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PRINCETON, N.J., Jan. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Few aspects of the job can produce as many sleepless nights for a fleet manager as the issue of safety. Whether it's monitoring employee motor vehicle records or combating distracted driving through comprehensive safety policies, fleet management and safety go hand in hand. Attendees to NAFA Fleet Management Association's 2013 Institute & Expo (I&E) will have the opportunity to listen to a true safety expert – Janet Froetscher, the President & CEO of the National Safety Council – who will close out the final day of the 2013 I&E with a keynote presentation in the morning.
Under Ms. Froetscher's leadership, the National Safety Council has focused on key safety initiatives, grounded in science, to advance its mission of preventing injuries and deaths at work, in homes and communities, and on the roads. These initiatives include the creation of the Journey to Safety Excellence approach to workplace safety that promotes continuous improvement of leadership and performance measurement. Ms. Froetscher has also led the Council in taking a leadership role on the issues of distracted and teen driving.
The National Safety Council was the first organization to call for a national ban on cell phone use while driving; has driven 34 states to pass texting laws; and has encouraged corporations to adopt corporate cell phone bans. The Council has also been successful in advocating for better graduated driving license requirements for teen drivers and in promoting education for parents of teen drivers.
"NAFA is thrilled to have Janet Froetscher speak before our membership," said NAFA's Executive Director, Phillip E. Russo, CAE. "Ms. Froetscher's impressive body of work was recognized by our Association last year when she was named as one of the initial inductees of NAFA's Safety Leadership Award. She is an authority on a subject that is of great importance to every fleet manager."
Prior to joining the National Safety Council, Ms. Froetscher served as Chief Executive Officer of the United Way of Metropolitan Chicago and Chief Operating Officer of the Aspen Institute. Her corporate experience includes leadership roles within the Commercial Club of Chicago and Bankers Trust Company. She holds a Bachelors degree from the University of Virginia and a MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.
Safe driving is essential to the fleet managers who belong to NAFA, a group that collectively manages several million vehicles travelling on North American roads each day. The Association has supported the "Drive Safely Work Week" campaign by the Network of Employers for Traffic Safety for several years and created its own Safety Advisory Council in 2011. The Council's mission is to ensure that safety remains on the forefront of the Association via articles in NAFA publications and is regularly included in products and services.
NAFA's 2013 Institute & Expo will take place April 23-26 in Atlantic City, the first time in a decade it has been held in the northeast. The conference features powerful keynote presentations to kick off each day, followed by more than 60 hours of fleet educational sessions, an expo with the latest products and services, and plenty of opportunities to network with the best and brightest in fleet management. For more information on the conference visit http://www.nafainstitute.org.
About NAFA Fleet Management Association
NAFA is the world's premier non-profit association for professionals who manage fleets of sedans, public safety vehicles, trucks, and buses of all types and sizes, and a wide range of military and off-road equipment for organizations across the globe. NAFA is the association for the diverse vehicle fleet management profession regardless of organizational type, geographic location or fleet composition. NAFA's Full and Associate Members are responsible for the specification, acquisition, maintenance and repair, fueling, risk management, and remarketing of more than 3.5 million vehicles including in excess of 1.1 million trucks of which 350 thousand are medium- and heavy-duty trucks. For more information visit http://www.nafa.org
Contact: Gary Wien
NAFA Fleet Management Association
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who topped an illustrious military career by commanding the U.S.-led international coalition that drove Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait in 1991 but kept a low public profile in controversies over the second Gulf War against Iraq, died Thursday. He was 78.
Schwarzkopf died in Tampa, Fla., where he had lived in retirement, according to a U.S. official, who was not authorized to release the information publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
A much-decorated combat soldier in Vietnam, Schwarzkopf was known popularly as "Stormin' Norman" for a notoriously explosive temper.
He served in his last military assignment in Tampa as commander-in-chief of U.S. Central Command, the headquarters responsible for U.S. military and security concerns in nearly 20 countries from the eastern Mediterranean and Africa to Pakistan.
Schwarzkopf became "CINC-Centcom" in 1988 and when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait three years later to punish it for allegedly stealing Iraqi oil reserves, he commanded Operation Desert Storm, the coalition of some 30 countries organized by President George H.W. Bush that succeeded in driving the Iraqis out.
"Gen. Norm Schwarzkopf, to me, epitomized the 'duty, service, country' creed that has defended our freedom and seen this great nation through our most trying international crises," Bush said in a statement. "More than that, he was a good and decent man - and a dear friend."
At the peak of his postwar national celebrity, Schwarzkopf - a self-proclaimed political independent - rejected suggestions that he run for office, and remained far more private than other generals, although he did serve briefly as a military commentator for NBC.
While focused primarily in his later years on charitable enterprises, he campaigned for President George W. Bush in 2000 but was ambivalent about the 2003 invasion of Iraq, saying he doubted victory would be as easy as the White House and Pentagon predicted. In early 2003 he told the Washington Post the outcome was an unknown:
"What is postwar Iraq going to look like, with the Kurds and the Sunnis and the Shiites? That's a huge question, to my mind. It really should be part of the overall campaign plan," he said.
Initially Schwarzkopf had endorsed the invasion, saying he was convinced that former Secretary of State Colin Powell had given the United Nations powerful evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. After that proved false, he said decisions to go to war should depend on what U.N. weapons inspectors found.
He seldom spoke up during the conflict, but in late 2004, he sharply criticized then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon for mistakes that included inadequate training for Army reservists sent to Iraq and for erroneous judgments about Iraq.
"In the final analysis I think we are behind schedule. ... I don't think we counted on it turning into jihad (holy war)," he said in an NBC interview.
Schwarzkopf was born Aug. 24, 1934, in Trenton, N.J., where his father, Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., founder and commander of the New Jersey State Police, was then leading the investigation of the Lindbergh kidnap case, which ended with the arrest and 1936 execution of German-born carpenter Richard Hauptmann for stealing and murdering the famed aviator's infant son.
The elder Schwarzkopf was named Herbert, but when the son was asked what his "H'' stood for, he would reply, "H." Although reputed to be short-tempered with aides and subordinates, he was a friendly, talkative and even jovial figure who didn't like "Stormin' Norman" and preferred to be known as "the Bear," a sobriquet given him by troops.
He also was outspoken at times, including when he described Gen. William Westmoreland, the U.S. commander in Vietnam, as "a horse's ass" in an Associated Press interview.
As a teenager Norman accompanied his father to Iran, where the elder Schwarzkopf trained the country's national police force and was an adviser to Reza Pahlavi, the young Shah of Iran.
Young Norman studied there and in Switzerland, Germany and Italy, then followed in his father's footsteps to West Point, graduating in 1956 with an engineering degree. After stints in the U.S. and abroad, he earned a master's degree in engineering at the University of Southern California and later taught missile engineering at West Point.
In 1966 he volunteered for Vietnam and served two tours, first as a U.S. adviser to South Vietnamese paratroops and later as a battalion commander in the U.S. Army's Americal Division. He earned three Silver Stars for valor - including one for saving troops from a minefield - plus a Bronze Star, a Purple Heart and three Distinguished Service Medals.
While many career officers left military service embittered by Vietnam, Schwarzkopf was among those who opted to stay and help rebuild the tattered Army into a potent, modernized all-volunteer force.
After Saddam invaded Kuwait in August 1990, Schwarzkopf played a key diplomatic role by helping to persuade Saudi Arabia's King Fahd to allow U.S. and other foreign troops to deploy on Saudi territory as a staging area for the war to come.
On Jan. 17, 1991, a five-month buildup called Desert Shield became Operation Desert Storm as allied aircraft attacked Iraqi bases and Baghdad government facilities. The six-week aerial campaign climaxed with a massive ground offensive on Feb. 24-28, routing the Iraqis from Kuwait in 100 hours before U.S. officials called a halt.
Schwarzkopf said afterward he agreed with Bush's decision to stop the war rather than drive to Baghdad to capture Saddam, as his mission had been only to oust the Iraqis from Kuwait.
But in a desert tent meeting with vanquished Iraqi generals, he allowed a key concession on Iraq's use of helicopters, which later backfired by enabling Saddam to crack down more easily on rebellious Shiites and Kurds.
While he later avoided the public second-guessing by academics and think tank experts over the ambiguous outcome of Gulf War I and its impact on Gulf War II, he told the Washington Post in 2003, "You can't help but... with 20/20 hindsight, go back and say, 'Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn't be facing what we are facing today.'"
After retiring from the Army in 1992, Schwarzkopf wrote a best-selling autobiography, "It Doesn't Take A Hero." Of his Gulf war role, he said, "I like to say I'm not a hero. I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war." He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and honored with decorations from France, Britain, Belgium, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Bahrain.
Schwarzkopf was a national spokesman for prostate cancer awareness and for Recovery of the Grizzly Bear, served on the Nature Conservancy board of governors and was active in various charities for chronically ill children.
"I may have made my reputation as a general in the Army and I'm very proud of that," he once told the AP. "But I've always felt that I was more than one-dimensional. I'd like to think I'm a caring human being. ... It's nice to feel that you have a purpose."
Schwarzkopf and his wife, Brenda, had three children: Cynthia, Jessica and Christian.
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Simon Read is Personal Finance Editor at The Independent. He edits the Saturday Your Money section as well as writing for the news and business pages of the Independent and i newspaper.
Wednesday 11 April 2012
The Big Six energy firms have agreed to tell customers if
they're overpaying for home energy and show them how to switch to a better
In a victory for The Independent's Fair Energy campaign, the gas and electricity companies will write to their customers every year telling them the best deal for their household.
Vulnerable customers – who may be at risk of falling into fuel poverty because of unaffordable bills - will be contacted twice a year if they're on the Warm Front scheme.
Customers will also be offered the best deal if their contract comes to an end or if they contact their supplier at any time to ask.
The agreement with the government will be announced today by the Deputy Prime Minister at a speech in London's Canary Wharf.
Signing up to the deal will be EDF, E.on, British Gas, nPower, Scottish Power and SSE, the Big Six firms which collectively supply 99 per cent of British homes with heating and lighting.
But, as The Independent has reported, seven out of 10 people are on the wrong deal, meaning they pay too much for their energy.
Nick Clegg will promise today things will change. He will say: "As of this Autumn, your supplier will have to contact you with the best tariff for your needs. And if you call them, they'll have to offer you the best deal too."
In fact SSE has been piloting a similar scheme since October. A spokeswoman said: "These Government measures fit well with SSE's own commitments."
But critics say the agreement will only work if companies tell customers about the cheapest deals.
Ann Robinson of uSwitch said: "Companies must not be allowed to make assumptions about which tariff is right for customers."
She said the deal doesn't go far enough as the energy companies will only tell customers about their own offers.
"I hope this first step encourage consumers to gain confidence from the information to go on and compare the market more widely," said Ms Robinson.
Mr Clegg will also today report that the government is working with energy companies to put special barcodes on energy bills. The barcodes will be able to be scanned by smart phones, allowing customers to get quotes and switch deal or supplier in minutes.
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WASHINGTON — Amid heightened concern about the safety of foreign products, the U.S. and Chinese governments agreed in writing Tuesday on measures to prevent future export of Chinese-made toys containing lead paint to the United States.
The pact, announced at the second U.S.-China consumer-product safety summit, calls for the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine to develop a plan to ensure that Chinese exports comply with a 1978 U.S. law that bans lead paint in toys.
In the past month, millions of toys made in China and sold by Mattel were recalled because of dangerously high levels of lead paint.
In addition, the United States and China agreed to develop new procedures to address recurring quality and safety problems with Chinese-made lighters, fireworks, electrical products and other toys.
Acting consumer-commission Chairman Nancy Nord said there would be more inspections of U.S.-bound products, efforts to educate Chinese manufacturers and exporters on U.S. product-safety standards, more training on product-testing methods and regular information exchanges.
In addition, China agreed to help trace products with safety problems to the companies that manufacture, distribute and export them.
Nord said private industry in both countries also must take greater responsibility by conducting more safety tests and purchasing materials from reputable suppliers.
Chuanzhong Wei, vice minister of China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, signed the new agreement and acknowledged there are "indeed some quality problems with individual products." But he added: "We are actively taking effective [action] to resolve those problems."
He said China's recent recalls and safety problems stem from differences in Chinese and U.S. standards for quality and safety, and poor product designs by foreign manufacturers. But he also cited "distorted reports" about Chinese products, which he said have hurt the country's reputation as a trade partner.
While the new agreement takes effect immediately, some experts said the pact won't be fully in place for the holiday shopping season: Most toymakers have begun or will soon begin shipping holiday orders.
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Some toymakers use lead-based paint because it's cheaper than lead-free paint and it makes colors brighter. Lead-paint exposure in children can cause various health problems, including headaches, hearing and behavioral problems and brain damage.
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Also, like some couples do, they're keeping that information private rather than renting out the Beverly Hilton to hold a news conference. But because West and Kardashian have lived so much of their lives in public, reasoning goes, they don't deserve to keep this information private.
Or at least, that's the argument on the Huffington Post, where Liat Kornowski declares of the decision that, "We think that's fishy." Her logic?
After all, [Kardashian] started out by having a sex tape make the rounds early on in her career. The tape shows her and ex-boyfriend Ray J. doing the deed and might have even been leaked by Kim herself, as suggested by another one of her exes, Nick Cannon. She also showcased her famous buttocks to the world via X-ray to prove she doesn't have implants.
I missed the part of Kardashian's history where she signed a waiver that guaranteed the American public access to every detail of every event in her life, in perpetuity. Increasingly, it seems like women who live in the public eye are given a choice: If you reveal nothing except the basic facts of your life, as has been the case with Kate Middleton's engagement and pregnancy, then you're allowed to demand privacy on the minor details. (And when you don't get it, like with those recent Middleton bikini pictures shot with extremely long lenses, there's public outrage.)
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ITP (the Interactive Telecommunications Program) at NYU is having a Code Poetry Slam on November 14. And they are seeking entries now! Send them along no later than November 7.
ITP (the Interactive Telecommunications Program) at NYU is having a Code Poetry Slam on November 14. And they are seeking entries now! Send them along no later than November 7.
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The 2015 Electronic Literature Organization conference and festival will take place August 5-7th 2015. The conference will be hosted by the Bergen Electronic Literature research group at the University of Bergen, Norway with sessions at venues including the University of Bergen, Det Akademiske Kvarteret, the Bergen Public Library, the University of Bergen Arts library, and local arts venues. Bergen is Norway's second-largest city, known as the gateway to the fjords, a festival city and cultural center with a lively and innovative arts scene.
This past weekend Tiltfactor brought a bunch of our upcoming tabletop games to the Boston Festival of Indie Games at MIT! Among the 50 tables, the lab was represented at five!
We brought Bill of Health and Gut Check, two strategy games about the state of the U.S. health care system. Luminaries and Skyline are part of our BIAS project combat gender bias in science. Monarch is our crowd favorite – players play the daughters of the dying queen, vying for the throne.
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The paperback looks beautiful, by the way, thanks to the design work and attention of our co-author Casey Reas.
Here's the MIT Press page with both the hardcover and the paperback.
I'm delighted that Flash: Building the Interactive Web by Anastasia Salter and John Murray has just been published by the MIT Press.
This is an excellent study of an influential software platform – our first such study in the Platform Studies series – and it both traces the history of the platform, its development and the contexts in which it arose, as it also covers many famous and representative Flash productions.
Mark Sample writes of it, "Combining historical research, software studies, and a deep appreciate for digital creativity, Salter and Murray dramatically explore Flash—whose very ubiquity has heretofore made it transparent to media scholars—as the defining technology for a generation of artists, storytellers, game designers, and Web 2.0 companies."
I will be reading from and discussing three recent books this Thursday at 7pm the Harvard Book Store here in sunny Cambridge, Massachusetts. These are:
Counterpath Press, Denver
a book of programs & poems (pronounced "shebang")
World Clock
Bad Quarto, Cambridge
a computer-generated novel
MIT Press, Cambridge
a collaboration with nine others that I organized, now out in paperback
These all express how programming can be used for poetic purposes, and how
new aesthetic possibilities can arise with the help of computing. Also,
some portions of these (which I'll read from) are quite pleasing to read
aloud and to hear.
Sam Lavigne has an excellent text-generating, or at least -transforming, system that produces patent applications based on source texts. See, for instance, the one generated using Kafka's "The Hunger Artist." A full explanation of the code is provided on the page.
Yes, the first event is today, the date of this post…
Boston Cyberarts Gallery, 141 Green Street, Jamaica Plain, MA
"Collision21: More Human" exhibit opens – it's up through October 26.
"From the Tables of My Memorie" by Montfort, an interactive video installation, is included.
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Montfort reads from #!, World Clock, and the new paperback 10 PRINT
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Montfort joins a panel of artists in "Collision21: More Human" for this Art Technology New England discussion.
I'm reading at the Harvard Book Store on September 18 – a week from now, on Thursday. The reading is at 7pm.
I'll be presenting and reading from my latest book, #! (pronounced "shebang"), which is a book of programs and poems, published by Counterpath Press in Denver.
I'll also discuss my previous two books, one of which is World Clock. I developed this for National Novel Generation Month last November; it's a computer-generated novel. Cleverly enough, it's been translated into Polish via translation of the underlying program.
Lance Olsen and Tim Guthrie have updated their classic and palindromically-titled electronic literature work, 10:01.
This piece was included in the first Electronic Literature Collection and the first edition can still be seen there. Since it offers links out to the Web, and some of these became stale since the piece was first published in 2005, the prolific and edgy experimental writer Olsen and developer Guthrie have revised the piece for the Web for 2014, also reworking a few other elements. One is still able to select among movie patrons to read their perspectives. The piece is a companion to the print-novel version of 10:01, published by Chiasmus in 2005.
An upcoming exhibit, a group show here in town, features a work of mine…
The exhibition Collision21: More Human will be at the Boston Cyberarts
Gallery September 13-October 26, 2014, with an opening on Friday, September
12th from 6 to 9pm. This is a group show dealing with two closely-related
concepts: human self-modification and the human modification of our
environment. Formed by artists and technologists, the COLLISIONcollective is
premised on the sometimes abrupt intersection between art and technology.
Two professors page through, scroll through, search through the history and contemporary existence of the book to disrupt the opposition between computing and print-based, codexical practice.
GOTO80 tipped me off that the NYPL is experimenting with using PETSCII (the character set used on the Commodore 64 and other Commodore computers) to generate covers for e-books that don't have them. There is also a cover generator under development that uses illustrations.
The PETSCII generator is specificaly inspired by 10 PRINT, and of course, it leads leads me to ask … will they use this system to generate a cover for the e-book version of 10 PRINT?
The disciple went to Minsky.
The disciple told him of his project, to develop a story generator with different components, a collaborative system that collaborated.
Minsky asked if a specific author was to be imitated.
No, the disciple said, the project seeks to do what only computers can do, to use computational power in new ways. And yet, the disciple admitted, the system models human creativity, techniques and processes that people use. Hesitantly, the disciple said, "it does seem contradictory…"
"You can do both," said Minsky.
At that moment, the disciple was enlightened.
I was asked to pass along word of the full/associate professor position in HCI and interactive media design at NUS. Checking the link, I found that there are also openings for full/associate professors in media studies and in new media studies and development. So: the details on these faculty positions in Singapore.
My recent book #! (pronounced Shebang) made it to #4 on the August 2014 SPD Poetry Bestseller List.
Here's a conference coming up in April, with a January 1 deadline:
International Symposium
"Textual Machines"
April 18, 2015
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Janet MURRAY, Professor at the School of Literature, Media and Communication
at the Georgia Institute of Technology and interaction designer.
Serge BOUCHARDON, Professor at the University of Technology of Compiegne and
author of interactive fictions.
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Doug Orleans pointed me to "Lost Lessons from 8-Bit BASIC," a blog post that makes the case that there were real, practical advantages to the much-maligned BASIC programming langauge, at least in the context of the home computer era.
A correspondent in Brazil sends news of a new call for papers in the journal Texto Digital. The recent issues have been almost entirely in Portuguese, but the journal is reaching out and seeking submissions in several languages. I think you can tell from the title (even if your Portuguese is a bit rusty) that this publication focuses on some very Post Position (and Grand Texto Auto) sorts of topics. Here's the call:
So, I'm not saying they're a bad idea, but why do these things get called "driverless" or "self-driving"? They are being driven by an immense corporation with the most massive store of data on Earth. They can't function without this corporation or this store of data. They can't drive themselves.
I dunno, maybe we should at least notice this sort of — hey! These cars are programmed to go up to 10 mph above the speed limit! Shiny!
(Prompted by Erik Stayton's great presentation of his thesis work on this topic yesterday. Erik works as my research assisstant in the Trope Tank.)
I've revisited two games about depression which seem interesting to compare. One has been discussed more recently, particularly thanks to its recent release on Steam: the Twine game Depression Quest. (It's also available on the Web.) The other, which is in Flash and on the Web, is the platformer Elude. The latter was developed at MIT, in the GAMBIT Game Lab.
Both of these games have seen plenty of discussion, but I wanted to mention an aspect that make them interesting to compare. Of course, Elude is graphical and played in real time, while Depression Quest is text-based and allows the user to select CYOA-style options. But that's quite obvious.
USgamer features a new interview with Zork co-author and all-around Infocom implementor Dave Lebling. Very nice!
The opening flourish of the article, though, implies that in the days of Adventure, people used either green-on-black or amber-on-black video terminals to access computers, and players would see glowing letters and the "darkness of an empty command line."
This is actually fantasy, not history. As I've written about in "Continuous Paper: Print interfaces and early computer writing," as others have experienced and noted, and an amazing binder of print terminal output from an MIT student testified to me, a great deal of very early interactive fiction interaction was done on print terminals, including but not limited to the famous name-brand "Teletype." A few people (including Lebling!) had access to top-notch video terminals, but lots of interaction was done on paper.
If I used my Twitter account the way I'm supposed to, instead of as a conceptual writing project, I would have put that last post on Twitter.
If I had a Facebook account, it would be tagged as satire.
Yesterday first-person-shooter Borges, intimate, infinite, and based on prose; today cut-up Spenser, mutable and poetic.
This dynamic digital poetry piece, by Stephen Pentecost, is quite compelling. The author writes:
The Mutable Stanzas is a digital poetry installation and deformance experiment inspired by Raymond Queneau's Cent Mille Milliards de Poèmes, by the work by Jerome McGann et al on "Deformance and Interpretation," and by the work of my collegues in the Humanities Digital Workshop.
The Mutable Stanzas disassembles Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene into its constituent lines, groups lines according to terminal rhyme, then randomly reassembles lines into new stanzas.
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"I can't believe this day is here and the healing process can truly start to begin," said Tony Smith, who became emotional as he spoke after the decision by Justice Arthur LeBlanc in the Nova Scotia Supreme Court.
Smith is a former resident of the Halifax-area orphanage who was among those who started the legal process when he began sharing his experience at the group home.
"This is major," he added. "Nova Scotians in general want to turn a page, and one of the pages is being turned."
Former residents of the home allege they suffered physical, psychological and sexual abuse mostly at the hands of caregivers while living in the orphanage, which opened in 1921 and operated for nearly 70 years.
The home is now a short-term residential facility for children of all races.
An advertising campaign is planned across Canada to inform former residents of the settlement and encourage eligible claimants to come forward. So far, about 185 claims have been filed.
Those who allege they were abused have until Aug. 18 to opt out of the proposed settlement.
Winston Parsons told the court about the two separate times he lived at the home in the mid-1980s.
"My life was hell," said Parsons, 45, breaking down in tears.
Parsons said he spent nearly 25 years in provincial or federal jails after suffering abuse at the hands of those who were meant to care for him, experiences he says still haunt him.
"I feel like I'm on top of the world right now after getting that off my chest," Parsons said outside court. "My whole life I was labelled: foster child, group-home boy, punk, thug, gangster. I'd like to know what they would label me today."
The compensation agreement finalized on Monday is broken into two payout categories. The first is a common experience settlement, which applies to all residents who lived in the Home for Colored Children at any point between Jan. 1, 1921, and Dec. 31, 1989.
Provided no more than about a half-dozen people opt out of the settlement before Aug. 18 — which would allow the province to back out of the deal — money through this payout could be in the hands of survivors as early as October.
The second and lengthier settlement category is an individual assessment program, which would address additional harms beyond those suffered by residents at large, including sexual abuse. Only residents of the Home for Colored Children after Nov. 1, 1951, would be eligible.
The $29-million deal will be added to a $5-million settlement reached last summer directly with the orphanage.
The province does not admit liability, according to terms of the settlement approved Monday.
Premier Stephen McNeil recently said that with the settlement reached, the government will begin developing terms of reference for a process to give former residents an opportunity to publicly share their stories in an inquiry-type setting.
The previous NDP government fought the lawsuit in the courts, arguing that some of the allegations are based on speculation or hearsay. It was subsequently certified as a class-action, though the abuse allegations have not been tested in court.
Besides monetary compensation, alleged abuse survivors will also have access to various resources, including psychological and financial counsellors.
LeBlanc called the agreement an important step towards reconciliation.
Ray Wagner, a lawyer for the claimants, described the settlement as a "historical opportunity" for provincial race relations and said it has national implications for a restorative justice approach to healing past wrongs suffered by survivors instead of laying blame.
"We've been, unfortunately, recognized outside this province as having grave difficulty with race relations," Wagner said. "This gives us a historical opportunity to say we are dealing with these demons ... confronting our past, dealing with it and moving on to the future."
Harriet Johnson, one of the named claimants in the class-action case, alleged in court that she was sexually assaulted at the age of 8 1/2. She said she escaped the orphanage at 13 by agreeing to work as a prostitute for a staffer.
"We did it guys, we did it," Johnson told an emotional crowd of former residents and supporters outside court. "Today is the day we celebrate because we were able to show them what happened to us was real."
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Looking Back
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All the times that I cried
The bruises he left
Were unbearable to see
I couldn't take
What I had just seen
She lies on the floor trying to breathe
Thanking God it isn't me
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yeah.. i agree with Running Deer. pain can be turned into strength.
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Ashley, you know what? What you said is true. It should be him on the floor. Just promise me this: that you will take this pain and turn it into strength, and the flashbacks that will never end......keep writing. Kill it from the inside out, not the other way, ever love, ok? Hugs, Running Deer. (Report) Reply
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Food-service sector among worst violators of wage laws
This story is part of a special report in the Spring print edition of the San Francisco Public Press.
Last year, Mauricio Lozano found a job through a friend at a pizzeria in North Beach. The pay was $8 an hour, in cash. He said a supervisor told him he would get less than San Francisco's minimum wage because he was "in training." Under city law, that's no excuse for paying below the mandated wage floor, then $10.24 an hour. But the restaurant needed someone right away, and Lozano was in no position to negotiate.
Estimates of low-wage workers range from 20,000 to 55,000
With President Barack Obama proposing to increase the federal minimum wage, local policy experts say fully understanding the economic effects of the change could be a problem given the dearth of accurate statistics in the large city that has had the highest minimum wage for years: San Francisco. No one has ever done a formal tally of minimum wage earners in San Francisco, said Ted Egan, chief economist for the city's Office of Economic Analysis.
Backers say it helps recruitment and retention, opponents say it kills jobs
"Job killer" is a common refrain from businesses in opposing wage increases and other worker benefits. But some researchers are challenging the assumption that boosting the minimum wage depresses hiring. "We don't see any decline in employment," said Michael Reich, director of the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at the University of California, Berkeley.
At S.F.'s largest soup kitchen, working adults say full-time work no longer pays the rent
As President Obama's minimum wage hike proposal renews a national debate over costs and benefits, many low-wage workers in San Francisco say they can hardly get by even on the nation's highest minimum wage of $10.55, which is nearly $3 an hour higher than the federal rate. As rents have soared above $1,500 for a typical studio apartment, low-income workers say San Francisco's minimum wage isn't enough to keep up.
Tenants in 3,000 rent-controlled buildings could potentially pay all the costs of retrofitting those structures against earthquake damage unless they receive a financial hardship waiver from the city's Rent Board, under the provisions of a new law approved Tuesday by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. The Board of Supervisors will vote again on the retrofit law on April 9, and it will need the mayor's signature before becoming law.
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A proposed San Francisco law designed to save rent-controlled housing stock from the next big earthquake could actually displace low-income tenants, say tenant rights advocates. Building owners could pass through the cost of the retrofits to tenants in the form of monthly rent increases. Tenants' only recourse would be to successfully declare financial hardship.
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San Francisco Supervisor David Chiu Tuesday unveiled legislation to make seismic retrofits mandatory for so-called soft-story buildings throughout the city. Chiu called the proposal to make retrofitting mandatory in stages by 2020 the "next major step to ensure that we are prepared for the next big one." He said he expected a major quake, which could happen anytime, could be two to three times stronger than the 1989 Loma Prieta quake that destroyed 7,000 buildings statewide. (Listen to Public Press reporter Noah Arroyo on KQED Radio's "Forum")
A plan being unveiled Tuesday in San Francisco would require the city to inform the owners of thousands of potentially earthquake-unsafe buildings that they need to retrofit at their own cost or demonstrate why not. If they don't comply, the city would post a scarlet-letter sign on the property: "This building is in violation of the requirements of the San Francisco Building Code regarding earthquake safety." (Listen to Public Press reporter Noah Arroyo on KQED Radio's "Forum")
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is planning to take up a proposal to force owners of soft-story buildings to retrofit them by 2020, said a city official in charge of earthquake safety. Supervisors Scott Wiener and David Chiu plan to sponsor the ordinance and other supervisors might co-sponsor it by Tuesday. The legislation would apply only to wood-frame buildings built before 1978, with at least three stories. Unlike previous proposals, the new law would come without direct financial aid from the city. Financing questions, one official said, were "a major reason for the delay."
The San Francisco Public Press interviewed people living in the city without housing as they gathered at the Mission Resource Center and the S.F. Night Ministry open cathedral Sunday service at United Nations Plaza. They shared their experiences about lacking a permanent place to live.
Frequent calls to the police to respond to disturbances outside a South of Market homeless shelter have prompted the city to crack down on misbehavior and make it easier for shelters to summarily reject clients seeking a bed. Practically every day at the Multi-Service Center South shelter, the police are called to break up a fight or quell acts of violence. But the problem isn't just inside the shelter. Homeless activists say the long lines people must wait in for hours makes the space outside the building a conflict zone.
When it comes to jobs, San Francisco Board of Supervisors President David Chiu is putting his political stock in high tech. Until he and Mayor Ed Lee teamed up to keep Twitter and other information companies in the city, he said, "San Francisco was the least inviting city for tech innovation."
There are three types of construction in San Francisco that pose hazards to occupants during a major earthquake. Here is a composite look at the present state of efforts to correct the problem around the city.
This story appeared in the Winter 2012-2013 print edition of the San Francisco Public Press.
San Francisco's Department of Building Inspection has kept a preliminary list of potentially dangerous soft-story buildings since 2009, but inspectors say it has not been verified by actual building inspections, and was never intended for public consumption. Some of the addresses the city generated might be wrong. The Public Press is publishing the list so that residents who might possibly be at risk in their homes can participate in the debate over how best to retrofit thousands of properties in coming years.
A plan to require seismic retrofits on as many as 3,000 "soft-story" buildings in San Francisco can't be executed all at once, experts say, because there aren't enough engineers and contractors who know how to do the work. So city officials are developing a system of triage: Deal with the most dangerous buildings with the most people in them first.
It will take at least 7 years to secure older wood buildings dangerously perched above windows or garages
One in 14 San Franciscans lives in an old building with a first floor that city inspectors say could be vulnerable to collapse if not retrofitted soon to withstand a major earthquake.While officials have had a preliminary list of nearly 3,000 suspect properties for more than three years, they have not told landlords, leaving the estimated 58,000 residents who live there ignorant that their buildings could be unstable.
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"Of the seven-member council, four members of the council actually engaged in the email exchange, and one — the Chairman Michael Fairbanks — only responded to caution the rest that the matter should be discussed in non-public session leaving only three having discussed the substantive matter," town attorney Brenda Keith said in a court filing.
Keith acknowledged in her latest court filing that "some members of the body mistakenly continued the discussion in an email correspondence after the meeting," but said that they have since participated in lectures about the right-to-know law by the New Hampshire Municipal Association and the town's attorney.
He suggested that the councilors violated the state's Open Meeting Law.
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