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Posted August 22, 2016 by Tara Ritter
This month marks the one-year anniversary of the announcement of the Clean Power Plan, President Obama and the EPA's regulation to reduce carbon pollution from existing power plants. While the Clean Power Plan focuses on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, it also includes a program to make sure all communities benefit from a clean energy transition. This program—the Clean Energy Incentive Program—is currently open for comment, providing an important opportunity to shape the environmental justice and rural implications of the Clean Power Plan.
The Clean Energy Incentive Program (CEIP) is a voluntary part of the Clean Power Plan that provides support for low-income communities to undertake renewable energy and energy efficiency projects. The CEIP will match state funds to incentivize early investment in renewable energy and energy efficiency before the Clean Power Plan's first compliance deadline in 2020. The renewable energy projects can happen anywhere, but the energy efficiency projects must happen in low-income communities. This is an excellent opportunity to level the playing field for low-income communities, which often face barriers to accessing renewables and energy efficiency upgrades.
Although IATP supports the goals of the CEIP to reward states for early action, install more renewable energy and improve energy efficiency in low-income communities, we developed comments on the CEIP to increase equity considerations, with a specific focus on rural communities, which are hit disproportionately hard by climate change. Rural communities have higher poverty rates (18.1 percent in rural areas compared to 15.1 percent in urban areas), more persistent long-term poverty rates and higher child poverty rates than urban communities. Rural areas also have lower housing quality with lower average energy efficiency. This means that households with lower average incomes are paying a higher percentage of their income to heat, cool and power their homes. In addition, many rural economies are linked to natural resources (e.g. agriculture, forestry, fishing, tourism), so extreme weather impacts these areas much more. For these reasons, rural communities should not be left out of CEIP funding opportunities.
The comment deadline for the CEIP is August 29, 2016. We encourage you to read through IATP's comments and submit your own; you can see the CEIP in the Federal Register and find instructions on how to comment here. If implemented well, the CEIP provides an exciting opportunity to benefit rural, low-income communities throughout the country that are facing negative impacts from climate change.
Posted August 18, 2016 by Karen Hansen-Kuhn
Public opposition to free trade agreements, like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), that serve to increase inequality and concentrate corporate power has reached a loud crescendo. We got to this point through years of effort by thousands of civil society groups around the world, reaching out to educate people on the likely impacts of the very specific rules embedded in those documents, as well as defining alternatives for our economies, environments and food systems. That debate was never simply about trade; it was about decisions on the kinds of economies and societies we choose to accept.
And it's not over yet. As public pressure continues this year, whether through vibrant events like Rock Against the TPP ! or organized pressure on specific members of Congress, there is a concerted demand by progressive civil society organizations and leaders to halt current trade agreements and to insist on a different process, different rules, and a different vision of what comes next. We need trade policy that serves to reduce inequality, build local economies and enhance environmental sustainability.
Those alternatives must be grounded in the kinds of economies and societies we want. I witnessed some elements of an alternative approach to food systems last week at the Second International Conference on Rural Economies and Agroecology in the Americas, held in Texcoco, Mexico. The conference was convened by Mexican organizations including Mexican farmers' organization ANEC (National Association of Producers' Enterprises del Campo), Semillas de Vida, and the Agroecology Program at Chapingo Autonomous University (in Texcoco), which is celebrating its 25-year anniversary. Renowned Indian author and activist Dr. Vandana Shiva was a keynote speaker at the event.
IATP was a co-sponsor with those organizations of the first conference, held last year in Mexico City. That meeting highlighted the scientific evidence in favor of agroecology and the "dialogue of knowledges" inherent in a process that brings together farmers' knowledge of what works in their specific situations with new information on ways to produce that works with nature to enhance food production, farmers' livelihoods and ecosystems.
This year, the focus embodied that dialogue of knowledges even more directly. About a third of the 500 or so participants were farmers from different parts of Mexico. Many students from the Chapingo Agroecology program also participated, not only learning from the expert presenters, but raising questions and asserting their own ideas. Food and farming leaders from Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala and Venezuela presented lessons from their own experiences. Mexican researcher Miguel Angel Damian Huato summarized one discussion with the observation that agroecology is based on technologies generated and regenerated in different times, combining traditional knowledge with newer techniques.
Representatives of the Frente de Pueblos en Defensa de la Tierra de San Salvador Atenco (FPDT) challenged conference participants to go beyond the confines of the auditorium to support a very real struggle going on nearby, where social movements have been campaigning against the construction of a new airport for more than 15 years. I was part of a delegation from the conference that included Dr. Vandana Shiva, to visit community and learn about their campaign of resistance.
As we travelled to the site, FPDT leader Ignacio del Valle told us about the history of the area. Centuries ago, emperor and poet Nezahualcoyotl established extensive gardens along Lake Texcoco, including the planting of massive Ahuehuete trees ("old man of the water" in Nahuatl). Many of those ancient trees have died as a result of the lowering of the water table in recent years. Ignacio pointed out one of those trees that he said symbolizes their struggle, as it continues to resist despite tough conditions. In many ways, the community's heritage, identity and livelihood is connected to this land. If it is paved over to build a new airport, those connections will be lost.
Agroecology flourishes in situations in which the farmers who know their lands best can work with specialists from other disciplines to find new solutions. ANEC leader Victor Suarez insisted that it requires public policies to support those innovations and treat farmers as producers of food and knowledge, rather than objects of charity. NAFTA displaced millions of corn producers and the TPP would threaten the interests of Mexican coffee and dairy producers, as well as requiring adherence to intellectual property rules that lock in corporate control over seeds.
Removing those obstacles by defeating the TPP is a necessary first step. Building the alternatives through agroecology will be a vital element of a new approach moving forward.
This imaginary message from a truck driver hauling 15 tons of a nano-copper (Cu) and nano-silicon (Si) powder could one day be the start of a very real accident. To think through the scientific and practical aspects of accident response preparation and intervention, U.S. and European participants, mostly scientists at an early June workshop in Washington DC on the environmental, health and safety (EHS) effects of exposure to nanomaterials, were asked to advise risk managers about EHS risk factors resulting from this and one other fake nano-accident scenario. Four hours after the truck rollover, "Nano Inc." risk managers had to explain to public officials, to their employees and to the media what they had done to protect an elementary school, residential high rises and a business district, all downwind from the accident site. Wind, with gusts of up to 20 miles an hour, was blowing atomic to molecular size nano-particles with laboratory-characterized EHS risks. I was one of two risk managers for the nano-CU scenario.
The myriad details of the mock accidents are at the "2016 US-EU Communities of Research nanoEHS Scrimmage" website. Key among the Scrimmage documents is a Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) for the fictitious, but very plausible, "Nano-Cu-cide," an agricultural fungicide. MSDS are required to be posted in every workplace that handles hazard chemicals. It lists the composition, use, workplace labeling and hazards of the chemicals and the first aid measures to be taken for acute and immediate exposure to the chemicals. Brief advice to firefighters and environmental precautions are also included in the 10 page MSDS. The "Nano-Cu-cide" MSDS comprised a mix of EU and U.S. regulatory and workplace safety requirements, which scientists remarked on just how far apart nanomaterial EHS standards are in the U.S. and EU.
The U.S. co-chair of the nanoEHS Scrimmage, Professor Christine Ogilvie Hendren of the Center for the Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology, cautioned participants that the objective of the exercise was not to make real EHS policy recommendations or to propose real emergency management measures. Rather, the purpose of the Scrimmage was to focus scientific specialists on a systems approach to nanoEHS in a quasi-real time scenario. Converting their scientific knowledge into a Nano Inc. public information statement was done with more improvisation than a risk communication expert would have liked.
Nevertheless, a few of the salient points in the Nano Inc. statement about the fictitious accident to employees and public officials were to assure that:
These kind of actions could help to minimize harm in the event of a real accident. In the fake accident scenario, those who played the roles of the Mayor, the Concerned Mother, Bunky Ferguson, long-time employee in the loading dock, etc. had very relevant questions, for which the Nano Inc. Public Information Officer and the Nano Inc. scientists had less than definitive answers:
In a post-Scrimmage review, participants had many criticisms to make of the Nano Inc. statement and of the Scrimmage scenarios as a whole. A lawyer said that to better defend the company against lawsuits, the Nano Inc. lawyers would never have allowed the public information officer to speak at length or in detail. Environmental toxicity scientists said that no measures were proposed to prevent entry into the sewage system of liquid that could result from applying a foam to the powdered Nano-CU-cide. How would Nano Inc. prevent panic resulting from false information spread by social media?
My view, expressed to the workshop participants, was that the Scrimmage was a very useful exercise, if only because an emergency focuses the mind to perceive better the regulatory, risk assessment and emergency management shortcomings relevant to nanomaterials. The U.S. National Nanotechnology Coordinating Office and the EU's Joint Research Committee are to be congratulated for supporting the Scrimmage.
Whether or not nanomaterial companies are carrying out this kind of exercise already with local and state public authorities, IATP hopes that future iterations of the Scrimmage will be part of the U.S. and EU public engagement on nanotechnology and nanomaterials. In a well-regulated industry, companies using nanomaterials would be required to demonstrate to public authorities their training and technical capacity to respond to a more realistic and complex version of the mock accident scenarios in the Scrimmage.
A Spanish language presentation on some of the content of this blog.
While food and agriculture were not on the official agenda for the latest round of Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations, July 11-15 in Brussels, the intense debate generated by Greenpeace Netherland's leaks of 14 chapters of the draft agreement continue to reverberate through the trade policy world. Consumer and other civil society groups, having scrutinized the official texts, are pressing for major changes in the agreement's alarming "innovations" in setting standards on agricultural animal health and welfare, plant health and food safety (in trade policy terminology, Sanitary and Phytosanitary Standards or SPS).
The Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD), an alliance of about 25 U.S. and 50 European NGOs, for which IATP serves as the U.S. co-chair of the Food Policy Committee, published a resolution on the TTIP SPS chapter in January. Because the Obama administration refuses to make public its negotiating proposals, TACD developed its resolution by using the SPS chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) as a proxy for the U.S. SPS positions in TTIP. In July, TACD published an update to its January resolution that made recommendations to the European Commission (EC) Directorate General of Trade (DG Trade) and to the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) on the basis of their negotiating proposals, as published by Greenpeace.
Both DG Trade and USTR attempted to downplay the importance of the Greenpeace leaked texts, claiming that NGOs either did not understand or willfully misinterpreted the texts. Furthermore, they argued that nothing in TTIP would compromise food safety, public health or environmental health. ("USTR, EU Immediately Seek to Soften Impact of Greenpeace TTIP Leak," Inside U.S. Trade, May 2, 2016. Subscription required.) DG Trade chief negotiator Ignacio Garcia Bercero insisted that U.S. proposals on trade in food and agriculture products with genetically modified organisms were unacceptable to the EU. ("EU Chief Negotiator Rules Out U.S. TTIP Proposals on GMOs, Rulemaking," Inside U.S. Trade, May 5, 2016. Subscription required.)
TACD members, like many non-governmental organizations, were not placated by these official declarations. For example, the update summarized Corporate Europe Observatory Gene Watch and Greenpeace research show how the Commission caved in to USTR pressure not to publish an EU legal opinion that would have required products of synthetic biology to be regulated as GMOs under EU law. Emails discovered under EU freedom of information law implied that TTIP negotiations and trade would be negatively impacted by publishing the opinion and acting on it. (An IATP blog in May summarized the history of U.S. GMO deregulation, including that of foods derived from synthetic biology techniques.) By parsing the definition of a "GMO," DG Trade sought, but failed, to quell public criticism of the Commission's effort to circumvent EU law on GMOs through the TTIP back door.
TACD made recommendations on four issues in the proposed TTIP SPS chapter:
Equivalence determinations are fundamental to enabling trade among countries whose governments have different SPS measures to protect consumer, animal and plant health. The DG Trade proposal for equivalence is the traditional one derived from the World Trade Organization (WTO); the exporting country authorities apply for an equivalence determination to the importing country authorities, which have the sole discretion to grant, reject or revoke an equivalence determination. The U.S. proposal would require EC authorities to take into consideration decisions of the WTO SPS Committee. TACD opposes introducing SPS decisions concerning non-TTIP members as evidence in TTIP equivalence decisions. There is no valid reason for TTIP to erode the total discretion the WTO gives to importing country members to make equivalence determinations by requiring TTIP members to consider WTO SPS decisions that may have nothing to do with equivalence.
The USTR "Science and Risk" proposal for a standard of scientific evidence, to be used in risk assessment, would contravene peer scientific review standards. According to the U.S. proposal, "each Party," carrying out risks assessments, "shall ensure that it takes into account relevant available scientific evidence." Based on existing U.S. practices, TACD believes that under this standard, applicants to commercialize a new food or agricultural product or technology would be able to declare) public and environmental health data in studies, submitted to support the commercialization application, as Confidential Business Information (CBI. In the U.S., risk managers routinely allow commercial applicants to determine what is CBI and thus, not available for peer review. TACD recommends replacing the language cited in the U.S. proposal with "Parties shall ensure that risk assessments are made only on the basis of publicly available scientific studies, data and information, with no classification of such evidence as Confidential Business Information."
It is striking that the USTR proposal on "Regulatory Approvals for Products of Modern Agricultural Technology" fails to define what is included under the term "modern agricultural technology." TACD assumes that this proposal would go beyond its TPP proposal for deregulating "products of modern biotechnology" and allowing the import of "low-level presence" of genetically modified products not authorized for import.
The U.S. proposal likely will define "products of modern agricultural technology" to include food and agricultural products with atomic- to molecular-sized nanomaterials. These products are unregulated in the United States and nearly unregulated in the European Union, save for nanomaterials in cosmetics and the inclusion of the word "nano" on consumer product labeling. TACD recommends suspension of negotiations on this article until the negotiating parties agree, implement and demonstrate the capacity to enforce rules pertaining to nanomaterials in food, agriculture and other consumer products. Citing a recent report by Friends of the Earth on nanomaterials in baby formula bought in U.S. supermarkets, TACD stated, "A vague trade rule on 'products of modern agricultural technology' by a negotiating Party without the capacity to protect the smallest consumers will not provide the 'appropriate level of sanitary and phytosanitary protection' required by the WTO SPS agreement."
TACD has sent to governments a resolution on the TTIP proposal for a chapter on regulatory cooperation in all economic sectors. The U.S. proposal for the chapter would allow industry lobbyists to intervene at the very outset of the regulatory process to determine whether SPS and other public protection rules would have a negative trade and investment impact. An earlier version of this chapter was described as an "early warning system" against regulation. Read in conjunction with the aforementioned U.S. proposal on "Science and Risk," the U.S. proposal for SPS regulatory cooperation would require governments to cooperate to revise their risk assessments in response to industry provided studies, possibly including those classified as CBI, following U.S. practice.
The SPS chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement allows for the "primary representative" on the SPS Joint Management Committee to come from an agency without SPS competency or legal obligations. TACD suggested that the recent definition by the European Commission of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals, such as pesticides, is an example of TTIP induced "pre-harmonization" with the U.S. deregulation of EDCs. Undermining the scientific basis for the EU's de facto ban on EDC pesticides has become a TTIP negotiating chip. TACD strongly recommended that only officials with SPS competency and legal obligations serve on the SPS Joint Management Committee, to reduce the pressure for the TTIP's trade maximization objective to override consumer and environmental health protection.
TACD members discuss resolutions with government officials during TACD's Annual Meeting and then intermittently throughout the year. On June 28, IATP and the European Office of Consumer Organizations lobbied the January resolution on the TTIP SPS chapter with DG Trade and DG Santé (formerly Consumer Health and Protection) officials. Discussions are on a not-for-attribution basis and government officials are usually non-committal about resolutions. Our impression was that DG Santé believed that SPS commercialization applications under CBI was necessary and that "trade in products of modern biotechnology" referred only to GMOs and not to products of synthetic biology, both errors in our view. However, the officials said they looked forward to receiving the update to the resolution. TACD plans to discuss the resolution and update with officials in September in Washington.
Posted July 14, 2016 by Karen Hansen-Kuhn
Last week, there was a bit of good news on the trade front: on July 8, tobacco giant Philip Morris lost its ridiculous case against Uruguay's cigarette labeling laws. In 2010, the multinational company's Swiss subsidiary—which owns its operations in Uruguay—sued the country over rules designed to discourage cigarette consumption, especially by young people. As in a similar case against Australia, the company alleged that requiring labels that emphasize the dangers of smoking lowered the value of its intellectual property rights (i.e., its trademarked labels) and therefore, its investments. The case was brought under the Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism in a bilateral investment treaty between Switzerland and Uruguay. ISDS empowers companies to sue governments in private tribunals over measures that undermine their expected profits. It has become a lightning rod for controversy in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
Like most fair trade advocates, I find myself explaining ISDS to people who are new to the trade debate. In my interactions with local food and farm groups, people are often a bit skeptical that such an outlandish mechanism could be real. But we have decades of evidence, such as Metalclad, the U.S. waste disposal company that successfully sued the Mexican government over a community's refusal to reopen a toxic waste dump. Other cases could be decided soon, such as Chevron's suit against Ecuador over environmental cleanup costs resulting from its oil drilling operations; or Pac Rim's case against El Salvador over its ban on gold mining. According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Investment, some 700 known cases have been filed, with a record 70 of them filed in 2015.
Philip Morris has had a run of bad luck recently with these cases. The ISDS panel ruled against its suit over Australia's cigarette label rules last year. In that case, since Switzerland and Australia haven't agreed to such a mechanism, the company ran the lawsuit through its Hong Kong subsidiary, which does have ISDS through a bilateral treaty. The ISDS panel ruled that this kind of treaty shopping was out of bounds. It did not rule on the underlying public health or intellectual property issues. It is entirely sensible that a company shouldn't have the right to this kind of sleight of hand. There has been no decision yet on who will pay for the legal costs involved in the case. Reports in the Australian press indicate that the government spent AUD$50 million (US$38 million) to defend the case.
In the new Uruguay decision, in addition to ruling against the company's claims, the panel ruled that Philip Morris should pay for the legal costs involved in the case, including $7 million of Uruguay's expenses defending the case. While that decision is welcome news, it underscores the point that these cases can create heavy burdens for a small country like Uruguay, and no doubt lead to strong incentives for the government to simply settle the case to avoid further expenses (as well as a glaring warning to other countries contemplating such measures). In this case, the country was able to continue in part due to substantial financial support from the Bloomberg Foundation. So again, the ISDS panel's decision that Philip Morris should compensate the government for its costs is common sense.
Here's where the common sense aspect falls apart. Future ISDS panels are not required to abide by the logic established in these two cases. Even more fundamentally, there is no common sense reason for ISDS to exist at all. Historically, the notion was that it was needed to encourage companies to invest in countries with inadequate legal systems. The rules proposed in TPP, TTIP and the dozens of bilateral investment treaties involve many countries like the EU, Japan and the U.S. that have well developed legal systems. When TransCanada sued the U.S. government under NAFTA rules over its refusal to proceed with the Keystone Pipeline, it also sued in Texas using the normal U.S. legal system for commercial disputes.
This not only gives companies a chance for a "second bite at the apple," it also undoubtedly sends strong political signals to other local or national governments considering new programs. Laurent Huber, executive director of Action on Smoking and Health, commented in a Reuters article that Philip Morris "will no doubt shed some public crocodile tears, but their main goal in launching the suit has been realized, six years and millions of dollars have been spent defending a nondiscriminatory law that was intended purely to protect public health…This has already resulted in regulatory chill in other countries, preventing tobacco legislation that would have saved lives."
These cases have attracted a lot of public attention. As a result, the final TPP text contains provisions allowing countries to keep tobacco control measures out of future ISDS cases. That's a good step, but of course, still leaves many public health and environment laws subject to future suits. Food and farm advocates should also be concerned about the dozens of cases over restrictions on mining and oil exploration (with drastic impacts on water pollution), land rights and zoning.
So, while we should certainly celebrate the good news from the Philip Morris-Uruguay decision, that doesn't mean that common sense over these kinds of disputes has prevailed. A better approach would be to set aside ISDS, as countries like Bolivia and South Africa have done, and focus on global governance rules that put us on the road to better public health and sustainable development.
Posted July 12, 2016 by Shefali Sharma
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy's European Office, along with international group Compassion in World Farming (CIWF), German member of Via Campesina—Arbeitsgemeinschaft bäuerliche Landwirtschaft e.V. (AbL) and PowerShift launched their new report Selling Off the Farm: Corporate Meat's Takeover through TTIP today with a panel discussion and a press briefing at the European Parliament.
Some key findings from the report:
As I stated in the press release announcing the report, "The U.S. simply lacks essential rules that should curb the meat industry's worse practices that cost taxpayers millions in environmental and public health costs. The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations are already influencing European policy even without being agreed to—this is clear from the EU's recent decision to scrap their methane cap from their National Emissions Ceilings Directive. With TTIP, the EU industry will also ensure that pending decisions on critical issues such as cloning and glyphosate are made with trade 'competitiveness' in mind and not the public interest. A TTIP deal would basically hand over Europe's animal farming sector on a silver platter to transnational meat corporations—through tariffs and quota expansions, but definitively through the sweeping de-regulatory changes the industry hopes to win through the accord."
Sharon Treat, lead author and former U.S. state legislator said: "The analysis clearly shows that regulatory processes for key issues that the European and American public care about—from climate change, GMOs, country of origin labelling or future rules on technologies such as gene editing--will be affected. The meat industry will be able to use TTIP to effectively undermine efforts to regulate the negative environmental and public health impacts of their industrialized practices in the future—not just at the EU and federal level, but for EU Member States and U.S. states as well."
Read the Executive Summary.
Read the full report.
Posted June 30, 2016 by Hannes Lorenzen
The outcome of the referendum in the United Kingdom is worth some thoughts about our future as Europeans.
It is useless to enter into the blaming mode. There are many reasons for being frustrated, upset, desperate or simply sad about the state of the world as it is. Our part of this world, Europe, is in a very bad state of mind. Hate is back between us, between political camps and parties, between governments, countries and people who do not even try to talk or understand each other. The question of the referendum was whether to stay or leave the EU. But the answer was more than "leave!". It was an outcry of discontent and fear.
On front pages of newspapers and internet networks there is language which feeds racist, nationalist, chauvinistic and egoistic feelings and thinking. First there is hate in thinking, then in words, then in action. The killing of Jo Cox, the British young Member of Parliament during the Brexit campaign should ring a bell to all of us.
In the thirty years of my career in the European Institutions I have not heard so much insulting and disrespectful talk from Members of Parliament whose program is to leave or destroy the European Union. I call it pre-war language. The content of that language is very often inaccurate or it is built on blunt lies. The objective of that language is dividing us, bringing us back into borders of nation-thinking, - against the rest of the world. It creates fear of the future and of each other and it is used to feed the ambitions of power of a new generation of autocrats. They try to make us believe that we need to withdraw from the big and insecure world into a smaller more secure world of our nations. They tell us that we need to regain sovereignty through new borders around and between us so that we will be protected against the unknown. But drawing new borders will in no way resolve the malaise within. We need to remake the rules so that people - whether immigrants or native born—have a decent chance, and to confront the big problems like unemployment and climate change from a point of unity rather than divisions.
We cannot keep the world out there. It is coming to us. Climate change, the desperate situation of millions of refugees and migrants, and the increasingly destructive global competition for resources are the very challenges we have to deal with. No one can escape that. The current state of the world out there is part of our common national and European colonial and post-colonial responsibility.. The numerous wars and conflicts around us, and the current wave of terrorism within our nations have their roots in our own European and Western histories. If we ignore this and further use pre-war language among ourselves we will very quickly end up in new wars in Europe.
The European dream appeared from a nightmare of wars between our people. The iron curtain between East and West came down 27 years ago. Now new mental and barbed wires are being drawn between old and new neighbors, even within the European Union, to keep people out. They will not protect us from any of those challenges we might be afraid of. They will just be the source of new divisions and conflicts between us.
So what is new since the Brexit?
The first thing is that the decision is finally made. The campaign is over. The process of separation will now start. It is most probably irreversible for one or two generations and will have wide-ranging consequences for the EU and the UK.
The second thing is that within the EU and within the UK various camps will feel encouraged to further dig in their positions and sharpen their language. Within the EU, populists will take the Brexit as a blue print for further "leave" campaigns. Within the UK, independence movements in Scotland and Northern Ireland already mobilize for independence from the UK in order to be able to stay in the EU; the divide between "leave or in" has also become apparent between elder and younger people, cities and the countryside and enterprises which depend on access to the EU internal market or not.
Thirdly, for the remaining 27 national heads of governments it may dawn, that using the EU as a scapegoat for domestic problems - while picking EU money and markets—is no guarantee to stay in power. Mr. Cameron failed with that. Also earlier referenda in Denmark, France and the Netherlands hit the EU while primarily meaning the national government.
Forth, the national governments in power may now feel obliged to think about ways to keep the European project together. But they seem to be stuck. The frictions are deep. The divide between North and South, East and West has never been so sharp. Austerity policies preferred by governments in the North and East of the EU or new public investments for employment and social welfare preferred by governments in Southern member states are worlds apart. In the same way the ongoing Greek crisis reveals how far political elites are out of touch with day to day problems of people and how close to pressures of the demands of banks and national industries. Furthermore, the former political landscape has become blurry. A switch of votes from extreme and moderate left to extreme right has taken place in many countries. Mainstream parties can no longer count on their constituencies to follow their lead. They have to have new solutions that show they are listening.
Fifth, there is a worst case and a best-case scenario after Brexit.
The worst case is that Brexit is the beginning of the end of the European project. The EU would continue to exist as a mere global market place without any ambition to tame the destructive forces of global capitalism, nor to meet global challenges like climate change or to work as a Union towards social cohesion and fair trade with third countries.
The best-case scenario would be that Brexit creates new movements of civil society beyond party camps with a European spirit, which reveal the core ideas of European cooperation and solidarity and organize themselves as pan-Europeans beyond national borders. On governmental and institutional level, that scenario would include a process of intensified dialogue and cooperation with candidate countries for accession and neighbors of the EU like Ukraine, the Black Sea and Mediterranean region.
My best case scenario might sound naïve against the dominant mood of frustration and anger. But it is not more naïve or illusionary than the visions of the founders of the European project after Second World War. We must not underestimate the power of compassion for humane, democratic and just societies in Europe. They emerge from deep crisis. European civil society movements carry that compassion and positive energy. They embrace Europe on a much wider scale than within the borders of the EU. And they have found ways to influence and change the sometimes-sclerotic structures of the European institutions in a creative manner.
First there is an open mind and creative thought; then come encouraging language and dialogue; further appear gatherings, democratic decisions and good practices; and out of all that may appear a new European project.
It is worth trying.
Originally published on ARC2020.
Posted June 30, 2016 by Ben Lilliston
On a wintry day in March, residents from Winona, Minnesota gathered around tables with flip charts and markers to develop a plan for how the Mississippi River community could respond to climate change. The plan included strategies to expand local energy production and efficiency, and shift toward land use and farming practices that could slow floods that have plagued Winona over the last decade.
This type of essential community-level climate adaptation planning is happening in various forms around the country, but these efforts are often limited by divisive climate politics at the national level. A new report from the non-partisan, independent General Accounting Office (GAO) examines how other countries are establishing national-level climate adaptation planning strategies and the growing financial toll the U.S. faces by not taking stronger climate action.
The new GAO report is a follow-up to a 2013 report which outlined the rising financial risk to the federal government from extreme weather events caused by climate change. The White House has estimated that the federal government has incurred over $357 billion in direct costs due to 86 weather-related disasters over the last decade. A UN report found the global costs of storms alone exceeded $1 trillion over the last two decades. The U.S. Global Change Research Program projects that these types of disasters, and associated financial costs, will only rise in the future. A 2015 follow-up report from the GAO found that only responding to disasters at the local level is not a good long-term strategy. This reactionary approach "can limit states ability to plan and prioritize longer-term disaster resilience."
The GAO profiled five countries that have already moved well beyond the U.S. in climate adaptation planning: the European Union, Mexico, the Netherlands, the Philippines and the United Kingdom. Each country has long-term climate adaptation plans firmly in place, in some cases for more than a decade. The plans included cross-agency coordination, incorporating climate-related risk in other domestic policies, and a system of monitoring and evaluating success. Two other important elements of these national level plans are long-term funding commitments and a framework for stakeholder engagement.
In reporting about climate planning in the five countries, the GAO wrote: "This alignment may provide co-benefits, such as infrastructure investments that protect against climate change impacts; enhance resilience to all disasters; and create economic opportunities."
In the U.S., much-needed action on climate adaptation continues to be blocked by a Republican-controlled Congress. In 2014 and 2015, bills were introduced to strengthen federal level planning for extreme weather, but neither was approved. Earlier this month, the House voted to block a Defense Department plan to address risks to national security from climate change.
Despite inaction from Congress, the Obama Administration has taken some initial steps around climate adaptation. The President has issued an executive order directing federal agencies to develop adaptation plans and established the inter-governmental State, Local and Tribal Leaders Task Force on Climate Change Preparedness and Resilience. These are important first steps, but they lack the resources and long-term planning that needs to come from a supportive Congress.
In the coming years, climate considerations will need to be part of a much broader range of policies. For example, the mega Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiated by the Obama Administration ignores climate change completely, despite setting new rules that will affect agriculture, mining, clean energy, forestry and other sectors that deeply impact the climate. In 2018, Congress will take up the nation's most important bill for agriculture, known as the Farm Bill. Past Farm Bills have failed to even consider how to support climate resilience within its broad-reaching programs.
One of the barriers to taking action on climate is psychological – the global scope of the challenge can be overwhelming. But it's not true that nothing can be done at the community level. Climate adaptation planning is taking place in various forms around the country; some initiatives are led by forward thinking government planners while others are led by concerned citizens, like those in Winona and in two other rural Minnesota communities IATP worked closely with.
At the beginning of the Winona climate dialogue, community members shared what they loved about where they live: the beauty of the Mississippi River and surrounding bluffs, and the close knit community of people that share that landscape. For many, there's much more than rising financial costs at stake when it comes to climate change. Let's hope Congress and our next President are ready to act.
Posted June 28, 2016 by Ben Lilliston
On July 1, Vermont's law requiring the labeling of genetically modified foods will go into effect. That simple requirement to inform consumers about what they are eating sent a shiver through a Congress hooked on millions of dollars in biotech and food industry money. In a last minute desperate attempt to block the Vermont bill, Senate Agriculture Committee leaders Pat Roberts and Debbie Stabenow proposed a new mandatory Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) labeling bill that would pre-empt the rights of states like Vermont to set labeling rules for GMO food.
The problem with the compromise is that it's not really a compromise – it's very close to what Monsanto and the food industry asked for. The industry's priority was to avoid at all costs mandatory language or a GMO symbol on food products. The compromise bill gives food companies two options: they can use a symbol or clear language that the product contains GMOs, or they can use a bar code or QR code that could be accessed by the consumer through a smartphone. Smaller food companies would have the option to just list a website or an 800 number for consumers to find out whether the food contains GMO ingredients. Wonder which options the food companies using GMO ingredients will choose?
Many consumers don't have smartphones to access QR codes or the instant high-speed internet access necessary to check a website on the spot when buying foods. And do you want to call an 800 number with each individual food purchase?
The proposed bill won't go into effect for two years, though preemption for states that have passed labeling bills like Vermont, Connecticut and Maine begins immediately. The compromise bill only applies to traditional genetic engineering, not to new gene editing techniques, warns Consumers Union. Nor does it apply to meat from animals fed GMO feed. There are also no enforcement measures for non-compliance.
Most GMO foods grown in the U.S.—corn, soybeans, cotton, and more recently sugar beets—are used as either food ingredients in processed food, for animal feed or in ethanol production. New GMO foods are entering the market that consumers more directly like consume sweet corn, potatoes, apples and salmon.
Congress has been trying to pre-empt the Vermont GMO labeling law, and others passed in Connecticut and Maine, since it was first passed in 2014. Earlier this year, the House passed a weak, voluntary GMO labeling bill that would pre-empt state GMO labeling laws. The Senate tried to pass a similar voluntary bill in March, but after a rush of grassroots citizen pressure, the bill was rejected on the Senate floor.
Now, the last ditch compromise bill could return to the Senate floor later this week. Passage is far from guaranteed. Senator Bernie Sanders has already declared he will do everything he can to defeat the bill. The House won't consider the bill until after the July 4 recess and a tight legislative schedule may push off a vote toward the end of the summer.
The biotech industry has been enormously successful in hamstringing U.S. government regulation since the first GMO crops were introduced in the early 90s. Dan Quayle's Council on Competitiveness set the initial framework for deregulation when it declared GMO crops were "substantially equivalent" to other crops and required no special pre-market testing or consumer labeling. The U.S. government has acted as much as a partner as it has as a regulator to the biotech industry. The FDA essentially ignored more than one million citizens calling for mandatory labeling, while the State Department routinely attempts to intimidate other countries into deregulating GMOs.
Despite polls consistently finding that 90 percent of Americans want GMO labeling, the biotech industry and its army of lobbyists have beat back every attempt to do so thus far. But this time may be different. A growing number of food companies have already shifted to using GMO labeling in response to the Vermont bill. As importantly, no one seems fooled by the biotech industry's dream compromise bill that will continue to keep consumers in the dark.
Your Senator needs to hear from you. Tell your Senator, No Deal on GMO Labeling!
Posted June 23, 2016 by Tara Ritter
The Clean Power Plan is the predominant plan in the U.S. to address climate change. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is encouraging states to set up regional carbon markets to comply with the plan; however, carbon markets to date have not achieved their intended goals. If states follow the EPA's advice and set up new carbon markets across the country, they must learn from past mistakes to prevent more of the same underwhelming results.
California's Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32) is the most prominent U.S. example of a carbon market that has resulted in unexpected outcomes. AB 32 includes a cap-and-trade program to reduce the state's greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. The program sets a statewide emissions cap and then distributes emissions allowances to industries covered under the regulation ("covered entities"). A majority of the allowances are given away for free—a reversal of the polluter pays principle—and the remainder are auctioned off quarterly. Each year, the emissions cap and the number of free allowances each covered entity gets are ratcheted down. Ratcheting is intended to increase the value of allowances, but this strategy has not worked as of yet.
On May 18, 2016, the California Air Resources Board held its quarterly auction of allowances. Just over 10 percent of the allowances up for auction sold, and all of them sold at the price floor. This left California $600 million short of projected revenues. Although the purpose of the carbon market is not to generate revenue for the state—it's to reduce greenhouse gas emissions—the May auction's outcome demonstrates that allowances may not be scarce enough to drive competition for them and raise their value.
One reason for the low allowance sales and prices at the auction is the secondary market, which the state set up for covered entities to buy and sell allowances outside of the quarterly auctions. Speculators bought up allowances in earlier auctions hoping to buy and sell them for a profit on the secondary market when prices rose. But, with too many allowances on the market at low prices and with the future of the cap-and-trade program beyond 2020 in question, the allowances were dumped at even lower prices on the secondary market. At the May auction, it was cheaper to buy allowances on the secondary market than at the official auction.
The California market's structure requires auction revenues to be used for projects that reduce greenhouse gases and environmental burdens, specifically in disadvantaged communities. Many power plants, coal mines and fracking sites are located in communities, often rural areas, already burdened by high poverty rates. These communities pay the price of the pollution through worsened public health and deteriorated natural resource bases. Because the auction revenues fell short in May, anticipated investments in California climate programs will now be much lower than expected. Cap-and-trade mechanisms have proven to be an unreliable and insufficient funding source and should not be the primary source of funding for critical climate change programs.
California's cap-and-trade system is not the first carbon market to underperform. The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a cap-and-trade system among nine northeastern states, had an overabundance of allowances for years that were also sold at the market's floor price. The EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) is no different; due in part to an economic recession and an over-allocation of allowances at the outset, allowance prices fell from over 20 Euros/ton in 2011 to just 2.75 Euros/ton in 2013. In order for a carbon market to be effective, it must sufficiently limit allowances and maintain high enough prices to motivate industries to reduce their emissions. Without an effective cap or price on carbon, polluters will continue polluting at whatever rate their profit objectives dictate.
The United States now has a nationwide carbon reduction policy through the Clean Power Plan, and states have until 2018 to create State Implementation Plans outlining how they will meet their emissions reduction goals. Although the EPA has encouraged carbon markets as a cost-effective way for states to meet their targets, carbon markets are not the only way to limit emissions and raise public revenue. If the Clean Power Plan does drive the creation of more carbon markets, it's imperative that states learn from the mistakes of past markets by pricing allowances high enough, making the number of available allowances low enough and continually ratcheting down the number of allowances available to create real motivation for emissions reductions. The Clean Power Plan must avoid building more carbon markets that don't live up to their promise.


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The SAFENANO project is being funded with Ł316,000 over three years from the Government's Technology Strategy Board, which is sponsored by the Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS).
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Adams' mother, Ruth Palmer Conrad, was a local artist and historical preservation advocate. Her father, LeRoy Lucian Scott Jr., was a local business owner and photography hobbyist. Adams adopted Lucian Palmer as her nom de plume to pay tribute to her parents and family, who still reside in Scranton and the surrounding areas.
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List of OS national grid references for a path. These can be used to plot the route on paper or digital mapping and can be loaded to a GPS. For information about maps see the Maps for Walkers page or visit the OS website for information about Grid References.
John Henderson, who established the business in 2000, has been a keen walker for many years, this being mainly in Scotland and the Lake District. He has also been responsible for researching the interest, history and walking instructions on the St Cuthbert's Way website. He was even more involved in the development of the Rob Roy Way, the Sir Walter Scott Way & the Roman Heritage Way and continues to be heavily committed in the promotion of these new walks.
The company offers a comprehensive booking service for self guided walking holidays for individuals or groups on several trails. It provides OS grid reference lists for sale for these routes - see the individual path pages for these items.


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BRISTOL — School district unification could save taxpayers in the five Addison Northeast Supervisory Union towns close to $2.5 million in property taxes over five years, according to a report just released by district officials.
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ADDISON COUNTY — A group of students from Bristol Elementary School rush out of the National Bank of Middlebury in Bristol, their arms laden with cash that had been in a safe only minutes before. Onlookers watch, but no one lifts a finger.
Instead, the onlookers smile, bemused, because the students' arms are laden with Monopoly cash.
BRISTOL — The three dissenting members of the Addison Northeast Supervisory Union (ANeSU) Act 46 Study Committee have published their own paper detailing why they believe local voters should reject a proposed governance unification plan for the district and instead pursue other avenues to meet goals outlined in the new state law.
BRISTOL — "In my classroom, 'I can't' is not an option," said Bristol Elementary School teacher Sandy Haddock. "I tell them 'Yes you can! You may need help getting there.' And I give them examples, like 'Mrs. Haddock can't draw worth beans, but I still keep trying.'"
For 42 years, Haddock has been encouraging and inspiring kids. After the Bristol Elementary school bell rings on Friday Haddock will retire.
BRISTOL — No matter how much people have enjoyed a job over the years, a time can come when a new direction looks like a good idea.
At least that's how married couple Jeff and Mary Stetson explained their decision to step down this June from their unique 25-year partnership as Mount Abraham Union High School's co-athletic directors.
Jeff, 58, and Mary, 55, who will still teach part-time and coach at Mount Abe, can readily offer highlights from their years sharing the AD job.
BRISTOL — Mount Abraham Union High School veritably exploded with color, sound and movement last week during the three-day Addison Northeast Supervisory Union Fine Arts Festival.
"The arts festival gives us a chance to pause and honor the arts and to honor the artist within our students," said Mandy Chesley-Park, who together with Jennifer Allred coordinated the festival.
BRISTOL — Busloads of elementary students arrived at Mount Abraham Union High School Thursday to watch a performance from Burlington Taiko, led by master taiko drummer Stuart Paton, and then take taiko drumming workshops, a few classes at a time.
The performance was part of the annual Addison Northeast Supervisory Union Fine Arts Festival (see story here).
BRISTOL — Monday night's Act 46 forum for the five towns in the Addison Northeast Supervisory Union drew appreciation for the intensely detailed work the ANeSU Act 46 Committee is engaged in.
It also saw a fair heap of skepticism as to the potential benefits of school district unification and a series of eloquent and impassioned defenses of the value and mechanisms of local control.
BRISTOL — Residents in the Bristol-area towns in the Addison Northeast Supervisory Union will vote on whether to institute a unified union governance structure that would put all schools in the district under one school board and one budget.
The ANeSU Act 46 committee announced last Friday that it will hold a vote on a unified union school governance structure for the five-town area.
BRISTOL — Middlebury Union Middle School Principal Patrick Reen has been chosen to be the next Addison Northeast Supervisory Union superintendent. Reen will begin as superintendent July 1.
Residents in the five towns that comprise the ANeSU, and members of the school community, met with Reen Monday afternoon, and the ANeSU board interviewed the 37-year-old Bristol resident on Monday evening.
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This week's recipe for Agnolotti Dal Plin (handmade ravioli with a veal stuffing) was stolen with permission from Staffan Terje, chef-owner of Perbacco, San Francisco. "Perbacco" is an Italian word used to accentuate positive comments. It can be an expression of pleasure and surprise, as well as a reference to Bacchus, god of wine and symbol of revelry: "Wow" — which is also a good word to describe the menu at Perbacco, which features house-cured meats and salamis.
Chef Terje has created a menu rich with classical dishes yet at the same time utilizing all of the seasonal bounty available. Chef Terje and owner Umberto Gibin have been sharing their passion for the food and wine of Italy with Americans for nearly three decades.
The 6,000-square-foot restaurant is located on the ground floor of the historic 1912 Hind Building, the long narrow space having been transformed into a variety of "zones," each with a sleek, modern feel, but retaining an old-world ambiance, complete with a marble-tiled floor and marble bar top and an original unfinished-brick wall that stretches down one side of the room. The floor-level dining room and the dining room on the mezzanine level have furnished mahogany chairs with rich, deep-red ostrich-patterned upholstery. The mezzanine tables have the added allure of serving as a theater, with windows to watch all of the action in the kitchen below.
If you are in San Francisco's financial district a visit to Perbacco is a must, to sample the daily changing menu and soak up the lively atmosphere from opening to closing.
About the chef: When asked why a Swedish-born chef would choose to open an authentic Italian restaurant, Staffan Terje replies, "Italian food is the food that talks to me. You don't choose who you fall in love with. It just happens."
Raised on a farm outside of Stockholm, Staffan discovered his passion for food at an early age. After several years working in Stockholm and at prestigious restaurants all around Europe, he moved to Napa in 1986 and joined the original Piatti in Yountville, Napa Valley. Being in Napa brought back memories of his childhood on the farm.
"At the restaurant we used produce from small farms and sometimes even people's backyards ... the first Meyer lemons I ever used came from a neighbor's tree," he remembers. Inspired by the vast array of local products, he began to form the philosophy of sourcing ingredients from small farms that he still follows today. Promoted quickly, he was soon responsible for new restaurant openings, menu development and training. Other career highlights include a seven-year stint at San Francisco's famed Scala's Bistro and cooking at The James Beard House in New York City.
230 California Street
San Francisco, CA 94111
Agnolotti Dal Plin is served at Perbacco for $15.
For the dough
- 3 cups Italian "00" flour or all-purpose flour
- 5 whole large eggs, plus 5 egg yolks
For the filling
- 3 cups Italian "00" flour or all-purpose flour
- 5 whole large eggs, plus 5 egg yolks
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 garlic clove, thinly sliced
- 1 sprig fresh rosemary; leaves only
- 2 pounds roasted veal shoulder or breast, chopped in food processor
- 2 cups Savoy cabbage, cut into 1" pieces
- 1/2 cup reduced veal or beef broth
- 1 1/2 cup freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano
Baking Directions:
Steal This Recipe® Step by Step Instructions for the Pasta: Sift and mound the flour in the center of a large wooden cutting board. Make a well in the middle of the flour and add the eggs. With a fork, beat together the eggs and begin to incorporate the flour, starting with the inner rim of the well. As the well expands, continue pushing the flour up from the base of the mound to retain the well shape. The dough will come together when half of the flour is incorporated. Start kneading the dough with both hands, using the palms of your hands. Knead for about 15 minutes, adding any of the remaining flour if necessary to create a cohesive mass. Once you have a cohesive mass, remove the dough from the board and scrape up and discard any leftover bits. Lightly re-flour the board and continue kneading for 6 more minutes. The dough should be elastic and a little sticky. Wrap the dough in plastic and allow to rest for 30 minutes at room temperature. In a 12-inch saucepan, add 1 tablespoon of butter over high heat until hot but not smoking. Add the garlic and rosemary and let cook until the garlic is light golden brown; about 5 minutes. Add the veal, and cook for 8 to 10 minutes. Season with salt and pepper, to taste. Do not be afraid to let the meat begin to caramelize a bit. Steal This Recipe® Step by Step Instructions for the Filling: In a fitted pot, melt butter and add Savoy cabbage and ¼ cup of water. Cover with a lid and cook until cabbage is very tender. Chop in food processor until almost smooth.Let the veal cool to room temperature and place in a large mixing bowl. Stir in the Parmigiano, cabbage, veal broth, a pinch of nutmeg and salt and pepper, to taste. Use a wooden spoon to mix until well combined. Set aside. Cut the pasta dough into 3 equally sized pieces. Re-wrap 2 of the pieces in plastic wrap and set aside. Begin working with the 1 unwrapped piece of dough. On a lightly floured work surface, use a floured rolling pin to roll out the pasta dough until it is 1/8-inch thick (you can also use a pasta machine and roll out the dough on its thinnest setting). Lay the resulting pasta sheet on a lightly floured surface with a long side facing you. Trim the edges so they are straight. Using a tablespoon scoop equally sized spoonfuls of the filling and place along the bottom half of the pasta sheet, leaving a 1 1/2-inch border of dough at the bottom and sides: Each dollop of filling should be approximately 1 ½ inches away from the next. Pull the top edge of the pasta up and over the filling. The dough should form 1 large pocket over the dollops of filling. Seal the agnolotti by gently and carefully molding the pasta over the filling and pressing lightly with your index finger to seal the edge of the dough to the pasta sheet; don't drag your finger along the dough to seal, or you risk ripping the dough. When sealed, there should be about 1/2 inch of excess dough visible along the bottom of the mounds of filling (where you sealed it). Be certain that you are sealing tightly while pressing out any pockets of air. Seal the left and right ends of the dough. Steal This Recipe® Step by Step Instructions to Shape the Agnolotti: Starting at one end of the dough, place the thumb and forefinger of each hand together as if you were going to pinch something and, leaving about 1 inch of space between your hands and holding your fingers vertically, pinch the filling in 1-inch increments, making about 3/4 inch of "pinched" area between each pocket of filling. Run a sharp knife or crimped pastry wheel along the bottom edge of the folded-over dough, separating the strip of filled pockets from the remainder of the pasta sheet. (Don't cut too close to the filling, or you risk breaking the seal.) Separate the individual agnolotti by cutting the center of each pinched area, rolling the pastry wheel away from you. Working quickly, place the agnolotti on a baking sheet dusted with a thin layer of cornmeal, which will help prevent sticking. (Don't let the agnolotti touch.) Repeat with the two remaining dough balls until the entire bowl of filling has been used. Let the shaped agnolotti rest for 24 minutes. Steal This Recipe® Step by Step Instructions to Finish: Bring 6 quarts water to a rolling boil, and add 2 tablespoons salt. Add the agnolotti to the water and cook until tender, about 4 minutes total. Drain well and toss with a sauce or ragu of your choice or a combination of beef broth and butter. Sprinkle with Parmigiano-Reggiano and serve.
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Men's Soccer
Sept. 26, 2012
SAN DIEGO, Calif. - University of San Diego assistant men's soccer coach Brian Quinn has been elected to the 2013 class of the Breitbard Hall of Fame. Quinn, a native of Belfast, Ireland, is a former San Diego Sockers star and is currently in his sixth season on the USD staff.
"I am absolutely thrilled and humbled to be included with some of the all-time greats associated with sports in San Diego," said Quinn. "Having lived in San Diego close to 30 years, it is an honor to be chosen for the Breitbard Hall of Fame and to have soccer in our community highlighted by my induction is equally thrilling. My one regret is that the incomparable Bob Breitbard is not here to join my family and I with this most distinguished honor."
Quinn was an eight-time champion with the San Diego Sockers indoor soccer team from 1983-1991. He was an eight-time All-Star, is the fourth all-time scorer in Sockers' history with 188 goals, second all-time playoff scorer, and two-time MVP in the playoff Championship Series (1986 & 1990).
He was a member of the US National Team from 1991-1994, winning the 1991 Gold Cup and the 1992 US Cup, while accumulating 48 caps with the National Team.
Following his playing career, Quinn coached the Sockers from 1995-1996 before becoming the youngest coach in Major League Soccer history when he took over as the head coach of the San Jose Clash/Earthquakes in 1997. Quinn coached in the MLS until 1999 when he returned to the Sockers for a second coaching stint that lasted from 2000-2004.
Quinn holds a USSF 'A' Coaching license. The former Director of Coaching of Poway Youth Soccer Club (1991-94), Quinn currently is the Director of Boys coaching for F.C. San Diego, and is a Technical Director for Adidas ESP developmental program. He also coached The Bishop's School, La Jolla girl's varsity soccer team.
"I am so excited for Quinnie," said USD head coach Seamus McFadden. "He is a consummate professional, a model family man and a great human being. That's the trifecta of success and the measure of the man that we all love."
The Breitbard Hall of Fame, established in 1953 by Robert Breitbard, honors athletes who have excelled athletically in San Diego or who are native San Diegans and have achieved athletic fame elsewhere. Since 1953, the Breitbard Hall of Fame has inducted 136 members representing 20 sports.
USD vs. Stanford Volleyball UPSET
Torero women win 3 of 5 sets against #11 Stanford.
Men's Soccer Kicks Off Season In NC
Coach McFadden & Michael Turner Preview Matches vs Duke & Elon.
Softball Golf Tournament Promo
September 17th at Bernardo Heights CC.
Meet the Toreros: Isaiah Wright
Former Utah Ute will redshirt the 2016-17 season.
Training Camp Update
Team prepares for Saturday scrimmage.
Meet the Toreros: Patricia Brossmann
6'0" freshman forward from Berlin, Germany.
Meet the Toreros: Mark Carbone
6'2" freshman guard from Wethersfield, CT.
Meet the Toreros: Madison Pollock
6'1" freshman guard from Snohomish, Wash.
Women's Soccer In the Community
Toreros host soccer skills clinic at Linda Vista Elementary.
Meet the Toreros: Juwan Gray
6'8" freshman forward from Dover, Delaware.
Toreros Open Training Camp
The USD women's soccer team began training camp today.
Meet the Toreros: Nassir Barrino
6'0" freshman guard from Newark, New Jersey.
Meet the Toreros: José Martinez
6'10" freshman forward from Cayey, Puerto Rico.
Meet the Toreros: Frank Ryder
6'10" freshman forward from Boulder, Colo.
2015-16 Highlight Video
All the top plays from 2015-16
Jordan Angus - Male Torero of the Year
Angus reflects on his time at USD
Malina Hood - Female Torero of the Year
Malina Hood looks back at her USD career
NCAA Tournament Preview
San Diego faces Vanderbilt in first round
2016 Celebration of Excellence
Behind the Scenes at the COE
Toreros Participate in Linda Vista Parade
Toreros Participate in Linda Vista Parade
Men's Tennis senior Day
The Toreros host LMU and Pepperdine Saturday and Sunday
Softball WCC Preview
The Toreros host Saint Mary's Saturday and Sunday
2016 San Diego Crew Classic
The Toreros show speed against the nation's top crews
The Torero Baseball Experience
Kris Bryant & Brian Matusz reflect on their time at USD
MBB Senior Night
Jito Kok and Duda Sanadze prepare for the final home game
USD Baseball Season Preview
Season starts at No. 3 Vanderbilt February 19
USD Softball Season Preview
Season starts February 12
UCLA Preview
USD travels to No. 9 UCLA Friday
Toreros Host Kentucky Saturday
USD looks to defend home court against No. 22 Kentucky
Toreros Host Pepperdine & LMU
USD returns home after four-game road trip
Toreros Team Up with PYBL
Men's Basketball hosts annual clinic for Challenged Division
Men's Tennis 2016
USD opens at home vs UC Irvine and UCSD Saturday
BYU Preview
Preview of USD women's basketball WCC opener vs. BYU.
City Championship Highlights
Relive the Toreros' Upset over SDSU at Petco Park
Toreros to Host Hope International
The 9-1 Toreros will host Hope International in their final game before WCC play
Toreros Stun Aztecs at Petco
Postgame reaction and press conferences
Toreros Return Home
USD will host Bethesda before Sunday's City Championship at Petco Park
Men's Basketball Season Tickets
Starting as Low as $99
Butler Preview
Pono Keni and Coach Lindsey talk about Saturday's Senior Day game against Butler
CSUN Preview
Coach Fisher and forward Maya Hood talk about Tuesday's home-opener against CSUN
USC Preview
Coach Smith and Brett Bailey preview the season opener at USC
Davidson Preview
Jonah Hodges and Dale Lindsey talk about Jonah's return and preview Davidson game
San Diego Fall Classic Preview
Coach Dagman previews the San Diego Fall Classic
Nevada Preview
USD's Women's Basketball team will start their season at Nevada this weekend
USD Men's Basketball - The Origins (1955-1973)
A Glance at the Beginnings of Torero Hoops
Campbell Preview
Coach Lindsey and Jeff Starr preview Campbell
Stetson Preview
Coach Lindsey and Jereke Armstrong talk about the season so far
WCC Media Day
Behind the scenes with Men's and Women's Basketball at WCC media day
Warner Recap
Dale Lindsey and Anthony Lawrence on USD's 45-14 win
Warner Preview
Anthony Lawrence and Coach Lindsey preview game vs. Warner
Torero Community Service
USD Athletics helps out at Father Joe's Village in downtown San Diego
Men's Basketball Camp Update
Kok and Carter talk about the upcoming season
Drake Preview
Toreros host Bulldogs for Homecoming game
Dayton Preview
Toreros look for 4th straight win
LMU Preview
Pack the Stadium Night
ITA All-American's Preview
Petronijevic, Angus, & Vittek Prepare
Marist Preview
USD Looks to Extend Home Win Streak
Valparaiso Preview
Toreros First True Road Game of 2015
CSUN and UCSB Preview
Toreros Look to Extend Win Streak
Aztec Invite Recap
Both Squads Finish Second
SDSU Preview
Toreros Take on Cross-town Rival
WNMU Recap
Highlights from 45-21 win
2015 Home Opener
Previewing Western New Mexico
Volleyball Tournament Preview
A preview of the USD Tournament
Men's Soccer Season Opener
Previewing No. 16 Cal
Training Camp Update
Coach Lindsey Recaps the First Two Weeks
2015 WSOC Preview
A brief preview of the 2015 Toreros.


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StarOffice Free with Google Pack
The Google software package now contains a free version of Sun's StarOffice, the commercial variant of the free OpenOffice.org office software.
The search engine giant offers free and commercial software downloads under the "Google Pack" label. Google Pack requires the Windows XP or Vista operating system, although some of the applications will also run on Linux. The pack includes free software such as the Firefox Web browser, but also commercial packages such as the Real Networks RealPlayer, Norton Security Scan, or Sun's StarOffice. The commercial OpenOffice variant costs around US$ 70 and includes additional Web searching functionality according to its vendor, Sun. In contrast to the retail version, the Google Pack version of StarOffice does not include support by the vendor.
Besides third-party software, the software service also includes free downloads of Google's own software developments such as desktop searching with Google Desktop, the Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer, or the Google Earth satellite and navigation software.
Issue 191/2016
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LinuxCon North America Convenes in Toronto, Canada
Linux Foundation's big event celebrates the 25th anniversary of Linux
Linux Turns 25
Linux has evolved from a "won't be a professional" project to one of the most professional software projects in the history of computers.
Mirantis Joins Hands with SUSE To Offer RHEL Support; Red Hat Not Happy
Competitors get in the game with RHEL without Red Hat
Linux on Windows 10 Poses a Security Risk
Security researchers have already notified Microsoft; some fixes are available
Mirantis to Refactor OpenStack Fuel for Kubernetes
The company is collaborating with Google and Intel to use Kubernetes as an engine for Fuel
Canonical Joins Document Foundation Advisory Board
The upcoming release of LibreOffice will be available as a snap package
SUSE Joins the Microsoft Test Drive Program
Customers can take a free test drive of SLES for HPC on the Azure Cloud
SiFive Launches a Line of Open Source Chips
San Francisco-based chip company announces their first fully open source chip platform.
Fedora 24 Released
The whole distro gets rebuilt on glibc 2.3
Canonical Announces Cross-Distro Support for Snaps
Ubuntu Vendor tries to solve app packaging and distribution problem across distributions.