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Rolf Maximilian Sievert (; 6 May 1896 – 3 October 1966) was a Swedish medical physicist whose major contribution was in the study of the biological effects of ionizing radiation.

The sievert (Sv), the SI unit representing the stochastic health risk of ionizing radiation, is named for him. He has been called the "Father of Radiation Protection".

Biography
Sievert  was born in Stockholm, Sweden. His parents were Max Sievert and Sofia Carolina Sievert, née Panchéen. In 1881, his father founded the Max Sievert Company in Stockholm.

Sievert served as head of the physics laboratory at Sweden's Radiumhemmet from 1924 to '37, after which he was appointed head of the department of radiation physics at the Karolinska Institute. He played a pioneering role in the measurement of doses of radiation especially in its use in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. In later years, he focused his research on the biological effects of repeated exposure to low doses of radiation.

He was a founder of the International X-ray and Radium Protection Committee (IXRPC) in 1928, and served as it first chairman; this later became the ICRP. He also chaired the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR).

Sievert invented a number of instruments for measuring radiation doses, the most widely known being the Sievert chamber.

Legacy
In 1979, at the Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures (General Conference on Weights and Measures or CGPM), the SI unit for ionizing radiation dose equivalent was named after him and given the name sievert (Sv).

Sievert had an extensive insect collection and his specimens can be found in the Entomological Museum of Lund University in Sweden.

See also
 Sievert integral
 Sievert chamber
Rolf M. Sievert Award

References

External links

 Rolf Sievert, the man and the unit
 Rolf Maximilian Sievert (1896–1966): father of radiation protection

Swedish physicists
1896 births
1966 deaths
Uppsala University alumni
Academic staff of the Karolinska Institute
Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
Medical physicists
Units of radiation dose
Radiation protection


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April 16, 2019 by Robert Campbell • Print Story •
Back in the day, when the new Madden dropped on a marked midnight in August, it was like a holiday. My friends and I would drive to the local Walmart to scoop the game, and then engage in hours of endless gameplay that would certainly ruin our sleep schedule for the next week.
But, like millions of others who had habitual nightmares of the red ring, before we could start our multi-player dynasty, we would do a fantasy draft. That's right, 52-rounds straight. Living as the General Manager and crafting your team from scratch is the ultimate feeling, and winning the big game with a homemade roster is even better.
With the real NFL draft around the corner, I thought it would be interesting to conduct a similar "fantasy" draft in accordance with the current draft order. However, today, we'll be mock drafting the top 15 picks in next week's draft using the current NFL head coaches. See how it plays out below.
1. Arizona Cardinals — Bill Belichick
Reaction: Do you ever think the top guy in any draft kind of wishes he wasn't the top guy so he didn't have the pressure of trying to rebuild a team that is just plain awful? I tend to think that players don't feel that way, but Belichick can't be happy to have to coach an Arizona team that couldn't get out of its own way a year ago. If anyone was going to turn Josh Rosen into a competent player, it would be Belichick, though I'd have to think he would be putting him on the trade block before he signed his contract.
2. San Francisco 49ers — Sean McVay
Reaction: With Jimmy Garroppolo back, this is a perfect fit for Sean McVay, boy-genius. This guy knows how to design and run an offense, and he will remain in a division he already knows and has conquered. He will look to find some new toys for Jimmy G to play with.
3. New York Jets — Sean Payton
Reaction: Another guy that knows quarterbacks, and will be given one who is young and extremely talented. Payton will be able to help build on Sam Darnold's rookie year and allow him to reach his potential so long as the refs decide to throw a pass interference flag. The New York spotlight won't scare Payton, either.
4. Oakland Raiders — Jon Gruden
Reaction: Woah! A bit of a reach here, don't you think Oakland? They got their guy they wanted. Let's hope they don't blow it.
5. Tampa Bay Buccaneers — Jon Harbaugh
Reaction: The Buccaneers were at their peak when they played smash-mouth offense and aggressive defense. Granted, they were more talented then, though Harbaugh is the guy to create that culture for Tampa again. Jameis Winston is too wild with the ball to single-handedly lead this team to prominence. They need a full schematic change.
6. New York Giants — Andy Reid
Reaction: This is a steal for New York. Andy Reid knows this division. Andy Reid knows how to get explosive running backs in space. Andy Reid loves a good New York slice. Russel Wilson to the Giants wouldn't hurt, either.
7. Jacksonville Jaguars — Pete Carroll
Reaction: Despite the cool-guy look Pete Carroll tries to portray, he knows and can teach discipline in Jacksonville, a place where discipline is desperately needed. Let's not forget this team was just one win away from the Super Bowl two years ago, with Blake Bortles no less. Nick Foles at the helm and Carroll on the sidelines chewing gum like a maniac will get this team back to where they want to be.
8. Detroit Lions — Bill O'Brien
Reaction: Another hard-nosed guy that matches the intensity of the city he'll be coaching in. I'm not exactly sure what the Lions need to escape the purgatory they've seemingly been stuck in forever, but O'Brien isn't a bad pick here.
9. Buffalo Bills — Doug Pederson
Reaction: Josh Allen has a unique skill-set, and the Bills need a coach who can get creative to maximize that. Pederson, who was an unknown just a few years prior, is the guy for the job. The New England era has to come to an end at some point, and with Pederson, the Bills may be next in line.
10. Denver Broncos — Ron Rivera
Reaction: I think Riverboat Ron gets a bad rap. His defensive background fits what Denver is trying to do. We can only hope John Elway doesn't find another Paxton Lynch in the players-draft.
11. Cincinnati Bengals — Frank Reich
Reaction: Reich exploded onto the scene last year and brought a Colts team to the playoffs that most people were destined for failure and a bum shoulder. This Bengals team won't have high expectations, either, and Reich will try to pull the same magic act.
12. Green Bay Packers — Matt Nagy
Reaction: Matt Nagy has a good offensive mind, but will Aaron Rodgers listen to him? Find out on next week's episode of "The Bachelor," where Aaron Rodger's brother airs the family's dirty laundry.
13. Miami Dolphins — Anthony Lynn
Reaction: One of the most underrated coaches in the league in my mind. He will have to rebuild this team from the ground up, as Jake Ruddock and Luke Falk is their quarterback situation. Don't worry, Google doesn't know who they are, either.
14. Atlanta Falcons — Mike Vrabel
Reaction: Another undisciplined team filling a draft need. Football is a game of inches, and the Falcons lost so many close games last year. Vrabel will focus on the little things.
15. Washington Redskins — Mike Zimmer
Reaction: This guy is hard to get a read on. Sometimes I think he's great, and sometimes I think he needs a pink slip. Nonetheless, reuniting Adrian Peterson with his old coach isn't a bad play by Washington.
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Great job again, Doug. One calendar for me, one for my daughter, and one for my mechanic.
I agree with John -- let us know where you guys took your pictures.
A few friends and I flew in to Marble for an overnight a couple years ago. My stock 170A was a bit anemic on the way out the following morning. I don't recall the exact weight, but it was a couple hundred pounds short of max. I would have appreciated a few extra ponies under the cowl! Good news is, it's open valley once you're airborne and over the trees.
Used PayPal to order my first one. Hope you still have some! It looks great.
Still some calendars available if folks are interested.


Last week, I had two events, the first was a "TweetUp" and the second was a customer event (which I will talk about in my next post). A TweetUp is a gathering of individuals who talk online (via Twitter). An event where you can meet your online friends IRL (in real life). The second was an event I organized for a client (which I will write about in my next post).
My "followers" on Twitter are mostly marketing, communications, advertising and pr professionals with a smattering of designers/web developers, foodies, lawyers, and finance geeks. The age range is anywhere from 21 to 61 with the average age being about 26 and the median age about 32. Those numbers are guestimates but likely accurate. I have a tendency to pay attention and I know my tweeps well due to my engagement level.
The TweetUP was for Sushi Samba, a former employer of mine, and it was wildly successful. We had about 120 guests throughout the night. We had screens showing our "Tweets" and we had great specials from Sushi Samba including $5.00 mojitos. Sushi Samba donated the proceeds of the twitteROLL, a speciality roll made just for this event, to the Haitian relief efforts.
How did the madness of this tweetup start?
This past summer, I organized my first, larger scale tweetup. We had approximately 45 people at that event and it was hosted at Sushi Samba. That evening, I received a message from @sushi_pro, he was interested in hosting a national tweetup and asked if I would be interested in joining forces. I thought it would be a fun idea and I encouraged him to phone the corporate headquarters of Sushi Samba in New York.
SushiSamba was interested in the plan and a few months later, we started the process. In each city (New York, Miami, Chicago & Las Vegas), there was a local person who was in charge of fueling interest for the event in their respective city. Sushi Samba corporate managed the logistics with input from each organizer and handled all of the press for the event through their PR & Marketing team. SushiSamba was also responsible for making sure the venues had the proper equipment and the proper space and staff to host the event.
My roll was easy, well, it was easy for me because I've worked pretty hard for the past year to create a cohesive group of followers on Twitter. I manage my relationship with my Twitter friends on an ongoing and constant basis. Most people would go MENTAL if they were me, but being MENTAL comes quite naturally for me. Actually, I truly enjoy the relationships I've built on Twitter, though it takes hours upon hours, it feels effortless for me.
Timing was great. We did not have any major conflicting events and we were just beyond the holidays enough where people were ready to hit the events again.
Members of the Sushi Samba staff who were not directly involved became involved. For example, the chef at the Chicago location @chefcdt was a great contributor and motivator, he did a lot to invigorate his follower base.
Being that this was my third or fourth event, I had already built up an interest level for my "next" event. I also attend various events of other organizers who helped me spread the word about my event. I have a good feel for who attends these events and I know exactly who to reach out to.
I seeded interest level early on. We started planning for this TweetUp about 2+ months prior to "promoting" the event and I contacted some of my key information spreaders and got them on their mark. When we were ready to talk about the event, I had between four and seven people firing off information, posting on their Facebook pages & their LinkedIn profiles regarding the TweetUp.
I posted the TweetUp on all my social networks regardless of the fact that it was a "TweetUp" - as in Twitter. I think the bulk of the attendees were ultimately from Twitter.
Scheduled tweets for high volume times. I already know when the majority of the people are ON Twitter and when I am most likely to get ReTweeted, so I made sure to log into my Hootsuite account and schedule tweets for those times.
Genuine interest. I don't think it hurt that I love sushi, I know and like the space and I have an existing relationship with the venue.
People like me. Not just patting myself on the back here, it is true. They like me because I am an information share-er, I help my fellow small business owners by spreading their message when they have something worth while to share. I am also a "connector", I do my best to hook my friends up with jobs or leads whenever I can and expect NOTHING in return. And, I am generally a nice and funny person, so even if you have nothing to sell or you're not interested in buying anything either, we can still tweet.
I am glad the Sushi Samba event went off as well as it did, it can serve as a great example of what other brands can be doing to connect with their audiences. I hope that I am able to bring more businesses together with their consumers and their potential consumers. Most of all, many of my friends (new and old) thanked me for bringing together such an amazing group of people from various industries where they could make relevant connections.
I thought it was a quality event all around. I haven't been to Sushi Samba in years and the Tweetup was a good excuse to return. I thought the event was more enjoyable than a traditional dinner because of the networking opportunities and social atmosphere.
Leyla, you did an awesome job promoting the event. It's always fun to see followers IRL and meet new ones. I agree that you are a genuine person, and it's always helpful to bounce ideas off you. Looking forward to participating in your next adventure!
Leyla you are a great genuine person and an amazing source for help. I'm sure you've heard it before but it was an amazing event with so many fun wide range of people. Thanks again!
I'll make sure to follow your advice when I plan the next tweetup :)!
Sounds like a great event! I would love to know about any upcoming TweetUps you're organizing...and will definitely help you spread the word too!


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A: Для решения проблемы можно использовать этот вспомогательный класс. Достаточно передать в конструктор нужное окно, в паре с WindowChrome будет работать как родное.

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Today, 15 January 2019, Dr. Abduljalil al-Singace turns 57 – spending yet another birthday behind bars. Dr. al-Singace is a Bahraini human rights activist, engineer, and blogger serving a life sentence for his activism. Americans for Democracy & Human Rights in Bahrain (ADHRB) condemns this sentence against Dr. al-Singace and calls on the Government of Bahrain to immediately and unconditionally release him and all other prisoners of conscience.
Dr. Abduljalil al-Singace was arrested and sentenced to life in prison following his involvement in the 2011 peaceful pro-democracy protests in Bahrain. Dr. al-Singace suffers from post-polio syndrome, resulting in paralysis and confining him to a wheel chair. Bahraini authorities have subjected him to torture while in prison, even using his disability against him to enhance his suffering.
Since his imprisonment, Dr. al-Singace's health has sharply deteriorated, yet prison authorities have denied him adequate medical treatment, including for low white blood cell count and low potassium. Prison authorities additionally have refused him rubber stoppers for his crutches, resulting in falls on the prison floors and subsequent ridicule from prison staff. While in prison, Dr. Abduljalil al-Singace has gone on hunger strikes to protest against the prison's use of collective punishment, torture, and humiliating practices, as well as the general worsening prison conditions.
On Dr. al-Singace's 57th birthday, ADHRB calls attention to the unfair and abuse treatment he has been subjected to at the hands of the Bahraini Government and urges the kingdom to release Dr. al-Singace and all prisoners of conscience.


The Recoleta Cultural Centre is an exhibition and cultural events centre located in the barrio of Recoleta, Buenos Aires. It holds sculptures and exhibitions, as well as concerts and artistic presentations and workshops of diverse types.
The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes is an Argentine art museum in Buenos Aires, also located in the Recoleta section of the city. The MNBA inaugurated a branch in Neuquén in 2004.
All within walking distance from the Recoleta cemetery, worth a look if you are a museum buff. You can see some footage in my "Unconventional Art" video.


With Wall Street in such a precarious position, some in the arts community have begun to strategize with some worst-case scenarios in mind.
In six months, foundations will assess their portfolios, the government will start to cut spending, and individual donors might start to pull back. Charitable giving to arts groups — 13 percent of total corporate do-gooding in 2006, according to Giving USA — has always been the low-hanging fruit for companies looking to cut costs.
Pitches to potential donors are now likely to include a note of urgency that hasn't been heard in a while: talk about programming and shows that will disappear if they're not sponsored.


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Don't Believe the New York Knicks and 'Melo Hype, It's a Sequel!
Posted by Dennis Velasco Categories: Athletes, Editorial, NBA, News,
This must be a tough pill going down the throats of the New York Knicks and their fans as the team became victims of a Boston Celtics sweep, becoming the 2011 NBA Playoffs first victims. In the first two games (87-85 and 96-93 Celtics victories), the Knicks could have easily been the victors in both. However, in the end, it was the Celtics' championship pedigree and experience that helped them pull away and score just enough points to win. Emotionally, it had to be debilitating to come so close, but come up with the loss despite valiant efforts on the road.
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2011 NBA All-Star reserves announced
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Los Angeles Clippers rookie and odds-on favorite for NBA Rookie of the Year honors, Blake Griffin, is being praised about half a season into his NBA career. Griffin was named one of the Western Conference's All-Star reserves, joining the San Antonio Spurs' Manu Ginobili and Tim Duncan, Dallas Mavericks' Dirk Nowitzki, Los Angeles Lakers big man Pau Gasol, Utah Jazz point guard Deron Williams, and fellow first-time All-Star, Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell Westbrook.
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Kobe Bryant leading the way for the 2011 NBA All-Star game
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Kobe Bryant of the Los Angles Lakers is leading the overall voting for the 2011 NBA All-Star game, which is appropriate considering that the game will be played at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Others leading the way for the Western Conference are Chris Paul at the one-guard, Kevin Durant and Carmelo Anthony at the forwards, and oddly, Yao Ming at center. Yao has been out for a bit now due to another injury issue and won't play in the game at all. When the coaches make their reserve selections, one of them will start in Yao's place. In the East, the leading guards in voting are Rajon Rondo and Dwyane Wade with LeBron James and Kevin Garnett in the lead in voting for forwards, and Dwight Howard at the five spot. The official starters will be named on January 27.
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Fantasy NBA: Analysis of Fifth Round
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There is a lot of good talent available in the early middle rounds, but most of the players typically taken in this area have at least one tragic fantasy flaw. Otherwise people would nab them earlier on. This looks like a good year to pass on the top tiers of point guards, because a lot of useful players at that position are available now. Let us break down the players typically taken in the fifth round based on Yahoo's average draft position rankings. As always, the advice will focus on head-to-head leagues.
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One Man Mock Draft, Fantasy NBA 2009: Round 2, Pick 4
A sure sign you are starting to lose touch with the pulse of popular culture is when you discover new songs and/or new bands while watching a TV show or a movie. By the time you catch Natalie Portman mentioning that the band name was "The Shins," two years have passed, the movie has been out on DVD forever, and the band has not put out an album since.
Along the same vein, if the NBA has for whatever reason removed itself from your life for the last couple of years but now you return, it might come as a mild surprise that KG remains available here. After all, as recent as a couple of years ago, he was in the running for the first overall pick. Plus, if anything, his profile increased after the trade to Boston where the Celtics won a championship two seasons ago. Last year the ending was not so happy for the guys in green, as their captain missed the playoffs due to injuries. In mock drafts this summer, it seems folks are confidently calling his name in the early part of the second round. Let us put his fantasy game under the microscope.
Round 2, Pick 4: Kevin Garnett, PF, Boston Celtics
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module  NRSER
module  Described
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module  Steps

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    Step "the object {value}" do |value|
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Acquiring: better than golf
Emil Billman sold his successful New York printing business in 1988 and retired to sunny Palm Springs, Calif., at the age of 45. The life of leisure agreed with him at first, but five years of tennis and golf left him "feeling a little stagnant." So he readily agreed when a golfing buddy suggested selling transaction services on the West Coast for Bancard Inc., a Boulder, Colo.-based ISO.
Already a seasoned salesperson from his years in the printing business, Billman reveled in his second career. But three years later, a bigger ISO swallowed up his employer, forcing him to take stock again. That's when he and a partner decided to launch an ISO and "do their own thing." They called it TransPay Processing. By then it was 1996.
For a year or so, they worked out of Billman's house to avoid the cost of setting up and maintaining an office in a commercial building. "That way, we built a nice nest egg," he said. The cash helped finance the move to an office park in Indian Wells, Calif., about a mile from his house. Two decades later, the company has managed to stay in the same location by renting enough adjacent space to double its square footage.
Securing the future
In the meantime, Billman and his original partner parted ways. Billman's son, Mitchell, joined the business as a sales rep and advanced to President. To ensure a smooth transition when he leaves the company, the elder Billman made his son the sole owner. Billman believes this is the best way for the company to continue to sustain employees who depend upon it for their livelihood and continue to serve clients who rely on its processing services. "I'm the old man who still comes in every day," Billman said of his current status.
Finding a niche at TransPay doesn't require being a blood relative. Kristy Razo, rose to Director of Operations after joining the company in 2004 as a receptionist. Razo now manages underwriting, risk assessment, chargeback analysis, sales agent management and customer service. "She is a mainstay of the company," Billman said. "She runs the show."
Billman noted that TransPay works with 18 to 20 independent sales agents, with the 80-20 rule in evidence: 20 percent of the sales force accounts for 80 percent of sales. Some write for several ISOs; others work exclusively with TransPay," Billman said. "Some are in the low five-figures for monthly residuals checks." He added that the company searches for experienced candidates who value honesty. "Never, ever lie to the merchant," he said.
While Billman declined to specify how many merchants are under contract, he hasn't hungered for prodigious growth because he's seen too many ISOs spin out of control as they expanded the support staff too quickly and lost sight of customer service. "We'll sacrifice scale to keep that personal touch," he said.
Customer service requires being available, Billman stated. "We're always here to answer the phone during the day," he said. At night, customers can reach the company on employees' cell phones or home phones. To guarantee the staff can handle customer requests, employees cross-train in multiple jobs so they can fill in for each other when needed. That emphasis has paid off, Billman noted. Ten years ago, the Electronic Transactions Association chose TransPay as the No. 2 ISO for customer service in the nation, he recalled. "We're very proud of it," he said.
Great customer service has resulted in a portfolio of merchants who have been with the company for an average of eight years and who average $35,000 in monthly transactions. The ISO doesn't specialize in any particular merchant types, but it does process for a large number of nonprofit organizations and sporting events. Overall, it beats a life on the links and the tennis courts, Billman said.
TransPay Processing
Emil Billman
ebillman@transpayinc.com
www.transpayinc.com


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Past RMNP Research Fellows
Meet Some of Our Past Bailey – RMNP Research Fellows
2018 Research Fellow
Hometown: Midwest City, OK
College: B.S. Oklahoma State University (Zoology);M.S. Tulane University (Epidemiology)
Currently working on PhD in Environmental Health at Tulane University
Career Goal: Laura was interested in performing outbreak and infectious disease surveillance at the federal level, particularly within the Department of the Interior. In particular, she was focused on antibiotic resistance and zoonotic disease.
Fellowship Goals: Laura hoped to quantify the presence of antibiotic resistant bacteria in soil and water within the park and determine what anthropogenic and physical factors predict the presence of antibiotic resistant bacteria. She also wanted to assess human health risk from resistant, pathogenic bacteria in soil and water in the park.
Tim Korpita
Hometown: Southampton, Massachusetts
College: Tufts University; PhD.: University of Colorado, Boulder
Career Goal: Tim is hoping to either teach at a small college or be involved in conservation research and outreach.
Fellowship Research Goals: : Tim's efforts involve isolating strains of Janthinobacterium lividum for future use in anti-Bd probiotic treatment for endangered amphibians. He also worked to determine what environmental conditions are associated with J.lividumL abundance and evaluate the persistence of J. lividumL in soil after bioaugmentation treatments.
Isabelle Oleksy
Hometown: Billerica, Massachusetts
College: University of New Hampshire
Career Goal: Bella wanted to conduct policy-relevant scientific research relating to climate change and aquatic ecosystems, particularly in mountainous areas. Ultimately, she wanted to work closely with or within a governmental agency as a research scientist.
Fellowship Goals: : Bella's internship goal was to closely study and monitor a subalpine and alpine lake in the Loch Vale Watershed of Rocky Mountain National Park (The Loch and Sky Pond, respectively) to understand what factors are influencing increased primary productivity, or algal growth, in low-nutrient waters. Her methods included weekly sampling water and algae from The Loch and Sky Pond, as well as performing laboratory experiments to gain a better understanding in how algal growth changes through time. By the end of the summer, she hoped to gain insight into what controls their formation and how they acquire nutrients.
Hometown: Mountain Home, Arkansas
College: University of Colorado, Denver
Career Goal: Tyler planned to work in the National Park System, with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, or with a state park system.
Fellowship Research Goals:Tyler was collecting field data that to help clarify the RMNP limber pine metapopulation and to develop research skills that will be useful in future endeavors.
College: University of Colorado, Boulder
Fellowship Goals: Joshua conducted a park research project to understand the geologic evolution of the Colorado Front Range, including Rocky, using a technique called (U-Th)/He thermochronology. He collected samples within the park for this analysis with the goal of understanding how erosion has shaped the park's dramatic landscape, from the formation of the bedrock over 1 billion years ago to the more recent formation of the modern Rocky Mountains.
Greg Pappas
Hometown: Cheyenne, Wyoming
College: University of Wyoming
Career Goal: Vegetation Ecologist
Fellowship Research Goals: Greg's proposed research aimed to characterize the response of understory vegetation to mountain pine beetle-induced reductions in overstory canopy cover across lodgepole pine forest types of western Rocky Mountain National Park. The study's findings enhanced the understanding of a major, but relatively overlooked, component of mountain pine beetle-associated forest change.
Katie Renwick
Hometown: Ithaca, New York
College: Colorado State University
B.A. from Colby College
Career Goal: Job in natural resources management
Fellowship Goals: My research project is focused on understanding how the mountain pine beetle outbreak and climate change may interact to affect forest composition. The ultimate goal is to create predictive models of forest change that can help park manager's plan for the future.
Karista Hudelson
Hometown: Marietta, Oklahoma
College: University of North Texas
Career Goal: Karista's long term goals were to research and conserve aquatic ecosystems with an emphasis on toxicology and human impacts to those systems and the resulting quality of life of their inhabitants.
Fellowship Research Goals: The goals of her proposal were to determine whether there were blue copepods within the wetlands and ponds of RMNP, determine whether calanoid copepod color pattern is related to UV, and determine if pigmented calanoids within the park are distinct species.
Send your cover letter and resume with three references to:
Rachel Balduzzi
Field Institute Director
rachel.balduzzi@RMConservancy.org


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FinCEN Files: Turkey's Aktif Bank and the porn industry
Pelin Ünker
09/21/2020 September 21, 2020
Shady transactions for Wirecard, the porn industry and dubious customers from Afghanistan: The FinCEN files cast the Turkish Aktif Bank in a bad light and suggest evidence of money laundering.
https://p.dw.com/p/3ijm2
Turkish companies and banks pop up frequently and prominently in the FinCEN Files, a collection of secret documents from the US Department of the Treasury that was leaked to BuzzFeed News and shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). The files from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a regulatory unit of the US Department of the Treasury, provide insight into suspicious money transactions.
Among the businesses included in the documents, one, in particular, stands out: Aktif Yatirim Bankasi, or Aktif Bank.
It is suspected of having carried out money laundering on a grand scale for a customer network that includes the scandal-ridden German financial service provider Wirecard and shady figures from the porn industry.
President Erdogan alongside his son-in-law and Finance Minister Berat AlbayrakImage: picture-alliance/dpa/TASS/M. Klimentyev
Aktif Bank is part of Calik Holding, one of the largest groups in Turkey, to which more than 30 companies belong. Calik, in turn, has close ties with the Turkish government. A number of "suspicious transactions" included in the FinCEN Files were made while Berat Albayrak was CEO of Calik Holding. Albayrak is the son-in-law of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and is currently Turkey's Finance Minister.
The incriminating evidence against Aktif comes from Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs). These are records banks themselves file with FinCEN when they suspect possible violations of financial regulations.
Financial institutions conducting business in the US, such as Aktif Bank, are required to submit SARs. SARs reflect the concerns of compliance officers in financial institutions and do not necessarily prove criminal activity or other misconduct.
What is a SAR?
The ICIJ's next big bombshell after the Panama and Paradise Papers
Some 400 journalists from 88 countries spent 16 months scrutinizing the leaked FinCEN documents. The result: a view into the previously murky paths of international financial transactions. The ICIJ investigation suggests that with the help of Aktif Bank, dirty money was also pumped back into the market.
The FinCEN files contain warning messages from the Bank of New York Mellon (BNY Mellon) and Bank of America (BoA), both of which were or are active as correspondent banks for Aktif's international business.
According to the FinCEN Files, between June 6, 2013, and July 1, 2014, Aktif Bank processed suspicious transactions worth some $91.6 million (€77.3 million) through its partners in the United States.
Moreover, the documents shed light on the Turkish bank's dubious customer network, including providers of pornography and a company that is suspected of having business relationships with the radical Islamic Taliban.
The scandal-ridden tech company Wirecard was one of Aktif Bank's customersImage: picture-alliance/dpa
Financial facilitator for Wirecard
Lately, one name on Aktif's client list has been making a lot of headlines. Germany's Wirecard Bank AG, which is currently involved in a multi-million-dollar fraud scandal, was among the clients Aktif Bank referred to its correspondent bank BNY Mellon. But the New York creditor flagged Wirecard Bank transactions as "high-risk" and froze its accounts.
That didn't stop Aktif Bank from helping Wirecard. The FinCEN Files indicate that Aktif transferred the money to BNY Mellon under an undisclosed name. According to the US bank, Wirecard made as many as 12 "suspicious transactions" worth more than $110,000 (€93,000) through its Aktif Bank account between May and July of 2014.
Wirecard conducted a good deal of business with customers from the pornography and gambling industries. According to information contained in the FinCEN Files, Aktif Bank facilitated much of that business. As early as December 2013, BNY Mellon reported "suspicious transfers" with a volume of around $17.5 million (€14.7 million). Most of these came from big names in the adult industry, including MindGeek, owners of Pornhub and Youporn. Until 2013, MindGeek was known as Manwin and is recorded as Manwin in the documents.
What are the FinCEN Files?
Many roads lead to Afghanistan
The names of Aktif Bank customers with links to Afghanistan appear equally as perplexing. Between May 27 and July 1, 2014, Aktif Bank orchestrated exactly 561 "suspicious" money transfers worth $35.3 million (€29.8 million) from Afghan accounts. With no public information available on the companies or their actual business, the SAR states that "these wires appear suspicious since the entities involved could not be readily identified through internet research or the source of funds, and the true purpose of the transactions are unknown or could not be confirmed."
Aktif Bank's list of Afghan customers doesn't end there. The New Kabul Bank — a financial institution that was mired in a billion-dollar corruption scandal in 2010 before it reinvented itself a year later under its current name — also maintains a customer account. Corruption is rampant in desperately poor Afghanistan and BNY Mellon marked several New Kabul Bank transactions forwarded by Aktif Bank as "suspicious."
Bank of America (BoA) also filed a Suspicious Activity Report to the US Department of the Treasury with regards to Aktif Bank's Afghanistan connection. In this case, it was conspicuous transactions that the Turkish bank initiated on behalf of the Afghan company Watan Oil and Gas. Particularly questionable are money transfers of $3.6 million (€3.04 million) between June 2013 and March 2014. According to the US bank's own statements, which are documented in a December 20, 2017 FinCEN report citing BoA's SAR, the bank initiated a review after detecting "potentially unusual wires for mostly large round dollar amounts".
The BoA wrote verbatim in its SAR: "The wires sent from Watan Gas via Aktif Bank remitted to two Latvian banks in Riga and the business entities receiving funds seem to be shell companies located in British Virgin Islands and Hong Kong."
According to the US bank's own assessment: "There is a geographic disconnect with banks in Latvia and beneficiaries. Afghanistan, Turkey and Latvia are considered high-risk countries vulnerable to money laundering and other illegal activities."
In a separate section on "customer information", BoA stated that Aktif Bank "maintains a correspondent banking relationship with Bank of America in New York", adding that "this client no longer has any open accounts".
In the same SAR, Bank of America also addressed the questionable history of Watan Group and one of its subsidiaries.
Money for the Taliban?
Alerted by older media reports – some of which date back to 2010 - Bank of America expressed its concern about a US investigation into Watan Group.
In 2010, the US government had indeed temporarily excluded a subsidiary of Watan Group from security contracts after an investigation into its activities. This investigation revealed that the subsidiary, Watan Risk Assessment, had paid the Taliban several million dollars in return for not attacking their convoys.
Sanctions against the Taliban have been in place since the terrorist attacks of September 11. Before and during the time of the investigation in 2010, US troops were still actively fighting the Taliban.
US troops fought the Taliban in Afghanistan for 19 years following 9/11Image: Getty Images/AFP/N. Shirzada
Aktif Bank defends itself against accusations
Aktif Bank has said it does not intend to directly comment on the FinCEN Files. It did, however, say that filing SARs alone does not necessarily mean the transactions in question were prohibited or illegal. The bank pointed out that it operates according to the guidelines put in place by MASAK, Turkey's financial crimes investigator, and international agencies.
Furthermore, Aktif Bank says it is required to know who its customers are and whether they have been on national or international sanctions lists, or whether financial institutions, for instance, had been involved in money laundering or terror financing in the past.
Aktif Bank says it undergoes annual performance reviews by its correspondent banking partners and that it does not conduct transactions for the purpose of money laundering. The bank also said that its core values prohibit it from doing business with companies from the pornography or gambling industries.
This article was translated by Jon Shelton
Editor's note (October 8, 2020):
This article was updated after DW received a letter from Aktif Bank on October 2, 2020.
DW has added further clarification of BoA's suspicions regarding the history of Afghan Watan Group.
In its letter to DW, Aktif Bank emphasizes: "Our bank has not performed any transfer to any prohibited group or to Taliban."
Aktif further points out that Watan Group was "subjected only to a prohibition for bidding for a period of three years in 2010 by the US Army" and that this prohibition was renounced prematurely. Aktif stresses that Watan Group is currently not blacklisted and "US entities are still in collaboration with the said group."
Summarizing its letter to DW, Aktif Bank emphasizes once again that the bank "has definitely not provided any intermediation to any person or transaction that is prohibited" by national or international agencies and has "definitely neither provided any intermediation for any transaction with respect to money laundering. Such an intermediation is definitely impossible."
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An investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists shows that $2 trillion of suspicious cash made its way through the financial system. The EU wants tougher regulation.
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Every Thursday, every week, Boeing (NYSE:BA) updates investors on the status of its plane orders -- and last week's update was a doozy.
Look very closely, though, and you'll notice a small change from what we saw last week. Ten of the Dreamliners are missing -- and they've been replaced by an equal number of 777-300ER jets.
Boeing's move, incidentally, was confirmed in passing when United Airlines (NASDAQ:UAL) reported earnings yesterday. Therein, America's most-loathed airline observed it had recently switched out 10 Dreamliner orders for 10 units of Boeing's 777-ER "for delivery beginning in 2016." United says that the 777s "will provide attractive upgauge and range opportunities to the company at competitive economics." Separately, United noted that the switch to 777s will "achieve longer-term network needs without increasing its outlook for capacity or gross capital expenditures over the next several years."
Taken together, these two statements lead us to an interesting conclusion. Consider: According to Boeing's published price list, the 787-8 and -9 aircraft that United uses in its fleet cost $218 million and $257 million, respectively. These aircraft carry 219 seats and 252 seats, also respectively. In contrast, the 777-300ER aircraft that United is subbing in carry a list price of $330 million, and can carry 365 passengers.
Seating plan on a United Boeing 787-8. The new 777-300ERs will be considerably roomier. Image source: United.
Now, Boeing is not in the habit of revealing the prices its customers pay for aircraft -- ever. But if United was able to snag its 777 aircraft at a "competitive" price, and what's more, at a price that doesn't increase United's "gross capital expenditures" from what it had planned to pay for the smaller 787s, then this strongly suggests that Boeing is selling the 777s for a price similar to what had already been negotiated for the 787s. And if we're parsing the language of United's comments correctly, this means that the airline just got a discount of 22% to 33% off Boeing's already habitually discounted plane prices.
Suffice it to say that this is not going to be great news for Boeing's profit margins, which had already taken a 60-basis-point hit in this week's earnings release.
Granted, for an airplane maker that sold 1,380 jet planes last year (before cancellations), weak margins on a mere 10-plane sale are not a disaster that's going to sink the airship. Granted, too, one of the reasons Boeing's profit margins have been sinking is because it's been having such difficulty making a profit on the 787 -- and now it will be making 10 fewer of them.
But even so, the long and the short of this story is that Boeing almost certainly just agreed to accept millions of dollars less revenue for 10 of its plane sales than it otherwise might have expected to make. And that's hardly good news for Boeing.
Boeing's 777 airliner is more popular than ever this week -- but that's not necessarily good news. Photo source: Boeing.


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N N Rimzon
a) Untitled b) Pond in Silence c) Tree Mother d) Untitled
N. N. Rimzon was born in Kerala's Kakkoor village in 1957. He studied sculpture at the College of Fine Arts in Trivandrum and followed it up with an M.A. in the subject from Baroda's M.S. University. He also studied in the Royal College of Art in London with the help of an Inlaks scholarship. During this learning phase, Rimzon's figures seem to reflect the concerns emanating from a leftist background in Kerala. The sculptor's later work reveal... N. N. Rimzon was born in Kerala's Kakkoor village in 1957. He studied sculpture at the College of Fine Arts in Trivandrum and followed it up with an M.A. in the subject from Baroda's M.S. University. He also studied in the Royal College of Art in London with the help of an Inlaks scholarship. During this learning phase, Rimzon's figures seem to reflect the concerns emanating from a leftist background in Kerala. The sculptor's later work reveal postmodernist nuances in their attitudes, but the social-radical statement continues as an important motif, particularly in a work as direct and unambiguous as The Tools.
Rimzon has held shows in galleries in New Delhi, Amsterdam, New York and Brisbane; these also include theme-based events and group shows. He was nominated for the Sotheby's Award for Contemporary Indian Art in 1998. The artist lives and works in Kerala.
Rs 2,00,000 - 2,50,000
a) Signed in English (lower left) b) and c) Signed and dated in English (verso) d) Signed in English (lower right)
b) 1993 c) 1997
a) 9 x 20 in (22.9 x 50.8 cm)
b) 11.5 x 15 in (29.2 x 38.1 cm)
c) 12 x 18 in (30.5 x 45.7 cm) and
d) 8.5 x 12 in (21.6 x 30.5 cm)
(Set of four)
Style: Landscape


I didn't have a star to go on the top of my Yule tree, so I decided to make one myself - and you can see it in the photo.
To make it, I used five thin wands of wood I had trimmed from a forsythia hedge in my front garden earlier in the year.
I cut them to length, laid them out in the shape of a five-pointed star, tied thread tightly at the joining points, then painted the star gold before fixing it to the tree with a little bit of wire.
If you made one, you could decorate it further with ribbons or wrap tinsel around it. I quite like mine plain.
A five-pointed star formed of five straight lines is called a pentagram (a pentacle is a five-pointed star surrounded by a circle). Both are sometimes used as symbols of faith by Wiccans, because the five points represent the four elements of earth, air, fire and water plus the fifth element of spirit.
As Dan Brown famously pointed out in his novel The Da Vinci Code, the pentagram also represents Venus and is a symbol of the goddess, because the planet appears to move in the form of a five-pointed star in the night sky.
I really like that. It is nice you made it yourself, it pretty much more when it do it that way.


Istanbul is a diverse mix of eastern-European and the Middle East. It was recently named the number one city to travel to for 2014 by TripAdvisor. It really has everything – history, architecture, religion, friendly locals. As soon as you leave the airport you notice the mixture of ancient and modern.
Some parts of Istanbul are so neglected and then the city-centre is so modern. You can eat the best meal of your life at a five star restaurant or buy a kebab off the street for $3. Women are dressed head-to-toe in burqas, walking right next to them are women in jeans and t-shirts.
I was in Istanbul in July which is the city's hottest month. It's similar to Australia's summer, clear skies, hot days and warm nights. I had been warned before travelling that they want women to cover up – not ideal in summer – however unless you are visiting a mosque I found this advice didn't really apply.
On arriving in Turkey you need to pay an entry fee at the airport. This needs to be paid in cash in $US, you can't pay with eftpos/credit cards. After that the currency everywhere is Turkish Lira – $1 Lira is around 50c Aussie.
The Blue Mosque is one of the most amazing places I have ever been to. It is so peaceful and is truly majestic. The size of it, the colours, the tiles, the lights make you feel like you're in a little bubble of serenity. Everything about it is so inspiring.
It is actually called the Sultan Ahmed Mosque but got its name the Blue Mosque because of all the gorgeous blue tiles – there are tens of thousands of them! You have to take your shoes off to go inside and women need to cover arms/shoulders/neck.
If you don't have a scarf with you they will give you one – which are of course blue! It is free to visit here. It was built between 1609-1616. It isn't just a tourist site – it is an active mosque so when visiting here you will notice a closed off area where people pray.
These prayer sessions obviously need to be respected – for example don't take photos with flashes on. I was told you have to queue to get in – but despite being there in July the busiest tourist month, we managed to get let straight inside.
The Grand Bazaar was my childhood dream come true! I felt like I was in Aladdin walking through the market place where he meets Jasmine. You can easily get lost in this maze of shops selling everything from traditional items (slippers, scarves, bowls and spices) to modern things such as the Mac make up store I went to. Every second shop is a carpet shop!
I bought the most beautiful bowls from one of the shops. Definitely barter them down. I went to a few different places and ended up picking one that sold the nicest products but was also reasonably priced. No two paintings are the same and they are all hand made and hand painted in Turkey.
I also bought a few scarves and cushions. In hindsight I wish I had bought more but was running out of room in my suitcase. Everything is bright, beautiful, colourful, noisy and smells amazing! Like hot summer and spices mixed together.
There are over 3000 shops and something ridiculous like 250,000 people visit here everyday. It didn't feel too busy though.
A Turkish bath is another tourist staple – basically a sauna where you get scrubbed, cleaned and massaged in a series of rooms that are cold, warm and hot. Couples can get a Turkish bath together.
Other sites: the spice market and Topkapi Place.
Everywhere you go you will be invited in for tea. Everyone is so welcoming. And they love Australians. If you eat at a café or restaurant they will offer you tea and want to sit and chat with you about Australia and your holiday.
A must for a drink or dinner is Reina which is along the water in the area known as Besiktas. It has beautiful views of the water, boats, bridges and the historic buildings.
It is also a nightclub with DJs. The service is great and the food and drinks are amazing. The prices are on par with Aussie prices and it's so worth it. We started off with cocktails and then ordered champagne. Every time we ordered a bottle the staff would cheer and wave sparklers around us.
We ordered tapas and shared everything. We got there about 6pm while it was still sunny and then watched the sunset. By about 9pm it was packed and there was a line.
Another great restaurant is in walking distance from Taksim Square called 360 –which has 360 degree views of the city. The skyline is beautiful and lined with mosques. Another perfect place to watch the sunset. The food is a mix of traditional Turkish and European.
Any kebab shop or food cart is worth trying. The carts sell warm nuts, roasted corn and fresh juices. All of the food is delicious and fresh.
Most places have shisha which is about $5 – cherry flavour is the best. Even simple meals like hommus and flat bread are amazing. We went to one little café late one night and the staff played traditional Turkish music and danced around us.
I stayed at Cheers Hostel which is in the Midtown area. It is in walking distance to majority of the tourist sites, the best cafes and bars. My friend and I had a top floor room with two bedrooms and bathroom to ourselves and paid about $100 a night altogether. The man that runs it is so helpful and welcoming. I would definitely recommend staying here.
We walked everywhere except from the airport I would recommend taking a taxi. We also took a taxi to Reina which was about 30 minutes drive.
This blog post was originally posted on Sunny And Luna, and re-published with author's permission.


Rehovot, Israel (May 15, 2008) - Objet Geometries Ltd. (www.2objet.com), the innovation leader in 3-D printing, today announced that its revolutionary Connex500(TM) system has been recognized with the red dot award (www.red-dot.de), one of the highest and most coveted honors for product design and innovation worldwide. The Connex500(TM) is the first-ever system to allow printing of several materials with different mechanical and physical properties simultaneously.
An international jury comprised of renowned designers and design experts evaluated more than 3,200 entries from 51 different countries and deemed the Connex500(TM) worthy of the distinction associated with this 53-year-old honor. The award is given by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Germany, one of Europe's most highly reputed design institutions. It recognizes outstanding and trendsetting design quality worldwide through assessment of the degree of innovation, functionality, ergonomics, longevity, ecological compatibility and clarity of function.
"We are complimented with this recognition of our Connex500(TM) system as one of the most innovative and high quality design advances of the past year," said Adina Shorr, CEO of Objet Geometries. "The red dot design award reinforces our leadership in rapid prototyping technology, which companies around the globe have embraced for its effectiveness and benefits to their product development and manufacturing processes."
Objet's Connex500(TM) represents a breakthrough in three-dimensional printing by, for the first time, offering product developers the ability to print parts and assemblies made of several materials with different mechanical and physical properties in a single build process. The system's patented PolyJet Matrix(TM) Technology jets materials in ultra-thin layers, immediately curing each layer with UV light, a process which yields models that closely emulate the look, feel and function of an exceptionally wide variety of end products. In addition, the system allows users to create composite materials that have pre-set combinations of mechanical properties, also a first for the industry. The Connex500(TM) was unveiled in November 2007.
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Number 29 of 1957.
GAELTACHT INDUSTRIES ACT, 1957.
Establishment day.
Establishment of the Board.
Powers and functions of the Board.
Constitution of the Board.
Remuneration and expenses of members of the Board.
Members' superannuation scheme.
Removal of member of the Board.
Casual vacancies in the Board.
Resignation and disqualification of member of the Board.
Disqualification of member of either House of Oireachtas for membership of Board.
Disclosure of interest in contract.
Seal of the Board.
Meetings and procedure of the Board.
Officers and servants of the Board.
Request to Local Appointments Commission to recommend person.
Exercise of functions of the Board.
Superannuation of officers and servants of the Board.
Transfer to the Board of assets held for the rural industries.
Exemption from stamp duty.
Transfer to the Board of liabilities incurred for the rural industries.
Preservation of contracts of service.
Continuance of pending legal proceedings.
Annual estimate of the Board's requirements.
Grants.
Repayable advances to the Board out of the Central Fund.
Provision of money for advances to the Board out of the Central Fund.
Payment of interest on repayable advances.
Repayment of repayable advances.
Power of the Board to borrow temporarily.
Accounts and audits.
Annual report.
Furnishing of information to Minister.
Expenses.
Short title.
Act Referred to
Local Authorities (Officers and Employees) Act, 1926
AN ACT TO MAKE FURTHER AND BETTER PROVISION FOR THE ORGANISATION, CONDUCT AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE RURAL INDUSTRIES NOW ADMINISTERED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF THE GAELTACHT, TO PROVIDE FOR THE INITIATION OF NEW INDUSTRIES AND PRODUCTIVE SCHEMES OF EMPLOYMENT IN THE GAELTACHT, TO ESTABLISH A BOARD TO BE KNOWN AS GAELTARRA ÉIREANN, TO DEFINE ITS POWERS AND DUTIES, TO TRANSFER TO IT THE SAID RURAL INDUSTRIES AND TO PROVIDE FOR CERTAIN OTHER MATTERS CONNECTED WITH THE MATTERS AFORESAID. [18th December, 1957.]
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—
1. —In this Act—
"the Board" has the meaning specified in subsection (1) of section 3 of this Act;
"the establishment day" means the day appointed to be the establishment day for the purposes of this Act by order of the Minister made under section 2 of this Act;
"the Gaeltacht" means the areas specified in the schedule to Ordú na Límistéirí Gaeltachta, 1956 (I.R. Uimh. 245 de 1956);
"the Minister" means the Minister for the Gaeltacht;
"the rural industries" means the industries administered by the Department of the Gaeltacht immediately before the establishment day but does not include the industry carried on under the name Arramara Teoranta or the marine products collection scheme associated therewith.
2. —The Minister may by order appoint a day to be the establishment day for the purposes of this Act.
3. —(1) There shall, by virtue of this section, be established on the establishment day a board to be styled and known as Gaeltarra Éireann (in this Act referred to as the Board) to fulfil the functions assigned to it by this Act.
(2) The Board shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and power to sue and be sued in its corporate name and to acquire, hold and dispose of land.
4. —(1) It shall be the duty of the Board to carry on, control and manage the rural industries, to exercise the functions in relation thereto which immediately before the establishment day were vested in the Minister and, with the consent of the Minister given after consultation with the Minister for Industry and Commerce, to provide, carry on, control and manage in the Gaeltacht such other industries and productive schemes of employment as it may think fit.
(2) It shall be the duty of the Board to encourage the preservation and extension of the use of Irish as a vernacular language in the Gaeltacht.
(3) The Board shall have all such powers are as necessary for the purposes specified in subsections (1) and (2) of this section.
(4) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing subsections and in addition to the powers conferred on the Board by any other provision of this Act, the Board shall have power—
(a) to expand and develop in the Gaeltacht the rural industries and any industry or productive scheme of employment provided by it under this section,
(b) to expand and develop in their existing locations the rural industries located outside the Gaeltacht,
(c) with the consent of the Minister, to discontinue, either generally or in a particular place or district, the carrying on of any industry, being one of the rural industries, or any industry or productive scheme of employment provided by it under this section or any activity carried on by it in relation to or as part of the rural industries or any industry or productive scheme of employment so provided by it, and
(d) to acquire, receive on transfer, hold, sell, mortgage, lease let, or otherwise dispose of land, buildings, markets, premises or plant and to erect, alter or maintain buildings, markets, premises or plant necessary for the discharge or exercise of its duties or powers under this Act.
5. —(1) The Board shall consist of five members of whom one shall be chairman and another shall be managing director.
(2) The chairman, the managing director and the other members of the Board shall be appointed by the Minister.
(3) A member of the Board shall, unless he sooner dies, resigns, becomes disqualified, or is removed, hold office for a period of five years.
(4) A member of the Board whose term of office expires by effluxion of time shall be eligible for re-appointment.
(5) A member of the Board shall hold office on such terms (other than the payment of remuneration and allowances for expenses) as shall be fixed by the Minister at the time of his appointment.
6. —A member of the Board shall be paid, out of funds at the disposal of the Board, such remuneration and allowances for expenses as the Minister, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, determines.
7. —(1) The Minister, with the concurrence of the Minister for Finance, may make a scheme for the payment, subject to such conditions and limitations as may be prescribed in the scheme, of superannuation benefits on retirement to or in respect of whole-time members of the Board and may, with the like concurrence, amend any such scheme.
(2) A scheme under this section may provide for the machinery for settling any dispute that may arise as to the claim of any person to, or the amount of, any benefit payable in pursuance of such scheme.
(3) A scheme under this section shall be carried out by the Board in accordance with its terms.
(4) Every scheme made under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and if either House, within the next twenty-one days on which that House has sat after the scheme is laid before it, passes a resolution annulling the scheme, the scheme shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.
(5) In this section "superannuation benefits" includes pensions, allowances and gratuities.
8. —The Minister may at any time remove a member of the Board from office.
9. —(1) A casual vacancy occurring among the members of the Board shall be filled by appointment by the Minister.
(2) A person appointed under this section shall hold office for the remainder of his predecessor's term.
10. —(1) A member of the Board may at any time resign his office by letter addressed to the Minister and the resignation shall take effect as on and from the date of the receipt of the letter by the Minister.
(2) A member of the Board shall be disqualified from holding and shall cease to hold office if he is adjudged bankrupt or makes a composition or arrangement with creditors, or is sentenced by a court of competent jurisdiction to suffer imprisonment or penal servitude or ceases to be ordinarily resident in the State.
11. —(1) Where a member of the Board becomes a member of either House of the Oireachtas, he shall, upon his becoming entitled under the Standing Orders of that House to sit therein, cease to be a member of the Board.
(2) A person who is for the time being entitled under the Standing Orders of either House of the Oireachtas to sit therein shall be disqualified from being a member of the Board.
12. —A member of the Board who has any interest in any company or concern with which the Board proposes to make any contract or any interest in the contract shall disclose to the Board the fact of the interest and the nature thereof, and he shall take no part in any deliberation or decision of the Board relating to the contract, and the disclosure shall be recorded in the minutes of the Board.
13. —(1) The Board shall provide itself with a seal, and such seal shall be authenticated by the signature of the chairman, the managing director or some other member thereof authorised by the Board to act in that behalf and the signature of an officer of the Board authorised by the Board to act in that behalf.
(2) Judicial notice shall be taken of the seal of the Board and every document purporting to be an instrument made by the Board and to be sealed with the seal (purporting to be authenticated in accordance with this section) of the Board shall be received in evidence and be deemed to be such instrument without further proof unless the contrary is shown.
14. —(1) The Board shall hold such and so many meetings as may be necessary for the due fulfilment of its functions and the first meeting shall be held on, or as soon as conveniently may be after the establishment day.
(2) The quorum for a meeting of the Board shall be three.
(3) At a meeting of the Board—
(a) the chairman of the Board shall, if present, be chairman of the meeting,
(b) if and so long as the chairman of the Board is not present or if the office of chairman is vacant, the members of the Board who are present shall choose one of their number to be chairman of the meeting.
(4) Every question at a meeting of the Board shall be determined by a majority of the votes of the members present and voting on the question and, in the case of an equal division of votes, the chairman of the meeting shall have a second or casting vote.
(5) The Board may act notwithstanding one or more than one vacancy among its members.
(6) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Board shall regulate, by standing orders or otherwise, the procedure and business of the Board.
15. —(1) The Board shall appoint such and so many persons to be officers and servants of the Board as the Board from time to time thinks proper.
(2) A person (not being a person specified in section 22 of this Act or a person who, on the establishment day, is carrying out duties in relation to the rural industries) who does not possess such knowledge of the Irish language as will enable him to use that language in the performance of his official duties shall not be appointed to be an officer or servant of the Board under this section if a person who possesses such knowledge as aforesaid and is otherwise suitable for appointment is available for appointment.
(3) An officer or servant of the Board shall hold his office or employment on such terms and conditions as the Board from time to time determines.
(4) There shall be paid by the Board to its officers and servants out of funds at its disposal such remuneration and allowances as the Board determines.
(5) The Board may at any time remove any officer or servant of the Board from being its officer or servant.
16. —(1) The Board may, if it so thinks fit, for the purpose of the appointment of a person to fill a situation in the service of the Board request the Local Appointments Commissioners to recommend to it a person for appointment to such situation and the Commissioners on receiving such request shall select and recommend under and in accordance with the Local Authorities (Officers and Employees) Act, 1926 (No. 39 of 1926), to the Board a person for appointment to such situation and shall, if they so think proper, select and recommend to the Board two or more persons for such appointment, and the Board on receiving from the Commissioners such recommendation shall appoint to such situation the person so recommended by the Commissioners or, where more than one person is so recommended, such one of the persons so recommended as the Board thinks proper.
(2) The Board shall pay to the Local Appointments Commissioners out of the funds at its disposal such expenses in respect of the selection and recommendation by the Commissioners under this section of persons to fill situations in the service of the Board as shall be fixed by agreement between the Board and the Commissioners or, in default of such agreement, by the Minister for Finance.
(3) Every sum received by the Local Appointments Commissioners under subsection (2) of this section shall be deemed for the purposes of paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section 12 of the Local Authorities (Officers and Employees) Act, 1926 , to be a fee paid to the Commissioners under that Act.
17. —The Board may exercise any of the powers and perform any of the functions and duties imposed on the Board by this Act through or by any member of the Board, any sub-committee of members or any of its officers or servants authorised by the Board in that behalf.
18. —(1) As soon as conveniently may be after the establishment day the Board shall prepare and submit to the Minister a scheme or schemes for the granting of pensions, gratuities and other allowances on retirement to or in respect of such officers or servants of the Board as it may think fit.
(2) A scheme submitted to the Minister under this section shall, if approved of by the Minister with the concurrence of the Minister for Finance, be carried out by the Board in accordance with its terms.
(3) The Board may at any time, with the approval of the Minister, given with the concurrence of the Minister for Finance, amend a scheme under this section.
(4) A scheme submitted and approved of under this section shall fix the time and conditions of retirement for all persons to or in respect of whom pensions, gratuities or allowances on retirement are payable under the scheme, and different times and conditions may be fixed in respect of different classes of persons.
(5) If any dispute arises as to the claim of any person to, or the amount of any pension, gratuity or allowance payable in pursuance of a scheme under this section, such dispute shall be submitted to the Minister who shall refer it to the Minister for Finance, whose decision thereon shall be final.
(6) Every scheme submitted and approved of under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is approved of and if either House, within the next twenty-one days on which that House has sat after the scheme is laid before it, passes a resolution annulling the scheme, the scheme shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.
19. —(1) All property (real or personal) and rights held or enjoyed immediately before the establishment day by the Minister in connection with the functions vested in him in relation to the promotion of the rural industries or for the purposes of the rural industries and all property (real or personal), other than the excluded property, used or occupied for the purposes of the rural industries which, immediately before the establishment day, is held by any other Minister of State, the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland or the Irish Land Commission shall, on the establishment day, be transferred to the Board, and accordingly without any further conveyance, transfer or assignment—
(a) the said property shall on the establishment day vest in the Board, and
(b) the said rights shall, as on and from the establishment day, be enjoyed by the Board.
(2) All moneys, stocks, shares and securities transferred to the Board by subsection (1) of this section which, on the establishment day are standing in the books of any corporation or company in the name of any Minister of State, the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland or the Irish Land Commission shall, upon the request of the Board, be transferred into its name.
(3) The Minister for Finance shall, as soon as may be after the establishment day, issue a certificate in writing certifying the sum which, in his opinion, represents the value of the property and rights transferred by this section and such sum shall be a debt due by the Board to the Minister for Finance and such debt shall be discharged at such time or times, in such manner and upon such terms as the Minister for Finance, after consultation with the Minister, shall determine.
(4) The property referred to in this section as "the excluded property" is the building on the back portion of the premises known as and situated at No. 64 Merrion Square, in the City of Dublin, and the first floor of the building, known as Saint Patrick's Hall, on the back portion of the premises known as and situated at No. 3 Merrion Square aforesaid.
20. —Section 12 of the Finance Act, 1895, shall not apply to the vesting in the Board of the property or rights transferred by section 19 of this Act.
21. —Every debt and other liability (including unliquidated liabilities arising from torts or breaches of contract) which immediately before the establishment day is owing and unpaid or has been incurred and is undischarged by any Minister of State, the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland or the Irish Land Commission and is so owing or has been so incurred for the purposes of the rural industries shall, on the establishment day, become and be the debt or liability of the Board and shall be paid or discharged by and may be recovered from or enforced against the Board accordingly.
22. —Every contract of service express or implied which was entered into for the purposes of the rural industries and is in force immediately before the establishment day between the Minister and any person shall continue in force on and after the establishment day, but shall be construed and have effect as if the Board were substituted therein for the Minister, and every such contract shall be enforceable by or against the Board accordingly.
23. —Where, immediately before the establishment day, any legal proceedings are pending to which the Minister is a party and the proceedings have reference to functions vested in him in connection with the rural industries, the name of the Board shall be substituted in the proceedings for that of the Minister, and the proceedings shall not abate by reason of such substitution.
24. —Not later than the 1st day of November in each financial year the Board shall submit to the Minister an estimate of its financial requirements by way of grant and repayable advances for the ensuing financial year.
25. —In each financial year there may be paid to the Board, out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas, a grant of such amount as the Minister, with the concurrence of the Minister for Finance, may sanction towards the expenses of the Board.
26. —(1) For the purpose of enabling the Board to exercise or perform its functions, the Minister for Finance may, on the recommendation of the Minister, advance from time to time to the Board, out of the Central Fund or the growing produce thereof such sums (not exceeding in the aggregate five hundred thousand pounds) as the Board may from time to time request.
(2) The sums advanced under this section shall be repayable with interest in accordance with the subsequent provisions of this Act.
27. —(1) The Minister for Finance may, for the purpose of providing for the advance of sums out of the Central Fund under section 26 of this Act, borrow on the security of the Central Fund or the growing produce thereof such sums as shall be required for that purpose, and the said Minister may, for the purposes of such borrowing, create and issue securities bearing such rate of interest and subject to such conditions as to repayment, redemption, or otherwise as he thinks fit, and shall pay all moneys so borrowed into the Exchequer.
(2) The principal of and interest on all securities issued under this section shall be charged on and payable out of the Central Fund or the growing produce thereof.
28. —(1) The Board shall pay to the Minister for Finance on every sum advanced to the Board out of the Central Fund under section 26 of this Act interest from the date of the advance of such sum until it is repaid at such rate as shall from time to time be appointed by the Minister for Finance in respect of such sum and such interest shall be so paid by half yearly payments on such days in every year as the Minister for Finance shall from time to time appoint.
(2) If the Board fails to pay to the Minister for Finance any interest payable by it under this section at the time appointed in that behalf under this section, the Board shall pay to the said Minister interest at the rate appointed by the said Minister on the interest so unpaid from the time appointed as aforesaid until it is actually paid.
(3) All interest paid to the Minister for Finance by the Board under this section shall be paid into or disposed of for the benefit of the Exchequer in such manner as the said Minister may direct.
29. —(1) For the purpose of providing for the repayment by the Board of advances made to it out of the Central Fund under section 26 of this Act, the Board shall make to the Minister for Finance half-yearly payments, commencing on such date, and continuing for such number of years and being of such amounts and payable at such times as the said Minister, after consultation with the Minister, shall appoint, and different such dates, numbers of years, amounts and times may be so appointed in respect of different portions of such advances.
(2) The several half-yearly payments to be made to the Minister for Finance by the Board under this section shall be applied by the said Minister as sinking funds for the repayment of the several portions of the advances in respect of which such half-yearly payments are made and when the Board has paid to the said Minister the full number of half-yearly payments appointed under this section in respect of any portion of such advances (together with any interest which may have become payable under this section in respect of any of such half-yearly payments), such portion of such advances shall be deemed to be fully repaid by the Board, without prejudice to the liability of the Board for any interest then unpaid in respect of such portion of such advances.
(3) If the Board fails to pay to the Minister for Finance any half-yearly payment or portion of a half-yearly payment payable by it to the said Minister under this section at the time appointed in that behalf under this section, the Board shall pay to the said Minister on such half-yearly payment or portion of a half-yearly payment interest at such rate as shall from time to time be appointed by the said Minister in respect thereof from the time appointed as aforesaid until it is actually paid.
(4) All moneys paid by the Board to the Minister for Finance under this section in repayment of advances shall be paid into the Exchequer.
(5) All sums paid by the Board to the Minister for Finance under this section on foot of interest shall be paid into or disposed of for the benefit of the Exchequer in such manner as the said Minister may direct.
30. —The Board may, with the consent of the Minister, given after consultation with the Minister for Finance, borrow temporarily by arrangement with bankers such sums as it may require for the purpose of providing for current expenditure.
31. —(1) The Board shall keep in such form as shall be approved by the Minister after consultation with the Minister for Finance all proper and usual accounts of all moneys received or expended by it, including a profit and loss account and a balance sheet, and in particular shall keep in such form as aforesaid all such special accounts as the Minister on his own motion, or at the request of the Minister for Finance, shall from time to time direct.
(2) The accounts of the Board for each year shall be audited within ninety days or such longer time as the Minister may in any particular case allow after the end of that year and shall be the subject of a report by duly qualified auditors appointed annually for the purpose by the Minister, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, and the fees of such auditors and the expenses generally of such audits shall be paid by the Board.
(3) The Minister may with the consent of the Minister for Finance appoint the time, place and method of conducting the audit of the accounts of the Board under this section and may also appoint the accounts of which copies are to be furnished to the Minister under this section and the accounts which are to be published and put on sale under this section and the time and method of such publication and sale.
(4) Immediately after every audit under this section of the accounts of the Board, the Board shall send to the Minister a copy of the profit and loss account and balance sheet as certified by the auditors, a copy of the auditors' report, and copies of such of the accounts submitted to the auditors as are appointed in that behalf under this section or may be specially called for by the Minister, and shall publish and put on sale such of the accounts submitted to the auditors as are appointed in that behalf by the Minister.
(5) The Minister shall cause copies of the documents furnished to him under this section to be laid before each House of the Oireachtas.
32. —(1) The Board shall, in each year, at such date as the Minister may direct, make a report to the Minister of its proceedings under this Act during the preceding year and the Minister shall cause copies of the report to be laid before each House of the Oireachtas.
(2) Whenever the Minister so directs, such annual report shall also include information on such particular aspects of the Board's proceedings under this Act as the Minister may specify.
33. —The Board shall submit to the Minister such information regarding the performance of its functions as he may from time to time require.
34. —The expenses incurred by the Minister in the administration of this Act shall, to such extent as may be sanctioned by the Minister for Finance, be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas.
35. —This Act may be cited as the Gaeltacht Industries Act, 1957.