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Even with the constraints posed by an inevitable Chequers-inspired arrangement with the EU, Britain's economic partners across the oceans remain optimistic of expanded trade. At home, wages are up, as are mortgages to first-time buyers, while propaganda around Britain being the poor relation of the G7 is finally upended. On a similar note, after months of complaining about Brexit and threatening to leave London, Anglo-Dutch giant Unilever is staying.
According to the Office for National Statistics, wage growth in the three months to August of this year reached its highest level since the financial crisis. The findings provoked an immediate rise in the value of the pound, up 0.6 per cent to $1.3227.
The housing market is finally beginning to shift towards younger entrants and people on lower incomes with the number of loans issued in August to first time buyers climbing to its highest level since June 2017. In total, 35,500 first time mortgages were issues, a 2% rise on August of 2017, while the total value of loans jumped by more than 5% to £6.1bn. The average age of someone buying their first home has also dropped, down to 30.
Contrary to reports, the UK is not the low performer of the G7. UK Growth in 2017 was only a shade lower than in the previous year, 1.7% down from 1.8%, yet still higher than France, Italy and Japan's. UK growth is likely to top out at 1.5% this year, higher than Italy. Growth reached 0.6% in the first 6 months of this year, compared to France's 0.4%. Furthermore, Britain's relative weakness needs to be observed in its proper context: the Eurozone is still getting high on stimulus under quantitative easing, Britain's economy returned to normal working order long ago. QE on the continent will be phased out eventually, we'll see who's leading then.
Sajid Javid, one of the frontrunners for the Tory leadership has called for the UK economy to take a dynamic approach in response to a possible no deal Brexit. In advance of the 2018 Autumn budget – which proved to be something of a bonanza – the home secretary envisages deeper tax cuts and other fiscal incentives, along with bigger infrastructure spending and opening up the economy to global talent.
Junior Senator for Oklahoma, James Lankford has recommended the United Kingdom as President Trump's next major economic partner as the US ushers in a new "fairer" trade policy.
…dampening those aspirations somewhat is Australia's former ambassador to the United Kingdom, Alexander Downer, who warned, "it wouldn't be impossible to negotiate a free-trade agreement, but it would be a lesser agreement under Chequers." Downer, a great advocate for a sovereign Brexit has routinely presented the net benefits of a comprehensive trade arrangement between the UK and Australia.
She added: "Whether it's deal or no deal, they will find a way of working that works for everybody." Indeed they will and always have.
Unilever will remain a London-listed company after shareholders rejected proposals for the food and detergents giant to retreat to the Netherlands after 133 years in the UK. CEO Paul Polman and several other board members dropped their plans after their extensive consultation revealed it was "appropriate to withdraw" them. Polman's tenure at the helm now looks in jeopardy. The Anglo-Dutch company has made no secret of its hostility towards Brexit, the move was seen as a direct response to the vote of the 17.4 million. Once again, the top brass have been humbled.


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Kraken Daily Market Report for June 20 2021
Total spot trading volume at $1.08 billion, the 30-day average is $1.66 billion.
Total futures notional at $326.5 million.
The top five traded coins were, respectively, Bitcoin (+0.3%), Ethereum (+3.6%), Tether (0%), Cardano (+2.9%) and USDC (0%).
Strong returns from Sushi (+14%) and Waves (+13%).
$1.08B traded across all markets today
Crypto, EUR, USD, JPY, CAD, GBP, CHF, AUD
$35595.
↑0.31%
$416.6M ETH
↑3.6%
$265.8M USDT
↓0.03%
$153.0M ADA
$50.9M USDC
$32.2M XRP
$27.1M DOGE
↓2.0%
$26.4M LINK
$14.6M LTC
$8.96M DAI
$6.13M BCH
$5.55M UNI
$5.33M SC
$4.64M WAVES
↑13%
$4.2M XMR
$4.19M AAVE
$3.48M EOS
$3.36M XLM
$3.28M MINA
$3.16M KEEP
$2.53M FIL
$2.49M XTZ
$2.42M ALGO
$2.35M ATOM
$2.28M SOL
$1.9M MLN
$1.84M KAVA
$1.7M YFI
$1.41M TRX
$1.07M LSK
$1.06M PAXG
$1.06M COMP
$1.02M GRT
OXT
$989K ICX
$868K ZEC
$809K CRV
$782K OMG
$644K REPV2
$521K SNX
$516K ANT
$467K OCEAN
$364K BAT
$359K EWT
$342K KNC
$291K MANA
GNO
$288K SRM
$234K REP
$220K STORJ
$202K RARI
$117K MKR
$82.6K ENJ
$79.5K SUSHI
$54.4K ZRX
TBTC
$35.1K GHST
$25.4K BNT
$24.7K SAND
$23.3K REN
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Trading Volume by Asset
The figures below break down the trading volume of the largest, mid-size, and smallest assets. Cryptos are in purple, fiats are in blue. For each asset, the chart contains the daily trading volume in USD, and the percentage of the total trading volume. The percentages for fiats and cryptos are treated separately, so that they both add up to 100%.
Figure 1: Largest trading assets: trading volume (measured in USD) and its percentage of the total trading volume (June 20 2021)
Figure 2: Mid-size trading assets: (measured in USD) (June 20 2021)
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Figure 3: Returns over USD and XBT. Relative volume and return size is indicated by the size of the font. (June 20 2021)
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The values generated in this report are from public market data distributed from Kraken WebSockets api. The total volumes and returns are calculated over the reporting day using UTC time.
Source: https://blog.kraken.com/post/9657/kraken-daily-market-report-for-june-20-2021/
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Each day during National Physicians Week we will be publishing a different physician perspective to highlight the different voices of those who work in the field. Today, Dr. Leslie-Ann Williams discusses her seven commandments of positive patient interactions.
The field of medicine is so complex that it has been described as learning to speak a foreign language and in order to provide effective patient care, physicians must be able to act as translators for their patients to communicate vital health information.
Dr. Leslie-Ann Williams, founder of Healing Wings International, recognizes the vital significance of positive interactions whereby her patients are able to walk out of her office healthier than when they came in. For Williams, medicine begins and ends with a healthy physician-patient relationship: "[patients] are in a partnership with me for [their] good health."
Dr. Williams has truly mastered the art of engaging with patients on a human level - so much so that her patients refer to her as "Dr. Sunshine". Read on for Dr. Sunshine's seven commandments for building a healthy relationship with your patients.
Be yourself. During medical school, doctors are training to take care of the patient while maintaining professional conduct - but this attitude of professional detachment removes the physician from the human aspect of medicine. At the end of the day, medicine is just people treating people: "Doctors are people, and patients like to know that," says Dr. Williams. "Before you ever meet with a single patient, you should get to know who you are and learn to love who you are. Your relationship with yourself as a human being affects every other relationship in your life - most especially the ones you have with your patients." It's ok to have fun, sing, dance...be real.
Remember that you are blessed. Always remember that medicine is a privileged profession, we are privileged to share in our patients' most intimate life events. Never take this for granted and never take the trust afforded you for granted.
Dr. Leslie-Ann Williams is a native of Trinidad and Tobago and currently lives and works in St. Thomas, where she practices Pediatrics and Internal Medicine at Healing Wings International.


Earlier this week, Aaron Hernandez, former tight end for the New England Patriots, was sentenced to life in prison, without the possibility of parole.
His sentencing should serve as a lesson for all young, black men that there is a price to pay for living the thug life.
Our sons are vulnerable to those same temptations in society waiting to devour them. We should educate them to the reality that a criminal path leads to prison — one stupid mistake could change their lives forever!
Peer pressure plays a big part in the decisions that our sons make. But, we should constantly teach our sons to be leaders and not followers.
Every son lost to prison represents another mother with a broken heart!


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An astonishing civil rights story from Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Steve Sheinkin.
"The Port Chicago 50" is a fascinating story of the prejudice and injustice that faced black men and women in America's armed forces during World War II, and a nuanced look at those who gave their lives in service of a country where they lacked the most basic rights.
Steve Sheinkin is the acclaimed author of many nonfiction works, including "The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery," Newbery Honor Book and National Book Award Finalist "Bomb: The Race to Build--and Steal--the World's Most Dangerous Weapon," and National Book Award finalist "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War."
Sheinkin delivers another meticulously researched WWII story, one he discovered while working on his Newbery Honor book, "Bomb." . . . Archival photos appear throughout, and an extensive bibliography, source notes, and index conclude this gripping, even horrific account of a battle for civil rights predating Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. "Publishers Weekly," starred review.
Steve Sheinkin is the award-winning author of fast-paced, cinematic histories for young readers. "The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights," was included on the National Book Award Long List and received the 2014 Boston Globe/Horn Book Award for Nonfiction. "The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery," won both the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award and the YALSA award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults. "Bomb: The Race to Build-and Steal-the World's Most Dangerous Weapon" was a Newbery Honor Book, a National Book Award Finalist, and winner of the Sibert Award and YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults." Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War "was a National Book Award Finalist and a finalist for the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award. He lives in Saratoga Springs, New York, with his wife and two children.
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Publication Date: January 3rd, 2017
History - Military & Wars
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Hardcover (January 21st, 2014): $21.99
CD-Audio (January 28th, 2014): $29.70


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Report Suggests Toronto is World-Class Tech Hub But Government Can Do More
While technology companies are often hailed as the future of the economy, that future may have already arrived in Toronto.
A new report from TechToronto, an organization supporting the city's technology community, identifies that over 400,000 jobs in 2016 were related to technology. The report was produced in collaboration with PwC, the Innovation Policy Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, and CareerBuilder.
The report, "How Technology is Changing Toronto to Employment," found that the city's tech ecosystem makes up 15% of all Toronto employment. Over the last 5 years, Toronto has grown tech-related jobs by 14.6%, which is 2xfaster than the rest of the country.
Tech-related jobs earned $24 billion in salaries in 2015, making it one of the highesthourly wage sectors in the city. Toronto's tech ecosystem is projected to add an additional 20,000 jobs by 2020.
"I believe that Toronto is in an exciting transition from a startup hub to a globally competitive centre of innovation, where companies are born and can scale effectively," said Toronto Mayor John Tory. "We are the keystone of Canada's knowledge economy, and have the right ingredients for success including exceptional talent, access to capital, and support services."
Still, the report believes there is work to be done, especially at the government level. The report made public policy recommendations including the following:
Introduce fast track immigration visa for tech talents.
Increase enrollment and diversity in post secondary STEM programs.
Re-distribute government funds from incumbents to scale-ups and start-ups.


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Just back in the UK from an amazing trip to South Africa and I have just got to tell you about where I have been. Now if you are looking for the most opulent experience with an affordable budget then Esiweni is the place for you. I have been working in the luxury travel industry for more than 5 years now. During this time I have had the privilege of exploring destinations around the world and think I may just have found a secret gem. So we left the UK and the cold weather behind us to arrive at Heathrow excited to start our adventure to South Africa. I had been invited to visit Esiweni Luxury Safari Lodge just outside Ladysmith to give my honest opinion of the privately owned lodge. Sophie and Ludvic had moved here in 2014 with their daughter Adele who is now only 4 years old. They had been searching for the perfect lodge for over 2 years and they had found it and I can honestly say I felt at home as soon as I arrived. It may have been the location but I like to think it was the personal greeting also that played a huge part of the feeling I had as soon as I walked in. Situated in the Nambiti Private Game Reserve Esiweni is a luxury 5 Star lodge,that accommodates just 10 guests as there are only 5 deluxe suites. Esiweni prides itself on having knowledgeable enthusiastic guides to help you explore the wilderness and wildlife that the Nambiti Private Game Reserve has to offer. With day and night drives everyday there's so much to see.
The Lodge has a homely and inviting atmosphere, ensuring guests are welcomed to a home away from home.
I was shown to my suite, I can't tell you how pleased I was, It was my own little palace, my own tub in my bedroom with a view of the Nambiti reserve, a private terrace with my own area to sunbath and as I was shown further round the terrace I had an outside tub also, luxury for the next 8 days who could want for anything more.After a quick bite of lunch which was prepared by the chef Jerome Desaivre, who has been a private chef to Formula Ones Eddie Jordan,we were taken out on our first game drive.
But wait,I have missed the part as we arrived, we hired a car from Johannesburg and drove for 3 and a half hours to the lodge. It sounds a long drive I know but it was so straight forward and is very safe. I would not recommend you drive at night. My husband and I took turns driving to break up the boredom of a straight road. We arrived at the reserve and was greeted by the rangers who took us from the car park to the lodge. as we drove away from the gates we could not believe our eyes 3 large elephants blocked the road if this was the start of things to come over the next 8 days this was going to be amazing. I have been on Safari last June to Zimbabwe but had not stayed on a reserve.I had visited 6 different hotels but nothing had been as spectacular on first impression as this. We travelled another 2 minutes and I could not believe my eyes a giraffe 30 feet from the jeep and to my left a family of Warthogs. I can't describe how amazing this place was from the moment we entered the gates of the reserve and things just got better and better.
So back to my amazing luxurious accommodation, words can't actually express how at home I was, I wanted for nothing, other than to see the leopard. I have travelled extensively over my 50 years on the planet and have been lucky enough to have stayed in some very special hotels around the world but this beats them all, it was a home from home with all the luxuries of a 5star hotel.
Our hostess Sophie greeted us after every game drive morning and evening and could not do enough for us, she really made us feel like part of the family. Now to Pemba's he was our ranger what a super star he was, he would be laughing at 5am every morning and 8.30pm driving us back after the evening drive, nothing was too much trouble, he had managed to show us everything on the reserve apart from the Leopard which he had not seen himself for over 3 months, it was still there I must add and had been sighted by other rangers from other lodges.
[vc_column_inner] Within our 8 days at Esiweni we saw elephants, giraffe, lions, hippos, rhinos, warthogs, zebras, Jackals, wildebeest both black and blue, kudu, impala, buffalo, wild dogs, a great variety of birds and much more. This has been the hardest review to write up in all my years of travelling as I have so much to tell you about this fabulous place the people, food, animals, country, weather the list goes on it was spectacular. My husband had always said that safari wasn't really on his bucket list of places to visit but has since said out of all the places he's been lucky enough to have visited this has been the best and hasn't stopped talking about it to everyone.
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John Cena is joining the cast of 'Fast and Furious 9'
by: Emma Brazell
Question: What could they do to make the Fast and Furious franchise even more awesome than it already is?
Answer: Hire John Cena, of course!
This dream looks close to coming true after Vin Diesel posted a cryptic video to social media that seemingly confirmed the legendary wrestler would be joining the cast for the upcoming ninth film.
The teasing Instagram footage was captioned "Thank you Pablo" (Diesel's affectionate nickname for the late Paul Walker, who tragically died in a car crash with Roger Rodas on 20 November 2013.) and shows Diesel dressed similarly to his iconic character and speaking directly to the camera.
"As you know I'm always thinking Fast, and I'm always thinking about the responsibility of making something iconic and deserving of your loyalty," he says in the emotional clip.
He continues: "I know this sounds crazy but every blue moon I feel like Pablo up there sends me someone, another soldier for the fight for truth.
"Today, someone came by the Toretto Gym that speaks to what Pablo would have brought me," he adds, before panning the camera to show Cena, who is standing behind him, dressed in a blue suit and yellow tie.
Check out their mysterious Instagram video here:
The WWE star smiles at the camera and winks, before Vin Diesel finishes up by saying: "All love, always".
Predictably, the video made fans lose their minds, with many turning to social media to share their excitement over the perceived casting announcement.
Instagrammer @daywoww was a little excited, to say the least, commenting: HOLY SH*T!! HOLY SH*T!!," while @trish011563 wrote: "Omg I love John Cena! Lol that is so cool!" [sic]
Hundreds of others acknowledged the moving nod to Paul Walker, with @belieber_in_my_lord_jesus writing: "Vin, Paul is looking down on you with a smile.🤗" [sic].
Fellow Instagrammer @silviadavanzo8 added: "Paul, Pablo is your angel, your guide and protects you and will always be present by his spirit and his soul that will never die....And today he' s proud of your courage you had to conted with to get throught this great sorrow. He will always your bro...God Bless you Vin Diesel!" [sic]
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Revealing he had immediately jumped on a plane to California to meet Walker's family after hearing of the tragedy, the Avengers: Endgame star said: "I thought they needed my strength, but realized when I got there and broke down before his family, that it was I who needed theirs. His mother hugged me and said I am so sorry... I said sorry? You're the mother who lost a son?... She said yes, but you lost your other half."
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Bracia: great beer, shame about the dodgy history
Ping! It's an email from the chaps at Thornbridge with details of their Bracia chestnut honey beer, the one raved over by more than just me at the Guild of Beer Writers dinner last week. The press release details exactly what goes into the beer, and also reveals where they got the name from: Bracia is, they say, "the Celtic name for a beverage brewed in Iron Age Europe with reference found on a Roman inscription at Haddon Hall, Derbyshire … [made] with cereals and, most probably, honey"
Aargh, ooh, er, cripes, well, no, actually, very sorry, guys, you're wrong. Bracia isn't the name of a type of Celtic beer.
There is a word, bracis, which was known from Pliny's Natural History, written around AD 77, and which he says is the Gallic name for a " genus farris", or type of grain.
Thornbridge's Bracia
The word was largely unknown apart from that one reference until the discovery of the Vindolanda tablets, wooden writing boards dating to the last years of the first century and early years of the second century AD found at a Roman fort a few miles south of the later Hadrian's Wall, close to the modern English/Scottish border.
These tablets reveal, among many other fascinating facts about the lives of Roman soldiers in Britain around AD 100-120 (such as they wore socks with their sandals – very British), that they were supplied with locally brewed beer, which was made from bracis.
It's not completely certain whether bracis is, as Pliny said, the name of a type of grain, or whether Pliny got it wrong and it's actually the Gallic/Celtic/Brythonic word for malt. But the evidence is pretty much for bracis meaning malted grain: etymologically it looks to be related to proto-Indo-European words meaning "soft" or "rotten", and malt is, of course, "softer" than raw grain.
In addition, the modern Welsh for malt is brag, and malthouse is bracty, while in North Wales the word for "to brew" is bracha (braguin standard Welsh) and the Welsh for "brewery" is bragdy. If all these aren't descended from two more words found in the Vindolanda tablets and clearly derived from bracis, braciiarius, which looks to mean "maltster", and braciarium, either "malthouse" or "brewery", then I'm a Batavian.
Similarly the identical word in Gaul gave bracier in early French, today brasseur, brewer, via a supposed Late Latin word *braciare, and also brasserie, brewery. So "bracia" wasn't the name of a beer, but bracis was the name for what beer was made from.
There was, indeed, a type of Welsh beer called bragaut (bragawd in modern Welsh, "bragget" in English), from a supposed Old Celtic word *bracata, which was made from wort fermented with honey, and the name of which was, again, derived from bracis. So to be fair, it's not totally wrong to link old Celtic honey beers with a brand name like Bracia – except that the name the Celts used for such a brew was probably bracata.
Thornbridge says that "reference is found on a Roman inscription at Haddon Hall, Derbyshire" to Bracia. This would be the inscription on a Roman altarstone discovered at Haddon Hall, which is near Bakewell and not too far from Thornbridge, dating from probably the second or third century AD, and dedicated by a Roman soldier, Quintus Sittius Caecilianus, prefect of the first cohort of the Aquitanians, to "the god Mars Braciaca".
It has been asserted, on no better evidence than that Braciaca is similar to bracis, that Braciaca was the Celtic god of brewing, combined here with the Roman god of war. But this is the only known mention of "Braciaca", and as sceptics point out, Mars Braciaca could be simply one of the many Roman gods of locality: there are five known places in Roman Gaul called Braciacus. There is even one translation of the Latin words on the altar, MARTI BRACIACAE, as "Mars of the many arms", from bracchium, "arm".
Still, (chest)nuts to all that: whatever the inspiration, Stefano Cossi, Thornbridge's head brewer, has made a terrific beer, using seven different malts – pale Maris Otter, brown, Munich, crystal, black, chocolate and peated – roasted barley, and five different hop varieties, Target, Pioneer, Hallertau, Northern Brewer and a new one to me, Sorachi Ace, developed, apparently by Sapporo in Japan as a cross between Brewer's Gold and Saaz and described as having a lemony aroma, all then, apparently, refermented with chestnut honey from the Alpine foothills of North East Italy and given three months of cold maturation.
It's bottle-conditioned, dark, complex, and a very deceptive nine per cent abv, and Stefano reckons that while very drinkable now (I'll agree with that), "I think its flavour will mature and it is certainly a beer you can age for sometime and experience its evolution." That's if you can resist the call to drink it as soon as you get it, of course. The nice Alex Buchanan at Thornbridge has told me where my nearest supplier is, and as soon as I've secured some bottles for me, I'll let you know too … it's Utobeer at Borough Market, right by London Bridge station – hurry, hurry …
17th December 2008 Martyn CornellBeer, Beer ingredients, Bottled beer, History of beerBracia, Celtic brewing, Honey beer, Pliny, Thornbridge Brewery
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Stefano Cossi
18th December 2008 at 8:50 am	 Reply
At Thornbridge we take great pride in what we do and we are by no means superficial. Behind the technical decisions during the brewing process there is constant meticulous research and experimentation. And we apply the same principles to everything we do.
Being very fastidious and inquisitive, I did a lot of research for the name Bracia and came across a few sources (including the little gem that is "Amber, Gold and Black") reporting different interpretations for the root brac-.
I have studied Latin language for five years and I had to deal with endless and intricate translations of passages by Cicerone, Giulio Cesare and Plinio. I learned too well how Latin lends itself to interpretation.
During my research, one of the interpretations on bracia was offered by the the book "Del Vino d'Orzo" ("On the Wine made from Barley"
http://www.comunedipombia.it/centro%20documentazione%20storia%20birra/cervisia.pdf), unfortunately only available in the Italian language, where bracia is a term used to indicate an Ale brewed in Iron Age Europe. The book is a very comprehensive resource on the subject of beer's archaeology and has been published under the patronage of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities. An extract from the book has also been published on "Birra e Malto" ("Beer and Malt") the technical publication of the Italian Association of Brewers and Maltsters (AITBM). Here, the term bracia is mentioned again and honey is listed as a highly possible ingredient. Can anyone state that this source is "wrong"?
Although the historical connection may have come across as simplistic on the press release and this should probably have read "Bracia may have been…" rather than "Bracia is…", I have hopefully made it clear that the subject has been researched with care.
And I can hardly accept the use of the word "dodgy" as it may imply dishonesty on our part.
However, I agree with you that Bracia is a great beer.
Stefano Cossi, Head Brewer
Stefano, thank you for your thorough and dignified response to my comments about the name of your Bracia beer, which obviously came across as far ruder than I intended them to be, and if I have offended you I am genuinely sorry.
I am sure your research and scholarship were very thorough, judging by the care and commitment that you clearly put into making your beer. It was wrong of me to rush in and criticise your name without finding out more about why you had chosen it, and I shouldn't have used the word "dodgy".
As it happens the whole bracis subject is something I have been interested in for six or seven years, and even before your beer came out I had amassed a fair degree of evidence about the roots and useage of bracis. The subject is covered in Bowman, AK and Thomas, JD, The Vindolanda Writing Tablets (Tabulae Vindolandenses II), British Museum, 1994 and Bowman and Thomas,
Vindolanda: The Latin Writing-Tablets, Britannia Monograph Series No 4,1984, which talk about its occurance in the Vindolanda tablets, and Max Nelson, The Barbarian's Revenge, A History of Beer in Ancient Europe, Routledge, 2005.
Max Nelson¹s book, in case you don't know it, is easily the best treatment of beer in Classical times in English: he's the assistant professor of Classics at the University of Windsor in Canada, and the first person to write about ancient brewing in English from a standpoint of good knowledge about brewing technology and classical languages. However, it doesn't look as if he was aware of the Italian research you based the name of your beer on. It's a great pity it's not available in English.
For what it's worth I think you have a perfectly valid argument for calling your beer Bracia, although I notice in the paper you refer to the word bracia is prefixed by *, the "etymologist's asterisk", which, of course, is the sign used by linguists to indicate that "we don't actually have any hard evidence for the existence of this word, we're just making an educated guess that it quite probably existed based on what else we know." So Bracia is an Italian scholar's guess at a possible genuine Celtic beer name, and one that the English-speaking world wasn't aware of, hence my impetuous denunciation.
Still, I think it's perfectly valid to say, based on what we know, that with Bracia-the-beer you're reflecting a genuine Celtic tradition of brewing with honey, and I think such a beer, based on the later Welsh word for a honeyed beer, bragawd, was probably called by the ancient Celts something like *bracata, to which Bracia is clearly related.
I also think it's perfectly valid to mention the Marti Braciacae altar at Haddon Hall, especially when it's so close to Thornbridge: the "brewer" interpretation of the dedication seems just as valid as any other (and certainly more valid, it seems to me, that "Mars of the many arms").
Overall, however, it doesn't matter what the beer is called, it is indeed a great one, and I have no doubt it will do very well indeed.
knutalbert
19th December 2008 at 11:45 am	 Reply
I am deeply impressed by the scolaship displayed here.
No current plans for visiting the UK, so there will probably be some time before I can lay my hands of a bottle of this brew.
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Yoda, the Jedi Master, is undoubtedly one of the most iconic teachers in film history. He challenged his naïve, young apprentice Luke not just to master new skills, but to entirely change the way he thinks and perceives the world.
Today I stumbled across the following images in my Twitter feed, and I plan to print them and hang them on the door to my classroom. They summarize for me the mindset changes that are necessary for any kind of success – not just classroom academics, but in any endeavor – in the 21st century. Despite some Google searches, I still don't know who published them originally, so I will start with this disclaimer: No copyright violation is intended. I am happy to give credit where credit is due.
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Green Climate Fund pledging summit: Civil society groups react to outcome
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Pledges now add up to $US 9.7 billion but countries must continue to fill the coffers through the replenishment period to meet the needs of vulnerable people and for global efforts to tackle climate crisis
25 October, Paris: The Green Climate Fund (GCF) Pledging Conference concluded here today with pledges now totaling US$9.7 billion.
By doubling on their initial contributions to the GCF, a handful of developed countries signaled they are ready to take responsibility in tackling the climate emergency but the vast majority of contributor countries should have come to the table with much more.
In particular: Canada, the Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerand, New Zealand, Austria and Belgium failed to deliver their fair-share and must bridge this shortfall as a matter of urgency. They must use the UN climate meeting COP25 in Santiago in Chile this December as an opportunity to do so.
By their decision to withhold funding to the GCF, the governments of the United States and Australia have turned their backs on the world's poorest and have once again isolated themselves in global efforts to respond to the climate emergency.
This US$9.7 billion for the next four years will allow the GCF to continue pursuing its mandate by funding adaptation and mitigation projects in developing countries to support the most vulnerable communities.
Millions of people, particularly in the developing world, are already facing the limits of adaptation. While the overall funding needed to transform our societies to avert climate and ecological breakdown runs into trillions of dollars, every dollar matters in the worsening climate emergency. We urge countries to continue to generously fill the Fund through the entire replenishment period.
As we enter a milestone year in implementing the Paris Agreement in 2020, we must renew global efforts to limit warming to 1.5°C.
Fair, transparent and predictable finance is hardwired into principles of equity and is critical to unlock conditionalities in national climate plans and ramp up climate targets in 2020.
Quotes from CAN members and civil society partners
Wendel Trio, Director, Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe:
"Several European countries set the bar high and threw real money on the table. This is a good start but in no way adequate to meet the needs on the ground. Countries who pledged below their fair share and failed to live up to their obligations must urgently top up their contributions. All European countries who have not pledged so far need to put money on the table as soon as possible, to help the poorest countries scale up their climate targets in 2020."
Lidy Nacpil, Coordinator, Asian Peoples Movement on Debt and Development and GCF Active Observer for Developing Countries:
"We need to remind many governments we are in a climate emergency. We know it, we live it, and many in the South barely survive the devastating impacts of the crisis we did not create. While we welcome this new set of contributions to the Green Climate Fund, we would like to remind developed countries of the US$ 100 billion annual target they have committed to. The amount pledged as of today is very far from the $100 billion and much much farther away from what is actually needed to finance urgent climate actions in developing countries that are needed not only by people of the South but by the whole world.
For years, we as CSO Active Observers in the GCF, have been calling developed country governments to meet their obligations, raise their ambitions and scale up their contributions. They should at least double their pledges at the GCF Replenishment process. It is outrageous and unjust that some governments, like the US and Australia, refuse to acknowledge their fair share of obligations and pledge to the Green Climate Fund. In stark contrast, they continue to be heavily invested in the fossil fuel industry. They are even asking developing countries to contribute, shifting the responsibility to those who have contributed the least to the climate crisis."
Armelle Le Comte, Oxfam International:
"The pledges made today send an important signal that wealthy countries should help the developing world face the growing perils of climate change. It is particularly encouraging that a range of countries including Norway, Sweden, Germany, the UK or France will double their contributions compared with the previous financing phase. This allows the fund to continue its important mission to assist developing countries in adapting to worsening climate impacts.
"However, it is appalling that Australia and the US have failed to provide any funding at all, and many other nations have announced pledges well below their fair share. Millions of people around the world are already facing hunger, homelessness and extreme poverty because of the climate crisis. Oxfam urges wealthy countries that have not pledged anything or remain far below their fair share to increase their contributions ahead of the COP25 climate summit in December."
Liane Schalatek, Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Washington, DC and GCF CSO Active Observer for Developed Countries:
"While the Paris pledging conference in 2019 delivered slightly more than the Berlin pledging conference four years ago during the initial resource mobilization just weeks before the COP21 delivered Paris Agreement, it is probably not enough to give developing countries the confidence to significantly raise their ambition in revised Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) for COP26. Granted, mostly European countries had to try to make up for the absence of the United States and Australia this time around, and some countries like Sweden or Norway contributed commensurate with a fair share. But financial ambition to match the ambition in climate action needed looks different.
With more than US$ 15 billion in project proposals waiting in the GCF pipeline, a doubling of the overall IRM available funds should have been possible -- and maybe it still is. It is therefore important for those countries that have sat the Paris meeting out, or that have disappointingly under-pledged (such as Canada, Portugal or the Netherlands) to realize that they have the responsibility and opportunity to come back, and to come back bigger, during the first replenishment period until the end of 2023, and to also invite new, first time contributors. The Paris pledging conference must be only the starting point, and not the stopping point.
A consideration of what is a fair share pledge by developed countries for financial inputs for GCF-1 must be matched by equity and fairness considerations in discussion about who should benefit most from the mobilized GCF finance. Equity must complement impact, scale, quality and efficiency as guiding benchmarks for programming under GCF-1. Therefore, a four-year strategic plan for the GCF must commit to pursue best practices for human-rights centered, inclusive, gender-responsive climate investment approaches that pursue multiple benefits combining climate and development objectives.
Sven Harmeling, Global Policy Lead on Climate Change and Resilience, CARE International:
"The 10 billion USD pledged today at the Green Climate Fund Replenishment Conference will provide substantial support to the most vulnerable countries and can help advance gender justice. This is urgently needed in light of the growing harm caused by the climate crisis. However, this amount needs to be increased to at least USD 15 billion so that developing countries can address the climate impacts caused by the inaction of the rich. Countries who have failed to double their previous contributions must step up now. And countries, like the US, Australia, and Russia, who remain silent, must no longer neglect their responsibility and commit to help poor countries address the climate emergency."
Eddy Pérez, Climate Action Network Canada:
"The Green Climate Fund today has been able to achieve, without the help of the US and Australia and with a little help from countries like Canada, an important outcome by getting rich contributor countries to pledge 10 billion USD for the GCF's first replenishment. These funds are essential to help developing countries enhance their NDCs and shift economies in order to limit global warming to 1.5oC. Canada's recent elected government has committed itself to acting to respond to the climate emergency and that it will be its main priority in the coming months. Canada should use COP25 to announce that it intends to revise its contribution to GCF and at least double it."
Lucile Dufour, International Policy Advisor, Climate Action Network France:
"Thanks to the USD 9.7 billion committed today, the Green Climate Fund will keep playing its key role in supporting the full implementation of the Paris Agreement. A few contributor countries, including France, lived up to the challenge by doubling their promise to the fund. But with growing impacts of climate change all over the world, we still expect every single contributor country do its fair share by supporting the transition towards 0 carbon and resilient societies in developing countries. Ahead of COP25 and by 2020, we urge them to scale up their finance commitments in order to meet the USD100 billion target. These efforts will be critical to unlock ambition at the scale needed to limit global warming to 1.5°C."
Niranjali Amerasinghe, Executive Director, ActionAid USA:
"The USD 9.7 billion pledged to the Green Climate Fund will allow the fund to continue its important work but is nowhere near the level of ambition that is needed. Although several countries doubled their previous contributions, many others did not step up. The United States and Australia, in particular, are falling short on their obligations to provide climate finance to developing countries.
With scores of people dead from massive flooding in South Asia and from devastating cyclones in Mozambique and Southern Africa – this year's climate disasters are the new normal in vulnerable countries. These countries need immediate support from the international community, at an order of magnitude greater than what is currently on the table. We are in a climate emergency and these funds are desperately needed to cope and recover from the impacts that are already happening, and to transition to just, climate-friendly economies."
Erika Lennon, Senior Attorney, Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL):
"The $9.7 billion pledged to the Green Climate Fund today as part of the first replenishment process was an important step; however, it is far below the amount needed to address the climate crisis. While several countries demonstrated their commitment to the Fund by pledging more than they did four years ago, even many of these are far from their fair share. And then you have real laggards like the United States and Australia that have completely shirked their responsibility by refusing to pledge any money at all. The climate crisis demands urgent, ambitious action and the funding necessary to undertake it. Today's pledging conference was merely the first moment in the replenishment process, and countries should take every opportunity, including at COP25, to make a pledge or to increase the ones made today."
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Dharini Parthasarathy, Senior Communications Officer, CAN dparthasarathy@climatenetwork.org / whatsapp +918826107830
Climate Action Network (CAN) is a global network of over 1100 NGOs in more than 120 countries working to promote government and individual action to limit human-induced climate change to ecologically sustainable levels. More information on www.climatenetwork.org
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