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There are new leaders in the Sussex Cricket League Premier Division after the third round of matches yesterday (Saturday).
Brighton & Hove have replaced Cuckfield at the summit on the back of a 42-run victory away to Horsham, which gave them a 14-point cushion in a division where every side has now tasted defeat.
Phil Salt led the way with 75 as Brighton were all out for 194 batting first, Michael Munday taking 5-69 and Ben Shoare 4-28. Horsham were dismissed for 152 in reply with Matt Wood claiming 4-39 and Alex Marsh 3-30.
Cuckfield suffered their first defeat of the campaign with a 70-run loss at home to reigning champions Roffey. The visitors amassed 253-6 declared batting first with Rohit Jagota making 91 and Ben Manenti 57. George Fleming then took 5-56 to bowl Cuckfield out for 183 despite 47 from Ben Candfield at number eight.
Eastbourne are up to third courtesy of a crushing 153-run win at home to Middleton, who have dropped to the bottom and are now the only side without a win. Eastbourne have a game in hand on the top two, which will take place later today against the Sussex Development XI.
Delray Rawlins scored 100 and Brad Evans 66 to help Eastbourne post 271 all out batting first. Brandon Hanley took 4-59 for a Middleton side which was all out for 118 in reply with Jofra Archer scoring 43 and Ben Twine taking 3-31.
Perennial high-flyers Preston Nomads are fourth following a 74-run success away to previously undefeated East Grinstead. Daniel Phillips top-scored with 47 at the top of the order as Nomads posted 181-9 batting first despite Fynn Hudson-Prentice and Craig Fowle taking three wickets each. Grinstead were shot out for 107 in response, the damage being done by Carl Simon (7-53).
After back-to-back defeats in their opening two games, it was third time lucky for Bexhill as they chalked up their first victory. John Haffenden's side won by 79 runs at home to Billingshurst, making it a clean sweep of wins for teams batting first in the top flight.
Bexhill battled their way to 202-9 thanks largely to Malcolm Johnson's 61 against a Billingshurst side for whom Ben Williams picked up 4-51. Dean Crawford then tore through the Billingshurst batting with 6-26 as the visitors were all out for 123, Sussex professional Chris Liddle top-scoring with 47.
Things couldn't be closer, meanwhile, at the top of Division Two. Three teams are level on points at the top and the top five are separated by just five points. Like the Premier Division, no team is undefeated.
Worthing remain top despite seeing their flying start ended by a 102-run defeat away to fourth-placed Hastings Priory. Jake Woolley top-scored with 45 as Hastings reached 251-8 batting first despite Nick Ballamy picking up 4-58. Jed O'Brien then sent the leaders spinning to defeat by bagging 5-33 to dismiss Worthing for 149. John Glover top-scored with 49 at number eight.
Second-placed Three Bridges made it back-to-back wins with an eight-wicket success away to bottom-of-the-table Crowhurst Park, who are the only side yet to record a victory.
Clive Tong hit 59 at the top of the order as Park were all out for 177 batting first, Adrian Chappell taking 6-65 and Michael Rose 3-22. Bradley Gayler followed up his century the previous weekend with an unbeaten 87 to guide Bridges to victory against a Park side for whom former England international Ed Giddins took a wicket on his debut.
Third-placed Pagham made it two wins out of three via a 57-run triumph away to Ansty. Five wickets for Jethro Menzies helped bowl Pagham out for 163 batting first, but Ansty were knocked over for 106 in reply with Eranga Dissangge taking 4-21 and Sean Rutter 3-18.
The leading quintet of clubs is completed by Findon, who won by six wickets away to Lindfield. James Iago claimed 5-51 and Graham Manser 3-47 to bowl Lindfield out for 121. Harry Metters then steered Findon to victory with an undefeated 58 in reply.
The other match in the second tier ended in a six-wicket win for Ifield at home to second-bottom St James's Montefiore, meaning no less than six clubs have won two and lost one of their opening three fixtures.
Jigar Parekh bagged 5-57 and Guru Kedarnath 4-31 to bowl St James's out for 143, Sam Cooper top-scoring with 36. Ifield were 65-4 in reply before Jack Groves (42 not out) and Kedarnath (37 not out) ushered them home with an unbroken stand of 79.
It was a day of tight battles in Division Three. Three of the five matches ended in draws, one produced a rare tie and the only victors were previously winless Haywards Heath.
Bognor Regis are two points clear at the top despite seeing their winning start halted by a draw at Rottingdean, while second-placed Crawley Eagles were involved in that aforementioned tie away to Goring By Sea where both teams were all out for 136.
Glynde & Beddingham are third despite losing away to Haywards Heath, while the matches between Portslade and Burgess Hill, and Steyning and Chichester Priory Park both produced draws.
There were no draws whatsoever in Division Four, where the top two teams, Rye and Slinfold, have picked up the full house of 90 points from their opening three outings. Crawley are eight points behind in third having also won three out of three.
Kshemal Waingankar took 8-39 as Rye won by nine wickets at home to Stirlands in a clash between the league's easternmost and south-westernmost clubs. Slinfold won at home to Wisborough Green and Crawley triumphed at home to Hellingly.
Elsewhere, fourth-placed Mayfield defeated Henfield and Southwater completed a clean sweep of home victories across the division by seeing off Keymer & Hassocks.
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LETTER: 'I'm Pat LeMoine and I am Against Being Annexed by Burien'
Hi, I'm Pat LeMoine and I am against being annexed by the city of Burien.
What helped solidify my opinion are the dozen or so newly annexed Burien residents of Area X that I have talked to. I have heard complaints ranging from higher taxes, no improvements in services, to a city hall hostile to its own citizens. A recent favorite of mine was walking into a local beauty salon to let the owner know about changes she will have to make to her signage under Burien Municipal Code if annexed. As the owner gazed in perplexed astonishment I notice a waiting customer whose eyes began to light with fire "YOU DO NOT WANT TO JOIN BURIEN!" She exclaimed then with blood boiling she went on to talk about all the taxes (http://www.burienwa.gov/DocumentView.aspx?DID=1118) that she now has to pay as a result of being annexed to Burien. She reminded me of Kathy Parker who under oath testified before the Boundary Review Board on 1/9/12 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9zn2lOyJpg) (51 minutes in) and presented the board with a petition signed by 2000 residents of the newly annexed Area X who where so unhappy that they wanted to leave Burien. Keep in mind that only 1,380 voted for annexation from a population of over 14,000. At that same meeting I estimate 80% of the audience where residents of Burien warning the rest of us not to join.
I've tried my best to step away from my personal feelings and look at what the pro annexation side has to say and all I see is an argument based on fear and fantasy. Fear that we will loose our fire dept. Fear that we will loose our police. Fear that we will loose any number of other services. I see no reason why I should believe the fear mongers and am reminded of a speech from a great president "All we have to fear is fear itself." Then there is the fantasy in the belief that Burien can afford taking on White Center. The BERK Report (http://www.burienwa.gov/DocumentView.aspx?DID=1961) is packed full of questionable financial expectations. Examples include Burien's Human Services annual estimate of only $100,000 which becomes laughable when compared to the more experienced Seattle's estimate of $1.7 to $1.9 million. For police Burien estimates a cost of $3.1 million where the once again more experienced Seattle estimates between $6.9 to $8.7 million. Also keep in mind that Burien has been running a deficit for some time now just to meet its own needs as stated by concerned White Center resident Mark Ufkes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpNn5EGFimU). So how can it meet the needs of the poorer White Center Gregory Heights area? It is almost as if the City of Burien is living in a world of unicorns and fairies.
The only positive argument for annexation that I have heard is that since Burien is smaller then either Seattle or King County our voice would be more easily heard. Honestly I find this argument null and void when compared to all the negative stories I have heard about dealing with city hall, which tends to boil down to adjectives like unfriendly, uncooperative, and in one extreme hostile. As an example Slideshare (http://www.slideshare.net/buriencitizen_media) has some complaints regarding Burien's inability to enforce its own code in regards to Bank owned abandoned homes that are falling into disrepair helping to lower property values. Then there is Lee Rabie who was so incensed by what Burien did to his property that he did a mass mailing at great expense to warn us why we should not join. A speech he gave on this can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BlIxYFEN8A (30 minutes in). Ultimately what good is city hall other then just another layer of bureaucracy that demands more taxes, does nothing to make our lives better, and just gets in the way.
I have lived at my home for over 16 years. I am happy with both the King County Sheriffs and our Fire Dept. Both seem to show up when you need them. All the services I need from power, water, sewer, and phone work just fine. Roads in my neighborhood are adequately maintained. I live in a neighborhood that loves to celebrate its nations birthday through fireworks and looking across the horizon we are not the only ones who do. I am an environmentalist and I like trees but some times they have to come down and I like the fact that I can cut down a tree on my property without having to ask permission or pay an exorbitant fee for some stupid permit. Frankly I see absolutely no viable argument on why we should join Burien.
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This video describes how NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided increasingly better pictures of Pluto since the telescope's launch into Earth orbit in 1990. Since its discovery in 1930, Pluto has been a speck of light in the largest ground-based telescopes. But the Hubble telescope has now mapped the planet in never-before-seen detail. The images reveal a changing landscape of snow-white and orange-black regions. The Hubble pictures underscore that Pluto is not simply a ball of ice and rock but a dynamic world that undergoes dramatic atmospheric changes.
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Is $3.39 a gallon in our future? Maybe, but gasoline retail prices will peak at $3.83 a gallon in the spring, analysts at Gasbuddy.com said Thursday.
U.S. drivers should see "more temperate" gasoline prices than in the last three years. But there's potential for "dramatic price spikes and equally dramatic price plunges" it said as it forecast that the average price will fall by about 10 cents in 2014 to below $3.40 for the first time since 2010.
California gas prices will spend some time near the end of the first quarter above $4 a gallon, the analysts said.
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The interior of the country, however, is likely to have the greatest insulation against the superspikes, Gasbuddy said. Drivers in the Great Lakes, Great Plains, and Rocky Mountain states "are among those most likely to see pricing points not documented since 2010."
Travel and leisure group AAA said average retail gasoline prices for next year are likely to hover around $3.40 and $3.50 nationwide.
The average price for 2013 is seen around $3.50 -- about 10 cents cheaper than 2012 prices, said AAA spokesman Michael Green. Prices currently average $3.268 a gallon.
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Red Bryant, Sidney Rice officially released by the Seahawks
In a move that had been expected for a week, the Seahawks cut ties with Red Bryant and Sidney Rice as the team begins positioning itself for free agency.
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Red Bryant, the second-longest tenured member of the Seahawks, might have been the most emotional in the locker room after Seattle's 43-8 Super Bowl win over Denver.
"I understand how fortunate I am to be in this moment,'' said Bryant, who was with the Seahawks when they won a combined nine games in 2008 and 2009 before coach Pete Carroll began his resurrection in 2010. "And I don't take it for granted."
That moment, though, now also comes tinged with a bittersweet note of finality for Bryant, one of Seattle's spiritual leaders and a defensive team captain the past two seasons.
In a move that had been rumored for a week, Bryant was released Friday, along with receiver Sidney Rice, the beginning of salary-cap cutting transactions the Seahawks feel they must make to stay at a Super Bowl-caliber level.
Bryant, who turns 30 on April 18, was due to make $4.5 million in 2014 as part of a five-year contract worth a possible $35 million he signed before the 2012 season. The contract included a bonus of $3 million if he was on the roster on March 14.
Rice, meanwhile, was due to make $8.5 million in 2014.
Releasing both players clears up $13 million in salary-cap space for the Seahawks as they face a number of challenges in reshaping the roster.
The NFL announced Friday that the salary cap will be $133 million next season, and Seattle is safely under it as the free-agent season nears in March.
But the Seahawks needed to clear space to re-sign some of their own free agents, notably defensive end Michael Bennett and receiver Golden Tate, as well as pursue others, and also give extensions to some of the core members of the team whose contracts will be up soon, such as safety Earl Thomas.
"Our whole theme is we would like to keep this team together as best we can," Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said last week at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis, foreshadowing some of the moves. "There are very difficult decisions you face every year in the league with contracts and money and caps and all that stuff. Every season is like that, so that brings about very challenging decisions for us because we love our team, we love our guys."
In a statement, Seattle general manager John Schneider said that making the announcement Friday will allow Rice and Bryant to more quickly pursue options.
The release of Bryant means just three players remain who were with the team before Carroll and Schneider taking over in 2010. The others are defensive tackle Brandon Mebane, center Max Unger and punter Jon Ryan.
The cutting of Rice had been rumored for months. Not only was he due to make $17.5 million over the next two years but he is also still recovering from an ACL tear suffered Oct. 28 at St. Louis. He was released with the designation that he failed his physical. Rice ended up making 97 receptions for 1,463 yards, playing in 33 of a possible 48 regular-season games for Seattle, with whom he signed after four years in Minnesota.
Bryant, meanwhile, became a mainstay of the Seattle defensive line in his third season in 2010 after being moved from tackle to a role as an end with the primary duties of stopping the run.
Bryant started 55 games as a Seahawk, including 47 of a possible 48 the past three seasons.
If the team re-signs Bennett, his role could increase to take over some of Bryant's run-defense role. Younger players such as Greg Scruggs, who missed the 2013 season due to an ACL injury but is said on course to return in 2014, and Jesse Williams, who also missed his rookie season of 2013 with a knee injury, could also help replace Bryant. The team could also add to the line in free agency and the draft.
Similarly, the team could also replace Rice in free agency and the draft.
And with the free-agency period beginning March 11, Seattle could still make moves to increase its cap room.
Rice, who had tweeted a goodbye to Seattle fans a week ago when his expected release was first reported, did so again Friday, writing in part "Thanks for a wonderful experience!''
Bryant, who was a fourth-round pick in 2008 out of Texas A&M and is the son-in-law of Seahawks Ring of Honor member Jacob Green, could not be reached for comment.
But while the Super Bowl turned out to be his final game as a Seahawk, he also realized in its aftermath that it helped cement his legacy with the team.
"Whenever you think about the Seattle Seahawks, you are going to think about this team,'' Bryant said. "You are going to think about this win.''
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The International Dietary Energy Consultative Group (IDECG) was created in 1986 to study the effects of different levels of dietary energy intake on the health and welfare of individuals and societies. Its first objective is the compilation and interpretation of relevant research data on functional and other consequences of deficiency, change or excess of dietary energy intake. This implies that virtually all of IDECG's work has directly or indirectly to do with energy requirements: current requirement figures are used to define states of energy deficiency and excess, and results of studies of consequences of energy deficiency and excess provide information on the validity of current requirement figures.
Since requirements for energy and for protein are closely interrelated and there is currently no international group concerned with protein issues, IDECG has also included protein requirements in its mission. The generally accepted current reference is the Report of a Joint FAO/WHO/UNU Expert Consultation on Energy and Protein Requirements, published as a Technical Report by WHO in 1985. Another FAO/WHO report, dealing more specifically with Protein Quality Evaluation was published by FAO in 1990.
A considerable amount of new information on human energy and protein requirements has accumulated during the past ten years, much of it documented in previous IDECG publications.
The expert committee that produced the 1985 report decided to base energy requirements, as far as possible, on information on energy expenditure. The development of the doubly labeled water method and its application in humans generated an important new data base. IDECG, in collaboration with the International Atomic Energy Agency, contributed to the validation and standardization of this new method.
When considering the energy requirements of infants, children and adolescents, the 1985 Committee stated: 'Although, in principle, it would be desirable to determine the requirements of children in the same way as for adults, from measurements of energy expenditure, this approach involves may difficulties in practice'. It concluded that the necessary information was not available to base recommendations for the energy requirements of infants and children on estimates of energy expenditure. Instead it continued to do so on the basis of information on energy intakes of infants and children growing normally. In 1989, IDECG gathered available data on activity and energy expenditure in infants and children and made a first attempt to base energy requirements on energy expenditure also in this age group.
Because of the close relationships that exist between energy and protein requirements, they have been discussed together in international meetings since 1963. IDECG devoted a workshop to the topic of protein energy interactions in 1991. At an IDECG Advisory Group meeting after this workshop, Prof. JC Waterlow, who was chairman of the committee that produced the 1985 Report, recommended that IDECG re-examine and update selected parts of the 1985 Report, providing with this work the scientific basis for a new FAO/ WHO/UNU consultation, and the representatives of the agencies concurred. Seven areas needing review were identified and scientists with expertise in these areas were asked to write position papers addressing the following three issues:
1. Do the 1985 recommendations need to be revised in your particular area? What are the main arguments for or against a revision?
2. What would your recommendations be at this particular point in time?
3. What additional work would need to be done to resolve problems that persist in this area?
The position papers were circulated widely among other scientists with expertise in each particular area.
This supplement to the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition contains the proceedings of an IDECG workshop, held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine from 31 October to 4 November 1994, at which these position papers were presented and discussed. The discussions were then summarized and the working papers revised for this publication.
We are deeply indebted to the authors of the position papers who have devoted many hours to reviewing the literature and re-analyzing data to produce papers which should be very valuable insofar as they present in great detail the data bases as well as the assumptions and decisions that had to be made to arrive at their recommendations. They are also very valuable in defining gaps in our knowledge and identifying research that is needed to resolve problems that persist.
We are grateful to the United Nations University and the Nestle Foundation for funding this activity, to Prof. PS Shetty and his staff at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine for providing the facilities and support required for the workshop, and to Dr. E Müller for her help in preparing the manuscripts for publication.
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John C Waterlow
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - The UC Santa Barbara women's basketball team will be making a second straight appearance in the Women's National Invitation Tournament after earning an automatic bid into the field of 48, it was announced today. The Gauchos, who qualified for postseason play for the 12th consecutive year Monday, will square off with the University of San Diego in first round action Thursday, March 15 at the Jenny Craig Pavilion with tipoff yet to be determined.
The 48-team Postseason WNIT field was unveiled Monday evening, following the selection of the NCAA Tournament field. Game times will be announced Tuesday by the WNIT.
The Gauchos earned an automatic berth in the WNIT by virtue of their second-place finish in the Big West Conference standings in 2006-07. The Postseason Women's National Invitation Tournament expanded to 48 teams in 2007 for the first time in event history to allow for an automatic bid from every conference in the country. The 31 guaranteed spots are given to the team in each conference with the highest finish in the regular season standings that did not qualify for the NCAA Tournament.
The winner of the Gaucho-Torero showdown advances to play Oregon in the second round, which runs from March 16-19. A date and host team for that game has yet to be determined. The Postseason WNIT will be held on campuses of participating schools through the championship round, with the entire event concluding by Saturday, March 31.
UCSB carries an overall record of 18-13 into Thursday's contest after advancing to the Big West Tournament title game for the 11th consecutive year last week. Santa Barbara failed to capture the Big West regular season crown for the first time since 1994-95, finishing second with a 10-4 league mark, two games behind UC Riverside (12-2). The Gauchos entered the Big West Conference Tournament in Anaheim, Calif. as the No. 2 seed and defeated Cal State Fullerton 57-52 in the semifinals Friday, March 9, before losing a 70-67 heartbreaker for the second year in a row to the Highlanders on Saturday, March 10.
Santa Barbara has now made consecutive trips to the WNIT after winning nine straight Big West Tournament titles and an equal number of NCAA Tournament appearances from 1997-2005. Last season UCSB drew Fresno State in the Preliminary Round and lost a 78-59 decision to the Bulldogs despite 12 points and eight rebounds from Whitney Warren. The Gauchos first appearance in the Postseason Women's National Invitation Tournament came in 1996 when it was an eight-team event held in Amarillo, Texas. UCSB suffered a 77-73 overtime loss to LSU before rebounding with victories over Western Kentucky (77-61) and Illinois State (69-68) to win the consolation bracket. Santa Barbara has also enjoyed success in its two Preseason WNIT appearances, advancing to the championship game in 2000 and semifinals in 2004; both of those tournaments featured 16-team fields.
On Thursday the Gauchos will face a USD squad that is coming off the best season in program history, finishing 21-8 overall and second in the West Coast Conference at 10-4. Despite the Toreros' best start ever and first 20-win season, San Diego was upset by the University of San Francisco 80-69 in the first round of the WCC Tournament March 1. UCSB and USD have met five times with the Gauchos holding a 5-2 record in the all-time series. Santa Barbara posted a convincing 82-44 victory over San Diego in the 2003-04 Preseason WNIT in the Thunderdome in the last meeting between the two schools. The Toreros were 5-1 against the Big West Conference this season.
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LONDON – Professional journalists try to keep the proper distance from subjects we write about.
That ethical guideline does not prevent us from feeling human emotions about some of the subjects.
So I wanted to cheer early Saturday afternoon when I got this email from International Olympic Committee communications director Mark Adams:
"Heads up - they've approved the sth sudan athlete under the ioc flag....you might want to break the news to him."
The "sth sudan" athlete in question is South Sudanese marathoner Guor Marial, a refugee from the civil war in the Sudan whose story I had been the first to tell, in a Tuesday post on my Globetrotting blog that also appeared in Thursday's print edition.
I did reach Marial an hour later in Flagstaff, Arizona, after having first called Brad Poore, the California attorney whose advocacy was critical in the IOC's decision to let the runner compete in the London Games as an independent athlete. The role of notifying Marial was not appropriately mine.
"Brad is a hero, of course," Marial said.
Indeed he is.
Poore met Marial at the Twin Cities Marathon last fall. He and Marial became friends quickly. Poore worked for months to find a way for the IOC to make a place for an athlete who was an Olympic "man without a country" because his newly independent homeland, the Republic of South Sudan, has yet to form a national Olympic committee.
And give some credit to John Ruger, the U.S. Olympic Committee ombudsman, who thought it would help if Marial's case were presented in the mass media. Ruger gave me the tip about Marial when I called to ask for some detail about how Lopez Lomong – another civil war refugee from the southern part of the Sudan, now the independent country - - was notified he had been chosen U.S. flagbearer at the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympics.
The IOC wound up doing the right thing in recognizing Marial's situation was exceptional and allowing him to run.
But there is no question who is the biggest hero in this piece.
It is a runner who never gave up hope when members of his family died in the civil war, when he was a virtual child slave to a Sudanese soldier, when his jaw was broken by Sudanese forces, when he fled to Egypt and wound up in New Hampshire as a 16-year-old refugee. He won a race for his life.
The IOC decision means Marial will be an "independent athlete," with no flag or national identification on his clothing.
"I am fine with that because I will be carrying South Sudan and its flag in my heart," Marial said. "All South Sudan will see me, and it will give my country hope in the world community."
Marial still needs to clear some bureaucratic hurdles to get travel documents he needs for London. Who would dare keep him from running another 26 miles, 385 yards in a journey that has taken him to a place where the entire human race can cheer?


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During the 20th stage of the Tour de France today, Chris Froome was riding in a small pack about three kilometers from the finish when a few fans started to run alongside. Unfortunately, there were no samaritans around to handle the situation, and one spectator began to crowd Froome. Froome decided he wasn't standing for it.
The cyclist pulled backhanded the fan in the chest, pushing him out the way. At first, the strike didn't look too violent; more of a mush or a shove than a punch. But on the front angle, you can see Froome really rear back and slap the shit out of the guy. We kinda liked that.
We immediately started to root for Froome, which is good, since he finished third in the stage to keep the yellow jersey as well as the huge lead he has over the field going into tomorrow's final stage. Barring any kind of catastrophe, he'll win this year's Tour de France. We know how to pick champions.
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Chris is upstairs in his office working, Ainsleigh is asleep in her crib and I have Aiden sound asleep by my side- the dogs both at the end of the bed.
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I am a relatively new employee, having worked with CI for a year and a half now. I recently decided that I needed to get out from behind a desk and go have my first experience with conservation in the field. This of course meant one thing – I was going to have to volunteer.
After some searching, I came across a project in one of the wildest places left in the world, Guyana, South America – even better, I would be working with one of my favorite animals of all time, the leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea). The group that runs the program is called the Guyana Marine Turtle Conservation Society, and after a few emails with the team in charge, I was off..
The project is located on Shell Beach, a barren stretch of sand, shells and sediment just east of the border between Guyana and Venezuela. This was my first volunteer experience, and I really didn't know what to expect. The truth is, nothing could have prepared me for this trip anyway
I flew into the capital city of Georgetown and met with Romeo DeFreitas, who started the project with his father Audley some 20 years ago. From there we traveled inland to Romeo's childhood home of Moruca for one night and ultimately on to Shell Beach. Guyana is referred to as the "land of a thousand waters"" and a quick trip inland makes it abundantly clear why. The entire country is crisscrossed with rivers, making it virtually impossible to build a road anywhere.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- U.S. Senate Republicans Thursday blocked a proposal by Democrats to expand a payroll tax holiday and pay for it with a higher taxes on millionaires.
The vote was 51-49 in favor of the measure but it required 60 votes to pass. The Senate was to vote later Thursday on a Republican proposal to extend the payroll tax cut and pay for it by freezing federal workers' wages for three years and cutting the federal workforce by 200,000.
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said the GOP approach would "kill jobs" while the Democrats' approach "is to create jobs."
The vote to kill the Democratic plan came after a third Republican senator said a GOP plan could involve raising taxes on high-income people.
"I sense a change in mood -- it's a little more bipartisan," said Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb.
"My position has always been, 'Let's not raise taxes,'" he said in remarks quoted by The New York Times. "But on the other hand, I don't want our country to collapse under a mountain of debt. If that means compromise, I am going to do everything to get that done."
His suggestion of raising taxes on the wealthy came a day after Senate Appropriations Committee member Susan Collins, R-Maine, said she supported the "millionaires surtax" but wanted to exempt small businesses from the increase.
Democrats are seeking to reduce the Social Security payroll tax paid by employees by half, to 3.1 percent of wages, a position many Republicans support.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Tuesday Republicans would not support making up for the lost revenue through a 3.25 percent surtax on annual income over $1 million, which Democrats proposed.
Collins told the Times Wednesday her alternative idea to protect employers from the surcharge would mitigate some Republican opposition.
"What we've been hearing over and over again is that the reason Republicans are opposed to the surtax is because of the concern on its impact on job creation," she said. "Well if you carve out employers you take away that argument."
Senate Finance Committee member Pat Roberts, R-Kan., said Tuesday Republicans had discussed a plan to cover the lost Social Security revenue by approving a small increase in taxes for some high-income people who meet certain criteria. His office did not respond to a United Press International request for further details.
Forty-one senators, including Roberts, and 238 House members signed a "Taxpayer Protection Pledge," promoted by conservative lobbyist Grover Norquist, promising never, under any circumstances, to support a tax increase.
McConnell said Republicans would propose a bill this week to extend the payroll tax cut without the Democrats' surcharge. He wouldn't provide details, but predicted Congress would extend the cut, which expires Dec. 31.
Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, said Wednesday he would try to hold Congress hostage for Christmas if jobless benefits were not extended for out-of-work Americans.
"Let me just put it this way: There will be no Christmas for Congress unless there is an extension of the unemployment insurance benefits," Harkin, chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said at a news conference attended by other House and Senate Democrats, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and numerous unemployed workers.
"Believe me, we have a number of us on the Senate side. We're not going home. We're not going to have Christmas for Congress until you get an extension of unemployment benefits," Harkin said.
Republican leaders have said they favor an extension as long as the cost is offset by cuts elsewhere. But lawmakers have not found a bipartisan solution to accomplish that, Roll Call reported.
Harkin could keep the Democratic-controlled Senate in Washington by demanding a vote on adjournment, rather than allowing the usual unanimous consent without a vote. His demand would require a majority vote to get the senators out of the Capitol.


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SIGNATURE STYLE: Sophisticated and classic, yet still fresh. "And feminine. At all times," she laughs. "I'm not a tomboy by any stretch."
DRESSING THE PART: Marketing and promotions director for Ala Moana Center, she regularly meets with fashion executives. "There is an image involved," she notes. She also appears on KHON's "Trend Watch" segment, airing every other Wednesday. She never repeats an outfit on television; loans from clothing companies help supplement her personal clothing.
WARDROBE RITUAL: "I look at my schedule, who I'm meeting with. I imagine myself in the situation and think about how I want to look and feel."
BIGGEST SPLURGES: "I invest a huge amount into my skin and hair. People skimp on that, but it's something you wear every day. I'll break the bank on that stuff."
WHERE SHE SHOPS: J. Crew-on-the-island, Neiman Marcus (for Cynthia Steffe and Nanette Lepore) and Forever 21.
PRUNES THE CLOSET: She edits every six months to a year. "I donate things that, realistically, I'm not going to wear again. In my job, I have to dress for the trends." Once the trend is over, she moves on.
FASHION ADVICE: "Decide if you like something before you look at the price tag." A lot of women make the mistake, she says, and buy something simply because it's on sale. And on the opposite end, an amazing item that you will wear all the time is worth a splurge.
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SIGNATURE STYLE: A chameleon. "For every occasion, it's fun to get dressed appropriately and experiment with different looks, makeup and hair styles. I put a lot of thought into what I wear."
DRESSING THE PART: As the owner of the Valerie Joseph Boutique, she is in the public eye. She appears in the store's ads and is very much the face of the brand. "I'm more conscious now of being put together, because people notice."
WARDROBE RITUAL: "I plan the night before, then, in the morning, just figure out the makeup and hair." For a formal event, she might plan at least a week in advance. "I think about the vision, the way I want to present myself."
INSIDE THE CLOSET: Make that closets; she has three in her bedroom. "I collect! My mom was a shopaholic growing up—lots of shoes and clothes. At a very young age, I started reading Vogue and got interested in haute couture. I love classic styles, rather than trends—lace, embroidery, European classics."
WHERE SHE SHOPS: Los Angeles, because she's there about once a month on buying trips for the store. "As a retailer, I have to see and touch the clothes I'm buying." Also loves scouting for vintage looks at places like The Clothes Chick. Favorite designers include Oscar de la Renta ("European classic and attention to details") and Vera Wang ("beautiful draping and timeless").
FAVORITE HUE: Pink
FASHION ADVICE: "Find a silhouette that works for your body type," she says. "Stick with what you love and don't get too caught up with the trends. I try to encourage women to be adventurous."


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Apira famously refused to shake Museveni's hand, claiming it was blood stained, when the Uganda president made a brief appearance in Juba and shook hands with some members of the Kony team.
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A deputy to Uganda's foreign affairs minister has said opponents of the government's military campaign against the Lord's Resistance Army deserve to be executed.
"Those who are condemning the attack are mad people and they deserve to be hanged," said Uganda's minister of state for foreign affairs Henry Okello Oryem, in a telephone interview.
He was referring to the attack by aerial bombardment of the LRA's encampments inside the Garamba forest in the Democratic Republic of Congo, by Uganda's army beginning last Sunday.
Many Ugandans fear that the attacks will scuttle for good the peace talks which have stalled since the LRA Chief Joseph Kony refused to sign a peace deal saying he first wants outstanding International Criminal Court (ICC) warrants to be vacated.
The 22-years war has been confined mostly to northern Uganda's Acholi region. Some members of parliament from Acholi have condemned the attack fearing that it may result in renewed attacks by the LRA inside Uganda; an uneasy truce has held for two years since the LRA and Uganda government troops started observing a Cessation of Hostilities deal. Some critics contend the attacks were a deliberate ploy by Uganda government to sabotage the talks; it is people like those that invite a sharp rebuke from Minister Okello Oryem.
"Those who are making such comments and blame the government for the attack are deserters and more dangerous than Kony," Oryem said, referring to the LRA chief. "The UPDF had to attack LRA camp in Garamba to force Joseph Kony to sign the Peace agreement," he said, referring to the Uganda People's Defense Forces, the acronym for the national army.
"There was no any other alternative rather than launching an attack because Kony had no fixed address," Oryem continued, when asked whether there was a provision that dictated which party was to sign the agreement first. Some critics contend it was unfair for the government to use the absence of Kony's signature as sufficient reason to resume warfare; they point out that the Uganda government also has not signed the deal.
"Kony deceived Uganda's delegation; deceived the international observers from the UN; and, the only way was to put more pressure to him so that he can sign," Minister Oryem Okello continued. "Yes, we had not signed our part, because we were still waiting for Kony to sign his part----It was agreed from the beginning that Joseph Kony had to sign first."
Okello Oryem added: "From the beginning the understanding was that Kony had to sign first because he had no fixed address; yet the Ugandan government has the address."
Defending the action which has been condemned by people supporting the talks, Minister Oryem gave four reasons why the Uganda government carried out the attack. "The United Nations supported the action of the government of Uganda together with SPLA and DRC's FARDC; AU also supported our position," said the Uganda official, referring respectively to the Sudanese People's Liberation Army; Congo's national army; and the African Union.
It could not be independently verified whether the armies mentioned and the AU actually supported the attack. A Ugandan Member of Parliament, Ronald R. Okumu has said the bombs hit only an empty camp long after the LRA had withdrawn. Meanwhile, in a news conference Uganda President Yoweri Museveni has said the LRA might have intercepted radio messages exchanged by pilots in attack helicopters.
Separately, two former members of the LRA's negotiating team in Juba, who were ejected, denounced the minister and said the negotiations were long compromised because government agents had infiltrated.
"If he says the attack was okay, then he is a traitor who is colluding with Museveni to promote genocide in northern Uganda," said Yolam Okech, who was one of the original 21 members of the LRA team, referring to Oryem Okello, who like Okech, also comes from Uganda's Acholi region. "Okello is among Museveni's propagandists who have turned the suffering of northerners and this war into a commercial venture."
"You can't say that Kony has refused to sign the agreement when some of the key issues haven't been addressed and important issues remained hanging in air," Okech said, adding: "Kony is an intelligent guy; he wanted to sign the agreement after the issue of the ICC has been catered for but nothing has been done."
He said the talks geared astray when Museveni's brother, General Salim Saleh started ferrying some members of Kony's original negotiating team away from Juba, the original location for the Talks, to Mombasa, in Kenya.
"From the day one, we were skeptical about Museveni's plans, because everything was being rushed," he said, "maybe because they wanted to host the CHOGM and the unresolved northern Uganda conflict was going to attract a lot of attention," referring to Uganda's hosting of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. "This was possibly the reason why they agreed to have talks a year before CHOGM. After; you can see what they are doing."
"Don't forget that this is not the first time Museveni has been in talks; you know the Nairobi talks with Lutwa, the Bigombe initiated talks, all have ended in funny ways," Okech added, referring to an accord between Museveni and former president Tito Okello Lutwa in 1985; Museveni subsequently seized power after signing the deal with Okello.
Betty Bigombe, negotiating on behalf of Uganda government, similarly did not get far.
"This is an issue that has taken over 20 years; why rush and want to finish it in less than two years whilst key issue are not solved?" wondered Okech.
Josephine Apira who was also on the original negotiating team added: "We need peace for our people in northern Uganda, but Uganda government has other motives. Apart from few who came from the Diaspora, majority of the people on our [negotiating] team were Museveni planted agents."
Rather than focusing on substance, delegates gathered at Juba, location of the Talks, were constantly demanding for stipends from the Uganda government. "People were getting instructions from Kampala-government even when they were part of Kony's team," Apira claimed. "The whole thing turned to be a business venture and people were not talking but attending to sign for allowance," she said.
Apira famously refused to shake Museveni's hand, claiming it was blood stained, when the Uganda president made a brief appearance in Juba and shook hands with some members of the Kony team.
The compromises meant the composition of the Kony team kept changing.
"That is why David Matsanga and others came in," she added, referring to the LRA's current delegation leader to the peace negotiations. "The role of Matsanga needs some investigations. Who funded and facilitate him for the talks? Sometimes he calls himself a CIA agent; other times an ICC expert; a conflict resolution expert and so forth."
She claimd she and others who turned down bribes were ejected.
Miwambo reports for The Black Star News from Europe
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As tavern tries to rebuild its troubled past, a man faces weapons charge in incident
TROY — Broadway Brew Biergarten, which retooled its image after being temporarily shut down by the city due to violence and underage drinking, was the scene early Sunday of an investigation after a man threatened to start shooting people, police said.
Troy Police Capt. John Cooney said police received a 911 call around 3 a.m. from a woman who said she was at Broadway Brew, 254 Broadway, and allegedly heard a man make the threat. When police arrived, they found the suspect walking east on Third Street.
The man, identified by police as Jallah E. McCall, 21 of Troy, ran and allegedly threw a handgun onto a roof during the foot chase with police. He was eventually apprehended and charged with second- and third-degree criminal possession of a weapon.
Cooney said it was unclear whether the 911 caller was inside the Broadway bar when she heard the man's alleged threats or outside. But it appears to be the first time police have had to come to the bar since it was reopened in May.
The Broadway Brew Pub and Grille was ordered to close for two months starting in March after a stabbing occurred outside in November, followed by a brawl, disorderly conduct calls and a bartender being charged with serving alcohol to minors. Troy Deputy Mayor Peter Ryan handed down the ruling as the city's nuisance-abatement officer. Six Troy police officers testified at the Feb. 15 hearing.
The bar was renovated, the menu was changed and the place was given a new name. Ken Sherman, a new co-owner with original owner Kareem Jandali, said the changes have been working. Previously, the bar had been leaning more toward a nightclub status. He said that late Saturday night, there was a birthday party in a back room attended by 50 people, and a disc jockey playing Top 40 tunes, "music you'd likely hear at a wedding," Sherman said.
"We're really being strict," Sherman said. "We have a sign outside that clearly states 'No hats, no hoodies, no baggy pants.'" Sherman said he reviewed all the bar's security tapes and didn't see any questionable characters or activity from early Sunday.
In an another early morning incident unrelated to the Broadway Brew, shots rang out on nearby on Second Street between State and Broadway.
Officers rushed to the area and questioned five people, Cooney said. Officers found fresh shell casings and what appeared to be a small amount of blood.
A search ensued, and a handgun was found hidden inside the wheel well of a car parked in the vicinity. But police said whoever was injured has not been found, and there is no evidence that anyone has gone to a local hospital for treatment. No one has been arrested in relation to the Second Street shooting.
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The National Park Service announced today it's Shadows of the Past program, to be held at the Trail of the Shadows near Longmire in Mount Rainier National Park. The program is a ~90 minute tour along the half-mile trail that will lead families and individuals of all ages into a journey into the past to visit characters such as John Muir, P.B. Van Trump and Fay Fuller among others. As the walk continues the characters will come to life and share their stories of Mount Rainier.
The program will run 4 nights during the summer: July 10th, July 24th, August 7th, and August 21st. Ranger-led lantern tours depart every 20 minutes between 8:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. The program will be held rain or shine. Bring a warm jacket, insect repellant, a flashlight, and wear sturdy shoes. The program is free with the National Park admission fee.
If you have questions or you are interested in becoming involved in the program as a character or lantern bearer, please contact Lee Snook at (360) 569-2211 *6043
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WASHINGTON - This year's dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is likely to be the largest on record and growing U.S. corn production is a primary cause of the worsening conditions, federal and state scientists said Tuesday.
The research team predicts that the dead zone - a stretch of water without enough oxygen to support marine life - could cover some 8,800 square miles this summer, an area roughly the size of the state of New Jersey.
The forecast was announced today by scientists with the U.S. National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium and Louisiana State University, LSU, who predicted the dead zone would be the largest since official monitoring began in 1985.
The dead zone forms annually off the coasts of Louisiana and Texas, fed by nutrient heavy water from the Mississippi River.
The country's largest river drains some 40 percent of the United States, including much of its agricultural heartland and its corn belt.
From as far north as Minnesota, runoff water laden with fertilizer nutrients nitrogen and phosphorous flows into river and into the Gulf, stimulating an overgrowth of algae. When the algae die, they sink to the bottom and decompose, depleting oxygen levels in the water and choking out marine life.
"The strong link between nutrients and the dead zone indicates that excess nutrients from the Mississippi River watershed during the spring are the primary human-influenced factor behind the expansion of the dead zone," said Rob Magnien, director of the NOAA Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research.
Last year's dead zone reached some 7,900 square miles, but the record came in 2002, when the area totalled nearly 8,500 square miles.
Record corn harvests throughout the Midwest are clearly adding to the problem, according to Eugene Turner, a scientist with LSU, and leader of the research team.
U.S. farmers are planting "an awful lot of corn and soybeans," he told reporters, adding that both crops leach nitrogen easily into soil and groundwater.
Corn production in the United States has shot up dramatically in recent years, driven by demand for corn-based ethanol. The U.S. Agriculture Department estimates some 87 million acres of corn were planted this year.
"The nitrogen is undoubtedly coming down in larger amounts because there's more planting of corn this year than there has been in a very long time," Turner said.
Some 817,000 tons of nitrogen, roughly 35-45 percent above normal, seeped into the Gulf between April and June, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, USGS.
Added to the mix is a record amount of phosphorous flowing into the Gulf.
The USGS reported that 85,000 tons of phosphorous entered the Gulf from April through June, some 85 percent above normal levels.
Turner said his team is uncertain what impact last month's record floods in the Midwest will have on the dead zone.
Although researchers can't quantify the effects yet, he added, it is likely that the zone will expand from as a large pulse of floodwater coming down the Mississippi enters the Gulf.
"We just don't quite know yet what the full effect will be," Turner said.
Crews are heading out into the Gulf on Sunday to begin this year's official dead zone measuring.
"We expect a final [figure] to be available about a week or two from now," Magnien told reporters on a press telebriefing.
Turner warned that the economic impact of the dead zone would again ripple through the Gulf's lucrative commercial and recreational fishing industries.
"The fish and shrimp have left this area and it is inconceivable that you could have that much change on the bottom and not change the fisheries in some way," Turner said. "This area is about 25-30 percent of U.S. fisheries - it is a pretty big fishery that is under threat."
Changing conditions to prevent the annual dead zone won't be easy, he added. "It is not just a matter of turning the switch today."
"It is going to have to come from changes in land use," Turner said. "We will have to reduce the amount of nitrogen coming off the watershed."
He suggested farmers move away from perennial crops that leave the land barren and susceptible to flooding, but warned that reductions in nutrient runoff will not yield instant results. Nitrogen is stored in the soil and can continue leaching for many years.
The report comes as some 250 corn growers from more than 20 states are convening in Washington, DC this week for the biannual Corn Congress meeting of the National Corn Growers Association.
Ron Litterer, NCGA president and a grower from Iowa, said, "We especially find it important to set aside time for farmers to meet with their representatives and senators and tell them what's important for growers back home."
In February, NCGA corn growers, conservation organizations and companies throughout the agriculture supply chain teamed up to launch a first-of-its-kind working group to help establish sustainable outcomes for agriculture.
The group's initial focus will be creating a sustainability index to analyze and report use of land, water, energy, greenhouse gas emissions and crop production inputs in four key commodity crops corn, cotton, soybeans and wheat.
For World Wildlife Fund, Jason Clay said at the launch, "Continued improvements in efficient land use will be critical if we're going to meet the ever-growing demand for food and fiber without putting more pressure on our environmental resources."
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The United Kingdom Ambulance Services are receiving, on average, an increase in calls of 6% year on year. This is due in part to the GP Out of Hours call system where we are being called upon by patients who cannot contact their GP. The Ambulance Service in this country has transformed over the years from a "transport" medium to a professional organisation in its own right. To some extent I think we are a victim of our own success as we take on more and more roles and responsibilities.
But, and I think this is more important, the general public need educating about the 999 system and some sort of fiscal penalty be put in place for the obvious abusers of the service. I have attended many calls where the caller has apologised for ringing us but they did not know what to do….a call "with good intent" is fair enough. Its the drink related calls and the blindingly obvious piss takes that annoy me. For instance…being called to a middle aged woman with "head pain" who upon our arrival stated that she only wanted us to …"open the aspirin bottle as she could not do it!" (child proof top!)
Our colleagues in the Yorkshire Ambulance Service have reported the problems of inappropriate calls numerous times as has happened nationwide…and yet it still goes on! A news report highlights the problem with a video and actual recording of some of the types of calls experienced in Yorkshire.
Ask any member of the Ambulance Service in the U.K. (and probably Worldwide) what daft calls they have been to and you will hear things that will make you believe in bringing back the stocks and/or the birch! Such as the lady who dialled 999 as she could not reach her remote control for the T.V. or the man who wanted a light bulb changing, the man who wanted his trousers pulling up, the woman who dialled 999 as she was late for a dental appointment, the man who called for an ambulance as he had missed his train and he pays his taxes!!! The list goes on and on!!!
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GREENSBORO, N.C. - Charlotte-based Bojangles' Restaurants, Inc. has agreed to pay $33,426 and provide substantial additional relief to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged that an employee at a Greensboro Bojangles' was sexually harassed and then fired for complaining about it.
The lawsuit further alleged that the female employee who was subjected to the sexual harassment, Shannie C. Norfleet, was fired by her male store manager who was allegedly harassing her, after she complained about the harassment to a higher-level manager and to human resources.
According to the EEOC's complaint, crew member Shannie C. Norfleet was subjected to sexual harassment by the store manager from around mid-2008 to July 2009. The complaint alleged the store manager made explicit, obscene sexual comments to Norfleet on several occasions, including requests for sexual favors and requests for oral sex in exchange for time off. The lawsuit further alleged that on one occasion, the store manager approached Norfleet in the restaurant's outdoor shed, exposed his private parts, and asked her to touch him. Norfleet complained about the harassment to the company's area director and its senior director of human resources, the EEOC said, but the harassment did not cease. Rather, the agency charged, Bojangles' discharged Norfleet in retaliation for her complaints.
Sexual harassment and retaliation for complaining about it, violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Bojangles' Restaurants, Inc., Civ. Action No. 1:11-CV-00641) in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process.
In addition to providing monetary relief to Norfleet and agreeing to provide neutral references to Norfleet's potential future employers, the company agreed to conduct annual training which covers sexual harassment and retaliation for its employees and managers within the region where the violations occurred. The company will also make its anti-harassment policy available to all of those employees. Finally, Bojangles' will report all sexual harassment and retaliation complaints within that region to the EEOC for the next two years.
"There is no place for harassment of any kind in the workplace, be it sexual harassment, race or national origin harassment, or harassment based on a person's age, disability or religion," said Lynette A. Barnes, regional attorney for the EEOC's Charlotte District. "Employers must be vigilant to take complaints about harassment seriously, and address them, or run the risk of EEOC charges and potential liability."
EEOC Supervisory Trial Attorney Tina Burnside added, "The settlement in this case requires Bojangles' to conduct training regarding the laws prohibiting sexual harassment and retaliation, which we hope will prevent other employees from suffering discrimination in the future."
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting discrimination. More information about the EEOC is available on its website at www.eeoc.gov.