Some people are more prone to thick tissue being formed around tendons in the palm, a condition known as Dupuytren's contracture. This can make normal hand movement nearly impossible, in which case, Dupuytren's contracture surgery could be needed. Miami Valley Plastic Surgeons is proud to provide Dupuytren's contracture surgery to all of their patients in Dayton, Centerville, Kettering, Troy, and other nearby cities in Ohio.
What Is Dupuytren's Contracture Surgery?
Connective tissue in the palm can become thickened, forming into bands that pull the fingers inward so that they appear to be permanently bent or crooked. This condition is known as palmar fibromatosis or Dupuytren's contracture. Doctors are not certain why Dupuytren's contracture forms, but have discovered that genetics does play a role. It is also common among those who perform most of their work with their hands.
Dupuytren's contracture surgery involves cutting through the thickened tissue to provide a greater range of motion. It is performed under local anesthesia and is an outpatient procedure.
Who Is the Ideal Candidate for Dupuytren's Contracture Surgery?
What do I Need to do Before Dupuytren's Contracture Surgery?
Pre-operative instructions will be given to you during your consultation and may include such things as stopping smoking or not eating for 10 to 12 hours before receiving anesthesia.
What Should I Expect on the Day of my Dupuytren's Contracture Surgery?
Local anesthesia will be administered, allowing one of our board-certified physicians to make an incision into the palm of your hand. Thickened tissue will then be removed and the area sewn shut.
How Long Does it Take to Perform a Dupuytren's Contracture Surgery?
It will take between 45 and 90 minutes to perform your procedure, based upon the amount of scar tissue that must be removed.
You will have limited movement in the hand where Dupuytren's contracture surgery was performed. Avoid picking things up with that hand for about a week afterwards.
Will I Have Scars After Getting Dupuytren's Contracture Surgery?
Visible scars are very possible after hand surgery; however, a scar revision is typically very successful when it comes to reducing or eliminating those scars.
You will gradually notice better movement in your hand and fingers as you heal from surgery. It could take as long as one to three months to notice the full results.
How Long Will the Results of Dupuytren's Contracture Surgery Last?
Many people who undergo Dupuytren's contracture treatment never suffer from this problem again, although it is entirely possible that you could contract palmar fibromatosis again in the future.
If your hands are also thin and wrinkled, you may want to consider a fat transfer and injection procedure to help fill them out.
How Much Does Dupuytren's Contracture Surgery Cost in Dayton?
Is Dupuytren's contracture keeping you from doing the things you love to do? If so, contact Miami Valley Plastic Surgeons to schedule a Dupuytren's contracture surgery consultation. We gladly welcome patients from throughout Dayton, Centerville, Kettering, and other areas in Ohio.


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I have a bunch of cuttlefish rigged with both 80# and 100# yama they are in the 44" range tip to tip. Tons of colors to choose from. $1.25 a piece. Just add your favorite hook. If your looking for a certain color shoot me a PM and I will see if I have it. Anybody who wants the whole lot I will figure a bulk discount. I will try to get an invetory list of what I have up over the next few days.
Let me get a count tomorrow morning. I also have some rigged w/ 50# and 60# that were mostly used in california. Lots of great colors.
As I was going through these a decent number were already rigged w/ hooks that you may want to replace. some were perfect others showed some rust in the typical places.
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Yeovil glove manufacturer Edward Samuel 'Sam' Ewens had been in partnership with his brother-in-law Alexander Cobb in the firm of Ewens & Cobb but the partnership ended in a court case in 1902. After losing the Cobb case Sam went into business with his sons Edward and Percival Charles as Ewens & Sons. The company was re-named Ewens & Co after Charles Thristle Pitcher, the son of hotelier Charles Thomas Pitcher of the Mermaid Hotel, became a partner.
Ewens & Co were listed in Kelly's Directory of 1931 as glove manufacturers of South Street and Bridge Street, Taunton.
The company was run by Sam Ewens and the Taunton branch was run by his son Percival Charles Ewens and Percival's brother-in-law Charles Thristle Pitcher, son of Charles Pitcher above.
The firm closed in 1974.
This photograph is of Ewens & Sons and the original was presented to Edward Ewens (the great grandfather of Ted Ewens who sent me the photo), at centre, on his 50th Birthday in 1904 by his employees. The original large framed photograph presented to 'Sam' was hanging in the office of Ewens & Co in Taunton until the firm closed in 1974. It is not known if this photograph was taken at the company's South Street or Taunton premises.
Wedding photograph at The Mermaid Hotel on 27 December 1915. The bride is Edith Mary née Pitcher. Her mother Ada is seated to her left. Her father Charles Pitcher (the Mermaid's hotelier) is standing behind her mother. The groom is Percival Charles Ewens, Sergeant 5th Somerset Light Infantry and later to run the Taunton branch of Ewens & Co with Ada's brother Charles. His mother Sarah Annie née Hull is seated to his right. His father Edward Samuel Ewens is standing behind his mother.


Maya DiMeo is the mom who will do anything for her husband, Jimmy, and kids Ray, Dylan, and JJ, her eldest son with cerebral palsy. As we move into the new school year, the DiMeos, who have always been on the search to find the right school support for JJ, are faced with a new and unfamiliar reality. The DiMeo kids are going to continue at the same school! This is unchartered territory for the DiMeos but, as always, they will find a fun balance in everything they do while adjusting to the concept of becoming actual members of a community.
Maya braces for J.J.'s departure.
Kenneth leans on Jimmy for support.
Ray tests his wilderness mettle.
One of the DiMeos takes a big step.
Ray attempts to manipulate Maya.
JJ shoots a film for his college application.
Maya insists on meeting Izzy.
Maya and Jimmy dismiss Valentine's Day.
Ray accompanies JJ on an overnight college visit.
Dylan is horrified people see her as a mini Maya.
Kenneth interferes with Maya's business plans.
J.J. challenges Maya's mentoring tactics.
Maya lends a helping hand to frenemy Melanie.
Maya tells a small lie.
The DiMeos realize they have great intentions but lack follow-through when it comes to ... everything.
Kenneth bonds with Jimmy's brother.
Maya tries to prove a point to the kids.
J.J. gets involved in a poker game.
J.J. attends a rave in the woods.
Maya considers asking her dad for money.
The DiMeos head to London.
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Autism means extra challenges but extra talents, too
This guest blog post is by Reece Arnold, a musician, writer and game inventor who is on the autism spectrum. You can find out more about Reece and his games on his website ReeceCycledFun.com and keep up to date on his releases by liking his Facebook page.
Living with autism is a challenge for me because I struggle daily with extra problems like sensitivity to textures, loud noises and over-sensitive emotions. When I was a young child, I wasn't hitting milestones like other children and I wasn't talking at all. My regular doctor told my mother, "He's just a late talker." My mother began to worry, and I had several evaluations with different doctors and hospitals. I was given a lot of diagnoses such as Childhood Apraxia of Speech, PDD-NOS, Asperger's, Anxiety Disorder, Fluency Disorder, Dyspraxia, and Puberphonia. I also had a seizure disorder and have always had sleep issues. I started having speech and occupational therapy at age two, and to this day, I still receive speech therapy two times a week.
Verbal communication has been the biggest lifelong struggle for me, but at the age of 15, I discovered a hidden talent and another way to communicate – with music! My father noticed how fast I could play Guitar Hero and thought with fingers that move that fast, maybe I should try the piano. With some piano lessons and practice, I found I could play some pretty challenging pieces by memory! But my real musical talent is composing my own original music and improvising.
Because of my piano skills, in 2014, I was featured on WCVB Boston's TV show "Chronicle." My segment was called Living (and Thriving) with Autism - "His Language is Music," which was nominated for a New England Emmy.
In 2016, I obtained a Master Certificate for Orchestration for Film and TV from Berklee College of Music's online program. Currently, I provide music therapy by playing piano at five different locations of day habilitation programs. Seeing how my playing entertains and calms the participants makes my day.
Another extra talent I have is inventing games. I have been coming up with games for my family and friends to play since I can remember. My favorite games to invent are board games, but I have also made up games that you play outdoors. I get great enjoyment watching people having fun playing them.
In life, I want the same things most people do, such as a career, friends and a family. These are very hard for me to achieve mainly because of my speech issue, but I am working to be the best person I can be and using my capabilities to the fullest and hopefully these things will happen.
Author and autism activist Temple Grandin is an inspiration to my mother and me. Recently we went to a presentation by her. I was impressed by how hard she fought to get where she is today. She would not take no for an answer throughout her life when presenting her ideas to people. She persisted. Her talk made us think that we could do more to make things happen for me. After her presentation, it was an honor to meet her, and we talked to her about my special talents. She asked us "Do you have a website?" "How are you promoting these talents?" At the time, we weren't doing much along those lines, and it made us think "Why aren't we? What are we waiting for?"
It kind of gave us a wakeup call, so during the past year, we have worked very hard. My mother and I started a company called Reece-Cycled Fun!. The company name came from our desire to use recycled/sustainable materials as much as possible and combining it with my name. Our company website will feature my games, short stories, puzzles, music and much more. I also plan to host fun local events, such as game nights.
We want to make products that are fun and to host events where everyone is welcome and perhaps this can help people like me who have a hard time socially get out there and meet more people. My first two games, 8 All-In and Number Kruncher, came out in November.
We also want to benefit autism-related charities, so we will donate a portion of the proceeds to them. I think that bringing awareness about people with disabilities is essential for the world to adapt more for people in need, and I want to do my part to help make that happen.
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Special Economic Zones, Free Zones and Industrial Parks- the landscape is changing.
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By Subhasis Ghosh, (Managing Partner, Founder, Apex Group)
During our discussions at a trade facilitation and investment meeting organised by an industry chamber recently, we had good conversations on the subject with a few colleagues. Based on my experience, analysis and interactions with the leadership of several special economic, free zones and industrial parks over the years, am sharing my perspective for further conversation:
What are SEZs, EPZs, Free Zones?
Wikipedia defines these as an area, where the business and trade laws are different from the rest of the country. While countries define special economic zones formally in their legislations, these zones essentially have geographically separated-fenced area and customs, tax and other benefits for units located in the area, single management or administration, streamlined procedures etc.
Who sets these up and why?
Special Economic Zones or Export Processing Zones and other such areas are set up by governments to increase trade, investments and create jobs etc. Then developers, co-developers, unit holders and other stakeholders contribute to their success.
Whereas ports are gateways to/ from the hinterland and, focus on enabling cargo and passengers to move in and out as efficiently as possible, these zones are focussed on cargo generation and aggregation-disaggregation. Hence, the approach towards their development is similar and yet complimentary.
Various models-
While there are several models including Free Trade & Warehousing Zones (FTWZs), Export Processing Zones ( EPZs), Free Port & Special Economic Zone ( SEZ) and Coastal Economic Zones ( CEZs), for better understanding one could group these together as
· The traditional model, focusing on manufacturing and storage largely for export eg FTWZs, EPZ etc
· The relatively recent and larger zones, that include manufacturing, logistics , commercial and residential activities eg SEZs, CEZs etc
The above groups are nonexclusive and FTWZs could be and, often are part of SEZs.
Industrial parks focus on manufacturing, may have incentives for investors and may or, may not be part of SEZs, which focus on exports and imports.
Some learnings from China- Continued growth, moving inland…
From my visits to several Industrial Parks and SEZs including Shuzou Industrial Park-set up in partnership with the government of Singapore, Lingang Industrial Park near Shanghai, Yangshan and Shanghai ports and Shenzhen SEZ , including one of its 6 FTWZs-Futian Free Trade Zone, the take away(s) include active government support; experimenting different models; ensuring competition between zones and gradually upgrading technology and providing autonomy etc.
With China's investment led growth policies, including in SEZs, China itself significantly benefitted from the success of special economic zones and industrial clusters in terms of increase in FDI, exports, job creation and their contribution to the GDP.
With China's manufacturing moving inland, expect new zones to continue to develop, as the existing ones transition to more technology assisted manufacturing of high-tech products and, the consumption story picks up.
The India story- the best is yet to come…
While SEZs have been an important element of India's commercial policy, failed implementation of the same is often cited as a county case study. The learning(s) include, relationship with the domestic trading area ( DTAs) for job work and sales, imposition of minimum alternate tax ( MAT) and Income Tax, leading to lack of investor confidence, the state (local) governments not supporting this scheme, which is perceived as a central ( federal) government initiative and non-availability of ECB and refinancing options etc.
While the government of the day had perhaps imposed (backtracked on) some of the incentives, to avoid distortions in the local economy and the possibility of money laundering through under-invoicing of imports in these zones, the result is that huge parcels of land- estimated at over 25,000 hectares and capacity created are lying unutilised ..and has perhaps contributed to non-performing assets (NPAs).
On the other hand, there are examples of successful EPZs and FTWZs in India, where there are multiple models including National Investment & Manufacturing Zones (NMIZ), Textile, Food Parks besides, SEZs, FTWZs, SEPZs etc.
With India's consumption story remaining intact, with the thrust of the present government towards manufacturing -Make in India, Ease of Doing Business and, the ability to manage change based on feedback, expect a revival in the SEZ story.
Middle East – Similar objectives, different strategies…
Middle Eastern Countries like UAE, have leveraged SEZs to drive their core economic policies. Dubai for example has over 20 Free Zones, with over 15000 companies and 200,000 jobs have been created. The success of Jafza has been spectacular and the model of the first free zone at Jebel Ali with a port plus, SEZ plus, airport has been replicated by other countries, even outside the region.
One of the learnings from Dubai is the government's strategy of seeking ecosystems that need facilitation to come together by clustering. We have the Dubai Media City, Dubai Finance Centre Dubai Design District, Dubai Internet City etc which create their own growth momentum and free zones promote clusters.
Abu Dhabi has established its financial and media zones and is promoting the strategically located Abu Dhabi and Al Ain Industrial Cities, under Zones Corp. While Saudi Arabia's Kind Abdullah Economic City continues to grow, it has recently publicised plans for the mega city NEOM as a part of the vision 2030. Other GCC countries including Oman, Qatar and Bahrain continue to pursue their economic zone initiatives aggressively.
While SEZs in the middle east region continue to support diversification of the economy and promotion of non-oil revenues, strategic planning and implementation of these projects would differ based on the overall job creation objectives . Most businesses (unit holders) in SEZs seek to leverage cheap foreign labour, which could result in slower job creation for the host country. An alternate approach is to focus on attracting talent and visitors, some of whom set up competitive businesses, which then create jobs…
So, what could make these successful?
Am outlining a few key areas to facilitate conversations
· Clear purpose, vision, active government support and commitment, leading to location selection, strategic planning and cluster identification, based on local comparative advantages and linkages
· Quality infrastructure and multimodal connectivity to domestic and international trade lanes and, innovative and thoughtful service design, implementation and monitoring
· Relationship with the ecosystem – continued stakeholder management including with the government-ministries, with trade, industry, workers and academia at home and abroad and, building brand awareness and recall.
· Ability to experiment and change based on feedback of what is working, from the global value chain or trade (FTAs) perspective, in the fast changing world
Soft infrastructure, thus contributes significantly to the success of SEZs, FTWZs and Industrial Parks
Implementation approaches
We advise potential clients of Apex Group for full cycle business implementation, on the need to simultaneously and continuously work on the five areas below
· Validate and update strategy- stakeholder alignment, demand assessment, planning and cluster definition
· Customer acquisition and brand building including, marketing, sales and service
· Attracting the right talent as future competitiveness is about talent, training and engagement
· Operating efficiently-integrating USPs, building SOPs, leveraging technology
· Preparing for future with reviews, reporting and M&A, feeding into the strategy
· Global trade continues to evolve in a way that may not support the traditional export oriented, free zone model. Hence building economic zones for export only may not the answer, these need to have local linkages in manufacturing as well as trade, based on comparative advantages of the region.
· Government commitment and willingness to learn and experiment with new Trade Facilitation Agreements and the ability to change strategies, based on evolving country comparative advantages, is becoming important. We can't set up a zone , allocate land and consign it to govern itself for the next decades. There is however a need to strike a balance between oversight and autonomy.
· Building only clean-tech industries (Hi-tech, Edu-tech. Med-tech) may not work…some ones got meet the non-clean-tech demand as well.
· Soft infrastructure and ICT is as important to leverage the hard infrastructure
With the 4 th industrial revolution changing us…, more businesses would perhaps like to operate in such zones with liberalised regulations, incentives , quality infrastructure including ICT, leveraging the local comparative advantages.
I see a bright future for economic zones and industrial parks as this is where infrastructure development, consumption and trade are coming together and, new cities-perhaps smart cities are emerging and these would contribute to lift economies of countries.
What do you think are the other success factors for the success of Free Zones ?
How Incentives and SEZs are Creating Jobs and Uplifting Poor Areas, according to Rob Davies
South African's Trade and Industry Minister, Rob Davies highlighted the job-creating potential of his department's incentive programme, and the importance of special economic zones, when he addressed MPs on Tuesday.
He said the R18.8bn allocation in the budget over the next three years for the Department of Trade and Industry's incentive programmes would enable the government to continue to provide financial support to the private sector.
The focus would be on labour-intensive sectors that could create jobs for youth.
Davies briefed Parliament's trade and industry portfolio committee on the implications of President Cyril Ramaphosa's state of the nation address (Sona) and the budget for the mandate of his department.
South African Minister of Trade & Industry, Rob Davies (Photo: Business day)
In providing an overview of the incentive programme, Davies said that on average the department processed four applications and five claims a day.
In 2016-17 the department spent R12.8bn in grants, the tax allowance scheme and loans — which was expected to generate R39.4bn in projected investment, R7.1bn in export revenue, and to create 23,351 new jobs and retain 38,192 existing jobs.
Updating MPs on the progress of the black industrialist programme, Davies said to date 79 projects had been approved, with total grants disbursed by the department amounting to R1.9bn. This had facilitated R6.9bn in investments.
The main economic sectors benefiting from the black industrialist programme grant were plastics and pharmaceuticals (R567m); agro-processing (R316m); metals (R279m); the green sector (R149m); and manufacturing and logistics (R116m).
With regard to the automotive investment scheme, 88 projects were approved in 2016-17 to receive grants totalling R3.6bn, related to a projected investment value of R12.4bn.
A total investment allowance of R3.9bn had been approved for 25 projects in 2016-17 under the Section 12i tax allowance incentive scheme with an associated projected investment of R14.3bn.
Davies said the department's manufacturing investment programme was achieving its objective of job creation. About R400m had been disbursed under the programme and 26,030 jobs had been supported.
Davies noted that as Ramaphosa had announced, the government would organise an investment conference in the next three months, targeting both domestic and international investors.
"The investment conference will stress the need to encourage investors from the continent to locate in SA. In addition we will encourage multinational corporations to invest their R&D (research and development) facilities in SA as we seek to make SA a knowledge and innovation centre," Davies said.
Davies said the R4.9bn allocated for industrial infrastructure projects over the next three years would be used in special economic zones (SEZs) and industrial hubs in order to expand economic opportunities in underdeveloped areas.
"The SEZ programme is a critical instrument for accelerating industrialisation," he said.
"More importantly, the SEZ programme is a critical tool for attracting foreign direct investment, creating decent jobs, establishing new industrial centres as well as developing and improving infrastructure."
There are seven designated zones, namely in Saldanha Bay, Dube Trade Port, Coega, East London, Richards Bay, Maluti a Phofung in the Free State, and the recently added Musina in Limpopo.
In the coming year the department will finalise two more zones for designation, namely in Atlantis in the Western Cape and Nkomazi in Mpumalanga.
Investments in SEZs benefit from a reduced corporate tax rate and the employment tax incentive.
"The 'package' of support measures available to investors in SEZs is becoming comparable to that offered by our global competitors," Davies said.
"SA still has work to do to improve the efficiency of regulatory decision making but the investment offering is improving significantly."
Highlighting some of the achievements of the special economic zones, the minister noted that Chinese company Yangtze Optics Cable and its black economic empowerment partner, Mustek, was investing R150m in a modern optical fibre cable manufacturing plant at Dube Trade Port.
Saldahna Bay had a pipeline of 34 investments worth R34bn and OR Tambo had attracted R260m in new investment covering horticulture and metal refining.
Culled from Business Day
Ghana Free Zones Authority licenses 16 New Companies – Combined Investment Valued at $183m
Chief Executive Officer GFZA, Mr Michael Baafi (Photo: Business Ghana)
The Ghana Free Zones Authority (GFZA) has granted licenses to 16 new companies with a combined investment value of $183 million to operate under the free zones programme.
They include Gold Coast Refinery, Juaben Oil Mills, Regency Salt Limited, Ramec Limited, Nurevas Food Ghana Limited and Karma Distillery Limited.
Others are Enviroplast Company Limited, Atlantic Life Services, Bassi International Limited and Melan Print and Packaging Limited.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the GFZA, Mr Micheal Okyere Baafi, told the Daily Graphic in an interview fortnight that the licensing of the 16 companies was a novelty and underscored the government's commitment to industrialise the economy.
The companies, he said, would be expected to venture into value added businesses and adhere to the law binding their operations under the programme to sell only 30 per cent of their manufactured products locally and export the remaining 70 per cent.
Mr Okyere-Baafi said that was to boost the local manufacturing industry and increase the country's gains from the export market.
"We have just added 16 companies to the programme and that is unprecedented. We hope to achieve a milestone within a year," he said.
Mr Baafi indicated that the 2018 strategy of the authority was to change the face of the GFZA by creating autonomous offices, enhancing the quality of service delivery and introducing speed with regard to licensing application processes, exemption of application processes, visa application and renewal processes, as well as vehicle registration processes.
He said the GFZA would set up a new unit to focus on the oil sector by providing the needed expertise to companies in that sector to operate efficiently.
"A free zone company can be located either in any of the export processing zones (EPZ) or anywhere in the country upon the approval of the GFZA.
"In essence, the whole country is accessible to potential investors who have the opportunity to use the free zones as focal points to produce goods and services for foreign markets.
"The programme is designed to promote the processing and manufacturing of goods through the establishment of EPZs, and encourage the development of commercial and service activities at sea and airport areas.
Companies operating under the programme are entitled to both monetary and non-monetary incentives'', he said.
He further said the monetary incentives offered included 100 per cent exemption from the payment of direct and indirect duties and levies on all imports for production and exports from free zones.
He said it also included 100 per cent exemption from the payment of income tax on profits for 10 years which would not exceed eight per cent thereafter.
According to him, the incentive also includes total exemption from the payment of withholding taxes from dividends arising out of free zone investment.
"With a focus of maximising the country's benefit from the programme, some priority sectors have been identified by the GFZA for investments based on the comparative advantages of the country.
"The priority sectors include agro food processing, cotton processing, textile manufacturing, ethnic beauty products, sea food processing and jewellery/handicraft production.
"The rest are light industry/assembling plant, plastic products manufacturing, metal fabrication, ceramic tile manufacturing, and information and communication technology.
Culled from Business Ghana
Mpondwe Export Zone to Boost Trade Between Uganda and DR Congo
The Democratic Republic of Congo is one of Uganda's export
destinations ranking number three within the COMESA region.
Uganda's exports to
DR Congo are valued at USD177m and these are mainly construction materials like
lime and cement, iron and steel, cereals and fruits and vegetables.
other hand, Uganda imports little from DR Congo with the values standing at
USD2.5m and these are mainly essential oils, cosmetics and some iron and steel.
Most of the trade between Uganda and DR Congo is done at the three
major border points of Mpondwe in Kasese district, Bunagana in Kiroso district
and Goli in Nebbi district, with Mpondwe being the busiest border point in
terms of trade activities.
Most of the trade is conducted by the cross border
traders who cross to and from Uganda taking and bringing back merchandise.
However, most of these cross border traders are facing challenges including
poor market structures where they operate from at the borders, complicated
border crossing procedures, mistreatment from scrupulous individuals among
In order to address the challenges faced by these cross border
traders, the Government of Uganda through the Ministry of Trade, Industry and
Cooperatives secured a loan to a tune of $14m.
The said loan is approximately shs.50.4bn
from the World Bank to implement the Great Lakes Trade Facilitation Project
(GTLF) aimed at facilitating cross border trade between Uganda and DR
Congo at the three borders of Mpondwe, Bunagana and Goli.
The project aims at
increasing the capacity for commerce and reducing the costs faced by the cross
border traders.
Through the Great Lakes Trade Facilitation Project, the Ministry
of trade in collaboration with the Ministry of works and transport and the
border agencies will construct appropriate infrastructure that improves
conditions at borders.
This increases capacity to trade together, put in place
measures that simplify border crossing procedures especially the customs
procedures and improve the standards of treatment of traders and officials.
With funds from the World Bank, Government has started
preparations for the construction of a One Stop Border Post (OSPB) and a Border
Export Zone/modern Border Market at Mpondwe to create a conducive environment
for the cross border traders.
The Minister of State for Cooperatives Hon. Fredrick Ngobi Gume, on March 2nd led a team of members of Parliament on the Tourism,
Trade and Industry Committee for a monitoring visit to the proposed
construction site for both the One Stop Border Post and Border Export Zone at
Mpondwe.
Minister Gume told MPs that Government has already secured 4.3
acres of URA land for the construction of the OSBP and is currently negotiating
with squatters for an extra 6.9 acres for construction the OSBP at Mpondwe.
"We have done the boundary opening for the land and we are negotiating for
an extra 6.9 acres that goes up to the border line, to enable government have
full control of the Mpondwe border point", explained Gume said.
The Minister also told MP's that for the modern border market,
land has already been secured and the Ministry has called for proposals to
procure companies that will do the actual construction for both the OSBP and
the border market.
The construction of the two structures will cost USD9.4m
with the actual construction expected to begin at the end of 2018.
The GTLF project coordinator and Principle commercial Officer in
the Ministry of trade Steven Kamukama says the OSBP project is concurrently
being implemented by DR Congo.
He also said the facility will house all government
agencies from Uganda and DR Congo under one roof to complete all entry and exit
formalities for both passengers and cargo.
This will reduce the time of
clearance for cross border traders and other users. Kamukama says the same
infrastructure will be constructed in Bunagana and Goli, however these two are
still awaiting funding.
The Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Tourism, Trade
and Industry Alex Ruhunda, however, cautioned the implementing agencies to
directly involve the local leaders and the traders in Mpondwe in the
implementation of the project.
With the completion of the project, the revenue collection at
the Mpondwe border is expected to increase.
The officer in-charge of Uganda Revenue
Authority at the border Sabiiti Fred says URA been losing a lot of revenue due
to smuggling which is encouraged by the open border.
"Currently, we clear around 60 trucks everyday and we
collect an average of shs.250m per month, but with the construction of the OSBP
this revenue is expected to increase to shs.400m per month", said Sabiiti.
In addition to the OSBP and modern border market, the Ministry
of trade has established a trade information desk at Mpondwe border to assist
cross border traders in doing business. The officer in charge of the desk
Muhindo Eri says on average they assist 15 traders in the areas of commodity
prices, guidance on taxation and clearance procedures.
Culled from The Independent (Kampala)
Free Zone Enclaves To Be Established In All Regions In Ghana
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Ghana government is to establish free zone enclaves in all regions in the country as part of plans to industrialise the nation's economy.
In addtion, a major infrastructural facelift project will soon begin at the free zones enclave in Tema.
It will include the re-building of broken-down walls, construction of police posts and new roads to enhance the operations of businesses within the enclave.
The deputy minister of Trade and Industry, Mr Carlos Ahenkorah disclosed this at an interactive forum with Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of licensed free zone enterprises in the eastern, Greater Accra and Volta regions in the city of Accra, recently.
Cross section of participants at the interactive forum
Organised by the Ghana Free Zones Authority (GFZA), the forum was dubbed: "Revolving challenges for business growth".
Mr Ahenkorah said as part of the one-region, one-free zone project, arrangement had already been made with the chiefs in the regions for a litigation-free land to be made available for the implementation of the programme.
The Minister indicated that government was committed to creating an environment where Free Zone enterprises could thrive, adding that challenges that derailed the efforts of businesses would be addressed.
"That is why we are beginning the facelift initiatives at the Tema enclave where there will be good roads and formidable security posts to ensure that operations of Free Zone enterprises are not halted, he stated.
Mr Ahenkorah noted that more interventions would be rolled out to ensure that free zone enterprises received the needed support to expand their operations.
The Executive Secretary of Ghana Free Zone Authority (GFZA), Mr Michael Okyere Baafi, commended Free Zone enterprises for their various roles in the country's industrialization agenda.
However, he raised issues with the way some of the enterprises submitted their mandatory quarterly documentation, saying a number of them used false information to deceive the board.
Mr Baafi said a fine of $ 55,000 would be slapped on any free zone enterprise that "attempts to use false information to deceive the Board".
The Executive Secretary of African Free Zones Association, Chris Ndibe, who was at the event commended the effort of GFZA in organizing the stakeholders meeting as this will reveal the problem areas in the operation of free zones in the country. "To get the best of a meeting of this nature, it should be made more than once", he said
The Trajectory of Free Trade Zones utilizations in Nigeria
By Martins Martins
For years, Nigeria has navigated seeking for
the stabilization of its economy through blends of conventional and
non-conventional approaches.
No doubt, the country is blessed with natural
resources which include abundant presence of solid minerals and crude oil
deposits. However, the decades of over dependence on the downstream sector has
offered the country what appears to be "blessings and curses''.
The `blessings' , being years of leverages and
wealth that had accrued to this acclaimed African largest economy and `curses'
which remain the negativism and pitfalls that plagued the nation over the
scramble for the exploration of crude oil and natural gas by an infinitesimal segment
of the population called "the ruling class''.
Series of the country's growth and economic
indices have continually shown down trends owing largely to deliberate
abandonment of the non-oil sector. Albeit, successive governments had paid lip
service to the development of the non-sector, but perhaps always retard due to
the long stretch of investment that required to be made before dividends.
Trade and Commerce remain one of age long
human activities that continue to sustain the development of the world.
It has gone from it primitive adaption to a
more lucrative and expansive mode that transcends both land and coastal borders
of countries.
Nigeria and most countries in Africa had
wished to take advantage of the economic boom and boost derivable from export
of goods and services but may have failed to rip sufficiently as a result of
incoherent trade policies and strategies.
Knowing the benefits inherent in free trade
zone model, the Federal Government of Nigeria in it official gazette published
the Nigerian Export Processing Zones Act of 1992.
The Act sets out the investment procedures,
regulations and operational guidelines for Free Zones in the country.
The Act has given rise to the establishment of
some 26 free trade zones in the country.
zone as described by several experts is a demarcated geographic area of a
country's national boundaries where the rules of business are different from
those that obtain in the normal country's business environment.
Farol, 2011,
as cited by Chris Ndibe, Executive Secretary of Africa Free Zone Association(AFTZA)
in his book titled "The Danger of Neglecting Free Trade Zones Scheme in
Nigeria says the zone's differential rules principally deal with investment
conditions, international trade and customs.
He further
says these rules also handle issues around taxation and the regulatory
environment, whereby the zone is given a business environment that is intended
to be more liberal from a policy perspective.
delving into some of the variables that inhibit the progress of free trade zone
in Nigeria, it is imperative to state the basic objective of establishing the
zone which includes attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) as well as
create jobs and empowerment opportunities.
It is aimed
at also serving as "pressure value'' to alleviate large-scale employment,
stimulate regional development and technological transfer as well as create
backward linkages among others.
Can it then
be said that Nigeria has leveraged the numerous opportunities provided by this alternative
trade model to improve on its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) typified of
"Shenzhen Miracle'', a fishing village which got transformed into a
cosmopolitan city of 14 million as a result of successful administration of its
trade zones?
40 years, countries all over the world, particularly developing nations, have
increasingly recognized the benefit economic liberalization and greater private
sector participation in the economy could bring about.
This becomes
even clearer when the limitation and weakness of import substitutions as a
strategy for economic development are taken into account. Many countries and
businesses are today chasing and struggling for limited FDI.
of this impelled the Federal Government of Nigeria to take far-reaching steps
to improve the environment for investment and boost the development of the
non-oil sectors of the economy.
In 1989, the
Nigerian government commissioned the United Nations Industrial Development
Organisation (UNIDO) under the auspices of the United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP) to conduct a feasibility study of the establishment of Export
Processing Zones.
On November
7, 1991, the then military president, General Ibrahim Babaginda, laid the
foundation stone of the premier export processing zones in Calabar, Cross River
State on 152 hectares of land.
viewed as a landmark, a bold step by Nigeria towards improving the business
environment. Decree 34 of 1991 which initially gave legal backing to EPZ in
Nigeria was replaced with Decree 63 of 1992.
The Calabar
Export Processing Zone did not however become operational until its official
commissioning in 2001 by President Olusegun Obasanjo, when it was changed to
Free Trade Zone with a lager scope of activities than the original traditional
Export Processing Zone.
The amendment to the law guiding the
operations of export processing zones in the country has indeed liberalized the
sector thereby giving rooms for more private operations and public private
partnerships.
In the light of this, the Tinapa Free Zone
& Resort in Cross River State, an initiative of public and private
partnership set up in 2004 standing on 265 hectares was viewed as the recipe
trade zones to stabilize the shaky sector but that was soon to be eroded.
Similar fate may have befallen the Snake
Island International Free Zone Lagos privately managed by Niger dock
Plc. Not much is happening in the trade hub that specializes in
Steel Fabrication, Oil & Gas, Sea Port
However, the Lagos Free Trade Zone appeared a
respite being the first purely privately owned free trade zone in Nigeria,
spreading over 805 hectares of land.
The zone has several industrial zones and
offer access to an enormous consumer market across West Africa.
Initiated with the President's approval in 2002,
the Lagos Free Trade Zone was designed to serve as an integrated hub with
active road, rail and sea links, which can open up the investment, business and
tourism potential of Nigeria to the world.
industrial zones, well-laid plans for efficient operations and established
connectivity to regional and international routes, the Lagos Free Trade Zone
appears to be the future destination for international businesses in the
A cross section of
experts have underscored the importance of free trade zones, according to them,
the effective and efficient management of the existing zone will serve as the
lead to the country's effort towards the diversification of the economy.
Dr Ademola Alimi, an
Economist, said the country must expedite action in revamping all the free
trade zones, adding that that remained the most functional approach to
expanding the frontier of the country's economy.
the population of teeming job seekers that can be engaged in these zones?
"Why has successive
governments not considered investing in free trade zones. In fact there lies
the hope of the nation because it makes trading with other nations easier'', he
Chief Donald Okereke,
a retired National Port Authority Staff, said the country was missing out of
the gains embedded in free trade zone operations, adding that developed nations
had built strong Gross Domestic Products (GDP) from free trade zones
Aligning himself with
the above contributors, Mr Olowokere Adedeji, another Economist said a
functional free trade zones policy was the antidote to the country's present economy
woes.
In his opinion, the
present handling of the sector was shoddy, adding that the issues around
insecurity in some of the exiting zones must be addressed.
Perhaps, the
government is fully aware of the present hiccups around the sector as aptly
captured by the Director-General of the Nigeria Export Processing Zones
Authority (NEPZA), Mr Emmanuel Jime when the Management of the Nigeria Customs
Service paid him a courtesy visit on August 2017.
In that visit, NEPZA and Customs announced the setting up a
technical committee to harmonise their operations at Free Trade Zones across
The committee was set
up by the two agencies to address concerns raised by the NEPZA in relation to
the operations of customs officers in licensed free trade zones.
Jime, had raised
concerns on customs officers lacked of knowledge on the operations of the free
zones and called for inclusion of free trade zones in the curriculum for their
Jime had said customs
officers dealt directly with investors in the free zones instead of going
through the NEPZA, which was the agency responsible for investment facilitation
into licensed free zones in the country.
Responding, the
Comptroller General of Customs, retired Colonel Hameed Ibrahim Ali, said
customs officers in Nigeria were usually caught in-between its mandates for
trade facilitation as well as ensuring security and the wellbeing of Nigerians.
From the above
conversions, it is incontrovertibly clear that a lot needs to be done to
reposition the operation of free trade zones in Nigeria.
The narratives so far
has pointed to the fact the existing provisions of the Free Trade Zone Law
requires a review for optimal performance.
It would be also not
out of place if government adequately provides the right infrastructure needed
to drive operations in the zones as the present states of most of the zones
remained appalling.
In view of the porous
nature of the zones, the authority must heighten efforts to ward off attempts
by dubious operators and investors from converting the zones into smuggling
empires.
Finally, the
government must muster political will to implement the recommendations of the
2005 Presidential Committee on the operation of Free Trade Zones Scheme in
It was saddening to
see that the good and impressive recommendations made by the committee were
never addressed by Obasanjo who set it up or by subsequent administrations.
The highlight of the
recommendations was that operations of the Free Zone Scheme should be closely
linked to national objectives for industrial development.
Consequently, the
scheme should have, as its target investors, industries with potential to add
real technological value to the economy while encouraging export activities.
Ghana Free Zone CEO Visit AFZA Office in Abuja
Executive Secretary of Africa Free Zones Association Mr Chris Ndibe said the
Association is geared toward assisting the over 600 Free Zones in the continent
to realise their optimal potential with its numerous programmes which it plans
to execute fully this year and beyond.
Ndibe
said this when the Chief Executive Officer of Ghana Free Zone Board, Mr Michael
Okyere Baafi, Visited him in his office in Abuja recently Mr Baafi visited AFZA
office in company of two staff, Mr Ziblim Alhassan Betintiche and one other.
Left to Right: Chidi Nzerem Technical Adviser AFZA, Michael Baafi CEO GFZB and Chief Chris Ndibe Exec Sec AFZA.
Baafi who also visited the Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority said that
the purpose of their visit to Nigeria was to use the opportunity to meet with
stakeholders in Free Zone Scheme to discuss areas of common interest and how
they can collaborate to develop synergy that can move the Free Zone Scheme in
the continent forward.
He stated that lack of good Research and Development is
seriously affecting the development of the scheme in Africa. "R&D would
have been providing the knowledge base of progressing the scheme with valid
information on value chain among Zones of the continent; by exposing and
creating new markets for Free Zones products and
Secretary of AFZA who was in company of AFZA Technical Adviser, Mr Chidi
Nzerem, said that AFZA is set out to lead member Zones to achieving Free Zones
of the future.
Chris Ndibe
rolled out the programme the Association has for its members which includes
building databank, R&D reports, capacity building which will lead to a
sustainable and prosperous future for the zones.
He said that all that is
required from member zones/countries is cooperation to consolidate all the
support services relating to the growth and development of the scheme in
Africa. "Working collectively as a body will be more beneficial to member zones
and will facilitate their voice to African Union". Mr Ndibe reiterated that
AFZA is ever ready to assist member zones and countries searching n sourcing Resource
Persons for training and development policy framework.
Mr Ndibe also
commended President Mohammadu Buhari in revisiting the development of
Continental Free Trade Area issue at the recently concluded AU Summit but added
that incorporating Free Zone Scheme in CFTA discussion will give faster result.
"This is what he AU Department of Trade and industry should assist in doing, he
Mr Ndibe
commended the robust website of GFZB and pleaded with the CEO to consider
hosting the 2018 AFZA convention in Acra-Ghana which he promised tabling before
his Board for consideration.
Nigeria, Ghana Partner On Free Trade Zones
Nigeria and Ghana have resolved to forge
a new strategic partnership beginning with a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
between the Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) and the Ghana
Free Trade Board (GFTB) as a way of strengthening economic cooperation between
the two countries. Managing Director, NEPZA, Mr Emmanuel Jime, dropped the hint
at the weekend when he played host to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of
GFTB, Mr. Michael Okyere Baafi, who led a three-man business delegation on a
working visit to the NEPZA Headquarters in Abuja.
Ghana Free Zone Board Office Complex (Photo: Pulse)
Jime expressed readiness to partner with his Ghanaian counterpart in boosting
trade and economic growth within the subregion, saying that such collaborations
were part of the vision of the founding-fathers of the Economic Community of
West African States ( ECOWAS) when the regional body was established about four
decades ago.
He explained that although NEPZA was "initially conceptualized as an Export
Processing Zone (EPZ), it has today been saddled with the mandate of anchoring
Nigeria's industrialization in response to evolving economic development
strategies and dynamics in globalisation. According to a statement issued
yesterday by NEPZA's spokesman, Simon Imobo-Tswam, the Ghanaian delegation was
in Nigeria to seek areas of cooperation with NEPZA on the running of a free
trade zone. Leader of the delegation, Baafi expressed confidence in Nigeria's
capacity to provide leadership for the West African sub-region and urged NEPZA
to lead the way. His words: "We are here to explore areas of cooperation and
partnership. But we believe Nigeria is a senior brother in business, population
etc. So, it is an opportunity for Nigeria to take the lead and I can tell you
that Ghana is prepared to follow.


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ISIS and the ICC: On Fatou Bensouda's Targeted Use of Symbolic Power
Posted on April 10, 2015	by Barrie Sander
Fatou Bensouda (Reuters)
Earlier this week, ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda issued a "clarification" regarding communications received by her office with respect to atrocities allegedly committed by ISIS. The statement was unprecedented because, to the best of my knowledge, never before has the Prosecutor issued a formal public statement regarding a decision not to open a preliminary examination into a situation.
Although unprecedented in form, the statement marks the latest in a series of pronouncements by Bensouda that have demonstrated her willingness to use the symbolic power of her office to distribute responsibility and, at times, stigma to States and the Security Council for political limits that have impeded the work of the ICC.
For instance, in September 2014, the Prosecutor issued a striking statement regarding the ICC's jurisdiction over Palestine. At that time, prior to Palestine lodging a new declaration with the ICC and acceding to the Rome Statute, ambiguity surrounded whether a new declaration was necessary for the ICC to have jurisdiction over the situation. In response to media reports and commentaries suggesting that the Prosecutor was avoiding opening an investigation into alleged war crimes in Gaza due to political pressures, Bensouda issued a forceful statement denying such suggestions as "baseless" and "devoid of any merit". Bensouda made it clear that in light of Palestine's status being upgraded to "non-member observer State" by the UN General Assembly, the ball was now firmly in Palestine's court to lodge a new declaration and/or accede to the Rome Statute. In other words, the Prosecutor used her symbolic power to make clear where responsibility resided for ensuring the ICC's intervention in Palestine: either on the Security Council to refer the situation or on Palestine to join the ICC.
Later that same year, Fatou Bensouda issued a biting statement to the Security Council reprimanding the Council's members for failing to adequately assist with the arrest of suspects wanted in relation to the situation in Darfur. Bensouda's message was unequivocal, noting how in almost a decade of reporting to the Council, "there has never been a strategic recommendation provided to my Office, neither have there been any discussions resulting in concrete solutions for the problems we face in the Darfur situation". Until the Council demonstrated "a dramatic shift" in its attitude and approach to the situation, Bensouda confirmed that she would hibernate her investigative activities in Darfur. In this instance, therefore, the Prosecutor not only allocated responsibility, but also stigma to the Security Council for its paralysis with respect to the situation.
An Islamic State militant (Photo: Reuters)
This brings us to the unprecedented clarification issued by the Prosecutor earlier this week concerning communications received by her office regarding ISIS. During media interviews, the Prosecutor had previously supported the idea for a special tribunal for Syria in light of the failure of Syria to join the Rome Statute or the Security Council to refer the situation to the Court, as well as making clear that the UK is responsible for prosecuting ISIS militant Jihadi John. However, this week's statement was arguably more powerful as it marks the first time the Prosecutor has publicly declined opening a preliminary examination into a particular situation. In the statement, the Prosecutor made clear that although the ICC could exercise personal jurisdiction over some of the alleged perpetrators, the jurisdictional basis for opening a preliminary examination is "too narrow at this stage". According to Bensouda, what is needed is "a renewed commitment and a sense of urgency on the part of the concerned states" to identify viable paths forward, specifically placing responsibility on Syria and Iraq as well as the Security Council to confer broader jurisdiction on the ICC.
In a recent post, I advocated for the Prosecutor to operate with greater transparency with respect to communications received by her office that she has decided not to act upon. With the issuance of the statement regarding ISIS, perhaps we are witnessing the beginning of a new strategy on the part of the Prosecutor to publicly announce decisions not to open preliminary examinations, at least with respect to particularly grave situations. By adopting such a strategy, the Prosecutor could utilise the symbolic power of her office to draw attention to alleged atrocities and grievances that fall outside her jurisdiction but which nonetheless deserve international attention.
It is now almost a truism – a cliché of the field – to recall that the mandate of the ICC Prosecutor is hindered by her unavoidable need to rely on the cooperation of States both for jurisdiction and enforcement of her decisions. As Antonio Cassese famously put it, the ICC is like a giant without arms and legs, wholly reliant on the artificial limbs of States to function. Yet, in the face of what at times seem to be insurmountable political limits placed on the actions of the Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda is beginning to demonstrate an increasing willingness to, at the very least, use her symbolic power to allocate responsibility and stigma for those limits to the States and the Security Council that constitute them.
Whether this trend continues remains to be seen. However, I would argue that a more consistent use of the Prosecutor's symbolic power in this way may help guard against over-inflated expectations concerning what the ICC should be expected to achieve, whilst ensuring that responsibility and, at times, blame is placed at the doors of the States and Security Council who fail to provide the Prosecutor with the support she needs to carry out her mandate.
About Barrie Sander
Barrie Sander is a Visiting Researcher at FGV Direito Rio, Brazil. In 2017, he completed his Ph.D. in International Law (summa cum laude avec félicitations du jury) at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. His research interests include international criminal justice, technology and human rights, and cybersecurity.
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minerv57 says:
This is an interesting read. This woman is presenting a stand and deserves support….More will be revealed.
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This is an interesting read….This challenge warrants support…STAND UP!
Terry Washington says:
Poor ICC- damned for what it does and then for what it DOESN'T do! Damned for allowing the PA to join it and then equally damned for refusing to investigate ISIS!
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commscicc says:
Thanks for the interesting article Barrie. Last November, the Communications Team of the Coalition for the ICC wrote to the ICC prosecutor to convey a number of recommendations on communications strategies and activities conducted by the Office of the Prosecutor around preliminary examinations. We see strengthened communications around preliminary examinations as vital to achieving achieving the wider goals of the OTP and Rome Statute system, including catalyzing positive complementarity and deterrence. We are encouraged to see proactive communications from the OTP in relation to the matter discussed above.
The full letter to the prosecutor can be found here:
http://www.coalitionfortheicc.org/documents/CICC_OTPLetter_PEs_Nov2014_FINAL.pdf
More on the work of the CICC Team on Communications
http://www.coalitionfortheicc.org/?mod=communications
Niall Matthews,
CICC Head of Communications
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Dr. Jonathan Levy says:
Bensouda is a silent ISIS supporter. By doing nothing, she has granted ISIS impunity.
Since ISIS/Daesh's territory includes two states that have NEVER signed or ratified the Rome Statute of the ICC( Saddam's Iraq and Bashar Al Assad's Syria), it is difficult to see what in effect the ICC can do about alleged atrocities. The late Raphael Lemkin once observed that if someone doesn't like mustard in the first place then he or she can always find a new argument after the previous one has been debunked. First we were told by the Court's critics(mainly in the US during the Bush Administration) that it would become too powerful and engage in "frivolous/politically motivated" lawsuits against US and allied personnel(although what constituted "frivolous" or "politically motivated" lawsuits has never been officially defined). And now Dr Levy disengenously accuses the Chief Prosecutor of the ICC, Fatou Bensouda of not just timidity but of covert sympathy with the terror group! Talk about calling a horse chestnut a chestnut horse as Abraham Lincoln observed!
Nigeria and Kenya as well as Afghanistan have been ravaged by Daesh affiliates, all three are within ICC jurisdiction. Bensouda's dodge is unworthy of her office. The ICC needs to compile a list of Daesh leaders and henchmen and indict or forever be held feckless money wasters and Daesh enablers.
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Q: Using the command line to combine non-adjacent sections of a file Is it possible to concatenate the headers lines in a file with the output from a filter using grep? Perhaps using the cat command or something else from GNU's coreutils?
In particular, I have a tab delimited file that roughly looks like the following:
var1   var2   var3
1      MT     500
30     CA     40000
10     NV     1240
40     TX     500
30     UT     35000
10     AZ     1405
35     CO     500
15     UT     9000
1      NV     1505
30     CA     40000
10     NV     1240

I would like to select from lines 2 - N all lines that contain "CA" using grep and also to place the first row, the variable names, in the first line of the output file using GNU/Linux commands.
The desired output for the example would be:
var1   var2   var3
30     CA     40000
35     CA     65000
15     CA     2500

I can select the two sets of desired output with the following lines of code.
head -1 filename
grep -E CA filename

My initial idea is to combine the output of these commands using cat, but I have not been successful so far.

A: If you're running the commands from a shell (including shell scripts), you can run each command separately and redirect the output:
head -1 filename > outputfile
grep -E CA filename >> outputfile

The first line will overwrite outputfile, because a single > was used. The second line will append to outputfile, because >> was used.
If you want to do this in a single command, the following worked in bash:
(head -1 filename && grep -E CA filename) > outputfile

If you want the output to go to standard output, leave off the parenthesis and redirection:
head -1 filename && grep -E CA filename

A: It's not clear what you're looking for, but perhaps just:
{ head -1 filename; grep -E CA filename; } > output

or
awk 'NR==1 || /CA/' filename > output

But another interpretation of your question is best addressed using sed or awk.
For example, to print lines 5-9 and line 14, you can do:
sed -n -e 5,9p -e 14p

or
awk '(NR >=5 && NR <=9) || NR==14'

A: I just came across a method that uses the cat command.
cat <(head -1 filename) <(grep -E CA filename) > outputfile

This site, tldp.org, calls the <(command) syntax "process substitution."
It is unclear to me what method would be more efficient in terms of memory / speed, but this is testable.

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El Mas de la Bassa Roja és una masia de la Sénia (Montsià) inclosa a l'Inventari del Patrimoni Arquitectònic de Catalunya.

Descripció
Conjunt d'estructures aïllades. Habitatge-molí, de planta baixa amb dues portes d'arc rebaixat, amb llinda i muntants de pedra, i dues finestres amb reixat curvilini. Primer pis amb porta central que dóna a una terrassa amb dos pilars quadrats de totxo, que pugen des del terra, i serveixen per sostenir la terrassa mentre són els vèrtexs de la barana que la voreja.

A banda i banda d'aquesta porta hi ha dues finestres amb reixat curvilini. Coberta a doble vessant i teula àrab. Al voltant de la casa hi ha quatre edificis de maçoneria i cobertes de doble vessant amb teula àrab, de planta quadrada, planta baixa amb porta i alguna petita obertura com a finestra. Un d'ells té fumeral. Aquestes estructures eren emprades tant per tancar ramat com per guardar la palla, estris...

Història
L'única notícia que tenim de la Bassa Roja és la mort del bandoler Antonio Jimenez "El Currucato" de Rossell, el dia 26 d'abril de 1858, a mans de la Guàrdia Civil.

Referències

Patrimoni monumental de la Sénia
Edificis de la Sénia
Masies del Montsià

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Taking up work as a skilled tradesperson has become an increasingly popular option over the years. Startups.co.uk observes that, of the UK's 4.6 million self-employed workers in 2016, 30% were full-time skilled tradespeople. However, if you follow them, you need to account for various expenses. Trades and Builder mentor Miles Primrose from BusinessSight notes than most tradies don't keep track of their business costs, which can lead to disastrous results.


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I am 23 years old (24 this month!), I have been married for one year and I live in the loveliest part of the world: Southeast London!
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I grew up in a Christian family, and I always had quite a strong personal faith, but even with that kind of foundation, my teen years were still challenging at times. It's difficult to be confident in who you are in God at the age where so many of your friends are exploring new things to be confident in—whether that is drinking, boyfriends, self-image or anything else. I was so lucky to have had two older sisters who had already been through that journey, and they helped and guided me through—probably without realising, most of the time. Just being able to watch their lives and see how they handled certain situations was really encouraging and inspiring for me. It helped to give me that extra boost of confidence whenever I needed it most.
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Well, as Girl Got Faith only launched in November 2015, it is still very early days—but I am a big dreamer! I have so many things I would love to do along the way, but overall, in a few years' time, I see Girl Got Faith as the go-to guide for our teen readers and youth leaders, too. I see it as a tool to help teens shape their generation in a positive way so that they might create a culture of encouragement, love and acceptance!
We don't all have older sisters, and many young Christians have families that don't believe what they do, so I wanted Girl Got Faith to be like a big sister to all of our readers.
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At A21, I am the UK prevention and awareness coordinator, which means my job is to spread the word about the issue of human-trafficking and modern slavery as far as possible and inspire and educate people on what they can do to help. With 27 million people currently trapped in modern slavery across the globe, the statistics can be overwhelming, but at A21, we break the figures down so it represents ONE life, ONE person and ONE story. Everyone can do something to help one person, right?
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I think both roles help me understand that there is a bigger picture—that life is much more than just me and my circle of friends, and we have a responsibility to fight for justice and for what we believe in. A21 is massively inspiring for Girl Got Faith as it shows me that when a few passionate people come together, a huge impact can be had on the world.
Starting Girl Got Faith is my biggest, as I am such a procrastinator! It took me about two years to actually start Girl Got Faith from when I had initial thoughts about it, so to actually have a website that is really there and real and usable is a huge achievement. My second biggest achievement was probably going traveling alone at the age of 18 and managing to stay alive. I'm pretty proud of that one!
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One of my biggest struggles has been myself! I think we are often the only thing getting in the way of where we are and where we want to be. I have battled with feelings of self-doubt, thinking that there is always someone who can do it better than me so I may as well leave it to them. Realising that God made me ME for a reason and He has given me specific ideas and dreams because He wants ME to do them was quite a revelation. That doesn't just apply to Girl Got Faith, but to a whole heap of things in life!
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Yes, of course! I have always been quite open with my faith to my friends and colleagues, but there's a huge difference between just talking about it and actually living it out, especially when you don't feel like it.
Personally, one of my biggest struggles is to remember to rely on God for everything. I think we are constantly being taught how to be self-sufficient, the importance of a 'secure' job, to have savings, to have insurance on everything you own, the list goes on! So it is a daily battle to look to God as your source and remember that everything you have is His!
What is one lesson you've learned since you launched Girl Got Faith?
CONSISTENCY IS KEY! Whether that is putting articles up on the site, or just keeping in touch with all of your contributors, consistency is what carries it forward. T.D Jakes said in a talk I listened to recently that people often ask him what it was that catapulted his ministry to where it is right now. He explained that there isn't one magic moment, there is a series of moments. It's about the small steps, the little things that we think don't mean much or are just monotonous. They are the important bits!


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To John Adams from William Cunningham, 11 March 1809
Fitchburg, March, 11. 1809.
Dear Sir.
On the first of the month I received your favour of the 22d. ult. with a copy of a speech of a ci-divant Minister to the Six Nations. Having been ill of the prevailing influenza, and expecting, mail after mail, to receive your answer to my letters of the 20th. and 23d. of Feb. I have delayed this acknowledgment. I hope that this evening will relieve my impatience to see the speculations you have written in opposition to the opinions of an Officer, whose duty it was to facilitate, but whose contumacy embarrassed your Administration.
If the Speech was, as is asserted in its exordium, extemporaneous, it is better evidence of the real sentiments of the speaker than a premeditated oration could have been. Truth is often, with sinester views, disguised in false drapery, but it is more difficult than to give to Genoa velvet a firmness to resist water, to give to this drapery an impenetrable texture. The obligations to his country of a public agent, demand from him an able and a just defence of her cause—his ingenuousness will not be reproached if he leaves to the adverse party the developement of the facts which would serve his own purpose but by remaining in obscurity, but His views cannot escape suspicion if he dwells much on extraneous matter. If these obligations do not embrace a principle which could tolerate in Col. Pickering, in a conference with the Chiefs of the Six Nations, the dissimulation of his feelings towards England and France and I am confident they do not, we must find his object under the web he spread over it, or throw him into the dilemma unavoidable from the admission of his sincerity. The declarations that, "Since we threw the King upon his back, and established our independence, they, (Great Britain) have borne us no good will, and would gladly make another attempt to enslave us," are declarations of facts, unchangeable by the conduct which policy, in any contingency, might dictate as best to be regarded towards this implacable foe. Facts are the foundations of a good policy, and their stable belief in the public mind, is in a free government, essential to the existence of the policy. In the Senate, Mr. Pickering asserts the dispositions of Great Britain to be friendly. With regard to France, his sentiments have passed to the same reversal, as if he thought it due to consistency, that his contradictions should be double, and meet in a new opinion like the dovetails in a piece of joinery—that his tepidity and his zeal might incur the single charge <only> of a change in object. If a little higher advance in the, at all times diminutive, stature of the understanding, opens a new view, he must be too versatile in his judgment to claim much confidence, who can see things differently from the same summit and to him the highest attainable. If this diversity of prospect is allowable to a political Joshua, the people, <will be> deluded by the report of his discoveries, will despair of the promised land. Is a statesman like a Mantau-maker who, by the multiplication, the reduction or the transformation of the same fabrics, can make a dress for any season, for any age, or for any occasion? In what will such fluctuations of opinion end? At variance with himself, Mr. Pickering may propose the terms of reconciliation, but it remains to the people to ratify or reject them.
I had seen Lyon's Letter, and had waded through it. When I turn to the journals of '98, and compare the treatment of him then with the estimation of him now, I think of a belle who, in the pride of accomplishments, casts her eye fastidiously upon a worthless fellow; but who, when passed her prime, "oversteps the modesty of nature" in her forwardness to encourage his advances—'tis a mortifying meanness! Lyon has been called a beast, but the most I could ever make of him was a chattering pianet—Noscitur ex sociis.
Your view of our situation in 1798, is fully substantiated by public Documents. So glorious a result of the measures then pursued ought to have settled them forever in the Cabinet, and in the bosom of every American, as the only measures, designated by Heaven and consecrated by Experience; for the maintenance of our maritime rights.
The fortunate issue, Sir, of these measures to your own fame, is a subject with which I am too full not to fear to attempt to speak to you, and confine myself within allowable limits. The reduction of Directoral hauteur, to a compliance with your own conditions, was a conquest which no other Cabinet can boast. Your declaration in your Message to Congress of June 21. 1798, "that you would never send another Minister to France without assurances that he would be received, respected and honoured as the Representative of a great, free, powerful and independent <people> nation," committed you, as to the terms, upon which a new mission would be instituted. I derive the highest satisfaction from the direct information, that the Directory transmitted to you "the most positive assurances in various ways, both official and unofficial, that they would receive your Ministers, and make peace on your own terms." You know it, Sir, to have been alledged, that of a relaxation in the tone of the Directory, you had nothing but informal intimations, circuitously passed to you through Mr. Murray, and of too vague a character to release you from your engagement in your Message. To what distortions will not a phrenzied party descend! The concessions on the part of the Executive of France, which abated, if but for a moment, the Hotspurian temper of the British Minister, were unquestionably such as ought <to pa> effectually to have appeared the just indignation of the American President. The confession of Mr. Liston, that the submission of the Directory had banished his hopes of a war, is the more precious for being unwillingly yielded. If his understanding and his magnanimity, enlightened and ennobled, burst through his prejudices, to pay you a just compliment, the breach was immediately repaired, and in his own breast and in the breasts of his party, these prejudices have pent up, against you, not wisdom and generosity only, but truth—They will have their enlargement—The day will come when the Statue, and the hearts of a grateful people, will bear the honourable and useful memorial of their triumph Magna est veritas et prevalebit.
Had our Country profited of past experience. Had she duly appreciated the counsel respecting a safe, prompt and efficacious defence of our commercial rights, so copiously given in your communications to Congress, and in your Answers to Addresses, particularly in your Answer to the people of Rockingham County in North-Carolina, and in your Answer to the Boston Marine Society, of July, and Sep. '98 the tide of successful experiment would not have ebbed; the ocean would have continued free to us as to the Leviathan, and as fearlessly might we play or prowl therein.
I wish I could be favoured with your thoughts upon the State Papers which have lately appeared.
Mr. Lloyd, in his celebrated Speech, speaks of a truism, but I have not seen any thing from him before which so clearly betrayed the <trio> tyro.
With veneration and respect, I am, Dear Sir /Your obliged Friend
Wm. Cunningham, J.
"To John Adams from William Cunningham, 11 March 1809," Founders Online, National Archives, accessed September 29, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/99-02-02-5316. [This is an Early Access document from The Adams Papers. It is not an authoritative final version.]
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Robert Lawrence Middlekauff (July 5, 1929 – March 10, 2021) was a professor of colonial and early United States history at the University of California, Berkeley.

Career
In 1983, Middlekauff became the President of Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, until 1987. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1984. In 1987, Middlekauff became a professor at UC Berkeley.

Middlekauff is best known for The Glorious Cause, a history of the American Revolutionary War, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1983.  He was the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History in 1996-7. In 1997, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1997.

Personal life
He was born in Yakima, Washington. Middlekauff died at the age of 91 from complications of a stroke on March 10, 2021, in Pleasanton, California.

See also

 Historiography of the United States

Bibliography
Ancients and Axioms: Secondary Education in Eighteenth-Century New England (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1963).
 The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596-1728, winner of the Bancroft Prize. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971) reprinted in paperback (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999).
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982, paperback ed., 1986) (Revised and Expanded Edition, 2005, ).
Benjamin Franklin and His Enemies (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996; paperback ed., 1998).

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