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Long ago it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' That was true then. It did not know because it did not care. The half that was on top cared little for the struggles and less for the fate of those who were underneath…
In fighting extreme poverty, it's sometimes easy to lose sight of just how recently the conditions that we're seeking to combat existing in our own countries. That's why today, we're excited to review 'How the Other Lives,' an 1890 classic about slum life in New York, which offers lots of lessons and points of reflection for us today, four generations on.
Jacob A. Riis' How the Other Half Lives (1890) is a factual, first-hand account of poverty in 19th century New York. Through his revolutionary use of flash photography, Riis takes us on a visual tour through slum life in Lower East Side Manhattan. Riis was writing during a time of immense social upheaval, when the city was experiencing a large influx of immigrants from Europe and many other parts of the world. This was creating a rapidly growing population which the city needed to accommodate. This was done through large scale tenements which would often house hundreds of people at a time in mostly squalid conditions.
He brought the plight of the New York working classes to the largely ignorant middle and upper classes, who often viewed their poverty as deserved or chosen. His use of hard facts, statistics and photographic evidence help guide us through the many overcrowded tenements, filthy streets, and exploitative sweatshops of the city. He was considered a great social reformer who was concerned with bringing about real change to attitudes and policy.
It is the conditions of the overcrowded tenements that serve as Riis' central focus as, at the time, the tenements harboured three-fourths of the city's population. Accompanied by visuals, he guides us through what the rooms look like at different rates and across different parts of the city: "The twenty-five cent lodging house keeps up the pretence of a bed-room, though the head-high partition enclosing a space just large enough to hold a cot and a chair and allow the man room to pull off his clothes…The ten-cent level the locker for the sleeper's clothes disappears. There is no longer need of it. The tramp limit is reached, and there is nothing to lock up…" The unlicensed lodging houses of the city could even offer a small space on the floor for five cents or a squatting space in the hallway for three.
With the increase in demand brought about by the swelling population, the tenement apartments began to be portioned into several smaller rooms, often with no access to light or ventilation. In the pursuit of profit and with no regard to health, landlords would fill these rooms well over capacity with poor lodgers. "There are numerous examples of tenement-houses in which are lodged several hundred people that have a pro rata allotment of ground area scarcely equivalent to two square yards upon the city lot…" It was thought that the tenement houses in East Side Manhattan were once the most densely populated district in the world, not excluding China, as they were "packed at the rate of 290,000 to the square mile." Riis saw how the poor had no voice to protest against the degradation of their condition, because the tenements were the only option open to them other than a life on the streets.
In such high density living the spread of diseases such as Cholera, Typhus fever, and Smallpox were inevitable. Riis reveals how the mortality rate of the city went up from 1 in 41.83 in 1815, to 1 in 27.33 in 1855 as a result of diseases associated with slum living. The Bureau of Vital Statistics commented that solely due to "suffocation in the foul air of an unventilated apartment…there are annually cut off from the population by disease and death enough humans to people a city, and enough human labour to sustain it." The stifling air in the warmest of months was the cause of many cases of suffocation and ill health, particularly amongst young children.
The effect of slum living for children of the city is perhaps the most touching in all of Riis' account. He uses facts and statistics to expose the scores of children dying before their 5th birthday. He also highlights how child mortality rates dramatically decline in cases where the same number of people are living together, but basic sanitary conditions are upheld. He uses examples like this through his account to remind us of the crucial relationship between sanitation and health.
With many children falling victim to vices such as alcohol and petty crime, young lives were often wasted outside of school and education. The use of child labour in the many sweatshops of the city is also brought to light. Sweatshops were created in tenements, so that the same law which applied to workers in the factories could be evaded. People would work long hours without any breaks for a wage that barely covered rent let alone food expenses. Families in these situations would be living on the very fringes of survival and close to starvation. Emigrating to America from Denmark in 1870, Riis struggled to find steady work for much of his early life in the new land. Without food or opportunity, he experienced first-hand the life of poverty documented in this account.
Although it has been described as more of a factual account than an emotive one, what Riis accomplished was to give a face to the under-represented issue of urban poverty in New York. His account uses real case studies from those experiencing the worst of the conditions. As the intimate portraits peppered through his account show, he documented everything from the clothing to the sombre expressions of those living in poverty. It is what makes this account of 19th century slum living so unique and compelling.
How the Other Half Lives also documents the changes and organizations brought about in 19th century New York to create changes in legislation. For example the birth of the Board of Health, and the Tenement House Act of 1867 and The Society for Improvement of the Condition of the Poor. Riis proposed real tangible routes to overcoming the overpopulation and tenement housing crisis. Many of his proposals were to be adopted in the years to come. The attention his work received led to reforms in laws, the tearing down of New York's worst tenements and sweatshops, reformation of the city's schools and the construction of new safer tenements. This work represents the importance of awareness - Riis not only shows how we each have a moral obligation to recognise the plight of the poor, but that real lasting change is achievable.
*All images from Jacob A. Riis' How the Other Half Lives (1890)
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Damn, how did I miss the post that brought this on, sounds like a smack down is lurking.
If I sold trips as cheap as Josh an Wayne then I would be booked up on Tuesdays.! There is areason why we dont fish tourneys. Wayne doesnt CHEAT but Josh does. Ask Dean , John, Willy, Me, HUGH. Oh buy the way BIG Boy IS FISHING THE TOURNEY!
Damn, how did I miss the post that brought this on, sounds like a smack down is lurking.
I wonder if we could get Tim Hagen and Richard Mills to fish in the tournament too? I'll be there bright and early sat. see you all there. Remember the start time is 7:30, we backed it off to give everyone a little more time to get bait if needed. From the looks of it right now, I'll be using my snow blower to get out in the morning.
hey butch, i think me and todd are sitting this one out for the reasons specified last night. were just fishing sat. with no bullshit, just a warning to those who may not have everything needed on your boats,word is the coast guard may be around this weekend. funny all of a sudden we got vmrc and the coast guard floating around. he who bites gets bitten and we have a real show coming soon- nightstalker
I've fished with and against josh in tournaments for four years and i've never seen him cheat for any reason what so ever.
Ditto on that fishinghard
i agree
I have fished partners with Josh for the past two years on the James, the Rapp, west point, mattaponi, the chick and the Potomac. We won the MD st. catfish championship together and the VA catfish assoc. angler of the year. I have never seen Josh at anytime do anything wrong. Josh is one of the best fisherman I've ever fished with. I caught my personal best fish while fishing with him on the James, 68.7 lbs. So I say to anyone that accuses Josh of cheating - "if you can't fish against the best, stay out of the tournaments and don't fish against the big boys."
I would like to know who this Josh is. Ive heard of a few Joshs on the river but not sure which one you guys are talking about. Ive had a JOSH pull 75 yards behind my anchored boat bellow sturgeon, one JOSH caught the Virgina/Maryland state record catfish, another JOSH told guys I called the Coast guard on people, one JOSH was seen recieveing a fish from another boat in a tounament, another JOSH has stolen other fishing spots to better him self for guiding, another JOSH is hitting the Crack pipe and the last JOSH i have heard of goes by RIVER KITTEN. I hope that its more than 1 JOSH because if not this is going to be one F**ked up guy.
To Mr. Fatcat and Kevin Salmon, This post is from Debbie Fitchett, Josh's wife. First off you better leave people out of your post if you dont know what you are talking about. You both are getting ready to get tangled up in something you cant get out of. It would be nice to see you both loose everything by running your mouths. As for Mr. Salmon, calling the Coasst Guard is something you did 2 years ago on two other guides and this is a fact. Havent seen the coast guard on the river this year.... As for smoking crack I think you better be able to back that up too. I live in the same household and certainly would know that and the drug test always come back clean. How about your random drug testing for the maritime consortium for your captains license....Are you enrolled? I was personally on the boat when the Md. State record fish was caught and yes it was in Md. not Virginia. We do not have to lie about where a fish is caught. No reason to lie. If you are good you are good.... I would like for you to prove to me who gave a fish to Josh in a tournament. Dont think you can back that one up either. The only F***ed up part about the claims you all keep posting that you dont fish the tournaments is because when you do you dont seem to bring back big fish. So I fished 2 years every single tournament with him in the VCA, Md. Catfish nation, JRCC tournaments that he fished and the big cat quest and I never saw him cheat and I damn sure dont cheat and there have been plenty of other people who have fished with him too. So you are calling me, and everyone else that has ever fished with him a cheater... You can kiss my a** and you better quit running your mouth if you cant back it up because you are headed for trouble and yes this is coming from me DEBBIE FITCHETT....
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Whether an establishment is considered compliant or non-compliant is the discretion of the inspector. There are, however, several violations for which inspectors should automatically consider establishments non-compliant. Called "critical violations," they include food temperature issues, issues with chemicals and how they're handled, and employee hygiene.
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"I made a couple mistakes and paid the consequences," Garcia said after allowing two homers that accounted for five runs in an 8-2 loss to the Rockies on Sunday. "Those guys had been doing an unbelievable job and you want to be able to continue a good thing."
Jorge De La Rosa held the Cardinals hitless into the seventh inning and Troy Tulowitzki's three-run homer ended Colorado's scoreless streak at 28 innings.
De La Rosa did not give up a hit until David Freese's two-out single in the seventh, answering a pair of outstanding performances by St. Louis starters Shelby Miller and Adam Wainwright over the weekend.
"Jaime definitely had a couple of pretty tough acts to follow," manager Mike Matheny said. "We know this is a good-hitting team, we know they're capable of jumping on you and putting up a lot of runs in a hurry. It happened today."
Garcia (4-2) had won three straight starts with a 1.25 ERA and no homers allowed in that stretch of 21 2-3 innings before running into the Rockies. He gave up five runs over six innings and fell to 0-3 with a 10.53 ERA - his highest against any opponent - in four starts against Colorado.
The left-hander entered as the career ERA leader at 8-year-old Busch Stadium at 2.41 but was undone by a changeup that stayed up in the zone against Tulowitzki in the third and a hanging curveball against Charlie Blackmon, who struck out in his first two at-bats, that went for a two-run homer in the sixth.
The Rockies and Marlins are the only National League teams Garcia hasn't beaten.
"How many starts have I made against them? Today was my fourth one?" Garcia said. "Obviously, they have a really good lineup, but I don't think about those things."
Garcia gave up just two homers in his first seven starts and entered with a 2.25 ERA overall.
Jordan Pacheco doubled with one out in the first to stop a 34-inning drought since Colorado's last extra-base hit, according to STATS. The Rockies finished with five extra-base hits, including a two-run double by pinch-hitter Reid Brignac off Carlos Martinez in the eighth.
The Rockies snapped a four-game skid and finished with 11 hits after totaling three in consecutive shutout losses to Miller and Wainwright.
Nolan Arenado, who singled with one out in the eighth to break up Wainwright's no-hit bid Saturday, was among four Rockies with two hits apiece.
The Cardinals lost for just the second time in 11 games. Matt Adams' RBI single off Matt Belisle in a two-run ninth, one of three hits by pinch-hitters, ended Colorado's shutout bid.
De La Rosa (4-3) struck out seven and allowed two hits in seven innings, baffling the Cardinals until Freese singled sharply to right off the glove of a diving Pacheco at first base. Jon Jay followed with a double. De La Rosa finished his longest outing of the season, and his best showing on the road by far, by getting Pete Kozma on a lineout to first.
De La Rosa entered 1-3 with a 5.13 ERA on the road and 2-0 at home with 12 scoreless innings. This was the fourth time he worked six or more scoreless innings.
Tulowitzki's eighth homer stopped the Rockies' scoreless streak two innings shy of the team record. They went 30 innings without a run from Sept. 30 to Oct. 3, 2010, according to STATS.
The Rockies entered the weekend with the top offense in the National League and still led with a .266 batting average going into the finale of the three-game series. Tulowitzki was 0 for 6 in the first two games with five strikeouts and Carlos Gonzalez had been hitless in 15 at-bats before finishing with two singles and a walk.
Blackmon batted eighth after being called up earlier in the day to replace Michael Cuddyer, placed on the 15-day disabled list with a neck injury. He got unexpected cheers after hitting his fourth career homer - he was introduced in his first at-bat as a player making his major league debut.
Colorado had five hits in the first three innings after totaling three and going 40 consecutive at-bats without a hit the previous two days. The Rockies have never been shut out three straight times.
The Cardinals' streak of retiring 40 straight batters is tied for the second-longest in the majors since 1974, two shy of the record set by the Seattle Mariners from Aug. 14-17 last year, with Felix Hernandez throwing a perfect game on Aug. 15. Rangers pitchers retired 40 in a row in 1996.
NOTES: Gonzalez had two singles and a walk and is 6 for 12 against Garcia. ... Cardinals pitchers had a 2.02 ERA over the previous 10 games. ... Cardinals C Yadier Molina was 0 for 3, ending an 11-game hitting streak. He had five hits in the first two games of the series.
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Thursday, 09 May 2013 07:20 Published in National NewsThe 52-year-old former school bus driver accused of kidnapping and raping the women will make his first public appearance in court Thursday after emerging as the lone suspect.
While many questions remain about how Ariel Castro maintained such tight control over the women for so many years before one of them made a daring escape Monday, the horrors they suffered are beginning to come to light.
Police say the women were apparently bound by ropes and chains at times and were kept in different rooms. They suffered prolonged sexual and psychological abuse and had miscarriages, according to a city official briefed on the case.
Castro has been charged with four counts of kidnapping — covering the captives and the daughter born to one of them — and three counts of rape, against all three women.
The women and Castro have given lengthy statements to police that have helped build their case, said Deputy Police Chief Ed Tomba.
None of the women, though, gave them any indication that Castro's two older brothers, who've been in custody since Monday, were involved, Tomba said. Prosecutors brought no charges against the brothers, citing a lack of evidence.
"Ariel kept everyone at a distance," Tomba said.
One thing that remains a mystery, he said, is how the women were kept in the house so long.
"As far as the circumstances inside the home and the control he may have had over those girls ... I think that's going to take us a long time to figure that out," he said.
The women, now in their 20s and 30s, vanished separately between 2002 and 2004. At the time, they were 14, 16 and 20 years old.
At a news conference, authorities would not discuss the circumstances of their kidnapping and captivity.
City Councilman Brian Cummins earlier said: "We know that the victims have confirmed miscarriages, but with who, how many and what conditions we don't know."
"It sounds pretty gruesome," he added.
They never saw a chance to escape over the last 10 years until this week when Amanda Berry broke through a door and ran to freedom, alerting police who rescued the other two women while Castro was away from the house.
In newly released police audio tapes, a 911 dispatcher notifies officers on Monday that she's just spoken to a woman who "says her name is Amanda Berry and that she had been kidnapped 10 years ago."
An officer on the recorded call says, "This might be for real."
After police arrive at the house, women can be heard crying in the background. Then an officer tells the dispatcher: "We found 'em. We found 'em."
Tomba said of Berry, "Something must have clicked and she saw an opportunity and she took that opportunity."
He said the women could remember being outside only twice during their entire time in captivity. "We were told they left the house and went into the garage in disguise," he said.
Also in the house was Berry's 6-year-old daughter. A paternity test on Castro was being done to establish whether he fathered the child.
While prosecutors announced charges against Castro, federal agents searched a vacant house near where the women had been held. Officials would only say their search was an attempt to get evidence in the case against Castro, but they refused to say what they found or what led them there.
Castro was in custody and couldn't be reached for comment. A brother-in-law has said the family was shocked after hearing about the women at the home.
Few people in Cleveland, outside the families of the women, thought there was any chance they were still alive.
Berry, 27, and Gina DeJesus, who is in her early 20s, were welcomed home Wednesday by jubilant crowds of loved ones and neighbors with balloons and banners. Family members hustled them inside, past hundreds of reporters and onlookers.
Neither woman spoke.
"This is the best Mother's Day I could ever have," said Nancy Ruiz, Gina's mother. She said she hugged her daughter and didn't want to let go.
Ruiz said she spent time with all three women after they were rescued. "There's no word to describe the beauty of just seeing them," she said.
DeJesus' father pumped his fist after arriving home with his daughter, and urged people across the country to watch over the children in their neighborhoods — including other people's kids.
"Too many kids these days come up missing, and we always ask this question: How come I didn't see what happened to that kid? Why? Because we chose not to," he said.
The third captive, Michelle Knight, 32, was reported in good condition at Metro Health Medical Center, which a day earlier had reported that all three victims had been released. There was no immediate explanation from the hospital.
The Associated Press does not usually identify people who may be victims of sexual assault, but the names of the women were widely circulated by their families, friends and law enforcement authorities for years during their disappearance.
Castro was accused of twice breaking the nose of his children's mother, knocking out a tooth, dislocating each shoulder and threatening to kill her and her daughters, according to a 2005 domestic-violence filing in Cuyahoga County Domestic Relations Court.
The filing for a protective order by Grimilda Figueroa also said that Castro frequently abducted her daughters and kept them from her. Figueroa died in April 2012 after a battle with cancer.
Figueroa's father, Ismail Figueroa, said Wednesday that Castro would regularly lock his daughter inside a second-floor apartment in the house where they lived when they were first together.
Later, when they moved a few blocks to the house Castro purchased — the house from which, years later, the women would escape — he kept a close eye on her and refused to let people come inside to visit her or even let her pick up their children from school, said Angel Villanueva, who is married to Grimilda Figueroa's sister.
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Defenseman Slava Voynov scored on an odd-man rush 8 minutes into overtime and the Kings beat the St. Louis Blues 3-2 on Wednesday night, winning for the third straight time after dropping the first two games.
"Starting the series 0-2 wasn't the best start," said Jeff Carter, who scored in the opening minute of the second and third periods. "It wasn't the start we were looking for, but we worked on things and we talked about things, and I think it's showing in our game now."
Game 6 is in Los Angeles on Friday night and the Kings have won nine in a row at home, where they are 21-4-1 overall counting the regular season. They're also 4-0 at home in the playoffs against the Blues the last two seasons.
"Another one-goal game, but we came out on top," goalie Jonathan Quick said. "We've got another one to win, so we're going to go home and get our rest and get ready.
"We've still got a lot of work to do, so we're going to get ready for this next one."
The Blues failed to capitalize on Alex Pietrangelo's goal with 44.1 seconds remaining in regulation. Rookie Jaden Schwartz got a piece of Voynov's stick on the winner, perhaps altering the shot a bit, and smashed his stick several times against the sideboards and glass before leaving the ice.
"I thought we played a pretty solid game for the most part," Schwartz said. "We battled back hard. It was just an unfortunate bounce in the end."
With goalie Brian Elliott off for an extra attacker, Pietrangelo's wrist shot at the end of regulation forced overtime for the second time in the series. It was the third goal in the final minute of the third period in the series.
The Kings' Justin Williams scored in the final minute of a 2-1 overtime loss in Game 1, also in St. Louis. The Blues had a 2-0 series lead after Barret Jackman scored in the final minute of Game 2.
All five games have been decided by one goal, the only first-round series with that distinction.
"The momentum can swing at any moment," said Jackman, who was on the ice for the winner. "You get an odd-man rush and get a bit of a lucky goal, that happens in overtime.
"That's why you shoot the puck."
Blues coach Ken Hitchcock thought Game 5 was his team's best overall effort, and was optimistic that with a repeat showing they can get back home and force Game 7 on Monday night.
"If we play like that again, I like our chances," Hitchcock said. "We got a heck of an effort for everybody across the board."
The Kings ended the Blues' eight-game home win streak in which Elliott allowed one goal each time. Elliott was not made available to reporters.
The Kings were the first road team to win in the series.
Voynov scored the only goal in the Kings' 1-0 Game 3 victory. That had been the defenseman's lone point of the series before he joined the attack with Williams and Anze Kopitar, with all three players handling the puck before Voynov slid the puck beneath Elliott's pads.
Alex Steen's third goal of the series tied it at 1 in the second period for St. Louis. Steen, whose short-handed overtime goal decided Game 1, twice took the puck from defenseman Jake Muzzin on the play.
Pietrangelo got the puck at the point off a clean faceoff win by David Backes and slid into the middle before threading a shot past Quick after two teammates were unsuccessful at deflection attempts.
Carter's power-play goal capitalized on a tripping penalty to Jackman at the end of the second period. Kopitar got Elliott out of position on an odd-man rush before Carter converted a one-timer to put the Kings up 2-1.
The Blues dominated much of the scoreless opening period, responding from their fadeout while blowing a pair of leads in a 4-3 loss in Game 4. The reunited CPR fourth line of Adam Cracknell, Chris Porter and Ryan Reaves had a handful of nice scoring chances in addition to setting the tone physically.
It took the Kings just 14 seconds to take the lead in the second period, though, when Carter tapped a rebound past Elliott. Carter, among the NHL leaders with 26 goals, had no points in the first three games.
The Blues' No. 1 line was victimized again, with Patrik Berglund and David Perron on the ice for the fifth straight goal by the Kings.
Steen tied it a little over five minutes later. Steen knocked Muzzin's clearing effort out of the air with his stick and won a battle for the puck behind the net before wheeling around and scoring on a high shot.
NOTES: Cracknell was a healthy scratch in Game 4 in favor of rookie Vladimir Tarasenko, who made his playoff debut and was no factor. ... Kings coach Darryl Sutter made one lineup change, too, scratching D Keaton Ellerby in favor of 21-year-old rookie F Tyler Toffoli, who made his playoff debut. D Matt Greene, still getting into condition after missing virtually the entire season, has yet to appear in the series. ... Mike Richards assisted on Carter's second goal and has three assists the last two games.
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There are some positive trends –environmental impacts from European consumption are falling for three of the four environmental issues studied in the report. However, current levels of environmental damage are still unsustainable, and material resource use is still growing.
"We can foresee multiple, converging environmental crises caused by our unsustainable consumption," EEA Executive Director Jacqueline McGlade said. "Changing this will be very difficult – environmentally harmful patterns of consumption are deeply ingrained in our society - economically, politically, socially and technically. But it is not impossible. We need policies that make sustainable choices easy, affordable and attractive, business models that drive forward sustainable consumption patterns, and people to make the sustainable choices."
Goods and services consumed in Europe are increasingly imported. Since the majority of environmental impacts from consumption are created during the production of the goods, a considerable share of the environmental pressures is actually felt outside of Europe, according to the report 'Consumption and the environment'. This is a newly updated chapter of the EEA's State and Outlook of the Environment Report (SOER) 2010 that is launched today at the Global Research Forum on Sustainable Consumption and Production in Rio de Janeiro.
Climate change, eutrophication, air pollution and acidification are all driven by personal consumption, the report says. Increasing population is also influencing these issues, but a bigger driver is the 'consumer class' around the world which is predicted to grow to 1.2 billion people by 2030.
Efficiency gains partly offset by growing consumption
Efficiency measures have successfully reduced key emissions to air caused by household consumption in the EU-27 between 2000 and 2007. However, growing consumption and changes in consumption patterns have partly offset these gains. In addition, more efficient use of materials has even been outpaced by growth in consumption. So improving efficiency alone is not enough, the report says – in the past more efficient use of resources has often resulted in the 'rebound effect,' where financial savings from increased efficiency are used for additional consumption of goods and services – so the environmental benefit is negated.
For example, energy efficiency of housing has improved since 2000, but this trend has been largely offset by an increase in housing space per person. Transport impacts are also getting worse. While the fuel efficiency of the average car has been improved continuously in recent decades, the improvements have been more than offset by growing demand for travel by private car in the EU.
Changing the economics of consumption
Current consumption patterns damage the environment and over-use resources, in part because the environmental cost of producing goods and services is not fully reflected in their price. This means that many goods are relatively cheap even though they cause major harm to the environment, ecosystems or human health.
Many economic systems also create perverse incentives to consume more. Some governments subsidise new purchases or environmentally damaging goods such as fossil fuels, prioritising short-term economic gain, thereby accelerating environmental damage.
Environmental Tax Reform (ETR) is one area which could improve the relationship between consumption and the environment. Proponents of ETR argue that it is important to tax environmentally-damaging activities. The taxes could then be redistributed to people via reductions in income tax. Shifting tax from labour to emissions and resource use in this way may reduce unsustainable consumption.
Nonetheless, it will be impossible to substantially reduce environmental impacts of consumption without a change in culture, the report says. Many millions of people around the world currently aspire to drive a car or own the latest electronic device. The expanding nature of consumption means that these products cannot simply be 'greened' with technical improvements, instead culture needs to make a larger shift.
Global policies towards more sustainable consumption and production patterns are currently being negotiated in the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. The conference is considering the adoption of a global framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production.
]]>Revenues from recycling are substantial and growing fast. From 2004 to 2008 the turnover of seven main categories of recyclables almost doubled to more than €60 billion in the EU. Due to a reduced demand for raw materials and a decline in commodity prices during the economic downturn the turnover of recycling declined sharply at the end of 2008 and in the first half of 2009 but seems to have recovered somewhat since then.
The growth of recycling is being driven by increasing demand for recyclables, as booming Asian economies help to push up the price of materials. Another driver has been EU waste directives, which have contributed by creating obligations to recycle or recover increasing percentages of waste, and discouraging landfilling. As a consequence, the amount of recyclables sorted and placed on the market has increased 15 % between 2004 and 2009.
More jobs at higher income levels are created by recycling than compared to landfilling or incinerating waste. Overall employment related to the recycling of materials in European countries increased by 45 % between 2000 and 2007.
Recycling can meet a large proportion of the economy's resources demand, alleviating pressure on ecosystems to provide resources and assimilate waste. Recycling already meets substantial proportions of demand for some resource groups, notably paper and cardboard, and iron and steel.
However, even maximum recycling cannot cover all EU demand for resources. Increased recycling can improve 'resource security', but economic growth driven by ever increasing material consumption cannot be sustained, as it requires an infinite volume of resources.
Recycling is particularly valuable in securing supplies of critical resources. Recycling of rare metals is essential for the EU to pioneer new technologies, particularly in areas such as e-mobility, information and communication technologies and renewable energy. Imports of precious metal waste into Europe increased 50 % between 2000 and 2009 – the only group of recyclable materials which grew significantly during this period.
However, rare and precious metals are characterised by dissipative use, meaning that they are used in small amounts in a multitude of applications and products. The existing recycling infrastructure has not yet focused on this problem, meaning that many of these metals are lost.
The economic, social and environmental benefits of recycling highlight the need to shift to a green economy in order to generate prosperity while maintaining a healthy environment and social equity for current and future generations.
Waste is generated at all stages of the materials life cycle:
Sound management of waste can protect public health and benefit the environment whilst supporting conservation of natural resources.
Around 5.2 tonnes of waste per capita were generated in 2008 in the EU. The largest waste streams in Europe originate from construction and demolition, mining and quarrying, along with manufacturing activities. Every EU citizen on average throws away 444 kg of household waste per year, and this figure is expected to increase.
Previously, growing consumption and the trend towards smaller households were strong drivers of municipal waste generation. But these factors appear to be decoupling from municipal waste generation: per capita municipal waste generation in the EU-27 stabilised from 1999 to 2010. Member States differ greatly in terms of both their development of waste generation and its size.
The EU has seen a clear shift in waste management. In 2010, a large share (37%) of municipal solid waste (which represents 10% of the total waste generated in the EU) was still landfilled. Today the trend is to recycle/compost (38%), or incinerate with energy recovery (21%) instead, for different waste streams.
Recycling benefits the environment by diverting waste away from landfill, thereby reducing pollutant emissions. It also helps meet the material demands of economic production, curtailing the need for extraction and refining of virgin materials.
Recycling also offers important economic and social benefits: it generates economic growth, fosters innovation, generates employment, and helps secure availability of critical resources. Recycling is vital for a major European and global policy priority: the shift to a green economy that generates prosperity while maintaining a healthy environment and social equity for current and future generations.
EU waste directives discourage landfilling and promote the recycling/recovery of waste. Another driver for the increasing economic importance of recycling is the upsurge in demand for materials, especially in booming Asian economies.
The more recent EU legal instruments and strategies prioritise waste prevention, i.e. decoupling waste generation from economic growth and environmental impacts. Examples are the revised Waste Framework Directive (WFD) (2008/98/EC), the Thematic Strategy on the prevention and recycling of waste and the 6th Environmental Action Programme (EAP).
The WFD provides the general framework for waste prevention and management in the EU. It introduces and defines basic concepts and lays down waste management principles such as the waste hierarchy (Fig. 1), where waste prevention is the preferred option.
Figure 1: Waste hierarchy
The WFD obliges Member States to establish waste prevention programmes no later than 12 December 2013. The EEA is invited to review country progress in completing and implementing such programmes.
The WFD sets ambitious recycling targets for paper, metal, plastic and glass waste from households as well as for construction and demolition waste.
EU legislation also sets stringent requirements for landfills and incinerators: most waste treatment activities are regulated by the Landfill Directive (1999/31/EC), the Waste Incineration Directive (2000/76/EC), and the Industrial Emissions Directive (2010/75/EU). For special waste streams (e.g. packaging waste, end-of-life vehicles and waste electrical and electronic equipment), the waste hierarchy has been translated into concrete targets for recycling and/or recovery.
A life-cycle approach in policymaking ensures that impacts are assessed from cradle to grave; and avoids 'hiding' impacts by moving them to other countries or stages of production/consumption.
The EEA's waste assessments aim to support the development of policies for sustainable consumption and production, including the implementation of thematic strategies on sustainable use of natural resources, on waste prevention and on recycling, and of the Roadmap to a Resource Efficient Europe.
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The EEA's sustainable consumption and production group leads the agency's work on waste. Activities are implemented through cooperation with the EEA's European Topic Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (ETC/SCP) and in collaboration with EEA's country network, Eionet. Eurostat is collecting waste data; it has hosted the Environmental Data Centre on Waste since 2008.
The EEA will support the European Commission and European Parliament as well as EEA member and cooperating countries with a number of new waste indicators and a concept for reviewing waste prevention programmes. It will also finalise recent analysis on landfill taxes, transboundary shipments of waste as well as the resource potential for critical metals in e-waste in Europe. These activities will contribute to a better implementation of waste policies in the EU. Waste is also one of the high priority areas in the EEA's international cooperation projects with European neighbourhood countries.
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The SDK programme is ISO 14001 certified and has had a legal basis since 2005.
The household component ('SuperDrecksKëscht® fir Biirger') has been dealing with household waste since 1985 [Figure 1]. It includes:
Source: Ministry of Sustainable Development and Infrastructure - Environment Agency. Published in STATEC, Statistical Yearbook, Table A.3310.
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Figure 2 - SDK fir Betriber: number of participating companies 1992-2009
Source: Ministry of Sustainable Development and Infrastructure - Environment Agency.
The cost of the 'SuperDrecksKëscht® fir Biirger' is fully covered by the government through the Environment Protection Fund. The cost of the 'SuperDrecksKëscht® fir Betriber' is shared: assistance, advisory and training services are financed by the government, while waste collection and treatment is covered by the firms.
Since 2007, the SDK concept has been exported in the form of franchise contracts that are available to public authorities and to public and private establishments in other countries seeking to institute a waste management system along the lines of the Luxembourg model. For instance, the 'SuperDrecksKëscht® fir Betriber' concept has been implemented in the Basle region in Switzerland and the 'SuperDrecksKëscht® fir Biirger' concept in the city of Stockholm in Sweden. Ongoing projects to put into service a SDK scheme exist for Hungary and for Ras-Al-Kaihma (the latter mainly for packaging waste and batteries). Other countries have recently been seeking information on the SDK: Cyprus, Greece, Lithuania and Ukraine.
In 2010, the SDK programme has been awarded 'best practice' by the European Commission. A particularly important element of the success of the SDK is the continuous communication with all actors of the economy using modern communication means:
All commercial chains and many other businesses participate in this action that has been awarded 'best practice' by the European Commission in June 2009.
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Are the dresses pre-made and delivered once I place the order?
NO. Whether you choose a standard size or give us your custom measurements, all our dresses are personally tailored from scratch for you. So you need to order your dress beforehand to make sure you can have it in time. We'll start to process the order once payment for an order has been confirmed.
Size Chart
Dress Size Chart
US Size | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 16 | ||||||||
Europe Size | 32 | 34 | 36 | 38 | 40 | 42 | 44 | 46 | ||||||||
UK Size | 6 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 16 | 18 | 20 | ||||||||
inch | cm | inch | cm | inch | cm | inch | cm | inch | cm | inch | cm | inch | cm | inch | cm | |
Bust | 32.5 | 83 | 33.5 | 84 | 34.5 | 88 | 35.5 | 90 | 36.5 | 93 | 38 | 97 | 39.5 | 100 | 41 | 104 |
Waist | 25.5 | 65 | 26.5 | 68 | 27.5 | 70 | 28.5 | 72 | 29.5 | 75 | 31 | 79 | 32.5 | 83 | 34 | 86 |
Hips | 35.75 | 91 | 36.75 | 92 | 37.75 | 96 | 38.75 | 98 | 39.75 | 101 | 41.25 | 105 | 42.75 | 109 | 44.25 | 112 |
Hollow to Floor | 58 | 147 | 58 | 147 | 59 | 150 | 59 | 150 | 60 | 152 | 60 | 152 | 61 | 155 | 61 | 155 |
Plus Size Dress Size Chart
US Size | 14W | 16W | 18W | 20W | 22W | 24W | 26W | |||||||
Europe Size | 44 | 46 | 48 | 50 | 52 | 54 | 56 | |||||||
UK Size | 18 | 20 | 22 | 24 | 26 | 28 | 30 | |||||||
inch | cm | inch | cm | inch | cm | inch | cm | inch | cm | inch | cm | inch | cm | |
Bust | 41 | 104 | 43 | 109 | 45 | 114 | 47 | 119 | 49 | 124 | 51 | 130 | 53 | 135 |
Waist | 34 | 86 | 36.25 | 92 | 38.5 | 98 | 40.75 | 104 | 43 | 109 | 45.25 | 115 | 47.5 | 121 |
Hips | 43.5 | 110 | 45.5 | 116 | 47.5 | 121 | 49.5 | 126 | 51.5 | 131 | 53.5 | 136 | 55.5 | 141 |
Hollow to Floor | 61 | 155 | 61 | 155 | 61 | 155 | 61 | 155 | 61 | 155 | 61 | 155 | 61 | 155 |
Note: Please always refer to the size chart on individual product pages when choosing your dress.
How to measure
We strongly recommend having your measurements taken by a professional tailor or seamstress or having someone help you, measuring by yourself will cause inaccurate measurement results and subsequent disappointing issues. Measurements should be taken in the undergarments you plan to wear under your dress. Make sure to keep the measuring tape comfortably loose, like you'd want your dress to fit.
Keeping a thumb in the inside of the tape is a practical way.
- Bust Measurement
Standing up straight with your heels together, put your arms at your sides and relaxed. Measure the fullest part of your chest and around your back. Pay attention to that this is NOT your bra size. You must wear a bra while taking the measurement.
- Waist Measurement
Measure the narrowest part of your torso. Practically, it is usually an inch or so above your belly button.
- Hips Measurement
Standing up straight with your heels together, measure around the fullest part of your hips. Find your hip bones and measure there. Usually it is approximately 7 inches below the natural waistline.
- Hollow to Floor Measurement
Standing up straight with heels together, measure from the center of the collarbone (Hollow) straight down to your feet. Attention please: you should measure it barefoot.
- Height Measurement
Standing up straight with heels together, measure from the top of your head straight down to your feet. Attention please: you should measure it barefoot.
Return Policy
We want you to be completely satisfied with your online purchase. If you are not satisfied with your purchase and want to get a refund or even return the item, please check the details of the following return policies in case any special conditions applied.
Contact Us within 3 Days after You Receive the Parcel
We only accept return applications that are within 3 days from the day of your signing for the reception of the parcel according to the courier firm. So it is very important that you check the item and try it on as soon as possible. Once you have any unsatisfactory you can send an email to email@example.com, tell us your order number and the problems you have. It would be great if you can take some photographs to show us all the problems.
Returned Merchandise Must Meet Conditions Described Below
If you are returning dresses, please make sure they are in their original condition - unwashed, unaltered, undamaged, clean, free of lint and hair.
After we get your complaint, our customer service team will work with you to figure out a solution together. The return request must meet at least one of situations below:
1. Defective, Damaged or Misshipped Dresses
When requesting your refund, please provide customer service team with photographs and detailed textual description clearly showing the problem with the dresses. If you believe your items were damaged or lost during shipping, customer service team also need photographs showing the damaged package as well as proof of damage or lost documentation from the courier firm in order to process your refund.
2. Size or Fitting Issues - More than 1inch Disparity and Unfixable
Because of the nature of different materials, a measurement tolerance of 1inch/2.54cm is allowed for both standard size dresses and custom size dresses. Our tailors have also made all dresses with additional fabric in the seams to allow minor size modifications to be made easily. If the measurement differences are more than 1inch/2.54cm, please just contact the customer service team to work out a solution together.
3. Color Issue - Not Including Ones Caused by Screen Settings
The settings of your computer screen may alter the color of the pictures shown on ninedresses.com. Slight color mismatches between the color of your item and the color shown on screen may not mean that the item is defective or misshipped. However, if you are confident that you have received the item in a wrong color, please contact us and we are always happy to help solve any problem.
Ship the item out within 7 Days after Our Customer Service Team Give You the Return Address
Once our customer service team approved your return request, we will send you an email with information, like return address, which can guide you to ship the item back. Please ship the item our within 7 days after that. After you ship the item out, please send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com to tell us the courier firm you used and the tracking no. of the parcel.
After Receive and Check the Item, We Will Refund You the Money
After we receive the item, our return will be processed in 3 to 5 business days. Once your return is confirmed and inspected, please allow up to several business days for it to be refunded to your Credit Card.
Normally, We Will Not Refund You the Money for Shipping
The shipping cost is charged by courier firm, so that part of money would not be refunded when we accept your return request. And for orders with free shipping we will distract the shipping cost from the order. You can read this page: http://www.ninedresses.com/shipping-cost.html to calculate the shipping cost.
Returns without Our Customer Service Team's Approval Will Be Unacceptable
Returns will not be accepted without prior approval from our customer service team. Please contact us first and ship the dress out after your return request has been approved.
Force Majeure Disclaimer
Return applications are excluded if the items are hampered or prevented by unexpected political or economic events or generally by force majeure such as earthquakes, hurricanes, floods and volcanoes and so on.
Quality Guarantee
Can dress be guaranteed?
Your satisfaction is our utmost pursuit. We have a professionally trained team who possess professional expertise, rich experience and unlimited credibility. Our dresses are streamlined into a system that strictly checks and double checks quality, from tailoring to delivery. Besides the guaranteed quality and top-ranking service, we provide you the most reasonable price, since we tailor bridal gowns, bridesmaid dresses, mother of bride dresses and varies kinds of special occasion dresses. We devote ourselves to making sure you get the perfect dress for any occasion. The following is how we guarantee the quality of our dresses.
Order Confirmation
The size and color of dresses are sensitive factors in the apparel industry. We have special employees to review the details of your order and check for anything that might influence dress processing. At the same time, an email confirmation of your order will have already arrived in your inbox.
Garment Tailoring & Checking
Each piece of our apparel and accessories is tailored by professional and experienced dressmakers. And we have advanced manufacturing facilities. The dress-making process is flowing and strict. So you just throw away your doubt and worries about the style and quality of the dresses at ninedresses.com.
Before getting the chance to be shipped to your front door, all dresses and accessories have to go through our rigorous QA procedure. Every item is surely first inspected inside and outside by our highly-trained QA team based on strict requirements and the International ISO quality standards. Then we do a basic check to make sure the product is consistent with every detail specified on your order. The item will not be allowed to be shipped out unless it meets all of our standards!
Garment Packing
Before packing, we do a thorough check to make sure the product matches your order and the right accessories are included.
Then, our packing team adopts effective ways to avoid possible damages during the packing process and make your package more water-roof, pressure resistant and air-tight.
Finally, it's passed in safe hands with our trusted and verified couriers.
Garment Tracking
As soon as your package is out of our door, you will receive an email informing you the tracking number. You can start tracking the package in 2 days; our customer service team will keep on tracking it until it reaches the destination safely.
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ninedresses.com has great customer service available for help 24 hours every day. No matter what the issue is, we're always here to serve you.
1. Is the information I send over internet safe?
Yes, of course. We take precautions to protect the customer information send over by our site. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have implemented appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information. Any other information given such as email is strictly confidential and will not be used or given to any 3rd party. Please see our Privacy Policy for more information.
2. Are you an online bridal store only?
Yes, all our business is done online and we do not operate any retail bridal store.
So far, ninedresses.com does not have any stores or sales offices. However, we carry out the strategy of cutting cost to pass on to our customers. So you can buy your favorite dresses at the unbeatable price.
3. Can I see the dress in other colors?
Currently we are unable to provide you pictures of other colors of the dress, but we are considering offering more options for the color of the pictures in the future. If you need it urgently, you can contact us, we will make efforts to help you.
4. How do I place my order in this website?
Shopping with ninedresses.com is bound to be easy, fast and convenient. Now just follow several steps below, you can place an order on ninedresses.com at an amazing price.
1) Click "Sign In or Register"
You can find the button "Sign In or Register" on the right top corner of any page, just click the button to sign in or register. You can also sign in or register later when you are ready to checkout.
2) Search or browse products, and add your favorite items to your shopping cart.
*Choose Color
You can select the color you want by clicking the color block. Once you do so, the dress in the picture would change into the color you chose. Due to not all our colors are listed, if the color you want is not available in the menu, please feel free to contact us and tell what color you like for the dress. It would be better for you to provide a color sample so we will see if it will work out.
*Choose Size
Standard Size
You could choose any standard size from the size drop-down menu, and specific measurements of this size dresses will be displayed in the area below.
Custom Size
We suggest you choose custom size because not everyone fits standard size dresses. All we need is your accurate measurements to make a dress only for you. You could choose custom size from the size drop-down menu or tick the box beside it. After you choose custom size, a window will pop up for you to select your bust, waist, hips, height, hollow to floor and heels height measurements. After you select your measurements in corresponding boxes, you can click "Confirm Now" to continue the purchasing process. And if you are not sure about your measurements yet, you can click "Confirm Later" to select your measurements later.
*Choose Latest Arrival Date
You can choose the date you want to receive your dresses. Usually you will receive your dress no later than the Latest Arrival Date you chose. If the date you want is not available, please contact our customer service team by LIVE HELP or email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
*Leave order comments and Add to shopping Cart
If you have any specific requirements about your order, please just click the button "Click to add order comments" to leave order comments here. We will pay special attention to your order and make the dress as you request.
After choosing the color, size, Latest Arrival Date and type a number in the quantity box, you just need to click "Add to Cart" button to add the dress to the Shopping Cart. In the "Shopping Cart" page, you can remove items or adjust the quantities later if you change your mind. Items in shopping cart are saved there while you browsing more items or for your next visit.
3) Check the Grand Total and Order Details
You can see the Grand Total of your order on the right bottom of "Shopping Cart" Page. If you have coupons, just enter your coupon code, then the coupon value will be subtracted from the Grand Total. After confirming both of the grand total and order details are all right, you can click "Proceed to Checkout" to make the payment.
4) Choose Shipping Method and Checkout
After editing or confirming the Billing Information and Shipping Information, you need to choose Shipping Method and Payment Method. And then you can follow online guide to accomplish payment.
5) Review and Place Your Order
After the payment is accomplished, you will be led to "Review Order" page. Please check all the information before click the "Place Order" button.
6) Order Successfully
Once your order was placed successfully, we will send you an email notification for the order.
5. Will I be able to alter my dress if I receive it and it doesn't fit exactly right?
Yes. If your size fluctuates or you want to modify the dress slightly, we always leave a few inches in the seams so that your local tailor can easily make alterations as needed. Dresses generally have a margin of 1 inch on either side of a seam. Flower detailing, beading or belts/ribbons may limit ability to let a dress out.
6. If I want to wear high heels with the dress, should I add the length of my heel to my hollow to the floor measurement?
No, there is no need to add the length of the heel to your "Hollow to Floor" measurement. "Hollow to Floor" and "Height" measurements are both measured barefoot. The height of heels need to be provided separately.
7. Will my dress exactly match the color I see on your website?
When we take the picture of dresses, we will try our best to offer their exact colors to our customer.
There might be a slight difference between the actual dress's color and what you see in the photo depending on your computer monitor's display settings.
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