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The Hearth, Patio & Barbecue Association (HPBA), based just outside of Washington, DC, is the North American industry association for manufacturers, retailers, distributors, representatives, service firms, and allied associates for all types of fireplace, stove, heater, barbecue, and outdoor living appliances and accessories. HPBA provides professional member services and industry support in government relations, events, market research, education, certifications, consumer education, and industry promotion.

HPBA is the leading and recognized voice of advocacy for the hearth, patio, and barbecue industry. The statements below outline HPBA's positions on key issue areas and are meant to serve as a reference for HPBA members and the public interested in HPBA's position on a particular issue. As policies and issues evolve, these statements will be updated to reflect the industry's latest positions.

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Policies Impacting Gas, Wood, and Pellet Hearth Appliances

Woodstove Changeout Programs

Position Statement: HPBA, in partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), local governments and industry partners, supports the development and implementation of woodstove changeout programs.

Issue Summary: A woodstove changeout program is:

  • A voluntary program initiated at the local, state, or regional level that encourages the replacement of older, inefficient woodstoves and inserts with any cleaner alternative hearth product, including gas hearth products. Programs replacing non-certified hydronic heaters and wood furnaces can also be found in parts of the U.S. and Canada.
  • A cooperative program, which works best with a public/private partnership between air agencies and the hearth industry.
  • A program which includes incentives, ranging from relatively modest amounts for middle-income households to more significant amounts for low-income households.
  • A program which always includes the surrender and destruction of the old woodstove.
  • Can be funded by a variety of sources, including state or federal legislation, environmental fines, mitigation funds, appropriations, greenhouse gas reduction funds, and cap-and-trade proceeds.

 HPBA strongly supports the creation of a national changeout program in both the U.S. and Canada with annual authorizations targeted at the lowest income households.

Support for Small Business Regulatory Reform Legislation

Position Statement: HPBA supports efforts to increase transparency, accountability and the role of small businesses in development of regulations within every federal agency.

Issue Summary: Many of the federal regulatory issues facing the hearth industry relate to a lack of accountability and requirements for federal agencies as they develop major regulations. The Small Business Regulatory Flexibility Improvements Act (H.R. 33; S. 584) is a bill which would require agencies to analyze the impacts to small businesses affected indirectly.

Notably, the bill would amend the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act (SBREFA) of 1996 to require agencies, in developing small entity compliance guides, to solicit input from affected small entities or associations of small entities. At this point, the SBREFA only applies to the EPA and to OSHA; therefore, this would help small businesses and increase accountability for agencies like the Department of Energy.

Hearth Products Specialty License

Position Statement: HPBA encourages states and local jurisdictions to incorporate a hearth specialty license credentialed in part by the National Fireplace Institute (NFI) into their code in order to ensure the safe and appropriate installation and servicing of gas and solid fuel hearth products. HPBA created model language that can be used to establish a hearth specialty license under a state or local jurisdiction’s HVAC-R, mechanical, or other code.

Issue Summary: Fireplaces, hearth products and systems are unique products that bring fire into the living area of the home. Potential problems related to improper installation may be concealed and may not manifest themselves for a considerable time after installation. There are a wide variety of fuels, appliances, venting systems, installation instructions, codes and standards that require specialized knowledge. Credentials establish a bar for qualifications and thereby help to prevent potentially dangerous practices.

Appropriate and effective credentials should be specific to the product. Competence cannot be reliably predicted by general qualifications that include dissimilar products and that do not adequately cover knowledge of fireplace products installation. Exclusion of demonstrably appropriate fireplace-specific qualifications unfairly prevents highly-qualified professionals from practicing their trade, earning a livelihood, and contributing to the economic welfare of the region/state. The NFI exams are singularly focused on fireplace products. The exams are developed and maintained in accordance with national testing standards, including a job analysis basis.

EPA’s Lead Renovation, Repair and Painting Program

Position Statement: While HPBA continues to support the broad principle behind EPA's Lead, Renovation, Repair and Painting (Lead RRP) Program - that of protecting occupants, especially children under the age of six and pregnant women, of residential dwellings from lead hazard exposure - HPBA remains disappointed with EPA's removal of the opt-out provision, lack of enforcement of the laws, and the lack of a commercially-available lead test kit that meets both the positive and negative response criteria. HPBA looks forward to working with EPA and other stakeholders to address these concerns and possible solutions.

Issue Summary: On April 22, 2008, EPA published a final rule on the Lead RRP program pursuant to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). TSCA requires EPA to establish regulations that apply to renovation or remodeling activities in target housing that create lead-based paint hazards. Target housing includes, with some exceptions, any housing constructed prior to 1978. The statute calls on EPA to craft regulations in a reasonable and prudent manner and to consider the economic impact of any regulatory action.

EPA finalized an amendment to the opt-out and recordkeeping provisions of the program on May 6, 2010. Clearance and clearance testing requirements were established by an August 5, 2011 final rule. Complicating this rule is the reality that reliable lead test kits do not exist. Imprecise test kits result in false positives (test results inaccurately indicating the presence of lead) and servicers having to assume the presence of lead in pre-1978 housing.

    Policies Impacting Wood and Pellet Hearth Appliances

    Federal Tax Credit for Biomass Stoves

    Position Statement: HPBA supports extension of the Internal Revenue Code Sec. 25(C) tax credit for biomass stoves and creation of a new tax credit under Sec. 25(D) which encourages consumers to make energy-conscious purchases that improve air quality, lowers heating expenses, and promotes economic growth.

    Issue Summary: A federal tax credit recognizing the efficiency and value of today's biomass heating appliances has long been sought by the hearth industry. The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (H.R. 1892), signed into law February 9, 2018, extended over 50 tax credits, including the Sec. 25(C) tax credit for Nonbusiness Energy Property. Sec. 25(C) includes the $300 dollar-for-dollar tax credit for purchasing a biomass stove that is at least 75 percent efficient.

    However, the legislation only extended the credit retroactively to purchases made before December 31, 2017. Without tax extenders legislation being passed into law extending the credit beyond 2017, the credit expired at the end of 2017. Furthermore, the language did not specify either higher heating value (HHV) or lower heating value (LHV) as the efficiency measure, leaving efficiency measurement open to interpretation by manufacturers who wish to certify that a product is eligible for the credit. This is confusing for industry and consumers alike. Since the credit was originally based on LHV, 70 percent HHV is equivalent to 75 percent LHV. As such, HPBA supports specifying HHV as the efficiency measure with a qualifying efficiency of 70 percent HHV or greater. To find products that meet the tax credit, see EPA's website listing EPA-certified wood and pellet stoves, hydronic heaters, and wood furnaces

    Other legislation, the Biomass Thermal Utilization (BTU) Act, has been introduced during the past few Congressional sessions. The BTU Act would establish a new tax credit under Sec. 25(D) of the tax code. It would create a tax credit of 30 percent for purchasing and installation costs for a new biomass appliance that is at least 75 percent efficient as measured by the HHV of the fuel.

    EPA New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) Regulation for Wood and Pellet Heaters

    Position Statement: Although HPBA does support many of the updated standards for new residential wood heater, new residential hydronic heaters and forced-air furnaces, we continue to have significant concerns related to improper use of data, setting an emissions limit before establishing a test method, and other related issues with Step 2 of the NSPS.

    Issue Summary: The EPA Final NSPS Rule for New Residential Wood Heaters (published March 2015), updating the original 1988 NSPS for Wood Heaters, extends the regulation to include almost all wood and pellet products, including wood and pellet stoves, hydronic heaters, and forced-air furnaces. Masonry heaters, wood fireplaces, cookstoves, and coal stoves are not affected.

    There are a number of unresolved related issues, including all Step 2 requirements and viability of cordwood testing, which HPBA has challenged in a Petition for Judicial Review, filed March 16, 2015.

      Policies Impacting Gas Hearth Appliances

      Safety Standard for Glass-Fronted Gas Hearth Appliances

      Position Statement: HPBA strongly supports the safety barrier standard for new glass-fronted gas fireplaces as it protects at-risk populations, such as young children, from serious burns. While the new safety screens are important in avoiding direct contact with the hot glass, understanding the potential hazard and offering constant supervision are vital to preventing burns.

      Issue Summary: HPBA led the industry in creating a voluntary standard for all new gas fireplaces and glass-fronted gas heaters to help reduce the risk of burns in young children and others. The approved standard requires installation of a protective barrier on affected products (i.e., appliance's glass surface temperature exceeds 172 degrees Fahrenheit). Effective January 1, 2015, this standard was a result of more than four years of research, testing, and discussions with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.

      Zero Net Energy Policies and the Role of Hearth Appliances

      Position Statement: HPBA believes hearth products can play an important role in peak heating needs while providing significant consumer satisfaction.

      Issue Summary: A zero net energy home produces as much energy as it consumes on an annual basis by using solar panels and windmills to generate electricity. The home is connected to the electrical grid, but is restricted to drawing on it only during narrow windows of time.

      While the California Energy Commission (CEC) was the first high-profile agency to start considering ZNE initiatives, HPBA has encountered this issue in several more jurisdictions in the last year.  In California, the issue impacts state energy philosophy, building codes, as well as the future of energy utilities and infrastructure to encourage and/or mandate sharply-increased efficiency in both new and existing buildings.  Actions taken in California will set precedent for other states.  In Vancouver, B.C. the issue is focused on ZNE and could potentially eliminate all gas products from high-rise residential and even all single family housing.

      Elimination of Standing Pilots: Increase Efficiency and Energy Conservation

      Position Statement: New technologies now exist that can more adequately replace continuous pilots, which provided an important safety feature, but have required consumers to manually extinguish the pilot on their gas appliances. A phasing out of continuous pilots saves homeowners money and achieves energy conservation when appliances are not in frequent use.

      Issue Summary: HPBA has been advancing a revision to the applicable standards for vented gas fireplaces, stoves, and inserts that would disallow continuous pilots at some point in the future. With this phase out, industry is able to contribute to energy conservation goals, while considering the unique attributes, functions, and technical considerations of each appliance category. The CSA Group, setting technical appliance standards worldwide, has accepted HPBA’s request for change to phase out continuous pilot lights, sometimes referred to as “standing” pilots, by 2022-2023.

      The standards are being revised independent of federal regulatory efforts and will disallow continuous pilots on newly-manufactured products currently covered under the ANSI Z21.50 and Z21.88 standards. The target effective date was identified with the acknowledgement that it may take time to perfect some control technologies that will be used in replacing continuous pilots. Vented gas appliances have been lightly regulated in Canada for many years (test-and-disclose provision of P.4.1), but multiple regulatory agencies are considering additional regulation on a wide range of gas-fired appliances, including labeling provisions, minimum efficiencies, and bans on continuous pilots.

        Have Questions?

        If you have any questions about HPBA's policy positions, please feel free to contact Rachel Feinstein (HPBA’s Senior Manager of Government Affairs) at


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HRC was saddened to learn that Kiwi Herring, a married transgender woman of color and mother of three young children, was shot and killed by police in St. Louis, Missouri, earlier this week.

HuffPost reports that police were dispatched after Herring, 30, allegedly stabbed her neighbor. Relatives told HuffPost that Herring had been harassed and threatened by the neighbor.

Following an altercation on the scene, police discharged their weapons. Herring was pronounced dead at the scene.

Acting St. Louis Police Chief Larry O’Toole described the injured officer’s wound as “not that serious.” The officer was treated at a local hospital and released.

Herring’s relatives allege that the neighbor, who has not been identified, was transphobic, and that police used excessive force in responding to the situation.

“Kiwi was harassed and executed and it’s a horrible feeling,” Herring’s sister-in-law, Crevonda Nance, told HuffPost, which reports that police are investigating but have not confirmed Nance’s allegations.

O’Toole said the motive of the attack is “unclear” but noted there had been several calls to Herring’s address over “domestic issues.”

Relatives and friends gathered Tuesday night for a candlelight vigil and protest outside Herring’s apartment.

Herring is the 18th known transgender person killed this year. So far, almost every victim has been a woman of color -- and nearly all have been Black women.

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Who Is Jessica Mulroney? 7 Facts About Meghan Markle’s Canadian BFF

You can thank her for the "Meghan Effect."

Meghan Markle and Jessica Mulroney attend dinner at the MARS Discovery District on May 31, 2016 in Toronto.
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Meghan Markle and Jessica Mulroney attend dinner at the MARS Discovery District on May 31, 2016 in Toronto.

If you've been following the romance of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, you've likely heard the name Jessica Mulroney thrown around. After all, previous speculation named her as the royal couple's matchmaker (though this was later proven false) and she's been named a top contender for Markle's maid (or matron, rather) of honour.

But who is Jessica Mulroney? Here are 7 facts about Markle's Canadian BFF.

1. She's a style influencer.

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Jessica Mulroney poses in the 2017 Canadian Arts And Fashion Awards Portrait Studio in Toronto.

Mulroney is a Toronto-based stylist who acts as a fashion advisor to big names like Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, an activist who is also the wife of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Although she's not officially Markle's stylist, Mulroney can take partial credit for the "Meghan Effect," as she has picked out some of the royal-to-be's most covetable looks.

Some of these outfits include the white wrap coat from Toronto's Line the Label that Markle wore at her engagement photocall and the navy Mackage coat she wore during her first official royal outing with Harry, InStyle reports. This certainly explains Markle's penchant for Canuck fashion!

In addition to being a stylist, Mulroney is also a PR and brand strategist and the co-founder of The Shoebox Project, a charity that distributes shoeboxes full of toiletries to women living in shelters across Canada and the U.S.

2. She married into a famous Canadian family.

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The Mulroneys at the Laughter Is The Best Medicine III Gala at Toronto's Beanfield Centre on May 13, 2017.

The stylist is the wife of popular Etalk host Ben Mulroney, which makes her the daughter-in-law of former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney. The 38-year-old and her husband tied the knot in 2008 and are parents of three children: twins Brian and John, and daughter Ivy.

Because of the Mulroneys' influential careers, Toronto Life magazine refers to them as the city's "most polished power couple." And thanks to Mulroney's status, she's been credited for "introducing [Markle] to the wealthy, fashionable and well-connected young crowd in Canadian high society," the Daily Mail reports.

3. Mulroney and Markle have been BFFs for nearly a decade.

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Jessica Mulroney and Meghan Markle attend a World Vision event on March 22, 2016 in Toronto.

The pair became fast friends in 2011 after Markle moved from L.A. to Toronto to film the TV series "Suits." Since then, the two have had plenty of adventures together, travelling to Italy for girls' trips and attending Blue Jays games at Toronto's Rogers Centre.

4. Mulroney and Markle originally bonded over yoga.

Meghan Markle and Jessica Mulroney attend an Equinox Yorkville Dinner on Nov. 23, 2015 in Toronto.

Although we assumed the pair formed a friendship thanks in part to their passion for fashion, Harper's Bazaar reports that it was actually yoga that brought them together.

Markle previously credited her mom, Doria Ragland, for her interest in fitness. "My mom was a yoga instructor, so that practice is in my blood," the 36-year-old told Women's Health U.K. last year.

Mulroney also loves a good sweat session, as evidenced by the exercise videos she frequently posts on Instagram. In the past, she has also shared photos of her and Markle attending fitness classes together.

5. Mulroney and her husband hosted secret dinners for Harry and Markle in Toronto.

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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry at the Invictus Games in Toronto on Sept. 25, 2017.

Royal watchers know that Harry and Markle made their public debut as a couple at the Invictus Games last year in Toronto. However, the two managed to keep a low profile thanks to the Mulroneys, who helped the pair stay discreet when they first started dating.

"When Harry first started going to Toronto to visit Meghan, it was Ben and Jessica who had them over at their house for dinners because it wasn't easy for them to go out in public without the risk of getting spotted," a source told E! News last year.

"Harry's become close with their children," the insider added. "Ivy especially is a big fan. She, of course, has no idea that he's a prince though."

6. Mulroney's daughter will reportedly play a role in the royal wedding.

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Invitations for Harry and Markle's nuptials have gone out, and Mulroney and her family are among the lucky few who have received one. But the stylist's daughter, Ivy, will be more than just a guest.

According to reports, the four-year-old will be be a flower girl at the royal wedding. This means Ivy will likely accompany the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's eldest kids — Prince George and Princess Charlotte — who are also part of the nuptials.

Ivy's wedding role hasn't come out of nowhere — Markle is particularly close with Mulroney's little girl.

7. Mulroney reportedly helped Markle pick out her wedding dress.

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle during a visit to Belfast on March 23, 2018.

Mulroney is a wedding expert in addition to being a stylist. She does PR for bridal boutique Kleinfeld Hudson's Bay and has a separate Instagram account just to document her bridal stylings.

Plus, not only did she reportedly help her BFF pick out a gown for the royal wedding, she also helped Markle pick out her TV wedding dress for "Suits."

According to Us Weekly reporter Omid Scobie, Mulroney is "guiding Meghan though the process" of choosing a dress and has even flown out to London to help with her fittings.

Mulroney has also previously spoken about her love of helping brides.

"The picking of the dress, whether it's together with your mother, sister, auntie, best friend or grandmother, is very much a part of any bride's journey," she said in a press statement for Kleinfeld. "It's lovely when I get to be part of that process and get to know the couple and their family."

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Debbie Lye

Chief Executive of Spirit of 2012

Chief Executive of Spirit of 2012 - a funding charity, established with a £47m endowment from the Big Lottery Fund. They fund partners across the UK that provide opportunities in sports, physical activity, arts and culture, volunteering and social action.

Debbie was previously International Development Director at UK Sport where her belief in sport as a driver of social change, inspired her to join with the British Olympic and Paralympic Associations, LOCOG, UNICEF and the British Council to design and lead delivery of International Inspiration, the ground-breaking international sport and social legacy programme of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, across 20 countries.

What Works

Earlier this year, a pop-up shop in one of Hull's city centre arcades opened for business. In its window, attracting passers-by, was a golden nose. On offer inside was the chance for 'customers' (there was no financial transaction) to create their own nose-masks, cast from a mould of their faces taken on the shop floor. All craft materials, and coffee and tea, were laid on.
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It Was Definitely Wanted - But Is the London 2012 Legacy Dead or

It Was Definitely Wanted - But Is the London 2012 Legacy Dead or Alive?

As the Rio 2016 Olympic Games enthral the world in Brazil, thoughts in the UK are turning to the legacy of our own Games in London 2012. And with the attention comes the inevitable criticism from those disappointed that the transformations they dreamed of - in the economy and prospects of people in East London, or in sports participation - have not come about, or at least not in the way they had wanted.
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As a former Chair of the UN Working Group on Sport for Development and Peace I wonder what, if anything, has sport contributed to the progress of the human and social MDGs? And how is that momentum continuing?
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Legacy not Pregacy

I am a bit of a cynic about the human and social aspects of events legacy. Energy and promise is concentrated at the planning stage. Legacy forums proliferate and good intentions blossom in the run up to events. Then after the big bang of the event there is a black hole. A better word than legacy for what so often happens might be 'pregacy'...
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Glasgow 2014 - The Legacy

Glasgow 2014 - The Legacy Question

Was it Erraid Davies, Scotland's youngest ever competitor (and the youngest at these Games) storming into the history books to win a Bronze medal in the SB9 100 metres Breaststroke? Jazz Carlin winning Wales' first gold in the pool for forty years? The amazing emerging talent of 16 year old Claudia Frangapane, scooping no less than 4 gold medals? Whirling dervishes in tartan? Usain Bolt clowning with the 'crazy' Hampden crowd? Kylie meets Lulu? Thousands singing in the rain with the Big Big Sing on Glasgow Green? All of those nailed Glasgow's 'best ever' hosting of the 'friendly games'.
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29/05/2016 18:48 BST | Updated 29/05/2016 20:40 BST

Fury Over Harambe, Cincinnati Zoo Gorilla Shot Dead In 'Senseless' Act

'The parents are wrong for not watching the child.'

A petition has been launched urging police and zoo authorities to hold the parents of the child who entered a gorilla's enclosure at Cincinnati Zoo - leading to its shooting - responsible for the "senseless death".

Zoo officials shot Harambe, a critically-endangered 17-year-old gorilla, on Saturday after the 4-year-old climbed through a public barrier and fell into the Gorilla World moat.

Zoo officials said they shot the 400lb animal when the situation became “life-threatening” for the child. Harambe had picked the child up and had stayed with him for about 10 minutes.

A petition has been launching calling on authorities to hold the parent's of the child seen above to be held responsible for the subsequent shooting of the gorilla

A petition was launched around 5pm Sunday and within an hour had almost 2,000 signatures. A Facebook page, Justice for Harambe, was also started and has over 3,000 Likes.

The petition detailed what led to the shooting, before laying the blame on the child's parents.

It reads: "This beautiful gorrila lost his life because the boy's parents did not keep their eye on him. If they would of he would have not been able to get inside the enclosure. These parents should be held accountable for their actions of not surpervising their child. Please sign this petition to encourage the Cincinnati Zoo and police department hold them responsible."

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A Facebook page called Justice for Harambe has been started

Anger has been building online since Harambe's shooting.

"How dare anyone defend the murdering of this innocent animal. It's already out of its own habitat," Jodi Nadeau wrote on the Justice for Harambe Facebook page in a comment echoed by dozens of other animal lovers.

She continued: "The parents are wrong for not watching the child. And I'm upset about the innocent murdering of the animal. The parents should be charged with neglect and animal cruelty."

Patrish Dehler wrote: "I'm angry too. What a waste to kill this beautiful creature. How about the parents or 'watchers' of this kid get a big fine to be paid to the zoo. If you can't control your kids then how about not having any!"

Cincinnati Zoo director Thane Maynard said in a statement: “The zoo security team’s quick response saved the child’s life.

“We are all devastated that this tragic accident resulted in the death of a critically-endangered gorilla.”

He added: “This is a huge loss for the zoo family and the gorilla population worldwide.”

Authorities said the child, who has not been identified, fell 10 to 12 feet.

He was taken to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, where he is expected to recover. Hospital officials said they could not release any information on him.

Two female gorillas were also in the enclosure when the boy fell in but zoo officials said only the male remained with the child.

In footage recorded at the scene, the gorilla can be seen standing over the child in a corner of the enclosure for a few moments.

As he makes his way through the water, he stops and pulls the child onto his feet.

At one point a woman can be heard yelling: “Mummy’s right here.”

She later calls out to the boy, saying: “Mummy loves you.”

Maynard said the gorilla did not appear to be attacking the child, but he said the animal was “an extremely strong” and in an agitated situation.

Harambe was a critically-endangered 17-year-old gorilla

He said tranquilising the gorilla would not have knocked him out immediately, leaving the boy in danger.

Officials said that the zoo will be open tomorrow, but Gorilla World will be closed until further notice.

On Friday, Cincinnati Zoo posted a picture of Harambe on its Facebook page, announcing that it was the gorilla’s 17th birthday.

Harambe was bred in captivity and was moved to Cincinnati in 2015 from the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville, Texas.


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Why We Are Inviting Walter Palmer Into Our Lions' Protected Area

09/11/2015 02:39 pm ET Updated Sep 11, 2016

Over two decades of campaigning for lions' protection, I've seen the battle get worse and worse. Not only for lions, but for us.

Cecil's brutal slaying is blowing the lid off a much bigger lion crisis known as Canned Lion Hunting -- a shadowy sub-industry in which baby cubs are offered to tourists to pet for a price, then put into cages to be shot by international trophy hunters when they are adults. This means that South Africa's thriving tourism industry is directly linked to the killing industry. The cub you cuddle today will probably end up as a tame lion for the likes of Walter Palmer, or worse, to shoot for fun.

If that is not bad enough, here are three facts you should know:

  • There are many more lions in cages than in the wild.
  • Wild lion populations have declined 80% over the past 50 years, the decline drastically escalating in the past 20 years.
  • If this trend continues, lions will be extinct in our lifetimes.

Now that the horrendous truth is finally being exposed, it's time to shift gears and reach out across the battle lines.

Walter Palmer has been holed up in an undisclosed destination while the death-threats pile up against the doors of his closed dental practice. Understandably, the people of the world are outraged by his brazen brutality in causing the death of Cecil, Zimbabwe's beloved black-maned lion.

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As a long-standing conservation organization, we are taking a great risk, but it's a leadership position that could change the stakes for lions and ecosystems.

After committing my life to this battle for decades, it's deeply encouraging to see that the tragic death of one noble lion is resulting in global unification on an unprecedented scale behind one single united cause.

So why be caught up in the hysteria of the Cecil tsunami, when there are so many other worthy causes?

Because what happens to lions directly affects us all.

Lions speak to our hearts. They inspire us to restore values of courage, love and truth in our lives, and they demand that we restore this kind of leadership in our world.

This is precisely the kind of leadership we are witnessing amongst people and even corporate entities. The world's airlines united behind the same cause of protecting endangered species by refusing to carry trophies and animal parts as cargo. A lion-hearted thank you, and congratulations on taking an ethical stand. Don't we just love their joint statement: "It's a long way to swim from Africa with your trophies." Now it's up to us lion-hearted people of the world to support their position through booking only on principled airlines. This leaves South African Airways out in the cold, still brazenly carrying trophies and animal parts as cargo.

But lions don't only inspire true leadership, they play an absolutely fundamental role in protecting ecosystems, while ecosystems support all life on this planet, including our own survival.

In nature, the apex animal keeps the entire balance all the way down through the prey species, plants, water and soil. It's called 'trophic cascading.' If ecosystems collapse, our systems will also collapse.

So, we need to ensure our human systems and legislation support these all-important ecosystems.

If we rise to the challenge, the tragedy around this one lion will help reform our policies for Lions, Land and People.

As the king, lions are the most trophy hunted animal on earth. So, we urgently have to put laws in place to protect them, which will set a positive precedent that will protect all endangered species. Especially, given that the United States is responsible for as much as 60% of the trophies leaving Africa. But then the EU is responsible for as much as 30%. So, no one is really off the hook.

Amidst the backlash of commercial interests in the massive trophy industry, which keeps throwing weak money arguments at us at the expense of our earth's survival, it is critical we stay strong and demand that politicians follow through on their public statements.

To ensure that the plight of endangered species is also high on the United Kingdom's government agenda, my organization, the Global White Lion Protection Trust, has helped initiate a new All-Party Parliamentary Group of MPs in Britain, which highlights the need for more to be done to ensure wildlife is protected.

Similarly, it's greatly encouraging news that four Democratic U.S. senators announced they intend to introduce a bill named after the beloved Zimbabwean lion: The Conserving Ecosystems by Ceasing the Importation of Large (CECIL) Animal Trophies Act. Note: The "Large" refers to the notorious "Big 5," the most targeted species on the trophy hunter's hit-list of which we've said Lions, and unfortunately the White Lions, are number 1.

Walter Palmer: Put down your weapons and come join the winning side, so that we all can see a positive way forward.

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Does the thought of sharks make you nervous about entering the ocean, anywhere?

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You've probably tried to talk yourself out of it. Maybe friends or family have tried to talk you out of it (when they weren't mercilessly teasing you about it, that is). Maybe you've looked up reassuring statistics. Or read lots of facts about sharks on the internet. But somehow the feeling stays. And stays in control of you.

The reason you can't banish those feelings with facts is that the feelings aren't anything to do with the facts. They are born out of a strong emotional reaction you had, either to a real-life incident, or to a fictional event such as in a movie drama. When you respond with high emotion to something, your brain makes a 'link' to that thing - whether it was trivial, major, real or fictional.

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Portfolio Marketing Manager, Analytics Solutions Group, IBM

 Much has been written from a cross-industry perspective about the value that can be gained from analytics projects. However, when we drill down to look at the extremely competitive world of retail, we find few tangible examples in the public domain. Major UK retailers are well known for keeping their cards close to their chests, and when it comes to competitive advantage nobody is giving an inch. Perhaps divulging hard results against hard metrics is just too much.

Perspective from the retailer side

Nevertheless, looking just a bit further reveals some really helpful case studies from well-known, established brand names. These brands include UK furniture retailer DFS, stationery retailer Paperchase and start-ups such as retailer Honest Café and the managed-services provider (MSP), Clear Returns. A useful lens with which to view these stories is to consider the value of analytics projects according to two dimensions:

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  • Impact of the analytics project on strategic decision making: to what extent is the analytics project making a difference to the organization’s strategic decision making?

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Hence, we can see a big improvement in the speed of reporting—a process efficiency improvement. At the strategic level, Nicola Bancroft, director of commercial finance at DFS, who is an advocate of the analytics solution, said: “We are able to look at [a] granular level at the drivers of performance on a day-to-day basis.” As a result, the analytics project is also delivering impact within DFS at the strategic level.

As a well-known retailer of high quality, unique stationery, gift items and craft materials, Paperchase is using IBM Analytics to track customer behavior and shopping patterns. The retailer is undoubtedly experiencing important process improvements by being able to see who their customers are and their buying behaviors in much more detail on a day-to-day basis. Pete Byrne, multichannel program manager at Paperchase, believes that the major benefit for the company is “giving us a method of engaging with our customers more closely,” leading to improved strategic decision making.

Honest Café

Honest Café (a start-up coffee shop chain that runs self-service outlets where customers purchase healthy, organic and Fair Trade food and drinks from state-of-the-art kiosks) is using IBM analytics to help support the rapid growth of their business. Mark Summerill, head of product development at Honest Café, reveals the benefits from using IBM Watson Analytics, a smart data discovery service available on the cloud. “It instantly transformed our understanding of who our customers were and how they were using Honest Café,” Summerill says. “Watson Analytics has completely transformed not just our understanding of customer behavior, but our entire business model.”

Clear Returns

By using sophisticated analytics, Clear Returns provides a service to identify the causes of returned products—so-called toxic returns—in the retail industry. This service helps retailers minimize the negative impact of returns on the business and their customers, without having to hire an expensive data science team. Undoubtedly a major benefit for retailers, Vicky Brock, CEO at Clear Returns, spells out the value proposition underpinning the analytics solution: “With new insight into how and why returns happen, our clients can increase revenue by focusing on high-value customers, reducing costs by optimizing their product catalog and reducing the return rate.”

Significant observable impact on the process of managing returns on a day-to day basis is quite evident, which, in turn, can lead to improved strategic decision making and a positive impact on the bottom line.

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Clearly much food for thought, these case studies are really interesting examples of how UK retailers are gaining benefits from analytics. Arguably, some of the soft benefits even outweigh the hard, more metric-driven benefits. However, perhaps you have to get under the covers of the organization to find them, and because of the intense competitive nature of the world of retail, maybe not everybody will tell you what is really going on.

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Digital Library Requirements: A Questionnaire-Based Study

Digital Library Requirements: A Questionnaire-Based Study

Stephen Kimani (Institute of Computer Science and Information Technology at JKUAT, Kenya), Emanuele Panizzi (University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy), Tiziana Catarci (University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy) and Margerita Antona (FORTH-ICS, Greece)
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The gathering of user requirements is key to the gaining of a deeper understanding of the needs evolving from the user’s operational context and from the use of the system. User requirements are pivotal in guiding the development process of any system. This is no less true in the arena of digital libraries (DLs). The gathering of DL requirements should be conducted with the understanding that the anticipated DL user interface should accord support to the user throughout the entire DL usage/interaction process. This chapter describes a questionnaire-based study of DL requirements based on the foregoing understanding. The study covered a wide range of issues pertinent to the design of user interfaces for DLs, including: user characteristics/profiles, current experience in DL usage, functional requirements, nonfunctional requirements, and contextual requirements. To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first systematic empirical investigation of DL requirements that covers such a wide range.
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User And Stakeholder Questionnaires

Potential or real DL users (i.e., stakeholders and end users) have a key role toward the successful design of DLs, and the questionnaires can encourage them to word their recommendations on possible support offered by a DL. The questionnaires also enable DL users to contribute to the definition of the scope of DLs’ functional and nonfunctional requirements. Apart from their use in the context of the data collection performed by the cluster, the questionnaires can also be reused in the process of designing digital libraries for the purposes of the user requirements collection phase. The questionnaires3 consist of four parts: user background and demographics; user’s current experience; DL functional requirements; and DL nonfunctional requirements.

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Demographics: Demographics refer to the characteristics of human populations and population segments. Demographics include aspects such as age, gender, nationality, occupation, language, and so forth.

Digital Library: Borgman (1999) defines digital libraries as: a set of electronic resources and associated technical capabilities for creating, searching and using information. In this sense they are an extension and enhancement of information storage and retrieval systems that manipulate digital data in any medium (text, images, sounds; static or dynamic images) and exist in distributed networks. The content of digital libraries includes data, metadata that describe various aspects of the data (e.g., representation, creator, owner, reproduction rights), and metadata that consist of links or relationships to other data or metadata, whether internal or external to the digital library. According to the Digital Library Federation (Digital Library Federation, 1999):

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TITLE Comparison and Validation of Compressible Flow Simulations of Laser-Induced Cavitation Bubbles
AUTHORS Siegfried Müller, Mathieu Bachmann, Dennis Kröninger, Thomas Kurz, Philippe Helluy
ABSTRACT The numerical simulation of compressible two–phase fluid flows exhibits severe difficulties, in particular, when strong variations in the material parameters and high interface velocities are present at the phase boundary. Although several models and discretizations have been developed in the past, a thorough quantitative validation by experimental data and a detailed comparison of numerical schemes are hardly available. Here two different discretizations are investigated, namely, a non-conservative approach proposed by Saurel and Abgrall (SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 21, 1115 (1999)) and the real ghost fluid method developed by Tang, Liu and Khoo (SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 28, 278 (2006)). The validation is performed for the case of laser-induced cavitation bubbles collapsing in an infinite medium. For the computations, initial data are deduced implicitly from the experimental data. In particular, the influence of numerical phase transition caused by smearing of the phase boundary is investigated.
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Jeffrey M. Bradshaw (Ph.D., Cognitive Science, University of Washington) is a Senior Research Scientist at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) where he leads the research group developing the KAoS policy and domain services framework for distributed systems management and the coordination of human-agent-robot teamwork. He co-leads the development of the Luna Software Agent Framework and the Sol Cyber Framework. Bradshaw chairs the Scientific Advisory Council for the Nissan Research Center Silicon Valley (NRC-SV), which has the development of autonomous vehicles as its major focus. Selected Publications on these and other research projects are online. A biographical sketch is available on Wikipedia. In July 2016, Jeff and his wife, Kathleen, began a two-year leave of absence from IHMC to serve in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa Mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Jeff has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the European Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Engineering (EURISCO) in Toulouse, France; a visiting professor at the Institut Cognitique at the University of Bordeaux; is former chair of ACM SIGART (now SIGAI); and former chair of the RIACS Science Council for NASA Ames Research Center. He served as a member of the National Research Council (NRC) Committee on Emerging Cognitive Neuroscience Research in the Next Two Decades , was an advisor to the HCI and Visualization program at the German National AI Research Center (DFKI), and was a scientific advisor to the Japanese NEC Technology Paradigm Shifts initiative. He also served as a member of the Board on Global Science and Technology for the National Academies of Science and as an external advisory board member of the Cognitive Science and Technology Program at Sandia National Laboratories. He is an Honorary Visiting Researcher at the Center for Intelligent Systems and their Applications and AIAI at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, a member of the Graduate Faculty at the Florida Institute of Technology, a faculty associate at the University of West Florida, and is a member of the Technical Committee for IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics. He served as a member of the 2015 Defense Science Board Summer Study on Autonomy. In 2011, he received the Web Intelligence Consortium Outstanding Contributions Award.

Formerly, Jeff led research groups at The Boeing Company. Though his earliest publications were focused on memory and language, Jeff’s research focus soon turned to a wide variety of topics relating human and machine intelligence. With Ken Ford, he edited the seminal volume Knowledge Acquisition as a Modeling Activity, and became well known for his role in helping develop a suite of successful methodologies and tools for automated knowledge acquisition and for the simplification of complex modeling tasks (Aquinas, Axotl,Canard, DDUCKS). He led the development of eQuality, an interactive visual framework with an underlying ontology-based model for streamlining strategic corporate business processes that was used as the principal enterprise modeling tool for the Boeing 777 airplane program.

Jeff has had a continuing interest in improving health care. For eight years he co-led a group at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and was co-PI for an Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) computerized decision-support systems (CDSS) grant to develop knowledge-based technology to provide better long-term post-transplant care of bone marrow transplant patients scattered throughout the world.

Learning technologies has been another area of interest. Jeff co-chaired The Fourth International Workshop on Human and Machine Cognition, “Education and Smart Machines.” As co-chair of the Emerging Technologies subcommittee of the Aviation Industry Computer-Based Training Committee (AICC) for several years, he coordinated cooperative research efforts by airlines, airframe manufacturers, and the computer industry to increase interoperability of advanced training and agent-based performance support tools. He is an expert advisor to an intelligent tutoring system development project that will provide advanced technical training programs at the U.S. Navy’s Center for Information Dominance in Pensacola, and at other Navy schools.

Jeff helped pioneer the research area of multi-agent systems, and his first book on the topic, Software Agents, became a classic in the field and a best-seller for The MIT Press. He led the DARPA and NASA-funded ITAC study team Software Agents for the Warfighter. Jeff served for over a decade on the Board of Directors of the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems. In addition to his participation as an organizer in many agent-related conferences, Jeff served as co-program chair for the IEEE / WIC / ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (WI-IAT 2011) and was a co-program chair of the Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents (1999). Jeff served as co-program chair for for Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2008), as Program Vice Chair of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Human-Machine Systems(DHMS 2008), and as co-General Chair of the 2009 International Conference on Active Media Techologies (AMT). He participated as a member of the 2012 Alan Turing Year Panel on Top Ten Fundamental Questions and Challenges in Intelligent Informatics and Computing.

Human-Agent-Robot Teamwork has been a central interest for many years. From 2002-2006, KAoS was used as part of a NASA series of annual two-week field tests of human-robot teams performing simulated planetary surface exploration at the Mars Desert Research Station in the Utah desert. Jeff was sponsored by DHS to undertake detailed simulation studies of the use of human-robot teams to secure facilities at Port Everglades. He has also led the ONR-sponsored NAIMT and Coordinated Operations projects where a team of humans and heterogeneous robots performed field exercises at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, aimed at port reconnaissance, and robot-assisted detection and apprehension of intruders. Jeff co-founded and organized the Human-Agent-Robot Teamwork Workshop series (HART 2010, 2012, 2015, 2016). He served as lead editor for a special issue of IEEE Intelligent Systems on HART. In June 2012, he led an international workshop for the National Academies of Science on Intelligent Human-Machine Collaboration. Several of Jeff’s co-authored papers relating to the inadequacies of the supervisory control model were cited in a July 2012 Defense Science Board Task Force Report on the Role of Autonomy in DOD, which recommended that “DoD abandon the use of ‘levels of autonomy.’” Jeff served as a member of the 2015 Defense Science Board Summer Study on Autonomy.

Jeff has served on the editorial boards of the Web Semantics Journal, the Journal of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, the Knowledge Acquisition Journal the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Schedae Informaticae, and the Web Intelligence Journal. With Robert Hoffman and Ken Ford, he served as co-editor of the Human-Centered Computing Department for IEEE Intelligent Systems and, with Robert Hoffman, Pat Hayes, and Ken Ford, is a co-editor of Collected Essays on Human-Centered Computing, 2001-2011.

In partnership with the Autodesk Research Digital Environment program, Jeff led IHMC participation in the Advanced Technologies for Life-Cycle Management of Sustainable Building Performance initiative and is a member of the Parametric Human Consortium. He has participated in NASA Blue Sky Study Groups for the “Human-Centered Vision of Mars Exploration” and for the “Small Pressurized Rover,” (later called the “Lunar Electric Rover”), as well as the AFRL Blue Sky study on “Improving Understanding of Complex Information.”

KAoS is a policy and domain services framework based on W3C’s OWL ontology standard (see KAoS was the first to offer an ontology-based approach and is currently the most successful of such efforts. IHMC is collaborating with the NSA-sponsored Federal Digital Policy Management (DPM) Initiative, which has selected the KAoS core ontology as the basis for its future standards efforts (see white paper). KAoS has been used in a variety of government-sponsored and commercial projects for network management, secure policy-based governance of complex systems, and for the coordination of human-agent-robot teams.

The Luna Software Agent Framework leverages IHMC’s extensive experience in the design of agent systems. Luna agents function both as interactive assistants to people and as continuously-running background aids to data processing and knowledge discovery. Luna agents achieve much of their power through built-in teamwork capabilities that, in conjunction with the KAoS policy services framework, allow them to be proactive, collaborative, observable, and directable. In order to support dynamic scalability and other features of the Sol framework, the Luna platform supports the policy-governed option of allowing the state of agents (vs. code of agents) to migrate between operating environments and hosts.

The Sol Cyber Framework was designed and developed under US Department of Defense sponsorship to address the demanding requirements of distributed network operations centers. Specifically, Luna software agents, KAoS security and teamwork policies, and visualizations based on an understanding of human perception and cognition are used to enable distributed sensemaking, rapid detection of threats, effective protection of critical resources, and resilient mission assurance. Coactive emergence of threat understanding through human-agent collaboration is used as a sensemaking strategy for taskwork and teamwork. Sol also implement capabilities for organic resilience and semantically-rich policy governance as a means of assuring effective and adaptive human-agent team response. Among other applications, Sol has been used to support exercises at MIT/Lincoln Labs, and is being adapted to the needs of the Capstone training program at the Center for Information Dominance and to a “red-team-in-a-box” project for the Office of Naval Research. Jeff collaborates with Sandia National Laboratories on the “Human Dimensions of Cyber Operations” initiative. He was an invited speaker at the Second Experimental Security Panoramas for Critical System Protection Workshop (ESP 2012) and at the Eighth Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Workshop (CSIIRW 2012) at Oak Ridge National Labs.

Jeff and his wife Kathleen are the parents of four children and eleven grandchildren. He has served twice as a bishop in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and twice as a counselor in the Pensacola Stake Presidency (see and Mormon Scholars Testify profiles). Among other publications on temples and the ancient Near East, Jeff has written two volumes to date for a highly-acclaimed scholarly commentary series on the book of Genesis entitled In God’s Image and Likeness ( He is a vice president for The Interpreter Foundation and a member of the Advisory Board for the Academy for Temple Studies. Jeff is the co-founder of Interpreter Science and Mormonism Symposium series, including the 2013 meeting entitled Cosmos, Earth, and Man and the 2016 meeting entitled Body, Brain, Mind, and Spirit. In July 2016, Jeff and Kathleen began two years of service in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kinshasa Mission.


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Vacancy (2007)

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A married couple becomes stranded at an isolated motel and finds hidden video cameras in their room. They soon realize that unless they escape, they'll be the next victims of a snuff film.

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Ernest Misko Ernest Misko ... Snuff Victim (as Ernie Misko)
Bryan Ross Bryan Ross ... Snuff Victim

David and Amy Fox find themselves stranded in the middle of nowhere when their car breaks down. Luckily, they come across a motel with a TV to entertain them during their overnight stay. However, there's something very strange and familiar about the Grade-Z slasher movies that the motel broadcasts for its guests' enjoyment. They all appear to be filmed in the very same room they occupy! Realizing that they are trapped in their room with hidden cameras now aimed at them filming their every move, David and Amy desperately find a means of escape through locked doors, crawlspaces and underground tunnels before they too become the newest stars of the mystery filmmaker's next cult classic! Written by alfiehitchie

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20 April 2007 (USA) See more »

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$19,000,000 (estimated)

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A couple checked in to a motel, will they check out ?
21 April 2007 | by richshireSee all my reviews

Vacancy is a shot of thriller mix with a shot of horror served straight up,no ice, in room temperature. A great great movie for this type of genre OBVIOUSLY not for everyone, but if you are a fan and feel a little down about many other so called horror, thriller movies that are simply S*@T, movies that are relying on fancy special effects or remakes of other films from the past or different country LATELY, well, this would be the one movie you won't feel crappy paying full price for.

Luke Wilson and Kate Beckensale ( perfect cast ) play a couple who check into a motel after a long drive,the rest is an intense ride That will glue you eyes to the screen.I see the movie as a tribute to the 70's thriller/horror/action ( home invasion, psychotic killer type of films )You can see this right from the opening credits. There are moments where Vacancy could go bad and disappointing ( I was actually waiting for it )but it did not ( a bit on the ending being cliché, but I was OK to give it a pass ).WELL DIRECTED, WELL CAST, AND WELL SHOT.

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