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Fespaco: The world's greatest secret film festival
Four years ago, Time Out took a trip to one of the world's greatest lesser-known film festivals, the Pan-African Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou, or Fespaco, as everyone calls it. This month, Dave Calhoun returned to this biennial jamboree of African film – and entered a storm about its future…
Where's Ouagadougou? you ask, dredging the fading remnants of GCSE geography from your memory. Yes, it exists: it's the capital of Burkina Faso, a landlocked sub-Saharan country in west Africa (north of Ghana, south of Mali). It's poor, its main export is cotton and it has a special and, to any outsider, unexpected relationship with cinema. That's what drew me to its 45-degree climate and sweaty, power-cut-prone cinemas - that and the question of why the world's second biggest continent, in size and population, delivers so few films to our screens every year?
One event alone sums up what cinema means to Burkina Faso. On the Sunday morning of this week-long festival, a group of filmmakers, led by Burkinabe cinema's elder statesman Gaston Kaboré, gathers in the dusty city's Place des Cinéastes, a roundabout in the centre of which sits a huge sculpture of a camera. The gathering crowd honours the late masters of African cinema with two minutes of silence. Kaboré initiated the ceremony in 2009 to remember Ousmane Sembène, the Senegalese director who died in 2007, and now it's firmly on the festival calendar.
On the edge of the square, a new statue of Sembène sits next
to one of the Malian director Souleymane Cissé and another of the Burkinabe
director Idrissa Ouedraogo (both very much alive). A statue of Kaboré lies on
the flowerbed: the authorities didn't get round to raising it in time. Before
the ritual begins, I bump into writer and filmmaker Mark Cousins, here to shoot
scenes for a sprawling More4 series of his book, 'The Story of Film'. I'm
surprised to see him. There are barely any Brits here. Most Europeans are
either from France, the country's colonial master when it was Upper Volta, or
working for NGOs (there's a rash of newly acquired corn-row hair-dos on display
in the cinemas).
Fespaco has been going since 1969 and has been a big deal for African film since the 1980s, buoyed along by the enthusiasm and needs of filmmakers. As Cissé tells me, poolside at the Hotel Independance - where all the directors stay (legend has it that Sembène always got room number one; a function hall now bears his surname) - filmmakers see it as a crucial encounter whether or not they have films to show. In turn, the Burkinabe government supports the event in cash and kind: this year, President Blaise Campaoré attended the closing ceremony in the city's stadium and threw a lavish dinner at his palace in honour of the event. Sitting among close to a thousand people a mere ten metres from his table, my friend Don Boyd from digital arts platform Hibrow dares me to request an interview with the man who mortally unseated Thomas Sankara in 1987. Respectfully, I chicken out.
The diversity of films is overwhelming, from Sarah Bouyain's 'Notre Étrangère', a quiet tale of a Franco-Burkinabe woman returning to Burkina Faso to find her birth mother, to Missa Hebie's more exclamatory 'En Attendant le Vote...' about corruption and hubris. Many films have links with Europe. Many don't.
As the Benin director Sylvestre Amoussou states when
introducing 'A Step Forward - Behind Corruption', the goal of many
directors is to make African films for African audiences free of outside
support. He proudly declares that his film was made with African money and the
audience roars in support. North Africa is especially well represented: there
are two films from Egypt in the competition (inevitably everybody looks for
signs of tension) and two from Morocco, one of which, 'Pégase', nabs the top
prize, the Golden Stallion of Yennenga: as I fly away from Ouagadougou on a midnight flight, its
director, Mohamed Mouftakir, carries the trophy aboard to cheers and applause.
Fespaco suffers from a lack of resources and a sharp whiff of chaos. By the end, delegates were asking questions. An entire jury of critics failed to receive air tickets. At least one director, a Nigerian, was stranded in New York without a ticket - but with the print of his film, which never showed. The chairman of one of the juries, filmmaker John Akomfrah, twice travelled to Heathrow: twice his ticket never materialised. On the festival's final day, I speak to Mahamat-Saleh Haroun - the Bordeaux-based Chadian director whose excellent 'A Screaming Man' is screening here - and he says he won't come back. He's fed up with moaning.
Spirits run high. Maybe it's the heat. Maybe it's the sense of imminent collapse. But mostly - surely - it's the sense that African cinema needs to be fought for. There are African countries with developed films industries, such as Egypt, South Africa and Nigeria, but there are others where resources are near nonexistent, cinemas are closing and film is a rumour. Fespaco is the chance to make a difference and share films with the rest of the world, via festival programmers such as Toronto's Cameron Bailey and London's Keith Shiri who pitch up dutifully every two years. Hopefully some of the fine films - and not so fine but always interesting (yes, there were duds; one South African crock haunts my nightmares) - at this year's event will soon trickle down to our screens.
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Type: Bug
Status: Resolved
Priority: Blocker
Resolution: Duplicate
Affects Version/s: 2.0-developer-preview-4
Fix Version/s: 2.0-beta
Component/s: None
Security Level: Public
Environment:At least on CentOS 6.2, and possibly one other platform
There are reports of at least the Web Console showing nodes in a good size cluster (>5 nodes) going into pending state at the web console.
From the reporter:
1. A node will fill it's RAM, then go into a PEND state.
2. I reboot the service on the node.
3. The node starts up and loads its docs.
4. It drops all it's documents and goes back into PEND state.
5. Loads it's docs up again then goes UP state.
6. Then repeats the loss of docs and PEND/UP state.
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Having some logs would help here. This looks like memcached crash. And even user-level logs would confirm that.
My setup is single node and pretty much what you get "out of the box" so cloning another cluster is not a possible cause. It is not apparent that RAM is filled as after the node comes up RAM is often <10M per bucket
I believe there are two issues:
1) the node dropping into pending state. The log messages I get are:
Module Code: ns_port_server000
Port server memcached on node 'email@example.com' exited with status 134. Restarting. Messages: Failed to connect to: "localhost:11213"
Connection closed by mccouch
Preloaded 136076 keys (with metadata)
Trying to connect to mccouch: "localhost:11213"
Failed to connect to: "localhost:11213"
Failed to connect to: "localhost:11213"
Connection closed by mccouch
Connection closed by mccouch
Preloaded 3998 keys (with metadata)
Preloaded 102201 keys (with metadata)
Trying to connect to mccouch: "localhost:11213"
Trying to connect to mccouch: "localhost:11213"
Followed by
Module Code: ns_memcached004
Control connection to memcached on 'firstname.lastname@example.com' disconnected: {{badmatch,
,{mc_client_binary, stats,4}
,{ns_memcached, do_handle_call, 3}
,{ns_memcached, handle_call, 3}
,{gen_server, handle_msg, 5}
,{proc_lib, init_p_do_apply, 3}
]} (repeated 15 times)
2) The UI agent is either not collecting or not displaying summary stats correctly. The item count is almost always incorrect for all buckets when view from the Data Buckets page but the view of the bucket on port 8092 seems to show the correct item count
do you see something like this in the diags ?
memcached: stored-value.hh:281: size_t StoredValue::valLength(): Assertion `value->length() == sizeof(uval)' failed.


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However, the Irish government will soon introduce water pricing, which aims to achieve two objectives – cutting water consumption, so making new water transfer infrastructure less urgent, while also providing a new revenue stream. Low income groups could be compensated directly ('green checks' for instance), which will be more effective than providing free access to common goods. In addition, this may in fact be more equitable - rich people have more bathrooms, bigger gardens and larger cars to wash, so they benefit relatively more if not the resource is properly priced.
This example illustrates the potential for improving the environment using economic instruments, which is the topic of a conference hosted by the European Environment Agency (EEA), 15-16 September, 2011.
The conference will focus on using environmental fiscal reform to drive innovation in European companies, encouraging both production and consumption of environmentally friendly and energy efficient products. In addition, it will consider ways of positively communicating environmental fiscal reform. Conference speakers include Connie Hedegaard, European Commissioner for Climate Action, and Jacqueline McGlade, Executive Director of the EEA.
Economic instruments such as taxes, user-charges, deposit-refund systems and emissions trading are among the strongest tools available for integrating environmental concerns directly in the operation of a market economy. They may not always guarantee that very specific quality measures are met, but the mechanisms can help businesses, industry and consumers make more sustainable choices. Moreover, implementation can be much smoother than imposing detailed regulations.
Indeed, such policy innovation can drive technical innovation, urgently needed across Europe. Presently Europe imports far more materials and energy for its consumption than it exports, with an environmental and an economic cost. As these raw materials are becoming more expensive, it is doubly important to decouple this consumption from economic growth.
Europe also needs increasingly comprehensive systems for recycling of materials, products and waste to take advantage of the raw materials that have been brought to Europe.
In addition to more general discussion on environmental fiscal reform, the conference also includes a number of special sessions looking at the revision of the Energy Tax Directive. The conference is co-organised by Green Budget Europe and the Danish Ecological Council. Sponsors include the EEA, the European Environmental Bureau (EEB), Rockwool International and thinktank Concito.
This global interconnectivity means that damaging one element may cause unexpected impacts elsewhere. The recent global financial crash and the aviation chaos caused by an Icelandic volcano demonstrate how sudden breakdowns in one area can affect whole systems.
This interconnectivity is often referred to as 'globalisation' and it's not a new phenomenon. In Europe, globalisation has allowed us to prosper as a continent and take a leading economic role for a long time. Along the way we have used a great deal of our own natural resources as well as those of other nations. Our 'footprint' or impact is broad and goes well beyond our borders.
Indeed, driving forces at the heart of globalisation are expected to be a major influence on Europe and our environment in the future. Many of them are beyond our control. For example, the world population could exceed nine billion by 2050, with major environmental consequences. Asia and Africa will most likely account for most of the population growth, while only around 3 % of the growth will occur in the most developed countries (Europe, Japan, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand).
A range of unfolding trends are shaping the world. We call some of these trends 'global megatrends' as they cut across social, technological, economic, political and even environmental dimensions. Key developments include changing demographic patterns or accelerating rates of urbanisation, ever faster technological changes, deepening market integration, evolving economic power shifts or the changing climate.
Such trends have huge implications for global demand for resources. Cities are spreading. Consumption is increasing. The world expects continued economic growth. Production is shifting towards newly emerging economies, which will grow in economic significance. Non-state actors could become more relevant in global political processes. And accelerating technological change is anticipated. This 'race into the unknown' brings new risks – but also offers great opportunities.
The future impacts on Europe's environment of these 'global megatrends' is the subject of one section of SOER and underpins Signals 2011. These key trends have huge implications for our global environment and our stewardship of the resources contained therein. Throughout Signals 2011 there are sections entitled 'Earth 2050 global megatrend' where we look forward at a key trend and assess its impact on Europe's environment in the future.
We can't say exactly what the earth will look or feel like in 2050. Many trends are already well established. How they continue comes down to the choices we make now. In that sense, the future is in our hands. Let's choose wisely. Our grandchildren and everybody else in the family portrait 2050 will thank us for it.
Lars Fogh Mortensen, heading the European Environment Agency (EEA) work on sustainable consumption and production, will take part in judging the award. "This is a great opportunity for cities in Europe to benchmark their environmental performance against others, and for the greenest and most innovative to be recognised as a role model," Mortensen said.
Four out of five Europeans now live in towns and cities. Most of the environmental challenges facing our society originate from urban areas, but urban areas also foster the commitment and innovation needed to resolve these problems.
All cities across Europe with more than 200,000 inhabitants can apply for the title of European Green Capital 2014. The award is open to EU Member States, Turkey, FYROM, Croatia, Montenegro and Iceland (as candidate countries), and Norway and Liechtenstein (as European Economic Area countries). In countries where there is no city with more than 200,000 inhabitants, the largest city is eligible to apply.
Cities can apply via an online application form. The deadline for applications for the 2014 title is 14 October 2011. The winner will be announced in June 2012, after it has been judged by an international jury supported by a panel of renowned experts in different environmental fields.
Hamburg holds the Green Capital title for 2011. You can see a video about the city here.
The deadline for submitting applications for the EGCA is now closed. Some 19 cities from 14 European countries have applied for the 2014 award:
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The applications will now be evaluated by an expert panel and this will include qualitative evaluations and a peer review of each application based on 12 indicator areas. Following these evaluations, 3-4 cities will be shortlisted for the 2014 title. The shortlisted cities will be invited to present their action plans and communication strategies to a Jury, which will deliberate and then make a final decision. The announcement of the European Green Capital for 2014 is planned to take place at a prestigious award ceremony in June 2012 in Vitoria-Gasteiz. Europe's first Green Capital in 2010 was Stockholm, Hamburg is this year's winner, the Spanish city of Vitoria-Gasteiz will inherit the title in 2012 and, in 2013, the crown will be passed to Nantes in France.
As is increasingly understood, this cannot continue indefinitely: the environment has natural limits in terms of how much it can provide and absorb.
Consider the basic facts. If global GDP grows at 3 % annually then a century from now the world economy will be almost 20 times larger than today. Already, humans appropriate more than half the available freshwater and exploit most good quality soil resources. We are emitting ever more pollutants, greenhouse gases and waste. And we risk crossing critical environmental thresholds, leading to dramatic and irreversible damage to ecosystems.
When we reflect on the demands that we are already imposing on our ecosystems, it's apparent that green growth isn't just a preferable approach to economic development. On the contrary, in the long term it's the only way to sustain economic growth. 'Brown growth' that destroys our natural systems can't be justified by the apparent gains it offers. Ultimately, it will diminish our prosperity in every sense.
In contrast, the objectives of a green economy are to meet our needs — for food, transport, energy and so on — in a sustainable and equitable way.
Of course, understanding the concept of the green economy and its importance is only a first step. Key questions remain. What does a green economy look like? And how can we create a green economy in Europe?
The EEA's flagship report, The European Environment: State and Outlook 2010 (SOER 2010), published in November 2010, provides some answers.
As described there, we essentially face a twin challenge. First, we need to focus on the economy, finding ways to increase our prosperity without increasing resource use and environmental impacts. Put simply, we need to become more resource efficient.
By itself, however, resource efficiency won't guarantee steady or declining resource use. After all, we could become more efficient but still put excessive demands on the environment. For that reason, to achieve sustainability we also need to focus on ecosystem resilience — the status, trends and limits of natural systems.
As SOER 2010 points out, there is a third element that needs to be included in discussions on resource efficiency and ecosystem resilience: human well-being.
This aspect is crucial for a variety of reasons. For one thing, the benefits we derive from the environment or the harms that we suffer due to degradation are not always reflected in prices and economic decision-making and thus require separate consideration. Equally important, there is a need to ensure an equitable distribution of the benefits (and also the costs) of the transition to a green economy
In balancing environmental, economic and social elements, the green economy concept evidently has much in common with the notion of sustainable development — albeit with a focus primarily on the environmental and economic aspects.
As explained above, a 'green' economy is one in which policies and innovations enable society to generate more of value each year, while maintaining the natural systems that sustain us. Essentially, it's a pretty simple concept.
Unfortunately, translating the idea into reality is hugely more complicated. Clearly, it will require technological innovation. But it requires lots of other changes too — to the way we organise businesses; the way that we design cities; the way we move people and goods around; the way we live, essentially.
Effecting changes of this sort requires the engagement of all sectors, including policymakers, businesses and individual citizens. And that in turn implies the need for a mass of information to guide and inform decision-making.
The EEA was established to gather, interpret and communicate regarding the European environment in order to support informed decision-making. As such, the Agency has an important role to play in developing the knowledge base on the green economy.
This area of the EEA website will be developed through 2011, 2012 and beyond to highlight work by EEA and our partners at the national and international levels, explaining its relevance to the green economy debate.
Today Europe, like much of the industrialised world, is faced with a complex problem. Our economies depend on a continuous flow of raw materials which we no longer can take for granted. In addition, this rapid consumption of resources damages the environment and produces waste. So in an increasingly populated and resource-hungry world, efficient use of limited resources is more important than ever.
Resources under pressure include non-renewable substances, such as metals, fossil fuels, chemicals and other minerals. Although other kinds of resources may be considered 'renewable', including clean water, air, animals and plant life, there are limits to the rate at which natural systems can regenerate these materials. In this way, resource efficiency cuts across traditional boundaries between environmental and economic ideas, exposing constraints and opportunities.
The EEA recently released its State and Outlook Report (SOER) 2010, which showed how accelerating resource use could lead to environmental degradation, conflict and economic disaster.
On average, Europeans use about 16 tonnes of material resources per year. Most predictions foresee continued growth in the use of material resources both in the EU and globally. Europe's demand has long exceeded its ability to generate the resources it uses. Today, 20 - 30 % of resources used are imported, and Europe's open economy relies heavily on imported raw materials, especially metals and fossil fuels. While some progress has been made in reducing the impact of this high resource consumption, such efficiency gains are wiped out by ever-higher demand for goods and services.
Green Week has established itself as the leading conference on EU environmental policy, attracting participants from government, business, non-governmental organisations, academia and the media.
The conference will also provide input to the Roadmap for a Resource Efficient Europe, a policy proposal being prepared by the European Commission.
A new brochure presents preliminary findings from the 2015 EEA review of policies and approaches to material resource efficiency in 31 European countries. It has been prepared to support the European Commission's work on resource efficiency by providing information on national contexts, but will also contribute to reflections on the circular economy.
This summary of first findings covers national strategies and plans; drivers of material resource efficiency; priority resources and sectors; the circular economy and closing material loops; targets; indicators; and institutional set-ups. This is followed by a set of policy considerations addressing key concepts; opportunities for synergies; the circular economy; targets and indicators; and institutional arrangements and support.
The EEA report "More from less – material resource efficiency in Europe", accompanied by 32 individual country profiles, will be published in the spring of 2016.
The participating countries were:
Austria, Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo*, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.
* Under UNSCR 1244/99
In 2011, the European Environment Agency (EEA) conducted a detailed survey to collect, analyse and disseminate information about national experiences in developing and implementing resource efficiency policies. The purpose was two-fold: to help expand the knowledge base on resource efficiency, an emerging priority on the European Union's agenda, and to facilitate the sharing of experience and good practice.
The resulting report "Resource efficiency in Europe" and 31 individual country profiles, described in more detail below, provided an overview of resource efficiency policies and instruments in the member and cooperating countries of the European Environment Information and Observation Network (Eionet).
Four years on, additional policies on resource efficiency, the circular economy and closing material loops have emerged. Responding to this, in 2015 the EEA, jointly with Eionet and the European Topic Centre on Waste and Materials in a Green Economy, set out to review national approaches to material resource efficiency and to explore similarities and differences in policies, strategies, indicators and targets, policy drivers and institutional set-ups.
The main objective was to stimulate the sharing of experience between countries in the development of material resource efficiency policies. The work also contributes to broadening the knowledge base underpinning resource efficiency and the circular economy, and increases the understanding of policy approaches taken by countries. The approach and scope of the work were developed in close consultation with Eionet in order to reflect countries' priorities and needs.
In contrast to the 2011 work, the analysis in 2015 focused on material resources rather than the more broadly defined natural resources.
The scope of material resources
Following consultation with Eionet, the 2015 work focuses on policies and initiatives on material resources. The scope includes material flows entering or leaving the economy (biomass, non-metallic minerals, metal ores, and fossil energy materials) as well as secondary (waste derived) raw materials. Also within the scope are the transformations that materials undergo throughout their full life cycles, including initiatives to close material loops in the context of a circular economy.
In the spring of 2016, the work presented above will result in the publication of:
To support the elaboration of the EU's resource efficiency flagship initiative, in November 2010 the EEA initiated a survey of resource efficiency policies and instruments in its member and collaborating countries.
The work in 2011 comprised the following components available via the EEA website:
The key to answering that question lies in recognising that humanity's economic activities are dependant on the global ecosystem – in particular its capacity to provide resources and to absorb pollution and waste. Crucially, the Earth is a closed material system and that shapes the possibilities for economic growth.
Of course, for some non-renewable resources, including many metals and minerals, security of supply isn't yet a concern; for others, such as fossil fuels, high-tech metals and land, availability is already a problem.
Natural systems can also be seen as a form of capital. If we maintain our natural capital it will provide hugely valuable renewable resources and ecosystem services: generating food and fibres, regulating the climate, purifying water and so on. But over-exploiting our natural capital, for example by taking too many resources or emitting excessive pollutants, will reduce its ability to provide further goods and services.
Put simply, humanity can't keep taking ever more resources from the environment and generating ever more waste. Once the flow of resources through the economy has reached its maximum sustainable limit (and many would argue that we've already passed that point for some resources), the only way to maintain economic growth in the long run is to become more resource efficient – finding ways to generate greater returns from the same amount of resources.
Resource efficiency isn't only valuable because it is essential for sustained economic growth. Reducing environmental impacts also contributes to well-being derived outside the market economy, notably the quality of life that comes from living in a healthy, attractive environment. Moreover, promoting resource efficiency can increase the competitiveness of industry, create jobs, stimulate innovation, boost sectors such as recycling and resource recovery, and help ensure secure supplies of key resources.
In view of these numerous benefits, it is hardly a surprise that resource efficiency has become a key priority for policymaking in Europe. In particular, the European Union has designated resource efficiency as one of seven flagship iniatives within the EU2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth.
When resource efficiency is understood in the sense outlined above, it is clear that decision-makers seeking to promote resource efficiency will need to draw on a substantial knowledge base.
To understand resource efficiency, policymakers first need indicators of the extent and nature of resource inputs and their relationship to economic outputs globally, nationally and at smaller scales of production, such as individual sectors. Consumption-focused indicators, which measure the resources used in products and services across their whole life cycle, are also valuable, particularly for understanding and designing policy to address resource use embedded in international trade.
Having identified the trends and drivers of resource use, policymakers need to determine how to enhance resource efficiency. The challenge is enormous and decision-makers in all sectors need information on the policies, tools and technologies that can be deployed within the economy (at national, regional and other scales) to extract more value from resources, while minimising waste and emissions.
EEA is well positioned to contribute to the knowledge base for decision-making on resource efficiency, through its information and analysis on a huge range of themes, including land use, waste, energy, industry, transport and policy instruments. This area of the EEA website showcases this work in the resource efficiency context. Additional reports, articles and other products related to resource use and resource efficiency are available below.
In 1992, the landmark Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro proposed a new form of environmental governance, building breakthrough environmental agreements on climate change and biodiversity.
This week the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) meets at UN Headquarters in New York, and EEA Executive Director Jacqueline McGlade will be there to help set the agenda for next year's 'Rio+20 summit', which aims to assess progress and look to the future with new themes of the green economy and environmental governance.
The Sustainable Development Commission aims to "inspire governments, economies and society to embrace sustainable development as the central principal." It was established in 1992 and is charged with implementing recommendations agreed at the 1992 Summit.
The EEA and its Topic Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production co-hosted an expert seminar on sustainable consumption in a green economy with the Nordic Council of Ministers, which gathered a large number of policy makers and other stakeholders attending the CSD. EEA executive director, Jacqueline McGlade made a keynote speech on pathways to sustainable consumption and chaired a panel debate with high-level policy makers.
The seminar focused on the consumption perspective in a green economy, with a view at experiences from Europe and other regions of the world and panel discussions of how to promote sustainable consumption patterns and sustainable lifestyles globally that stimulate a greening of the economy.
'In order to reach the sustainable development goals and solve environmental problems, we must address environmental impact from both the production and consumption side, and further strengthen environmental considerations in economic and sectoral policy,' Prof. McGlade said at the event.
Prof. McGlade will also participate in a key side event, 'Sustainable Consumption and Production – the building blocks for a Greener Economy'.
The objective of the side-event is to look forward to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in June 2012 and discuss the linkages between sustainable consumption and production and policy instruments and practices for building a green economy within the framework of sustainable development and poverty eradication.
The EEA is also using new communication tools. Prof. McGlade will present the newly launched EEA Facebook page at the Marymount Middle and Upper Schools in New York, and will speak with students about the environment and sustainable development. The event will include interviews and discussions with the school's newspaper and environment club.]]>
In stressing the economic, social and environmental dimensions of the shift to a global green economy, the UNEP report echoes some of the key findings of the EEA's flagship report The European Environment: State and Outlook 2010 (SOER 2010), published in November 2010.
SOER 2010 highlights the twin challenges of maintaining the structure and functions of ecosystems (ecosystem resilience) and finding ways to cut resource use in production and consumption activities and their environmental impacts (resource efficiency). It also underlines that a successful transition in Europe requires that rich and poor alike have equal access to the benefits of a green economy. Greening Europe's economy is essential for building a sustainable future globally and meeting the Millennium Development Goals and the aims of the Rio+20 agenda.
But what would such a transition involve in Europe? In several respects the region looks comparatively well positioned. It is the world's largest economic bloc, with considerable innovation skills. It maintains a social-welfare model that emphasises equitable distribution of benefits across society. It has arguably the strongest package of environmental policies globally and a record of successful integration with economic sectors using market instruments and other tools. Moreover, the EU has a long tradition of managing socioeconomic transitions from its inception in the 1950s through to recent enlargements of the EU to the East.
At the same time, Europe's reliance on natural resources from the rest of the world makes it vulnerable to external shocks. Demographic projections over coming decades indicate that more of the population will rely on a shrinking workforce for their incomes. Indeed, as EEA analysis demonstrates, a variety of global megatrends are currently unfolding, presenting many challenges for Europe as well as potential opportunities.
The EEA is going to be working hard on building up the knowledge base on the green economy for Europe in the next couple of years. The results of those activities will be made available on the EEA website on a regular basis in the form of technical studies and more accessible analysis and comment.
Targets for renewable energy cannot succeed if isolated from other factors. Developing and integrating renewable energy is, by nature, more complex and challenging than fossil fuel installations. Policymakers have thus introduced a string of legislation across related sectors (Figure 1).
One of the most visible outcomes is the creation of the European Union Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS), the biggest and most successful of such trading system in the world. While there has been considerable controversy about the way in which allowances have been allocated, the fact that more than 40 % of EU greenhouse gas emissions are covered — and potentially controlled — is a huge achievement. In 2012, EU policy development will take another important step forward with the inclusion of aviation into the EU ETS, along with auctioning of at least half of the permits.
By enabling a price to be allocated to carbon emissions, the EU ETS delivers large indirect benefits to the renewables sector, strengthening the underlying economics of renewable energy installation. This trend will only continue as the cap decreases and the value of carbon increases.
Additional legislation that has helped create a supportive environment for investment includes minimum taxation of fossil fuel products, a European Energy Policy, agreement on a target to limit the increase in average global temperatures to less than 2 °C and, more recently, an emphasis on new energy technologies as a way to stimulate the economy. There is also the ongoing programme in competitiveness and innovation, which continues to deliver practical projects supporting renewables at all scales across Europe.
External issues have played their part in indirectly supporting the sector. Russia provided a great boost to domestic energy production when it turned off gas supplies to Ukraine in 2006, causing ripples of anxiety across Europe and influencing the Energy Security and Solidarity Plan. The oil price spike of 2007 also provided a timely reminder that oil production is subject to the laws of physical geology rather than just supply and demand, concentrating the minds of even the most sceptical politicians and decision-makers.
By 2007, renewables accounted for about 8 % of total energy consumption in the EU. Looking further ahead, the EU has set a legally enforceable target of generating 20 % of consumed energy from renewables by 2020. As we pause for breath at the end of a decade of frenetic activity, it is worth recognising these achievements for what they are.
Along with target setting, the EU has undertaken complementary work on the internal market to increase competition and trade in energy. Initial legislative measures were unsuccessful but a stronger set of regulations should improve the situation from 2011. Without a transparent and effective system of international energy competition and cooperation (yes, these two can operate in parallel), large renewable energy developments will be left with no clear market for their energy and investment will be stifled.
Issues related to the energy grid are particularly important. Indeed, in many EU Member States grid capacity is the main bottleneck in the system and without continuing European interest in the matter the situation will worsen. With that in mind, it is heartening to see progress through a number of public-private partnerships, such as the Mediterranean Solar Plan, the Desertec project and the North Seas Countries Offshore Grid. These kinds of initiatives will help encourage much needed private investors into the sector. And they demonstrate the coordinated approach and intergovernmental support that will be needed for successful grid development across the continent.
The European Environment Agency (EEA), too, has played its own small part in this decade of development. As we enter an era of increased environmental scrutiny of all developments, it is only right and proper that renewable energy is subject to the same provisions of environmental safeguarding required by other energy developments. The EEA plays the role of a "critical friend" to the industry, providing technical guidance to policymakers, researchers, businesses and citizens on the environmental impacts, both positive and negative, of renewable energy developments.
Over the last ten years we have published a significant body of resource assessments and analysis on most renewable technologies (Figure 1). Our work in the sector continues into 2011 with another look at the consequences of strong bioenergy growth, examining the potential for hydropower in Europe, and exploring the issues facing the European grid under scenarios of large-scale renewable deployment.
As the new decade starts, the EU has demonstrated its continued appetite for energy development with the publication of its infrastructure priorities. Denmark, Portugal and Spain have all embraced wind energy, and for Denmark and Spain in particular, this has led to a significant export market in wind technology. Finland, Sweden and others can consider their vast forestry reserves as a renewable resource for the rest of Europe, the Norwegian pumped hydro storage facilities can act as the energy storage reservoirs for much of the continent, and the Mediterranean states have ample sunlight offering strong investment opportunities.
In the last two years, more capacity has been added to the renewables sector than any other. Over the last ten years, wind ran a close second to gas for net installed capacity. From north to south, east to west, Europe's renewables sector is developing. And although this rapidly-growing, renewable energy teenager can expect some hard knocks as it takes its place in the world alongside oil, gas and coal, there is no doubt that it is here to stay.
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Recent studies, including the European Environment Agency's State and Outlook Report 2010 (SOER 2010), underline that we cannot look at environmental issues in isolation. To preserve and manage our natural capital wisely, Europe needs to reshape its economy and improve resource efficiency. Environmental tax reform is one of the measures that could contribute to Europe's transition towards a greener economy.
The idea behind environmental taxation is to impose charges on ourselves, and thereby reduce the pressure we put on the environment. When the revenue collected from such taxes (on the use of energy, emissions of air pollutants, land use, etc.) is used to reduce or avoid other taxes, it is called 'Environmental Tax Reform'.
Where taxes on environmentally harmful goods and services are used to reduce the tax burden on activities we want to encourage, such as employment and investment, it is possible to secure a 'double dividend': an improved environment and a better performing economy.
To explore the economic potential of environmental taxes, the European Environment Agency (EEA) has focused on an individual member state – Ireland – that is currently struggling with budget deficits. Several environmental tax experts came to Dublin to present their experiences. The Symposium participants identified a number of opportunities where environmental performance could be significantly improved, while at the same time generating revenues. Some of the opportunities of direct relevance to Ireland as well as their potential are listed below.
Environmental taxation is already widely used in Ireland. The poster child of this approach is the plastic bag levy, which reduced the use of such bags in Ireland by over 90 % within a week of its introduction. However, Ireland has also recently introduced a CO2-tax for the part of fossil fuel use not subject to emissions trading. The below proposals would provide a significant relief – up to €5 billion – for the Irish budget.
The 'polluter pays principle' provides that those using most resources are taxed according to their environmental impact. Without such charges, high income groups will always benefit as they use more resources and environmental services of all sorts.
Lower income groups have a proportionately smaller environmental tax burden but still face a challenge to meet their financial obligations. Such groups could be offered means to reduce consumption. In the case of water consumption, for example, there are very low cost investments with immediate effects. Alternatively, they could be provided some form of income support — a 'green cheque'.
The 'polluter pays principle' also applies to businesses, requiring them to pay for the impact of their activities on the publicly owned environment. Environmental tax reform would also create the price signals and markets to catalyse the emergence of a new generation of clean technology businesses.
Water Supply and Waste Water Treatment (subsidies removed)
Charge Category
User charges for water supply
Domestic sector free of charges in Ireland. Based on recovery of operating and (later) capital costs. Special provisions for those on low incomes
User charges for effluent and water discharge
Environmentally related taxes
Pollution and resource taxes
Water abstraction levy
Applying Danish rates and system, whereby pipe leakage could be reduced from 30-40% to 10%
Levy on aggregates levy
Sand, gravel, crushed rock. Applying UK rates for reduced volume + 25% recycling.
Tax on packaging
Applying Danish rates for glass bottles and by weight for other waste streams.
Applying rates applicable in Denmark
Applying rates applicable in Sweden
15 € per CO2-eq for N2O of mineral fertilisers
Transport taxes
Re-calibration of VRT and extension to commercial
Data as to number of commercial vehicles etc. required for more accurate revenue estimates.
Air travel tax
Apply UK rate of 14 € for longer flights; lower rate for short flights at 3 € per passenger
HGV vignette scheme
Applying Germany's approach and rates.
Energy taxes
Increasing excise duty on petrol and diesel
UK levels. Revenues netted out for the expected reduction in tank tourism from N Ireland and for differences in VAT rates.
CO2 tax, non-ETS
Increase CO2-tax to level in Sweden of 22€/tCO2
CO2 tax, offshore
Apply Norwegian system for taxation of offshore emissions from flaring etc. (0.05 €/Nm3)
Electricity tax
Introduce EU minimum rate for domestic sector (1.3 €/GJ)
Energy tax
Introduce new energy tax with minimum rate of 1.3 € per GJ - similar to EU minimum for electricity
Total environmentally-related taxes
Land Value tax (resource rent)
Land Value Tax
Applying rates applicable in Denmark ( for 'Grundskyld')
Grand total
All sources
[1] The potential for environmental taxes in Ireland based on experiences gained with environmental taxes in different European countries - with a gradual implementation over a period of four years.
Guiding the political discussions on how to limit dangerous interference with the climate system is an internationally recognised goal to limit the global mean temperature increase since pre-industrial times to below 2 °C. The main outcome of the last United Nations climate conference (COP15) was a political agreement – known as the 'Copenhagen Accord' – which recognises this goal by committing to significant emission reductions and raising funds to help the developing world address climate change. Although it does not include legally binding reduction targets, the Accord recognises the need for considerable emission reductions in light of the IPCC assessments. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has subsequently received submissions of national intentions (pledges) to cut and limit GHG emissions by 2020 from 125 parties, which together account for more than 80 % of global emissions.
"The UN meeting in Copenhagen could prove to have been more of a success than a failure if all the commitments, intentions and funding, including fully supporting the pledges of developing economies, are met," said Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and UNEP Executive Director.
This is one of the key results of the new 'Emissions Gap Report', compiled by UNEP and launched in advance of the 2010 UNFCCC conference (COP16) being held in Cancun, Mexico from November 29 to December 10. Building on COP16, world leaders will discuss, and possibly agree on, future measures to mitigate climate change.
The UNEP report finds that nations still have the chance to deliver almost 60 % of the emission reductions needed to keep global temperatures under a 2 °C rise. But only if the pledges made in Copenhagen are fully met. In cold numbers, global emissions need to be cut to around 49 gigatonnes of CO2-equivalent emissions by 2020. This would leave a gap of 5 gigatonnes that needs to be bridged over the next decade – no small amount, equal to the annual emissions of all the world's cars, buses and trucks in 2005. The report adds that the gap could be reduced substantially through a set of policy options available at the Cancun negotiations, such as higher ambition pledges from countries, or more ambitious domestic actions which could be supported by international climate finance.
In any case, "the window for cost effective action is narrowing with every year of delay," says Steiner.
On November 30, one day after talks began in Cancun, the European Environment Agency (EEA) launched its flagship assessment, The European environment – state and outlook 2010 (SOER 2010), in the European Parliament in Brussels. Unsurprisingly, it has a wealth of information related to how Europe is being impacted by, and is adapting to and managing, climate change.
Europe shares the international ambition of limiting global mean temperature increase to below 2 °C. SOER 2010 shows that, toward that end, the European Union (EU) has made progress in cutting emissions and expanding renewable energy. In 2009, greenhouse gas emissions from the 27 Member States of the EU stood 17 % below the 1990 level, and therefore very close to the bloc's target of cutting emissions 20 % by 2020. The EU is also on track to meet its international commitments under the Kyoto Protocol. At the same time, some sectoral trends are not positive – for example, EU-27 emissions from transport rose by 24 % between 1990 and 2008.
SOER 2010 finds that climate change, combined with socio-economic developments, have already had many impacts on Europe's environment. More are expected, such as an increased risk of floods, droughts, loss of biodiversity, threats to human health, and damage to economic sectors such as energy, forestry, agriculture and tourism.
"Climate change is the most visible sign of ecological instability so far," said Prof. Jacqueline McGlade, Executive Director of the EEA. "SOER 2010 also finds that other key environmental areas are at risk, such as marine ecosystems. This is chiefly because we are consuming more resources than is ecologically stable, while European and global demand for natural resources to feed, clothe, house and transport people is accelerating. We need to do more with less."
From this perspective, SOER 2010 finds that we cannot try to tackle one environmental challenge in isolation from others. Climate change negotiators in Cancun may agree to anchor their pledges made in Copenhagen, and may even strengthen and compliment them. But in the long-term, today's European and global environmental challenges will only be resolved through a complete shift to a resource-efficient, low carbon and green economy that requires that all environmental resources – biodiversity, land, carbon, rivers, the seas and the air we breathe – are fully considered in production, consumption and global trade decisions.
Overall, SOER 2010 provides information about the current state of Europe's environment, its likely future state, what is being done and what could be done to improve it, how global developments might affect future trends, and more. SOER 2010 products with a focus on climate change include: a chapter in the 'synthesis'; three Europe-wide assessments on Understanding climate change, Mitigating climate change, and Adapting to climate change; assessments from European countries on Climate change mitigation; and 'SOER 2010 in a policy context' which links SOER 2010 to European climate change policy.]]>
'We are consuming more natural resources than is ecologically stable. This is true for both Europe and the planet as a whole. Climate change is the most visible sign of instability so far, but a range of global trends suggest greater systemic risks to ecosystems in future. The nature of the current financial crisis should give us pause for thought.' said Prof. Jacqueline McGlade, Executive Director of EEA.
A complete shift to a resource-efficient green economy requires that all environmental resources – biodiversity, land, carbon, rivers, the seas and the air we breathe – are fully considered in production, consumption and global trade decisions.
'There are no quick fixes but regulators, businesses and citizens need to work together and find innovative ways to use resources more efficiently. The seeds for future action exist: the task ahead is to help them take root and flourish,' concludes McGlade.
SOER 2010 also highlights a greater understanding of the links between climate change, biodiversity, resource use and people's health — and how tools like spatial planning, ecological tax reform, pollution prevention, precaution and resource accounting can underpin a natural capital-based approach to their management.
SOER is the EEA's flagship report published every five years, aimed at providing information on the state of, trends in and prospects for Europe's environment, including causes, impacts and potential responses. SOER 2010 consists of four key elements: (i) thematic assessments on key environmental issues (climate change, biodiversity, land use, air pollution, marine environment, consumption, etc.) each accompanied by relevant facts and trends, (ii) an assessment of global megatrends relevant for Europe's environment, (iii) country assessments, and (iv) an integrated synthesis report.
All SOER assessments can be accessed online at www.eea.europa.eu/soer.
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CHANT411: Celebrating CCU's history
When CHANT411 was formed in 2013, the 10 students charged with finding answers to questions of all kinds about Coastal Carolina University needed to learn about the history of their university. And so April Sager, who developed and leads CHANT411, went to work to arrange such a presentation. During one of these sessions the students first saw a vintage illustration of the Chat 'n Chew, a venue they would discover was far more than just a restaurant halfway between Conway and Columbia in Turbeville, S.C.
It was there on a summer day in 1959 that officials from the Horry County Higher Education Commission and the University of South Carolina met to craft a deal for Coastal Carolina Junior College to become a branch campus of the University of South Carolina. The college officially became USC Coastal Carolina College in September 1960, and continued its 33-year affiliation with USC until July 1, 1993, when an independent Coastal Carolina University was formed.
To mark the anniversary of that meeting students from CHANT411 recently traveled with CCU President David DeCenzo to the Chat 'n Chew for a special dinner to see for themselves where the historic discussion occurred. President DeCenzo and the students presented restaurant owners Bernard and Willodene Blackmon with Roy Talbert's book, Coastal Carolina University: The First 50 Years, and a CCU flag.
Pictured at the Chat n' Chew with President DeCenzo and CHANT 411 director April Sager (center and far right, respectively) are CCU students (left to right) Savannah Murray, a junior from Charleston, S.C.; Britney Stewart, a senior from Columbia, S.C.; Alesha Pressley, a junior from Nesmith, S.C.; Scott Karchner, a senior from Berwick, Penn.; Stan Stokes, a junior from Greenville, S.C.; Paul Rudolph, a junior from Bucharest, Romania; Dylan Cordaro, a junior from North Massapequa, N.Y.; and Samantha Riley, a graduate student from Braintree, Mass.
For more information about the visit, read the article "Chat n' Chew owners get special visitors from Coastal Carolina University" from manninglive.com.


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I have a wool bow tie with the exact pattern and color scheme. The blue OCBD, the coat, and the PS..... liking this combination lots.
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I think your ties are very "business", you need more textured ones, like dupion silk, wool and madder. Your sportcoats and flannel suits would greatly benefit from them
You could try dropping a mail to Patrizio Cappelli. I think he's got madder ties, but they aren't listed on the site, at least not as a separate category. I suspect some ties in the "paisley" and "twill silk" lists are ancient madder, but not 100% sure.
Drakes sells some madders in longer length, those are 9 cm wide and I think a couple of them are very nice.
You could also try Sam Hober, though I don't really like their madder prints for ties (they're too large), but maybe you do
Hi UprCrust.
Thanks! It looks interesting. I have asked them if they have the eyelet collar shirt with extra long sleeves.
^ I see your beard has become more dense.
Stitch, don't hide your neck hair. Be proud.
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Jacket: RL
Shirt: Lewin
Tie: BB
Trousers: Hiltl
Socks: Pantherella
Shoes: Ferragamo


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Fernanda Santos
Fernanda Santos covers Arizona and New Mexico as the Phoenix bureau chief for The New York Times. She was previously based in New York, where she covered the New York City public school system; Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's City Hall; Queens, New York City's most ethnically diverse borough; and the rural and suburban communities of New York State.
Ms. Santos holds a bachelor's degree in social communications from Pontifícia Universidade Católica of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, her home country, and a master's degree in print journalism from Boston University.
She came to the United States in 1998 and, prior to joining The Times, she worked at The Republican in Springfield, Mass.; The Eagle-Tribune in Lawrence, Mass.; The Daily News of New York; and People Magazine. She co-wrote "Latinos in the United States: A Resource Guide for Journalists," published in 2001, and traveled to Colombia in 2005 as a fellow for the International Reporting Project. She speaks four languages – English, Portuguese, Spanish and French – and is trying to learn a fifth, Italian.
On Twitter: @FernandaNYT
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An Added Mission for Arizona Sheriff's Immigration Posse: School Patrols
Volunteers for Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, look a lot like his paid deputies as they keep an eye on schools.January 17, 2013 usNews
City Divides and Unites for a Dog Called Blue
The leash-free walks of an 11-year-old Australian cattle dog prompted complaints, an online petition of support and a City Council meeting that drew crowds.June 16, 2012 usNews
To Be Black at Stuyvesant High
Rudi-Ann Miller is one of 40 blacks among the 3,295 students at New York's Stuyvesant High School. The experience can be isolating, but she has had no regrets.February 26, 2012 educationNews
Before the First School Bell, Teachers in Bronx Make House Calls
A month before school started, a group of teachers from a South Bronx school canvassed poor immigrant neighborhoods to meet students and their families on their own turf.September 4, 2011 nyregionNews
Eloping to Vegas? Why Not Lower Manhattan?
Officials are hoping that the new and gleaming Manhattan Marriage Bureau will make it more popular.January 8, 2009 nyregionNews
Vindicated by DNA, but a Lost Man on the Outside
Exonerated after 16 years in prison, Jeffrey Mark Deskovic is a free man who has yet to feel truly free.November 25, 2007 usNews
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For the survivors of wildfires in Alberta and Arizona, lives as well as homes need to rebuilt from scratch.
May 29, 2016, Sunday
These Days, a Brazilian Expat 'Laughs So As Not to Cry'
Impeachment, the Zika virus and banned Olympic athletes! The Times's Phoenix bureau chief, Fernanda Santos, mulls her homeland's almost surreal unraveling.
May 25, 2016, Wednesday
과거 한 철 재해였던 산불이 이제 더 일찍, 그리고 더 오랜 기간 발생하고 있다
소방관들이 지역사회와 하천유역을 보호하는데 노력을 집중하기 위해 의도적으로 산불이 땅을 태우도록 만드는 일이 잦아지고 있다.
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A Heated Linguistic Debate: What Makes 'Redskins' a Slur?
In a twist to a long-running debate over a team's name, most Native Americans don't seem to mind the term, according to a recent Washington Post poll.
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Contempt Ruling Rebukes Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona
Sheriff Joe Arpaio violated an order forbidding his deputies to detain Latinos based solely on the suspicion they were in the country illegally.
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25 Seconds That Could Save a Firefighter's Life (or Not)
A fire shelter is mandatory equipment when fighting a wildfire in the United States, but in Canada, firefighters stopped carrying them in 2005.
May 7, 2016, Saturday
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Hyperbaric Chamber Saves the Lives of Two ChildrenMeredith Carroll
Hyperbaric chambers used to be best known because Michael Jackson was once photographed in one of them. In other words, they were seen as kooky, anti-aging, space-age, overpriced and over-hyped machinery.
However, the reality is that hyperbaric chambers can save lives. A brother and sister in Illinois are living proof.
Austin and Sydney Williams, now 10 and 8, were often sick for long periods of time, starting when Austin was just a year old. Their mom had to leave work to care for them full time, and doctors were unable to diagnose what appeared to be a mystery illness, even as they both regressed physically and academically. Eventually they were both diagnosed with mitochondrial disease, and Austin with autism, too. Most children with the former, which is a disease that prevents cells from using food to generate the energy necessary for live, don't live past 10-years-old.
Sydney suffered from hair loss and constant vomiting, and both kids fell victim to eye infections, sinusitis, ear infections and GI upsets, according to the Peoria Journal Star. So their mom kept doing research, and stumbled across the idea of a hyperbaric chamber.
A hyperbaric chamber is an enclosed tube, the inside of which is pressurized with 100 percent oxygen, thereby creating an atmosphere two to three times better for healing because the concentration of oxygen in a person's tissues is greater, encouraging the growth of blood vessels to damaged areas. They're used for wound therapy, stroke patients, post-traumatic brain injury, bone infections, carbon monoxide poisoning, some skin and bone infections, gangrene and decompression sickness.
The family uprooted their lives for a month and moved to Wisconsin to go to a hyperbaric treatment center. After just three sessions, the Williams kids starting seeing some very real results. So encouraged by seeing their children eat and play with energy they'd never had before, their parents' church and community helped the family purchase a $25,000 soft cloth chamber to install in their home, which the kids use for treatments now three times a week. They have been weaned from most other medications and are thriving, with playing on the swingset in their backyard their new favorite pasttime.
For all of the advances of science and technology that forever seem to be on the verge of approvals, it's heartwarming to read stories about the ones that are making a difference in the here and now. Especially when the happy ending means that two kids are now able to be kids.
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Relationship Marketing and Data Quality Management
Khalil, Omar E. M., Harcar, Talha D., SAM Advanced Management Journal
In today's turbulent environment of global business, successful organizations must be able to provide high-quality products and services on the basis of personal knowledge of customers. Customer service needs to be constructed on the premise that consumers are increasingly demanding to be treated as individuals, not just as members of a large group. Consequently, personalization - the social content of interaction between service or retail employees and their customers - becomes an important mediator of customer satisfaction and patronage behavior. Successful implementation of such relationship marketing, however, demands the integration of timely and accurate market, consumer, and product information. In response to the growing demand for integrated information, organizations have expended great effort to utilize the latest information technology (IT) to build and maintain information systems. Effective use of such systems requires a high degree of data quality, defined as data that is fit for use by data consumers (Strong, Lee, & Wang, 1997). Many managers, however, are unaware of the quality of the data they use and perhaps assume that IT ensures that the data is perfect. Customer data may be of poor quality if it does not reflect real world conditions or is not easily used and understood by the data user. Poor quality data can cause immediate economic harm and also have more indirect, subtle effects.
Organizations, however, have largely ignored the issue of poor data quality. The need for data quality management arises as the focus shifts from production process to customer concerns. Achieving customer satisfaction mandates quality production policies and production systems, and these, in turn, necessitate quality data policies and systems. Therefore, to successfully implement a relationship marketing strategy, corporate management should develop data quality policy, identify the critical data quality requirements, and establish quality data production systems.
This paper discusses relationship marketing as a relatively new marketing strategy, emphasizing the importance of high-quality data to the implementation of such strategy, the problem of poor data quality, and data quality management (DQM) as an approach to dealing with such a problem.
Relationship Marketing
The history of marketing can be broken up into three periods in terms of buyer and seller relationships: the simple trade era, the mass production era, and the new marketing era. The simple trade era was a real relationship between the buyer and the seller. Retailers, bankers, and auto dealers knew their customers personally, understood what they wanted, and satisfied their needs through personalized service. The proprietor of a general store, a bank, a barbershop, or a town livery stable visualized business primarily in terms of share of customers. For example, a local grocer's business was built on a one-to-one relationship with individual customers and what the grocer knew about each of them. This allowed the retailer to solve problems for customers, to give special attention to the most valuable customers, to sell them more products, and to adjust the service or product offerings to meet their evolving needs. Therefore, the pre-twentieth-century store owners were relationship marketers who nurtured customers as individuals and had to keep data about their customers in their head (Peppers & Rogers, 1995).
After the onset of the Industrial Revolution, most companies had moved into the mass production era. During this era, customers traded relationships for greater variety and lower prices. The advent of mass media in the early part of this century undercut the relationship between customer and companies and replaced it with mass marketing techniques. Standardized messages could be communicated to millions of people. A branded product that used a symbol took the place of a relationship, and consumers became statistics in the marketers' databases (Alanzo, 1994). …


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- Graduated in 1994
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- Complete in 1995
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- University New Mexico/Chldns Hospital Of New Mexico
- Complete in 1997
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- Luther College
- Graduated in 1987
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Price, large size of room
Difficult location to find, staff was difficult to find
location to the port and fabulous well priced food places
design of bathroom - had to sit sideways on the toilet because of the size of the basin!
The location was excellent
The furniture was outdated and the bathrooms need a serious renovation
Very friendly and helpful staff. Especially Alexandrine who was lovely and looked afetr us very well. Nice and clean rooms and beautiful pool area. Very relaxing stay.
Staff friendliness and helpfulness , Excellent location and strong internet in the lobby area.ust a few minutes walk from the arrival of feries.
Very good located, colse to the centre of Naoussa. Very friendely staff. Cleanng every day, nice pool and good rooms. Breakfast was very nice ( lots to choose from). Hotel even privided a pick up service from and to the port. We''l go there again.
the beds by the pool could need some pillows to make them more comfertly.
the hotel staff was exceptional and attentive to our needs. Innkeepers Elias and his wife were very pleasant and made us feel like family. Manoli, the pool bartender, was always a pleasure serving us our morning coffee and afternoon cocktails .
What a place to stay. 5mins from the beach, 5 mins from town. An excellent host and very comfortable rooms. The value for money was great. Being collected and dropped to port for free is a massive bonus as you save on taxi's or don't have the hassle of another bus.
Very friendly staff who were always there to help and assist with anything. Great location with lovely balcony to watch the sunset.
we were delighted with the quitness, the beauty of the scenary around the hotel. We have had a very enjoying stay in Lefkes village
Peaceful, charming and romantic setting for an extremely relaxing stay. Very good value on the deal we booked.
Great rooms for a good price. Very nice pool with great views of the ocean and Parikia if you have an ocean facing room.
They used the credit card that I used to book the room with to pay for our stay with out consent from me. We wanted to pay cash, they should have asked.
It was the worst hotel i ever stayed at. The people at the hotel were not nice to us. I found out the price I paid was way more than the price others were paying. When I asked the woman working at the front desk about this, she was VERY nasty. I do not recomment this place to anyone. They are thieves and take advantage of people.
Horrible stay...things were broken in the room, it was not cleaned properly and the woman manager was nasty.
Very clean, close to beach, quiet big and comfortable room,
Small beds, Beds seem big in pics but not big. Not friendly staff execpt young woman.
Staff was very friendly and helpful at all times. we ended up staying extra days.
The pool area was nice and it was very close to Antiparo. We had to check out a few days earlier and we didn't pay any penalties.
The pictures were very deceiving!!!!!!!!!! Didn't look even close to the pics..
The hotel manager was very helpful and organised transport for us.The room was very clean small but functional.Hotel also had a small but well maintained pool.
This hotel has a nice pool area and the rooms are clean. The breakfast is fine. What will always stay in our memory was the kindness and service of the staff, which was outstanding - nothing less. Out of hundreds of hotels I have never had a more pleasant and friendly service!
The balconies are pretty small, use the pool area for relaxation
Nana was a great host, she gave us a beautiful room , we had a great time !
I liked everything ! thank you
Great facilities, very big and the service is awesome. Big swimming pool with nice views of the area. The staff arrange free transfer to/from port too. It is about 800 mts from town and restaurants, not bad at all.
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