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Recent World Trade Scenario of Trading
11th February 2020	0	By indiafreenotes
The global economy has been on a subdued growth path since the advent of 'Financial Crisis' of 2008, and has now started to show signs of global recovery. In October 2017, the IMF projected world GDP growth to pick up from 3.2% in 2016 to 3.6% in 2017, and further to 3.7% in 2018. Economic activity has also picked up in developed market economies such as the US, UK, and Europe. There is a rise in global demand, which is expected to remain buoyant. The developing and emerging market economies have seen mixed economic performance. The pickup in momentum of global demand has been led by investment demand. More specifically, production of both consumer durables and capital goods have rebounded since the second half of 2016. Some factors that have contributed to these developments include global recovery in investments, led by infrastructure and real estate investment in China; firming global commodity prices; and end of an inventory cycle in US.
On the back of this global recovery, the world is witnessing a pickup in global trade. The Asian Development Bank, in its recent update1, noted that most of the emerging economies (excluding China) are witnessing a rebound in manufacturing exports, "particularly in electronics, where foreign direct investment has been strengthening". The economies of south-east Asia are also gaining from increased activity along cross-border manufacturing supply chains. The World Trade Organization (WTO), has recently in its September 2017 press release upgraded the growth forecast for global trade in the year 2017, from 2.4% to 3.6%. Particularly, in the first half of 2017, world trade rose by a robust 4.2% (year on year), driven by exports of developing economies which grew by 5.9 percent as compared to a growth of 3.1 percent witnessed in exports of developed economies. Imports by developed and developing economies also increased by 2.1% and 6.9%, respectively. Moreover, the ratio of trade growth to world GDP growth is also set to recover and reach around 1.3, which will be at a highest level in last 5 years.
This pickup in global growth which has boosted demand for imports, spurred intra-Asia-trade as demand was transmitted through global value chains. In this current scenario, even though India is witnessing a mild rebound in its exports, there are concerns that merchandise exports in Asia's second largest economy are lagging behind other major Asian economies. Today global attention is riveted on emerging and developing economies and especially Asia, driven by the continent's growing appetite for industrial investment, burgeoning infrastructural requirements and its quest for expanding trade.
Indian economy and its trade scenario
India's growth story, especially since the start of the 21st century has been remarkable. The Indian economy has come a long way since its economic liberalisation, and is amongst the fastest growing major economies of the world today. While India witnessed a relatively moderate growth during the period 2011-12 to 2013-14, on account of the global economic slowdown, the economy recorded a robust growth averaging 7.5 percent during the period 2014-15 to 2016-17, much above the growth rate of other emerging and developing economies. In the last one year, it has seen major economic policy developments with the introduction of Goods and Services Tax (GST) and demonetization of higher currency notes.
Even though the GDP growth in the first quarter of current fiscal has fallen down to a low of 5.7%, its lowest since March 2014, it is widely believed that the economy has bottomed out and it can only rise from here. According to the IMF, India is expected to grow at 7.2% in this fiscal year, aided by higher government spending and a pickup in the service sector performance.
Fueling India's growth through international trade
In recent years, India's robust growth has been driven by the dynamic private sector. An encouraging phenomenon that has been witnessed has been the emergence of a large number of investment driven small and medium enterprises with immense potential for growth. A large number of such enterprises have also endeavoured to expand their business operations overseas. The Indian economy is more globalized than we could imagine. As a result, India's foreign trade has seen a multi-fold increase, since liberalization of the economy.
Accordingly, there have been significant structural shifts not only in the product basket, but also in the geographical composition of India's foreign trade. The opening up of Indian economy led to a massive increase in the foreign trade, which aided in sustained GDP growth over last two decades. During the last 25 years Indian exports have increased by 17 times and imports by 19 times. India's share in global merchandise exports has risen from 0.6 percent in early 1990s to 1.7 percent in 2016, and similarly the share of imports has risen from 0.6 percent to 2.4 percent during the same period. India's trade to GDP ratio, a measure of an economy's openness and integration into the global economy, has witnessed a phenomenal increase over the last few decades. Foreign trade which constituted around 13-15 percent of India's GDP in the early nineties, peaked at 55 percent in 2012- 13 and today accounts for around 40 percent in 2016-17. India also, ranked as the 20th largest exporter and 14th largest importer in the world in 2016.
Concomitantly, India's engagement with Global Value Chains (GVCs), which have become dominant feature of world trade, has increased significantly since 1990s. In manufacturing sector, especially for electrical and optical equipment, India is more integrated with the south east Asian region, while for services the integration in GVCs is with western countries like the US and UK. According to an OECD estimate, developing economies with fastest growing GVC participation have experienced a GDP per capita growth rate percent above average.
India has set an ambitious target of achieving exports worth US $ 900 billion by 2020, while accounting for a share of 3.5 percent of global exports4. In the current global macroeconomic scenario, while it seems like a challenging task, concerted efforts would need to be made for India to be able to achieve its trade target and realign its foreign trade policy with the new global trading system.
While the global economic scenario is crucial, the domestic factors are no less important, when it comes to trade. India's overall trade policy faces certain challenges viz. inadequate export diversification in terms of products and geographical distribution; insignificant involvement of a majority of states in exports; rationalisation of the tariff regime and export promotion schemes; and factor market reforms which are critically linked with export performance. These challenges not only affect the productivity and competitiveness of domestic firms but also restrict them from participating in global production networks.
(i) Integrating into and moving up the value chain
Most manufactured products, often high technology manufactured products, that are part of GVCs are infrastructure critical products whose parts are manufactured in several countries. A robust transport and connectivity network supported by fast entry/exit through port/customs is a precondition to making such products as delay may disrupt the entire value chain. There is a need for India to focus on expanding production capacity along with value addition, and moving up the value chain,while creating an enabling environment to account for a sizeable share in major leading global exports. This gain seven more significance given that India's labour force is projected to swell by about 110 mn by 2020. The biggest challenge is to employ the surplus labour coming out of agriculture into industry and services.
(ii) Upscaling Manufacturing
The Make in India initiative is an important initiative of the Government of India, which envisages to promote India as a manufacturing hub and investment destination. There is need for highlighting the potential and stimulating the manufacturing sector through supporting mechanisms and conducive policy measures, including support for R&D, technology orientation and investment incentives. A Higher expenditure on R&D generally correlates with increase in high-technology exports, and increased local value addition. R&D expenditure as a percentage share of GDP in India has remained extremely low at less than1 percent, much lower even in comparison to other developing economies. Also, while we lay emphasis on the manufacturing sector and thereby on manufactured exports, it is also important to ensure an enabling environment and improving our competitiveness by investing in infrastructure such as better connectivity through roads and ports, coal availability, labour reforms and flexibility in factor markets.
(iii) Aligning India's Export Capability in-Line with Global Import Demand
With regard to India's exports, while merchandise exports have more than doubled over the period 2006-07 to 2016-17 from US$ 126 billion to more than US$276 billion, there remains huge potential for exports of select products to select countries in line with India's export capability and import demand. There is need for identifying and aligning India's export capability vis-à-vis global import demand. Such in-depth analysis has been the focus of research studies in Exim Bank. Comparative analyses of global trends in trade, undertaken in such studies have yielded interesting results.
All in all, a pick-up in global growth is expected to contribute to the revival of international trade, but the downside risks such as the possible adoption of protectionist trade policies by especially developed market economies, around the world weigh on the recovery of trade. As a result, there is an increasing need for India and other emerging market economies, relying on export led economic growth, to take a proactive stand for globalization and international trade.
There is a need to shift our focus from exporting what we can (or supply based), to items that are globally demanded. A demand-based export basket diversification approach could give a big push to exports. While India has made remarkable progress in the recent past, it facesan even more challenging global environment today. Itis certainly a daunting, yet possible, task to ensure that India repositions itself as an important driver of global economic growth.
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No one is saying why Sergei Bobrovsky has been pseudo-suspended from tonight's game
By Peter Hassett
The Columbus Blue Jackets released a cryptic statement on Thursday morning to explain why star goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky will not be with the team for tonight's home game against the Nashville Predators.
The statement is below, but you will not learn a whole bunch from reading it.
From the statement:
Columbus Blue Jackets goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky will not be with the team for tonight's game vs. the Nashville Predators, club General Manager Jarmo Kekalainen announced today.
"There are certain expectations and values that we have established for our players that define our culture," said Kekalainen. "An incident occurred in which Sergei failed to meet those expectations and values, so we made the decision that he would not be with the team for tonight's game. This is an internal matter and we will have no further comment at this time."
Apparently, Bobrovsky has committed some kind of transgression. What that transgression is we do not know and may never know, unless someone leaks it, which may or may not happen.
One reporter is speculating, Kristopher Martel, guessing that the following Instagram photo Bobrovsky posted 16 hours ago might have something to do with the decision to bench him.
Wonder if this Instagram post from #CBJ Bobrovsky 16 hours ago has anything to do with this:https://t.co/f49SpC8QwL
— Kristopher Martel (@kmartel_sports) January 10, 2019
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A post shared by Sergei Bobrovsky (@sergeibobrovsky) on Jan 9, 2019 at 2:55pm PST
Frank Seravalli also speculated that part of the reason for the pseudo-suspension came after Bobrovsky was pulled after allowing four goals against the Tampa Bay Lightining.
If you'll recall, Bobrovsky was pulled after 4 GA vs. TBL on Tues. They had an exchange as Bob exited. Tortorella said this morning he considered pulling Bob after 3 GA. "Game's over. I know I wanted to have him here vs. Nashville. I did not want him getting scarred any more."
— Frank Seravalli (@frank_seravalli) January 10, 2019
Blue Jackets coach John Tortorella dodged questions about Bobrovsky at the team's post-practice press conference.
John Tortorella didn't elaborate on Bobrovsky in his post-skate press conference beyond press release. Declined to answer @Aportzline's question about whether the goalie has played his last game with Blue Jackets.
— luke fox (@lukefoxjukebox) January 10, 2019
The Capitals play the Blue Jackets Saturday and it's unclear if Bobrovksy will be in net for that game in addition to tonight's game.
Also wouldn't say anything about whether Bobrovsky will be back for Columbus' next game — at Washington on Saturday. https://t.co/F2O5larrYA
— Tom Gulitti (@TomGulittiNHL) January 10, 2019
In general, the Blue Jackets are in a quandary. They sit third in the Metropolitan Division and have got a solid grip on a playoff spot, but pending UFA Artemi Panarin has already stated his intention not to extend with Columbus. Head coach John Tortorella has been rumored to have a thorny relationship with some players, including Bobrovsky specifically. Columbus's goaltending has not been excellent this season, ranking 25th during 5-on-5 play, and Bobrovsky sporting a middling 90.6 save percentage during all strengths.
Bobrosvky, 30, will be an unrestricted free agent this summer. He currently earns $7.4 million per season and has a no-movement clause, according to CapFriendly.
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Boys Basketball Defeats Northern
Gabi Dykema, Staff Writer
"I believe that we just won! I believe that we just won!!"
The loud chanting and clapping became overwhelming from the excited Forest Hills Central students and echoed in the gym as they watched the boys varsity basketball team win their first District game against rival Forest Hills Northern 57-49.
"What we've talked about since the beginning of the season is when you get kicked in the face a little bit how do you react?" said Central's head coach Ken George. "I felt at the start of the game you know, eleven to two, we were absolutely kicked in the face, and our guys responded. I felt like ten times during the fourth quarter, 'can we just finish this?' But every time it went bad for a minute, we just rose up together. I feel like we faced adversity better than we have in a ton of games."
While George and his team bounced back with vigor after a tough start to the first quarter, they knew that the challenge they would face after a week of only practice would be the defining moment of the game and would be a struggle playing Northern after the Huskies six game winning streak leading into the game. Where the game was really won however, according to George and senior captain Connor Kelly, was in the week leading up to the tip off, before either team stepped foot on the court.
"I think our mindset was that we were the most prepared team we could've possibly been," Kelly said. "We just had a week's straight worth of practice where it was probably the toughest week of practice in my entire basketball career and we went at it and hated each other every day leaving practice because we were going at it so hard. So I think we got here today and knew we had won the battle before it even started."
That didn't stop Kelly and his teammates from playing hard and making quick recoveries as the Huskies gained momentum at the start of the game and later on in the third quarter as the score began to waver again. The rivalry between the schools has allowed both coaches and players a familiarity with each other and their playing style, something both teams used to their advantage as they prepared to face each other. For Central, that meant taking into account the ability of Northern's team to bounce back and pressing them so that they didn't get the chance to.
"We just knew that they were a very resilient team and were really good at coming back, so we had that halftime lead and knew we couldn't let up because they were a team capable of coming back and winning the game," Jordan George said. "They were capable of coming back from that many points for sure."
Another setback the boys faced that allowed Northern to stay in the game and almost come back after Central's heavy lead was turnovers at key moments because not enough pressure had been placed on defending the ball.
"We had a lot of turnovers in some big situations," said Ken George. "Fumbles and turnovers when we were just trying to ice the game. Part of that's on me, I've got to practice some things better down the stretch, but I just thought we gave it away too much in the second quarter. We couldn't quite finish because we kept giving it away."
After their hard work and preparation for the game paid off, the team still recognizes that there is still a great deal of work to be done on limiting turnovers and putting enough defensive pressure on their opponents. Working to fix these issues will be their only challenge facing their next adversaries, but factors that allowed them to beat Northern will make their presence even harder to beat Friday. The strong mental and physical preparation and the determination that allowed them to defeat Northern can only be attributed to their team's strong bond, something that can only be attributed to the seniors on the team that brought them together.
Rearing up for their next game Friday against Lowell, the team will go into the game stronger and with more determination after a victory over the Huskies as they already possess the will to do so. Led by seniors propelled to succeed with their last chance to do so, the Rangers move on after their first steps towards winning Districts that the team is sure to be proud of.
"I feel like it being my last year on the team motivated me more," Kelly said. "The fact that I might never play another meaningful basketball game the next time we lose is a scary thought for me so the only thing I want right now is just to keep playing basketball and keep winning. I'd like to thank the seniors for always having my back out there and staying together. I think we're the most together group that we possibly can be right now and I think that's huge for us going forward trying to win a district championship."
Leading the Rangers against Northern was Kelly with 21 points, followed by junior John Fuller with 19 points. Jordan George added 15 points as well. Tyler Black was the high scorer for Northern, with 19 points.
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Bones Brigade: An Autobiography
Animal Chin - 30 Years of Chin
The snow fell and covered New Hampshire in a cold wet blanket. Trees stood stark and barren. The earth slept. It was winter and 1987 was rapidly coming to a close. People huddled inside. Blankets. Brandy. Comforts of home. The two friends laughed and drank coffee. The weather had put their skating plans on hold... at least for now. Every once in awhile, they'd put on coats and go outside to shovel the accumulating snow from the platforms and riding surface of the ramp. The sixteen foot wide plywood ramp was all they had and it was special. The streets in their town were so rough and pockmarked from the winter weather and snowplows, that it wasn't really even worth trying to ride. There was an old concrete ditch nearby called the beer bottle basin, but it was full of snow melt and run off most of the year. They nudged each other and started back outside to shovel the ramp again. It made it easier once the weather passed. A knock at the door halted them. The young man who lived there answered the door. UPS. "Oh dude... it's here!" He exclaimed. He grabbed the box from the delivery person and the two friends scrambled upstairs again. They discarded their coats and gloves and tore open the package. "I didn't think it would get here so soon."
The young man held it up. Powell Peralta 'The Search for Animal Chin' They both were super stoked. The 'Bones Brigade Video Show' and its follow up 'Future Primitive' were unbelievably good. They skated as much as they could in the winter season but when they couldn't, these videos that they watched helped them feel connected to skateboarding in a way that the magazines never really could. Video was much more intimate. They felt that Stacy Peralta and George Powell understood this. The sounds, the language, the aesthetic. This is what was needed. They watched the video several times that night. They laughed and caught themselves smiling. The Animal Chin ramp amazed them. It was as if it was built by a skateboard God. As they watched, the snow outside seemed to disappear. The cold became warmth, the sun shone around them... and they were there. On the Animal Chin ramp with them. Tony Hawk, Tommy Guerrero, Lance Mountain, Steve Caballero, Mike McGill. While the people in these small New Hampshire towns had God, guns and guts, they had skateboarding. It was their own private thing. Even though the Powell Peralta videos were filmed --virtually--in another world, they somehow felt like they belonged.
This story was to be repeated all across the world. Isolated pockets of skateboarders around the globe, with splintered plywood ramps and makeshift quarter pipes. In barns, alleys, yards and side streets. Small groups of skaters were united by their devotion to skateboarding. The Powell Peralta video 'Search for Animal Chin' represented a clear demarcation line. I recall seeing it immediately after it came out. It didn't seem corny or odd in any way. The skating was clearly innovative and beyond anything I'd seen before. The dialogue was entertaining and infectious and the message was absolutely clear: fun is where you find it. It was a call to action and it was answered. The Animal Chin ramp was built and destroyed during a three week period in 1986. Mythical. A Mecca of sorts. Yet one you could never reach... the endless search? Maybe not. Tony Hawk, the Bones Brigade and Woodward have recently done something unprecedented. They recreated the Animal Chin ramp at Woodward West. The story of its evolution from the beginning, to myth, and once again into modern reality is all here. 'The Search for Animal Chin' video means a great deal to so many people. Skaters that grew up in New Hampshire and places like it, caught themselves quoting Tommy Guerrero and the others in their everyday talks. It became a 'secret language'. "Have you seen him?" "Wake up and smell the concrete." "Yapple dapple." "Bunson over the Junson." "Maps to the skaters... Holmes." The list goes on... Sometimes, a strange form of Chin-quistics overcomes these older skaters. Some say the dialogue is silly. Yet aren't silly and fun basically coloring your life with the same crayon? I think so. The Bones Brigade showed us that we can have fun finding stoke. If you're looking for stoke, then you're having fun. Fun is where you find it. Thus endeth the lesson.
Stacy Peralta
When we began making the video, I recall saying to the team, "What do you want to do? What do you really want to build and ride?" We had a meeting and just started throwing ideas around. A sketch developed. I mean, ramp on ramp? That had never really been done. Some of it worked and some didn't. Like the tunnel. It didn't really work. It was a gimmick. The craziest thing, is that once the guys drew up the initial plans, we had to find a place to build it. The Chin ramp was massive. It wouldn't fit in a yard or a parking lot. One day Mike McGill called and said, "I think I found some land. It was in the Oceanside area between some junk yards. The lumber company delivered the wood without any proof that we had permission. We didn't. How's that? Crazy. We basically had only four whole days to film. We covered it from every single angle. We didn't have multiple cameras. Just one. I'd set up an angle, bang, bang, bang... four days straight. Everyone put out maximum effort. I still get asked thirty years later, "Have you found Chin?" Here we are thirty years later and we built it again. Remarkable."
Lance Mountain
Looking back on the Animal Chin ramp from 1986... it makes me think. Stacy is very intuitive about skateboarding. He was recently asking us about the stuff they build now to promote skateboarding, compared to the things we had back then. The general answer was that it is mostly generic. Cookie cutter. Same sizes. Stacy said, "Are they still trying to standardize skateboarding?" Our answer was "Yes" across the board. Maybe they think that if they make it understandable or judgeable by the general public, it can become bigger. Stacy then answered, "They didn't get what we were trying to do at all, did they?" What I got out of the whole thing was this: We built the Animal Chin ramp back then to say, "Keep trying new things. Keep it creative. Keep evolving." The ideas and creative thought behind it is far more important in drawing kids to the act itself.
After we met and came up with the Animal Chin ramp drawing, I was pretty blown away to arrive at the ramp and see it sitting there... all the possibilities and lines that could be discovered. Ramps at that time, were not too diverse. We just thought up the most interesting thing we could come up with. Opposing ramps, vert spine, mini ramp on the deck... no one had ever thought of the vert spine. We were all pretty intimidated by the vert spine. It excites me to see what's in store for the future. I like the ramp being here at Woodward for a younger generation to ride. This ramp brings a great deal of excitement to vert skating. When we did the Animal Chin ramp section of the video, it was very organic. We were like, "Hey let's try doubles" and then it sort of went from there. There was nothing really planned. Once the camera started rolling, we all just went for it. Regarding the new Chin ramp, I'd been sitting with Grant Brittain in his office and the four invert photo was hanging there. I said, "Wouldn't it be great to shoot that again. I mean, we are all still skating." We talked to Tony and one day he phoned and said that Woodward was going to let us build it there. We are all very stoked. Once we all converged at Woodward and saw the new Chin ramp, we started joking around. "I can't believe some of the stuff we did on this thing thirty years ago!" So many emotions were going through my head. Do I come here and try things I'd never done the first time around? Do I try to do the tricks I did in the video or do I just do tricks I can do. I just told myself to practice my invert. Once we nailed the four invert shot... we were good.
Mike McGill
I'm in awe of the boys. All of them. I mean, we originally started riding the Animal Chin ramp in 1986, it came together pretty directly. One person said, "Let's do backside airs on the spine opposite each other. We did it and it all escalated from there. The same thing happened here at Woodward on the new Chin ramp. We made the four inverts and then Tony said, "Let's try four frontside inverts." I thought it was crazy, but we ended up doing that as well. That has never been done and here we are thirty years later doing it. Another first. I did a backside ollie rock-n-roll slide over the channel and I'd never done that before. Could I have done it back then? Maybe. I just never thought of it.
This is really only the beginning.The Chin ramp is a permanent structure at Woodward West. Anyone that comes to Woodward West can ride it. People will do tricks but this is where they'll be measured. "Oh you did that trick? But did you do it on the Chin ramp?" I do find it hard to compare this Chin ramp to the original because ramps have changed so much over the last thirty years. I'm accustomed to having a larger landing zone on my ramps, where this Chin ramp is smaller. If you don't hit things right, you'll hang up or wash out. The new Chin ramp is ten foot transitions with a foot of vert. I guess we've gotten spoiled... and older.
Tim Payne
The Animal Chin ramp is a myth. A lie. We weren't allowed to say what it was. We had to keep it secret. Lance and I worked out the transitions because he had liked a couple of the ramps I had built at the time. We lied to everyone. We told them it was nine and a half foot transitions with a foot and a half of vert, but really we were making elliptical transitions. It was really a larger transition but it wasn't as high. It was friendlier to ride. That was the big mystery. I think it took eight days. After we had cleared the land for it. Stacy said, go ahead and build it. He didn't even have permission. We just did it. Lance and Mike helped. Stacy helped a bit. Lance was there everyday like one of the crew. The Brigade trickled in to look at it. I recall that the first day it was done, Lance was so tired, he took a day off and went with his family to Anaheim. I believe that was the day that Tony and Cab crashed into each other.
Tony was doing a big air and Cab was coming off the other wall and coming up underneath him. As Cab was coming up the wall, Tony was coming down. Cab crouched up in a ball but caught Tony's shins. It flipped him over and Tony got completely taken out. We thought he'd be out of the filming. Pretty bad. He rested for a day and was ok after. When they came to ride the Chin ramp, they were in disbelief. It was pretty unreal. The last day of filming, we popped the tunnel open. Only Lance and I knew we had actually built it. It didn't really work but it was cool for filming. Tommy Kay came up with the mini ramp idea on top of the vert ramp. It was his design. We used it on the Chin ramp. Once filming was over, it was torn down by some local people and that was that. With the Chin rebuild, I was called in and we decided to put it in at Woodward West permanently. We made the original Chin ramp four feet smaller. We made the new Chin spine sixteen feet wide rather than twelve. It makes it a bit more functional. The whole ramp is four feet wider. PVC coping was on the original due to time constraints. We put steel coping on this one. Otherwise, its the same ramp. Hush. Hush.
Tommy Guerrero
When we were taken out to where the Animal Chin ramp was in Oceanside, I was shocked at how large it was. It was the biggest skateboarding ramp built... at least up to that time. It had a spine, ramps on the deck. I knew what these guys were going to do on that thing. It was no surprise. Once we started filming, I think Stacy wanted to include me a bit more in this section and he had me open the tunnel of the ramp. In the film, Lance and I always joked around quite a bit. Stacy would egg us on. I still get people coming up to me and quoting me in that film. A friend of mine and I always had a touch of Tourette's I think. We never knew what would come out of our mouths. Silliness. Just fun. The whole thing just came together. We never had any idea that we'd be sitting here in thirty years living this dream once more.
Neal Hendrix
I was skating with Tony one day and he mentioned the idea about shooting the four invert photograph again from the Animal Chin ramp. He said they had talked about just building the spine section and shooting it but he wondered if Woodward West would be interested in building it. I went back to the people at Woodward West and we discussed it. They have a long standing respect for -- not only Tony Hawk -- but the other skaters of the Bones Brigade as well. We ran the numbers and realized that the cost was super high. We crunched things down a bit and a marketing strategy was put in place to do some social media things with regard to the Animal Chin ramp being at Woodward West. We scaled back the cost, utilized some Woodward West building staff to offset the labor costs and the ramp was built. Tony Hawk and Woodward West felt that the Animal Chin ramp should be ridden by a whole other generation of skateboarders. I am proud of the fact that it is permanently on the facility at Woodward West and I've already seen a whole new group of young skateboarders ripping on it. Its an exciting thing to see.
Thank you to George Powell and Stacy Peralta. Thank you Michael Furukawa. Thank you to the Tony Hawk Foundation and the RIDE Channel. Thank you to Deville Nunes, Miki Vuchovich, Grant Brittain and Chris Ortiz for the images. Special thanks to Neal Hendrix and Woodward West for coming through with flying colors. EPIC. Thank you to the Bones Brigade. I am grateful and consider it an honor to be doing this. Skate- Ozzie Ausband
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This week at the Studio V studio, we have been polishing our designs in order to better fit the needs of REDUX, the idea is to propose an element on the up fit in great detail in order for them to have a better idea of what they will be receiving, this week the focus has been on the movable walls and how they interact and fit inside of the building. There are many obstacles inside of 1056 King, that we will have to frame around and intertwine with our designs. The walls have been a challenge about finding the right hardware that will support our the ability to hang a very heavy wall and for the wall to be able slide effortlessly. The walls are the biggest things we are implementing into the gallery so therefore the smaller stuff has be put aside until we figure out the total logistics of the walls, in this case it is the reception desk and the location of the desk related to walls and of the program of galley in that point of time. There is a lot that goes into this design we are not trying to get a rough estimate of the pricing and the materials used in our projects. The idea is to give the client the best possible knowledge about what are designing. Next week after the review we will be digging even deeper into the design by creating construction documents. We are looking forward to getting into a phase where it is starting to become real where our ideas will actually be built and constructed into REDUX.


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UBA invites tenders for study on recycling rates
UBA wants to have a study conducted on how to promote the recycling of packaging waste, Euwid reports.
The research project also aims to answer the question of whether current recovery and recycling quotas need to be adjusted. To ensure the effectiveness of the quotas in terms of high-quality recycling of materials, the Packaging Act stipulates that recycling results must be reviewed within three years of January 1, 2022. Based on the review, a decision will be made as to whether the material-specific quotas, such as for PET bottles, and the overall recycling quota for lightweight packaging (LVP) of 50 percent are appropriate or should be increased further. In addition, the project will investigate how the recycling quotas could be fundamentally further developed and the Packaging Act amended. The study shall also look at transport packaging, sales packaging and secondary packaging, for which there are currently no quota requirements, and highlight the potential for optimization and obstacles that exist for this packaging. Thus, the study will primarily look at packaging that typically does not accumulate in private households after use, but rather at commercial entities, particularly in large-scale commerce and industry.
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Carolyn Maloney on Crime
Democrat/Liberal Representative (NY-14)
Voted YES on enforcing against anti-gay hate crimes.
Congressional Summary:Adopts the definition of "hate crime" as set forth in the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994: a crime in which the defendant intentionally selects a victim, or in the case of a property crime, the property that is the object of the crime, because of the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, or sexual orientation of any person. Provides technical, forensic, prosecutorial, or other assistance in the criminal investigation or prosecution of hate crimes, including financial grant awards.
Proponent's argument to vote Yes:Rep. JOHN CONYERS (D, MI-14):This bill expands existing Federal hate crimes law to groups who are well-known targets for bias-based violence--they are sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, and disability. These crimes of violence are directed not just at those who are directly attacked; they are targeting the entire group with the threat of violence.
Opponent's argument to vote No:Rep. LAMAR SMITH (R, TX-21): Every year thousands of violent crimes are committed out of hate, but just as many violent crimes, if not more, are motivated by something other than hate--greed, jealousy, desperation or revenge, just to name a few. An individual's motivation for committing a violent crime is usually complex and often speculative. Every violent crime is deplorable, regardless of its motivation. That's why all violent crimes should be vigorously prosecuted. Unfortunately, this bill undermines one of the most basic principles of our criminal justice system--equal justice for all. Under this bill, justice will no longer be equal. Justice will now depend on the race, gender, sexual orientation, disability or other protected status of the victim. It will allow different penalties to be imposed for the same crime. This is the real injustice. Reference: Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act; Bill HR.1913 ; vote number 2009-H223 on Apr 2, 2009
Voted YES on expanding services for offenders' re-entry into society.
H.R.1593: Second Chance Act of 2007: Community Safety Through Recidivism Prevention or the Second Chance Act (Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass). To reauthorize the grant program for reentry of offenders into the community in the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, and to improve reentry planning and implementation.
Rep. CONYERS: Some 650,000 men and women are leaving the Federal and State prisons each year. While the vast majority of the prisoners are committed to abiding by the law and becoming productive members of society, they often encounter the same pressures & temptations that they faced before prison. More than two-thirds of them are arrested for new crimes within 3 years of their release. This exacts a terrible cost in financial terms as well as in human terms. The Second Chance Act will help provide these men and women with the training, counseling and other support needed to help them obtain & hold steady jobs; to kick their drug and alcohol habits; rebuild their families; and deal with the many other challenges that they face in their efforts to successfully rejoin society.
Rep. GOHMERT: The programs that are sought to be renewed are ones we don't have information on how successful they were. I can tell you from my days as a judge, there was some anecdotal evidence that it looked like faith-based programs did a better job of dramatically reducing recidivism. In addition:
There are some provisions that allow for too much administration. That is going to build a bigger bureaucracy.
Dismissing all charges if someone completes drug rehab under another provision I think is outrageous. You are going to remove the hammer that would allow you to keep people in line?
We also have a provision to teach inmates how they can go about getting the most welfare before they leave prison and go out on their own.
Reference: Second Chance Act; Bill HR1593 ; vote number 2007-1083 on Nov 13, 2007
Voted YES on funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons.
Vote on an amendment that would reduce the funding for violent offender imprisonment by and truth-in-sentencing programs by $61 million. The measure would increase funding for Boys and Girls Clubs and drug courts by the same amount. Reference: Amendment sponsored by Scott, D-VA; Bill HR 4690 ; vote number 2000-317 on Jun 22, 2000
Voted NO on more prosecution and sentencing for juvenile crime.
Vote to pass a bill to appropriate $1.5 billion to all of the states that want to improve their juvenile justice operations. Among other provisions this bill includes funding for development, implementation, and administration of graduated sanctions for juvenile offenders, funds for building, expanding, or renovating juvenile corrections facilities, hiring juvenile judges, probation officers, and additional prosecutors for juvenile cases. Reference: Bill introduced by McCollum, R-FL; Bill HR 1501 ; vote number 1999-233 on Jun 17, 1999
Voted YES on maintaining right of habeas corpus in Death Penalty Appeals.
Vote on an amendment to delete provisions in the bill that would make it harder for prisoners who have been given the death penalty in state courts to appeal the decision on constitutional grounds in the federal courts ['Habeas Corpus']. Bill HR 2703 ; vote number 1996-64 on Mar 14, 1996
Voted NO on making federal death penalty appeals harder.
Vote on a bill to make it harder for prisoners who have been given the death penalty in state courts to appeal the decision on constitutional grounds in the federal courts. Bill HR 729 ; vote number 1995-109 on Feb 8, 1995
Voted YES on replacing death penalty with life imprisonment.
Amendment to replace death penalty crimes in the 1994 Omnibus Crime Bill with life imprisonment. Bill HR 4092 ; vote number 1994-107 on Apr 14, 1994
Rated 50% by CURE, indicating mixed votes on rehabilitation.
Maloney scores 50% by CURE on rehabilitation issues
Maloney co-sponsored the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act:
Maloney co-sponsored the Innocence Protection Act:
First step: reduce recidivism & mass incarceration.
Maloney voted YEA First Step Act
TITLE I--RECIDIVISM REDUCTION: establish a risk and needs assessment system to evaluate the recidivism risk of prisoners; to guide housing assignments; and to reward participation in recidivism reduction programs.
TITLE II--BUREAU OF PRISONS SECURE FIREARMS STORAGE: allow federal correctional officers to securely store and carry concealed firearms on BOP premises outside the security perimeter of a prison.
TITLE III--RESTRAINTS ON PREGNANT PRISONERS PROHIBITED: limits the use of restraints on federal prisoners who are pregnant or in postpartum recovery.
TITLE IV--SENTENCING REFORM: reduces the enhanced mandatory minimum prison terms for certain repeat drug offenses.
Opposing press release from Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-CA-1):: The reform sentencing laws in this bill may compromise the safety of our communities. Criminals convicted of violent crimes would have the opportunity to achieve 'low risk' status and become eligible for early release. California already has similar laws in place--Propositions 47 and 57--which have hamstrung law enforcement and caused a significant uptick in crime.
Supporting press release from Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY-10):: S. 756 establishes a new system to reduce the risk that [federal prisoners] will commit crimes once they are released. Critically, S. 756 would not only implement these reforms to our prison system, but it also takes a crucial first step toward addressing grave concerns about our sentencing laws, which have for years fed a national crisis of mass incarceration. The bill is a 'first step' that demonstrates that we can work together to make the system fairer in ways that will also reduce crime and victimization.
Legislative outcome: Concurrence Passed Senate, 87-12-1, on Dec. 18, 2018; Concurrence Passed House 358-36-28, Dec. 20, 2018; President Trump signed, Dec. 21, 2018 Source: Congressional vote 18-S756 on Dec 20, 2018
Stricter sentencing for hate crimes.
Maloney co-sponsored stricter sentencing for hate crimes
To make sentencing guidelines for Federal criminal cases that provide sentencing enhancements for hate crimes.
Amends the Federal judicial code to require the U.S. Sentencing Commission to:
promulgate or amend existing guidelines to provide for sentencing enhancements of not less than three offense levels for offenses that the finder of fact at trial determines beyond a reasonable doubt are hate crimes; and
assure reasonable consistency with other guidelines, avoid duplicative punishments for substantially the same offense, and take into account any mitigating circumstances that might justify exceptions.
Proponents' Argument in Favor:Rep. SENSENBRENNER. This bill does not create a new Federal crime. Nothing that is presently not criminal now would be made criminal as a result of enactment. What enactment of H.R. 1152 will do is provide for enhanced criminal penalties for certain specifically designated hate crimes. As used in the bill, the term hate crime is defined as a Federal crime in which the defendant intentionally selects a victim because of the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation of the person. Hate crimes are more serious offenses and often result in a greater level of injury to the victim and to society. Source: Hate Crimes Sentencing Enhancement Act (H.R.1152) 1993-H1152 on Mar 1, 1993
Life imprisonment for repeat sexual predators.
Maloney co-sponsored restricting parole for repeat sexual predators
Expresses the sense of the Congress that States should:
more seriously consider the relatively high recidivism rate of sexual offenders when deciding whether to plea bargain with first-time sexual offenders and whether to grant parole to sexual offenders; and
review their treatment and parole supervision programs for sexual offenders to assure that such programs are fulfilling their goals.
Whoever violates provisions regarding aggravated sexual abuse after previously having been convicted of another State or Federal sexual abuse offense shall be imprisoned for life.
Establish guidelines for State programs requiring any person who is convicted of a sex offense to register and keep up to date a current address with a designated State law enforcement agency for ten years after being released from prison
Maintain on-line availability of information obtained under this Act
Carry out a study of persistent sexual predators and to report to the Congress and the President.
Source: Protection from Sexual Predators Act (H.R.3990) 1994-H3990 on Mar 9, 1994
Sponsored bill for easier access to rape kits & analysis.
Maloney sponsored easier access to rape kits, and more rape kit analysis
Congress finds the following:
Rape is a serious problem.
In 2006, there were an estimated 261,000 rapes and sexual assaults.
The collection and testing of DNA evidence is a critical tool in solving rape cases.
Despite the availability of funding under the Debbie Smith Act of 2004, there exists a significant rape kit backlog.
A 1999 study estimated that there was an annual backlog of 180,000 rape kits that had not been analyzed.
No agency regularly collects information regarding the scope of the rape kit backlog.
Certain States cap reimbursement for rape kits at levels that are less than 1/2 the average cost of a rape kit.
There is a lack of health professionals who have received specialized training specific to sexual assault victims.
The purpose of this Act is to address the problems surrounding forensic evidence collection in cases of sexual assault, including rape kit backlogs, reimbursement for or free provision of rape kits, and the availability of trained health professionals to administer rape kit examinations.
SPONSOR'S INTRODUCTORY REMARKS:
Sen. FRANKEN: Last year, 90,000 people were raped. Thanks to modern technology, we have an unparalleled tool to bring sexual predators to justice: forensic DNA analysis. Rape kit DNA evidence is survivors' best bet for justice. Unfortunately, we have failed to make adequate use of DNA analysis. In 2004, then-Sen. Biden and others worked to pass the Debbie Smith Act, a law named after a rape survivor whose backlogged rape kit was tested six years after her assault. Unfortunately, because many localities simply did not use the Debbie Smith funds they were allocated, the promise of the Debbie Smith Act remains unfulfilled.
In 2009, Los Angeles had 12,500 untested rape kits; Houston found at least 4,000 untested rape kits in storage, and Detroit reported a backlog of possibly 10,000 kits. Those are just three cities. Hundreds of thousands of women have not seen justice. Source: Justice for Survivors of Sexual Assault (S2736&HR4114) 2009-S2736 on Nov 5, 2009
Rated 77% by the NAPO, indicating a tough-on-crime stance.
Maloney scores 77% by the NAPO on crime & police issues
Ratings by the National Association of Police Organizations indicate support or opposition to issues of importance to police and crime. The organization's self-description: "The National Association of Police Organizations (NAPO) is a coalition of police units and associations from across the United States. NAPO was organized for the purpose of advancing the interests of America's law enforcement officers through legislative advocacy, political action, and education.
"Increasingly, the rights and interests of law enforcement officers have been the subject of legislative, executive, and judicial action in the nation�s capital. NAPO works to influence the course of national affairs where law enforcement interests are concerned. The following list includes examples of NAPO�s accomplishments:
Enactment of the Fair Sentencing Act
Enactment of the National AMBER Alert Act
Enactment of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act
Enactment of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act
Enactment of the Law Enforcement Officers' Safety Act (Right to Carry Legislation)
VoteMatch scoring for the NAPO ratings is as follows:
0%-50%: soft on crime and police issues;
50%-75%: mixed record on crime and police issues;
75%-100%: tough on crime and police issues.
Source: NAPO ratings on Congress and politicians 2014_NAPO on Dec 31, 2014
Sponsored stricter rules for police accountability.
Maloney co-sponsored George Floyd Justice in Policing Act
This bill addresses policing practices and law enforcement accountability:
lowers the criminal intent standard--from willful to knowing or reckless--to convict a law enforcement officer for misconduct in a federal prosecution,
limits qualified immunity as a defense to liability in a private civil action against a law enforcement officer, and
grants administrative subpoena power to the Department of Justice (DOJ) in pattern-or-practice investigations.
Rep. Elise Stefanik in OPPOSITION (3/1/21): I voted against H.R. 1280--this bill poses a grave danger to law-abiding police officers, as it would eliminate qualified immunity protections, lower the standard for federal civil rights lawsuits, and limit access to necessary equipment during emergencies and natural disasters. Democrats rushed this bill to the House Floor without accepting any input from Republicans, expert testimony, or significant data. I am proud to sponsor the JUSTICE Act with Senator Tim Scott, to provide necessary reforms to end police brutality while protecting our law-abiding officers.
OnTheIssues explanation of "qualified immunity": "Qualified immunity" means that police officers (and other government officials) cannot be sued for actions on duty, unless knowingly taking unreasonable actions. This bill would limit "qualified immunity," which means the family in cases like George Floyd's could sue the police for civil damages.
Biden Administration in SUPPORT (3/1/21): We must begin by rebuilding trust between law enforcement and the people they are entrusted to serve and protect. We cannot rebuild that trust if we do not hold police officers accountable for abuses of power and tackle systemic misconduct--and systemic racism--in police departments.
Legislative Outcome: Passed House 220-212-0 on March 3, 2021, rollcall #60; received in Senate on March 9; no further Senate action during 2021. Source: H.R.1280 21-HR1280 on Feb 24, 2021
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Following the tragedies of Sept. 11, 2001, B'nai B'rith International published a statement condemning the attacks, consoling the families of the victims and announcing the opening of the disaster relief funds.
"Our prayers are with the victims of Tuesday's unthinkable acts of terrorism. We send our condolences and prayers to the families and friends who have lost loved ones in these murderous attacks against the United States.
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Episode 152 Technology Matters: Box CEO Aaron Levie Pt. 2
As you go about your digital transformation, Box CEO Aaron Levie wants you to remember this: The technology really does matter.
"Anytime you see a company say, 'We want to get closer to the customer, we want to make more real-time decisions, we want to be able to share more effectively,' but then people have log in via VPN to get any amount of information — they can't get data from their mobile devices and they can't actually see the work that other people are doing in real-time — by definition you're going to have that impendence mismatch where what the company is talking about can simply not be enabled by the technology architecture of that organization."
Technology takes center stage in Part 2 of our three-part conversation with Aaron Levie, co-founder, CEO and Chairman of Box, the cloud content management provider. We'll help you ask the right questions for finding the technology your organization needs to truly go digital, help you navigate around the major mistakes and look at the impact artificial intelligence is having on all of this.
The Conversation Rundown
Assessing your digital journey
The biggest mistakes
The impact of Artificial Intelligence
Aaron Levie
Aaron Levie is Chief Executive Officer, Cofounder and Chairman at Box, which he launched in 2005 with CFO and cofounder Dylan Smith. He is the visionary behind the Box product and platform strategy, incorporating the best of secure content collaboration with an intuitive user experience suited to the way people work today. Aaron leads the company in its mission to transform the way people and businesses work so they can achieve their greatest ambitions. He has served on the Board of Directors since April 2005.
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46 Biggs, A. (2008), Overview of Commonwealth involvement in funding dental care, Research Paper No.1 2008–09, 13 August 2008 Parliamentary Library, Parliament of Australia.
This situation, whereby both levels of government have overlapping authority, invites confusion as to whether the Commonwealth or the state governments (or both) have ultimate responsibility for government provision of dental health services.
Who currently takes responsibility for dental service provision?
As outlined earlier in this chapter, State and Territory Governments are responsible for public dental services. They provide emergency dental care and general dental treatment to eligible adults and school aged children.
48 Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health (2006), 'The use of fluorides in Australia: guidelines', Australian Dental Journal, Vol 51, (2), pp.195–199.
49 Biggs, A. (2008), 'Overview of Commonwealth involvement in funding dental care', Research Paper No.1 2008–09, 13 August 2008 Parliamentary Library, Parliament of Australia.
51 The 1993–94 Budget provided funding for a CDHP to 1996–97. $278 million was provided to the states and territories over four years to administer emergency care (Emergency Dental Scheme) and general dental care (General Dental Scheme) for healthcare card holders. With the cessation of the CDHP in 1997, sole government responsibility for public dental services returned to the states. ibid.
In 2008, the Commonwealth expanded its responsibilities to provide up to $150 (currently $163.05) per eligible teenager52 towards an annual preventative dental check through the Medicare Teen Dental Plan (MTDP). At the time of writing this report, the legislation that administers the MTDP, the Dental Benefits Act 2008, was undergoing a legislative review. The Council has considered the finding of the review in this report (as noted below).
52 Eligible teenagers are 12–17 years of age in families receiving Family Tax Benefit Part A, and teenagers in the same age group receiving certain government payments.
access to broader scholarship schemes and locum support.
Other Commonwealth Acts and regulation also apply to the practise of the dental practitioners, such as legislation governing the National Registration and Accreditation Scheme (discussed later in this chapter).
All other individuals (i.e. non–concession card holders and those ineligible for Commonwealth programs) are responsible for funding their own dental care. This group includes low income people on lower than average incomes. The private sector is the only place that non–card holder adults can access dental care.
54 Harford, J.E., Ellershaw, A.C. and Spencer, A.J. (2011), Trends in access to dental care among Australian adults 1994–2008, AIHW Dental Statistics and Research Series, No. 55, pp.10–11.
55 Private Health Insurance Administration Council (2011), Annual Report, Data Tables, December 2011.
56 A Healthier Future For All Australians – Interim Report of the NHHRC, December 2008, p.266.
57 Ellershaw, A.C. and Spencer, A.J. (2009), Trends in access to dental care among Australian children, AIHW Dental Statistics and Research Series, No. 51, pp.10–11.
The area of most obvious overlap of responsibilities between the Commonwealth and states is services for children; states offer a range of services for most children up to the age of 18 and the Commonwealth's MTDP offers a subsidy for preventative services for eligible 12–18 year olds.
The services subsidised under the MTDP program also overlap with the basic preventive check–up and services subsidised by the majority of private health insurance providers (as noted in this chapter, a significant number of children are covered by private health insurance – 43.8 per cent of 5–11 year olds and 40.6 per cent of 12 year olds).
The Second Review of the Dental Benefits Act 2008 noted that the uptake for the MTDP has been disappointing and declined in 2012–11 to only 30 per cent of all eligible teenagers. Further, the review noted that although the MTDP voucher system worked for a mainstream teenager audience, its appeal could not be assumed to extend to at–risk and hard–to–reach groups such as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander teenagers, culturally and linguistically diverse teenagers, disabled teenagers and homeless teenagers. The review also noted that evaluation of the operations of the program is warranted and recommended that further work to promote the MTDP to hard–to–reach teens should be undertaken. Given the overlap, poor uptake and deficiencies in reaching all eligible teenagers, it would be worthwhile re–evaluating the efficiency and effectiveness of the MTDP in achieving oral health outcomes for teenagers.
Data published in 2011 on the MTDP voucher use (collected as part of the National Dental Telephone Interview Survey (2010)) provided the first opportunity to examine the program's impact on visiting patterns. While the receipt of the MTDP vouchers indicated a degree of success in targeting teenagers according to income, the data indicated a generally low uptake of the vouchers and lower use among low income households. Comparison with visiting patterns for teenagers in previous years did not support a conclusion that the MTDP had a major impact on teenage visiting.59 This supports evaluating whether to extend the MTDP entitlement to include routine dental services and further considering policies to boost use of dental services by teens.
59 Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health(2011), 'Teen dental plan voucher use', Australian Dental Journal, Vol 56, Issue 4, pp.437–440.
There is also some degree of overlap for services provided to adults, with many patients eligible for treatment through the state's public system and the Commonwealth's CDDS program – approximately 80 per cent of those accessing the CDDS also have concession cards and are eligible for the dental services from the state public system. People receiving dental care through the Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA) may also be entitled to both of the above payments. Additional overlap exists with private health insurance through the 30 per cent rebate on premiums.
One potential area of overlap among jurisdictions is dental graduate activities. Some states have previously and continue to offer various new graduate opportunities in the public dental sector. As a result of decisions taken in its 2011–12 Budget, the Commonwealth will also offer dental intern placements for new graduates from 2013, largely focused on the public sector, through its Voluntary Dental Intern Program. Although the program is yet to commence, it will aim to build on and complement existing jurisdictional programs rather than duplicate or replace existing efforts.
There is general inconsistency in state services provided for children and adults, including the treatment that is available and eligibility and co–payment requirements. There is also a significant variation between the states and territories in the level of investment in public dental services, on a per capita basis. This variation in investment will affect the speed with which options for reform can be implemented.
60 Senate Community Affairs References Committee (1998), Report on public dental services, Senate Community Affairs References Committee, 1998, p.48.
Currently, only Western Australia, Queensland, South Australia and the Northern Territory operate some form of dedicated school dental program. New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and the Australian Capital Territory provide public dental services to children through community–based clinics. Eligibility for services and the level of co–payments also vary across states (for more detail refer to the table at Appendix E: Child dental services provided by the States and Territories).
It is difficult to get a clear picture of the extent to which the different state–based service arrangements affect childhood caries experience as not all states participate in the national data collection. Further information on the status of children's oral health is provided in Chapter Three.
61 NSW Oral Health Strategic Directions 2011–2020 (2010). New South Wales Department of Health, December 2010.
Like child programs, there are variations between the states regarding the services they offer, the eligibility criteria for treatment and the levels of co–payments required for adults (for more detail refer to Appendix D on adult dental services provided by the states and territories).


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Do Students Need a Bill of Rights?
Sara Weissman
A coalition of higher education reform organizations, led by Partners for College Affordability and Public Trust, came out with a "Tuition Payer Bill of Rights" last Wednesday, as COVID-19 continues to shut down campus services.
The initiative comes after over 100 class action lawsuits against colleges and universities, questioning whether students should be putting tuition and fees toward services they're not receiving.
College students "lost key lifelines like meal plans, dorm housing and campus healthcare when they were ordered off campus," said Jesse Barba, senior director of external relations at Young Invincibles, one of the coalition's members. "We think it is accurate to say that COVID-19 has resulted in a breach of delivery of the quality of educational experiences and activities that students and their families paid for in the spring semester. With any other service and good, if you had a default or it's not up to the standard it was sold to you, you have recourse."
The document ultimately outlines six rights: It says students have the right to services guaranteed by tuition, like room and board, and should be refunded when those services aren't available; They should be able to opt out of paying for non-essential services like athletics; They should have access to no-cost, online options for their textbooks; They have a right to detailed, clear explanations of their anticipated college costs, their financial aid and how their institutions spend tuition dollars; They have a right to information about how much a degree from a particular school is likely to increase their earnings before they enroll; And they should be able to address governing and advisory boards for their institutions before decisions that impact them are made.
The coalition plans to present a petition signed by students, parents and other concerned parties to higher education institutions and their trustees, urging them to adopt the bill of rights. It also put out a checklist for tuition payers with a list of questions students should ask themselves this fall, like whether they know how to contact the people making COVID-19 policies for their university or whether they know if their tuition will be discounted if classes move online.
The goal is to give students and parents the tools they need to "self-advocate," Barba said.
In response to calls for tuition reductions, campus leaders have pointed to dropping enrollment rates and financial strain for higher education institutions. In June, the American Council on Education estimated that colleges and universities will spend approximately $74 billion preparing for the fall semester – and that number doesn't take into account increasing financial need among students or decreasing state support.
Laura Keane, chief policy officer at uAspire, another coalition partner, acknowledged that financial struggle is a "real concern" for many institutions, and online courses aren't inherently cheaper. She also recognizes that how institutions respond to COVID-19 and how much that costs them will "highly vary" based on geography, infection rates, endowment size and other factors.
But she sees transparency as key to affordability, calling it "no longer a nice-to-have, but a must have." Even pre-COVID-19, colleges were vague about what services fall under the term "fees," she wrote in an email to Diverse, so students don't even necessarily know what services they're paying for. Right now, leaders need to clearly communicate to students "what the college can deliver, at what cost" in time for students "to choose if this meets their needs – without penalty."
If colleges and universities are "opaque" about where students' money goes, without an option to opt out of services, schools risk creating a repeat of what happened in the economic downturn in 2008, Barba noted.
"During the last recession, we saw students put their careers on hold and went back to school to sharpen their credentials," he said. "What happened? They came out still unemployed but now with tons of debt. Many predatory schools and institutions emerged. We know the story."
"College is supposed to be the ticket to financial security," he added. "It always has been."
Keane hopes the pandemic will be a wake-up call to colleges and universities about the consumer protections students need, not just during the pandemic but beyond.
Schools need to "recognize that for a majority of students in our country, financing a college education is a lifetime investment, one that takes decades to pay off and affects other life decisions such as buying a home and starting a family," she said. "We hope the Tuition Bill of Rights … leads to greater student engagement in the work ahead to improve transparency and ultimately reduction of college costs. We hope it helps spark innovation – at both the institutional and policy levels – to create ways to deliver quality higher education with a lower price tag and reduce the inequities in higher education today."
Sara Weissman can be reached at sweissman@diverseeducation.com.
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Cap with it's original shield back is so amazing because I'm one of those who's looking forward to see him again with it and face Thanos. Can't wait to see Endgame!!!


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Straus was suggested by....me! I was reading Theodore Rex (the book about the President, not the sci fi movie with a talking dinosaur) and Straus was mentioned there.
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Per ESPN, The Hebrew Hammer has been absolved, his 50-day drug suspension cancelled, his name cleared. Sort of.
After all, Braun won his appeal on an apparent technicality (the tester brought Braun's sample home for the weekend rather than immediately drop it off for testing) rather than any true clearing of guilt.
Still, for those of you who were holding off on buying Braun jerseys till this was resolved, you may now unleash your credit cards for the new baseball season. Here's hoping Braun has learned from this close call before his legacy really, truly does become irrevocably tarnished.
If you type "Helen Mirren" into Google, your first suggestion is "Helen Mirren bikini". We'll let you follow that up on your own, readers.
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Suggestion from Eddie in DC.
"Seriously, who needs Frankenstein's Monster, when we already have The Golem?" We wrote that in September 2007. Better late than never?
This is American-born Evan Kaufmann, who recently played for Germany's national hockey team. The New York Times has an in-depth look.
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According to newly released documents, both the FBI and Britain's MI5 spent years trying to determine if the star of silent films was actually a Communist born in France under the name Israel Thornstein.
[MI5] said there was "no evidence that Chaplin's name is or ever has been Israel Thornstein," or that he had been born in France.
Those unfamiliar with the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, go here. You'll learn... something.
Yes, someone actually suggested the FSM. Ben from Israel. Honestly.
Our first and only Imperial Majesty is also credited with sparking the construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. He has a plaque there commemorating him and everything. Would there have been such a necessary construction without him?
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The popular website The AV Club mentions JONJ today in calling Zachary Levy "the gentile Larry David". If only, Zachary. If only.
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We discussed the EGOT before: The exclusive club of people who won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. As of that writing, six of the 12 were Jews (including Mel Brooks). Now, we have seven of 13, as producer Scott Rudin won a Grammy last night to add to his other tally.
I actually had this whole profile written in my head, saying how there were no Jews in the Brat Pack, and the best we could do is a borderline Packer in Mare Winningham... And then I remembered Judd Nelson. Duh.
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The Cherokee join the The Japanese and The Spanish as our third entire people to be profiled. Notice the trend that none of these are actually Jews. Coming soon: the Eskimos, the Australian Aborigines, the hundreds of other Native American tribes, and the lost peoples of Atlantis. Not coming soon: anything that resembles what actually happened to the lost tribes of Israel.
Of course, what separates the Cherokee from the rest of hoi polloi is that they're the ones claiming to be Jewish. The historical record, however, strongly disagrees.
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Decided to finally watch this after re-watching Woody's Melinda and Melinda... A truly underrated film of his. Everyone says that Match Point was Woody's turning point of the 2000s, but M&M was his first good film after the triple-drecker of The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Hollywood Ending, and Anything Else.
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We weren't planning a Super Bowl post this year, but when it came out that the Giants' Mark Herzlich has Jewish roots... it had to be done.
Religion and prayer have long propelled the Herzlich family. Mark's father Sandy, who was raised Jewish, related the family's flight from Vienna during the German invasion of Austria in World War II as a past example of pushing past persecution and pain. "My dad and grandparents figured it was a good time to get out of town," says Sandy, who converted to Protestantism when Mark was born.
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Murder in an Irish Village is as delectable as a slice of authentic Irish brown bread
Murder in an Irish Village by Carlene O'Connor Kensington Books Mystery & Thrillers Pub Date: February 23, 2016 Review Carlene O'Connor's charming new cozy Murder in an Irish Village is as delectable as a slice of the authentic Irish brown bread Siobhan is known for. From the authentic dialect to the lush description of village life, Carlene O'Connor brings the village of Kilbane to life. I was thrilled by the deft inclusion of appropriate Irish slang, and the glossary that accompanied the novel. Since the death of their parents, Siobhan O'Sullivan has been managing the family restaurant and her five siblings. Life isn't easy, but she's making a go of it. Things get a lot harder when Niall, the brother of the man responsible for their parents' death asks for 10,000 EU in exchange for proof that his brother wasn't responsible - especially when he shows up dead in their bistro a few days later. The local garda suspect Siobhan's older brother, James, and are looking no further, despite the fact that Niall argued frequently with many in the village. With her older brother and their livelihood at risk, Siobhan and her siblings start their own murder investigation. One of the things that makes this novel uniquely enjoyable is the interplay between the O'Sullivans. Although the siblings frequently disagree, they are a loving family who work well together. Their at times clumsy investigation turns up clues sometimes relevant, sometimes not. But the village on the whole is tolerant, even when Siobhan uncovers some embarrassing facts. The touch of romance between Siobhan and local garda Macdara is sweet. This colorful, richly detailed and lively cozy mystery is certain to please fans of the genre. I anxiously await the next book in Carlene O'Connor's series. 5/5 Murder in an Irish Village is available for preorder and will be released February 23, 2016. I received a copy of Murder in an Irish Village from the publisher and Netgalley.com in exchange for an honest review. --Crittermom Description A little slice of Heaven on the Emerald Isle… In the small village of Kilbane, County Cork, Ireland, Natalie's Bistro has always been a warm and welcoming spot to visit with neighbors, enjoy some brown bread and tea, and get the local gossip. Nowadays twenty-two-year-old Siobhán O'Sullivan runs the family bistro named for her mother, along with her five siblings, after the death of their parents in a car crash almost a year ago. It's been a rough year for the O'Sullivans, but it's about to get rougher. One morning, as they're opening the bistro, they discover a man seated at a table, dressed in a suit as if for his own funeral, a pair of hot pink barber scissors protruding from his chest. With the local garda suspecting the O'Sullivans, and their business in danger of being shunned--murder tends to spoil the appetite--it's up to feisty redheaded Siobhán to solve the crime and save her beloved brood.
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Norway has its share of UNESCO World Heritage sites: in Luster you can visit the only stave church on the list, the Urnes Stave Church dates back to the 12th century. Another essential attraction is The Geirangerfjord, one of Norway's most visited fjords where you can take part in fishing, canooing and take one of the many fjord cruises on offer across Norway.