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It's not news that dressing a bourgeoning bump can be a challenge—grappling with a constantly changing body shape which goes through random growth spurts over the nine months of pregnancy is clearly no cakewalk. However, you don't need to entirely ditch your personal style just because you've got a little…
Lauren Alexander is the co-founder and designer of LNA, one of Los Angeles' most successful and enduring independent casual wear brands. Since 2007 she's been 'living the dream' with a fashion brand worn by celebrities and stocked in innumerable ritzy stores. But it's only in the past two years that's…
Amy Powney is the powerhouse creative director behind London based independent label Mother of Pearl which has just presented yet another critically acclaimed Fashion Week show. When you think of fashion designers, it's almost impossible to ignore the visions of gilded lifestyles and Zoolander-esque theatrics, but Amy is so resolutely grounded and humble it can be hard…
Nene Granville on Redundancy, Representation & Role Models in Fashion
Nene is one of Fashion PR's most popular women. With nearly two decades of experience and a client roster spanning luxury and high street brands, she recently set up her own agency, Industry Menu—a pay-as-you go service which is swiftly disrupting the old business model. But while she may be making all the right…
Infertility, Early Pregnancy & Social Media: How To Cope
Consuming social media when you can't get pregnant can be a hugely miserable experience; trying to engage with social media when you're in the early stages of pregnancy presents further challenges. Here Katherine Ormerod talks about her experiences and offers a frank, highly personal account of her journey to motherhood…
Beauty Vlogger Claire Marshall On Dealing With Family Tragedy Alone
Claire Marshall is one of You Tube's early adopters; a beauty mega-influencer with over 900k subscribers and more than 700k followers on Instagram to boot, she's worked with brands from as Sephora to Samsung. Here she talks about dealing with her mother's Alzheimer's, how as an adoptee she's begun to connect…
One of the U.K's most successful bloggers, Lucy Williams' style is shorthand for a particular brand of effortless cool with a side of wanderlust. For the past seven years she's been blogging on her lifestyle platform Fashion Me Now and has built a loyal audience which follows her global jaunts…
Roxie Nafousi On Depression, Heartbreak & Social Media
Blogger, former celebrity stylist, Marie Claire contributor and mental health awareness advocate Roxie Nafousi, appears to live a gilded life through the frames of social media. But her younger days were blighted by racial bullying, disordered eating, depression and low self-esteem. When at 23 everything unravelled, she struggled to keep…
Laura Jackson on Crippling Anxiety & Dealing with Stage Fright
Laura Jackson is a creative polymath with a career spanning TV presenting, modelling, writing a food column for Marie Claire and hosting the infamous Jackson&Levine supper clubs with her partner in crime, Radio 1 DJ, Alice Levine. With her first cookbook about to be published, a tie-in with Habitat coming…
Jessica Lemarié-Pires on Overcoming Her Mother's Suicide & Being More Than Just a 'WAG'
Footballer's wife, ex-model and mother to three gorgeous children—when it comes to having it all, Jessica Lemarié-Pires' life looks pretty picture perfect. But, five years ago in the wake of her mother's suicide, her life fell apart. Here Jess discusses for the first time what it was like to grow…


Aaloo Pyaaz with some Jazz!
The saying that 'Home is where your heart is', should also include 'where my bed, my bath and my kind of food are'. Returning home from a short beachy and yet chilly Goa trip, I and Ashima were both looking forward to this homely-embrace. My kind of food, is simple home cooked yellow dal with ghee ka tadka, plain aaloo ki sabzi, and soft warm phulkas, and I know Ashima also likes this, so the menu for our meal was kind of already decided. It was also Ashima's last meal (for the time being) in India as she was flying to Angola at night. However, this meal was following an interesting conversation which had escalated into an argument, and I was looking to soothe those sediments. So the simple menu had to be jazzed a little.
I am not a meticulous cooking person, and I say that because I find it really hard to follow a recipe sincerely (which has led me to make and serve disasters many a times). I am always looking to change some part of it, trying to adapt it to my way. I decided to modify my mother's famous Aaloo Pyaaz ki sabzi for the dinner. She deep fries the potatoes, and onions in Ghee and then cooks it in the curd based gravy which she has cooked separately. I decided to substitute the deep fry with shallow fry and substituted ghee with extra-virgin olive oil, and plate it slightly my way (one of my many leanings from Masterchef Australia). The result was pure contentment, both for the stomach and the heart.
I also added a quick papad churi to the menu to give it a crunch.
Heat about 3 tbsp olive oil in a flat pan. Add cumin seeds. When the seeds start to sputter, add potatoes.
Shallow fry potatoes and then the onions till they are caramelized. Keep aside.
Heat oil in a non-stick pan. Once the oil is hot, add cumin seeds and let them sputter till they become dark brown.
Add the onion and sauté until they start to turn soft. Add tomatoes, salt, turmeric and red pepper powder and cook till it becomes soft, and the gravy starts leaving oil on the sides.
Finally add whisked yoghurt and let the gravy simmer for 5 minutes. If required, add some water, and boil it to get the desired consistency.
Traditionally the shallow fried Aaloo and Pyaaz are then added to this gravy and simmered on low flame for another 5-10 min. I am not really fond of this, and like to keep the vegetables separate from the gravy. I feel this preserves the taste of the vegetables.
While serving, I made a bed of the gravy on the serving platter and then placed the shallow fried aaloo and pyaaz (potato and onion) pieces on top of it.


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$ git log --all --decorate --graph --pretty=format:"%C(yellow)%h%Creset %C(auto)%d%Creset %Cblue%ar%Creset %Cred%an%Creset %n%w(72,1,2)%s"
It shows all of my current local and remote branches, commit times in "time-ago" formats, author names, and even displays all of this information in an attractive and readable graph.
You can either add the whole git log line as an alias in your ~/.bash_profile or as a git alias in your ~/.gitconfig.
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West Suburban & Oak Park Art League Present "CityScapes: An intimate view of everyday places and spaces"
West Suburban & Oak Park Art League Present "CityScapes: An intimate view of everyday places and spaces" Artist member Maria Gedroc December 7, 2018 – January 29, 2019 December 7, 2018 – January 29, 2019 Opening Reception Friday, December 7, 2018 6 – 8 p.m. (wine and light refreshments)…
West Suburban & Oak Park Art League Present "Open Spaces and City Places"
West Suburban & Oak Park Art League Present "Open Spaces and City Places" Artist member John Nicholas August 1 – September 30, 2018 Opening Reception Friday, August 3, 2018 6 – 8 p.m. (wine and light refreshments) Artist will be present West Suburban Medical Center Main Building Lower Level Gallery…
Cathy Yen Joins West Suburban Medical Center Governing Board
Cathy Yen Joins West Suburban Medical Center Governing Board Oak Park, Ill. June 1, 2018 – Cathy Yen, Executive Director of the Oak Park River Forest Chamber of Commerce, has joined the West Suburban Medical Center Governing Board. Ms. Yen's fellow board members include Representative La Shawn Ford, Ade Onayemi,…
West Suburban Medical Center Awarded Advanced Certification For Primary Stroke Centers
West Suburban Medical Center Awarded Advanced Certification For Primary Stroke Centers Oak Park, Il – West Suburban Medical Center has earned The Joint Commission's Gold Seal of Approval® and the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Heart-Check mark for Advanced Certification for Primary Stroke Centers. "This elite award recognizes West Suburban…
West Suburban Medical Center receives Get With The Guidelines Stroke Silver Quality Achievement Award
West Suburban Medical Center receives Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Silver Quality Achievement Award American Heart Association Award recognizes West Suburban Medical Center's commitment to quality stroke care OAK PARK, IL ― West Suburban Medical Center has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Silver Quality Achievement…
Art Is Medicine at West Suburban Medical Center
Art Is Medicine at West Suburban Medical Center Rehabilitation often means practicing therapy techniques indoors but thanks to Occupational Therapist and professional artist, Sarah Landon, patients at West Suburban Medical Center have nature brought to them where and when they need it the most. Landon turned her workplace, the West…
West Suburban & Oak Park Art League Present "Two Lenses – Two Photographers"
West Suburban & Oak Park Art League Present "Two Lenses – Two Photographers" Artist member David Gilbert and John Padour June 1 – July 31, 2018 Opening Reception Friday, June 1, 2018 6 – 8 p.m. (wine and light refreshments) Artists will be present West Suburban Medical Center Main Building…
West Suburban Medical Center Receives 13th Consecutive "A" for Patient Safety From The Leapfrog Group
West Suburban Medical Center Receives 13th Consecutive "A" for Patient Safety From The Leapfrog Group Oak Park, Ill. April 25, 2018 – West Suburban Medical Center has been recognized by The Leapfrog Group as one of only 49 hospitals in the nation, and nine in Illinois, to have achieved straight…
Rep. Ford and West Suburban Medical Center Create West Side Task Force
Rep. Ford and West Suburban Medical Center Create West Side Task Force April 3, 2017, 10:36 AM Representative La Shawn K. Ford, together with medical staff and administration from West Suburban Medical Center, held a meeting Friday, March 24th with invited leaders to identify and address community concerns of those living…
Leap Year Baby
Yesterday was a special day that only comes along once every four years. That day was extra special for seven families who delivered on our Family Birthplace. The Wednesday Journal stopped by to interview one family about what it is like to now have a 'Leap Year Baby.' Click here…
West Suburban & Oak Park Art League Present "I See A Long Journey"
West Suburban & Oak Park Art League Present "I See A Long Journey" Artist member Sara Peak Convery April 6 – May 30, 2018 Opening Reception Friday, April 6, 2018 6 – 8 p.m. (wine and light refreshments) Artist will be present West Suburban Medical Center Main Building Lower Level…
West Suburban & Oak Park Art League Present "Fleeting Fragrances"
West Suburban & Oak Park Art League Present "Fleeting Fragrances" Artist member Bala Thiagarajan, Ph.D February – 2 April 1, 2018 Opening Reception Friday, February 2 6 – 8 p.m. (wine and light refreshments) Artist will be present West Suburban Medical Center Main Building Lower Level Gallery 3 Erie Court, Oak..

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Watlow Hybrid High Frequncy Relay ES21-2LV-0000 is a 1 pole 35 amp MERCURY FREE HYBRID RELAY with LED indication and a 3-24 vdc / 24VAC signal input. Operational or switching voltage is 200-240 AC.
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Gold and silver prices ended slightly higher Friday at the end of a rough week.
It was the first gain for gold after four straight losses. Traders have been dumping gold since last week after the Federal Reserve laid out a possible exit from its bond-buying program. The prospect of the program ending helped allay traders' fear of inflation and diminished the appeal of gold.
August gold rose $12.10, or 1 percent, to close at $1,223.70 an ounce. Gold is still down 9 percent since last Wednesday, when the Fed made its announcement.
Silver for July delivery jumped 91.8 cents, or 5 percent, to $19.451 an ounce. Silver is down 3 percent since the Fed news.
July platinum rose $11.70, or 0.9 percent, to $1,336.90 an ounce and September palladium rose $10, or 1.5 percent, to $660.70 an ounce. July copper fell 0.2 cents, or 0.1 percent, to $3.0505 a pound.
Crop prices were lower. The actively traded contract for wheat delivered in September fell 16 cents to $6.5775 a bushel. Corn for December delivery fell 27.5 cents to $5.11 a bushel. Soybeans for November delivery fell 23.25 cents to $12.52 a bushel.
In other energy trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange, heating oil fell 1 cent to $2.88 a gallon, natural gas fell 2 cents to $3.57 per 1,000 cubic feet and wholesale gasoline rose 1 cent to $2.75 a gallon.


ASP.NET Core MVC model binding provides IFormFile interface to upload one or more files. upload file in ASP.NET Core MVC, upload file in ASP.NET Core, upload file in ASP.NET Core 2.0, upload file in MVC.
How to upload and download files in ASP.NET Core MVC.
In an empty project, update the Startup class to add services and middleware for MVC.
Add a Controller and action methods to upload and download the file.
Add a Razor page with HTML form to upload a file.
ASP.NET Core MVC model binding provides IFormFile interface to upload one or more files. The HTML form must have the encoding type set to multipart/form-data and an input element with typeattribute set to file.
You could also upload multiple files by receiving a list of IFormFile in action method and setting input element with multiple attribute.
You could also have IFormFile as a property on model received by the action method.
The name on input elements must match action parameter name (or model property name) for model binding to work. This is no different than model binding of simple and complex types.
Action method needs to return FileResult with either a stream, byte, or virtual path of the file. You will also need to know the content-type of the file being downloaded. Here is a sample (quick/dirty) utility method.


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Patrick Henry Community College Athletics starts eSports team
MARTINSVILLE – By fall 2019, Patrick Henry Community College plans to join the growing movement and launch its own eSports team. With a generous sponsorship from Mid-Atlantic Broadband, the college is creating a state-of-the-art eSports gaming arena which will be unveiled at an open house on February 6.
Interested students and future students are invited to the eSports Gaming Arena Open House on Wednesday, February 6 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in West Hall room 215. The arena is furnished with seven Alienware Aurora R7 computers, 25-inch monitors that have an average 200mhrz refresh rate, as well as many other gaming equipment essentials. At the open house, prospective gamers will have a chance to test the equipment and their gaming skills.
To kick start the eSports team, PHCC is starting as an eSports club this spring that will begin competing in tournaments by late February. The club voted to start competing with the game Overwatch, but the members want to add teams for Fortnite, League of Legends, iRacing, and a few sports-related games as well. By Fall 2019, PHCC hopes to be a part of the National Association of Collegiate Esports (NACE) to offer PC gaming as a varsity sport.
"ESports has emerged as a major competitive event at the collegiate level," PHCC Athletic Director Brian Henderson said. "We want to offer our students an opportunity to actively engage in this emerging field."
Two students, Taylor Toler and Cody Meadows, are spearheading the eSports efforts at the college. As the club's co-captains, they have both been heavily involved with the design of the gaming arena and structure of the eSports program.
As a captain, Toler says his "number one goal is to help you move to the next level – whether that is to join a university's team or to get signed to a professional team."
Already, some of the initial members of PHCC's eSports team have been offered scholarships from universities and invitations to join professional teams. According to Toler, a professional gamer's salary may average between $80,000 and $120,000 a year – in addition to any tournament winnings. Apart from professional gaming, eSports can also be a door to a variety of technology-related careers.
To be eligible to compete on the Fall Varsity team, eSports student-athletes must be enrolled in 12 credit hours and maintain a 2.5 grade point average. PHCC also plans to create club teams for interested high school students. For more information or to request the try-out schedule, email PHCC's Athletic Director Brian Henderson atbhenderson@patrickhenry.edu.
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Happy New Year (I know, I'm a little late)! I always get caught up in the urge to better myself and organize my life every January. I'm working out every day (not such a new thing) and doing another round of Whole30 after great results last October.
Now I just need to get these quilty WIP's in order! I thought that the Finish Along 2016 might be just the thing to help me stay on track. I narrowed it down to a mosaic of 8 items in various stages of completion and then realized I forgot three biggies! It's like they come back to taunt/haunt you! So 11 projects - roughly one a month, totally doable, right?
From the top I have the Meadow Quilt from the Lizzy House class I took in Knoxville, TN this past fall. Next are my beautiful paper pieced envelopes (pattern from Ayumi's book Patchwork, Please) made by me and members of the Sealed With a Kiss swap group. Third in the top row is just something I made for fun that I want to turn into a mini and maybe make a tutorial for.
Middle row is my Modern Medallion from Handstitched Camp over at Stitched in Color. Then my Very Quilty Christmas quilt-along that Lori Holt did via Instagram in 2014. The third is a big gingham/buffalo check quilt I want to make for my youngest son's bed. It's just so so so boring to make.
Bottom row is the Small World QAL from Jean Kingwell - I even have some of the dresden plates/rainbows, just need to hand stitch them on and quilt. That final bottom corner is my liberty Flowering Snowball. I fall in and out of love with it. I worry that I used precious, expensive fabric for something that I don't love. I need to just finish it and see for sure!
These are all my blocks from Stash Sewciety, destined to be a queen bed quilt for my oldest son. I need to make a bunch more blocks, adding in more aqua/teal as I do.
Okay, scrappy trip along! This thing was an old WIP back when Sean was that little (he wears big boy underpants now). It would make a great picnic/ fort quilt, maybe no batting and just back in something substantial?
Penny Sampler. I can't believe this still isn't finished. I actually finished the whole top during the class. I wanted to do really fancy FMQ, something unique in each block. I was afraid at first, then did a little bit and was loving it. Now my Bernina is no longer behaving when I FMQ. Threads breaking regardless of brand, weight, needle, tension, ugh.
Well, it looks I better go sew! Or maybe just push all these back into the basket under my table and start something new ; ) just kidding! maybe.
I love the top right one and would love a tutorial for it!
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Portugal will have to hand back European Union grants totalling 1.3 billion euros if the PSD party wins the election in October and cancels the high-speed TGV project.
Given the 89 million euros already spent on environmental impact surveys and studies and the potential 550,000 jobs involved in engineering and civil construction, some members of the PS governing party in the Portuguese parliament argued on Tuesday that the TGV project linking Lisbon-Madrid must go ahead.
However, the Minister for Public Works, Mário Lino, is increasingly under pressure from the opposition PSD party to suspend the project while influential former cabinet ministers such as João Cravinho also believe the project should be shelved for the time being.
The President of the Republic, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, has been warning for some months that the country will only slide further into debt if the project goes ahead.
He said that if the country didn't increase its production of saleable goods and services and raise its exports, the country's balance of payment deficit with the outside world would become "unsustainable."
So far the PS government has pledged a public works investment of around 45 billion euros between now and 2017 including an estimated 3.8 million euros for the TGV link between Porto and Lisbon, 3 billion for TGV link between Lisbon and Madrid, 800 million for a TGV branch line between Braga and Valencia and 4 billion euros for Lisbon's new international airport.


We are still swooning over the flood of Greenery we'd be seeing this 2017! Here on KnotsVilla we want our readers to see the very best of how to rock a Greenery wedding so we have moved over to the bouquet department – we hope you did not miss our greenery wedding stationery post! Today's post is all about the best and most creative greenery wedding bouquets we've seen!
Talking about bouquets, there are so many ways and angles to explore for a greenery wedding. To keep your Greenery wedding as "green" as possible, you can mix it with neutral/earthy colors or no colors at all. For those who want to add colors, think of neutral ones such as white, ivory, tan, beige, light gold, champagne and the likes.
Our selection today though, are for brides who love to be bold with only the color green. An all green/evergreen bouquet is eye catching, daring, trendy but yet so classic – because greenery would never go out of style!


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Jennifer Trant is a Partner in Archives &Museum Informatics. She consults on digital cultural strategy and collaboration. She blogged, occasionally, here.
She was co-chair of Museums and the Web and ICHIM (the International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meetings), and was Principal Investigator for the steve.museum research project. She has served on the program committees of the Joint Digital Libraries (JDL) and the Digital Libraries (DL) conferences, the Culture Program Committee of the International World Wide Web Conference, and the Board of the Media and Technology Committee of the American Association of Museums.
Trant was the Executive Director of the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) – a ground-breaking, collaborative museum digital library project – from 1997-2005. She was Editor-in-Chief of Archives and Museum Informatics: the cultural heritage informatics quarterly from Kluwer Academic Publishers from 1997-2000. Prior to joining Archives & Museum Informatics in 1997, Jennifer Trant was responsible for Collections and Standards Development at the Arts and Humanities Data Service, King's College, London, England. As Director of Arts Information Management, she consulted regarding the application of technology to the mission of art galleries and museums. Clients included the now closed Getty Information Institute (then the Getty Art History Information Program) for whom she managed the Imaging Initiative, directed the activities of the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project (MESL – the first project to make images from multiple museums available on campus networks), and drafted the report of the Art Information Task Force (AITF), entitled	Categories for the Description of Works of Art.
Trant was a PhD Candidate in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, where she researched the role of folksonomy in museums. She chose not to submit her dissertation and left the program. See her publications list for the results of that research.
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Agency/Client Agreement
For and in consideration of the mutual promises herein contained, the parties hereby agree as follows.
The Agency's booking confirmation form, containing the specific terms of the booking, must be signed and returned by the Client. The failure to sign and/or return the booking confirmation form whilst proceeding with the booking will be deemed to be an acceptance by the Client of these terms and conditions and they shall apply to and govern the booking between the Agency and the Client.
Any amendment and/or variations made to the booking confirmation form by the Client shall not be valid and binding unless the Agency has agreed to such amendment and/or variation in advance and confirmed such agreement by signing the booking confirmation form after the amendment and/or variation has been included on the booking confirmation form.
2. Booking fees
a) Permitted use
Unless agreed otherwise and included on the booking confirmation form, booking fees provide an entitlement and right for the Client to use one image via a single published medium for one year from the date of the booking, in the United Kingdom only, for the initial permitted use. Please note that such permitted use and entitlement is strictly subject to payment in full of all fees owed to the Agency. Unless otherwise specifically and individually agreed, online / digital usage is NOT covered e.g : Client website, marketing emails, banners, pop-ups, online advertising, e-commerce, apps & social media - Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Flikr, Blogs etc. Online usage involving a 3rd party is not permitted unless specifically agreed.
b) Daily/hourly rate
Hourly or daily rates are charged (pro rata if necessary). The minimum booking is for 2 hours. Save in relation to equity contracts, a day booking is for 7 hours (including a 1 hour lunch break). Details will be set out in the booking confirmation form.
c) Overtime
Overtime rates apply at any time in excess of any 7 hour period including any time outside of 09:00 to 18:00. Overtime rates will be charged as follows:
I) 18:00 to 00:00: work is charged to the Client at one and a half times the hourly rate.
II) 00:00 to 09:00: work is charged to the Client at a special rate to be negotiated between the parties.
d) Travel
All reasonable (at the sole discretion of the Agency) travel costs of the model will be reimbursed upon submission of a valid receipt. Petrol will be reimbursed at the rate of 25p per mile.
e) Fitting fees
Any time spent by the model for fittings is charged at half the appropriate hourly rate with a minimum charge to the Client of £25 per hour.
f) Additional expenses
All expenses incurred by the Agency on the Client's behalf will be charged to the Client and will include an uplift of 12.5% of the total amount of the expenses.
g) Location bookings
When a location booking is made, a Client must provide transport for the model both to the booking location and back again unless agreed otherwise. If the Client fails to provide such transport then the Agency shall be entitled to re-charge the cost of the transport procured for the model in accordance with section 2f).
3. Additional fees
To be agreed at the time of the booking or before any additional usage
a) Usage
Additional fees are payable for the right to use the model's image or reproductions, or adaptations of, or drawings derived from that image, or any other representation of it, either complete or in part whether alone or in conjunction with any wording or other images, photographs, drawings or anticipated purposes other than the initial permitted use, details of which will be set out in the booking confirmation form, e.g. packs, posters, showcards, record covers, swing tickets etc. Unless otherwise agreed, the additional fees cover the right to use one image for one year from the date of booking, in the United Kingdom only, for the permitted use or uses or purposes agreed between the Agency and the Client. Under no circumstances will each additional usage fee be less than the model's advertising day rate as determined by the Agency unless determined otherwise by the Agency in its absolute discretion.
b) Territory
Additional fees are also payable for the right to use the model's image or reproductions etc, as set out in section 3a) above for all known or anticipated territories other than the United Kingdom. Unless otherwise agreed the additional fees cover the right to use one image for one year or one season (as determined by the Agency at the date of booking) from the date of booking, in the territory or territories agreed and stipulated on the booking form. Under no circumstances will each usage fee be less than the model's advertising day rate as determined by the Agency unless determined otherwise by the Agency in its absolute discretion.
c) Other services
Additional fees are also payable for other services to be supplied by the model, for example, personal appearances for PR purposes. Fees for such services will be negotiated on a case by case basis.
4. Agency Fees
a) All bookings apart from equity contract TV commercials
The Agency charges a supplement of 20% on all fees including without limitation hourly, daily and overtime fees and all fees for the right to use and all fees negotiated for any other service to be supplied by the model. Both Agency fees and model fees will be invoiced by the Agency.
b) Equity contract TV commercials in the United Kingdom
The fee negotiated by the Agency is the model's fee from which an Agency commission will be deducted at 20% of the invoice total.
c) Non equity contract TV commercials worldwide
The model disbursement and Agency fees will be charged in accordance with 4a) and applies to all commercials shot for use outside the UK irrespective of where the fee is paid.
d) Value added tax
All sums payable under these terms and conditions are exclusive of VAT and any other similar or equivalent taxes or duties which shall be payable in full without set off by the Client.
5. Invoicing
On all invoices payment is required to be made by the Client within 30 days of the date of the invoice. In all cases, the person booking the model is the Client, who will be invoiced and solely responsible for payment, unless otherwise agreed in writing at the time of booking. The Agency reserves the right in its discretion to invoice the 'ultimate Client', (eg. designer/ manufacturer/owner of the product in question). For example, this may be done if the Client is booking on behalf of the ultimate Client, in which case the Client and the ultimate Client are jointly and severally liable to pay all of the fees and settle the invoice accordingly. All fees for usage are for the right to use the model's image and, once agreed, are payable whether or not the right is exercised. Unless the Agency specifically agrees otherwise, in writing, no usage for the model's image is permitted until payment is made in full. The Agency reserves the right to alter payment terms if it deems appropriate, prior to booking.
If the Client fails to pay in full on the due date any amount which is payable to the Agency, without prejudice to any other right or remedy of the Agency, the amount outstanding shall bear interest both before and after any judgment at five per cent per annum over Barclays Bank plc base rate from time to time from the due date until up to and including the date that payment is made in full and such interest shall be compounded and accrued on a daily basis.
6. Exclusivity fees
Unless agreed otherwise the model is supplied to the Client by the Agency on a non-exclusive basis and the model shall be free to provide similar and/or competing services to any third party and/or competing product or brand of the Client. An additional fee will need to be agreed when the use of the model's image or the service to be supplied by a model in relation to a product is required on an exclusive or semi-exclusive (for example sector specific exclusivity) basis which precludes supplying services or allowing the use of the model's image for competing and/or particular sector of products or within a particular territory. A model can supply services to and allow use of the model's image by any competitor unless such an exclusivity fee is negotiated and paid by the Client. It is the Client's responsibility to carry out any research and check whether the model supplied has undertaken or is booked to undertake any conflicting work.
7. Provisional bookings
Provisional bookings will be automatically cancelled if they are not confirmed by the Client (by signing the booking confirmation form) within 24 hours of the proposed booking.
Cancellation of booking by the Client
Within 24 hours of the booking call time the full booking fee will be charged and payable by the Client unless the same model is booked within 24 hours of the cancellation in which case half the booking fee will be charged and payable by the Client.
Outside 24 hours of the booking call time but within 48 hours of the booking call time of the booking date then half the booking fee will be charged and payable by the Client.
The full booking fee will be charged and payable by the Client for bookings of more than three days duration: within a period equal to or less than the length of the booking, then Saturdays, Sundays and bank and public holidays are excluded for the purpose of determining the cancellation notice period.
Cancellation of booking by the Agency
Should the Agency want to cancel a booking then it shall use reasonable endeavours to provide the Client with reasonable notice, take steps to offer to the Client a suitable replacement and/or substitute and take such other reasonable steps as are reasonably practicable to mitigate against such cancellation.
In any event the Agency shall be entitled to cancel a booking at any time and for any reason prior to the booking date without liability to the Client and the Client will procure the necessary insurance cover to protect against such cancellation and any associated liability.
9. Weather related cancellations
On the first occasion of cancellation half the booking fee is charged and payable by the Client unless the Client fails to cancel in time to prevent the model's attendance in which case the full booking fee is charged and payable by the Client. On the occasion of the second cancellation and any subsequent cancellations the full booking fee is charged and payable by the Client.
10. Meals
Clients are responsible for the provision of all meals and beverage requirements of the models (taking into account dietary requirements) whilst the models are providing services to the Client on all bookings (see section 2d)).
11. Model care and safety
The Clients shall ensure that the model is treated with respect and professionalism and that the Client takes all steps necessary to ensure that the safety, health and well being of the model is protected and maintained at all times whilst providing services to the Client. Such steps shall include without limitation:
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To examine whether personality traits have predictive validity for trichotillomania (TTM) diagnosis, pulling severity and control, and hair pulling style.
In study 1, logistic regression was used with TTM cases (n=54) and controls (n=25) to determine if NEO Five-Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI) personality domains predicted TTM case vs. control classification. In study 2, hierarchical multiple regression was used with TTM cases (n=164) to determine whether NEO-FFI personality domains predicted hair pulling severity and control as well as focused and automatic pulling styles.
TTM case vs. control status was predicted by NEO-FFI neuroticism. Every 1-point increase in neuroticism scores resulted in a 10% greater chance of TTM diagnosis. Higher neuroticism, higher openness, and lower agreeableness were associated with greater pulling severity. Higher neuroticism was also associated with less control over hair pulling. Higher neuroticism and lower openness were associated with greater focused pulling. None of the personality domains predicted automatic hair pulling.
Personality traits, especially neuroticism, can predict TTM diagnosis, hair pulling severity and control, and the focused style of pulling. None of the personality traits predicted automatic pulling. Longitudinal studies are needed to determine whether personality variables predispose to TTM onset, impact disorder course, and/or result from hair pulling behavior.
Personality prototypes, similar to cognitive profiles, may represent "global phenotypes" with wide-ranging implications for the understanding of human behavior.1 Enhanced knowledge of personality variables (whether formal diagnostic categories or dimensional traits) can hypothetically contribute to our understanding of the clinical presentation, course, and mechanisms of psychiatric disorders and foster the design of optimal treatment interventions.
Other researchers have adopted a dimensional approach to the study of personality traits in TTM. For example, Stanley et al.9 compared non-clinical hair pullers and patients with TTM or OCD. Non-clinical pullers and those with TTM had higher extraversion scores than those with OCD. Mean extraversion scores did not differ for the two pulling groups. For all pullers and those with OCD, mean neuroticism scores "indicated some degree of neuroticism relative to published norms."9 Christenson et al.8 compared TTM vs. non-TTM psychiatric controls and reported less cluster A personality traits and superior psychological adjustment for the TTM cohort. Also, Lochner et al.10 found elevated scores on reward dependence and harm avoidance for subjects with TTM and pathological skin picking with no group differences. Overall, these studies have been limited by small sample sizes and the lack of both formal TTM diagnosis and non-clinical controls.
To date, researchers have not examined whether those with TTM significantly differ from matched controls on personality traits and whether group differences in personality traits remain after controlling for affective variables. Given the known contribution of depressive and anxiety severity to personality ratings,11 as well as the overlap between personality disorders and the 52% lifetime prevalence rate of major depression reported for trichotillomania,12 it is important to identify if personality traits alone provide a unique contribution to group differences.
In addition, no one has examined the relationships between personality traits, severity of and control over hair pulling, and pulling styles. Thus, it is unclear if the severity of the personality traits is associated with the severity of the pulling urges/behavior and control over them. Furthermore, the clinical presentation of TTM is heterogeneous and can involve focused and automatic pulling "styles"13 with different clinical correlates.14 Flessner et al.14 reported that pullers who engage more in focused pulling endorse more anxiety and depression than those who engage less in focused pulling. The relationships between personality features and pulling styles have not yet been explored.
To further explicate personality factors in TTM, we examined the "Big Five" personality domains of the five-factor model (FFM) of personality15 in a cohort of adults with formal diagnoses of TTM or chronic hair pulling using the NEO-Five Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI).15 Our investigation consisted of between-group analyses comparing a TTM cohort with matched comparison controls. We also performed within-group analyses examining relationships between personality features and pulling variables in our TTM cohort.
In study 1, we examined personality domains for hair pullers and matched non-clinical controls. Given elevated rates of comorbid axis I disorders in TTM vs. matched non-clinical controls16 and the suggestion of higher rates of axis II disorders than expected by chance alone,2 we hypothesized higher rates of neuroticism and lower rates of extraversion in those with TTM vs. matched controls. After controlling for affective variables, we expected there would no longer be any significant group differences in personality traits.
In study 2, we examined whether specific personality traits have predictive validity for hair pulling severity and control as well as hair pulling style. We predicted that NEO-FFI neuroticism scores would remain as predictors of both pulling severity and control even after controlling for depression and anxiety. In addition, we examined the relationship between personality traits and the focused and automatic styles of pulling. Given the hypothesized role of focused pulling in the modulation of negative emotions, we predicted that NEO-FFI neuroticism would significantly predict Milwaukee Inventory for Subtypes of Trichotillomania-Adult (MIST-A) focused pulling style scores even after controlling for hair pulling severity and control, as well as depression and anxiety. Exploratory analyses between the other four personality factors and focused pulling were conducted without a priori hypotheses. We predicted that personality factors would not significantly predict automatic pulling.
Consecutive adult participants from two TTM studies conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital between 2006 and 2012 were included. Participants were between 18 and 65 years of age. Inclusion criteria for both studies entailed DSM-IV-TR diagnoses of TTM or chronic hair pulling (satisfaction of all DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria except B and/or C) without lifetime diagnoses of psychosis, autism, or mental retardation. Approval by the Partners HealthCare Institutional Review Board was obtained for both studies. Signed consent was received from all participants prior to study initiation.
Study 1 involved 54 TTM cases and 25 matched controls from a family study of TTM and chronic hair pulling. Cases and controls were not significantly different on age, gender, and ethnicity (p > 0.05). Mean ± standard deviation age for hair pullers and controls was 29.85±10.86 and 27.84±10.73 years, respectively. Females were preponderant, accounting for 92.6% of cases and 92.0% of controls. Case vs. control ethnicity distributions included white/Caucasian (90.7 vs. 80.0%), African American (3.7 vs. 12.0%), Hispanic/Latino (1.9 vs. 0%), Asian (1.9 vs. 8.0%), and multi-racial (1.9 vs. 0%). Table 1 shows comorbidities for cases and controls in study 1.
ADHD = attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; BDD = body dysmorphic disorder; CHP = chronic hair pulling; CSP = chronic skin picking; OCD = obsessive-compulsive disorder; PTSD = posttraumatic stress disorder; SPD = skin picking disorder; TTM = trichotillomania.
Study 2 (n=164) involved TTM cases from study 1 who had completed data on personality, hair pulling severity and style, and depression and anxiety severity, plus additional consecutive adult participants from a genetics study of TTM and chronic hair pulling. Mean ± standard deviation age for hair pullers was 28.66±10.32 years. Most subjects (95.1%) were female. The ethnicity distribution was as follows: white/Caucasian (88.4%), African American (3.0%), Hispanic/Latino (2.4%), Asian (1.2%) and multi-racial (4.9%). Comorbidities for these 164 hair pullers are listed in Table 2.
The SCID-I/NP17 is a semi-structured interview with individual modules corresponding to DSM-IV axis I diagnoses. The SCID was used to assign DSM-IV diagnoses and to rule out individuals with exclusionary diagnoses.
The TDI-R18 is a semi-structured interview that is an adaptation of the TDI for consistency with DSM-IV-TR criteria. It was used in this study to diagnose TTM and chronic hair pulling.
The NEO-FFI15 is a 60-item self-report instrument that measures the "Big Five" personality traits of neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. Neuroticism measures the tendency to experience negative affect, including anxiety, depression, anger, guilt, and disgust. Extraversion measures social engagement, cheerfulness, and liveliness. Openness to experience assesses intellectual curiosity, desire for change, and aesthetic awareness. Agreeableness captures "trust, altruism, and sympathy." Conscientiousness measures an emphasis on achieving goals and observance of principles. Each NEO-FFI subscale has acceptable to good internal consistency (α ranges from 0.75 to 0.83).
The MIST-A13 is a 15-item self-report scale with separate subscales measuring automatic (five items) and focused (10 items) pulling. Items on each subscale are averaged to create an automatic and focused pulling score. Both scales have acceptable internal consistency and good construct and divergent validity.
T tests and chi-square analyses were used to compare cases and controls on demographic variables (age, gender, and ethnicity).
In study 1, we ran two different logistic regressions for case-control group comparisons to best approximate the interrelatedness of the five NEO-FFI traits and deal with issues of multicollinearity. As there was a very strong correlation between DASS depression and DASS anxiety (r = 0.730), and depression was more strongly correlated with the dependent variable (case-control status) than anxiety, we only controlled for DASS depression in this regression. The first hierarchical logistic regression (Table 3) was performed controlling for DASS depression with all the NEO traits except neuroticism. Neuroticism was not included in this regression due to concerns regarding multicollinearity, given a very strong correlation between DASS depression and neuroticism (r = 0.732). Running a separate regression with neuroticism as the only predictor would present a biased representation of its relationship with TTM. Thus, a second logistic regression (Table 4) was done with neuroticism as well as the other four NEO-FFI traits entered as a block.
95%CI = 95% confidence interval; DASS = Depression Anxiety Stress Scale; df = degrees of freedom; SE = standard error.
95%CI = 95% confidence interval; df = degrees of freedom; SE = standard error.
In study 2, multiple regression analysis was used to investigate the extent to which NEO-FFI scores separately predicted MGH-HPS hair pulling severity and control scores for our cases after controlling for DASS depression and anxiety scores. DASS depression and anxiety were not very strongly correlated with each other in this sample (r = 0.570), so we controlled for both in the multiple regressions. Next, multiple regression analyses examined NEO-FFI scores as predictors of the focused and automatic hair pulling styles while controlling for depression, anxiety, hair pulling severity, and control over hair pulling.
Do NEO-FFI personality domains predict TTM diagnosis?
Means ± standard deviations for cases and controls for the variables used in study 1 were: NEO neuroticism (cases: 26.52±9.60, controls: 18.28±8.08); NEO extraversion (cases: 28.26±6.66, controls: 32.92±6.09); NEO openness (cases: 29.43±7.32, controls: 31.84±6.15); NEO agreeableness (cases: 33.56±6.81, controls: 35.36±5.25); NEO conscientiousness (cases: 31.65±7.89, controls: 35.72±6.96); and DASS depression (cases: 8.26±9.76, controls: 2.32±3.82).
In the first logistic regression, DASS Depression was entered into step one of the hierarchical logistic regression and the four other NEO-FFI domain scores were entered as a block in step two (Table 3). None of these four traits were significant in the regression after controlling for DASS depression. Subsequently, logistic regression with the NEO traits entered as a block in step one showed that TTM cases had significantly higher neuroticism scores than controls (Table 4). For each one-point increase in a participant's neuroticism score, there was a 10% greater chance of the participant having TTM.
Do NEO-FFI scores predict hair pulling severity and control scores?
Means ± standard deviations for the variables used in study 2 were: NEO neuroticism (28.20±8.86); NEO extraversion (26.92±7.17); NEO openness (30.28±6.99); NEO agreeableness (33.78±6.35); NEO conscientiousness (31.68±7.23); DASS depression (8.12±8.82); DASS anxiety (5.38±6.29); MGH-HPS severity (7.96±2.68); MGH-HPS control (6.90±2.37); MIST-A focused (4.33±1.46); and MIST-A automatic (5.20±1.56).
In our first hierarchical regression (Table 5) with MGH-HPS severity as the dependent variable, DASS depression and anxiety scores were entered into step one. DASS scores did not significantly contribute to our model (R2 = 2.3%, adjusted R2 = 1.1%, p = 0.154). In step two, NEO-FFI domain scores were entered into our model and accounted for an additional 8.7% of the variance in MGH-HPS severity scores (R2 change = 0.087; F-change5,156 = 3.04, p = 0.012). Upon further examination, neuroticism, openness, and agreeableness were each significant predictors within this model. Higher neuroticism and openness and lower agreeableness were associated with greater hair pulling severity. Each of these NEO domain scores demonstrated small to medium effect sizes.
β = standardized coefficient; DASS = Depression Anxiety Stress Scale; MGH-HPS = Massachusetts General Hospital Hair Pulling Scale; SE = standard error.
*p < 0.05; † p < 0.01.
In our second hierarchical regression with MGH-HPS control as the dependent variable, DASS depression and anxiety scores were entered into step one (R2 = 4.4%, adjusted R2 = 3.2%, p = 0.028). In step two, NEO-FFI domain scores were entered into our model and accounted for an additional 8.2% of the variance in MGH-HPS control scores (R2 change = 0.082; F-change5,156 = 2.91, p = 0.015). Upon further examination, only neuroticism was a significant predictor within this model. Higher neuroticism was associated with less control over hair pulling, demonstrating a medium effect size.
Do NEO-FFI scores predict focused and automatic pulling style scores?
We performed another hierarchical regression, with MIST-A focused score as the dependent variable (Table 6). DASS depression and anxiety scores, as well as MGH-HPS severity and control scores, were all entered into step one (R2 = 9.0%, adjusted R2 = 6.7%, p = 0.005). In step two, NEO-FFI domain scores were entered into our model (p = 0.000) and accounted for an additional 13.0% of the variance in MIST-A focused scores (R2 change = 0.130; F-change5,154 = 5.149, p < 0.001). Upon further examination, neuroticism and openness were each significant predictors within this model. Higher neuroticism and lower openness were associated with greater amounts of focused pulling, with neuroticism demonstrating a medium effect size and openness a small effect size.
β = standardized coefficient; DASS = Depression Anxiety Stress Scale; MGH-HPS = Massachusetts General Hospital Hair Pulling Scale; MIST-A = Milwaukee Inventory for Subtypes of Trichotillomania-Adult; SE = standard error.
In the second multiple regression model, MIST-A automatic score was the dependent variable. DASS depression and anxiety scores and MGH-HPS severity and control scores were again entered into step one (R2 = 2.5%, adjusted R2 = 0.1%, p = 0.394) and NEO-FFI domain scores into step two (R2 change = 0.042; F-change5,154 = 1.377, p = 0.236). This model was not significantly predictive of MIST-A automatic pulling scores.
Our initial analyses revealed that increased neuroticism scores from the NEO-FFI were predictive of classification as a TTM case and are consistent with the earlier claim of Costa & McCrae15 that neuroticism may confer generic vulnerability for the development of many psychological disorders. Furthermore, our analysis revealed the extent of the relationship between neuroticism and a diagnosis of hair pulling; to wit, a mere one-point increase in neuroticism scores provides a 10% greater chance of TTM diagnosis when compared to controls. None of the other four NEO-FFI personality domain traits predicted case vs. control group status after controlling for depression.
To our knowledge, this is the first study to explore the relationships between personality traits and pulling severity and control plus hair pulling style. Our analyses indicate that neuroticism is a significant predictor of both hair pulling severity and control even after controlling for depression and anxiety severity. This makes sense given that affective variables are known triggers for hair pulling. Additionally, those with strong emotions are likely to have less emotional resilience to resist pulling urges, resulting in lowered hair pulling control scores. In addition, openness and agreeableness were also significant predictors of hair pulling severity. A positive correlation was reported between hair pulling severity and openness such that greater openness is associated with greater pulling severity. As openness increases, the individual is more aware of, and immersed in, their feelings; accordingly, they may be more likely to feel distress, which subsequently triggers greater pulling severity. Conversely, a negative correlation was reported between agreeableness and hair pulling severity. Thus, individuals with greater pulling severity are less likely to be interpersonally receptive and trusting, either because they are absorbed in their hair pulling experiences or worried about the responses of others due to their apparent hair loss.
Our analyses examining the predictive role of NEO-FFI personality domains for hair pulling style revealed a significant role for both neuroticism and openness in the focused style of pulling. Both higher neuroticism and lower openness predicted more focused pulling. It makes intuitive sense that neuroticism would predict focused pulling, given the prominent role of affective variables in focused pulling. This is in contrast to automatic pulling, which occurs with minimal awareness, often in sedentary situations with low levels of stimulation. The predictive value of openness for focused pulling (after controlling for depression, anxiety, and hair pulling severity and control) was the opposite relationship from what we previously reported for openness and hair pulling severity. This may be attributable to the fact that MGH-HPS severity scores are a composite of scores on four items, including both urge and pulling severity. It is possible that those who are more open to their experiences may report strong urges yet may also be more accepting of them and less likely to engage in pulling behavior. Future research should investigate the relationships between openness and the four individual item scores comprising MGH-HPS severity scores. As anticipated, NEO-FFI personality domains were not shown to be predictive of automatic pulling.
It would be useful for future studies to employ the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI-R),15 a lengthier version of the NEO-FFI with six individual facets within each of the "Big Five" personality domains. Specification of the "lower order" personality variables associated with TTM would facilitate our understanding of TTM. It would also illuminate how TTM differs from other obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, given the finding of Rector et al.23 that variance in NEO-FFM facet ratings accounts for > 50% of the variance among disorders.
Given the cross-sectional nature of this study, the directionality of our findings is unclear and longitudinal investigations are needed. Thus, it is unclear if the tendency to experience negative affect (i.e., neuroticism) predisposes individuals to the development of hair pulling (as suggested by Costa & McCrae15), whether hair pulling causes neuroticism, or whether there is a bidirectional relationship between the two variables. Similarly, reduced agreeableness can lead to social aloofness and more opportunity to engage in hair pulling, or individuals may become less interpersonally engaged as a result of their hair pulling or, once again, there might be a bidirectional relationship between the two variables. Thus, prospective studies would shed light on the temporal relationships between these variables. Alternatively, studies examining personality facets and traits before and after successful treatment would also clarify directionality of effect. This additional data will optimize identification of treatment targets both prophylactically and after disorder onset.
It also bears mention that hair pulling can occur in organic or neurodevelopmental disorders such as Tourette's syndrome (TS).24 This is not surprising, given the widely recognized relationship between TTM, TS, and OCD.25 Given differences in comorbid personality profiles for TS26 and the earlier age of onset of tics, it may be the case that personality may mediate pulling behavior differently in those with TS. Alternatively, an entirely different mechanism may account for the development of hair pulling in individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders.
Examination of personality dimensions in TTM parallels the inclusion of dimensional rating scales in DSM-5.27 Exploration of the relationships between personality variables and psychopathology is consistent with the recent NIMH Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) initiative. This effort promotes the study of broad dimensional characteristics across different diagnostic entities in an effort to understand the overlapping and unique variables that contribute to disorder development. Future studies should compare personality dimensions in TTM with other obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders to help identify both overlapping and unique personality features.
We gratefully recognize financial support for this project from the Trichotillomania Learning Center, Inc. (TLC) and its BFRB Precision Medicine Initiative, as well as the Greater Kansas City Foundation. We also wish to express our gratitude to Lisa Osiecki who provided assistance with data management and to Amanda Falcon and Miriam Frank who performed data input and cleaning.
Disclosure NJK, CAF, and DLP are members of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Trichotillomania Learning Center. NJK is also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the International Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Foundation and receives royalties from New Harbinger, Inc. She also has equity interest in Johnson & Johnson, Merck & Co., Inc., Pfizer, Inc., and Procter & Gamble Co. The other authors report no conflicts of interest.


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Child-trafficking and prostitution; a prospect of easy-money
"When 'Shakti Vahini' rescued Babita from a brothel at Agra, she was almost unrecognizable. The 16-year-old Babita hardly had any resemblance to the photo her family had provided to the NGO workers, who work across the country and if needed wage a war against child traffickers and abusers from time to time." - By Mahi Nur
Sex Trafficking: South Florida's Youngest Victims
"...Laura finally turned up on her mother's doorstep 10 days later, with a flower tattoo, bruised, beaten and raped." - By Megan Hadley
Patchwork of programs serve child sex-trafficking victims
"Not long after the last time Cecilia Roberts was sent to an Atlanta hotel to be sold for sex, the then-17-year-old was in a residential facility for girls like her, recovering from the trauma of trafficking as she helped prosecutors convict two adults she had turned to when she needed a place to stay." - By JAMIE STENGLE and EMILY SCHMALL


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NPS acts fairly quickly to maintain one concessioner's ability to provide services to the public in the wake of Hurricane Sandy: but other questions remain
Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP
United Kingdom February 4 2013
Back in the fall, hurricane Sandy destroyed the 350 slips at the Nichols Great Kills Marina on Staten Island, a Marina run by a small concessioner with a right of preference. The concessions contract expired on December 31, 2012. Based on the belief that marina services would not be possible in 2013, NPS did not renew the contract.
Consistent with the terms of the concession contract, the concessioner insured the facilities. As such, the concessioner wanted its contract renewed with the insurance proceeds being used to rebuild the facilities. After much discussion, NPS largely agreed – the contract was not renewed but the concessioner was given a three-year extension to avoid an interruption of visitor services, the concessioner is rebuilding the marina (and getting Leasehold Surrender Interest for it) and will be operating this season.
Not a bad ending (although much of that is because the facility was insured and the unavailability of the Park facilities occurred outside the normal operating season). The situation, however, raises other questions that have come up in the wake of Sandy that include
How will/should NPS deal with its concessioners where the Park is not operating due to things like uninsured damage to Park infrastructure or Park Service delay in reopening the park (factors which are greatly exacerbated where the concessioner would otherwise have been operating, covering its fixed costs, keeping its key employees busy and making a profit)?
CONCESSIONERS MAY HAVE TO FOREGO VISITOR FEES AT NATIONAL FOREST SITES
Recently, Bark, a not-for-profit corporation, and five other members of the Western Slope No-Fee Coalition, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia challenging the imposition of visitor fees at five National Forest sites across the country – Rose Canyon Lake, Second Crossing, Rampart Reservoir, Walton Lake, and Big Eddy. The plaintiffs claim that these fees, and the lack of public involvement in deciding the fees, violate the Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act ("REA").
The suit is reminiscent of Scherer v. U.S. Forest Service – a 2011 suit filed by Western Slope members challenging visitor fees charged at the Mount Evans Recreation Area in Colorado. In that case, the Tenth Circuit declined to hold that all fees violated the REA, but found, however, that the Forest Service may be in violation when a plaintiff challenges having to pay "the amenity fee only for picnicking and undesignated parking" and other non-amenity, undeveloped recreation, as those are "activities for which no fee is supposed to be charged under [the REA]." Based on this finding, the Scherer plaintiffs subsequently filed a second suit, which the Forest Service settled by agreeing to waive fees against persons who did not use the Forest facilities or who used undeveloped land in the area.
It remains to be seen whether Bark's suit in another circuit will repeat the success of Scherer and spur fee waivers in National Forests across the country.
IF THE CONCESSIONS MANAGEMENT IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1998 IS GOING TO BE CHANGED – A FEW NUTS AND BOLTS SUGGESTIONS
There has been talk about reexamining and seeking to amend the Concessions Management Improvement Act. (Of course, whether Congress is in the mood for such changes remains to be seen.) However, while the discussion seems to be around big changes in the lawnamely, LSI, right of preference and exceptions to the use of a competitive process - there are lots of nuts and bolts changes to the law that would make lots of sense. These would include
Requiring NPS to use factors (and subfactors) which lend themselves to comparative qualitative analysis
i.e., instead of asking for an offeror to describe the qualities of an ideal employee for a specific position, require offerors to: identify an individual and outline his/her qualifications and experience and indicate that the higher the individual's relevant qualifications the higher the score that will be assigned.
Precluding NPS from giving an offeror evaluation credit merely for providing informational material such as "who is the offeror" (What this does is simply make every tenth of a point all the more precious in other factors.)
Requiring NPS to give less evaluation credit to an offeror's experience depending on the dissimilarity of the visitor service to which that experience relates.
Precluding NPS from using secondary factors that simply reiterate principal factors.
Allowing or even requiring NPS, like other contracting agencies, to point out deficiencies in an offeror's proposal and allowing the offeror to correct those deficiencies.
Requiring NPS (like most other agencies) to use a 1000 point scoring system rather than the approximately 30 point system adopted by the agency. Indeed, under the current system
the total value of a subfactor is frequently only 1.25 points which does not give NPS much room for fine distinctions, and
the loss of even ½ a point can be the difference between an offeror's getting or not getting an award.
Simply making it more difficult for an offeror who writes a good proposal to be evaluated more highly than an offeror with specific experience and a proven track record doing work of the type required.
Mandating that the standard concession contract provide additional time to the concessioner where the Park is closed due to unanticipated circumstances beyond the control of either the concessioner or NPS and/or for an equitable adjustment of the franchise fee and the contract length where NPS actions or inactions result in increased costs/loss of profit to the concessioner.
NON-DISPLACEMENT OF QUALIFIED WORKERS UNDER SERVICE CONTRACTS
Pursuant to a new Rule issued by the Department of Labor, when a service contract expires, the follow-on contract for the same service at the same location must include a clause requiring the successor contractor to give the predecessor's employees a right of first refusal of employment for positions for which they are qualified under the succeeding contract.
The Rule applies to service contracts exceeding $150,000. No less than ten days before an existing contract expires, the outgoing contractor must give the contracting office a certified list of all service employees who worked under the contract during the last month of contract performance. The successor contractor must then determine the number of employees necessary for efficient performance of the contract. It may elect to employ fewer employees than that employed by the preceding contract. Subsequently, the contractor must make a bona fide express offer of employment to qualified employees (other than managerial and supervisory employees) under the preceding contract; the offer must include the amount of time (no less than ten days) within which the employee must accept such offer.
Importantly, successor contractors may retain their own employees to work on the follow-on contract instead of the predecessor's employees if the former have been employed by the successor contractor for at least three months prior to commencement of the new contract, and would otherwise face layoff or discharge. Additionally, successors are not required to employ incumbent employees who will be retained by the outgoing contractor, who were hired by the predecessor contractor to work on both federal and nonfederal service contracts as part of a single job, or who failed to perform suitably on their previous job. Finally, the Rule does not protect managerial and supervisory employees, and employees who are not service employees within the meaning of the Service Contract Act.
ARE PERMANENT CONCESSION RIGHTS, PROVIDED UNDER SPECIFIC STATUTE, SUPERSEDED BY THE COMPETITIVE BIDDING REQUIREMENT OF CONCESSIONS MANAGEMENT IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 1998? (PART 2)
In our last newsletter, we reported on the Turner family, who claimed that their exclusive rights to operate the Triangle X Ranch as a concession in the Grand Teton National Park (GTNP) had been violated by the NPS, when it began soliciting competitive proposals to run the ranch. The Turners filed suit, claiming that the 1950 GTNP Act (GTNA) granted them lifetime rights to the property, while the NPS argued that the concessions contract did not qualify the Turners for lifetime rights. The Court ruled against the Turners and found that by the express provisions of the GTNA, the privileges held by the Turners did not constitute property interests cognizable under the QTA. Although the Turners failed to win their fight in court, the NPS recently announced that they had been selected to continue running the ranch as a concessioner pursuant to the competitive bidding process.
BILL TO GIVE VETERANS NATIONAL PARK WORK BOGS DOWN IN SENATE
Before adjourning for the elections, Senate Republicans blocked a new bill that was designed to establish a job program for veterans, fueling allegations that the legislation had been derailed by partisanship. The proposed job program would have provided veterans with jobs in national parks and other federal, state and local lands, and in fire and police departments. However, opponents claimed that the bill's $1 billion budget violated the Budget Control Act spending limits that Congress had agreed to last year, and that approving the program would be futile without evaluating the effectiveness of existing veteran training programs. It remains to be seen whether the veterans committee will advance another bill with a reduced budget.
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2006 Top Ten: R. Emmet Sweeney
Posted by R. Emmet Sweeney on December 18th
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2. Climates
3. L'Enfant
4. Pan's Labyrinth
5. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
6. Breaking News
7. Clean
8. Inside Man
9. La Moustache
10. Stick It
"Inland Empire" and "Stick It" would make a canny double bill. In their own ways, through muddy nightmare and candy-colored dream, they examine the use and abuse of the female body (by Hollywood and the gymnastic-industrial complex) while gleefully celebrating the performers' reclamation of their own agency. Both are love letters to their actresses — with Lynch's howling ode lifting Laura Dern to cinematic sainthood, while Jessica Bendinger's sprightly hiccup of a movie turns Missy Peregrym into more of a sassy film girl scout leader.
Any of the following could have slipped into the bottom three depending on my mood: "Three Times," Dave Chappelle's "Block Party," "Volver," "The Proposition," "The Hidden Blade," "Miami Vice," "Flags of Our Fathers," "Borat," "Running Scared" and "A Prairie Home Companion."
The film event of the year, hands down, was the American Museum of the Moving Image's screening of "Out 1," Jacques Rivette's legendary 12 1/2 hour whatzit. Only the sixth time it's been shown in theatres since 1971, it pits two rehearsals of Aeschylus against a rapidly expanding conspiracy plot traced back to Balzac's "The History of the Thirteen." The fiction multiplies like a fungus and lingers in the brain for weeks.
What I'm looking forward to in '07: Jia Zhangke's "Still Life" (if any distributor is brave enough to pick it up) and "The Bourne Ultimatum."


- Through time we can understand "why" God gives us certain commandments, but those reasons shouldn't ever be the primary reason for obeying them. The primary reason should always be to obey God.
- More important that knowing more doctrine is living what we know.
- One reason we don't help or give service is because we think they can get along fine without our help.
- We are here (on the mission) to help people recognize the Holy Ghost, including ourselves.
- [President] The majority of doctrine is not found in the scriptures but rather from the Holy Ghost.
- If we ask for mercy in prayer, why don't we ask for mercy for other people instead of justice?
- As missionaries we don't inherently have the right for people to listen to us and care, we have to earn it.
- There is NO advantage in being a realist if we are expecting miracles.
- As sons of God we have rights.
- When someone appears the maddest, it could be that they are the saddest.
- Why does it matter that we are LDS if we're not different (fruits) to the community?
- God doesn't reward us for the convenient things we do, but rather rewards us for the inconvenient ones.
- If the gospel doesn't produce happiness in our lives then there is something wrong.
- When you have covenanted with the Lord the only answer is "yes."
- [Elder Bradford] Spirituality is measured by what we're thinking about during the Sacrament.
-We should pray to be instruments in the Lord's hands and look for the opportunities to help bring to pass His will.
- God lifts us to His level, we don't bring Him down to ours.
- We go on the mission to learn how to be a good member. We go home to be one.
- I know more, am I doing more?
Okay, I know, some of these are a bit trite, some are a bit obvious, and some are kinda off the mark, but after reviewing them again (it's been like six years) I found a few of them to be quite nice.
Anyone else write their most profound thoughts down?