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Refugees being driven to suicide on Nauru: rights group Amnesty
Anna Neistat, Senior Director for Research with Amnesty International, talks to journalists behind a copy of a report she co-authored titled 'Island of Despair - Australia's "Processing" of Refugees on Nauru' in Sydney, Australia
Anna Neistat, Senior Director for Research with Amnesty International, talks to journalists behind a copy of a report she co-authored titled 'Island of Despair - Australia's "Processing" of Refugees on Nauru' in Sydney, Australia, October 17, 2016 that concludes many of the 410 asylum seekers held on the tiny Pacific Island are being driven to attempt suicide to escape the prison-like conditions they face in indefinite detention on behalf of Australia. REUTERS/David Gray
By Colin Packham and Jane Wardell
By Colin Packham and Jane Wardell SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia on Tuesday rejected claims by rights group Amnesty International that conditions on a tiny Pacific Island where some 400 asylum seekers are being held "amount to torture." In a detailed report titled Island of Despair, Amnesty alleged that many of the asylum seekers on Nauru are being driven to attempt suicide to escape the prison-like conditions they face in indefinite detention. Under Australia's tough immigration policy, asylum seekers intercepted trying to reach the country by boat are sent for processing at a camp in Nauru or to Manus Island in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and are not eligible for resettlement in Australia. "I reject that claim totally. It is absolutely false," Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull told Australian Broadcasting Corp radio of the torture claim. "The Australian government's commitment is compassionate and strong." Amnesty, which said its findings were based on both desk research and field work in Nauru between July and October, said the detention was a "systematic regime of neglect and cruelty." "The conditions on Nauru — refugees' severe mental anguish, the intentional nature of the system, and the fact that the goal of offshore processing is to intimidate or coerce people to achieve a specific outcome — amounts to torture," the report said. Almost 60 people, or about 15 percent of the 410 men, women and children on the island, reported they had either attempted suicide or had thoughts about harming themselves, Amnesty said. Aid agencies say those held on Nauru are mainly from Iran and Afghanistan. Despite receiving refugee status, they continue to be confined to poor accommodation with little access to medical care, Amnesty said, adding that children, who make up little more than a tenth of the number of detainees, suffer disproportionately. "I met children as young as nine who had already tried to kill themselves and were talking openly about ending their lives," said Anna Keistat, an Amnesty official. Amnesty joins a chorus of criticism by human rights groups of Australia's immigration policy, and comes just weeks after the United Nations said Nauru was failing to protect children. A Guardian report said that more than 2,000 incidents, including sexual abuse, assault and attempted self-harm, were reported in about two years, more than half involving children. Turnbull's government has been trying to organize resettlement of the asylum seekers in other countries, but has so far only struck a deal with Cambodia that has proved unpopular with refugees. Asked if he was in negotiations with the United States to take some of the detainees, Turnbull declined to comment but stressed that they would not be allowed to enter Australia. "If you seek to come to Australia with a people smuggler or you've sought to come to Australia with a people smuggler, you will not settle in Australia," he said. Australia is also facing pressure over a second detention center in Papua New Guinea after that country's Supreme Court in April ordered its closure. The 823 men held on Manus Island have been given limited freedom, but they remain detained. (Editing by Clarence Fernandez and Sandra Maler)
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The Kiso Valley (木曽路, Kisoji) is located in Nagano Prefecture, and runs alongside the mountains of the Central Alps. An ancient 70 km trade route called the Kisoji was developed along the valley and served as a very important means of commerce in the area.
The Kisoji became even more important from the beginning of the Edo Period, when it was amalgamated with other routes in the formation of the 500 km long Nakasendo. The Nakasendo ("path through mountains") was one of the two means of transportation between Edo and Kyoto. It contrasted with the other principal transportation route of the time, the Tokaido, which ran along the sea shore.
Because of restrictions by the shogunate, travelers were almost always forced to make their trips on foot. As a result, "post towns" developed every few kilometers to provide travelers with places to rest, eat, and find nightly accommodation during their arduous journey.
Along the Kiso Valley, a few post towns, particularly Magome, Tsumago and Narai, have been preserved to look as they did when they served travelers of the Nakasendo. Visitors are able to enjoy the stone paths and wooden buildings of a bygone era.
The valley's best preserved post town.
Attractive walk along the old Nakasendo.
The richest of the former post towns.
Town famous for lacquer ware.


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REALTORS® have reported that the reduction in FHA's monthly mortgage insurance premium (from 1.35 percent to 0.85 percent) is likely to help homebuyers. FHA insures loans that allow a 3.5 percent down payment. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have also reinstated the 3 percent down payment program early in 2015, and the down payment can all come from gifted funds. Meanwhile, 100 percent financing has always been available to members of the U.S. military and their surviving spouses.
A low down payment enables homebuyers to purchase a home sooner and start building equity rather than saving up for a few more years. However, a lower down payment may not necessarily make a home mortgage more affordable because of the effective increase in the mortgage rate arising from risk adjustment fees. REALTORS® have reported that the increase in mortgage cost from the risk adjustment is blunting the intended effect of the GSE's 3 percent down payment loan program.
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Allies of South Sudan militias must be held accountable: UN human rights report
By peacemaker - March 16, 2021
Intercommunal violence has affected communities in Pibor in the east of South Sudan.
Military and political officials in South Sudan supporting community-based militias in the Greater Jonglei region, must be held accountable for violence that killed more than 700 people over a six-month period last year, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Monday.
Between January and June 2020, organized and heavily-armed militias from the Dinka, Nuer and Muerle communities, carried out planned and coordinated attacks on villages across Jonglei and the Greater Pibor Administrative Area (GPAA), according to a joint report issued on Monday by the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and OHCHR.
"Six months after the last devastating attack in Greater Jonglei, it must be made clear that those key figures at both local and national levels, who deliberately fuelled and exploited localized tensions, will be held accountable", said UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet.
"The risk that these community-based militias will reignite armed violence is too grave to ignore. It is of paramount importance that the Government takes effective steps to ensure that members of the security forces are prevented from supplying weapons from Government stocks to these militias," she added.
The report underlines that the South Sudanese Government needs to take full responsibility for the harm inflicted on civilians.
Killings, abductions, rape
More than 738 people were killed, and 320 wounded, during the reporting period, while at least 686 women and children were abducted, and 39 women were raped.
The violence also displaced tens of thousands of people. Civilian property and humanitarian facilities were looted or destroyed, and at least 86,000 cattle, worth over $35 million, were stolen.
Although grassroots efforts to reconcile the affected communities have been underway for months, the authorities have not taken meaningful action to investigate and prosecute those responsible, the authors said.
Support in high places
The report found at least 50 traditional chiefs and spiritual leaders, as well as military and political elites, supported the attacks, whether directly or indirectly. Members of Government and opposition forces actively participated in the fighting, according to their kinship, or as part of a calculated move to reinforce political alliances.
UNMISS peacekeepers were deployed to affected areas when the violence erupted, establishing temporary bases and conducting regular patrols in efforts to deter further attacks.
The UN Mission engaged with political and traditional leaders, both at the national and local level, to promote reconciliation and to support efforts to release the hundreds of women and children who were abducted.
The report calls for the Government to finalize the appointment of local administrators and assemblies throughout Jonglei and the GPAA. The authorities are also urged to investigate all allegations of human rights abuses and to prosecute the perpetrators, and to ensure state-owned weapons are securely stored to prevent theft or supply to community-based militias.
The authors also called for immediate action to facilitate the release and reunification of abducted women and children with their families.
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10 scary things that happen to your body when you eat too much sugar
Joanna Fantozzi , Business Insider US
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Scientists are constantly studying and debating the risks and consequences of a sugar-rich "Western diet."
Eating too much sugar is correlated with weight gain and obesity.
Scientists have also associated eating too many sweets with increased risk of heart disease.
Other effects include skin problems and anxiety.
For more stories, go to www.businessinsider.co.za.
We already know that modern Western diets are loaded with added sweeteners (even our bread has excess sugar in it). With obesity numbers skyrocketing and the nutritional science community oscillating between sugar, fat, and carbs as the scapegoat du jour, it's hard to know what exactly is safe to eat.
There are a lot of myths surrounding the effects sugar has on our health. But even though humans need glucose to survive, it's no secret that the exorbitant amount of sugar found in everyday foods like processed snack foods, canned food, and soft drinks have become too much for our bodies to handle.
INSIDER has rounded up 10 of the scariest effects a sugar-rich diet can have on your overall health, with expert input from Dr. Jennifer Haythe, a cardiologist at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York, Rebecca Lee, a registered nurse and founder of RemediesForMe.com, and Colette Heimowitz, a nutritionist at Atkins Nutritionals, Inc. who has worked with celebrities like Kim Kardashian.
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Multiple studies have linked the consumption of sugary foods and drinks to weight gain. Research published in the "American Journal of Clinical Nutrition" in 2011 confirmed a "positive association" between drinking soft drinks regularly and the rising obesity epidemic.
"Sugar-sweetened beverages, particularly soda, provide little nutritional benefit and increase weight gain and probably the risk of diabetes, fractures, and dental caries," the researchers concluded.
Your body needs glucose to survive, but when you consume more than you need, what happens?
"When you consume more sugar than the body can use, the body converts it into fatty acid and stores it for future use in adipose fatty cells, such as the hips, thighs, arms, and stomach," Lee said.
Sugar does not actually cause cavities, contrary to popular belief. However, the waste product (acid) caused by sugar interacting with the surface of your teeth will cause cavities. So if you're not watching what you eat (or ignore regular dental cleanses), you could be looking at a mouth full of decay.
We know the idea that eating chocolate causes acne is an old wives' tale, but can sugary foods really cause issues for your dermatological health?
Scientists have recently made the connection between consuming dairy and foods with high glycemic indexes (aka sweet foods) with skin problems.
"Research has substantiated the role of specific foods, such as dairy products, as well as dietary patterns, including the high glycemic load diet typical of the Western diet," a 2014 study published in the Journal of Clinical and Aesthetic Dermatology said.
Increased sugar cravings
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In our exposé on "myths about sugar you need to stop believing," we concluded that there is, as of yet, no scientific consensus on whether sugar is as addictive as cocaine or can be a gateway drug to other unhealthy behaviours, as one recent controversial study suggests.
When you eat a lot of sugar, your brain releases dopamine - the "feel-good" chemical that's released when you're having sex or having positive human interactions.
Even though scientists have not come to a consensus on just how addictive sugar can be, a 2008 study published in the "Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews" journal noted that when given unlimited access to sugar, rats exhibited four of the signs of addiction: bingeing, withdrawal, craving, and a "gateway" to craving hard substances like alcohol.
Sounds a lot like drugs, right? The study concluded that sugar "may be addictive" only when "consumed in a binge-like manner."
A risk of pre-diabetes
"When you eat anything with glucose in it or basic carb building blocks, your body will release insulin because that's what helps your body process glucose into energy," Haythe said. "The problem is when people have too much sugar at once, there's a large release of insulin and you can develop hypoglycemia or insulin resistance."
With insulin resistance, your body cannot properly absorb the glucose fast enough, which causes the glucose to build up in your bloodstream and liver. This, coupled with the right genetic and environmental factors, can lead to pre-diabetes, and eventually diabetes.
"By changing to a diet of proteins, healthy fats and carbohydrate foods that are high in fibre, you can avoid blood sugar spikes and the insulin responses that result in obesity and pre-diabetes," nutritionist Colette Heimowitz told INSIDER.
Eating a lot of sugar causes your brain to release dopamine, the "feel-good" chemical, but can a diet rich in sugar actually help cause stress and depression? New research thinks that's possible.
Diets high in starchy and sugary foods are linked to inflammation at a much higher level than diets that are rich in lean proteins and vegetables. A 2016 study published in "The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry" suggests that inflammation is a strong indicator of depression and high stress levels.
"Sugar increases inflammation throughout the body, including in the brain," Lee confirmed.
If you connect the dots, a sugary diet can create an inflammatory response in your body, which in turn, can lead to increased stress, anxiety, and even depression.
The most obvious physical symptom of eating too much sugar is weight gain, but alarming research shows that even if you're not overweight, a sugar-rich diet can increase your risk of cardiovascular disease exponentially.
Study participants in research that sought the effects of sugar in the long-term discovered that "participants who consumed approximately 17% to 21% of their calories from added sugar had a 38% higher risk of cardiovascular disease mortality," particularly those who regularly consumed sugary beverages like soda.
The average American in 2010 gets at least 10% of his or her calories from sugar, so these study participants were on the more extreme end of the scale.
We usually associate liver failure with alcohol abuse, but research suggests that sugar can do almost as much harm to our liver as alcohol.
When we eat too much sugar, it becomes too much for our bloodstream and liver (where glucose is absorbed and sugar levels are stabilized) to handle.
Chronic malabsorption of sugar can cause non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), which is basically the abuse and scarring of the liver as it continually tries to heal itself.
NASH is known as a silent disease because symptoms don't start appearing until it's almost too late. NASH is associated with poor eating habits and obesity.
Your brain can't tell when your body is full
One uncommonly spoken about effect of a diet loaded with sweeteners is the inability to know when you're full.
When you eat too much sugar, you're more likely to overeat because of the "empty calories" from overindulging in sweets.
A 2011 study published in the United States National Library of Medicine found that diets high in saturated fats and refined sugars can interfere with the brain's signal to your body that you're full.
Memory problems/dementia
A 2015 study at Oregon State University confirmed that sugar-rich diets can directly impact our brain's ability to retain short and long-term memories.
The study found that after just four weeks on a high fat and high sugar diet, lab rats had decreased cognitive abilities.
"The impairment of cognitive flexibility in this study was pretty strong," Kathy Magnusson, one of the study's researchers, said.
A 2017 UK study confirmed this theory by proving a "tipping point link" between high blood sugar and the progression of dementia or Alzheimer's Disease.
"Excess sugar is well known to be bad for us when it comes to diabetes and obesity, but this potential link with Alzheimer's disease is yet another reason that we should be controlling our sugar intake in our diets," Dr. Omar Kassar told The Telegraph at the time.
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Highest paid reality TV stars
Networks and studios are making big money on various reality TV shows and as much as some criticize them, the fact remains that this type of entertainment is popular among the audience, and, needless to say, highly profitable. So, how much do reality stars earn? Read on and find out who are the highest paid reality TV stars.
Blake Shelton: $4 million
A TV Guide salary survey said the country singer hauls in $4 million per cycle of The Voice. Breakout judge/mentor Shelton's singers have won The Voice three times in a row, proving his popularity and value to the NBC hit. His wife, singer Miranda Lambert, has also appeared on the show.
Keith Urban: $5 million
Keith Lionel Urban, the New Zealand-born country singer, is a popular judge on the hit reality show American Idol. Nicole Kidman's country star husband, who's known for calling American Idol's lady contestants "baby," is the only judge returning from last season's debacle and he'll be taking home $5 million.
Cee Lo Green: $6 million
The web site The Wrap reported that the F*** You singer made $6 million to judge season three of The Voice. Cee Lo took a break to work on his own music during season 4, but the singer and his white cat will be back for season five, for which he'll presumably get a raise.
The Kardashians: $10 million
The Kardashians make silly money through their reality show, eponymously-named 'Keeping Up With the Kardashians'. In summer 2012, the family signed a deal for $30 million to star in three more seasons of E!'s Keeping Up With The Kardashians. A lot of Kardashians and Jenners are splitting the $10 million per season, however. According to Forbes, Kim Kardashian is the highest-paid woman in reality TV, earning $18 million a year—but most of that is from endorsement deals and not the family reality shows!
Adam Levine: $10-12 million
Adam Levine, the lead singer of pop rock band Maroon 5, serves as a coach on the televised singing competition show The Voice. According to a report from the Hollywood Reporter, he earns $10-12 million per cycle on The Voice. Thanks to his popularity with the audience, it's predicted NBC will give him a raise on the next season of the show. Levine also invests his money in other business ventures, bringing his annual earnings to more than $35 million.
Christina Aguilera: $12.5 million
After taking off the show's fourth season to launch her album Lotus, Aguilera has rejoined the cast of The Voice for upcoming season five, debuting Sept. 23. And she's reportedly getting a raise to resume her judge's seat—The Wrap claimed she inked a $12.5 million deal.
Ryan Seacrest: $15 million
American Idol judges have come and gone, but the show's host Seacrest is the veteran on the once mega hit but now fading FOX reality show. Seacrest reportedly rakes in $15 million a year. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Seacrest's salary as Idol host tripled in 2009 from $5 million to $15 million. While Idol judge Mariah Carey reportedly made $18 million last season, she left after sagging ratings and bad reviews.
Howard Stern: $15 million
Howard Stern, the notorious American radio host, was a judge for America's Got Talent during its seventh and eight seasons. Stern's stint as a judge on the family friendly show – a departure from his X-rated endeavors – has proven lucrative. The show judges singers, dancers, comedians and other entertainers and it's one of the most watched television shows in the U.S. on Tuesday nights. Stern's attractive $15 million annual fee for the show has apparently lured him back for season 9.
Jennifer Lopez: $17.5 million
J.Lo is back on the judging panel for the upcoming 13th season of American Idol. Joined by Harry Connick Jr. and returning judge Keith Urban, J.Lo will rejoin the show she left after appearing on seasons 10 and 11. But it came at a huge price! As RadarOnline.com has previously reported, J.Lo approached FOX to get her old gig back, as she wanted to work in Los Angeles and have a settled life for herself and her five-year-old twins, Max and Emme, who are going to kindergarten. "Idol allowed her to do that," a source said.
Judge Judy: $47 million
The formidable Judge Judy Sheindlin allegedly claims a yearly fee of $47 million for her show, where she mediates petty crises between friends, family and foes. Her domineering no-nonsense attitude has made her self-titled program a long-standing hit with fans the world over; Judge Judy well and truly earns her millions, bringing in a reported $200 million yearly in ad revenue for CBS.
Simon Cowell: $95 million
TV's most famous nasty judge, who made American Idol a hit after first conquering his native Britain, launched the U.S. version of The X Factor in 2011 and earns an unbelievable $95 million a year from it. The massive money comes to Cowell because he produces and co-owns the show as well as judging. He's also responsible for bringing One Direction into the world; the group were born on the UK's X-Factor in 2011 when Cowell was judging, and he went on to sign and manage them.
One response to "Highest paid reality TV stars"
Reality shows sell well and this is what people really like watching, that is why no surprise the TV stars are paid so well. I just cannot understand what made Kardashians so famous and so well paid. The greatest surprise was the income of X factor judge – Simon Cowell.


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The Jerman House is a historic house at 24 Hampton Hills Lane in Richmond, Virginia.  It is a -story brick structure, with a side gable roof, and flanking -story wings extending to the sides at a setback.  The brick is multi-tone red brick, and is laid in Flemish bond, with dark gray glazed bricks interspersed.  The main entrance is at the center of the north-facing front, set in a segmented-arch opening.  The house was built in 1935–36 to a design by William Lawrence Bottomley, and was the last of his commissions for Richmond-area clients.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Richmond, Virginia

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
Colonial Revival architecture in Virginia
Houses completed in 1936
National Register of Historic Places in Richmond, Virginia
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March 8, 2013: Former offensive line coach Joe Wickline inadvertently invited two two year college non qualifier prospects, along with their coach, to visit campus. Because the trio was passing through Stillwater on the way to another school for an unofficial visit, Wickline assumed the two players were qualifiers and failed to verify that information with the eligibility center. Self imposed punishment: Counted the visit as one of its three permissible off campus contacts with both players..
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Director Jun Lana's newest film is a romance-comedy entitled, So It's You (2014), under Regal Films. It stars Carla Abellana and Tom Rodriguez, who both have worked together in GMA's 2013 primetime hit and popular TV series, My Husband's Lover. Joining them is JC De Vera.
Carla was excited to do this movie since this is her first time to do comedy. For her past appearances on TV and film, they are all drama. She said that she and her co-actors undergo workshops before working on a project. They learn and apply different techniques for the role they're playing and at the same time, to learn how to be at ease with other actors in their scenes. "We apply (acting technique) what is required of us by our director. Where our skills will be drawn and maximized, that's what we use. Para maiba-iba naman," shares Carla.
Tom had so much fun doing the film because he was able to work again with Carla and learned a lot from Direk Jun. He had attended several acting workshops with Carla before. With regard to which acting technique works for a story or scene, "So many (acting) disciplines we are using. So you pick and choose. You try something and see if it works," Tom believes.
During the shoot of the film, there were a lot of revisions that the script underwent. Carla mentioned that it was great for them to work with a very talented director, who is also a great writer -- who knows his story very well. So changing some lines or scenes on the spot was easy to do because Direk Jun Lana wanted to polish everything to make it better.
So It's You premieres on May 7, 2014 (Wednesday) in theaters nationwide. The film received a grade of A from the Cinema Evaluation Board. This means that Regal Entertainment (producer) is entitled to a 100 percent rebate on amusement taxes. Congratulations!
So It's You is a love story of Lira (Carla Abellana), a rich girl whose ex-boyfriend Tony (JC de Vera) breaks up with her on their wedding day. Tony plans to marry Pauleen (Gee Canlas). At the turn of events, Lira meets Gorio (Tom Rodriguez), a shoe factory designer who has an eight-year old deaf & mute son (Marc Justine Alvarez). Gorio and Lira both are unlucky in love and so it's fate that brings them together in a special friendship that eventually blossoms into love and romance.


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Turning weeds into wages - Researchers are trying to turn a weed — pennycress — into a viable commodity crop for farmers
Pennycress could be the next major crop to be domesticated. This hasn't been done since soybeans in the early 1900's. Read how researchers want to take advantage of a crop that grows in the winter to increase the biodiesel supply:
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By: Christian Gooden (cgooden@post-dispatch.com)
A local biotech startup is trying to accomplish something that hasn't been done since the middle of the last century. Researchers are trying to turn what currently amounts to a weed — in this case, pennycress — into a viable commodity crop for farmers. And they hope to do it before the end of this decade.
"It's been a long time since a wild strain was domesticated," said Dennis Plummer, one of the founders of Arvegenix. "Even for some of the recent domestications, it took decades."
Indeed, the last plant to make a similar jump was the soybean, which originated several thousand years ago in China. Outside of China, the plant spent the vast majority of its life as little more than a novelty. It wasn't until the 1920s that it began its ascent to its current position as one of the world's largest grain crops. And even then, it didn't become a staple of U.S. farms until the 1950s.
It would be asking a lot to expect pennycress to enjoy the same level of success. Still, this member of the mustard seed family does have a lot working in its favor.
The plant's seeds have the potential to be solid oil producers, while leftover meal can be used to make livestock feed. But its strongest trait may be the fact that it grows in the winter, when most Midwestern fields are empty.
Arvegenix envisions a crop rotation where pennycress fits in between a typical corn/soybean rotation, giving farmers an extra growing season.
"If we can fit into that window when nothing else is growing, that's the definition of sustainability," said Jerry Steiner, the new chief executive of the two-year-old biotech startup, which has 11 employees, with more than half working for equity in the company in lieu of salaries.
The sustainability feature is one of things that helped the company in snagging a $100,000 investment by Yield Lab, an accelerator for agribusinesses. Yield Lab, founded last year, recently named Arvegenix among the five companies in its initial investment program, which includes mentoring and a business development program.
"There aren't many crops that can grow in the winter," said Matt Plummer, Yield Lab program manager and son of the Arvegenix founder. "We're not increasing land acres to grow anything. And we aren't taking anything away from the food supply."
This is also why the crop has been pushed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in its quest for new biofuel sources.
All, however, is not perfect with this spindly plant and the tiny seeds it produces.
The biggest problem is that farmers can't make money growing it. At least not yet.
That's where Arvegenix has its focus at the moment, using advanced breeding technology to nudge the plant toward something better than it is today. A plant needs to be more predictable, more consistent and one that produces a higher oil yield.
Within four years, researchers hope to have a version that could break even. From there, it should have no trouble attracting the attention of farmers, said Dennis Plummer, a former Monsanto executive.
"I'm sure not every farmer will want to plant it," he said. "But they're all interested."
That Arvegenix has taken up the pennycress cause is welcome news to Winthrop Phippen, professor of plant breeding and genetics at Western Illinois University.
Phippen has been working with pennycress since 2009. He's traveled across the country, collecting samples for a seed collection and cataloging various traits. He's found it growing as far south as the Missouri-Arkansas border and as far north as Anchorage, Alaska.
He's been doing his own breeding but says traditional breeding — without the aid of molecular technologies — is considerably slower than what Arvegenix should be able to accomplish.
"They'll be able to speed up the process," Phippen said.
He sees other obstacles down the line, including the inevitable pest and disease issues faced by all crops. And there's the fact that some states, including Michigan — a likely hotbed of pennycress farming — still classify the plant as a weed. That would have to change if the plant is going to be grown and sold as a crop, he said.
But having a company dedicate itself to the plant should bode well for its future.
"Every crop needs a champion," Phippen said.
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'Analyze the footnotes': Why US reporter Margot Williams starts at the end
Award-winning reporter Margot Williams has been obsessively researching and reporting on Guantanamo Bay since 2002. Here's how she does it.
By Spencer Woodman
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Margot Williams assisting at a workshop in Venezuela.
ICIJ has hundreds of members across the world. Typically, these journalists are the best in the country and have won many national and global awards.
Our monthly series, Meet the Investigators, highlights the work of these tireless journalists. This month, we speak with award-winning American reporter Margot Williams, research editor for investigations at The Intercept. Previous to her current position Williams worked at the Washington Post, National Public Radio, The New York Times, and, even at ICIJ. At the Washington Post, Williams was a member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams for an investigation into police shootings and for national coverage of terrorism.
While at the New York Times, you took notes on 16,000 pages of court documents regarding the detainees held in the shadows at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. This became the first comprehensive look at who the United States was holding at the island detention facility during the George W. Bush administration. How did you become interested in making this list?
As soon as the first orange-suited men arrived at Guantanamo Bay detention camp in January 2002, I became obsessed by the secrecy and anonymity of the military operation. Who were these people, and how did they get there? How did their capture and detention relate to the still-raw tragedy of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon? What were their names? I was determined to uncover these facts as much as I could from behind a computer screen in Washington, D.C.
Can you talk at all about what research methods you used and how you figured out how to piece it all together?
Remember that a list of names did not become public until April 2006 in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the Associated Press.
Before that I had been compiling my own list, using news accounts and information from lawyers and the web, like an Arabic language web site called Alasra.org and the official publication of the Yemeni Defense Ministry, also in Arabic. I did not read Arabic so it was a struggle. This list was published in The Washington Post with the project reported by Scott Higham and Joe Stephens in May 2004, and I was the third name on the byline. Pride!
I read for details and clues more than the general meaning. I obsessively analyze the footnotes.
In 2006, when the documents, the records of the Combatant Status Review Tribunals held in Guantanamo, were made available via the AP's FOIA lawsuit, I had moved to the New York Times as the research database editor on the computer assisted reporting (now we'd call it "data journalism") team.
My colleagues there figured out how to use "new" optical character recognition tools to make the pages searchable, and we created a database. But first I had to read them and connect each document to an individual detainee on the public list. No, the documents did not have the detainee names on them. So I entered the information found by reading all those documents into a spreadsheet, and it became data!
At first reporters used the information for background on Guantanamo stories. Soon my colleagues Aron Pilhofer, Tom Torok, Andrei Scheinkman, Jacob Harris and Archie Tse created an interactive, first published online in November 2008, that is still alive and updated regularly by Jeremy Bowers.
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Did this enormous effort require a degree of personal obsession?
True. I know all their names and still am trying to learn their stories. I finally was able to go to Guantanamo myself for The Intercept, twice in 2017, to attend the pre-trial hearings of the five men charged with the 9/11 attacks. It looks like I am going back in June, if approved, to get on the official media tour of the base.
In 2009, you told ProPublica: "I am a reader of documents. There's no substitute for reading every line of every page." For all our skills in acquiring documents, could reporters stand to improve how closely we read the documents we obtain?
I have to confess that I read for details and clues more than the general meaning. I obsessively analyze the footnotes. On a big document, I start at the end and read backwards because I know everyone else is starting from the beginning and often stops before the end. I try to find within a document what can be counted, aggregated, analyzed.
Your title is research editor, right? I've also seen you referred to as a librarian of various types. Is there a difference between reporting and research/library work?
My career started at Time Inc.'s research library after graduation from Pratt Institute with a Master's in Library and Information Science. I've been a Research Librarian, News Research Analyst, Library Director, News Researcher, Research Editor, Research Database Editor and Investigative Research Editor. I've also reported, fact-checked and done data analysis. My work (and the work of most news researchers, I believe) is centered on documents and data, rather than sources, interviews and writing. We work in partnerships with reporters and as members of project teams, with editors, reporters, graphics designers and developers. We're collaborators. We're all journalists.
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You've created this great list of databases in a shared Google Doc, can you name a couple of favorites?
I have been keeping that list of databases current for twenty years. A new version will be available at the Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) conference in June. Of course, my favorite database at the moment relates to whatever the project or beat I'm researching, so right now its Marine Traffic (www.marinetraffic.com) for tracking ships and FlightRadar24 (www.flightradar24.com) for unblocked planes. I'm recommending Enigma (www.enigma.io) for its free and accessible repository of public data. I subscribe and pay for databases that are superior to free ones. Often reporters ask me how to get stuff for free when, indeed, it has to be paid for. Nexis, Accurint, TLO, Ancestry, Arachnys are worth paying for, in my opinion.
As newsroom budgets shrink, more and more investigative journalism is done on a freelance basis. A lot of reporters are starting their careers as freelancers without professional mentors or formal on-the-job training. How can freelancers both learn and stay up to speed on investigative reporting methods?
My best answer to that is to be a member of IRE and attend its workshops and conferences and use the tools and tip sheets on the web site. The GIJN (Global Investigative Journalism Network) conferences and its web site are awesome, too. Join your country's investigative reporting organization, join the listserv, be grateful for your colleagues' generosity and share your knowledge, too.
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Borrowing involving a trust. If you ever considered owning real estate through a trust (including through your Self Managed Super Fund) then this may be of interest to you. Off course seek your own advice and don't rely on this information solely. Trusts are predominately used for asset protection, tax minimisation and succession planning. The main types of trusts used when borrowing are discretionary trusts (family trusts), unit trusts, self managed super fund trusts and to a lesser degree hybrid / property investor trusts.
Outside of the self managed super fund arena there are three main reason people use a trust to acquire an asset. To protect their assets, to minimise tax and to provide flexibility in the future. On the tax minimisation front it is possible to have a trust set up that allows tax deductible interest at the individual tax level and but I believe they are under the microscope of the ATO and are harder to finance. So really borrowing through a trust will probably best suit people looking to protect their assets, provide flexibility of ownership in the future (sucession planning) and people with a large enough deposit to make an investment property neutrally or positively geared from the outset.
What is a trust exa ctly?
A trust is an arrangement which allows a person or company to own assets on behalf of another person, family or group of people. These people are known as the beneficiaries of the trust. Assets are owned on behalf of "beneficiaries" and are controlled by a "trustee" who can be either a corporation or a natural person. The trustee is governed by a "trust deed" which sets out the rules that the trustee must follow and also covers how profit is distributed to the beneficiaries.
The two main reasons to consider borrowing through a trust are to protect assets, take advantage of possible tax benefits.
Asset protection is probably the biggest attraction of using a trust. Assets held through trusts are not legally "owned" by beneficiaries, meaning that trust assets are protected from the liabilities of those beneficiaries. Off course the lender who lends to the trust will always protect themselves by requiring the appropriate guarantees and indemnities. All other creditors will be blocked from going after the assets of the trust though. Unit trusts do not offer the same protection as discretionary trusts.
The Government introduced the biggest tax advantage in choosing a trust rather than a company for owing property when it created a 50 per cent exemption from capital gains tax for all individuals, and the exemption was explicitly extended to the beneficiaries of trusts but not to the shareholders of companies.
Income splitting - distributing investment income between members of a family to take advantage of lower marginal tax rates - has been partly curtailed. Distributions to children under the age of 18 are now penalised with tax at the top marginal rate and the low income offset payments for low income earners have been recently legislated against if distributions are from a trust. While the ability to split income between spouse's remains.
Another important advantage of using trusts is that it facilitates the tax-free passing of assets between generations. While property can be transferred tax-free upon death by the use of an ordinary will, owners are able to effectively transfer their assets to their children before death by using trusts.
There are many types of trusts but to get a loan care should be taken in choosing which type of trust you go with. Many residential mortgage brokers and bank employees / lending managers are not up to speed with trust and company lending and for that reason many lenders do not offer loans to trusts. Many lenders will direct trust borrowers to their commercial lending division which can mean you pay a significantly higher interest rate and fees than you would for a residential loan.
I am across the various lending policies that relate to trusts and I can help find you the most cost effective solutions.
A Family Trust is a type of discretionary trust and is the most common type of trust. They are generally set up to hold a family's assets and/or businesses for the benefit of providing asset protection and tax planning for family members. The income and assets from the trust can be distributed to the beneficiaries as the trustee see fit as long as the trust deed rules are followed.
If you intent to borrow through a trust we recommend that you use a family trust as this gives you the most borrowing options. Having a personal trustee will allow you more lending options. However this is a weaker structure for asset protection and makes it harder to change who controls the trust ie makes it harder to change the trustee. Also the trust will hold losses ie you can't negative gear with a discretionary trust.
The borrower would typically be the trustee in their capacity as trustee for the family trust. In the case of the company trustee the directors would be required to give directors and personal guarantees. One contentious point is also many lenders require any of the adult beneficiaries of the trust to also give personal guarantees even if they are not involved in the trustee company.
The trustee. A company trustee has the advantage of being able to change the directors of the trustee company. This means a trust could effectively change the person controlling the trust without incurring transfer duty (stamp duty).
A unit trust is like a company where the trusts property are divided into a number of shares called units. The number of units you hold will determine your entitlement to your share of income, capital gains and voting power. Units in a unit trust can also be categorised. For example you can have income units and capital units. Also unit holders can be individuals, companies or another trust. The taxation benefits are generally not as flexible as a discretionary trust in that any income distributions must be distributed to unit holders as per their share of units. However if a discretionary trust was a unit holder you can achieve the same flow through tax benefits. From an asset protection point of view, unit trusts don't provide the same kind of asset protection as a discretionary trust. If a unit holder is made bankrupt, then that persons units will be treated like any other assets and sold to raise funds to pay creditors. Unit trusts are most common for non family members or a blend of family and non family members.
Residential rate loans to unit trusts are available through a limited number of lenders.
Hybrid trusts are trusts that combine features of discretionary and unit trusts. Most lenders will not lend to hybrid trusts but there are a still a few lending options available. Hybrids are mainly used so that individuals can claim the same tax benefits as if buying in their own names initially when the property is negatively geared and can at a later date have the trust act like a normal discretionary trust. This would usually be once the property is positively geared.
The usual set up is for the individual unit holders of the trust to borrow in their own names while the trustee goes on the title of the property. The loan to the individuals is actually to purchase units in the trust, while the trustee uses these funds to help it acquire the property. As the loan and property settle at the same time the lender never actually advances the monies to the the individuals. At a later date the trustee company buys the units back from the individuals usually via a refinance of the loan balance into the trustee's name.
This is the same in all but name to a hybrid trust. See above.
A SMSF is a special type of trust that people can set up to manage their own superannuation. Like a normal super fund, your employer contributions still get paid into the fund and you can still make additional contributions as you see fit. Unlike a normal super fund, the trustee (normally you or a company controlled by you) has direct control over the assets that your superannuation is invested in.
A select few lenders now offer loans to SMSF trusts to allow them to invest in residential property up to an LVR of around 80%. The interest rates offered are around the normal home loan rates + a margin of around 0.5% - 1.0% pa so not too prohibitive. However the legal fees and complexity to set up the various entities involved puts a lot of people off.
A loan is given to the SMSF Trustee.
The "Security Custodian" purchases the residential investment property on behalf of the Super Fund.
The Security custodian (which must be a limited liability company) then holds the property as an asset in trust for the Super Fund.
The super fund has the beneficial right but not the obligation to acquire the underlying asset at a future date (when the loan is repaid).
The loan is secured against the investment property and while the loan is ideally self-servicing from the rental income derived from the property, servicing may also come from any other income received or assets held by the SMSF Trustee.
The loan is limited in recourse, with the Bank's right against the SMSF Trustee limited to the lenders right as mortgagee in relation to the property.
There is no recourse to any other assets of the SMSF or to either the SMSF Trustee or Security Custodian.
The tricky point here is that although they say the loan is non recourse, lenders being lenders they can't help trying to get a bit more security. So most require director's guarantees from the security custodian which by the way just so happens to be the same people in most cases as the beneficiaries of the super fund!!So while they can't touch the SMSF's other assets they can come after the members personal assets.
If lenders don't take some sort of extra guarantees the LVR's offered will be lower and the interest rates potentially higher. Usually 50% or less for no guarantees.
My advice is simply be sure you really need a trust structure before you pursue the idea any further. If you do wish to pursue a trust structure please make sure you have the trust set up before attempting a purchase. Also please remember we are not accountants or solicitors so while we have a good understanding of trusts from a layman's point of view please seek your own professional advice.
Feel free to contact us to discuss you trust loan options at any time.


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