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TOWSON, Md., Oct. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Board of Trustees of the Immune Deficiency Foundation (IDF) is pleased to announce that the Foundation has met all of the requirements of the National Health Council (NHC) Standards of Excellence Certification Program®. The standards cover the areas of governance, human resources, programs, fundraising, finance, accounting, reporting and evaluation.
"IDF has always maintained high standards and implemented best practices while working to improve the lives of those living with primary immunodeficiency diseases through advocacy, education and research," said IDF President & Founder Marcia Boyle, "We are proud to become a member of the NHC to help raise awareness of rare and chronic diseases in a united voice."
NHC Chief Executive Officer Myrl Weinberg said, "We are delighted that IDF has joined the list of the nation's leading national patient advocacy organizations that meet the highest levels of transparency, accountability, and ethical practice." She explained the NHC's Standards of Excellence Certification Program® goes beyond the requirements of many charity watchdog groups and is unique to the patient advocacy community. "By meeting these Standards, IDF assures the public that it is an organization patients can trust and is worthy of the public's support."
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The Immune Deficiency Foundation, founded in 1980, is the national non-profit patient organization dedicated to improving the diagnosis, treatment and quality of life of persons with primary immunodeficiency diseases through advocacy, education and research.
There are approximately 250,000 people who have been diagnosed with a primary immunodeficiency disease in the U.S. IDF provides programs, services and publications for patients and families as well as for healthcare professionals caring for those living with primary immunodeficiency diseases. IDF works to address patient needs through public policy programs by focusing on issues such as insurance reimbursement, patient confidentiality, ensuring safety and availability of immunoglobulin therapy, and maintaining and enhancing patient access to treatment options.
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The word "gamification" has emerged in recent years as a way to describe interactive online design that plays on people's competitive instincts and often incorporates the use of rewards to drive action—these include virtual rewards such as points, payments, badges, discounts, and "free" gifts; and status indicators such as friend counts, retweets, leader boards, achievement data, progress bars, and the ability to "level up."
While some people dismiss gamification as a fad, neuroscientists are discovering more and more about the ways in which humans react to such interactive design elements. They say such elements can cause feel-good chemical reactions, alter human responses to stimuli—increasing reaction times, for instance—and in certain situations can improve learning, participation, and motivation.
Technology consultancy Gartner has projected 50% of corporate innovation will be "gamified" by 2015. Another consulting firm, Deloitte, cited gamification as one of its Top 10 Technology Trends for 2012, predicting: "Serious gaming simulations and game mechanics such as leaderboards, achievements, and skill-based learning are becoming embedded in day-to-day business processes, driving adoption, performance, and engagement." Elements of game mechanics are being employed nowadays in training, marketing, education, and wellness initiatives.
Gameplay has long been a popular pursuit, from the simplest moves of Go, first played in China 3,000 years ago, to the massively multiplayer online games of today. Digital games generated $25 billion in sales in 2010, and their popularity is considered to be a driver of the adoption of elements of gamification in many Internet pursuits.
Another primary driver is the rapid uptake of social networks, now used by 70% of American Internet users, where reward and status elements are embedded in implicit and explicit forms in people's interactions in their engagement in online communities. Game elements and competition are interspersed throughout the platforms that have made social networks like Facebook and Twitter popular.
Marketers, businesses, and other organizations have come to depend upon the competitive metrics they derive from analysis and implementation of social networks to measure and drive consumer behavior.
Gamification is not, however, just about status, community building, and marketing. Game-like approaches to education and problem-solving are rolling out in new ways. To cite one prominent example, researchers at the University of Washington made headlines in 2011 with their game Foldit. It generated a crowd-sourced discovery of the mystery of how a key protein may help cure HIV. The game drew 46,000 participants whose gameplay took just 10 days to solve a problem scientists had been working on for 15 years. Non-digital and digital real-world games based on scenarios and problem-solving have been around for a while, but it wasn't until recent years that the label "serious game" was applied to this type of activity.
Some scholars and educators, too, have become interested in harnessing the potential of gaming mechanics and sensibilities as tools for advancing learning. A "serious gaming" movement has arisen to apply gaming techniques to such realms as military and corporate and first-responder training programs, civilization and environmental ecology simulations, K-12 educational programs on subjects like math and history and the sciences, news events and public policy campaigns, problem-solving strategies in the natural sciences, and even physical exercise programs.
Will the use of gamification, game mechanics, feedback loops, and rewards to spur interaction and boost engagement, buy-in, loyalty, fun, and/or learning continue to gain ground and be implemented in many new ways in people's digital lives between now and 2020?
A highly engaged, diverse set of respondents were asked by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project and Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center to answer this question in an online, opt-in survey. Some 1,021 technology stakeholders and critics responded in a more or less split verdict. Some 53% said yes that gamification will be widespread, but a number of them qualified this by saying the evolving adoption of gamification will continue to have some limits. Some 42% chose a more modest scenario that predicted gamification will not evolve to be a larger trend except in specific realms. Here are the details:
42% agreed with the statement: By 2020, gamification (the use of game mechanics, feedback loops, and rewards to spur interaction and boost engagement, loyalty, fun and/or learning) will not be implemented in most everyday digital activities for most people. While game use and game-like structures will remain an important segment of the communications scene and will have been adopted in new ways, the gamification of other aspects of communications will not really have advanced much beyond being an interesting development implemented occasionally by some segments of the population in some circumstances.
53% agreed with the opposite statement, which posited:
By 2020, there will have been significant advances in the adoption and use of gamification. It will be making waves on the communications scene and will have been implemented in many new ways for education, health, work, and other aspects of human connection and it will play a role in the everyday activities of many of the people who are actively using communications networks in their daily lives.
Respondents were asked to select the one statement of the two scenarios above with which they mostly agreed; the question was framed this way in order to encourage a spirited and deeply considered written elaboration about the potential future.
Here is a sampling of their predictions and arguments:
Playing beats working. So, if the enjoyment and challenge of playing can be embedded in learning, work, and commerce then gamification will take off. It will help if the personal rewards of the social side of game playing spread to other realms.
One of the most affirming arguments came from an anonymous survey respondent:
"Gaming functionality will continue to grow and be used in more and more facets of our lives. People will receive training on the job, be exposed through education and development programs, have the ability to learn about areas that are important to them using this technology and social strategy. It will allow people to understand complex topics faster and with more nuances, and make the learning process more anticipated and less to be feared or avoided. New ideas will spread faster as the ability to educate more people becomes easier and quicker."
Others made the case this way:
Games can be compelling and that can easily lead to behavioral manipulation.
The real energy in social innovation will come in software that privileges cooperation.
The infatuation with gamification is today's fad and will fade.
The term "gamification" itself could use an upgrade.
Further points they made:
Barry Chudakov, principal at Metalife Consulting and a visiting research fellow in the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto, shared a comprehensive view: "Play, it seems, may not only be an end in itself, it may be a better way to view and understand the world. The brilliant game designer and thinker Jane McGonigal has been saying for a few years, 'Reality is broken. Why aren't game designers trying to fix it?' Recently gamers deciphered the structure of an enzyme of an AIDS-like virus that had thwarted scientists for a decade. We will soon realize that games generate alternative realities. Because we view them as fictional worlds that are made-up, invented to entertain, we miss their astonishing utility. By 2020 we will see that these games and virtual worlds provide alternative ways of seeing and thinking, which is the essence of innovation. Games are like the apple falling in front of Newton's eyes. Seeing the apple fall, Newton understood something else, namely gravity. Our view of gaming may be a legacy of the live-to-work ethos of the Industrial Revolution; this view may keep us from seeing the powerful uses of gaming. By 2020 we will realize that gaming's ready-made (albeit carefully crafted) metalife is one of the best ways ever devised to see, understand, and improve upon reality."
Another comprehensive insight came from futurist John Smart, founder of the Acceleration Studies Foundation. "By 2020, gamification will have made more advances in entertainment and more inroads in education and mass consumption," he predicted, "but it will remain niche even for most retail businesses, as well as for health, work, self-help, personal productivity, self quantification, and other domains. People want to be increasingly entertained, and The Entertainment Economy and The Experience Economy are two good books describing how the best businesses will continue to drive us in that direction. But we simply don't have the artificial intelligence necessary to build really good versions of this yet, and educational software remains pitifully poor at creating games that improve, rather than distract from learning. By 2030, once we have a real valuecosm, and our artificial intelligence agents (our cyber twins) have good models of the values, history, and learning goals of their biological twins (us), we'll have an environment where gamification could move significantly beyond entertainment. Until then, notwithstanding great visionary works like Jane McGonigal's Reality is Broken, don't expect gamification to move us much beyond increasingly better entertainment games, and more serious games titles. Serious games will continue to remain mostly in the long tail rather than the fat head of the game market until serious artificial intelligence emerges."
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FRANKFURT, Germany, October 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
CPhI Expert Industry Panel Members Comment on Future Contingencies for Pharma in Part II of CPhI Industry Report
Pharma to change business model to include increased academic partnerships, CMO development work, more niched products, industry-wide QbD and regulation of suppliers
Report's expert highlights
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CPhI Worldwide and CPhI Pharma Evolution, part of UBM Live's Pharmaceutical Portfolio, announce the release of the second edition of its annual report - with its expert industry panel identifying the market trends set to affect growth and innovation across the industry.
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Part i of the report was launched prior to CPhI Worldwide, with a further eight industry expert panel submissions being released in part ii of the report, over two days at the show (Tuesday 22nd and Wednesday 23rd October).
The first four articles for part ii of the report indicate that over the next few years, big pharma's business model is shifting from its traditional markets and moving towards the development of niche medicines, companion diagnostics, and perhaps most significantly, towards increased partnerships, both with CMOs and academia. The implication of this is that innovations and IP processes will be coming from outsourced partners, big pharma and academia. QbD is seen as being essential to the process of harmonizing product and process development, which will accelerate standards, enabling more developed partnerships and strategic uses of outsourcing.
Sam Venugopal, Director, Healthcare at PricewaterhouseCoopers forecasts in his submission that big pharma will move towards the development of niche medicines, alongside companion diagnostics for patients with specific genotypes.
Echoing these sentiments, William Botha, Sensei at Interlean, says that as well as a move towards niche medicines, pharma will increasingly diversify towards commodity-based, low margin products- meaning we will see an increased specialisation, particularly amongst small and medium pharma. To achieve this goal, he argues that there will need to be increased connection between product development and manufacturing so that products can move more seamlessly through the development process.
Bikash Chattejee, President and CTO at Pharmatech Associates, argues that two essential developments that will be universally adopted over the next five years are the concepts of Quality by Design (QbD) and Quality by Review (QbR). If we are to move towards the harmonization of product and process development cycles, QbD will be essential not only in safeguarding quality but also in reducing the cost of development. However, one area that is forecast for particular change is the application of QbR within the generics drugs industry. For instance, FDA enforcement approaches, it is forecast, will start to look more at baseline characterisation activity, which will reduce the number of GMP transgressions in the medium-term future.
One longer-term change that all experts across the industry panel agree on is the increased collaboration with strategic outsourcing partners and particularly the commercial development of innovations coming out of academia.
Ajaz Hussain, an independent consultant and formerly of the FDAs PAT team, continued: "Academic partnerships such as that between Novartis and MIT will also be increasingly important over the coming years and academia will play significant roles in both technology and policy. This partnership concept will also expand to relationships with suppliers and manufacturers where there is a need for knowledge-based relationships, particularly in the areas of QbD and FDASIA."
Hussain also believes that manufacturing metrics from CDER will allow regulators to identify data 'too good to be true' and decrease non-compliance over the coming years.
Another growing trend is the increased outsourcing across the supply chain and development cycle with industry building symbiotic relationships, commented Bikash Chatterjee. He highlighted that a CMOs ability to provide product development services will be essential to companies moving into emerging markets and smaller start-ups looking to tap into the global marketplace.
Botha however, sees significant risks in too much outsourcing and predicts that lower risk downstream processes such as packaging and logistics will grow, alongside upstream vertical integration of high-risk areas such as APIs: "Outsourcing isn't always the answer. In some cases it is just abdicating or abrogating responsibility."
Venugopal expands on these ideas in his contribution, and believes that the ability to handle increasing volumes of data will facilitate partnerships with reduced risks and enable the global implementation of QbD: "Our ability to increase collaboration and knowledge has increased with our ability to manage data. We can now gather and analyse knowledge to an unprecedented degree." His view is that whilst contracting will increase, this will be more strategic in nature across the global supply chain.
Chris Kilbee - Group Director, Pharma, commented: "The CPhI Pharma Evolution annual report highlights the main industry trends over the next five years, with tighter regulatory controls and processes (e.g. QbD) and diversification of ingredient suppliers featuring prominently in all submissions. Harmonising product and development process partnerships are going to be critical to the success or failure of this- which proves the importance of making strategic partnerships at events such as CPhI."
For full copies of the submission and overall reports please visit: http://www.cphi.com
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About CPhI Pharma Evolution annual report and expert industry panel
Earlier this year, CPhI launched a major new initiative with the introduction of its annual report published in cooperation with Pharma Evolution- written by a panel of world-leading experts across the pharmaceutical supply chain.
The vision was to harness the power of CPhI's independent position within the industry so that it could produce unbiased analysis of the global pharmaceutical industry and help bring different perspectives together.
The annual report utilises expert in-depth essays, looking at future contingencies. Experts were given carte blanche to evaluate current industry practices and examine the future implications for the industry.
About CPhI
CPhI drives growth and innovation at every step of the global pharmaceutical supply chain from drug discovery to finished dosage. Through exhibitions, conferences and online communities, CPhI brings together more than 100,000 pharmaceutical professionals each year to network, identify business opportunities and expand the global market. CPhI hosts events in Europe, China, India, Japan, Southeast Asia, Russia and South America co-located with ICSE for contract services, P-MEC for machinery, equipment & technology, InnoPack for pharmaceutical packaging and BioPh for biopharma. CPhI provides an online buyer & supplier directory at CPhI-Online.com and hosts a global community with news and analysis at PharmaEvolution.com.
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Great Lamb Chops...Even Greater Music – Have been here now a few times and it's always a packed party scene. Tables are usually filled with groups enjoying bottle service and hookahs. I was here once for dinner and stayed until the lights went down it turned into a high energy party. The food was surprisingly good. We had lamb chops and the seafood appetizer tower which was pretty amazing actually.
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High Energy, Dance Music and Couch Dancing – I live in Long Island and only come into the city on the weekends so I like to always try new places and areas in the city. My friend told me about Le Souk because of the great dance/house music they play and the extensive hookah selection they have. Me and my girlfriend went last Friday night and had one of the best nights we have ever had in the city. We got there around midnight and set up shop at the bar with a Cherry hookah and a pitcher of red sangria. The place was very crowded and everyone was dancing on couches, floor, tables...was pretty cool. We would say that if we were going to go back again with a larger group it would probably make sense to get a table so we don't have to try to get to the bar through the large crowd. Good looking crowd too. Music was highlight of the venue for me. I like!
Ultimate Hookah Fix – Le Souk is a laid back lounge with a dance floor and sitting areas around for hookah. There are 3 floors. the 3rd floor is where the party is at! Definitely a place i would bring a group of friends. Perfect for the person that loves to dance and at the same time perfect for the person that just loves to relax, drink / smoke, and watch the scene from the sideline.
The food is authentic Moroccan, the service is very friendly and the music was mostly house music and very energetic.
Definatley a great place to come for a dinner / partying combo.
Le souk-- great for any party! – I absolutely love Le Souk!! I recently went to their location at 510 LaGuardia and had my birthday party. I had scheduled my birthday party a week in advance and it was everything I thought it would be. The atmosphere was everything I expected and the Mediterranean cuisine was tasteful and served by gracious waiters. If you are looking for a great place to party the night away post dinner! Le Souk is what you are looking for.
Le Souk discriminates against disabled – I was rejected entyry... To quote big nasty bouncer "yea Danny said no cripples sorry yo"
great night out! – We had an amazing night here, would definitely recommend it. It was a Thursday and we went around 9 pm for dinner. We shared a mezze platter and some different entrees and everything from the couscous to the lamb was spot-on. Sangria was delicious. Finished up with a hookah. We decided to go with the mojito flavor and it definitely didn't disappoint. Very fresh tasting. The music was amped up at that point so we ended up staying for a few more drinks. Great DJ. The place gets really packed and this was the one down-side so I would get there early especially if you want to enjoy dinner before it gets really jammed.
THE BEST PLACE IN NYC FOR A NIGHT OUT ! – I grew up in nyc and when a place lke this comes about , thats hwere i go , the nights r outstanding there . I RECCOMEND THIS PLACE t anyone who is loking to just go out or for a romantic night out
Piece of sh!t place -- you are just cattle to these guys – My friend had her 30th BDay last night at LeSouk. She called ahead and specifically confirmed with management that she and her friends would have a reserved table for the whole night. We ate and drank for about 2.5 hours, got up to go dance and have a few smokes downstairs. Upon returning, we discovered that our tab had been closed out on us, without so much as a warning, and our table had been given to another party. To make matters worse, when we tried to resolve the situation and explain that we never closed our tab out and explain that we were shocked that our table had been given to another party with no explanation, one of the managers looked at us like we were crazy, and then called security on us. What a joke!
If you ever have a bday here, be very vigilent or else you will unexpectedly have your tab closed and will be herded away from the table that your reserved, even if you were promised that you'd have the table for the whole night. TO management of LeSouk: Terrible way to do business! Someday, you're gonna do this to the wrong motherf'er and he's gonna run you out of business. Just a matter of time, you f'ing losers!
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-- on top above one Mitt Romney on a roll and now -- -- -- -- have the keystone state.
On new polls showing enclosing a double digit gap now within two points of the president this is Pennsylvania.
-- Ronald Reagan was the last -- -- when there are many credit his debate performance but maybe credit.
It is we'll do this -- -- Republican Pennsylvania governor Tom Corbett.
Only one of -- governors to get a grade of day in a new Cato study for his tax reform policies which Kato described as real.
And credible and necessary.
-- -- governor joining me right now governor good to have you thank you for coming.
Thank you think -- -- you wanted Tom.
You know maybe you're measures are doing to -- governor there helping Mitt Romney of course it cuts both ways right -- people in your state feel better they might give the credit.
To the president on Corzine.
I'm sure you just want them to feel better and field.
There are lots improving regardless of who politically benefit but.
Do you think these polls are narrowing and what are they discover.
Well I think in regard to the polls here -- in Pennsylvania.
What I see are people that are starting to go back to work we're slowly.
You getting the economy moving in Pennsylvania.
We have growth going on in our energy sector in our Biotech sector.
We saved jobs -- -- Philadelphia with the refineries that we're gonna go out of business a year ago.
So I think there's a positive.
Feeling that it started in just starting.
As it goes to the polls I don't think that people of Pennsylvania are happy with where we've gone in the last four years.
I believe those -- are narrowing you know although I always tell everybody the only pole I look at as -- when it's going to be on November the sixth.
But it is much closer here in Pennsylvania and -- what I've seen other polls that have been in the national media in the last few days.
Why is that governor I particularly noticed your State's polls that day it really can have huge swings.
And outlook for the President Hu long are being up in one poll fifteen points and another twelve points -- another ten points.
But bottom line to get it essentially even now tells me.
Either a lot of independents are coming out of the woodwork -- a lot of the president's supporters are are are are switching sides what is.
Lot I think a lot of his supporters had voted for him for years ago.
Either are not going to vote to -- -- you're gonna stand on the sideline or going to switch over to Mitt Romney is in this election.
I -- going traveling across Pennsylvania I've talked a lot of people Democrats and independents and even Republicans.
Who last time event voted for President Obama.
Have said they're not voting for President Obama this time -- they believe we needed change in Washington as du -- But you know you you've proven at the state -- I'm not blowing you smoke governor but I'm always intrigued by what you've done because I tell a lot of people this can be done it's doable.
Simplified tax code.
Make it more friendly to business and individuals.
And he can do that I mean it's a tough.
You know -- what you can do it.
You can do it if you if you have the admitted the discipline and and the fiscal discipline for the state didn't.
And and I believe you can't spend more then you receiving revenues to the state.
We're not Washington we don't print money we don't continue to add to the dead in that respect we have to control or spending.
And the spending prior to -- -- here had increased from about 22 billion to almost 29 billion we've reduced by almost two billion.
Some of that money in the last budget before I took office.
Was based on the federal stimulus money that was one time money and it's gone.
If you stick to the discipline that you can only spend that which you have.
Then you have to make really tough decisions.
But it's interesting -- know I always ask area of people who want more money for various categories hidden in line items.
Well he wanted to raise taxes and their answer to that is always -- -- say you can't have it both ways and I believe I made a promise we were gonna race.
Taxes as governor.
And we're gonna live within our means the best way then to increase revenue into the general fund.
This to increase.
The business climate to bring businesses to Pennsylvania to keep -- the Pennsylvania and to see startups come to Pennsylvania.
Just yesterday I was there we call our Ben Franklin.
It ended in the Ben Franklin is working very well.
Starting up new companies and incubating them and sending them out so it's working in Pennsylvania.
Governor thank you very much and in -- W going to a quick break here.
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Background on South Africa - The Struggle Against the Mine Owners - Differing Views * Our condolences and sympathies to the Marikana and Pomeroy Victims - Blade Nzimande, SACP General Secretary in Umsebenzi Online - August 23 * The Marikana Massacre reveals the depths of the fault lines in South Africa - Sahra Ryklief in Amandla! (August 23) * IndustriALL condemns wild killings at South African Lonmin mine - IndustriALL Global Union - August 17 ===== Our condolences and sympathies to the Marikana and Pomeroy Victims by Blade Nzimande, SACP General Secretary Umsebenzi Online August 23, 2012 - Volume 11, No. 30 http://www.sacp.org.za/main.php?ID=3724#redpen Today the SACP joins millions of South Africans, especially the workers and the poor, in expressing our condolences and sympathies to all those who lost their loved ones and friends during the week of violence at Lonmin in the North-West, as well as all those who passed away from acts of violence in the week preceding this tragedy. Indeed thousands of our communist cadres will be participating in the various memorial services in different parts of the country, also in remembrance of those who perished in Pomeroy in KwaZulu-Natal. The SACP once more wishes to acknowledge the leadership taken by the President, Cde Jacob Zuma, in appointing a Judicial Commission of Enquiry and a team of ministers to attend to the immediate needs of affected families and communities. The SACP plans to make its own submission to the Commission of Enquiry, as this is an opportunity for serious consideration and analyses of the nature of the mining industry in South Africa, and its vulnerability to produce this kind of violence. In addition the SACP is also of the view that a closer study and analyses of living conditions in the mines and its surroundings will also go a long way in addressing the conditions of the working class and communities in the mining areas. In all of the understandable fury, anger (about the unnecessary spilling of blood of the working class at Lonmins in Marikana), very few have pointed to the history and current trajectory of the mining industry in South Africa as the principal culprit in all this. This is not for purposes of laying blame for the sake of it, but to contribute towards a better understanding of the totality of the reasons behind this tragedy. For instance the mining industry in South Africa has been prone to violence since the beginnings of its unionization over a century ago. Some of the major strikes by workers have historically been met with brutal violence, from the 1922 Rand Revolt, to the 1946 Great Mineworkers Strike and the 1987 NUM- led strike. We also have to look at the mining bosses history into using tribal and ethnic differences to try and fragment the working class in order to control it better. The question of what are essentially backward beliefs and practices amongst sections of the working class is something that also as the SACP and the progressive trade union movement we will have to tackle as a matter of urgency and ongoing attention. Just how does a sangoma is today still able to convince sections of the working class that bullets turn into water if you have used `intelezi`, is something that we should no longer be talking about in a hush-hush manner but should openly engage, albeit sensitively. This requires enhanced strategies to raise the levels of class-consciousness amongst ordinary workers. Indeed the above also requires that we undertake a serious analysis of some of the threats facing the working class in general and the progressive trade union movement in particular. This incident, as well as others before it in the recent period, should send a very clear message that there is a sustained attack and offensive against COSATU in particular. The SACP has also correctly warned that where our detractors and enemies sense some divisions amongst our ranks, then they always tend to go on the offensive. It might as well be important that these and other related matters needs to be discussed at the COSATU Congress next month, including frank analyses of the strengths and weaknesses of COSATU affiliates as well as some of the threats facing the federation as a whole. This discussion must not take the form of a lamentation or rhetoric, but must aim at concretely coming up with a programme to defend and strengthen COSATU, within the context of deepening the unity of our Alliance. Such a discussion at COSATU Congress must also concretely explore the possible relationship between, Marikana, the current global capitalist crisis, the further decline in the profitability of capitalism, and a renewed offensive to weaken the working class to defend declining levels of profits. For example to what extent are the tensions in the platinum mine-belt connected to the decreasing demand of platinum in an economic zone like the EU which is a major consumer of platinum for catalytic converters? The SACP also wishes to strongly condemn the cheap politicking by the parliamentary opposition in trying to lay the blame at the door of government and narrowly the police, without exploring (deliberately of course) some of the issues outlined above that require serious exploration and engagement. Some of the opposition parties have conveniently bought into the notion of `inter-union rivalry` as the reasons for the violence in a manner that is no different from that of the apartheid regime`s attempt to try and cover its early 1990`s deadly war against our movement and our people as "black on black violence". It was also instructive to listen to some of the opposition and other demagogues using the same rationale as that of all of the past apartheid regime`s stooges that "the NUM is the common denominator in all of the violence in the mines"; just like the UDF/Cosatu/ANC was described by the apartheid regime in the past as the common denominator in all of the violence directed against these very formations by the apartheid regime and its Bantustan tentacles. Indeed attempts by the opposition to liken police reaction in Marikana to that of the apartheid regime is outrageous, no matter how unacceptable death is. The fact that government has taken the kind of action in response to this tragedy indicates that government is as equally concerned about these deaths. Of course this does not and must not mean that we do not have a responsibility as a country to constantly focus on the transformation of the police and have serious and ongoing reflection on police methods and crowd control measures. Sithi kubo bonke abalahlekelwe, nilale ngenxeba, akwehlanga lungehlanga! ========== The Marikana Massacre reveals the depths of the fault lines in South Africa by Sahra Ryklief Amandla! August 23, 2012 http://www.amandlapublishers.co.za/special-features/markikana--lonmin-massacre/1556-the-marikana-massacre-reveals-the-depths-of-the-fault-lines-in-south-africa--by-sahra-ryklief On Thursday 16th August, 34 striking mineworkers were shot dead by police at LONMIN's platinum mine in Rustenberg. It is not yet clear why the police were using live ammunition, nor whether a warning was issued. Audio-visual depictions of the event demonstrate a systematic attack on strikers, with dead bodies strewn on the field while police continue with open fire. In no way can this action be excused as a police warning to violent strikers to desist from attacking them. Police have access to buckshot; teargas; tazers; the ability to cordon off the strikers with layers of barbed wire or other more solid re-enforcements. They have the resources and expertise to contain and prevent violent crowds from harming others whilst trying to defuse the situation through negotiation. They should have knowledge of dozens of siege/negotiation combination tactics and actions, even if I am not aware of it. I know that these exist internationally. I have watched Korean fishermen hurl themselves at policemen, battering them mercilessly with every weapon at their disposal during anti- WTO demonstrations in Hong Kong for days, without any fatalities. I have seen line after line of fresh police troops replace their furious and embattled comrades holding the frontlines of worker demonstrations in various countries of the world without even resorting to teargas. I have seen, here in South Africa pre 1994 and post, police cordon off uncontrollable areas and, if unable to influence or change the situation, wait for order to be restored. What has changed? Who do we hold responsible for this example of extreme moral bankruptcy, when the situational restoration of 'order' becomes more important than the lives of countless workers? If we want to prevent this from occurring again, we have to make sure that this black Thursday of the 16th August 2012 is never forgotten. This means we have to acknowledge our culpability. In apportioning blame I do not exclude myself. As a labour educator and researcher, I have taught and written about the pioneering role of strikes in this country in shaping the organisations, legal protections and improved conditions of our industrial relations system, whilst either glossing over or excusing the coercive actions and violence workers have direct towards each other in the name of unity and solidarity. I will do so no longer. Worker unity has to be based on something superior to violent coercion. Unity on that basis cannot lead to any lasting, positive outcome. It has shaped the way we approach strike organisation in this country for far too long. As labour, we need to take responsibility for change in this respect. Which is not to say that those who study, educate, lead and organise workers and communities have, in any meaningful way, control over whether violence will occur or not. They do not. As long as we have the depths of deprivation and differentiation we have here in South Africa, violence will shadow collective action, electoral and associational freedoms notwithstanding. As the working poor, mineworkers live under similar levels of deprivation as the wild-cat strikers of the 1970s and 1980s whose actions shaped our current labour movement and constitutional dispensation. As the jobless youth, those who currently are burning tires and debris and stoning buses and taxis live under similar, appalling socio-economic conditions, are imbued with comparable levels of anger, frustration and helplessness to those of the 1980s and 1990s. Unless the socio-economic conditions change, violence will remain endemic to protest and resistance in South Africa. By its mere prevalence, it becomes open to manipulation. Claims by various politicians and trade unionists of a "third force" summoning up the violence for their own advantage, have some resonance. However, despite their resonance, these claims of a third force should be no less acceptable to us today than they were when the apartheid government claimed this as the force behind the anti-apartheid and labour movements of thirty years ago. Firstly, because to focus on an invisible (or visible only to some) external, third force as the main driver behind the strikers' actions is a grievous disrespect of these workers' own volition. Secondly, because the apportioning of blame externally both hides stakeholder culpability and also exonerates the responsibilities of said stakeholders to prevent a re-occurrence in future. We do not yet know the full extent of culpability behind the LONMIN disaster, but we already know enough to speculate on the consequent actions that could emerge. The first lesson of the massacre is this - the time of celebrating past anti-apartheid heroism is over. The irony of having the former National Union of Mineworkers and ANC General Secretary, Cyril Ramaphosa, as a director on the LONMIN board just says it all. In respect of the traditional importance of burying the dead near their ancestors and families, his R2million offer towards their funerals will be helpful, but not enough. Non-executive director or not, Ramaphosa should commit himself to investigate and correct all mis-management that led to this disaster, under conditions of full transparency, or if he cannot, divest himself of any further interest in the company. That's taking real responsibility, as a shareholder representative. This leads us to the culpability of the mine management, who bypassed the collective bargaining processes to establish differentiated conditions amongst its workforce, sparking the wild-cat protests. Many, many lives have been lost in the establishment of our industrial relations system. our system has many flaws, not the least that it is inherently structurally unstable due to the grave differentials between the ceiling and floor of earnings within the country, company and workplace. The arrogance and disrespect shown by LONMIN management to this reality should not go unrecognised. Whoever was responsible for this decision should resign, and issue a statement acknowledging culpability. Furthermore, their replacements at LONMIN management should recognise whomever the strikers elect as their leaders. The ability to recognise a crisis and respond accordingly is an essential requirement of management. LONMIN failed dismally in this respect. Then there are the police. This massacre and the total disregard for the protection of lives, even of those who were aggressive and armed (although the exact extend of this has to be established), is a direct result of the modelling of the police as an armed force rather than a service. A judicial enquiry may reveal the actual culpability of those who made the decision and took action, but as citizens we are entitled to hold our elected representatives accountable for the decisions and actions of those under their command. The appointment of Cele, the introduction of military titles and the blatant culture of use of force as a first resort has taken place under the watch of the current minister of police and his deputy. They should resign with immediate effect and be replaced by politicians committed to a police service that holds the protection of human life supreme. Last, but by no means least, there are the unions. As the largest COSATU affiliate, the NUM is "kingmaker" amongst our unions. It influences every ANC party election, and through this, parliamentary and cabinet positioning. Yet it is as vulnerable on the workplace as any other union. It cannot afford to neglect consistent and comprehensive grassroots organisation and voice at the workplace. This is no easy task, because it requires the union to at all-time have its primary articulation being that which furthers the interests of its workers, even at the cost of its king-making role. The massacre has brought home the political reality, which should not be too difficult for the NUM leadership to openly face and acknowledge, that the class interests of the NUM are easier shared with the leaders of its bitter rival at LONMIN, AMCO, than with their allies in the ANC NEC. If they have the courage to do this openly the will destroy the spurious argument that NUM or COSATU officials, by virtue of earning a decent wage (contrary to the workers whose conditions their life's work is dedicated to improve) and perhaps even, horror of horrors, by residing in the suburbs, are losing touch with the rank and file. For if this were true, how could Julius Malema, king of bling, just fly in from London and address the striking workers to welcome applause? Do these commentators really think those strikers are not aware that Malema's wealth is one hundred times greater than any union official? Populist demagogue par excellence, Malema tells them what they want to hear, and they welcome him because of this. As a union official or leader, you cannot always do this. Even the leader of AMCO tried to dissuade the strikers and failed. There are no easy solutions, but one thing is very clear. As labour the NUM and COSATU have to unambiguously condemn the firing and killing of striking workers, and not exempt any power broker, whether their allies in the ANC leadership battle; mine management or the police from culpability in this regard. [Sahra Ryklief is Secretary General of the International Federation of Workers' Education Associations (IFWEA), and an experienced South African labour activist and educator. She holds a master's degree in political science from the University of Liverpool, and is an adjunct professor in the School of Management and Labour Relations at Rutgers' University, New Jersey, USA. She is a consultant for two major donor organizations for labour and social movements in Southern Africa (FNV-Mondiaal and ICCO) and a media commentator on trade union strategies. Ryklief is the chairperson of the Ditikeni Investment Company, an ethical investment fund committed to the long-term sustainability of South African NGOs. She is the former director of the Labour Research Service, and still serves as an advisor to its' Board of Directors. She also serves as advisor to the National Executive Committee of Sikhula Sonke, a women-led trade union for farm workers in the Western Cape, and is a member of the advisory board of the Institute for Development and Labour Law of the University and Cape Town.] ========== IndustriALL condemns wild killings at South African Lonmin mine IndustriALL Global Union August 17, 2012 http://www.industriall-union.org/industriall-condemns-wild-killings-at-south-african-lonmin-mine?utm_source=Newsletters+in+english&utm_campaign=a87f0a63d4-Headlines_IndustriALL_78_23_2012&utm_medium=email Conflict stemming from collusion between management and a yellow union, attempting to weaken IndustriALL's affiliated National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), escalated into tragedy yesterday as at least 35 workers were shot dead by police at the Marikana platinum mine. IndustriALL joins NUM in calling for calm to return to the Marikana mine, about 100 km north-west of Johannesburg, and demanding a full and thorough investigation from law enforcement agencies that leads to arrests and prosecution for those responsible. The shootings occurred at the Wonderkop squatter camp at the mine, after police efforts to disperse crowds of demonstrators with teargas and water cannons failed. It is now the responsibility of Lonmin, the UK-based mine owner to ensure calm and safety is restored so that miners can return to work. The blame and the root cause of the conflict, which had already killed 10 people, lies with the employer who conducted an underhanded attack on the NUM and the established bargaining structure by bypassing the proper channels and offering a unilateral allowance to rock-drill operators. Today, NUM General Secretary Frans Baleni and an NUM delegation are visiting the mine together with South Africa's Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu, to give condolences to the families of the dead workers and to establish a clearer understanding of how the tragedy occurred. NUM President Senzeni Zokwana, also Vice-President of IndustriALL, who is at the mine appealing for calm, stated "rock drillers are always vulnerable to scam artists targeting the platinum industry in Limpopo and the North West." Referring to the rival union he said "these guys have taken the guise of a union that promises them R12,500 - which NUM adamantly says is unachievable for a rock driller." Lonmin followed the example of fellow platinum miner Impala Platinum, where there has also been increasing intimidation and violence this year. At both Lonmin and Impala, NUM is persecuted by management through a number of undermining efforts that favour yellow unions and non-union members. A major contributing factor is the lack of a centralized bargaining structure inside the Chamber of Mines for the platinum mining industry, as exists for coal and gold mining. South Africa is the world's largest producer of platinum. IndustriALL Global Union sends heartfelt condolences to the families and friends of those killed, and joins NUM in calling workers to remain united in face of management attempts at divide and rule. IndustriALL condemns the tactics of Lonmin's local management which is the root cause for this tragedy. IndustriALL also calls on the Chamber of Mines to address the need for centralised bargaining in the platinum industry to prevent companies from undermining union rights, closing the space for such unilateral destructive actions for which workers have paid with their lives. IndustriALL and NUM demand that the families of the deceased must be compensated as if the deceased died on duty and all workers must be paid full salaries for the period of work stoppage, as it was the company that could not provide them with transport and security to work. "NUM always stands shoulder to shoulder with trade unions throughout the world when a worker is killed under their motto "an injury to one is an injury to all". Condolences and solidarity messages are being sent from all regions to NUM at this time," stated IndustriALL Assistant General Secretary Kemal Özkan. [IndustriALL Global Union represents 50 million workers in 140 countries in the mining, energy and manufacturing sectors and is a new force in global solidarity taking up the fight for better working conditions and trade union rights around the world. IndustriALL challenges the power of multinational companies and negotiates with them on a global level. 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The Mascoutah school district plans to ask voters for permission to build a new elementary school.
According to District 19 leaders, the school system is has surpassed capacity at the elementary level and desperately needs the space, so a referendum will be placed on the April 9 ballot to ask voters for their blessing to expand.
According to district Superintendent Craig Fiegel, a new school was supposed to be built in Shiloh near the planned Wingate subdivision. But the school was put on hold when the economy slowed.
Shiloh approved a tax increment finance district that included the new subdivision, which was supposed to provide $13.5 million for the new school. But Fiegel said District 19 can no longer wait to add more space.
Shiloh Mayor Jim Vernier said that while the commercial property at the front of Wingate hasn't moved as quickly as developers had hoped, construction of the residential portion is starting to warm up.
"We're very pleased to hear that the Mascoutah school district plans to move ahead with the school," Vernier said. "The residential portion of the project is moving forward. You might not be able to see it from the main road, but I think there's work going on there with about six houses. And hopefully something will start to happen with the commercial side soon."
School leaders have not said how the school will be paid for, and the referendum does not ask for a bond issue or other money for the project to be approved. But districts are required by state law to get voters' permission to build a new school.
According to school leaders, District 19 has more than $20 million in cash reserves which it could dip into to pay for construction, with hopes that the Shiloh money would eventually come in to replenish it. In 2008, District 19 voters approved a bond issue to pay for the community's new high school.
No firm timetable is set for construction. But, according to Fiegel, district leaders felt that they needed to move quickly because the next chance they would have to ask voters for permission to start construction would be more than a year away, in spring 2014.
According to District 19 leaders, Mascoutah Elementary School has a functional capacity of 862 elementary students. But it currently has 1,015 enrolled and the student population is expected to continue to grow.
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Chrysler Group has issued a voluntary recall for over 119,000 vehicles due to the small risk of a fuse causing the anti-lock brake system and electronic stability control system to malfunction. In a statement Monday the carmaker said the recall affects "approximately 119,072 U.S.-market 2011 and 2012 Dodge Charger and Chrysler 300 sedans."
"A plastic insert surrounding a fuse may be subject to distortion caused by thermal expansion and contraction. Such distortion could interrupt power to the ABS/ESC control system and temporarily suspend its function," Chrysler said. "If the condition occurs, the ABS/ESC warning lamp will illuminate. However, basic brake function is still fully available."
The recall includes 2011 Chrysler 300 and Dodge Chargers built between May 6, 2010 and July 26, 2011, and 2012 models built between Feb. 9 2011 and Dec. 20, 2011. The vehicles will be fitted with a new fuse in a different location.
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The creators of 5 O'clock Shadow began knitting beards in 2010. The beard started out as a good laugh for everyone, but quickly evolved into more than just a laugh. It became a necessity for everyone who put it on. Possibilities for the beard became endless. Not just people on the slopes found it functional. Anyone from snowmobilers, to runners, to motorcyclists, to even children waiting for the bus found the beard extremely effective. 5 O'clock Shadow's goal is provide the following:
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Manatee County officials announced Tuesday, June 23 that they are in negotiations with a natural-gas pipeline company, Port Dolphin LLC, to extract sand from a controversial pipeline route before the pipe is placed on the bottom of the Gulf.
In a press release issued late Tuesday, the county announced it will work with the town of Longboat Key and the Department of Environmental Protection to extract coveted white sand from a revised pipeline two miles north of Anna Maria Island.
But Town Manager Bruce St. Denis said he was not made aware of the negotiations going on with the county, Port Dolphin and the state.
St. Denis declined to comment until he heard more about the negotiations.
Charlie Hunsicker, Manatee County's director of conservation lands management, told The Longboat Observer that the county and the town could commence sand extraction along the pipeline route by 2011 and that placement of the sand could be put on Anna Maria and Longboat Key beaches three years ahead of both the town and the county's beach-renourishment schedules.
Hunsicker said DEP is willing to speed up the lengthy permitting and state-funding processes for beach-renourishment projects in order to acquire the sand.
Port Dolphin, Hunsicker said, is expected to share in the cost for studies, permits and construction of the renourishment project.
"It's not intended to be a surprise for Longboat officials," Hunsicker said about the announcement. "It's intended as a proposal for a potential solution that would protect our beach-quality sand while bringing coveted natural gas to the area."
Hunsicker aims to present a formal agreement to the Manatee County Board of County Commissioners Tuesday, July 28.
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Casting directly from the originals allowed us to capture all the exquisite detail and artistry of one of our favorite vintage finds. The resulting resin sculptures are swathed in a lustrous silver-leaf finish, specifically chosen for its warmth and authentic looking patina.
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The British residence in Hancock Park was designed by Wallace Neff and finished in 1928. Curbed LA has a look around the place and some details on an earlier renovation by Ronald Chang Architecture. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrive on Friday.
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