abu Bashal/Anadolu]
By Fidelis Mbah
Abuja, Nigeria – Armed rebels from Nigeria's oil-rich southern Niger Delta region have vowed to cripple the country's economy if President Muhammadu Buhari is reelected.
The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) said in a statement on Thursday that it hoped to change Buhari's rule through elections on Saturday.
Analysts say the threat should not be dismissed given the group's pedigree.
"The threat may be very real, considering the fact that the group has carried out such acts in the past," Amaechi Nwaokolo, a security analyst, told Al Jazeera.
"The government must ensure that the election is credible. That must not be manipulated," he said.
The armed group said its preferred candidate is the main opposition candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
Faction endorsement
A faction of NDA in the southern region had on Wednesday endorsed Buhari for re-election.
Ebikabowie Ben, the group's spokesman, said their decision to back the president for re-election was because of his resolve to develop the oil-producing area.
"The government has engaged strategically by empowering the local economy by protecting it from the harmful effects of illegal refining to executing agreements to invest in modular refineries in the Niger Delta region. This is the right way to go," Ben said.
Cheta Nwanze, a security analyst, told Al Jazeera that the endorsements are not good for the country's democratic process.
"We are in a very interesting situation where armed men are endorsing [candidates]," Nwanze said.
Security fears
Analysts have warned that the presidential and legislative elections might be one of the bloodiest in the country's history.
In 2011, election violence claimed nearly 1,000 lives in the country's north following the Buhari's defeat by acting-President Goodluck Jonathan.
But Nwanze feels the decisions by the armed groups may not affect the polls.
"I don't think that this endorsement and counter-endorsements are a threat to the conduct of the elections, but going forward, especially as the NDA have shown their capabilities in the past, they could be in a position to cause havoc," he said.
Oil crisis
Nigeria is Africa's biggest economy and oil accounts for the bulk of the country's foreign exchange earnings.
NDA was behind a 2016 wave of violence that helped push Nigeria into recession.
The armed group's attacks cut the OPEC member's oil production.
In 2016, NDA sabotaged Nigeria's oil infrastructure for months in bombings that forced production to drop from 2.2 million barrels a day to 20-year lows of 1.4 million barrels a day according to the country's national bureau of statistics, seriously crippling the country's economy.


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Yes, I live for moments like this: when my heart misses a beat, because of one's purity and visionary thinking. And I am strong believer, that even one person can make a difference. Filip is making a difference!
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A former English teacher and newspaper and magazine journalist, most recently for 22 years at People Ron Arias has published the following books: The Road To Tamazunchale, a novel nominated for a National Book Award; Five Against the Sea, a true survival saga; Healing from the Heart, with Dr. Mehmet Oz; Moving Target: A Memoir of Pursuit, and White's Rules:Saving Our Youth, One Kid At A Time, with Paul D. White. An amateur potter, he lives with his wife Joan in Hermosa Beach, CA, while their filmmaker son Michael resides in Japan, which increasingly has become a second home for them.
This book is about Ron as a reporter, or as he writes, a 'pencil'. It is a collection of outtakes and back-stories from decades of reporting in global hot spots, most recently for 22 years at People magazine. Arranged chronologically, starting in 1959 with a wine-drinking encounter with Ernest Hemingway in Spain, the stories are the author's attempt to shed the straitjacket of slick, mainstream journalism and present deeper, more personal moments with famous and common people alike. Whether it's an oddly dour Hunter Thompson on the prowl for jazz in Buenos Aires or the heroism of pain in Somalia, El Salvador or the Australian Outback, each story presents a lesson or epiphany about life lived at the edge.
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Ron Arias in Mexico City, 1985. Photo by Ben Martin
Bob Arias says:
To my brother Ronnie…I am always proud of you! You tell it as you see it, and how you respond to the beauty of life even during sad moments. Love you Hermano!
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i AIM to get and read your book. I consider myself a pencil musician poet. I think you know Mike and Cookie McGaha in Claremont. Plus I think we met 1979 when working at UC SAN FRANCISCO MED CENTER.
(THOUGH that's a bit iffy now in 2015.)
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"I can just blame ghosts for my own lack of personal development." | Ruth Hunter on fighting her demons at Glasgow Comedy Festival
Tell us about the show you're bringing to the Glasgow Comedy Festival, Ruth Hunter and the Ruth-Hunter.
It's a spoooooky stand up comedy show about ghosts and anxiety and jokes.
How did you develop the concept of the Ruth-Hunter?
I've always been afraid of the dark and worried about supernatural entities trying to murder me. I used to think the devil lived in the toilet and flushing it opened the door to hell. It was a race to flush, wash my hands and get the hell out of there. I never skipped the hand washing part though, I'm not a moron.
You're known for your observations inspired by inward reflection. How much of that sort of thing can audiences expect from this show?
There's quite a lot of reflection on why I fear the supernatural but on a rational level, don't actually believe in any of it. I think it's a form of diverting anxiety about real life problems on to concepts that are beyond my control. This way I can just blame ghosts for my own lack of personal development. It's much better than blaming yourself or your parents.
What inspires your subversive comedic style?
I think of good jokes and then I overthink them and then I think about them again and then I forget about them and about six months later I remember I'm supposed to be writing a fringe show or something and I write everything down really quickly.
Tell us about your radio series, It's Not Raining Blood.
It's Not Raining Blood is a sci fi/horror buddy comedy. It's about two friends who live in a town that seems to attract weird things, but if you ask anyone else in the town they'll just deny all the weirdness. The friends have a Mulder/Scully attitude towards it; one is a skeptic and the other believes. It's full of very silly characters and plots and it was very fun to make. It's also full of very funny people like Julie Jay, Hannah Mamalis, Erin Mcgathy and Alison Spittle, sound was by Rachel Ni Chuinn. Produced by Conor O'Toole and Rachel Ni Chuinn. You can listen to it here: https://kclr96fm.com/documentary/its-not-raining-blood/
Fun and giggling! And perhaps some catharsis resulting from a satisfying narrative structure?
Are there any other shows you're looking forward to at the Glasgow Comedy Festival?
Hannah Mamalis – Symphony of worms. She's a genius.
I also love Kemah Bob, Alison Spittle, the Chunks lads from Glasgow, Sean Morley, Demi Lardner and a million others. I like comedy a lot.
Do you have any advice for anyone looking to get into comedy?
It's really hard especially if you're not a cis straight man. I think this is a complaint people have become desensitized to but it's repetition stems from it being many people's experience.
In terms of advice, I would probably say don't do it unless you really want to. The comedy biz is full of some pretty stressful people who are not looking out for your safety or well-being. Also the odds of success are low and unpredictable. If you want to do things like have money then probably don't do comedy.
Having said that, there are also some amazing talented, generous and wonderful people who I've met through comedy. My main advice is this: don't listen to the assholes, find the good people and look after yourself.
Ruth is performing Ruth Hunter and the Ruth-Hunter at Glasgow Comedy Festival on March 18th.
You can keep with up Ruth's work by following her on Facebook and Twitter.
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From Ouvéa to the Isle of Pines, passing through Lifou, Tiga and Maré, the five islands bordering the Mainland, Grande Terre to the East are yet more gems to discover. From the blue hole of Hanawa at Ouvéa to the Warrior's Leap at Wakone on Maré, via the Jokin Cliffs at Lifou or the Oro Bay on the Isle of Pines, let yourself be amazed!
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The endless ribbon of the barrier reef encircles the entire Main Island in an almost unbroken line, at a distance of a few nautical miles from the coast. The 1,600 km long barrier reef, the second longest in the world after Australia's Great Barrier Reef, shelters a lagoon covering a total area of 24,000 km², of which 15,000 km² are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Peridotite masses covered by thick mineral-rich lateritic mantles extend over large areas of the Main Island's 16,500 km². The fiery red lateritic soil is the source of New Caledonia's wealth of nickel ore.
To the East, four islands form the Loyalty Islands group: Lifou, Maré, Tiga and Ouvéa. Together with the Isle of Pines to the south, they are perfect island jewels. These are the islands best known to tourists but hundreds of other islands and islets lie dotted around the coastline of New Caledonia.
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Internews' annual media consumption survey shows a dramatic drop in Ukrainians' use of Russian media. The survey shows that Russian TV viewership shrank to 8% from 27% in 2014, and Russian internet use slid to 27% in 2015 from 44% in 2014. While lower consumption rates for Russian TV might be partially explained by the Ukrainian government's initiative to ban transmissions of Russian TV signals within the country, internet access has not been restricted.
Internews commissioned a qualitative research on implementation of media literacy course in secondary schools of Ukraine. The study held in March-April 2015, aimed surveying teachers and students at root level to understand barriers and prospective in applying media literacy course at practice.
Conducted in cooperation with European Research Association (ERA), the research revealed that media education in secondary schools is implemented through successful combination of efforts of Academy of Ukrainian Press that trained OIPE coordinators/teachers at its schools and the Institute for Social and Political Psychology of National Academy for Pedagogical Sciences that developed the national experiment for 80 schools of 10 oblasts of Ukraine.
Telekritia published English translation of its survey of media consumers in eastern and southern regions of Ukraine. The survey conducted by Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) aimed analyzing an influence of Russian propaganda on eastern regions of Ukraine including occupied areas. Researchers also asked about people's perception of political situation in Ukraine. The Telekritika/KIIS survey was supported by the Department for Rights and Labour (DRL) of US Department of State through Internews Network.
Internews published needs assessment report "UNDERSTANDING INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION NEEDS AMONG IDPs IN EASTERN UKRAINE that resulted from the 2-week trip of Internews Senior Humanitarian Advisor Jacobo Quintanilla and Internews Ukraine project manager Vitali Moroz to the East of Ukraine. From January 20-30, 2015, an Internews assessment team carried out a rapid assessment with displaced populations and host communities in eastern Ukraine to understand their information needs and access to communication channels.
August 2014 - Internews publisized an online survey of Ukrainian journalists to study journalists' conception of standards of journalism, interaction with media audience, journalists' perception of condition of freedom of speech, external and internal factors, that have an influence on quality of journalists' work and implementation of their role in society, including labor relations, level of job compensation, ethical principles of journalism, level of journalists' professional knowledge and knowledge of media legislation concerning access to public information, defamation, handling with personal data etc.
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New research reveals that a clear majority of Ukrainians in Donetsk oblast (region) are watching both Ukrainian and Russian TV news, although trust levels of the population in Ukrainian TV is low. . Around the rest of the country, people prefer to get their news from Ukrainian TV channels. The survey in 10 regions of Ukraine was commissioned by Internews and conducted from April to June 2014 by marketing and research firm InMind for the USAID-funded Ukraine Media Project (U-Media).
The Internews is seeking a Content Analysis Expert /Expert Group to assist in implementation of a three-year project Strengthening Investigative Reporting in Ukraine (SIRU). The Content Analysis Expert /Expert Group will analyze the quality of investigative reports produced by Internews implementing partners and provide recommendations on quality improvement.
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Internews published needs assessment report "UNDERSTANDING INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION NEEDS AMONG IDPs IN EASTERN UKRAINE" that resulted from the 2-week trip of Internews Senior Humanitarian Advisor Jacobo Quintanilla and Internews Ukraine project manager Vitali Moroz to the East of Ukraine. From January 20-30, 2015, an Internews assessment team carried out a rapid assessment with displaced populations and host communities in eastern Ukraine to understand their information needs and access to communication channels. The assessment included over 50 interviews with IDPs and representatives from local volunteer groups, civil society organizations, national and international humanitarian organizations and local media groups in eight different locations in eastern Ukraine, namely, Sloviansk, Druzhkivka, Kramatorsk, Svyatogorsk, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhya, and Kiev. Based on these findings, Internews has formed the basis for proposed next steps. With adequate funding, these activities could be immediately rolled out to help meet the urgent information and communication needs of displaced people and try to reduce tensions with host communities.
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In the immediate aftermath of a disaster, keeping communities informed about what's happening around them, how to reconnect with their families and friends or what aid services may be available for them, goes beyond saving lives. It is about restoring people's dignity and respect, it is about fulfilling people's rights and the right to know, ask questions and participate in their own relief and recovery and, very importantly, holding stakeholders to account.
Communications with Communities (CwC) is an emerging field of humanitarian response that helps to meet the information and communications needs of people affected by crisis.
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The domestic shorthaired, in other words the alley cat; the mixed shorthaired or longhair breeds are usually free. These cats are not of show quality but they are every bit as adventurous and loving. All cats are natural hunters. Don't try and change this trait, it's useless. It is instinctual and cannot be unlearned.
Cats usually are solitary animals. They could survive in the wild easily, as long as there is prey. Kittens are abandoned as soon as they are weaned. Half grown, they find themselves alone and on there own. In the wild this is a do or die situation and the kitten meets the challenge well. Hunting is a three-step process for the cat, stalking, pouncing, and bites. The killing bite must be learned; the first two are instinct. The bite is learned by watching its mother kill prey and by having to kill a prey early. If the mother has not taught the kitten how and where to bite, it will complete the first two steps, then play with it then let it go. Both their hearing and their sight have developed for hunting. The cat's ears are tuned for ultrasound, able to hear the slight rustle of the grass where a mouse might be walking.
When you go to purchase your cats there are some things to look for. Cats come with varied personality traits as we humans do. Some cats are shy while others can become the best lap warmer you've ever had. You should observe how the cat reacts while in a group of other cats. If they are playing with the other kittens they are most likely in good health. If the cat seems quiet and withdrawn while its playmates are frolicking about it might not be feeling well and may be the type of cat that will require more attention and patience on your part, should you chose to buy it. Well-adjusted cats will easily play with you if you tempt it with a toy or even your hand. The more timid cat will withdraw and be more cautious. The more timid cat will make a good pet for the owner that lives alone. The more outgoing cat will find going to a home with children and or other pets more to its liking than the timid one.
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Rutherford Circle Shrinks; No Guerin Replacement, Vellucci WBS GM
Pittsburgh Penguins GM Jim Rutherford. Still Photo from Video by Pittsburgh Sports Live. All Rights Reserved.
The rap on Pittsburgh Penguins GM Jim Rutherford during his early days with the team in 2014-15 regarded his independence. Despite several assistant general managers, he acted autonomously. Rutherford may have received input from his circle but not consensus. And he made a few debatable moves which burned the team, including dealing a first round pick for David Perron and cap management forced the Penguins to play with just five defensemen for a couple of weeks late in the season.
Of course, the Penguins could do worse. It was Rutherford who began to pull strings in the summer of 2015. Phil Kessel arrived via trade. Rutherford used his horse trader magic to acquire Carl Hagelin for Perron. Most impressively, Rutherford found a trade partner for $3 million defenseman Rob Scuderi, who was no longer an NHL quality defenseman and he added important Stanley Cup piece Trevor Daley in the process.
Those moves not only won one Stanley Cup. They propelled the Penguins to two Stanley Cups. And it was Rutherford who hired now-head coach Mike Sullivan to be the WBS Penguins coach after Sullivan spent nearly seven years as John Tortorella's assistant.
That move turned out pretty well, too.
Thursday, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton head coach Mike Vellucci was also named to serve as the WBS GM, which was one of the duties held by former assistant GM Bill Guerin, who left last week to become the Minnesota Wild GM.
After Guerin's departure, the 70-year-old Rutherford has only long-time aid Jason Karmanos as an assistant general manager. Karmanos is an analytics guy who also oversees the amateur scouting staff. After 15 years as an executive with the Carolina Hurricanes and now five with the Penguins he's not generally seen as a person in line to be an NHL GM.
The move Thursday to fill Guerin's helm of the WBS Penguins with the head coach indicates Rutherford does not have a ready candidate to elevate to the AGM post.
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Without Guerin, it does not appear there will be a second set of hockey eyes looking down on the ice or around the league. In fairness, at this late stage of the summer, available candidates are not plentiful but there are several experienced folks floating around, such as Ron Hextall.
Vellucci is a capable AHL GM and coach as he guided the Carolina farm club to the Calder Cup championship last season while serving in the dual roles. The WBS Penguins roster is mostly complete after an off-season of work to restock the team, which missed the playoffs last season for the first time in nearly two decades.
Per the Penguins press release Thursday, Vellucci spent the previous five seasons as the assistant general manager and director of hockey operations for the Carolina Hurricanes. He oversaw player development and scouting. During the past two seasons, Vellucci also served as the Charlotte Checkers' head coach with a record of 97-43-8-4. But unlike his position in Carolina, the Penguins didn't elevate Vellucci to assistant GM.
And despite a two-week process in which Minnesota first interviewed Guerin and sources expressed bright optimism to PHN that Guerin would get the job, the Penguins have not yet replaced him.
Now it's Jim Rutherford and only Rutherford. The high-profile assistant GMs such as Tom Fitzgerald who left to take the same position under Ray Shero in New Jersey and Guerin are gone.
It wasn't an aggressive power-play or even an intentional move by Rutherford, but attrition. Don't misunderstand. The only rub around Rutherford has been that he occasionally acts independently. There has never been criticism or whisper of Rutherford's personality or competence; only the usual fan base and media grumblings which follow every GM in every sport after every move.
Now Rutherford stands alone to guide the Penguins. The duties, views, and ultimately, power consolidated around him. It may sharpen the arrows of his critics or the praise of his supporters.
The perceived success or failure of the Pittsburgh Penguins impending moves to sign RFA defenseman Marcus Pettersson and get under the salary cap just got a little more interesting.
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The organ-i-zation screwed up after the 2017 Stanley Cup playoffs. Should have offered the job to Guerin at that point with the understanding that he would take over after the 2018-19 season, by which time J.R. would have turned 70 years old. There's a serious lack of vision here.


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Why we should think carefully about Rudd's $42 billion Nation Building and Jobs Plan
Fri, 2009-02-06 11:50 by Hugh Spencer
Introduction: The Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, is seeking senate approval for an announced a $42 billion Nation Building and Jobs Plan to support jobs and invest in future long term economic growth. The 'plan' includes "five one-off cash bonuses (of $950) for eligible individuals". These are proposed for Australian workers whose taxable income was $100,000 or less in 2007-08. There is also a Single Income Family Bonus to support eligible families with one income earner; a Farmer's Hardship Bonus paid to drought affected farmers and farm dependent small business; owners receiving exceptional circumstances related income support; a Back to School Bonus of $950 per child from low- and middle-income families; $950 paid to eligible students and people returning study to help with the costs of education and training.
Other measures the Senate is being asked to support are: free ceiling insulation for around 2.7 million eligible Australian homes; building or upgrading a building in every one of Australia's 9,540 primary schools; building more than 20,000 new, low-income social housing dwellings and defence homes; a temporary business investment tax break for small and general businesses buying eligible assets; significantly increasing funding for local community infrastructure and local road projects.
While I appreciate the seeming urgency of the 42 billion dollar plan - I totally agree with the opposition and minor parties' demand that the scheme be at least given a senate review.
Yes we are in very difficult times, but what amounts to a knee-jerk response, while politically possibly advantageous, from a long term view is very foolish.
... I can fairly predict that at least 15% will be siphoned off, to nobody's benefit.
Schemes like this (even though they may have had a far longer gestation period than we tend to be told) are wonderful for the opportunist "white shoe' brigade - and I can fairly predict that at least 15% will be siphoned off, to nobody's benefit.
The only component of the scheme that I can wholeheartedly agree with is the roof insulation - but even then, it requires a far more coherent energy target - as 'roof insulation' can mean damn near anything. Are there any targets - R values, appropriate forms of insulation, what about roof space venting?? Different areas of Australia require different methods - up here in the tropics - simple sisalation (double sided aluminium foil sarking) does wonders - but not on the tablelands - where you need something more substantial, and even more substantial measures are required as you progress south. There is no indication that what we are seeing here is not a 'feel good' "one size fits all" approach - which is exceedingly foolish.
I'm not sure about the primary school improvements - after seeing the 'air-conditioner in every school' issue of last year - which raises the State's carbon footprint significally (especially as most country school buildings were never designed to accommodate A/C - being neither insulated or draft-proofed). Plus the need for A/C is restricted to only a few days a year. Maybe some schools could use some upgrades - but this seems to be a 'pork barrel' issue.
Given the rapidly approaching issue of "Peak Oil", road infrastructure would seem to be the least useful use of the money - and the use with the least useful benefits in the future. Sure - many road projects are "shovel ready" - but that doesn't make them appropriate - Facing the inevitability of a fuel constrained future (very soon) - we need to be putting the money in to the provision of public transport and light rail where appropriate.
Some obvious areas - that would have a huge carbon footprint impact - would be the fitting of solar HWS to as many homes as possible.
Another - creation of "forest regeneration corps" - to re-plant our millions of hectares of marginal land that was cleared - because clearing land was Government policy at the time. Associated with appropriate training - such a corps could be really important for the long-term "carbon -neutralisation' of Australia.
And that's just a start.
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ASPO Event Barcelona:From Below Ground to Above Ground
The Biosphere and the Lithosphere
Humans live in and from the biosphere. But in the first decade of the
21st Century, 85 percent of the primary energy consumed by the 6.7
billion humans comes from the lithosphere.
About 40 percent of this energy is oil. Another 40 percent comes from
natural gas and coal, and 6 percent more is from uranium.
This represents close to 10 billion tons of oil equivalent, extracted
every year from below ground.
The Technosphere
The technosphere, that recent human creation, transforms the
biosphere, with the extraction, transformation, and transport of
useful materials from the Earth crust at a rate of about 33 billion
tons per year. In addition, about 36 billion tons of the accompanying
ores and some 30 billion tons of earth crust cover are extracted. In
total, the 11 billion tons of equivalent oil of primary energy are
needed every year to extract, transform and transport about 100
billion tons of materials, including the energy materials themselves.
Without that energy, these movements will not be possible. With
decreasing energy supplies, the extraction of materials and the
related services will decrease accordingly.
Nature of this sphere
Being a sphere, the Planet is limited in size. It is obvious,but in
this world needs to be continuously emphasized, that the resources
contained in it are also limited. Geologists in general and the ASPO
community in particular, know very well that the extraction of
resources from the lithosphere is subject to a given pattern that
limits and shapes the extraction rates. It has, more or less, the
form of a bell shaped curve, shown in its logo. It is the Hubbert
curve. Even admitting that the shape of the curve may drift apart in
some cases, from the theoretical one, due to social causes, the
principle is out of question.
Resource peaks and energy flows
And some of us feel that we are reaching the oil peak in our ascent,
and other neighbouring peaks as well, even the present financial
storms and other geopolitical clouds may disguise that cordillera, as
exclusively a monetary problem.
Then, it is a question of flows, diminishing flows, rather than the
end of oil or gas. It is a physical and geological issue, rather than
an economic one. Pouring more paper money into the markets will not
help to realize where we are. Those present frentic movements very
much resemble the classic film scenes of thieves throwing and
dispersing the bank notes of the loot in the middle of a crowd, to
create a momentary convulsion and thus, trying to escape from the
police, while keeping a couple of rolls in the pockets.
Limits of human economics
As M. King Hubbert said: `There's no monetary mechanism in existence
that can find oil that God didn't put there and the price isn't going
to increase that amount of oil'. The same can be applied for all
other materials that humans demand today in increasing amounts.
And there is a clear evidence that global economic growth and global
energy consumption run parallel and are very directly related,
despite some anomalies in specific countries, which claim
improvements in efficiency, in the GPD/Unit of product or service
ratio, while diverting and outsourcing the burden to third countries
o regions. Technology improvements and higher financial investments
help to delay the peak or plateau of the bell curve or reshape it,
but can neither fight the reality of gradual depletion.
There are also clear indicators that greenhouse and other gas
emissions are also directly related to the fossil fuels, extracted
from the lithosphere and burnt to provide goods and ser-vices to
However, classical economists still work, think and behave as if they
lived on a flat Earth with limitless resources to be made available
by Man's ingenuity and market forces.
Very serious issues are at stake caused by the growing gap between
the available fuel supply, which is subject to natural depletion and
the ever growing demand implied by classical economic theory.
Future survival
In the same way as a seed takes time to emerge from the ground and
form a plant, we will soon have to face the paradox and the dilemma
of returning to the biosphere and its resources for survival, and
rely more and more on renewable energy resources above ground.
The Sun projects onto the Earth some 8,500 times more primary energy
than we consume, but it is, again, rather than a question of volumes,
a matter of flows and feasible energy capture rates of this as
beautiful as dispersed energy.
We urgently need to determine the extent to which we can maintain the
present socio-political and technological environment with more of
the renewable energy resources from the biosphere and less from the
lithosphere, by using the human ingenuity and technology; or by
reshaping our way of living; or perhaps and better, a wise
combination of both.
Seventh ASPO International conference in Barcelona, 20-21 October 2008
We will be analyzing and discussing all these important questions in
detail in the 7th. ASPO (Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas) International Conference at the World Trade Center in Barcelona, Spain, on October 20th and 21st.
See the Official program (pdf file) "From Below Ground to Above Ground"
Join us by registering here
For questions and contacts, please address to spain[at]telefonica.net>
For more information http://www.aspo-spain.org/aspo7
Welcome to Barcelona.
Article by Pedro from Madrid, subtitled by Sheila Newman for candobetter.org
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Centro Properties Group Ex-chairman didn't see 'debt bombshell' coming
Fri, 2008-05-02 15:53 by Sheila Newman
Centro Properties Group owes banks nearly $4 billion - Ex-chairman didn't see 'debt bombshell' coming.
The Australian Financial Review (Thursday May 1st 2008) saw fit to feature the perilous circumstances of Centro on its front page, with a follow up on page 47, captioned, "Lolling like a beached whale in a receding tide" - the tide being financial investment and customers. How, you may wonder, could someone in charge of borrowing billions from banks, to deploy energy and resources for billion dollar developments, be apparently so energy and resources naive that they could fail to see the fossil-fuel related "debt bombshell coming"?
Yet, this is ex-Centro CEO, Brian Healey's explanation for beaching the Centro Shopping Centre Group colossus.
What struck this writer is that Centro is in charge of moving enormous quantities of materials all round the world, in order to build its many massive shopping centres. Surely someone in this commercial colossus would have noticed the rising cost of making concrete and transporting rocks and wood and glass, and running the bulldozers and cranes and tools on construction sites?
How many people in charge of government, how many economists, CEO's and even engineers, are either incapable of applying energy-resources theory to reality or still believe fairy-tales about man's ingenuity excepting modern economies from thermodynamic limits?
It seems that an awful lot of people in the global society of the 'developed world' really believe that our economies have literally 'dematerialised', i.e. are relying on less and less fuel and materials. What must such 'cornucopians' make of some other features in the same edition of the Fin Review? A long article about food shortages feeding conflict, another about the incompetent assessment and management of Australia's food basket, the Murray Darling Basin, and one about how all the signs point to ours being the era of petroleum depletion.
"For the record, supply constraints keep oil prices moving in one direction." This article (from the New York Times) cites Fatih Birol, the chief economist with the International Energy Agency, saying, "'According to normal economic theory, and the history of oil, rising prices have two major effects'. 'They reduce demand and they induce oil supplies. Not this time."
And the article goes on to explain what many people not distracted by consumerism and with normal powers of observation have been increasingly aware of for the past 15 years. Oil discoveries are diminishing in size and in quality or accessibility, whilst economic growth, based on population growth, is being encouraged in the third world and in the English speaking first world, by growth economics ideologues in government and big business. The Centro business, to such observers, is indicative, in its reliance on land-speculation and population growth, of a kind of blindness to reality and a faith in an economic illusion.
It is as mysterious as the recurrent drive of pods of whales to beach themselves.
The financial media is full of gruesome stories lately. Centro's predicament may well symbolise much of the investment and development world's predicament. Not just business, but governments and whole economies, may also find themselves high and dry like beached whales. Whales need water to swim in, humans need air and food to survive, and our modern economies need oil. The Fin Rev quotes CIBC World Markets analyst, Jeff Rubin: 'The outlook for oil supplies signals a period of unprecedented scarcity.'"
The day after payment was due, new CEO, Glenn Rufrano, was still trying to finalise an extension from the numerous banks involved in funding Centro's debt, all of them dealing with companies in similar trouble, in a system of circular financing.
In a world where the US and other governments subsidise farmers to grow corn for biofuels with precious fossil-fuel based fertilisers, causing famines, and nations go to war for oil, and mortgages rise due to engineered population growth and land speculation by multinational developers, how could you just expect people to go on shopping?
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The life story of matter and its attribute, energy
Thu, 2007-08-02 11:22 by denis
Energy is often defined as 'the ability to do work' or 'the ability to do something useful'. They are very misleading definitions that have contributed substantially to the dire situation that civilization is in today. 'the ability of an object to do work on a vehicle' or 'the ability of an object to do something useful to a vehicle' are more realistic definitions because they specify that energy is an attribute of an object and it can do something useful to a vehicle. Energy does not exist in isolation in our everyday world. The object may be a person or a horse or a stone or a machine or a fuel or a magnet. It makes no difference. If it has potential to do work, the object has potential energy. This describes the circumstances where work can be done on a vehicle. The object can only have potential energy if it has obtained it from our sole source, sunshine, by way of some process. A fuel has potential energy that was stored for eons in oil. My fingers have the potential to do work pressing keys because I got the energy from the food I ate. This potential energy invariably ends up as waste heat when used. A parcel of energy has a limited life. That is its invariable destiny so should realistically be incorporated in its definition. The object and vehicle invariably are natural material or made from natural materials (matter) and most also have limited lives. The waste material on their demise often degrades the ecosystem. Coal provides stored potential energy that can do useful electrical work. The life of the coal ends up as material wastes, including the carbon dioxide that is contributing to climate change. This is a simplified but realistic view of the operation of the ecosystem and its parasite, civilization. This view can contribute to elucidation of wiser means of using the limited remaining natural resources, including those that are the source of the energy that drives industrialized society which is built up from natural resources. Denis Frith Melbourne Australia denisaf2000|AT|yahoo.com.au 'What went wrong' http://users.bigpond.net.au/jaymz/download/Gaia_and_Us-Denis_Frith-jun07...
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USTR Issues Questionnaire Regarding Section 301 Tariffs on China: For Commenters to Reply Between Nov. 15, 2022 and January 17, 2023
USTR Issues Questionnaire Regarding Section 301 Tariffs on China: For Commenters to Reply Between...
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As part of its ongoing four-year review of tariffs imposed on Chinese goods under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 ("Section 301"), described in our May 26, 2022 legal update, the Office of the United States Trade Representative ("USTR") released a questionnaire (the "Questionnaire") for interested parties to comment on the Section 301 tariffs.
Commenters responding to the Questionnaire can advocate for continuation, modification, or removal of the existing 301 tariffs. Interested parties can also use the Questionnaire to comment on some or all questions regarding the effectiveness of the Section 301 tariffs and other potential actions taken under Section 301 that could more be effective for achieving USTR's goals at an (i) economy-wide, (ii) sector-wide, and/or (iii) on a Harmonized Tariff Schedule tariff-specific level. The online portal for submission of the Questionnaire will open beginning on November 15, 2022 (i.e., today, the release date of this Legal Update), through January 17, 2023.
Under Section 301, USTR is authorized to investigate and take action to respond to unfair foreign trade practices.1 After first initiating an investigation on August 27, 2017, USTR determined on April 6, 2018 that the Government of China engaged in acts, policies, and practices related to technology transfer, intellectual property, and innovation that were unreasonable or discriminatory, and burden or restrict U.S. commerce, and thus were actionable under Section 301(b).2 USTR subsequently announced Section 301 tariffs on Chinese goods in a series of actions beginning on July 6, 2018 (List 1) and August 23, 2018 (List 2),3 which were subsequently modified by supplemental lists (Lists 3 and 4) and various temporary product exclusions.
Pursuant to Section 307(c) of the Trade Act of 1974, USTR must conduct a four-year review of any "particular action" taken under Section 301, requiring a written request – from petitioners or other domestic industry representatives who benefit from the action – to USTR during the last 60 days of the four-year period in order to continue or extend the action; USTR must provide notification to these parties at least 60 days before the end date of the four-year party.4 If a continuation of the action is requested, USTR must conduct a review of the existing action's effectiveness in achieving the objectives of Section 301, and other actions that could be taken (including against other products or services), and the effects such alternative actions would have on the US economy, including consumers. On May 5, 2022, USTR announced that it was beginning the statutory four-year review of the Section 301 tariffs on China through a two-step process, which involved:
Notification to and opportunity to comment and request continuation for representatives of impacted domestic industries benefiting from the Section 301 tariffs on China ("Phase 1"); and
A review of the actions for which continuation was requested during Phase 1, with additional opportunity to comment ("Phase 2").5
Following the conclusion of the Phase 1 notice and comment period, USTR announced on September 8, 2022 that it had received 244 requests from domestic producers and 44 requests from trade associations on List 1 actions, and 114 requests from domestic producers and 32 requests from trade associations on List 2 actions, meeting the threshold of a continuation request from at least one representative of a domestic industry which benefits from each action within the 60-day window prior to the termination dates of the actions.6 Along with this announcement, USTR stated it would be publishing separate, subsequent notices detailing the Phase 2 review process, including an opportunity for comment on "among other matters, the effectiveness of the actions in achieving the objectives of the investigation, other actions that could be taken, and the effects of such actions on the United States economy, including consumers."7 Subsequently, on October 17, 2022, USTR published a Federal Register notice announcing that the Phase 2 comment process would be open from November 15, 2022 through January 17, 2023.8
The Questionnaire was issued by USTR on November 1, 2022, to facilitate comments on the Phase 2 review process, noting that "[t]hese docket questions are being posted on November 1, in advance of the scheduled opening of the docket on November 15, in order to provide advance notice to submitters. The questions as presented on the docket may be clarified or amended."9
Next Steps for Interested Parties
Impacted parties – including producers, importers, and other involved parties – should consider whether any of their products are impacted by the Section 301 tariffs on China. The Questionnaire can be submitted to USTR beginning on November 15, 2022, through January 17, 2023. Although comments will be public, commenters will be able to submit business confidential information.
1 19 U.S.C. §2411.
2 https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2018-04-06/pdf/2018-07119.pdf.
3 https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2018-06-20/pdf/2018-13248.pdf; https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2018-08-16/pdf/2018-17709.pdf.
4 19 U.S.C. § 2417.
7 See id.
8 https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2022-10-17/pdf/2022-22469.pdf
9 See Questionnaire.
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First performed at Royal Lyceum Theatre, November, 1847.
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By: Buckstone, John Baldwin, 1802-1879.
The pet of the petticoats. A comic drama, in three acts.
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