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67 comments:
- Anonymous said...
Has it been made cleared if the possible cuts of £60m are based on a 25% or 40% reduction of central funding?
The average reduction is said to be 28%, if officers based their calcutions on 40% then one third of the proposed efficiencies/savings/cuts are not required?
- 3 November 2010 at 11:56
- Osh said...
They've been campaigning at Brockley Station for the last couple of days. Greater Ladywell?
- 3 November 2010 at 12:09
- tyrwhitt ali said...
To be fair, Ladywell ward does extend to include Cresent Way and some bits of Tressillian Road, and from there, Brockley is definitely your closest station.
I thought campaigning at Lewisham DLR was a bit hopeful...
- 3 November 2010 at 12:57
- tyrwhitt ali said...
In fact, does anyone know where you can find the ward maps? I've tried Lewisham's website but can't find them.
- 3 November 2010 at 13:00
- Tyrwhitt Michael said...
Its on there just a bit diagramatic for easy referencing
I'm in Ladywell ward but I've not seen anyone canvassing at St Johns which is my nearest station.
A couple of party reps have been to the door on Sunday afternoons though.
- 3 November 2010 at 13:17
- Anonymous said...
A straight choice between a candidate who was low profile and unresponsive during his 2002-6 term as Councillor and, on the other hand, someone who worked hard and intelligently for Ladywell during her one term as Councillor up to May. This is a no-brainer.
- 3 November 2010 at 13:22
- Anonymous said...
I'm afraid My knowledge of this is all a bit sketchy. Please help. Is it genuinely a 2-horse race between Labour and the Greens? I want to keep Lethargic Labour out but I ha a lovely chat with Ingrid the other evening and was very impressed by her. There are more Lib Dems in the council to challenge self-serving Steve than just Darren and Ute for the Greens, but would a vote for Ingrid be a wasted vote?
- 3 November 2010 at 13:41
- darryl said...
You can find detailed maps of all council wards at this Ordnance Survey site.
Interesting that Ken's being wheeled out in Ladywell - presumably penance for him being a naughty boy by backing the other guy in Tower Hamlets the other week. Shame, though, since he needed the Greens on the London Assembly when he was in charge - and his agenda's probably closer to the Greens than it is Labour.
- 3 November 2010 at 13:47
- Anonymous said...
Have a look at the May 2010 figures and take your own decision - www.lewisham.gov.uk/CouncilAndDemocracy/DemocracyAndElections/Elections/LocalGovernment/Ladywell6May2010.htm
- 3 November 2010 at 13:47
- Nonpartisan said...
In of the interest of political diversity, which helps us all, Ladywell ward residents should either vote Green or Lib Dem.
From what I have observed, the candidates for these two parties also appear to be the candidates with the heart and determination to do a proper job.
Good luck.
- 3 November 2010 at 13:58
- Tressilliana said...
Yes, but if the people who don't want to vote Labour divide their votes between LibDem and Green Labour will get in! I'm voting Green. I hope Ingrid will get in in another ward in the near future but I want a Green councillor back.
Interesting to see if the turnout is anything like it was at the General Election. Half?
- 3 November 2010 at 13:59
- Forget the politics, just want a good Ward Councillor said...
The May 2006 election results may be a better guide to the Lib Dem chances with a lower turnout - then the figures were Green Councillors elected on approx 1,400 votes, losing Labour candidates approx 1,000 votes each, Lib Dems approx 375 and Cons approx 250.
- 3 November 2010 at 14:14
- Brockley Nick said...
Agreed, the results in May are a poor guide to what will happen here. The turnout was massively increased by the general election and a lot has happened since the election, with the LibDems now as popular as scrofula.
- 3 November 2010 at 14:17
- mintness said...
Paid-up Lib Dem here, but much as I think Ingrid is fantastic and I hope she makes it onto the Council somewhere nearby (hope for a Labour resignation in Lewisham Central maybe?), the Green vote is clearly the right tactical move tomorrow if the aim is to unseat Labour.
- 3 November 2010 at 14:24
- Anonymous said...
Who says the Lib Dems wont sell out like they did in the General Election.
- 3 November 2010 at 14:24
- max said...
Anonimous said so!
- 3 November 2010 at 14:30
- Anonymous said...
You know, trying to find common ground and assemble a diverse government isn't selling out. Politics isn't a case of all the good people on one side and all the bad on the other, and really hasn't been for some time. YOU are what's wrong with Britain today.
- 3 November 2010 at 14:32
- Name said...
I've just heard that Lib Dem MPs were cheering the tuition fee increase, during pmqs.
It says a lot about that party.
- 3 November 2010 at 14:49
- max said...
Name, you Labour troll and cunning liar!
It's obviously a major toad that Libdems had to swallow on tuition fees, to say that they cheered it is a blatant lie. Shame on you.
- 3 November 2010 at 14:51
- Darren Manning said...
I shall be voting Labour.I had a Liberal canvasser (maybe the candidate) at my door on Algernon Road. I mentioned the Tory MPs cheering and waving their order papers in Parliament the other week when the spending cuts were announced and said the libs should be ashamed. He got the right hump and I was unimpressed with his response. Carl (the Lab candidate) seems good to me (he is also a governer at Gordonbrock). The libs are finished - who wants to vote for the Tory party mark 2?
- 3 November 2010 at 14:58
- Name said...
Max I have just heard via twitter, that Lib Dems were cheering.
"IanMurrayMP Lib dem mps cheer tuition fees increase to 9k. 6 months ago they all signed nus pledges to retain cap at 3k. Politics at it's worst. "
Where is the lie Max?
How about you try engaging your brain before you type.
- 3 November 2010 at 14:58
- max said...
Honestly Name, what's the difference between you and the Cat Man?
That you feel righteous superiority?
That aside you're just as much of an opportunistic troll posting uqualified slurs for the benefit of your agenda.
- 3 November 2010 at 14:59
- max said...
Oh a twit! Great source, brilliant. So you're not a troll then.
- 3 November 2010 at 15:02
- mintness said...
Seems odd that Darren Manning has put in enough effort to determine that the Labour chap is definitely the one for him, yet doesn't seem at all aware that the Lib Dem candidate is one of those beastly oddities known as a woman. Still, got to toe the party line, eh?
- 3 November 2010 at 15:07
- max said...
Just in case people reading Name's shameful and opportunistic misinformation were wondering about the Lib Dem position on tuition fees here's a good post about it (link
- 3 November 2010 at 15:46
- Name said...
Given the chance to do something constructive re fees David Lammy on Twitter reports that: DavidLammy No Lib Dems turn up to debate on Higher Education - whatever happened to the "party for students"?
- 3 November 2010 at 17:58
- name said...
The sheer rage and anger students fee at the two facedness of Lib Dem politicians is comes to Lewisham
There are reports that students from Goldsmith's College have "stormed" Deptford town hall to protest at fees. Report from Twitter
- 3 November 2010 at 18:01
- Anonymous said...
Come on Ute!!!
- 3 November 2010 at 18:43
- Anonymous said...
Ute was Green councillor for Ladywell for 4 years from 2006-10 so a vote for her is a vote for experience too.
She was Green lead on budget issues, which will be useful in this 'cuts' era.
- 3 November 2010 at 18:47
- Anonymous said...
Ute was Green councillor for Ladywell for 4 years from 2006-10 so a vote for her is a vote for experience too.
She was Green lead on budget issues, which will be useful in this 'cuts' era.
- 3 November 2010 at 18:47
- Anonymous said...
Brockley and Ladywell were more special when they were run by the Greens.
- 3 November 2010 at 18:52
- Anonymous said...
They were never "run" by greens. They had green councillors
- 3 November 2010 at 19:06
- Anonymous said...
Why is the link for Lewisham People Before Profit omitted from the list? If you type Ladywell by-election into Google it is top of the list! Can the editor of this add it please?http://www.lewishampeopleb4profit.org.uk/nov-2010-ladywell-by-election
- 3 November 2010 at 19:51
- max said...
Name, your copying and pasting here of the casual tweetfarts of Labour MPs on their lunch breaks is possibly the lowest form of political propaganda.
If Labour (the original creators of tuition fees) hadn't spent 5 months on the biggest ever navel-gazing exercise maybe they would now have alternative policies and something better to say, as it happens tweetfarts are all our pallid opposition can express in their awkard attempts to lure floating voters.
Thanks for pointing that out.
- 3 November 2010 at 20:05
- Anonymous said...
The result should be in before midnight Thursday.
- 3 November 2010 at 21:05
- Name said...
STFU Max, That is all
- 3 November 2010 at 21:18
- Anonymous said...
That is a very grown up way to respond, Name. It says a lot about you.
- 4 November 2010 at 10:51
- Name said...
Well, this is the thing, I lowered my standards. :(
It won't happen again, I am not going allow myself to get annoyed by foolish remarks
- 4 November 2010 at 11:39
- Tyrwhitt Michael said...
Totally forgot to vote this morning even left my poll card at home.
Anyone know when the polling stations shut?
- 4 November 2010 at 12:34
- Mondee said...
10pm ithink. And you don't need your polling card.
- 4 November 2010 at 12:36
- Peter Tooke said...
. . . but you have to go to your designated Polling Station (presumably your usual one?) as only one PS will have your part of the Ladywell register. If in doubt call LBL Electoral Services on 020 8314 6086. Hope this helps. P
- 4 November 2010 at 12:41
- Brockley Jack said...
My two cents:
Labour ruined the country when they had a big majority - giving them a stranglehold on Lewisham council is unwise.
Tories will never win in a traditionally working class area where even the richest inhabitants lean left.
Lib Dems are tainted by the coalition (AND they lied, or at least misrepresented the statistics on their flyers)
People before profit are crazy.
Greens therefore the only option.
- 4 November 2010 at 12:46
- Anonymous said...
It's a sad day indeed when the Greens are any sort of option, let alone the "only" one.
- 4 November 2010 at 12:52
- Anonymous said...
The Greens are hiding under the 'green' banner - they could just as easily be called Labour
- 4 November 2010 at 12:57
- Tyrwhitt Michael said...
Thanks for the advice.
- 4 November 2010 at 13:14
- Pete said...
I think that the Green councillors did a sterling job prior to the general election and so would really like to see Ute get elected this time. I will certainly be voting for her.
For what it's worth I think that at the local level you're better off electing someone who is responsive rather than worrying about what is happening at the national level. Yes the lib dems do appear to have sold out by joining forces with the conservatives and they're helping to pass some hideous laws in parliament; but that doesn't mean that a local lib dem councillor is automatically cut from the same cloth.
- 4 November 2010 at 13:23
- Brockley Jack said...
No denying any of that. Ivoted Green and they are lunatics at the national level.
However my opinion of the Lib Dems is not that the national situation affects the ability of the prospective councillor to do her job, but it definitely affects her chances of getting elected. It was also the local party that used Lewisham wide data to pretend they were runners up in Ladywell last time.
- 4 November 2010 at 13:36
- Cllr Mike Harris said...
There are positive reasons to vote Labour. We're committed to protecting services for the most vulnerable locally; prioritising children and older people, and the town centre redevelopment which the Greens oppose.
It's an interesting election. I do think parties should be *partly* punished for their national politics but not totally. Partly punished as it does spell out their ideology, and the Lib Dem / Tory government have cut Lewisham Council's budget by, we expect, 30%. The worst cuts since Geddes Axe.
- 4 November 2010 at 14:10
- Wrong end of the stick said...
What have Ladywell's hairdressers got to do with it?
- 4 November 2010 at 14:14
- Undecided? said...
I was considering voting Labour but then Mike Harris kindly reminded me that they were the drivers behind the totally pointless money wasting Lewisham Gateway plan.
I'll vote Green now.
- 4 November 2010 at 14:18
- Anonymous said...
"and the town centre redevelopment which the Greens oppose."
their 'opposition' was based entirely on voting against it at a sham SPC meeting which, in the case of the Loampit Vale development, they could have overturned if they had not voted in favour of the now deputy mayor of lewisham to be chair, he went on to have two votes.
they did nothing else to oppose either loampit vale or the now abandoned Gateway development, in fact, they broadly supported it.
This, in my opinion, should have been high on their agenda.
They also voted with labour on the demolition of Lewisham bridge school - a shameful act on their part and one which I suspect they now regret because if they had been seen to support the retention of a historic building it would have done their cause no end of good - as it was it's a nail in their coffin (in Lewisham)
When I first voted for the Greens in ladywell I expected something a bit more radical than hanging baskets and planters.
- 4 November 2010 at 14:20
- Anonymous said...
Sorry, Councillor, you dwelled on the reasons for other parties, yet forgot to highlight why Labour should be *partly* punished.
This smug, holier than thou political point scoring is tedious and should be left to the politicians at the national level.
- 4 November 2010 at 14:36
- max said...
Wow! Mike, wow!
The town centre redevelopment!
Do you mean the Gateway?
That major development that took years of officers' time and millions of public money and is not happening?
Or do you mean the Loampit Vale development?
The massive development that only a few months after the Mayor signed off the contracts needed an emergency rescue package of £20.5m to go ahead?
£20.5m of public money to help fund a landmark tower of one bedroom flats flogged in Hong Kong to buy to let investors.
But wait, Carl Handley's role in this is all the more interesting, when a Ladywell Councillor he actually supported the plans so much that he decided that the constituents he represented where wrong and the Ladywell Leisure Centre should have shut years before a replacement was provided leaving his constituents without a local swimming pool for years to come.
Does this say that he has what it takes to soften the impact of cuts on residents?
- 4 November 2010 at 14:45
- Anonymous said...
I was Going to Vote Green, but read up on their voting record, they always voted for Labour policys so Switched to vote for Helen Mercer People Before profit Candidate. Great Candidate and the only one opposed to the cuts, all the others say no, but will still vote them through. so good luck Helen, every one in our house even none voters are coming out for you tonight
- 4 November 2010 at 16:55
- Tressilliana said...
Has everyone remembered to vote?
- 4 November 2010 at 20:13
- Anonymous said...
Anon 16:55 PBP are a wasted vote.
They also advocate an illegal budget which would mean central government taking control of the council budget (not an ideal situation).
What votes were you talking about?
One more hour left to vote.
Please vote Green and get Ute back in the council.
- 4 November 2010 at 20:59
- Anonymous said...
Dont vote Labour they have almost complete control of the council already and the Mayor supports the library closures.
- 4 November 2010 at 21:19
- Name said...
Vote Labour and join Labour, being in a political party enables you to affect policy and change things more effectively.
- 4 November 2010 at 21:37
- Miss L said...
When I lived in SE8, that ward's People Before Profit group's leaflets had a long bit about how the council should stop roadworks because they are the cause of mice problems.
'nuff said about PBP.
- 4 November 2010 at 21:45
- Marc said...
Voted. Was there about an hour before closing time and overheard the council man that 400 voters turned up.
- 4 November 2010 at 21:47
- Anonymous said...
How unique.... thanks for pointing that bit out.
Who else knew?
- 4 November 2010 at 21:51
- Anonymous said...
that was in response to Name
- 4 November 2010 at 21:52
- max said...
A even better response to Name was the outcome of the Labour leadership elections, the only known case of an entire party membership losing an internal election!
- 4 November 2010 at 22:17
- Danja said...
Max, your party chose the bed it wished to lie in. Please lie in it with grace.
- 4 November 2010 at 22:38
- max said...
I know, just couldn't resist there.
I'm free from party allegiance right now though, I have supported Ingrid just for her being herself not a member of this or that.
- 4 November 2010 at 22:51
- mintness said...
I wonder if someone at/with a hotline to the count will be good enough to post the result here when it's known (as I assume the council won't stick it on the website till tomorrow morning...).
- 4 November 2010 at 23:30
- mintness said...
Oh. Should have checked the front page really!
- 4 November 2010 at 23:33


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You might find this so random, but today I am coveting a Pergola.
We had the lovliest time on the back deck of some friend's of ours last night. They had little round lights outlining the deck, which provided the perfect amount of ambient lighting for late night cocktails on a hot, summer night.
We too, have a fabulous outdoor space for entertaining and while it's practically perfect in every way, I have this vision for a gorgeous pergola to semi-cover our patio. I want it to be strung with little white lights and maybe even have a ceiling fan to keep us cool when it gets beastly hot in August.
I also want it to have the same ivy growing in and around it just like I have crawling up the walls of my home.
What an outdoor paradise in the canopy of tiny lights and lush greenery!
This one is absolutely gorgeous and is like adding square footage to your living space. But maybe too-muchy like being in your family room.
I love the lights and the chandalier, presumably with votives for extra mood lighting.
But this space is absolutely UH-MAZING! I must admit however, that it may not be just the pergola that has me so in love… it might also be the stone patio and the table for dining al fresco.

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Police are looking into whether a fire at a gated community on the Southside was related to racially charged graffiti found on the garage of the townhouse.
Around 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, Jacksonville Fire-Rescue responded to the fire at the Ironwood townhouse community located in the 4100 block of Crownwood Drive, just off Gate Parkway.
When Channel 4 arrived at the scene, there was visible smoke from one of the townhouses.
One person was home at the time of the fire but got out and no one was hurt, according to JFRD.
Two adjacent units were evacuated due to the fire.
Around 4:40 a.m., a crime scene van with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office arrived.
Channel 4 learned that graffiti with a racial slur was found on the garage of the townhouse that burned. JSO Officer Shannon Hartley said if that can be connected to an intentionally set fire, penalties would be increased because it would be a hate crime.
The message on the garage door was similar to one attached to a rock and thrown through a window of the same townhouse three days before, along with a small brush fire burning outside the window.
That note written on a napkin read, "You stole from the people, you (expletive). We know where you live now. Get you on the street."
Police said the two incidents may be connected.
"Any time you have types of graffiti that are going to be potentially inflammatory or intimidating to a person, you combine that with an activity like a fire and the potential is that it's very serious and we take it very seriously," JSO spokesman Shannon Hartley said.
Police said the woman who lives in the townhouse told officers she doesn't know who would do this.
Channel 4 crime analyst Ken Jefferson said it's important that detectives catch the perpetrators quickly.
"The people who do these types of crimes are looking for sensationalism, they're looking to agonize the victim, they're looking to sometimes attack the victim or assault the victim," Jefferson said. "So you have to nip it in the butt as quick as you can because it can escalate, get out of control, someone can get hurt, or God forbid, someone could get killed."
Arthur Neziri, who lives across the street from the home, said the commotion Wednesday kept him up all night.
"What's going on? It's scary," Neziri said. "I've got two kids at home, make sure they're sleeping OK, make sure they're -- everything is OK."


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Former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu, who has made a hobby of terrorizing MSM anchors this election cycle, got into a pretty wild debate over Medicare on CNN's Starting Point this morning, telling host Soledad O'Brien that she should "put an Obama sticker on her forehead" when she goes on air.
Pressed to explain the differences between Romney's position and that of his running mate, Paul Ryan, Sununu insisted that Romney had his own plan that would not "gut" Medicare by $700 billion, as Obama's healthcare reform does. And that's when things got heated.
Per the CNN transcript:
O'Brien: "I understand that this is a Republican talking point because I've heard it repeated over and over again. And these numbers have been debunked as you know by the Congressional Budget Office."
Sununu: "No they haven't."
O'Brien: "Yes, they have."
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And so it went. It was actually excellent television.
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Over on Nikonians there's so much discussion on when we're going to get a D300s upgrade. When do you think it will happen? Will Nikon folks finally get their D400/D9300?????
I gave up on it a year ago and got the D7100. About full frame digital-I love the crop factor of DX bodies and hate the prices of FX bodies.
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We've come across this letter by Patrice Daniel a few times in the past few weeks, and think it's time to share it with you.
Dear Caribbean men,
We do not have to smile for you. Our smiles are our own. Our lips are our own, and our smiles are a celebration of our happiness. We do not have to smile on command. We are not pretty, little, Black dolls whose smiles were painted on with red paint and a plastic brush. Sometimes, we're busy. We're busy thinking about geo-political trends, the next 10-mile run, or the latest cricket match. We're too busy to be the smiling decoration that we, as women, are expected to be. Our faces can be thoughtful, angry, sad, peaceful, meditative, or bored. So stop, Caribbean men. Stop walking up to us, harassing us, and demanding that we smile. We do not have to smile for you. Our smiles are our own.
We do not have to answer you. Our names are our own. We were not christened, "Eh! Baby!" We do not have to turn around and pretend that we enjoy being summoned like pets. We are not charmed when you follow us and invade our space. We do not have to make conversation with you as you block our paths. We do not feel flattered when you stand in a group and leer at our figures, competing to see who can make the vilest remark. We do not take it as a compliment when you comment on our bodies and tell us what you intend to do with them. So stop, Caribbean men. Stop making us feel uncomfortable, afraid to walk the streets of our homelands alone. We do not have to answer to you. Our names are our own.
We do not have to dance with you. Our hips are our own. Your admission to the fete did not include an all-access pass to our waists, breasts, behinds. When we walked through the gates, we did not sign permission slips. You don't get to be angry because we don't want you as a permanent appendage. You don't get to grab us, restrain us, and force your bodies against ours. Our role at the fete is not to amuse, entertain, or provide you with a grinding post. Dare to imagine that we enjoy dancing alone. Dare to imagine that we enjoy dancing with our friends. Just because we dance with other guys doesn't mean we now owe you. So stop, Caribbean men. Stop degrading us and insisting we accept your advances. We do not have to dance with you. Our hips are our own.
We do not dress for you. Our bodies are our own. The length of a skirt is not a personal message to you. Cleavage is not an invitation. Like most shoes, ours can't speak. So our heels don't say, "Do me." Our legs are not dinner bells, loudly chiming, "Come and get it!" You don't get to say our bare skin provoked you. You don't get to say you lost control. Take responsibility for your behavior, just as we take responsibility for ours. And stop, Caribbean men. Stop using our clothes as an excuse when you rape or violate us. We do not dress for you. Our bodies are our own.
Caribbean women


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History of Photography Seminar: Image and the Abyss
Toronto-based visual artist Annie MacDonell gave a compelling lecture-meets-artist's talk, discussing her work in an open-forum manner at the Research Forum on 1 May.
She began by reading her interpretation of two pivotal postmodernist texts, Craig Owen's 'Photography en abyme' and Rosalind Krauss's 'The Originality of the Avant-Garde,' both of which have largely informed MacDonell's practice recently, as she has begun to question notions of authenticity and originality in her own art making and in contemporary artistic practice in general. When these texts were written, photography became an important allegorical device for theorists to employ when trying to unravel some of the impenetrable issues of postmodern discourse in its early days. To some extent, MacDonell has translated this methodology into an artistic practice that incorporates photography, film, sculpture, and installation.
MacDonell's exhibition 'Originality and the Avant Garde (on art and repetition)' at Mercer Union in Toronto includes all of these elements of her practice, with a selection of five photographs as well as a mirrored structure the size of her studio. The space within the structure functions as a screening room for a short film, which also reveals itself as a camera obscura: as the film comes to an end, the images from the gallery space appear as projections on the wall.
The mirror is crucial in relation to the texts by Owens and Krauss, as it is the surface that causes an abyss in its endless repetition. This can be understood quite literally, as light reflects on the mirror in a camera, which MacDonell physically translates into the gallery space with the mirrored structure and the camera obscura. Then, there is another layer of mirrored space, as the photographs themselves include mirrors or other reflective surfaces, creating a chain of projections that have no beginning or end. It is this aspect of the mirror that informs MacDonell's understanding of appropriation. All of the images pictured in MacDonell's photographs were found in an image archive in Toronto, where, over the years, various archivists have determined categories and sourced images from an indiscriminate array of periodicals, organizing a vast amount of visual information in an almost entirely arbitrary way. The idea of an original source becomes obfuscated in this mass of imagery, and even further removed through its appropriation by MacDonell.
MacDonell confessed that her work is 'self-explanatory to a fault,' but actually, it is not as obvious as it may seem. In the short film included in the exhibition, a young man implicates the viewer, engaging in a theoretical diatribe about the very ideas that are explored in the exhibition: originality and authenticity. His confidence in these ideas will resonate with viewers of MacDonell's work, as its presentation is so in line with its conceptual underpinnings that it verges on becoming too obvious, too self-referential. But his confidence also reveals his naïveté, reminding the viewer that what appears most obvious may be more complex than it initially appears.


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Why do we love Katy Perry? Let us count the ways.
In honor of Katy's 28th birthday, we take a look back at eight reasons why we can't get enough of the sugarcoated pop star.
She breaks records like it's her job
Well, we guess it is her job. And it's a good thing too, since she's really great at it. Besides holding the title of Most Number One Hits, Most Consecutive Number Ones and Most Total Weeks At Number One, she just made The Guinness Book of World Records for being the first female with five number one singles from one album thanks to Teenage Dream. Go Katy!
She doesn't mind a little controversy
On her first single she admitted she kissed a girl and she liked it. While some wrote the song off as a gimmick, Katy used the controversy to talk about bigger issues, like gay marriage.
"I believe in equality," she told the magazine, L'Uomo Vogue. "I believe in love with no boundaries or preface. I come from a childhood where there was a lot of judgment on this subject, but I have freed myself from that."
She lets her freak flag fly when it comes to fashion
She wore angels wings to the Grammy's, a carousel at the 2008 MTV Europe Music Awards and a movie reel with a skirt of popcorn for the premiere of her movie, Part of Me.
But our favorite has to be the sweet confections she wears in her Candy Land-inspired video for "California Gurls." From a donut bustier to a whipped cream bra, she makes it all look delicious.
She's not afraid show her true self
Her recent movie, Katy Perry: Part of Me gave us a glimpse of the singer, letting us into her world from being on the road to falling out of love. She keeps things real, and we respect her for it.
She gets out the vote
Katy has been encouraging young people to get out the vote. At a fundraiser in Las Vegas for President Obama she even wore a dress that looked like a ballot as friendly reminder to get to the polls. Even a big star like Katy gets starstruck. Just read her Tweet about meeting the leader of the free world.
So tonight was a great night! The PRESIDENT gave grandma and I unforgettable shout outs & now I am officially 28! Best. birthday. ever.— KATY PERRY (@katyperry) October 25, 2012
She hangs out with Elmo, even if parents don't want her too
Celebrities and parodies have always been a part of Sesame Street, but when Katy appeared on the show in 2010 parents weren't so happy about her attire. In fact, the show had to pull the singer's appearance.
Elmo of course had her back telling CBS, "We had a great time. Katy Perry is wonderful."
And he says they'll definitely have another play date very soon.
She makes us want to get our nails did
She's had the characters of the MTV cartoon Daria drawn on her nails.
It doesn't get any better than hand painted DARIA nails by the girls at ES Nails TOKYO! http://t.co/qqFbO1uk— KATY PERRY (@katyperry) September 24, 2012
Her now ex-hubby Russell Brand on there too.
But our favorite has to be her Obama nails.
Appropriate nails. http://t.co/TUFxewlH— KATY PERRY (@katyperry) October 7, 2012
She has a cat named Kitty Purry
This adorable cat doesn't realize how lucky she is.
Happy 28th Birthday Katy!
– Shannon Carlin, CBS Local
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IGN reports from the New York Comic Con Retailer's Breakfast today:
Another significant announcement involved the er-popular Boba Fett. Writer Tom Taylor and artist Chris Scalf will be reuniting for a sequel to their Star Wars: Blood Ties mini-series. The original explored a shared conflict between Fett and his father Jango. We don't know much about the plot of the sequel, but Dark Horse did offer the ominous tagline, "Boba Fett is dead."
For more on "Blood Ties," check out our database of Boba Fett comics.
UPDATE: The comic is coming out April 2012. Here is the description, courtesy of the writer, Tom Taylor:
"Boba Fett is dead. The most infamous hunter in the galaxy has been hunted. He's lying, broken, on the desert floor. He's more blaster-holes than man. It's the ultimate ending. However, this is just the start of our story. With the fall of Fett broadcast across the galaxy, someone rises to avenge him. But who would care about the death of a man like Fett? Bounty hunters aren't exactly known for their enduring, close friendships but even a man like Boba Fett has family... and now a Blood Tie demands blood."
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Corey Brewer's late surge helps Nuggets over Jazz
DENVER -- A blown dunk aside, Kenneth Faried's shooting touch has been spot-on of late.
Faried had 18 points to go with 11 rebounds, helping the Denver Nuggets beat the Utah Jazz 104-84 on Friday night for their third win in a row after an 0-3 start.
"His energy is contagious," Nuggets coach George Karl said. "It is a big part of why we're successful and it is going to have to be a big part of what we do this year."
Faried's exuberance got the better of him midway through the second quarter when he missed a wide-open dunk as his attempt at a stylish, windmill jam bounced off the back rim. But he shook off the gaffe to record his fourth consecutive game with 15 or more points, the longest such stretch of his career.
"I did miss that dunk and I knew it. I was kind of disappointed in myself but I just kept playing hard," Faried said. "A lot of people don't believe I can step out and hit the little 15- or 12-foot jumper, and my teammates do, so they get me in that position. I just jump up and shoot it."
Faried had plenty of help on the offensive end from Corey Brewer, who scored 13 of his 20 points in the fourth quarter, hitting four 3-pointers. Kosta Koufos and Andre Iguodala added 15 points apiece.
"He made it a game we could rest our guys for tomorrow," Karl said of Brewer, referring to the Nuggets' upcoming game at Golden State on Saturday. "Come the fourth quarter (Saturday), that could be important."
Gordon Hayward had 15 points to lead the Jazz, who remained winless in four road games this season. Randy Foye and Enes Kanter each added 13 points for Utah, which made only four of 23 attempts from 3-point range.
"It wasn't our best outing," Hayward said. "We've got to figure out this road thing. This was a tough one for us. I think we've got to put it behind us."
Summing up his team's play, Utah coach Tyrone Corbin described it as "a very disappointing effort. We just didn't execute."
Corbin added after the game that guard Mo Williams strained his right abductor muscle during the third quarter. His status for Saturday's game against Phoenix was uncertain.
Iguodala connected on a 3-pointer to give the Nuggets a 69-49 lead with 5:14 remaining in the third quarter. But the Jazz scored eight of the next 12 points, including a three-point play by Hayward to pull to 73-57 going into the fourth.
After Foye hit a 3 to get the Jazz within 75-63, Brewer hit two 3-pointers around a layup by Alec Burks, adding a free throw following the second long-distance shot to put the Nuggets up 82-65 with 9:14 remaining.
The Jazz whittled the Nuggets' lead to 90-78 when Denver was called for goaltending on Jamaal Tinsley's layup with 4:22 remaining, only to see the Nuggets make it 96-78 after Brewer drained 3-pointers on consecutive possessions.
The Nuggets took a 53-38 lead at halftime, closing the last seven minutes of the second quarter with a 17-2 run.
After Derrick Favors made a pair of free throws to pull Utah into a 36-all tie, Brewer drove the lane to hit a twisting layup, starting the Nuggets' second-quarter surge.
The only points in that stretch by the Jazz, who missed all nine of their 3-point tries in the first half, came on a pair of free throws by Foye with 3:30 remaining in the second. That was not nearly enough to offset a closing flourish by the Nuggets.
Ty Lawson scored on successive fast-break layups before Iguodala slammed home a dunk off an alley-oop pass from Danilo Gallinari in the waning moments of the quarter.
Game notes
The Nuggets' Wilson Chandler, who is being eased back from offseason hip surgery, sat out for the third time in the past four games. ... Timofey Mozgov made his season debut for the Nuggets after missing the first five games with a left knee strain. ... Burks, who starred at Colorado before joining the Jazz a year ago as a first-round draft pick, was greeted with a round of applause when he entered in the second quarter. ... Favors finished with five blocks.
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Rudy Gobert does not believe the anonymous safety tip line to hold others accountable within the Orlando bubble "will really help" and calls it "sort of petty."
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To: DearMYRTLE,
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4 – History, Geography, Maps, and Transportation
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8 – Pedigree Analysis
9 – Report Writing
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Weighing In: Fitness Films and Ordinary People
When fitness celebrities turn fat folks into fitness celebrities in their own image, self-preservation and betterment are eclipsed by the value of self-promotion. Remember the subjects undergoing these life-changing metamorphoses are "real" people.
Vegetables don't have it so easy, these days. Weather is threatening, acreage is shrinking, and in many of the most fortunate places on earth, people just aren't consuming the healthiest of foods. Though there are several products, commercials, and programs devoted to weight loss and healthier lifestyles, the media at large aren't exactly doing much good in reversing the negative trend.
In fact, recent months have seen several instances of vegetables being used within media as a metaphor for undesirable options. As federal law enforcement agent Luke Hobbs in Fast Five, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson requests bad news and spawns a catch phrase: "Give me the damn veggies." Within film criticism, The New York Times' Dan Kois writes a popular essay, , "Eating Your Cultural Vegetables", which airs his reluctance to indulge in certain slow-moving art films (29 April 11). Most high profile of all is President Obama's public admonishment that we need to "eat our peas" and make difficult choices in the debt limit debate.
Vegetables: If wrestlers, writers, and politicians are united against you, who can be for you?
Joe Cross -- that's who.
As writer, director and star of documentary Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead (2010), Joe pushes back against the anti-veggie rhetoric and lifestyle with a crusade that might be mistaken for a soul-saving campaign. By documenting his quest to get people to "reboot" their lives, the exceedingly confident Cross creates a conflicted new strain of weight loss/self-betterment media. Although the content of Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead is superficially similar to programs such as The Biggest Loser, I Used to Be Fat and Fat Families, the structure of the film is eventually more ethically sound by virtue of its late-breaking attention to the strength, potential and dignity of the ordinary human subject, and to the value of human interaction that supports and empowers physical transformation.
Ironically, at first, the film is all about Joe Cross, and viewers who cannot stomach what appears to be his bid for stardom might never see the film through to its satisfying conclusion. When the documentary begins, Cross is travelling through Arkansas trying to "find somewhere off the freeway, amongst nature" to enjoy his Thanksgiving lunch. Cross is Australian, and he sees America as especially in need of intervention. His solution for the USA is in his hand: it's a glass of juice.
Cross drinks juice for Thanksgiving and plans to go on a juice fast for 60 days in order to save Americans from themselves. This premise is full of potential ethical hiccups: On whose authority does he enact his plan? Is it safe? Who are these Americans that need to be saved, and why should he be their savior? Finally, if the goal is to help people reboot their health, then why bother investing resources in making a film? Mustn't there be some ulterior motive? In its first half, Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead steps into all of these trouble spots and then slowly works its way out of them, either by chance or by design (more on this later).
When we meet Cross, he presents his personal struggle with weight gain through a mixture of tacky animation, testimony from family and friends, and (most effectively) slow-motion footage of his bulkier self, walking around and then diving into a pool. By displaying this evidence of his own experience with obesity, Cross establishes some authority on "problem" side of the subject. He also recruits several doctors and nutritionists to testify to the value of his chosen solution. We learn that juicing "supercharges" one's nutrient intake. As one professional says, the juice Cross drinks is "a quick potent source of healthy nutrients."
From his perspective, not all doctors are equally trustworthy, as Cross also spends several minutes describing the degree to which doctors enabled his unhealthy lifestyle by pushing prescriptions on him to fix his various ills. Cross, who suffers from an autoimmune disease and associated rashes, seems to partly blame physicians for the fact that he's taken pills for nine years in an attempt to get better. His epiphany arrived, he says, when he considered his childhood bumps and bruises: "When I scraped my knee as a kid… as long as I got out of the way… it just got better".
This advice -- to step away from medicine altogether and embrace juice -- is a radical solution, but Cross somewhat balances the extreme approach by highlighting the importance of consulting medical professionals before and during a fast. What he doesn't do nearly enough of, is take his own advice to get "out of the way" where the film is concerned -- a flaw that almost sinks the documentary altogether.
In a hosted fitness documentary of this sort, there is usually a star figure/motivator. Morgan Spurlock owes his fame to being the star and central subject of burger binge Super Size Me. He's the sacrificial figure of that film, undergoing a self-imposed exercise in gluttony so that we can learn what not to do at the drive-thru.
MTV's I Used to Be Fat follows a template established by that network's Made series, which transforms young people's personalities and lives over the course of a commercial-saturated half hour or hour block. The star of this format is the young person and his/her helpers, which in the case of I Used to Be Fat includes the trainers and coaches that help them shed pounds. On Sky Living's Fat Families, "weight loss expert Steve Miller" plays the role of a flamboyant sociologist as he "moves into the homes of overweight families to help them shed their bulging bellies."
So what are the competing values of such programs? On one hand, there is the honest claim to be in the business of transforming lives. Bodies and minds undergo extreme stress and emotion in order to arrive at a fitter state. Yet often lost in the transition is attention to what makes the stories inspiring to viewers in the first place: the notion that the subjects undergoing these life-changing metamorphoses are "real" people. In this process where fitness celebrities turn fat folks into fitness celebrities in their own image, self-preservation and betterment are eclipsed by the value of self-promotion.
It's within this clash of values that Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead nearly dies on the vine. The presence of actual ordinary subjects in the film calls attention to the degree to which Cross gets in the way of his own movie/message. There are a few person-on-the-street sequences, during which individuals open up to him about their eating habits and past failed solutions. From the beginning of the film, we've seen him cruising around in a Mercedes. We've heard about his investment-banking, day-trading glory days. All this evidence of his comparative wealth separates him from the lower and middle class Americans he approaches with his camera and microphone.


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As Chicago braces for a possible immigration crackdown, dozens of immigrant and refugee rights organizations from across the state say they're "taking a stand" with a rally Saturday.
Two sea otter pups rescued recently off the coast of California have a new home in Chicago where they are now "thriving," according to the aquarium.
Singer R. Kelly, already facing sexual abuse charges brought by Illinois prosecutors, was arrested in Chicago on a federal grand jury indictment listing 13 counts including sex crimes and obstruction of justice.
Dozens of people lined a wall overlooking the Humboldt Park Lagoon on Friday waiting for a glimpse of an elusive alligator that continues to evade authorities' efforts to capture it.
President Donald Trump issues an executive order to revamp care for kidney disease, which affects 37 million Americans. "It's really comprehensive," said Dr. Holly Kramer, president of the National Kidney Foundation.
With its volcanic staging of Jonathan Caren's intensely physical play, Windy City Playhouse has carved out a unique niche for itself in Chicago with a style dubbed "immersive theater."
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The Toronto Raptors headed into Denver a place where they rarely find victory. The last time the Raptors got a win in Denver was back in 2003 as we mentioned on This Week In Raptorland. The first three quarters of this basketball game were painful to watch. The Raptors actually did start turning tide late in the third by imploring a hack a McGee strategy. It was about the only way the Raptors could control pace of this game.
The Raptors trailed at the half by 17 points in this game. Not that it would have made a difference but Linas Kleiza sat this one out. That gave Mickael Pietrus the start, he played 25 minutes and went 1-5 from the field with 3 points and a steal.
There were some positives on the night despite the terrible first half. Kyle Lowry looked back to the pre-injury version of his self. He was the only Raptor that was finding a way to get the line in this one going 11-11 from the line. On the night he got 24 points and had his 6-foot size he had 3 blocks.
The Raptors after doing a heck of a job convincing folks they had no chance in hell of winning this game. They would make their plucky underdog push in the fourth. Terrence Ross who has rapidly become a fan favourite made some big shots in this rally. Maybe it is that I have becoming jaded but I never once thought the Raptors would win this game.
In the end I sadly would be right. The Raptors would get as close as two points in this one before Denver woke up in the last couple minutes of this basketball game.
This is one of those games that summarizes the Raptor fan experience nicely. Some people at the end of this game were praising the Raptors run to make it close in the fourth. They did out score Denver 35-24 in the fourth quarter. However, it should not excuse the fact the Raptors got in this position to be there.
In the end this team has played many entertaining games over this season. I would not call this game one of them. However, regardless of entertainment value it has to start being about winning and losing. The Raptors in that regard are 4-14 and that is not acceptable.
In the end another close but no cigar doesn't cut it for me. The Nuggets take the win 113-110 but this game was close to three quarters of domination from the Nuggets.
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October 12, 2012 -- Updated 1313 GMT (2113 HKT) |
|Researchers say building a computer simulation could improve understanding and treatments of brain diseases like Alzheimer's.
- Human Brain Project will use supercomputers to mimic tangle of neurons and synapses that power our thoughts
- Scientists say the simulator could offer new insight into the treatment of brain disease like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's
- "Brain in a box" is unlikely to transform into sci-fi-style computer bent on world domination, scientists say
(CNN) -- There's no escaping the fact that the Human Brain Project, with its billion-dollar plan to recreate the human mind inside a supercomputer, sounds like a science fiction nightmare.
But those involved hope their ambitious goal of simulating the tangle of neurons and synapses that power our thought processes could offer solutions to tackling conditions such as depression, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's.
The Human Brain venture is the next step in a long-running program that has already succeeded in using computers to create a virtual replica of part of a rat's neocortex -- a section of the brain believed to control higher functions such as conscious thought, movement and reasoning.
Scientists at its forerunner, the Switzerland-based Blue Brain Project, have been working since 2005 to feed a computer with vast quantities of data and algorithms produced from studying tiny slivers of rodent gray matter.
"This is a tool for research, not a giant simulated brain that is going to rule the world
Sean Hill, neuroscientist
Last month they announced a significant advancement when they were able to use their simulator to accurately predict the location of synapses in the neocortex, effectively mapping out the complex electrical brain circuitry through which thoughts travel.
Henry Markram, the South African-born neuroscientist who heads the project, said the breakthrough would have taken "decades, if not centuries" to chart using a real neocortex. He said it was proof their concept, dubbed "brain in a box" by Nature magazine, would work.
Now the team are joining forces with other scientists to create the Human Brain Project. As its name suggests, they aim to scale up their model to recreate an entire human brain.
It is a step that will need both a huge increase in funding and access to computers so advanced that they have yet to be built.
If their current bid for €1 billion ($1.3 billion) of European Commission funding over the next 10 years is successful, Markram predicts that his computer neuroscientists are a decade away from producing a synthetic mind that could, in theory, talk and interact in the same way humans do.
His bold claims have inevitably fueled comparisons to doom-laden popular fiction in which conscious machines turn on their creators and wreak havoc.
The project's scientists have been referred to as "team Frankenstein" and their computer likened to "Skynet," the virtual intelligence that unleashes a robot war on humanity in the "Terminator" films.
Sean Hill, a senior computational neuroscientist on the project, laughs at such comparisons.
He says the computer will primarily become a repository for knowledge about the brain that will allow scientists to conduct experiments without the need to probe inside people's skulls.
"This is a tool for research, not a giant simulated brain that is going to rule the world," he said.
"Right now, we're in a crisis in neuroscience. There's a lot of wonderful data being gathered but we don't have a place where we can put those experimental results together and understand their implications.
"We are just beginning to appreciate how complex our brains are, far beyond any other device in the known universe
Terry Sejnowski, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
"The benefit of having this facility is you have a place to integrate the data into a model where you can test predictions and start to learn principles of how the brain operates."
The computing power needed to build the model is phenomenal. Simply to replicate one of the 10,000 neuron brain cells involved in the rat experiment took the processing capacity usually found in a single laptop. To simulate a fully functioning human brain, it would take billions.
Hill says that such computational power -- known as exascale -- will be available by the end of the decade. The Human Brain Project's scientists are hoping to work with supercomputer developers to ensure future machines match their requirements.
But, even as the team touts its experiments as a possible solution to the brain diseases that affect about two billion people worldwide, they have attracted critics who say their work is far too broad in scope to achieve usable results.
Professor Terry Sejnowski, head of the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, has been quoted as saying the Blue Brain project is "bound to fail."
He told CNN via email that "progress is being made but there is still a long way to go before we will understand the computational capabilities of cortical circuits."
He added: "We are just beginning to appreciate how complex our brains are, far beyond any other device in the known universe."
Sean Hill said the team hoped it was answering skeptics with its achievements so far.
"It's just a matter of keeping on doing it. Let's keep improving these tools and open them up so that many scientists are engaged and collaborating and using it as common point to bring the data together," he said.
"The only way to address the critics is to keep working, showing the positive results and do the best we can -- and that is starting to happen."


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Darth Vader, zombies and the Predator have all been slaughtered.
Classic monsters continue to massacre the competition in our Monster Mash. The creepy contest, which began with a bracket of 32 brutes, has been narrowed down to eight fiends.
Let's also have a moment of silence for Hannibal Lecter, Leatherface and the Kraken, all of whom have been eliminated in spine-tingling sparring. So far it's the old-school ghouls who seem to have the edge.
In the biggest trouncing of this round, the Alien (244 votes) beat Chucky (63 votes) by a landslide. By contrast, Jason vanquished the Mummy by only a single vote.
Now it's time for the horrors to battle it out once again as Round 3 begins.
The smackdowns are certain to be scarier than ever. Godzilla goes up against Jason. Frankenstein goes head to maw with Jaws. Dracula tries to take a bite out of the Alien, and King Kong goes ape on Freddy.
Gore hounds are invited to vote now for your favorite frights.
Round 3 of the fiend fest closes at 4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 15. Then we'll move on to the final showdown, with the champion — the greatest monster of all time — announced just in time for Halloween, the high holy day for heebie jeebies. May the best beast win.
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8/15/13- Proposed Designation of Critical Habitat for the New Mexico Jumping Mouse
July 15, 2013
Daniel Ashe
Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
1849 C Street, NW
Washington, DC 20240
The Office of Advocacy (Advocacy) submits these comments on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's (FWS) proposed rule Proposed Designation of Critical Habitat for the New Mexico Jumping Mouse.[1]
Advocacy is providing the following comments to assist FWS in its compliance with its Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA)[2] obligations, the February 2012 Presidential Memorandum,[3] and Executive Order 13563.[4]
The Office of Advocacy
Advocacy was established pursuant to Pub. L. 94-305 to represent the views of small entities before federal agencies and Congress. Advocacy is an independent office within SBA, so the views expressed by Advocacy do not necessarily reflect the views of SBA or the Administration. The RFA, as amended by the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act (SBREFA),[5] gives small entities a voice in the rulemaking process. For all rules that are expected to have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities, federal agencies are required by the RFA to assess the impact of the proposed rule on small business and to consider less burdensome alternatives.[6] The Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 requires agencies to give every appropriate consideration to comments provided by Advocacy.[7]
On June 20, 2013, FWS proposed critical habitat for the New Mexico Jumping Mouse. FWS is proposing to designate approximately 14,561 acres as critical habitat in several counties in New Mexico, Colorado, and Arizona. FWS has indicated that special management considerations may be necessary to reduce the impact of grazing, development, coal methane production, and highway construction in the proposed critical habitat areas may be necessary.
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) requires that Federal agencies insure that any action it authorizes, funds, or carries out is not likely to jeopardize the continued existence of any endangered species or threatened species or result in the destruction or adverse modification of habitat of a listed species.[8] The ESA also directs FWS to determine critical habitat for listed species and prohibits the adverse modification or destruction of critical habitat.[9] While FWS is prohibited from considering economic impacts in its listing decision,[10] it is required to consider the economic impacts of designating an area as critical habitat and is given authority to exclude areas from critical habitat designations where the costs of designating the area outweigh the benefits. [11]
On February 28, 2012, President Obama issued a memorandum entitled, Proposed Revised Habitat for the Spotted Owl: Minimizing Regulatory Burdens[12] (Presidential Memorandum), which directed FWS to take several steps to improving designations of critical habitat. On August 24, 2012, in response to the Presidential Memorandum, FWS published the proposed rule Revisions to the Regulations for Impact Analyses of Critical Habitat (Impact Analysis Regulation).[13]
On January 19, 2013, Advocacy held a roundtable discussion regarding the proposed August 24, 2012 rule which representatives of FWS, NOAA and small businesses from various industries attended.
The Designation of Critical Habitat Imposes Costs Directly on Small Businesses and These Costs Must Be Properly Evaluated as Required by the RFA
The Regulatory Flexibility Act requires that agencies perform regulatory flexibility analyses or certify that their proposed rules will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities.[14] This analysis is required only for small entities that are directly affected by the regulations.[15] The Service asserts that a regulatory flexibility analysis is not required for this proposed rule because federal agencies are the only entities affected by this rule.[16]
FWS makes a similar argument in most of its proposed designations for critical habitat.[17] FWS frequently cites American Trucking Associations, Inc., v. EPA, 175 F.3d 1027 (D.C. Cir. 1999), as the basis for this determination. In American Trucking, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) established a primary national ambient air quality standard (NAAQS) for ozone. EPA certified that the rule would not have a significant economic impact on small entities; the basis of the EPA's certification was that the NAAQS only regulated small entities indirectly through state implementation plans. EPA was required to approve any state plan meeting the standards and could not reject a plan based upon its view of the wisdom of a state's choices.[18] The states had broad discretion to determine how to achieve compliance with the NAAQS.[19] Under these circumstances, the court concluded that EPA had properly certified because any impacts to small entities would be indirect.[20]
Critical habitat designations are distinguishable from the regulation at issue in American Trucking. First, American Trucking dealt with federal regulations requiring states to act and giving the states broad discretion regarding how to implement goals. The court noted that state plans could avoid imposing impacts on small businesses and it was the state's decision and only the state's decision whether or not to impose such impacts.[21]
Critical habitat regulations are implemented through federal agencies which, in many cases, will only be taking action because a third party small entity is requesting a permit. Once a small entity has requested a permit from a federal agency that agency is required to consult with FWS.[22] The resulting FWS actions are governed by a 315-page handbook promulgated by FWS detailing the procedures that the federal agencies are to follow in order to obtain FWS's permission to issue a permit to the small entity requesting a permit.[23] The agencies contemplate that the third party applicant will be involved in this process and impacted by its decisions during the process, as the handbook discusses the applicant's role, rights and responsibilities.[24] Moreover, the handbook specifically notes that modifications to the applicant's proposed projects may be necessary in order to obtain FWS's written concurrence for the federal agency to issue a permit.[25] The handbook also states that FWS has a great deal of say in the decision regarding which modifications are acceptable.[26]
Unlike the states in American Trucking, any federal agency that stands between FWS and the applicant has very little discretion. FWS is essentially arguing that it, a federal agency, is not regulating small entities because another federal agency, which is required to consult with FWS and obtain FWS's consent to action, stands as an intermediary in the process. However, FWS retains the final decision as to what modifications are reasonable and prudent and therefore adequate in order to refrain from running afoul of the ESA.[27] Since these decisions directly impact small entities, the RFA requires FWS to perform regulatory flexibility analyses or certify that their proposed rules will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities.
Economic Analyses Should Include a Full Accounting of the Impact of Critical Habitat Designations on Small Businesses
FWS currently uses an incremental analysis to determine the costs to small businesses of critical habitat designations. An incremental economic analysis, or "but for" analysis, seeks to compare a hypothetical world in which the designation is operative, to a hypothetical world in which the designation is not operative.[28] The Presidential Memorandum stressed the importance of FWS taking into account the economic impact of critical habitat designations and cited to Executive Order 13563 which directed federal agencies to, among other things, "use the best available techniques to quantify anticipated present and future benefits and costs as accurately as possible."[29] The Impact Analysis Regulation, if finalized as proposed, would codify the use of incremental analysis.[30]
Advocacy and other public commenters have previously noted that FWS's practice of using an incremental analysis of the economic impacts from critical habitat designations leads to an underestimation of the impact of those designations.[31] In addition, several U.S. senators have written to FWS urging the abandonment of incremental analysis.[32] The commenters instead urge the use of coextensive analysis which would account for all of the costs that small businesses incur as a result of a critical habitat designation and would be in keeping with the Endangered Species Act's directive that "the economic impact and any other relevant impact, of specifying a particular area as critical habitat."[33] Advocacy urges FWS to adopt the use of coextensive analysis for this economic analysis and all future economic analyses.[34]
FWS Has Not Properly Considered the Costs of the Proposed Critical Habitat Designation.
FWS has indicated that special management considerations may be needed to reduce the effects of grazing, development, coal methane production, and highway construction in the proposed critical habitat areas. FWS is required to give small businesses in these industries that may be affected by this critical habitat designation a full and fair accounting of the potential costs that will be incurred from this designation. Advocacy encourages FWS to publish an Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis in compliance with the RFA.
Critical habitat designations have direct effects on small businesses which should be reflected in FWS's regulatory flexibility analyses. Advocacy encourages FWS to adopt the use of coextensive economic analyses in its designations of critical habitat. Please contact me or Kia Dennis at (202) 205-6936 if you have any questions or require additional information.
Winslow Sargeant, Ph.D.
Chief Counsel for Advocacy
Kia Dennis
Assistant Chief Counsel
[1] 78 Fed. Reg. 37328 (June 20, 2013).
[2] 5 U.S.C. § 601 et seq.
[3] Presidential Memorandum for the Secretary of the Interior: Proposed Revised Habitat for the Spotted Owl: Minimizing Regulatory Burdens (Feb. 28, 2012).
[4] Exec. Order No. 13,563, 76 Fed. Reg. 3821 (January 21, 2011).
[5] Pub. L. 104-121, Title II, 110 Stat. 857 (1996) (codified in various sections of 5 U.S.C. §601 et seq.).
[7] Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 (PL 111-240) § 1601. The agency must include, in any explanation or discussion accompanying the final rule's publication in the Federal Register, the agency's response to these written comments submitted by Advocacy on the proposed rule, unless the agency certifies that the public interest is not served by doing so.
[9] Id.
[10] 16 U.S.C. §1533(b)(1)(A).
[11] Id. § 1533(b)(2).
[12]Presidential Memorandum, supra note 3.
[13] Revisions to the Regulations for Impact Analysis for Critical Habitat, 77 Fed. Reg. 51503 (August 24, 2012).
[14] 5 U.S.C. §601, et.seq.
[15] See Mid-Tex Elec. Coop. v. FERC, 773 F.2d 327 (D.C. Cir. 1985); American Trucking Ass'ns v. EPA, 175 F.3d 1027 (D.C. 1999).
[16] 77 Fed. Reg. at 51509.
[17] See, e.g., Listing Four Subspecies of Mazama Pocket Gopher and Designation of Critical Habitat, 77 Fed. Reg. 73770,73806 (December 11, 2012).
[18] Id. at 1044.
[19] Id.
[20] Id. at 1045.
[21] Id. at 1044.
[22] 16 U.S.C. §1536(a)(2); Endangered Species Consultation Handbook at 2-6 available at http://www.fws.gov/endangered/esa-library/pdf/esa_section7_handbook.pdf (March 1998) (last visited January 23, 2013) ("The Act requires action agencies to consult or confer with the Services when there is discretionary Federal involvement or control over the action, whether apparent (issuance of a new Federal permit), or less direct (State operation of a program that retains Federal oversight, such as the National Pollution Discharge Elimination System Program").
[23] Endangered Species Consultation Handbook at 2-6.
[24] Id. at 2-12. "[Users of public resources] who are party to a discrete action (i.e., where they are already the successful bidder on a timber sale that becomes the subject of later consultation or re-initiation when a
new species is listed or new critical habitat is designated) may participate as applicants in the
section 7 process."
[25] Id. at 3-6 ("Conflict resolutions during informal consultation may involve changes in construction scheduling, engineering design, pesticide formulation or application method, location, emission or discharge levels and many other changes"), 3-12 ("Since concurrence depends upon implementation of the modifications, the concurrence letter must clearly state any modifications agreed to during informal consultation. If agreement cannot be reached, the agency is advised to initiate formal consultation.").
[26] Id. at 4-44("The Services will, in most cases, defer to the action agency's expertise and judgment as to the feasibility of an alternative. When the agency maintains that the alternative is not reasonable or not prudent, the reasoning for its position is to be provided in writing for the administrative record. The Services retain the final decision on which reasonable and prudent alternatives are included in the biological opinion. When necessary, the Services may question the agency's view of the scope of its authorities to implement reasonable and prudent alternatives.")
[27] Endangered Species Consultation Handbook at 2-6 ("The Services will, in most cases, defer to the
action agency's expertise and judgment as to the feasibility of an alternative. When the agency maintains that the alternative is not reasonable or not prudent, the reasoning for its position is to be provided in writing for the administrative record. The Services retain the final decision on which reasonable and prudent alternatives are included in the biological opinion. When necessary, the Services may question the agency's view of the scope of its authorities to implement reasonable and prudent alternatives.")
[28] 77 Fed. Reg. at 51507.
[29] See EO 13563, supra, note 3.
[30] Supra, note 12.
[31] See Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants: Revisions for Impact Analyses of Critical Habitat, Docket Id. No. FWS-R9-ES-2011-0073-0001: Letter from Winslow Sargeant, Chief Counsel, Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy to Daniel Ashe, Director, Fish and Wildlife Service and Jane Lubchenco, Administrator, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (January 31, 2013); Letter from Joseph Nelson, Counsel to the National Endangered Species Act Reform Coalition to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (October 23, 2012); Letter from Edward Poitevent, Attorney for Poitevent Landowners to Daniel Ashe, Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (October 22, 2012); Letter from David P. Tenny, President, National Alliance of Forest Owners to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (October 23, 2012); Letter from Kathy Mannion, Legislative Advocate, Regional Council of Rural Counties to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (November 21, 2012).
[32] Letter from twenty-three U.S. Senators to Daniel Ashe, Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Jane Lubchenco, Administrator, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (February 1, 2013); Letter from Senator David Vitter, Ranking Member Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works to the Office of Management and Budget (June 24, 2013).
[33] Endangered Species Act, § 4(b)(2), 16 U.S.C. §1533(b)(2) (2003)
[34] FWS often points to Arizona Cattle Growers' Ass'n v. Salazar, 606 F.3d 1160, 1173 (9th Cir. 2010) to support its use of the incremental analysis method. The Arizona Cattle Growers decision addressed only whether or not FWS could properly apply the incremental analysis approach. The court found that it was possible to do so but reaffirmed that use of the regulatory definition of 'adverse modification or destruction' was contrary to law. In contrast in New Mexico Cattle Growers Ass'n vs. FWS, 248 F.3d 1277 (10th Cir. 2001), court determined that "Congress intended that FWS conduct a full analysis of all of the economic impacts of a critical habitat designation, regardless of whether those impacts are attributable co-extensively to other causes." The Tenth Circuit opinion has not been overturned, at best setting up a split amongst the circuits and still calling into question the use of the incremental analysis approach.