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FAST 2019 SEMINAR ON RESEARCH AGAINST CHILDREN'S CANCER
The 6th edition of our FAST conference on research took place on Saturday, February 16th, in the Senate in Paris.
This annual meeting, which aims to bring together the main players in pediatric oncology research – doctors, researchers, drug manufacturers, institutions, parliamentarians, politicians, parents' and patients' associations, research foundations – was an opportunity to discuss recent advances in this area, the fruit of strong actions in 2018 and the commitment to go even further in 2019.
"I attended all the conferences [FAST]. We are at a turning point this year, we can feel it." Pr. Jacqueline Godet, President of the League against Cancer
Indeed, this year, the FAST conference showed how solid actions allows concrete progress: real progress in terms of funding, regulation and research were made in 2018. The various calls for action that were made at the 2018 seminar have all made progress and allowed for us to arrive at a real turning point.
SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE SINCE THE LAST CONFERENCE:
1. Promising regulatory progress made in 2018
To accelerate early access to innovative drug trials:
An accelerated procedure "Fast Track" dedicated to innovative drugs at the ANSM and a review of the lottery of the CPP (Committees for the Protection of People)
To improve the management of pediatric cancers:
Bill proposal by Nathalie Elimas, voted unanimously in the National Assembly in November 18 and in the Senate in February 19.
2. An additional € 5m of funds granted by the Ministry of Research in late 2018 to support basic research:
The Minister for Research, Frédérique Vidal, announced during the conference (by video message) three concrete measures discussed with the associations that will be led by the INCa in 2019:
A mapping of the state of pediatric oncology research will be done to identify the "seeds of future knowledge";
A series of interdisciplinary seminars will be organised to allow scientists from very different worlds to meet and discuss how their tools and disciplines can contribute to the issue of pediatric oncology.
Invitations will be made to "young researchers" to train a dozen French researchers and attract foreign researchers, thus promoting international exchanges.
3. Research is advancing into ultra-personalised treatments, such as Car-T Cell and immunotherapy that allow new remissions in certain cancers (leukemias, lymphomas) and its starting to be tested in solid tumors. However, there is still considerable progress to be made to understand why immunotherapy is not as effective as in adults and to find new therapeutic targets.
"While there was only one Car-T cell center in France a year ago, there are 3 centers open today for clinical trials and laboratories are expanding to ensure there is at least one center per inter-region." Professor André Baruchel, Head of Pediatric Hematology-Immunology, Robert Debré
4. The GRAVIR and IMPACT collectives, whose creation was announced at the 2018 seminar, presented their operations, their objectives and their fields of action. These two unpublished groups bring together very different and complementary research actors: parents' and patients' associations, doctors, researchers, research foundations and drug manufacturers. Their creation is a great step forward that will allow us to work together better and to use different areas of expertise to accelerate research.
THE MAJOR CHALLENGES FOR ACCELERATING ARE NOW:
The collaboration of researchers with key figures in artificial intelligenceto analyse patients' tumour data to better understand pediatric cancers and to further and better cure children and young people.
"Our goal is to create partnerships with research institutes to bring our expertise in Artificial Intelligence without ever holding patient data" Matahi Moarii, Owkin Company
"The real challenge is that we generate phenomenal amounts of information and data on a daily basis that we are not able to exploit. The vision and ambition is to use this data to answer questions that cannot be answered otherwise." Pr Gilles Vassal, Director of Clinical Research, Gustave Roussy
2. The implementation of a global and common strategy of private and public research funding so that researchers do not waste valuable time looking for funds to finance their programs. This issue will be the subject of a future working group.
"The majority of projects are underfunded. If the funding is pooled it could be an an extremely interesting piste to pursue." Pr André Baruchel, Head of Pediatric Hematology-Immunology, Robert Debré
"I am delighted that these aspects of funding poolingare emerging to get to a critical mass of funding that will allow progress." Dr. Olivier Delattre, Director of the SIREDO Oncology Center, Curie Institute
"We want to go even further, have a common strategy, so that we can find new ideas for funding research and everyone can participate." Patricia Blanc, President of Imagine for Margo
The Minister of Solidarities and Health, Agnès Buzyn, has renewed her support, by video message, for the actions that we carry out:
"As Minister of Solidarities and Health, I feel fully implicated and fully committed to you"
200 participants were present during this fruitful day of exchanges. The diversity of stakeholders and roundtable participants allowed for very constructive discussions.
Policies: Agnès Buzyn, Minister of Solidarities and Health (by video) and Frédérique Vidal, Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (by video)
Parliamentarians: Catherine Deroche, Senator of Maine et Loire, President of the Cancer Group in the Senate; Nathalie Elimas, member of the Val d'Oise and co-chair of the cancer study group at the National Assembly; Marta de Cidrac, Senator of Yvelines; Michel Lauzzana, Member of Parliament for Lot-et-Garonne and co-chair of the cancer study group at the National Assembly (by video)
Institutional: Norbert Ifrah (President of INCa) and Pr Christine Chomienne (INCa), Elodie Chapel and Lotfi Boudali (ANSM); David Simhon (President of the IDF Protection Committee);
Researchers and doctors: Pr Gilles Vassal, Dr. Dominique Valteau-Couanet, Dr. Pablo Berlanga Charriel and Syvain Besle (Gustave Roussy); Professor Virginie Gandemer (SFCE); Professor André Baruchel (Robert Debré); Dr. Olivier Delattre (Institut Curie)
Industrialists: Laure Lechertier (BMS Foundation), Thomas Borel (LEEM)
Private Sector: Matahi Moari (OWKIN)
Other associations and Foundations: Francois Dupré (ARC Foundation); Jacqueline Godet (Pte of the League against Cancer); Muriel Hattab (President of the Princess Margot Association); Frédéric Brochard (Hubert Gouin); Anne Goeres (DG Kriibskrank Kanner Foundation)
Parents of sick children: Lise Marzouk, author of "Si" published by Gallimard, mother of a little boy in remission
"Advances in pediatric oncology are a priority for all of us and we want results as quickly as possible." Frederic Vidal, Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation
"We must increase our efforts to find treatments for incurable (pediatric) cancers; and we must also improve the quality of life for children who are recovering" Agnès Buzyn, Minister of Health and Solidarity
"Liberty, equality, fraternity … Yes, let us fight again so that all our children have the FREEDOM to grow up. Let us always remain active so that our children benefit from EQUAL TREATMENT. Let's cooperate more and more so that FRATERNITY and national solidarity are more and more efficient. "
"This symposium has become a key event in this domaine. Indespensable and necessary because giving into the disease is inconceivable, as is he loss of a child. It's not something that should happen. "
Marta de Cidrac, Senator of Yvelines, member of the cancer study group in the Senate
"We are in a complete paradigm shift: the tremendous progress ahead of us will be made pathology by pathology. There needs to be dedicated research to each pediatric cancer." Olivier Delattre, Director of the SIREDO Oncology Center, Institut Curie
"FAST Symposium because we want it: MOVE FORWARD FASTER, do not waste time on research, and quickly heal and improve the health of more children and adolescents with cancer » Patricia Blanc, President of Imagine for Margo
"We are clearly moving faster" Gilles Vassal, Director of Clinical Research at Gustave Roussy, President of ITCC


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Government trebles fund to help schools tackle homophobic bullying
Billy Camden
18 Jul 2016, 5:00
Poorer pupil progress 'increasingly difficult' to measure
Ombudsman wants to intervene over academy admission disputes
Government funding to help train teachers how to tackle homophobic, biphobic and transphobic (HBT) bullying has been trebled to nearly £3 million.
Nicky Morgan, the former education secretary, originally announced in March that only £1 million was available to spend on HBT projects over the next three years, half of what was spent in 2014.
But the Department for Education (DfE) announced a cash injection of up to £2.8 million last week following a review of the department's finances, along with the evaluation of its HBT programme last year.
The cash boost will be welcomed by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) campaigners, including popstar Will Young (pictured) who made a passionate plea at the Festival of Education last month for more funding.
Young said the fund of £2 million in 2014 was not enough. "When I look at the money being spent in other areas, it doesn't marry up. There needs to be more money."
The DfE said the additional cash will help provide "sustainability" and give the awarded projects more time to "set in place the necessary changes" in behaviour and culture within schools.
When the additional funding was announced, Morgan said: "Every child should grow up in an environment that allows them to reach their full potential.
"This new £2.8m funding will go further than ever before – helping to support our brilliant teachers to create supportive and inclusive environments for their pupils."
David Weston, chief executive of the Teacher Development Trust and co-ordinator of Outteacher.org, said Morgan, who was sacked as education secretary in prime minister Theresa May's reshuffle last week, leaves a "proud legacy" of tackling this issue "head on".
David Weston
He told Schools Week: "It's a scandal that young LGBT adults are so much more likely to suffer from mental health issues including depression and self-harm. A significant contributor to this is HBT bullying.
"This additional funding will support some significant and welcome expansion of the work to increase teachers' understanding and skill in this vital area."
Stonewall, a leading charity for LGBT rights, has said 99 per cent of LGBT young people hear homophobic language, while "trans and gender-variant young people also report extremely high levels of bullying" in schools.
The charity's head of projects and programmes, Dominic Arnall, said the new government funding is "vital to help establish safe and inclusive classrooms, where all children feel welcome and can reach their full potential".
Last year, the DfE's HBT programme involved eight projects from different organisations including Barnado's, Show Racism the Red Card and the National Children's Bureau, which gathered evidence on what works to prevent bullying.
The Anne Frank Trust, for example, was given £104,894 to run workshops educating young people about prejudice and impact of the Holocaust on LGBT people, and Show Racism the Red Card was given £119,557 to hold workshops with 2,000 young people at football clubs and run a film competition.
As a result of the projects, participating school staff reported an increase from 25 to 85 per cent of sufficient knowledge of different strategies they could use to address HBT bullying.
Confidence in being able to address transphobic language rose from 40 to 93 per cent, and knowledge of where to access good practice in challenging HBT bullying went up from 19 to 82 per cent.
Applications for a chunk of the new funding can be submitted here: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search

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We live in Central Florida, our primary residence; this home over 500 miles away.
Immediately after purchasing our "million dollar view" lot, the economy went south, making it virtually impossible to locate any "comps" required to secure a loan in the dollar amount needed for the house plans we had chosen.
David, Brook and Andy worked very hard along with the appraiser in helping us to get our loan secured.
The Providence "family's" expertise, guidance and coaching from the pre-ground and ground-up was part of our everyday experience, literally. There were very few days that went by without communication from them in some form: email, phone calls, mail delivery samples. Decisions that needed to be made were always presented in a timely manner so that there were no "haste makes waste" situations. Cost expectation was given much discussion—we were always given 3 price points to choose from. Budget was always a consideration and topic of conversation. Almost weekly we received emailed images of how our home was progressing. We were even given a hard copy picture album of our home in progress. We were only able to site visit our home 3 times during the 9 month "birthing" process. I never felt anxiety or lack of trust. With David's engineering skills, Jimmie's site skills, Andy's people and organization skills, and their choice of top-level subcontractors, we actually had painless FUN.
Providence Custom Homes is what they say they are.
I am convinced that whatever you can dream, David can engineer it; whatever your construction problem, Jimmie can solve it; whatever your desired appointment for your home, Andy can make it happen.
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Will the state's courts redraw school-district lines?
In Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville wrote that language in democracies is characterized by almost limitless malleability. Democracies turn the concrete into the abstract, and as a result, words become like boxes "with a false bottom": what you take out can be entirely different from what you put in.
There is hardly a better illustration of this linguistic magic trick than "adequacy" litigation—lawsuits that press the government to provide additional funding for schools. Adequacy advocates have successfully invoked the education clauses of state constitutions, not only to secure billions of dollars in additional school spending but also to lay claim to an array of new rights, for instance, that every student is entitled to have "sufficient grounding in the arts . . . to appreciate his or her cultural and historical heritage," as the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled in 1989 in Rose v. Council for Better Education, the nation's first adequacy lawsuit.
Despite this nod of support for the plaintiffs, one doubts that the court would actually engage in a wholesale redrawing of school-district maps in Minnesota. When the federal courts did that in Detroit, the backlash helped George Wallace win the Michigan Democratic presidential primary in 1972. As well, many African American leaders within the charter-school movement oppose the lawsuit. After the state supreme court's decision, Charvez Russell, the African American director of Minneapolis's Friendship Academy of the Arts, which is 96 percent minority, criticized the suit, saying, "The truth is, an environment like Friendship Academy serves students of color much better, which is why parents choose us." Thus, if this lawsuit goes anywhere, it will likely morph into a traditional adequacy lawsuit, with the state supreme court demanding more spending and the state legislature complying to some degree. Judicial mapmaking faded away in the 1970s, and this lawsuit probably won't bring it back.


Welcome to Day 17 of Christmas Card-a-Day! To see previous cards, please click here.
Today's card comes to us from Brenda Becknell. Look how she used twine to form the letter 'O!" Read below for details.
"This is a 3.75" x 8.5" card so it will fit into a standard business envelope.
I punched 1.25" circles from light weight chipboard and ran them through my Xyron, then applied red and white bakers' twine in a spiral pattern to make the "peppermint" o's. The H's were cut with my Cricut and the Storybook cartridge, and I added a punched border strip with the Fiskars Threading Water punch."
Thanks, Brenda! Please visit her at her blog here.
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Red Raiders due to report for preseason football camp on Friday
Tommy Tuberville disclosed after last season that he went into his first year as Texas Tech football coach thinking his new team could win nine games. A lot of injuries got in the way of that, and the Red Raiders ended up one short of the target.
Tuberville's on the brink of his second go-round as the Red Raiders, coming off an 8-5 season and a TicketCity Bowl triumph, open preseason camp by reporting Friday and holding their first workout at 10 a.m. Saturday.
"We kind of held our own last year with a few older players," Tuberville said. "This year, we're going to have to be patient with a lot of young guys that I think are talented. With our offense, I think we're going to be able to score a lot of points. I'm anxious to see our defense get better. If we do, we'll have a chance to beat anybody. Now, being able to put it back to back, week to week is going to be tough."
When Tech players get back on the field, they'll pick up where they left off in at least two key areas - new defensive coordinator Chad Glasgow trying to improve a 114th-ranked defense, and Seth Doege and Jacob Karam trying to settle the quarterback job.
Glasgow, who arrived in January after a 10-year stint at TCU, had only 15 spring practices to get a read on his personnel. That, and watching video from last year when the Red Raiders were lit up for an average of 456 yards and 31 points a game.
What kind of impression did he get from going over those tapes?
"There were a ton of guys that have played and they had a ton of injuries," Glasgow said. "There were some guys that were probably thrown into some situations before they were ready to go do it because of those injuries and those things that happened. But we've got some good players and we're going to continue to try to recruit players better than the ones we have."
Tech gave up at least 34 points in five Big 12 Conference games, plus the bowl victory over Northwestern. In all, 25 players started at least one game, and 16 of the 25 are back. Tuberville said he's not worried about their mentality, and Glasgow seems to think they can shake it off.
"I think our kids are thick-skinned with it," Glasgow said. "I think the one thing that's really stood out about the kids throughout the spring and throughout the summer, they are extremely hungry. They want to be successful as a football team, but they want to be successful defensively as well. I think that's the kind of attitude they have. They've been busting their tails, and they've been working."
In terms of returning personnel, the team figures to get one boost, at least, going into camp. Cornerbacks Derrick Mays, Jarvis Phillips and Urell Johnson were all either out or limited during spring practice while recovering from injuries.
With them back in place, defensive coaches will have a better handle on their pass coverage.
Eugene Neboh will start preseason practice sidelined as he recovers from hernia surgery, but Tuberville said the other corners are back physically.
"In the spring, we were struggling with injuries and lack of depth," Tuberville said. "Same way in the fall last year. We just didn't have any corners. In this league, if you don't have pass rushers and corners, you're in trouble, and obviously we were in trouble last year. We couldn't stop anybody."
At quarterback, Doege ended spring practice in the lead, and all signs point toward him emerging as the starter, but Tuberville reiterated that he'll go about 10 days into camp before naming the No. 1.
"Seth will practice with the ones and Jacob will practice with the twos most of the time early, but we'll alternate them," Tuberville said. "Jacob's going to get that opportunity. It's been four months since we practiced. Kids grow up. They get better. Jacob's worked hard. I'm going to give him every opportunity to see what he can do.
"We're going to play the best one. It doesn't make any difference to me who the quarterback's going to be. We're looking, obviously, for leadership, dedication, hard work, then get the job done."
Tech finished spring football practice earlier than almost any other team in the nation, playing the annual Red-Black game on March 26. That was by design, mostly because Tuberville wanted a longer off-season for players to work with strength and conditioning coach Joe Walker.
"We're in much better shape than we were this time last year," Tuberville said. "Our strength coaches are thrilled with the progress that we've made - endurance, strength, upper and lower body. I think we've developed a lot of leadership qualities. We (football coaches) can't work with them, so we can't tell any of that stuff, but our strength coaches working with them can tell a lot."


First Impressions last, or so they say. When it comes to moving to Sweden, for many they easily fall in love just after a few days.
Within the last week, Malmö has seen hundreds of new students gracing its city for the first time. School officially begins in September for most students at Malmö University. As such, this early arrival gives them the opportunity not only gain some first impressions but learn some 'quick' Swedish, settle in their new homes and ignite a few friendships.
With the settling in comes a lot of conversations about Sweden and Malmö in particular. These conversations were the same conversations I had when I just arrived. I guess its quite common for us international students to gossip about new places. Nonetheless, I made the wise decision to refrain from eavesdropping and ask some students directly what their first impression of Sweden was. Some impressions were close to mine, while others were a total contrast. Here is what they said.
After setting foot in Malmö, you'll notice the lack of towering buildings that are usually the main characteristics of a 'big city'. The city spreads horizontally giving you a grand opportunity to see what nature has to offer. Bahdana, a Ukranian exchange student was really impressed by the lack of congestion in the cityscape. She loved that her eyes were not bombarded by billboards and other promotional material. She further commented that everything was well designed. We both love the fact that the city is close to the shore. So for me, it's definitely a perfect location for ultimate relaxation.
Bohdana went on to tell me of helpful the people of Malmö were. How's that for amazing first impressions? For one the city is truly multicultural, a true representation of the United Nations. This characteristic might be the reason why people are so helpful.
There is also a more relaxed frame of mind here. I give credit to the fika breaks. If you ask me, they really boost productivity. I will definitely take this with me on my next visit to Jamaica.
Despite many great impressions, this is definitely one you can't run away from. For many, the entire Scandinavian area is a little pricey. So for many students finding cheaper alternatives eg purchasing a second-hand bike rather than a new one, is a must. Many students have already asked me for tips on cheaper supermarkets and transport. Getting around this obstacle takes some planning and serious budgeting. I often suggest that students eat out less and cook together more.
Though Divya expressed her nervousness as it was her first time away from her home and family, she was very much excited for what is to come. The opportunity to meet people from different countries and cultures, visiting the countryside and the old towns in Sweden is simply priceless. I honestly agree with her, there is so much being offered that you might not see at first glance. The networking and growth opportunities that will come to you while studying abroad is truly awesome. You learn so much from others and yourself.
How did you feel when you first arrived in Sweden?
I would love to know in the comments.
Hey! I'm good at assisting you with finding study programs! Maybe you could volunteer while studying?
Your posts always make me curious to visit Malmö – perhaps soon!


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36. Promoting the new Story for Mankind
We have to face three main questions. To summarize:
The first question is why we do need such a new Story. As we tried to point out above, our free market society needs such a new base for shaping human identity and morality, one that can replace the waning old religious creation stories.
The second main question is what, if indeed we do need such a new Story, should be its content. We think that content should focus on a new, coherent, multidisciplinary sciences-based vision of human history since our emergence from ape-hood: the history we tried to outline in the first part of this book. We need not repeat that here.
The third main question is of course: given (1) we see the need for such a Story, and (2) we manage to assemble a meaningful and inspiring content for our new common Story, then (3) how should we proceed to spread it around the world, without forcing it onto people as the old religious institutions tended to do? How can we make sure that gradually, maybe slowly but nevertheless surely, it is accepted and embraced by socially responsible leaders as our new shared source of inspiration, identity, morality and social responsibility?
In our vision, developing, reconstructing and corroborating the material for this content needs to be formally established and permanently coordinated as a joint effort by all the leading universities and research institutes worldwide. Ideally, such an effort ought to be organized under auspices of, and initiated by UNESCO.
In fact, the 1948 UN Universal Declaration of Rights already hinted at the root of our new common Story, albeit in general terms. Its Preambule begins with: "Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world…" The Dutch philosopher Bernard Delfgaauw (1993) interpreted this text as: every person's humanity requires recognizing and protecting his inherent dignity. This dignity is an essential aspect of our human identity. In the scientific, religious and political context of 1948 it was not yet possible to work out more exactly what might be the basis for this human dignity and identity. But in the meantime, this may have become a little less difficult. Why?
Since then, the scientific situation has improved greatly: increased prosperity led to better funding which intensified valuable field research in disciplines such as archeology, paleoanthropology and ethology. Tremendous technical advances in research instruments and methods brought results within reach that were unthinkable a few generations ago. Thus, our factual knowledge about human history increased considerably and continues to increase rapidly.
As for the religious situation, there were major changes since 1948 as well: in their defensive struggle with rising consumer individualism and freely accessible TV and internet information, religious institutions have begun to lose (or loosen) their formerly suffocating grip on people's minds. Thinking became more free in various parts of the world and will inevitably continue to do so because the multiplying daily-life consequences of spreading free market opportunities are, quite simply and obviously, irreversible. Veiled Muslim women are desiring (and buying) French designer bags today. Even the most radical American TV evangelists or the fiercest Iranian ayatollahs are all, in the long run, fighting a lost battle.
Only the political situation may be more problematic now than it was in 1948. Perhaps our assessment should be that just like individual consumers have become more independent and self-conscious, in some ways countries, cultures and political movements have become more independent and self-conscious as well – especially outside the Western part of the world. For example, since 1948 most colonies have become politically independent countries and thus more active in demonstrating their own identity. In 1990 Muslim countries such as Sudan, Iran and Saudi Arabia launched their own alternative Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam, based on the Shariah. An openly secular UNESCO project could certainly expect heavy and well-organized political opposition from the Muslim world. Maybe such an official UNESCO project would, for the time being, be feasible in an ideal world only.
This does not mean we should give up on the idea. It does mean however, that the propagation of a new, non-religious, both scientifically founded and morally inspiring Story of Mankind should be planned carefully. This propagation should be effectuated by a series of small tactical steps, avoiding the counterproductive error of trying to do too much at once. The latter would only generate religious and conservative resistance that otherwise may be addressed more easily.
Of course we are not so naïve as to believe that religious-political resistance from various parts of the world will be avoidable – on the contrary, we expect such resistance to be very strong, fierce and emotional. Such strong reactions might actually be a good thing, as indignation and protests from conservative religious backgrounds may help to further public discussion and thus increase publicity and public awareness of the matter.
So let us try now to outline a hypothetical – indicative, nothing more – scenario in the tangible form of a possible ten-year time line. We hope, if you will allow us a little joke, that you will not confuse this proposal with something in the order of the infamous Ten Year Plans in Stalin's Soviet Russia: of course we mean something entirely different here. And of course we are aware that even the best planning will always need to be changed because of the harsh and unforeseeable reality.
Year one: This very booklet is intended as the first little step. We hope it may help convince some thinkers of the desirability and feasibility of a New Story project, inciting them to write some articles, reviews or reactions pleading for a more coordinated effort to further discuss it. This may draw a substantial number of other thinkers into a public discussion.
Year two: We hope this discussion might evolve into a kind of action group, informal at first – for example in the form of an internet forum – but gradually taking shape as a more organized group, with some kind of presidium and formal membership. The first concrete goal of this society could be to organize a congress or convention, where the society would decide on its own structure, name, goal and action plan.
Note: for the next years we assume that the actual course of events would follow from such a society's democratically agreed decisions. But in order to concretize a potential scenario, we will just fill in those next years in a hypothetical way here.
Year three: *** At this point the authors of this booklet disagree about the character of the humanosophic project, being a plea for a new basic story for mankind. The disagreement is not ideological, it emanates from a different scientific attitude. Dr. Henk Van Setten is a scientist (historian) and Frans Couwenbergh is a portraitist, be it with academic background. We agree that the free market society and its democracy, as well as the people who lost their old basic story and the youngsters who grew up without such a common narrative, need a new basic story. We agree that this new story for mankind has to be scientifically based. We disagree in the character: is it a beliefs project in the first place or is it a scientific project?
In my view it is a beliefs project. The project has to bring a new belief: in the power of mankind, the human power of consulting each other, the power of democracy. The base of this belief is the story of how we have become humans from apes: the story we told in the foregoing chapters. From the very beginning the basic stories – creation stories – were mythic. They did their unifying work without any science. Still today, in many societies the monotheistic and other basic stories function without any science. In the Western societies, the monotheistic basic story loosens it's unifying potential, not because its unscientific content but because monotheism is collectivistic: an oddness that is incompatible with the ruling free market economy that needs free consumers.
The new story for mankind will, in my view, derive its power on its completeness, it's explaining , its answers on the Big Questions. Being as scientific based as possible is helpful, but not essential. Essential is it's being there. Not as a Book, but as a never ending project. The new basic story is meant for the young people such as on the photo as well as for their addressees: both live without something: a basic story.
The project as I see it is: a broadly respected institution such as the UNESCO presents the project and appoints a small group of science writers to manage the project. The team emits a body narrative. The whole scientific world is invited to comment this body narrative. In three years the team has to process the comments as well as possible in the 'preliminary-definitive' Grand Story. In the next three years the new comments have to be processed in the second 'preliminary-definitive' Grand Story, and so it will be a never ending project, growing along with the science.
For co-author Henk van Setten, my approach is too amateurish. For him it has to become a scientific undertaking in the first place. Not the work of science writers and philosophers but of scientists. It has to result in a 500 pages volume, perfectly underpinned and provided with footnotes. Only after this standard is accomplished, the new basic Story can start functioning as a kind of scientifically based and universally acceptable Bible.
For me, the scientific component is less important than the psychological component. Mankind never in his history needed scientific underpinning of the center of its linguistical world: the creation story of it. Even the patriarchic Adam-and-Eve-story functioned two millennia without any scientific underpinning. In a free market world, wherein sciences are available, a new common origin story has to be scientifically underpinned, but it is not its most important aspect. To accomplish the new story for mankind as a scientific project, aiming a standard work, could take a hopeless quantum of years because of the different insights and viewpoints. When it comes to a standard work in the end, it will only add a volume in one's book case, such as the magnificent The human past, edited by Chris Scarre (Thames and Hudson, 2005, 781 pages) [1], € 42,50.
And the effect of all this scientific labor? In my view this approach misses the democratic impact and involvement, it misses the agitation, the commotion, the turmoil, that awakens the attention of the people worldwide. The pure scientific approach also misses the never-ending-character.
But I surmise that our dispute will equally occupy the intended convention. So let us await the conclusion of the majority.
Based on the social and academic weight of the action group and its individual representatives – we hope of course to enlist influential members from different scientific and cultural backgrounds – the convention might outline the general scope, components, goals and priorities of an international multidisciplinary research project aiming at filling the most acute gaps in our knowledge and compiling a broad "story of mankind" based on all kinds of scientific contributions. In other words, building a more or less complete overview of how humans came to exist: like what we tried to outline in the first chapters of this booklet, only much better detailed, better referenced, conforming to high academic standards.
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Film Review: Summer 1993 (Spain, 2017) is an illuminating and nuanced look at the mindset of a child in mourning
August 2, 2018 Harris Dang
It is perfectly reasonable to believe that the majority of the world sees cinema as a temporary reprieve of the burdens of the outside world. We all see enjoyably bombastic things that would never occur in real-life like dragons, magic, aliens, sea creatures; features that are proven to provide examples of powerful cinema.
But on the other side of the spectrum, witnessing stories that are incredibly realistic and true-to-life can also provide examples of powerful cinema. Case in point: Carla Simon's directorial debut, Summer 1993.
Receiving full critical acclaim from various film festivals around the world, it was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards (but it wasn't nominated). Will the film live up to its sterling reputation?
In the summer of 1993, following the death of her parents, six-year old Frida (Laia Artigas) is forced from bustling Barcelona to the Catalan provinces to live with her aunt (Bruna Cusí) and uncle (David Verdaguer), her new legal guardians.
The couple's own daughter Anna (Paula Robles), even younger than Frida, welcomes her new sister with open arms without an ounce of jealousy, but Frida has a hard time coping with her emotions in her new chapter of her life.
Even as the new family begins to find some semblance of balance, the nature of her parents' passing casts a shadow over how Frida is treated by the local community. Indeed, her life will never be the same.
A complete surprise in the best of ways, Summer 1993 is one of the best films of 2018. Let's begin to discuss why that is. The many themes in the film of death, loss, loneliness are dealt with subtlety, nuance, honesty and conviction from Carla Simon's direction.
Her filmmaking immerses the audience into the story, making them feel the summer heat (thanks to cinematographer Santiago Racaj), hear the sounds of nature like the gusts of wind and the insects buzzing (thanks to the sound editor Roger Blasco), the awkwardness and the slow-burn tension of the many conflicting emotions of the lead character.
Since the story is somewhat autobiographical to her life experiences as a child, she pulls one hell of a trick to convey those themes from the perspective of a six-year old girl. Not to mention the nature of the death as well as the reputation of Frida's parents and the time the story is set. In one particular scene, one mother even her daughter away in terror when Frida cuts her knee, scared that she might be contagious.
The film also becomes brutally honest, as we follow the actions of Frida, as she contemplates how to get some of the affection that is embraced upon her younger cousin, Anna. The passive aggression and jealousy causes her to be selfish and sometimes, shockingly cruel, especially in a scene that involves a lake that will definitely draw gasps from the audience.
But none of this would work if we don't believe in or empathize with the lead characters and Simon succeeds with flying colours, as she gets captivating performances from her child actors. In interviews, director Simon said that she simply gave direction during shooting just by standing next to the camera, giving instructions.
It was something that easy that gave us two fantastic lead actresses in both Laia Artigas and Paula Robles. Both deliver likable, believable and thankfully, naturalistic performances that lend the film the authenticity and they never act to the camera in a precocious fashion. The supporting cast consisting of Bruna Cusí and David Verdaguer, do a great job lending credibility to the film, but the stars of the film are Artigas and Robles.
What is best about Summer 1993 is that Simon never makes the film mawkishly sentimental. Every emotional moment feels genuine and earned without resorting to histrionics, blatant overuse of the stirring musical score and especially the lead performers acting all cutesy just to wring a few more tears out of the audience.
Featuring fantastic performances from its cast, sensitive and illuminating direction from director Carla Simon and an assuredly humanistic look on the mindset of a child, Summer 1993 is one of 2018's best films. Please go see this film because if we don't see the films that deserve it, we get the films that we deserve.
Review Score: FOUR AND A HALF STARS (OUT OF FIVE)
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The Times Square EDITION Hotel is the latest, most luxurious addition to the Crossroads of the World. Ian Schrager, along with Marriott International, is officially introducing the first luxury hotel as well as the first Michelin star chef to Times Square. The hotel is aiming to bring locals back to the most touristy area of Manhattan with its chic dining experiences, the creation of a new form of cabaret theater and a complete reinvention of billboard art. Schrager, the famed co-founder of Studio 54 and the father of the boutique hotel space, tells a story with each of his properties. The latest hotel is already saying a tale, featuring culture, art, fine dining and whimsicality.
Arne Sorenson, President and CEO of Marriott International explained that this hotel is "an entirely new lens on Times Square. From an aerie above to the hubbub below, you can engage, observe or withdraw. The hotel is an oasis of sophistication brought to you through the insight of the incomparable Ian Schrager, my friend and partner. There is simply nothing like it."
Dive into oasis of entertainment in the busiest part of Manhattan, The Paradise Lounge. Spearheaded by the creators of House of Yes in Bushwick, the lounge will feature creative contemporary cabaret performances with all-around menu. The shows will be part theater and part performance art with talent across many disciplines including dance, voice, costume design and even magic.
This one-of-a-kind space which features the most immersive, colorful and kinetic lighting effects designed by Tony and Academy Award-winning Fisher Marantz of Studio 54 fame, inspired by a Lenny Kravitz video, as well as bespoke hand painted murals by Bosch and Dali. Perhaps the most spectacular element of the club is the full-blown production studio and control center that allows for live simulcasts and broadcasts both locally around the world, with a jumbotron outside of the building and a high definition digital screen on the stage.
Ian Schrager, the king of nightlife, believes that room services are going to be a thing of the past, said that "the Golden Age of Times Square elicited the feeling that anything was possible. The Times Square EDITION is the embodiment of this storied past, resurrected for the present and providing hope for the future of this most beloved neighborhood."
The first Michelin-starred chef ever in Times Square, John Fraser, is creating a culinary experience as you've never seen or tasted before. Inspired by classical French, Asian, and Latin fare, Chef Fraser has put his signature mark on the lobster veloute with truffle, and champagne float along with sweet potato baked in seaweed bread. The Terrace and Outdoor Garden spaces will serve more casual dining options and the Lobby Bar won't features finger food.
With palm trees and plants, you'll feel like you're in a secret garden on the hotel's expansive terraces which were inspired by the L'Orangerie at Jardin des Tuileries in Paris. Designed by Madison Cox, this indoor landscaping effort, featuring multi-level gardens in the sky, is perhaps the largest undertaking of its. The public space interiors with their rich woods, lush velvets, waxed leathers, polished marbles and smooth metals are combined to create a luxurious setting, providing an escape from the hustle and bustle just outside the hotel's doors.
The works of renowned photographers including Helen Levitt, Elliott Erwitt, Bruce Davidson, to name a few, are on display in the entryway to The Terrace. The photographs feature honest portrayals of "the real New York City," just another way for guests to gain a glimpse into the dynamic and differing parts of the city. The place will continue to house rotating photography and art exhibits by various well-known photographers and artists.
With its cozy yet chic spaces and personalized attention, the hotel feels intimate with its 400 rooms that feature light wood interior, sweeping views from floor to ceiling windows, Playbill imprinted soaps and high-end toiletries. From handpicked tiles and marble throughout the hotel, the project is a labor of love. You will be inspired to hit the gym seeing the incredible views from the fitness center.
Conceived by Ian Schrager in a partnership with Marriott International, EDITION combines the personal, intimate and individualized experience of Schrager. This lifestyle approach to the hotel sphere coupled with the global reach of Marriott International sets it apart from any other hotel brand in the world. Experience the luxury of the newest edition of luxurious brand.
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Coverage the U.S. can't afford? Think again.
A staple of the anti-health reform chorus is that the United States can't afford the promise made to extend coverage to tens of millions more people. Even though the Congressional Budget Office has said that the legislation will reduce the deficit by about $141 billion over the 2010-2015 period, and by about a trillion dollars over twenty years, the critics don't buy it. They argue that the CBO has been wrong before, or that the savings and revenue increases underlying its analysis will never happen, or that the CBO didn't take into account the costs of things that pre-dated and aren't related to the costs generated by the legislation itself, like the SGR physician payment fix. Usually, it is all of the above.
My own view - as I stated in my recent perspectives article in the Annals of Internal Medicine - is that there is a great deal of uncertainty in long-term budget forecasting, and it is certainly possible that the CBO under-estimated the costs and over-estimated the revenue and savings offsets to pay for it. It is also possible that the legislation might save more than the CBO estimated, because it generally did not assign any savings to innovations (like accountable care organizations and patient-centered medical homes) designed to align payment incentives with the value of care provided.
Now, though, a brand new study by the prestigious, non-partisan Rand Corporation reaches a stunning conclusion:
"The recently enacted federal health care reform law provides health insurance coverage to the largest number of Americans while keeping federal costs as low as reasonably possible" according to Rand's news release.
Rand goes on to report that, "The only alternatives that would have covered more Americans at a lower cost to the federal government were all politically untenable - substantially higher penalties for those who don't comply with mandates, lower government subsidies and less-generous Medicaid expansion."
Now, I know this won't put an end to an argument, because Rand's analysis attempts to answer only the question of whether it was possible to cover more people at less cost to the government. On that score, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is a highly efficient use of taxpayer dollars. Many of the critics of the current legislation do not believe, though, that covering everyone (or most everyone) should be an essential goal of health reform, especially if it adds more costs to the federal treasury.
Certainly, one can conceive of alternatives that would have covered a lot fewer people, at less cost to the taxpayers - but those would have left us with the human, societal, and economic costs of leaving tens of millions of Americans without health insurance coverage. One can also conceive of ways to cover more people at less cost, but according to Rand, those generally involved more punitive mandates for people who choose not to buy coverage or much lower premium subsidies (meaning much greater out of pocket costs to them).
In my mind, the argument about whether the country can afford to provide health insurance coverage is an important one but one that probably can't be resolved, because it comes down more to a value judgment than an economic argument: How important is it to you to ensure that all Americans have access to health insurance they can afford? If you believe that society has an obligation (I am not going to get in the argument over whether it is a right) to provide all Americans with access to affordable coverage - as ACP believes it does - then the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was a highly prudent and efficient use of federal dollars, covering the most people at the least possible cost. But if you believe that it is not the role of government to ensure that its residents have affordable health insurance, then you probably aren't going to view any substantial increase in federal spending on the uninsured as a good use of taxpayer dollars, even though the legislation covered the most people at the least possible cost to taxpayers.
Today's question: Do you think Rand's analysis will make much of a difference in the endless argument over the costs and benefits of health reform?
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Mr. Doherty, still struggling to explain the ACP leadership's support for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, this time as cost effective? Apart from the fact that most of the public and many of ACP's membership object to the PPACA, cost projections from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are contrary to the Rand's analysis.
CMS estimates that this legislation will increase national healthcare spending by 311 billion dollars over the next 10 years. It will also cause 14 million Americans to lose their employer-sponsored health insurance (because of business-unfriendly rules and loopholes left in employer mandates). Moreover, 23 million persons are estimated to remain insured, including 18 million citizens who will pay the $750 penalty for not buying insurance, and 6 million undocumented immigrants. Where are the costs of free care for these millions reflected in the Rand figures?
Let's face it, the PPACA is headed for a giant deficit, and in the next several years, we will have to face the frightening prospects of underfunded programs (like Medicaid today), reduced provider payments ("the SGR on steroids"), and higher insurance premiums and taxes. Rand's conclusion that the Congress couldn't have done any better is no comfort to me. I don't think that this bad bill could have succeeded without cheerleading by AMA & ACP.
All of which makes the ACP's continued support for PPACA -- without demanding SGR repeal, tort reform and primary care enhancement --- inexplicable.
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A Department of Taxes statement said interest would begin accruing on unpaid tax debt as of July 1. Penalties can be applied to those not fully paid up as of Oct. 1.
Peterson said Tuesday that TurboTax, an Intuit product, was not the only software vendor or tax preparer to make errors while trying to adapt to tax changes Vermont passed last year. Those changes placed new caps on itemized deductions and ended the deductibility of the previous year's state income taxes.
The Department of Taxes said there were other tax preparers and software on the list for suspected errors. The largest, TurboTax, is used by about a third of Vermont tax-filers, Peterson said.
More than 19,000 filers who took itemized deductions should check to be sure their software or that used by their tax preparer capped deductions properly and avoided taking a deduction for state taxes paid in the previous year.
Mountain View, California-based Intuit Inc. said the TurboTax errors were fixed by April 1, so people doing taxes in the final weeks before the due date should be unaffected. But not all the vendors fixed errors by that date, Peterson said. Adding to the uncertainty, the errors were not the same across all the vendors, she added.
Like much in tax law, the latter changes imposed last year are complicated. The federal government allows taxpayers who itemize to deduct state income taxes from their income. Historically, that affected taxable income for the state return as well. The 2015 change prompted the inclusion of a new form for itemized filers that essentially erased the federal deduction from state taxes.
Patt called the situation "a minor annoyance." He said he had learned that to correct the errors, "you have to file by paper, including your federal return and your W2s and 1099 forms" reflecting income. "Then it's at least a buck-50 on postage."


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After an unlicensed Black Panther demo in town on May 1st, when they, supported by the New Left and left-wing elements, tried to disrupt traffic through one of the main arteries of Jerusalem and some 30 of the demonstrators were arrested by police, the left wing students of the Hebrew University yesterday demanded of the rector, Prof.
Background: After an unlicensed Black Panther demo in town on May 1st, when they, supported by the New Left and left-wing elements, tried to disrupt traffic through one of the main arteries of Jerusalem and some 30 of the demonstrators were arrested by police, the left wing students of the Hebrew University yesterday demanded of the rector, Prof. Katz, that he protest on their behalf the brutality of the Jerusalem police in breaking up the demo. When Prof. Katz refused, becaused amongst the "students' delegation" were non-student elements such as Black Panthers and political functionaries of the Communists, the students decided to hold a 24hrs vigil in the Senate room of the H.U. admin building. They discussed all sorts of ideological questions and decided, communicating with their supporters down on the groundlevel by loudspeakers and megaphones, to hold a sit-in demo at lunch time and to then leave in demonstration past the PM's office to the Knesset and demand a delegation be received there to accept their protest against the police brutality and to support their right to demonstrate. When those students, who had held out in the Seante room all night and during the morning finally came down, they were greeted by the applause of their supporters, by the "boohs" of their opponents and by the smiles of those students for whom this was much of a comedy. More than 50% of those who had sat-in were students from North and South America as well as from France, all here under the foreign students scheme of the Hebrew University. But the left-labour Israelis who were a minority amongst them succeeded in preventing the others from becoming violent. They also so to it that all decisions were voted on and that the majority would decide. But all of them, in their speeches attacked the elected students' union, the faculty and especially the Rector of the university and vowed to continue the demonstration until "success" is achieved. But the majority decided that apart from provocations shouted at the police guarding the PM's office and the demand that a delegation be received by the knesset, the demonstration passed peacefully. Riotpolicemen remained passive and so did the watercanon and the police on horseback. But the hardcore elements amongst the left-wingers decided to continue the protest on the Hebrew University campus tomorrow. It is not over yet.
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I am writing this letter to thank you for making our Refugee Sponsorship Campaign a resounding success. About three months ago I challenged our congregation to radically demonstrate the sacrificial, self-giving love that Jesus calls us to in Matthew 6. I challenged you to raise $25,000 during the month of May in order that we might sponsor the resettlement of a Syrian refugee family to our community.
Many of us (myself included) might have worried that this goal was too ambitious for a church like ours. Yet, as the donations began to come in, there was a palpable sense that the Holy Spirit was doing something amazing in our midst. It gave me chills to announce on the last Sunday of May that our grand total was $33,725 – nearly nine thousand dollars more than our goal. Thank you, and thanks be to God!
Our diocesan newspaper as well as the Anglican Journal will be publishing stories about this accomplishment. However, the journey has just begun! We are now taking the next steps toward our goal. We are filing a formal application to be a sponsoring community and diving deeper into the logistical process of identifying a refugee family starting the settlement process. Special thanks to Donna Kalailieff for volunteering to be our committee chairperson. Please keep her and our team in your prayers.
2. We will be offering some workshops this fall to educate our parish about the details and complexities of refugee sponsorship.
Please continue to pray that God will see this process through to its joyous completion.
It is a privilege to serve such a bold, Spirit-filled community like St. J & B. Blessing to you this summer!


Immigration law reform debates between the White House and Congress are really heating up right now. The Republican Party is aimed at stopping President Obama's attempt to extend legal work permits and benefits to millions of illegal immigrants. Obama is also attempting to protect the parents of children who were born in the United States from deportation. Due to the current immigration laws, many families are broken up and children are being raised without parents.
The House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to block funding to Obama's immigration reform bill, with Obama's promise to veto any attempt by Congress to overhaul it. This is obviously a difficult time right now for immigrants with no clear solution between both parties.
With a Democratic President and a Republican Congress, who knows what the outcome of this mess will be. What we do know is that when it comes to navigating this messy landscape, a high quality immigration attorney is a helpful addition to protect you and your family. As the story unfolds, we will continue to stay current on what's going on and keep you informed of any changes to your legal rights.
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American Idol Alum Rayvon Owen Comes Out in New Music Video 'Can't Fight It' – WATCH
February 15, 2016 by Sean Mandell Leave a Comment
American Idol alumnus Rayvon Owen has come as gay in his new music video for his song "Can't Fight It."
Owen, who placed 4th in the 14th season of Idol, says that the song and the video are both very much about his coming to terms with his sexuality. In an interview with Billboard, Owen opens up about his journey to self-acceptance and why he didn't come out while on Idol.
Says Owen of his decision to come out now,
"First I had to become comfortable with myself and who I am as a person. For the longest time I kept that part of my life separate, away from music, away from a lot of things. As I was growing as an artist, I realized I was missing out on so much of my artistry by not connecting the two. It's easy to ignore when there are only a few thousand people who are fans and know who you are, but after Idol millions of people know me and I'm much more public."
Owen adds that a personal tragedy influenced his decision:
"Someone I knew passed away. He never got to live his truth, and there are many people who die young and never get to leave their mark or make a difference. I've been given such an awesome platform so why not use it to help, when there are so many people out there like me who haven't come to terms with who they are or even worse, have been kicked out of their home or who have been bullied or who have committed suicide. As long as this is happening, it's worth bringing this to people's attention. Since Idol and music in general have given me an opportunity to reach people's lives, why not get the conversation started?"
Owen released the video for "Can't Fight It" on Sunday, Valentine's Day. His love interest in the video is played by Shane Bitney Crone, whom you may recall from his heart-wrenching documentary Bridegroom. After Crone's partner of six years, Tom Bridegroom, died in a tragic accident, Crone was barred from attending Bridegroom's funeral by his family. Owen says that Shane's story "really inspired" him.
As for why Owen didn't come out while on Idol, he says,
"I was afraid. Here's a show that reaches so many people, including a lot of small town, conservative people, who grew up in the same environment I grew up in. I was afraid that if I shared this part of my life, would people vote for me? It's sad that I had to think that. I never said I dated a girl or I'm straight, but I never said I was gay, either. I just let people think what they think. Not just publicly but with the contestants, with the producers, with everybody. I decided to keep that to myself. Do I regret that decision? You can't go back and change it. You just learn from it."
Another reason for not coming out at that point is that he hadn't yet come out to his mom, which he wanted to do personally rather than on national TV.
Owen grew up Christian in the South and says that coming out to his mother was challenging but ultimately worthwhile. He hopes that his coming out will have a positive impact on LGBT youths struggling to come to terms with their sexuality in the face of bigotry:
"People are still getting kicked out of their homes and parents are still disowning their kids. My mother still loves me but it wasn't easy at first. And she said some things that she apologized for. She only knows what she knows from the community she grew up in, which is very similar to how I grew up. That's another reason why I'm doing this. I think it's a conversation that needs to be had in the church, especially as an African-American. There are so many LGBT people in the black church who are either leaving because they don't feel welcome or they're afraid to be who they really are…No kid should have to do what I did and pray to not be who they are. That's why I think it's important even in 2016 to say this…It took a lot for me to come to this point to want to talk about this. I think this issue is bigger than me. If I can contribute to that and help get the conversation started, it's really important."
Congrats, Rayvon!
Watch his new video, below.
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Perspectives on topical foreign direct investment issues by
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Common structures of investment law in an age of increasingly complex treaty-making
Stephan Schill and Marc Jacob*
Although international investment agreements (IIAs) continue to mushroom, it is widely assumed that international investment law can be analyzed as a single legal regime. This allows addressing legal questions relating to foreign investment in a systematic fashion and enables placing investment law in the context of global governance. It also allows description of the evolution of this regime as a whole. This is usually done along one-directional trajectories, from shorter and unrefined investment treaties to more elaborate models that rebalance investor rights and public interests. We challenge this one-directional perception and argue that the IIA landscape is becoming increasingly multifaceted and complex. This casts doubt on the idea of a uniform regime and raises the question how states and investors can navigate through the increasingly complex IIA thicket.
A review of IIAs concluded over the past three years reveals the growing complexity of investment treaty-making and raises the question of what common structures underpin the disparate treaty landscape:[1]
First, not all recent IIAs move from traditional "lean" (European-style) IIAs to re-calibrated "balanced" (North American-style) treaties. Several states, developed and developing, still conclude terse and unembellished IIAs, as if debates about rebalancing had never taken place.
Second, investment rules are increasingly integrated into preferential trade and investment agreements (PTIAs). This leads to the permeation of trade law-inspired rules and thought, and challenges the conception of investment law as an independent discipline. Moreover, PTIA investment chapters themselves are not negotiated on the basis of globally uniform model texts, but follow very different approaches.
Third, the geography of international investment law is rapidly changing. Apart from more South-South investment cooperation, we are witnessing increased treaty-making by Asian countries like <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />China, India, Japan, and the Republic of Korea. Although there is no general "Asian" approach, this may influence our understanding as to who the trend-setting actors are in the field.
Finally, there is a marked drift toward stronger regionalism and institutionalization, with organizations such as ASEAN and the supranational EU serving both as platforms for investment protection and as new actors in investment treaty-making.
These developments raise salient, but not yet fully addressed, questions as to the relationships between old and new agreements, PTIAs and investment protection treaties, regional and bilateral arrangements, and supranational and international legal norms and frameworks. These developments also suggest the existence of different strategies and philosophies pursued by different actors and herald the emergence of a more pluralistic and complex IIA universe. Chiefly, can international investment law still be considered a unified field, especially when a truly multilateral investment treaty is not a project states at large seem to be interested in pursuing at present?
In our view, several centripetal forces counteract the centrifugal tendencies regarding the drafting of new IIAs mentioned above. This allows one to appreciate common structures that hold international investment law together as a viable sub-discipline of international law and that enable meaningful interaction between different treaty-makers and users:
First, even the increasingly complex IIA landscape is based on recurrent principles of investment protection, liberalization and cooperation. These principles can be adapted and tailored to the ever-developing needs of the contracting parties, but they create an overarching system of international law principles devoted to a context-specific endeavor.
Second, investor-state arbitration has an important function in holding the field together, even though arbitral jurisprudence is not always entirely consistent. Spearheaded by a group of elite arbitrators, investor-state arbitration can work toward generating a jurisprudence constante and creating convergence rather than faction. Moreover, it allows for evolution and synthesis by crystallizing opinions that can either be rejected or reproduced.
Third, the embedding of IIAs and investor-state arbitration in general public international law and within multilateral institutional settings, through organizations such as ICSID or (albeit to very different degrees) UNCITRAL, ensures that the basic structures underpinning the conclusion and interpretation of IIAs remain multilateral.
Finally, scholarly analysis and doctrinal reconstruction of IIAs and of arbitral jurisprudence strings the field together despite the increasing intricacy and divergence in the substance of IIAs.
While efforts at harmonizing investment law against the will of states need to be avoided, these elements ensure the unity of the IIA regime without the need to conclude a formal multilateral investment treaty. Unity, in this view, does not mean strict uniformity, but rather the existence of a common framework of thinking, just as societies governed by the rule of law can agree to disagree. IIAs thus can meet the desire for tailor-made solutions without giving up the idea that there is a multilateral space of engagement for international investment relations, be it in the context of policy-making or dispute settlement. For these reasons, efforts to think about national and international investment policy in global and systemic terms and attempts to offer a toolbox for states with which to implement and adjust policies to individual needs, as done recently by UNCTAD's Investment Policy Framework for Sustainable Development,[2] should be welcomed. They are a step toward helping to manage the complexity of IIA-making.
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[1] See Stephan Schill and Marc Jacob, "Trends in international investment agreements, 2010-2011" in Karl P. Sauvant, ed., Yearbook on International Investment Law and Policy 2011-2012 (New York: OUP, 2013), pp. 141-179, available at: http://www.vcc.columbia.edu/files/vale/content/Investment_Yearbook_2011-2012_chapter_3.pdf.
[2] See UNCTAD, investment policy hub, "Investment policy framework for sustainable development," available at: http://investmentpolicyhub.unctad.org/Views/Public/IndexIPFSD.aspx.
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Climate - Tolanaro (Madagascar)
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The climate of Tôlanaro (formerly Fort-Dauphin) is tropical, with a warmer period from December to March and a cooler period from June to September.
The city is located in the extreme southeast of Madagascar. On the east coast of the country, there is no dry season because the south-east trade winds bring rain even in the austral winter. However, the least rainy period is from August to October. Furthermore, in the south of Madagascar, the period from November to March is not characterized by very abundant rains as in the north. Tropical cyclones are also rarer.
Tolanaro - Climate data
In Tolanaro, the average temperature of the coldest month (July) is of 21.0 °C (69.8 °F), that of the warmest month (January) is of 27.4 °C (81.3 °F). Here are the average temperatures.
Tolanaro - Average temperatures (1991-2020)
20.4 28.5 24.4 68.7 83.3 76
In Tolanaro, precipitation amounts to 1680 millimeters (66.1 inches) per year: it is therefore abundant. It ranges from 74 mm (2.9 in) in the driest month (September) to 180 mm (7.1 in) in the wettest one (March). Here is the average precipitation.
Tolanaro - Average precipitation
At Tolanaro, the sea temperature ranges from 23 °C (73 °F) in August, September to 27 °C (81 °F) in January, February, March. Here are the average sea temperatures.
Tolanaro - Sea temperature
In Tolanaro, there are on average around 2740 sunshine hours per year. Here are the average hours of sunshine per day.
Tolanaro - Sunshine hours
Tolanaro - Weather by month
In January, the hottest month of the year, the weather in Tolanaro is usually warm to hot and muggy. The average temperature is of 27.4 °C (81 °F), with a minimum of 23.6 °C (74.6 °F) and a maximum of 31.1 °C (88.1 °F).
On the coldest nights of the month, the temperature usually drops to around 21 °C (69.5 °F). However, it dropped to 18.9 °C (66 °F) in January 1995.
In February, the weather in Tolanaro is usually warm to hot and muggy. The average temperature is of 27.3 °C (81 °F), with a minimum of 23.6 °C (74.5 °F) and a maximum of 31 °C (87.7 °F).
In March, the weather in Tolanaro is usually warm to hot and muggy. The average temperature is of 26.8 °C (80 °F), with a minimum of 23.1 °C (73.6 °F) and a maximum of 30.4 °C (86.7 °F).
On the coldest nights, the temperature usually drops to around 20 °C (68 °F). However, it dropped to 17.6 °C (63.7 °F) in March 1991.
In April, the weather in Tolanaro is usually warm to hot and muggy. The average temperature is of 25.3 °C (78 °F), with a minimum of 21.5 °C (70.7 °F) and a maximum of 29.1 °C (84.4 °F).
On the coldest nights, which normally occur at the end of the month, the temperature usually drops to around 18 °C (64 °F). However, it dropped to 13 °C (55.4 °F) in April 2005.
On the warmest days, which normally occur at the beginning of the month, the temperature usually reaches around 32 °C (89 °F).
In May, the weather in Tolanaro is usually warm to hot and muggy. The average temperature is of 23.2 °C (74 °F), with a minimum of 19.2 °C (66.5 °F) and a maximum of 27.4 °C (81.2 °F).
On the coldest nights, which normally occur at the end of the month, the temperature usually drops to around 15 °C (58.5 °F). However, it dropped to 11.6 °C (52.9 °F) in May 2010.
In June, the weather in Tolanaro is usually warm. The average temperature is of 21.7 °C (71 °F), with a minimum of 17.4 °C (63.4 °F) and a maximum of 26 °C (78.7 °F).
On the coldest nights, the temperature usually drops to around 13 °C (55.5 °F). However, it dropped to 10 °C (50 °F) in June 2010.
The day lasts on average 10 hours and 35 minutes. June 21, the winter solstice, is the shortest day of the year in the Southern Hemisphere.
In July, the coolest month of the year, the weather in Tolanaro is usually warm. The average temperature is of 21.0 °C (70 °F), with a minimum of 16.8 °C (62.2 °F) and a maximum of 25.2 °C (77.4 °F).
On the coldest nights of the month, the temperature usually drops to around 12.5 °C (54.5 °F). However, it dropped to 9.4 °C (48.9 °F) in July 1992.
The average sea temperature is of 23.5 °C (74 °F). Therefore, the sea can be considered barely acceptable for swimming.
In August, the weather in Tolanaro is usually warm. The average temperature is of 21.7 °C (71 °F), with a minimum of 17.3 °C (63.1 °F) and a maximum of 26 °C (78.9 °F).
On the coldest nights of the month, the temperature usually drops to around 13 °C (55.5 °F). However, it dropped to 10 °C (50 °F) in August 2020.
The average sea temperature is of 23 °C (73.5 °F). Therefore, the sea can be considered barely acceptable for swimming.
In September, the weather in Tolanaro is usually warm to hot and muggy. The average temperature is of 22.8 °C (73 °F), with a minimum of 18.4 °C (65 °F) and a maximum of 27.2 °C (81 °F).
On the coldest nights, which normally occur at the end of the month, the temperature usually drops to around 14 °C (57.5 °F). However, it dropped to 11 °C (51.8 °F) in September 1997.
On the warmest days, which normally occur at the beginning of the month, the temperature usually reaches around 30.5 °C (87 °F).
In October, the weather in Tolanaro is usually warm to hot and muggy. The average temperature is of 24.2 °C (75 °F), with a minimum of 20 °C (67.9 °F) and a maximum of 28.3 °C (83 °F).
On the coldest nights, which normally occur at the end of the month, the temperature usually drops to around 16 °C (60.5 °F). However, it dropped to 11.5 °C (52.7 °F) in October 2012.
The average sea temperature is of 23.5 °C (74.5 °F). Therefore, the sea can be considered barely acceptable for swimming.
In November, the weather in Tolanaro is usually warm to hot and muggy. The average temperature is of 25.3 °C (78 °F), with a minimum of 21.2 °C (70.1 °F) and a maximum of 29.4 °C (85 °F).
On the coldest nights, which normally occur at the end of the month, the temperature usually drops to around 17.5 °C (64 °F). However, it dropped to 14.1 °C (57.4 °F) in November 1992.
The average sea temperature is of 24.5 °C (76 °F). Therefore, the sea is warm enough for swimming.
In December, the weather in Tolanaro is usually warm to hot and muggy. The average temperature is of 26.8 °C (80 °F), with a minimum of 22.8 °C (73.1 °F) and a maximum of 30.9 °C (87.5 °F).
The day lasts on average 13 hours and 40 minutes. December 21, the summer solstice, is the longest day of the year in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Falling medical malpractice premiums led to a 15 percent drop in net premiums written between 2006 and 2007 for a composite of captive insurance companies, but captives overall benefited from favorable underwriting trends.
— Net premiums written fell 26 percent in medical malpractice, the largest line with nearly one-third of the business for the 177 captives in this A.M. Best Co. special report.
— Solid underwriting results in medical malpractice helped the captive composite's loss ratio to improve substantially in 2007 to 61.9.
— Despite increases in the expense ratio and policyholder dividends, the combined ratio improved to 92.3, based on the excellent loss ratio.
— The captive composite's favorable underwriting trends contrasted with a slight deterioration for the overall property/casualty industry.
— Captives' net income dropped in 2007, as realized capital gains fell from the exceptional level of 2006.
— Like the P/C industry as a whole, captives were impacted by the soft market and the stunted growth of exposures in the current economy.
performance, but these companies generally are insulated from sudden, major underwriting losses.
— Captives' positive results in recent years are igniting competition as traditional insurers encroach on areas that have more flexible pricing in an effort to lessen the soft market's impact.
— Captives have benefited from stable or reduced reinsurance rates, which have allowed companies to increase limits on excess layers.
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— A.M. Best's outlook for the captive industry is stable.