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Fragile states are plagued by two structural problems—political identity fragmentation and weak national institutions—that together preclude the formation of any robust governing system, severely undermining the legitimacy of the state and leading to political orders that are highly unstable and hard to reform (see table for four possible political orders).
The political fragmentation directly impinges on the ability of these countries to foster the positive institutional environment necessary to encourage productive economic, political, and social behavior because it undermines the usefulness of traditional informal institutional systems and squanders built-up social capital while disabling attempts to construct robust formal governing bodies. The net result is societies with low levels of interpersonal trust and extraordinarily high transaction costs.
It also warps incentives, encouraging short-term opportunism at the expense of long-term investments that could advance development. Society becomes obsessed by the conflict between identity groups, not with generating wealth or increasing national prestige. Meanwhile, formal governing bodies and regulations, disconnected from their surrounding environments, and not having become an integral part of the informal institutional frameworks that guide people’s behavior, command only superficial allegiance and compliance. Real life goes on outside them. State laws go unheeded because no one acknowledges them as legitimate. Corrupt governments, biased courts, and weak property rights are a natural product of such conditions.
The illegitimacy and poor governance that debilitate fragile countries can be traced to many factors—colonialism, for instance—that have combined to detach states from their environments, governments from their societies, and elites from their citizens. Whereas a successful state uses local identities, local capacities, and local institutions to promote its development, a dysfunctional country’s state structures undermine all of these indigenous assets. As a consequence, a dysfunctional state cannot leverage its people’s histories and customs to construct effective formal institutions with wide legitimacy; nor can it draw on the social capital embedded in cohesive groups to facilitate economic, political, and social intercourse; and nor is it able to employ the traditional governing capacities of its citizens to run the affairs of state.
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Making States Work: State Failure and the Crisis of Governance
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Defying inclement weather, an audience at Old West Church, Boston, was richly rewarded with an excellent recital by Italian organist Francesco Cera on Friday, September 28. Playing the renowned C. B. Fisk organ, Cera offered a first half of early Italian keyboard and organ music, a repertoire still comparatively unfamiliar here; his second half was entirely of works by Johann Sebastian Bach. Academicians could argue whether the Italian pieces were intended for the harpsichord or the organ, but this colorful and idiomatic performance rendered such debate superfluous. As composers of this period did not specify stop choices, the performer has both opportunity and responsibility. Cera’s registrations were both imaginative and exemplary.
Our attention was seized immediately by Cera’s dramatic account of Toccata terza by Michelangelo Rossi (1601-1656). The third of ten toccatas, it is akin to a “stream-of-consciousness” improvisation with sharply contrasted sections, replete with hair-raising dissonances and wonderfully outlandish chord progressions. The organist’s range of touch was well displayed, from sustained nobility to nimble dance to scintillating display.
Several pieces of Rossi’s teacher, Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643), provided a small sampling of the many forms in which this great master of counterpoint gave expression to his genius. The Bergamasca was akin to a miniature dance suite featuring, among others, a delicately feminine section on a 4′-stop, a chordal bit on a trumpet stop for masculine contrast, and a vigorous jig on the Cremona reed stop. The Toccata quarta da sonarsi alla levatione was notable for its occasional dissonances which could seem almost modern. Also, we heard here a reasonable facsimile of the unique sound of the classical Italian voce umana, a gently undulating foundation stop bearing no relation to the reed stop vox humana found in non-Italian organs. Finally, the Capriccio sopra ut re mi fa sol la, as the name implies, is based on the first six notes of the major scale and is comprised of some 11 sections. As before, Cera provided a lesson in thoughtful choice of stops. The musical contrasts were equally pronounced, here spinning out an exquisite line on a single stop, there a quicksilver display on the plenum.
The Passacaglia in G Minor of Bernardo Pasquini (1637-1710) brought us forward a half-century. The term passacaglia is derived from the Spanish pasar (to walk) and calle (street). By Bach’s time the term most often denoted a repeating basso ostinato in triple meter with variations over it, but Pasquini’s work, chordal from the start, is slightly closer to Johann Pachelbel’s Canon than to Bach’s famous Passacaglia. Here Cera, content to subtly vary the articulation from one variation to the next, made fewer changes of registration.
Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725), a close associate of Pasquini and Arcangelo Corelli, was primarily famous as an opera composer, and, unlike his son Domenico, wrote relatively little keyboard music. Nonetheless, Alessandro’s Toccata del primo tono is sufficiently substantial that we heard only three excerpts from it: Allegro, Cantabile, and Fuga. The first section fit the stereotype of the late Baroque toccata, i.e., a display piece with rapid passagework and arpeggiated chords. Cera’s fingerwork remained wonderfully clear within his very fast tempo. The fittingly named Cantabile, played on a single 8′ Principal, had the character of a florid bel canto line sung by a gifted vocal artist. The ornamentation became ever greater, and soon enough there was a brief recapitulation of the Allegro material serving as a bridge to the concluding Fuga. The fugue subject somewhat resembled that of Bach’s famous Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565; here too the polyphony was not especially sophisticated, the subject always primus inter pares among the voices. In fact, the fugue soon devolved into a repeating left-hand pattern, and the right hand itself was repetitive enough for a time to make one think of Philip Glass; then almost without warning the right hand erupted in fireworks, particularly a blitz of down-rushing scales, nearing the end of the work. Cera’s fine, theatrical performance made me want to hear him play Scarlatti’s entire Toccata.
The latter half of the program began with seven chorale preludes from Bach’s Orgelbüchlein. Cera played with clear articulation, expressivity, and sometimes unconventional but effective registrations. Lob sei dem allmächtigen Gott (Praise be to the almighty God), a case in point, bristled with exuberance that was pointed up by a registration purely of trumpet stops. Puer natus in Bethlehem (A Boy was born in Bethlehem), too, utilized a pure reed color in the manuals — in this case the Cremona — with foundations only in the pedal. The celebratory In dir ist Freude was impressive both for its virtuosity — the trills executed by the feet just as crisp and clean as those by the hands — and its clarity. For me, the only peculiar aesthetic choice of the evening came in Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ (I call to You, Lord Jesus Christ), a trio setting which derives its pathos from its simplicity. Cera made the flowing notes of the accompanying middle voice overlap and cohere briefly into chords, creating little crescendi-diminuendi, which seemed at odds with Bach’s deliberately simple texture. One might also say the same thing about the added ornamentation; yet it was so elegantly done, it was hard to quibble.
The program ended with a thrilling account of Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 538 (Dorian). Cera’s carefully devised registration allowed Bach’s specified echo effects to come through with admirable clarity. The artist’s steady rhythm and impeccable coordination of hands and feet made for a display piece less obvious than that “other” D Minor but no less impressive. After the brilliance of the toccata, the stately fugue, far richer harmonically and contrapuntally than its counterpart in BWV 565, had a gravitas that built gradually and powerfully to the magnificent conclusion.
Though his Bach playing bears comparison to the best, Cera’s special gift is guiding audiences through the glories of the early Italian repertoire. Long may he continue to do so in Boston — and North America!

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Dear Mark: President Obama took out Osama bin Laden, something the inept George Bush couldn't do. Now maybe you conservatives will shut up about Obama's toughness and whether he's a strong leader or not. In the words of Toby Keith, "How do like me now?" — Go Obama in Alabama
Dear Go: I applaud President Obama for his decision to use deadly force to take out Osama. He did what a president is supposed to do given the intel he was presented.
As Obama runs his victory lap, I've been amazed at the liberal politicians and pundits, and the yoga like contortions of their convoluted thinking in denying that any of George Bush's intelligence policies helped accomplish the "Geronimo" moment.
I'm not asking President Obama to kiss the ring of President Bush to thank him for the policies that allowed the SEALs to take out bin Laden. But at the very least Obama could call off the dogs at the Justice Department who are trying to prosecute the very people who made this successful mission possible. Bush hit the triple that ultimately put Obama on third base as the pinch runner. All the president had to do was run home.
It must be a tough time to be a liberal when your "messiah" is doing the very things you hate. Obama has extended the Bush tax cuts. He has not closed Gitmo. He doubled down on the war in Afghanistan and pushed the United States into a civil war in Libya. And, to top it all off, Obama utilized information partially gathered from "enhanced interrogation techniques" to take out the most wanted criminal in the world. With that track record, the only difference between Obama and Bush is that the current president is a better dancer. Bet that stings.
Dear Mark: I am ecstatic that our Navy SEALs took out the 9/11 mastermind, Osama bin Laden. Now I'm torn as to whether our government should release the death photos of this beast. Bin Laden was a brutal, diabolical terrorist bastard who met the appropriate justice. What do you think about releasing the photos? — Kodachrome in Kansas
Dear Kodachrome: I see both sides of the photo debate and respect most of the arguments. But today I am endorsing the release of the bin Laden death photos. Not for some ghoulish curiosity or conspiratorial doubts, but to show our enemies that even with a lily-livered liberal president, America's finest will still hunt you down and kill you.
I disagree with President Obama's argument that releasing the photos would "incite additional violence" or be used as a "propaganda tool." Radical Muslims are already upset with the Western world, so I doubt releasing the pictures will inflame their hatred anymore than the killing itself.
As for propaganda, we can use that to our advantage. Many radical Islamist idiots will take the photos of bin Laden to their local Kinko's and turn them into posters. They will then parade through Middle Eastern towns, wailing about bin Laden the martyr. Our intelligence agencies can simply "observe" who is carrying the posters and add them to our "whose next" list.
Dear Mark: It looks as if Osama bin Laden was prepared to run, as he had 500 Euros and two phone numbers stitched into his clothes. What have you heard? — Goodbye in Greenwich
Dear Goodbye: I actually heard he was hiding an extra pair of undies and a get-out-of-jail-free card.
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Canterbury dairy processor Synlait has announced an $82 million partnership deal with a Chinese company.
Bright Dairy & Food Co will invest in Synlait Milk to drive its value-added export strategy.
The agreement, which remains subject to regulatory and shareholder approval, means Synlait Ltd and Bright Dairy will become joint owners of Synlait Milk, with the Chinese company holding a controlling 51% interest.
In a statement, Synlait said a key element of the value-added export stratety would eb the sourcing of high quality infant and whole milk powders for Chinese consumers, facilitated by Bright Dairy’s presence in the sector.
Bright Dairy is listed on the Shanghai stock exchange with a market capitalisation of about $1.7 billion and revenues of about $1.63 billion for the 2009 calendar year.
Earlier this month Bright Dairy failed in a bid to buy CSR Ltd, the world's leading sugar producer,being outdone by Wilmar International, the world's largest palm oil trader.
Synlait Milk’s chief executive John Penno said today that work has already begun on building a second large scale milk powder processing production plant capable of producing high specification formulated milk powders alongside its existing facility at Dunsandel, near Christchurch.
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Laika, the stop motion animation studio behind films like Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings, isn't afraid to embrace new technology. We chronicled how it used 3D printing to add a whole new level of detail to 2012 film Paranorman. Now, the studio has its sights set on something even more ambitious: Artificial intelligence. Laika has partnered with Intel to use machine learning tools to clean up artifacts that used to require thousands of hours of manual artist labor.
As Jeff Stringer, Laika’s director of production technology explains, the company 3D prints shapes for facial performances, which animators painstakingly tweak to create natural and emotive motion-capture characters. But that process also leaves a visible seam on the models, as well as noticeable artifacts like circles around mechanical eyelids. So far, the company has relied on manual digital rotopainting and wire removal techniques to deal with those imperfections. But, as you can imagine, that’s painstaking and time-consuming work for an entire department at Laika.
At one point, the studio even considered leaving those artifacts in the films to add a bit of character to the scene. It could have been a way to remind audiences that everything they’re watching is crafted by hand. But once Laika started clearing things up, the work scaled considerably.
“The largest subset of the visual effects team is rotopoaint, and nobody who goes to a film walks out and says, 'Oh my God, the rotopaint was so incredible in that!,” Steve Emerson, visual FX supervisor at Laika, told Engadget. “So we want to be able to to streamline some of these tasks. So then we can ship those resources over to really push the look and the visual experience of a Laika film. And then it also gives the people that are doing those types of tasks new opportunities to really stretch themselves as artists.”
The Intel-powered machine learning tool shows up as a plugin within Nuke, the 3D modeling program used by Laika artists. The company tells us it’s able to clear up artifacts in 70 frames (lasting around 3 seconds) in around five minutes and 25 seconds. Previously, it would take artists five to six hours to do the same with earlier tools. The AI solution isn’t completely hands-free: Laika still needs to train it to understand individual character models, a process which takes several weeks. And artists will still need to tell the plugin where it needs to work by setting bounding boxes. But it’s hard to argue with the massive reduction in tedious work.
Based on the labor involved with Missing Link, Laika’s most recent film, the studio estimates the Intel tool could lead to a 50 percent reduction in cleanup time, opening up 2,000 artist days. That gives it even more room to perfect every shot, as well as deal with all of the other time-consuming aspects stop-motion animation. And while it’s embracing computer tools, the studio made it clear that it’s also trying to solve plenty of issues within the camera as well. It’s looking at digital tools as a way to enhance the hand-crafted spirit of stop motion animation, not replace it.
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The Importance of Support in Opioid Addiction Recovery
Supporting a loved one through opioid addiction recovery is a crucial role that requires understanding, compassion, and patience. Recovery from opioid addiction can be challenging, and having a strong support system is vital to an individual’s success. In this article, we will explore effective strategies and compassionate approaches for supporting your loved ones through their journey of opioid addiction recovery. Dr. Winston Griner, the medical director at Affordable & Restorative Health in Nashville, TN, provides valuable insights on how you can create a nurturing environment and foster hope and resilience during this process.
Educate Yourself about Opioid Addiction
Educating yourself about opioid addiction is the first step in providing effective support to your loved ones. Learn about the nature of addiction, the challenges individuals face during recovery, and the available treatment options. Understanding the complexities of addiction will help you approach the situation with empathy, reduce judgment, and make informed decisions regarding support and resources.
Offer Unconditional Support and Understanding
Providing unconditional support and understanding is essential when supporting your loved ones through opioid addiction recovery. Be empathetic and non-judgmental, recognizing that addiction is a complex medical condition rather than a moral failing. Listen actively to their experiences, validate their emotions, and express your unwavering support for their recovery journey. Let them know that you are there for them, no matter the challenges they may face.
Create a Nurturing and Safe Environment
Creating a nurturing and safe environment at home is crucial for supporting your loved ones through recovery. Remove triggers and temptations that may lead to relapse, such as alcohol or prescription medications. Foster an atmosphere of open communication, trust, and honesty. Encourage healthy habits, such as regular exercise, nutritious meals, and adequate sleep, as they contribute to overall well-being and support recovery.
Encourage Professional Treatment and Therapy
Encourage your loved ones to seek professional treatment and therapy for opioid addiction. Dr. Winston Griner at Affordable & Restorative Health provides evidence-based treatments and personalized care to support individuals on their recovery journey. Help your loved ones understand the benefits of professional help, such as medication-assisted treatment (MAT), counseling, and behavioral therapies. Offer to assist them in finding reputable treatment providers and accompany them to appointments if they desire.
Foster Hope and Resilience
Supporting your loved ones through opioid addiction recovery involves fostering hope and resilience. Celebrate their progress, no matter how small, and remind them of their strengths and accomplishments. Encourage them to set achievable goals, embrace healthy coping mechanisms, and engage in activities that bring them joy and fulfillment. Remind them that setbacks are a normal part of the recovery process and that they have the resilience to overcome them.
Establish Boundaries and Self-Care
While providing support, it is crucial to establish boundaries and prioritize self-care. Setting clear boundaries ensures that your own well-being is protected and that your loved ones are encouraged to take responsibility for their own recovery. Seek support from support groups or therapy yourself to navigate the challenges of supporting someone through addiction recovery. Remember that taking care of yourself allows you to be a stronger source of support for your loved ones.
Educate Friends and Family
Educating friends and family about opioid addiction and the recovery process is important in creating a supportive network for your loved ones. Help them understand the nature of addiction and the challenges individuals face. Encourage them to adopt a compassionate and non-judgmental attitude and provide guidance on how they can offer support without enabling unhealthy behaviors. Building a network of understanding individuals can significantly contribute to your loved ones’ recovery journey.
Celebrate Milestones and Successes
Celebrate your loved ones’ milestones and successes along their recovery journey. Recognize their dedication, perseverance, and hard work. Celebrate each day of sobriety, completion of treatment milestones, and progress made in rebuilding their lives. Your support and encouragement play a vital role in reinforcing positive behaviors and fostering a sense of accomplishment.
Maintain Long-Term Support
Opioid addiction recovery is a lifelong journey, and ongoing support is crucial. Continue to be there for your loved ones even after the initial stages of recovery. Offer support, be a listening ear, and encourage them to engage in support groups or aftercare programs. Maintain open lines of communication and let them know that you are committed to their ongoing well-being.
Conclusion: A Journey of Healing and Hope
Supporting loved ones through opioid addiction recovery is a journey of healing and hope. With your understanding, empathy, and unwavering support, you can make a significant difference in their recovery journey. Remember that each person’s journey is unique, and recovery takes time. Dr. Winston Griner and the team at Affordable & Restorative Health are here to provide expert guidance and treatment options for your loved ones. Together, we can foster a supportive environment and empower individuals to reclaim their lives from opioid addiction.

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If you've been following along recently, you might have heard that Ollie + Squish received the Spoonflower Small Business Grant, which has allowed us to team up with the talented designer @Lemonni and create an adorable mini-collection for this summer!
We’ve chosen three prints from Lemonni to create the mini-collection which feature geometric tulips, colorful surfboards, and charming little lighthouses.
We’ve created this line in your favorite rash guard and trunk styles, but we’ve also added an all-new bottom style for those wanting a brief cut. Each piece will be sold separately, so feel free to mix and match styles as you please!
Sizes will run from 2T to 6Y.
The new collection will be released on Monday, May 20th 12 PM EST (don’t worry, we’ll remind you!) Please note that not only will this collection be VERY limited in all prints and sizes, we’ll be taking these pieces for sale at Field + Supply on Memorial Day Weekend—so be sure to get them while you can!
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I have been making this recipe for years as it is a great compliment to the Enchiladas I make on Christmas Eve. Pop this into the oven right before you sit down for dinner and it will be nice and warm when you are ready for dessert.
4 cups granny smith apples, washed, peeled, and chopped
2 cups fresh cranberries, rinsed
1 1/2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups quick-cooking oats
1/3 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup butter, melted
Vanilla ice cream
Place apples and cranberries in an 11″ x 7″ baking dish. Pour lemon juice and then sugar over fruit. Combine oats, brown sugar, and butter until crumbs form. Spread over fruit mixture. Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour or until browned and bubbly. Let rest for 5 minutes and serve with Vanilla ice cream.

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Pharmaceutical Services Branch Newsletter - December 2018
This edition of the Pharmaceutical Services Branch (PSB) newsletter provides health practitioners information on PSB’s holiday season availability, poisons legislation amendments, fentanyl prescribing, the keeping of records for narcotic substances and recent scheduling changes.
Christmas and New Year
Prescribers and pharmacists are encouraged to use DORA as a clinical decision support tool to inform decisions regarding the safe supply of high-risk medicines subject to misuse. PSB will be closed from 5:00 pm 24 December 2018 through to 8:30 am 2 January 2019.
During this time if your enquiry is not urgent, please email [email protected]. If your call is not answered immediately, please leave a message. Messages will be checked throughout the day and your call will be responded to as soon as possible. A pharmacist will be on call at the Branch on Thursday 27 December, Friday 28 December and Monday 31 December 2018 from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm for urgent enquiries.
In accordance with the provisions of Section 11(2) of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1992, the Poisons Regulations 2008 expire on 17 December 2018. These regulations were remade as the Poisons Regulations 2018 effective from 17 December 2018. This remake includes some changes to correct out of date references and minor changes to improve the administration of the Poisons Act 1971. These types of changes to the regulations occur on a regular basis throughout the year. The numbering of the Poisons Regulations 2018 will have differences when compared to the 2008 regulations, but the content of the regulations remain mostly unchanged.
The regulations will be available at the Tasmanian Legislation website. Legislation on this site is usually updated within three working days after a change to the legislation.
Changes which prescribers and pharmacists should be aware of include:
- The timeframe in which a prescriber is required to provide a written prescription in relation to emergency prescribing has been increased from 24 hours to five days.
- A new sub-regulation has been included to permit the use of a medication chart as a prescription for a narcotic substance within medical institutions consistent with the adoption of Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme approved hospital medication charts.
- An amendment to allow for greater community availability of Schedule 3 adrenaline for treatment of anaphylaxis and Schedule 3 naloxone for the treatment of opioid toxicity
- An amendment to require prescribers to include the date of birth of the patient when issuing prescriptions for schedule 4 substances. Including a patient’s date of birth on prescriptions assists pharmacists in accurately identifying the patient as well as providing an important clinical detail. This amendment received majority support from the relevant professional organisations. To facilitate this change, PSB has engaged the Medical Software Industry Association and understands there will be a lead in time for prescribing software to include this patient information on computer generated prescriptions. Please note that PSB will not be actively enforcing this amendment whilst the necessary software and practice changes take place over the coming twelve months.
Fentanyl is a potent opioid with significant risks of dangerous sedation, respiratory depression, falls, accidental overdose and preventable death when prescribed inappropriately or in combination with other sedating medications. There is evidence that deaths in Australia caused by fentanyl are increasing.
Prescribers are reminded that fentanyl (except in the case of a patient with cancer) is included in Regulation 24 (previously Regulation 19) of the Poisons Regulations 2018. A prescriber must not issue a prescription for a substance listed in Regulation 24 without obtaining prior authorisation from the Secretary for Health for each patient under Section 59E of the Poisons Act 1971.
For a Section 59E application to be approved recent written support from a specialist medical practitioner in the relevant field of medicine is required. Prescribers should ensure they are familiar with the requirements of Regulation 24 and the substances listed in this regulation.
Records for narcotic substances
Regulation 18 of the Poisons Regulations 2018 details persons who must keep a narcotic substances register and how this register is to be used. Please ensure you are familiar with the requirements of this regulation. Common discussion points raised during inspections of registers include:
- Each entry in a narcotic substances register is to be made as soon as practicable after the occurrence of the event to which it relates and, in any event, not later than 48 hours after the occurrence of that event by the person responsible for the transaction.
- A narcotic substances register must be in the form approved by the Secretary for Health and subject to the rules contained in the Regulations. The use of any other form of register must be approved by the Secretary for Health prior to use (including electronic registers).
- Every record, prescription, invoice and other document relating to any transaction involving any narcotic substance must be kept for not less than two years from the latest date on which it was made or acted upon.
- There is currently no national standard relating to scanning and electronic retention of these records. As such, these records are required to be kept in the original form, and should not be scanned and destroyed prior to expiry of the two year period.
Poisons List amendments and labelling exemptions
Poisons List amendments
A number of scheduling changes came into effect in Tasmania over 2018. The full version of the SUSMP is available online on the Australian Government's Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) - SUSMP website while details regarding scheduling decisions are available on the TGA website. Recent relevant changes to the SUSMP include:
- BUDESONIDE (implementation date 1 February 2019)
Schedule 2 – Amendment
BUDESONIDE in aqueous nasal sprays delivering 64 micrograms or less of budesonide per actuation when the maximum recommended daily dose is no greater than 400 micrograms, for the prophylaxis or treatment of allergic rhinitis for up to 6 months in adults and children 12 years of age and over.
Schedule 4 – No Change
BUDESONIDE except when included in Schedule 2.
Voltaren Osteo® Gel 12 Hourly® topical gel (100g or 150g sizes) labelled as a Pharmacy Only Medicine may be supplied in Tasmanian pharmacies as an Unscheduled Medicine. This exemption applies until the stock of containers of the product that are incorrectly labelled are exhausted and, in any case, no later than 31 March 2020.
If you have any questions regarding the content of this newsletter please contact PSB on (03) 6166 0400 or via email at [email protected].
PSB wishes all pharmacists and prescribers a happy and safe festive season.
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When the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were first established nearly 15 years ago, the half-joke reminder among global health experts was that they needed to replace the “M” with a “B” when talking about financing – meaning the solutions required budgets in the order of billions rather than millions of dollars. Today, as the MDGs approach their 2015 deadline and the world negotiates a new global vision for sustainable development, the time has come to shift mindsets from “B” to “T”, since the next frontier is talking about trillions of dollars in required investment throughout the global economy.
To that end, members of the Global Agenda Council on Poverty and Sustainable Development have this week released a report distilling key financing challenges to be addressed in establishing a new generation of global development goals. The report, Paying for Zero: Global Development Finance and the Post-2015 Agenda, stresses the crucial complementary roles and opportunities for public, private and “blended” finance at the domestic and international levels. The word “zero” is used to signal a broad theme of transformation for sustainable development: eliminating extreme poverty, eliminating the most pernicious forms of inequality, and eliminating environmentally unsustainable economic activities.
Stressing ongoing generational shifts in the global development landscape, the report argues that ambitious post-2015 goals will require accompanying ambition and innovation in development finance.Watch Full Movie Online Streaming Online and Download
The conclusions tackle a wide range of issues, including:
- Development finance will increasingly be integrated across types. Flows from public finance will need to leverage additional private finance, and all forms of finance will need to adhere to common standards of transparency, measurement and reporting.
- As many developing countries continue to make long-term economic gains, the process of graduation from official development assistance (ODA) needs very careful consideration. For example, emerging lower-middle-income countries, especially those with large numbers of extreme poor, should not face a stark drop-off in access to external finance.
- It is crucial that the international community place special emphasis on protecting and enhancing properly-targeted ODA budgets. These will need to prioritize the poorest countries and programmes that most effectively reduce poverty. But even with complete success in eliminating extreme poverty by 2030, ODA will continue to play a crucial role tackling many deep global priorities through to 2030 and beyond.
- Improving the capacity of developing countries to mobilize their own resources should be an important element of ODA, without imposing unwanted conditionalities.
- Greatly enhanced instruments are needed to incentivize the amount and nature of required private finance post-2015. Big ticket investments in infrastructure, energy and agriculture will all require some degree of blending between public and private sources.
- Many of the infrastructure investments for sustainable development will be the same ones that determine the future of the world’s climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts.
The report’s release coincides with this week’s meetings of both the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Financing and the Open Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals at the UN Headquarters in New York. The Global Agenda Council on Poverty and Sustainable Development brings together a variety of eminent leaders and practitioners from public, private and non-profit sectors around the world. An earlier draft of the paper was circulated for public comment in January.
Author: John McArthur is a Senior Fellow at the United Nations Foundation and a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and chair of the Global Agenda Council on Poverty and Sustainable Development.
Image: People walk past closed shops in a slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 23, 2013. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares.
By: John McArthur
At last we have a roadmap. On 25 September, at a special event of the General Assembly, UN member states established a path and process for setting the post-2015 global development agenda. After an extended sequence of significant reports and recommendations over the past year, a short and matter-of-fact outcome document forged some core agreements, finessed some ongoing debates, and confirmed a basic timetable for the coming two years.
Many of the most important agreements were procedural. All countries agreed that the formal intergovernmental negotiations will start in September 2014 and will culminate in a summit of heads of state and government in September 2015. The word “summit” has a specifically elevated meaning in UN jargon, so this represents top-tier importance for the international system.
The General Assembly also commissioned Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to pull together “the full range of inputs” and to present a synthesis report before the end of 2014. Outsiders might consider this mandate trivial, but it represents a major de-escalation of intra-UN tensions. Following a series of intensive political debates, many General Assembly members have felt a need to remind the world that the Secretary-General works for them rather than vice versa. The mandate also provides clear space for Ban Ki-moon to make direct recommendations for post-2015, similar to Kofi Annan’s 2000 We the Peoples report, which helped to inform the landmark Millennium Declaration.
On matters of substance, countries made stepwise progress. They asserted poverty eradication as “the central imperative” of a post-2015 agenda, a subtle nod to continuing the core elements of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). But they also called for a “coherent approach” that “integrates in a balanced manner” the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development, “working towards a single framework and set of Goals” applicable to all countries. This amounts to strategic ambiguity around whether the poverty and environmental sustainability agendas will be pursued through a unified or parallel set of goals. In plain English, “It will be nice if we can arrive at a single set of goals that applies to everyone, but we don’t know whether we will get there.”
Underpinning the universality debate is the hot-button concept of “common but differentiated responsibilities”. All countries have agreed to the concept but still fight bitterly about what it means in practice. At the core of cores, it asks the extent to which developing countries should pay a different price for fighting climate change and related problems compared to the rich countries that caused them in the first place.
A related debate pertains to peace, security and various components of governance. Many have critiqued the MDGs for their top-line agnosticism on issues such as human rights and the rule of law. The question is how to set measurable targets that all countries, ranging from China to the United States to Brazil and Nigeria, will agree to. The new outcome document agrees that a post-2015 framework should “promote” these things, but does not commit to set targets around them.
Finally, the General Assembly agreed that the key responsibilities over the coming year are delegated to its open working group on sustainable development goals plus a targeted expert group on “sustainable development financing”, both of which will need to make their recommendations before formal negotiations begin next September. Whatever the final composition of any post-2015 goals, at this stage the biggest unresolved issues hinge on decisions of economic policy and development finance, so the expert group will likely form a fulcrum for intergovernmental breakthroughs. It is co-chaired by Ambassador Pertti Majanen of Finland and former Nigerian Finance Minister Mansur Muhtar. If they can achieve the robust engagement of finance ministries and investment leaders around the world, they will have a strong chance of success.
The world has never experienced such an intensive and broad-ranging intergovernmental process towards the confirmation of an agreed global agenda. Its multi-layered nature risks alienating outsiders who lack the time or inclination to master specialized diplomatic procedures. Fortunately, the General Assembly has also called for an inclusive approach that extends beyond traditional interactions with civil society and national parliaments and also includes local authorities, scientific communities, and the private sector. More than a million people around the world expressed their views over the past year. Empowered by the newly clarified timetable, hopefully hundreds of millions more will have the chance to share their perspective over the coming two years too.
John McArthur is a Senior Fellow at the United Nations Foundation and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.
If global development targets followed a National Football League format, we would be approaching the two-minute warning. December 31, 2015, marks the final deadline for the Millennium Development Goals, the global anti-poverty targets that have mobilized an unprecedented generational success in tackling extreme poverty around the world, most notably the burdens of disease in the poorest countries. We are now facing the final moment to bend the relevant curves of progress. For decision makers, 2013 is the real 2015. [Read more…]
The final installment of my 3-part series at OpenCanada.org.
Canada’s next generation global development efforts will draw from much more than public sector action. Governments matter, but their matrix of responsibilities is shifting, both within and across countries. To map out a way forward, Canada needs an organized national conversation across key stakeholders, aligned to the “post-2015” global development debates already underway. Such an effort can develop a common understanding of the global challenges at hand, and then strategize as to how Canadians might best collaborate to help address them. This needs to be done in the context of a rapidly shifting global environment. And it could practice implementing through goal-oriented collaboration starting today. The following outlines some thoughts as to how this could happen. [Read more…]
The next installment of my 3-part series at OpenCanada.org
It would be a mistake to view Canada’s aid history in partisan terms. Despite ever-present debate at the policy margins, there has been no systematic difference between Conservative and Liberal governments’ respective investment levels or approaches to global development. Today, the most fundamental problem is that Canada’s aid policy and national political conversation remain too disconnected from objective standards of global need and responsibility.
I. Key Trends
The lack of partisan dynamics is reflected in aggregate budgets alone. Canada’s aid levels were consistent at nearly 0.5 percent of national income throughout the Liberal and Conservative governments of the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1990s, it was a Liberal government that oversaw the largest aid cutbacks in the country’s history, down to 0.22 percent in 2001, before joining a global trend to rebuild over the 2000s. The current Conservative government continued the upward course, reaching 0.33 percent in 2010 (adjusting for the accounting tricks of debt relief), before signaling plans to taper off to 0.25 percent in 2015.
Beneath these numbers, three recent trends stand out: [Read more…]
APRIL 2014 UPDATE: Note – an updated version of this piece was posted here.
More than a decade after the establishment of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), ample confusion persists regarding their genesis. In particular, many people misunderstand the relationship between the contents of the September 2000 UN Millennium Declaration and the original MDG Targets that were extracted from that Declaration. As recently as 2012, I have heard senior global policy figures state a belief that, “The Millennium Declaration did not establish any quantitative targets. Those were set afterwards.” This is not correct. All of the MDGs’ original formal Targets were established in the Millennium Declaration.
The roots of the misunderstanding probably lie in the U.S. government’s stance from mid-2001, when the MDGs were first used as a policy term, through September 2005, when President Bush first used the words “Millennium Development Goals” in public. During the interim period, U.S. officials would commonly state that, “The United States supports the goals of the Millennium Declaration but not the Millennium Development Goals,” or that “The United States supports Goals 1 through 7 but not Goal 8.” When looking at the actual contents of the Millennium Declaration and the original MDG Targets, neither statement is logical.
The following describes the issues through the form of an FAQ structure.
1. Which Targets were taken directly from the Millennium Declaration?
All of the original MDG Targets were taken directly from the Millennium Declaration. Following the September 2000 Millennium Summit, the UN General Assembly mandated Secretary-General Kofi Annan to prepare a long-term roadmap towards the implementation of the Millennium Declaration. Annan in turn commissioned Assistant Secretary-General Michael Doyle to coordinate a process to extract the development-related outcomes of the Millennium Declaration and thereby crystallize the priorities for follow-up.
In working through the prose of world leaders’ commitments embedded in the body of the Millennium Declaration, Doyle and his team (which included people like Jan Vandemoortele of UNDP and others from UNICEF, the OECD, World Bank, IMF, UNFPA and later WHO) identified a subset of 18 politically agreed commitments, which they categorized under eight overarching “Goals.” These 18 commitments were labeled as “Targets.” Ten out of the 18 Targets were quantitative in nature and nine out of ten set a deadline for 2015, the exception being the slum dweller Target for 2020. Table 1 lists the original 18 MDG Targets next to the relevant passage(s) from the Millennium Declaration. [The 18 Targets were later expanded to be 21, based on 2005 intergovernmental agreements, as described under point #6 below.] Appendix 1 includes the complete Development section of the Millennium Declaration.
Today OpenCanada.org launched a new series on “post-2015 debates,” regarding the global deliberations over what policy goals should come after the Millennium Development Goals. I wrote the short overview piece below as a “cheat sheet” for the debates.
Original link here: http://opencanada.org/features/the-think-tank/comments/a-guide-to-the-post-2015-debates/
A Guide to the Post-2015 Debates
John McArthur | February 4, 2013
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have been a remarkable global political success. As targets established in 2000 to cut extreme poverty in its many forms in half by 2015, the MDGs have focused the world’s attention on tackling the integrated challenges of the poorest billion people on the planet – those who live on less than $1.25 a day and lack reliable access to food, safe drinking water, sanitation, or even the most basic education and health care. The MDGs have been fruitful enough in focusing attention that they have prompted a burgeoning global debate on what international goals should come next.
The post-2015 arguments have so many dimensions that any subset of global constituencies focused on resolving its own piece of the puzzle risks spending large amounts of time finding “solutions” that are untenable among players working on other key pieces. Even the jargon is tricky, since labels like “sustainable development goals” that took hold around the 2012 Rio+20 summit are loaded with disparate embedded meanings across a range of key constituencies, with some deeming the term essential while others consider it politically toxic. Meanwhile, in a case study of political semantics, the notion of setting “goals for sustainable development” has broader agreement as a more impartial conceptual starting point, surpassed by the even more neutral term of “post-2015 development agenda.”
To help distill the issues as the post-2015 debate grows, here is a cheat sheet describing what is on the table, who is involved, a typology of perspectives, the rough contours of a roadmap, and the implications for Canada.
The post-2015 deliberations include four basic categories of topics, any or all of which might be included in a final intergovernmental agreement. First is the core MDG extreme poverty agenda, which has been most effectively advanced in recent years in areas of health and education. The world has made tremendous gains towards improving living standards and cutting the many forms of extreme poverty in half over the past generation. Many believe the time is now ripe to finish the job and set a goal of “getting to zero” on extreme poverty by 2030.
Second is the issue of environmental sustainability, for which the MDGs have prompted less success, even though one of the MDGs’ eight headline goals draws some attention to the issue. Concerns over the shortfalls have grown over the past decade as fast-growing emerging economies have struggled to manage their environmental footprints and we have seen an increase in global awareness of the threat of climate change. Neither climate nor so-called “green growth” issues are addressed in the MDG framework, and many believe planetary boundaries can no longer be ignored in any global development strategy, especially as the world’s population is slated to grow by two billion people by mid-century. The politics around climate issues are particularly tricky, since the post-2015 discussions cannot outrun the UN intergovernmental process for climate negotiations, which has a 2015 deadline for a new agreement but faces formidable challenges to reaching a comprehensive global policy solution.
A third category focuses on governance, broadly defined. The term means many things to many people, from transparency to fiscal accountability to human rights to democratization to system building in fragile states. The MDGs did not include governance targets, in order to avoid ideological debates and focus on ends rather than means. But many think the global views have evolved to a point where at least issues like budget transparency can be agreed upon by all countries.
A fourth category focuses on inequality and social inclusion, in line with the growing concern that the spoils of global development are disproportionately benefiting the most privileged – whether the top 10 per cent, one percent, or even 0.1 per cent of any society – while the less privileged are either left behind or directly excluded. Many advocates worry that global goals based on country averages overlook primary concerns of discrimination, whether by gender, ethnicity, or age. Others are focused on jobs and unemployment, especially among youth. Concerns around inequality reflect perhaps the deepest zeitgeist of the post-2015 discussions, even if they remain among the most difficult to tackle through internationally agreed-upon targets. Everyone agrees, for example, that less child mortality is better, but there is ample room for debate on what counts as an optimal level of income inequality, and countries like the U.S. are unlikely to endorse an internationally agreed-upon number as a benchmark any time soon.
Who Is Involved
The MDGs took shape at the turn of the millennium, when concerns were rife over the divisions between the rich and poor countries. Amidst the ongoing transformation of the global economy, today’s world can no longer be neatly geopolitically divided between developed and developing states. Accordingly, there are big debates as to which countries should even be implementing post-2015 goals. There are still three-dozen low-income countries with annual per capita incomes of $1,025 or less. This includes an array of fragile states where governments still struggle to provide even the simplest services and progress is generally stuck. But the majority of the world’s extreme poor now live in relatively fast-growing middle-income economies, which face rapidly changing social and environmental pressures, with enormous consequences for the entire planet. Most of those emerging economies want to tackle domestic challenges, but have little patience for rich-country dictums on governance or the environment that might form roadblocks to shared prosperity. Meanwhile, many of the high-income countries are struggling to balance domestic and global priorities amidst long-term fiscal strains. Countries like the United Kingdom stand out for their courageous ongoing leadership on the MDGs, including the forthcoming achievement this year of the longstanding foreign aid target of 0.7 per cent of national income.
At the same time, there is a growing sentiment that global development goals should no longer be the preserve of governments alone. Companies increasingly want to contribute, and want transparent and predictable metrics for holding themselves accountable. Non-governmental organizations similarly want a voice at the table, and seek to ensure that powerfully resourced actors are accountable to citizens of all forms procurer viagra. Meanwhile, some key players like the Gates Foundation play a unique role in catalyzing and bridging innovations across governments, civil society, and scientific communities all at once. It remains to be seen whether a global intergovernmental framework of goals can foster a consistent yet decentralized system of goals for actors outside of government, too.
A Typology of Views
Across the complex range of issues and stakeholders, four distinct types of perspectives seem to be taking shape.
- A “conservative” view wants to stay focused on the specific challenges of extreme poverty, tweaking the MDG targets as needed, but warning that broadening the agenda weakens the focus on one of the greatest successes ever to come out of the United Nations.
- An “upgrading” view wants an MDG-plus agenda, modestly expanding the existing goals to include one or two other top-tier global priorities, like governance, inequality, or climate change.
- A “geostrategic” view wants to focus on the priorities of the rapidly growing large economies like Brazil, China, India, and Indonesia that account for nearly half the world’s population. Such countries face, in varying degrees, the middle-income challenges of managing very modest domestic resources, rather than the low-income challenge of having incredibly scarce resources. Their voices are increasingly heard in venues like the G20. In many respects, these countries’ forthcoming challenges of economic transformation amount to the world’s overarching challenge of sustainability.
- A “comprehensive” view sees 2015 as the one big chance to forge an integrated global agreement tackling all countries’ challenges of extreme poverty and social inclusion while operating within planetary boundaries. In this view, the fates of people and planet are too deeply interwoven to be subject to separate agreements.
How Will the Arguments Be Resolved?
It is impossible to predetermine political outcomes on any contemporary global issue. Nonetheless, there are a few key players and checkpoints on the road to 2015. The first is UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who is responsible for convening the global political negotiations and using his good offices to help distill and shape the agenda among UN member states. He has a talented team helping to guide the process, including Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson and Assistant Secretary-General Amina Mohammed. He has also commissioned a high-level panel co-chaired by U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. That panel is scheduled to recommend its priorities later this spring, in time for the General Assembly’s consideration before a major MDG-focused event in September.
Concurrently, the General Assembly has formed its own “expert group” to recommend a path forward on sustainable development goals (however those end up being defined), in line with the agreements of the Rio+20 conference. Meanwhile, the UN Development Programme is actively engaging in country-level consultations in more than 60 countries, alongside the “MY world” online collaboration with NGOs to solicit citizen votes on priorities from around the world. It remains unclear how all of these pieces will fit together, and how they will align with the practicalities of negotiation among global powers. But there is a good chance that 2013 will bring clarity on the substantive priorities to be tackled through post-2015 goals, and that 2014 will then see gradual convergence around specific goals. By September 2015, there needs to be enough convergence for an intergovernmental agreement with teeth. Hopefully, this will include a serious agreement on climate change, either as part of a post-2015 deal or as a parallel UN agreement.
How Does Canada Fit In?
The post-2015 negotiations prompt two key questions for Canada, each of which merits significant public analysis and debate. First, how has the country performed on the MDGs? Canada has supported the MDGs rhetorically, and has made important contributions to global health and, more recently, hunger. But by any quantitative standard, the country has fallen short in matching the MDGs’ core issue of scale. The divergence between Canada’s relative stasis and the U.K.’s leadership path over the past decade is striking in this regard.
Second, what does Canada want to prioritize globally and how does it want to position itself in a post-2015 world? A senior government official recently told me, for example, that the further the post-2015 negotiations delve into climate issues, the less supportive Canada will be. Will the government ramp up its efforts on extreme poverty in order to divert attention from environmental issues? Will it latch onto governance as either a legitimate priority in development or perhaps a bargaining chip with emerging economies? Is there a possibility of changing course on climate and environmental policy if the second Obama administration takes a new approach? Everything is on the table.
Canada’s political leaders have ultimate responsibility to set these policies on behalf of the nation. But their decisions must be the product, rather than simply the driver, of active societal debate. Such deliberations require years to evolve and take shape. Canadian voices need to be heard, and to engage with the broader world. The year 2015 is fast approaching, but there is still time for rich discussion. On that note, let the deliberations begin!
On Saturday I did a short (if sleep-deprived) ForumLive interview in Davos with Prof Chan Yuen Ying, Director of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at Hong Kong University. In it we talked about some of the issues covered in the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Outlook 2013, which includes some commentary from Prof Chan (and my friend Michael Elliott) on the role of journalism in restoring trust in public institutions, plus some commentary from me and Wu Changhua regarding the MDGs and the post-2015 development agenda.
I have an op-ed in today’s Ottawa Citizen focused on the responsibilities of Canadian public opinion leaders, although the same point applies broadly across geographies. The opening paragraph:Watch Full Movie Online Streaming Online and Download
Pundits are not policymakers and they should not be held to the same standard of public responsibility. But opinion leaders do need to take responsibility for their role in shaping public debate and, at times, contributing to policy failure. I was reminded of this last week when reading one of Jeffrey Simpson’s Globe and Mail columns, in which he lamented Canadian foreign aid cuts and asserted that the country’s “once-sterling reputation for caring about Africa is over.”


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Red Valentino Fall 2016
The theme behind Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli’s Red Valentino Fall 2016 collection is travel and exploration. Around the world and through the web. The designers have revisited a maritime theme (striped knits, emrbroidered jellyfish and sirens…) and for a more bohemian feel, Chiuri and Piccioli introduced tribal, star and floral details on dresses, sweaters, parkas and skirts. All with just enough urban and contemporary attitude and a feminine and girly touch.


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Engineer Charged In Theft Of Ray Charles Tapes
Bail was reduced for one of the late Ray Charles' longtime sound engineer following his arrest two weeks ago on allegations of stealing the singer's master recordings, authorities said.Bail was reduced for one of the late Ray Charles' longtime sound engineer following his arrest two weeks ago on allegations of stealing the singer's master recordings, authorities said.
Terry Howard, 48, of Burbank, Calif., is charged with two counts of grand theft by embezzlement from Ray Charles Enterprises and one count of receiving stolen property.
At a hearing yesterday (March 1) in Los Angeles, Superior Court Commissioner Dennis Mulcahy said Howard had no prior record and reduced bail from $1 million to $100,000. Howard, arrested at his home Feb. 17, was scheduled to appear in court for a preliminary hearing on March 28.
An executive with Ray Charles Enterprises called police after visiting Howard at his home last month and seeing boxes of the singer's recordings, including master recordings, according to KCBS-TV, citing police.
"We did a search warrant on his home and we recovered several hundred items that had been identified as belonging to Ray Charles Enterprises," Detective Donald Hrycyk told the news station.
Defense attorney Steven Cron said he was convinced of Howard's innocence. "Ray Charles counted on him for many, many years ... He's basically been working for Ray Charles for 20 years," the attorney said. "People just love this guy and respect him."
In a prepared statement, Charles' spokesperson said, "Whatever the outcome, Ray Charles Enterprises puts a high value on its assets, especially its master tapes and will do its utmost to insure their safety and proper handling along with protecting other irreplaceable valuables belonging to the late entertainer and to his estate."
Howard was one of the sound engineers on Charles' final album, "Genius Loves Company," which won eight Grammys and album of the year last month.
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The preferred airport for Quality Hotel Bielefeld is Paderborn (PAD-Paderborn - Lippstadt) - 46 km / 28.6 mi
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Hotelstars Union assigns an official star rating for properties in Germany. This property is rated 3 star Superior and is displayed on this page as 3.5 stars.
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- Children 12 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding.
- The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- Pet fee: EUR 6.00 per pet, per night
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
- -Free self parking
- -In-room accessibility
- -Roll-in shower
- -Dry cleaning/laundry service
- -24-hour front desk
- -Safe-deposit box at front desk
- -Free breakfast
- -Free newspapers in lobby
- -Multilingual staff
- -RV, bus, truck parking
- -Designated smoking areas
- -Tours/ticket assistance
- -Number of buildings/towers - 2
- -Number of floors - 4
- -Conference space size (feet) - 215
- -Total number of rooms - 102
- -Conference space size (meters) - 98
- -Luggage storage
- -WiFi (surcharge)
- -Meeting rooms

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Aerotropolis Residents Reject City’s Plan
For immediate release.
Oct 5th, 2012 – Hamilton ON – Hamilton Civic League volunteers conducted a door to door survey of 349 households within the Aerotropolis boundaries during the last week of August. The short survey was designed to gauge residents’ level of awareness of and support for the City approved plan to rezone thousands of acres of prime farmland surrounding the airport, for industrial purposes. Eighty-two percent (82%) of residents surveyed do not support the City’s plan. Sixty-six percent (66%) claimed to have received notification of the plan from the City but many had clearly confused recent Hamilton Civic League mailings as notice from the City.
The City of Hamilton claims there is a shortage of industrial lands, throughout the city, to support industrial
employment growth to the year 2031. Eighty-five percent (85%) of respondents disagree and believe we have plenty of available industrial lands. Surveyed residents control over 1325 acres of which ninety-one percent (91%) are owner occupied. Ownership/occupancy durations ranged from four days to over two-hundred years with the average occupancy duration being 28 years. During casual door-step conversations, most long-term residents cited concerns for the loss of their much desired, rural lifestyle.
The City refers to the rezoning project as the Airport Employment Growth District. The promise of future jobs and claims of increased City revenues through property taxation continue to drive the project forward. The fact that there is already an industrial zoned airport park which has remained 93% vacant and not attracted a single new tenant over the past 20 years has not deterred City Hall. The industrial rezoning is being challenged legally and comes before the Ontario Municipal Board again mid January 2013, during which time the survey results will be presented.
The Hamilton Civic League will now begin to focus on the City’s claim of a shortage of existing industrial lands. The Hamilton Civic League invites the general public to meet at the office of the City Clerk at the west end of the first floor of City Hall on Tuesday October 9th beginning at 9 AM at which time volunteers will begin searching 35,000 pages of tax assessment data to identify all industrial properties. The land mapping project will continue on subsequent days, during regular business hours until the project is complete. Volunteers are welcome to email HamiltonCivicLeague@gmail.com for additional information.

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