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'Tangled mess of inaction': hundreds of threatened species recovery plans expiring in next six months
Lisa Cox
Saturday, 26 Nov 2022
# Animals
# Endangered species
Growing list facing extinction and underresourcing of conservation means plans have not been updated
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Hundreds of plans for the recovery of threatened species will reach their use-by date in the next six months as the government considers how to reform Australia's flawed system of environmental protections.
Documents released to Guardian Australia under freedom of information laws detail how underresourcing, disagreement with state governments, and the growing list of species threatened with extinction have constrained the federal environment department's ability to get on top of a backlog of conservation work.
Environment groups said the material showed a "tangled mess of inaction" over the past decade and failure by past governments to update recovery plans every five years as required under national laws.
The environment department confirmed 372 recovery plans covering 575 species and ecosystems will sunset by the end of 2023 – 355 of those by the end of April.
They include plans for the northern and southern corroboree frogs and critically endangered birds such as the King Island scrubtit.
Related: Coalition scrapped recovery plans for 176 threatened species and habitats in one of its final acts
The 372 plans represent about 89% of all active recovery plans, which are legal documents that guide the management of threatened species and ministers must not make decisions that are inconsistent with them.
The attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, has the power to defer the sunset date of the legal instruments that give effect to the plans and, after a request from the environment and water minister, Tanya Plibersek, has done so for 15 that had been due to lapse in October.
Plibersek will soon deliver her response to the 2020 review of national environmental laws by the former competition watchdog head Graeme Samuel.
Changes to the management of threatened species recovery are expected to form a key part of that, with Plibersek saying past approaches were "not fit for the times".
Samantha Vine, the head of conservation and science at BirdLife Australia, said the documents released to Guardian Australia "reveal a systemic failure over many years to review and revise recovery plans every five years as required by the act".
"The result is that hundreds of recovery plans will reach their legislative use-by date within the next 12 months," she said.
"These documents show that Australia's extinction crisis has unfortunately been matched by a crisis in how the government has gone about implementing its legal obligation to act once a threatened species is listed."
When the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act came into force in 2000, all listed species and habitats required a recovery plan.
Since 2006, whether or not a recovery plan is required has been a decision left up to the environment minister.
Many plants and animals now have another legal document, known as a conservation advice to guide their management.
A conservation advice has been considered a weaker document because it places fewer legal obligations on the government. However, it is quicker to update than a recovery plan.
For years, the environment department has struggled to address a backlog of overdue recovery plans, and in recent years climate-driven disasters have added to that workload by pushing more plants and animals on to the threatened list.
Briefs it prepared after Plibersek took on the portfolio in June state it had been dealing with a "heavy conservation planning workload" and "significant legacy issues", some of which predated the commencement of the EPBC Act.
The department "has been working to resolve this legacy issue since then", one brief states, and "there is no point to plans that sit on a shelf gathering dust".
Close to 200 plans were overdue before an assessment last year determined that hundreds of species previously identified as requiring plans no longer needed them and a conservation advice would be sufficient.
Shortly before the May election, the former environment minister Sussan Ley scrapped the recovery plan requirements for 176 species and habitats.
That act drastically reduced the number of plans that were overdue, which now stands at 28.
Sixteen out of the 28 were "on hold" with most delayed due to "resource constraints", according to department documents. In the case of a long-awaited recovery plan for the leadbeater's possum, it had been held up by ongoing talks with the Victorian government.
"Laid bare in the documents is that resource constraints is the reason behind so many decisions," said Nicola Beynon of Humane Society International.
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She said, however, the government chose to reform conservation planning, it must include "a massive injection of funds to do the job of turning around Australia's extinction crisis" and it was "about time Treasury grasped that fact".
Tim Beshara of the Wilderness Society said underresourcing "combined with obstructionism from the states has systematically stalled conservation planning and action".
"It's absolutely critical that this gets fixed and it's patently obvious that that is going to need leadership and funding," he said.
Plibersek said the system designed 20 years ago was not fit to address the multitude of threats to Australian wildlife, particularly climate change.
"As part of the government's response to Prof Graeme Samuel's review of the act, I will consider how statutory documents for our imperilled wildlife and places can be better targeted at conservation and recovery needs," she said.
Earlier this year the department established a taskforce to consider improvements to conservation planning.
A department spokesperson said reform was required and the government "is seriously considering how conservation planning can more effectively address new and changing pressures on wildlife and landscapes, and halt biodiversity decline".
Lisa Cox is Guardian Australia's environment reporter. Email: lisa.cox@theguardian.com. Click here for Lisa's public key.
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Do you recommend using salt blocks?
If so, which block do moose prefer (white, orange, blue, red, brown or a combination)?
If using salt blocks, when should they be set out?
Any tips for setting up a salt lick at your site?
Salt blocks come in a variety of colors and each signifies a different ingredient set. Farmers have used salt block since about 1950 in order to make sure their cattle herds were getting the salt they need.
Brown: have trace minerals | cobalt, iodine, iron, zinc, copper, molybdenum and magnesium.
Black: contain everything the brown blocks do plus selenium.
For moose my suggestion is to use a salt block variation that contain minerals. The brown one would be preferred (that's what I use).
There is ample information on the net regarding the use of salt blocks in raising deer and I would suggest the information is transferable.
This year we are going to try salt blocks for Moose, will be putting them out in June.
Where I hunt deer we do the same thing, only we find a beach tree and hang it up in the tree in a old onion mesh bag, make sure that in is on the main trunk of the tree. When it rains salt will wash down the side of the tree trunk, soon the deer will smell it and come to the tree and start licking their little hearts out.
Just make sure you use a beach tree because the bark is smooth. Try it you will be surprised!
In some jurisdictions placing of salt blocks might be construed as baiting. It depends on the word of the law in your area. Make sure you know your own regulations.
In British Columbia it is not illegal to place salt blocks for ungulates.
You would also need to consider when the animals make use of mineral licks. For the most part ungulates are visiting salt and minerals during the spring and early summer. The locations which will be quite different from the fall.
Of course, if you are placing salt or bait for the purpose of taking pictures and or the salt or bait is gone at least two weeks before a lawful hunting season you would probably not have an issue.
Wouldn't that be considered 'baiting'?
If I'm not mistaken, baiting is illegal in a lot of places.


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Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad
The Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad at its height provided passenger and freight railroad services between Cincinnati, Ohio and the Straits of Mackinac in Michigan, USA. The company was formed on January 18, 1854.
After grappling with financial difficulties for many years, the company opened service between Bridge Street in Grand Rapids, Michigan to Cedar Springs, Michigan on December 25 1867, a distance of about convert|20|mi|km.
The gross earnings of the railroad in 1867 were about $22,700. In July 1868 it had 2 engines in service: the Pioneer and the Muskegon. At that time the company also utilized a single passenger coach and single baggage car, six box cars, 24 flat cars and five hand cars.
By 1869 the railroad was again in trouble with its creditors, and the courts appointed a receiver, Jesse L. Williams of Fort Wayne, Indiana, to control the company. Under Williams' direction the Continental Improvement Company was hired on May 1 1869 to complete the line between Fort Wayne and Little Traverse Bay in Michigan. Fifty-one days later, on June 21 1869, the Continental Improvement Company had laid the last rail connecting Cedar Springs to Morley, Michigan. Williams was discharged as receiver on June 20 1871.
The track from the south into Grand Rapids was completed September 13 1870. The line extended north to Paris, Michigan by October 1 1870 and a train first traveled between Fort Wayne and Paris on that date. [ [http://www.michiganrailroads.com/RRHX/Stations/CountyStations/MecostaStations/ParisMI.htm Station: Paris, MI ] ]
In June 1871 the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad Company took control of the road and property of the Cincinnati, Richmond and Fort Wayne Railroad Company, extending the line south to Cincinnati.
The line between Paris and Petoskey, Michigan was completed November 25 1873. The road was opened to Mackinaw City, Michigan and the Straits of Mackinac on July 3 1882. The total length of the line at this time was convert|529|mi|km.
In 1886 the company added an "airline" branch from Grand Rapids to Muskegon, Michigan, allowing travel between the two cities in about 1 hour.
As of July 1888, the railroad had expanded its fleet to 66 locomotives and 3,100 cars. Its gross earnings were close to $2.3 million in 1887.
A branch providing service between Walton Junction on the main line to Traverse City was completed in December 1872, bringing a wave of immigration to that area. This branch offered service to Traverse City, Northport and many towns between by 1909.
In 1891 the Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad featured the longest North-South line in the country. The railroad served to accelerate the settlement of Northern Michigan, which was largely a wilderness in the mid 1800s.
On July 2 1896 the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad reorganized as the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railway.
Lumber to Tourism
During the last quarter of the 19th century, Northern Michigan had few residents, but the railroad netted a profit of over $300,000 as early as 1876. Most of the profit came from hauling lumber from northern Michigan south. The 244,000 tons of lumber hauled in 1876 represented 70 percent of the railroad's freight business for that year, and shipping forest products remained the main source of business for the railroad for the next decade.
By the late 1880s the forests were depleted and the railroad began to depend more on tourist business. Even before completing the line to Mackinac City, the railroad marketed itself as "The Fishing Line" and published tourist guides advertising the fishing opportinities and resorts along its line.
In 1886 the Grand Rapids & Indiana joined with the Michigan Central Railroad, which had built its own line into Mackinaw City in 1881 and the Detroit and Cleveland Steamship Navigation Company to form the Mackinac Island Hotel Company. This new company built the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, which opened in 1887.
By 1907 four passenger trains were running north to and from Mackinaw City daily. Passenger train fares were not enough to support the railroad and ridership declined. In 1909 the railroad reported a profit of 24.4 cents for every passenger for each mile carried; by 1921 the railroad was losing 19.5 cents per passenger mile.
The Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad was bought by the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1918. In 1975 the Michigan Department of Transportation bought the railroad and it largely ceased operation in 1984, although the portion of track from Cadillac north to Mackinaw City is operated by Great Lakes Central Railroad.
The Michigan Northern Railway also operated some of the GR&I system until the mid 1980s in northern Michigan.
During the 1990s much of the old railroad right of way between the north side of Grand Rapids and Cadillac, Michigan was turned into the White Pine Trail State Park.
*"History of the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan". Baxter, 1891. Munsell & Co. (pgs 530-534) [http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=micounty;cc=micounty;q1=grand%20rapids%20and%20indiana%20railroad;rgn=full%20text;idno=bad1773.0001.001;didno=bad1773.0001.001;view=image;seq=00000660]
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Kokomo was shown for the first time in years this month at the Wine Country Cat Club show in Ione, CA and did very well, getting four finals including one best all-breed cat. Which makes him Grand CH. He was a huge hit with the spectators, most of whom had never seen a Selkirk Rex cat. He loved all the attention.
A kitten from the Mushu x Momo litter born last year is doing really well at the shows. Dramatails I am Legend, aka Merlin, is showing in the NW area of the U.S. by owner Susan Newell Silva and is currently second best international shorthair Selkirk Rex.
Momo x Beyonce's girl, Susenscats Sol Dream, aka Solange, was also shown and is currently 8th best longhair Selkirk Rex internationally. She's made the trip to the UK to live with Sarah of Boucles Selkirk Rex and be shown there and make little chocolate Selkirk kittens.
Both Mushu and Beyonce have been bred again this year by Momo so we're hoping for more great show winning kittens!


Over 330 people gathered at the Golden Gate Club in the Presidio in San Francisco to honor the past 20 years of open space conservation and stewardship and look forward to at least the next 20.
Select presentations and videos are available below.
We are grateful for the time, expertise, and energy of the following speakers who joined us.
As the Executive Vice President, Kathy Abbott leads the planning, integration, and implementation of all mission driven efforts for the Trustees of Reservations and serves as head of the Conservation Group and member of the Executive Team. A deeply committed conservationist and visionary leader, Kathy brings over 27 years of related experience in government, education and non profit environmental leadership to her position at The Trustees. Kathy began her career in conservation and recreation as a park ranger in the Boston Harbor Islands and then spent 8 years as a planner. She has also served as Deputy Commissioner Department of Environmental Management under Governor Weld and created the Division of Resource Conservation, and in 2003, returned to state government as the first Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation. Kathy received her Associates Degree in Arboriculture and Park Management from the Stockbridge School of Agriculture, a Bachelors Degree in Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and her Master's Degree in Public Administration from Harvard. She currently serves on the board of the Island Alliance, the Stockbridge Foundation, the Dean's Advisory Council for the College of Natural Sciences at UMASS, Amherst and Co-Chairs the board of the City Parks Alliance.
Ashley Boren has directed the strategy, growth and operations of Sustainable Conservation since 1997. Among her many achievements, Ashley received a 2007 James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award for her unwavering commitment to innovative, balanced problem-solving to address a variety of critical environmental problems facing California. Prior to Sustainable Conservation, Ashley spent eight years at Smith & Hawken, a mail order and retail gardening company, where she worked in finance, new business development, inventory planning and retail merchandising. She began her career at The Nature Conservancy in program development and fundraising. In addition to her work at Sustainable Conservation, Ashley serves as a Trustee of the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation; Independent Trustee of Marketocracy; on the California State Board of Food and Agriculture; and on the Executive Committee of the Agricultural Sustainability Institute's External Advisory Board at UC Davis. Ashley has a BA in human biology, an MA in applied economics and an MBA from Stanford University.
Jon Christensen is the executive director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University. Jon was an environmental journalist and science writer for 16 years before coming to Stanford as a Knight Professional Journalism Fellow in 2002-2003. His work has appeared in The New York Times, western regional newspaper High Country News, and many other newspapers, magazines, journals, and public radio and television shows. Jon was a Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University in 2003-2004. He is currently working on a book entitled "Critical Habitat," a history of ideas, narratives, science, land use change, practices of conservation, and extinction of a species in time and space. His most recent publication is an essay entitled "The Stories That Maps Tell" in The Atlas of Global Conservation: Changes, challenges and opportunities to make a difference, published by the University of California Press in April.
As a professor at University of California, Berkeley Carolyn Finney explores how difference, identity, representation, and power play a significant role in determining how people negotiate their daily lives in relation to the environment. Although Carolyn pursed an acting career for eleven years, a backpacking trip around the world and living in Nepal changed the course of her life. Motivated by these experiences, she returned to school after a fifteen-year absence to complete a B.A., and M.A. in international development. She recently completed her Ph.D. in geography at Clark University in Massachusetts and is a Canon National Parks Science Scholarship recipient. Working with other individuals, community groups, and environmental organizations, her research seeks to broaden our understanding of African Americans and environment interactions. As a Fulbright fellow, she has also researched the impacts of tourism and modernization on Nepalese women and the environment. In 2005/06, she was a Newhouse/Mellon postdoctoral fellow at Wellesley College in Massachusetts in Environmental Studies and Humanities. Her current research expands upon earlier work by exploring privilege, consciousness and the climate change debate. While she serves on a number of national boards and committees including the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Center for Whole Communities, she was particularly honored to serve as a commissioner on the Second Century National Parks Commission this past year. Her first book manuscript, Black Faces, White Spaces: African Americans and the Great Outdoors, is forthcoming.
Elizabeth Goldstein joined the California State Parks Foundation as President in June of 2004. A life-long advocate for parks, Elizabeth has 20-plus years experience working specifically in support of parks and historic preservation. As director of the western office of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, she managed the National Trust programs in Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington, as well as the U. S. territories of Guam and Micronesia. Elizabeth also served as regional director of the New York City region of the State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, and as director of planning for the City of New York's Department of Parks and Recreation. Prior to joining the Foundation, she was general manager of the City and County of San Francisco's Recreation and Park Department. While overseeing that department, Ms. Goldstein initiated a $400 million capital campaign that oversaw such projects as the rehabilitation of the Conservatory of Flowers and Harding Golf Course; fostered public/private partnerships with nonprofits such as Strybing Arboretum Society to help support the park system; and helped improve responsiveness to the general public. A resident of San Francisco, Elizabeth is co-chair of the City Parks Alliance, a board member of the Geneva Office Building Restoration Project, the Stern Grove Festival Association and the California League of Parks Associations, former board member of the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation, and an honorary member of the New York State American Institute of Architects. She graduated as valedictorian from Beloit College.
Elizabeth Hales has been the Community Outreach Coordinator for the East Bay Regional Park District since the position's creation in 2008. She has a Masters of Education degree in Human Development Counseling and a Bachelor of Science degree in Child Development and Human and Organizational Development, both from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Prior to joining EBRPD , Elizabeth was a Nationally Certified Counselor and a Licensed Professional School Counselor in the State of Tennessee. Elizabeth worked primarily in the non profit sector supervising social workers, providing individual and family therapy, and doing program coordination.
Doug McConnell is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of ConvergenceMedia Productions (CMP) in Sausalito, California, which produces OpenRoad with Doug McConnell and Exploring the West for Public Television nationally. From 1993-2009 Doug was the Host and Senior Editor of the legendary Bay Area Backroads series on KRON Television in San Francisco. Backroads was one of the longest-running and most successful regional television series in American broadcast history. During his Backroads years, Doug co-authored two best-selling travel publications for Chronicle Books. Doug's received many regional Emmys and other broadcast awards during his long career in television. He's also been recognized for his extensive public service and been named Honorary National Park Ranger, Honorary State Park Ranger, Volunteer of the Year by the San Francisco Bay Trail and Humanitarian of the Year by the Marin Humane Society. In addition, he's been given the prestigious Harold Gilliam Award for environmental reporting and storytelling in Northern California.
Steven J. McCormick is the president and a trustee of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. From 2001-2007, Steve was the president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy (TNC), where he led the organization into a truly global presence, leveraging its resources to achieve tangible, lasting results for nature and for people, and where he oversaw an operating budget of over $500 million and a highly distributed staff of over 3,000. Under Steve's leadership, revenues increased significantly, hitting an all-time high of $1.2 billion in 2006. Previously, Steve was a partner at Resources Law Group, which provides transactional and consulting services in land-use and natural resources law and policy, and creates innovative opportunities for conservation philanthropy. He began his career withTNC as Western Regional Legal Counsel, and rose through the ranks to spend 16 years as executive director of the California state program, where he created the Conservation by Design strategic framework that now guides all of TNC 's work. Steve has a B.S. in agricultural economics from the University of California at Berkeley, where he graduated with honors, a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of Law, and he also attended the Stanford Executive Program.
Andrea Mackenzie has over 25 years of experience working for agricultural and open space preservation and land conservation agencies. Andrea is currently a consultant and is serving as Project Director to the Land Trust of Santa Cruz County for development of a Conservation Blueprint for Santa Cruz County. Andrea was the General Manager of the Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District from 2000-2009 and in 2006 led the successful effort to reauthorize the District's ¼ percent sales tax by 76 percent. Andrea previously worked as an environmental planner with the East Bay Regional Park District and the City and County of San Francisco. Andrea is President of the Bay Area Open Space Council. Andrea is a past fellow of the National Conservation Leadership Institute in Shepherdstown , W. VA. Andrea has a B.A. in Environmental Studies from U.C. Santa Barbara and a M.A. in Urban Planning and Natural Resources from U.C.L.A.
Daphne Miller, MD, is founder of one of the first neighborhood-based integrative primary care practices in San Francisco and an associate clinical professor (adjunct) in the department of Family and Community medicine at UCSF. Dr. Miller lectures nationally and internationally on topics related to integrative health, exercise and nutrition. She is the author of numerous chapters and articles and her "Trained Eye" column appears regularly in the Washington Post. Most recently she published The Jungle Effect (HarperCollins 2008), a book about traditional diets and health. Dr. Miller received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School. Her post-doctoral training includes a residency at UCSF in family medicine, an NIH-funded fellowship in primary care research at UCSF and an Associate Fellowship in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona.
A graduate of San Francisco's McAteer High School and California State University, East Bay, Ernesto was honored as a Crissy Field Center Community Hero in 2001 for his work with the San Francisco Conservation Corps. Soon after Ernesto is became an early product of the Inspiring Young Emerging Leaders (I-YEL) program model, having helped establish the initial guidelines for the program while working as a college intern for Crissy Field Center in 2001. I-YEL is nationally recognized program for engaging young people in protected areas. In 2003 Ernesto was the only California youth, and one of only three from the United States, invited to participate in the World Parks Conference in Durbin, South Africa. In 2007 Ernesto represented Crissy Field Center at the UNESCO/UNEP sponsored 4th Annual Conference for Environmental Education in Ahmadabad, India. In his job as Manager of Youth Leadership Programs at Crissy Field Center, Ernesto encourages new generations to become bold leaders for thriving parks, healthy communities and a more environmentally just society.
Magdalena Ridley is a Santa Rosa – based community organizer working in the Roseland district, where she was both raised and currently resides with her daughter. Her work in Roseland, an underserved and largely Latino neighborhood, has focused primarily on youth activities, civic engagement and advocacy. She rose to prominence within Sonoma County after the area newspaper ran a series of her editorials discussing viewpoints of and within Roseland. This raised profile afforded her the opportunity to work with LandPaths on their groundbreaking urban farm project, Bayer Farm, a collaboration with the City of Santa Rosa that has converted a field bordered by apartments and houses into a thriving organic community garden and teaching space where over 30 families have plots and hundreds of children visit every year to learn about organic gardening, healthy eating and the joys of nature. She has since developed other bilingual projects with LandPaths, working towards a model of equal access to the outdoors regardless of language or cultural background.
As Executive Director of the Bay Area Open Space Council, Bettina provides strategic direction, manages operations, and leads collaborative efforts to advance land and water conservation in the San Francisco Bay Area. Bettina brings over 22 years of related experience in land conservation, organizational development and public policy to her position with the Council. She previously served as the Vice President of The Wilderness Land Trust where she provided oversight for all land acquisitions in California and as Executive Director of the Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts. Bettina's career began with the Virginia Department of Forestry, where she served in various capacities including six years as Deputy Director. Bettina was a co-founder and served as faculty of the Virginia Natural Resources Leadership Institute, which is now in its tenth year. She holds a Bachelors degree in Forestry and Wildlife from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and a Masters degree in Business Administration from James Madison University.
Laurie Schoeman is the Project Manager for the EcoCenter at Heron's Head Park, San Francisco's landmark environment education center located in San Francisco's Bayview Hunters Point community featuring an array of cutting edge green building technologies. Laurie has managed stewarding both the design, permitting, and construction of the center which is focused on the intersection between environmental justice and green building. Laurie is an appointed representative to the San Fracisco Public Utitlities Citizens Advisory Commitee, representing San Francisco's Southern Waterfront Community of District 10 and she chairs the CAC's Environmental Justice SubCommitee which recently partnered with the SFPUC commission to pass one of the first Environmental Justice Policies in the nation. She has worked in the field of sustainable community development for over a decade, as a city planner, and is committed to raising the "sustainability bar" in low-income environmental justice communities. Some of the agencies/organizations she has worked with include: United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) and United Nations HABITAT; Urban Habitat; Catholic Charities City of New York; City of Alemada Department on Housing and Community Development; and MIG. She holds a B.A. in political science from Smith College, and an M.U.P. in city planning from Hunter (CUNY). In her spare time she paints, swims, and geeks out on innovative wastewater treatment strategies.
Henry Wallace is the Indian Valley Organic Farm & Garden Supervisor and co-instructor for the class in Principles and Practices of Organic Farming. The project is a collaborative of Conservation Corps North Bay, College of Marin, and University of California Cooperative Extension. Henry is a former Americorps member with Conservation Corps North Bay, and was hired as farm supervisor at the completion of his term. He graduated from the University of Minnesota, Morris, and has been an environmental educator for five years.
Hazel Wong is currently a Senior Campaign Manager for The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and has been instrumental in laying the foundation for statewide conservation initiatives in The Nature Conservancy. Hazel's specialty in communications – having worked at the local television affiliates for ABC inLas Vegas complements her legislative and campaign experience. Hazel served as TNC 's Government Relations Director working with the Nevada legislature, advocating for conservation policy and funding which culminated in her role as campaign manager for the successful Question 1 bond measure in 2002. Hazel joined TNC 's Conservation Campaign's team shortly thereafter and has taken the lead role in "Building A Conservation Ethic in the West program." The program has multiple components but is rooted in the idea that public opinion polling, message development and capacity building help build a groundswell of support for conservation initiatives. By raising the profile of conservation in the Western states,TNC chapters and their partners are conditioning the environment for conservation successes. Hazel is also community activist, and has served as Chairperson for the Nevada Women's Agenda and the Nevada Conservation League. She is board member of the Nevada Women's Lobby. She has a Bachelor's degree in Communications from California State University – Fullerton and a Master's degree in Political Science from the University of Nevada –Las Vegas.
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2019-10-08 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Khamenei's representative grimaces fearsomely: Saudi Arabia, Israel fear destruction by Iran
[THEBAGHDADPOST] Israel and Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
are afraid of being destroyed in a military confrontation with Iran, said a senior representative of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
...the actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini...
on Monday, adding that "resistance" is the only successful approach for Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan, the abbreviation IRGC is a cognate form of Stürmabteilung (or SA), the term Supreme Guide is a cognate form of either Shah or Führer or maybe both, and they hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
against its enemies.
"[Iran's] deterrence [power] has today reached a point where Israel and Saudi Arabia are worried that something may happen, leaving no trace of them," the semi-official Entekhab news website quoted holy man Abdollah Haji Sadeghi, Khamenei's representative in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), as saying.
Iran has accomplished far more in the past six months since taking the approach of "resistance" than it has done negotiating in the past six years, he said.
Iran is accused of pursuing aggressive policies in the region, including attacking Saudi Arabia's oil facilities, threatening shipping in the Arabian Gulf, and continuing to support proxy organizations in Leb, Iraq, and Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
Tensions in the region have been heighted after the September 14 attacks on Saudi Aramco oil facilities, which Iran is widely accused of carrying out.
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
... Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016....
has said that the response to Iran must be well-calculated, adding that "The political and peaceful solution is much better than the military one."
The US said it will be deploying a Patriot battery, four Sentinel RADARs, and nearly 200 support personnel to Saudi Arabia in response to the recent attacks.
Sadeghi had previously claimed that Iranian-backed Hezbollah can inflict irreparable damage on Israel. Hezbollah and Israel clashed over the Lebanese border in late August. The terrorist organization recently reaffirmed its loyalty to Iran, with its leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...
saying that Khamenei was key to its foundation.
Iran continues to threaten to destroy Israel. IRGC commander Hossein Salami said last week that Iran is capable of attacking its enemies anywhere, and added that Israel's destruction is now an "achievable goal."
Ali Khamenei: 2019-09-27 Khamenei says Europeans can't be trusted, are as hostile to Iran as US
Ali Khamenei: 2019-09-22 Call to destroy Israel at Islamist conference in Ankara
Ali Khamenei: 2019-09-17 Iran's supreme leader: There will be no talks with US at any level
Resistance: 2019-10-06 Standstill in Kashmir enters third month
Resistance: 2019-10-06 Resistance only way to restore Palestinians' rights: Islamic Jihad leader
Resistance: 2019-10-03 Stephen Miller: 'The Deep State is Terrified of Being Exposed'
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: 2019-10-05 Russian journalist arrested by IRGC in Tehran to be released soon
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: 2019-10-03 Iran's Qassem Soleimani reveals role during 2006 Hezbollah-Israel War
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: 2019-09-26 Detained British-Flagged Tanker Heads Out of Iran Waters
Mohammed bin Salman: 2019-10-01 Saudi crown prince says war with Iran would gut world economy
Mohammed bin Salman: 2019-09-28 Saudi Arabia to offer tourist visas for first time
Mohammed bin Salman: 2019-09-13 Saudi Princess Convicted in France of Ordering Bodyguard to Beat Worker
Hezbollah: 2019-10-06 Resistance only way to restore Palestinians' rights: Islamic Jihad leader
Hezbollah: 2019-10-05 US offers reward for Islamic State leader linked to Niger ambush
Hezbollah: 2019-10-04 US sanctions squeezing Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon
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STAMFORD — Rep. Jim Himes won re-election over challenger Harry Arora, as results started coming in Tuesday night.
The final vote results were still unavailable late Tuesday, but the Associated Press called the race in Himes' favor shortly before 10 p.m.
Democratic organizers at the Sheraton Stamford had anticipated victory and a sixth term in office for Himes, a Greenwich resident.
Himes, mounting the podium with family members, called for Americans to come together and fight the divisiveness he said was coming from the White House.
"Today it's about winning, but tomorrow it's about coming together," said Himes.
The re-elected representative said it was a "pretty dark cloud" for Democrats two years ago, when President Donald Trump was elected. He said it was up to Democrats in the House of Representatives to provide a counter-weight to Trump's executive authority.
"We are going to do what the Constitution set out for us to do — provide checks and balances on the power of the president," he said.
Himes chairs a national coalition of moderate Democrats and is a member of the House Committees on Financial Services and Intelligence. Born in Peru, Himes speaks Spanish and worked at Goldman Sachs in Latin America. Following his career in finance, he entered the field of non-profits and affordable housing, through the Enterprise Community Partners, prior to his election in 2008.
Before 2008, the 4th District Congressional seat was held by Republicans since 1989.
Arora trailed Himes in fundraising throughout the race. Arora, who immigrated to the U.S. from India, is a commodities trader who launched a Greenwich hedge fund after working at Enron and Amaranth Advisors. This was his first run for public office.


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John Lewis expects 40% profits to come from non-retail activities
Last year, John Lewis Partnership found 20 of its current John Lewis and Waitrose sites for the building of "quality and sustainable housing"
// John Lewis expects 40% profits to come from non-retail activities in next 10 years
// The plans come after the company reported a £517m pre-tax loss for 2020
// In October, John Lewis said it was working with partners to progress plans for housing delivery
John Lewis has said it is expecting 40 per cent of its profits to come from non-retail activities such as housing over the next decade.
The department store chain recently found that its shops are now at almost half the value they were before this year's and last year's write downs.
Last year, John Lewis Partnership found 20 of its current John Lewis and Waitrose sites for the building of "quality and sustainable housing" as it shifts away from high street retail activities.
John Lewis to lower prices ahead of reopening
John Lewis Partnership slumps to £517m loss; warns on more store closures
The plans come after the company reported a £517 million pre-tax loss for 2020, and being forced to write down £648 million in the value of its high street stores due to the shift online.
"With retail margins declining and the partnership wishing to return more benefit to partners, customers and communities, we are aiming that, by 2030, 40 per cent of our profits will come from areas outside retail, namely financial services, housing and outdoor living," John Lewis Partnership said.
The partnership said that these businesses were "higher margin", and therefore could "more sustainably support a model of employee ownership".
It said the commitment was part of a five-year plan to deliver £400 million per year in pre-tax profit.
In October, John Lewis said it was working with partners to progress plans for housing delivery, with two planning applications expected to be made in early 2021.
John Lewis said at the time that the developments would be for build-to-rent schemes, which would be furnished with stock from John Lewis stores, and to which it would offer to deliver Waitrose food.
It was given the green light to convert almost half of its London flagship store on Oxford Street into office space, as it set out plans to return the business to profitability.
The department store has had a presence in the capital since 1864, and was granted permission by Westminster City Council after drawing up plans for the site.
The council's planning sub-committee voted unanimously "on the basis of exceptional circumstances to justify the loss of retail floorspace".
In separate news, Marks & Spencer recently revealed redevelopment plans for its Marble Arch flagship in central London that will see it downsize retail space and create offices on upper floors.
M&S's flagship, located just a few blocks down from other department store flagships on Oxford Street, could be demolished and then redeveloped with reduced retail space and new offices.
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Ken Christy March 16, 2021 At 10:16 am
In their search of improving profitability JLP should consider moving all their
Head Office functions out of Central London and relocating at their major JLP /Waitrose hub at Magna Park (Milton Keynes) They would achieve much more with the buying and selling operations linked to their distribution team, all operating along side each other. They have only got to look at Next at Enderby to see how well this would work.
Sam March 17, 2021 At 10:08 pm
Next distribution is not in Enderby. It's miles away!
Graham March 18, 2021 At 9:56 am
to get 40% of profits from non-retail means around 70% of management's time will have to be dedicated to building up these new activities, taking their eye off the ball at the most critical moment.
Ken Christy March 21, 2021 At 12:58 pm
Thanks for the correction Sam. The point I was making was that they should to move out of an expensive Central London location, and that their operation would benefit from being on one sight.
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Center Parcs is set to make a splash in Longford, Ireland next year. The new forest resort, which will open its doors in summer 2019, is set to transform family getaways as plans for Ireland's first ever Subtropical Swimming Paradise have been revealed.
Those eager to stay dry and looking to take a break from the splashes and slides will be happy to hear that the Subtropical Swimming Paradise will also feature the option a private family cabana, fitted with a TV, refreshments and loungers. Further refreshments will also be available in the Canopy Café & Bar, a welcome pit-stop for those looking for an energy boost.
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-	The shareholders may be individuals who are Greeks or foreign residents, or a limited company.
-	The liability of the owners of the company is limited to the sum of capital invested.
-	The basic minimum capital may not be less than EUR 60,000, fully paid up, with a nominal value of EUR 0.30-EUR 100 per share.
-	The company is managed by a board of directors.
-	A general meeting of the shareholders must be held within 6 months of the end of the tax year to approve the financial statements.
The cost of establishing an AE company includes about EUR 1,500 for publications in the Government Gazette and about EUR 1,000 for lawyer's fees.
-	The company may be managed by a single director or by a number of directors.
-	The shareholders' liability is limited to the sum of capital invested.
-	The basic minimum capital will not be less than EUR 18,000, with a minimum of EUR 30 per share.
-	Foreign companies can open a branch in Greece.
-	The branch must have a same minimum share capital as required for local Greek companies.
Note: For additional article by www.taxexperts.eu (December 2011). Please click here.


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Jackson Wang | Biography 2021
Full Name Jackson Wang
Occupation Singer, Rapper, Dancer, K-pop star
Nationality Chinese
Birthplace British Hong Kong
Birth Date Mar 28, 1994
Founder of Record Label Team Wang
Member of Korean Boy Group Got7
Jackson Wang started learning fencing at the young age of 10 and was training for the Olympics at 16. He was randomly spotted by a Korean talent agent when he was playing basketball in his school after his exams. Jackson then attended the K-pop star audition and got through the first round. Following this, he rejected the scholarship to study abroad and moved to Korea to become a K-pop star.
By Chetana
Update : July 20, 2021
Jackson Wang is a K-pop star based in China. This solo artist governs his record label Team Wang and is also a part of the Korean boy group Got7.
Who is Jackson Wang?
Wang is a Korean pop star from Hong Kong. He was spotted by JYP Entertainment when he was 16 years old. At that time, Wang was getting trained in fencing or sword fighting to get into the Olympics and had received a scholarship offer from a prestigious university to study abroad. However, after he auditioned for the agency, he dropped his plans of becoming an athlete and moved to South Korea to be a K-pop idol.
Jackson debuted with the boy group Got7 in 2014, and it fetched him instant international popularity with the debut song, 'Girls Girls Girls. He also appeared in several reality television shows along with his band releases. In addition, he won the 'Newcomer Award' at the 2014 SBS Entertainment Awards for his appearance in the variety show Roommate.
Further, he started his own production Team Wang in 2017 under the JYP entertainment and made his first solo debut in China. Since then, Jackson has been singing and producing his solo albums and been conducting his solo ventures. His recent and one of the prominent associations is with the singer and songwriter Rain. The duo released their collaborated song 'Magnetic.'
Jackson Wang launched his streetwear record label brand Team Wang Design in 2020.
Early Age
Wang was born on 28 March 1994 in British Hong Kong. His mother was a former gymnast, and his father was a former Asian Games gold medalist member of China's national fencing team. He studied at the American International School, Hong Kong. He was the second child to his parents, and his older brother Winston became a rugby player and moved to Australia.
Wang started learning fencing at the young age of 10 and was training for the Olympics at 16. He was randomly spotted by a Korean talent agent when he was playing basketball in his school after his exams. Jackson then attended the K-pop star audition and got through the first round. Following this, he rejected the scholarship to study abroad and moved to Korea to become a K-pop star.
Jackson has been drawing his inspiration to sing and produce music from American singers Omarion and Chris Brown.
JYP Entertainment and Got7
Growing up in a sports family, Jackson was equally interested in music. Even after Jackson was selected for the audition and wanted to move to Korea, his family was not happy with his decision. At the same time, they did not stop him from his interest but thought it would be the worst decision of his life.
After moving to Korea, Jackson received rigorous training under JYP Entertainment. Every week, he had to go through a structural elimination process to pass the evaluation process for activities such as dancing, singing, acting, rapping, and producing.
Being the only foreigner among the 50 trainees, Wang had to learn the Korean culture and the language all by himself. He then learned the language from books for a year, and after that, he picked it from "dating."
In addition to the difficulty of merging with a different culture, he found it hard to compete with the likes of singers and dancers since he came from a sports background— he was previously a part of a Hongkong-based fencing team. Moreover, he would constantly feel anxious when he thought of going home and starting from scratch if he failed the process. He explains: "Actually, the first week in Korea I already kind of regret now, not regret, I was very insecure because like everybody came in because they are a good dancer, good singer or a good actor like they got their weapon you know? I went, and I was an athlete. I was very insecure, but you know I just thought to myself, well if I want to catch up; when they are doing ten push-ups or I should do ten times more; I got to do 100 and this is how I am going to catch."
After two and a half years of hardcore training, Wang got selected as a member of the debuting boy K-pop group Got7. The group got chosen among 30 finalists. The group debuted in 2014 with the singles' Girls Girls Girls', from their first Extended Play, 'Got It?'.
They soon came up with their second mini-album with the title song 'A.' By then, their first music video gained 10 million views on YouTube, giving this rookie group immediate global popularity.
The same year, Got7 released their first full album, Identify, followed by 'Moriagatteyo' (2016), 'Flight Log: Turbulence' (2016), 'Present: You' (2018), and 'Breath of Love: Last Piece' (2020).
Got7 quickly harvested both commercial and popularity successes by building up a huge fanbase. He says he feels "blessed" to see the K-pop culture "being spread out globally."
GOT7's Exit From JYP
Jackson Wang and the other members of GOT7 parted ways with JYP Entertainment in January 2021, after seven years with the company. "I could work anywhere except Korea, that was the deal," Jackson Wang explained. "Since my contract expired, I've been trying to bring everything that I've accomplished over the last four years."
For a long time, fans of the band have suspected JYP Entertainment of mistreating GOT7. Later, the seven members of the group split up once the contract expired. After the GOT7 left JYP in January 2021, Jackson teased his first single, 'Alone.'
Breath of Love:The Last Piece (November 2020) was GOT7's last album with JYP Entertainment until they released the single 'Encore' in February 2021.
Solo Career
In 2017, Wang made his solo debut in China with the track titled 'Papillon.' The JYP entertainment company assigned him his team, Team Wang, consisting of two persons - his manager and Wang himself, which by 2021 had grown to have more than 60-70 people.
Throughout 2017 and the following year, Wang managed to balance between his solo career under his record label Team Wang and his responsibilities with Got7. On his obligations with Got7 and his solo career, he has said: "I will spend half the time in Korea and half the time in China doing my own stuff. In Korea, I am still in a K-pop group, Got7; we are doing our stuff in K-pop. But in China, I am doing my music, just everything about Jackson. When they, the rest of Got7, rest, I go to China. When my Chinese label's employees rest, I go back to Korea. I have to fit a year's schedule into six months, which is difficult. It is tough. But at the end of the day, I love what I am doing, so it's okay."
'100 Ways'
In 2020, while elaborating about his solo release '100 ways,' Wang commented, "There are 100 ways to leave a lover, but I [Jackson] is the only one you need," Wang comments while elaborating about his solo release '100 ways' in 2020. In 2021, Wang released another solo, 'Leave Me Loving You' (LMLY)."
'Magnetic'
Wang's most significant collaborations are with the eminent South Korean songwriter, actor, and music producer Jung Ji-Hoon, fondly called Rain. The duo released their song 'Magnetic' in 2021.
Speaking about the production of the song, Wang stated, "'Magnetic' is one of many releases this year, where I hope to show more of who I am and what Team Wang is about. In addition to writing and producing the song, I also wrote the script and directed the music video with Team Wang production."
He had largely released one-off songs while splitting his time between being a popular K-pop boy band member and running his own label, Team Wang. But on 25 October 2019, he released his long-awaited first solo album, Mirrors. The album included eight songs, namely, 'Bullet to the Heart,' 'On the Rocks,' 'Dway!', 'Unless I'm With You,' 'Bad Back' feat. GoldLink, 'Titanic' feat. Rich Brian, 'Faded,' 'I Love You 3000 Chinese Version.'
In addition, Jackson also has a few singles as a lead artist, each of which has its own music video. These include 'Papillon' and 'Okay' which were released in 2017, 'Dawn of Us,' 'Fendiman,' and 'Different Game' ft Gucci Mane, all released in 2018, and 'Oxygen,' 'Bullet to my heart,' and' Dway!,' released in 2019. Similarly, in 2020, he dropped the music video of '100 Ways' and came up with 'Alone' and 'LMLY' in 2021.
In addition to singing, Wang composed 'Alone,' '100 Ways' and 'Different Game' and also contributed as a composer to other songs with other artists such as 'Magnetic' by Rain featuring Jackson Wang, which was released in 2021, and 'Walking' by Joji & Jackson Wang Feat. Swae Lee & Major Lazer in 2019.
TV show appearances
In 2014, Wang was seen on Roommate, and a year later, he starred in an episode of Peurodyusa, 'Pheasant Instead of Chicken.' Similarly, he made an appearance on Jinjja Sana-i's 'Real Men 2: Battle Buddy Special 08 + Comedian Ranger Training' in 2016. He then participated in TV series such as Real GOT7 it Real?, Go Fighting, and Master Key in 2017. He also attended the Chinese variety program, Who's the murderer? from 2016 to 2017. In 2018 he showed up in the musical Reality-TV show Idol Producer as a rap coach and also on Let Go of My Baby. The same year he got featured on Let's Eat Dinner Together and the comedy talk show, Happy Camp.
GOT7 released a reality show called GOT7's Hard Carry in 2016. The show ran till 2018 with a total of 16 episodes, and Jackson Wang appeared in all. In addition, he was a performer at the 2017 and 2018 Mnet Asian Music Awards lined up with other Korean bands such as BTS, NCT, EXO, Red Velvet, and many more. Jackson also participated in the Korean franchise, Chinese comedy game show Running Man in 2017, 2019, and 2020. In 2020, he was seen on Street Dance of China: Season 3 and Let's Chat.
Also, he frequently came to the talk show Weekly Idol from 2014 to 2020 and performed in the KBS Song Festival in 2020. In 2021, he appeared as a musical guest on The Late Late Show with James Corden.
Jackson's remarkable career in South Korea, the United States, and China have earned him international recognition. He has won various honors, including the 'Golden Disc Award Album Division' (2019, 2018, 2017), the 'Mnet Asian Music Award Worldwide Favorite Artist' (2016), and others. In addition, GOT7 has also won several major music accolades, including the 'Mnet Asian Music Award for Worldwide Fan's Choice' (2019, 2018), 'Mnet Asian Music Award for Favorite Dance Performance' (2019), and 'Mnet Asian Music Award for World Performer' (2017).
Jackson also bagged the 2018 'Teen Choice Awards' at Billboard. In addition, he is one of the wealthiest Chinese pop singers.
Jackson thought the famous boy band Big Bang was a part of JYP. Therefore, he joined the label. It turned out they were not.
The drama film Miracle in Cell No.7 is Jackson's favorite.
Jackson Wang is multilingual, speaking Korean, English, Cantonese, Mandarin, and a smattering of Japanese and French.
Because of his increased number of social media followers, Jackson was ranked 31st in Forbes China's Celebrity 100 list in 2020. Jackson has astigmatism, which causes his vision to be fuzzy or distorted at times.
Jackson Wang has many buddies in the Korean music industry, ranging from BTS's RM and MONSTA X's Jooheon to older idols such as Amber Liu, Henry Lau, and Eric Nam.
According to Celebritynetworth, Jackson's estimated net worth is $8 million.
Team Wang Jung Ji-Hoon


If you had to select a new wall unit for your white office corner desk, how will it seem like? The question is actually much less easy because it seems. It's definitely easier to consider some characteristics you want for your brand-new unit when you're replacing a currently existing one. Basically you merely make a listing of things you hate about your old furniture and you look for the opposite in your brand-new design. Things are harder when you're decorating a clear space. However, both cases show similarities.
Wall units could be of many different types. white office corner desk are the most common type of all. They're large and they often wrap round the TV. Modern wall units sometimes feature a hollow section which is meant to accommodate a wall-mounted TV. In some cases, the TV is attached with a back panel that's part of the unit. white office corner desk units contain a variety of storage options and often offer an assortment of drawers, shelves and closed compartments. They're really practical although they're not ideal for white office corner desk.
Another option is a TV stand or console. They're simpler versions of white office corner desk and they're designed to put on the TV and to supply some additional storage area for things like media components, books or games. white office corner desk can sometimes be considered a bit simplified, offering the possibility to mount the TV on the wall in it rather than placing it on the cabinet.


The Librarian of Congress, James H. Billington, weighed in recently on a Newsweek poll about the future of reading. As the administrator of the Library of Congress, Billington is uniquely situated to survey the state of the book.
While the survey included neither independent booksellers nor non-industry folk, the brief piece is worth reading. But Billington gives a compelling definition of the book.
Here's what he had to say: The new immigrants don't shoot the old inhabitants when they come in. One technology tends to supplement rather than supplant. How you read is not as important as: will you read? And will you read something that's a book—the sustained train of thought of one person speaking to another? Search techniques are embedded in e-books that invite people to dabble rather than follow a full train of thought. This is part of a general cultural problem.


Portugal is successfully implementing a series of fiscal reforms that are key to gaining continued international financial assistance, its chief creditors said on Saturday.
"The planned reforms are under way," said Juergen Kroeger, head of the European Commission's mission overseeing the reforms, which were initiated in the debt-stricken country in May.
In exchange for a loan of $101-billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the European Union, Portugal agreed to sell offs of public companies and labour reforms including less holiday time.
The loan is being paid over a three-year period, subject to Portugal's implementation of reforms.
The country became the third in the eurozone to receive multi-billion euro EU-IMF bailout, after Greece and Ireland.
On January 13, ratings agency Standard & Poor's cut Portugal's credit worthiness to below investment grade.
The centre-right government this week signed agreements with employment and labour leaders which officials said would result in growth, competition and jobs.
European Central Bank representative Rasmus Rueffer echoed Kroeger's sentiments, saying Portugal was "on track", while IMF representative Hossein Samiei congratulated Portuguese authorities on "the good start" to the reform programme.
Analysts say Portugal's economy will shrink by 3% this year, due in large part to the implementation of austerity measures.
Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho said he wanted to implement measures beyond even those requested by creditors, with the labour market likely to be further targeted.
"The country is remarkably united around the need to radically change some of our economic institutions," he said.


2015 was a big year for us here at Katana.
Three years ago, our founding team came together with a purpose: to marry each of our 10+ years of digital media experience with the latest available industry advancements and approaches available to launch what our clients now call a "next generation" digital media company. We are blessed to see that this last year – after our first "product development and launch" year and our second "let's stabilize" year – has truly been our "come to the party" year.
I don't want to spend this note talking about our wonderful new office, the growth of our Katana family, new clients, etc. Instead, I would like to spend a little time reflecting on the intersection of advancements in our industry and how Katana has been responding to them to provide our clients with new levels of sophistication.
The primary headline of 2015 was that marketers have finally awoken to the fact that they have an existing flow of value via their customer bases, web site traffic, and other sources of data, which can be used for the most relevant targeting approach in paid media campaigns. However, I would say that 9 out of 10 marketers still don't know that their best approach to reaching prospective and past customers resides in their own set of wall/databases. In 2015, discussions about 1st party data were front and center for us: What data is available, how to unlock it, how to categorize it, and how and when to apply it. From a business consulting standpoint, it has been fascinating to help enterprises unlock their data value and apply it in a way that greatly benefits their paid media campaigns.
We've been successfully warehousing and activating our clients' data through our Data Management Platform. Through the platform, we have also been overlaying our 3rd party data sources to enrich any data to a level that allows us to reach users across all necessary channels and track them cross-device. We've had some great successes. With one consumer electronics company, we took their customer databases and found deeper demographic insights and cross-device behaviors to effectively message users.
If you have worked with us, you know that a significant differentiator of our campaigns is that our technologies and methodologies for campaign execution are rooted in the identification and creation of the largest amount of relevant audience segments possible. We went into the year with analysis and correlation of five data layers. Well, we worked hard and have now reached a total of 31 audience variables that are being analyzed in real-time. As a result, we're able to generate more cross-logic, millions more data points, and deeper custom audience segments.
With the political season upon us, we have been able to develop a robust, nationwide audience pool of voters, giving us the ability to enable any politically oriented marketer to reach users based on data points such as voter history, party affiliation, donation history, etc.
Another major milestone for us in 2015 was the ability to launch our ITTT platform. ITTT stands for "If This Then That." This concept allows us to correlate various forms of data in any way that ads are being shown automatically based on any desired external trigger. As an example, in our weather campaign for a home product manufacturer, ads were shown to specific geographic areas only if a certain level of weather pattern has occurred for three days in a row. The ITTT concept is limitless and allows us to feed, correlate and trigger any number of data points into a campaign.
As programmatic and real-time advertising continues to proliferate, increasing specialization and deeper refinements in the industry are unstoppable. One of our successful areas of focus in 2015 was the advancement of our technology ecosystem into what we call a multi-DSP access point to ad inventory. This has given our campaigns another layer of benefit, as we have now integrated specialists DSPs of certain inventory sources. Many marketers don't know that two or more DSPs could have access to the same ad inventory, but with different priorities and price preferences when it comes to accessibility. Thus, we have seen overall prices fall and win-bid rates go up in meaningful fashion.
Following the theme of addition of ad inventory, we are extremely excited to have launched our offering in Programmatic Television just in time for the new year. Yes, you heard correctly, Katana – your DIGITAL paid media partner – is now able to execute TV commercials – real TV commercials and not only video ads. How is this possible, you might ask? Well, simply because more and more TV's are connected to the Internet and each one of the cable boxes or Apple TVs you own has an IP address. Though we are early adopters to this evolution, the sophistication with which these TV campaigns can be executed is already significantly above what has been done historically, with audience specific targeting versus contextual targeting, real-time data versus delayed post-campaign data, accelerated creative insertion versus standard processes. And much more to come.
For as long as we have existed, our orientation has been to build the most advanced technology framework for this "new world" of digital paid media consisting of real-time and programmatic inventory decisions. As a result, we have built an ever growing proprietary toolbox that not only allows us to run campaigns more efficiently but, even more importantly, with much more advanced tools than do providers that just tap into the available features of trading desks. One of the tools I would like to highlight that we completed last year is our Semantic Content technology. It gives us the ability to read, categorize, and archive websites via artificial technologies to create a significantly higher contextual targeting ability for campaigns versus standard site targeting abilities. As a result, our campaigns see less budget wasted, much lower rates of misplaced brand use, and ultimately a faster ramp up rate to optimal site lists.
Last but not least, we're launching our updated reporting platform. This is no "we show you some standard metrics of your campaigns in the cloud." The platform is near real-time, with a 15min data push cadence and has the ability to be customized in any way. Our large enterprise clients have told us they are most excited about the fact that it has a hierarchical approach to data access. So whether you love every piece of data or only the executive dashboard – we've got what you need. The system is being rolled out in pilot as you read this and we aim to have it fully integrated with all of our clients during Q2.
I hope you agree that I can be excited for what 2016 will bring based on the advancements we have made. In our pursuit of the title of most advanced digital paid media provider, we will continue to work hard to deliver the most advanced approaches to data modeling, technology use, and campaign methodologies. This intersection is what we strongly believe allows today's marketers to not only take full advantage of what is available to them, but also to engage with their target audiences in the most relevant ways.
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The Icosahedron and Dodecahedron are 2 of the 5 Platonic solids that share a 5 symmetry. They are 'duals' of each other as is shown in this model where the innermost Icosa is stellated to produce the Dodeca that is again stellated to produce the larger Icosa.
The Icosa has 12 vertexes and 20 faces whilst the Dodeca has 12 faces and 20 vertexes.
5 symmetry shapes invariably display Golden Mean proportions.
They also tend to be associated with transmutation, transmission, change, and life itself, and therefore it is no surprise to find that the DNA of living organisms is based on these molecular shapes.
The star shaped forms are a symbol for spirit as the animating force that destabilizes matter and allows for evolution and consciousness.
Wearing these shapes or having them in your space strengthens the life force and the connection to the life force of the planet as well as activating the eye, throat, and crown chakras.