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Nov 29, 2011
UN climate talks 2011: REDD in the real world
On day two of the climate talks Friends of the Earth International held a workshop at C17, the civil society space in Durban, on how a carbon trading scheme is ruining the lives of indigenous communities wherever it is implemented.
Lucia Ortiz, Friends of the Earth Brazil, explains how REDD came about.
Lucia Ortiz from Friends of the Earth Brazil opened the workshop and explained what REDD is.
REDD stands for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation. It is a carbon trading scheme that came out the of UN climate negotiations. It is a way of enabling big carbon emitters - mainly in the global north - to continue to pollute whilst paying other countries to keep their forests - which store up to 20% of the world's carbon - in the ground.
Read our report for more information
The floor was then open to other people to present their experiences of REDD in their respective countries.
The view from Uganda
First to present was David Kureeba from Friends of the Earth Uganda (NAPE).
Since 2007 the World Bank and other institutions have been offering Uganda money for REDD projects. Many projects have failed to materialise but now things are happening on the ground and forest dwelling communities are being seriously affected.
The government is kicking out communities from the forests and giving away their land to private investors to be turned into plantations for growing agrofules, palm oil and other monocultures.
The communities that manage to remain on their land, after it's been sold beneath them, find that their rights have been eroded. Women can no longer collect wood for making fires because the wood belongs to the new 'owner' who has paid for all trees to remain in order to claim carbon credits.
When the land is bought for cultivating agrofuels the chemicals that are used seep into the rivers and kill the fish that communities live off.
Recently the government tried to give away a protected forest to a foreign buyer in order for them to grow sugarcane. Under the rules of REDD this would be perfectly legitimate. But chopping down a forest in order to create a monoculture plantation is in no way a solution to climate change.
David Kureeba, Friends of the Earth Uganda, explains how REDD is forcing communities off their land.
NAPE are still challenging this decision in the courts.
David concluded his presentation by listing some of the lesson he's learned in his experiences with REDD:
"Governments are taking advantage of REDD. The government harasses anyone who resists a REDD project. There is a lack of knowledge by communities on REDD.
"Finally, REDD money is not reaching communities. It is taken by the top brass" he concluded.
It was a damming indictment of REDD.
REDD tries to get a foothold in Mozambique
Nilza Matavel from Friends of the Earth Mozambique (JA!) talked about the consultation, or lack of it, that is taking place in Mozambique at the moment as it gears up to start its REDD projects.
A Brazilian organisation that specialises in REDD recently held a series of workshops in Mozambique and civil society groups were invited. However, what was presented at the workshops was an extremely positive view of how the scheme would work. The hosts failed to present the negative aspects of REDD, which by far outweigh any positives.
JA! was the only group in the room raising objections to the presentations because they were the only ones with all the facts to hand. As a result, the minutes to that meeting were never circulated and in the following workshop no references were made to JA!'s objections. Nilza and her colleagues eventually walked out of the process.
"This is how things currently work in Mozambique" Nilza told us. "The proponents of the project will no doubt get the green light to go ahead after having 'consulted' with civil society"
a loss of sovereignty
The situation is the same in Latin America where numerous REDD projects are up and running.
Ivonne Yanez from OilWatch Ecuador gave her perspective on Ecuador's 'Social Forests' programme.
"When the government gives subsidy to indigenous people for payment of environmental services, which means looking after the forest, it also means the indigenous people give the right for anyone, including gas and oil companies to access their lands. The people don't realise this is what they're signing up to."
Finally Lucia talked about the situation in Brazil where the commodification of the earth is reaching new levels.
Due to pressure from corporations the Brazilian government is dismantling its internationally respected forest protection laws and literally outsourcing nature. Trees, rives and the air above are being turned in to credits to be traded on Wall Street.
Lucia echoed the common thread in all these REDD projects:
"The one who buys the credit has unrestricted access to the land. Communities are losing the sovereignty of their land which will mean an end to traditional practices"
Find out more about REDD
Nov 28, 2011
UN climate talks 2011: video
Friends of the Earth International joined a crowd of 10,000 people on the streets of Durban to call on climate negotiators to listen to the voice of the people at the UN climate talks.
Director of Friends of the Earth South Africa, Bobby Peek, explains why many South African civil society organisations are calling these climate talks in Durban the "conference of the polluters"
The 'we have faith' rally took place in the Kings Stadium, Durban. The event was hosted by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and a number of South African faith leaders and musicians. FoEI Chair Nnimmo Bassey also addressed the crowd and warned them that Africa will be cooked if countries are allowed to pledge and do as they please in the negotiations.
UN climate talks 2011: will they listen?
The climate talks have begun but the negotiators seem to be sticking to last year's script. An impromptu assembly outside could teach them a thing or two.
A group of people discus what climate justice means to them at the Conference of People General Assembly. As delegates streamed into Durban's International Conference centre for day one of the UN climate talks, another assembly was getting underway on a small patch of grass over the road.
The 'Conference of People General Assembly', also known as Occupy COP17, got together to start a conversation of their own on climate change.
Addressing the assembly was Pablo Solon, Bolivia's former chief climate change negotiator, who gave his view of the official talks and stressed the importance of people's gatherings like this one.
"The issues being negotiated are the future of human life…The Cancun agreement will cook the world. Temperatures will increase by four degrees and in Africa they will increase by eight degrees"
"Negotiators will not change if there is no social pressure. The future of the world begins here."
With those words in mind, the assembly split into small groups to talk. Their first task: to discuss the meaning of climate justice.
the state of the talks
Inside the conference centre, at Friends of the Earth International's first press conference, our chair Nnimmo Bassey echoed the views of Solon and quoted Archbishop Desmond Tutu whom he spoke with at a rally the day before:
"Those who think they would survive when climate change gets to the tipping point and becomes uncontrollable are fools."
He stressed the fact that Africa is suffering the most - alongside small island states - from the impacts of climate change:
"We are not speaking of what will happen in 5 years or ten years we are talking about what is going on right now.. We are speaking about droughts, we are talking about climate environmental refugees already in the continent. We are talking about floods, we are talking about crop failures, desertification, mudslides" he said.
Nnimmo also reminded the audience that Africa is, by no means, the only continent suffering the consequences of extreme weather though. In the past year alone countries in Asia and Latin America have suffered from terrible flooding.
Lucia Ortiz, Bobby Peek, Nnimmo Bassey and Meena Raman speak at FoEI's first press conference of the climate talks. . Meena Raman from FoE Malaysia talked about the state of the talks and the entrenched positions of many developed countries.
"Rather than strengthen the emissions targets and cut out the loopholes to galvanise real action on climate emissions, the US, Japan, Canada and others are pushing to scrap the agreed, legally-binding framework to cut emissions and replace it with a voluntary 'pledge and review' approach. This approach would put the world squarely on track to catastrophic global warming" she said.
Finally Lucia Ortiz from Friends of the Earth Brazil talked about the conflict and insecurities communities are facing in her country as flawed schemes to offset carbon emissions, such as REDD are persued.
In closing, Bobby Peek from FoE South Africa confirmed his belief that conference delegates are already feeling the pressure from the civil society voices on the outside demanding climate justice.
The question is: will they listen?
Nov 24, 2011
Our demands in Durban
Urgent action must be taken at the COP 17 talks in Durban. Find out what we're calling for.
Members of Friends of the Earth International show COP 15 delegates that carbon offsetting is the greatest con trick in history. Copenhagen, 2009.We are reaching a historic culmination of events in the fight for radical cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and systemic change in the unjust and unsustainable economic system which underlies the climate crisis.
Corporate and financial elites and multinational corporations are intensifying their efforts to serve and protect their interests through false solutions like carbon markets.
This injustice is being met with resistance by movements, organisations and activists that are calling for the transformation of societies to take back our futures.
Friends of the Earth International demand that governments at COP 17:
- Accept strong, legally-binding emission reductions for developed countries based on science, equity and the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities.
- Commit to adequate and appropriate public finance for developing countries mitigation and adaptation.
- Reject all forms of carbon trading and offsetting.
- Embark on just transitions towards genuinely sustainable economies domestically through the reduction of commodity flows and consumption, investment in public infrastructure, appropriate renewable energy, green jobs, small-scale sustainable agriculture and community-led biodiversity and forest conservation.
- Respect and enforce the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities.
- Reject any role for industrial monoculture tree plantations, agrofuels and GMOs and other false solutions such as nuclear energy and carbón capture and storage (CCS).
- Respect the Convention of Biological Diversity moratorium against geo-engineering.
What can you do?
Your contribution counts. You can join the movement for climate justice. You can pressure your government to take a stronger stance in the international negotiations and help ensure a safer climate and protect the lives and livelihoods of ordinary people and communities around the world.
The movement for climate justice is growing and becoming stronger, as we are seeing in Durban with organisations and social movements mobilising for climate justice and planning to continue to struggle against false solutions like carbon trading.
Real solutions to climate change are available, for instance reducing consumption, improving energy efficiency, choosing sustainable locally-produced food, and switching to clean, green power. We, take action together to build a new society and transform the current unjust and unsustainable economic system. This is the only chance we have of being heard and stopping the further decline of the world's climate and the possibility of catastrophic climate change.
Nov 18, 2011
UN climate talks 2011: Background to the talks
The world is on a precipice. Already the lives and livelihoods of millions of people are being devastated by the impact of increased extreme weather events like flooding, droughts and hurricanes. Climate change is directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people per year, most of whom are in poorer communities in the poorest countries of the world.
If urgent action is not taken, not only will climate change get worse but we could overreach dangerous tipping points into irreversible and catastrophic climate change.
Developed countries' governments are neglecting their responsibility to prevent climate catastrophe. The positions of these governments at global climate talks are increasingly driven by the narrow economic and financial interests of wealthy elites and multinational corporations while the poorest communities suffer.
These interests, tied to the economic sectors responsible for pollution or profiting from false solutions to the climate crisis like carbon trading and fossil fuels, are the key forces behind global inaction.
the solution
Tackling climate change means changing the unjust and unsustainable economic system, especially our dependence on polluting fossil fuels and the over-use of the world's resources. To do this we need to push governments to act in the interests of ordinary people, workers and communities and the poor and vulnerable.
Within the UN, rich developed countries must meet their historical responsibility by committing to urgent and deep emissions cuts through the Kyoto Protocol – the existing legally binding framework, without carbon trading, offsetting and other loopholes, They must also repay their climate debt to poorer countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America so that they too can tackle climate change. This will benefit people all around the world by ensuring a safe climate, more secure livelihoods, more green jobs, clean affordable energy and energy efficiency.
Questions and answers on the talks
What is happening at the UN climate talks?
Should the world abandon the UN talks and try and tackle climate change somewhere else?
What do FoEI want to see happen at COP 17?
Do FoEI support the continuation of the Kyoto Protocol?
What is wrong with carbon markets?
What is REDD and what are forests credits?
What is the 'corporate capture of the UN'?
What is industrial agriculture's role in climate change?
What's more, it looks like rich countries want to use the Durban climate talks to further diminish their responsibilities to tackle climate change and dismantle the whole framework for binding reductions of greenhouse gases, without which we have no chance of avoiding catastrophic climate change. They are also pushing for the expansion of false solutions like carbon trading, a further escape hatch from emissions reductions which will make climate change worse and cause further harm to people around the world while bringing huge profits to polluters.
WHAT DO FoEI WANT TO SEE HAPPEN AT COP 17?
Do foei support the continuation of the kyoto protocol?
Rich countries, led by the US, Canada, Japan and Russia, are trying to tear up these international treaties and replace them with a high risk voluntary approach.
Rich countries must agree to a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol with strong targets and no carbon trading, offsetting, or other loopholes if we are to have a chance of avoiding catastrophic climate change.
Carbon markets also have potential human rights and environmental impacts resulting from the land grabbing associated with many offsetting projects like REDD, plantations and agrofuels.
WHAT is REDD AND what are FORESTS CREDITS?
Now, in addition, there is a strong push from industrialised countries for REDD projects to be financed through the global carbon market, which will open up further loopholes in terms of global cuts in carbon emissions and also dramatically increase the chances of destructive impacts on communities and the environment in countries where REDD projects are based.
Including forests in carbon offsetting initiatives does not work: it diverts attention from real measures to reduce emissions and prevent deforestation, and threatens Indigenous Peoples and local communities who depend on them for survival.
what's wrong with biofuels?
Agrofuels benefit large agribusiness and energy companies and their expansion does not help to address climate change. Instead, promoting agrofuels reinforces the current unsustainable model of consumption and production which has fuelled climate change in the first place.


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Digging down to your line is not likely to be helpful unless there is a cleanout fitting somewhere, and there likely is not one outside your house.Originally Posted by Duphus
I would doubt the previous owner did the connection himself or herself, and I would be very surprised if that old septic tank is still any part of your system.Originally Posted by Duphus
Have you actually opened that tank to see what is inside and/or possibly going on there? Septic tanks are always "full", but poorly-working tanks can build a hard crust of scum that can eventually block either the inlet or outlet, and septic tanks can eventually collect quite a layer of sediment at their bottoms. Since you have already done some digging, dig a little more in that area and see whether you can find an access to that tank. There will likely be two of them, with one at each end. My suspicion, however, is that the top of that tank has been broken down and a new pipe was laid over it to bypass it altogether when your house was connected to the city sewer those many years ago. And if so, whatever clog you have might simply be out-of-reach for a 50' snake.Originally Posted by Duphus

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Post-Katrina New Orleans is overrun by wild dogsSeven years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans, the impact of the storm is still being felt. One organization that's still dealing with the aftermath is the Louisiana SPCA.
"In the end, over 600,000 animals were killed or stranded because of Hurricane Katrina," reports Wendi Jonassen in The Atlantic. The surviving strays made homes in abandoned houses and under porches. Today, there are still sections of New Orleans that remain abandoned, now overrun with weeds and wild dogs.
Related: 20 adorable photos of dogs giving their best "puppy eyes"
There simply aren't enough people to adopt all these dogs. Louisiana Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals (LA-SPCA) is taking multiple approaches to solving the problem.
"We employ every initiative possible to find an adoptable animal a home, but because of the pet overpopulation problem of our community we do have to euthanize adoptable animals due to space," LA-SPCA spokesperson Katherine LeBlanc told NOLA.com. Spaying and neutering remains a huge priority, and in May of this year, some strays were exported to the Atlanta Humane Society.
Related: 10 tips to keep your dog calm during a thunderstorm
In the seven years that have passed since Katrina, much has changed in how federal, state and local governments prepare for evacuations. After finding that many pet owners refused to evacuate, choosing instead to stay with their pets, Congress passed the Pet Evacuation and Transportation Standards Act (PETS), says the blog Philly Dawg. The act directs all states receiving FEMA money to develop plans for pet evacuation in disasters. Many states have passed laws mandating comprehensive plans to keep pets from harm's way and many shelters now accept pets. One can only hope that this will help this hurricane season, including during Hurricane Isaac, projected to hit New Orleans as well. - By Joslyn Gray
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Left Behind: Post-Katrina New Orleans is Overrun with Homeless, Wild DogsBy Babble.com | Animal Nation – Wed, Aug 29, 2012 2:05 PM EDT
Post-Katrina New Orleans is overrun by wild dogsSeven years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans, the impact of the storm is still being felt. One organization that's still dealing with the aftermath is the Louisiana SPCA.


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Pension Mina
Pension Mina :
A Mexican property for travelers from around the world, where you will find kindness, harmony, respect, cleanliness, privacy and great help to know the city of Guadalajara and the beautiful state of Jalisco.
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Qwilfish is a Pokemon that has been overlooked time and time again in previous generations due to its poor base stats overall. However, BW brought Qwilfish its saving grace: a new Dream World ability in Intimidate. This makes Qwilfish much bulkier on the physical side than its stats would make it seem and gives it a chance to shine in RU. Qwilfish is a top choice for a defensive Spikes user, as it can check many top physically attacking threats such as Entei and Escavalier. Qwilfish's semi-unique typing gives it handy resistances to Fire-, Fighting-, and Bug-type attacks, all of which are common in RU. It's also gotten better with the coming of BW2, as one of its main issues was a lack of recovery, and this has been somewhat mitigated by the addition of Pain Split to its arsenal. However, some flaws remain. Qwilfish's atrocious Special Defense means that it struggles to take any powerful neutral special attacks, making it a setup opportunity for threatening foes such as Sceptile and Lilligant. It also has a bit of four-moveslot syndrome, as it has several moves that allow it to deal with certain kinds of foes, whether they are setup sweepers with Substitute, slower entry hazard setters, or fast offensive Pokemon. Qwilfish can't fit all of these moves on a single set though, so it's bound to have trouble with a certain type of threat. Nevertheless, Qwilfish is a top utility Pokemon and one of the best Spikes users in the metagame, and it is absolutely deserving of a teamslot should you require its services.
This is the only Qwilfish set you should be using, but it does so much for a team and will always satisfy your desires. Spikes is an instrumental support move, and Qwilfish is one of its best users in the metagame, as it gets numerous opportunities to switch in and set them up during the match thanks to Intimidate and its great defensive typing. Qwilfish also boasts the ability to beat most of the main spinners in the tier, as it can paralyze both defensive Cryogonal and Swords Dance Kabutops and use Waterfall to beat them. It also beats both Hitmonchan and Hitmonlee, provided the former isn't carrying ThunderPunch, although this isn't much of a feat as the two of them aren't very effective Rapid Spin users. Pain Split is an important move for Qwilfish, as it provides Qwilfish with some form of recovery, allowing it to perform its job even better. Waterfall is Qwilfish's STAB move, which prevents it from being Taunt bait against Pokemon such as Aerodactyl and helps it wear down Entei; it works especially well in combination with Thunder Wave, as your opponent will find it hard to get an attack off because of the effects of paralysis in addition to Waterfall's flinch chance.
Qwilfish has a plethora of utility moves at its disposal; however, there is only room for one of them. Thunder Wave is usually the best option, as it deters Pokemon like Sceptile, Galvantula, and Moltres from switching in, although the latter doesn't particularly like Waterfall either. It also clears the way for slower Pokemon such as Escavalier, Rhydon, and Magmortar to sweep. Taunt is more useful against defensive teams, as Qwilfish is faster than most other defensive Pokemon and can prevent them from healing or setting up entry hazards; Pokemon like Ferroseed, Clefable, and Mandibuzz are especially vulnerable to Taunt. Lastly, Haze is also a viable option, and it works wonders against setup sweepers with Substitute, particularly Klinklang, Crawdaunt, and Bulk Up Gallade. Each one has different uses for different teams, so it might require some experimentation to find exactly the right move.Team Options & Additional Comments >>>
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Qwilfish is useful on a rain team, as it becomes a fearsome rain sweeper with Swift Swim and a Swords Dance under its belt. It's also not weak to Grass-type attacks, which is very helpful on a rain team, and it can absorb Toxic Spikes. It can even set up Rain Dance by itself. Aqua Tail can be used over Waterfall for its higher Base Power, but Waterfall is usually superior for its higher accuracy and flinch chance. Qwilfish can also use a Choice Band set with Waterfall, Aqua Jet, Poison Jab, and Explosion, but such a set is largely outclassed by Kabutops or Feraligatr, which have better natural bulk, more power, or a better secondary STAB in the former's case. Lastly, Destiny Bond can be used as an alternative to Explosion on a suicide Spikes set, but most offensive leads are faster than Qwilfish and slower Pokemon can usually see it coming.
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In general, special attackers are the easiest way to beat Qwilfish. Lanturn is arguably the best counter to Qwilfish, as it can switch into Waterfall easily and end Qwilfish with a Thunderbolt or Volt Switch. Rotom-C is another top counter to Qwilfish, as it only fears the rare Poison Jab and also KOes with either Thunderbolt or Volt Switch. Tangrowth is another foolproof counter, as it doesn't even care about Poison Jab and can hit Qwilfish with Giga Drain; Regenerator also cancels out Spikes damage. Psychic-types are also good counters to Qwilfish, especially Slowking, which switches into Waterfall with impunity, doesn't mind Thunder Wave, and hits back with Psyshock. Other Psychic-types, such as Mesprit, Sigilyph, and Uxie, are also good counters, as Uxie commonly uses a Lum Berry to neuter paralysis, Mesprit often uses a Substitute + Calm Mind set, and Sigilyph can hold a Flame Orb to shield itself from paralysis. They can all hit Qwilfish hard with Psychic, Psyshock, or Stored Power. Lilligant and Sceptile can both come in on anything bar Thunder Wave or Poison Jab (although Lum Berry Lilligant doesn't even fear Thunder Wave) and KO with Giga Drain or set up a Quiver Dance or Substitute, respectively. Steelix takes Waterfall like a champion and sets up Stealth Rock before 2HKOing with Earthquake, although it's setup fodder if its Attack has been lowered.
While Qwilfish can be easily countered, preventing it from setting up Spikes is a far more difficult task. Natu is the ultimate answer to Qwilfish, as it can bounce back Spikes onto your opponent's side of the field and set up Reflect to avoid taking much damage from Waterfall. Faster Taunt users, such as Aerodactyl and Drapion, can prevent Qwilfish from doing much of anything, but the former doesn't take Waterfall well. Manectric and Electivire can take a Waterfall and KO with their STAB moves, and pick up a boost if they switch into Thunder Wave. Also, if Qwilfish lacks Taunt or Haze, it can be set up on by several threatening sweepers. Substitute + Dragon Dance Crawdaunt, Klinklang, Lum Berry Gallade, Swords Dance Feraligatr, and others can make Qwilfish setup fodder, and they all don't care about Thunder Wave. Roselia has Natural Cure to get rid of paralysis and 2HKOes Qwilfish with Giga Drain, while Qwilfish struggles to do much in return. Some of the most powerful physical attackers in the metagame can beat Qwilfish even after Intimidate because Qwilfish doesn't resist their STAB move; Choice Band Aggron and Druddigon are the best examples of this.


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Social Media in Fluid Power
From what I have heard, social media is used but still on an early-adopter basis in the fluid power industry. It will grow but I am not sure at what rate.
Companies are signing up for Facebook pages and individuals and company representatives signing in as companies are using Twitter. LinkedIN is growing but I am not sure that where it will be best used. Hydraulics & Pneumatics has over 2,000 members in it's LinkedIN user group.
My advice is to get involved in Social Media. The many programs that offer you the opportunity to participate offer exposure for your company and products. It does take person hours though and a company needs to have a strategy.
I don't think that Social Media will replace face-to-face meetings, telephone conversations, or even e-mail. It is another tool that, if used wisely, can be benificial.
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ATLANTA — Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller was among secretaries of state and national business leaders who met this week as part of a collective effort to fight back against a new type of crime: business identity theft.
Miller recently created Nevada's multi-jurisdictional Corporate Identity Fraud Task Force, which includes federal, state and local law enforcement officials working together to fight the growing problem of corporate identity fraud. The task force is believed to be the first of its kind in the nation.
"We need to address these types of crimes the same way we do other criminal activity," Miller said. "Aggressive enforcement is the first step, of course, but my experience as a criminal prosecutor taught me that assisting victims is an equally important aspect. Corporate identity fraud can be devastating to small businesses. Just as secretaries of state around the country are active in registering and regulating some business activities, we also have a duty to provide protection and assistance when a person or business is victimized."
Secretaries of state and senior state business division leaders from 20 states met Monday and Tuesday at The National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) Business Identity Theft Forum. The meeting featured expert panels designed to assist the officials who oversee state business records and filings with fraud-related awareness, detection and prevention efforts.
"Secretaries of State want to warn businesses, particularly small- and mid-size business owners, that this type of crime can be financially devastating," said Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler, who serves as co-chair of the NASS Business Identity Theft Task Force and has seen more than 300 businesses in his state fall victim to identity thieves, with total losses exceeding $3.5 million. "Business identities are uniquely valuable, because they often have an established credit history that can be worth a lot of money to fraudsters."
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Sunday, February 19, 2006Valparaiso rallied from a 3-0 deficit to close within a point but Bradley won a pair of three-set matches late to defeat the Crusaders 5-2 on Sunday morning at Matchpoint Tennis Club in Griffith, Ind.
The Braves jumped in front early sweeping all three doubles contests. Wil Lofgren and Alex Roby posted an 8-3 win over Nic Kooyers (Holland, Mich./Holland H.S.) and Mike Shideler (Valparaiso, Ind./Munster H.S.) at the top of the lineup while Matt Metully and Brian Hanus were 8-5 victors over Mike Wagner (Ann Arbor, Mich./Pioneer H.S.) and Dave Bukowski (Mount Prospect, Ill./Prospect H.S.) at number two. Bradley (2-5) competed the sweep with an 8-7 (4) tie-break victory at the third spot as Marko Marevic and Evgeny Samoylou topped Joe Venegas (Saint Charles, Ill./North H.S.) and Alex Lau (Bloomington, Minn./Jefferson Senior H.S.).
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Last night on Keeping Up with the Kardashians, which returned with little fanfare opposite the Breaking Bad finale and every other show, camel toe was the story.
Khloe Kardashian being the chief offender. Kourtney and Kim Kardashian called out their little sister for her constant wardrobe malfunction down under.
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Kourt reveals during a pajama party with friends that while all women have some issues with C-toe at times, Khloe's is out of control on a regular basis.
"We've all had our camel toe moments but Khloe lets the camel be shown," Kourtney said, then gives her an apparatus to help hide it. Plus 150 for sisterly love.
"It is what it is. I have a big p--sy, I can't control it," Khloe said. Plus 150 for owning that p--sy. Minus 300 for Lamar ditching it for Polina Polonsky's "crack."
Speaking of Lamar, he made a brief cameo, before his epic downward spiral took place. He did seem a little out of it, but nothing like what's to come.
Back to Khloe, mom Kris Jenner does what any helpful parental figure would and claims credit for the trait. "Mine looks pretty damn good," Kris tells Khloe.
Plus 200, again, because you gotta OWN the camel toe, and because she adds that Khloe shouldn't let her sisters act like they're "the p–sy police."
At the end of the day Khloe declares, "I have to go back to the mindset that if you see it, that's my gift from me to you. And it's a beautiful gift." Holla.
Plus 200 because she coined the acronym CTC, to stand for "Cover That Camel," and Plus 200 more because we've seen A LOT more of Kim's.
We're talking about the Kim Kardashian sex tape. Plus 250.
Aside from CTC, the theme of the night was Kim's baby shower, which she claimed she didn't event want as she took endless selfies with her phone.
Minus 400, Kim, for being the opposite of self-aware.
"My pregnancy as got a lot of negative attention for me and the baby and I don't need a baby shower," the future hot mother of North West bemoaned.
"Let me just relax and not have some big, blown up event," she added and naturally, her sisters did not go along with it and naturally, Kim was pissed.
But she changed her mind after seeing a video of her mom's shower featuring her late father, then bought all the items from the registry for herself.
"If people want to give something they can donate to the children's hospital," she said after her surprisingly charitable display, adding. "Kanye would like that."
He would? Plus 300 in that case for their generosity.
The family then acted surprised when details of the shower were miraculously "leaked" to the media and it becomes a huge spectacle. Shocking.
Minus 500 for acting like there was a real leak.
Finally, Kris and Kylie plan to dispose of Bruce Jenner's gun, which he says his wife looks "hot" while holding, but he's having none of their plan.
The plan backfires when Bruce buys Kris another as a present. "There will be a gun in this house, bottom line," he insists. Bruiser FTW, and Plus 100.
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"The pharmaceutical industry is a laboratory for best practices in meeting planning," said Christine Duffy, president and CEO, Maritz Travel Co., St. Louis, as she opened the First Annual Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners Forum, held March 31 to April 1 at the Hilton Philadelphia City Avenue. The meeting was co-produced by Medical Meetings and the Center for Business Intelligence. "You can count on pharma to be in the forefront," she said.
But the forefront often is not a comfortable place to be, as the planners from 22 pharmaceutical companies attending the meeting know all too well. "The expectations are greater, the time is shorter, and the challenges are many," Duffy said. Among these challenges are external drivers, such as the economy, the political climate, and regulations like Sarbanes-Oxley, along with a slew of healthcare-related acts and statutes.
There also are new players on the field that meeting planners must work with, including procurement and corporate travel management departments, as companies consolidate meetings to rein in costs. In addition, planners are under pressure to measure meetings' return on investment — a term many of them find objectionable. Both the internal and external changes are creating an environment where it is increasingly important for meeting managers to become strategic leaders and increase their influence with senior stakeholders.
One thing became rapidly apparent as the sessions began: While each meeting planner was dealing with different corporate reactions to today's regulatory and market challenges, they had more in common than they thought. And while the challenges pharma planners face are multitude, the solutions kept circling back to communication, teamwork, and partnerships — especially among each other.
As Chris Pentz, CMP, president, Pentz Group Communications, Levittown, Pa., said in a panel discussion on future pharma meeting planning trends, "I remember when I first started going to industry shows as a pharma planner and was told to find the other pharma planners in the room — and stay away from them." Now, at this meeting, planners from many companies came together to do more than share challenges and strategies — they developed a community of peers that they could rely on long after the meeting ended.
Geoffrey Levitt, vice president and chief counsel, regulatory and research, with Collegeville, Pa.-based Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, introduced the partnership theme with a lively session on how to work with a company's legal department. First, he said, you have to know why legal does the things it does. "Please understand that there are good reasons for wanting all that documentation — it's not just to bury you in paperwork." (See the sidebar on page 22 for a regulatory rundown.)
Companies are responding to all the new pharma marketing rules and regulations by developing internal policies and guidelines, Levitt said. For consultant recruitment, selection, and use, companies are requiring that the legitimate need for the service be outlined in advance; that healthcare providers are selected based on their experience/expertise, not prescribing habits; and that the company doesn't hire more consultants than it needs. These policies also cover consultant remuneration, which should be fair market value and given for legitimate, reasonable, and necessary services.
A more difficult policy to enforce is a yearly cap on the total remuneration given to any one healthcare provider, including pay, travel, meals, etc. "It's hard to track how much goes to each healthcare provider because that person might be used by different departments," Levitt said. And everything has to be documented in a consultant agreement. "If [the feds] come after you, you want to show you have the agreements signed and policies in place," he said.
In addition, companies are requiring that venues be "reasonable in cost and conducive to the consulting services," and that the entertainment/education costs are balanced. "We don't have a secret book in our desk that puts a green light next to a certain hotel in a certain city," Levitt said. "A resort might make sense, depending on the circumstances. The same might be true for entertainment; it might be fine to have a game of golf, but the educational purpose can't be secondary to the golf."
Companies also are emphasizing training in these policies — "Until you train your people on your policies, they're just pieces of paper," he said. "It protects the company and the person." Wyeth requires every employee to receive training in the policies and get a score of at least 90 percent on a test. "Everyone had to take the test, including me," he said. "Can you imagine if the regulatory affairs person flunked?" he said, to everyone's amusement.
When working with third parties, it's important to make sure everyone involved understands the rules. "If a third party comes to me with something that looks bad, I have to help them fix it or walk away," said Levitt. "If you're a third party and a company person comes to you with a bad idea, the same thing applies." But ultimately, he said, any impropriety would be the company's responsibility, so the onus is on the pharma planner to make sure everything is above board.
Once you understand the pressures companies are under and the policies they have created in response — "what's behind them, not just what they are" — Levitt suggested that planners work with legal to develop templates for meeting planning that address areas of concern. He also suggested involving the legal and regulatory affairs department when discussing long-term plans for medical meetings to make sure everything is OK from the start. Another idea he proposed was to provide to the legal department — far enough ahead of time to allow for a thorough review — any draft meeting materials that require internal company sign-off. "Make emergency sign-offs the exception, not the rule," said Levitt.
Another department planners need to learn to play well with is procurement. "Procurement is not a four-letter word," said Judy Benaroche Johnson, CMP, president and CEO, Rx Worldwide Meetings, Plano, Texas, during a session she led about choosing preferred vendors and third parties. "It is a way to guide purchasing decisions, reduce costs, centralize the purchasing process, commit to a specific dollar amount, maintain consistent branding, and track payments more efficiently." She added that it usually involves different departments sharing their best practices with the procurement department to leverage meeting spend.
Novartis has had pretty spectacular success in implementing such a process, according to presenters Steven Chyung, chief procurement officer, strategic sourcing, and Paul Tomaszeski, executive director, business support services, Novartis Pharmaceuticals North America, East Hanover, N.J. During a case study presentation, Chyung explained how he has helped to lead the transformation of Novartis' procurement department, which supports close to $2 billion in third-party indirect spend across the Americas, from a mainly logistical function to a more strategic one. The entire consolidation process not only captured $53 million in 2004 meeting spend, but also consolidated the core roster of medical education and event management companies Novartis used, improved the med ed and event management processes, established cost per attendee per meeting type, and benchmarked Novartis' performance against other pharma companies.
Chyung and Tomaszeski showed a humorous video explaining exactly how the Novartis process works, with a smooth partnership between internal departments that sign off on the budgets, sourcing experts, and meeting planners. "Nailing down the roles and responsibilities of each was important," says Chyung. He added that they worked with human resources to introduce the event consolidation plan to the vice presidents of the different groups that sign off on the meeting budgets, then told them they could keep the money they save if they had 85 percent compliance with the consolidation plan. If they didn't reach that goal, they would lose those dollars.
Another big change: Novartis peeled the number of med ed companies they used from more than 100 to a core roster of just 15, and whittled its 36 major event suppliers down to just four. Novartis sees synergy between travel, event sourcing, and meeting planning, and organizes those functions under Tomaszeski's team in business support services.
On the supplier side, "Preferred vendors have to identify their core competencies, show quantifiable data on cost savings or cost avoidance, and be able to work differently than they have in the past," said Johnson in her session. "The procurement professional doesn't want to be the meeting professional." To get proactive in her relationship with procurement departments, Johnson reads articles on how procurement departments work, and researches what's going on both with her client companies and with their competitors. And, because procurement departments tend to be data-intensive, third parties should ensure that they also have data-intensive systems in place.
In a town-hall-style session led by Carol Krugman, CMP, CMM, president and CEO, Krugman Group International, St. Petersburg, Fla., the audience explored what works and doesn't work in the relationships between medical education/meeting planning companies and their corporate clients. One pharma planner in the audience eludes the problems altogether by not hiring third parties: "We save $20 million by keeping it all in-house." Another audience member countered, "I've seen companies who take everything in-house and say, 'Look how much we save.' Then they say, 'Well, now we have to pay these people even during slow times. Let's outsource.'"
One medical education planner in the audience said a common problem was that the contract covered only content development, but the pharma company kept adding more services. "We'd love to do it all, but it's not in our contract." Another complaint from the third-party planner side was, "Why are we being segmented as just logistics managers? We have worked so hard to be strategists" — a comment that received much applause. Michael Galindo, medical program financial manager, Merck & Co., Rahway, N.J., who served on Krugman's panel, said, "We consolidated preferred vendors a while ago. More recently, we unbundled services." Krugman explained that "unbundling" means separating out various meeting components and assigning them to different agencies according to their core competencies, such as site sourcing, content development, registration/housing/travel, and on-site logistics management. Even though the components are separated, the coordination and monitoring are still centralized within the company. Galindo added, "We developed a communication process to use between finance, the clinical team, and logistics [vendors]. That's helped a lot."
Krugman had a different twist: "Among our client base are med ed and other planning companies. When the client wants to split out logistics from content, these other third parties hire us to help when they lack the expertise required to do what their client wants." She added that, because her company has extensive international experience, small boutique med eds pull her company in when they're doing international meetings. "We present our capabilities to the client together, and the client knows we're involved. The other med ed company keeps the general services contract, and we split the fee. Larger med eds who prefer that we work under their name just sub the international logistics out to us. And still others are forced to work with us sometimes, when we have a client in common who prefers that we manage the logistics. This happens frequently for meetings in Latin America, where we have considerably more expertise and connections than most companies. Whatever the arrangement, we can no longer rely on what we relied on in the past. It's different now, folks, and if we don't find new ways to work together, those of us who want to remain small and specialized will not survive."
One delegate from a meeting planning company got heads nodding when she said, "One frustration of working with a med ed company is the power struggle and resistance to working with other third-party independents. They don't easily cooperate when we're hired to do the 'planning' and they do the content development — there needs to be more shared respect and cooperation among vendors. We're on the same side." Another audience member brought down the house with this comment: "The frustration is that we all want service, service, service, but we don't want to pay for it. We need to value each other's expertise."
In addition to discussing challenges with their third-party colleagues, in-house pharma planners had the opportunity to share frustrations and solutions among themselves. At a closed-door session for pharmaceutical meeting planners led by Stephanie Bertrand, project manager, Sepracor Pharmaceuticals, Marlborough, Mass., the talk quickly turned to professional development, and how planners can achieve a more strategic status with their companies through gaining more control over the budgeting process. The question under hot debate was how to work more closely with the managers of the different product groups and the finance department to make that happen.
One planner outlined her strategy: "Because management's business is pharmaceuticals, not meeting planning, they don't necessarily have a good grasp on what's needed for their meetings. It's all about going to management and saying, 'Your spend isn't what you think it is because it's coming from many different buckets.' You have to show the true dollar figure to the right people; then they'll turn to you to do the budget." Another planner added, "We have to educate others on how valuable the program is to the stakeholders."
One way to start the education process is to put together budgets for every possible configuration and contingency a meeting might face and present it to the finance department, said one planner who had done just that a few years ago. "So if a three-day turns into a four-day, or they have to fly instead of drive, finance already has the change of plan."
Some planners also felt a little out of the loop, being shuffled from department to department: "We're an anomaly. They don't know what to do with us. Is meeting planning sales, marketing, or something else?" One planner answered, "I position my department as a service group and report to human resources. If the budget comes from sales, we're servicing sales as our customer. If we have two groups involved, we have a meeting well ahead of time with both key stakeholders. We develop the program together. It's painful, but it works."
Another planner said, "I work directly with the CFO to develop the budget; I give him the numbers based on history. We're able to shift money around if one group comes up short and another goes over. If someone comes up with a new meeting, they either have to make an exchange with another program or come up with a new budget for it. You have to sit down with the business owner and get buy-in all along the way."
"Finance is your friend," said another planner, who prepared a flowchart of all the different meetings being charged to different departments and presented it to the finance department. "I showed them what's really going on. That's how we got them to budget directly to us. If you're still charging out to the different departments, take the full picture to finance and get the comptroller behind you."
Speaking of money — attendees also had concerns about travel reimbursement, honoraria, and speakers who don't want to abide by corporate policy or the PhRMA Code on Interactions with Healthcare Professionals. Some rein in speakers by abiding by the same rules they use when making arrangements for internal personnel; others ask that the speaker go through the company's travel department. "If the speaker wants to use his own agency to get the mileage points, tell him that you'll reimburse him up to the cost of the coach ticket your travel department found for him."
Other advice was to train speakers in the PhRMA Code — and even send a copy of the code with each speaker contract. If doctors still want more than you can reasonably give, just stand firm, they agreed. In the event a physician says, "I'll never prescribe your drug again because you won't pay for my spouse, delegates suggested responding, "I hope you will do what's in the best interest of your patients."
At the end of the session, the feeling of solidarity and connection among attendees was palpable. As one planner said, "I have felt kind of alone, like I was the only one dealing with all these issues. I feel so much better knowing you all share my pain."
Pharma planners need to understand how government scrutiny and regulation of drug companies' marketing practices affects meetings, said speakers Geoffrey Levitt, vice president and chief counsel, regulatory and research, with Collegeville, Pa.-based Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, and Jean-Ah Kang, PharmD, senior regulatory affairs consultant with Scientific Applications International Corp., Frederick, Md. During their sessions, which opened the Pharmaceutical Meeting Planners Forum, they outlined the various laws, codes, and regulations that govern pharma today.
The Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act covers advertising and promotional materials distributed by a manufacturer, but it doesn't stop at a brochure. "Advertising and promotional materials have a broader interpretation," said Levitt. "Any communication issued on behalf of the company that deals directly or indirectly with the company's products could and probably would be considered to be promotional." That's why meeting planners need to make sure their materials are not false or misleading, don't promote off-label use, and present a fair balance between the product's risks and benefits, as required under the FD&C Act.
The False Claims Act, "an old law [the feds] are now using to crack down," said Levitt, "imposes civil liabilities on companies that defraud the government," and potentially also imposes liabilities for any off-label promotion that results in government reimbursement, and allows for qui tam, or whistleblower, enforcement. The latter is becoming increasingly important as Congress is "talking about forcing companies to inform employees about the benefits of whistleblowing. That's an indication of the environment we're in now," he said.
Then there's the Federal Anti-Kickback Statute, which prohibits companies from giving items of value to induce a customer to buy its product, if its product is reimbursable by a federal program such as Medicare or Medicaid. Many states also have their own version of this statute. The Office of Inspector General, which issued its Compliance Program Guidance for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers two years ago, now is looking at consultant meetings for possible violations of the anti-kickback laws. "Business courtesies for those in a position to influence referrals also can trigger the Anti-Kickback Act," Levitt added.
In addition, there's the PhRMA Code on Interactions with Healthcare Professionals which, while voluntary, recommends that there be a legitimate need for a consultants meeting, that selection criteria for attendees be tied to their experience and expertise, and that the venue be conducive to the services provided.
And there are lots of teeth behind the regs these days, including expensive settlements in the high-profile examples of TAP Pharmaceutical Products Inc., and the Neurontin case that Pfizer inherited when it bought Warner-Lambert. "Times have changed," said Levitt, of the allegations that Warner-Lambert took physicians on lavish trips to resorts under the guise of consultant meetings and paid opinion leaders or high-prescribing physicians to act as consultants without requesting significant service in return, thus triggering the Anti-Kickback and FCA laws. "This was not uncommon behavior when these violations occurred," he added.
But while practices have changed, the regulatory backlash continues to intensify, Levitt said. And companies that violate the rules incur more than financial risks. In addition to settlements, companies such as TAP and Pfizer were required to enter into corporate integrity agreements with the government that laid out policies and procedures for speaker and advisory board meetings, consultant arrangements, and employee training. The agreements are good for at least 10 years, depending on the company's demonstrated compliance.


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