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Tito Case Moves Forward, Not in Tito's Favor
3/23/2015 Update. Caution. The above headline seems fairly skewed. See below for what we think really happened last week. The case is not halted at all.
Tito had another bad yesterday, this time in federal court in San Diego. This further makes it obvious that the world of labeling has changed markedly since the Supreme Court's Pom decision of June 12, 2014. On March 18, 2015, Judge Jeffrey Miller (of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California) ruled that the Tito's vodka case, relating to deception and the term "handmade," should move forward. Since the case was filed on September 19, 2014, Tito has argued that the case should be dismissed.
The judge did agree with Tito on a few points, but agreed with the complainants on the larger points. Tito had argued that the case should not move forward because there was no real damage to anyone. In response, the court's Order Granting in Part and Denying in Part Tito's Motion to Dismiss, noted some consumers care a lot about "processes and places of origin" when deciding what to buy. By way of example, the court pointed to past controversies about kosher, halal, diamonds from conflict zones, and wine appellations.
Background about the case is here (the main complaints) and here (the main defense). This posting is a short version, and more commentary will be available at Wine & Spirits Daily, later today (or upon request). The nub of the matter is, the label and indeed the main selling proposition for Tito's vodka, all the way back to its inception, center on its "handmade" aspects. This claim (the biggest word on the label) is now the subject of at least five lawsuits all over the U.S. They are 1) Hofmann (as here), 2) Pye (filed in federal court in Florida), 3) Aliano (filed in Cook County and removed to federal court), 4) McBrearty (filed in New Jersey state court and removed to federal court), 5) Cabrera (filed in San Diego, federal court), and 6) Grayson (filed in Las Vegas, federal court).
The Hofmann court said the class action claimants need not show that the vodka was defective or that the vodka was worth the price paid. Instead, the relevant inquiry is whether consumers were deceived about the "handmade" claim, and persuaded to buy on the basis of that deception. In essence, the judge is saying the plaintiffs made a mistake by arguing that class member would pay less – instead of arguing that they would not buy the product at all – but for the label claim at issue.
The Order has a funny typo on page 11 (stemming from the plaintiff's brief), referring to the label term as "homemade," when in reality the label shows the term "handmade." A pillar of Tito's defense, so far, is that TTB has approved the label on many occasions and after careful review. The court was not impressed by this point: "the court concludes that [Tito] has not shown that the safe harbor bars Plaintiff's claims." The court said TTB's review was peripheral and informal at most, especially in view of the fact that TTB does not even have standards or rules for the term at issue.
The order seems careful and even-handed, but then seems to lean against Tito more, by saying:
In the court's view, the representation that vodka that is (allegedly) mass-produced in automated modern stills from commercially manufactured neutral grain spirit is nonetheless "Handmade" in old-fashioned pot stills arguably could mislead a reasonable consumer. This is not, therefore, an issue that can be resolved at this stage.
Judge Miller further ruled that the 2013 Forbes article, that largely raised the questions about the Tito claim, is reliable enough, to form a basis for the allegations. Relatedly, the court was not too impressed with Tito's argument that this article sufficiently alerted consumers that the claim might be dubious.
Finally, the court asserted that the complaint is not too vague for Tito to prepare an adequate response. The court said Tito's "cogent" responses prove it. The court sided with the plaintiffs in most areas, but went against the plaintiffs in dismissing three major claims, on the basis that they were not pled properly. The court also, however, provided the plaintiffs with 14 days to fix those deficiencies and so this order is overwhelmingly helpful to the plaintiff side.
Simon Fleischmann (a top class action litigator at Locke Lord in Chicago) explained:
While this is a disappointing ruling from a defense standpoint, it is important to remember that this is just one trial court decision on the pleadings in what will likely be a broader war waged in several courts across the country on similar issues. And perhaps most importantly, the opinion emphasizes the highly individualized nature of that particular plaintiff's purchasing decisions in a way that will make it difficult to certify a class of similarly situated consumers later on in the litigation.
Simon knows the context well. He is litigating very similar issues on behalf of Templeton Whiskey.
The court's order is here.
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Oak Aged Vodka
TTB does not allow Aged Vodka, or Aged Gin. But this would seem to show it's pretty easy to work around these arcane, antiquated restrictions. Note how the word "aged" is nowhere but everywhere on this label, and Absolut does not mind throwing in a reference to "craft" for good measure.
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Tito Responds
Over the years many have suggested that Tito's vodka is not really made in small batches or by hand. I tried to keep an open mind, as the brand grew, and even in the face of the lawsuits summarized here.
So I have been particularly looking forward to a response, on the merits, at long last, from the source. Tito finally responded, on November 17, 2014, in the form of a motion to dismiss the Florida case. (The defendants also filed a similar motion, a month later, in the California case. The California motion is 28 pages and substantially similar to the one filed in Florida, right down to mangling the name of the agency that issued the so-crucial approvals. It does add a dash of spice here: "Plaintiff himself knows nothing, and he filed a lawsuit that ignores what the Tito's label actually says and instead bases his claim on hearsay statements in a magazine article, hoping he can later commit discovery to get the facts he admittedly lacks.")
With the aid of more than one big law firm, and a superior command of the facts, I was eager to sit back and see how deftly Tito could shut down its many detractors. The motion weighs in at 20 or so pages and it does not seem an exaggeration to say that the entire brand, the company, and just about everything on the front label hang in the balance. Also, Tito had the immense benefit that he knew or certainly should have known this day would come around sooner or later. This should have been clear since the first references to "handmade." This should have been further clear upon the various inquiries about the term over the years, as described in the motion.
The motion starts pretty strong, asserting that plaintiff's complaint is so vague: "We do not know how many bottles they bought or how much they paid, because they do not tell us those facts. They do not claim there was anything wrong with the vodka they allegedly purchased, or that they did not like it for some reason. They do not claim they complained about it, tried to return it, or even notified anyone of their dissatisfaction … ." Then, "With so many details missing, Fifth Generation is not in a position to make a meaningful response to the Complaint (other than simply to deny the allegations). Nor is the Court in any position to assess whether all or any of the claims pass the plausibility standard. … Measured by those standards, the Complaint is woefully deficient and must be dismissed."
This may be a good start, but by page 3, the motion seems to go off the rails. It tries to say that the plaintiffs could not have been deceived, because a 2013 Forbes article had already suggested Tito was playing fast and loose with the truth. Tito's motion says:
In light of what Plaintiffs have pled – and in particular their reliance upon a widely-circulated 2013 Forbes magazine article – it is hard to see how they could plausibly claim they were misled by the label on Tito's Handmade Vodka for any purchases made after the article was published. Similarly, the number of times they purchased may raise plausibility concerns: If they enjoyed the taste of the product and thought it was a good value, did the label truly influence any but their first purchase? And, if the first time they ever tasted Tito's Handmade Vodka was at a party, at a restaurant, or in some other setting in which they decided they liked the taste before they ever saw the label, could the label plausibly be said to have influenced even their first purchase? Plaintiffs' skeletal allegations raise all of these questions and more, but answer none of them.
The defendants seem impressed with this point, breaking out the bolded italics.
Maybe I am missing something fundamental, but this seems absurd as any kind of defense, let alone a cornerstone of a defense. Does it really make sense to assume the plaintiffs would, should, or did get key information about the product from a magazine article — instead of the big, federally mandated, reviewed and approved label plastered on the front of the bottle? The Forbes article is interesting, relevant, and important — but is it really so epochal that everyone interested in vodka should be intimately familiar with it, from the moment of its publication? On the very same page, the motion makes clear in any event that "Plaintiffs never claim that they saw or read the article." The motion seems to be saying that even though the article is wrong, and low-quality, every yahoo from Texas to California to Florida should know all about it, from the moment of its publication. Perhaps Tito seeks to argue that the lead plaintiffs knew about the article before the purchases at issue, and that this should have caused them not to buy the vodka, or, at the very least, that it would make them not good representatives for the class.
Next, the motion veers over into shaking the pompoms, declaring Tito's to be "great tasting" and with a value proposition "true to its Austin, Texas roots." By page five, the motion tees it up beautifully, saying "Plaintiffs contend that Tito's Handmade Vodka cannot be 'handmade' because it is 'made from commercially manufactured neutral grain spirit that is trucked and pumped into Defendants' industrial facility.'" This would seem to be the heart of the matter. And so I move to the edge of my seat, waiting for Tito to hit this duly teed-up softball out of the park. And then I wait some more, as the softball seems to sit on the tee, without the benefit of even a swing or a miss, let alone a base hit. Immediately after raising this tantalizing question, the motion changes the subject toward an unilluminating primer on how vodka is normally made.
The defense is a bit too romantic when it explains how the "secret," "pre-Civil War" pot still methods somehow make the product handmade. And it moves in the other direction when it describes how Tito grasped a pen with his own hands to design the label: "The label on Tito's Handmade Vodka is also 'handmade' in its origins. The graphic of the old fashioned pot still was drawn by Tito Beveridge himself. He chose the fonts, the colors and the other elements of the label that communicate the consumers the essence of the brand."
Tito makes a stronger point by explaining that TTB inspected Tito's labels, plant and methods on many occasions, and still allowed the "handmade" claim. The defendants make quite a few other technical arguments and on some of those it's hard to know who is right. And yet I find myself still waiting for the defendants to simply assert, at long last, that they do not bring in tankers of commodity spirits mass produced with continuous stills, far from Texas or the hands of anyone in Austin. Looks like we will need to keep waiting.
Finally, for all those who wrote in and said the label claims don't matter and are only for nerds, please take another look at the label and web page depicted above. This is a screenshot of www.titosvodka.com as of January 4, 2015. I did not add any words or images but I did add a yellow tag near each of the most relevant spots; I emphasized the relevant portions and discarded a lot of the less relevant matter.
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Our Craft Boom Echoes all the way to France and Sweden
I have been hearing about Our Vodka for quite some time but have not had much chance to scope it out. Now that I found time, I thought there would be a lot more there there. I only see US approvals for two in this series so far, to cover Detroit, and Seattle, as above.
I start this post with a skeptical but open mind, willing to be persuaded that it's a good idea. My skepticism flows from how local can it be, with a company in France and another in Sweden, running the show? It also flows from, if this is really supposed to have some local pizzazz, could there be a worse way to capture its spirit, than from something boiled to and past the point of neutrality — as a matter of law, fact, and science?
The first article I happened upon seems to have readily concluded that it's a bad idea. The Stranger doth proclaim:
Pernod Ricard is the corporation that owns Absolut, as well as Chivas Regal, Jameson, Glenlivet, Malibu, Kahlua, Beefeater, and on and on and on. Its Our/[Insert City Here] local-lookalike marketing scheme was first rolled out in Berlin last year; it's now been installed in, or is imminent in, 11 cities around the world. … Holly Robinson, one of the co-founders of actually local Captive Spirits Distilling in Ballard, says: "I do believe they will ABSOLUTLY be eaten alive by the community. Seeing they are opening a few blocks away, we are hoping to use some of their dollars to lure more customers to the neighborhood to see our awesome Ballard breweries, distilleries, & such… this is their way to get their foot in the door to a [local] scene that they've [otherwise] dominated for decades."
There's already an Our/Detroit Vodka. Over at Deadline Detroit, Jeff Wattrick has done a fine job of documenting Pernod Ricard's especially disingenuous, icky marketing in Detroit, which manipulates that city's situation in especially disingenuous, icky ways…
Wattrick says:
Craft spirits are a welcome trend. As with craft beer and local wineries, there is something fun about being able to get a well-made drink and then talking with the people who made it about why it's so good. … Unfortunately, as with all things interesting and local, craft spirits have been co-opted. Consider "Our/Detroit" vodka. It's locally produced! It cares about the community! It's a project of the French distillery giant Pernod Ricard Group…wait what? Pernod Ricard, whose brands include Absolut, Jameson, and Seagram and whose annual revenues top $7 billion, is behind this faux-local vodka.
By this point, I am struggling to support this enterprise, or find somebody other than Our that has something nice to say. Let's see, I do give the companies credit for trying do something hard, new, different. It looks like Our has dialed things down a bit, because the first Detroit approval, in June 2014, had a big reference to "Local Vodka" on the front label. But by the time October and Seattle rolled around, this had morphed to "Our Vodka." At least Drink Spirits is sympathetic, saying:
There's no ignoring that Pernod Ricard has a problem on their hands with their major vodka product: Absolut Vodka went from being THE import vodka in the 1980s to being only one of a dizzying number of contenders in the vodka space in the 2000s. The result has been a single digit decline in sales for the past couple of years for a brand that once seemed unstoppable (and given the volume that Absolut has, just a couple of percentage points is a massive shift).
The Absolut Company is set to work with local distilleries around the world, using the same vodka formula, to create vodka using locally sourced ingredients. The theory is that even though the fundamental core of Our/Vodka is the same throughout, the flavor and character of each city's release will be unique because of the variance in flavor and character of local grain (or "locally purchased alcohol of regional descent") and water.
We have no illusions that Our Vodka will move the needle dramatically in either direction for Absolut and Pernod Ricard, but that doesn't seem to be the goal of it. Our/Vodka is the kind of cool and innovative thing you simply wouldn't expect to come out of a giant corporation, and it shows that even the giants understand just how important craft spirits have become. …[W]e expect there to be quite an uproar in the craft space from distillers and their faithful denouncing Our/Vodka as "anti-craft" which completely misses the point. If their aim was to simply have a hand in craft, they could just snap up the often rumored for sale Titos Vodka, which is as good a craft image as money can buy. Instead, they are working with small distilleries, local entrepreneurs (in Detroit, it's three women entrepreneurs. …
The vodka seems to raise some good and important business issues, and I am sure it makes a fine cocktail.
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The Tito's Lawsuit: When Approval is Not Approval
Tito's vodka was doing great for the past 15 years, then hit a gigantic speedbump this week in the form of a class action lawsuit.
Tito's therefore provides a good example of when an approval is not really an approval. Tito Beveridge has more than 30 TTB label approvals for his vodka from 1997 to 2013 (as in the above image, from LabelVision). They may not do him much good in this lawsuit, even though, in years past, most would assume the federal approval would be dispositive. It's a good thing most TTB approvals are not paper anymore because these would "not be worth the paper they are printed on."
Summary: in Hofmann v. Fifth Dimension, Inc., Gary Hofmann (a consumer) sued Tito's vodka on behalf of all Tito's customers in California, claiming that the company misleads people about whether the product is "handmade." The lawsuit was filed September 15, 2014 in San Diego county court. The federal government reviewed and approved the Tito's labels, but has no definition for the term at issue.
The classic case of an approval that is not really an approval would be your garden variety Napa Valley Chardonnay, Vintage 2010. TTB will take almost every one of those italicized words at face value. To the extent any one of those words is not true, your approval is not going to help you too much, in the event of an inquiry. Like an IRS tax return, the COLA (and any formula approval) is, to a surprisingly large degree, something of an honor system, stapled together with the penalty of perjury on every such document.
9/16/2014: Judge Eddie C. Sturgeon is assigned to handle the case.
9/23/2014: Tito's apparently put out a press release, sketching out a defense. I sure hope they have more. They took a jab at the plaintiff for botching the defendant's proper name, Fifth Generation, Inc. Shanken points out that the brand is at 1.3 million cases per year (that's a lot of hands!). Tito says "he will vigorously contest the lawsuit." Tito largely hangs his hat on the fact that TTB approved the labels.
9/25/2014: the plaintiff amended the defendant's name, from Fifth Dimension, Inc. to Fifth Generation, Inc. In so doing the plaintiff declared being ignorant of the company's true name, when filing the complaint on 9/15/2024. This is odd because the plaintiff used the correct name on the Affidavit of Venue filed the same day. Plaintiff did a good job covering this point, though, in the original complaint, by saying: "Plaintiff is ignorant of the true names and capacities of the defendants sued herein as DOES 1-100, inclusive; therefore, Plaintiff sues these defendants by such fictitious names. … Plaintiff will amend the complaint to allege their true names and capacities when ascertained."
9/30/2014: things just got much more serious for Tito, as the case ballooned into a nationwide class action suit. The amended complaint states: "This is a nationwide class action case brought on behalf of all purchasers of vodka ("Vodka") manufactured, distributed, marketed, and/or sold by FIFTH GENERATION, INC. dba Tito's Handmade Vodka (hereinafter "TITO'S")." Also boding ill, the original and amended complaints refer to Sidley Austin (suggesting that the small San Diego firm on the plaintiff side, may be working with a much bigger firm.) The same small law firm, in San Diego, just recently won hundreds of thousands of dollars in another labeling suit as described here in The Wall Street Journal.
10/3/2014: a copycat lawsuit filed in Florida on 10/25/2014, in federal court this time, under Florida law.
10/14/2014: and now another lawsuit, this time in Illinois.
10/21/2014: finally I was able to find a copy of Tito's response. I looked around but was not able to find the press release earlier.
10/27/2014: Tito has a full-throated defense of his vodka today. I think he is saying it is in fact substantially made in a pot still in Austin. In Wine & Spirits Daily he says, "I, Tito Beveridge, believe the pot still distillation process, like that of single malt scotches and French cognacs, is the cornerstone of craft spirits production, period." There are lots of other words in Tito's statement but I can't find much in it to suggest the degree or extent of this much-vaunted pot-/hand-/craft-production. Is it a fig-leaf kind of thing, or the main way the product is made? I see lots of other jazz about foreign companies, etc. but precious little new information about how this product is made, or anything important that makes it any more "handmade" than the next 500 vodkas.
11/10/2014: another lawsuit, this time New Jersey.
The Forbes article explains: "Tito's has exploded from a 16-gallon pot still in 1997 to a 26-acre operation that produced 850,000 cases last year, up 46% from 2011, pulling in an estimated $85 million in revenue." The article strongly suggests Tito is about to be a victim of his own success. You can say this post is a prime example of a lawyer taking something clear, like an affirmative, direct approval, and blurring it up to say it's not really an approval. That would not change the messy, complicated reality, that TTB is not the only sheriff in town. We have a "system" and though it may be cumbersome, it actually does work pretty well. TTB approves Palcohol. Fine. That's only one level. Then the private sector jumps in (i.e., us). This triggers the states, legislators, media, trade associations, on and on, to take action. TTB can't and probably does not need to "do it all." Customs jumps in on imports, states jump in on Santa and bitch issues, and now there is a clear right of private action in all such disputes. The floodgates are well open. A few weeks ago, in light of the Pom v. Coke decision, we predicted a flood of lawsuits around label claims. Some said "the sky is not falling." Well, the water is starting to rise pretty high. Tito is up to his waist. Templeton is up to its knees. Bass and Becks are up to their ankles. All from private action with no trace of governmental intervention. Skinny Girl got dunked a few years back and we will need to go back and look to see how much water she swallowed.
The Tito's lawsuit (Hofmann v. Fifth Dimension, Inc.) is here. Some juicy highlights are as follows (and on this page).
This is a class action case brought on behalf of all purchasers of all vodka ("Vodka") manufactured, distributed, marketed, and/or sold by FIFTH DIMENSION, INC. dba Tito's Handmade Vodka (hereinafter "TITO'S"). Through a fraudulent, unlawful, deceptive and unfair course of conduct, TITO'S, and DOES 1 through 100 (collectively "Defendants"), manufactured, marketed, and/or sold their "TITO'S HANDMADE" Vodka to the California general public with the false representation that the Vodka was "handmade" when, in actuality, the Vodka is made via a highly-mechanized process that is devoid of human hands. There is simply nothing "handmade" about the Vodka, under any definition of the term,1 because the Vodka is: (1) made from commercially manufactured "neutral grain spirit" ("NGS") that is trucked and pumped into TITO's industrial facility; (2) distilled in a large industrial complex with modern, technologically advanced stills; and (3) produced and bottled in extremely large quantities (i.e., it is "mass produced").
The plaintiffs are asking for all the money, plus attorney fees, punitive damages, interest, costs, and taxes: "all monies acquired by means of Defendants' unfair competition."
Right about now, every beer, wine and spirits company should be re-examining their labels, new and old, approved and prospective, and making sure every part is on firm ground. If you lack TTB approval it may hurt you a lot, but if you have it, it may not be sufficient to save you.
* A small disclaimer is, I have no idea about the underlying facts here. I am evaluating this from my couch, based on TTB approvals, public records, the plaintiff's allegations, and the press. We look forward to presenting Tito's side of the story, when it comes out.
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Holocaust Diary of Polish Teenager Unveiled 60 Years Later
The diary of a 14-year-old Jewish girl, dubbed the Polish Anne Frank, unveiled yesterday by Israel's Holocaust museum more than 60 years after the teenager wrote it, vividly describes the world crumbling around her as she came of age in a Jewish ghetto.
"The rope around us is getting tighter and tighter," Rutka Laskier wrote in 1943 shortly before she was deported to Auschwitz. "I'm turning into an animal waiting to die."
Within a few months Rutka did die and, it seemed, so did her diary. But last year, a Polish friend who had safeguarded the notebook finally came forth, exposing a riveting historical document.
Rutka's Notebook is both a daily account of the horrors of the Holocaust in Bedzin, Poland, and a scrapbook detailing the life of a typical teenager in extraordinary circumstances. The 60-page memoir includes innocent adolescent banter, concerns and first loves - combined with a cold analysis of the fate of European Jewry.
"I simply can't believe that one day I will be allowed to leave this house without the yellow star. Or even that this war will end one day. If this happens I will probably lose my mind from joy," she wrote on Feb. 5, 1943. "The little faith I used to have has been completely shattered. If God existed, He would have certainly not permitted that human beings be thrown alive into furnaces, and the heads( of little toddlers be smashed with butt of guns or be shoved into sacks and gassed to death."
The following day she opened her entry with a heated description of her hatred toward her Nazi tormentors, but then, in an effortless transition, she speaks about her crush on a boy named Janek and the anticipation of a first kiss.
In addition to chronicling her life in the diary, between January-April 1943, Rutka also shared it with her friend Stanislawa Sapinska. The two met after Rutka's family moved into a home owned by Sapinska's family. Sapinska randomly came to inspect the home and the young girls - one Jewish, one Christian - formed a deep bond.
When Rutka feared that she would not survive, she told her friend about the diary. Sapinska offered to hide it in the basement under the floorboards. After the war, she returned to reclaim it.
She wanted me to save the diary, Sapinska, now in her late 80s, recalled Monday. She said "I don't know if I will survive, but I want the diary to live on, so that everyone will know what happened to the Jews."
Yet, Sapinska stashed the diary away in her home library for more than 60 years. She said it was a precious memento and thought it to be too private to share with others. Only at the behest of her young nephew did she agree to hand it over last year. "He convinced me that it was an important historical artifact," she said in Polish.
Rutka's father, Yaakov, was the family's only survivor. He died in 1986. But unlike the Anne Frank's father, he kept his painful past inside. After the war, he moved to Israel, where he started a new family. His Israeli daughter, Zahava Sherz, said her father never spoke of his other children, and the diary introduced her to the long-lost family she never knew.
"I was struck by this deep connection to Rutka," said Sherz, 57. "I was an only child, and now I suddenly have an older sister. This black hole was suddenly filled, and I immediately fell in love with her." Rutka's last entry is dated April 24, 1943. In August, she and her family were shipped to Auschwitz. She is believed to have been murdered upon arrival.
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when was the last time you puked from drinking?
last night I drank daiquiries (sp). I got home (I had a dd) and proceeded to Ralph my brains out. ugh. I haven't puked from drinking in a long time. in fact I can count two times in the last ten years it's happened including last night.
here's to hating life today. lol
a few weeks before I found out I was pregnant.LOL
over 30 yrs ago. I quit drinking when i turned 21. It just wasn't as much fun when I was legal!
I'll never drink those again. the thought makes me queasy..
Quoting HandMmom12:
24 years ago....Southern Comfort and Mad Dog 20/20
One time ever in 20 years of drinking. This May. Margaritas are a bitch to me. I can drink vodka or schnapps all night long, but one small glass of margarita had me on the floor and a second small glass made me pass out and I rode the porcelain bus for the entire next day.


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"As individual business units, SAFC and BioReliance have each built industry leading offerings and positive reputations. As an integrated business unit, we see great value in the fact that we can coordinate strengths to provide a comprehensive solution to our customers," said Gilles Cottier , President of SAFC. "In order to ensure we maximize this value at the customer level, we needed to appoint someone who not only understands SAFC and BioReliance but, more importantly, someone who is intimate with the customers and their requirements. We are fortunate enough to have that in Archie. This is a great opportunity to drive customer value and shareholder value with Archie as the leader of the business."
Cullen's career includes a broad range of global experience in the biopharma sector, including time with Life Technologies and JRH Biosciences. Following the acquisition in 2005 by Sigma-Aldrich, Cullen became Vice President of Commercial and Technical Operations for SAFC's biosciences business unit where he was responsible for the organization's global sales, marketing, research and development functions. In 2009, he was promoted to Vice President of Sales for SAFC where he headed up strategic accounts globally. Cullen holds a Bachelor's of Science degree from the University of Glasgow and a Master of Business of Administration degree from Open University.
"While we are excited about the appointment of Archie, I would also like to recognize and thank Charlie Harwood on behalf of all of us here at Sigma-Aldrich. Under his guidance BioReliance established a clear leadership position in providing critical services to the Biopharma industry. Over the past year he has expertly undertaken the significant transition of the BioReliance team into SAFC. We wish him well," concluded Cottier.
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ASIA/INDIA - Archbishop Menamparampil: " Persecuted? Beware of false martyrdom and proselytism"
Guwahati (Agenzia Fides) - "If we are persecuted because of our carelessness , institutional arrogance, lack of cultural integration, we should not consider ourselves martyrs ": is what is stated in a note sent to Fides by His Exc. Mgr. Thomas Menamparampil, Archbishop Emeritus of Guwahati and still in charge of the Office for Evangelization in the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences (FABC). In the text that the Archbishop shared with Fides, reference is made to the Indian context and other areas of Asia, where Christians face persecutions, on the day when the Holy See issues the Pope's Apostolic Exhortation "Evangelii Gaudium".
The text sent to Fides says: "No doubt there may be opposition, but it is not against Jesus or his message, but against the negative impression developed towards Christians, that is, towards those who are associated with the message". The Archbishop's affirmation - who recently received an Honorary Doctorate in "Missiology" from the Urbaniana University in Rome - calls into question the work of Christian communities, often linked to Pentacostalism but also to movements present in the Catholic Church, which promote a "mission style" often mistaken for "proselytism". Evangelization is another thing compared to proselytism - that even Pope Francis defined "a solemn nonsense". All this does not mean "dampen the missionary zeal": the Archbishop launches an appeal for "the revival of missionary enthusiasm", stressing "the need to share the Good News with great self-confidence". However, this is only possible "through building good relationships and removing prejudices", he notes. "The Christian message - he says - can be communicated in its true meaning only if it reveals the 'human face' of Christ".
St. Paul – the Archbishop recalls - proclaimed the Good News to new communities, liaising with them "with great respect": "He was sensitive to the cultural and ethnic heritage of every people. The apostle always began by making the concerns and anxieties of the people his, and making his preaching understandable through the use of their categories, adapting to their world view and to mentality of the place". Therefore, "there is a special pedagogy in the transmission of faith beyond one's own culture", explains Mgr. Menamparampil.
In decades of pastoral service in the troubled northeastern region of India, for example - where the Archbishop sponsored several peace negotiations between the local people - "the work of reducing mutual anger and conflicts of class, caste, ethnicity, religious groups, has become central to our missionary service, in order to build peace and reconciliation". (PA) (Agenzia Fides 26/11/2013)
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Gold Sellers in Houston Must Submit to Fingerprints and Mugshots
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Instead of reducing crime, the new law will instead put a damper on the sale of gold, silver and other precious metals
Last week the Houston City Council passed an ordinance requiring people who sell precious metals to be fingerprinted and photographed.
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, the ordinance is "meant to help track down criminals who try to resell stolen valuables. Gold-buying businesses will now be required to photograph and fingerprint sellers as well as photograph the items that are being sold to the dealer." In other words, citizens who sell gold will be considered criminals until they demonstrate otherwise.
"It's going to allow us the tools necessary to combat a lot of the high-end jewelry thefts that's going on in the city, whether it's robberies or burglaries," Houston Police Officer Rick Barajas told the news station last Wednesday.
Audi S8s, Shelby Mustangs, BMW M5s, Dodge Chargers and Honda S2000 roadsters are
stolen thousands of times a year
and yet people who own them are not required by government to be fingerprinted and photographed in order to sell their cars. Ditto folks who sell expensive items at pawn shops or on eBay. Can you imagine the chaos in commerce that would occur if every item over say $1,000 required the seller to surrender fingerprints and photographs -- more accurately, mugshots -- which the buyer would be obliged under penalty of law to submit to the state within 48 hours?
"No precious metals thief is going to agree to a mug-shot and thumbprint," said Houston City Council Member Helena Brown in response to the law. "That's like declaring that the thieves are going to be turning themselves in. It's ludicrous. I don't know who told HPD that this is going to help them. It's not going to help anyone, but rather it will be damaging to an industry and to our self-respect and liberty."
Instead of reducing crime, the new law will instead put a damper on the sale of gold, silver and other precious metals.
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Finally, it is hardly a secret that government hates the idea of citizens trading in gold and other precious metals. In 2009, the
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"The modern and oppressive State is against freedom. The argument regarding gold versus fiat money has been settled both theoretically and empirically," writes
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. "The good fight fought against fiat currency is a long and lonely one. This fight will not be won by intellectual persuasion, but will be determined by the brute forces of the markets the State believes it can control. A currency collapse is likely inevitable. That will expose the fraud and corruption of the current fiat currency regime. Even when that occurs, the elites will do whatever they can to avoid an honest money system."
"The defamation of gold wrought by central banks and governments is because gold exposes the devaluation of fiat currencies and the flawed policies of government. Governments hate gold because the people cannot be fooled by it," writes
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. "If the government persists in debasing the Dollar -- as money monopolists have always done -- then the people would be able to protect themselves by using alternatives such as gold that are both sound and stable."
The City of Houston and its police, however, are not colluding with the Federal Reserve in an effort to control the sale of precious metals. The police are reacting as police always do -- as gold and precious metals rise in value, it is quite natural that there is an increase in theft and fraud, a situation police react to quite naturally by demanding authoritarian laws that inevitably create a new class of criminals requiring more police and more prisons.
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I live in Harris Coutny (the county in which Houston is located), thanks for the warning. I will be sure to buy and sell my physical silver and gold elsewhere.
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Jawohl, mein Fuhrer! Mein fingerprints for the Fatherland!! (clicks boots)
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"Right? Wrong? Ethical?"
Being an ethical leader sometimes means having to take actions that are inconvenient and unpopular, but an ethical leader is always one who sees the interconnectedness of individuals, cultures, experiences and passions by implementing multidisciplinary solutions to address complex problems. An ethical leader thinks outside of the box, and relies on others to obtain different perspectives and solutions by trusting and empowering them.
In Do Cool Sh*t Miki Agrawal, this year's ISLC keynote speaker, writes, "…it's cool to care and be excited about ideas, it's cool to be proactive, it's cool to mess up, it's cool to work your ass off on something that is meaningful to you, and it's cool to keep trying when the odds are stacked against you."
Learn what it takes to create your own path to entrepreneurship, find fulfillment and above all to become an ethical leader.
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As a Deutsche Bank alum, former professional soccer player as well as serial entrepreneur, Miki Agrawal has been hailed by many publications and thinkers as one of the foremost millenials creating global shift on the business and social front with her dynamic combination of energy, hutzpah and international savoir-faire having lived abroad, traveled extensively and herself being French-Canadian of Japanese-Indian descent.
At age 26, Agrawal opened the acclaimed farm-to-table pizza restaurant WILD (formerly known as SLICE PERFECT) in New York City. She has since partnered with Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh to open the restaurant concept in Las Vegas; other locations and franchises are in the works. Agrawal works with local farms and suppliers, helping support hundreds of local jobs.
She is also a partner in her twin sister's multi-media company Super Sprowtz, which focuses on nutrition and wellness education for children through story, songs, and play. Recently, the Super Sprowtz vegetable puppets performed at the White House, opening for President Obama.
Agrawal's latest undertaking is THINX, a women's empowerment apparel company that provides a sustainable underwear solution for women to wear during their "time of the month" and beyond. The organization has teamed up with AFRIpads, an organization in Uganda, to fund seven reusable cloth pads for every pair of THINX underwear sold; its mission is to get millions of women around the world back in school. THINX recently won the Daily Grommet Challenge and was nominated for Good Housekeeping's 2014 Very Innovative Product (VIP) Award.
Miki Agrawal received the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival's Disruptive Innovation Award. She has spoken at TEDx, the United Nations, Cornell Entrepreneurship Conference, Sustainability Summit, Women's Collaborative, and Google.
Her book Do Cool Sh*t "liberates readers from conventional thinking and restrictions, freeing them to pursue their passions and make a living at the same time" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Agrawal has been featured prominently in the media, including on ABC, in The New York Times, and even the United Nations. She is an active member of top change-maker organizations such as Forbes Women, Tribeca Film Festival, and Nexus Summit.
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Salorne McDonald has agreed to serve as advisor to the ISLC Committee, and as the moderator of the Conference. Many of you remember Salorne as the 2006 keynote speaker from Trinidad and Tobago who was kind enough to return in 2007 to lead Friday night activities and a workshop. With Salorne acting as advisor and moderator, we anticipate increased conference cohesion and energy.
Salorne was born in the rural eastern part of the twin island republic of Trinidad and Tobago. During his formative years Salorne was involved in youth clubs, debating competitions, and school student councils, which provided rich training for his current work, and helped to develop his gift of gab. Ardent work with the youth of his own nation and others around the world has given him an uncommon understanding of the life and development issues that young people face globally. Becoming involved in HIV and AIDS peer education sparked a special passion with Salorne, whose current position is the Regional Behavior Change Communication Manager with PSI/SFH in Trinidad. Salorne also works with the local YMCA and Trinidad Youth Council, providing education and leadership training to youth in his nation and abroad. A specialist in working with particularly vulnerable populations, he continues to aid in policy development as well as project planning and execution.


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The ceremony commemorating "50 Years of the Queen's Lecture" took place on June 24, 2015 and was attended by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. The lecture was held by Neil MacGregor, director of the British Museum in London and founding director of the Berlin Humboldt Forum. The guests of honor included German Federal President Joachim Gauck, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Michael Müller, Governing Mayor of Berlin. more to: Impressions from the Queen's visit
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Council of Canadians chairperson Maude Barlow has signed on to a statement seeking to keep fossil fuels in the ground.
Specifically, the statement says, "On the eve of the UN Climate Conference to be held in Paris-Le Bourget, we declare our determination to keep fossil fuels in the ground. This is the only way forward. Concretely, governments have to end subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, and to freeze fossil fuel extraction by leaving untouched 80% of all existing fossil fuel reserves."
Canada, the United States, Mexico and nine other countries – together representing more than 40 per cent of the global economy – announced the conclusion of negotiations on the massive Trans-Pacific Partnership 'free trade' deal this morning. What's in that agreement and why should we be concerned?
Council of Canadians chairperson Maude Barlow introduced Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis at the Mayfair Theatre in Ottawa this evening just prior to a special screening of their new film 'This Changes Everything'.
By Maude Barlow and Andrea Harden-Donahue. Published in Huffington Post, October 4, 2015
"What would induce anyone at this stage to hold on to power only to be remembered for their inability to take action when it was urgent and necessary to do so?"
Pope Francis' compelling appeal for bold leadership to act on climate change could not be further from the current Canadian political landscape.
Federal leadership on climate change has been absent so long it has become normalized. The irony of Liberal and NDP leaders chiding Harper for failing to see a oil sands pipeline project to fruition barely elicited a critical response from mainstream media. Projects like Kinder Morgan's planned expansion and TransCanada's Energy East would make meeting even our underwhelming targets for reducing climate pollution near impossible. And the few voices that dared to suggest that the tar sands were better off staying in the ground were pilloried.


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So long as it is done properly and lawfully, wielding force is a profoundly moral exercise. It requires a moral compass to weigh the importance of the goal to be achieved and the nature of the enemy to be confronted. Moral relativists don't go to war, and it is pacifists who often make excuses for international aggressors and thugs.
It is no accident that Sen. John McCain, who felt absolutely no compunction about the United States ridding the world of Saddam's sons, also spoke most passionately about their hideous crimes, calling them "two psychotic murdering rapists." He added, "America and, most importantly, the Iraqi people are far better off with these two guys gone, and their father should be next."
How impolite. What McCain realizes is that some people aren't "misunderstood." They aren't the product of unfortunate circumstances or bad parenting. They are simply evil. There is no negotiating or reasoning with them, and force becomes the only option in protecting the world from their depredations. Thus the war on al-Qaida and Saddam's regime, and our willingness to kill, if necessary, the people responsible for both.
President Teddy Roosevelt had a famously tart reaction in 1904 when a bandit chieftain (Ahmed ben Mohammed el Raisuli) took an American (Ion Perdicaris) hostage in Morocco: "Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead." Perdicaris was freed. The spirit of T.R.'s blunt demand still lives on in America, even in the early 21st century. We have the pictures to prove it.
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BISHER: Game of the Century, huh?
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This is not the issue of Sports Illustrated I look forward to. (Nor is the swimsuit thing, which covers all the interesting parts.) It is, however, nearer to my heart than any of them, and at the same time, the most tearful one. This is the SI that says its farewell to so many athletes, coaches, men who ran the games, and men and women who left their marks on their sport.
BISHER: Feller more than just a Hall of Fame pitcher
Bob Feller died Wednesday night about 9:15, and the United States lost a kind of citizen hard to find these days. He was a helluva pitcher, and has a plaque in the Hall of Fame at Cooperstown to prove it.
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I've seen this recipe in several places around the net, so not sure who the genius was behind this wonderful McDonald's copycat, but these chicken nuggets are a new favorite. The best part is knowing exactly what's in these little chicken goodies and knowing there aren't any preservatives or mystery ingredients either. To give you an idea of how these taste, my husband came in and grabbed one off the plate.
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The New Financial Deal
Understanding the Dodd-Frank Act and Its (Unintended) Consequences
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moreThe good, the bad, and the scary of Washington's attempt to reform Wall Street
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is Washington's response to America's call for a new regulatory framework for the twenty-first century.
In The New Financial Deal, author David Skeel offers an in-depth look at the new financial reforms and questions whether they will bring more effective regulation of contemporary finance or simply cement the partnership between government and the largest banks.
- Details the goals of the legislation, and reveals that how they are handled could dangerously distort American finance, making it more politically charged, less vibrant, and further removed from basic rule of law principles
- Provides an inside account of the legislative process
- Outlines the key components of the new law
To understand what American financial life is likely to look like in five, ten, or twenty years, and how regulators will respond to the next crisis, we need to understand Dodd-Frank. The New Financial Deal provides that understanding, breaking down both what Dodd-Frank says and what it all means.less
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