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[mxadrian779]

Presenting: The Krew à la Sims 4

These took a lot of work over the last couple of days, but I’m very happy with how they came out. Keep reading for CC links and where to download these characters! ♥

Eyes: Humble Folks by @prinsims​

Skin: Kijiko Skin Tone 02 plus Chisami Smooth overlays

Makeup: Neutral lipstick by @pictureamoebae​

Hair: Basegame

Top:  T-shirt by @blogsimplesimmer​

Bottom: Sweet Chaos Pants by @trillyke​

Shoes: Seasons EP

Other: -

Eyes: Humble Folks by @prinsims​ Skin: Kijiko Skin Tone 02 plus Chisami Smooth overlays

Makeup: Eyeshadow by @claraboiasims​, eyeliner by @ikindalikecows​, lipstick by @myfawnwysimblr​, Light It Up highlighter by @nesurii​

Hair: Basegame

Top: Basegame

Bottom: Basegame

Shoes: Vampires GP

Other: -

Eyes: Humble Folks by @prinsims​

Skin: Kijiko Skin Tone 02

Makeup: -

Hair: Basegame

Top: Romantic Garden SP

Bottom: Movie SP

Shoes: Basegame

Other: -

Eyes: Humble Folks by @prinsims​

Skin: Kijiko Skin Tone 02

Makeup: -

Hair: Coffee with Milk by @wistfulpoltergeist​

Top: Basegame

Bottom: Basegame

Shoes: Outdoor Retreat GP

Other: -

Eyes:Humble Folks by @prinsims

​Skin:Kijiko Skin Tone 02 plus Chisami Smooth overlays

Makeup: Blush CC02 by @goppolsme​, lipstick by @shojoangel​, Light It Up highlighter by @nesurii​

Hair: Sabine hair by @wondercarlotta​ plus Atashi77 accessory bangs

Dress: Get Together EP

Shoes: Luxury Party SP

Other: Necklace by @pralinesims​

Eyes: Humble Folks by @prinsims​

Skin: Kijiko Skin Tone 02

Makeup: Topaz & Light It Up highlighter by @nesurii​

Hair: Get Together EP

Top: Get Together EP

Bottom: Get Together EP

Shoes: Get Together EP

Other: -

Also, get the Sims 3-to-4 CAS background here (near bottom of page)!

Uploaded under: @CatDaddy779. Enjoy!!

[steampoweredshow]

Megan Knox is an early-in-career technical program manager at Microsoft and recent graduate of The Ohio State University with a degree in Computer Science and Engineering. As a PM, she does long-term planning for her software engineering team and drives success of large scale technical projects through communication and documentation. Prior to her start at Microsoft, she had two internships there to gain experience in a corporate setting.

During her time at Ohio State, she founded and presided over student organisation Code 4 Community (C4C) for three years. C4C is designed to demonstrate and implement the benefits of computer science in a humanitarian way, including a long-term project of building a website to help adolescents struggling with mental health and outreach to local grade schools to generate interest in computer science. She is passionate about sharing STEM with underrepresented communities, including women, minorities, and rural areas.

Outside of work, she enjoys reading and creative fiction writing, fitness, and taking care of houseplants.

In our conversation, we talk about technical program management and Code 4 Community.

Watch this episode on YouTube. Listen to it on Spotify, Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Breaker, Castbox, Overcast, Pocket Casts, RadioPublic, or  RSS.

Show Notes

[00:57] What drew Megan to computer science and engineering. [01:42] Exposure to STEM. [02:10] Megan's first taste of programming. [02:36] Expectations of what computer science and engineering involved. [04:25] Code 4 Community. [04:59] Humanitarian Engineering Scholars. [05:15] A need for ways to demonstrate humanitarian applications of programming. [05:56] The scope and impact of software. [06:21] Founding Code 4 Community and learning about leadership. [06:45] Code 4 Community's Major Projects. [06:53] Project 1: Collaborating with the Department of Social Work for an app to support adolescents struggling with mental health. [07:30] Project 2: Outreach to local middle and high schools. [07:39] Why student outreach is important to Megan. [09:47] Give people a taste and show them it can be a good time. [10:13] Going virtual is making outreach to remote areas more accessible. [10:44] Code 4 Community's current efforts. [12:22] Megan's journey to Microsoft. [12:58] A serendipitous opportunity. [14:22] Getting into the Microsoft internship program. [15:05] The culture of internship programs in the US. [15:55] The value of internship experiences for professional development and your CV. [17:06] How interns are introduced to career tracks. [18:39] Internship projects are intended to contribute value to the company. [20:21] The role of a Program Manager. [20:58] It involves systems analysis and requirements gathering. [21:32] It involves communication, documentation, and planning. [21:47] It involves short, middle, and long term views. [23:07] Summarising the role. [25:11] Career direction. [25:38] Honing the skills a PM requires like leadership, communication, and her own personal development. [26:25] The importance of leadership skills in the kind of work that Megan would like to do in future. [27:40] Bonus Question 1: What hobby or interest do you have that is most unrelated to your field of work? [27:51] A love of writing. [28:29] Megan's genres. [28:55] With a passion for writing, why not major in English? [29:16] The need to be practical. [30:06] The bill-paying job options for an English degree were not personally appealing. [31:00] Bonus Question 2: Which childhood book holds the strongest memories for you? [31:05] Strong family memories with Harry Potter. [31:55] Bonus Question 3: What advice you would give someone who wants to do what you do? Or what advice should they ignore? [32:01] Impostor Syndrome. [32:47] Be your own role model. [33:23] Don't limit yourself. [34:55] Reaching out to Megan.

Topics/Resources/People Mentioned

Ohio State University

Code 4 Community

Humanitarian Engineering Scholars

Dr Sabine Bird (#16)

Microsoft

Explore Internship at Microsoft

Amanda Hickie (#11)

Harry Potter by J K Rowling (BookDepository)

Additional Resources

Code 4 Community

Code 4 Community contact: c4cosu[at]gmail.com

Connect with Megan

LinkedIn

Email: contact STEAM Powered

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[gdwessel]

Road to Power Struggle Night 6 - 10/23/2018; Ishii v. Suzuki British Heavyweight Title Match at Power Struggle; This Week’s NJPW on AXS

The tour continued today, with two more Super Jr. Tag League matches. Yesterday’s 2 are now on NJPWWorld.

- 10/23/2018, Tottori Prefectural Industrial Gym

BUSHI & Shingo Takagi [Los Ingobernbales] d. Ayato Yoshida [K-DOJO] & Yuya Uemura (Takagi > Uemura, Pumping Bomber, 9:21)

Trent Beretta & Chuck Taylor [CHAOS] d. Tomoaki Honma & Yota Tsuji (Taylor > Tsuji, Awful Waffle, 10:39)

Volador Jr. [CMLL], Soberano Jr. [CMLL] & Ren Narita d. Jushin Thunder Liger, Tiger Mask IV & Shota Umino (Soberano > Umino, Modified Piledriver, 11:01)

Tomohiro Ishii & Hirooki Goto [CHAOS] d. Minoru Suzuki & TAKA Michinoku [SZKG] (Ishii > TAKA, Vertical Drop Brainbuster, 8:19)

Yujiro Takahashi & Chase Owens [Bullet Club Elite] d. Hiroshi Tanahashi & Toa Henare (Owens > Henare, Jewel Heist, 10:17)

Super Jr. Tag League 2018: Yoshinobu Kanemaru & El Desperado [SZKG] d. Taiji Ishimori [BCOGs] & Robbie Eagles [FREE] (Desperado > Eagles, El Es Claro, 10:02)

Super Jr. Tag League 2018: KUSHIDA & Chris Sabin [ROH] d. Ryusuke Taguchi & ACH [FREE] (KUSHIDA > ACH, Hoverboard Lock, 13:58)

Jay White, Bad Luck Fale, Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa & Gedo [BCOGs] d. Kazuchika Okada, Toru Yano, Rocky Romero, SHO & YOH [CHAOS] (White > Romero, Blade Runner,  12:31)

Hey look, Soberano and Chuckie T got wins today. I don’t think Taguchi & ACH are going to the finals at this point. Shame really. Current standings:

BUSHI/Shingo: 6pts (3W 0D 1L) SHO/YOH: 6pts (3W 0D 1L) Kanemaru/Desperado: 4pts (2W 0D 2L) Ishimori/Eagles: 4pts (2W 0D 2L) Liger/Tiger: 4pts (2W 0D 2L) KUSHIDA/Sabin: 4pts (2W 0D 2L) Volador/Soberano: 2pts (1W 0D 3L) Taguchi/ACH: 2pts (1W 0D 3L)

Meanwhile, the feud between Tomohiro Ishii and Minoru Suzuki continues through this tour, and now it will culminate in another title match at Power Struggle. Suzuki will challenge Ishii for the RevPro Undisputed British Heavyweight title at the event, the second time this belt has been defended in NJPW (the first saw Katsuyori Shibata defend against Will Ospreay way back on 2/11/2017 at The New Beginning in Osaka 2017). The belt has been going back and forth between the two for much of 2018 thus far. And hey, a title match with actual build, whoda thunk!

This week’s NJPW on AXS takes us to Destruction in Kobe on 9/23/2018 at Hyogo Kobe World Hall. The advertised match is HIroshi Tanahashi defending The Briefcase against Kazuchika Okada. This was the 3rd singles meeting between these two in 2018. Same AXS Time, Same AXS Channel.

The tour takes a couple of days off, before returning to Tokyo Korakuen Hall on Friday for a weekend stand. This show will be live on NJPWWorld as well.

- 10/26/2018, Tokyo Korakuen Hall (NJPWWorld)

Toa Henare, Shota Umino & Yota Tsuji v. Ayato Yoshida [K-DOJO], Ren Narita & Yuya Uemura

Tomohiro Ishii & Toru Yano [CHAOS] v. Minoru Suzuki & TAKA Michinoku [SZKG]

Hiroshi Tanahashi, Togi Makabe & Tomoaki Honma v. Kota Ibushi [FREE], Yujiro Takahashi [Bullet Club Elite] & Chase Owens [Bullet Club Elite]

Kazuchika Okada, Hirooki Goto, Trent Beretta, Chuck Taylor & Rocky Romero [CHAOS] v. Jay White, Bad Luck Fale, Tama Tonga, Tanga Loa & Gedo [BCOGs]

Super Jr. Tag League 2018: Jushin Thunder Liger & Tiger Mask IV v. KUSHIDA & Chris Sabin [ROH]

Super Jr. Tag League 2018: Volador Jr. & Soberano Jr. [CMLL] v.  Yoshinobu Kanemaru & El Desperado [SZKG]

Super Jr. Tag League 2018: BUSHI & Shingo Takagi [Los Ingobernables] v. Taiji Ishimori [BCOGs] & Robbie Eagles [FREE]

Super Jr. Tag League 2018: Ryusuke Taguchi & ACH [FREE] v. SHO & YOH [CHAOS]

[blockpaths]

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[culturepunk]

Sources

You can find all the sources we used for this research project, below the line. Some of the sources have been mentioned with a reference in the text as well. 

Cooper, R. (z.d.). A Beginner’s Guide to the Evolution of Punk Rock. LiveAbout. Geraadpleegd op mei 2021, van https://www.liveabout.com/history-of-punk-rock-2803345

Punk Rock in 1970’s Britain and its Influence. (2019, 15 februari). Decade of Discord. http://jamesfreemanhistorian.org/decadeofdiscord/wp/2019/02/15/punk-rock-in-1970s-britain-and-its-influence/  

 LibGuides: The History and Impact of Punk Music & Culture: Home. (z.d.). Simmons. Geraadpleegd op mei 2021, van https://simmonslis.libguides.com/c.php?g=1100647&p=8026374 

 Hodgson, S. (z.d.). Punk and disorderly: The enduring impact of punk rock on design and culture. Fabrik Brands. Geraadpleegd op 31 mei 2021, van https://fabrikbrands.com/punk-and-disorderly-punk-culture/ 

 Punk, Politics and Youth Culture. (z.d.). READING HISTORY. Geraadpleegd op mei 2021, van https://unireadinghistory.com/punk-politics-and-youth-culture/ 

 Revolting, C. (2016, 27 november). Anarchy in the UK? The politics and people that produced punk rock. Rs21. https://www.rs21.org.uk/2016/11/27/anarchy-in-the-uk-the-politics-and-people-that-produced-punk-rock/ 

 E. (2016, 19 augustus). Did punk rock actually change the world? Alt77. https://alt77.com/punk-rock-actually-change-world/ 

 Savage, J. (z.d.). punk | Definition, History, Music, & Facts. Encyclopedia Britannica. Geraadpleegd op mei 2021, van https://www.britannica.com/art/punk 

 Hanner, N. (2013, 7 juli). Unpopular Culture: The Relationship Between Punk Rock and Mainstream Society. STRAIGHTEDGEWORLDWIDE. https://straightedgeworldwide.com/blogs/activism/unpopular-culture-the-relationship-between-punk-rock-and-mainstream-society 

 Sabin, R. (1999). Punk Rock: So What?: The Cultural Legacy of Punk (1st ed.). Routledge. https://books.google.nl/books?hl=nl&lr=&id=sXeFAgAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=punk++influence+the+uk+media&ots=0HiD6sItrI&sig=7je03MlcjQ-xKidTw2NTJrkunbc#v=onepage&q=punk%20%20influence%20the%20uk%20media&f=false  

 Trash Theory. (2019, 9 januari). Before 1976: How Punk Became Punk [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHYwxbVW-ho 

 Worley, M. (z.d.). Punk into post-punk. Museum of Youth Culture. Geraadpleegd op mei 2021, van https://museumofyouthculture.com/punk/#:%7E:text=Arguably%20one%20of%20Britains%20most,and%20a%20load%20of%20attitude.&text=British%20punk%20emerged%20in%201976,and%20cities%20of%20the%20UK. 

 Thomas, P. W. (z.d.). 1970s Punks Fashion History Vivienne Westwood, Body Piercing. Fashion-Era. Geraadpleegd op 31 mei 2021, van https://fashion-era.com/1970s/punk-fashion-history/ 

  Punk Music Genre Overview. (z.d.). AllMusic. Geraadpleegd op 31 mei 2021, van https://www.allmusic.com/style/punk-ma0000002806 

 The 25 Most Influential Punk Bands. (2007, 31 juli). Ultimate Guitar. https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/the_25_most_influential_punk_bands.html 

 Wawzenek, B. (2017, 26 oktober). Influence and Infamy: How the Sex Pistols Impacted the Future of Music. Diffuser.Fm. https://diffuser.fm/sex-pistols-influence/ 

 Sex Pistols. (z.d.). TeachRock. Geraadpleegd op juni 2021, van https://teachrock.org/people/sex-pistols/  

 Peacock, T. (2019, 23 november). Punk Politics: Fighting The Power, From Sex Pistols To Anti-Flag. UDiscover Music. https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/punk-politics-music-rebellion/ 

 Weston Thomas, P. (z.d.). 1970s Punks Fashion History Vivienne Westwood, Body Piercing. Fashion-Era. Geraadpleegd op mei 2021, van https://fashion-era.com/1970s/punk-fashion-history/ 

 403 Forbidden. (2019, 15 februari). James freeman Historian.   http://jamesfreemanhistorian.org/decadeofdiscord/wp/2019/02/15/punk-rock-in-1970s-britain-and-its-influence/ 

 A Beginner’s Guide to the Evolution of Punk Rock. (z.d.). LiveAbout. Geraadpleegd op 14 juni 2021, van https://www.liveabout.com/history-of-punk-rock-2803345 

 Punk, Politics and Polygraph Eyes – An Interview with YUNGBLUD. (z.d.). PILERATS. Geraadpleegd op 14 juni 2021, van http://pilerats.com/written/get-to-know/yungblud-feature-interview/ 

 Sex Pistols. (2017, 4 januari). TeachRock. https://teachrock.org/people/sex-pistols/ 

 Wawzenek, B. (2017, 26 oktober). Influence and Infamy: How the Sex Pistols Impacted the Future of Music. Diffuser.Fm. https://diffuser.fm/sex-pistols-influence/ 

 Weston Thomas, P. (z.d.). 1970s Punks Fashion History Vivienne Westwood, Body Piercing. Fashion-Era. Geraadpleegd op mei 2021, van https://fashion-era.com/1970s/punk-fashion-history/ 

[bedlamfoundry]

Snelle, Jairzinho & Elske DeWall - Meer Dan Een Ander (Verspijkerd)

luister 'Meer Dan Een Ander' nu overal via: https://C9M.lnk.to/VanDikHoutVerspijkerd Ter ere van het 25-jarig bestaan van de band Van Dik Hout zijn op het album 'Van Dik Hout Verspijkerd' hun grootste hits in een nieuw jasje gestoken. Van Dik Hout is verantwoordelijk voor klassiekers als 'Stil In Mij', 'Laat Het Los' en 'Mijn Houten Hart' met de Poema's. Als eerbetoon aan deze tophits zijn er acht nieuwe songs ontstaan, waarbij Urban artiesten als Josylvio, Snelle, F1rstman en Jairzinho een samenwerking zijn aangegaan met Pop artiesten als Do, Sharon Doorson, Thomas Berge en Elske DeWall. De tracks zijn geproduceerd door gerenommeerde producers als Esko, FRNKIE en Whiteboy. Deze unieke samenwerkingen hebben geleid tot een album waarin Van Dik Hout fans de hits in een nieuwe variant horen en een nieuwe generatie kennis leert maken met deze Nederlandse Popklassiekers. Meer Dan Een Ander is de tweede single van dit project. 01. Josylvio, Do - Stil In Mij (Verspijkerd) 02. Snelle, Jairzinho, Elske DeWall - Meer Dan Een Ander (Verspijkerd) 03. Lauwtje, Kevcody, Thomas Berge - Zij Maakt Het Verschil (Verspijkerd) 04. Pjotr, Birgit Schuurman - Laat Het Los (Verspijkerd) 05. Kempi, Sharon Doorson - De Keuzes Die Je Maakt (Verspijkerd) 06. Hef, Glen Faria - Mijn Houten Hart (Verspijkerd) 07. F1rstman, Tommie Christiaan - Film Van 1 Seconde (Verspijkerd) 08. Paul Sinha, Kimberly Fransens - Zoet En Zacht (Verspijkerd) De climax vindt plaats op 13 december, wanneer het complete album 'Van Dik Hout Verspijkerd' digitaal, fysiek en op vinyl beschikbaar is. Op deze dag verschijnt tevens de Van Dik Hout klassieker 'Stil In Mij' van Josylvio en Do. Productie: Trenchcoat Film Director: Tim Treurniet 1st AD: Roy van Anraat DOP: Rory van den Berg 1st AC: Jason Hornung Gaffer: Otto Ligt Productie op set: Laurens Peek en Jeanieke van 't Hoff Executive Producent Label; Cloud 9 Recordings: Daniel van Hest Visagie: Sabine van der Poel Actrice: Roos Ponsioen Acteur: Jhamal Emanuelson Volg Cloud 9 Music: Website: http://www.cloud9music.nl Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cloud9music Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/cloud9musicofficial?si=EEI8RwtxTZOUJBX3b1cB5A 2019 Cloud 9 Recordings B.V. #Snelle #Jairzinho #ElskeDeWall #BeFree #BeBeautiful #BeYOU #BeLOVE #BedlamFoundry #IAmBedlam #EDM #music #cloud9 #cloud9music #artist #song #musicvideo #MeerDanEen Ander #Snelle #ElskeDeWall #Jairzinho #VanDikHout #verspijkerd #trenchcoat

[azveille]

Ebola : GSK transfère ses vaccins en développement à un institut américain

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) a annoncé mardi dans un communiqué avoir octroyé au Sabin Vaccine Institute américain la licence technologique exclusive de ses vaccins en développement contre la fièvre hémorragique Ebola, au moment où une épidémie sévit en République démocratique du Congo (RDC).

Aucun détail financier n'a été évoqué. "Il n'y a aucun élément financier associé à cet accord", a indiqué un porte-parole de GSK à l'agence Reuters.

Les trois candidats-vaccins visent les souches Zaïre et Soudan du virus Ebola ainsi que le virus de Marburg. Ils ont déjà été testés sur plus de 5.000 adultes et 600 enfants, a indiqué GSK.

L'épidémie d'Ebola en cours en RDC a été classée en juillet "urgence de santé publique internationale" par l'Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS), rappelle-t-on (cf dépêche du 18/07/2019 à 11:02).

Selon l'accord annoncé mardi, Sabin a obtenu la licence exclusive des trois vaccins, qui ont initialement été développés dans le cadre d'un partenariat entre les National Institutes of Health (NIH) américains et Okairos, acquis en 2013 par GSK.

Les travaux ont ensuite été assurés par le groupe britannique, avec notamment trois phases II menées sur le produit ciblant la souche Zaïre dans le cadre de l'épidémie qui a touché l'Afrique de l'Ouest en 2014-2016 (cf dépêche du 24/02/2016 à 15:28).

Aucune phase III n'avait pu être lancée en raison de la fin de l'épidémie.

Les deux autres vaccins sont en phase I.

Sabin va poursuivre le développement des trois vaccins dans le cadre d'un nouveau partenariat avec le National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) américain.

[suzannemcappsca]

Mediation Lessons from the Cases – Part 2

Alan Limbury

[Picture credit: creative commons]

Although infrequent, court cases against mediators are illuminating, helping us avoid being dragged into court ourselves.

Here’s an example

In Tapoohi v Lewenberg & Ors (No 2) [2003] VSC 410, the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia, considered it arguable that a mediator owes a duty of care to the disputants.

The mediated dispute

This was litigation between two legally represented sisters over the estate of their deceased mother. Mrs Tapoohi attended by telephone. The mediator was an experienced senior counsel and mediator. Handwritten Terms of Settlement were executed and faxed to Mrs Tapoohi, who faxed back a signed copy. The settlement contemplated payment by Mrs Tapoohi of $A1.4 million for certain real estate and transfer by her of certain shares for $A1.00.

Following the mediation It later became apparent that the $A1.00 figure had undesirable tax consequences for Mrs Tapoohi. Her sister refused to change the price, so Mrs Tapoohi commenced fresh court proceedings seeking to set aside the settlement, saying it was subject to an express oral term that the parties would seek taxation advice before concluding any settlement.

The claim against her solicitors Mrs Tapoohi later added a claim against her solicitors that they had advised her to sign the Terms because they were subject to the express oral term and were not binding upon her. Alternatively, if the settlement was binding, she had suffered loss and damage due to the solicitors’ breach of their retainer or negligent advice. More than two years after bringing the initial proceedings, Mrs Tapoohi discontinued the second proceedings against her sister and thereafter pursued only her solicitors.

The solicitors’ claim against counsel and the mediator The solicitors claimed that if the Terms of Settlement were binding, the damage suffered by Mrs Tapoohi was due to breaches by her barrister and by the mediator of duties they owed to her in contract and in tort. Hence if the solicitors were liable to pay damages to her, they were entitled to contribution from the barrister and the mediator.

The mediator applied to strike out the solicitors’ claim The mediator submitted that the solicitors’ claim had no arguable basis. The solicitors and the mediator provided sworn affidavits as to what happened at the mediation. The judge noted that a number of important allegations were vigorously disputed by the mediator, saying: “For the purposes of an application such as this I must approach the matter on the basis that the facts most favourable to the claim will be established. This means that, in the event of conflict, I must prefer the affidavits filed on behalf of the solicitors”. The barrister also sought to strike out the solicitors’ claim but did not pursue that application.

What happened at the mediation? In determining whether to strike out the claim against the mediator, the judge examined in detail the solicitors’ evidence as to the conduct of the mediation, summarised below. The solicitors for both sisters verbally agreed to appoint the mediator and so informed him. The mediator then wrote to the parties confirming his nomination and proposing a preliminary conference, saying: “I confirm that the aim of the Mediation Conference is to assist the parties in reaching a settlement of their dispute by the involvement of an impartial mediator. It is not the role or function of a mediator to impose a settlement on the parties. It is up to the parties to arrive at their own resolution of the dispute. The purpose of the mediator is to assist the parties to define the issues, eliminate obstacles to successful communication, explore settlement alternatives, and generally work with the parties to achieve a negotiated resolution.” The solicitors for Mrs Tapoohi confirmed his appointment “to act as mediator in the proceedings”.

On several occasions during the mediation it was made clear to the mediator that any agreement reached would need to be subject to getting proper tax advice. After approximately nine hours the parties reached agreement in principle. The mediator told everyone to return to the main room so that they could get something down for the parties to sign, saying forcefully: “You have got to stay, you have got to do the terms of settlement tonight.” “No, we are doing it now. We are signing up tonight as that is the way that I do it, that’s how I conduct mediations.” “Given the acrimony between these two sisters we must go away with something that is written. It is in the interests of all the parties to sign up tonight.” The mediator then dictated the Terms. There had been no discussion as to the price to be paid for the shares. The mediator suggested $A1.00 as nominal consideration. Her solicitor took this as recognition that the Terms were not binding because of the need to obtain tax advice. Nobody noticed that this requirement was not included in the Terms.

The solicitors’ argument The solicitors pleaded the doubtful proposition that: “the Parties retained the mediator for reward to act for them and advise them as a mediator at the Mediation” and that it was implied in the mediation agreement that the mediator would: “(a) exercise all the due care and skill of a senior barrister specialising in commercial litigation and related matters; (b) exercise all the due care and skill of a senior expert mediator; (c) reasonably protect the interests of the Parties; (d) not act in a manner patently contrary to the interests of the Parties, or any of them; (e) act impartially as between the Parties; (f) carry out his instructions from the Parties by all proper means; and further or alternatively (g) not coerce or induce the Parties into settling the Earlier Proceeding when, at the relevant time or times, there was a real and substantial risk that settlement would be contrary to the interests of the Parties, or any of them.”

The judge’s decision The Judge dismissed the mediator’s application to strike out or dismiss the solicitors’ claim for contribution, holding that it was arguable that the mediator owed duties to the disputants in both contract and in tort, saying: “I have reached the conclusion that it is not beyond argument that some at least of the breaches of the contractual and tortious duties might be made out. I consider that it is possible that a court could find that there was such a breach constituted by the imposition of undue pressure upon resistant parties, at the end of a long and tiring mediation, to execute an unconditional final agreement settling their disputes where it was apparent that they, or one of them, wanted to seek further advice upon aspects of it, or where it was apparent that the agreement was not unconditional, or where the agreement was of such complexity that it required further consideration. I emphasise that it is not for me to conclude that any of these things occurred in the present case and I do not do so. It is sufficient that I conclude, as I do, that on the evidence before me such a contention is not plainly hopeless.”

The outcome In the absence of any reported judgement, it appears Mrs Tapoohi’s claim against the solicitors and their claim for contribution against the mediator did not proceed to trial. In the result, it remains to be judicially decided whether mediators do owe a duty in contract or tort to disputants, especially where, as here, no formal Mediation Agreement was entered into.

Lessons for mediators One advantage for mediators in having a formal Mediation Agreement is that the mediator may expressly exclude liability to the parties. That might have been useful in this case. It frequently happens in mediation that settlement is reached only after a very long day when everyone is exhausted. (My own record is 21 hours, 40 minutes! I suggested we all go to bed and come back next day. No-one accepted.) In the case under consideration it took 9 hours to reach agreement in principle. It is not clear how much longer it took to write the Terms and have them executed. My own theory is that it usually takes three times as long for the lawyers to draft the settlement agreement than anyone expects. Meantime the mediator needs to prevent everything from falling apart. No doubt it didn’t take as long for the mediator in this case to do the drafting, since he chose to do it himself. However, this case illustrates the danger for mediators in doing so. Where the parties are legally represented, the mediator can usefully hover behind them as they write, occasionally suggesting some language or the need to address a topic, but not in a way that could be understood as telling them what to do.

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Rebecca McCarthy | Longreads | February 2019 | 14 minutes (3,579 words)

Atlantic City covers the northern third of Absecon Island, a barrier island made up of an alarming amount of sand. It is a bad town to die in — there are plenty of vacant lots but no cemeteries. In many places, if you dig down more than eight feet you hit water. A couple blocks away from the beach, the Absecon Lighthouse is built on a submerged wooden foundation for exactly that reason — so long as you keep wood wet and away from oxygen, it won’t rot. “We haven’t tipped yet,” said Buddy Grover, the 91-year-old lighthouse keeper, “but it does sway in the wind sometimes.”

“The problem with barrier islands is that, sort of by definition, they move,” said Dan Heneghan. Heneghan covered the casino beat for the Press of Atlantic City for 20 years before moving to the Casino Control Commission in 1996. He retired this past May. He’s a big, friendly guy with a mustache like a push broom and a habit of lowering his voice and pausing near the end of his sentences, as if he’s telling you a ghost story. (“Atlantic City was, in mob parlance … a wide open city. No one family … controlled it.”) We were standing at the base of the lighthouse, which he clearly adores. He’s climbed it 71 times this year. “I don’t volunteer here, I just climb the steps,” he said. “It’s a lot more interesting than spending time on a Stairmaster.” The lighthouse was designed by George Meade, a Civil War general most famous for defeating Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg. It opened in 1857 but within 20 years the beach had eroded to such an extent that the water was only 75 feet away from the base. Jetties were added until the beach was built back out, but a large iron anchor sits at the old waterline, either as a reminder or a threat.

A little more than two years ago, when I was an intern at a now shuttered website called The Awl, I went out to Atlantic City to cover the Trump Taj Mahal’s last weekend before it closed for good. My first night there I met a woman named Juliana Lykins who told me about Tucker’s Island — New Jersey’s first seaside resort, which had been slowly overtaken by the sea until it disappeared completely. This was a month before the election. The “grab ’em by the pussy” tape had just broken, it was pouring rain, the city was on the verge of defaulting on its debts, and 2,000 casino workers were about to lose their jobs. At the time — my clothes soaking wet, falling asleep in a Super 8 to the sound of Scottie Nell Hughes on CNN — it was hard to understand what Lykins was saying as anything other than a metaphor for the country. I missed the larger menace and focused on the immediate. Trump was elected obviously, but Tucker’s Island wasn’t a figurative threat; it was a very straightforward story about what happens to coastal communities when the water moves in.

Last June, NOAA released a report on high-tide flooding in the United States over the course of 2017. Atlantic City and Boston were tied for second place with 22 days of flooding from high tide alone. The only metro area more affected, with 23 days of flooding, was Sabine Pass, which sits on the Gulf Coast, where Texas meets Louisiana. “Sea level rise is very spatially dependent,” said Maya Buchanan. Buchanan is the resident expert on sea level rise at Climate Central, a research center based in Princeton, New Jersey. “So even New Jersey and New York are expected to have a different amount [of flooding] because there’s a lot of different factors. Some of them are global, some are regional, and some are very, very local.” New York is built on bedrock — metamorphic rock specifically, once incredibly hard and hot; that’s why so few dinosaur fossils have been found in the city. New Jersey’s soil is considerably more porous. “Atlantic City in particular,” said Buchanan, “but even New Jersey writ large, are expected to experience more sea level rise than the global mean.”

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The decade since the recession has been rough for everyone except the wealthiest, but here the recession was a disaster. According to the South Jersey Economic Review, more than 25,000 jobs were lost in the past decade and the city’s real GDP declined by 21.4 percent between 2006 and 2015, the largest dip of any metro area in the country. Five casinos shut down in two years, and the day after the 2016 election the city was taken over by the state in order to avoid default. Oliver Cooke, an economics professor at nearby Stockton University, has referred to the past 10 years as Atlantic City’s “lost decade.”

The shuttered casinos — windowless basements filled with slot machines — were perfect for a lab.

For the first time in a while things are looking up. Last year violent crime and property crime were down 36 percent since 2017 according to the Atlantic City Police Department, and the boardwalk was markedly busier this past summer. The only place Trump’s name still appears in the city is on an old mural in the bus station, and the shuttered Trump Taj Mahal reopened as a Hard Rock Café in June. Come hell or high water, it is always sort of 2005 in South Jersey (a lot of Simple Plan on the radio) and the Hard Rock is designed to capitalize on that. In place of the Taj Mahal’s famous chandelier is a giant guitar, and what was once a jewelry store has been reborn as a shrine to Boomers called the “Rock Vault.” A Kramer Pacer, painted in the style of acid-wash jeans, hangs on the wall. bon jovi, it says. new jersey. As far as I could tell the only holdover from the Trump Taj was a sandwich chain called White House Subs, although it’s unclear whether or not that’s a nod to the president. When I walked by, a man was standing at the counter wearing a Rob Zombie T-shirt that read, 100% corpse fucking flesh eating zombie loving god damn son of a bitch.

It’s a start, but the reality is that people don’t gamble the way they used to. According to a YouGov poll from May 2018, 47 percent of millennials find casinos “depressing,” and next door to the Hard Rock, where the former Revel has reopened as the Ocean Resort, business was much quieter. The Ocean is visually striking — an enormous mass of curved glass — but it doesn’t seem to have a real identity besides ‘playing a lot of Frank Sinatra’ and several of the pushcart operators that work on the boardwalk told me they’d placed bets on how long it will last. As I was walking past, a woman asked a couple if it was as beautiful inside as it is from the boardwalk.

“Not really,” they said.

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A little more than three years ago, as hope for a revival began to ebb, an architecture firm called Perkins+Will proposed a plan. Within the range of plans for Atlantic City, this one was unique — it was responsible. Atlantic City is four square miles, about the size of some college campuses. The shuttered casinos — windowless basements filled with slot machines — were perfect for a lab. The idea was to take the city’s vulnerability to the sea and turn it into an asset. Atlantic City would become a global hub for climate science, casinos gradually replaced with laboratories, the convention center reinvented as a training ground for civic leaders. “We weren’t talking about abandoning Atlantic City,” said David Green, one of the primary architects behind the project. “We were talking about repurposing it and bringing in academic and research partners to kind of rehabilitate the area as a kind of research hub.” Scientists would study ecological changes, sociological changes, and the way different kinds of buildings respond to sea level rise. One of the central parts of the plan was something Green called The Line, which would be a physical reminder of the changing coast and a way to make clear to the public what was happening. “You’re testing not just the physical community, but social community elements,” said Green. It was a good idea, but maybe a couple years ahead of its time. Climate change hadn’t settled into the national consciousness yet, and in the confusion of casino closings and the 2016 election Green’s plan failed to gain traction with local politicians and eventually died off.

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In the early 1950s, two writers for the New York Daily Mirror named Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer published a book of all-American gossip (communists! grift!) called U.S.A. Confidential. New Jersey did not fare well. “There is no such place as New Jersey,” they wrote. “It is a breeding bed, playground and refuse dump for New York and Philadelphia and a refuge for their criminals. It is a highway between the two great cities. Few who use it ever stop off or look behind its billboards. If they did, they’d see plenty of ugliness.”

There is no such place as New Jersey. Pretty harsh! But Atlantic City leaned into it, learned to monetize it. The referendum to bring in casinos, paradigmatic non-places, was passed in 1976, but their success was contingent upon maintaining a duopoly between Atlantic City and Vegas. Once gambling was legalized in New York, Connecticut, and (especially) Pennsylvania, things started to decline. “What happened was that we lost the convenience gambler,” said Heneghan, “and that was a big chunk of the market. The regulators in Pennsylvania, I think very, very wisely on their part, chose sites close to the [Delaware] river to kind of create a barrier. With apologies to Winston Churchill, there was a casino curtain drawn around New Jersey.”

The city has been struggling to develop a coherent comeback plan for years. Last June, Philly Mag ran a feature on the arrival of John Longacre — a developer and bar owner who helped gentrify South Philly and is looking to open a bar in Atlantic City. Others are looking to esports — the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority is in the process of finalizing a deal to install 6,000 square feet of secure servers in the city, and souvenir shops prominently display shirts that read do you even fortnite bro? Because most of the esports audience is underage, it won’t exactly bring an economic boom, though. The New York Times threw its money on sports betting, which was legalized in New Jersey in June and could help bring in revenue during the city’s lean winter months. None of these reports mention climate change.

You gotta be up the whole night just to push the water out. Unless you got a big-ass vacuum to suck it up, you gotta do it with a broom.

Heneghan, like everyone else I spoke to, doubts that sports betting will be enough to fix the city’s economic problems. At the time we spoke, the only nearby states in which it was legal were Jersey and Delaware. But Rhode Island legalized it in October, Pennsylvania in November, and New York and Connecticut are expected to follow suit in 2019. Essentially, it’s the casino curtain all over again. “I think sports betting will generate some additional revenue,” said Heneghan,“but it’s not the panacea, no.” When I asked him what the city wants to be, he had trouble answering. We were standing at the top of the lighthouse now, overlooking the Absecon Inlet — once called Graveyard Inlet because of the frequency of shipwrecks — and the small section of the boardwalk that was destroyed in Sandy. “I remember in January of ’76 I went to a meeting with the local press corps and one of the city commissioners was the speaker,” Heneghan said. “He was an older guy who had been a member of the governor’s cabinet and had been state commissioner of banking. This was before casinos and he was kind of bemoaning how quiet things were in Atlantic City. He said when he was a kid, Atlantic City was a place to go to with somebody you shouldn’t be seen with. Do things you couldn’t do at home.” The bars, Heneghan reminded me, never close here.

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Last spring, Climate Central published a report on the injustice inherent to Atlantic City’s floods, focusing on a single block called Arizona Avenue. The casinos are protected by large dunes and the Army Corps recently finished building a sea wall with recovery funds from Sandy. Along the back bay though, residents largely rely on aging, undersized bulkheads, and where there are vacant lots there’s often no barrier at all. Things have not improved much over the past year.

“They’re always saying ‘We’re trying to work on it, the sewer systems, blah blah blah,’ but honestly I mean, come on. How do you not make a contingency plan knowing that the bay is right there, the ocean is right here,” said Raymond Mendoza. Mendoza works as a porter and a barback at the Borgata and lives about a block and a half from the back bay. When I met him he was walking a very fat, amiable beagle named Roy. “I’m always worried. When it’s really bad I just watch the tide, ’cause once I see that,” he said, pointing to the water, “come this way, I’m taking my car and driving it right into the casino [parking garage].”

‘Nuisance flooding’ is the technical term for this, but it doesn’t feel adequate. It only takes six inches of fast moving water to topple a grown man. Two feet can sweep a car out to sea. As the water rises so will structural damage. Black mold will spread, kids and the elderly will get sick, and the already debt-ridden National Flood Insurance will edge further toward collapse. “You gotta be up the whole night just to push the water out,” said Neto Alavez. Alavez moved up here from Maryland to work for his uncle’s painting company. “Unless you got a big-ass vacuum to suck it up, you gotta do it with a broom. All they have to say is ‘just go somewhere else.’ They protect all them places over [by the boardwalk]. You know what I’m talking about, the fancy stuff.”

Everyone I met spoke of Hurricane Sandy as the high-water mark for catastrophic flooding, but Sandy — despite the damage it caused — didn’t hit Atlantic City directly, and by the time it made landfall in the Northeast it was only a Category 2 hurricane. There is a pervasive Tale of Two Cities narrative that hangs around Atlantic City — the obscene wealth that circulates within the casinos butting up against dilapidated row houses outside — but the reality is rich people don’t really live in Atlantic City, they just come for conventions. It’s a city of waitresses and bartenders, and many of the residents are elderly. Others moved here after being driven out of Philadelphia and New York by rising rents. Some of them do not have anywhere inland to which they can evacuate. A stronger hurricane, a more direct hit, and people will lose everything.

“A lot of people see sea level rise as just an inundation risk, right? Or this slow problem that’s encroaching,” said Buchanan. “But any flood is basically the summation of sea level and tides and storm surge. Anything that’s adding to that platform just makes a flood that much more likely and it can really increase the frequency and severity of floods.” Last year, scientists at Rice University and Texas A&M released a paper on fossilized coral reefs that showed sea level rise did not happen gradually at the end of the last ice age, but rather in fits and spurts with brief periods of stasis.

Things could get bad here very fast, and all of the revival plans are short-term fixes. We’ve already locked in a certain amount of sea level rise at this point, so for Atlantic City it’s a question of when, not if. According to Climate Central’s risk map, even if we cut carbon emissions to zero yesterday the city would still flood by 2100. It’s likely to happen much sooner, but in that scenario at least, the Borgata is one of the last places above the waterline. Mendoza has been parking his car in the right place.

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The news was bad this past year. In April, a lawyer named David Buckel lit himself on fire in Prospect Park to protest the world’s continuing use of fossil fuels. In early October, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report warning that we only have until 2040 to drastically alter the world’s economy in order to prevent an effectively uninhabitable planet. In late October, the World Wildlife Foundation released a report estimating that humanity had managed to destroy 60 percent of wildlife since 1970. In November, the deadliest wildfires in a century swept across California. This January, Science released a report that showed oceans were warming 40 percent faster than previously believed. In Atlantic City, a man by the name of David Dichter began petitioning lawmakers to take action. Dichter grew up in Atlantic City and served overseas as a Marine Corps officer and a foreign service officer before retiring. “I think I came back,” he said, “with a pretty good understanding of how screwed up the environment really was.”

Sea level rise did not happen gradually at the end of the last ice age, but rather in fits and spurts with brief periods of stasis … Things could get bad here very fast.

Dichter’s plan was more modest than David Green’s, but the foundational idea was the same: Atlantic City is really going down this time, the question is whether it can figure out a way to make the transition less painful. Dichter focused on tourism — if Atlantic City could position itself as the place for climate conferences, maybe that would lead to bigger things. At the very least it was a way to bring in revenue.

A resolution to turn Atlantic City into a hub for climate science and conventions was passed through the Atlantic City Council, the county freeholders association, and the state legislature, but it’s unclear how committed lawmakers are to specifics just yet. The city was still under state control and about $450 million in debt as of June 2018. The first climate conference took place the weekend of January 25th at the Claridge Hotel, and Dichter has been speaking with David Green about the way things might progress, but it’s been slow going so far. Atlantic City is, for lack of a better term, behaving like Atlantic City. In December, the mayor, Frank Gilliam, was arrested after getting into a fight outside of a casino. (Asked by a reporter from the Philadelphia Inquirer if he was still mayor, Gilliam replied, “Today.”) A few weeks later he was being investigated by the FBI.

What seems to be lacking at this point is grassroots community involvement. “[The city] should invite the people that organized themselves in Staten Island [after Hurricane Sandy] for the buyout,” said Klaus Jacob. Jacob is a geophysicist and Columbia University’s disaster risk and climate expert. He became somewhat famous for essentially predicting the effects of Hurricane Sandy on New York’s transit system a year before it hit. “It came from the community, it didn’t come from the government. Invite one of those main macho people that organized that neighborhood for a buyout and get a little primer from them. I’m a geophysicist, so what am I talking about here? Not my field of expertise. I just have seen it happening over the last ten, twenty years — where things are moving and where they don’t move … Wherever you look, unless there is a buy-in from neighborhood families — forget it.”

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Climate change can’t be solved, or really even mitigated, by tourism, and there’s no shortage of people who stand to profit from future disasters. But South Jersey is much poorer than the rest of the state and as the water rises and fire spreads across the West, Dichter and Green’s respective plans might be a way for Atlantic City residents to avoid being lost in the shuffle. Whether or not the city ultimately ends up donating its body to science, there is something oddly endearing about this last push for revenue. There is no such place as New Jersey, Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer wrote 70 years ago. Turns out, they weren’t all wrong! The state will be significantly smaller in a hundred years. But if this plan moves forward, Atlantic City — a place that, for all its faults, has always tried to make the best of a bad situation — may at least be able to go out in something like style.

I reported most of this story over the summer, and every time I came back to New York I had to walk through Times Square to get to my subway stop. Mel Chin’s Wake and Unmoored had just opened — an exhibition put on by No Longer Empty and the Queens Museum. Wake was a 60-foot wooden sculpture meant to mirror a sunken ship or a whale’s ribcage, and Unmoored added context. Chin had paired with Microsoft to create a VR rendering of what Manhattan might someday look like should climate change go unchecked. When you put on the VR glasses boats began to float above you, crowding the airspace until they suddenly disappeared in a rush of plankton. It was a little too obvious and the boats looked like something out of Minecraft, but it was effective in spite of itself. The water is already above our heads, we just can’t see it yet.

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Rebecca McCarthy is a freelance writer and a bookseller based in Philadelphia. She’s written for The Awl, The Outline, Medium, and others. 

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43 members and guests travelled down to La Manga to play the famous “south course”, well known for its professional and international amateur competitions along with many charity and celebrity golf days including ex professional footballers.

On the face of it the course shouldn’t be too difficult, it’s about as long as any courses around Torrevieja but with very generous fairways, it’s only when you play your approach shot or that first 4m putt that you realise that you haven’t played anything like this before.

As always the course was presented in fantastic condition, it was impossible to find fault with anything but your game. From the results it appears that our Silver category seemed to have the most difficulty, maybe it’s having that intermediate handicap that just doesn’t give them enough shots for this course.

The Bronze category scored better, with 86 years young Tom Jones taking 3rd place with 27 pts. on slightly higher handicap, Norwegian Gair Sorby 2nd with 27 pts. and the winner with 30 pts. was Tom Jones’s young lady, Pearl Sabine. Silver category; 3rd  J. Hettrick 23 pts. L/H, 2nd J. Hillier 24 pts. 1st Karin Alm 28 pts. Gold category; 3rd E. Sheridan 32 pts. 2nd O. Rong 36 pts. 1st Captain J. Eyre 37 pts. N.T.P. Results; hole 2 E. Sheridan, hole 5 L. Sullivan, Hole 12 A. Goslan, Hole 17 T. Norris.

With the 2’s pot being rolled over from last week it contained €56, this was shared by K. Hunter and I. Brown. Photo: Bronze winners including Tom and his young lady Pearl.

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L'Europe répond aux réticences de la France sur l'évaluation commune des technologies de santé

La Commission européenne a répondu début août aux réticences exprimées par la France sur le projet législatif visant à mettre en oeuvre une évaluation commune des technologies de santé au sein de l'Union, selon une lettre consultée par APMnews.

Cette évaluation commune, qui ne devrait pas être effective avant 2022, doit remplacer une approche aujourd'hui essentiellement nationale, qui entraîne une répétition des travaux d'évaluation par les agences de chaque Etat membre et un ralentissement de l'accès au marché des produits les plus innovants (cf dépêche du 05/02/2018 à 14:00).

Bruxelles veut encourager la mise en commun des travaux, sur la base d'une collaboration volontaire qui a vu le jour en 2013.

Des réticences ont émergé sur la proposition de réforme avancée par la Commission européenne à l'occasion du Conseil des ministres de la santé qui s'est tenu fin juin à Bruxelles (cf dépêche du 25/06/2018 à 13:25). La France et l'Allemagne ont notamment demandé des amendements "substantiels" au texte (cf dépêche du 26/06/2018 à 18:15).

Les principaux points encore en discussion sont le caractère obligatoire (retenu par la Commission) de la coopération entre les Etats membres et de l'utilisation du rapport d'évaluation commune au niveau national, ainsi que l'intégration des dispositifs médicaux dans le système (ce qui est le cas actuellement).

De premiers amendements ont été débattus au Parlement européen en juillet dans le cadre de la commission de l'environnement, de la santé publique et de la sécurité alimentaire (ENVI). Un vote en commission est prévu le 13 septembre.

Dans une lettre datée du 1er août, la commissaire européenne au marché intérieur et à l'industrie, Elzbieta Bienkowska, a répondu aux critiques émises sur le projet de texte par la commission des affaires européennes de l'Assemblée nationale française, présidée par Sabine Thillaye (LREM, Indre-et-Loire).

Contrairement à l'Assemblée nationale, la Commission européenne ne pense pas que la proposition de loi va empiéter sur les droits et obligations des Etats membres décrits dans l'article 168 du traité de Rome, observe Elzbieta Bienkowska. Cet article prévoit que les Etats sont responsables de la définition de leur politique de santé ainsi que de l'organisation et de la fourniture de services de santé et de soins médicaux, note-t-on.

"La proposition prévoit que la partie évaluation clinique de l'évaluation commune des technologies de santé, dans les cas concernés, sera menée au niveau de l'UE, non pas par la Commission mais par les agences d'évaluation des Etats membres réunies au sein d'un groupe de coordination", écrit la commissaire européenne.

"Les Etats membres resteront libres d'y ajouter des informations spécifiques à leur contexte et de continuer à mener une évaluation non clinique des produits. La proposition n'oblige pas les Etats membres à procéder à une évaluation des technologies de santé faisant déjà l'objet d'évaluations cliniques conjointes", assure-t-elle.

Les Etats pourront aussi décider de leur procédure nationale d'évaluation (mener ou non une évaluation non clinique et/ou une évaluation pour compléter le travail commun), des conclusions sur la valeur ajoutée de la technologie évaluée, sur la base du rapport d'évaluation clinique conjoint, et de la prise en compte des résultats de l'évaluation dans les décisions de prix et de remboursement.

Qualité et indépendance au rendez-vous

Elzbieta Bienkowska observe par ailleurs que l'Assemblée nationale estime que le projet de réforme n'apporte pas assez de garanties sur la qualité et l'indépendance de l'évaluation commune.

La commissaire européenne conteste ce point de vue et note que Bruxelles attend des Etats membres qu'ils désignent, au sein du groupe de coordination et de ses sous-groupes, des agences d'évaluation dotées d'un "haut niveau d'expertise".

"Les agences évaluatrices et coévaluatrices seront choisies en fonction de leur expertise et de leur aptitude à diriger chaque évaluation, et tous les organismes membres du sous-groupe concerné auront l'occasion d'examiner les projets de rapport d'évaluation et d'apporter leurs contributions", souligne-t-elle.

De plus, "il existe un lien important entre la qualité des évaluations et le caractère obligatoire conféré à la soumission [de dossiers d'évaluation] par les concepteurs de technologies de santé et à l'utilisation du rapport d'évaluation au niveau des Etats membres".

"En veillant à ce que les rapports soient utilisés par les Etats membres dans leurs processus nationaux d’évaluation, des incitations seront créées pour que les concepteurs de technologies de santé soumettent des données et des éléments factuels complets et de qualité et pour que les Etats membres travaillent ensemble afin de produire des rapports de haute qualité à utiliser au niveau national", estime Elzbieta Bienkowska.