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ACRCD Board of Directors
Laura MercierPresident, Board of Directors
Laura became the Executive Director for Tri-Valley Conservancy (TVC) in 2011, after having held several roles at TVC since 2002. Prior to joining TVC, she worked 15 years as a Project Manager / Engineer for Boeing in Long Beach, CA. She also consulted as a Project Manager for a wide range of companies including Environmental Education for Kids, Culldez Product Development, and Thermal Press International. In 1998, Laura moved back to Livermore to be closer to family. As Executive Director for TVC, Laura understands what it takes to run all aspects of an organization preserving open space and agriculture land. Laura is excited to assist and support ACRCD to be a strong organization that maintains viable partnerships with the NRCS as well as other public agencies, private landowners and other organizations.
Darrel SweetVice President, Board of Directors
Darrel is a fifth generation California landowner and rancher, who is involved with numerous conservation and rangeland management organizations. In addition to serving as a Resource Conservation District Director for 19 years, Darrel is also the past President of the Alameda County Agricultural Advisory Committee, The California Rangeland Trust, the California Cattlemen's Association, and the Contra Costa—Alameda County Cattlemen's Association. Currently serving as Vice President, Darrel has been an active member of the ACRCD board since 2011. He also served on the board from 1980-2001.
Dan SachauTreasurer, Board of Directors
A lifelong resident of the Livermore valley, Dan has spent many years managing land in Alameda County. After receiving his B.S. from Cal Poly, San Louis Obispo in 1976, Dan returned to Livermore to work as a Construction Manager for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). In addition to his 30-year career at LLNL, Dan has been an avid cattle rancher and vineyard owner in the region for many years. Dan has served as the Treasurer since 2012, and in addition to these duties, serves as a member of both the Executive Committee and Finance Committee.
Marilyn RussellMember, Board of Directors
Marilyn is a third generation rancher, now managing her family's 5,000 acre ranch in Mendocino County. A retired biology teacher, Marilyn taught Livermore HS students about native flora and fauna for over 30 years. Marilyn is an avid equestrian, competing in long distance endurance rides, participating in Historic Trails rides, and currently active as the Vice President of the Tri-Valley Trailblazers. Currently, Marilyn is very involved with the Friends of Tesla Park. A member of the CA Rangeland Trust, Mendocino County Farm Bureau, and CA Rangeland Conservation Coalition, Marilyn is extremely active in ranching and conservation organizations in Alameda County, and throughout California.
Mark ConnollyMember, Board of Directors
Mark Connolly is President of Connolly Ranch Inc., a cow/calf operation located in San Joaquin and Alameda Counties. The Connolly Ranch is a member of the CA Cattlemen's Association, the American Grass-Fed Association, the CA Farm Bureau and the San Joaquin Farm Bureau. Mark served three terms (13 years) on Tracy Joint Union School District Board of Trustees and is a Director of the CALFAUNA Foundation. Mark also has a civil litigation practice in Tracy and is a graduate of the University of Santa Clara, School of Law, 1982. Mark is a member of the CA Bar Association.
Niki WenteMember, Board of Directors
Niki Wente manages the vineyards for Wente Family Estates in both the Livermore Valley and Arroyo Seco, Monterey. As the Viticulture Supervisor, Niki works to promote healthy soils and happy vines while running a sustainable operation. Niki studied Viticulture and Enology at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. After graduation in 2014, she worked in San Francisco and then in the North Coast wine region before joining the family business in 2017.
Bill HoppesMember, Board of Directors
Born and raised in the Bay Area, Bill's education and career have taken him across the United States and back again. Upon completing his M.S. in Environmental Biology at CSU Hayward, he worked as an Environmental Scientist (ES) for the El Paso Natural Gas Company. After earning his PhD from U.I. Urbana-Champaign, he served on the faculty at SUNY, Plattsburgh, was executive director of a non-profit in the D.C. area, and served as an Environmental Scientist with the EPA. Bill joined LLNL in 1991, first as an Environmental Scientist and later as a Water Guidance and Monitoring Group Leader. Since retiring, he has transitioned to supporting conservation through volunteer roles with the Tri-Valley Conservancy, Ohlone Audubon and the ACRCD.

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unhinged at some point this evening, probably while i was making him cds, i procured a papercut in the web between my thumb and pointer finger on my left hand.
Mr. ~ I really SYMpathize with that Unhinged. In 2004 I was to play some solo keyboard music at wedding. It was my first "performance" of any sort in at least four years, and days before it I accidentally cut my right forefinger. Certainly on a piano, one seems as if one could just use other fingers. But I am not a virtuoso, and the prospect of botching things seemed ~ high, because the cut, while not huge, was also not small. Fortunately, it had partially healed by the wedding, but ultimately I feel like it was the mysterious force of fortune smiling upon me, or at least preventing me from hosing my friends' wedding, which ultimately was a beautiful one.


Several generations have now grown up with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Central to that reality has been the start and stop of Arab-Israeli peace talks, which always seem to take one step forward and then three back. But in some areas of the world, most recently on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., talks between Arabs and Israelis are continually moving forward with the same message: peace.
Yesterday I attended a discussion hosted by Americans for Peace Now (APN), which featured Ori Nir of APN and Hussein Ibish of the American Task Force on Palestine. While their speeches, comments, and answers to questions were certainly insightful, the most striking lesson that I left the brown bag lunch with was the plain and simple fact that an Arab and an Israeli could talk with one another and agree upon the most basic desire for anyone involved in the Middle East: peace in Israel/Palestine.
Now, at first that sounds rather silly to come out of such a discussion focusing on this basic and fairly self-evident thought. However, from my short time working on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, and especially how it is approached in the United States, I have found that many people deeply involved in the issue have lost sight of that basic fact. We all want the same thing. Jewish Israelis, Arabs, American Jews and Arab-Israelis all deeply desire peace. The main problem of the specific terms of peace still appears insurmountable at times, but the end goal is a common one.
At the talk, which was open by invitation to interns on Capitol Hill in hopes of inspiring the younger generation to work towards a comprehensive peace, of course the standard topics of two-state versus one-state solution, Hamas, the future of Fatah, Palestinian state-building efforts, the effect of the American government, etc. were all touched upon. Listening to the complexity of the issue unravel before you, the probability of a successful two-state solution not only seems far off but shrouded in complicating factors and misleading stereotypes held by all sides. But unlike most talks on this issue that I have attended, I came away from this one optimistic and uplifted by the image of an Israeli and an Arab both speaking passionately about the need for peace – the need not only just for the Palestinians and Israelis, but for all Americans, all Arabs, and the world to realize this peace.
Peace can and must come to pass in this conflict, which has continued throughout not just my lifetime but my parents' lifetimes as well. Such a peace can only succeed if all parties stop focusing on what the other side is doing wrong and instead recognize that they are not the only party with dear interests at stake. I am entirely aware that my statements now are highly idealistic and that peace is complicated by many factors, not least of which is the imbalance of power between Israel and the Palestinians. But without reminding ourselves to think of all the interests involved in the issue and the common-held desire to see peace within our lifetimes, I believe that a true, successful peace will be lost.
Budrus is a small, relatively unknown Palestinian village located near Ramallah with a population of about 1,500. The documentary tells the story of the community's struggle with the state of Israel in 2003 against plans to build part of the separation barrier through the village. The proposed plan would have surrounded the village and confiscated 40% of the land.
The documentary follows a local leader, Ayed Morrar, who united the community to try and block the plans through nonviolent means. He brought together an unlikely group, comprising of members of Hamas and Fatah as well as Palestinians, Israelis, men, and women.
Perhaps most crucial was the role of women. Morrar was unable to mobilize the community until his 15-year-old daughter Iltezam brought women to the movement. The women would stand in front of bulldozers or lie in front of olive trees, and IDF soldiers did not know how to deal with them. The documentary actually shows some soldiers beating women. As a result, a woman IDF soldier was called in to handle them.
Israelis played a crucial role in the nonviolent movement as well. Iltezam states how she did not think she would ever have an Israeli friend before; she never knew any, only IDF soldiers. Morrar, who was at the event yesterday, commented on how through this event, he was able to see the good side of Israelis. He was able to see and meet Israeli that want peace and who want to raise their children in peace based on justice, not peace based on what Morrar calls the relationship between the slave and master. Israelis are very important in the nonviolent movement, as they give credence to the Palestinian struggle by questioning the actions of their own state.
Also unlikely was the cooperation of Fatah and Hamas members. Morrar recounted how politics were temporarily put aside, as both parties, even if they differed ideologically, desired the same results. Politics is indeed an important issue in the struggle for nonviolent protest. The pockets of resistance in villages such as Budrus do not have any national leadership yet, and the role of the PA in the nonviolent movement is still questionable.
Though the movie documents the struggle of just one village, its message offers hope for what is possible: eventual freedom. The producers of the film, Just Vision, are trying to spread this message. Just Vision is currently on a six month promotion tour through the U.S. For Screenings of "Budrus" in your area, click here.
In the end, the villagers of Budrus, after 10 months of nonviolent protest, forced the IDF to move the separation barrier out of the village. They saved 95% of the land, and the barrier was built almost entirely on the Green Line. Some parts even went into the No Man's Land area. However Israel will not acknowledge the efforts of the Budrus villagers. The official response from the government is that the barrier was not moved because of the villagers' efforts, but for other reasons.
Helen Thomas' misinterpreted remarks about Jews in Palestine led to the end of her accomplished career. Meanwhile, Senator Schumer of New York is allowed to say he supports the continued "economic strangulation" of Gaza, without anyone even blinking twice.
Schumer is a powerful politician; he is the vice-chairman of the Senate Democratic Caucus, and the third highest ranking Democrat in the Senate. His position in the government makes the fact that he can make such comments without press coverage or any sort of accountability is especially perturbing.
A mix of Palestinians, West Bank settlers, environmentalists and developers, have all united in opposition to the construction of the separation barrier in an area around Jerusalem (Haaretz).
Ever since, the family has been devoted to seeking a proper investigation and justice. With guidance from the U.S. government and support of over 70 congressmen, the current court claim against the State of Israel and the Israeli Defense Ministry is currently playing out. The Corries are represented by Hussein Abu Hussein, an experienced human rights activist in Israel. According to The National, Mr. Corrie said, "The verdict is the ability to get some sort of accountability [and] responsibility. It's the only way to do it." One challenge in the courtroom on Wednesday was the quality of translation to Hebrew, which was of concern for the Corries.
Whatever the outcome of the case, the Corries are succeeding in their goal to raise awareness. By using the case as a platform, the Corries hope to bring to light abuses by the Israelis in the Palestinian Territories and a lack of legal fairness and Israeli accountability.
Just last week CNN called Sheikh Jarrah "Jerusalem's ground zero". On Friday I joined 300 Israelis, Palestinians, and internationals to protest the ongoing evictions of Palestinian families from their homes in Sheikh Jarrah, and the takeover of this East Jerusalem neighborhood by Jewish settlers.
Sheikh Jarrah, which lies just outside the Old City, has attracted global outrage as settler organizations have made legal claims to the property allegedly owned by Jewish individuals or associations prior to 1948. As noted by UN-OCHA in their damning fact sheet on the Sheikh Jarrah evictions, "Israeli courts have ruled in favor of such claims while failing to recognize the rights of Palestinian refugees to reclaim lost land and property." UN-OCHA estimates that the implementation of the Israeli government's comprehensive settlement plans for Sheikh Jarrah will place "475 Palestinians at risk of forced eviction, dispossession, and displacement". Like all settlements in occupied territory, the Sheikh Jarrah settlement is a violation of international law.
The stand-off during Friday's demonstration was electric in its intensity. 300 protesters were on one side of the street and on the other side, a dozen settlers and several dozen police and medical personnel fanned out across the entrance to the homes under eviction orders. The Jerusalem magistrate court had dealt a blow to the police the day before, ruling that public demonstrations in Sheikh Jarrah were legal so long as they didn't disturb the public order or disrupt traffic. Despite a vow from the police to squash protests despite the court order, this time no one was arrested.
The whole scene created an arresting visual effect peopled by the three clear categories of uniformly dressed settlers, police, and medical personnel on one side of the street, while the hundreds of protesters on the other side drew a stunningly diverse crowd. Kippa-wearing men mingled among Palestinian Sheikh Jarrah residents while a young activists' drumming circle led Hebrew University professors to join in protest chants. Meretz MK Ilan Gilon showed up, while last week MK Mohammed Barakeh and former Knesset members Avraham Burg, Uri Avnery, and Yossi Sarid attended. Bernard Avishai reported on his blog that Oslo negotiator and head of the Peres Center Dr. Ron Pundak joined the protest along with the highly acclaimed Israeli author David Grossman.
He described what happened on August 2, 2009 when he was evicted along with 52 other refugees – 20 of them children – from Sheikh Jarrah following a court ruling. These families had been forced out of their homes in 1948 and given homes in Sheikh Jarrah by the UN and Jordan.
I asked one Israeli protester, Eva Ferrero, why she came to the protests. "It makes it known what they are trying to do in silence," Ferrero responded. Ferrero comes regularly to the Sheikh Jarrah protests and visits the families who were evicted.
If you only get your news from the most established media networks of the "free world", you may well have missed it.
About 1,000 Israelis demonstrated in Tel Aviv on Saturday night against the blockade on Gaza on the one-year anniversary of Operation Cast Lead. What was even more gutsy is that the protesters demanded an investigation of war crimes committed, that all war criminals be brought to justice, and the occupation be ended in its entirety.
translation: "IDF: The Most Moral Terrorist Organization in the World"
My Israeli friend Slava and I arrived late, so we missed the gathering at Yitzhak Rabin Square. "We'll find them," he said looking up at the sky. "We'll just follow that police helicopter and where its pointing the light." I looked up to see a helicopter hovering above diagonally streaming down a shaft of light. He was right–following the nearest hovering helicopter turns out to be an excellent way to find a protest in Israel.
Since the question must be asked around this part of the world–no, most of the participants were not 'Arabs', that is, ethnic Palestinians who are citizens of Israel. The great majority were Jewish Israelis marching with a substantial Arab minority. Jews and Arabs marched together and the presentations were in both Hebrew and Arabic.
From David Shulman, via Phil Weiss, comes this great account of the Israeli security forces laying into a crowd of more than a hundred, apparently Jewish, Israelis who held a peaceful demonstration at one of the Palestinian houses in the Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem, that has recently been taken over by settlers.
Somehow it begins. Someone gave the order. I don't know who. Later someone says it may have been connected to the flags. It's possible—I didn't see it—that one of our demonstrators reached the window of the stolen house and tore down the plastic Israeli flag. Maybe that triggered it. But I think they were anyway just itching to tear into this crowd. So when the moment comes, it starts somewhere at the edge of the family's tent set up in what's left of their own front yard and then swirls rapidly in widening arcs and circles, a vortex drawing each of us in.


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Today, the City of Nanaimo received a court ruling from the British Columbia Supreme Court ruling against and quashing the 911 Call Answer Levy (CAL) bylaw that the City of Nanaimo passed in September of 2010.
The CAL bylaw sought to obtain the participation of Wireless Services Providers (WSPs) often called Cellular Providers, to assist with the funding of 9-1-1 services by ensuring a User Pay System. The Cowichan Valley Regional District and Regional District of Nanaimo, who are partners in the 9-1-1 Operating System (CI 9 1 1) also introduced similar bylaws within their jurisdictions. Their bylaws will also be affected by this decision.
The City of Nanaimo is disappointed with this decision as through the introduction of the bylaw, Mayor, Council and staff thought that it would provide the municipality with the power to levy this fee for service under powers granted to it in the Community Charter.
The City believes that where possible the users of a service should pay the cost of the service and not be a cost borne by the taxpayer.
On average CI 9-1-1 receives 53,000 calls annually of which 53% of these are from wireless (cell) phones. Approximately one-third (half a million dollars) of CI 9-1-1 operating costs are covered by a call answer levy on landlines. The remaining funding (approximately $1 million) for the CI 9-1-1 system is from property taxation. Under existing CRTC regulations, unlike that of Landline providers, Wireless Service Providers (WSP)s are not required to participate or provide funding to 911 service providers and thereby are accessing these services for free although they do collect a 911 fee from many of their customers.
Staff is reviewing the decision and will be consulting with the City Solicitor.


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Q: How do you delete an inherited function in a subclass? My code basically looks like this
class main:
    def __init__(self):
        pass
    def unneededfunction(self):
        print("unneeded thing")

class notmain(main):
    def __init__(self):
        pass
    #code for getting rid of unneededfunction here

How do you get rid of notmain.unneededfunction? (i.e., calling it results in an error)

A: If you don't want notmain to have unneededfunction then notmain should not be a subclass of main. It defeats the whole point of inheritance to fight the system this way.
If you really insist on doing it, notmain could redefine unneededfunction and raise the same exception that would be raised if unneededfunction didn't exist, AttributeError. But again, you're going against the grain.
Aside from that, you can't delete unneededfunction from notmain because notmain doesn't own that method, its parent class main does.

A: Do you need to delete it? (ie, it throws an attribute error). Or can you get away with partial inheritance?
The first answer here should address the latter:
How to perform partial inheritance
If you just want it to throw an error on call this should work:
class notmain(main):
    def __init__(self):
        pass
    def unneededfunction(self):
        raise NotImplementedError("explanation")

Or you can try the Mixin methods discussed here in structuring the classes:
Is it possible to do partial inheritance with Python?

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Many of country's top stars – including Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert, Keith Urban, Luke Bryan, Toby Keith and hosts Lady Antebellum – will perform, in a night honoring stars past and present.
Lambert, Urban, Carrie Underwood and Little Big Town will also get awards, but this is more about previous generations. Honors will go to Glen Campbell, Tanya Tucker, Crystal Gayle, the Statler Brothers, Jimmy Webb and (poshumously) Eddie Rabbit and Jeff Walker, plus studio musicans and a songwriter. Also performing: Alicia Keys, Jason Aldean, Emmylou Harris, Martina McBride and more.
TONIGHT'S MUST-SEE II: "Stand Up to Cancer," 8 p.m. on ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, 30-plus English-language cable stations and many Spanish-language ones.
Even before the ACM show at 9 p.m., country fans can catch Keith Urban, Dierks Bentley and Little Big Town. They'll perform, as will Celine Dion, in an hour stuffed with stars.
Airing on alternate years, this will include co-founder Katie Couric, who was widowed by cancer, and others. They include Ben Affleck, John Hamm, Viola Davis, Kristen Wiig, Zach Galifianakis, Matthew McConaughey, Ken Jeong, Terry Crews, Emma Stone, Anna Kendrick, Eric Stonestreet, Josh Gad, Matt Bomer and more. Bradley Cooper, whose father died of lung cancer, is an executive producer.
TONIGHT'S ALTERNATIVE: "Live from Lincoln Center," 9 p.m., PBS.
This isn't live and isn't from Lincoln Center. Still, it should have elegant music and videos.
In the first road trip of the show's 40 years, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center visits Shaker Village, nestled in 3,000 acres of Kentucky countryside. It focuses mainly on American composers, includng Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring," which includes the Shaker melody "Simple Gifts."
TONIGHT'S ALTERNATIVE: "One Mississippi" debut, any time, Amazon Prime..
TV's quietest revolution centers on Louis C.K. His own show is on hold , but he's producing two gems in his droll, dry style -- "Better Things" (10 p.m. Thursdays on FX) with Pamela Adlon and this one.
The story compresses events from Tig Notaro's real life: Recovering from cancer, a double masectomy and an intestinal ailment, she returns home to catch her mother's final moments. Surprisingly, this is mostly a comedy. Like C.K. and Adlon, Notaro has a sharp eye for the humor in life's details.
Marathons, all day. BBC America continues its 50th-anniversary celebration of the original "Star Trek," with original episodes until 3 a.m. Also, USA has "Modern Family" reruns from 7-11 p.m., then gives "Stand Up to Cancer" a delayed run at 11.
"Masters of Illusion," 8 p.m., CW. In the lone commercial-broadcast alternative to the cancer special, we see magicians Jonathan Pendragon, Greg Gleason, Chris Korn, Jen Kramer, Barry & Stuart and Jarrett & Raga. That's followed by reruns of "Masters" at 8:30 and "Penn & Teller: Fool Us" at 9.
"True Grit" (2010), 8 p.m., AMC. If you overlook a downer moment at the end, this is a first-rate cowboy remake of a cowboy classic, with Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon.
More movies, 8 p.m., cable. Leading the line-up is the middle film (2002) in the terrific "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, on TNT; the third one is Saturday. Families might try "The Descendants" (2015) on Disney. Other films include "Fast and Furious 6" (2013) on FX, "The Time Traveler's Wife" (2009) on Pop and Julia Roberts' so-so "My Best Friend's Wedding" (1997) on CMT.
"MasterChef," 9 p.m., Fox. This reruns the second half of Wednesday's episode. The four cooks work with duck or halibut. The losing team has a pork face-off, setting up next Wednesday's finale.
"Dark Matter," 10 and 11 p.m., Syfy. Here are two straight new episodes, setting up next week's finale.


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What Sesame Street's first Black female puppeteer learned in her first year This month marks one year since Megan Piphus Peace joined the cast. She praises how the show discusses topics like race for children — and she herself is being inspired for a new chapter.
Sesame Street's first Black female puppeteer wants to keep inspiration flowing
Updated September 30, 20226:59 AM ET Originally published September 25, 20227:54 AM ET
Heard on Weekend Edition Sunday
Michael Radcliffe
Megan Piphus Peace stands on the set of Sesame Street with her character, 6-year-old Gabrielle. Zach Hyman/Sesame Workshop hide caption
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Megan Piphus Peace stands on the set of Sesame Street with her character, 6-year-old Gabrielle.
It wasn't until September 2021 that Sesame Street — which started in November 1969 — got its first full-time Black female puppeteer. That's when Megan Piphus Peace joined the cast full time and landed the role of Gabrielle, a 6-year-old puppet on the classic children's show.
This month, as she marks one year working with Sesame Street, she's decided to dedicate her career to entertainment.
"I'm so glad I had the opportunity to be on Sesame Street and encourage other kids to dream as big as their imaginations will allow," the 29-year-old tells NPR's Weekend Edition. "I always dreamed of working in television, but I never imagined myself being at Sesame Street."
'Sesame Street' plays at the Tiny Desk
A passion for puppetry
Her interest in puppetry and performing started when she was a child.
Piphus Peace says a woman at her church invited her to a puppetry conference where she first learned about the art. She saw female ventriloquists who would sing and tell stories with their characters.
She went home and told her parents she wanted to learn ventriloquism.
"I had never seen a ventriloquist before. And at the time, I didn't realize that Shari Lewis, one of my idols ... was a ventriloquist until I was much older because she was so good," Piphus Peace says.
Getting to 'Sesame Street'
Lewis, the original puppeteer of Lamb Chop, performed puppetry and ventriloquism on television for decades, most notably on The Shari Lewis Show and the PBS program Lamb Chop's Play-Along. Piphus Peace grew up watching her work.
"Lamb Chop was my friend and Shari was just her friend too," she laughs.
Piphus Peace watched tapes, got her own puppet and started entertaining her classmates.
"I realized I found my passion in making children laugh and smile through puppetry."
Becoming the show's first Black female puppeteer
Megan Piphus Peace's character Gabrielle lives and learns on Sesame Street. Julian Wass/Sesame Workshop hide caption
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Megan Piphus Peace's character Gabrielle lives and learns on Sesame Street.
Her journey to Sesame Street was preceded by Kevin Clash, a Black male puppeteer who started with the show in the 1980s. It wasn't until 2021 that a Black female puppeteer would do the same.
"It's a matter of representation," Piphus Peace says. "It's not very often that you see women puppeteers in general and also Black women puppeteers. I can probably count on one hand the number that there are."
She first performed with Sesame Street in 2020 as part of a special with CNN. Then after a year of training in what she calls Muppet-style puppetry, she formally joined the cast in 2021.
Piphus Peace says she hopes that by being the first Black female puppeteer on the show, more doors will open for women and people of color.
She notes that the show has had Black women in other production positions "who have been woven into the fabric of Sesame Street over the years." That has inspired her to become a producer one day.
Discussing race on Sesame Street
Megan Piphus Peace performs as Gabrielle on Sesame Street as she and friends sing about Black History Month.
Sesame Street YouTube
Piphus Peace praises the show's team of writers and producers, saying they take the hardest topics and frame them in a way that children can understand.
"One of the lessons that we have was on using your voice. It speaks subtly to equity," she says. "You know, we didn't have Gabrielle go into the camera and say, 'Black Lives Matter.' She says that we all have a voice that matters and we can use our voice."
Asian American And Pacific Islander Heritage Month 2022
This 'Sesame Street' kid is now the Muppeteer for its first Asian American character
Piphus Peace hopes to bring an unwavering sense of confidence and love of self to her character.
"I want her confidence to just shine through the screen so that little girls and boys around the world are filled with confidence in themselves."


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The Dark Side of the Toyota Prius
Paul Abowd July 16, 2008
A new report alleges that Toyota, the world's largest auto company, is violating workers' rights at Prius hybrid plants in Japan.
The National Labor Committee (NLC), a New York-based human rights group, has been investigating working conditions at Toyota Motor Corp., and the labor used to produce its best-selling Prius hybrid cars.
In its 65-page report released in June, NLC includes first-hand testimony of factory conditions in "Toyota City," outside of Nagoya, Japan – less than 200 miles southwest of Tokyo – where the largest auto company in the world employs some 70,000 people.
The report alleges that Toyota exploits guest workers, mostly shipped in from China and Vietnam. According to the NLC, these workers are "stripped of their passports and often forced to work – including at subcontract plants supplying Toyota – 16 hours a day, seven days a week, while being paid less than half the legal minimum wage." Workers are forced to live in company dormitories and deported for complaining about poor treatment, the report finds.
Low-wage temporary workers make up one-third of Toyota's Prius assembly-line workers, mostly in the auto-parts supply chain. They are signed to contracts for periods as short as four months, and are paid only 60 percent of a full-time employee's wage.
Parts plants run by subcontractors advertise standard, nine-hour, five-day-a-week jobs. But according to the NLC, "the typical shift was 15 to 16.5 hours a day, from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. or 1:00 a.m."
In 2002, Kenichi Uchino, 30, died while working at the "green" Tsutsumi plant that assembles the Prius. During the 13th hour of a routine 14-hour day, Uchino collapsed on the shop floor of the internationally lauded "sustainable" factory, which uses sulfur-oxide-eating paint and boasts 5 percent emissions reductions. A Japanese court ruled that Uchino's death was caused by exhaustion from overwork.
His wife, Hiroko Uchino, described a grueling lifestyle that included an 85-hour workweek prior to his death. The NLC published his time cards, which reveal that he was "putting in 106.5 to 155 hours of overtime … in the 30 days leading up to his death."
Much of this overtime went unpaid. (Toyota explained Kenichi's extra hours as "voluntary quality control activities," says the report.) But in court, his survivors were able to win pension payments.
The NLC also alleges that Toyota – through its subsidiary Toyota Tsusho – has joint business ventures with Burma's military regime. The charges arise from an agreement between Tsusho, Suzuki and the junta to set up parts and material plants in Burma, and produce vehicles for the military government. These ties remain despite a 2001 declaration from the company that it ended contracts with the Burmese government.
In the wake of the report, the company wrote a letter to stockholders: "Toyota has carefully considered the current environment in Burma, has conveyed to Toyota Tsusho Corporation its concerns about that environment, and has asked Toyota Tsusho to reconsider its business activities in the country." As the largest owner of Tsusho's stock (more than a third), Toyota itself has a role to play in cutting these ties.
The NLC report also connects the company's overseas misdeeds to the American economy. Millions of dollars in car parts shipped by Toyota Tsusho are received by Tsusho America, which distributes them to Toyota assembly plants in the American South. This influx of foreign auto infrastructure uses an overwhelming ratio of non-union labor, fueling the diminution of union density in the auto sector.
What's more, a memo leaked from Toyota's Georgetown, Ky., plant to the New York Times in late 2007, exposed "management's plans to cut $300 million in labor costs across Toyota's North American operations over the next three years." To do this, Toyota plans to introduce tiered wage scales and reduced health benefits for U.S. Toyota workers, which should come as little surprise to an American auto workforce that has suffered similar attacks from Detroit's Big Three manufacturers for the past three decades.
As NLC Director Charles Kernaghan says, if Hollywood celebrities – such as actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz – can popularize green driving, they can also help end Toyota's sweatshop labor regime and its ties to Burma's dictatorship.
Says Kernaghan: "We hope that these same celebrities will now also challenge Toyota to improve its respect for human and worker rights."
Paul Abowd lives in Detroit, where he writes for Critical Moment magazine. His work has also appeared in Labor Notes, Z Magazine, Monthly Review, Truthout, Counterpunch and The Electronic Intifada.
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••• Auctions and Events calendar: What's on, where and when • Events related to Irish Banknote collecting
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Post by Mac » 23 Jan 2015 19:19
This thread is for information on fairs and shows which feature banknotes.
One post per event please, which should be kept up to date by the poster.
Posts are changeable in this thread, and Old posts are deletable.
The post below is always changed to display the latest event.
Re: Fairs and Events calendar: What's on, where and when • Banknote collecting related events
DNW Auction of Paper Money
Thursday 28 March 2019. British and Irish Banknotes
This sale features 157 lots of Irish banknotes, covering a wide range of issues, and includies some very rare Notes.
The catalogue can be downloaded from the DNW website.
The highlight of the Irish banknote offerings is a nice grade War Code £20, Lot 398, the finest yet seen in an auction. Fresh original Very Fine.
There is also a good range of Ploughman notes on offer, including a decent example of a Northern Bank £1 note, Lot 369; Northern Bank £5 note, Lot 370; Royal Bank £10 note, Lot 372; and Ulster Bank £10 note, Lot 373.
Additionally, there are also a couple of rare Ploughman proofs on offer.
In addition, there is a nice range of Lavery banknotes which include a 1928 10 Shilling note, Lot 375; 1928 £50 note, Lot 384; and several £50 and £100 notes of Type 6 with Brennan McElligott signatures. The Fifty Pound notes of this signature combination are scarcer, and include a note from 1943.
There are also some attractive partial proofs of early Lavery notes, and a Ballykinlar £1 Token, Lot 299, a seldom offered item. The highlight of pre-partition notes is a nice National Bank £10 note, from 1908, Lot 318; and a 3 Guinea note, Carlow Bank, issued in 1811, Lot 286.
Altogether, a nicely rounded auction with something for everyone.
Whytes 'The Eclectic Collector' auction
April 6, 2019 includes 80 Lots of Irish notes.
The 80 Lots in this sale comprise largely £20 notes.
By far the most interesting banknotes on offer are Lot 454, and Lot 455, a pair of war code £20 notes, rarely offered in any grade.
Although not graded, both notes are quite nice, Lot 454, dated 8.3.43 looks to be in the VF region; and Lot 455, dated 7.6.43 a bit lower grade.
Both dates have previously been recorded, though these two notes are new to the census. Both notes are a considerably better grade than the average seen for this type.
A nice pair of rare notes in decent grade.
It will be interesting to see what they fetch.
There are a lot of £20 notes, both A Series 1976 and B Series 1981-1983 in nice grade, offered as small runs in sequence, as well as some earlier £20 notes, including a 1949 in low grade.
Additionally there is a good variety of other denominations 10/- through to £10 offered in mixed lots.
The auction catalogue can be viewed on Whytes website and downloaded as a pdf.
Post by Mac » 25 Mar 2015 12:19
DNW have a Papermoney auction coming up with some interesting Irish notes in it.
Post by Mac » 22 Apr 2015 13:05
Whytes, Dublin, have a Limerick Soviet note in their upcoming Collectibles auction on 9th May.
It will be interesting to see what it fetches.
EDIT: This Limerick soviet 10 Shilling note fetched 1600 Euro plus fees.
Post by Mac » 01 Jun 2015 15:05
June 13, 2015. A selection of Ploughman notes, including a few rarer items.
There are 38 Ploughman notes in the Whytes sale, with a few nice grade notes.
Notable Lots in the sale are: 317, a nice 1931 Northern Bank One Pound Ploughman; 318, a 10.6.29 Knox signature Northern Pound—this is a rare note, it will be interesting to see what it fetches. Bot notes are estimated at 2-3K.
There is one £10 note in the sale, a washed Munster & Leinster, 1938.
Only three of the notes have been recorded in PSS, including the £10 and the Knox Northern £1. They were recorded way back around 1996.
There are also some other Irish notes in the sale, the most interesting being a £100, dated 9.12.37, graded at About very fine. This note is rare in such a grade. Nice to see it offered.
Dublin Coin Auctions
June 27, 2015. An auction of Banknotes, Coins and Medals coming up on 27 June.
The sale includes a good range of War Code notes, 10 Shilling, £1, £5, £10 notes, few low grade Ploughman notes and a 1937 £100 note.
The most interesting banknote is Lot 29, a 1937 £100, 17.12.37. Grade VG with an estimate of 650 Euro on it. There is also a C series replacement £50 note, 14.02.96 EEE, estimated at 300 Euro. Both of these are scarce as offered.
The most interesting medals in the sale are Lot 15: 1916 Rising service medal in original box of issue, very fine (est 1500); and Lot 17: 1922 War of Independence service medal with "Comrac" bar, very fine in original box (est 500).
Amongst the Irish coins, there is a 1928 proof set, Lot 175. Uneven toning, box poor. (est 350).
The catalogue is available for download from here.
Re: Fairs, Auctions and Events calendar: What's on, where and when • Irish Banknote collecting related events
Post by Mac » 28 Sep 2015 22:54
DNW Auction
Monday 28 September 2015. An auction of Banknotes, including some interesting Irish notes.
The sale includes a nice 1928 £20 note, and 1928 £50,and £100 notes.
There are also some nice later Lavery notes, including a nice 1959 £100—Sterling format.
Additionally, there are a few pre-partition notes from the Provincial Bank and Ulster Bank.
The catalogue is available for download from the dnw website.
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Lockdales Auction
Saturday 12 September 2015. An auction of Banknotes, coins and collectibles, including some high grade Irish notes.
The sale includes a nice range of later Lavery notes from the 1970s in high grade, and a 1954 Redmond £10 note in unusually nice grade.
There are also some nice B Series and C Series notes in UNC grade.
There is also a scarce gVF Royal Bank of Ireland Ploughman £5 note, with the top missing from one edge—it will be interesting to see what this fetches—an intact note of this grade would be in the region of 4,000 Euro.
The catalogue is available on the Lockdales website.
Lockdales are one to watch for Irish notes.
They occasionally have small offerings of interesting material.
EDIT 28.09.15
The royal £5 note didn't sell. Most of the other Irish notes sold for around the estimate prices.
Post by Mac » 01 Dec 2015 19:55
Whytes 'History, Literature & Collectibles' auction
October 17, 2015. A selection of Ploughman notes, including three £10 notes.
There are 26 Ploughman notes in this Whytes sale.
All but two notes are new to the Ploughman Scan Survey.
All of the notes are lower grade, generally vg.
Re: ••• Fairs, Auctions and Events calendar: What's on, where and when • Events related to Irish Banknote collecting
Monday 7 December 2015. An auction of Coins, Tokens, Medals and Banknotes, including a few interesting Irish notes, and some interesting foreign notes, notably Malaya & British Borneo.
The sale includes a nice Bank of Ireland £10 note, 1913, with DUNMANWAY branch on it.
Additionally, there is a nice spread of few pre-partition notes and a few Ploughman notes, including a decent grade Munster & Leinster Bank. £10. Enough of a spread to start a decent collection!
Among the Banknotes the two Anchor Lots are undoubtedly a pair of rare Specimens from Malaya & British Borneo:
Board of Commissioners of Currency, One Thousand Dollars, 21 March 1953
Estimated at £10,000–15,000.
Ten Thousand Dollars, 21 March 1953
It will be interesting to see how well these do.
The Irish International Coin Fair will take place on Saturday and Sunday, 27 & 28 February, 2016.
See Top Post.
100 years since 1916—this is the Coin Fair to be seen at!
Spink, London also have an auction of World notes on 12 April, 2016 which has a few Irish notes in it.
Several are notable, as follows, though I am not usually into Specimen notes:
Lot 428. Red Ploughman Specimen £10, of the type that De La Rue produced as examples of their printing. This one might be more interesting, though. Have to have a closer look at it.
Lot 429., £1 1928 Specimen; and Lot 430., £10 1928 Specimen are both also interesting.
Spring Stamp & Coin Fair
11.00 am – 17.00 pm
Place: RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin, Ireland.
DNW are certainly getting the best in Irish notes these days, though Whytes in Dublin are worth keeping an eye on also.
Fonsie Mealy Centenary Sale
Saturday 23 April 2016. An auction of Independence era collectibles, including three Limerick Soviet notes.
Fonsie Mealy have rather a good a auction of Irish historical items related to the Independence era, "The Centenary Sale" on 23rd April. The sale includes three Limerick Soviet notes, one of each denomination issued. Lot 371.
These notes are interesting, in that the 5/- and 10/- are each numbered 1, the first notes of the issue.
The 1/- note is a later nunumbered note.
The 5/- and 10/- notes are signed on reverse by Thomas Johnson, Leader of the Irish Labour Party from 1917 to 1927.
They are together with an original "Defence of the Realm - Local Pass," for the Special Military Area of Limerick, signed, stamped, and dated 25th April.
There are also some Fenian bonds in the sale, including a rare 500 dollar bond, though in very low grade.
Whytes have some interesting Irish banknotes in their Eclectic Collector auction on 14 May 2016.
There are a few old notes, 72 Ploughman notes, and a selection of Lavery notes, including two 1928 £100 notes in low grade.
The most significant item is Lot 325, a pleasing Fine, and a nice example of a very rare banknote. Dated 10.1.44, this note will fetch rather more than its conservative estimate of 4,000–5,000 Euro.
Central Bank of Ireland 20 Pounds war code 1944.
There are 72 Ploughman notes in various grades, including Lot 306, a Provincial Bank of Ireland £10 note, dated 17.7.39, with Kennedy signature. This is one of the rarest signature varieties for the Ploughman series, and is estimated at 1,200–1,500. It will likely fetch around double this figure.
Provincial Bank of Ireland Ploughman 17.7.39. Kennedy signature.
Lot 230 is a Provincial Bank of Ireland ledger of approximately cancelled 400 half-notes. An interesting item for research purposes.
Also up in the sale is Lot 197, one of the 1995 20 pence test pieces.
These two notes each did very well. £10 Ploughman fetched 10,500 plus fees; £20 1944 fetched 9,500 plus fees.
Dublin Coin Auctions have regular sales of Irish banknotes, coins and medals as well as other related items.
The next auction is 25th June, 2016.
Post by Mac » 26 Aug 2016 21:37
Heritage Auctions
Thursday 8 September 2016. An auction of world Banknotes, including some interesting Irish notes.
Heritage auctions have a significant group of Ploughman notes, as well as other Irish notes in their upcoming sale on September 8th 2016.
It is unusual for a US-based auction to have a large offering of Ploughman notes.
Among the lots, there is a nice VF grade Northern Bank £10 note, estimated conservatively at 25,000–35,000 USD. This is the nicest Northern £10 that I have yet seen. There are two about vf notes recorded in PSS, the rest are low grade notes. It will be interesting to see what this note fetches.
Also being offered are four Northern £5 notes and 24 Hibernian Bank£5 notes, almost all of which are in the vf to ef region.
The appearance of so many £5 notes of one bank together will likely be reflected in weak prices realised—a good opportunity to pick up a decent fiver or two.
All of the notes are in PMG grading packets, some of them being overgraded imho.
Some of the estimates are too high for the fivers.
There are four Ploughman £10 notes, the best of which is the Northern Bank. Munster & Leinster, Hibernian, and Ulster are the other banks. DNW have a much nicer Hibernian £10 note in their upcoming auction.
Undoubtedly, the attention will be on the Northern £10, a nice example of a rare note. I remember when there were only three of these recorded, back around 1995.
EDIT: pic of the Northern £10 Ploughman £10 Pound note added.
There is a range of other Irish notes in the sale also, including some early northern Ireland notes.
EDIT: The note sold for $32,900 including fees.
Re: ••• Auctions and Events calendar: What's on, where and when • Events related to Irish Banknote collecting
January 21, 2017. A selection of Ploughman notes, some Lavery notes, and some seldom seen Hibernian Bank tokens.
Whytes, Dublin have an Eclectic Collector sale on January 21 2017. The sale has a scattering of Lavery and Ploughman notes (15 x £1) in it, which are all new to PSS.
Of more interest are a group of Hibernian Bank tokens, issued in 1827. These are rarely seen as issued notes, with only proofs and specimens generally being offered.
There are also some Fenian and De Valera bonds on offer, some with additional documentation.
DNW Banknotes Auction
Monday 24 April 2017. An auction of Banknotes, including some Irish notes.
DNW have a decent range of Ploughman notes in their upcoming auction, with a spread of notes from seven of the eight banks, including a Northern £1 and £5. Also in the sale are a few De La Rue Ploughman Specimen notes, including a £20 and £100.
There is also a range of Lavery notes covering all eras of the series.
Post by Mac » 03 May 2017 12:43
May 5, 2017. A range Ploughman notes, including a few rarer issues.
There is a good range of Ploughman notes up in the latest Whyte's auction, around a hundred. Almost all of these notes are new to the PSS database. Whyte's continue to unearth new material for their auctions. The scarcer banks are well represented with several notes from Northern, Ulster and Royal. this includes a Northern Knox £5.
Thera re also some more cancelled issued Hibernian Tokens.
Lot 402: The Hibernian Bank token, One Pound, 10 July 1826.
DNW Auction of Irish Ten Shilling Notes
September 25, 2017. Part 1 of the Anthony Lenny date collection of 10 Shilling notes.
The sale features part of the collection in 79 Lots. There are a lot of very nice grade Irish Free State notes, and ETO war code notes. An exceptional collection, in terms of the overal grade of the notes, and the scope it covers.
It is a while since such a nice offering of Irish 10 Shilling notes has been made in auction.
Whyte's The Eclectic Collector Auction
The sale includes a section on Irish banknotes, with a decent selection of Ploughman notes which includes examples from all eight banks.
The catalogue is available for download from the Whyte's website, and the lots are viewable online.
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Patrick Surtain
For his son, see Patrick Surtain II.
American football cornerback
Surtain with the Kansas City Chiefs in 2007
5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
195 lb (88 kg)
Edna Karr (New Orleans)
NFL Draft:
1998 / Round: 2 / Pick: 44
Miami Dolphins (1998–2004)
Kansas City Chiefs (2005–2008)
Career highlights and awards
3× Pro Bowl (2002–2004)
First-team All-Pro (2002)
Second-team All-Pro (2003)
C-USA Defensive Player of the Year (1997)
Career NFL statistics
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Patrick Frank Surtain Sr. (/sərˈtæn/;[citation needed] born June 19, 1976) is a former American football cornerback who played 11 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the University of Southern Mississippi. He was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the second round of the 1998 NFL Draft, and also played for the Kansas City Chiefs.
2 College career
3 Professional career
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3.2 Kansas City Chiefs
3.3 NFL statistics
Early years[edit]
Surtain attended high school at Edna Karr High School, where he completed 44 of 97 passes for 753 yards with seven touchdowns and rushed 137 times for 784 yards with 12 touchdowns as a quarterback.[1] He also played baseball and ran track, and was also a member of the state title basketball and football teams in his senior year.[1]
College career[edit]
Surtain attended the University of Southern Mississippi, where he was a four-year letterman and two-year starter. In his junior year, Surtain started all 11 games and accumulated 84 tackles, 8 passes defended and six interceptions.[1]
Professional career[edit]
Miami Dolphins[edit]
Surtain was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the second round of the 1998 NFL Draft. He played for the Dolphins from 1998–2004 and was selected to the Pro Bowl three times in 2002, 2003, and 2004. He finished with 344 tackles, 6.5 sacks, and 29 interceptions in 108 career games with the Dolphins.
Patrick Surtain (left) with Ty Law at the Chiefs' 2007 mini-camp.
Kansas City Chiefs[edit]
In April 2005 the Dolphins traded Surtain to the Kansas City Chiefs for a second round pick in the 2005 NFL Draft. After the trade the Chiefs re-signed him to a seven-year $50.8 million deal.[2]
Surtain was released by the Chiefs on February 24, 2009. He finished his career with the team with 192 tackles, one sack, and eight interceptions in 55 games.[3]
NFL statistics[edit]
Combined Tackles
Assisted Tackles
Forced Fumbles
Fumble Recoveries
Fumble Return Yards
Interception Return Yards
Yards per Interception Return
Longest Interception Return
Interceptions Returned for Touchdown
Passes Defended
1998 MIA 16 30 23 7 0.0 0 0 0 2 1 1 1 0 9
1999 MIA 16 39 32 7 2.0 0 0 0 2 28 14 28 0 5
2000 MIA 16 52 42 10 1.0 2 1 0 5 55 11 43 0 21
2003 MIA 15 53 34 19 0.0 0 0 0 7 59 8 32 0 13
2004 MIA 15 58 40 18 1.0 0 1 0 4 2 1 2 0 11
2005 KC 15 57 47 10 0.0 0 1 0 4 57 14 53 0 13
2006 KC 16 68 60 8 1.0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 5
2007 KC 16 58 50 8 0.0 0 1 0 2 25 13 23 0 6
2008 KC 8 11 11 0 0.0 1 0 0 1 50 50 50 0 3
Career 163 538 422 116 7.5 7 7 0 37 430 12 53 2 113
Surtain bought a 6,300 square-foot home in Plantation, Florida, in 2001.[5] In 2016, Surtain became head coach at American Heritage School.[6] His son, Patrick II, who played for him at American Heritage, was one of the top-ranked high school football players of the class of 2018 and plays college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide.[7] Like his father, Patrick II plays cornerback.
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Bont voor Dieren is een Nederlandse stichting die zich sinds haar oprichting in 1986 inzet voor de bescherming van pelsdieren. Sinds 2004 verkiezen ze elk jaar ook een bekende Nederlander die bont draagt of zich dom heeft uitgelaten over bont tot Dom Bontje.

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Bont voor Dieren vindt dat het fokken en bejagen van dieren voor bont verboden moet worden. Bont is een overbodig en wreed product dat niemand nodig heeft om zich mooi en warm te kleden. Bont voor Dieren streeft ernaar dat consumenten geen bont kopen of dragen, politici wettelijke maatregelen nemen tegen de bontindustrie, modeontwerpers geen bont in hun collectie gebruiken en winkels geen bont verkopen.

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Bont voor Dieren lobbyt bij de politiek voor fok- en importverboden. De stichting licht consumenten voor door middel van campagnes, heeft een Bontvrijlijst waarop winkels en kledingmerken staan die geen bont verkopen, voert juridische procedures en gaat het maatschappelijk debat aan. Bij haar acties krijgt Bont voor Dieren vaak hulp van bekende Nederlanders zoals Georgina Verbaan, Jort Kelder en Sanne Vogel.

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Na lobby van Bont voor Dieren gelden er in Europa importverboden op honden-, katten-, en zeehondenbont. Het fokken van chinchilla's en vossen is in Nederland verboden. Bedrijven zoals De Bijenkorf, H&M en Invito staan op de Bontvrijlijst. Mede dankzij lobby van Bont voor Dieren geldt er vanaf 2013 in heel Europa een labelplicht voor kleding met dierlijke producten. Steeds meer Nederlandse modeontwerpers zoals Bas Kosters, Iris van Herpen en Jan Taminiau verklaren zich bontvrij.

Documentaire

In januari 2020 kwam Bont voor Dieren in samenwerking met het video-on-demandplatform Videoland met de documentaire Bont Girl waarin zangeres Famke Louise met twee dierenactivisten afreist naar China om zich daar te verdiepen in de herkomst van bont met als doel de Chinese bontindustrie te ontmaskeren. In deze documentaire bezoeken ze onder andere winkels en markten waar het bont verkocht wordt maar bezoeken ze ook de fokkerijen en het slachthuis van deze dieren.

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Dom Bontje
Madammen met een bontjas
Dierenbescherming
Bont Girl

Externe links
 Officiële website
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Nederlandse stichting
Dierenrechtenorganisatie
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Many national companies use these numbers for customer service type queries and consumer groups such as "say no to 0870 numbers" have developed to help people avoid them because of their costs.
What is an 0870 Number ?
The 0870 telephone number means that the caller pays an increased rate of up to 10p per minute depending on the customers landline provider. However, if they are with BT this is now included in their free minutes packages so there is no increase for them. Other providers still charge the premium which is 5p with Sky and 10p per minute with Virgin so not a great cost but higher than standard landline numbers.
Many household name companies still use these numbers for their main customer services because they actually receive a cut of the call cost from the number provider and is seen as a great source of income. New rules on the cost of 0870 numbers means if you wish to make money on this number then it's better to choose a 0844 number range in due course.
0870 numbers are mainly used by larger companies for customer services to make some money from the calls to cover the cost of providing customer services. Also some courier companies have 0870 and 0871 numbers to book collections of parcels. Although some of these calls are short in nature the volume adds up and the revenue gained can be significant.
Like all special numbers including the 0845 number these can be diverted to standard and existing numbers and hooked into main telephone systems the companies own. Depending on how large the company is they will receive anything from 2p - 7p per call although the new rules since August 2009 have changed this set up - see below.
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Iraq: Dollar's Fall Hurting Ordinary Iraqis
May 20, 2003 00:00 GMT
By Valentinas Mite
The value of the U.S. dollar has fallen around the world with respect to major currencies like the euro, but -- surprisingly perhaps -- it has also dropped against one of the world's weakest currencies, the Iraqi dinar. The reasons for the dollar's fall in Iraq are mostly local and unrelated to the U.S. currency's problems in the rest of the world. Nevertheless, the drop is making life difficult for ordinary Iraqis, many of whom are paid in dollars yet must buy their goods with dinars. RFE/RL reports from the Iraqi capital.
Baghdad, 20 May 2003 (RFE/RL) -- The value of the U.S. dollar is dropping in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, making life harder for ordinary residents.
A month ago, a dollar would fetch about 3,350 dinars in the city's currency markets. Today, that same dollar buys just 1,400 dinars. At the same time, prices for many ordinary items -- denominated in dinars -- remain at wartime levels.
The currency fluctuation affects many Iraqis who are paid in U.S. dollars but must still use dinars to buy food and everyday items.
Experts say the reasons for the dollar's drop in Iraq are mostly local and are not related to the recent fall of the U.S. currency against major currencies like the euro. The U.S. government has pumped millions of dollars into Iraq since the end of the war and this oversupply has made each dollar worth less.
At the same time, there is a shortage of dinars. Savings banks are closed and people cannot withdraw their cash. The Central Bank of Iraq has been looted, as have many of the state-owned banks. No new dinars are being printed.
Ahmed Jabber Assaab, an independent analyst, explains: "The [U.S. administration] has pumped [U.S. dollars into the market] by paying salaries for government employees and retired people in big sums and having no substitute for the Iraqi currency. There is an absence of printing of [Iraqi] money."
Assaab says the United States has already pumped in about $3 million through payments to state employees and will soon start making payments to retired persons. He adds that dollars are also flowing into the country from returning Iraqis and the presence of many thousands of foreign aid workers, journalists, and soldiers.
The problem is aggravated by persisting high prices for food and everyday items. Prices rose during the war and have remained at wartime levels. Six months ago, a kilogram of meat cost about 4,000 dinars and a liter of gasoline cost about 50 dinars. Now, meat goes for around 6,000 dinars a kilogram and gas costs some 500 dinars a liter.
Ali, a shopkeeper, says the prices of goods in dinars are as high now as they were before the slide of the U.S. currency.
"[Concerning food,] some of the imported goods are falling in prices. [However], we noticed that meat; chicken, vegetables, and fruits stay at the same high price. These products are on sale in dinars and it has an effect on us," Ali says.
Hafud Al Zubeidi, a shopkeeper selling carpets, says the consequences of the slide are dire for his business.
"We don't know how we will manage our business in the upcoming days because we have a lot of goods and we bought our goods when one dollar was at 2,000 or 3,000 dinars, and now it has fallen down in a very dramatic way," Al Zubeidi says.
Weesam, who refused to give information about where he worked, says salaries in general were higher under deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
"The situation under Saddam's regime was much better because people got salaries and bonuses and it is more than [the Americans] are giving now. We lived better only spending bonuses than we are now supposed to live on [U.S. payments of] $20. There is no use for [the $20]," Weesam says.
During Hussein's rule the average salary was nearly 4,000 dinars, but bonuses were also paid. The bonuses for state employees were as high as 50,000-100,000 dinars or even more, and the prices were controlled by the state.


Tuesday night I walked among mermaids, lions, demons, and witches who flooded the neighborhood. The streets were closed to traffic and a volunteer police force guarded us in the smoky suburban streets. Kids clumped together clutching bags of candy, then scattered as they ran and spun into the falling dusk, imp-giggles trailing like pine smoke in the butter-warm Indian summer night.
I set up an ofrenda, an altar, to my mom. On a bookshelf in the kitchen I spread a bright table cloth she gave me long ago, then set a photo of her taken on her birthday, a 2013 image of her smiling and pretty in a coral-colored suit jacket. Next to her photo I set a bottle of Baileys Irish Cream and a yellow Opal apple.
On Halloween I baked all day, making challah in the morning, and an apple pie in the evening. When I finally went to bed at midnight, my energy straddling the hour between Halloween and All-Saints day, the house smelled like her house—baking wheat, caramelized sugars, heat-softened fruit. Perhaps it would entice her to the ofrenda where she might drink the Baileys and taste the Opal apple. Perhaps she could reach through that veil and touch me.
Wednesday dawned warm and clear, fitting for All-Saints day, a day of remembrance for our loved ones who have gone to heaven. The time of year that the veil thins. A liminal time, a threshold, when one thing changes into another thing. In Mexico it's the season of Dia de los Muertos, the time when the dead can come back to visit the living.
People tell tales of their loved ones visiting them. One friend told me she saw her mother standing in her bedroom, at the foot of the bed, the night after her mother died. Another saw her father in a cloud of cigarette smoke moving across her living room. Others see their loved ones in dreams, or hear their voices.
Today is November 2. I wept this morning because, despite the ofrenda (built, I admit, as bait to lure her into my home) I never felt my mom's presence, save in the smells and tastes of the baking I began on Halloween. Perhaps that is all that's left of her: The memories I can beg by dressing my life in activity; feelings I summon by making pie, bread, soups; remembrances of taste.
I don't want a nebulous feeling, a drifting odor, a dream. I want to know that it's her. I want a visitation.
And yet, I fear such a thing. Will she be angry that I didn't do enough to save her? That we caused her pain as she died? That our efforts to keep her out of pain deprived her of consciousness?
That's silly. My mother was not an angry woman. American culture's fascination with horror has given ghosts a bad rap. Why would my mother be something in death that she did not embrace in life?
But she always kept her word. Long ago, she promised that if she could, she would come back to say goodbye. Which is more important to me now because death interrupted; we could not properly bid our adieus.
It's November 2nd. The ofrenda remains in my kitchen. The day is gray and chilled, and my loved ones hear me crying (my fiddler can hear me crying no matter how quietly I try to sob) and hug me. Perhaps today, or some time during this liminal season, my mother will reach across that thin threshold into the graying winter light, and give me some sort of sign. Then perhaps this grief can change into something else.
Lovely and heart-rending all at once, beautiful as always.