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Shane Gleghorn and Liz Williams look at how cut-through clauses can provide more protection for fronting companies than standard market wordings
Cut-through clauses are designed to protect commercial policyholders in major transactions against the consequences of insolvency or cash flow risk by giving a directly enforceable right of action against retrocessionaires.The clause or endorsement purports to allow an insured or a reinsured to compel payment from a reinsurer or retrocessionaire higher up the chain.A cut-through clause is typically used in fronting arrangements where, for example, an insured with a captive insurance program interposes a fronting company between itself and an offshore captive. Invariably, the fronting company enters into the relationship for a fee and does not intend to assume any ultimate risk of loss. The fronting arrangement is designed to ensure that the captive covers all losses, and the fronting company is quarantined from the profits and losses of the underlying business.Typically, the fronting company and the original insured (often a large commercial business) will enter into an initial insurance agreement. A fronting establishment is then completed by the arrangement of a simultaneous 'back-to-back' reinsurance agreement between the fronting company and the (often) offshore captive reinsurer. It has become quite common for the fronting company to insist that it is the beneficiary of a 'cut-through' clause which enables it to claim directly against the retrocessionaires of the captive in the event that the captive is affected by an act of insolvency.Parties entering into these types of deals should be aware that, in the event of the captive's insolvency, there is a risk that the fronting reinsurer may be left without a recovery mechanism against the retrocessionaires of the captive. The cut-through clause may well contravene the relevant insolvency law (normally the law of the country where the captive is incorporated).Thus, a fronting company may be liable to indemnify an underlying insured, but be left without a recovery mechanism against the retrocessionaires of a captive because the cut-through clause is void under the insolvency law of the jurisdiction in which the captive is incorporated. Accordingly, serious consideration must be given to the insolvency law of the relevant offshore jurisdiction before entering into a reinsurance arrangement that purports to protect a fronting reinsurer by the use of a cut-through clause.The Contract (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 (effective as at 10 May 2000) (CRTP) makes it possible under English law to include a cut-through clause in a reinsurance contract so that a ceding company and a reinsurer can agree that the reinsurer shall pay any amounts due to the ceding company to a specified third party. Before the CRTP came into force, English law did not necessarily recognise the rights of third-party beneficiaries and, accordingly, cut-through clauses were considered to be unenforceable because of the lack of privity between the underlying insured and the reinsurer. However, the doctrine of privity has not been statutorily modified in some offshore jurisdictions (e.g. Guernsey and the Cayman Islands), with the result that a cut-through clause in a reinsurance agreement (governed by the law of such an offshore jurisdiction) may be unenforceable.If English law governs a reinsurance or retrocession agreement, it will be possible for the parties to specify that the insured or the fronting company is a beneficiary. The CRTP provides that a third party can enforce a contract if the contract identifies the third party as a beneficiary, either by name or by reference to a particular class or description. This makes it possible to fashion a cut-through clause for either facultative or treaty reinsurance in a way which does not give rise to privity issues.
InsolvencyAlthough it is now possible under English law to include a cut-through clause in a reinsurance contract without causing privity problems, there is a great deal of uncertainty as to whether such a clause contravenes the Insolvency Act 1986. The statute requires equality of treatment of all unsecured creditors, so that, in the event of an insolvency, the debtors' assets can be distributed amongst unsecured creditors on a pari passu basis. This general principle is common to most offshore jurisdictions such as Bermuda, Guernsey, the Cayman Islands and the Isle of Man.The general principle of equality of treatment is reinforced by a number of provisions designed to protect an insolvent company's assets against any form of distribution which prejudices creditors. In particular, section 239 of the Insolvency Act voids any transaction by a company that prefers one creditor over another which takes place within the six months prior to the commencement of insolvency proceedings. Thus, under English law there is a risk of a court determining that a liquidator is entitled to prevent any payment being made pursuant to a cut-through clause on the basis that the insolvent company's creditors are disadvantaged by a direct payment which results in a reduction of the pool of assets available for distribution. Depending on how the cut-through clause is worded and the chronology of events, the 'transaction' which is voided may be the granting of the cut-through clause itself, or a notional assignment of the ceding company's claim against the reinsurer at the time of the insolvency, or a substitution of the insured as loss payee at the time of the insolvency.Furthermore, irrespective of whether the reinsurance contract specifies English law as the governing law, there remains the risk that the liquidator of an offshore captive could apply to the courts of the foreign jurisdiction for an order preventing the captive's retrocessionaires from making a payment directly to the fronting company. For example, a common form of captive program involves an English fronting company entering into a reinsurance agreement with a protected cell company in Guernsey. The Guernsey Protected Cell Companies Ordinance 1997 (PCC Ordinance) provides a statutory framework for a protected cell company to 'ring fence' the assets (e.g. reinsurance contracts) of each cell in the event the company is put into insolvency.This ring fencing mechanism is designed to ensure that the creditors of one cell do not have recourse to the assets of the other cell. However, this mechanism is of no assistance to a fronting company if it is a creditor of a cell that has been put into insolvency.Under section 14 of the PCC Ordinance, no transfer of cellular assets of a particular cell of a cell company may be made except under the authority of the Guernsey Court, and authorisation will not be granted unless the court is satisfied that the creditors of the cell will not be unfairly prejudiced by the transfer. Section 108 of the Companies (Guernsey) Act includes provisions similar to section 239 of the English Insolvency Act.Accordingly, it is possible that a liquidator of a Guernsey-based captive could contend that the fronting company is precluded from relying upon a cut-through clause because the relevant reinsurance contract is an asset of the cell company which cannot be transferred without unfairly prejudicing the other creditors of the cell company.There are arguments under English law to counter the intervention of a liquidator. As payment under a cut-through clause is not made directly by the insolvent company to the specified third party, it is difficult to see how the liquidator could contend that such a payment qualifies as an act done by the insolvent company in breach of section 239. The 1997 case of McMahon v AGF also suggests that the courts are willing to countenance arrangements whereby policyholders are paid by a third party in the event of the insurer's insolvency, even if this possibly disadvantages other creditors. Equally, however, it is at least arguable that the granting of a cut-through clause is itself liable to be set aside if it occurs within the statutory 'claw back' period of six months. Moreover, McMahon involved a takeover scenario rather than a cut-through clause, and therefore there is no authoritative case law that can be relied on to categorically rule out the possibility of a liquidator successfully intervening to claim such reinsurance proceeds.
Credit riskThe problems associated with cut-through clauses highlight the importance of a detailed assessment of the credit risk of the participants when entering into a fronting arrangement. Fronting companies should not rely on a cut-through clause to make good any deficiencies in the captive's credit rating.Its fronting fee is likely to pale into insignificance if it is liable to indemnify an underlying insured for large claims, but unable to recover corresponding payments from the captive in respect of those claims.If, however, the fronting company is satisfied that the captive is solvent (and will continue to remain so), but wishes to have the added protection of a cut-through clause, it will be prudent for the fronting company to:- ensure that the reinsurance agreement between the captive and its retrocessionaire does not contain a blanket exclusion of the provisions of the CRTP without a 'carve out' for the provisions of the cut-through clause; and- have regard to the insolvency law of the jurisdiction in which the captive is incorporated to determine (to the extent it is possible) whether the cut-through clause will be enforceable in the event that the captive is put into insolvency.The lesson for fronting companies is that it will be prudent to give serious consideration to the drafting of a bespoke cut-through clause that is informed by the insolvency law of the relevant jurisdiction. Mere reliance on standard market wordings may not offer the fronting company sufficient protection.

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U.S. Government Support for Prosecution
Some USG officials claim Washington preferred prosecution as a means of realizing the precise transitional justice goals USG officials sought. Among those goals, deterrence against future violence, both in the short-term and long-term and both locally and throughout the region, was prioritized highly.188
The USG clearly also sought to punish the genocidaires. Clinton declared in a 1998 speech in Rwanda: "We must punish the [genocide] leaders, and then we can have justice for everyone else."189 Most USG officials, including Scheffer, Stanton, Matheson, and Lake, viewed prosecution as a likely mechanism for meting out optimal punishment.190 Besides its retributive nature, punishment (e.g, through imprisonment) featured the added benefit of incapacitating geno- cidaires in the region, which was a third transitional justice goal of the USG.191 USG officials involved in the decision also sought as a fourth transitional justice goal to establish the historical record, which was considered crucial to determining what occurred during the genocide and to delegitimize the regime that had been in power at that time.192 Prosecution had yet another benefit in that it could accomplish most of the transitional justice goals that alternatives would have yielded. For example, prosecution, like amnesty, can establish the truth and provide accountability.193
Besides fulfilling certain transitional justice goals, a second main reason explaining the road to prosecution was that it was the only legal option avail- able.194 Christopher's June 30, 1994, testimony to the U.S./SCFR had stated that the international community, including the USG, had an obligation under the 1948 Genocide Convention to punish acts of genocide. That treaty also requires all signatories, including the United States, to prosecute genocide perpetrators.195
Some USG officials, such as Matheson, claim that a third reason underlying the USG's preference for prosecution was the lack of urgency to make any deal or to be lenient with genocidaires as part of a power transfer as they were no longer in power. This situation, Matheson stated, rendered amnesty, exile, and lustration unnecessary.196
Fourth, USG officials such as Bushnell, Stanton, and Bennet, claim that support for prosecutions followed from the U.S. tradition to investigate and prosecute after a crime.197 As a fifth argument, USG officials contend that the logistical challenges of dealing with a large number of genocidaires generated a belief that some alternatives to prosecution were impractical, even impossible. Regarding exile, Shattuck argues, "[g]iven the enormous number of people involved in the genocide, there was just no practical way to imagine exile."198 Similarly, regarding the use of lethal force, Matheson states, "it is not as though we could have sent in individual assassins. The genocidaires were too numerous and they had to be dealt with in other ways."199
A sixth rationale concerns the USG's foreign policy toolbox. War crimes prosecutions clearly have been an effective arrow in that quiver; thus, the USG was equipped and institutionally prepared to support prosecutions for Rwanda. Indeed, no other option was as prominent in the toolbox. For example, Bushnell claims that the USG did not support one of the alternatives to prosecution—lethal force—specifically because it was not part of the USG foreign policy repertoire.200
Shattuck and Scheffer argue that the ongoing precedent of prosecuting suspected perpetrators of the FRY atrocities served as a final reason USG officials sought to prosecute genocidaires, especially as the Rwandan genocide was considered even more horrendous than the Balkans crisis.201
Even though some governments, such as in Tanzania,202 floated the idea of amnesty, and some individuals, such as the GoR's own Minister for Rehabilitation and Social Integration, suggested it as a mechanism for "passive participants in the violence,"203 the international community (including the USG) did not widely or seriously consider amnesty as an alternative to prosecution in post-genocide Rwanda. Given that supporting amnesty featured in USG decision-making as recently as three years earlier (when the USG contributed 40 percent of the budget for El Salvador's 1991 Commission on the Truth204), it is important to understand why the USG never seriously considered the same policy for Rwanda. In addition, the USG apparently did not consider any of the other proactive but non-prosecutorial transitional justice options: exile, lustration, indefinite detention, and lethal force.
Some alternatives to prosecution, such as amnesty, were not considered because USG officials saw them as incapable of providing optimal transitional justice and possibly capable of fomenting additional conflict and impunity. Shattuck argues that, if genocidaires were granted amnesty, their victims would have sought revenge, leading to further violence.205 Similarly, Stanton argues that, if genocidaires were allowed to flee into exile, more violence would have occurred, as genocidaires would have continued killing.206 Some USG officials, such as Shattuck, also regarded the use of lethal force as lacking deterring force against further conflict or, even worse, perhaps facilitating it.207 The USG also did not consider alternatives such as exile, amnesty, and lustration because, according to Lake, Matheson, Shattuck, and Stanton, the USG viewed these options as inappropriate and incapable of providing sufficient punishment for the egregiousness of the genocide.208


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The Art of Persuasion
"You can't think about it. You just have to do it. You said you were gonna do it. Like I don't get why you aren't." Michelle Carter, found guilty of manslaughter, encouraged her boyfriend over text messages to commit suicide.
She texted him dozens of times saying things like: "You can't keep living this way." And, "Just do it, babe." The messages continued for days until finally her boyfriend, Conrad Roy, died of carbon monoxide poisoning in his truck.
One of the reasons this case is controversial is because Michelle Carter was not at the scene of the crime. She was put on trial for the power of her own persuasion.
The Greek philosopher, Aristotle, listed several reasons for learning the art of persuasion. Some of them include:
- Persuasion is an excellent tool for teaching.
- Arguing both sides of the equation will lead to a more informed decision.
- Persuasion is an excellent way to defend oneself.
Elocution was the highest standard for a politician at that time, however many other professions benefited from persuasion. Business, sales, and certainly law have all used the art of persuasion to gain successful results. While many people expect the practice when dealing with various companies, relationships may also have their own form of persuasion.
A number of tactics may be used by persuasive partners who choose to manipulate. Some of these include:
- Emotional blackmail. Some partners may use rage or threats to control their significant other. Shame also works as a controlling method.
- Using charm and money is another way to control a person or situation.
- Lying. Whether the truth is completely misrepresented, or whether there is a grain of truth, bending the facts can often warp another's decision or perception of a situation.
- Denying. If a partner states a 'fact' that only has a grain of truth to it and is caught lying, they may try to deny it. They may say things like: You know what I mean. They may also deny they knew they were lying because their lie stemmed from a fractured truth.
- Blame. By shifting the emphasis off a mistake, the distraction becomes the focus. For instance, if the manipulator is caught lying, it may be in his best interest to say someone else was the cause for his behavior.
- Guilt and Flattery. Often the two go hand and hand. By preying upon the social niceties that most of us follow, lots of people have a hard time refusing a favor if they were just paid a compliment. If they do decide to refuse, they then may be guilted.
Often times it is hard for a partner to understand if they are being manipulated. Common signs of manipulation include:
- The partner's words are twisted around to benefit the manipulator.
- The manipulator accuses his partner of "not hearing things properly" when inconsistencies in stories arise.
- The partner feels guilty and doesn't know why.
- The manipulator feels his partner's problems or feelings do not matter as much as his.
- The partner is afraid of the manipulator's anger
- The partner is unhappy in the relationship, but dreads losing it.
- The partner is not sure where she stands with her partner.
- The partner feels as if she is walking on egg shells.
- The partner feels defensive.
- The partner finds herself going against her values.
- The partner's boundaries have changed.
After Michelle Carter's boyfriend was found dead in a K Mart parking lot, Michelle posted on Facebook: "Even though I could not save my boyfriend's life, I want to put myself out there to try to save as many other lives as possible."
It appears that Michelle Carter wanted attention from her boyfriend's suicide and manipulated her way into getting it. Not only did she do nothing to prevent the suicide, she instructed him to continue the attempt until completion. Although some said she wanted to be of service to others by posting a supporting message on Facebook, most found Michelle to be manipulative to the extreme of severe abuse. Since relationships are often complicated, most of us will never know the exact nature of their connection. The total lack of control felt by one was the entire essence of power for the other.
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Enoch and the Calendar of Enoch
- Enoch: Tribulation Witness
- Is the Book of Enoch Inspired?
- Enoch's Prophecy of 7 cycles of 490
- Part One: How the 364-day calendar works
- Enoch calendar is also Pi to 22nd decimal
(This represents my earliest work on Pi. While accurate, the final formula is explained at this link.)
The following formula is 1000 times more accurate than NASA uses for all its space endeavors. Yet it unfolds Enoch's calendar (and all calendars) and is the numerical sum of much that is found in nature and the Bible.
As discussed in previous documents, (written before this formula was discovered)…
- 364 days is a year on Enoch's calendar
- 365 days is a solar Year
- 25920 and 25800 years are the "Great Year", that is, Precession of the Equinox. And as the 1/25920th part of a day (and thus 1/25800th, too), it is the smallest unit according to Babylonian and Rabinnic reckoning (= 3.33… seconds)
There are different ways to present the same formula. We begin with the simplest.
The Rod of Enoch is Pi π!
Ponder the first term and Gen 1:14-16; 2:2; Lev 23:39.
The below formula is the same as the above but instead of adding "one second" it adds 3½ "parts" instead. (A "part" is the smallest part of a day according to Jewish and Babylonian reckoning.)
The numerator (circumference) equals "≈ 1000 Years of Precession as if just one day, and a day as 1000 Years", (2Pet 3:8).
Daniel's "seventy weeks"
This is part of an ongoing series on the Calendar of Enoch.
The above formula is the subtle blueprint that underlies all biblical patterns and of time itself.
Other methods of the same formula
Below is the formula of the ratio of Perimeter to Circumference expressed as a fraction.
y/((11/14) y – (42 + (2/7) P – (1/70^2) p)/Y) /. {Y -> 365, y -> 364, P -> 1/25920, p -> 1/25800}
(Four divided into the above = π rationalized, i.e., 178087601141201/56687044050000.)
The formula multiplied by 1 season of Enoch (91)
I will elaborate later, especially the rationalization of π using continual fractions, how that it unravels the above formula in stages.
'The Rod of Pi' Fractal
Fractals are formed by variations of circles -Pi.
Enoch and the Calendar of Enoch
- Enoch: Tribulation Witness
- Is the Book of Enoch Inspired?
- Enoch's Prophecy of 7 cycles of 490
- Part One: How the 364-day calendar works
- Enoch calendar is also Pi to 22nd decimal
The Math of the Bible Fractals
It is also the math of the fractals and its arrangements.


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Norfolk MP Liz Truss has agreed that the A47 needs immediate attention, just days after the government snubbed pleas for cash to improve the road.
At the Conservative party conference the chancellor Sajid Javid outlined a raft of road and infrastructure spending, but to the dismay of many who use the A47 no works to duel the stretch were included.
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According to a 2009 survey, 88% of Georgians prefer khachapuri to pizza. It is more popular among men and older people. As a Georgian staple food, the price of making khachapuri is used as a measure of inflation in different Georgian cities by the Khachapuri index, developed by the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University.
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There are several distinctive types of khachapuri in Georgian food from different regions of Georgia:
- Imeretian (Imeruli) khachapuri, which is circular and probably the most common type.
- Adjarian (Acharuli/Adjaruli) khachapuri, in which the dough is formed into an open boat shape and the hot pie is topped with a raw egg and a pat of butter before serving.
- Mingrelian (Megruli) khachapuri, similar to Imeritian but with more cheese added on top.
- Achma, from Abkhazia, which has multiple layers and looks more like a sauceless lasagna.
- Gurian (Guruli) khachapuri has boiled eggs inside the dough and looks like a calzone. Arguably, it is not a type of khachapuri. Gurians make them for Christmas and call them simply 'Christmas pie'. In the rest of Georgia, it is called 'Gurian pie'.
- Ossetian (Osuri) khachapuri, which has potato, as well as cheese in its filling. It is commonly called Khabizgini.
- Svanuri khachapuri
- Rachuli khachapuri
- Penovani khachapuri is made with puff pastry dough, resulting in a flaky variety of the pie.
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Ont. gets record $2B from lottery agency
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Published Friday, June 24, 2011 5:34PM EDT
TORONTO - Ontario's lottery agency is paying out $2 billion in cash to the province after a year of record-breaking revenue.
The dividend payment, which is worth almost 10 per cent of the province's budget deficit, will help fund hospitals, schools and other public initiatives like amateur sports, the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. said Friday.
The $2-billion payout -- the biggest since 2003 -- is drawn from the $6.7 billion in total revenue the OLG earned for the fiscal year ending March 31.
OLG president Rod Phillips said the efforts of employees and executives to maximize agency profits are behind the banner year.
The agency came under fire last year in a report from the provincial auditor general, who found OLG executives were making questionable expenses, spending agency money on company cars, sports tickets and boat cruises.
Paul Godfrey, who was appointed chairman of the organization following the spending scandal, said the OLG's stellar earnings are partly due to restored public trust in the agency, which now posts executives' travel and hospitality expenses online.
"We've tried to prove to the public in many ways that the integrity of the OLG is solid as a rock," he said.
OLG staff are also getting their share of the revenue boon.
The agency's 6,000 employees will make an average of just under $2,000 each in performance-based compensation on top of their base salary, Godfrey said.
That means $11.6 million was spent last year on topping up staff paycheques even though salaries were frozen under a government belt-tightening drive.
The compensation scheme was negotiated with employees and can't be changed retroactively, Godfrey said.
"If somebody had a problem with that they should have told us at the beginning of the year, not the end of the year," he added.
Phillips said there's no doubt the provincial economy is still going through "difficult times," but that the OLG dividend helps take pressure off taxpayers' wallets.
The agency is looking to launch an online casino next year to cash in on the popularity of foreign gambling websites, which are illegal in Canada but rake in an estimated $400 million in bets each year in the province.
Godfrey said the OLG is aware of heightened public concern over online security after several high-profile cyber attacks this year that saw users' personal information stolen.
The website won't be given the green light until the OLG is "comfortable" that they can guarantee gamblers' privacy, he said.
NDP critic Peter Kormos said the agency needs to provide more details on how it makes its money before it gives people more ways to gamble.
An OLG financial statement given to Queen's Park annually doesn't break down how much each of its lottery, casino and sports-betting products brings in, Kormos said.
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American Business Media found its 2012 Timothy White Award honoree in Tom Shoop, editor-in-chief and vice president with Government Executive Media Group. Shoop will receive the award at the 58th Annual Neal Awards, set for March 16 at the Mandarin Oriental in New York City.
Shoop joined Government Executive in 1989, and acted as a feature writer for the following six years. He then quickly moved through the editorial ranks at the publication: he became executive editor in 1995; helped launch GovExec.com in 1996; moved to the editor-in-chief position in 2007 and was named vice president in 2010. Prior to joining Government Executive, Shoop was a supervising editor at Macmillan Publishing.
"When you work for a company like Atlantic Media, whose flagship magazine has published writers from Frederick Douglass to Martin Luther King, Jr., it's humbling to say the least to accept an award for editorial courage and independence," Shoop tells FOLIO:. "But I'm happy to do so knowing that the honor really recognizes the work of the Government Executive staff, who are out there every day doing bold, brave reporting about how government works — and doesn't. I'm privileged to be able to lead and support their efforts."
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Hack Tairāwhiti 2.0 launches today, and builds upon the success of last year's event in Gisborne which fostered indigenous innovators who act locally and expand globally. In 2018 the 48 hour hackathon brought together Maori tech exporters and the country's top tech talent in a collaborative environment to solve a range of business problems.
In 2019 NZTE and Datacom, in conjunction with local regional partners, will invite 10 businesses to work with over 100 business leaders, technologists, creatives, designers, entrepreneurs and investors for the Hackathon which will be held from 17 to 19 May at the Waikanae Surf Life Saving Club on Gisborne's main beach.
Kerry Topp, Datacom's Associate Director of Transformation and Innovation, said:
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Speaking at an annual gathering of industrial executives, Wall Street analysts and investors Wednesday in Florida, GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt outlined GE's strategy as a simplified, digital industrial company with an increased focus on digital and additive technologies like 3D printing.
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Buncha Lead Found In Ceramic Cultural Crockery
While traveling you might be tempted to pick a neat piece of handmade tableware, like a bright red spoon in a Chinatown shop or a wonderfully molded Mexican jug. But besides memories, you might be bringing back home an unexpected stowaway: lead.
CBS5 in Sacramento had 10 pieces of crockery they purchased tested for lead content. 8 of them came back with very high levels.
One red Chinese spoon had 2,400 parts per million and a yellow Chinese bowl had 5,800 parts per million. The concern is that the lead inside the objects could leach onto the surface of the plates and enter your body if you eat off them.
Lead is great in paint because it's a very cheap way to make colors shinier and richer. Unfortunately it is also toxic.
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Skilled trades workers also hit by Ford drive to favour the rich
DON'T FORGET ABOUT THE BUILDING TRADES. Doug Ford hasn't. The Ontario premier has it in for them every bit as much as he does for Ontario teachers, nurses and health care workers. For the exact same reasons.
Ford wants to favour the rich: any way he can and any where he can. No one is safe: not teachers, not nurses, not public service workers—and not construction workers.
Ford changed the law regulating how apprentices get their journeyman papers in Ontario. The changes will allow big time contractors to hire more apprentices at lower pay. The contractors love it. Workers in the "building trades" not so much.
Double damage
The changes will do double damage to construction workers: first, to the job security of fully skilled journeyman trades workers; second, to the safety of the apprentices themselves.
The old law tied an employer's ability to train apprentices to the number of journeypersons in their employ. The Ford changes lowered that standard so that all journeyperson‐to‐apprentice ratios are now "one-to-one" for the 33 construction trades that are subject to ratios.
Big time builders were ecstatic. J.G Burtch, owner of Construction Enterprises Ltd. bragged to the Ontario Home Builders Association, "I can hire three journeymen AND three apprentices!" This opens the possibility for contractors to double their workforce without coming close to doubling their wage bill. Apprentice wages are low—sometimes only 30% of the rate paid to qualified red-seal tradespeople.
Plus, apprentices are expendable. Their value on the job is low and they are easy to replace.
There is nothing new here. University of British Columbia professor John Meredith points out, "Apprentices have been used as cheap labour since the days of the medieval guilds."
Experienced workers under threat
John Bourke is the business manager for IBEW (Internatioal Brotherhood of Electrical Workers) Local 586, in Ottawa. He says if contractors are allowed to hire more apprentices it will lead to massive layoffs for the qualified and experienced electricians and other trades.
He says the one-apprentice to one-journeyman ratio is like having 50% student teachers and 50% qualified teachers in schools.
"When those teachers graduated there wouldn't wouldn't be enough jobs. Apprentices are learning the trade on the job from journeyman, so there is a direct correlation to the Ford government's ending of class size limits in schools."
Human cost is the real question
Laird Cronk says when you reduce the ratio of journeymen to apprentices, "there is an obvious correlation between that and an increased risk of injuries." Cronk is president of the B.C Federation of Labour. He worked in the trades for 33 years as a "red seal" electrician.
There's no question allowing more apprentices on the job is a big cost-saving for the industry, says Cronk. "The real question," he says, "is what is the human cost?"
The human cost in British Columbia is clear and scary. The law in BC does not set any ratio at all on the number of apprentices per journeyman. BC is also the province with the highest rate of injuries in the skilled trades in Canada.
A 2017 study by the BC Federation of Labour found the injury rate for BC tradespeople was nearly four times the injury rate among skilled tradespeople in Ontario.
For James Barry, executive of the IBEW Construction Council of Ontario the connection is obvious. "BC has the worst safety record and no ratios."
Unions carry on
For John Bourke and IBEW Local 586 in Ottawa the battle continues. "Our job as unions, and me as a business manager, is to make sure that our members are working, no matter what the government of the day does.
"My own personal opinion is that I just ask that the government of the day listen to us and don't ignore us. If we can improve our employment stats, thats what we need to do."
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The current industrial climate is conducive for starting industrial projects and the unemployed youths should take advantage of the same and come forward to launch their own ventures, observed speakers at the valediction of the ten day long Entrepreneurship Development Programme which concluded here on Friday.
The programme was conducted by the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (CED), a training institute approved by Khadi Village Industries Commission, Government of India and State Department of Industries and Commerce under the Prime Minister's Employment Generation Programme.
M. Muthuraman, Senior Manager, Indian Bank, called upon the trainees to start their own ventures and approach the banks for getting financial support for their projects.
S. M. Rasumani, General Manager, District Industries Centre, in his special address said explained the various concessions offered by the government for launching their own ventures.
K. Kala, Programme Officer, CED, offered felicitations. Mr. Muthuraman gave away certificates to all the trainees at the end.
During the training programme, experts handled various sessions. The participants also interacted with the government officials, resource persons and successful entrepreneurs. They also made industrial visits to SIPCOT Complex and SIDCO Industrial Estate here to gain first hand information on the functioning of the industrial units.
The participants of the training programme, numbering 20, had obtained financial assistance ranging from Rs. 50,000 to Rs. 25 lakhs for starting industrial ventures like coconut fibre and coir products, readymade garments, brick, hallow block, gem cutting and polishing nits, iron and steel fabrication works, digital colour lab, chapel and rexin bags making projects, soap company etc.
S. Prithiviraj, president, Small Scale Industries (NSM Enterprises) Association of Pudukottai District, had earlier inaugurated the training programme.


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Low Sizergh Barn Farm Trail, Kendal
The free Farm Trail at Low Sizergh Barn takes you on an easy 1.75 mile circular (muddy!) walk through the ancient woodland
The free Farm Trail at Low Sizergh Barn takes you on an easy 1.75 mile circular (muddy!) walk through the ancient woodland
A brilliant, easy and exciting walk to the "fairy steps" at Beetham.
We had an absolutely brilliant family walk today at Latrigg, just outside of Keswick. It was wonderful for multiple reasons… free car parking, parking close to the summit, 360 degree views, glorious sunshine and snow!
We will continue our mission to find the cave at Arnside Knott. Please do let us know if you have any more information on it!
One of the great things about the walk to Arnside Knott, is that you can drive up half of it, which made it infinitely easier for our 3 year old's little legs! Although if you want to, you can of course walk from Arnside village itself.
If you wish to simply circumnavigate Dunmallard Hill, then go through the gate next to the large sign post and turn either left of right. This will take you all the way round and back to the car park. You can also follow the path that takes you to the top from here.
The "mushroom" at Scout Scar, in between Underbarrow and Kendal in the south east Lake District is a popular, and rewarding easy walk for locals and tourists alike.
Cunswick Scar is an easy 3 mile circular walk, with only a small amount of gradient. Beautiful views over Kentmere, the SE lakes and Kendal.


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I did this piece up real quick for Warren Ellis' Whitechapel community. One of the topics every week is a REMAKE/REMODEL of an old forgotten comic book/pulp character. This week was 'The Octopus'.
You can also check it out (along with pieces by other artists) at the website HERE.
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The Octopus, Ink/Digital Color, May '09
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
For Warren Ellis' Whitechapel REMAKE/REMODEL
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Bulls won't look to trade up for higher lottery pick
Don't expect the Chicago Bulls to shock the NBA Draft room once again this season, as the franchise won't be looking to make any eye-opening trades during this year's iteration.
The Bulls wound up with the seventh overall pick in this year's NBA Draft Lottery, the same slot they selected rookie Lauri Markkanen with last offseason after trading cornerstone Jimmy Butler for Zach LaVine, Kris Dunn and swapping selections with the Minnesota Timberwolves.
"That's a long way off," Bulls VP John Paxson said, when posed with the possibility of pulling that off again, according to Darnell Mayberry of The Athletic. "We may not even want to do that, and it's hard to do — to trade up — unless you have something really valuable."
"Obviously, you'd love to get up there so you can control things for your franchise. But we got Lauri [Markkanen] last year at seven. I'm very confident that we'll get a player that we like a lot and will fit the direction we're heading with the seventh pick."
Paxon however, isn't opposed to drafting a player despite a conflict of position — looking to garner the best talent available once the franchise is called upon to make a selection.
"Absolutely not," he said. "We talk about needs, and we obviously have some needs that I've spoken about before," Paxson continued. "But most times we've gone down our board and the best player available, we've taken."
Players like Kris Dunn and Bobby Portis have taken huge strides this season, but could likely see some competition, according to how the dominoes fall on draft night.


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FC Halifax Town have a real test on their hands as they face play-off chasing AFC Fylde at Mill Farm on Friday.
Fylde have boasted some of the season's biggest results and look a force to be reckoned with going forward.
The man that spearheads their phenomenal attack is Danny Rowe, the National League top scorer, who has currently netted 22 times in the competition.
However, it is the Shaymen who go into this game with the stronger form. Unbeaten in six since Jamie Fullarton took charge, Town have picked up 13 points from a possible 24. (3W, 4D, 1L)
Halifax's last defeat came back in mid-February, where the Shaymen fell to a 2-1 defeat at home to Ebbsfleet.
However, Town bounced back, with impressive wins against fellow strugglers Hartlepool and Woking, whilst also clinching a superb three points at playoff chasing Dagenham and Redbridge.
Fylde, on the other hand, have suffered disappointing defeats in their last eight games, picking up zero points against all of Guiseley, Leyton Orient and most recently Dagenham and Redbridge.
The Coasters lost 2-0 to a spirited Dagenham performance at the weekend, their first loss in three games.
However, Fylde also have some superb results under their belts with strong wins against Dover and Gateshead respectively.
However, one of the results of the season came at the start of the month, as Fylde romped to a thumping 7-1 win over then third placed Aldershot.
Danny Rowe grabbed himself a 20-minute hat trick to see the home side enter the break 4-1 ahead and would not be discouraged as Sam Finley saw red and went on to slot home another three.
This is Fylde's biggest result of the season, however, incredibly, they can also boast a 5-2 victory over promotion challengers Tranmere and a 6-0 win over joint league leaders Macclesfield; a side not to shy away from a big game.
Let's look at some more pre-match stats going into this game:
- Fylde's home form is rather impressive, placing them fifth in the home table, picking up 35 points from the 20 games played at Mill Farm.
- The Shaymen, on the other hand, have a much less superior away record: 17th in the away table with just 21 points from 20 games on the road.
- However, Halifax are unbeaten in their last four away games, with three draws and one win.
- The Coasters are unbeaten in their last three home games, with two wins and one draw.
- AFC Fylde have conceded at least one goal in their last five home games and in all their last nine National League games as of late.
- Town's defence is going to have to be resolute in this fixture, as Fylde boast the strongest attack in the league, scoring 71 goals in just 39 games.
- Compared to Halifax, who have scored 42 goals in 39 games, which places them 20th in the offense table.
- On the other hand, Halifax have the better defensive record in the National League, conceding 49 goals.
- Fylde have conceded two more goals than the Shaymen this season, their total of goals let in being 51.
- This is supported by Halifax's ability to keep more clean sheets than the Coasters, managing to keep the opposition out in 38% of games compared to Fylde's just 30%.
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College of Saint Elizabeth Awarded National Science Foundation Grant to Help Underrepresented Populations Pursue Biology
Morristown, NJ, October 6, 2017 — The College of Saint Elizabeth (CSE) is one of six collaborating higher education institutions awarded a $4.4 million National Science Foundation S-STEM Grant to help traditionally underrepresented populations of undergraduate students to pursue and succeed in the field of biology.
Sixty percent of the funding is for student scholarships, and forty percent will enhance academic programming and advising support. The STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) Scholars Program will begin in January 2018 for a five-year period. Continue reading


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What I am attempting here is a bit difficult. And as a dear friend put it "a bit tricky". It is about men or in this case 'a man' (another dear friend) who put his foot down against dowry and a splurgy wedding. He prevailed. To some extent at least. There are few good men who say no to dowry in India, especially when it is an arranged marriage. This friend is one of them and may his tribe grow.
For anonymity's sake, I will refer to him as 'My Friend'. He got engaged last year. My Friend, an ex-IITian, works in the NGO sector, his fiancé has been selected for a prestigious government job. Both belong to modest middle class backgrounds, both lost their fathers when they were still studying and while My Friend is the second youngest and the only son among four siblings, his fiancé is the eldest of the three sisters.
A little more about the fiancé — she lost her father to an illness, the treatment of which sapped most of their savings. They at least had a house, which was a huge relief. With the sole breadwinner gone, the high-school going daughters had started taking tuitions to sustain the family. They did so through school, college and through the time they prepared for entrance exams. All three have qualified for bank jobs now- two in government banks and one in a private bank.
The date for the marriage is set for April next year. In India, the rituals in traditional marriages are designed in such a way that the bride's family ends up bearing most of the financial burden. And then kicks in the societal pressure. A pressure to give, a pressure to show the world that 'they can'.
Having been through tough financial times, the bride's mother wanted to prove that she can. Especially to those who believed that with three daughters she was doomed to be miserable. But now we can all agree that with successful daughters she doesn't have to prove anything to anyone.
Though a lavish wedding was always on the radar they were a bit hesitant about approaching My Friend's family. The concerns were dowry demands. So My Friend approached the girl's family instead and explained that he doesn't want anything at all, they shouldn't worry and that he would prefer a very low-key marriage. He often laughs about it —"In the family circle I swing between being a fool and being a god for telling them I am against dowry".
With that taken care of, the next hurdle was the lavish wedding. By lavish we are talking about spending Rs 6-7 lakhs in a tier III city– with a big hotel, fancy arrangements, taking care of multiple rituals and inviting a whole host of people. "Neither of us have that kind of money. They would have dug into all their savings for something as futile as this." It took him a good six months to convince them against this. His fiancé's family wasn't too happy with this decision but his family stood by him. Now both sides have agreed to scale it down. "I would have preferred one ceremony for the entire marriage. That couldn't happen. At least now both of us are bearing the expenses equally, as much as is possible."
'Dowry' in India is usually payment in cash or in kind (in the form of expensive gifts like jewellery, car, home appliances and in some cases property) given to the groom by the bride's family. This is one of the regressive manifestations of the patriarchal system prevalent in our country today where parents begin to accumulate dowry for their daughter almost from the day she is born. So deep set is the bias against women in India that it is irrelevant if she is financially independent; she is still seen as a burden, who parents want to get rid of at the earliest — even if it means paying to do so. And then there are the social pressures.
Though dowry is illegal in India and a punishable offence under the Dowry Prohibition Act 1961 it continues to be rampant . The demands range from the usual like cash, car, furniture, clothes and what not to the outrageous like arranging a lavish wedding, paying for all the rituals and pandering to the bloated egos of the groom's immediate and extended family.
The demand for dowry is a bottomless pit. Women continue to be killed for not meeting dowry demands. Over a decade ago, My Friend's eldest sister was burnt by her husband and in-laws. Dowry was one of the reasons. She would have become yet another statistic but she survived with 62% burns. She was brought home with two young children in tow. She battled depression for years before getting back on her feet. She now teaches in a government school.
But many are not as fortunate as My Friend's sister. National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data shows that in 2013, India reported 8083 dowry deaths (Sec 304 B IPC). Uttar Pradesh (UP) and Bihar registered the maximum cases with 2335 and 1182 deaths respectively. In 2012, the total incidents of dowry deaths was 8233 with UP and Bihar recording the highest number of dowry deaths with 2244 and 1275 respectively . Both UP and Bihar have been repeat offenders for quite some time .
My Friend often jokes that since his fiancé is the one with the government job, he should be paying the dowry. "A prospective groom with a government job comes with a big price tag in my state." A strong proponent of gender equality, he adds, "in my case, it should be applicable the other way round."
The author is with policy, research, campaigns, Oxfam India
Watch the movie 498A: The Wedding Gift
The only people who are harassed for dowry are men, who must be earning a fat paycheck every month for starters to even be considered for marriage, and then at the time of marriage buy expensive jewellery, diamond rings, gifts for the bride's entire family, and when things go awry in marriages, are harassed by women for dowry settlement worth lacs, alimony, and usurp half of a man's property after a divorce.
Women are the abusers. Men are the abused.
Dowry is now only an evil that men are accused of. Divorce happens? File a case under ipc 498A, accuse your innocent husband with 0 evidence, get some money and live a happy life. No one will give this corrupted case a second glance. Instead, you'll receive praises and assurances from your well wishers who tell you to 'stay strong'. And your husband? He rots in jail, regretting the thought of marriage.
No woman needs to bring dowry from her family. No men has to measure the amount of money they need to spend on the Bride's family. Please understand that Dowry has come as a culture when the Bride's families are unable to find eligible Bachelors. Dowry became a culture but never has an evident reason or logic behind. Atleast the educated families need to understand that Dowry is not a healthy activity in any of the marriages. Women are just as equal as men in every aspect. Either pay dowry from both sides or try to make your own wedding. The suggestion might be debatable, but I believe if the couple decides to spend their own money to get married, the culture of 50-50 expenses would come into picture. I understand that its the families that wish a lavish wedding for their kids and involve themselves in the marriage expenditure.
I have a curious thinking if most Indian men will ever consider spending their own expenses to get married?? Happy to know


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