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PETITION: PLEASE BAN THE GRAND NATIONAL
preciousjules1985	Action Alert, Animal Aid, Animal Anatomy, Animal Cruelty, Animal Emotions Behaviour & Instincts, Animal Health & Welfare, Animals in entertainment, Animals Thrown Out Like Trash, Horse Abuse, Horse Breeders, Horse Competitions, Horse Meat, Horse Racing, Horse Shot, Horse Slaughter, Human Greed = Animal Cruelty, Petitions to sign please	Aintree, Aintree Racecourse, Britain, Cruelty to animals, Grand National, Horse, Horse racing, Races, sport, Thoroughbred, Tidal Bay	Comments Off on PETITION: PLEASE BAN THE GRAND NATIONAL
"I'm sat here thinking of all the horses that will run today! Please pray with me that they all finish safely & return to their homes. Some horses can finish the race but die later that day or the next due to internal injuries sustained whilst racing!"
Please sign the Petition:–http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/f/ACTIVE/petition/?id=10&campaign=horse
If your unsure about the Race Horse Industry, or don't believe it should be banned, please, download Animal Aids fact files on Race horses below, hopefully it will change your mind:-
Read our leaflet about the Grand National
Read our Sanctuary Not Cruelty leaflet and report
Read our Grand National fact sheet
Read our background summary of the cruelty of horse racing
Read The Trouble with Horse Racing
The following initiatives would have an important impact on the welfare of Thoroughbred horses. We need your assistance to ensure they are implemented.
The publication of comprehensive data on equine mortality, sickness and injury.
A ban on the whip. It is not merely cruel, but our research shows that it is counterproductive from the point of view of the rider. Please visit our website for more details.
A proper fund for retired thoroughbreds.
A ban on the Grand National – a deliberately punishing and hazardous race.
BAN THE GRAND NATIONAL PETITION
Every year more than 400 horses are raced to death in Britain. The racing industry also slaughters thousands of 'unprofitable' animals who fail to make the grade. The Grand National at Aintree is particularly cruel and is designed to push horses to their limit and beyond. The majority of horses fail to finish the race, with equine death and injury being a routine feature.
We the undersigned: Believe that, however much welfare standards improve, the Grand National is morally unacceptable. We therefore call for a ban on this race.
SIGN PETITION HERE:-http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/f/ACTIVE/petition/?id=10&campaign=horse
News Link:-http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/CAMPAIGNS/horse/ALL/592//
Horse Race Cruelty! Animal Planet "Jockeys"
ANIMAL PLANET: JOCKEYS WIN OR DIE TRYING IS A CRUEL SHOW BASED ON A CRUEL INDUSTRY!
For more information on horse racing cruelty, visit http://www.chai-online.org, http://www.hsus.org, or http://www.idausa.org/facts/racing.htm.
!!!! Ban the Cruel Horse Drawn Carriage Industry in Chicago:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Ban-…
*Photos used thanks to http://www.peta.org, At Our Hands, Animal Exploitation Gallery, http://www.chai-online.org and http://www.fund4horses.org*
Race Horse Death Watch – Background
Animal Aid's Race Horse Death Watch was launched during the 2007 Festival.
Its purpose is to expose and record every on-course thoroughbred fatality in Britain.
The horse racing authorities have failed to put clear, unambiguous horse death information into the public domain, preferring to offer complex statistical data rather than specifying, as Death Watch does, the names of killed horses, where the fatality occurred, who was riding the horse and the nature of the injury.
We have good reason to believe that the equine fatalities we are able to list on Death Watch, and which we have verified, fall some 30% short of the true total. Disgruntled industry insiders have, in the past, supplied us with documents to support that view. Since Death Watch was launched, we have periodically produced special reports detailing the scale of on-course deaths, the most lethal race courses, the nature of injuries suffered, and the relative dangers posed by National Hunt, Flat and All Weather racing.
You can read those on the Death Watch Reports page.
Deaths on racecourses are just one part of the sorry story to be told about commercial racing. Animal Aid's extensive research over many years demonstrates that the industry treats thoroughbreds as mere reproducible commodities. It kills or dumps thousands every year when they fail to make the grade or when their racing days are over.
You can read our reports exposing the welfare problems associated with thoroughbred breeding, racing, and training, and the disposal of commercially unproductive stock on our main website:http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/CAMPAIGNS/horse/ALL/.
A Total of 40 horses have died in 2014 alone on UK & Ireland Race Tracks
Link:–http://horsedeathwatch.com/background.php
VIDEO: Horses And Live Export from the UK
preciousjules1985	Action Alert, Animal Abuse, Animal Advocates, Animal Auctions, Animal Cruelty, Animal Equality, Animal Health & Welfare, animals	Africa, Animal welfare, BBC, Britain, David Whiteley, Equestrian, Export, Horse, Livestock, Lord De Mauley, Member of Parliament, Pony, Sports, World Horse Welfare	Comments Off on VIDEO: Horses And Live Export from the UK
"Firstly I must apologise for the lack of posts… I've been in a lot of pain….but hope to get posting more news stories again soon; so please bear with me!" (MY sincere apologies if some post are a bit disjointed…drugs play havoc with my brain!!) so I hope all myposts will make sense…if the don't…you know why!!"
"Please email DEFRA now, and tell Lord De Mauley that laws which are not enforced are not worth the paper on which they're printed (Email already written) just fill in your details to send:-http://www.worldhorsewelfare.org/Live-Export-from-the-UK Please also contact your MP (Letter already done) which will pop up after your email to Defra!
On 10th February the BBC's Inside Out programme revealed the shocking results of World Horse Welfare's largest ongoing investigation, uncovering evidence that horses and ponies are being exported through Britain's ports to uncertain fates on the Continent.
Keeping tabs on Live Export of Horses
It will show that an unknown number of horses and ponies are leaving Britain's shores under the pretence that they are for leisure or sport – but may in fact be sold for slaughter.
We have been investigating the movement of horses into and out of the UK, including reports of possible export for slaughter, for several years and have always passed any information that we have onto the proper authorities at the earliest opportunity.
Unfortunately it has become clear that in many cases, proper preventative action from the authorities and enforcement of the law was simply not taking place despite the information that we were providing, and that horses and ponies were being left very vulnerable to abuse as a result.
Our investigations have found that horses and ponies are leaving our ports without any checks on their welfare or their paperwork. It is impossible to know whether the laws protecting them are being complied with.
Horses waiting for death!
These movements are not small or insignificant: over just one weekend of monitoring we saw more than 90 horse boxes – a number of which could carry more than 20 equines – leaving and entering the port of Dover.
World Horse Welfare is calling for the legislation meant to protect our most vulnerable horses and ponies from indiscriminate export to be properly enforced as a matter of urgency. We want to help the enforcement agencies to protect horses and ponies, by continuing to provide intelligence and expertise as we have done in the past.
PLEASE WATCH THE FOLLOWING VIDEO TO UNDERSTAND HOW HORSES ARE BEING TRANSPORTED.!!
P&O Ferries actually stopped a vehicle carrying horse; after checking the vehicle P&O said the horses were not fit to travel….KUDOS to P&O…without whom the horses could have shipped to slaughter!!
Post from P&O Ferries:Service with a conscience
Can we ship livestock on your vessels?
Yes, we can ship livestock on our Dover-Calais and Irish Sea routes, however animal welfare is an issue that concerns us. Hence on our Dover-Calais route we are only prepared to ship breeding livestock and only if booked via the relevant national associations. These livestock must be transported according to DEFRA requirements and accompanied by the correct DEFRA documentation, clearly showing the animals are being shipped for breeding purposes. A surcharge is applied to livestock movements and they will only be shipped on the European Seaway. Please contact the relevant national association for pricing details.
Can we ship horses on your vessels?
Yes, we can ship horses on all our routes (except Dublin – Liverpool, shipments from Tilbury and freight only shipments from Zeebrugge) under the following conditions.
Horses travelling to France MUST be accompanied by either an Export Licence or an AHA certificate AND an equine passport. Ponies must also be accompanied by a fitness to travel certificate or Health Certificate. Horses and ponies travelling with a final destination to countries other than France MUST in addition be accompanied by a Health Certificate.
Horses or ponies travelling from France to the UK may travel on their equine passports only. Horses or ponies starting their journey in any country other than France MUST be accompanied in addition by a Health Certificate.
Health Certificates are ONLY valid for 10 days from the date of vets signature (and can only be signed within 48 hrs of departure). Horses and ponies may return to the originating country on the same health certificate providing it is within 10 days of the vets signature. (day 1 being the day it was signed)
The information detailed above is for guidance only – The responsibility lies with the owner or agent to comply with British and European statutory regulations.
Further information can be obtained by contacting DEFRA.
Find out more by reading our FAQs (Some of which are below), or take action to help these horses today. Or you can make a donation to help keep our teams on the road.
Please email DEFRA now, and tell Lord De Mauley that laws which are not enforced are not worth the paper on which they're printed….email link here:-http://www.worldhorsewelfare.org/Live-Export-from-the-UK
Email & News Link:–http://www.worldhorsewelfare.org/Live-Export-from-the-UK
PLEASE WATCH THE FOLLOWING VIDEO – It Is not graphic!!
Clamping down on UK's illegal horse traders
A year after the horsemeat scandal, Inside Out's David Whiteley investigates the illegal export of live horses from the UK.
The World Horse Welfare charity told Inside Out that it suspects that horses and ponies are being transported freely across Europe as unscrupulous dealers exploit a legal loophole in equine transit.
Under an agreement between France, Ireland and the UK, sports horses can be moved freely but low-value ponies are not covered by the agreement.
David Whiteley joins the World Horse Welfare's field team as they watch for horse dealers who they suspect are breaking the law. As well as concerns over equine welfare, there are fears the horses could be destined for slaughterhouses in Europe, raising fears about food safety and human health. But P&O Ferries refused some lorries due to unevaluated passports…i.e fakes passports! P&O also refused some lorries because some of the horses were not fit to travel! BUT IT SHOULDN'T BE UP TO PORTS TO REFUSE UNFIT HORSES….it's obvious those trying to take the lorries abroad care nothing about the welfare of its cargo!!! Kudos to P& O Ferries!!
The government says it has agreed to tighten the rules on horse exports from May.
"I won't believe anything until I see or read new legislation! The Government wonders why horse meat is getting into human food, it's because the passports are not checked or are faked, horses are being stolen from fields during the night! Read some of the snippets below from News posts, it just doesn't add up to me!" especially the parts where they say ' One of 5 horse slaughter plants', which includes one 'Ashgrove Meats in Newcastle West' that was responsible for contaminated horse meat! Then in another post it says ' THE only approved horse-slaughtering house in Northern Ireland has stopped killing horses, the Agriculture Minister Michelle O'Neill has revealed.?????"
Preview of FAQ
Q. What can I do about this?
Please join our calls for proper enforcement! You can email your MPs and Defra Ministers quickly and easily here.
You can also help these horses by sharing any information that you have, anonymously and in complete confidence, via the 'Tell Us' pages of our website.
If you would like to make a donation to help keep our teams on the road, you can do so here.
Q. Is live export of horses legal? What are the laws?
A. In some circumstances it can be legal to export horses (for example for breeding or competition). However there is a package of protective legislation in place which should prevent the indiscriminate export of equines for slaughter. Unfortunately it seems that this legislation is not being properly enforced.
The legislation in question includes:
The Welfare of Animals in Transport Order: Sets out the conditions for transporting animals, including rest periods, fitness for transport, vehicle standards and documentary requirements.
The Animal Welfare Act 2006: (in Scotland, the Animal Health and Welfare (Scotland) Act 2006) Sets out the basic principle that animals should not be allowed to suffer unnecessarily, either through human action or inaction.
The Equine Identification Regulations: Set out the rules for horse passports.
The Tripartite Agreement: Allows the free movement of some horses between France, the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Recently changed – see below.
The Animal Health Act 1981 (Minimum Values) Sets out the minimum value that certain types of equine should have if they are to be exported (see below).
Q. I thought exporting horses for slaughter had been banned years ago?
A. There is a package of legislation in place, including an Act which should have limited the export of equines to protect working horses, ponies, mules and donkeys from export for slaughter. This was brought in as a result of the work of our founder, Ada Cole, and has been improved over the years as a result of our subsequent work as a charity. However, it seems likely that a lack of effective enforcement has led to exports for slaughter taking place under the radar of enforcement agencies. We have gathered evidence and passed this on to the relevant authorities.
Q. What happens to the horses while they are being transported and after they leave the UK?
A. We can't be sure of what will happen to these horses, but we strongly suspect that some of them will be slaughtered. Some of them are taken to markets where they will be sold for various purposes, including slaughter. We also strongly believe that they will not be transported in good conditions, either when they leave the UK or on subsequent journeys after they arrive in Europe, and that their welfare will not be respected. The animals in question have a low financial value, making it uneconomic to export them unless corners are cut – which will compromise their welfare.
Q. What is the Tripartite Agreement (TPA) and does this affect these horses?
A. The Tripartite Agreement is a long-standing agreement between France, the UK and the Republic of Ireland to allow horses to move freely between these three countries without the need for animal health certification. This meant that horses could move over these borders without health checks, and without any traceability which posed significant welfare and disease risks. Originally applied only to Registered horses (such as a racehorses), it was extended in 2005 to apply to all horses, other than those moving directly to slaughter. We have been calling for it to be changed ever since, to prevent unscrupulous individuals from falsely declaring that they are moving horses for legitimate reasons then transporting the animals to slaughter abroad.
Happily our calls have recently been successful, and the Chief Veterinary Officers of France, Ireland and the UK have signed a new agreement which means that horses moving between France and the UK, and France and Ireland, will no longer be able to move freely unless they are 'high-health horses' – meaning registered FEI or race horses. Moreover these movements will be required to be logged, providing much-needed traceability. Movement of horses between the UK and Ireland will be unaffected, as Ireland and the UK share the same official health status (determining which diseases are present and absent from a country), making a change impractical.
The details are yet to be decided, but we are very pleased that such a positive step has been taken to protect horses. The crucial thing now is that the details must be decided upon and these changes must be enforced when the revised agreement comes into force in May 2014. We will be working alongside Defra and the rest of the equine industry to finalize the details and to communicate the changes to horse owners.
Q. What does 'Minimum Values' mean and what does it mean for the export of horses and ponies?
A. By law horses and ponies must have a financial value above a certain amount in order for them to be exported overseas. This helps protect equines of a lower market value from being exported for slaughter, as the price for their meat should be less than the price of the horse or pony. However, with the lack of basic checks of welfare and documentation at ports, there is no way to know whether this law is actually being complied with.
Q. What about horses being imported into the UK?A. There are certainly equal, if not even greater reasons to be concerned about horses being imported into the UK. These horses may well have come from environments where serious diseases are present that we do not currently have in the UK. A lack of enforcement can make it difficult to trace where the horses came from, or where they went, if disease breaks out. In 2010, Britain had its first ever cases of equine infectious anaemia since 1976 when the disease was found in two horses that had been imported from mainland Europe. More cases were reported later the same year and in 2012, all in imported horses. Tracing the other horses that had travelled with the affected animals was a long and complex process.
Equally importantly, the welfare of imported horses may not be respected, with unfit horses being transported over long distances, and little or no enforcement to protect them. Any low-value animal may be vulnerable to this sort of abuse, whether it is entering the UK or leaving it.
The changes to the Tripartite Agreement should help with this issue to some extent, but only so long as they are enforced properly.Take action to help these horses today!
Link for FAQ;-http://www.worldhorsewelfare.org/live-export-FAQs
Related Snippets Of Interest:-27/01/2013 Limerick Plant One OF Only 5 Licensed to Slaughter Horses For Meat
A NEWCASTLE West livestock factory is one of only five facilities in Ireland licensed to slaughter horses for meat, it has been confirmed.
The Ashgrove Meats facility in Churchtown has been slaughtering horses and exporting their meat for consumption in mainland Europe for the past three years. It is the only facility licensed to do so in Munster.
Ashgrove Meats is the only plant in Munster which slaughters horses for meat
Link:-http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/local-news/meat-from-horses-with-forged-passports-recalled-by-limerick-abattoir-1-4748132
Related Snippets Of Interest:-2/02/2013 Meat From Horses With Forged Passports Recalled By Limerick Abattoir
THE FOOD Safety Authority (FSA) has concluded an investigation after horses with forged passports were slaughtered for meat at a county Limerick abattoir.
It has been confirmed that meat from two Irish horses which had been exported to Italy had to be recalled after officials discovered that the animals had forged documentation.
The horses had been slaughtered at Ashgrove Meats in Newcastle West, one of only five facilities in Ireland licensed to kill horses for meat.
Under regulations, all horses slaughtered for meat in Ireland have to have a verifiable passport to ensure that they have not been in contact with substances which may be harmful to humans.
Related Snippets Of Interest:- 14/04/2013 NI's Only Horse Slaughtering House Stops
THE only approved horse-slaughtering house in Northern Ireland has stopped killing horses, the Agriculture Minister Michelle O'Neill has revealed.
She explained that the Armagh plant asked the Food Standards Agency (FSA) to remove its authorisation and stopped killing horses at the end of January.
"There was one slaughter plant in County Armagh approved by the FSA for equine slaughter," she explained.
"This establishment is also approved for the slaughter of cattle and sheep. It ceased slaughtering horses completely on 25th January 2013 and has asked the FSA to completely remove their authorisation to slaughter equines."
She said this was the only establishment approved by the FSA to slaughter horses in Northern Ireland in recent times.
Link:-http://www.londonderrysentinel.co.uk/news/business/business-news/ni-s-only-horse-slaughtering-house-stops-1-4974741
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Part 1 of 2:Danger Drug In UK Horsemeat: Tests Reveal Health Hazard AFTER Meat Was Exported To Europe
preciousjules1985	Action Alert, Animal Control, Animal Equality, Animal Health & Welfare, Animal Investigator, Animal Services, Animal slaughter, Animal Trade, Animal Welfare, animals, British Food, Compensation, Contaminated, Defra, Department of Agriculture, Donkeys, Environmental Health, European, Export Illegal Items, Food Chain/Products, Food Safety Laws, Food Standards Agency, Gross Neglect, Health and wellness, Horse Meat, Horse Passports, Horse Slaughter, Horses, Human Health Scare, Illegal Substances, Illegal Trade, Ireland, Livestock killed, Research, Sentient beings, Warning To Public	Britain, Bute, Daily Mail, DailyMail, DNA profiling, Food Standards Agency, FSA, Horse meat, Mary Creagh, Owen Paterson, Paterson, Phenylbutazone	Comments Off on Part 1 of 2:Danger Drug In UK Horsemeat: Tests Reveal Health Hazard AFTER Meat Was Exported To Europe
"Why in Gods name are we eating horses anyway? We raise more than enough animals that can suffer heinous living conditions, & an even worse death, not to mention the abuse many share…just to satisfy the human demand for meat…burgers, sausages etc. Why would anyone want to eat a horse or baby cows & lambs…it's sickening!! If I wasn't already vegetarian, almost vegan…the thought of eating something that could contain any amount of horse; would be enough to turn my stomach & make me vegetarian. There is no way my horses will ever go to slaughter as I ticked the "Not fit for human consumption" box on their passports.
The horses were slaughtered in UK and tested for phenylbutazone, or bute
It is an anti-inflammatory drug that can affect human health
The meat has already hit Europe and has been eaten or processed
British horse meat contaminated with the danger drug bute has been exported to Europe and has already been eaten or added to processed food, the Daily Mail can reveal.
Details are due to be announced by ministers and the Food Standards Agency today.
The horses were slaughtered at an unnamed British abattoir in the last few weeks and the resulting meat was tested for the presence of the anti-inflammatory drug bute.
But the results of the tests only came back after the meat had been shipped to the Continent and eaten or added to processed food.
Tests have shown the drug bute is contained in horsemeat butchered in the UK and sent to be eaten and processed into food in Europe "What a disgusting filthy yard, the hay looks mouldy…those poor ponies!"
It is not known whether any resulting processed food came back to the UK in ready meals such as lasagne or spaghetti bolognese.
The revelation came as Environment Secretary Owen Paterson signalled more raids could be carried out on British firms suspected of selling contaminated meat in the coming days.
On Tuesday Food Standards Agency officials raided a Yorkshire slaughterhouse and a Welsh factory which it claimed was passing off horse meat as beef.
But the bute scare points to a serious loophole in the food protection regime for consumers, which has been highlighted by Labour's environment spokesman Mary Creagh.
The FSA announced last week that it would be moving to close this loophole with a new regime for horse meat.
This new system, which only came into effect days ago, is meant to ensure that no carcass is allowed to be sold for food until the bute test results have come back as negative.
The Peter Boddy slaughterhouse in Todmorden, Yorkshire, which was raided yesterday as part of the police inquiry into the sale of horsemeat being sold as beef
While the presence of bute – phenylbutazone – is a concern, the amounts that appear in horse meat would be extremely small and unlikely to cause any ill effects. "If unchipped horses passports are being swapped around, (as they were with the previous post of the cob swapped, for another horse much bigger to go to slaughter)… nobody can tell how much bute was given to that horse; apart from the owner! I have given my horses bute & not just on a vets prescription. I think most horse owners who know what they are doing, have some bute around, just in case a horse bruises a sole, or has arthritis & seems a bit stiff.
It is known to be able to induce blood disorders, including aplastic anaemia, in which the bone marrow stops making enough red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets. "Above they say it isn't a big concern, but if a horses passport has been switched & the passport given to another horse, your not going to know how much bute was in that horse before it was slaughtered; bute is not a drug required to be registered on a horses passport!
Those with severe or very severe aplastic anaemia are at risk of life-threatening infections or bleeding. Bute is also known to cause cancer in rats, but there is no conclusive evidence for it to have the same effect in humans.
Miss Creagh said: 'With every passing day this scandal seems to get wider.
'I raised the problem of bute contaminated horse meat being released into the food chain with Defra [farming] ministers last month yet up until two days ago horses were still not being tested for bute and were being released for human consumption.
'Parliamentary answers released this week show 9,405 horses were slaughtered in the UK for human consumption abroad last year. We must make sure horse meat is not contaminated with bute.' "You must make sure that the horse has the correct passport too!
Markings on face to be recorded in passport by vet
"Without all horses having to have microchips, I don't know how they are going to tell without testing a sample from each horse that is slaughtered…imagine how much that is going to cost!"
"Micro-chipping has been compulsory for foals in the Thoroughbred breeding industry since 1999. Then any equine foal born after 1 July 2009 had to be micro chipped under European-wide regulations."
"The regulations apply to foals of all equines —horses, ponies, donkeys, mules and so on."
"For older horses, it wasn't mandatory for them to be micro-chipped.
("See pictures attached as to how the vet would shade in areas on the passport, of the horses colours & markings, this would be in the passport for an older horse & one not mandatory to be microchipped ")
"The old style passport had an area at the back of the passport where there was an outlined picture of a horse showing the front, right & left side, back, legs, & face of a horse which had to be shaded by a vet to match the exact markings, colouring, even whorls (spiral patches of hair on a horse) & a detailed description given of that particular horse then signed by a vet as proof of identification. Unless your horse was valuable, people didn't use to microchip until it came into force."
A vet had to shade in all areas of horse markings & colours
Mr Paterson entered talks with EU ministers in Brussels to try to secure mandatory labelling of the 'Country of Origin' on all processed meat products, intelligence sharing between regulators, and spot checks on processors and retailers. "Sounds good, but how is that going help if they have a passport for the horse
Workers handle meat at the Doly-Com abattoir, one of the two units implicated in the horse meat scandal. Romanian officials say the meat was properly declared and any fraud was committed elsewhere
After the meeting it was announced all member states should carry out 2,500 horse DNA tests on processed beef products and 4,000 bute tests on horse meat during March, and publish the results in mid-April.
Mr Paterson has put the blame for the food fraud scandal on retailers, saying: 'People have got to trust what they buy and the ultimate link between the quality of the products and what is marked on the label has got to be the business selling the product.
'If people are being sold a product that says processed beef and get a product that contains a significant amount of horse meat, that is a fraud.'
FSA officials said they were looking at trails – where the meat went – from five slaughterhouses in the UK that regularly process horses.
Mr Paterson said Tuesday's raids were the result of information passed to the Food Standards Agency after contamination was first detected in Ireland three weeks ago, and said the agency was doing 'methodical, painstaking work … sifting through data'.
Tesco withdrew its everyday value spaghetti bolognese when it emerged that it contained horsemeat. The product was prepared in Europe
'We saw vigorous action yesterday, and we may well see some more action over the course of the coming few days', he said. 'But it's not very clever to give advance notice of what we are going to do in carrying out investigations that may lead to criminal prosecutions.'
However, he insisted processed meat on British supermarket shelves was safe to eat, and even said he would eat anything, including horse. 'I'm relaxed about it', he said. ' I'm omnivorous, I'll eat anything.'
Mr Paterson said it was 'too early to tell' how many people may have eaten burgers and kebabs from the firms raided yesterday, or what chemicals could be in them.
Last week Mr Paterson described the scandal, then only linked to horse meat sent from Poland to Ireland, and from Romanian slaughterhouses to the French food company Comigel, as an 'international criminal conspiracy'.
Yesterday he said the premises raided in Britain were a separate issue.
A police community support officer stands guard at the gate of the Peter Boddy slaughterhouse
The FSA were 'working through all those involved in the slaughter of horses … and that work is carrying on, they are looking through invoices and customers lists', he said.
'There will be further action, depending on their investigation,' he said.
He added that when the investigation was over there were likely to be 'lessons to be learned', for the agency.
At Prime Minister's question time, David Cameron said it was 'appalling' and 'completely unacceptable' that consumers were buying beef products that turned out to contain horse. 'I do think that this is a serious issue.
People are genuinely worried about what they are buying at the supermarket and I really think we have got to get a grip,' he said.
'Retailers I think do bear a real responsibility here.
'At the end of the day, it is they who are putting products on their shelves and have got to say that they are really clear about where that meat came from, what it was, who it was supplied by. It is up to them to check that and I think that is vitally important.'
Yesterday a Dutch meat broker, Draap Trading Ltd, was named as a middleman in the horse meat scandal. The company bought some £45,000 of horse meat from a Romanian abattoir, some of which eventually ended up in Britain
News Link:- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2278342/Danger-drug-UK-horsemeat-Tests-reveal-health-hazard-AFTER-meat-exported-Europe.html#ixzz2Ku0BJdpW
Male dairy calves are killed, but why the surprise? People have no right to complain if they don't inform themselves about food
preciousjules1985	Animal slaughter, animals, Farmed Animal Abuse, Killed, Wild Animals	Britain, Calf, Clive Aslet, Dairy, Dairy farming, Kent, Livestock, Milk, Veal	Comments Off on Male dairy calves are killed, but why the surprise? People have no right to complain if they don't inform themselves about food
By CLIVE ASLET
I am baffled by the response to the Channel 4 documentary showing the fate of male dairy calves. Why the shock?
What did people think did happen to them? Most of the audience will drink milk. How did they think it was produced?
I agree with one thing: it's a terrible shame that this massacre of the innocents should take place. In a thrifty society, it wouldn't.
If you farm animals to eat, you owe it to them – and to your conscience – not to waste the meat they furnish. In my view that includes throwing away food from the fridge which has been allowed to pass its sell-by date: if you buy meat, the least you an do is to make sure you consume it.
We should also make better use of male calves. As I write this, on a train to Kent, I am sipping a cappuccino.
At the outlet in the railway station, I watched the barista carry half a dozen huge plastic containers of milk to the fridge. Milk has become an industrial product.
It bears little relationship to the creamy liquid that froths out of the cow. It's sold in petrol station and other places that have no obvious connection with food. It's ubiquitous.
Produce: A female farmer milks a cow. Unfortunately there's no market for their bobby calves
The retail system has driven down the price to a level where thousands of dairy farmers have had to pack up over recent years. The family farm, as it exists in many people's imagination, is now a thing of the past.
Put all these factors together, and it's hardly surprising that harsh economics and ruthless efficiency have risen above sentiment.
I didn't see the documentary in question but I bet the farmers on it cared deeply about the welfare of their herds. In a sense, that's the surprise.
Farmers, despite all the financial pressures that they're now under, still want to do their best for their animals. They're as sorry as anyone that there's no market for their bobby calves.
In part, this was destroyed by the animal rights brigade. Traditionally, Britain's male calves were exported to the Continent. Some years ago, campaigners blockaded the ports and put a stop to it.
I wasn't wholly sorry that they should have done so. The calves often had to travel long distances in dreadful conditions, and were then bred for veal. In order that a wiener schnitzel or Blanquette de veau is the correct order of whiteness, the veal calves are kept in darkness, and fed on milk.
As a consequence, white veal is one of the few things I won't eat. Where the campaigners were wrong was in failing to establish an alternative destination for the British calves.
Without one, a bolt from a humane killer was the only alternative. Some retailers attempted to establish a taste for pink veal in Britain – veal from young animals which have been allowed to see the outdoors – but it didn't really take off.
We live in a largely urban society, and unfortunately most town dwellers are too lazy to find out about animals, even when they say they care about them.
Life for many dairy farmers has been made all but impossible by the badger explosion.
We all want to have badgers in the countryside, but when was the last time you saw a hedgehog dead by the side of the road? Squashed hedgehogs were something of a sick joke in the 1970s.
Now, I'm told, hedgehogs are eaten by badgers, along with the eggs of skylarks and other ground nesting birds.
Urbanites hardly think about the consequences of badger preservation on other forms of wildlife, much less the impact on dairy farms. In fact, many of us close our eyes to farming practices altogether.
If consumers choose to exist in a state of wilful ignorance about the production of what they eat, they really don't have the right to complain at what goes on, when they suddenly find out.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2152608/Baby-calves-shot-C4-documentary-People-right-complain-dont-inform-food.html#ixzz1wRylYCEI
Circus master Cottle backs ban on wild animals after 50 years – UK – News – Evening Standard
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Veteran circus impresario Gerry Cottle, a former leading advocate of wild animal acts in the Big Top, is backing the Government's new ban on the practice.
The showman spent 50 years fighting attempts by councils and campaigners to stop his elephants, lions, monkeys and, in one famous case, a duck from performing. But he has "reluctantly decided to move on", conceding today: "The animal issue has given circuses a bad name."
Mr Cottle, 66, will have no animal acts in his new touring circus, following the Government's pledge at the start of this month to outlaw them "at the earliest opportunity". Draft regulations are due before Parliament in the summer, with a new licensing regime in the meantime to improve conditions for performing animals.
"Sad as it is for me to say, I now support the ban," said Mr Cottle, who ran away from home at 15 and set up his first circus featuring two elderly ponies he bought for £60.
"Times have changed and this issue has to be decided one way or the other. I believe a ban will, in the end, improve the image of circuses in Britain."
Famous fights: Gerry Cottle has challenged campaigners over animal acts for 50 years
His passion for amazing animal acts has triggered famous battles. In the Eighties, Brent council objected to his use of a turkey called Lucky at his annual festive Wembley Circus. In 1993, Haringey council tried to ban the use of a duck called Quackers in a clown act.
"We checked and found Haringey had many Chinese restaurants where you could eat duck," said Mr Cottle. "It prompted the headline, 'You can eat a duck in Haringey, but you can't watch it perform'."
His new £500,000 all-human show starts its UK tour in Southend next month. "We may have gone from a country where a circus wasn't a circus without at least one elephant to a place where you can't even have a performing duck, but I have reluctantly decided to move on," he said.
The show features 50 acts in 100 minutes for a flat rate of £10, and Mr Cottle calls it the "easyJet of circuses". He added: "Instead of animals I have a brilliant blindfold trapeze act, a boneless boy who fits into a bottle, six Big Top beauties, a tumbling troupe, a Wheel of Death and lots more."
via Circus master Cottle backs ban on wild animals after 50 years – UK – News – Evening Standard.
Ricky Gervais Thrilled With Elephant Ban
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Ricky Gervais is celebrating a victory after a ban on using wild animals in circuses was passed in Britain.
Wewon… Congrats Twonks (fans). A victory for compassion
The comedian and longtime animal rights activist has been outspoken in pressuring government officials into outlawing tigers, lions, elephants and other exotic creatures from the big top.
On Thursday (01Mar12), the Department for the Environment confirmed plans to implement the crackdown within two years.
Gervais took to his Twitter.com page to share his delight, writing, "We won… Congrats Twonks (fans). A victory for compassion".
Sir Paul McCartney also threw his support behind the legislation, while American stars including Pink, Demi Moore and Olivia Munn have helped spearhead a campaign to eliminate elephants from U.S. circuses.
via Ricky Gervais Thrilled With Elephant Ban.


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Check Point Unveils Next Generation Internet Security Management Infrastructure
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–March 12, 2001–
Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ: CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced a Next Generation Management Infrastructure that meets the next generation requirements of Internet security. Built upon the company's Secure Virtual Network (SVN) architecture, Check Point Next Generation delivers a revolutionary management infrastructure for unparalleled efficiency, scalability and integration.
The new security management includes:
— SecureUpdate
— Security Policy Audit Trails and Enhanced Centralized Logging System
— High Availability for Security Management
"With the onset of more sophisticated network attacks and the explosive growth in the number of security enforcement points, efficient management and network scalability are critical with Internet security," said Todd Miller, analyst, for the Yankee Group's Security Solutions & Services planning service. "Check Point Software is defining the next generation security needs which include simple, scalable, secure and dependable VPNs with comprehensive management capabilities."
Introducing Check Point SecureUpdate
As part of this Next Generation Management Infrastructure, Check Point's new SecureUpdate extends Check Point's current ability to provide centralized policy management across enterprise-wide deployments. SecureUpdate can deliver automated software and license updates to hundreds of distributed security gateways from a single management console. SecureUpdate ensures security deployments are always up-to-date by enforcing the most current security software. This powerful capability also provides greater control and efficiency while dramatically decreasing maintenance costs of managing global security installations.
— Security Policy Audit Trails: New audit trail capability enables administrators to track changes made to network security policies per user and date/time stamps.
— Enhanced Centralized Logging System: Enhanced logging functionality expands Check Point's already comprehensive logging system by collecting and aggregating log files from Check Point and third-party security applications to give network administrators complete information.
— High Availability for Security Management: Both Check Point VPN-1/FireWall-1 Management Servers and VPN-1 SecureClient Policy Servers can now be configured to enable the use of a secondary server if the primary becomes unreachable. This functionality ensures continuous availability for management operations, such as policy changes and software upgrades, and for remote access VPN clients establishing connections.
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The Check Point Next Generation Management Infrastructure is part of the next major product family release of Check Point's integrated VPN-1/FireWall-1, and is scheduled to be available in the second quarter 2001.
Check Point's recently announced Next Generation User Interface (February 28, 2001) coupled with the Next Generation Management Infrastructure, deliver unparalleled ease of use, improved security management and scalability for next generation VPN and enterprise security needs. For more information on the Next Generation User Interface please see http://www.checkpoint.com/press/2001/nguserinterface022801.html.
About Check Point Software Technologies
Check Point Software Technologies is the worldwide leader in securing the Internet. The company's Secure Virtual Network (SVN) architecture provides the infrastructure that enables secure and reliable Internet communications. SVN secures business-to-business (B2B) communications between networks, systems, applications and users across the Internet, Intranets and extranets. Check Point's Open Platform for Security (OPSEC) provides the framework for integration and interoperability with "best-of-breed" solutions from over 270 leading industry partners. Check Point solutions are sold, integrated and serviced by a network of over 1,500 certified partners. For more information, please call us at 800/429-4391 or 650/628-2000 or visit us on the Web at http://www.checkpoint.com or at http://www.opsec.com.

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Get your creative juices flowing with these 3 writers' unique routines
By Gari Custodio
Gari Custodio
Writers have the power to create worlds, make you fall in love with fictional characters, and make you laugh and cry only using a very particular combination of the same 26 letters available to all of us.
Another power that writers have is the general control they retain over their (more or less) flexible work schedules. Despite having the occasional deadline, it is up to the writers how they will spend their time before this. A morning routine can be very telling of a person's character—if they are even able to get up in the morning at all.
So how do they get work done? Which routines are the most conducive to writing? It seems like there just isn't one template answer. Each person has to find what works the best for them, and sometimes what can work may seem a bit extreme from the outside looking in.
Let's start strong with one of the writers most notorious for his intense routine.
Author of best sellers like Kafka on the Shore and Norwegian Wood, Japanese writer Haruki Murakami believes that "writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity." He's described his routine as a way to "mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind," through its repetition.
So, what is this mesmerizing routine? Well, it starts with waking up at 4 AM, yes that's right, 4 in the morning. Upon waking up, Murakami then proceeds to write for 5-6 hours. And what does he do after this? Goes for a 10k run, naturally! Because who wouldn't think of going for a 10k run after waking up at 4AM and working for 5-6 hours?
On some days, he might sub out his run for a 1500m swim. For days when he's feeling extra spicy, he may opt to do a killer combo of his 10k run and 1500m swim.
The rest of Murakami's day involves a laid-back session of reading and listening to music, making sure to be in bed by 9PM. Follow this routine, if you dare (and let us know what happens if you stay up even just the tiniest bit past 9PM for one night).
Ernest Hemmingway
Author of seminal works like The Old Man and The Sea, The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms and many more novels and short stories, Ernest Hemmingway is another early bird as well.
Hemmingway rose as soon as the sun did, "I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and its cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write."
Not only did Hemmingway get up right after the sun rose, but he worked while standing up as well. Despite having a workspace and desk all setup, Hemmingway preferred working on his DIY standing desk on top of his bookshelf. Hemmingway preferred writing on paper before typing out his pages. He also counted how many words he wrote in a day "so as not to kid myself". He would usually finish working by 12 in the afternoon.
Hemmingway believed that one does not only need discipline to write, but it also takes discipline to step away from your work at the end of the day. He believed that you are empty when you finish, but you are always in the process of being refilled. "Nothing can hurt you, nothing can happen, nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is the wait until the next day that is hard to get through."
After doing his writing for the day, Hemmingway takes a step back to enjoy life. And how does Hemmingway fill the hours after his work, while waiting for the next day's creative juices to come to him? Why, he would go and swim his daily half-mile, of course.
The enigmatic writer of iconic poems such as Caged Bird, Phenomenal Woman, and And Still I Rise, Maya Angelou has contributed more than just her powerful poetry to the literature of the world. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is just one of her seven autobiographies, and Letter to My Daughter one of her several collections of essays.
Maybe one of the more boujee writing routines, Maya Angelou would book a hotel room in her hometown and pay for it monthly. Angelou would arrive at this room by 6:30 AM, equipped with her essentials: Roget's Thesaurus, a dictionary, and The King James' Bible.
Maya Angelou was also very particular about the setup of her hotel room. She would ask the staff not to disturb her or even clean the room, in case they accidentally dispose of any stray papers she might later find to be valuable. In the room itself, Angelou would have all artwork and decorations removed.
Maya Angelou would also bring a deck of cards and crossword puzzles to occupy what she called her "Little Mind". She attributed learning about the Little and Big Mind to her grandmother. Angelou described the "Big Mind" as the part of her brain that would allow her to consider deeper thoughts, and that it was necessary to occupy the Little Mind so as not to distract her from going deeper into her Big Mind's ideas.
By the time the clock strikes 2 PM, Maya Angelou would be out the door and on her way back home. In her own home, Angelou would read whatever she wrote that day, making her edits here and there to clean up her work.
"Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way around, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader"
Through these three authors we can see that there is no one formula than can make a writer great, but it sure does take some sense of discipline (if it wasn't obvious in the way that these three authors maintained their early bird status). No matter what your desired routine may be, you must put in the hard work that it takes to actually sit down (or stand up) and write.
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Q: Database migrations for SQL Server I need a database migration framework for SQL Server, capable of managing both schema changes and data migrations.
I guess I am looking for something similar to django's South framework here.
Given the fact that South is tightly coupled with django's ORM, and the fact that there's so many ORMs for SQL Server I guess having just a generic migration framework, enabling you to write and execute in controlled and sequential manner SQL data/schema change scripts should be sufficient.

A: Perhaps Liquibase or dbdeploy meets your needs? I've also heard good things about RedGate.

A: You could take a look at Wizardby (open source)

A: Redgate's migrations solution in Visual Studio is ReadyRoll.
Our SSMS-based solution is SQL Source Control.

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Mesomorphism in binary mixtures of 4-((hexylimino)methyl)benzoic acid and 4-alkyloxybenzoic acids
Poornima Bhagavath, S. Mahabaleshwara
Department of Chemistry, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal
Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal
A new non-mesogenic Schiff-based carboxylic acid, viz. 4-((hexylimino)methyl)benzoic acid (HIMB), is synthesized and is used to prepare the binary mixtures with mesogenic 4-n-alkyloxybenzoic acids (nOBAs, where n = 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 12) in 1:1 molar ratio. The mesomorphism in HIMB and nOBA mixtures is studied by polarizing optical microscopy and differential scanning calorimetry. The mesomorphic thermal stabilities of these mixtures are found to vary with those of the nOBAs. The results are discussed with the reported mixtures of nOBAs with other Schiff-based pyridyl moieties, which are found to exhibit new phase variants and mesomorphic thermal stabilities. The phase transition temperatures and the enthalpy changes at the phase transitions are discussed in comparison with the other similar binary mixtures. The effects of intermolecular interactions on mesomorphism are discussed.
Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry
Binary mixtures
thermal stability
Phase transitions
Optical microscopy
Differential scanning calorimetry
transition temperature
Bhagavath, P., & Mahabaleshwara, S. (2017). Mesomorphism in binary mixtures of 4-((hexylimino)methyl)benzoic acid and 4-alkyloxybenzoic acids. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, 129(1), 339-345. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-017-6105-y
Bhagavath, Poornima ; Mahabaleshwara, S. / Mesomorphism in binary mixtures of 4-((hexylimino)methyl)benzoic acid and 4-alkyloxybenzoic acids. In: Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry. 2017 ; Vol. 129, No. 1. pp. 339-345.
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Metronome Features
An interview with Lemn Sissay
What do you get if you cross a telephone call with one of Britain's most celebrated modern-day poets and playwrights, Lemn Sissay, with a train journey from London to Birmingham? One of the most disjointed interviews that I, and probably he, has ever partaken in. Multiple tunnels, call backs and screechy passenger announcements later, I'd been made to laugh, brought to tears, and had a downright good chat. Now, I take you on that journey…
Seemingly one of the busiest men in the literary world, it was of no surprise on this sunny spring morning that Lemn wasn't on his way to the Midlands to update his wardrobe, but rather to attend the launch of the Care Leaver Covenant.
The care system is as big a part of Lemn's life and work. His mother was an Ethiopian who had come to England to study, but then found herself 'in the family way'. She gave him up to be temporarily fostered while she finished her studies, but it wasn't until 17 that Lemn discovered his birth name, and 21 before he saw his mother again.
Becoming a child of the state at only two months of age, he was given the name Norman by a Wigan social worker, before being homed with a white Christian couple in Lancashire. They were told to treat the fostering as an adoption, and Lemn lived with them until they sent him to a children's home at the age of 12. For the six years following that rejection, Lemn moved around different childrens' homes in the Lancashire area and was subjected to racism alongside physical and emotional abuse.
"I've been on stage since I was 18 or 19 years of age, and it's never seemed awkward to speak about my story because my life up until that point had been part of public record. Everything that happened to me as a child was written about, I was like an experiment – 18 years of files all saying judgmental things about me. Rather than have other people write my story, I wrote myself from my perspective. If you don't take ownership of it, then you'd go mad."
Written in 2005, Lemn has performed Something Dark all over the world, and although it's entrenched in the British care system, Lemn has seen it translate to all cultures. "In a big way. A woman came up to me after I'd performed it in Newton, Johannesburg, and told me about how when maids used to look after the homes and children of whites. The maid's children would be friends with the children of the household, but when they got to about 11 or 12, if they were male, they were sent back to the villages because they were growing into young men. The household didn't want them continuing their friendships with their own children. Which is very similar to what happened to me when I was put back into care. I think this woman in South Africa was saying, 'I understand what happened because it happened to me'. We're all children of functioning dysfunctional families; people tend to relate to it."
"Rather than have other people write my story, I wrote myself from my perspective. If you don't take ownership of it, then you'd go mad."
Lemn was 12 years old when writing became his focus. "I had an English teacher, Mr Unsworth, who was a bald-headed, rugby-playing socialist, straight out of central casting for Kez. He encouraged me to write, and he also told me about a poet called Linton Kwesi Johnson, who I know now and have performed with all over the place. It's beautiful really." Although he grew up in villages that were built on the mines and mills, he only had eyes for one career. "Where I came from, being a poet wasn't a thing. But for me there was no plan B. And there didn't have to be because I absolutely 100% knew that this is what I wanted to be and I couldn't see any obstacles. That's the nature of youth to sometimes to have a very clear thought and then to follow that thought without hindrance."
The arrogance of youth can take you a long way, and Lemn released his first book of poetry in 1988 when he was just 21 years old. Since then he's had eight books published, was the official poet of the 2012 London Olympics, has written and worked on numerous plays – including Benjamin Zephaniah's Refugee Boy – and in 2007 he was appointed artist-residence at London's Southbank Centre. He's also worked with musicians, including Leftfield, and all this stands next to the work he does that is focused on care leavers, such as the Letterbox Club, The Sissay Scholarship for Care Leavers and The Christmas Dinner. "You might that being a poet or a creative is an isolated job, but it's not, it's very much about collaborating, contact."
As to how the hell someone who works this hard and this diversely winds down, Lemn doesn't neglect himself or his mental health. "I kick back with friends and family: I eat, I laugh, I also run. Exercise is good for the brain, for your head."
"You might that being a poet or a creative is an isolated job, but it's not, it's very much about collaborating, contact."
Lemn is excited about coming to Nottingham to perform Something Dark, but also to catch up with old friends. "Henry Normal is from Nottingham, he's a very special human being. He does the Nottingham Poetry Festival, but he also started the Manchester Literature Festival, which is a major player on the international literary scene." As to other projects, Lemn has just finished his memoirs, My Name is Why, which will be released in August 2019. "It was fucking hard. Jesus, really hard. I hated writing it, it was like filming a flock of butterflies." But if there's anyone who could film the proverbial butterflies, I'd put my money on Lemn.
Lemn Sissay will be performing at Metronome on Friday 28 June having recently won the PEN Pinter Prize. Read more about his success here.
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Earlier, Acharya Devvrat paid obeisance at Madhorai Temple and also participated in the Jaleb Shobha Yatra. He also participated in 'Bhoj' organized for the 'kardars' of deities.
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Samsung KX, UK
Designed by Heatherwick Studios, Coal Drops Yard is an architectural marvel. Adjacent to London's King's Cross Station, the chic, high-end retail space is dominated by two curved, 'kissing' rooftops, making it instantly recognisable as one of the city's newest landmarks.
Situated underneath these swooping rooftops is Samsung KX, a new 'retail and experience space'. Working alongside project managers Portview, architects KSS and interior designers Brinkworth, Nulty was brought onto the project to complete the lighting design and to find an impactful way to illuminate Heatherwick's remarkable architecture.
"Our brief was to create a rational lighting solution for the space," explained Anna Sandgren, Associate Lighting Designer at Nulty. "We were working with a clear architectural blueprint when it came to Coal Drops Yard's curved rooftops, so our lighting scheme had to work sympathetically with the building. Architecture always took priority."
As such, Nulty created an all-LED lighting scheme that was befitting of its architectural backdrop, enhancing the iconic appearance of the near-identical gabled roofs – an element that had to be factored into the lighting design too. "Everything about the final scheme needed to be symmetrical to ensure that the lighting design is consistent throughout both linear structures," Sandgren added. "The fixed parameters of the space are what made this such a unique project."
Inside, the complexity of the infrastructure of the building, and the changing functionality of the Samsung KX space, required the team to create a day-to-night lighting scheme that is constantly visible through the floor-to-ceiling windows, and can be modified depending on how the experience-led space is used.
"Our role was to master the technical challenges that the building presented and ensure that this didn't impact on our ability to deliver the quality of light throughout that the client needed," continued Sandgren. "We were always respectful of the building, so the success of the project lay in creating a lighting solution that could work harmoniously within it."
A key facet in this lighting solution is a continuous ribbon of light that soars throughout the east and west retail showcases, unifying the two sections of the building. Created by The Light Lab, the circular swoop of light travels up through the floor, walls and ceiling to form a central architectural feature for Samsung KX, designed to host masterclasses, workshops and talks. Visible from every aspect of Coal Drops Yard, the ribbon of light mirrors the curves of Heatherwick's original design, while enveloping the space in a layering blanket of light.
"A number of the manufacturers that we approached said that it couldn't be done because of the sheer scope of the space that we were dealing with," said Sandgren. "Thankfully, The Light Lab had the vision to understand what we needed."
The bespoke fixture provides the majority of the illumination in the main area of the space, alongside Targetti's surface-mounted Zeno spotlights. Positioned across the ceiling in a concentric circular formation, the tunable white spotlights work with the curved contours of the building, and can be adjusted from cool white through to warm white to create different moods.
Speaking of the lighting in the main space, Sandgren said: "We were confident that the ribbon of light would provide the right level of illumination throughout. It brings symmetry and balance to the space.
"Beyond this, we needed to think technically about how to create different lighting moods, because the functionality of the space changes almost daily. This is why our lighting scheme is flexible at a lower level.
"The entire space is controlled by a DALI system, which has the capacity to be totally transformative. Every one of the LED lights that you see in the space is individually addressable and can be adjusted according to how Samsung KX is being used."
By creating this flexible, tunable lighting system, Nulty were able to achieve the client's desired cool white light – something fundamental to the Samsung brand and how they display their products, Sandgren explained – while making it work within a space dominated by a warm timber aesthetic.
While the light ribbon and its complementary spotlights provide the right level of illumination in the main body of the space, other areas required different solutions. For instance, in the kitchen/entrance area of the space, LED Flex's Lumen Line linear fixtures interplay with a wooden slatted ceiling, while the manufacturer's Eco Flex fittings provide linear lighting behind the banquettes in the showcase east and customer service area, creating a gentle, diffuse illumination to offset the primary lighting feature.
However, the instantly recognisable 'kissing rooftops' required special consideration, as Sandgren explained: "The kissing rooftops were undoubtedly our biggest architectural consideration. It was where all of the design decisions began and ended.
"The area under the kissing rooftops was the one area of Samsung KX where we couldn't have too much light, so we had to work out how to achieve consistent levels of illumination throughout the east and west showcase, without allowing the quality of light to drop across the building.
"Our response was to frame each of the east and west showcases with surface mounted LED spotlights, but then let the light levels naturally drop away where the rooftops meet. By doing this, we have created a pocket of calmness at the kissing point, but also preserved a layering blanket of light throughout."
By letting the light drop away towards the kissing rooftops, it also reduced any potential impact of light spill onto the Coal Drops Yard exterior – something that had to be taken into consideration, on account of the vast windows in the space. "Coal Drops Yard is dominated by floor to ceiling windows, so we had to appraise every decision to ensure that the lighting scheme looks great from every angle," Sandgren elucidated.
"We also had to work out how to avoid unnecessary light spill. Testing each and every fixture on site and reviewing how they read from the exterior of the building was how we made all of this work."
Indeed from the reduction in light spill, to the flexible, tunable lighting system, Sandgren believes that the scheme that Nulty has created works in harmony with the overall architectural design of the space. "The architect's vision for Samsung KX was in place right from the beginning so we worked within the parameters of what was set," she said.
"Our team worked hard to make sure that the overall lighting scheme pays homage to Heatherwick Studio's design legacy, and that every part of our final solution contributes to preserving the building from every angle."
The end result is a lighting scheme that serves to complement and highlight the unique architecture of the space – an important aspect that Sandgren was keen to implement in the lighting design.
"We strongly believe that a great lighting scheme isn't always what you can see – the role of lighting is to enhance a space and give it depth," she enthused. "And lighting shouldn't distract from the architecture that surrounds it.
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Although Nulty as a studio, and Sandgren personally, have a great deal of experience in creating lighting schemes for retail environments, the opportunity to design the lighting for such a remarkable site meant that this remained a unique project.
"How often do you get asked to create a lighting scheme for a project of this scale? And how often do you have to create a workable solution for two gabled rooftops?" asked Sandgren.
"Everything about this project was unique – especially the building itself. Heritage, an architectural legacy, structural challenges, an innovative retail concept; this project had it all."
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Das Schicksal der Irene Forsyte (Originaltitel: That Forsyte Woman) ist ein US-amerikanisches Filmdrama von Compton Bennett aus dem Jahr 1949 mit Errol Flynn, Greer Garson und Walter Pidgeon. Als literarische Vorlage diente der Roman Ein reicher Mann (A Man of Property, 1906) aus der Forsyte-Saga von John Galsworthy.

Handlung
In einer nebligen Nacht im Jahr 1887 eilt Irene Forsyte in ein Londoner Krankenhaus, um an der Seite von Philip Bosinney zu sein, der von einer Kutsche überfahren wurde. Dieser erliegt kurz darauf seinen Verletzungen, worauf Irene versucht, dessen Verlobte June Forsyte zu trösten. Doch June gibt Irene die Schuld an Bosinneys plötzlichem Tod und will Irenes Erklärungsversuche nicht hören. Junes Vater, Jolyon Forsyte Jr., der gleichzeitig der Cousin von Irenes reichem Ehemann Soames Forsyte ist, sieht die Situation in einem anderen Licht und erinnert sich, wie Irene sieben Jahre zuvor seiner versnobten Familie vorgestellt wurde:

Am Abend des 80. Geburtstags von Familienoberhaupt Jolyon Forsyte Sr. verkündet dessen Neffe Soames, dass er beabsichtigt, Irene zu heiraten. Die Forsytes sind jedoch gegen die Verbindung, da Irene als einfache Klavierlehrerin ihren Ansprüchen nicht genügt. Der Einzige, der mit Irene sympathisiert, ist Jolyon Jr., ein Künstler und das schwarze Schaf der Familie, dem es nicht gestattet ist, seine Tochter June zu besuchen. Irene erkennt schon bald, dass ihre Beziehung mit Soames zum Scheitern verurteilt ist. Als sie jedoch versucht, die Verlobung zu lösen, weigert sich Soames, Irenes Wunsch nachzukommen, und kauft stattdessen ein großes Haus als neues Heim für sie beide.

Irene fügt sich ihrem Schicksal als Soames' Ehefrau, dessen emotionale Kälte sie zunehmend unglücklich macht. In der Zwischenzeit beginnen die Forsytes, sie als vollwertiges Familienmitglied zu akzeptieren. June, mit der sich Irene angefreundet hat, lässt sich eines Tages von Irene als Anstandsdame bei einem Rendezvous mit ihrem neuesten Verehrer Philip Bosinney begleiten. Bosinney, ein junger aufstrebender Architekt, fühlt sich sofort zur reiferen Irene hingezogen. Mit der Zeit verliebt sich auch Irene in Bosinney. Soames versucht derweil, seine Ehe zu retten, indem er einen kleinen Landsitz kauft und auf Junes Drängen ausgerechnet Bosinney engagiert, um dort ein passendes Haus zu bauen.

In der Folgezeit wird Soames stetig ungeduldiger, gar verärgert, angesichts Bosinneys kostspieliger Verzögerungen beim Plan und Bau des Hauses. Noch ahnt er jedoch nichts von der gegenseitigen Zuneigung zwischen seiner Gattin und Bosinney. Obwohl Irene Bosinneys Avancen zurückweist und ihm erklärt, dass sie ihren Ehemann nicht verlassen werde, wird June allmählich misstrauisch und ist schließlich überzeugt, dass Bosinney in eine andere Frau verliebt ist. Als June Irene anvertraut, dass sie sich das Leben nehmen würde, wenn sich herausstellen sollte, dass Bosinney ihr untreu ist, bittet Irene diesen inständig, June nicht zu erzählen, dass er nicht länger in sie verliebt ist. Bosinney verspricht es Irene unter der Bedingung, dass sie ihn zum Abschied in seinem Atelier besucht.

Kurz bevor sich beide dort treffen, betritt June das Atelier und findet dort eine Zeichnung von Irenes Gesicht mit einer romantischen Widmung Bosinneys. Am Boden zerstört und verwirrt über ihre Entdeckung läuft sie davon und lässt Soames kurz darauf einen Brief zukommen, der diesem die Affäre seiner Frau enthüllt. Als Irene von ihrem heimlichen Besuch bei Bosinney nach Hause zurückkehrt, findet sie ihren Mann in großer Rage vor. Beim unvermeidlichen Streit gibt Irene ihre Liebe zu Bosinney zu. Soames gibt ihr daraufhin eine Ohrfeige und schwört, dass er Bosinney ruinieren werde. Anschließend beordert Soames seinen Rivalen in sein Haus, um ihn mit der Aussicht auf eine Klage vor Gericht zu konfrontieren. Bosinney stürmt wütend davon und gerät unter die Räder einer Kutsche, als er hastig die Straße überquert. Nachdem Irene von dem Unfall erfahren hat, eilt sie zu Bosinney ins Krankenhaus.

Jolyon beendet schließlich seine Erinnerungen an die Geschehnisse, die zu Bosinneys tragischem Tod geführt haben. Nachdem Irene Soames endgültig verlassen hat, lädt Jolyon sie zu sich nach Paris ein, um dort zusammen ein neues Leben anzufangen. Jahre vergehen, bis Irene, die nun mit Jolyon glücklich verheiratet ist, Soames wiedersieht, als dieser vergeblich versucht, in der Pariser Galerie von Jolyon ein Porträt seiner ehemaligen Frau zu kaufen. Irene empfindet Mitleid für Soames und lässt das Bild als Geschenk an ihn nach London schicken.

Hintergrund
Das Schicksal der Irene Forsyte ist die erste Verfilmung von John Galsworthys erfolgreicher Forsyte-Saga, die hauptsächlich auf Ein reicher Mann, dem ersten Teil der Romantrilogie, beruht. MGM hatte die Filmrechte bereits 1937 für 32.188 Dollar erworben. Über mehrere Jahre beabsichtigten verschiedene Produzenten, darunter auch David O. Selznick, den Stoff zu verfilmen. Doch erst 1948 lag MGM ein akzeptables Skript vor, wobei der Titel speziell auf die weibliche Hauptfigur und damit auf Hauptdarstellerin Greer Garson zugeschnitten wurde.

Greer Garson, die für die Titelrolle von Beginn an feststand, trat in dem Film zum sechsten Mal mit ihrem letztlich achtmaligen Leinwandpartner Walter Pidgeon vor die Kamera. Pidgeon hatte als Jolyon Forsyte Jr. zwar nur eine Nebenrolle, da aber diese Rolle am Ende das Herz Garsons gewinnt, sollten so die Erwartungen des Publikums erfüllt werden. Ursprünglich sollte Errol Flynn, der für diese Produktion von Warner Brothers an MGM ausgeliehen wurde, die Rolle des Philip Bosinney übernehmen. Er wollte jedoch unbedingt den arroganten Soames Forsyte spielen, um dem Image des romantischen Helden zu entfliehen, und setzte sich letztlich durch. Robert Young erhielt in der Folge die Rolle des Bosinney. C. Aubrey Smith war eigentlich für die Rolle von Jolyon Forsyte Sr. vorgesehen, aber eine Krankheit, die seinem Tod vorausging, verhinderte seine Mitwirkung in diesem Film. In ebendiese Rolle schlüpfte daraufhin Harry Davenport. Es sollte seine letzte werden. Er starb 1949 im Alter von 83 nach 77 Jahren als aktiver Schauspieler. In einer kleinen Nebenrolle trat auch Garsons Mutter Nina Garson unter dem Künstlernamen Nina Ross als Angehörige des Forsyte-Clans auf.

Vor allem die Presse war gespannt auf das erste Zusammentreffen von MGMs "netter Lady" und Warners "Bad Boy". Garson und Flynn verstanden sich während der Dreharbeiten jedoch derart gut, dass sie sich gegenseitig Streiche auf dem Set spielten. In einer Szene versteckte sich Flynn in einem Kleiderschrank, aus dem Garson eine Robe nehmen sollte. Als sie die Schranktür öffnete, sprang Flynn plötzlich heraus und Garson fiel vor Schreck in Ohnmacht. Bei einer anderen Gelegenheit, als beide eine Szene in einer Kutsche spielen sollten, versetzte Garson ihrem Kollegen über eine elektrische Leitung, die sie mit Flynns Sitz verbunden hatte, einen kleinen Schlag.

Das Schicksal der Irene Forsyte wurde am 3. November 1949 in den Vereinigten Staaten uraufgeführt. Die Kritiken waren eher durchwachsen. Die Kinopremiere in Deutschland erfolgte am 24. November 1951. Am 25. Januar 1969 wurde der Film vom ZDF erstmals im deutschen Fernsehen gezeigt. Im Fernsehen der DDR wurde er am 6. Oktober 1985 auf DFF 1 ausgestrahlt.

Kritiken
Dem Lexikon des internationalen Films zufolge biete Das Schicksal der Irene Forsyte eine "atmosphärisch dichte Schilderung einer dekadenten großbürgerlichen Gesellschaft". Der Spiegel befand 1951, dass Greer Garsons rotes Haar "eine mühsam dramatisierte Filmversion von John Galsworthys vornehm schleppendem Familienepos" belebe. Errol Flynn enttäusche als Soames zwar seine Anhänger, doch erweise er sich in einer "schlechte[n] Verliererrolle als guter Schauspieler".

Variety sprach von "einer aufwändigen und erstklassigen Verfilmung von John Galsworthys Erzählungen der Forsytes". Bosley Crowther von New York Times meinte, Greer Garson spiele "glamourös", doch sei das Skript "voll lebloser Rhetorik" und die Regie von Compton Bennett "absurd". Walter Pidgeon enttäusche "innerhalb der Besetzung wahrscheinlich am wenigsten, hauptsächlich deshalb, weil er bis kurz vor Schluss kaum etwas zu tun hat". Errol Flynn wirke "sehr steif und hohepriesterlich", während Robert Young als Bosinney "einfach nur langweilig" sei.

Craig Butler vom All Movie Guide wies darauf hin, dass der Film "einen Großteil der Handlung und Charakterisierungen" habe vereinfachen müssen, "sodass er oftmals etwas zu melodramatisch" sei. Greer Garson besitze "den Geist und die Klasse, die ihre Rolle erfordert, doch scheint sie sich zumeist fehl am Platz zu fühlen". Errol Flynn sei "gegen sein Image besetzt" und mache "einen guten Eindruck", doch bringe "seine starke Präsenz und Anziehungskraft" den Film "aus der Balance". Robert Young und Walter Pidgeon seien wiederum "nicht stark genug, um für den nötigen Ausgleich zu sorgen". Dennoch hätten alle Darsteller "ihre großen Momente". Zudem steche "die üppige Produktion" ins Auge, vor allem "die schönen Kostüme von Valles und Walter Plunkett". Der Filmkritiker Leonard Maltin bezeichnete den Film rückblickend als "eher oberflächliche Adaption", die zwar "schön anzuschauen" sei, aber "mitnichten" an die BBC-Serie The Forsyte Saga herankomme.

Auszeichnungen
Bei der Oscarverleihung 1951 war der Film in der Kategorie Bestes Kostümdesign/Farbe nominiert. Die beiden Kostümbildner Walter Plunkett und Arlington Valles konnten sich jedoch nicht gegen Edith Head, Dorothy Jeakins, Eloise Jensson, Gile Steele und Gwen Wakeling durchsetzen, die zusammen den Oscar für die Kostüme in Samson und Delilah gewannen.

Deutsche Fassung
Die deutsche Synchronfassung entstand 1951 im MGM-Synchronisations-Atelier in Berlin.

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US-amerikanischer Film
Filmdrama
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Hasbro Rolls Out Ms. Monopoly and the Caterwauling Begins
The revised ground rules are a true trophy generation inspired masterpiece, which is sparking a bit of squabbling.
By: Sarah Cowgill September 15, 2019 Articles, Culture Rot, Politics, Social Issues, The Left
by Sarah Cowgill
In a landmark case of jumping on the women-are-people-too bandwagon, toymaker Hasbro is rolling out a trendy version of the iconic board game, Monopoly, that penalizes male players from the first roll of the dice. It's catchily called Ms. Monopoly, and despite it seeming to be such an SJW themed tool to empower the fairer sex, feminists are none too happy about the latest attempt to "empower" Hasbro's bottom line.
The box nearly shouts the message: "The first game where women make more than men," and features not the chubby monocle sporting banker now relegated to the background, but instead, an attractive, young, well-dressed gal with one hand on a hip and the other holding a to-go coffee.
A quick description on Target's website touts the "fun" new tokens – a notebook, jet, glass, and barbell. "The game celebrates women inventors as players move around the board collecting iconic things that wouldn't exist without women. WIFI, chocolate chip cookies, bulletproof vests, and the list goes on!" Two out of three isn't bad as claims go but, let's give the WiFi credit Dr. John O'Sullivan – just to be factual.
And then fun abruptly takes a twisted turn onto an anti-feminist path. The revised ground rules are a true trophy generation inspired masterpiece, which is sparking a bit of squabbling:
Female players get a starting bank of $1,900 compared with $1,500 for male players.
Girls also get $240 each time they pass "Go" on the board, while boys get just $200.
Instead of acquiring property, the winner will have invested in female entrepreneurs.
Basically, the good folks at Hasbro have a taken a game where everyone started equal and then scratched and clawed their way to board domination and replaced it with handicapping male players to level the playing field. Where does that incentivize women to just kick ass normally? Women don't need a step up in original Monopoly. And exactly what does this teach the typical 10-year old boy or girl?
Chick Chatter
Amy Peng, associate professor in the department of economics at Ryerson University, believes this sends a derogatory message: "Are you doing this because you think women are not as productive as men and need to be overcompensated?"
Christine Sypnowich, feminist scholar and head of the philosophy department at Queens College, hammered the same point: "It's unhelpful to portray women as needing special advantages. What women need is to be treated as equals with respect."
Of course, the female spokesperson from Hasbro did not yield to criticism from academia:
"We believe this game and its content embody a positive message about female empowerment that we hope is embraced by a wide variety of audiences."
A "wide variety of audiences" that will shell out $20 for a passing fancy from a corporation that has seven men but just one woman in executive management: Gaming the system in real-time, but not solving their own gender wage gap hypocrisy.
A senior economist at the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, Elise Gould, put it rather bluntly, "They can take a hard look at their own personnel issues and use that as an example for the real world as opposed to the game world."
It's Just So Ironic
It was dubbed The Landlord's Game by feminist, comedienne, and inventor Lizzie Magie, and received a patent in 1904. Historians now credit Lizzie Magie for the invention of Monopoly, but apparently, she never passed "Go" or collected $200. For the better part of eight decades, the kudos were bestowed upon one opportunistic man, Charles Darrow, who hijacked The Landlord's Game after observing the local Quaker contingency in Atlantic City, NJ, spend hours attempting to stay of jail, purchase railroads, and avoid taxes – all on a piece of wood using tokens and trinkets and fake paper money.
Darrow tinkered and toyed with different versions and materials and was successful in selling Monopoly to Parker Bros. during the Great Depression – becoming the first millionaire game creator in history.
Now that is just sad. Not so much for Darrow and his descendants, but heck, Magie isn't credited anywhere on Hasbro's website or the game itself. So much for Ms. Monopoly.
Now, this writer is a capitalist-loving, free-market kind of gal, but the hypocrisy from Hasbro in this instance is too much to leave alone. Telling women they must be given freebies to be competitive while not acknowledging the woman who invented the game over a century ago is no way to win in the game of equality. Lord help us when the creative folks at Milton Bradley mess with gender fluidity in the Game of Life.
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Sarah Cowgill
National Columnist at LibertyNation.com. Sarah has been a writer in the political and corporate worlds for over 25 years. As a sought-after speech writer, her clients included CEOs, U.S. Senators, Congressmen, Governors, and even a Vice President. She's worked as Contributing Editor at Scottsdale Life, a news reporter for the Journal and Courier, and guest opinion political writer for numerous publications nationwide. A born storyteller, Sarah has published a full-length book and is currently finishing a quirky, sarcastic, second novel.
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