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Standard Whois output is set to get slimmed down further under newly published policy proposals.
The community working group looking at post-GDPR Whois has decided that the Admin Contact is no longer necessary, so it's likely to get scrapped next year.
This is among several recommendations of the Expedited Policy Development Process working group on Whois, which published its initial report for public comment late Wednesday.
As expected, the report stops short of addressing the key question of how third-parties such as intellectual property interests, domain investors, security researchers and the media could get streamlined access to private Whois data.
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The work is designed to replace the current Temporary Specification, a Band-Aid imposed by the ICANN board of directors, which is due to expire next May.
The EPDP initial report proposes a few significant changes to what data is collected and publicly displayed by the Whois system.
The most notable change is the complete elimination of the Admin Contact fields.
Currently, Whois contains contact information for the registrant, admin contact and technical contact. It's often the same data replicated across all three records, and under the Temp Spec the large majority of the data is redacted.
Under the EPDP's proposal, the Admin Contact is superfluous and should be abandoned altogether. Not only would it not be displayed, but registrars would not even collect the data.
The Tech Contact is also getting a haircut. Registrars would now only be able to collect name, phone and email address, and it would be optional for the registrant whether to provide this data at all. In any event, all three fields would be redacted from public Whois output.
For the registrant, all contact information except state/province and country would be redacted.
There's no agreement yet on whether the optional "organization" field would be redacted, but the group has agreed that registrars should provide better guidance to registrants about whether they need to provide that data.
While data on legal persons such as companies is not protected by GDPR, some fear that natural person registrants may just naively type their own name into that box when registering a name, inadvertently revealing their identities to the public.
Those providing Whois output would be obliged, as they are under the Temp Spec, to publish an anonymized email address or web-based contact form to allow users to contact registrants without personal information being disclosed.
That German lawsuit
The recommendation to slash what data is collected could have an impact on ICANN's lawsuit against Tucows' German subsidiary, EPAG.
ICANN is suing EPAG after the registrar decided that collecting admin and tech contact info was not compliant with GPDR. It's been looking, unsuccessfully, for a ruling forcing the company to carry on collecting this data.
Tucows is of the view that if the admin and tech contacts are third parties to the registration agreement, it has no right to collect data about them under the GDPR.
If ICANN's own community policy development process is siding with Tucows, this could guide ICANN's future legal strategy, but not, it appears, until it becomes firm consensus policy.
I asked ICANN general counsel John Jeffrey about whether the EPDP's work could affect the lawsuit during an interview October 5, shortly after it became clear that the admin/tech contact days might be numbered.
"Maybe," he said. "If it becomes part of the policy we'll have to assess that. Until there's a new policy though, what we're working with is the Temp Spec. The Temp Spec we believe is enforceable, we believe have the legal support for that, and we'll continue down that path."
(It might be worth noting that Thomas Rickert, whose law firm represents EPAG in this case, is on the EPDP working group in his capacity of head of domains for German trade group eco. He is, of course, just one of the 31 EPDP members developing these recommendations at any given time.)
IP wheel-spinning
The main reason it's taken the EPDP so long to reach the initial report stage — the report was originally due during the ICANN 63 Barcelona meeting a month ago — has been the incessant bickering between those advocating for, and opposing, the rights of intellectual property interests to access private Whois data.
EPDP members from the IP Constituency and Business Constituency have been attempting to future-proof the work by getting as many references to IP issues inserted into the recommendations as they can, before the group has turned its attention to addressing them specifically.
But they've been opposed every step of the way by the Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group, which is concerned the IP lobby is trying to policy its way around GDPR as it relates to Whois.
Many hours have been consumed by these often-heated debates.
My feeling is that the NCSG has been generally winning, but probably mainly because the working group's charter forbade discussion about access until other issues had been addressed.
As it stands today, the initial report contains this language in Recommendation #2:
Per the EPDP Team Charter, the EPDP Team is committed to considering a system for Standardized Access to non-public Registration Data once the gating questions in the charter have been answered. This will include addressing questions such as:
• What are the legitimate purposes for third parties to access registration data?
• What are the eligibility criteria for access to non-public Registration data?
• Do those parties/groups consist of different types of third-party requestors?
• What data elements should each user/party have access to?
In this context, amongst others, disclosure in the course of intellectual property infringement and DNS abuse cases will be considered
This is basically a placeholder to assure the IP crowd that their wishes are still on the table for future debate — which I don't think was ever in any doubt — but even this basic recommendation took hours to agree to.
The EPDP's final report is due February 1, so it has just 70 days to discuss this hypothetical "Standardized Access" model. That's assuming it started talks today, which it hasn't.
It's just nine weeks if we assume not a lot is going to happen over the Christmas/New Year week (most of the working group come from countries that celebrate these holidays).
For context, it's taken the working group about 115 days just to get to the position it is in today.
Even if Standardized Access was the only issue being discussed — and it's not, the group is also simultaneously going to be considering the public comment on its initial report, for starters — this is an absurdly aggressive deadline.
I feel fairly confident in predicting that, come February 1, there will be no agreement on a Standardized Access framework, at least not one that would be close to implementable.
Have your say
All 22 recommendations, along with a long list of questions, have now been put out for public comment.
The working group is keen to point out that all comments should provide rationales, and consider whether what they're asking for would be GDPR-compliant, so comments along the lines of "Waaah! Whois should be open!" will likely be rapidly filed to the recycle bin.
It's a big ask, considering that most people have just a slim grasp of what GDPR compliance actually means.
Complicating matters, ICANN is testing out a new way to process public comments this time around.
Instead of sending comments in by email, which has been the norm for two decades, a nine-page Google form has been created. This is intended to make it easier to link comments to specific recommendations. There's also a Word version of the form that can be emailed.
Given the time constraints, it seems like an odd moment to be testing out new processes, but perhaps it will streamline things as hoped. We'll see.
No Verfügungsanspruch for ICANN in GDPR lawsuit
ICANN has lost its latest attempt to use the German courts to force Tucows to continue to collect Whois records the registrar thinks are unnecessary.
In an August 1 ruling, a translation of which (pdf) has been published by ICANN, the court ruled that no preliminary injunction (or "Verfügungsanspruch") was necessary, because ICANN has not shown it would suffer irreparable harm without one.
ICANN wants Tucows' German subsidiary EPAG to carry on collecting the Admin-C and Tech-C fields of Whois, even though the registrar thinks that would make it fall foul of Europe's new General Data Protection Regulation.
The organization has already had two adverse decisions at a lower court, and the appeals court's latest ruling does not change anything. The judge ruled:
The Applicant [ICANN] has already not demonstrated that a preliminary injunction is required in order to avoid substantial disadvantages. To the extent the Applicant submitted in its application that interim relief was necessary in order to avert irreparable harm by arguing that the data to be collected would otherwise be irretrievably lost, this is not convincing. The Defendant [EPAG] could at a later point collect this data from the respective domain holder by a simple inquiry, provided that an obligation in this regard should be established.
The court also declined to refer the case to the European Court of Justice, as ICANN had wanted, because nothing in the ruling required GDPR to be interpreted.
This a a blow, because the whole point of the lawsuit is for ICANN and registrars to get some clarity on what the hell GDPR actually requires when it comes to Whois.
ICANN said it is "considering its next steps, including possible additional filings before the German courts", noting that the "main proceedings" of the case are still ahead of it.
ICANN's GDPR lawsuit bounced up to appeals court
ICANN's lawsuit against Tucows' German subsidiary EPAG has been bounced up to a higher court in Cologne.
The suit seeks to force Tucows to continue to collect the Admin-C and Tech-C fields of the Whois spec, something which is required by the Registrar Accreditation Agreement but which Tucows argues would force it to breach the General Data Protection Regulation.
The court of first instance denied ICANN's application for an injunction.
ICANN then appealed, suggesting that the case should be referred to the European Court of Justice for a definitive answer.
Instead, the Bonn "Regional Court" has referred the case to the "Higher Regional Court" in Cologne. ICANN said the ECJ referral is still a possibility, however.
The lower court did not change its original ruling, but nor did it consider ICANN's new arguments, which will transfer to the higher court's attention, according to ICANN.
If you want a migraine to match mine, you can read an ICANN-provided English translation of the latest ruling here (pdf).
Euro-Whois advice still as clear as mud
European privacy chiefs have again weighed in to the ongoing debate about GDPR and Whois, offering another thin batch of vague advice to ICANN.
The European Data Protection Board, in its latest missive (pdf), fails to provide much of the granular "clarity" ICANN has been looking for, in my view.
It does offer a few pieces of specific guidance, but it seems to me that the general gist of the letter from EDPB chair Andrea Jelinek to ICANN CEO Goran Marby is basically: "You're on your own buddy."
If the question ICANN asked was "How can we comply with GDPR?" the answer, again, appears to be generally: "By complying with GDPR."
To make matters worse, Jelinek signs off with a note implying that the EDPB now thinks that it has given ICANN all the advice it needs to run off and create a GDPR-compliant accreditation system for legitimate access to private Whois data.
The EDPB is the body that replaced the Article 29 Working Party after GDPR came into effect in May. It's made up of the data protection authorities of all the EU member states.
On the accreditation discussion — which aims to give the likes of trademark owners and security researchers access to Whois data — the clearest piece of advice in the letter is arguably:
the personal data processed in the context of WHOIS can be made available to third parties who have a legitimate interest in having access to the data, provided that appropriate safeguards are in place to ensure that the disclosure is proportionate and limited to that which is necessary and the other requirements of GDPR are met, including the provision of clear information to data subjects.
That's a fairly straightforward statement that ICANN is fine to go ahead with the creation of an accreditation model for third parties, just as long as it's quite tightly regulated.
But like so much of its advice, it contains an unhelpful nested reference to GDPR compliance.
The letter goes on to say that logging Whois queries should be part of these controls, but that care should be taken not to tip off registrants being investigated by law enforcement.
But it makes no effort to answer Marby's questions (pdf) about who these legit third-parties might be and how ICANN might go about identifying them, which is probably the most important outstanding issue right now.
Jelinek also addresses ICANN's lawsuit against Tucows' German subsidiary EPAG, and I have to disagree with interpretations of its position published elsewhere.
The Register's Kieren McCarthy, my Chuckle Brother from another Chuckle Mother, reckons the EDPB has torpedoed the lawsuit by "stating clearly that it cannot force people to provide additional 'admin' and 'technical' contacts for a given domain name".
Under my reading, what it actually states is that registrants should be able to either use their own contact data, or anonymized contact information identifying a third party, in these records.
The EDPB clearly anticipates that admin and technical contacts can continue to exist, as long as they contain non-personal contact information such as "firstname.lastname@example.com", rather than "email@example.com".
That's considerably more in line with ICANN's position than that of Tucows, which wants to stop collecting that data altogether.
One area where EDPB does in fact shoot down ICANN's new Whois policy is when it comes to data retention.
The current ICANN contracts make registrars retain data for two years, but the EDPB notes that ICANN does not explain why or where that number comes from (I hear it was "pulled out of somebody's ass").
The EDPB says that ICANN needs to "re-evaluate the proposed data retention period of two years and to explicitly justify and document why it is necessary".
Finally, the EDPB weighs in on the issue of Whois records for "legal persons" (as opposed to "natural persons"). It turns out their Whois records are not immune to GDPR either.
If a company lists John Smith and firstname.lastname@example.com in its Whois records, that's personal data on Mr Smith and therefore falls under GDPR, the letter says.
That should provide a strong incentive for registries and registrars to stop publishing potentially personal fields, if they're still doing so.
In GDPR case, ICANN ready to fight Tucows to the bitter end
ICANN has appealed its recent court defeat as it attempts to force a Tucows subsidiary to carry on collecting full Whois data from customers.
The org said yesterday that it is taking its lawsuit against Germany-based EPAG to a higher court and has asked it to bounce the case up to the European Court of Justice, as the first test case of the new General Data Protection Regulation.
In its appeal, an English translation (pdf) of which has been published, ICANN argues that the Higher Regional Court of Cologne must provide an interpretation of GDPR in order to rule on its request for an injunction.
And if it does, ICANN says, then it is obliged by the GDPR itself to refer that question to the ECJ, Europe's highest judicial authority.
The case concerns Tucows' refusal to carry on collecting contact information about the administrative and technical contacts for each domain name it sells, which it is contractually obliged to do under ICANN's Whois policy.
These are the Admin-C and Tech-C fields that complement the registrant's own contact information, which Tucows is of course still collecting.
Tucows says that these extra fields are unnecessary, and that GDPR demands it minimize the amount of data it collects to only that which it strictly needs to execute the registration contact.
It also argues that, if the Admin-C and Tech-C are third parties, it has no business collecting any data on them at all.
According to Tucows legal filings, more than half of its 10 million domains have identical data for all three contacts, and in more than three quarters of cases the registrant and Admin-C are identical.
In its appeal, ICANN argues that the data is "crucial for the objectives of a secure domain name system, including but not limited to the legitimate purposes of consumer protection,
investigation of cybercrime, DNS abuse and intellectual property protection and law enforcement needs".
ICANN uses Tucows' own numbers against it, pointing out that if Tucow has 7.5 million domains with shared registrant and Admin-C data, it therefore has 2.5 million domains where the Admin-C is a different person or entity, proving the utility of these records.
It says that registrars must continue to collect the disputed data, at the very least if it has secured consent from the third parties named.
ICANN says that nothing in the Whois policy requires personal data to be collected on "natural persons" — Admin-C and Tech-C could quite easily be legal persons — therefore there is no direct clash with GDPR, which only covers natural persons.
Its appeal, in translation, reads: "the GDPR is irrelevant if no data about natural persons are collected. In this respect, the Defendant is contractually obliged to collect such data, and failure to do so violates its contract with the Applicant."
It goes on to argue that even if the registrant chooses to provide natural-person data, that's still perfectly fine as a "legitimate purpose" under GDPR.
ICANN was handed a blow last month after a Bonn-based court refused to give it an injunction obliging EPAG (and, by inference, all registrars) to continue collecting Admin-C and Tech-C.
The lower court had said that registrants would be able to continue to voluntarily provide Admin-C and Tech-C, but ICANN's appeal points out that this is not true as EPAG is no longer requesting or collecting this data.
In ICANN's estimation, the lower court declined to comment on the GDPR implications of its decision.
It says the appeals court, referred to in translation as the "Senate", cannot avoid interpreting GDPR if it has any hope of ruling on the injunction request.
Given the lack of GDPR case law — the regulation has only been in effect for a few weeks — ICANN reckons the German court is obliged by GDPR itself to kick the can up to the ECJ.
It says: "If the Senate is therefore convinced that the outcome of this procedure depends on the interpretation of certain provisions of the GDPR, the Senate must refer these possible questions to the ECJ for a preliminary ruling".
It adds that should a referral happen it should happen under the ECJ's "expedited" procedures.
An ECJ ruling has been in ICANN's sights for some time; late last year CEO Goran Marby was pointing out that a decision from the EU's top court would probably be the only way full legal clarity on GDPR's intersection with Whois could be obtained.
It should be pointed out of course that this case is limited to the data collection issue.
The far, far trickier issue of when this data should be released to people who believe they have a legitimate purpose to see it — think: trademark guys — isn't even up for discussion in the courts.
It will be, of course. Give it time.
All of ICANN's legal filings, in the original German and unofficial translation, can be found here.


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Seaweed collectives in Zanzibar tap into ancient feminist practice and offer a glimpse into the future of food
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On an early August morning in the village of Paje on the eastern shore of Zanzibar, an island 15 miles off the coast of Tanzania, women gathered on the beach, carrying sticks, plastic bags, and black leather purses. As tourists did sun salutations on the soft sand, the women waded into the ocean, their skirts floating like lilies on the water.
In front of them, rows of red and green bundles dotted the ocean, evoking winning lines in a game of Connect Four. The seaweed seedlings stretched as far as the eye could see. These women were there to harvest them.
Mwanaisha Makame, a seaweed farmer, stood knee-deep in the water, tending to her crop. The seaweed grows on thin raffia strings (tie-tie, in the local Kiswahili), attached to nylon ropes suspended between stakes, which are pegged to the ocean floor. Seaweed prefers white, clean sand, away from coral heads or other formations that attract algae-grazing fish. Like plants, seaweed relies on photosynthesis to grow, and can thrive in waters up to 16 feet deep. Unlike plants, the cellular structure of seaweed is flexible, and even while firmly attached to the strings, it will yield to the rhythms of the waves and tides.
The tides set the agenda of Makame's day. Starting at 4 a.m., a few hours before sunrise, she prays, cooks, and cleans. Then, for the two weeks a month when tides are low—during the new moon and full moon— she works on the beach, harvesting seaweed, repairing ropes that broke during storms, and removing stones, seagrass, and silt from her crop. Work continues until about 4 p.m., when the ocean comes rushing in, and Makame, who does not know how to swim, returns home. For six weeks, the length of each growth cycle, seaweed gathers on the strings, amassing weight and nutrients before it is harvested.
As lunar cycles structure seaweed growth cycles, so has seaweed shaped the stages of Makame's life: Profits from farming helped her gain financial independence and sent her 22-year-old daughter to college. In Zanzibar's conservative Islamic society, married women are traditionally confined to their homes, and to domestic labor. Seaweed farming, and the additional income it brings in—up to 1,125,745 shillings (around $500) per year, compared to an average annual income of 1,263,100 shillings ($561)—have disrupted traditional gender roles. At the beach, women can work freely, earning money they spend at their discretion. "The fast money that I got from seaweed planting I used to build my own house," Makame said. Before her daughter went to college, they would work together on the farm.
In this coastal village, life is cyclical. Steady demand for seaweed has kept more women in control of their incomes. But recent changes brought on by global warming have disrupted these routines.
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In Zanzibar, seaweed is a women's business: The industry employs 26,000 farmers, about 80 percent of whom are female. Farmers started growing seaweed commercially here in 1989, after two strains were imported from the Philippines. (In Asia, seaweed production has been big business for centuries.) Globally, seaweed yields a $6.4-billion profit. China is the world's largest producer, followed by Indonesia and the Philippines. In Zanzibar, seaweed is the third-largest industry after tourism and cloves, bringing in about $2.4 million annually. Each year, about 11,000 tons of seaweed are exported from Zanzibar to Denmark, France, Spain, and the United States to produce carrageenan, an additive that thickens, gels, and stabilizes products like toothpaste, soap, and cosmetics. Carrageenan is also commonly used in foods, including processed meals, yogurt, and smoothies. Thanks to McDonald's, Kraft, and Starbucks, millions of people eat seaweed every day without realizing it.
By 2050, the world will need about twice as much food to feed an estimated 9.6 billion people, according to a 2016 World Bank report. Producing a total of 500 million tons of seaweed for consumption per year—about 14 percent more than current levels—would add 10 percent to the global food supply over the next three decades. This could be done by cultivating just 0.03 percent of the oceans' total surface area. And in the long arc of human history, eating seaweed may be a return to form. Last March, scientists in India suggested that red algae may be the oldest form of eukaryotic life on earth, and subsequently, the oldest food known to humans. Seaweed may also have guided humans on one of their most significant migrations in history. For much of the 20th century, archaeologists held that early peoples crossed the Bering Strait by walking across an ice corridor between what are now Russia and Alaska. This hypothesis was gradually overtaken by the Coastal Migration Theory, positing that settlers from Asia traveling by boat colonized the Americas via the Pacific, relying on Pacific Rim seaweed for sustenance. In other words, these voyagers on the "kelp highway" likely followed a marine version of the paleo diet, writes anthropologist Kaori O'Connor in Seaweed, A Global History. To more recent generations, seaweed is a slimy, smelly, "famine food," foraged on the shores of Ireland during the Great Hunger of the 1840s.
There are other benefits to cultivating seaweed: It absorbs phosphorous and nitrogen from the atmosphere, it can be used as fertilizer, and its biomass can be turned into plastics, chemicals, and electricity. ExxonMobil, the largest U.S. oil company, has major investments in algae. Researchers at the University of Texas—the biggest collector of algae in the world, with 3,000 specimens—founded a startup, AlgEternal Technologies, which grows algae in 12-foot tubes in the hopes of one day extracting oil on a commercial scale. Although the technology is far from commercialization, in 2011, a U.S. passenger flight was the first to fly on a mix of algae biofuel and petroleum jet fuel.
There is just one problem, which Makame is now intimately familiar with. As climate change raises temperatures in both cold and warm waters, seaweed forests, the oldest ecosystems in the world, are slowly disappearing.
She shows me a bundle of Eucheuma denticulatum, the primary strain cultivated on the island. It's pink and shiny, like frosting on a cake in a brightly lit shop, but the tips of the thalli look bleached—a telltale sign of a disease called ice-ice, which in recent years started infecting crops.
"It will completely die," Makame says.
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During the hot season, between December and February, about 80 percent of Zanzibar's seaweed harvest is lost. While the ideal temperature for seaweed is between 77 and 88 degrees Fahrenheit, water temperatures in Zanzibar now far exceed that. Ice-ice, the disease responsible for the failed crops, proliferates more easily in warm waters, said Claire Gachon, a senior lecturer in phycology at the Scottish Association of Marine Science and a specialist in seaweed diseases. She likened the effects of climate change on seaweed to that of HIV on a person—it is rarely HIV itself, but rather opportunistic diseases that prove deadly. "The stress that their immune system is under makes them much more vulnerable," she said, by means of comparison. All around the world, climate change has been linked to strange seaweed phenomena: In China, algal blooms—noxious, runaway growths of algae linked to warmer waters—nearly prevented the 2008 Olympic sailing races when athletes' boats got caught in a thick, slimy mulch. And in California, large tracts of kelp forests have been lost to global warming over the past three years.
Flower Msuya, a senior researcher at the University of Dar es Salaam's Institute of Marine Sciences, has studied seaweed in Zanzibar for more than 30 years. She confirms that environmental conditions are changing for the worse: "In the early 1990s up to the early 2000s, when we were measuring the temperature of the seawater, temperatures did not exceed 88 degrees. Now, when we go to the same areas—the shallow water areas—it goes all the way up to 98, 100 degrees Fahrenheit." As a result, many villages have stopped growing cottonii (Kappaphycus alvarezii), a lucrative seaweed strain that produces particularly thick carrageenan. "Cottonii has the best price, but due to climate change we can no longer use it," Makame told me.
When I met Msuya, who goes by Flower, at her office in the Zanzibari capital of Stone Town, she lived up to her name: She was wearing a button-down shirt with a floral print and sipping coffee from a mug adorned with pink blossoms. Raised near Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa, Msuya's interest in botany was sparked by the fruit trees in her mother's garden. As a student at the University of Dar es Salaam in the 1980s she turned her focus downward, to seaweed. Since then, she has published more than 70 scholarly, policy, and conference papers on the organism, earning a reputation as the "mother" of the Zanzibari seaweed farmers. All over the island, she is credited with putting roofs over women's heads and enabling them to become more independent from their husbands. These advancements are often paid forward: Children ride to school on bicycles their mothers bought them, and fishermen have their wives to thank for boats purchased with seaweed profits.
In 2006, Msuya founded the Zanzibar Seaweed Cluster Initiative (ZaSCI), a network of academics, government officials, and farmers committed to improving the working conditions of seaweed farmers, in part by addressing the challenges posed by climate change. In July, she and Gachon were part of a group of scientists that received a $7.9 million grant from the U.K. government to develop disease-resistant seaweed strains that can withstand higher temperatures.
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In Zanzibar's seaweed industry, men control the equipment, while women do most of the work. The system is set up as a monopsony, in which one buyer per village controls the market and the means of production—seeds, sticks, and ropes—leaving little room for outside negotiation. The buyers, some of whom are foreigners, are always men; the farmers, all locals, primarily women. Zanzibari women haul about 1 ton of seaweed from the ocean per month, and 1 pound sells at 250 Tanzanian shilling ($0.10), or less, depending on the fluctuating market price of carrageenan. Yet, the workforce came to be mostly female for a dispiriting reason: Declining prices drove out most men, who cited too much effort for little reward: "Both men and women wanted to do the farming," said Msuya, "but with time, the men were like, 'Ah, wait, I have to plant, to harvest, to dry, and then how much do I make? $0.10 per pound?' They said no." To drag the harvest to the shore, and onto trucks to the capital, women sometimes employ carriers, whose wages further drive down profits. "It's very big work, very hard work, but small pay," Makame said. (For better or worse, pain relief comes cheap: At the end of a long day, seaweed can be ground, mixed with coconut oil, and massaged into the skin to soothe pain.)
To offset market pressures, Makame joined a women's cooperative, Furahia wanawake ("Enjoy, women!" in Kiswahili), which is a member of ZaSCI. The collective, founded in 1998, divides a share of its profits among its members. Some of the money is set aside so the women can purchase materials together, subverting the dominant buyers. There are 15 seaweed collec- tives in Zanzibar, about one per village. Only 28 of Paje's 500 seaweed farmers are members. Elsewhere, 1 to 5 percent of farmers are affiliated with cooperatives. Msuya hopes their numbers will grow, but they still face problems: In addition to the challenges of social conservatism, mass production and climate change have rendered ecosystems more vulnerable to disease and pushed out seaweed species native to Zanzibar. And as warmer temperatures continue to creep into shallow waters, women are forced to farm farther and farther offshore.
In a country where about half the population lives below the poverty line, some experts are skeptical about whether seaweed farming will make a difference. To really raise people out of poverty, according to the World Bank, you need more development. "If you really want to help poor people with seaweed, you can't just do it on a small scale," said Randall Brummett, a Washington, D.C.-based senior specialist of aquaculture and inland fisheries at the World Bank. "If you want to try and salvage these little communities, they need a much more robust economic basis."
To justify that basis—by which he means building a processing plant—farmers would need to scale up and produce more seaweed. But, he added, there are technological and logistical barriers to doing so in Zanzibar. "There's no more space close to shore—you can't move in front of the hotel that's up the way, and then there's a rich guy that's got a house on the other side. So you have to go out farther." Reaching cooler waters means doing "what the Indonesians do," Brummett said, "which is [use] floats and ropes from a suspending system." Indonesia's seaweed farms have certainly benefitted from this approach—they account for 27 percent of the global seaweed crop—yet Gachon, the seaweed disease specialist, warns that zeroing in on rapid industrialization means losing sight of the larger picture. Like many figures in the profession, she said, the World Bank "completely misses disease as an operational risk, and seems to focus on economic opportunities with little or no reference to environmental sustainability."
With Furahia wanawake, Msuya is taking a one-step-at-a-time approach toward adopting a more sustainable system. She is currently piloting a project involving tubular nets—structures that prevent seaweed from breaking during storms—that will allow the algae to grow in deeper waters. "If we concentrate on developing these technologies," she said, "then we are sure that the women will continue to farm seaweed."
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In Asia, seaweed has historically been associated with motherhood and female environmental stewardship. Kathleen Drew, a British phycologist famed for discovering the life cycle of Porphyra, a red algae, is honored as the "Mother of the Sea" at a shrine in Japan's Ariake Bay. (Her finding, published in Nature in 1949, led to the mass production of nori, the papery sheets used in sushi.) In South Korea, seaweed soup is traditionally given to new mothers after childbirth, a custom that originated after people saw whales—a symbol of longevity—eat the algae. In the West, meanwhile, misogyny lurks in the mythology around seaweed. Greek and Roman literature reflect a deep fear of the sea, which, teeming with female dangers—such as the Nereids, sea nymphs who wore seaweed skirts and seduced sailors into underwater caves—nearly prevented Odysseus from returning home. To ancient cultures that revered the land, seaweed evoked a fear of uncertainty and entanglement. "Algae" might derive from the Latin alliga, which translates as binding or entwining. This aversion was epitomized in Virgil, who once declared, "nothing is viler than seaweed."
In 19th-century England, kelp lapped against the shores in abundance—brown forests of seaweed fractured light like stained glass, drawing women to admire it. Spurred by the enthusiasm of Charles Darwin, who hailed "these great aquatic forests" as more diverse than tropical rainforests, seaweed found its way into the popular imagination. While botany, and science more generally, was a field then reserved for men, women's study of seaweed escaped social opprobrium, and they headed to the beach in unwieldy petticoats and surreptitious boots. English children's author and ardent seaweed collector Margaret Gatty praised the rush of strolling the beach alone, and in the seaside village of Ilfracombe, George Eliot's seaweed-collecting excursions led to similar exaltations, of which she wrote, "so necessary is it for the eye to be educated by objects as well as ideas." After seaweed mania ended in the 1890s, said Juliet Brodie, research leader of phycology at London's Natural History Museum, which preserved some of the Victorian seaweed herbaria, overzealous collecting had wiped out at least two species common to the area—Codium bursa, which looks like a green football, and Padina pavonica, known as peacock's tail, which is used in some luxury cosmetics. The episode offered a cautionary tale about what happens when humans disrupt seaweed ecosystems.
More than a century later, Msuya, Brodie, and Gachon, along with researchers in the U.K., Indonesia, and the Philippines, are poised to learn from those mistakes and carry on the legacy of women working with seaweed. With their $7.9 million grant, they hope to mitigate the risks of mass cultivation and train Zanzibari Ph.D. students in developing disease-resistant strains over the next four years. But perhaps the most striking aspect of their grant is that it acknowledges a role for seaweed on the international development aid agenda, which, "I think no one would have expected a year ago," Gachon said.
In addition to the World Bank report, the United Nations development goals for 2030 included an emphasis on sustainable food production, which has in turn heightened the focus on seaweed. In May, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden met to discuss the implementation of the U.N. agenda. The 2004 launch of the New Nordic Food Manifesto, a program designed to promote healthy foods, including seaweed, is expected to help the region reach the U.N. goals. At the meeting, Nordic leaders were offered a menu featuring seaweed, and at ongoing "seaweed events" across the region, celebrity chefs have offered tastings to curious passersby.
As the West warms to seaweed consumption, Zanzibari farmers are adapting to more immediate pressures. The path toward sustainability, Msuya and Brummett agree, is reaching cooler waters and producing locally. "What I see is Zanzibar having its own seaweed industry, instead of exporting raw materials. I see Zanzibar as an exporter of processed products," Msuya said. But before Zanzibari women take on cooler waters and invest in tubular nets, they needed Msuya to take care of one thing. So she secured government aid to get them swimming lessons. "We'll make sure they have life jackets when they work in the deep water, so that they will not be afraid if they fall from the boat," she said. "We want them to overcome this fear, otherwise the men will take over." "And that," Msuya added, "is not what we want."
Reporting for this story was supported by a grant from the International Women's Media Foundation.


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SOS Africa's Thato - An Architect in the Making
25 Jun 2013
Whilst drawing his "Dream House" for the SOS Africa Children's Blog, little did 7 year old Thato from Lonely Park Township, know that his sketch would not only be appreciated by people all over the World but would be admired and published by an architect!
A few days ago SOS Africa received an exciting email from David Scheer, an architect and Director of the architecture firm 'Scheer and Scheer Inc' based in Salt Lake City, Utah. David had been searching the internet for images which illustrate the qualities of drawing that are disappearing in design as the profession prioritises the use of digital tools. During his search he stumbled upon the SOS Africa Children's Blog and was so impressed by Thato's masterpiece that he asked if it could be included in his new book: "The Death of Drawing: Architecture in the Age of Simulation" to be published next year by Routledge:
"I chose Thato's drawing of his "dream house" for my book not only because the drawing itself is wonderful, but also because it shows ideas and images of home shared by people in every part of the world. The clear, simple geometry of the drawing's forms relates Thato's house to our human experience of space. The separate dwelling shows our desire for individual expression, while the large, red roof indicates the home's protective role. The smoking chimney represents the hearth, the traditional centre of family life. The fancifully colored tree is a marvelous symbol for the beauty of nature and our desire to live in harmony with it. Finally, in the background we see other houses, indicating our need for community. I'm profoundly moved to see all this in a child's drawing from a distant part of the world. For me, it is evidence of our common needs and desires as human beings, and gives me hope for a future in which we will live in the light of our shared humanity rather than our superficial differences."
Since starting the charity we have been in constant awe of the skills and talents of the SOS Africa Children. We are so excited to see them develop and discover these talents and realise their dreams. Who knows, at the age of only 6, Thato might already be showing signs of An architect in the making…
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worship at edges is not 'led from the front.' our aim is to minimize the separation between those leading and those in the community through group conversation and active participation.
we maintain an outward focus, and engage in practical means of contemplation and prayer. we seek to provide support to the community as they draw closer to God and to each other.
we take risks. we gather around subjects that may not normally be addressed in a church environment. we give ourselves permission to try new things, and celebrate new ideas as valid, hope-filled ways to learn about God and ourselves!
at edges, our communion bread is gluten free. we do that in the hope that we can all share in one loaf together.
conversations that matter aren't just for sunday mornings!
we believe that the work we do together in community will transform the way we live in the world, and that God's redemptive, connecting love can reach us in any moment of our lives. join a home group! it's the best way we know to commit to continuing the conversation!
on sunday morning, please feel free to write your prayer on one of the scrolls on your table, and place it into the prayer wall at the back of the room. teams gather every week to pray for and with your prayers.


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Title: Secondhand Spirits (Witchcraft Mystery #1)
Author: Juliet Blackwell
Publisher: Obsidian 2009
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Pages: 313
Rating: 4/5 stars
Reading Challenges: Mount TBR; What's in a Name -- Alliterative Title; New to Me
Lily Ivory feels that she can finally fit in somewhere and conceal her "witchiness" in San Francisco. It's there that she opens her vintage clothing shop, outfitting customers both spiritually and stylistically.
Just when things seem normal, a client is murdered and children start disappearing from the Bay Area. Lily has a good idea that some bad phantoms are behind it. Can she keep her identity secret, or will her witchy ways be forced out of the closet as she attempts to stop the phantom?
Such a great little cozy mystery! Bonus points for being set in San Francisco, my adoptive city across the bay. I loved diving into Lily Ivory's world of clothing, mystery, witches, romance, and goblins (or pigs). I sped through this book waiting impatiently to find out the mystery behind La Llorona, Frances Potts, and all the other fun characters. I loved the world building in this volume. Can't wait to pick up the next in the series!
Witchcraft Mystery
- #1 Secondhand Spirits
- #2 A Cast Off Coven
- #3 Hexes and Hemlines
- #4 In a Witch's Wardrobe
- #5 Tarnished and Torn
- #6 A Vision in Velvet
- #6.5 A Haunting is Brewing
- #7 Spellcasting in Silk
- #8 A Toxic Trousseau
- #9 A Magical Match
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Which Is Which? 24 January 2015 | Posted in Climate 101
Apparently people don't know if recycling goes to recycling, and if garbage goes to garbage. This time there are now statistics, or estimates, for Two Green Leaves sorted through "trash" and found twice as much recycling than trash all heading to the dumpster.
After this I went to my classroom and found four papers all blank, and all in the trash, not the recycling. People don't know the costs. They through it in whatever is closer, not which ever one is right. For some odd reason I have to discuss this, and for an even wierder reason I was asked to blog about it it was such a large issue. If you've seen this happen tell us, and tell us why?


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- 1.5 lb pork tenderloin
- 1/3 cup soy sauce
- 1/3 cup water
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1 tbsp ginger minced
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 1 tbsp sesame oil
- 2 tsp cornstarch
- green onions optional
- sesame seeds optional
- Combine soy sauce, water, honey, ginger, garlic, and sesame oil in the instant pot. Add in pork tenderloin, close lid, and seal. Cook on high pressure for 7 minutes, then allow the pressure to release naturally, about another 7 minutes.
- Remove pork, then turn instant pot to saute. Combine cornstarch with 2 tsp of water, mixing well, the pour into instant pot. Stir well and saute until thickened, about 2 minutes.
- Ladle thickened sauce over pork loin and top with green onions and sesame seeds. Serve over cooked rice or zoodles.
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HOLLENBERG, George Jacob
HOLLENBERG, George Jacob (1897-1988)[SS#570-16-3041], born in North Dakota, he became a leading phycologist in California and the Pacific Coast. He taught first at La Verne College near Los Angeles, then at the University of Redlands. In the 1950s Hollenberg taught at the Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University; he authored Marine Algae of California (1976). His career included describing nine genera in the California flora and naming six new genera in the central Pacific. Hollenberg married Naomi Lucille Harshbarger (1901-1985) in 1923, and they had four children:
- Delbert Hollenberg (1925-1983)
- Leland Hollenberg
- Donna Hollenberg
- Anne Hollenberg
Hollenberg died on December 3, 1988 in San Bernardino, California, two days before his 91st birthday.
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Band 8a Lead Biomedical Scientist-Biochemistry
We have a vacancy for the Lead Biomedical Scientist in the Biochemistry Department which is currently managed across 2 laboratories based at Queens Hospital Romford and King George Hospital Goodmayes run as one department.
This is a wonderful opportunity for an experienced biomedical scientist with good managerial skills to work with an excellent team providing an efficient and effective biochemistry service to 2 busy district general hospitals.
The ideal candidate will have appropriate qualifications, be registered with the Health and Care Professions Council as a BMS and a proven track record of effective Biochemistry management. Evidence of continual professional development (CPD) will be expected to be demonstrated at interview.
Both hospitals offer a pleasant working environment and are well served by several bus routes and mainline stations nearby.
Key requirements:
For any informal enquires please contact Paul Cockfield, Blood Sciences Manager, on 01708 435552 or email email@example.com
All new staff appointed to posts at the Trust are subject to a probationary period. This will give the new staff member an opportunity to become familiar with the culture and working environment of the Trust.
Applications should be made online, however, queries regarding the application process or assistance with completion of the form (for applicants with a disability) can be made to Nadeem Arif, Recruitment Advisor, on 01708 435000 ext. 2289. Further details regarding the post may be obtained by contacting the manager as per the contact details above.
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Keeping a diary or journal is an invaluable crutch for writers and indeed anyone who wants to keep track of their thoughts. Reading back over the diaries of my own youth (all marked "PRIVITE") yields such notable entries as a list of elf species I was in the process of discovering, and a rap about (an entirely fictional) scenario in which I found someone dead in the toilet of a cinema. I have of course come on in leaps and bounds since then, and my current journals are, naturally, a veritable treasure trove of deep insights and astounding observations, which can be published posthumously, after I have died very famous and admired.
Anyway, here are extracts from the diaries of some of the world's most beloved authors, from various times in their lives, that made me laugh. Enjoy.
1. Flannery O'Connor's grand statements are nothing short of inspiring. Here's the closing line of an entry she made at aged twenty-two:
Today I have proved myself a glutton—for Scotch oatmeal cookies and erotic thought. There is nothing left to say of me.
2. Peggy Hughes on Twitter discovered this genuinely hilarious comment from Leo Tolstoy:
25th January 1851 was a busy old day for Tolstoy ? pic.twitter.com/TZAeZ50Vu1
— ? Peggy Hughes ? (@HughesPeg) January 25, 2018
In a section of Jack Kerouac's diary in which he bemoans the capitalist machine, my favorite part of which I have helpfully bolded for you, he scathingly writes:
People rush off to meaningless jobs day after day, you see them coughing in the subways at dawn. They squander their souls on things like "rent," "decent clothes," "gas and electricity," "insurance," behaving like peasants who have just come out of the fields and are so dreadful tickled because they can buy baubles and doodads in stores.
3. I am obsessed with this entry from nine-year-old Ernest Hemingway in which he lists his favorite flowers and speaks of his affinity for trout fishing:
My name is Ernest Miller Hemingway I was born on July 21 1899. My favourite authors are Kipling, O. Henry and Steuart Edward White. My favourite flower is Lady Slipper and Tiger Lily. My favourite sports are Trout fishing, Hiking, shooting, football and boxing. My favourite studies are English, Zoology and Chemistry. I intend to travel and write.
Ernest loves tiger lilies and trout fishing. | Image Via The Ernest Hemingway Collection
4. Virginia Woolf perfectly captures the post-holiday blues in this diary excerpt from 1933:
But of all things coming home from a holiday is undoubtedly the most damned. Never was there aimlessness, such depression. Can't read, write or think. There's no climax here. Comfort yes: but the coffee's not so good as I expected. And my brain is extinct – literally hasn't the power to lift a pen. What one must do is to set it – my machine I mean – in the rails and give it a push… It occurs to me that this state, my depressed state, is the state in which most people usually are.
5. Sylvia Plath reminding herself not to write about the weather is also very relatable:
Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: After a heavy rainfall, poems titled RAIN pour in from across the nation.
6. This extract from the diary of Anaïs Nin isn't meant to be funny, but it's so ~intellectual~ that it made me laugh:
This diary is my kief, hashish, and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice. Instead of writing a novel, I lie back with this book and a pen, and dream, and indulge in refractions and defractions… I must relive my life in the dream. The dream is my only life. I see in the echoes and reverberations, the transfigurations which alone keep wonder pure.
All right, Anaïs.
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Drake only loves his bed, his mom, and keeping secrets.
After releasing a handful of singles, fans were wondering if Drake would be announcing a new album to house them or if they were one offs.
Earlier this week, fans were surprised when the "God's Plan" rapper posted a photo to Instagram with his back to the camera and a jacket emblazoned with the word "SCORPION" across his shoulders. It was followed by "June Twenty-Eighteen" and his name along the bottom.
The post was quickly followed by another post of Drake wearing scorpion themed jewelry nearly solidifying that that would be the name of his followup to his 2016 album Views and his 2017 mixtape More Life.
Thus far, the tracks from Scorpion have been nothing but successful. When the Canadian native released "God's Plan" back in January, it shattered streaming records. It shot to no. 1 immediately and broke the record for both single day streams and first week streams. The song had remained at no. 1 until it was dethroned…by another Drake single.
With the release of "Nice for What," Drake has become only the 13th artist to lose the no. 1 spot on the charts to his next single. However, he's the first artist to ever have two consecutive singles debut at no. 1, according to Complex.
But the success isn't only due to the fact that Drake seems to have universal appeal. The strategy he's employed for this album is also a contributing factor.
Each of the three singles have been released two months apart with gives each single the chance the succeed before he drops another one. Instead of dropping a handful at once or an entire surprise album, he's pacing himself and allowing fans to really soak in the eclectic tracks he's released thus far for Scorpion.
His strategy for avoiding over-saturating the charts is smart and will inevitably ensure Scorpion's success.
Though he said June 2018, there has yet to be a specific release date announced. Fans will need to stick by Salute for further updates.
Watch: Drake God's Plan


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"The accident occurred in the course of employment and must consequently be deemed to have arisen out of employment [and] reasonable compensation must therefore be paid to the complainant".
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The complaint is tardy and irreceivable. The complainant, recruited for one month, suffered an accident. "The [...] organization has offered, and maintained its offer in the course of the oral proceedings, to pay the complainant [a] sum [...] amounting to six weeks' salary in fulfillment of its obligations to the complainant. Notwithstanding the fact that the complaint is irreceivable [...], the Tribunal, [...] noting that such payment is offered to the complainant [by the organization], rejects the complaint."
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Key Documents
On 8 May 2018, the Government announced it will reform the Research and Development Tax Incentive (R&DTI) to better target the program and improve its integrity and fiscal affordability in response to the recommendations of the 2016 Review of the R&D Tax Incentive. These changes will apply for income years starting on or after 1 July 2018. The exposure draft legislation and associated explanatory materials outline the Government's proposed implementation of the reforms.
The Government welcomes stakeholder feedback on the exposure draft legislation and associated explanatory materials. In addition, an accompanying consultation paper outlines key areas where the Government requests specific feedback on the implementation of the reforms.
Please note that all submissions, including those that are confidential, will be assessed and shared with the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science, the Department of Health, the Australian Taxation Office and other Government agencies as required for the purposes of this consultation.