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Like the long gun registry.
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House of Commons Hansard #141 of the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was copyright.
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Ryan Leef Conservative Yukon, YT
Like the long gun registry.
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Kevin Lamoureux Liberal Winnipeg North, MB
This is much more severe than that.
The government is proposing, through this legislation, to make it illegal for people to take a music disc and transfer it to their personal iPads or MP3 players, even though they purchased that disc from a music store. Many advocates have said this is the case. The government is telling 15 or 16-year-old students that they are not allowed to do this and if they do, they are committing a crime.
Why has the government neglected the consumer in advancing this bill?
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Scott Armstrong Conservative Cumberland—Colchester—Musquodoboit Valley, NS
Madam Speaker, what the hon. member across the way is talking about is digital locks because his party does not support digital locks. Anyone who has ever downloaded a movie or video from iTunes, or a song, knows that we need digital locks to enable the companies to sell and get profits from their goods. That is how—
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Oh, oh!
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Order, please. I would like to ask for some order while the hon. member has the floor to allow him to speak.
The hon. member for Cumberland.
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Scott Armstrong Conservative Cumberland—Colchester—Musquodoboit Valley, NS
Madam Speaker, I appreciate your intervention.
We are talking about digital locks, and that is how companies are going to make money and how creators get money for the objects they create. For example, when we download a movie from iTunes we have options. One option may be to purchase the movie and another may be to rent it. To do that, the company has to have a digital lock so it can have us either purchase it for $20 or rent it for $6. We have to be able to control the technology so the companies that are producing this, hiring people and creating jobs, can make a profit. That is also how creators of content make money. All we would do is set up a legal process so that companies can make money and creators can get paid.
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Paul Dewar NDP Ottawa Centre, ON
Madam Speaker, I want to get into this digital lock issue a bit more. Granted there is the case, as my colleague pointed out, where we do have options of renting or buying, but there is an issue around sharing, and people believe there should be an ability to share.
However, my question about digital locks regards education. My colleague brought forward the idea of having an amendment so that people in education, particularly those with certain disabilities, would be able to access content. Right now in the bill, there would be a limit on that and the digital lock, as was explained by my colleague, is not a lock in itself but it is an algorithm. So after the content is used once, the student would have to get rid of it and could be charged. It is the same with libraries.
Does the member not think it would be a reasonable amendment to accommodate those who need to use this for education, particularly those who need it because of a disability?
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Scott Armstrong Conservative Cumberland—Colchester—Musquodoboit Valley, NS
Madam Speaker, we have to make sure that those in our society who have disabilities have access to content the same as people who are hearing, seeing, who are not disabled. That is why we have some of these exceptions in the bill to support them. What we are asking is, if people break a digital lock in order to get content, particularly if they are disabled, that the provision would be that they repair that lock, so they could not just share it with other people, and the creator or the company would not get paid.
This legislation has gotten a lot of support from the education community. Paul Davidson, the president of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada says:
This bill reflects a fair balance between the interests of creators and users of copyrighted works and is a positive step forward for university communities across Canada. It clarifies the important questions and will help ensure students and learners have access to the content they need, including digital material.
It modernizes the educational industry so that we have the ability for creators and companies to make money, but also the students have the ability to get digital material.
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The Deputy Speaker NDP Denise Savoie
It being 1:15, pursuant to an order made Tuesday, May 15, it is my duty to interrupt the proceedings and put forthwith every question necessary to dispose of third reading stage of the bill now before the House.
The question is on the motion. Is it the pleasure of the House to adopt the motion?
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All those in favour of the motion will please say yea.
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All those opposed will please say nay.
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The Deputy Speaker NDP Denise Savoie
In my opinion the yeas have it.
And five or more members having risen:
Pursuant to Standing Order 45, the deferred recorded division shall be deferred to Monday, June 18, 2012, at the ordinary time of daily adjournment.
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Gordon O'Connor Conservative Carleton—Mississippi Mills, ON
Madam Speaker, I ask that you see the clock at 1:30.
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The Deputy Speaker NDP Denise Savoie
Is there unanimous consent to see the clock at 1:30?
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The House resumed from May 1 consideration of the motion that Bill C-394, An Act to amend the Criminal Code and the National Defence Act (criminal organization recruitment), be read the second time and referred to a committee.
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1:15 p.m.
Jonathan Genest-Jourdain NDP Manicouagan, QC
Madam Speaker, once again, in my speech regarding the bill to amend the National Defence Act, I will discuss some socio-cultural nuances that are important as we study the proposed legislation.
My experience in criminal law and, particularly, my years of professional experience in the itinerant court—the circuit court—in northern Quebec, have given me some perspective to be able to look at the underlying causes of juvenile delinquency and why young people identify with criminal organizations.
I am well aware that this bill has to do with suppressing criminal organization recruitment. I will now take my speech in another direction. I would like to discuss where the group mentality among young people comes from, and why this kind of organization appeals to young people.
I have seen first-hand the devastating consequences of targeted groups being marginalized, most often because of their ethnicity, so today I would like to discuss the highly questionable reasons why criminal organizations operate within legal jurisdictions that have a high ethnocultural population.
As I have said in the past, I worked at the legal aid office in my riding for two years. During those two years and few months, I was expected to travel with the itinerant court north of the 52nd parallel, particularly to the communities of Kawawachikamach, Matimekush and Unamen Shipu, one being a Naskapi community and the other two Innu communities.
Given my youth when I started working at the legal aid office, the young people who were facing criminal charges under the youth criminal justice system, were almost always inclined to turn to me. I learned early on to apply the principles of social intervention in the handling of my files. I soon realized that many of these young people were naturally drawn to stick together in groups out of an instinct for self-preservation, because they lacked means and parental role models. They had to turn to alternative means for their own survival and subsistence. To these young people, coming together in groups and joining forces was the obvious solution.
By now it must be clear that my argument focuses mainly on highlighting the circumstances that lead to juvenile delinquency. As members are aware, an approach based on identifying, preventing and correcting elements of deviance must be applied at the first signs of deviant behaviour in the individual.
At the time, I put a great deal of effort into social intervention with young people, because the positive impact this can have is particularly noticeable among that age group. It is less noticeable among older clients, considering the fact that individuals who have adopted a deviant or criminal lifestyle for some time are less likely to change their behaviour, depending on the age and willingness of each individual, of course.
Principles linked to an ethnocultural analysis of factors underlying the appearance of gangs of youth—street gangs—invite us to consider a number of elements having to do with the image of particular ethnic groups as they are portrayed by the mass media.
I would now like to discuss the attraction of the gangster-rapper lifestyle for young people. In my community, it is very noticeable, since many kids walk around wearing t-shirts celebrating street gangs and bearing the images of well-known rappers in the United States.
I know the media rely heavily on these images, because they are big sellers. If young people in a community on the 52nd parallel are walking around wearing these t-shirts, I imagine they are popular around the world. Since the early 1990s, the media have been promoting this African-American model. The message that is being sent and the image that is being reflected is that it is possible to live a similar lifestyle if one gets involved in crime and joins a street gang, whether it be the Bloods, the Crips or any other such gang.
The goal of all this is to sell CDs, although now, in 2012, it is more about selling the promotional material that goes along with them.
That message really resonates with young people in my community, in my riding, because the images they see in those videos often mirror their day-to-day experiences. I am not necessarily suggesting that the South Central Los Angeles lifestyle is the same as that in Uashat, but there are similarities, and that resonates with young people because they can identify with the messages those images are sending. The media therefore have some responsibility in this.
That is why it is important to stop sending young people messages that glorify the criminal lifestyle associated with street gangs. In addition, the media have to re-evaluate their portrayals of situations that exclude and marginalize a particular cultural group. I am more than happy to criticize the media.
There are newspapers in my own riding—I know that this comes up in Montreal and other places too—that, when a young Innu person commits an offence, write about "Innu youth" breaking into a business or "Innu youth" assaulting another individual. The newspapers make a point of identifying the person's ethnicity. But if a young Quebecker commits a similar offence, there is no mention of his ethnicity. I just wanted to point that out. That kind of information ostracizes young people and further marginalizes them.
Even though gang recruitment activities have been reported across Canada, criminal organizations appear to target marginalized youth who are more likely to buy into the role and fate society has created for them. Young people who belong to targeted minority groups are more likely to be ostracized because the media have already shaped public opinion about their ethnic group.
The acceptance of this stigma and the defeatism that accompanies it makes it that much easier for these young people to adopt a group mentality and join a street gang. It is therefore essential that, when creating legislative measures to prevent the establishment of organized crime cells in the country, the government focuses on the real reasons why these small groups hold such an attraction for these young people, who have to deal with the media's negative portrayal of their ethnic group.
The adversarial conditions experienced every day by many young people from traditionally ostracized social classes are a fertile ground for the formation of groups of young people who struggle with people's negative image of their identity. I spoke about how the young people in my community came together and joined forces. It is a phenomenon that I experienced first hand, since there was a time in my life when I, too, did not have much and I turned to peers who were a bad influence. That is behind me now, but I just wanted to mention it today.
Too often, Innu and Naskapi youth, particularly those who end up in prison, could technically be considered members of street gangs. They were forced into it out of necessity or spite or ultimately, because of a lack of means. Because I grew up in this environment, I can talk only about what I experienced in my daily life and about the experiences of others that have been brought to my attention. Even having enough food to eat is a problem when you do not have a parental figure and you do not have any money. I submit this respectfully.
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David McGuinty Liberal Ottawa South, ON
Madam Speaker, I am really pleased to participate in this debate today. This is a really important issue for Canadians and for our communities.
I want to commend the member who has put forward Bill C-394 as a very sincere and thoughtful effort to do something about the proliferation of gangs and gang membership across Canadian society. I think it is a very well-motivated and good-faith initiative.
It tries to make it an offence to recruit, solicit, encourage or even invite a person to join a criminal organization. It would change the penalties if such a person did join a criminal organization. That is where we part ways with the member and the government. It is with respect to their position in this regard.
We strongly support efforts to combat and criminalize the recruitment of individuals, particularly young people, into gangs and criminal organizations. However, we are just as strongly opposed to mandatory minimum penalties. Studies everywhere on the planet prove that such sentences do not deter criminals or make Canadians safer.
However, we do support in the bill the expansion of the definition of "criminal organization offence" to include gang recruitment. This, we believe, would be a very good step toward dealing with our challenge, which is improving the situation of gangs and gang membership.
As I said, we are alarmed about the increasing number of Canadians, particularly young people, who are recruited into gangs. We support the criminalization of this activity.
However, with regard to this question of mandatory minimum sentences for gang recruitment, all the evidence from Canada, the United States, state by state by state; New Zealand; Australia; the United Kingdom; and everywhere this has been tried is overwhelmingly that mandatory minimums do not work. They are ineffective. They are often constitutionally challenged. They are problematic, because they remove the discretion from judges, who are best placed to assess the situation based on the evidence and the facts of the case in front of him or her.
We also know that mandatory minimums do not deter crime.
On the other hand, we know for sure that what mandatory minimums do is increase recidivism. They actually make it more likely that a person who gets a mandatory minimum sentence comes back and offends again. How can that be good when we are talking about dealing with young people, in particular?
Half of gang membership in Canada is under the age of 18. When we increase recidivism, we get into a vicious circle that in turn increases crime. That has a more discriminatory impact on more vulnerable groups, notably, in Canada, our aboriginal young people, among whom gang recruitment is higher than it is in other parts of our society.
In my own community of Ottawa South, I deal with community police officers all the time. These are front-line officers, men and women, who are charged with the responsibility of dealing with so-called hot spots. All of us as members of Parliament deal with these in our ridings, particularly in urban spaces.
They tell us that the ticket now, the key, is to get to kids between the ages of 8 and 12. That is the time to get to kids with activities, particularly post-school activities, that keep them on the right track.
Let us talk about that for a second. What are the circumstances that lead kids, young people in particular, to join gangs?
We know it is linked to, for example, neighbourhood crime. We know it is directly linked to poverty levels. We know it is partly about peer pressure and peer influence.
We know it is sometimes about the lack of vigilance by parents, teachers and community members and leaders. We know it has to do with a lack of opportunities for positive after-school recreation programs, for example, or homework clubs. We know it is linked to substance abuse and alcohol use. We know that this is altogether tied into a large challenge.
We think the government should be investing more in activities that engage our kids, rather than forcing mandatory minimums on judges and then downloading to the provinces the responsibility to build more jails. By the way, that is a strategy that was tried in Texas and California. Is it not interesting that the governors of both of those states have now publicly denounced that experiment? In California, the state legislature is now struggling with the weight of the cost of prisons. This is a huge part of California's teetering right now on the verge of bankruptcy.
Liberals believe that we should be investing more in soccer fields and music groups and in making our recreational spaces more available for kids. It is not a bad idea, especially when we are dealing with a childhood obesity epidemic and all kinds of health challenges related to sedentary lifestyles.
We are alarmed by the increase in the number of kids joining gangs. We support the provisions of the bill that actually go a ways in criminalizing the recruitment of kids. However, we just do not understand the government's fixation on mandatory minimums. We know that it is a narrative the government uses for its base, but it flies in the face of all experience. It flies in the face of our community policing. Front-line officers tell us that it is not working. We are scratching our heads and asking why the government wants to spend all this money on incarceration, when we know that every dollar we spend up front saves us $40 afterwards in terms of costs for criminal enforcement, incarceration, parole and beyond.
We think the bill is good in a halfway respect, but unfortunately, it goes the wrong way when it comes to mandatory minimums. As a result, we will not be supporting this bill.
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Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe New Brunswick
Robert Goguen ConservativeParliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice
Madam Speaker, I am pleased to be joining the debate on this bill, which seeks to respond to a practice that is critical to the success of organized crime activity in Canada: the recruitment of persons to join criminal organizations.
Colleagues have heard so far during debate on our second reading of this bill that those who are most likely to be recruited to join criminal organizations are most often young and marginalized in society. They suffer socio-economic inequality, and they come from difficult family circumstances.
These vulnerable young persons need to be protected from the tactics of organized crime. That is what I understand private member's Bill C-394 to be trying to do.
This bill, which would amend the Criminal Code to explicitly prohibit the recruitment of others to join a criminal organization, is a welcome contribution to tackling the practices of gangs. I want to congratulate the member for Brampton—Springdale for bringing it forward.
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Hear, hear!
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Robert Goguen Conservative Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe, NB
I am obviously in favour of such a proposal and urge all members to support its passage into law.
The issue of gang recruitment is a serious one, and it requires a multi-faceted response. Neither I nor my colleagues are naive enough to think that this bill, by itself, will solve the problem of gang recruitment. However, we believe that a criminal justice system plays an extremely important role in the overall strategy to respond to organized crime.
It is also obvious that prevention efforts must be put in place so that those newly involved in organized crime, or those who are thinking about joining a gang, are meaningfully deterred from these opportunities. This is particularly true when those efforts are targeting young people who have not yet gone down the path to a life of serious crime.
As has already been said, this government has, through budget 2011, invested $10 million to support youth gang prevention activities. It is also important to recall that the government, in 2009, amended the Criminal Code to strengthen the gang peace bond provisions. As members may know, peace bonds require an individual to agree to specific conditions to keep the peace. They can be issued when it is feared, on reasonable grounds, that persons will join a criminal organization and commit a criminal organization offence.
I am told that these provisions of the Criminal Code are frequently relied upon by police in cities such as Winnipeg and Toronto and are an important prevention tool in the fight against organized crime. The government recognizes the value of prevention, but we must do more.
There is, however, a need to recognize the limits of prevention. Many of those involved in organized crime are hardened criminals who will not be dissuaded by prevention activities. Frankly speaking, many of these same individuals are not dissuaded by the possibility of jail time. They see that such a possibility is part of the cost of doing business.
In such cases, the criminal law must respond clearly to behaviours society has deemed unacceptable. In this respect, the proposal to create a stand-alone offence to target gang recruitment is appropriate. In doing so, we ensure that there is a full spectrum of responses to recruitment practices. We also make clear our disapproval and our belief that such conduct must be denounced, deterred, and punished, given the increased threats to society posed by larger criminal organizations.
In looking at the proposed offence, it is important to be clear that it is not targeting the mere association of individuals. Rather, the focus of the offence is recruitment done for the purposes of enhancing the ability of criminal organizations to facilitate or commit an indictable offence.
The proposed offence's focus is consistent with the purpose of the existing participation offence found at section 467.11 of the Criminal Code and is now well understood by the courts in Canada. In this respect, the jurisprudence under this existing participation offence will likely be helpful in informing the correct interpretation of the proposed offence as it is used by police and prosecutors.
For example, the concept of facilitation has been interpreted on many occasions to mean "to make easier". Accordingly, I expect that this new offence will be quickly relied upon and will be familiar to many in the criminal justice system.
I would also like to take a moment to address the concerns expressed by some that the new offence is not required, as the existing participation offence already addresses recruitment. As my colleague from Delta—Richmond previously stated, laws must not only be clear, but must be clearly understood. This is an important principle and one that I will strongly support. Our laws must be accessible to all Canadians, police, prosecutors, and the courts. Clearly written and clearly understood laws make the identification of relevant evidence easier for police and make the job of the prosecutor easier.
Clear laws benefit accused individuals as they help to ensure that they properly understand what is and is not legal. And of course, clear laws help the courts in determining guilt or innocence.
This is particularly important in the area of organized crime. I am aware that a common concern expressed by police and prosecutors, in investigating this type of crime, is that the laws are complex. While the proposed amendments will not address all of the complexities, they will certainly assist in making obvious to all that the act of recruiting someone to join a criminal organization is a form of participation and is therefore liable to sanction.
I would also note in passing that terrorism offences, which are modelled on the organized crime offences, also deal with the issue of recruitment. For example, the participation in activity of terrorist group offences found at 83.18 of the Criminal Code makes explicit that participating in the activities of a terrorist group include recruitment. While this is all included in one single offence, in my opinion, there is nothing different, from a policy perspective, in making this explicit in a single offence, as is done in terrorism, or in two offences, as is proposed through Bill C-394. The result is the same.
In addition to establishing a new offence, this private member's bill, Bill C-394, makes a number of other consequential amendments to ensure that the new offence is subject to the same special rules in the area of criminal procedure, evidence and sentencing as are the existing organized crime offences. This makes perfect sense and I support these proposals.
Let me close by noting the following as stated in the recently released seventh report, of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights, entitled "The State of Organized Crime":
Organized crime poses a serious long-term threat to Canada's institutions, society, economy, and to our individual quality of life.
We must take all steps possible to ensure that our responses to these threats constantly evolve, so that our children are safe to grow and play in their communities, our businesses thrive, and our quality of life is preserved.
I urge all members to support Bill C-394.
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Craig Scott NDP Toronto—Danforth, ON
Madam Speaker, I am pleased to rise to support Bill C-394 going to committee.
I think we have an opportunity here for some serious cross-party co-operation with respect to this private member's bill. That said, I have some of the same concerns I always do with private members' bills being the vehicle for criminal law reform. They have serious limitations, limitations I will address a little bit in my remarks, and that is why I was very pleased to see that one of the parliamentary secretaries to the Minister of Justice is involved in the file. I hope that as much as possible, a broader, more holistic justice department input to this private member's bill can be forthcoming.
We are all aware that street gangs are becoming more and more of a problem in this country. My own city, Toronto, is ranked among the cities having the largest growing problem. We all know recent events at the Eaton Centre in Toronto, which is actually linked to ongoing gang violence within an area very close to my own riding, although not exactly in my riding, of Regent's Park where, at the end of March on one evening alone, five different incidents occurred producing 90 bullets flying around a housing community in that one evening. The escalating gang violence in that area of Toronto was what, it appears, led to the shooting at the crowded Eaton Centre food court.
Clearly something is wrong, if not terribly wrong, and we must act now, so I welcome the member's private member's bill. It is completely consistent with what the NDP has been calling for since the 2011 election, when it was part of our campaign platform to create an offence for gang recruitment.
That said, we recognize that it cannot be viewed in isolation as an ad hoc measure, which brings me back to the concerns I have with private members' bills and their limitations.
It is important that we rely, as we move forward to committee, on serious, expert studies about what works and what does not and how this one provision will and will not fit with a broader, more holistic strategy.
There is a 2010 report from a leading academic, Scott Wortley, of the University of Toronto, called "Youth, Gangs and Violence: Characteristic Causes and Prevention Strategy". In this report he notes a few things that are very important for us to keep in mind, because I would like to focus mostly on the issue of youth. He says, "Gang violence is more likely to occur in public spaces, involve weapons, especially firearms, and involve multiple victims...and is more likely to result in the victimization of innocent bystanders".
He goes on to speak more generally about the involvement of youth gang members in much higher levels of crime and violence than non-gang youth as something that studies in Canada and in other countries have consistently shown.
He finally notes that youth gang members are much more likely to themselves become victims of serious violence, including homicide, than youth who are not involved in gangs, and I think this is really important for us to remember. In this respect it helps us consider the fact that members of gangs themselves can be viewed as, and are, victims.
One of the issues that will be coming up in committee, I hope, is youth recruiting youth. It is not simply a matter of youth being recruited, but as youth as recruiters. It is not entirely clear what a criminalization provision will do to that very important complex social fact. We have to keep in mind that members of youth gangs are, not surprisingly, youth. They are used for the recruitment of their peers, and simply criminalizing that behaviour would not get us very far, I submit.
We have to counter the flaring up of violence and what looks to be the increase in gang activity not only by clamping down on violence in a pure Criminal Code mode but also by looking for more long-term solutions. As Professor Wortley said in his report, "Enforcement alone is not going to stop this problem".
We have to focus on prevention. Members opposite sometimes feel that the NDP overdoes its focus on prevention. They think that somehow this means the NDP is soft on crime. Far from it; it simply means we understand the most effective ways to root out crime before it starts and to prevent it from occurring again.
There is a whole continuum of measures that need to be put in place by a society to give opportunities to those who might otherwise turn to crime or, in this instance, those who might be susceptible to being recruited. If they fall off the wagon, so to speak, they end up being put in jail. We have to make sure that downstream measures within our jail system do not recreate the tendencies to engage in criminal behaviour. This more holistic, long-term and continuum-like approach of the NDP is perfectly consistent with a hard-on-crime approach; it is just a smart-on-crime approach as well.
Gangs have always targeted young people, but they seem to be doing so increasingly. As the member for Brampton—Springdale, who introduced the bill, stated in his own introduction, criminal organizations do appear to be targeting youth as young as eight years old and quite commonly in the age of 12 and 13 to participate in criminal activities and to become actual members of organizations. Members are even hanging around boys and girls clubs just, for example, hoping to recruit innocent children.
As we have already heard from the member for Ottawa South and the member for Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe, the most vulnerable to be recruited tend to be young people who are marginalized, those who are from lower socio-economic groups, those who are from tougher family situations and some who in a more long-term sense are looking ahead to their future prospects in society and are in some despair about where the opportunities do and do not lie for them. These background social facts are as important as the immediate goal of preventing recruitment or preventing organized crime youth gang activity itself.
The NDP's priority is to approach this using a balanced approach. We want to make sure that people live in safe, non-violent communities by putting the emphasis on more programs to prevent young people from being recruited into gangs. I am speaking of programs like the Remix Project created some five years ago in Toronto to serve the needs of young people who are vulnerable to being recruited to gangs.
I have had the opportunity with colleagues to have an early meeting with boys and girls club representatives, knowing the bill would be coming forward. I urge other members to listen to their perspectives and the perspectives of other organizations that work closely with youth.
Among the concerns we heard in what was at this stage still a fairly casual discussion was exactly what I have already raised. The youth being recruited by youth issue cannot be ignored. It has to be directed head on. Youth themselves can be recruiters, and this will criminalize their behaviour as well as anybody else who is recruiting.
The second part of the strategy is that we need to have programs and measures that take a positive approach and create bright options for youth looking into the future. These two messages I took away from our early conversations as being absolutely key.
The NDP has called for an offence of gang recruitment, but we have also put it in the context of a long-standing defence of such measures such as putting more police into communities and creating dedicated youth gang prevention funds and activities.
Let me now go to three concerns about the bill that have to be taken into account. We cannot simply say that we are in favour of it in principle and would like to see it in committee and that therefore everything is fine. It is not entirely fine.
The first point is that the nature of the private member's bill means that at least from the beginning, the justice department is not involved. We do not have anything resembling a whole-of-government approach to the bill. It is one of the classic areas that I hope I have already outlined in my remarks that needs a more holistic, continuum-like approach to the issue.
That does not mean that something like this cannot go forward on its own, but it will be a real shame if we lose the opportunity to build this initiative into a much broader understanding of what else is out there and, most importantly, what needs to be put in place for this not to be simply a punitive approach to the problem. It is an approach that is necessary as part of the solution, but on its own, it will only make us feel good but get nothing done.
It is important to note, and I do not mean to make this sound too partisan, but the Conservatives have not been generally favourable to the preventive side. In January 2011, a scarce year ago, the Conservatives announced severe cuts to the youth gang prevention fund, and it was only a push-back from the NDP that had that reinstated.
The Conservatives need to approach this more holistically. We have to focus on the mandatory minimum concern that was already brought up.
Finally, we really have to look at the issue of youth recruiting other youth, and make sure the committee process hears from witnesses who know about that and have real ideas on how to deal with it.


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The former Roma and Chelsea attacker has been linked with a move to Fiorentina recently due to his lack of playing time at Liverpool, but his representative rejected departure talk
Liverpool attacker Fabio Borini has no intention of leaving the club in the immediate future, his agent has declared.
The 21-year-old has struggled for a starting spot in the Reds' first team this season after joining last summer from Roma, though has been hampered by injuries.
As a result, the former Chelsea forward has been linked with a move back to Serie A, with reports suggesting Fiorentina as his likely destination, but his representative Marco De Marchi dismissed any notion of his client leaving Anfield.
"I have to be honest, I've not had any contact with anyone at Fiorentina," he told Firenze Viola.
"Fabio is happy at Liverpool because they are one of the most famous clubs in the world. He chose Liverpool in the summer and he's happy with his English adventure.
"If Fiorentina, a club who have shown they are ready to target youngsters with bright futures, are really interested then we'd thank them.
"But Fabio is just focused on getting back to full fitness after injury and thinking only of Liverpool.
"Fabio is 21, he's already changed five clubs and he's contracted to Liverpool until 2017."
Borini has played 14 competitive matches for Brendan Rodgers' side, but the attacker has scored only once for the Reds.

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On The Nation: Lisa Owen interviews Nick Smith
Housing Minister Nick Smith disputes figure from Auckland Deputy Mayor Penny Hulse that 8,000 houses will be built in three years under Housing Accord
Says Auckland Council estimate of 800 affordable houses completed at the end of the first three years of the Housing Accord is not enough
While Bill English told Local Government NZ Auckland might "have to get a bit ugly", Smith says "My view is it's possible to build houses that are both attractive and more affordable"
Says Government and Auckland Council have a role in ensuring more new houses are built in the "affordable $400,000 – $500,000 range"
Owen: So do New Zealanders need to accept that that's the new Kiwi dream, you live in an apartment?
Smith: "… it's not for governments and councils to tell people what they should be living in."
Says future of Auckland housing is "smaller, comfortable, affordable product"
Nick Smith: We're building housing at the fastest rate for more than seven years and those figures that you quote are based on the special housing areas that have been approved to date. We've done three of those, they provide for 33,500 sections, but we have a further tranche in August that's coming through and more supply that is needed. So yes we're making huge progress, we've doubled the number of houses that we're building from where we were two years ago per month, but we've still got some more to go and that's why there's a continuing engagement by council and Government to achieve that.
Lisa Owen: But they're consents, not bricks and mortar. They're not roofs over people's head at this point and 8,000 at the end is not that many –?
Oh no, clearly that's not –
The Prime Minister promised significant numbers –
Oh and indeed, we've got the fastest rate of house build in Auckland for seven years, the latest figures we have got 697 house approved in April. That number dropped down as low as under 300, so it's more than double. But let's come to that sort of in my view rather pathetic argument that says oh well they're building consents not a house. Of course it's not. But people aren't going to spend 8,000 –
But after, but after three years you will only have 8,000 new houses?
That's not true, not true at all. We have said that the targets of 9,000, 13,000 –
Penny Hulse has said that to us though –
Based on the current SHAs that have been approved, the number of new houses that's being built, we've got a target of 9,000 sections and houses in the first year.
So at the end of three years, how many houses do you say will be there?
We've got 9,000 target year one, we've got 13,000 year two, we've got 17,000 year three.
But those are consents, not completed houses, so how many completed houses will you have at the end of three years?
The issue with this Lisa, is we have very accurate figures on how many building consents are issued. People don't spend eight grand on a building consent unless they're serious about building a house. And so it is correct that you need to do an average of a five month lag between the time when the building consent is finished and the house is there. But if we're going to respond to this huge challenge in Auckland, then saying oh, we want figures on when the houses are completed, ultimately the only data you have is the census data once every five years. I'm not going to sit around for five years and wait for accurate data so we can respond to the real housing issues in Auckland.
But Penny Hulse says 8,000 houses at the end of three years. Is that enough?
No it's not. And that's not the number that we're aiming for.
Let's say at the time when these houses are liveable, people can move in, what guarantees can you give that those houses will even go to first home buyers? What's going to stop people speculating or buying them for rental properties?
Are you really suggesting, Lisa, that the Government is somehow going to say to you as a homeowner you are only allowed to sell your house to a first home buyer or a particular person? We've got a housing market in Auckland of about four hundred and fifty thousand houses. Now it is true that when a new house is built – and look many of those houses are seven or eight hundred grand – and a new person buys into that, they also free up a lower house. Now I don't know what your first house was, mine was an ex state house. It's unusual for a first home to be a brand new home, albeit one of the issues that I've been talking through with mayor Len Brown is we've made huge progress in improving the rate of house build, a further issue though for the Government and the Council is ensuring that more of those houses that are being built are in that sort of affordable 4-500 range.
Ok, well let's say we accept your theory that some people will move into more expensive houses –
It's not theory, it's reality.
No let's say we accept that, they will buy those houses, freeing up their properties for first home buyers – the council has told us that they're anticipating only seven to eight hundred of these homes will be affordable houses. Is that really enough to help with the pressure on the Auckland property market?
The Productivity Commission has said we've got this real issue of too many of the houses being built at the more expensive end. Now that to some degree, Lisa, is what's occurred around land price. So what's happened is that we've had this dumb policy for more than a decade in Auckland of a metropolitan urban limit that's driven land prices through the roof. Now if you've got a section in Auckland, the average section price is three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, you're not going to build a hundred and fifty thousand dollar house on it are you? You're going to put a very expensive house on it – and that's why this issue of land supply is so important, and getting that section price down. Now it's encouraging in the report that we've released today –
But hang on a minute, Minister –
The report we've released today –
The Prime Minister, sorry Minister, the Prime Minister said we would see a significant increase in the number of houses available on the market –
Absolutely we are.
The issue is that people cannot afford these houses and we have been told by the council 800 affordable houses. That is not even a drop in the bucket, is it?
Well, we are building a record number of houses, right? Then the question is –
But are they affordable?
And I'm saying to you, and I'm saying to you if we are going to get those houses more affordable we need to deal with the issue of development contributions. Productivity Commission said the biggest increase in the price of a new house has been the amount that councils have been pinging –
But simply, simply Minister, is 800 new houses at the end of three years – is that enough?
Of course it's not. And that's why the Government's got legislation around development contributions, around the work we're doing on building materials, the increase in skills and productivity –
A lot of those dwellings, as I understand it and looking at the figures, a lot of those dwellings are going to be apartments. So do New Zealanders need to accept that that's the new Kiwi dream, you live in an apartment?
I come very much from the point of view and in engagement with the Auckland Council that it's not for governments and councils to tell people what they should be living in. Who should be living in an apartment, who should be living in the quarter acre section, who might want to live in the rural area. What we're wanting to do is to free up the rules so that people can have freer choices. And there are rules in our current plans in Auckland that make it very restrictive about building those smaller homes that are in many European cities. So the average size of a Kiwi home is double that in Europe. In the last 25 years that home size has been getting bigger and bigger. Some of that's been driven by regulation.
Both you and Bill English have raised the size of apartments, in Auckland the minimum is 35 square metres –
No the media raised the issue with me.
Do you think that should be lower?
The issue for me is when you look at the minimum side boundaries, minimum boundaries in front of properties and behind boundaries, apartment size, all those issues is having the development sector say to me that they are going to struggle to deliver that more affordable range of product.
So are they telling you that they need to build smaller apartments than 35 metres?
No actually the issue of apartment size hasn't been their biggest concern.
Now Bill English this week he said, and I'm quoting him here: "we have to get a bit ugly." Now this was at a meeting earlier this week. He went on to say "a lot of people live in New Zealand on relatively low incomes and their housing is never going to look that flash, so why don't we get practical and work with the market as it is." So do you accept that we might need to get a little bit ugly, as he puts it?
My view is it's possible to build houses that are both attractive and more affordable. What the Minister of Finance is saying, and is rightly saying, is that many of the bureaucratic rules that we've set up around the way in which the developments occur makes it really hard for the development community and that's why myself and Len Brown have got officials working on how can we get better rules so that the development community's incentivised to build more of the affordable product.
But Aucklanders have been very clear about the fact they do not want ugly. When it came to the unitary plan, they said they don't want high rise buildings with little apartments, they don't want an ugly city.
And that's where this contradiction, and it goes to the core of why we've got ourselves in trouble around housing ownership and affordability, is that you go to a community and you say what size sections do you want, what sort of apartments, and everyone gets into the rules, their sort of dream of utopia.
But Bill English is advocating ugly in the face of people telling him they don't want it.
Well what I'm saying is there's a trade-off between how flasher suburbs you want, what those rules are, and what you'll do in respect to affordability, and we need to have a more honest conversation –
So a little bit of ugly's ok?
I'm saying that it's possible and let's say Hobsonville –
It's possible, what do you mean it's possible?
You take an area like Hobsonville where you've got a major development going ahead, we've got the council showing real flexibility in allowing them to build smaller units, and I would take you to those units, and I'm saying we're producing smaller, comfortable, affordable product, that is the future of Auckland and we need more of that.
Ok, well, in an interview at the beginning of last year you said this: "we can't allow house prices to go up in Auckland by another fifty grand a house next year." Well, they didn't go up fifty grand, the median house price we up more than seventy thousand dollars since you said that – so even more than what you said was unacceptable. So have you failed as Housing Minister?
Well the idea that the Housing Minister controls the house price, and I've always said look there's a market out there, what I have said is that –
You said you couldn't allow it though, you set a benchmark and it's just glided by?
Well we had house prices go up during the term of the previous Government by 19 percent. Last year house prices across New Zealand went up by 10 percent.
You've been in government five years now, so that's ancient history. It's about what you're doing now, and whether you are meeting your own standards.
My challenge to you, Lisa, is that since I've had the housing portfolio, tell me a Minister who has delivered more legislation. I have got the special housing areas legislation, we've got the house price cooler, there is a general consensus across Auckland –
You put a line in the sand, it was fifty grand.
You're calling it a line in the sand, I'm saying that –
And it's gone well over that.
But if you're asking me do I think on going house price inflation, what we've seen over the last year or two, what we said a decade ago is not sustainable, and that's why I'm working so hard to change that.
So someone paying on a median income more than 90 percent of that income to service a mortgage on a median house – that's acceptable?
Well of course not.
That's what it is in Auckland.
No, no, let's be clear. And let's take the Roost Independent –
I am taking the Roost –
The Roost figures are 20 percent better than when we came to government. That is if you take an average house price across New Zealand or in Auckland, and you take the average income you take an 80 percent mortgage –
If you split out the regions, Minister –
And what they're required to service it, it is 20 percent better today in Auckland than when National became government. And that is fact, I challenge you to check it.
In the regions, Minister, are you saying it's ok then for a drop in house prices in the regions to even out the numbers for everyone else – that's acceptable for people to see their house prices go down in the regions?
Well, Lisa, you can't have it both ways. No I'm not. And if you take a region like I serve in Nelson, house prices in Nelson increased by about 12 percent since National's been the government, not much different to inflation. And communities like Queenstown, Bay of Plenty, it's gone up more than that and that's why I'm engaging those councils about similar mechanisms that are working so well in Auckland.
Thank you very much for joining us this morning, Minister.
Thank you.
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Court day: Charges dropped, but Jim-Bob's leaving town
Like a bumper sticker making the rounds in Nelson County, truth in this rural community continues to be stranger than fiction– at least than the fictional world of The Waltons.
In August, Jim Hamner, baby brother of the popular television series' creator, Earl Hamner, was charged with a very un-Walton-like crime: contributing to the delinquency of a minor. A neighbor accused the man whose character was the extremely clean-cut "Jim-Bob" on The Waltons, of getting her 13-year-old son drunk.
On October 24, in the Nelson County Juvenile and Domestic Court, the charges were dropped.
"It was basically a lie," says Jim Hamner, "I didn't give that child anything. I wasn't even home."
Hamner believes the charges were "just vindictiveness against me and Earl because of the museum. Otherwise I don't think museum board members would have been there in court."
The tiny burg of Schuyler has been split since the Walton's Mountain Museum fired Hamner as its treasurer March 26. Subsequently, Earl Hamner withdrew his support from his hometown's only tourist attraction. What's more, a new Hamner-endorsed museum is in the works that could threaten the Schuyler museum.
Jim Hamner says the woman who filed the charges is an employee of the museum, as are her husband and daughter. The mother of the boy did not return The Hook's call.
So why were the charges dismissed? Nelson County commonwealth's attorney Phillip Payne did not return The Hook's phone calls. However, WINA quotes Payne as saying, "another fella came and said he gave the boy booze." According to the WINA story, Payne would not say who the man was and whether charges would be filed against the other "fella."
With his legal problems behind him, Jim Hamner, 66, is leaving Schuyler and the house he was born in for either Charlottesville or Richmond. "I just want to get away from illiterate people," he says. "My health can't take this."
Earl Hamner calls the charges against his brother "without merit," and says he's concerned that Jim "was hounded out of town." Earl plans to buy back his home place from his brother to ensure it doesn't fall into "enemy hands."
Jim Hamner thinks the house could be a self-sustaining tourist attraction. On October 19, while the museum next door was celebrating its 10th anniversary, Hamner opened his house to a tour bus and carloads of visitors.
"They were pretty upset because there were no actors or actresses at the museum," he says. The only actor from the series scheduled to be there, Hal Williams, who appeared occasionally in a supporting role, canceled his visit when he found out Earl Hamner was on the outs with the museum, according to Jim Hamner.
That same weekend the museum was actor-free, Earl Hamner was in Lynchburg with series star Michael Learned. Raising funds for the proposed Nelson County Museum of Rural History– widely seen as a competing museum– Hamner attended a dinner and read from his new book, Goodnight John-Boy.
"It's going to be an institution with some substance," says Hamner in a phone call from California. "Not one based on a television series that's hardly on the air," he adds.
The 79-year-old writer remarks that he may not live to see the new museum completed. He mentions a recent interview with Larry King, who asked, "What do you envision on your tombstone?" Hamner offers this epitaph:
"I put my hometown on the map. Now I wish I could take it off."


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The final day of the Elite men's and women's competition saw a continuation of the aggressive racing that has made this week some of the best track racing ever seen in Canada. The crowd was also the highest ever seen at the Burnaby velodrome, with a line up of over 30 minutes just to get into the in-field beer garden. The action continues tomorrow for a separate Omnium event (non-UCI).
Sarah Hammer (Ouch) continued her winning ways in the opening event of the women's competition, a 50 lap Scratch Race. After a slow start, the action began to heat up with an attack halfway into the race by Jeanann McKirdy (Local Ride). McKirdy gained half a lap before the top riders decided to chase her down. A few laps later three more riders decided to take a flyer - Jenny Lehmann (Mighty Riders), Rachel Canning (Local Ride) and Morgan Cabot (Glotman Simpson). With seven laps to go it was starting to look pretty good for them, since no one wanted to initiate the chase. However, Pascal Schnider (Switzerland) was the first top-ranked rider to attack, then Hammer exploded off the front, scooping up the leaders with a lap to go and taking the win. Just as importantly, Schnider took second, allowing her to erase four of her six points deficit to Tara Whitten (Velocity).
The second race of the evening for the women was an Elimination event, with the last rider across the line on every second lap pulled. Overall leader Sarah Hammer was the third rider eliminated, and Pascal Schnider the seventh, giving Whitten the opportunity to make up ground on both her rivals. The Omnium and Points world champion played a dangerous game of sitting at the back until the last half lap of each elimination lap and then moving up. It served her well until the final against Junior rider Jasmin Glaesser (Cycling BC), when she reacted late to an attack by Glaesser and had to settle for second.
The ninth and final race of the women's competition was a 100 lap Points race, with sprints every ten laps. Hammer had a pretty solid lock on first overall - 12 points up on Whitten, with Schnider a further 8 points in arrears. But it was still close enough for an upset, so the racing was aggressive.
Cari Higgins (Peanut Butter/2012) was the first to take a lap, with Hammer, Schnider, Whitten Joanne Keisanowski (TIBCO) and Jasmin Glaesser (Cycling BC) following soon after. Then Hammer and Schnider took a second lap, to move into the lead. Whitten waited patiently, racking up a few intermediate points before launching her own successful bid to take another lap. Hammer grabbed the victory, followed by Schnider and Whitten.
In the final overall standings, Hammer finished on top with 157 points, followed by Whitten at 125 and Schnider also at 125. Whitten took second based on more event wins.
The men opened with split races - half of each team raced a 75 lap Scratch Race, and the other half an Elimination race. In the Scratch race, a late effort by Colby Pearce (Saputo) and Ryan Aitcheson came close to succeeding, and only a strong chase led by Svein Tuft (Haywood) and Christian Meier (Garmin) brought it back with two laps to go. Ian Moir gave Trainer Mic their second win in two days, ahead of Jackie Simes (Hayman) and Tuft.
The second half of the elite teams raced an Elimination race, which turned out to be one of the most exciting of the week. Every two laps another rider was eliminated, until only two were left - Tyler Farrar (Garmin) and Dan Holloway (Saputo). Farrar led out the last lap, and held off a late challenge in the last two turns by Holloway to give Garmin their second win of the event.
The first race for all the men was a Madison Elimination, with one team eliminated every five laps. This led to some interesting manuevering, as teams tried to coordinate their changes with one to two laps before an elimination sprint. The top teams took no chances with this race, with the Garmin duo of Meier and Farrar eliminated fourth from the end, then Carney and Allen (R&B), leaving Pearce and Holloway (Saputo) to go against Tuft and Bell (Haywood). The Canadian pair timed it perfectly, with Tuft ramping up the pace to open a slight gap, before handing over to Bell for the last lap and the win, keeping them solidly in second overall behind Saputo.
The final event of the competition was a 125 lap Madison, with sprints at every 25 laps. This was Bell's and Tuft's final chance to take back the lap they were behind to Pearce and Holloway. The pair gave it a strong effort, spending nearly 50 laps away as Saputo, Garmin and other teams chased. For a while, Tuft and Bell went nearly half a lap up, and it looked like Pearce and Holloway were close to cracking. But the American duo are highly experienced at Six Day racing in Europe, and managed to finally pull the Canadians back. However, Bell and Tuft took some revenge by winning the Madison, followed by Jackie Simes and Bobby Lea, then Garmin and Saputo back in fourth.
In the overall standings after 12 events, Saputo (Pearce/Holloway) finished a lap up and with 174 points, followed by Haywood (Bell/Tuft) at 146, with Ian Moir and Danny Heeley (Trainer Mic) a distant third with 88 points.
Race Notes:
- Cam MacKinnon did not start today after his crash yesterday. He hit his head, cracking his helmet and gashing his forehead. He is expected to be fine, and will contest the Omnium on Thursday.
- Between races, a Courier Challenge was held. The riders had a 'Le Mans' start, by running half a lap to their bikes, donning a pack and then racing for five laps.
Full results , For photos click on Photo Galleries on front page
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Recent actions announced by the SEC or that will come before FINRA include charges of insider trading, violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and a suit filed by an investment company against breakaway brokers.
Physicians Charged in Insider Trading
Five physicians charged by the SEC with insider trading in the securities of an East Lansing, Mich.-based holding company for a medical professional liability insurer agreed to pay a combined total of more than $1.9 million to settle the charges.
Without admitting or denying the charges, Apparao Mukkamala, Suresh Anne, Jitendra Prasad Katneni and Rao A.K. Yalamanchili, as well as Mukkamala's brother-in-law Mallikarjunarao Anne agreed to pay disgorgement, prejudgment interest and financial penalties. Mukkamala further agreed to be barred from acting as an officer or director of a public company.
Mukkamala, a resident of GrandBlanc, Mich., served as a board member for American Physicians Capital (ACAP) since the company's formation in July 2000. He became its chairman in May 2007. The SEC alleged that Mukkamala learned confidential information from board meetings and other communications about the anticipated acquisition of ACAP by another insurance company, which he then shared with the other four.
All five subsequently bought stock in ACAP, prior to a public announcement of the sale. Mukkamala also made trades in the account of Chinmaya Mission West, a charitable organization for which he was then serving as president. Once the sale was announced, they collectively made more than $623,000 in illegal profits on their ACAP stock.
The settlement is subject to court approval.
Medical Devices Company Charged with Violation of FCPA for Bribery
The SEC charged the Texas-based medical device company Orthofix International with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) when a Mexican subsidiary paid routine bribes referred to as "chocolates" to Mexican officials in order to obtain lucrative sales contracts with government hospitals. Settling the charges could cost the company $5.2 million in disgorgement and prejudgment interest if the settlement is approved.
According to the SEC's complaint, filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, Orthofix's Mexican subsidiary, Promeca S.A. de C.V., bribed officials at Mexico's government-owned health care and social services institution, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS). The bribery scheme, which began in 2003 and continued until 2010, yielded nearly $5 million in illegal profits for the Orthofix subsidiary.
The bribes, called "chocolates," came in the form of cash, laptop computers, televisions and appliances provided directly to Mexican government officials or indirectly through front companies that the officials owned.
Initially, Promeca falsely recorded the bribes as cash advances and falsified its invoices to support the expenditures. Later, when the bribes got much larger, Promeca falsely recorded them as promotional and training costs. This made Promeca's training and promotional expenses significantly over budget. While Orthofix did launch an inquiry, it did very little to investigate or diminish the excessive spending. However, when the company discovered the bribes, it Orthofix immediately self-reported them to the SEC, took significant remedial measures and fired the executives responsible.
Orthofix also disclosed in an 8-K filing that it has reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice to pay a $2.22 million penalty in a related action.
Breakaway Brokers Charged with Misappropriating Trade Secrets, More
In a case destined to go before FINRA, CCO Investment Services, an affiliate of Citizen's Bank, was granted a temporary restraining order against several former Connecticut brokers and against Wells Fargo Advisors for misappropriating trade secret information, breach of contract and unfair competition.
According to the TRO motion, filed June 5 in U.S. District Court in Connecticut, financial consultants James Oliver, James Venditti and Della Hicks left CCO on June 1 and immediately joined Wells Fargo, where they used what CCO deemed to be confidential information about former clients. While CCO is not a member of the Broker Protocol, which limits the client information a broker can take to another firm, it has its own rules written into broker contracts. Those rules prohibit any client information from being utilized for any purpose other than CCO's.
The company claims that Oliver and Venditti generated commissions for CCO "[exceeding] $1.2 million, making them among the largest producers in the company." Of that, "CCO estimates that approximately 70% to 90% of its customer relationships are not generated by the financial consultants themselves," thereby claiming that CCO, not the brokers, accumulated most of the clients.
The motion, was granted by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill, but since both parties are members of FINRA, further proceedings will be handled there.


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August 21, 2010 : By Ben Walker
Liberty University hosted its annual Chancellor's Cookout Friday evening inside Williams Stadium. The new student body was served a meal and was able to watch the last full workout of Liberty's football training camp.
Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr. officially welcomed Liberty's freshmen, treating them to dinner on the grounds at the stadium. The freshmen have ruled the campus the past few days, as returning students will hit Liberty Mountain this weekend before classes begin on Monday.
The festive evening was scheduled for Thursday night; however, it had to be moved due to inclement weather. During the annual cookout event, Chancellor Falwell addressed the fresh faces to Liberty's campus and told them about the importance of athletics to the overall collegiate experience.
Following Chancellor Falwell's address, Liberty University Director of Athletics Jeff Barber also spoke to the almost packed west side of Williams Stadium, thanking them for coming out and giving them a bit of Liberty Athletics history.


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DiS is compiling a playlist of 101 songs to act as an introduction to Electronic music (yeah, we know that is a very broad term!).
We're doing this, partly because we can, but mostly to celebrate the launch of a new magazine named Electronic. They've given us a big sack of Electronic records for one of you to win, just by taking part in our playlist folly and sharing your knowledge...
Before we get to the playlist that we've compiled so far, we have the following prizes to give away to one lucky winner:
- Robert Hood – Motor: Nighttime World 3 (Music Man): The Detroit techno legend presents the latest album in his 'Nighttime World' series.
- Mark Stewart – The Politics Of Envy (Future Noise Music): The acclaimed new album, including the new single 'Stereotype', featuring Factory Floor.
- Grasscut – Unearth (Ninja Tune): Quality electronica with a dash of pyscho-geography and a guest appearance by Robert Wyatt.
- Outer Space – II (Blast First Petite): The second offering in a trilogy of releases from John Elliot of Emeralds.
- Minny Pops – Standstill To Motion (LTM Recordings): A live CD/DVD package recorded in Amsterdam and New York in 1981.
- The Gaslamp Killer – Breakthrough (Brainfeeder): The debut album from the much admired LA turntablist and founder of the Low End Theory club.
- Kid Koala – 12 Bit Blues (Ninja Tune): Further proof that Eric San is one of the most innovative beatmasters around.
- Purity Ring – Belispeak 12-inch (4AD): A limited edition 12-inch of one of the highlights of the band's excellent debut album 'Shrines'.
- Blood Diamonds (featuring Grimes) – Phone Sex 12-inch (4AD): Grimes hooks up with her old pal Mike Tucker for this steel drum-driven electro fizzer.
- Backstage: A Book Of Reflections (Gary Numan book) by Stephen Roper: A fascinating book about Gary Numan focussing on the years 1979-81, when Numan was at the peak of his commercial success.
To enter, simply comment below telling us:
Which tracks - in your humble opinion - are missing from this Electronic music playlist?
This competition will close and the winner of this bag of swag will be picked by DiS' editor at midday on Friday 28th September 2012.
Please note: There are already some entries beneath a sample feature from the magazine about Twin Shadow, as well as in this thread on the DiS boards and over on our Facebook page.
Electronic magazine is now available in all good newsagents. You can download it to your Smartphone and Tablet via the Future Music and Computer Music. Here's a mini sampler of the magazine:


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"The Island President" at the center of Jon Shenk's documentary is no longer in office, but Mohamed Nasheed's environmental crusade on behalf of his island nation continues as the movie rolls out into theaters Friday.
Nasheed, the first democratically-elected president of the Maldives in 2008, led a crusade to get the world's governments to recognize and take steps to stem global warming. At risk: his nation, a low-lying string of islands that could be submerged by a rising Indian Ocean within decades.
He let Shenk's cameras to follow him almost everywhere in keeping with his platform of transparency. But while he was fighting against climate change, the coalition of parties backing him began to fall apart – and on Feb. 7, he was pushed out by loyalists of the nation's long-running dictator Maumoon Abdul Gayoom.
(Photo of Jon Shenk, left, and Mohamed Nasheed by Matt Carr/Getty Images)
Also read: Samuel Goldwyn Acquires Documentary 'The Island President'
Nasheed is working to rally international pressure on the Maldives to hold new elections, which has obviously made his crusade about the dangers of global warming less of a priority than it was before the coup.
Shenk opted to the let the movie, which already screened on the festival circuit, to stand as is, only updating the card at the end of the film.
TheWrap first spoke to Shenk and President Nasheed at the Toronto Film Festival last September, when Nasheed received a hero's welcome.
That conversation obviously took place under the assumption that Nasheed would remain in power (though a few of his comments now seem prophetic). A follow-up conversation with Shenk this week brought things up to date.
First interview: September 2011:
As a politician, it was a risky move to allow the cameras as much access as they had. Why did you grant Jon that kind of access?
Jon Shenk: Temporary insanity.
Mohamed Nasheed: We came into government on a platform of transparency and honesty. People are no longer looking for angels to rule over you. I think that's a huge misconception, and I hate these publicity companies, this industry running around trying to manage presidents and governments.
The question is always, What is the soundbite you have to give today? The soundbite you give today is what you feel like, what you think about. It shouldn't be something that my press secretary writes down and says, "Now this is what you say today." To my mind, government is made very inefficient by all this tampering and management. So we wanted to run a different government.
So I thought, I'll be me, and I'll let people see who I am. If people don't like it, I'll just have to go.
Shenk: One thing that was evident to me is that he clearly enjoys his work. When you see American politicians or European politicians on television, you kind of wonder, do these people enjoy what they do? But this is a government that struggled to get into power, and when they got there they thought, Okay, how can we do this right? It's almost like watching a "West Wing" episode. You get the sense that there are all these bright, intelligent people in the room, and they're there because they want to get the work of the day done. It is a fight for decency over evil at the end of the day, and you have palpable sense of that when you're in the office of the president.
I told the story of this film to a friend, and was appalled when she said, "But where are the Maldives, how big are they, and why should we care if they get flooded?" How do you respond to people like that?
Nasheed: What happens to us today is going to happen to you tomorrow. Don't be so naïve to think that nature is only trying to hit 300,000 Maldivians. Manhattan would be flooded as much as the Maldives. Of course, in Manhattan you can move three stories up, because you have 12-story buildings. You have better embankments. You can live in a different kind of town. You might be better able to adapt, but it's going to hit everybody.
Shenk: And another compelling argument is that if the Maldives goes underwater, we're all going to be living in a very unpleasant world. Starting with the fact that those 300,000 refugees will have to go somewhere.
You know, people in the United States debate whether climate change is real, which I think is absurd. I feel like we've been lectured to, we've been shown the maps. And for some reason that's not working. Even though 99 percent of the world's scientists agree that global warming is a reality, for many people it hasn't sunk in.
So we're just trying to tell a story – what is the effect of what is happening? And it is the fact that some on the front line, like president Nasheed and the Maldivians, are just waking up to the fact that they're first. There are moments in history when people step up and make changes that could lead to a revolution in the world. We're not so naïve to presume that we're starting a revolution, but we're trying to tell a story that we think is really compelling.
President Nasheed, are you frustrated with the level of discussion in the United States?
Nasheed: I'm concerned. Because I've always so liked the United States, always so admired them. It's strange to think that they're so naïve now not to understand this. They understood tobacco and cancer. The tobacco lobby is strong, but they legislated it. So it's strange that we've not been able to get the right tickle here. But I think Jon's film might hopefully take us there.
Shenk: It will happen. Some day there will be a sea change, a tipping point. The problem with climate is that if you study the facts, you see that we have a very limited time. As time goes by, if the tipping point doesn't happen, then so much damage has been done, there's a cyclical effect and a feedback cycle that happens. We need to figure out a way to hurry up the normal process.
The United States has proven again and again that it will do the right thing. Eventually there was a civil rights movement, there was a sea change against tobacco. The U.S. system is good in the long run at correcting itself – but when it comes to this climate thing, that normal, decades-long process might not be fast enough. Hopefully by telling stories like this, we can unstick the conversation and speed it up.
One of the themes of the film, which we clearly see when you attend an international climate-change conference in Copenhagen, is compromise. You're faced with a clear choice: either stick to your guns and not achieve anything, or compromise and end up slammed by your supporters for not doing enough.
Nasheed: I'm always compromising. The biggest compromise is that in the Maldives, previous presidents are either murdered, arrested or sent away. We wanted to break that and keep Gayoom untouched. And that is a huge compromise.
So many people have been tortured and ill-treated in jail that many people want to prosecute Gayoom and his followers. But I've always felt that democracy is a better dispenser of justice than prosecution and the courtroom. I don't think you get sustainable justice there.
This is about the longer process of truths and reconciliations and speaking out. So I haven't prosecuted any of the former regime people. And I'm having to live with that compromise. I am told again and again and again that all my troubles stem from the fact that I have not done that. Which is true – but I keep telling them, we would have another set of problems if we did that.
Also read: 'West of Memphis' Filmmakers Accuse Stepfather of Murder — Would Welcome a Lawsuit
Second interview: April 2012:
The last time we spoke, President Nasheed talked about how many of his troubles stemmed from his refusal to imprison and prosecute the former regime. Did that lead to his downfall?
Shenk: In a way, it did. The problems of establishing a democracy turned out to be so much more complicated than anybody might think – it was a morass, politically. There were so many loyalists who had been paid off, or who had been the beneficiaries of corruption for all those years. They were in the ranks of the police, the ranks of the military, and a ton of Gayoom's people were still in the judiciary – most of the judges in the country are still lifelong appointees of the dictator. So every time Nasheed's government passed legislation, the judiciary tried to undermine it.
He chose to take the high road and not bring prosecution against the corrupt people, and yes, that probably hurt him.
Mohamed Nasheed on "The Daily Show," 4/2/12:
|The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
|Mohamed Nasheed
Does the current regime have any interest in continuing his crusade to take steps against climate change?
Shenk: They're not the type of people who think like that. The people who ran the Maldives for all those years were corrupt businesspeople, and they are back. It's like any society: You have people who just want to make money, and they aren't ever thinking of the long term.
It's such a shame, because they were on course to become the first carbon-neutral country in the world. That obviously would have been a huge symbolic moment.
How have the events been reflected in your film?
Shenk: We updated the cards at the end of the film, that's all. We added a card saying that there was a coup, and that the political situation is still up in the air.
Does he have a chance of returning to power?
Shenk: I wouldn't underestimate him. He's got endless energy, and he doesn't give up. For him, it's never about hoping or dreaming for a better future – it's about working for it. So he's been out in the street organizing counter-protests, and he's upbeat. It amazes me.
The thing is, he still has 65 to 70 percent popularity in the Maldives. And young people there, during his presidency they tasted freedom of the press, freedom of speech, democratic elections … They tasted things a democracy takes for granted, and since the coup they've seen the independent media get clobbered and taken down.
There's not much nuance in what has happened. The thugs are back in control.


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VANCOUVER – Welcome back, Housewives fans. Shall we celebrate episode number five with a glass of wine? Yes, let's.
Jody Claman and Ronnie Seterdahl Negus are already one step ahead as they meet for an afternoon glass (or two) to discuss their all-encompassing catfights.
"From here on out, I am watching … I am watching," Ronnie voices a warning aimed at friend-turned-foe Mary Zilba.
Consider yourself warned, Mary.
The fight continues when Christina Kiesel meets with Mary for a fresh set of salon eyelashes (yes, rich people buy those).
Sides are further drawn in the Botox-fueled battle that has been brewing all season when the duo reviews a series of cruel texts.
Don't you just love fighting in the age of electronics? OMG.
Self-proclaimed 'grease monkey' Reiko Mackenzie steps out from beneath the cloud of Chanel No. 5- fragranced drama as she prepares for a luxury car/fashion show.
"How did I feel standing out there next to those professional models?" Reiko asks.
Call the doctor.
The action takes an upswing when the ladies get together for a quick meeting at a swanky downtown hotel.
Inflated egos stuffed in a boutique hotel room are like shoppers at a sample sale.
And then they battle. Ronnie and Mary are at it again and this time it comes to a head.
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British Go Journal No. 40. February 1978. Page 12.
Matthew Macfadyen et al.
Jon Diamond had an uninspiring tournament, playing with the confidence of experience only, and often finding his groups in excessive trouble. Matthew on the other hand was in fine form, continually setting his opponents problems, concentrating bird like on the position, or sitting back with his arms folded and a small smile on his face - though admittedly this was sometimes a favourable sign for his opponent. Comments are by Matthew with additions, bracketed, by the editorial staff.
This 6th round game was important for both players. I had 4½/5 and Jon 4/5. If I won I would need to beat David Mitchell to establish a clear lead while this was Jon's last hurdle on the way to his 3rd London Open title.
Black: Jon Diamond, 5d
White: Matthew Macfadyen, 4d
The game-file in SGF format.
Figure 1 (1-100)
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Downton Abbey is the British period drama set in the early 1900's in England that has taken America by storm. It seems an unlikely hit here in the States but discerning viewers have gravitated to it's rich characters, compelling stories and of course it's gorgeous setting.
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Kelly-Moore Paints reached out to share a palette of paints that their designer, Mary Lawlor, has identified as matching the lush interiors seen on Downton Abbey. These interior colors contain rich deep reds, wood toned browns, refreshing pastels and creams grounded by utilitarian grays, each inspired by the amazing settings portrayed on the show.
They matched these color groupings room by room and we've compiled the color swatches in a gallery above.
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It seems that everyone knows that today is Cinco de Mayo, but did you also know that today is Save Lives: Clean Your Hands Day named by the World Health Organization (WHO)? DebMed has launched a page talking about the Clean Your Hands Day along with their Clean Hands for Health website.
Jason Anthony Tetro, a microbiologist known as "The Germ Guy," if offering up these five facts about clean hands in healthcare:
- More than 1.4 million people globally become seriously ill from healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) each year
- Hand hygiene compliance in hospitals remains below 40%
- At any time between 2 million and 10 million germs can be on your hands
- Proper hand washing can prevent the spread of these germs
- In hospitals, there are 5 Moments to know for clinicians to stop the spread of germs and deadly bacteria
When I hear about washing hands in healthcare, I'm reminded of a talk that Malcom Gladwell did a few years back at the Digital Health Conference. I wish I could have found the video of his talk online, but it seems like it's not available. He covered a lot of the research and statistics of what really impacts hand washing in healthcare. As I recall, a picture on people's desktops was the most impactful thing you can do to improve hand washing stats. Although, after his talk I can tell you that there was 100% hand washing compliance in the bathroom of the conference.
I was pointed to Clean Your Hands day by DebMed which has an obvious interest in hand washing giving their technology. Here's a description of what they're working on:
The DebMed GMS measures the hand hygiene compliance of physicians, nurses, therapists or other healthcare workers who come into contact with patients in hospitals and healthcare facilities. International patents are pending. The DebMed GMS is the world's first and only electronic hand hygiene compliance monitoring system that meets the WHO's "Save Lives: Clean Your Hands" recommendation.
A patent for the system, that was granted on April 13, 2013, covers several core technologies that provide a reliable system for collecting dispenser usage data (how many times healthcare workers within a specific unit actually washed and/or sanitized their hands). The system also uses an evidence-based algorithm to pre-determine the expected number of times they should have washed and/or sanitized their hands (hand hygiene opportunities), thus enabling the calculation of a compliance rate for that specific unit in real-time by dividing the actual hand hygiene events (or the numerator) by the expected number of opportunities for hand hygiene (the denominator).
Maybe I should have titled this post, bringing healthcare analytics to hand washing. That's basically what they're doing. There's no better way to improve a result than to track it. I wonder how long until they pipe the handwashing notifications into the EHR. That's not a far fetched idea. It wouldn't be that hard. Makes me wonder how many hundreds of other things could be incorporated into an EHR if they were open to it.


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ABC has announced (most of) the cast of its upcoming celebrity diving show Splash.
Winter TV: Get scoop on the must-see new shows
Formerly named Celebrity Diving, the series will feature 10 celebrities doing their best not to belly-flop with the help of Greg Louganis. Eight of those 10 stars are Louie Anderson (comedian), Drake Bell (Drake & Josh), Nicole Eggert (Baywatch), Keshia Knight Pulliam (The Cosby Show), Ndamukong Suh (Detroit Lions defensive tackle), Katherine Webb (Miss Alabama) and Kendra Wilkinson (Girls Next Door).
Get all the scoop on pilot seasonThe final two celebrities will be announced at a later date.
Splash premieres Tuesday, March 19 at 8/7c.Do you think ABC's diving show will be able to out-splash Fox's ill-fated diving special Stars in Danger?


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Gallstones are not that unusual. They happen to many people around the world. But don't despair, there is something the Chinese knew about and now they have shared with the world.
Our gallbladder is a 4 inches organ with the form of pear. It is placed under the liver in the top right part of the abdomen.
The gallbladder stores the bile, a combination of liquids, fat and cholesterol. The bile helps to decompose the fats of the food in the intestines. The gallbladder delivers the bile in the small intestine. This allows the soluble vitamins and nutrients to absorb more easily in the blood stream.
The powerful recipe we're going to present you has already helped many people. The recipe was discovered by the Chinese doctor Dr. Lai Chiu Nan and is a completely natural remedy that eliminates gallbladder stones.
These gallstones or stones cause pain, jaundice, and even cancer. Dr. Lai says that cancer is not the first illness that appears and also says that, in general, there are many other problems that can lead to cancer. According to his researches, the patients usually have gallstones before developing cancer. One of the symptoms is the sensation of heaviness after a heavy meal. Then you feel like you cannot digest the food. If things become serious, you feel pain in the liver, too.
Dr. Lai offers the following methods for gallstones elimination. This treatment is especially good for people with a weak liver, because the liver and the gallbladder are narrowly linked.
- Take four glasses of apple juice every day or eat 4-5 apples the first five days. Apple juice smoothens the gallstones. Eat normally during these five days.
- You mustn't have dinner on the sixth day.
- At 6 p.m. on the sixth day, take a teaspoon of Epsom salt (magnesium sulphate) dissolved in a glass of lukewarm water.
- At 8 p.m. repeat the same.
- At 10 p.m. take half a cup of olive oil with half a cup of juice of freshly squeezed lemon. Stir and drink. The oil lubricates the stones and facilitates this step.
- On the following morning, you should notice green stones in the stool.
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The father of Jessi Slaughter, the twelve-year-old girl who became a target of 4chan trolls last summer, has been arrested for allegedly punching her in the face. But he claims she faked the attack.
According to The Smoking Gun, Slaughter's dad, Gene Leonhardt, was arrested in February at their Florida home, after Slaughter ran up to a neighbor with a bleeding mouth, saying "they're hurting me." She told police that her father had punched her in the mouth, but Leonhardt said that he only slapped her, and that she later put "theatrical blood" on her face.
This seems implausible to say the least, and even if Leonhardt only slapped her, that's yet more abuse for the girl who's already been the victim of vicious pranks and (possibly) death threats from Internet trolls. When 4chan users began harassing Slaughter last year, Leonhardt became famous for his YouTube rant in defense of his daughter. But when Gawker reported that Child Protective Services had gotten involved, Leonhardt described that as "something we never wanted." It's unclear why he didn't want them involved, but the statement is somewhat chilling given the current allegations against him. He's pled not guilty and is currently free on bail — he goes to court again July 14.
Father Of "Jessi Slaughter" Busted For Child Abuse [The Smoking Gun]
Earlier: How The Internet Beat Up An 11-Year-Old Girl [Gawker]
11-Year-Old Viral Video Star Placed Under Police Protection After Death Threats (Updated) [Gawker]