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Book your room at Hotel Blue Istanbul - Special Class
Budget Double RoomMax Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child, 1 infant)
Double or Twin RoomMax Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child, 1 infant)
Budget Triple RoomMax Occupancy: 3 guests (up to 2 children, 2 infants)
Triple RoomMax Occupancy: 3 guests (up to 2 children, 2 infants)
Double Room, Sea ViewMax Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child, 1 infant)
Triple Room, Sea ViewMax Occupancy: 3 guests (up to 2 children, 2 infants)
Deluxe Suite, Annex BuildingMax Occupancy: 8 guests (up to 5 children, 5 infants)
Deluxe Suite, Sea ViewMax Occupancy: 6 guests (up to 2 children, 2 infants)
Budget Single RoomMax Occupancy: 1 guest
Standard Single RoomMax Occupancy: 1 guest
Family-friendly hotel in Istanbul (Sultanahmet) near Hippodrome
With a stay at Hotel Blue Istanbul - Special Class, you'll be centrally located in Istanbul, steps from Sokollu Mehmet Pasha Mosque and minutes from Hippodrome.
This family-friendly hotel is close to Blue Mosque and Grand Bazaar.
Make yourself at home in one of the 18 individually decorated guestrooms, featuring kitchens. Your Select Comfort bed comes with Frette Italian sheets. Rooms have private balconies. Wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary, while 35-inch LCD televisions with satellite programming provide entertainment.
Make use of convenient amenities such as complimentary wireless Internet access, concierge services, and a television in the lobby. Getting to nearby attractions is a breeze with the complimentary area shuttle.
Grab a bite from a grocery/convenience store, or stay in and take advantage of the hotel's 24-hour room service. Meet other guests and eat at a complimentary reception. A complimentary buffet breakfast is served daily.
Featured amenities include complimentary high-speed (wired) Internet access, a 24-hour business center, and a computer station. A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided for a surcharge (available 24 hours), and free valet parking is available onsite.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
At your hotel
At your hotel
A computer station is located on site and high-speed wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary. A 24-hour business center is on site at this 3-star property. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning. For a surcharge, a roundtrip airport shuttle (available 24 hours) is offered to guests. This family-friendly hotel also offers tour/ticket assistance, multilingual staff, and concierge services. Onsite self parking and valet parking are complimentary.
Hotel Blue Istanbul - Special Class is a smoke-free property.
- Total number of rooms - 18
- Number of floors - 7
- 24-hour front desk
- Complimentary newspapers in lobby
- Concierge services
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Computer station
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Designated smoking areas
- Grocery/convenience store
- Multilingual staff
- Free valet parking
- Free self parking
- Free long-term parking
- Area shuttle (complimentary)
- 24-hour business center
- Smoke-free property
- Number of buildings/towers - 2
- Free breakfast
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Express check-in
- Express check-out
- Turkish bath/Hammam
- Free Wi-Fi
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Laundry facilities
- Luggage storage
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Complimentary reception
- Year Built 2011
- Television in lobby
Stay connected
Available in all rooms: Free Wi-Fi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Available in some public areas: Free Wi-Fi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Park your car
Free long-term parking, Free self parking, Free valet parking
In your room
- Room service (24 hours)
- DVD player
- Balcony
- Soundproofed rooms
- Climate control
- Free local calls
- Coffee/tea maker
- Microwave (on request)
- Kitchen
- Private bathroom
- Complimentary toiletries
- Shower only
- Air conditioning
- Complimentary newspaper
- Phone
- Minibar
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Dial-up Internet access (complimentary)
- Daily housekeeping
- Hair dryer
- Slippers
- Sleep Number by Select Comfort mattress
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
- Frette Italian sheets
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Washer/dryer
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Satellite TV service
- Free Wi-Fi
- Individually furnished
- Individually decorated
Eat and drink
A complimentary buffet breakfast is served each morning between 8:00 AM and 10:30 AM.
24-hour room service is available.
The fine print for Hotel Blue Istanbul - Special Class
When you arrive
Check-in time starts at 12:30 PM
Check-in time ends at 1:30 AM
When you leave
Check-out time is 11:30 AM
How you can pay
Your pets
Pets allowed, Only dogs and cats are allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
- The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
We should mention
This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details 24 hours prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. A resort fee is included in the total price displayed. In accordance with national/local laws, air conditioning may be restricted to certain hours during certain times of the year. Construction is underway at a neighboring building and there may be noise disturbance from the construction work.
National Rating
Official Turkey Classification provided by Turkey Ministry of Tourism
Turkey Ministry of Tourism assigns an official classification for accommodations in Turkey. This Hotel property is awarded the following classification: Special class.


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Scheduling Policies
A variety of scheduling policies are available; each of them is suited to the needs of a particular type of scheduler. In general, scheduling disciplines may be preemptive or non-preemptive.
A non-preemptive policy always processes a scheduled request to completion. In non-preemptive scheduling , the running process retains the ownership of allocated resources including the processor, until it voluntarily surrenders control to the operating system. Non-preemptive scheduling is attractive due to its simplicity. Since the scheduling is performed only when the previously scheduled request completes, the list of pending requests never contains a preempted request.
With pre-emptive scheduling, a running process may be replaced by a higher-priority process at any time. This is accomplished by activating the scheduler whenever an event that changes the state of the system is detected. A preemptive scheduling is much responsive as compared to non-preemptive, but it imposes higher overheads to the operating system since each process rescheduling requires a complete process switch.
First-Come-First-Served (FCFS) Scheduling
FCFS scheduling is the simplest scheduling policy. The implementation of FCFS is straightforward and has least overhead in its execution. In FCFS, requests are scheduled in the order in which they are arrive in the system. The list of pending requests is organized as a queue.
|FCFS scheduling
FCFS is a non-preemptive scheduling policy. Thus, once a process has the CPU, it runs to completion. It is fair in the formal sence but somewhat unfair in that long jobs make short jobs wait, and unimportant jobs make important jobs waits. FCFS is not suitable in interactive environments because it cannot guarantee good response time.
For example, consider the following five processes P1, P2, P3, P4, P5 in the same order of arrival.
CPU time or Burst time
(in ms)
Burst time is the time required by the CPU to execute the process.
Gantt chart: Pictorial or graphical representation of process execution.
|Gantt chart
Now we can calculate some important values.
Average waiting time
Waiting time for P1= 0
Waiting time for P2= 5
Waiting time for P3= 20
Waiting time for P4= 32
Waiting time for P5= 57
Average waiting time= (0+5+20+32+57)/5
= 114/5
= 22.8 ms
Average turn around time
Turn around time for P1 = 5
Turn around time for P2 = 20
Turn around time for P3 = 32
Turn around time for P4 = 57
Turn around time for P5 = 62
Average turn around time = (5+20+32+57+62)/5
= 176/5
= 35.2 ms
Average response time
Response time = first response – arrival time
Response time for P1= 0
Response time for P2= 5-0 = 5
Response time for P3= 20-0 = 20
Response time for P4= 32-0 = 32
Response time for P5= 57-0 = 57
Average response time = (0+5+20+32+57)/5
= (114)/5
= 22.8 ms
Average weighted turnaround time
Weighted turn around time = (turn around time) / (Execution (burst) time)
Weighted turn around time of P1= 5/5 = 1.0
Weighted turn around time of P2= 20/15 = 1.33
Weighted turn around time of P3= 32/12 = 2.67
Weighted turn around time of P4= 57/25 = 2.28
Weighted turn around time of P5= 62/5 = 12.40
Average weighted turnaround time = (1+1.33+2.67+2.28+12.40) / 5
= 19.68 / 5
= 3.94 ms
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Our very popular Sinclair Industrial Pendant is now available as a stem mount! For those who like a more formal look to their pendants, the American made Benjamin® Sinclair Porcelain Stem Mount Light will bring loads of vintage industrial style to the table. Or to the kitchen counter!
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By Ted Farmer, professor emeritus
The fall 1999 issue of our department's annual newsletter featured a photo of six "senior colleagues" gathered in the Ford Room. I was in that photo. I took it as a gentle hint that it was time we should be moving on. Now, more than 10 years later, I have just participated in the retirement celebration of my 43 years of service in the Department of History and I am grateful for this opportunity to offer a few observations and reflections.
It was different back then
The first thing that comes to mind is how very different today's department is from the one I joined in 1968. I could begin with the way I was hired--by letter. There was no campus interview. I was a graduate student working on my dissertation in Taiwan. I did have a chance to meet and talk with Romeyn Taylor, the first Chinese history specialist in the department, who was in Taiwan on a sabbatical. But our conversations were mostly about our research interests in the Ming Dynasty and certainly did not constitute a formal interview process.
When the white male faculty convened in the Ford Room there was so much cigarette and pipe smoke that you could hardly breathe. There was a good deal of tension in the atmosphere as well. The front office, under the strict control of Marlowe, the department secretary, was not a pleasant place to be unless you were a very senior member of the faculty.
The faculty was deeply divided between a more conservative European wing and a more liberal American wing. Those like myself, who belonged to neither camp, were referred to dismissively as "feathers." The great men of that time included Harold Deutsch, who had created a successful undergraduate curriculum of courses about World War II that enrolled hundreds of students, and Tom Jones, a Regents Professor of ancient history who commanded the largest body of graduate students. Thanks to his expertise in ancient languages, Jones had worked at code breaking during the war; he kept classified materials in a safe in his office and offered graduate instruction in cryptography on the side. Information about salaries, tenure, promotion, and appointments was closely held by the full professors who made all the decisions and felt no need to justify their actions to junior colleagues.
There was tension, too, about the direction of the department. This manifested itself in the struggles to control the most precious resource available to us: new position money. The 1960s were a time of growth and the way forward was unclear. The old guard tended to like things the way they were and viewed vacancies as opportunities to replace retirees with new recruits who did the same thing; usually the national history of one of the great powers. There was a vague apprehension that the discipline might be headed (mistakenly) in some other direction, perhaps toward some kind of quantifiable history, what later became known as "Cliometrics."
As an idealistic and imprudent assistant professor, I had my own ideas along these lines--to me it was obvious that we needed more Asian history. But how to do that? Lacking any influence or many allies I sought to persuade colleagues of the correctness of my views. My solution was to open up questions of priorities to public discussion. This was not something I could openly advocate as a junior member so I asked David Noble to introduce the proposition on my behalf. It went absolutely nowhere. David was a popular teacher with a towering international reputation but he was neither comfortable nor successful in the give and take of departmental politics and eventually moved to the American studies department.
A revolution develops
Despite my frustrations, the department was on the cusp of a major transformation in both its governance and its composition. Change in governance came in the form a peaceful constitutional revolution. Stuart Hoyt, who had succeeded Harold Deutsch as chairman of the department, was an ardent student of English legal history and liked the idea of constitutional reform so he let the revolution go forward. Junior faculty members were dissatisfied with the undemocratic way decisions were made and demanded change. In the transition period David Keift and I were selected to sit in with the full professors on the promotion meetings. It was an eye opening experience. What we witnessed was outright horse trading between the Europeanists and the Americanists--"If you promote A then we will promote B"--with no reference whatsoever to the person's qualifications.
We had heard that the political science department used a committee system to recommend pay increases. Frank Sorauf, a respected and trusted member of that department, was invited to explain what they did. After his presentation, we adopted a far more radical set of procedures. Not just merit, but tenure, promotion, and hiring were all opened to participation and voting by members at all ranks. Information about salaries and merit recommendations was openly shared. Even where the college constitution required votes only of those senior in rank for tenure and promotion, the departmental constitution now required a separate vote of all ranks. Lest a discrepancy occur between the two sets of ballots, the chair was required to report both votes to the faculty. The political empowerment of junior faculty, which some had predicted would lead to a decline in standards, had just the opposite effect. Standards rose as favoritism and bargaining declined dramatically.
Another major element in the transformation of the department was the move of Sue Cave, later Sue Haskins, to the front office. For some years Sue had worked in the Graduate Studies Office and typed manuscripts on the side. After she took over the front office she proved to be a masterful administrator. Year by year the administration of the department's affairs became smoother, the hiring and assignment of staff more professional, and the atmosphere more collegial. Her fairness and concern for every individual helped to create a sense of community. The History Department became known as one of the best places in CLA to work.
Struggling to diversify
The diversification of the department's composition had begun before I came to Minnesota. The changes mirrored what was happening in other parts of American life. I believe that Hyman Berman and Josef Altholz were the first Jewish members of the faculty. When Romeyn Taylor was hired the position was first offered to a Chinese scholar who turned it down. The same thing happened when I was hired. In neither case do I know the motives of those two persons who declined to join our faculty. But it would not have been easy to be the first non-white member of the department. Even as white males, Romeyn and I often found ourselves referred to as "exotics" and, when talking in the hall, might be accused by those passing by of hatching an "oriental conspiracy." Such remarks, while offered in jest, served to convey the message that we were isolates and what we studied was marginal.
In response to the civil rights movement, we voted to set aside four positions in the graduate program for African American students. Al Jones, who taught U.S. history, made a tour of black colleges in the South to recruit students. Some of those recruits are today leading figures in African American history. The civil rights movement could cut both ways, however. Allan Spear, who had written an important book, Black Chicago, found it increasingly uncomfortable to teach African American history as a white instructor. Marginalized in the historical profession, he ran for the state legislature where he became the president of the senate. He was one of the first gay legislators to come out of the closet. His experiences are recounted in his autobiography, Crossing the Barriers, which was posthumously published by the University of Minnesota Press last year.
The first black person to join the faculty was Lansine Kaba, an aristocratic African with a French education. The first American Indian was Roger Buffalohead; he did not stay long. In a very competitive job market it was hard to hire and keep African American historians.
The arrival of women faculty
The most important change, I think, in making the department more diverse, more open, and more welcoming was the arrival of women members in the 1970s and 1980s. There is a great story to be told about how women worked together to support each other and change the culture of the department. I am not the person to tell that story but I can make a few observations. It was not all sunshine and roses. Carol Gold, an assistant professor who had the temerity to suggest that smoking be prohibited in department meetings, got her wish. But the next year she was brought up early for promotion and denied tenure. Sara Evans was one of the pioneers of the new field of women's history. She and her colleagues worked to create a women's studies department at the undergraduate level and the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies, at the graduate level. This entailed building connections and alliances across departments and disciplines in ways that transformed the culture of the college as well as the department. But Sara did not stop at that level; she was involved in heroic efforts at the university level to fight discrimination and bring about pay equity. These were local battles in what were larger national and international struggles. Sara went on to become department chair and a Regents Professor in the course of her career.
The introduction of women's studies was one of a number of changes that opened up the department and the profession to new approaches. Over time, women's studies broadened out into gender studies. African American studies got a foothold at Minnesota after a group of students staged a sit-in in Morrill Hall. Comparable political action was not a possibility for other minority groups but American Indian studies, Chicano studies, and Asian American studies came along in due course, each adding a new element and new connections to our department.
History expands
Many other developments grew from the old European and U.S. core constituencies. Demography is a good example. What started under Steve Ruggles as a center to foster U.S. population studies using census data, has blossomed into the Minnesota Population Center, a university-level institute that includes the whole world within its compass. Thanks to some unplanned hires, the medieval section of the department expanded and came to play a leading role in the Center for Medieval Studies, one of the most active interdisciplinary communities in the college. Jim Tracy, a specialist on the Netherlands, came up with the idea of a Center for Early Modern History that has linked colleagues across the department and the college and, through its conferences, established a global presence. Outside the department Allen Isaacman created the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change, which spans all the colleges in the university and links to other universities both domestically and internationally. The list goes on.
Asianists like me
My own training was not in a history department but in graduate programs in East Asian regional studies and history and Far Eastern languages. In the history department in Minnesota I interacted most closely with other Asianists--Romeyn Taylor in Chinese history, Byron Marshall in Japanese history, David Kopf and David Lelyveld in South Asian history. I have written elsewhere about how our interaction and collaboration on a comparative survey course on the history of civilizations in Asia transformed me into a dedicated comparativist (See "How comparison led me to World History and Globalization" online in The Middle Ground Journal). During my first three decades at Minnesota, I expended an enormous amount of time and effort to reproduce the kind of area studies I had experienced as a graduate student. This included forming an East Asian studies major; participating in and chairing an East Asian studies department; organizing an East Asian master's program; serving as director of graduate studies for Chinese, East Asian studies, Japanese, and Russian area studies; acting as the last director of the Institute for International Studies; and working outside the University on the Midwest China Center. Suffice it to say that none of those institutions or programs survived. At some point in the 1980s it dawned on me that I was wasting my time: the University of Minnesota was not congenial to area studies in the form that existed elsewhere, and the College of Liberal Arts was partial to disciplinary departments. While I was struggling to promote East Asian area studies in a hostile environment, the History Department and the history profession were undergoing a transformation away from the "silos" of national history to embrace a range of new perspectives. Happily for me, I belonged to this unit which had become one of the largest, most cosmopolitan, and best run departments in the college.
Looking back, I marvel at my own good fortune in Chinese history. As an undergraduate I fled the biological sciences (and chemistry labs) for history and philosophy. Looking for something different, foreign, and far away, I chose a course on China from the catalogue. I got hooked. When I took up the study of China in the mid-1950's Americans could not go there. In graduate school at Harvard, I picked a dissertation topic on the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) in part because it was so little studied. How slim were the chances that I would land a job at a university with another Ming specialist (Romeyn Taylor) or that the college would hire a third Ming specialist (Ann Waltner)? In the 1970s I started the journal Ming Studies that gave me and the department added visibility in the field of Chinese history both here and abroad. Ming history turned out to be a growth field and the journal soon spawned a Society for Ming Studies as well as a Ming Studies Research Series published in the department and now housed in the Center for Early Modern History.
I was 40 before I got to mainland China for the first time. It was 1975 and the Cultural Revolution still made any meaningful scholarship there unthinkable. Within five years, Mao was gone and China opened up to the west. Again I was lucky: the University of Minnesota had some of the strongest China ties of any school in North America. Before long there were more than a thousand mainland Chinese on our campus and being from the U of M provided entree to any institution in China. By the sheerest chance, it turned out that the person in charge of the Ming History Section of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) in Beijing had written her dissertation at Peking University on the same topic as my dissertation and first book. Needless to say, I found a warm welcome there. And although I always believed that China would one day resume its former role as one of the leading societies on earth, I had no idea that it would happen in my lifetime. Who could have predicted that the stultified and paranoid People's Republic of China I first visited in 1975 would undergo the most rapid industrialization and economic development in human history? It was also my luck to be linked to a country with one of the world's greatest culinary traditions and a country in which students are taught to honor their teachers. There is much to like about the study of China.
Finally, a global home
My last two decades of teaching were colored by the way globalization was transforming our world. At the end of the 1980s I proposed that the department offer a course on world history. A team of faculty members spent a year planning the course, and I spent two summers in workshops devoted to shaping its curriculum and selecting teaching materials. Once the course was launched, I taught in all three quarters of the year-long survey; when we went to semesters at the turn of the century, I spun off the third quarter as a one semester course on global history of the information age. Along the way I had the opportunity to co-teach in this course with Wim Phillips, Romeyn Taylor, Stuart Schwartz, Lary May, Sara Evans, Bob McCaa, Tom Wolfe, Pat McNamara, and Carol Hakim. After decades of searching for an academic home I had found it where I had begun - in the Department of History.
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A new version of the BlackBerry® Tablet OS is now available to all BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet users. BlackBerry Tablet OS v1.07.3312 contains an updated version of Adobe® Flash® Player. This free update can be downloaded over-the-air from your BlackBerry PlayBook tablet.
On September 21st, Adobe issued an update for Adobe Flash Player, as noted in Adobe Security Bulletins APSB-11-26, which addresses issues that can potentially affect any PC, tablet, or other device with an operating system that supports Adobe Flash.
While there are no known reports of any BlackBerry PlayBook tablet users being affected by these Adobe Flash issues, we (as always) encourage all BlackBerry PlayBook users to update to the newest version of the BlackBerry Tablet OS. For more information about what these security updates mean to the BlackBerry PlayBook, please see our security advisory.
New PlayBook Tablet owners who purchase the PlayBook from here on out will receive the update as part of the PlayBook setup process. For those of us who already have one, you will get a notification of the OS update which only takes a few minutes to install or you can find the update and install OTA. To find your update slide down the top of the BlackBerry PlayBook to display the Options, go to Software Updates, tap the Check For Updates button and the update will appear and will alert you to restart the PlayBook when the update is downloaded and installed.
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Specter faults Sestak on low campaign pay Many of the workers got below minimum wage, the senator said.
March 3, 2010
By Thomas Fitzgerald INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Rep. Joe Sestak's payroll has emerged as a potential wedge issue in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate, with Sen. Arlen Specter demanding that Sestak explain why a majority of his campaign employees appear to earn less than the minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. "How can you make laws if you don't follow them yourself?" Specter said in a news release yesterday. "Joe needs to answer a basic question: Has he obeyed the state and federal minimum-wage laws?" According to Specter's campaign, Federal Election Commission reports show that 10 of the 16 Sestak campaign workers employed during the last three months of 2009 received less than $7.25 an hour, based on the assumption of a 40-hour workweek.
House Minimum-wage Vote May Signal A New Direction For Moderate Republicans
June 12, 1996
By E. J. DIONNE
Rep. Amory Houghton, a Republican from upstate New York, is a warm man, quick to smile and slow to criticize a colleague. He is the definition of patrician Republicanism - his family founded the Corning Glass Works in 1851 and he was Corning's chairman and CEO for 22 years - but he's of the patrician school that disdains pomp and shows of elitism. He speaks warmly of unions and respectfully of the rights of workers. In an office nearby sits Rep. Jack Quinn, also a Republican, from the district next door to Houghton's.
Minimum-wage hike defeated Competing Senate proposals were from Kennedy and Santorum. Neither sponsor had expected to win.
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By James Kuhnhenn INQUIRER WASHINGTON BUREAU
The Senate yesterday defeated two proposals to raise the minimum wage, in a test of muscle over what is expected to be a yearlong struggle to increase an income floor that has gone unchanged for nine years. A Democratic proposal to raise the hourly rate from $5.15 to $7.25 in three steps of 70 cents each over the next 26 months failed, 49-46. A Republican proposal to increase it to $6.25 in two steps of 55 cents apiece over 18 months also failed, 61-38. The proposals came as amendments to legislation to overhaul the nation's bankruptcy laws, a priority bill with financial institutions and credit-card companies.
Gop Trying To Exempt Most From Paying Minimum Wage Two-thirds Of All Firms Would Be Excused. The Move Has Clouded Hopes For Raising The Wage.
May 23, 1996
By David Hess, INQUIRER WASHINGTON BUREAU
Prospects for an increase in the minimum wage were clouded yesterday when House Republican leaders backed a move to excuse most small businesses from paying it. As the House began debating a measure to boost the wage, in two annual steps, to $5.15 per hour from $4.25, GOP strategists put forward an amendment that would exempt two-thirds of all businesses from having to pay the wage. Under the amendment, many of the 3.7 million jobs that pay the minimum wage would be exempted from minimum-wage and overtime laws.
House Votes A Minimum Wage Increase Democrats And Moderate Republicans Rejected An Exemption For Small Businesses. Then They Approved A 2-step Increase To $5.15. The Senate Still Must Vote.
May 24, 1996
By David Hess, INQUIRER WASHINGTON BUREAU
The $4.25-an-hour minimum wage may soon be history. The House voted yesterday to increase it to $4.75 an hour on July 1 and to $5.15 an hour one year later. The action came after Democrats and moderate Republicans fended off an effort by conservative Republicans to exempt many small businesses from the law. The Senate must still vote on the measure, which has been bottled up there in a partisan dispute, but the House vote increases pressure on the Senate to act. An estimated 3.7 million hourly workers now make the minimum wage, and an additional 7.7 million workers earn less than $5.15 an hour.
Clinton Urges Minimum-wage Rise By 90 Cents He Said It Would Be An Incentive For Those On Welfare To Seek Work. Republicans Say It Would Kill Jobs.
February 4, 1995
By Robert A. Rankin, INQUIRER WASHINGTON BUREAU
Although it faces likely death in the Republican-majority Congress, President Clinton yesterday proposed raising the minimum wage by 90 cents over two years, to $5.15 per hour. "The only way to grow the middle class and shrink the underclass is to make work pay," Clinton said. "And in terms of real buying power, the minimum wage will be at a 40-year low next year if we do not raise it above $4.25 an hour. " The proposal's likely fate was symbolized when not a single Republican lawmaker - despite weeks of courting by administration officials - joined Clinton at a ceremony in the frosty air of the White House Rose Garden.
Senate Vote Set Today On Controversial Minimum-wage Hike The Hourly Rate Would Increase To $5.15. Clinton Has Threatened A Veto If A Gop Amendment Is Included.
July 9, 1996
By David Hess, INQUIRER WASHINGTON BUREAU
After months of partisan debate, the Senate will vote today on a hotly disputed bill to boost the minimum wage by 90 cents an hour. Before the showdown vote, however, senators will pass judgment on a controversial GOP-backed amendment, sponsored by Missouri Sen. Christopher S. Bond, that President Clinton has denounced as a "poison pill. " Clinton has said its adoption would trigger his veto, a threat reiterated yesterday by Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich, who called the amendment "mean-spirited" and said it was meant to deny the wage increase to millions of low-income workers.
The Other Pay-raise Debate Can The Commonwealth Get A Minimum-wage Bill Passed?
June 21, 2006
APPARENTLY, everyone in America, except politicians, is immune from the rising cost of living. Last week, Congress voted itself a pay raise to cope with that upward pressure on personal expenses. That increase, $3,300 a year, will boost lawmakers' pay to more than $168,000. Yet the same lawmakers have refused to raise the minimum wage for 10 years. (Oh, by the way, during that 10-year period, the pay for members of Congress has gone up by over $31,000 - close to three times the amount someone on minimum wage will make in a year.
Assembly Retreats On Minimum-wage Hike The Votes May Be For Naught, Since Florio Supports The Increase.
March 17, 1992
By Rich Heidorn Jr., INQUIRER TRENTON BUREAU
In the first partisan showdown of the new legislature, the Republican- controlled Assembly voted yesterday to cancel a scheduled increase in the minimum wage for farm workers and cut it in half for other employees. The wage is scheduled to rise by 80 cents to $5.05 an hour April 1, which would make it the second-highest minimum wage in the nation. One of the bills approved yesterday would cut the increase to 40 cents next month, and add another 40 cents on April 1, 1993. Although the voting followed two and a half hours of impassioned debate, yesterday's action probably will turn out to be only symbolic, given Gov. Florio's apparent support for the pay increase.
Compromise May End Gridlock On Hill Several Bills Are Likely To Land On Clinton's Desk. They Include A Minimum-wage Hike And Gas-tax Cut.
June 3, 1996
By David Hess, INQUIRER WASHINGTON BUREAU
Congress is likely to send President Clinton several major pieces of legislation over the next few weeks, despite the election rhetoric that has stymied action on many issues. Key figures in both parties agree that compromise bills to boost the minimum wage, reduce the federal gasoline tax, slap tighter controls on illegal immigration, and make it easier to obtain and keep health insurance are within reach. Some even say that a welfare-reform bill is a tantalizing step away from adoption - one that the President would embrace and celebrate as a triumph of bipartisanship.
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If personal services make up the hottest business industry today, then the senior citizen demographic is one of the most potentially profitable segments of the personal services market. Sound confusing?
Consider these statistics for clarity: Based on data compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau for the American Association of Retired Persons, there will be about 70 million older persons by 2030--more than twice their population in 1990. Furthermore, people 65 and older are projected to represent 13 percent of the population in the year 2000 and 20 percent by 2030. As the baby boomers age, the market for personal services will expand, too.
Yvette Gooch knows these projections well. In 1990, she and her mother, Maria Solorzano, started a personal grocery-delivery service primarily aimed at assisting senior citizens. Their business, E Z Pantry Inc., is located in Berlin, New Jersey, a rural area where public transportation is limited. "Our service allows our customers--especially the ones who have stopped driving--to remain independent," says Gooch.
E Z Pantry distributes a 92-page catalog that lists, by numbered code, everything available from its 5,000-square-foot warehouse, which is filled with products purchased at wholesale prices. Perishable groceries are specially ordered from local merchants, who prepare orders to be picked up by E Z Pantry's drivers each day. By placing their orders between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., customers can receive their groceries the next day. A $3 fee is charged per order, which covers processing and delivery charges.
"Our prices are very competitive with local supermarkets because we don't have the overhead they do," says Gooch. Like supermarkets, E Z Pantry offers sales items and accepts manufacturers' coupons. "We want to make shopping with us similar to going to the grocery store, but more convenient."
While disabled customers and busy professionals also take advantage of E Z Pantry's convenient service, Gooch estimates about 75 percent of the company's sales are generated from the senior market. "In our area, where there just weren't resources set up to service this senior segment of the population, word-of-mouth advertising about our business has just spread like wildfire," says Gooch. "Hospitals, social service departments and other organizations are just chomping at the bit to have some sort of resource to give their patients."
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Chapman has been heard on the airwaves in the Dallas/Fort Worth area since the 1950s. He began his radio career after high school graduation at WHAV-AM Haverhill, MA, in 1953. After broadcasting for the U.S. Army in Korea, Chapman worked at WNHC-AM New Haven, and was shortly thereafter recruited to Dallas' KLIF-AM. Chapman spent six years at KLIF, co-hosting the successful Charlie and Harrigan Show, before joining WFAA-TV in Dallas. In 1968, Chapman joined a team that purchased KVIL-FM, a station known for pioneering the adult contemporary (AC) format. He remained at KVIL-FM for 32 years, serving as program director, music director, promotion director and morning personality.
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From Whence the Wyoming Public Defender's Office Came
"From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to assure fair trials before impartial tribunals in which every defendant stands equal before the law. This noble ideal cannot be realized if the poor man charged with crime has to face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him."– Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)The public defender concept reflects society's concern that all individuals, including indigents, receive proper counsel to protect their rights under the law. The concept also recognizes that any accused person who is too poor to hire a lawyer cannot be assured a fair trial unless counsel is provided for him. Former L.A. County Public Defender Ellery E. Cuff once stated: "Justice to each individual, regardless of financial conditions, race, creed or color, is the concern of all the public, and it is the duty of the State, rather than private individuals or agencies to safeguard the rights of an accused person." Public defender systems fulfill these concepts by providing competent, effective representation to indigent defendants in criminal cases.The Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, adopted in 1791, states: "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right . . . to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence." The right to counsel in federal proceedings was well-established early in the country's history by statute, and was reaffirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1938 in Johnson v. Zerbst, 304 U.S. 458 (1938). However, roots of the modern right to counsel for the defendant who cannot afford to pay a private lawyer in state courts can be found more than a century and one-half ago in the case of Webb v. Baird, 6 Ind. 13 (Ind. 1853). In Webb v. Baird, the Indiana Supreme Court recognized a right to an attorney at public expense for an indigent person accused of a crime, grounded in "the principles of a civilized society," not in constitutional or statutory law.In 1963, the U.S. Supreme Court decided the landmark case of Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963), wherein the Court unanimously held that an indigent person accused of a serious crime was entitled to the appointment of defense counsel at the state's expense. Thus, the United States Supreme Court finally held in Gideon that the Sixth Amendment right to counsel applied to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment. Thereafter, in Argersinger v. Hamlin, 402 U.S. 25 (1972), the United States Supreme Court extended Gideon's principle, holding that no imprisonment can be imposed, whether for a felony or a misdemeanor, unless the accused is afforded his right to counsel.Generally, until Gideon was decided, states were not required to provide counsel for indigent defendants. However, some states and counties took it upon themselves to provide that Sixth Amendment right to counsel. In 1914 the County of Los Angeles pioneered the concept of the "Public Defender" when the nation's first Public Defender, Walton J. Wood, was appointed by the county's Board of Supervisors. Similarly, Wyoming was one of the early progressive and "civilized" states to protect indigent defendants. Even before Wyoming became a state, the 1876 Compiled Laws of the Territory of Wyoming provided that if the accused "be without counsel and unable to employ any, it shall be the duty of the court to assign him counsel, at his request, not exceeding two, who shall have free access to the accused at all reasonable hours." That law–that an indigent accused had the right to be appointed by not just one attorney, but two attorneys–existed in Wyoming from 1876 until 1975 when it was finally repealed.The 1975 Wyoming statutes instituted a county-wide public defender system whereby the board of county commissioners of each county were required to provide for representation for indigent defendants. Thus, Wyoming's 23 counties bore the entire expense of providing legal representation for indigent criminal defendants. One way to achieve this was by establishing and maintaining a public defender office and arranging with the criminal courts in the county to assign attorneys on an equitable basis through a systematic, coordinated plan. Attorneys from that time remember judges appointing them from a list to represent indigent defendants. In Natrona County, Wyatt Skaggs, current Senior Public Defender, had a contract with the county commissioners for that representation.In 1977 the Wyoming State Legislature passed the Wyoming Public Defender Act, creating a statewide program dedicated to representing indigents charged with criminal offenses in state court. The new statutes relieved the counties of the bulk of the burden of indigent defense. The Wyoming Public Defender's Office became effective on July 1, 1978. Frank Chapman was appointed as the first State Public Defender by Governor Ed Herschler. Charlotte Roney was the first employee to be hired, filling the role of Chief Financial Officer. Frank, with the help of Wyatt Skaggs and Charlotte Roney, quickly cobbled together a workable program, within the budgetary limits imposed by the legislature. Dick Honaker was hired as the first Appellate Counsel. The Public Defender's Office was located in Wyatt Skaggs' office in Casper for a time, before being relocated to the Hynds Building in Cheyenne. During the first year of operation, the office handled about 2,468 new cases with a staff of 30 full-time and 24 part-time positions and a biennium budget of approximately $1.4 million dollars.Frank Chapman left the office in October of 1979 and Dick Honaker was appointed as the State Public Defender. In the summer of 1979, the program received a federal grant to create a Public Defender Criminal Practice Manual, outlining both the operations of the criminal justice system from arrest through appeal, and the duties of a public defender at each stage. Two UW College of Law students, Larry Jones and Sylvia Miller, were hired to draft the manual, which was edited by Dick Honaker. Copies of the manual were distributed to all public defender offices in the state. Dick Honaker served as agency head from November 1, 1979, through November 17, 1981, when he left the Office to pursue a private practice in Rock Springs.During a brief interim, from November 18, 1981, until December 13, 1981, the late King Tristani, an Assistant Public Defender based in the Laramie County Office at the time, served as Acting State Public Defender. Thereafter, the late Leonard Munker was appointed by Governor Herschler and headed the Office during a remarkable tenure from December 14, 1981, until January of 1995. Probably the most controversial aspect of Mr. Munker's lengthy tenure was his handling of the Mark Hopkinson case. Mr. Hopkinson had been represented at trial by private counsel, and was sentenced to death. After the death sentence was reversed, the case became the responsibility of the Public Defender's Program. Mr. Munker was firmly committed to Mr. Hopkinson's case, and truly believed in his innocence. He handled the case through a second penalty trial and direct appeal, then through years of post-conviction hearings. Mr. Hopkinson was eventually executed in 1992.When Jim Geringer was elected Governor in 1994, one of his first appointments was a new State Public Defender, Sylvia Hackl, who had begun her career as an intern with the program before serving as both an Assistant Public Defender and the program's Appellate Counsel. Under Ms. Hackl's administration, the Deputy State Public Defender position was created. Ken Koski, former Senior Assistant Public Defender from Powell, was chosen as the first Deputy. Charlotte Roney retired in the spring of 1999, and Brian Young was hired as the new Chief Financial Officer.Sylvia Hackl left the public defender program in January 2001, and Ken Koski was appointed as State Public Defender. He served in that capacity, overseeing a burgeoning caseload and multiple capital cases, until his untimely passing in September of 2006. In March 2007, Governor Dave Freudenthal appointed Diane Lozano as the sixth State Public Defender. Ms. Lozano was the Supervising Senior Assistant Public Defender for the Laramie County Office, and was one of the last attorneys Leonard Munker hired during his tenure. Ms. Lozano selected Ryan R. Roden, a Senior Assistant Appellate Counsel, as the Deputy State Public Defender.Wyoming's Public Defender Office provides representation to indigent criminal defendants at both the adult and juvenile levels, including individuals facing revocation of probation or parole, and individuals who are to be extradited to other states. The Office not only provides legal counsel at the circuit and district court levels in each of the state's 23 counties, but also handles direct appeals to the Wyoming Supreme Court and Writs of Certiorari to the United States Supreme Court.The primary purpose of the Public Defender's Office is to ensure that the constitutional right to a competent, effective attorney in criminal cases is met. It guarantees an established system by which no innocent person will be convicted because of an inability to afford an attorney and that no guilty person will be convicted without a fair trial. Wyoming's Public Defender program has been recognized as a model for rural states."Not only these precedents but also reason and reflection require us to recognize that in our adversary system of criminal justice, any person haled into court, who is too poor to hire a lawyer, cannot be assured a fair trial unless counsel is provided for him. This seems to us to be an obvious truth."– Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) Special thanks to Wyatt Skaggs and Sylvia Hackl for contributing to the article. Some information taken from Charlotte Roney's speech given at the Wyoming Public Defender's 2003 Annual Seminar Banquet.Ryan R. Roden earned a B.S. in Political Science with honors in 1991. He earned a J.D. with honor from the University of Wyoming College of Law in 1993. He clerked for the late Justice Larry L. Lehman at the Wyoming Supreme Court prior to joining the Wyoming Public Defender's Office as a Senior Assistant Appellate Counsel in 1999. He was appointed Deputy State Public Defender in March 2007.Copyright © 2007 – Wyoming State Bar
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