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Community Transport Organisation provides peak body representation for community transport users and its providers.
CTO consults with its membership, representing many organisations nationwide, with thousands of employees, volunteers and passengers.
A sponsorship or partnership with CTO continues to be a lucrative return on investment for now and into the future.
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Route 62 is one of the most breathtaking Routes in South Africa loved
by both Locals and Visitors to our beautiful country. Rightly so, as it was recently announced as one of "World's top 10 Road Trips" by CNN (read here),
We have yet again had the pleasure of driving the route. Our first stop the beautiful Montagu Country Hotel , Montagu , Western Cape, nestled between the stunning Langeberg mountain ranges.
The Hotel is conveniently located in the heart of Montagu. It is within walking distance to shops, markets, galleries and restaurants. On top of that, it is surrounded by scenic walking and cycling routes. The Perfect Location!
ROOMS & DECOR: The Montagu Country Hotel is the only original Art Deco Hotel in South Africa. The Hotel has 31 beautifully furnished en-suite bedrooms decorated in either Art Deco or Victorian style. It's like sleeping in a Museum surrounded by remarkable historical heirlooms, bursting to tell their story.
We had a spacious en suite bedroom with bath and separate shower and an outdoor sitting area. Tea & coffee facilities, TV and with a very comfortable bed.
Public areas are welcoming with inviting little nooks to unwind and relax.
FACILITIES: Montague Country Hotel is a tribute to the vibrant 1930's, yet simultaneously offering a variety of modern facilities:
- Wellness Centre – offering both body and beauty treatments – utilizing the famous thermal waters of the area.
- Fully equipped Conference Facilities accommodating up to 60 delegates.
- Garden – well maintained with an abundance of plants, flowers and an herb garden. This is complemented by water features and bird feeders, all enhancing nature's sanctuary.
- Two fantastic outdoor pools, the perfect place to cool off after a day of exploring. One of us really enjoyed it.
AMERICAN DREAM CARS: One of the highlights is the American Dream Cars. Book a drive with either Gert Lubbe (Owner ) or PJ Basson (General Manager). This is Montagu Country Hotel's unique way of showcasing Montagu and surrounds. Click here for more information, bookings advisable and subject to availability.
DINING: Breakfast served daily. It's a selection of fresh breads, fruits, cold meat and cheeses. Not to be missed.
We enjoyed lunch served in the garden. It was fantastic and most welcome after walking Lover's Walk and Badskloof Trial . A fitting reward.
Our highlight was the dinner. An experience, the Restaurant has recently been named as Gourmet Destination 2016 – a food affair to remember, it will satisfy every foodie. Enjoy pre-dinner drinks at the Bar.
The beautiful Restaurant Decor added to this and don't forget the excellent service. Candlelight and a talented young pianist enhanced the atmosphere. Your courteous waiter timeously unfolds your napkin, so you can peruse the wine list with its selection of local wines.
The Menu offers a wide variety of great South African dishes. The food is well presented and delicious. Tip: A three course meal is more than generous, satisfaction guaranteed.
PET FRIENDLY: Great news for animal lovers. Your getaway will now include the choice between your furry friend and man's best friend.
Montagu Country Hotel is a perfect destination for families, couples, outdoor lovers and foodies. You will find all you love in one place. Looking forward to come back.
Some extra info:
- Parking is available at no charge and secure.
- Many hiking/walking and cycling trials around.
- Easy walking tour of the town is a must.
- Free WiFi.
- Recommended two nights stays.
- Children are welcome.
- Prepare to indulge in a culinary experience and transformed to the "time where serving is an art."
- Pets: some rooms suited to welcome furry friends. Pets not allowed in restaurant, and must be on a lease when not in the room.
W: www.montagucountryhotel.co.za
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We have been hosted by Montagu Country Hotel in March during our Media Visit. Views are our own, based on personal and enjoyable experiences. All Extras have been settled directly at the Hotel
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Evo5 Exposure Led
The EVO E LED is a revolutionary exposure unit (patent pending) designed utilizing "state of the art" high output LED technology to simultaneously back and main expose any digital plate. This technology with such outstanding performances is unique in the market, available only from Vianord R&D. It will be available during the first quarter of 2015. Capable of exposing any plate up to 1320mm/52"in width and any thickness. Stand alone" unit for the moment, it will be soon implemented and available in the automatic version to upgrade any Easy to Plate configuration.
-Perfect flat top dots together with an extremely fast exposure
-No need to flip the plate between back and main exposure: less plate handling, shorter processing time, less risk of plate damaging
-User friendly interface: adjustable UVA output and transfer speed
-48 channels are available to memorise different plate parameters
-All the same common features as all other equipment from Vianord; such as remote monitoring (optional), components' life staus, manual functions, preventive maintenance etc...
-Extremely stable, repeatable results for both back and main exposures
-Higlhy accurate temperature control system to ensure the cooling of both the plate and the LEDs
Dimensions LxWxH
900 x 2200 x 1150 (panel 285) mm
35.4 x 86.6 x 45.3 (panel 11.2) inches
Power supply
400V 3PH/N/PE 50/60Hz 8.5kW 14A
230V 3PH/PE 50/60Hz 8.5kW 25A
Plate thickness
Up to 7 mm / 0.276 inches
420 kg | 925 pounds
Maximum plate size
132 x 203 cm | 52 x 80 inches
Compressed air supply
min. 6 bar
Packaging dimensions
1170 x 2420 x 1700 mm
Packaging gross weights
616 Kg


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Dream Up: looking back at 3 projects from 2018-2019
Since its inception in 2015, the BNP Paribas Foundation's Dream Up programme has allowed...
You have an amazing idea. Your team is strong. Your business plan is competitive. There's just one hitch: you don't have the resources you need to get it off the ground. Fortunately, Business Angels are there just for that purpose. And when banks team up with angels, they can give your project wings in no time.
BNP Paribas supports entrepreneurship in every form and works together with Business Angels on their mission to support and nurture startups.
Among Business Angels, co-investment is a common and often necessary practice for financing a company's first steps. In 2016, BNP Paribas invested 11.5 million euros both directly and indirectly into innovative startups.
In France, BNP Paribas has become a privileged partner of the country's first network: France Angels (see focus). The bank is also committed to expanding female entrepreneurship in Europe through Women in Investment Day, the first forum on female entrepreneurship.
To expand its role as the "first bank for startups" (according to BPI), BNP Paribas has united all of its services for young businesses under the banner of WAI (We Are Innovation). This brand focuses on aiding startups at every step of their development, including:
Conclusion: in the bustling world of startups, Business Angels and banks represent two sides of the same coin in terms of detecting and accompanying tomorrow's most innovative companies.
France Angels comprises 72 networks and 10,000 Business Angels all across France. Since its creation in 2001, it has invested nearly 500 million euros in over 2,500 companies. A founding member of Business Angels Europe (BAE) and WBAE (World Business Angels), the network maintains an international vision of entrepreneurship.
In 2014, BNP Paribas and France Angels decided to band together by signing a national partnership to solidify their common vision and complementary roles in accompanying young entrepreneurs.
By partnering with France Angels, BNP Paribas places its banking expertise and experience at the service of the innovative startups selected and supported by the Business Angel networks.
Since its inception in 2015, the BNP Paribas Foundation's Dream Up programme has allowed...
BNP Paribas Cardif has released the results of a survey conducted with Ipsos of 26,000 people in...
This autumn, the BNP Paribas AccessArt25 program will give 3,000 English young people the chance...


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Luxturna is a gene therapy drug to treat a hereditary blindness. The FDA approved it last month, and the one-dose treatment costs $850,000.
From Oddity Central:
Spark Therapeutics, the company releasing the drug, had initially planned to sell Luxturna for 1 million USD but lowered the price after health insurers expressed concern over their ability to cover the cost of the injectable treatment. Despite the small drop in price, Luxturna is still significantly more expensive than almost every other medication on the global market, including two separate gene therapy treatments approved last year by the FDA. Luxturna is the first gene therapy that treats an inherited condition. It has proven to improve vision for those with a rare form of inherited blindness that is estimated to affect less than 2,000 people in the US.


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So today I went off to meet the gardener in a local Church I really like. He works there every Thursday morning for a couple of hours. I wanted to know if he needed any help and had any jobs planned. The answer? Of course!
Boom there it is, pretty much most of the criteria for the new Church Times Green Health Awards. On closer inspection, we found that the details of the award fit nicely with what he would like to do, we just need to invite others in and enjoy the opportunity we have in our Churches to allow everyone access to the health benefits of simple gardening. I couldn't wait to get there, to breathe after a very busy 2 weeks. We all have such busy lives, we are all going faster, we have so much going on, but to put the phone on silent and to discuss this opportunity, on the bench, in the Church garden was complete bliss.
Some of the things the gardener wanted to do were also part of the Green Church Kernow Award Scheme. "Could do with putting up a bird box, oh we have a great carpenter, he might make some with people. Definitely need a water butt, we are making a compost pile…."
"Well it sounds to be like you might be the Green Champion in your Church!" I said, it sounds like you are going to be ticking off some award criteria easily, you have already invited me (Diocesan Environment Officer) to speak in your Church, if you talk about possibly having a once a month "gardening club" at the the time you would normally be here gardening, doing those things, in the church magazine and on the noticeboard you are almost close to a Bronze Award and can register with the Church Times Award too!
To avoid any 'extra work' I asked if the water butt should be delivered or collected, should funding be found for something like that specifically. "Oh delivered, bit tricky otherwise…" So I popped into a family run garden centre on the way back to the office. They were delighted to help, offering reduced delivery fees & advice when required, offered over a steaming coffee. What a fab morning! All fits nicely with the 25 Year Environment Plan from government; enabling people to enjoy local natural spaces, could also be a spring board to bigger things towards a Living Church Yard Scheme or even contributing to the future Social Prescribing opportunities.
Watch this space!
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The Science, Theology and Ecology Course is a 12 week Diploma level module designed to explore the interaction of the natural sciences with theology with a particular focus on ecology. It covers the field of ecotheology and the questions it addresses about God, humanity and the natural world in the light of contemporary global challenges such as climate change.
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Notes from Lucy's talk Talk for CMD day 09.03.18
Stimulating thought through action in the town of Penryn, the seaside location of Paul and a rural spot in Gwinear.
St. Gluvias Community Hall Penryn
Green Church Awards (A3-print-ready) Pledges & Awards Leaflet:Poster
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Apr 142017
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Last week, I got to swap the office desk with the Cornish Celtic Way footpath, taking the opportunity to have a chat with Dr Chris Goldsmith, the Bishop of St. Germans as he completes his 120-mile pilgrimage. The journey criss-crosses Cornwall and takes in St Michael's Way, (Lelant to Marazion), and the Saints' Way, (Fowey to Padstow), as well as numerous other historic, holy sites.
I talked with Bishop Chris about my plans as DEO, to encourage everyone across the whole Diocesan community, to consider what they do to live in closer harmony with Gods intentions. To make it easier for people I would provide the tried and tested easy to use 10 pledges, which, if they did them slowly, perhaps one a month, to lessen their impact on climate change, they would also boost their resilience to it.
We talked about why this is needed and the many reasons we find to avoid contributing to earth's fruitfulness and sustainability, but the stark facts for me, recently published by the Government's Committee on Climate Change, prevail over all reasons and somehow, I need to find a way to enable people to get a firm grip on the subject to make their own decisions.
I see the 10 pledges enabling people to boost health, save money, combat loneliness, have less impact on the planet, take steps to consider impacts on family, church and congregations. I shared with Bishop Chris, my view that I have long seen the Church as the agent for this change and I'm quite excited about the possibilities.
As I started my mindful walking, after having stopped at St. James Well, I started to think about the times St. Cadoc, St. Mawgan and St. Brioc had as they walked the same route around 550 AD. It must have been so brave and exciting, but actually –it was a bit of a miracle. I remembered (from two fantastic Exeter University climate change degrees) that significant events around then, signalled in the ice cores, told stories of dreadful plague, famine and dust that had wreaked havoc with their lives. Apparently, they experienced the biggest volcanic dust clouds and climatic consequences observed in the last 3000 years.1 Having survived to tell the tales, to arrive in Cornwall, back then when a third of the European population had been wiped out by the Justinian Plague, was a significant deal. Perhaps a super eruption of Krakatoa some 15 years before? Reduced Solar radiation? A comet or cosmic swarm? Had the atmospheric make-up caused the plague? 2
During its peak, agriculture stopped, cities collapsed, as 5-10000 people died every day, with increasing outbreaks which didn't stop until 590AD. Nature laid its signal in the ice cores as the people fell and it took back its role and turned croplands into forest. Bill Ruddiman talks about this dynamic and how it pulled carbon out of the atmosphere which allows us to think about the impact and response times to our activities.3
Mike Hulme talks about why we don't want to relate to all of this in his brilliant book. Yet he knowingly suggests "climate change can help us bring the physical and the cultural, the material and spiritual, into a new realignment".
Great, let's get on with it, click on the Well and start your valuable journey, thank you
1 Stothers, R.B., 1984: Mystery cloud of AD 536. Nature, 307, 344-345
2 Baillie, M. 2007. The case for significant numbers of extraterrestrial impacts through the late Holocene. J. Quaternary Sci., Vol. 22 pp. 101–109. ISSN 0267–8179.
3 Ruddiman, W.F. (2005). Plows, Plagues and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate, Princeton.
4 Hulme M. (2009). Why We Disagree About Climate Change. CUP.
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Spending 45 minutes 1:1 with a climate scientist can unravel everything you need to know to get yourself ready for the next storm.
At only £50 you can't really afford not to, it's the best deal on the table to get you ready quickly. You will have a hand held tour of whats available FREE of charge, an illustration of the real risk of flooding and some insight to how your business could make a few changes now BEFORE the next storm.
Totally Truro are offering match funding for Businesses in Truro BID. Full Article: http://goo.gl/Jel4f3
Book your Snapshot today and get a step up to resilience, this isn't going to go away, embrace it healthily now and weather the the next storm more confidently knowing you have considered your business continuity. firstname.lastname@example.com
Despite many engineering efforts, there will always be a need for you to be ready, as illustrated by our friends at Shoothill. This his need will increase over time, get ready now rather than be a victim.
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Climate Vision can now offer the Flood Risk Snapshot service at half price, due to match funding pledged by Truro Business Improvement District (BID) as part of it's "best for business" project. This exciting new project will reduce the cost of this services to Truro business from £50 to just £25, making taking action to increase resilience easier and cheaper than ever.
The aim of this initiative is to raise resilience within Truro's Business community, with the business owner and demonstrate the risks faced by the business with a user friendly tour of online resources, which will be used to create a preliminary assessment of the risk posed to the business considering the effects of future climate change. Climate Vision can then agree a plan of action with the business owner, which they can use to reduce the risks faced by their business. Climate Vision's services are also available to help enact this plan and reduce the risk faced by the business even further to improve business continuity, consider property protection measures or use the sign-posted resources online.
Those who do not own their property should still consider the snapshot service, as this is about more than the mere bricks and mortar. Ensuring your business takes steps to become resilient to flooding can build business continuity and improve staff safety.
Businesses which are shown to be at risk will be identified and then invited to take part, as well as those who may suffer inconvenience due to flooding in nearby areas, such as access problems.
Neil Scott, BID Manager, said, "With Truro's close, and sometimes too close, relationship with water it is becoming increasingly important that the businesses in the city centre that are most at risk of flooding are aware of the potential impacts and that they develop plans to ensure business continuity. Having discussed this with Luci on several occasions, the format that she has developed and successfully tested with a handful of businesses is one that we are keen to support."
Businesses in Truro that may be at risk have been identified. All have the opportunity to obtain advice about the risk they may face match funded by Truro BID (Normally £50, being made available for £25 until July 2016).
Look out for your invitation to sign up to this innovative scheme.
Book your Flood Risk Snapshot with Climate Vision for a one to one opportunity with a climate scientist to discuss the potential risks your business may face and overcome the awkward hurdles presented by climate change.
Contact Luci Isaacson MSc email@example.com or call 01872 241 239 or 07909 530 730
Those who have experienced a FRS
"I met Luci with the plan to be open minded however I was a little sceptical about how she could help me. However she was extremely helpful and really helped me to understand the need for a flood risk plan by clearly explaining the risks and the best ways to reduce these. I've already started on making plans for removing my important electrical equipment!" Darren Hoare, Zafiros Bar, New Bridge Street
"Luci did a flood review of our business and went through the practicalities of what we needed to do if a flood occurred in New Bridge Street. We are aware of flooding in our street and have used sand bags before. She made us more mindful about the practicalities of what to do and what to be aware of, such as telephone numbers of who to call, if there is a flood." Sarah, the Rustic Home
"Luci made me aware of the possibility of flooding in our business and what steps to take, if that was to happen. It was a really helpful and constructive meeting." Bridge Street Barbers, Anne Westgarth, New Bridge Street
"I found the meeting with Luci very 'thought provoking' and useful. Although we had not previously considered our business to be at risk of flooding. The current available data for the City centre along with the experiences of business further up the country makes us realise that flooding of our premises is now more than likely to occur in the foreseeable future. Sensible and practical solutions to mitigate the risks were suggested by Luci and we will now be taking actions to protect our premises and business against future risks. I would highly recommend the service and advice which Luci provides." Simon Hendra, Hendra's and the Lemon Street Market
Feb 292016
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Farmer's intended and actual adoption of climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies
Meredith T. Niles & Margaret Brown & Robyn Dynes
Abstract A growing body of work aims to understand the impacts of climate change on agriculture as well as farmer's perceptions of climate change and their likeliness to adopt adapting and mitigating behaviors. Despite this, little work has considered how intention to adopt differs from actual adoption of climate change practices in agriculture. Applying the Theory of Planned Behavior we aim to assess whether different factors affect intended versus actual adoption of climate behaviors among farmers in New Zealand. Data were collected through mixed methods (37 interviews and a telephone survey of 490 farmers) in two regions of New Zealand 2010–2012. Through multiple regression models we test hypotheses related to the Theory of Planned Behavior around the role of attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived capacity in affecting intended and actual adoption. Results suggest that there are different drivers of intended and actual adoption of climate change practices. Climate change attitudes and belief is only associated with intended not actual adoption. We find no evidence that subjective norms (climate change policy support) significantly influence either intention or actual adoption. Only perceived capacity and self-efficacy were important predictors of both
Very interesting, so can we develop the strength of one's belief in one's own ability to complete the tasks and reach such goals?
Where do we start?
Here at Climate Vision, after 6 years of Climate Science we asked the valuable people that taught us, what shall we do? The answer?
Cut carbon and get people ready, click on the links to do just that and make a start today.
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More details about the night to follow – cyclists will be cycling in at 7.20pm!
This is a genuine and significant legacy- so many people now have the toolkit and know we CAN cut carbon EASILY and cheaply. Thank you Ricky, Euan, Ewan & Roger you've been unbelievable. Ricky has been in Paris the whole time, and is currently travelling back as we write – he tracked down Environment Ministers Climate Vision had previously made contact with and many others, who were interested in our methods and delighted to meet up to receive our report.
We are delighted with the result in Paris. They have united, agreed and told the world what they will do. We must now help them, by encouraging our MPs and each of us to personally enhance the political will to make exciting and significant changes for a cleaner planet.
It was close, we cannot afford to get that close again if we wish to exist in the way we have known in the past. There will be a rocky road ahead, we must all learn a little about this subject to better prepare, and make the road safer by cutting carbon today.
Let's not forget the report says, how easy it is to cut carbon, after a few hard habit changers – just like when we started recycling just over a decade ago, now it's so easy and worth it. These 10 habit changes enable us to be healthy, save money, support the local economy, and become wiser regarding climate change and a little more relaxed about our children's maturity.
What it is like going by bike?
Cold, wet, windy – and exhilarating! However, when you are cold, wet and tired, food (especially French food!) tastes so much better, cafes are so much warmer and the cosiness of fellow humans also appreciating their lunch is heart (as well as body) warming. The entry into Paris on a bright sunny day was absolutely wonderful – it was one of the most natural 'highs' one could have had. Also, the hard cycling was more than compensated by the warm reception we had from mayors and councillors across Cornwall, our overnight hosts across France and the delegates and other representatives we met in Paris. They are all people of good will – and meeting them, giving them a copy of the Climate Vision Report and talking about our common concerns shows that basically most ordinary people want change. And they are prepared to be part of that change! It is time for governments to catch up with where people are at! And that, of course, was the main message of the report we were carrying.
What did you do?
When I announced nearly a year ago that I was going to cycle to Paris to support COP21, I could never have imagined how fulfilling it was going to be. To have the companionship of the other three stalwart cyclists, to meet so many good people along the way, and to catch some of that frisson of youthful expectation in Paris was quite magical. And, hey, Paris is a magical place, a magic that no terrorists can destroy. In some ways what we did was tiny; yet revolutions are made from the combined efforts of many tiny contributions. Was I mad to do it? Perhaps. But then as Fritz Schumacher said, he did not mind being called a crank, because "cranks do useful work and cause revolutions".
What did you feel you achieved?
"One small pedal-push for a human, but a massive revolution for humankind!" (to paraphrase Neil Armstrong). I can only think of my own disappointment and frustration if I had not gone – it was just something I had to do. But what made it all the more meaningful was the sense that I was carrying with me the hopes and dreams of so many more people who, for whatever reason, were unable to make such a journey. And on reaching Paris to meet so many others who were similarly enthused.
What do you think about what Paris achieved?
There was always a danger that another fudged result might have come about; but after the disappointment of Copenhagen six years ago, in a sense the stakes were higher than ever to secure a deal. And a deal has been secured. However, the proof of the resilience of what has been agreed to will be the actions that follow. And this is where the hard slog begins in every country, and especially here in the UK where we have a government that is still deeply committed to fossil fuels and ambivalent about renewables. Incessant pressure will now be needed to help ensure that our government follow through on their commitment in Paris with action on the ground at home. As Winston Churchill said "Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Now let's begin the work that needs to be done!
What it is like going by bike?
Simply the best way to travel. Make the journey part of the experience.
Yes it takes longer and sometimes the weather may seem bad when you are sitting inside looking at the raindrops, but once you are out in it and doing it then it becomes part of you, and you part of it.
We live on the earth and only by travelling under your own power and at a human pace across the face of the earth can you really feel the landscape you pass through. That connection is vital to give your journey meaning. To arrive knowing where you have come from and how you got there not only in your head but in your legs as well makes the journey far more intentional, far more part of you, far more connected, far more valuable.
The time that is spent travelling on foot or by bike is time well spent, and without doing it this way the project would have been far less meaningful.
I fully intend now to remove all fossil fuel based transport from my life over the next few years – it is possible and will be rewarding.
That is my new pledge by 2020 to no longer be using oil based fuels or carbon based electricity to travel.
What did you do?
We rode largely on back roads, we talked as we rode in different combinations, we spoke with people when we could, we stayed in amazing ordinary places and saw extraordinary ordinary sights. We connected with places and people even as we moved on. The medium of the journey became the message. The message passed by word of mouth and with the talisman of the printed report.
What did you feel you achieved?
Some changes in me that are still working through. New understandings and new respect for my companions. Maybe some of what we did had a small impact on those at COP21, but more important is the continuing impact that will be created by our lives henceforth. Ripples that will continue to spread.
We went with the flow. Connections and coincidences abounded. By taking the time to travel with intent we opened ourselves to getting energy from the richness of our world. It was a very powerful and strangely humbling experience.
Two random highlights, both oddly enough connected to the sea. On our first evening in Paris we were in a venue alongside the Tara – a research sailing vessel, just returned from an 18 month trans arctic expedition riding with the ice across the North Pole. Learning about the work of the team on the Tara and all of the other investigations of our oceans which are uncovering layers of complexity in our world about which we know next to nothing. Then on the final evening of the last weekend discovering the life sized model of a Baleen Whale on the banks of the Seine and realising the unfathomable nature of its life, and the lives of all the other threatened major species illustrated in photos around the model. Deep, dark and mysterious and totally demanding our respect. How can we continue to behave as we do towards the natural world
What do you think about what Paris achieved?
After Paris the Climate movement is finally growing up and taking responsibility.
Old world leaders demonstrated that while they understand the science and agree with it intellectually by signing up to less than 2 degrees, they displayed terrible immaturity in failing to recognise the implications of this high level intention.
They have finally shown that they, as representatives of the system which has made them its figureheads, are incapable of accepting the solutions that are available. This is a failure of the system of governance and the economic system that drives it.
Just as the science is clear, so the solutions are clear, and there is no place in the solutions for exploitation of resources or people , just as there is no place for polluting without immediate consequences for the polluter.
Around the world it is people, like the 4000 Climate Visioneers in Cornwall, like indigenous peoples demanding control over their lands, like villages and towns and cities that are organising to
A new world is possible. We can leave it in the ground. We can get out from behind our screens and our steering wheels and onto our bikes and our feet and make the new world. We will live in harmony with the world or not at all. We travel as equals or not at all.
I'm going to quote a song:
Sometimes we live no
particular way but our own
Sometimes we visit your country
and live in your home
Sometimes we ride on your horses
Sometimes we walk alone
Sometimes the songs that we hear
are just songs of our own
Wake up to find out
that you are the eyes of the world
but the heart has its beaches
its homeland and thoughts of its own
Wake now, discover that you
are the song that the morning brings
but the heart has its seasons
its evenings and songs of its own
There comes a redeemer
and he slowly too fades away
There follows a wagon behind him
that's loaded with clay
and the seeds that were silent
all burst into bloom and decay
The night comes so quiet
and it's close on the heels of the day
Wake up to find out
that you are the eyes of the world…
Make of that what you will.
I would like to finish by thanking deeply Euan for inviting me to become part of this, and Luci for providing the inspirations and Ricky and Ewan without whom the band would not have been complete, nor the music so sweet.
What it is like going by bike?
Short answer: a little wet and windy to begin with. We did however find some sunnier and drier weather in the second week, a warm welcome wherever we went, and quite a lot of good French cheese (almost as good as South West England's)
Cycling enables you to see, and feel, the French countryside at a pace that is not possible when travelling by car, or train. One of the highlights was on Monday 23 November, after departing Ricky's friends Pierre and Beá, a line of wind turbines appeared in front of us, sunlit above the mist. We had seen these from Caen the previous day, but would not have discovered them so close-up if we were not on our bikes. We of course had to stop for a photo, and found a friendly French power worker to do the honours.
What did you do?
The below copy and pasted from my Nous arrivons à Paris 30 November blog.
We rode into central Paris in sunshine on Thursday afternoon. The French climate had been kinder to us since the weekend, and Thursday morning dawned brighter than any that welcomed us into Brittany and Normandy.
Françoise and Laurence, our hosts in rural Senneville, a mere 60 km from the centre Paris, had fed us well the night before. Françoise even filmed our departure and rode the first kilometre with us.
The Paris that we found was getting on with life with all of the insouciance that we would have expected, regardless of the criminal actions of a few bearing guns two weeks before. Barack Obama has today saluted the UN COP21 climate talks as "an act of defiance" – the Parisiens with whom we four British cyclists shared a Metro carriage, on the way to a (most) welcome dinner with SW Green MEP Molly Scott Cato, would not have had it any other way.
Friday morning brought the European Parliament Greens / European Free Alliance (EFA) group pre-COP21 seminar, in the Tara Ocean and Climate Pavilion:
• Rebecca Harms, Greens/EFA President, spoke of her grounded optimism in COP21's bottom-up approach;
• Romain Troublé, Co-ordinator of Tara Expeditions, gave an overview of the #OceanForClimate campaign at COP21.
• Molly Scott Cato argued that public money creation must lead the way if we are to conquer climate change, as part of an expert debate on climate finance that included:
o Monica Araya of Cost Rica stating that "We need to switch narrative to co-operation & collaboration, and not apologise for it", and identifying "the biggest and most difficult question" as "how to unplug dirty energy projects" – George Osborne really should have been there!
o Alix Mazounie of France saying that France, like many richer countries, needs to increase the political will, and focus more on funding adaptation to climate change.
o Claude Turmes of Luxembourg advocating de-risking energy finance via IRENA to shift solar power from where the money is, to where the sun is.
o Isabelle Lövin, Swedish Minister for International Development and Co-operation, warning negotiators not to let "the usual suspects" of vested interests make 'best' the enemy of the common good at COP21.
• In a discussion of possible outcomes and communication, Asad Rehman of FoE identified the strategic challenge as democratic: recognising that people do not currently have enough power to deliver the positive change they demand – while Carole Dieschbourg, Luxembourg's President of EU Council of Ministers for the Environment, summed up the EU position with "we must raise our ambition – be courageous and take responsibility".
• A concluding interview with Polish journalist Karolina Zbytniewska highlighed why we all need the EU if we are to conquer climate change, saying that the Polish Government "thinks its national treasure is coal", but the positive future lays in the Polish diaspora wanting to feel included in the international debate. The Guardian's Fiona Harvey had sent apologies at the last minute, when she secured an interview with French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius.
The hardest thing was leaving Paris, not just because I had been reminded how much I love the city, but also because our train to Caen was an hour late – meaning that Roger & I almost missed the ferry back to Portsmouth.
Sunday's Climate March in Bristol was universally good humoured, if a little damp.
At least we had been able to march to encourage the COP21 negotiators. In Paris itself, the local anarchists were always likely to defy any ban, and seek confrontation with the riot police – but the people of Paris won the day in coming up with the defining image…
…10,000 empty shoes, including those of Ban Ki-moon and the Pope, shining a beacon for democracy across the globe, and forward for future generations, who depend on a positive outcome from Paris over the next two weeks. We can only hope that they all receive the hope that they so richly deserve.
What did you feel you achieved?
People intuitively understood the personal commitment that led four people from the South West to cycle to Paris for COP21 – most people have cycled at some time during their lives, so the cycling was both tangible to them and seen as credible and relevant to the issues being debated in Paris – we were travelling using our own renewable resources, not fossil fuel power.
This has helped raising awareness of Paris COP21, and the issues debated therein, via local media – because the cycle ride made COP21 locally relevant to the South West. I have placed two articles in the Western Gazette, which was certainly not supportive during May's General Election campaign, and seem to have secured an "In My View" column off the back of the Pedal2Paris ride – se below…
Others have of course achieved much similar via Radio Cornwall etc.
What do you think about what Paris achieved?
The below (and attached) my draft "In My View" column in response to our local WG reporter's request this morning:
(Please excuse any typos – will proof read later before sending to the WG)
The conclusion of the COP21 climate talks were on my mind on Saturday, as I travelled to Truro and read updates from Paris on the train.
Fellow cylist, Euan McPhee and I were 'closing the circle' by meeting Labour MEP Clare Moody where the Climate Vision report, and our ride, began. Green MEP Molly Scott Cato had welcomed four hungry cyclists to Paris with pizza. We had offered similar meetings to all six South West MEPs.
I reflected that the bottom up pledge approach celebrated by Climate Vision had proved to work in Paris, whereas reaching agreement on top down national targets had so conspicuously failed at COP15 in Copenhagen six years ago.
We have a Paris climate deal – the hard work starts here. In business strategy terms, world Governments have agree "the what" (keeping global average temperature rises "well below" two degrees, while aiming for 1.5 degrees). They now need to work out "the how".
The problem is that Governments today lack the tools. I identify three key levers without which it will not be possible to deliver what Paris has promised:
1. Macroeconomic: Change will not happen fast enough until using fossil fuels are more expensive than renewable alternatives.
We need a global redistributive carbon tax, or 'fee' (as former NASA scientist Jim Hansen prefers) – not today's carbon 'price', where big polluters get their base emissions free, and trade at the margins. Carbon 'pricing' is a system designed for city traders, not to reduce harmful emissions.
2. Way of business: Businesses should do good. They feed us, cloth us, keep us warm and comfortable. But today's global corporations are compelled by legal 'fiduciary duty' to place financial interests above people and planet – leading to tax avoidance, devaluation of workers' conditions, and exponential growth in resource consumption. There were bizarre scenes in Paris where marketing departments were campaigning for a climate deal, while their companies via trade associations were lobbying against the same deal.
The UNEP Finance Initiative, working with Al Gore, have identified broadening 'fiduciary duty' for people and planet as the key to reclaiming democratic control of capital in the U.S and Europe. Today's capitalism was designed when business was done in local towns and cities. The UK parliament fought to control the anti-democratic practices of the East India Company throughout the 17th-19th centuries. We can and must do the same today to make global business fit for the 21st century.
3. Democratic: The United Nations has struck a deal in Paris through democratic co-operation. In Britain, the majority support renewable energy, and think fracking reckless for both our countryside and climate – but our Government increases fossil fuel subsidies while blocking renewable energy. We are out of step with the world. Europe looks on us with pity, when the 'mother of parliaments' can return a majority on 37% of votes cast.
Writing this a month to the day after Paris attacks, there is growing realisation that environmental sustainably means peace. Nobody has yet fought a war over solar power. We must all protect the democracy we have won, and keep demanding more – remain a constructive part of the EU, return ten million unregistered voters to the electoral roll, reform our parliamentary representation (just as we removed 'rotten boroughs' in 1832), ensure all town halls have a democratic mandate, and give votes to the 16-17 year olds whose futures politicians in Paris were debating.
To paraphrase Al Gore, Paris COP21 has written the words – let us all now deliver the actions
Ricky was travelling back while this article was put together. As you can imagine, like all of these fantastic four, exhausted and in need of a rest!
Please do come along March 3rd and see him for yourself.
In bold those who received a report
1. Edwina Hannaford Carbon Ambassador and Cornwall Councillor sees off the Cyclists from Looe
2. Nice #Pedal2Paris send off this evening in Plymouth – fuelled by tea & cake https://t.co/1WKmqM6qCE
2. Where Next?
3. Welcome breakfast at Béa & Pierre's after a 9 hour ride yesterday through the tail of Storm Barney
4. Avranches https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/50300+Avranches,+firstname.lastname@example.com,-2.4880418,8z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x480955150dfa9001:0x40c14484fb98470
3. The four cyclists and wind turbines on the Plain of Caen;
4. Arrived
5. Ricky Knight Ewan Jones & Euan McPhee Just Arrived
6. George Ferguson, the 'independent' [Green) Mayor of Bristol, who was meeting up with the Europe-wide 'Covenant of Mayors' last Friday at the Paris City Hall – at which point he would make every attempt to pass the report onto Mme le Maire Hidalgo – a VVIP!
7. Roger and I presenting a copy of the Climate Vision report to the Luxembourg Environment Minister, Carole Dieschbourg, Luxembourg's President of EU Council of Ministers for the Environment
8. Ricky Knight "Today (10th December) was my last visit to the main Conference area, as tomorrow I'm stewarding at the alternative people's summit (ZAC – Zone d'Action Climatique), so it's unlikely now that I'll be able to deliver the Climate Vision to any more VIPs! I'm afraid I have missed Bas Eickhout …….
BUT, see below, I did catch Nick Stern (left, next to Jeffery Sachs and Stephan Singer from WWF; not on photo: David King) at a pretty high-powered panel this morning.
Also on the panel was the Deputy Mayor of Paris, Célia Blauel – and mightily impressive she was too on pollution-free cities, not least when I ingratiatingly told her that I had cycled to Paris just to give her this report – you can tell from her expression that she might have feared I was someone to try and avoid – yes, I am looking a bit jaded, true! Maybe I've been away too long!"
9. Demonstration 1
10. Demonstration 2
The place de la Republique covered with shoes organized by Avaaz during the forbidden COP21 demonstration on November 29, 2015 in Paris, France.
11. Demonstration 3
12. Naomi Kline Naomi Klein is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker known for her political analyses and criticism of corporate globalization and of corporate capitalism. She is the author of This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate
13. Francesco La Camera is the Director General for Sustainable Development, Energy and Climate at the Italian Ministry of Environment, Land & Sea. He has led the EU and Italian negotiations teams at UNFCCC COP 20 Lima and is preparing Paris Climate 2015. He leads international affairs in the Ministry and the greening of EU Structural Funds
14. Clare Moody MEP
If you would like to hear more about getting to Paris an why they cycled 350 miles please click here http://climatevision.co.uk/cycling-from-t…paris-nov-17th
Nov 092015
In Blog
Although it is clear that global warming is happening and largely driven by human emissions of greenhouse gases, there are uncertainties in projecting when:
As a result meaningful policy in the face of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) needs to recognise the uncertainties that exist. Problems in successful climate prediction are created by the non-linear nature of climate response, uncertainties in the emissions trajectory that are followed, and the role of feedbacks in the climate system. As a result, we believe that integrated assessments should be made through the process of risk assessment and disaster prevention1.
One significant issue is the timescale over which AGW occurs. There are problems with how time is imagined in the future, and the issue of delivering policy options to deal with a problem that might not have policy relevance until the 2080s. As a result, the inability to grasp the concept of time beyond our own lifetimes hinders responses to climate change and requires a closer look at the long-term concept of climate change2.
On the 18th December (2014) Mr Eric Pickles5 (formerly The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government) from 6 April 2015, declared local planning authorities should consult the relevant lead local flood authority on the management of surface water; satisfy themselves that the proposed minimum standards of operation are appropriate and ensure through the use of planning conditions or planning obligations that there are clear arrangements in place for ongoing maintenance over the lifetime of the development. The sustainable drainage system should be designed to ensure that the maintenance and operation requirements are economically proportionate.
The question is how does the local authority/government expect to pay if the SUDs management company ceases to exist?
Funding of a SUDs Approving Body (SAB) is one of the many issues that might have contributed to the 'Pickles U-Turn'.
A clear problem is understanding the baseline variability in climate change and climate impacts. For example, it is not possible to assess the magnitude of a 1:300 year flood event when we only have around 50 years of river gauge data on average in the UK. As a result, our long term perspective on climate impacts is poor, and certainly not detailed enough to build a resilient climate policy. More research on climate variability is therefore needed to provide policymakers with the insight required to drive adaptation.
What is the difference between the cost of running a SAB and the local costs for failed SUDs?
And how does that compare with future annual damage costs of predicted at £2.8bn?6
Click above to hear a BBC Radio Cornwall Article with Martyn Alvey from Cornwall Flood Forum, Dave Watkins from Cornwall Council and later joined by Daniel Johns Head of Adaptation for the Committee on Climate Change (below), November 3rd 2015.
November 3rd 2015 News Bulletin Radio Cornwall (55s)
In January this year, experts told the Environmental Audit Committee3 , that the government were going to be building "20,000 houses a year at risk of flooding, 4000 at significant risk".
Under the Flood and Water Management Act4 the Sustainable Drainage Systems (SUDs) approval process was going to be closely linked to the planning process. Once commenced, the Act would have required that future construction which has drainage implications will not be able to take place until approval of the drainage system has been given by the SUDs Approving Body. It would have been the role of the newly established SUDs Approving Body (SAB), to approve, inspect, adopt and maintain sustainable drainage systems for new developments exceeding one property.
The Adaptation Sub-Committee (ASC) of the Committee on Climate Change has been asked by the Government to lead the next UK Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA). The summary comprehensively provides startling predictions for the 2080s. By the 2080s, with a 4° warming, with no population growth, it predicts annual costs for flood damages to be £2.8bn.
The UK Climate Change Risk Assessment predicts significant damages costs and stimulates the much needed focus on funding and mitigation (to avoid exacerbating climate change/flooding).
Today (2/2/17) the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) launched their report: A Place for SuDS? is launched at the House of Lords. The report is supported by Susdrain, University of Exeter Centre for Water Systems, Landscape Institute, Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), The Institution of Environmental Sciences (IES), the Construction Industry Council Champion for Flood Mitigation and Resilience and Cornwall Community Flood Forum.
The report proposes that:
1. Discharge of surface water to the sewer system should be conditional on the inclusion rst of high-quality SuDS in new developments.
2. A clear decision must be taken with regard to the adoption and allocation of maintenance responsibilities for SuDS. This should have a clear and established mechanism for raising funds to ensure the continued effective maintenance and eventual replacement of all SuDS they adopt.
3. New standards are developed aimed at optimising opportunity to achieve amenity, biodiversity and water quality bene ts as well as ood risk reduction. These should reflect the needs of the adopting authority so that they can set out an approval process and adopt with confidence.
4. The Government should undertake a follow up review of the barriers to retro tting SuDS in existing developments and make proposals on how retro tting might be incentivised.
Also today, Cornwall Community Flood Forum wrote to the Secretary of State and Cornwall's 6 MPs asking:
Should the Government not me minded at this stage to fully enact Schedule 3 of the F&WMA, we would be keen to learn if it would explore the economics of the well-known barrier (how such responsibilities would be resourced and funded)?
We ask what mechanism evaluates the predicted costs of flooding £2.8bn a year (UK Climate Change Risk Assessment), against the opportunities to fully achieve the benefits of water quantity and quality management, amenity and biodiversity?
*Read here to find out about today's activity and responses in the House of Lords. The letter Luci Isaacson MSc has written as Chair of Cornwall Community Flood Forum to the Secretary of State and notes on the debate there today (in the comments).
Luci Isaacson was in the House of Lords at this event sharing how Cornwall is affected, especially with its topography, Martyn Alvey from CCFF explained the report, Suds and how they effect Truro to BBC Radio Cornwall. Paul Thomas Fowey Harbour Master also described the need to be resilient on standby to use the Fowey Flood Barrier. "Irene" from Wadebridge enjoys telling Laurence about the flood work there to create a dam and utilise wetland sustainable drainage already in place.
Listen to Luci Isaacson as she responds from the House of Lords event with the next steps, Laura Grant CIWEM talks about the report and developers, Richard Benwell WWT talks about the history of suds and most importantly the rich biodiversity opportunity.
Peter Aldous MP, asked people to write to their MPs to get government onside over key points. Please write and say: "I'm concerned about development and flooding. I think to make development drainage sustainable is not expensive and will not slow down development, all of which this new report addresses. Please could you also ask government to enact the 4 policy proposals on page 32 http://www.ciwem.org/suds/ Thank you"
Nov 062015
In Blog
Dear all,
Please do share the link to this post with your friends.
What an amazing bunch of fellas cycling from Truro to Paris?!
What an amazing bunch who funded the Carbon Logic Project and Report!!
Thanks all!!!!
From: RogerCO at Riseup [mailto:email@example.com]
Sent: 06 November 2015 13:40
To: firstname.lastname@example.com
Cc: Luci Isaacson
Subject: Remember Footsteps 2009
Hi All
(bcc'ing a lot of email addresses from around 2008 – 2009 and the Groundswell and Footsteps to Copenhagen events)
Of course you remember the amazing work that Luci did with the Footsteps programme and the Pledges you probably all signed and the team with Oliver taking a pilot gig to the canals of Copenhagen.
And you remember the disappointment with the outcome.
But it wasn't the end. Five years on and COP21 is in Paris next month, again governments around the world attempt to find a way forward – at least they are still trying.
Meanwhile, as some of you know, Luci has been busy. Under the banner of Climate Vision she has followed up on those pledges and showed an amazing result. A report documenting it has been produced and this needs to get to delegates in Paris to show that not only are people, specifically 4000+ people in Cornwall, prepared to make changes in their lifestyles, but these changes come at remarkably low personal and economic cost.
Governments need to know this. They need to know that their citizens can to motivated if they would only offer leadership. And that is why we must get the report in the hands of Environment Ministers, MEPs and delegates who are swarming to Paris.
Luci has not rested – she is firing up contacts and making appointments in Paris – we are going to do the legwork for her.
"We" is Euan McPhee from Falmouth, Roger CO from Launceston, Ricky Knight from Barnstaple and Ewan Jones from Bruton.
We are going to carry the report to Paris by cycle and meet the representatives there. And along the way in every town we stop in we are meeting people, distributing the pledge cards, explaining to people why what happens in Paris is important and what they can do matters whatever the outcome.
So this is where you come in.
Euan and Roger depart from the steps of Truro Cathedral at 11am on Tuesday 17th November – can you be there to see us off?
Would you like to bring a bike and join us for a mile or two along the way?
We will be in Wadebridge that evening of 17th – come and join us in the Molesworth Arms, or in Liskeard the following evening in the Barley Sheaf.
Or get to Saltash for another crossing of the bridge on Thursday 19th – this time a mass of bicycles setting off from Fore Street at 4:30pm to ride into Plymouth for a departure rally before we board the ferry.
Or simply help us on the way by supporting our Crowdfunder to pay for rooms to hold meetings in, events to set up, places to stay, and all the other 1001 things that have come up to add value to every turn of our pedals.
For full details see our website http://pedal2paris.uk – there's a blog and details of the events are being posted as they get firmed up.
Find our Crowdfunder at www.crowdfunder.co.uk/pedal-power-from-cornwall-to-paris-cop21
Find us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/pedal2paris/
Download the Climate Vision Report at http://climatevision.co.uk/carbon-logic-project
Please do forward the details and links on to anyone you know in Cornwall who might be interested in what we are doing. Please share the Facebook page and website.
And if perchance you have any contacts in Normandy (from Avranches to Rouen via Saint Lo, Caen and Honfleur) we are looking for more contacts in those places.
Many thanks for your time, I hope you are all still well and not too many of these 5 year old email addresses have expired!
All the best
+44 7736 74 12 68
Help us get the Climate Vision Report to Paris COP21 this November


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IoT is the new favorite of CIOs. A lot of buzz is there in the market. So it's really important to understand the tangible benefits of IoT.
According to Forrester, IoT impact businesses in two ways :
1. Enhance front end customer experience: Every industry has different definitions and requirements to enhance the customer experience and it's very difficult to list down each and every aspect of customer experience. Broadly, following are the initiatives should be taken to enhance customer experience:
- Build Smarter Products by tapping the enormous data
- Use the data to make Customer order and delivery tracking more efficient and precise
- Enhance Energy management by deploying intelligent sensors
- Enhance Security and public safety monitoring or surveillance by making things talk to each other and managed centrally
- Connected sensors which can be controlled through handheld devices or from a remote location making Smarter homes.
2. Improve backend operational efficiency: A business is as efficient as its backend is. Processes like navigation, metering, asset tracking, notifications, monitoring and ordering support the following use cases:
- Fleet Management: Navigation systems and asset tracking systems have made it possible for reduce the cost and use the same money to invest in core business processes
- Logistics and Transport: It's become easy to monitor non stationary assets' inventory with the help of chip in the near real time. A report published by Forrester highlights how Cargo View uses smart global SIM cards to provide an automatic airplane mode during flight times so that connected objects travel in a safe FAA compliant mode when on a aircraft.
- Predictive and Prescriptive maintenance: Real time monitoring services enables Predictive and Prescriptive maintenance. Now it's possible to predict failure or adapt precautionary methods so that failure can be avoided or aftermaths can be minimized.
- Supply chain management: Monitoring and tracking reliably the status of fast moving consumer goods and assets is a competitive advantage. So if tomorrow don't get surprised when you milk man carry a bag with a chip embedded in it and capturing the location data, temperature data etc and transmitting it to the server to make the milk delivery in a next level.
- Safety monitoring and surveillance: Location specific data adds tremendous relevancy to IoT solutions. Imagine you got a car which transmits location continuously to your mobile device. And in case you come across an familiar route you disable the car.
IoT solutions are getting smarter and more attractive not because of two important facts:
1. Machines can now talk to each other
2. There is a program sitting somewhere which make the hardware, users and other machines understand what is being said, how is it being said, when is it being said, by whom and to whom it's being said.
To get you started, all you need is an IoT platform which already has most of the stuffs ready for you, you just have to start writing the codes. Yes I am talking about IoT platforms on Cloud !!!


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The National Attorneys General Training & Research Institute
Consumer Protection News April 2017
The following is a compendium of information that may be of interest to our AG offices who are dealing with consumer protection issues. Neither the National Association of Attorneys General nor the National Attorneys General Training & Research Institute expresses a view as to the accuracy of the matters, nor as to the position expounded by the authors of the hyperlinked materials.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Civil Investigative Demand for For-Profit Schools Documents Denied
A D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals panel has issued an opinion saying that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau cannot force a for-profit college accrediting group to comply with an investigative demand to determine the group's accreditation method, saying the demand inadequately described the scope and purpose of the investigation.
In an April 18 blog, the CFPB announced that it is updating its ex parte policy on rulemaking. The policy generally requires public disclosure of ex parte communications made to its decision-making staff about pending rules. Two key updates have been made to that policy: (1) a state entity exemption and (2) procedural improvements.
There is now an exemption for state entities, similar to the existing exemption for federal agencies, and includes state attorneys general, state bank regulatory authorities, and state agencies that license, supervise, or examine the offering of consumer financial products or services.
A final rule delaying the general effective date of the CFPB rule governing prepaid accounts has been issued. The rule will now take effect on April 1, 2018. In addition, the decision was made to revisit at least two substantive issues in the prepaid accounts rule through a separate notice and comment rulemaking process.
CFPB Reports
The CFPB has released its report of Supervisory Highlights for Spring 2017. In this issue, the CFPB report examination findings in the areas of mortgage servicing, mortgage origination, student loan servicing, and fair lending.
The CFPB has also released its Fair Lending Report 2016. This report describes the agency's fair lending activities in prioritization, supervision, enforcement, rulemaking, interagency coordination, and outreach for calendar year 2016.
Also released by the CFPB was its Monthly Snapshot spotlighting student loan complaints. The snapshot provides information on both private and federal student loan borrowers' reporting breakdowns in student loan servicing.
CFPB Monthly Complaint Report, Vol. 21 (March 28, 2017) Available here
Federal Communications Commission
FCC Chairman Pai has announced his intent to establish a new federal advisory committee, the Advisory Committee on Diversity and Digital Empowerment. A public notice soliciting membership applications and providing additional details about the committee's work will be forthcoming.
The Federal Communications Commission has issued its bi-annual Internet Access Services Report. This report, released earlier this month, covers the period of January 1, 2016 – June 30, 2016.
Also released was the FCC's 16th Annual Mobile Wireless Competition Report. This report contains data and information that the FCC uses to analyze competition in the mobile wireless industry.
Federal Trade Commission
TRUSTe's COPPA Safe Harbor Program
The Federal Trade Commission is seeking comments on proposed changes to TRUSTe's safe harbor program under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, including an amendment that would require participants to conduct an annual internal assessment of third parties' data collection practices.
Connected Cars
The FTC has extended the deadline until May for the public to submit comments on topics that should be examined as part of a June 28, 2017, workshop on the consumer privacy and security issues posed by automated and connected motor vehicles.
Military Consumer Financial Workshop
The FTC has announced that it is hosting a workshop in San Antonio, Texas, on July 19, 2017, to examine financial issues and scams that can affect military consumers, including active duty service members and veterans. The workshop seeks to bring together military consumer advocates, consumer groups, government representatives (local, state, and federal), military legal services and legal clinics, all service branches, and industry representatives. Panelists interested in participating in the workshop should contact the FTC.
Annual Highlights
The FTC has released its 2016 Annual Highlights, addressing the agency's efforts to protect consumer and promote competition. Included in the report are the agency's enforcement highlights focusing on key legal actions, including health care, technology, and other consumer products and services.
United States Department of Justice
IRS Collection Fraud Scheme
An Indian national has pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering for his role in liquidating and laundering victim payments generated through various telephone fraud and money laundering schemes via India-based call centers. The matter involved a complex scheme in which individuals from call centers located in Ahmadabad, India, impersonated officials from the IRS or U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in a ruse designed to defraud victims located throughout the United States. Victims were threatened with arrest, imprisonment, fines or deportation if they did not pay moneys alleged to be owed.
National Association of Attorneys General
New NAGTRI Center for Consumer Protection / Director
The National Association of Attorneys General announces the creation of its NAGTRI Center for Consumer Protection (CCP). The mission for the Center is to assist and enable attorneys general in protecting the public in the areas of consumer protection and charitable asset and entity oversight by providing information, technical assistance, and support; facilitating cooperation among attorney general staff through open dialogue and advanced communication systems; planning, organizing, and conducting training and seminars for the exchange of ideas and information on relevant matters; and promoting the development of effective programs and education for the protection of the public.
Abigail Stempson has been named as the Director of this newly established center. A native of Tecumseh, Nebraska, she joins the NAAG and NAGTRI staff having most recently been the chief of the Consumer Protection Bureau in the Nebraska Attorney General's Office, where she focused on consumer fraud and deceptive trade practices, nonprofit organizations, charitable trusts, tobacco enforcement, and antitrust matters.
NAAG Spring Consumer Protection Conference
The NAAG Spring Consumer Protection Conference will be held Monday, May 15 – Wednesday, May 17, 2017 in Washington, DC. On Monday from noon until 7:00 p.m., the public is invited to attend the conference. The public portion of the agenda will address matters including disruptive technologies, class action and CAFA, the effectiveness of notices and disclaimers, a look at the effect of the Spokeo case one year later, and social media marketing.
Mark Neil is the Editor of Consumer Protection News and may be reached at 202-326-6019. Consumer Protection News is a publication of the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG). Any use and/or copies of this newsletter in whole or in part must include the customary bibliographic citation. NAAG retains copyright and all other intellectual property rights in the material presented in this publication. For content submissions or to contact the editor directly, please e-mail email@example.com.
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St. Thomas Community Christian School is growing! Over the past couple of years, God has blessed us richly through our enrolment as we have increased from eighty-four students five years ago, to one hundred and twelve students presently. As a result, we are starting to burst at the seams. What a wonderful "problem" to have: so many students! At one of our last Board meetings we were wrestling with some of the challenges we face as a result of our recent growth when one of our Board members stopped us for a moment to remind us of the times when the Board dreamed of having so many students. It was good to reflect on the ways in which the Lord has blessed our community: good and humbling.
In order to address our growth, we are planning to build an addition to the school. We are hoping to add several new classrooms, redesign the parking lot, increase storage space and address several other needs in our current building. This is a very exciting time as we plan to develop our facility in a manner that will meet our current needs and sustain Christian education in St. Thomas for the next fifty years. Please pray for us as we embark on this journey and trust fully in God's provision.
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you
and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
Jeremiah 29:11


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When it comes to construction, it takes a large amount of teamwork and effort to make things happen. There's all sorts of building projects going on at anytime in America, and these jobs are tough. They involve drilling, sawing, welding, bolting, and more. Trucks drive miles to carry large loads of resources such as wood and steel, and equipment uses lots of energy to make things come together and get erected.
Naturally, because of all that goes into making construction work, a lot of debris and garbage comes out of the process as well. This is where construction waste management finds its calling. There's a lot to be dealt with regarding a construction site, and one of the most significant things that has to be dealt with is the refuse that is generated when something is being built There are leftover sheets of steel, beams and girders, wood, screws and nails, and much more. Just like anything else discarded, it has to be deal with in an appropriate way, but unlike most waste, construction waste needs a specific approach that understands the materials involved and the best ways in which to dispose of them.
However, construction waste management isn't just about getting rid of disposed materials. It's also about making the most out of what you use, and recycling or reusing the stuff that's thrown away. When paying for wasted materials to be disposed of, you could be cutting as much as 5% or more from the profits on a building. Instead of just getting rid of things, construction waste management can be applied to recycling efforts that give value back to your construction efforts.
In fact, when discarding wasted materials, you end up paying two times for the stuff that's used on the job site. You pay once to buy the materials and then you pay again to have what's discarded hauled off for elimination. The proper application of construction waste management can see to it that you get the most out of the materials that are left to the side during a construction effort.
Construction waste management can also go very far towards protecting a business from liability. If you clean up your own mess and make the most out of the byproduct of construction, you reduce the chances of having your disposed waste taken care of in an unauthorized or illegal way. This can come back to negatively affect the reputation of your business in a big way.
In the end, construction waste management is a great way to achieve lower costs, higher efficiency, and responsible resource conservation. It takes into account all the aspects that are important to quality construction work while giving back to your business what it needs to prosper.


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This year has seen some almighty good food trends from paleo-inspired, wood-grilled meats to the proliferation of pop-up restaurants, citrus everywhere and DIY foods, more global tastes than ever before, and even a ramen renaissance. But like every year, 2014 had its share of downer-grade food fails, and plenty of old dining habits that refuse to die and live on like nutriment-vampires sucking the very life out of the culinary industry. Let's make 2015 the year that we decapitate the decrepit, outdated food zombies and usher in a new annum of gastronomic creativity, preferably without any kale.
Here's a list of five food trends that need to die with 2014.
See also: The 13 most overcooked food trends of 2013, in Colorado and nationwide
5) Enough with the snoozy mac and cheese rehashes
I get the whole "comfort-food-is-comforting" culinary dynamic, but we are coming up on 2015, not 1951, and we can all really upgrade our palates to something, anything even slightly more creative than macaroni and cheese. Slapping mac & cheese onto a restaurant menu and adding lobster scrapings and green onions to it isn't making it any less a modest dish that can be made at home with little effort or cost, and aside from elbow noodles and cheese sauce being a huge mega-pirate ripoff, it's also stunting the pasta creativity of the entire culinary industry.
Macaroni and cheese variants need to be murdered until they are all dead, even (and especially) the ones with goat cheese, olives, cauliflower, buffalo chicken, kobe beef, edible effin' gold, and truffle oil.
4) Get lost, pretzel buns
I didn't ever-ever think that pretzels could be heinously misused, nor did I imagine that they would ever be used as weapons for shadow ninja chefs to destroy the fabric of humanity. Pretzels buns on every kind of sandwich was never a good idea, because although pretzel buns are enchanting, they just don't mesh well with sammie fillings like salami (or any kinds of cured meat, really) or tuna salad (or any sort of seafood, actually). Pretzel buns are salty, slightly sour, chewy and salty again, which makes them a good match for certain cheeses and mild fillings like chicken, turkey and veggies, but using them for everything just because they are popular has made them less delicious, and more annoying.
It takes a lot to make pretzels irritating, so howza 'bout we make the mismatched sandwich bun trend a short one, shall we?
3) Back away from the kale
Okay, everyone who eats food: kale is delicious, kale is nutritious, and kale needs to stop being trendy right now. Actually kale needed to quit being a thing right around the time restaurants started dumping it in salad bowls with handfuls of chickpeas, lemon squeezings, chopped dates and sheep-milk feta and charging a bloody ransom for it. Kale used to be cheap, and now it's not; it used to be elegant in its simplicity, and it got complicated. And if it wasn't for those cheesy-garlic kale chips, I would take a vow to stop eating kale until it permanently stopped being what hipsters use to show each other that they are super fucking organic kale heroes every day.
And power down on the micro kale fascination before it becomes unaffordable. It's a whole new year, so go obsess over iceberg lettuce or something.
For more deathly food trends, keep on reading.
2) Quit while you're ahead, cronuts.
Dominque Ansel probably had no clue that his croissant-doughnut creation was going to morph into one of the biggest counterfeit pastry items in living memory; the gazillion knock-off varieties of the cronut are usually passably edible at best. The problem with too much copycatting is twofold: replication fade results in inferior products, and creative immobility emphasizes replication over innovation. Monotonous and predictable are two words that could accurately describe the sad proliferation of the cronut. Diners deserve more than subpar pastries. When you can find cronuts at Dunkin' Donuts, you know it's long past time to ditch the trend.
And two more words for the cronut craze? Sod off.
1) Free us from gluten-free.
The gluten-free hysteria has gone way too far, and it needs to stop as soon as possible. There are folks who legitimately have Celiac disease or extreme wheat allergies, and it's great as hell for them to have more options than ever before. But there are far too many paranoid trend-fuckers who are picky because they want attention, but who couldn't even tell you what wheat gluten is, or why they don't want to eat it. Let's make a vow for 2015 to stop catering to unreasonable, self-diagnosing yupsters, and collectively ignore the gluten-free fad diets and dieters who believe that gluten is poisonous and that eschewing it will help them lose weight, eat healthier or leap tall buildings in single bounds.
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It was a Spice Girl reunion in London on Tuesday when Melanie Brown, Victoria Beckham, Emma Bunton, Geri Halliwell, and Melanie Chisholm came together to drum up interest in "Viva Forever," an upcoming musical based on the hit songs of the '90s girl group.
The event took place at St. Pancras Renaissance London Hotel, where the Spice Girls filmed their music video for "Wannabe" back in 1996. The women looked better than ever as they gathered to talk about "Viva Forever," which will be produced by Judy Craymer, the mastermind behind the ABBA musical, "Mamma Mia!" The show centers around four women whose friendship is put to the test when their band competes on a TV talent-competition show. The musical, which opens this fall, will feature hit songs made famous by the Spice Girls, who sold 75 million records around the world.
"They sing it better than us," Melanie Brown, better known as Scary Spice, told the Associated Press, referring to the cast of the musical.
The Spice Girls formed in 1994 and shot to fame two years later when they released their debut single, "Wannabe." Some of their other hit songs include "Say You'll Be There," "Spice Up Your Life," and "Viva Forever," which was the inspiration for the name of the musical. Halliwell left the group in 1998, and while the remaining four continued to make music together, they called it quits in 2000. This is the first Spice Girls appearance since they all participated in a reunion tour in 2007 and 2008.
After the event, Beckham — who is now based in Los Angeles where her husband, David, plays soccer for the L.A. Galaxy — immediately headed back to the States, but the Spice Girls were on her mind. "On my way home!! Thank you @MelanieCmusic @OfficialMelB @EmmaBunton @GeriHalliwell for an amazing day!! "
"Viva Forever" begins previews in November, then opens at London's Piccadilly Theatre on December 11.


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TORONTO: Denigrating the Indian education system and favouring the `superior' English education system for colonial India, Lord Macaulay in his `Minutes of Indian Education' in 1835 said, "…English is better worth knowing than Sanskrit or Arabic; that the natives are desirous to be taught English, and are not desirous to be taught Sanskrit or Arabic; that neither as the languages of law, nor as the languages of religion, have the Sanskrit and Arabic any peculiar claim to our engagement; that it is possible to make natives of this country thoroughly good English scholars, and that to this end our efforts ought to be directed."
He said, "I have conversed both here (in India) and at home with men distinguished by their proficiency in the Eastern tongues. … I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia. Honours might be roughly even in works of the imagination, such as poetry, but when we pass from works of imagination to works in which facts are recorded, and general principles investigated, the superiority of the Europeans becomes absolutely immeasurable."
The report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, after six years of work and testimonies of nearly 6,000 survivors of cultural genocide, last week paints a similar picture of the white Canadian government against the country's native nations in the 20th century.
As part of their cultural genocide, over 150,000 Native children were forcibly removed from their families and put in residential schools. Out of these, 3,200 never came back to their families. No one knows where they were buried as their names were never recorded.
The commission report says the Canadian government pursued, "a coherent policy to eliminate Aboriginal people as distinct peoples and to assimilate them into the Canadian mainstream against their will.''
The aim of sending Aboriginal children forcibly to residential schools was "primarily to break their link to their culture and identity.''
The report says, "The Canadian government pursued this policy of cultural genocide because it wished to divest itself of its legal and financial obligations to Aboriginal people and gain control over their land and resources."
According to commission chairman Murray Sinclair, seven generations of aboriginal peoples bore the brunt of cultural genocide as they were cut off from their families, roots, language, culture, spiritual traditions and their collective history.
Commissioner Marie Wilson poignantly said, "Parents who had their children ripped out of their arms, taken to a distant and unknown place, never to be seen again. Buried in an unmarked grave, long ago forgotten and overgrown. Think of that. Bear that. Imagine that. The reason of death a mystery.''
The commission worked for six years to collect testimonies and statements of 6,000 survivors and their relatives to show the Canadian government and the church pursued a policy of cultural genocide and assimilation against native people people to consolidate hold on Canada.
Interestingly, the report quotes the remarks of Canada's first prime minister John A. Macdonald, who during his speech in the House of Commons in 1883 said: "When the school is on the reserve, the child lives with its parents, who are savages; he is surrounded by savages, and though he may learn to read and write his habits, and training and mode of thought are Indian. He is simply a savage who can read and write. It has been strongly pressed on myself, as the head of the Department, that Indian children should be withdrawn as much as possible from the parental influence, and the only way to do that would be to put them in central training industrial schools where they will acquire the habits and modes of thought of white men.''
Didn't Macaulay say the same thing about Indians in 1835 what John Madonald said about Native nations of Canada in 1883?
READ: How 100,000 British slave kids were brought to build Canada


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Bolivian police break up Amazon road protest march
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Bolivian police have broken up a long-distance march by indigenous protesters who oppose plans to build a road through a rainforest reserve.
Officers wielding truncheons and firing tear gas moved in on the demonstrators' camp, taking people away in buses.
President Evo Morales says the road is vital for development but has offered to hold a referendum on the issue.
Hundreds of people set off last month to march to La Paz but were stopped at Yucomo, with 250km (155 miles) to go.
An estimated 500 police officers moved in late on Sunday afternoon on a camp set up by the marchers.
Protest leaders said dozens of people had been driven away and their whereabouts were unknown.
Local police chief Oscar Munoz said the people were being taken back to their hometowns.
The Bolivian ombudsman, Rolando Villena, criticised what he said was excessive use of force by the police.
"Injured children, disappeared mothers who didn't want to separate from their children - this does not talk well about our democracy. This is not democracy," he said.
The clashes came a day after protesters had briefly held the foreign minister, David Choquehuanca, forcing him to walk with them.
Mr Choquehuanca, who had come to negotiate with the protesters, said the fact that he was freed showed "they want to resolve matters through dialogue".
In an apparent bid to defuse tension, President Morales said on Sunday that he would put the road plan to a regional referendum.
"If they say yes, a study will be done to see where the best route for that road is, the most direct...and with the least environmental impact," Mr Morales said.
Plans for a road through the Isiboro-Secure Indigenous Territory and National Park - known by its Spanish acronym Tipnis - have divided opinion in Bolivia.
Indigenous people who live in the reserve say the highway would encourage illegal settlement and deforestation in their ancestral Amazon homeland.
Hundreds of protesters set off in mid-August to walk 500km from Trinidad to Bolivia's main city, La Paz, to voice their opposition.
But others, including Mr Morales, say the road would help bring basic services to isolated communities, and also boost the local economy by giving farmers better access to markets.
The road, which would link the highland city of Cochabamba with San Ignacio de Moxos in the Amazon lowlands, is being funded by Brazil and built by a Brazilian company.
The march, which set is the latest in a series of challenges Mr Morales is facing from indigenous groups and social movements that helped make him Bolivia's first indigenous president.


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August 3, 2010
SF Gate reported that the state Supreme Court rejected San Francisco's challenge to California's Proposition 209 on Monday, August 2. The 1996 initiative prohibits public institutions from granting preference based on race, sex or ethnicity in employment, contracting and education.
An ordinance that was passed in 2003 gave minorities and female contractors an advantage of five to ten percent in competitive bidding and also required general contractors to focus on recruitment of female and minority subcontractors in San Francisco.
After being sued by two companies who said they lost contractors because of the ordinance, San Francisco challenged the state's ban on affirmative action. The city argued that Prop 209 violated the U.S. Constitution's Equal Protection Clause by creating barriers for minorities and female contractors, while allowing preferential treatment for other groups such as veterans. The Los Angeles Times added that the law violated the so-called political structure doctrine, which "prohibits government from creating structures that make it difficult for minority groups to obtain beneficial laws".
According to Mercury News, the Supreme Court upheld Prop 209 in a 6-1 ruling, which also overthrew the 2003 ordinance. City lawyers, however, do not feel the ruling was a total loss as Justice Kathryn Mickle Werdegar agreed to give San Francisco a chance to salvage the law if they could "prove it is the only possible way to fix entrenched discrimination in the city's contracting programs". Sherri Kaiser, San Francisco's lead attorney on the case, said, "This is the first case that blows a hole in 209." She is confident that the city will be able to prove that affirmation action is needed.
Justice Carlos Moreno was the only one who dissented and argued that the law was indeed necessary in order to correct discrimination. According to SF Gate, Moreno said Prop 209 imposed a burden on women and minorities and was a huge blow to programs that aid those groups. Additionally, Prop 209 cannot be modified without voter approval, which Moreno pointed out would be difficult to earn at the ballot box.
The Los Angeles Times reported that Sharon L. Browne, principal attorney for the Pacific Legal Foundation, the public interest law firm that sued the city on behalf of the two companies, speculated that San Francisco would not be able to justify a need for the ordinance. "We are poised for ultimate victory in this case, because it is already clear that San Francisco has no evidence to support its claim of past intentional discrimination by the city or its contractors against minorities and women," she said.
Compiled by Heidi M. Agustin
"Affirmative action ban not unconstitutional, California Supreme Court rules," LATimes.com, August 3, 2010, Maura Dolan
"California Supreme Court upholds Prop. 209 affirmative action ban," MercuryNews.com, August 2, 2010, Howard Mintz
"S.F. loses challenge to affirmative action ban," SFGate.com, August 3, 2010, Bob Egelko


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More recently I've shied away from doing any higher level walks due to health and worry about keeping up with other people (I'm a plodder!) So when a group of Home Ed friends said they were doing The Dovedale Round I wasn't convinced. However, Teen 2 decided he wanted to give it a go, and being assured it wasn't too steep, off we went.
Of course, if I'd been a bit more sensible, I would have checked the contour lines on the map beforehand but maybe that would have put me off completely!
We followed this route description (Walklakes – Dovedale Round) but did it backwards, so in theory we had the steepest part first and then a nice gentle wander along the ridge on the way back (yes, this was advised by the same person who said it wasn't too steep!) The route takes in High Hartsop Dodd, Little Hart Crag, Dove Crag, Hart Crag, Hartsop Above How, Gale Crag and a few other lumps and bumps – 5 Wainwrights, 6 Birketts, 3 Hewitts and 3 Nuttalls…phew, no wonder it was tough!
The younger and fitter ones in the group seemed to have boundless energy and made it look easy while I had resorted to counting 40 steps, stopping, 40 steps, stopping (my strategy for coping with tough hills!) There were a few choice words along the way muttered descreetly to myself. The really steep descent on a loose stone path at the end was almost my breaking point – but WE DID IT!
The sun had shone all day, not a drop of rain, just a cold wind on the tops so almost perfect walking weather. The views were absolutely amazing and getting up high was fantastic, even through all the pain! After all the moaning and groaning, I'm really glad we did it, just goes to show how much more our bodies are capable of than we think they are. Teen 2 was a star, always checking back with me to make sure I was ok, making sure I knew about loose rocks and wet slippery bits.. proud mum moments!


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- Ice-covered trees in front of home on Mansfield Avenue. Robby Charnock writes on 2008-12-29: This photograph shows the aftermath of a 1998 ice storm in Burlington. There are two ice-caked tress with drooping and broken branches due to the heavy ice. Several power lines are tangled in the trees branches, they are also weighed down with heavy ice. Behind the trees is a beige colored two story house with a red door. The down power lines seem to connect to that house. To the left of that house is a small beige colored shed. A tall ice covered coniferous tree stands behind this house. To the right of the beige house is a white two story house. The sky is overcast, there is snow on the ground and the season is winter.
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