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The Joint Honours degree in Philosophy and Sociology provides you with the opportunity of specialising in two university honours subjects. Many students find joint honours both stimulating and rewarding as they observe both similarities and differences in the two subjects. Often there are complementary issues and perspectives as well as skills and that link the subjects, be they critical analysis, historical contexts or recent research. Each school involved in delivering the degree offers a challenging programme of modules, supported by a friendly atmosphere and excellent staff-student relationships. For fuller information about each of the subjects, please visit the two separate subject entries on Course Finder.
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Austria's Flying Bulls, and the larger BD-5 community, are mourning the loss of a skilled pilot who crashed May 1 while attempting an emergency landing.
The Flying Bulls posted online a brief announcement expressing "shock and sadness" at the death of Guido Gehrmann, who was returning from an appearance in Tirol in the team's BD-5J, a single-seat turbojet that has been an airshow favorite since James Bede developed it in the 1970s. The team, created by Red Bull founder Dietrich Mateschitz, announced Gehrmann was attempting an emergency landing after reporting engine failure, but the attempt "ended in tragedy."
Local media published a photo and preliminary account of the crash near Innsbruck, Austria.
While the BD-5J's history is fraught with mishaps, and its commercial viability ended with the bankruptcy of its creator, it remains in limited use around the world, including service as an airshow performer and on U.S. Air Force special missions. An updated version has been developed as a kit sold by an Oregon firm, a story told in detail in the December 2012 issue of AOPA Pilot.
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You wouldn't think it from his demeanor: calm, unassuming, upbeat, always the perfect gentleman and always quick to spread credit for team success.
By media standards he's a pleasant encounter.
To most gridiron gurus he's a coach's dream, provided the team's starting QB is on terra firma and the club's in need of a tight-end with a good pair of hands.
This is the Tim Tebow we all know. The home-schooled, prep football vagabond whose on-field exploits at the University of Florida made him a Southern fold hero.
That's the good book on Tim.
But there's another book on Mr. Sunshine. Not an expose, mind you, the kind Mr. Woods keeps suffering through as others cash-in on their association with the former golf great.
Rather, it's a figurative book on his darker side and those vexing character traits you won't normally perceive in someone as Tim but which we all possess to one degree or another: personas like vanity, banality, credulity, selfishness, insecurity and insincerity.
Recent reports lead me to believe this son of a preacher man craves attention on par with the likes of Mark Cuban, Terrell Owens, Danica Patrick and "Neon" Deion Sanders. One difference: those four knew where to land their egos. Tim, well, he picked a real doozy of a destination touching down in Jetsland, The Young & the Restless of the NFL.
Opting for the bright lights of Broadway and passing on an invite from hometown Jacksonville (Jaguars) was clear indication of Tim's alter ego. Jags' owner Shahid Khan and fans must still be perplexed, dumbfounded by the rebuff.
With the Broncos contented (Peyton) and the Jags ready to deal ("Khan" / SI-FN / 3-27), I see no good reason why Denver brass would deny the man who brought Tebowmania to Mile High a chance to "weigh-in" on like-trade options (ESPN ticker / 3-21). As such, I give no weight whatsoever to Tebow's implication that he had no involvement in the decision ("Tebow" / Strauss / Fox / 3-23), thus making him appear like so many other self-promoters.
Not that there aren't plenty of reasons to reside in the Big Apple. New York City is a grand metropolis in many respects. Whether Tim has the inclination to partake in its myriad of enlightening and intoxicating diversions remains to be seen. Suffice to say, there's no better place to sell yourself and your line than the media mecca of the world.
And there in lay Tim's two-pronged mission in New York: selling the faith from the second biggest pulpit in America and selling thyself for the biggest payday possible.
It's true that Tebow would get full exposure if he commuted to work from Nome, Alaska. ESPN interns dig the dude more than Tiger and LeBron combined. But there's something about living, working in NYC that energizes the coverage. He's their guy, you might say.
"Hoy-day! What a sweep of vanity comes this way (Shakes-speare / Edward de Vere)!"
I don't begrudge anyone the freedom to pitch himself or his religion. Both endeavors are as American as apple pie and late Friday rallies on Wall Street. Old-time ball-player turned evangelist Billy Sunday comes to mind (Cubs / 1880s).
But if I'm a follower of New York Jets' football, I'm not a happy camper.
Tebow isn't in NYC to play football. Sport is just a vehicle for his agenda: "My goal is to create a brighter day for as many people as I possibly can by being on this earth" (ABC / 4-13)." If he were focused on the game he wouldn't be getting detail-work in Hollywood (curing / 4-6 / ESPN) and pass up a chance to help put Jacksonville on the NFL map.
As for Jets' agenda: "It's a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma" (Churchill).
Ryan's lost cachet with players, new OC Sparano brings a failed gimmick (wildcat) and owner Woody Johnson appears detached: "I'm very confident Mark can develop into a winning quarterback" ("Johnson" / N. Gay / Fox / 3-25). Where's he been the past three years? Sanchez is 4-2 in the PS. That's more playoff wins than Romo, Ryan & Rivers combined.
I'll say this for Jetsland, the circus atmosphere looks downright harmonious compared to the cry-babies in Beantown (Red Sox Nation v Bobby). Oh my god! Just roll with it, Youk. "Whatever happened to Gary Cooper, that's what I'd like to know (T. Soprano)!?"
And even if Timbo is a divo in disguise, he still might give the Jets a spark they need, wherever he's positioned. Key is whether Rex & staff can get the roster to embrace, or at least shake hands with, Tim's biggest asset: his sometimes infectious exuberance.
In spring, football musings are all high speculation. As that NYC philosopher Herm Edwards would say, "That's why...you play...the game."
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The Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property Office (TTIPO) launched this program in 2011 to recognize NIAID inventors for their contributions to successful technology transfer at NIH. This award is given to the inventors for the first issued patent in a patent family, and is distributed to the inventors throughout the year.
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United States patent US 8,268,323 was issued on Sept. 18, 2012, for conformationally stabilized HIV envelope immunogens. NIAID inventors: Peter Kwong, Ph.D.; John Mascola, M.D.; Gary Nabel, M.D., Ph.D.; Barna Dey, Ph.D.; Chin-Chin Huang, Ph.D.; Tongqing Zhou, Ph.D.; Ling Xu
United States patent US 8,252,550 was issued on Aug. 28, 2012, for targeting poly-.gamma.-glutamic acid to treat Staphylococcus epidermidis and related infections. NIAID inventors: Michael Otto,Ph.D.; Frank DeLeo, Ph.D.; Elizabeth Fischer
United States patent US 8,247,228 was issued on Aug. 21, 2012, for a method of inducing memory B-cell development and terminal differentiation. NIAID inventor: Herbert Morse III, M.D.
United States patent US 8,216,788 was issued on July 10, 2012, for detection of infectious prion protein by seeded conversion of recombinant prion protein. NIAID inventors: Byron Caughey, Ph.D.; Roger Moore, Ph.D.
United States patent US 8,211,445 was issued on July 3, 2012, for PSM peptides as vaccine targets against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus. NIAID inventor: Michael Otto, Ph.D.
United States patent US 8,198,042 was issued on June 12, 2012, for CC chemokine receptor 5 DNA, new animal models and therapeutic agents for HIV infection. NIAID inventor: Philip Murphy, M.D.
United States patent US 8,173,123 was issued on May 8, 2012, for methods of treating colitis involving IL-13 and NK-T cells. NIAID inventors: Warren Strober, M.D.; Ivan Fuss
United States patent US 8,168,202 was issued on May 1, 2012, for hexavalent bovine rotavirus reassortant composition designed for use in developing countries. NIAID inventors: Albert Kapikian, M.D.; Yasutaka Hoshino, D.V.M.; David Morens, M.D.
United States patent US 8,147,840 was issued on April 3, 2012, for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) immunization strategies employing conformationally stabilized, surface-occluded peptides comprising a gp41 2F5 epitope in association with lipid. NIAID inventors: Peter Kwong, Ph.D.; Gilad Ofek, Ph.D.
NIAID and Altor BioScience Corp. signed a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) to study development of soluble, single chain T-cell receptors (scTCRs) specific to HIV epitopes as presented by major histocompatibility complexes (MHCs) using Altor Bioscience's proprietary scTCR technology. NIAID principal investigator: Mark Connors, M.D.
NIAID and Amgen Inc. signed a CRADA to analyze the ability of novel HIV immunogens to induce broadly neutralizing antibodies in the XenoMouseTM model. NIAID principal investigator: Gary J. Nabel, M.D., Ph.D.
NIAID and Pfizer, Inc., signed a CRADA under which they will study the role of anterior gradient homolog 2 (AGR2) in resistance to infection and development of immunopathology and allergic inflammation in elminth infection models using an AGR2/Gob4 targeting construct provided by Pfizer, Inc. NIAID principal investigator: Thomas A. Wynn, Ph.D.
NIAID and Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticas l Inc. have entered into a CRADA to study monoclonal antibodies against human regulatory T cells. NIAID principal investigator: Ethan Shevach, M.D.
NIAID and VSL Pharmaceuticals have entered into a CRADA to study amelioration of liver fibrosis following Schistosoma mansoni infection by treatment with VSL Pharmaceutical, Inc.'s probiotics preparation VSL#3. NIAID principal investigator: Thomas A. Wynn, Ph.D.
NIAID and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Biologicals have entered into a CRADA to evaluate sporogony inhibition activity GSK's sera of RTS,S/AS01E vaccinated children collected in GSK study Malaria-049 using a standard membrane mosquito feeding assay. NIAID principal investigator: Carole Long, Ph.D.
NIAID and GSK have entered into a CRADA to investigate the role of cathepsin C-dependent serine proteases in the maturation of interleukin-1beta in response to immunization of wild-type and caspase 1-deficient mice with complete Freund's adjuvant (CFA) using GSK's proprietary cathepsin-C inhibitor GSK938. NIAID principal investigator: Alan Sher, Ph.D.
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NIAID and La Jolla Institute of Allergy & Immunology have signed an RCA to utilize bioinformatics-based computer software combined with immune assays to predict and to characterize viral CD8' T-cell epitopes in nonhuman primates. NIAID principal investigator: Peter Jahrling, Ph.D.
NIAID and General Electric Global Research and the University of Washington have signed an RCA to develop and assess the utility DNA vaccines for biodefense priority pathogens. NIAID principal investigator: Peter Jahrling, Ph.D.
NIAID and Apprise Bio, Inc., have signed an RCA to study the use of Apprise's proprietary cell-specific and epitope-specific barcoding technology to analyze multiple cell-associated nucleotide and protein targets. NIAID principal investigator: Daniel C. Douek, M.D., MRCP, Ph.D.
NIAID and the University of South Florida have signed an RCA to isolate and analyze progeny from a genetic cross of Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasites that differ in their ability to invade red blood cells. Analysis will help determine artemisinin drug resistance in Cambodia and Thailand. NIAID principal investigator: Thomas Wellems M.D., Ph.D.
NIAID and Tufts University have signed an RCA to develop and characterize cameloid antibodies against protein toxins that contribute to microbial virulence. NIAID principal investigator: Stephen Leppla, Ph.D.
NIAID and Kings College London have signed an RCA to study the physical and genetic properties of immune cells in blood collected from a large cohort of twins. NIAID principal investigator: Mario Roederer , Ph.D.
NIAID and AriaVax, Inc., have signed an RCA to study using modified aluminum oxide as an adjuvant for anthrax vaccines. NIAID principal investigator: Stephen Leppla, Ph.D.
NIAID and Graz University of Technology, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology have signed an RCA under which the structure and transmission blocking activity of Pfs48/45, a promising anti-malaria transmission blocking vaccine candidate, will be determined. NIAID principal investigator: Patrick Duffy, M.D.
NIAID and Avatar Medical, LLC, have signed an RCA to determine the atomic-level structure of the HIC-1 viral spike. Resultant atomic level information will be used to facilitate spike stabilization and immunogen design. NIAID principal investigator: Peter Kwong, Ph.D.
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- Franklin's future may end up being at second base long term, but his skill set combined with his having reached AAA last year already leads me to move him up some.
- It remains to be seen at this point whether or not Story's numbers in Asheville are park-effected, but it sounds like the reports on him are all very positive regardless of the park.
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External and middle ear, opened from the front. Right side. | |
The auricula. Lateral surface. | |
Latin | auris externa |
Gray's | subject #229 1033 |
MeSH | External+Ear |
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The outer ear is the external portion of the ear, which consists of the pinna and external auditory meatus. It gathers sound energy and focuses it on the eardrum (tympanic membrane). One consequence of the configuration of the external ear is to selectively boost the sound pressure 30- to 100-fold for frequencies around 3 kHz. This amplification makes humans most sensitive to frequencies in this range - and also explains why they are particularly prone to acoustical injury and hearing loss near this frequency. Most human speech sounds are also distributed in the bandwidth around 3 kHz.[1]
The visible part is called the pinna, also known as the auricle. It is composed of a thin plate of yellow elastic cartilage, covered with integument, and connected to the surrounding parts by ligaments and muscles; and to the commencement of the external acoustic meatus by fibrous tissue. Many mammals can move the pinna (with the auriculares muscles) in order to focus their hearing in a certain direction in much the same way that they can turn their eyes. Most humans, unlike most other mammals, do not have this ability.
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From the pinna the sound pressure waves move into the ear canal, also known as the external acoustic meatus a simple tube running through the middle ear. This tube leads inward from the bottom of the auricula and conducts the vibrations to the tympanic cavity and amplifies frequencies in the range 3 kHz to 12 kHz.
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Aadil is 13. He can't always see the whiteboard at school and struggles to keep up. He says the teacher goes too fast. He's started getting angry with other kids who turn up late and make a lot of noise but then gets told off for shouting at them. The kids are calling him a geek but his behaviour in class is jeopardising his behaviour record. His older brothers have done well at this school (they are sighted) and Aadil doesn't want to seem like the dummy in the family.
Poor Aadil! I suspect he feels like he can't win. On the one hand his classmates think he's trying too hard and on the other his teacher thinks he's the cause of the disruption. Aadil just wants to get on with his work but can't find the right way to get his point across.
Aadil needs to be listened to. He needs a chance to get his frustrations out - some of which are due to struggles to keep up, and others from his annoyance that other pupils are disturbing the lessons. But he needs to be given a chance to do this in more acceptable ways. He's not a natural "troublemaker", but sometimes it looks that way.
Maybe he needs a new functional vision assessment? If he had all the practical help he needed he might not find it so hard to keep up. Is it time to get him a support worker? Or does he need different visual aids? Also, if the disruption by other kids was tackled by the staff his noisy outbursts might not happen. He's drawing the attention because he shouts at others, but he's not always the original problem. Is he also under pressure to achieve by his family? Maybe he's not the only one who doesn't fully accept that his sight is continuing to get worse.
It may also be that in some schools, children with "special needs" are often put together, when in fact their needs may be very different. Because Aadil keep's losing his temper instead of knuckling down, and because his work is falling behind due to lack of the right support, he looks like a low achiever - but in fact he's capable of much more. Some of his frustration is because people aren't realising this.
It is sometimes hard to explain all that you are thinking and feeling to adults who are in charge. Feelings, thoughts and behaviours sometimes need separating out. At the moment Aadil's feelings of frustration lead to thoughts about who's to blame (in his mind it's the other pupils and the teachers). Those thoughts lead to behaviour that's getting him the opposite of what he actually wants. Brainstorming different explanations and possible solutions would be very useful, but he probably won't be able to do this until his feelings have first been acknowledged.
This could be done with a teacher; a mentor, a support worker, a parent or an older sibling - he just needs someone to recognise the person beneath the behaviour. At this point, he might even be able to understand that his behaviour isn't acceptable, and that its not all everyone else's fault that he keeps getting told off.
It's no wonder this young man is frustrated. It sounds like he really wants to get on to keep up with his brothers, but the odds are stacked unfairly against him. It is often helpful for the teacher to have a one-to-one chat with a student to identify what practical changes in the classroom would be most suitable and, perhaps most importantly, what the student concerned is most comfortable with. This not only helps the teacher to gain a better understanding of how to teach more inclusively, but also helps the student's self confidence as they learn how to explain what works best for their learning. This gives the student a voice, a say in what support they receive and establishes a good line of communication between the teacher and student so that both are able to negotiate how and what support is needed. Louise
My advice for Aadil would be to talk to his parents about how he is feeling. If they are aware of this, they could organise a meeting with Aadil's teacher at school to discuss his behaviour. During this meeting, they could ask for him to have a support worker come to the school. If this happened, Aadil would find it easier to keep up with his work and may shout at the other pupils less. If Aadil is struggling to read the board, he could look at getting a laptop and screen reader so that the teacher could email the work to him. He would find it easier to read, and he might cope with the workload better. If he had a support worker, they could discus the various grants that are available to buy such equipment. Harriet
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WTO: Flying Under Fishermen's Radar
by Victor Menotti and Zeke Grader ------------------------------------------------------------------------ When trade ministers from 135 nations meet in Seattle for the Third Ministerial of the World Trade Organization (WTO) beginning on November 29th, a number of decisions will be made that could have historic implications for the future of fisheries worldwide. First, governments hope to finalize in Seattle a new set of new trade deals that could cause greater stress on fish stocks and fishing communities. They also plan to launch a new round of negotiations which could, among other things, enhance the capacities of large corporately owned fishing fleets while undermining the livelihoods of the owner-operator fishing fleet ("family fishermen") who make up the vast majority of the U.S. west coast's fish harvesting sector. Believe it or not, fishermen, and the entire fisheries conservation community, know next to nothing about these WTO initiatives. Due to a number of factors, including the obscurity of the Geneva-based trade body, the shrouded secrecy of U.S. trade policy-making, and the general unfamiliarity of fisheries groups with international trade decision-making, the details of the WTO's Seattle agenda are only now coming to light. While there has been a fair amount of press in the Pacific Northwest regarding the timber issue in the WTO discussions, the media coverage of fisheries issues in the upcoming trade talks has been non-existent. Given the current crisis in the Pacific Coast groundfish fishery and the numerous listings of Pacific salmon stocks under the Endangered Species Act, it is easy to understand how trade talks have slipped under our radar. Nevertheless, as we all know, trade policies are important to our industry. Prices paid fishermen for such west coast products as Alaska and California salmon, herring roe, squid, urchin and blackcod are more and more dependent on access to, and the health of, foreign markets. Moreover, rules regulating international trade, in addition to affecting access to foreign markets, can impact on measures to conserve fish stocks and our ability as U.S. fishermen to compete globally with fleets from other nations and with seafood imports from those countries into our domestic market. The decisions made at the WTO summit in Seattle will be far-reaching. However, fishermen have never been given a seat at the table. We need to make our voices heard! Where it All Started -- APEC Some may remember that in November 1997, a meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Community (APEC) was held in Vancouver. There, APEC leaders launched a "comprehensive program to open markets" in 15 key industrial sectors. APEC Ministers were then directed to finalize work in nine of those sectors last year. Those sectors included chemicals, medical equipment and scientific instruments, toys, gems and jewelry, telecommunications, energy, environmental goods and services, forest products, and fish. The U.S. is an APEC member, as are most Pacific Rim countries. In November 1998, APEC completed an agreement to "lower tariffs and other trade barriers" in the those nine sectors (estimated to amount to $1.5 trillion in global trade). At the conclusion of that agreement, U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky stated in an official press release (November 15, 1998) that, "This agreement reaffirms APEC's leadership role in shaping and advancing the global trade agenda. We agree to strive to conclude an agreement in the WTO by the end of 1999 on this nine sector package." Well, it is now the end of 1999. Six items were part of the fisheries proposal between APEC nations, and some of those six items (listed below) are now being "booted" to the WTO for discussion at the Seattle Summit in an attempt to: 1) accelerate the finalization of new agreements (the APEC process is stagnating); 2) globalize the deals to include 134 nations (as opposed to the 30-some nations in APEC); and 3) bind signatory nations to WTO disciplines and enforcement penalties. The six items in the APEC fish agreement expected to be part of the WTO discussions in Seattle are: 1) tariffs; 2) non-tariff measures (NTMS); 3) subsidies; 4) sanitary and phyto-sanitary measures; 5) economic and technical cooperation; and 6) international cooperation for fisheries management. International investment policies will also be on the table at the WTO Seattle Summit, but not via APEC. Under discussion for the latter item is the proposed investment agenda (MAI) which would restrict governments from regulating foreign investors. The U.S. negotiator for fisheries, but limited to tariffs only, is Linda Chavez, Director of the National Marine Fisheries Service's Office of Industry & Trade. Some may remember Ms. Chavez when she worked in NMFS's Seattle office prior to going to Silver Spring. The "Official Advisor to the U.S. Trade Representative," meanwhile, is the National Fisheries Institute's Richard Gutting. Although NFI represents a few fishermen's organizations, it is principally an organization for the shoreside sector -- mainly importers and exporters, brokers, distributors and processors -- whose priorities and interests are often in conflict with those concerned for the well-being of American fishing men and women, our fishing communities and sustainable U.S. fisheries. There is simply no one representing fishermen themselves, nor fish conservationists, advising our U.S. Trade Representative. The Home Page on the Internet for the U.S. Trade Representative is and contains a wealth of WTO and related trade position documents for further research, though they often take careful reading to see the implications. Seattle Summit Will Have Serious Implications So what is likely to be at stake for fisheries at the Seattle Summit? Four items are before the WTO that will require particular attention from the fishing community. They are: Tariffs. On the table for finalization in Seattle is a proposal ("The Advanced Tariff Liberalization, or ATL Package") to eliminate all tariffs on fish and fish products by 2005. At first glance, this may seem like a good deal for many U.S.fisheries that export abroad. But before jumping in and endorsing this measure, fishermen need to carefully consider to what extent foreign tariffs really are impeding access to overseas markets (thereby lowering ex-vessel prices to fishermen or at least providing processors an excuse for holding down prices). Has it been tariffs, import quotas and other trade barriers or simply sick Asian economies that are, in fact, the root of problems in marketing our fish abroad? True, China has imposed some high tariffs on U.S. west coast squid, as well as import quotas. However, there is a question whether this is a long-term problem or merely part of a ploy (bargaining chip) by the Chinese government to gain WTO membership. Norway is one of the principle nations, along with the U.S., in pushing tariff reductions. In a 19 May, 1999 communique from that nation, it stated: "The upcoming round [WTO] should....include traditional market access negotiations. These negotiations should comprise all tariff lines on industrial goods, including fish and fish products. To ensure that the negotiations lead to real market access, due consideration should also be given to non-tariff barriers and trade facilitation." Remember that the down side of trade liberalization is that cheap foreign fish imports into the U.S. market, including farmed salmon, clearly hurt our domestic fisheries. At risk from a flood of imports could be our ability to provide fishing men and women prices adequate to make a decent living, the economic viability of the shoreside processors who depend on domesticallyharvested products, and the health of our fishing communities. Keep in mind, the cost of living in the U.S. is much higher than in many of those nations importing fish into our markets. U.S. fishermen are also subject to generally much higher conservation, health and safety standards. Cheap fish imports, therefore, could impoverish our fishermen -- driving many out of business -- and could create pressure to lower our existing (necessary, and sometimes not even adequate) conservation, health and safety standards. Two additional concerns with the tariff reduction issue have been raised by conservation organizations and Third-World fishermen. Those have to do with: 1) whether lower fish prices in the U.S. and other developed nations couldstimulate consumption of already collapsing fisheries; and 2) potentially driving up the cost of food to residents of fish producing Third World nations. Also, there is the question whether the foreign exchange generated by fish exports from Third World nations to wealthy nations will ever actually get to their local fishermen and fishing communities? Finally, for the U.S., there is the question of what becomes of SaltonstallKennedy Act (S-K) funding. This fund, which was established to foster fisheries development and research, is derived from a tariff on fish and fish products. If there were no tariffs, would S-K go away? Tariffs on fish and other food stuffs could become a moot issue in the future, regardless of WTO action, as governments scramble to feed their growing populations and to hold down domestic food costs. Indeed, it may be better for individual nations to lower tariffs on fish and farm products on a unilateral basis. This would allow each country to tailor access for its own citizens to the most affordable food sources while still protecting sectors of its own economy that are important to that nation for social and cultural reasons (protecting family farms and fisheries, for example), not merely being driven purely by global economics. Allowing nations to individually adjust tariffs on food stuffs, including fish, therefore, could be preferable to the WTO's "one size fits all" type of formula. All of this is to say that the tariff issue is not as simple as it appears at first glance. Tariff policies can have enormous social impacts. They must be carefully studied to determine whether, in fact, tariff reductions will help or hurt family fishing men and women and our fishing communities. International tariff talks require the presence of fishing men and women, and should not be left solely in the hands of free trade theorists, politicians and fish importers. Non-Tariff Measures. NTMs, as they are known in trade circles, include any sort of government policy, practice, law, or measure that supposedly "distorts free trade." This rubric has already been used to include residency requirements, licensing fees that favor local vessels, limits on fleet size, or even conservation measures imposed by a nation to protect its own biological resources. The latter -- conservation measures -- could include those similar to the U.S. attempt a few years ago to limit shrimp imports to those shrimp taken only with nets utilizing turtle excluder devices (TEDs). Such measures are designed to achieve a conservation objective while maintaining a level playing field for domestic fishermen who are subject to these kinds of conservation regulations. After being formally identified by governments, elimination of NTMs could be part of the new round of trade talks being launched from Seattle, to be concluded in three years. As is the situation with tariffs, NTMs need to be carefully considered by our fishing fleet, including what the implications may be from a blanket removal of some of these so-called "barriers." Elimination could, on one hand, undercut sound conservation measures needed to assure sustainable fisheries or to eliminate needless waste or bycatch. On the other hand, keeping them could put west coast and other U.S. fishermen at a competitive disadvantage with products from nation's whose fishing fleets do not abide by strongconservation standards. Subsidies. The U.S. trade negotiators also want a commitment in Seattle to put fisheries subsidies on the official agenda of the WTO's new round of negotiations and to establish new binding principles on fisheries subsidies. The WTO has been notified of 84 different types of subsidies for fisheries; 51 of them affecting the harvesting sector. There is disagreement between governments about giving this new power to the WTO. Some governments prefer to do it via the United Nation's Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) instead. All agree on the need for adjusting current overcapacity by peeling back subsidies, but the question is how -- and who benefits? In the past, when the WTO dropped the sanctions axe on subsidies, as in agriculture, it was always the small producer that got hurt while larger global corporations benefitted at their expense. Like eliminating tariffs, the idea of getting rid of international fishery subsidies probably sounds good to most U.S. fishermen. After all, the U.S. government offers few, if any, benefits that could be considered subsidies to the small or individual and family owner-operators in its own fishing industry. There are no grants, and government loan guarantees are a thing of the past. About all there is today is the Capital Construction Fund (CCF), which is little more than a means of putting money away tax free for a period of time, much like a pension. The CCF is no more a subsidy than a retirement program is. On the other hand U.S. fishermen have to compete in foreign markets with heavily subsidized foreign fleets and government supported aquaculture operations. Eliminating subsidies would thus appear to have little direct impact on U.S. fishermen and would actually help them compete with fish products from other nations. Eliminating subsidies could also help address the fleet overcapacity problem. In many nations government subsidies have fueled the growth of newer and larger vessels with harvesting capacities far in excess of the fish available for take on a sustainable basis. Much of the push for eliminating subsidies is aimed at reducing harvesting capacity. This push has been fueled by a paper prepared recently by the World Bank and, in the U.S., the newly completed findings in the Federal Fisheries Investment Task Force Report to Congress just released in October that was funded by the U.S. Department of Commerce (see NOAA Press Release at: ). With subsidies, however, the devil is always in the details. The devil here is how a "subsidy" is defined. While we tend to think of a subsidy as either a cash grant, low interest loan or loan guarantee to buy or build a new vessel or equipment, subsidies are being defined by others, including the World Bank, in far broader ways. Some examples of what some trade negotiators are calling "subsidies" include: * Government funded programs to restore or enhance fishery resources. (These are bad??) * Government fleet buy-back programs (also aimed at reducing harvesting overcapacity). * Government funded programs to assist fishermen to develop new or alternative gear that is either more selective, reduces bycatch, or prevents harm to the marine environment. * "Low-cost" access by fishing fleets to fish stocks. What is particularly troubling is that the U.S. apparently agrees with the World Bank's last definition above that "low-cost" access to fish stocks amounts to a government subsidy. The U.S. trade position is in fact that any access to fish stocks that does not involve an auction amounts to a subsidy. This position gives us an idea of the direction Commerce and the National Marine Fisheries Service may be heading: placing all fisheries under Individual Transferable Quota (ITQ) systems, and then auctioning off the quotas to the highest bidder -- effectively putting our fisheries in the hands of large multinational corporations and turning working fishing men and women into sharecroppers! Although we know of no instance currently where fish quotas are up for auction in the U.S., the fact is that many U.S. fishermen, particularly on the west coast, pay high permit and license fees to fund fishery management, research and enforcement. In some instances, such as California's Commercial Salmon Stamp program, fishermen are actually paying out of their own pockets to fix the habitat damage done by others. It is hard to argue therefore that U.S. fishermen are being subsidized -- unless of course you are some World Bank free market theorist or an inside-the- Beltway type. Interestingly, the U.S. position on fishery subsidies is in direct conflict with NMFS's own draft aquaculture policy, which calls for massive federal investment in research and development to foster private aquaculture operations. The U.S. also has yet to reconcile its position on what little help it provides its fishing industry with the massive subsidies it provides other industries -- often the same industries responsible for fish and fish habitat destruction. These include: subsidized water deliveries in the west to irrigate corporate farms; subsidized hydro-electric power in the Pacific Northwest; subsidized navigation (including dams and locks) on the Columbia and other river systems for tug and barge operations; subsidies for logging road construction in national forests; and oil and gas leases to the oil industry that fail to collect royalties on the true market value of the oil or gas produced from a public resource. If the U.S. Trade Representative is going to push for elimination of fish subsidies, will she also push for elimination of subsidies to U.S. agribusiness, aquaculture, timber industry, oil industry or Northwest utilities? The fact is, in many instances it has been subsidies to other industries that have done much more to harm U.S. fish resources than any U.S. subsidies to its fishing fleet for vessel construction. But don't expect much help with any of these egregious give-aways of taxpayer monies and public resources in the upcoming Seattle Summit. The Japanese apparently are among the most vocal dissenters to this expansive definition of "subsidies" being advanced by the World Bank, the U.S. and others. Japan, a fishing nation as well as one heavily dependent on fish imports, has given the subsidy issue considerable thought in its position statement. "Japan is of the view that the issue of over-exploitation should be solved urgently," said that nation's trade representative outlining its position on fish subsidies. "However, Japan does not accept the argument to single-out the elimination of subsidies or the abolishment of import tariffs, without taking up all the factors which are at the cause of the issue, as this could create problems in the reasoning thereof and in the effectiveness from the viewpoint of a sustainable utilisation of fishery resources......Japan is proposing that, with respect to forestry and fishery products, which are exhaustible natural resources, it is indispensable to establish a separate group to examine all the relevant factors in a comprehensive manner, giving due consideration to the global environmental issues and the resource conservation and management issues, in order to ensure a sustainable utilisation of resources." If the WTO is given in Seattle the new mandate to impose disciplines (remember, under the U.S. Constitution, treaties with foreign nations override U.S. statutory laws, such as Magnuson and the Clean Water Act) on government subsidies for fisheries, small fishermen could face the same fate small farmers have suffered since the WTO took on eliminating agricultural subsidies. By reducing supports for small farmers while allowing an increase in export subsidies for large producers, the WTO has helped worsen the food security of nations, individuals and small farmers. As with tariffs and non-tariff measures, fishing men and women must make their voices heard on fish subsidies at the Seattle Summit or they could simply be put out of business and the resource itself damaged. Investment. Current WTO rules apply mostly to trade. However, if governments give the WTO the new mandate (as some nations are proposing) to expand its powers to limit what governments can do to regulate foreign investment, a number of policies that encourage sustainable fisheries practices could be at risk of elimination as "barriers to investment." Moreover, some proposed definitions for what constitutes an "expropriation" of foreign investment could allow foreign corporations to sue governments for enacting measures that reduce their profits -- like reducing foreign fleet fishing quotas! Making Difficult Matters Worse The broader WTO agenda also threatens to exacerbate three of the overarching problems that fishermen face worldwide: industrial aquaculture, corporate factory fishing fleets, and pollution. In July 1999, some 50 members of Congress signed on a letter to President Clinton, prepared by California Congressman George Miller -- one of the fishing industry's best friends in the House -- strenuously objecting to the U.S. position going into the WTO meeting in Seattle regarding wood products. Many of the same concerns for wood products are true for fish. Signatories to that letter included west coast representatives Nancy Pelosi, Peter DeFazio, Anna Eshoo, Pete Stark, Lynn Woolsey, Tom Lantos, Lucille Roybal-Allard, David Wu, Barbara Lee, Sam Farr and Julian Dixon. In the letter to the President, the Congressional members wrote to "express our concern with your Administration's leadership in negotiations on a trade liberalization agreement........at the World Trade Organization (WTO). We oppose these negotiations for four reasons: (1) the environmental impacts of rapid tariff elimination; (2) the threat to the environment, labor and domestic sovereignty from a reduction in non-tariff measures; (3) the lack of an environmental impact statement consistent with the Council on Environmental Quality's (CEQ) regulations for the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA); (4) the lack of transparency in negotiations. We ask that the administration withdraw from these negotiations until each of our concerns have been satisfied." "To date," the letter continued, "the concerns of environmental organizations have not been reflected in the Administration's handling of these negotiations. Such a process is inconsistent with your own desire for inclusiveness in trade debates.......In addition, as Members of Congress, we would have remained unaware of these negotiations if civil society groups had not brought it to our attention. We cannot support a process that does not include greater input from elected officials and civil society." The November, 1999 Seattle WTO Summit is only the latest incarnation of an ongoing problem. The trade negotiations process must include fishermen and those working for fish conservation, not merely a handful of academic free trade theorists and a representative of fish importers. We must have input to the WTO at the Seattle Summit and afterwards. In the meantime, fishing men and women need to begin demanding, through letters to their Congressional representatives, the Secretary of Commerce and the U.S. Trade Representative, that they have input into trade negotiations that could radically change the face of our industry and fishing communities for decades to come.
Victor Menotti, is an international trade specialist and a consultant to the Institute for Fisheries Resources (IFR) in international trade issues. Zeke Grader is a lawyer as well as the Executive Director of the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations (PCFFA) and the Institute for Fisheries Resources.
PCFFA is the west coast's largest organization of commercial fishermen. PCFFA's Southwest Regional Office can be reached at: PO Box 29370, San Francisco, CA 94129-0370 and by phone (415)561-5080. PCFFA's Northwest Regional Office can be reached at: PO Box 11170, Eugene, OR 97440-3370 and by phone (541)689-2000. PCFFA's Internet Home Page is at or PCFFA can be reached by email at . The Institute for Fisheries Resources is independent of, but affiliated with, PCFFA and can be reached at the same postal and email addresses. The Institute's Internet Home Page is at: . reprinted from http://www.pcffa.org/fn-nov99.htm


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Heritage official says Tour supports funding plan
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. – The chairman of the Heritage Classic Foundation says the PGA Tour supports a plan to use local, state and private money to keep the Heritage on Hilton Head Island.
However, a definitive resolution still appears far from being reached.
Gov. Nikki Haley opposes using state money for the tournament.
The Island Packet reports Simon Fraser told Town Council on April 5 that the plan would use a mix of $30 million over five years if a title sponsor can't be found by the end of the month.
Officials have been looking for a sponsor since Verizon ended its sponsorship last year. This year's tournament at Sea Pines resort starts April 21.
Under the proposal, the town would provide $6 million over five years and the county another $1 million. Sea Pines would pay $3 million and the state $18 million.
Ty Votaw, the PGA Tour's executive vice president of communications, told The Island Packet that the tour would be willing to consider it as long as new taxes aren't involved.
"If this is just a reallocation of existing budget revenue, that would be fine," Votaw said. "But we need to make it clear we view this as a backup plan."
He told the newspaper that the Tour prefers a single title sponsor and is "in active discussions" with a number of candidates.
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Three former Clemson golfers, including Arnold Palmer's grandson, have been added to the field for the Heritage.
Tournament director Steve Wilmot said April 6 that ex-Tigers Sam Saunders, Ben Martin and Charles Warren were given sponsor exemptions into the PGA Tour event later this month. Saunders, Palmer's grandson, turned pro last season.
Martin had made four cuts in eight PGA Tour events this season. Warren has won three times on the Nationwide Tour. His best finish at the PGA Tour event is second place, at the 2007 Reno-Tahoe Open.
The Associated Press was used in this report.
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