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UGA alumnus Roger Hunter, associate director for programs at the NASA Ames Research Center, gave the undergraduate Commencement address on Dec. 19. "Though many of us are unlikely to walk on the Moon, or on Mars, we do walk this planet and we leave footprints in the lives of those we encounter," he said in his charge to UGA's newest alumni.
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The men's basketball team will play Mercer University Dec. 27 at 6 p.m. in Stegeman Coliseum. Tickets are $15. The SEC Network will televise the game.
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The University of Georgia campus will be closed for the holidays from Dec. 25 to Jan. 1. Campus offices will reopen on Jan. 2, and spring semester classes will begin Jan. 5. Have a safe, healthy and happy holiday break.


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Believe it or not, some adults are stuck in childhood to the degree that they occasionally have what I call an adult temper tantrum. People typically describe an adult with this problem as having a "bad temper," but the truth is that they have temper tantrums just like little kids do. In society, it seems to be more prevalent and accepted that men have bad tempers. Ever wonder what all the women do when society says it's not okay for them to turn over a table or scream all over the house? In a nutshell, women are more likely to internalize their feelings.
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verb[with object] Phonetics
Pronounce (a sound) as a sibilant or affricate ending in a sibilant (e.g., sound t as ts).
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- In medieval manuscripts ti or di with a following vowel or diphthong are frequently replaced by z.
mid 19th century: from Latin assibilat- 'hissed at', from the verb assibilare, from ad- 'to' + sibilare 'to hiss'.
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CLEVELAND (AP/CBS) – The Boston Red Sox got encouraging news on second baseman Dustin Pedroia Monday night after the second basement left Boston's 3-2 loss to the Indians in the eighth inning.
Pedroia jammed his left ankle after he fell over second base while trying to go to third, but is expected to be okay.
"It's kind of like a stinger," said Pedroia, who was examined by an Indians team physician. "It took a little while to get the feeling back in my leg. It stinks, man."
Pedroia was scheduled to have Tuesday night's game off anyways, and manager Terry Francona will stick with his previous plan.
"He's OK," Francona said. "He went past second and slipped on the bag and turned his ankle. He had some numbness going up his leg. Being prudent, we got him out of there. Because of what happened to him in the past, we all probably held our breath a little bit."
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Pedroia hurt his foot — the one he had surgery on in September — when he fell awkwardly trying to advance on Adrian Gonzalez's single to right. He scrambled on his belly back to the base safely.
Pedroia laid with his face in the dirt as a team trainer and Francona jogged out to check on the 2008 AL MVP.
Red Sox Nation braced for the worst.
Pedroia had a screw surgically inserted into his foot last year. He fractured it when he fouled a ball off in June and missed nearly two months. He returned for only two games before being placed back on the disabled list for the remainder of the season.
Pedroia is hitting .246 with 11 RBIs in 46 games to start the season.
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Who's Who
Nivonirina Robinot
Laboratory Technician
Genetic Cancer Susceptibility Group
Academic Degrees
|Certificates towards MSc in Digital Biology
|Java programing for gene expression analysis, Databases and data modelling for microarray experiments (2013-2014)
|University of Manchester
|BSc (First class Hons) in Applied Biology
|Molecular biology, Genetics, Cancer biology, Research methods, Stem cell research, Cancer immunotherapy
|Kingston University
|DUT in Applied Biology
|Moleculae biology, Biology, Biochemistry, Immunology, Hematology, Microbiology, Genetic engineering, Cell culture
|IUT, Université Claude Bernard
|DUEST in Natural Sciences
|Biology, Biochemistry, Geology, Chemistry
|Université d'Antananarivo
Current Research Projects
- Study on differential expression between renal tumors and normal tissues (KIDRISK) using the Illumina microarray platform
PI: G Scelo, F LeCalvez, J McKay
- Creation and management of a database for microarray-based differential expression data using MySQL
PI: N Robinot, F LeCalvez
- Case-control mutation screening and genotyping of various cancer susceptibility genes using sequencing technology
PI: S Tavtigian, F Lesueur, F LeCalvez
Selected PublicationsPark DJ, Tao K, Le Calvez-Kelm F, Nguyen-Dumont T, Robinot N, Hammet F, Odefrey F, Tsimiklis H, Teo ZL, Thingholm LB, Young EL, Voegele C, Lonie A, Pope BJ, RoaneTC, Bell R, Hu H, Shankaracharya, Huff CD, Ellis J, Li J, Makunin IV, John EM, Andrulis IL, Terry MB, Daly M, BuysSS, Snyder C, Lynch HT, Devilee P, Giles GG, Hopper JL, Feng BJ, Lesueur F, Tavtigian SV, Southey MC and Goldgar DE (2014) Rare Mutations in RINT1 predispose carriers to breast and Lynch syndrome-spectrum cancers; 4: 804-815.
Damiola F, Pertesi M, Oliver J, Le Calvez-Kelm F, Voegele1 C, Young EL, Robinot N, Forey N, Durand G, Vallée MP,Tao K, Roane TC, Williams GJ, Hopper JL, Southey MC, Andrulis IL, John EM, Goldgar DM, Lesueur F and Tavtigian SV (2014) Rare key functional domain missense substitutions in MRE11A, RAD50, and NBN contribute to breast cancer susceptibility: results from a Breast Cancer Family Registry case-control mutation-screening study. Breast Cancer Research; 16:R58.
Voegele C, Bouchereau B, Robinot N, McKay J, Damiecki P, Alteyrac L (2013) A universal open-source Electronic Laboratory Notebook. Bioinformatics Advance Access
Le Calvez-Kelm F, Oliver J, Damiola F, Forey N, Robinot N, Durand G, Voegele C, Vallée MP, Byrnes G, Breast Cancer Family Registry, Hopper JL, Southey MC, Andrulis IL, John EM, Tavtigian SV and Lesueur F (2012) RAD51 and Breast Cancer Susceptibility: no evidence for rare variant association in the Breast Cancer Family Registry Study; PLoS ONE. 7(12)
Le Calvez-Kelm F, Lesueur F, Damiola F, Vallée M, Guénard M, Voegele C, Babikyan D, Durand G, Forey N, McKay-Chopin S, Robinot N, Nguyen-Dumont T, Thomas A, Byrnes GB, Durocher F, Breast Cancer Family Registry, John L. Hopper, Melissa C. Southey, Irene L. Andrulis, Esther M. John, Sean V. Tavtigian (2011) Rare, Evolutionarily Unlikely Missense Substitutions in CHEK2 Contribute to Breast Cancer Susceptibility: Results from a Breast CFR Case-Control Mutation Screening Study Breast Cancer Research ; 13 :R6 : 1-12
Prizes, HonoursPfizer Prize for the Best Performance in Biology, year 2002
Nuffield Foundation Awards for the BSc project on Stem Cell research, years 2001-2002
Roles and ResponsibilitiesMaintain laboratory equipment and stock
Do laboratory work using the Illumina platform and sequencing technology
Contribute to the development of IARC tools (eNotebook, SOP templates) using transferrable skills from work experience and continuous training
Provide training to undergraduate, postgraduate and postdoc fellows
Set up and validate methods, perform quality control and troubleshoot technical issues to assure high quality of data


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Bolton defender Tim Ream has signed a three-year contract extension with the club.
The USA international was named player of the year by Wanderers and their Supporters Association after turning in a number of crucial performances last season.
Ream has now had a successful work permit hearing and will remain at the Reebok Stadium until the summer of 2017.
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The President detailed how the interests of the defense and finance industries has priority status within the parallel government that is now ruling the country. He further described the neoconservative and neoliberal approach to government and world view as a smoke screen designed to lead governments of the world into conflicts that would change very little in the actual way our world governments function, but entail vast profits for private corporations through public expenditures be they for military activism or harnessing public funds for other corporate clients. He described the problem as one of cause and effect, as those people within the clandestine spy agency used their power to spy on, and consequently blackmail elected officials into performing like "puppets" for the benefit of various companies. In return, these "public servants" are rewarded with lucrative positions within these corporations upon leaving public employment.
The rewards are passed on to those elected officials who serve these interests faithfully while holding public office when they leave. Obama cited President and Hillary Clinton who deregulated the banking industry by the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, and furthered that deregulation with the Commodity Futures Modernization Act which excused financial derivatives from regulation, and ultimately led to the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. The Clintons were worth around $1M when he was elected to office in 1994. With a current net worth of around $80M, largely from speaking fees, and a book advance after leaving public office. President Obama noted that with a speaking fee that averages $200k per speech, not many of the "small folk" have been privy to his pearls of wisdom, and suggested the American people use their imaginations as to who can afford to pay those kinds of speaker fees for a 45 minute speech. "It's not your local VFW, if you know what I mean". Obama went on to detail how President George W. Bush, while serving those interests faithfully while in office, had left on such a disgraced note from the Iraq War and the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, that he has not been able to garner the support that the Financial sector has bestowed on Clinton's post-presidency. The President further noted that his disclosures on this day, which were largely fallout from the revelations of Edward Snowden on the security state spying on Americans, would likely curb his own earning potential following his presidency. "That's OK", he said. "Like Ed Snowden I thought that my time had come to stand up, and try and defend what little remains of our democracy".
The president also said that the trade agreements, (TPP and TTIP), currently being written by industry insiders are part of the secret government's agenda to transfer power and wealth from the citizens of sovereign nations to the largest corporations in the world, with a particular emphasis on lending a helping hand to the Finance/FIRE sector.
In a related story, General Keith Alexander, and James Clapper of the NSA could not be reached for comment. Theories are circulating that they are secreted in a NORAD bunker somewhere in the Rocky Mountains, where they are continuing to pull the strings of government officials under their sway.
President Obama closed his press conference in which he appeared behind bullet proof shielding, and wearing a kevlar vest with this statement: "One of the problems with having a portion of our government that is virtually hidden from oversight, and exempt from control, and is privy to all the secrets in the world such as the National Security Agency, is that you never can or will know what is happening in the public sphere, nor what the real reasons are for whatever it is." The President is said to be in hiding at present, much as President George W. Bush was following the WTC attacks in 2001. His press secretary, Jay Carney, said the president would have more to add once he felt the immediate danger to himself and his family had passed.
Active imagination? Or inevitability?
The problem with having lost my faith in the institutions of Democracy, is that I find myself in disbelief of anyone advancing an agenda such as is being done for US war against Syria. How do we separate the information from the disinformation? But they used chemical weapons against their people didn't they? Well, if you take the unknown evidence presented by Israeli Intelligence at face value, maybe. Then again I don't think the Israelis are above supplying tweaked data to the US, or for that matter, chemical weapons to the insurgents in Syria to help precipitate an international war against one of their nearest enemies.
Then I read that a Syrian hacker collective has disabled the New York Times website, but unless you are technologically as advanced as those hackers and are privy to all the "metadata" that may have been left as evidence by those hackers you don't know anything. The NSA is as capable of hacking the NYT website, as anyone, and more so if they thought it advanced their own objectives, which an incident of cyber crime against a major US newspaper certainly does. Even if you trace it back to an ISP address in Syria, there's nothing concrete to inform us of who, or which group may have instituted the attack. But the government must know, right? Like they did about the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and the Iraqis involvement in 911.
The more doubt that is sown about the veracity of what we read and see in the MSM, the more America, or whoever is pulling the strings in America is losing control of the narrative. And that doubt is growing. It's informing us that we just may be puppets for the dying Hegemon's war machine. War is the only type of economic stimulus we're likely to see in a long time, and an expense that will make cutting social safety net programs even more of a top issue for our leaders.
Meanwhile the drumbeat of war is growing in our country as the President has said he will not seek UN consensus over military interdiction in Syria. And the drumbeats get louder and louder: DOOM! doom, doom! DOOM! doom, doom….
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It's in the last minute and a half of this video.
Now for your examination, a small item you probably have not heard anything about from the talking heads on the major TV news shows. It's a policy change. Just the kind of change Snowden is talking about. They've kept this change quiet, like so much that happens within the confines of the national security state. By making a few subtle changes to a regulation in the U.S. Code, (32 CFR part 182), titled "Defense Support of Civilian Law Enforcement Agencies" the military has quietly granted itself the ability to police the streets of the United States without obtaining prior local or state consent, upending a precedent that has been in place for more than two centuries. The linked article appeared in the Long Island Press on May 14, 2013.
Knowledge is power. J. Edgar Hoover, the father of the FBI, is known to have kept secret surveillance files on various public figures which he used to influence political activity. He is also known to have used the power of his office in America's domestic spy agency to harass political dissenters. Mr. Snowden has said that he personally had the capability to read anyone's digital communications including the President of the United States. There have been unconfirmed reports that the current sitting POTUS has had his files accessed before he ever assumed office. Were a truly nefarious person to ever hold a position of power within the "defense/intelligence" industry, a man who crosses the line between public and private sector interests with little regard for the well being of the majority of Americans, it would not be a huge leap to extend the potential list of subjects to Supreme Court Justices, Congressmen, Senators, and on down the line of our political and elite classes.
That would be the same political class that currently has a 10% approval rating, (in keeping with the percentage of the US population they serve so well), and which never seems to meaningfully address certain issues that have the support of large majorities of Americans. It is not difficult to reach a conclusion that were someone with such a proclivity and will, to reach such a position of power within the national "defense/intelligence" community, a massive abrogation of the democratic system would not be far behind. Anyone who purports such would be branded a conspiracy theorist. And there will never be anyone to investigate the theory of a conspiracy as, if it exists, it all takes place behind the opaque screen of national security.
Edward Snowden left the United States in June 2013 for Hong Kong in possession of state secrets that could bear directly upon the changes made to CFR 32 part 182. The unrest in the country, and the developed world, has been heightened by the banking crisis of 2008, which sent the world's economies into downward spirals brought on by banks working within a regulatory framework that has become little more than a joke on the American people. Unemployment is up. Incomes are down. Savings have been hit hard. Home values have dropped. Retirement funds have been halved. Pensions have been raided by corporations to line their own pockets. The government has done little to protect or improve these conditions which affect all Americans, while bailing out the biggest bank's bad bets at 100 cents on the dollar. There are, in short, a lot of reasons for this unrest.
The revelations of Edward Snowden have added to 72% of the people's discontent, as those disclosures show that the same state that saved the banks at taxpayer expense, has likely been accessing everything we have written or said; anything digitally transmitted in the form of an Email, telephone call, or otherwise published online. These are are spooks. They labeled Ed Snowden a narcissist right out of the box. Ask yourselves who the real narcissists are here. Is it the 30 year old techno geek who spilled the beans on their massive spy operation? Or are they the faceless organizations of the CIA, the NSA, the Carlyle Group, Halliburton, and the myriad other corporations and geniuses that know only the relentless quest for the extermination of their enemies and the acquisition of power? This is the amalgam of government and business that has been plotting the way forward for the country, if not mankind for the past 30 years, (at minimum). Their business is war, and their currency is power. So we should investigate and think about what this all means. In the paranoid world of spookdom, a classic double negation con game could mean that they want us to flip on them, possibly using agents provocateurs to accelerate a peaceful protest into something more violent. To create just the sort of emergency that Snowden noted at the end of his video, and that would allow military intervention without state or local approval via CFR32 part 182. Such an emergency that could justify the military takeover of at least portions of the United States and would cow most Americans, convincing them to crawl back in the tortoise shell of variety shows and Swanson frozen dinners.
Sounds far-fetched, yes? No? Personally, I think Snowden is a legitimate whistle blower. A concerned citizen who has payed a heavy price for the service he has done us all. That doesn't mean the Surveillance State will play it one way or another. They will play it the way they see the most advantage. Indeed, following Ed Snowden's revelations, we must ask ourselves what is this State? Is it the conglomeration of the Judicial, Executive, and Congressional branches of government described in our Constitution and school textbooks, or has it morphed?
Currently, the scarcity of oil is becoming obvious to the most fervent believers in undiscovered oil reserves, as pump prices rise to just what the majority of Americans will pay. The government drags its feet on creating a real energy policy that looks to the future, and will provide a viable way forward. As the population of the planet inches toward 8 billion human souls, the food supply, now largely in the control of about 5 corporations will become scarce as well. Resources will become scarce, jobs will become scarce, income inequality will grow. People will become hungry, and as long as you play your part in keeping the machine running, you will probably have enough food and fuel to eat and stay warm on most nights. But not all of us will be able to partake. Some examples will undoubtedly need to be made. There will be many who will not meet that criteria of inclusion, whatever it morphs into. These people will be hungry and cold. One day their hunger will begin to act out, trying to claim a part of what was once their country, their world, for themselves. Then, the troops can be called in.
It may not happen for another 5 years, or even 40, but given our current trajectory, the time will come. If nothing changes, as Snowden indicated was his greatest fear, and that time comes when troops are mobilized, those with the means to establish control will do so for the benefit of the corporate citizens that have already wrested control of the planet from the people. They will include a portion of society which still enjoys adequate food and shelter, (and if lucky, a few luxuries). The lower socioeconomic segment will be the object of the State's discipline, and have little other than enslavement or incarceration to offer in exchange for clemency.
We've witnessed how the security state swept up the Occupy movement and placed its leaders in a Bell jar of electronic scrutiny. The NSA was aware of plots to execute OWS leaders, but despite having a mandate to prevent crimes in progress or future crimes that their spying revealed, they did not inform these OWS leaders of the danger. In an actual insurrection, we can only assume such will be met with similar police tactics, only this time it would be the actual army advancing on the people in accordance with CFR 32, part 182, and with all their technological bells, whistles, and instruments of destruction. When that time comes, it would be quite simple to "push" a crowd of protesters into the kind of disorganized reaction we've seen too many times before in the United States. One need only look at the list of riots in the US, to see that they have fallen from the levels of civil unrest during the 1960s and 1970s. Civil unrest, at least as measured in riots has fallen sharply in the last two decades of the previous century, and now seems to be on the rise again. To the Occupy movement's credit, incidents of violence have been kept to a minimum, however even so two incidents in the Occupy camp made it onto the wiki list of civil unrest in 2011. This has not escaped the notice of the Powers that lie behind the Security State. They are well aware of the level of discontent that permeates our society today. The Army has blocked access to The Guardian's website on military bases. There is no upside for the covert agenda in having its soldiers question the righteousness of the orders they receive. They are concerned, but are feeling relatively secure that all the pieces are in place for the status quo to resist any unwanted changes to the system that is functioning quite well by their own parameters, funneling money and wealth to the upper socioeconomic tiers of society.
There is still time to change this scenario. It will take work. It will take people turning off the glowing LCD and plasma screens scattered around their homes. It will take a lot of people paying attention, even as our mad leaders fiddle while society crumbles beneath them. We need thinkers who can visualize their way through the complex networks of subterfuge and disinformation which are and will be spoon fed to us through a media that has itself become drunk on its proximity to power. We will need to talk with our friends and neighbors to educate them to the dangers we face. We will need courage, as Edward Snowden has shown courage by showing us that the emperor indeed has no clothes. We will need persistence. Intelligence. Not the kind referred to in the acronym of the CIA. Something smarter. And kinder. Edward Snowden's revelations may have accelerated us along the road to the probable outcome I describe here.
The power behind the National Security State will meanwhile be working at cross-purposes to those of us who would change the way we do so much of our national business behind closed doors. It does not serve their purposes to have the bright light of public examination shine on the convoluted plans they conjure. We must change the dialogue on security in a way which will in turn, change the national security state in which we find ourselves living, while we still can. We need to do this now. If we do not, as Snowden has warned, it will likely be too late. If we do not, we may find these theories of conspiracy our new reality, and what does the security state do with a nation of conspiracy theorists?
I'm not saying this will come to pass, but if the pieces fall into place for those operating behind the cloak of "national security" the way has been laid. As a nation, we may have already been waylaid. For those of you who believe that it can't happen here, I can only ask you to wake up.
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Edward Snowden is the American surveillance state version of a Buddhist monk setting himself on fire to protest a foreign invasion and devastation of one's country. The Mohamed Bouazizi of the United States. It's not easy to accept what is likely going to happen to him as a result of the service he has done for us all. While the message he exemplifies is still being manipulated in the MSM, he will remain a potent symbol for all those who would stand up to power regardless of how his image is portrayed. If he survives to be captured and returned to the US, he may come to think longingly of how quickly and relatively painlessly he might have gone out. It is my belief that the Security-Police State in which we increasingly find ourselves living, and which is being built and controlled by the self interest of powerful economic interests, cannot survive. The defenders of the status quo will now be focused on techniques to cow the people into submission, self-regulation, and self censorship.
It's not just minimum wage workers who have not kept pace with the economy. While inflation-adjusted ("real") household income had been increasing almost every year from 1945 to 1999, it has since been flat and even decreased recently. U.S. median household income fell from $51,144 in 2010 to $50,502 in 2011. Extreme poverty in the United States, meaning households living on less than $2 per day before government benefits, doubled from 1996 to 1.5 million households in 2011, including 2.8 million children.
Just the facts, ma'am:
1. There are 980,000 min wage workers in the US, (from Wiki)..
2. $7.25/hour is current min wage
3. $16.50/hour would be min wage if it had kept pace with the rest of the economy
4. The difference in lost pay for minimum wage workers is $9.25/hour
5. There are 40 hrs work/week = $370/week/worker (the total increase in weekly pay for a minimum wage worker had the minimum wage kept pace with the economy).
6. $370 X 980,000 minimum wage workers in the US = $362,000,000/week, (the total difference in cost that would have been incurred in the labor market if the minimum wage had kept pace with the economy.
7. $362,000,000/week X 52 weeks per year = $18.9 Billion, (the total yearly cost had the minimum wage kept pace with the economy.
While worker compensation has not kept pace with the economy, the topography of executive compensation has grown to elevations that could not have been imagined not so long ago. Executive pay has increased by 725%, or 127 times faster than worker pay over the past 30 years.
Most of the major changes in executive compensation occurred during and after the 1980s when the financialization of America began when wunderkid Michael Milken figured out that American industry was worth more on paper anyway when it was broken up. Milken's income set a new record in the world when he exceeded $1 Billion in a four year period back in the day. Milken served 2 years of a 6 year sentence, paid a $600 Million fine, and is today ranked the 488th richest person in the world with a net worth of around $2 Billion. Those junk bonds Milken peddled look like kids play next to the opacity of the financial derivative market we have today. In 1994, Nafta made it easy to export jobs across national borders which didn't help bolster workers pay. Executive compensation really accelerated when the Glass-Steagall Act was repealed, (1999) and CEOs compensation in the financial sector shot up again when the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000, more or less exempted financial derivatives from scrutiny and regulation. Executive compensation has dropped on average since the financial crisis in 2008, but don't worry about whether the CEOs will be able to send their kids off to the right prep school, or be able to buy that million dollar yacht just yet.
Hedge fund managers are the most heavily compensated positions in our economy today. They're all about managing risk if you believe the press releases. If you're of a more cynical bent you might think they're all about creating betting vehicles for those members and institutions in our society that can't find a casino in Las Vegas or the world big enough to backstop the size of the bets they are likely to place. For that you need a sovereign nation willing to put its citizens health, well being, and prosperity on the line to guarantee such big bets. No hedge fund manager made more in 2011 than Raymond Dalio, the founder of Bridgewater Associates. He made an estimated $3 billion in 2011, (which happened to be an off year for hedge funds). Two other money men made $2 billion each. In total, the top 40 highest-earning hedge fund managers made a combined $13.2 billion, with the lowest earning managers on our list making $40 million. To qualify for the top 10, a hedge fund manager needed to make more than $200 million. This is what a very bad year in the hedge fund business looks like.
Here in this one part of the financial sector we have 40 individuals whose annual compensation equalled almost 70% of the amount it would cost to bring minimum wage earners up to the level of income they would have received had the minimum wage system been designed to keep pace with the economy.
That is just executive compensation in hedge funds, a part of the financial sector that has grown significantly over the past 30 years. Factor in the executive compensation packages of the rest of our corporations, and it will become apparent just why the minimum wage as well as middle class incomes have stagnated or lost ground over these past 30 years. Consider also that increases to workers pay at the lower end of the compensation spectrum are generally spent buying goods and services that improve not just the lives of those workers, but are returned magnified throughout the economy as those purchases help create new jobs. Contrast that with executive compensation packages in the millions of dollars, where at best that excess income means that these overlords create a couple of jobs for their brokers, the local Ferrari dealership, or personal fitness trainers. I'm not suggesting that corporate executives should be compensated at the same rate as workers. We should work to see our policies return to something that would help ensure a lively economy in which all those who work for a living can expect to earn sufficient funds to lead a life free of undue financial hardship, and financial inequality is not a design feature of those public policies.
As Mr. Baker says, this is paradigm that is by design, and is not a result of some flaw in the reasoning of our policy makers. Our elected officials are and have been in the full employ of the masters of the universe who play at dominating a small sector of this pale blue dot we call Earth.
Do watch the video if you have never seen it. It's one of my personal favorites.
The natives are restless. We used to get to come into the castle when the marauders and pillagers arrived at the city's walls in exchange for our support and defense of the realm. Not any longer. This war is being fought in the realm of ideas and promulgated by the plutocracy through their public relation branches, aka the MSM. The people have taken to the streets with amorphous discontent and amorphous demands. The only given is that they're not going to go away. They've spied the little man behind the green curtain, dispensing aphorisms, misinformation, and advice, and have decided to call him out. It's become clear that no one in a position of power or wealth gives a fig for them. The best plan the owners of the world can come up with is to discredit them, or failing that co-opt them and their movement. With luck de-fuse the smoldering keg on the doorsteps of our moneyed class. With more luck, that moneyed class will recoup all or most of the debt owed them from the 99% who don't enjoy the economic clout to cause the renegotiation of their debt. The most the 99% can count on is to have legislation introduced to forgive penalties on early withdrawals from their IRA accounts so they might pay back the bankers while risking their personal safety net.
It becomes harder to dismantle this social bomb as the people get closer to the edge of economic survival, but these are some committed flaks we're up against. As each day passes it becomes clear that any sense of noblesse oblige that may have once existed in the upper echelons of society has devolved into a cynical PR operation designed to sway public opinion toward the belief that someone, anyone still cares about those 99% of Americans who don't belong to the club. And to instill fear of changing the status quo. Still, as resources dwindle and personal debt accumulates while the middle class strives to maintain a lifestyle before it diminishes to mere economic survival; it becomes harder to distract the unwashed masses from the underlying truths. As a Buddhist might say: Painted cakes don't satisfy hunger. And no matter how hard the economic elite spin this, the underlying reality that is sparking the public's discontent remains the same. I take heart in the way the Soviet Union collapsed under the weight of its' failed ideas and implementations, for the same thing can happen here in the West. All the PR in the political universe can't spin away the level of unemployment and debt slavery that is the apparent goal of the plutocracy.
Eventually the oligopoly will call out the police in an effort to maintain order. They're all ready there with swinging batons and pepper spray here in the early skirmishes of the Occupy Wall Street movement. This is just the beginning. It will get worse, and maybe we'll have our own "uniquely American" version of tanks entering Tienamen Square, and a few martyrs to rally around, but probably not. The oligarchy learned that lesson pretty well at Kent State University on May 4, 1970. More likely the movement will be baited, provoked into doing something that could ostensibly justify quick and decisive police action to shut it down, while a parallel slam by the MSM press discredits the movement. As leaders emerge, there will be attempts to expose any flaws in their personal histories, and otherwise discredit any movement mouthpieces that emerge. In the meantime they'll be trying to trip the rabble up in beltway debates in which most sane non-policy wonks will end up in verbal quicksand sooner or later. If not, they'll seek a way to co-opt the movement, then sucker those who fall for it in the standard bait-and-switch following the election.
Still, I don't see this going the way the oligopoly might want it to. We've reached a kind of saturation point at which there is no turning back. We're arriving at the point at which the spell has been broken in a sufficient number of American minds to carry the seminal desire for reform forward. There' a growing communal knowledge that no one in power is listening anymore, and that no one will do anything to stem the tide that is washing our citizenry out to sea, to sink to oblivion off the front pages of the remaining news outlets that would bother printing the demise of Joe Everyman. There's no telling where that will end, but I think the pre-manufactured ideas of the Kochs of the world will carry little weight when it's you, your family, and your friends on the bread lines. So in some ways the form of our discontent should stay just as amorphous and unfocused as it has been. It makes it harder for the political and moneyed class to pin down and subsequently disown based on some manufactured intellectual abstraction. Eventually they'll snap to the fact that telling the people to eat those painted cakes isn't gonna cut it. Eventually they'll realize that they aren't the only ones who can break the social contract that has existed between the rich and the poor for most of human history, when we are at their gates.
Having watched the alacrity with which our public servants, (legislators and chief executive), recently handed away resources ascribed to the commonwealth of the citizenry at large and the difficulty those same servants had with reigning in health care costs in 2009, I've further refined my ideas about how our democracy works in 2011, and who the constituents of those public servants truly are. It should not surprise most of my readers that their constituency excludes 99% of Americans.
I recently read this excellent article from Steve Randy Waldman which has sparked some thoughts of my own. In it, Waldman quotes John Kenneth Galbraith:
"To the economist embezzlement is the most interesting of crimes. Alone among the various forms of larceny it has a time parameter. Weeks, months, or years may elapse between the commission of the crime and its discovery. (This is a period, incidentally, when the embezzler has his gain and the man who has been embezzled, oddly enough, feels no loss. There is a net increase in psychic wealth.) At any given time there exists an inventory of undiscovered embezzlement in — or more precisely not in — the country's businesses and banks. This inventory — it should perhaps be called the bezzle — amounts at any moment to many millions of dollars. It also varies in size with the business cycle. In good times, people are relaxed, trusting, and money is plentiful. But even though money is plentiful, there are always people who need more. Under the circumstances the rate of embezzlement grows, the rate of discovery falls off, and the bezzle increases rapidly. In depression, all this is reversed. Money is watched with a narrow, suspicious eye. The man who handles it is assumed to be dishonest until he proves himself otherwise. Audits are penetrating and meticulous. The bezzle shrinks."
To be generous to those who are actively engaged in raiding the public coffers of America and the rest of the world, I suppose if we have made their actions legal, or turn a blind eye to them through our regulatory and legislative agencies, it can't really be called embezzlement. It strikes me that in the aftermath of the financial crisis, and subsequent debt reduction charade in DC, that we as Americans have come to accept and legitimize embezzlement of public funds as the new norm.
Think about how the legislators and chief executive "hammered out a compromise" to shrink the public deficit by almost 4% of GDP within a few months at great cost to the public safety net put in place in this country during the tumult of the Great Depression, and furthered during the 1960s. Yet when our legislators were faced with the prospect of healthcare reform in 2009, in which if we could have brought our health care costs in line with the rest of the developed world, and in the process of saving as much as 7% of GDP, they balked at the prospect, and passed a "reform" bill which only reinforced the status quo and forced even more Americans into funding the existing mis-allocation of funds in the health care sector.
Think about that. Our legislators couldn't conceivably change an existing paradigm in health care that could have saved us 7% of GDP, yet were all to willing to offer up 4% of GDP from the commonweal to cover the gaps in our finances incurred by the financial industry's gaming of our "system".
Economists call this "rent seeking". Wikipedia explains:
"In economics, rent-seeking is an attempt to derive economic rent by manipulating the social or political environment in which economic activities occur, rather than by adding value . An example of rent-seeking is the limitation of access to skilled occupations imposed by medieval guilds.
Many current studies of rent-seeking focus on efforts to capture various monopoly privileges stemming from government regulation of free enterprise competition. The term itself derives, however, from the far older practice of appropriating a portion of production by gaining ownership or control of land."
Like the health care and insurance industry, we've allowed the financial sector to operate to their advantage at public cost. Having crashed the world's economy, we allow them to continue the financialization of public assets and wealth unimpeded. Now we have a campaign financing paradigm that only reinforces the economic paradigm of rent seeking by allowing corporate funding of election campaigns without limitation. The process will continue so long as the structures of incentives and government backstops that currently exist are allowed to remain in place.
Yet somewhere along the way we've collectively accepted that Socialism is the great bogeyman of humanity. Somehow, our funding of capitalists is acceptable, while providing benefits for the general populace is inherently bad for our economy. We've come to believe that letting our pockets be picked by those with the financial wherewithal to manipulate the existing revenue streams, bolsters our country, and our belief in the free enterprise system remains the greatest asset the human race that has ever achieved continues unabated. We chant the words to Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" like some talisman of American values, while conveniently forgetting the two verses that made the song poignant.
As I was walkin' - I saw a sign there And that sign said – no tress passin'
But on the other side …. it didn't say nothin!
Now that side was made for you and me!
In the squares of the city – In the shadow of the steeple
Near the relief office – I see my people
And some are grumblin' and some are wonderin'
If this land's still made for you and me.
Woody's song is a song for our times now more than ever. I'll leave you with this song from my friend Greg Engle, which won first prize in the 2011 Woody Guthrie Folk Festival Songwriting Competition. His composition includes those missing verses, but he didn't perform them during this recording as he's still trying to obtain the rights to use them.
It's time for America and Americans to wake up and take control of our destiny by implementing laws that serve the commonwealth and not the existing revenue streams before "American" becomes a synonym of "sucker".
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This is my distillation of what the average American should know about the "debate" transpiring in Washington about the deficit.
I. Government spending over the past 20 years has increased at a lower rate than any of the other factors contributing to GDP.
II. The deficit crisis was created by a combination of events, but mostly by:
a. A global financial crisis precipitated by a combination of factors, not the least of which was a bubble in the real estate market which was used to feed the financial markets collateral to include in financial products which the banksters hawked to their customers, while they in turn placed bets that those products would fail. This is called "financialization". This process was facilitated by deregulation and lax enforcement of existing regulations governing financial markets from the mid/late 1990s onward.
III. The financial crisis reduced government tax collections at all levels.
IV. Individual income tax receipts account for 42% of US tax receipts. Social Security and social insurance taxes account for 40%. Corporate taxes account for 9% of US tax receipts.
V. Once the tax revenue fell off due to the financial crisis, the deficit problem was exacerbated by other legislation of the past 12 years, including:
a. The Bush tax cuts, which favor the wealthy, reduced federal coffers after the surplus of the Clinton years.
b. The launching of a general war on terror/invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan that has helped depleted the national treasury.
c. A defense budget that exceeds the rest of the world combined,
d. But the overwhelming reason for the deficit problem in the US and abroad, is the reduced national revenues due to the financial collapse.
VI. This gap between the US income and its expenditures should be reduced, but doing so should not be done in a way that erodes the economy even further. That is all but impossible to do when private sector spending is decreased as it is now. The Government must spend more at times like these to make up for those missing private expenditures. Europe has been experimenting with deficit reduction techniques through cutting their budgets over the past two years, and those nation's economies have continued to deteriorate as if they had never approached the problem, or worse, they have served to accelerate their nations economic deterioration.
a. Reducing the gap between national income and expenditures can be approached in three ways.
1. By restoring tax rates on corporations and businesses to the higher pre-Bush levels.
2. By cutting government spending. This approach can backfire depending on which areas of the budget are cut, and in an economic downturn will likely worsen the deficit.
3. Improving the economy so that tax revenues increase due to increased commerce. This of course is tied to #2 above.
VII. Reducing the deficit will not increase the amount of money the treasury takes in. Unless public money is invested in venues that increase household consumption, or otherwise stimulate economic growth, deficit reduction will likely decrease the amount of money the government takes in.
VIII. Our political class believes that taxes cannot be raised on the upper tier of American income earners and corporations, who are now enjoying the lowest rates of taxation in over 50 years, and a wealth disparity between the upper 10% of American wealth holders and the lower 80% that rivals that seen during the Great Depression.
IX. Our government has decided that we "all" must share the burden of the reconfiguration of this dynamic, and sacrifice services which average Americans now enjoy, in order to reduce the deficit.
X. That means public services such as Social Security will be reduced. This removes money from the economy in an all ready faltering market, and will contribute to even greater unemployment.
XI. Reducing the deficit will not create more jobs or wealth for the lower 80% of Americans. Reducing the deficit will benefit major financial players by stabilizing their current portfolios.
XII. Reducing the deficit will only make the economy worse, lowering tax revenues and increasing the lines at the unemployment office.
XIII. The federal budget deficit will not come down significantly until the economy improves.
XIV. Nobody in elected public office is interested in addressing the problem of wealth/income for the man on the street, and truly reducing the deficit by improving the economy. Unless you own a bank, you're s@#t-out-o-luck.
XV. You should be very angry.
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Meanwhile our captains are lifting foreign workers out of their poverty, providing jobs, feeding their families, providing goods and services to the next emerging market, raising mankind. They've suffered some minor setbacks lately. Plant explosions for one, and BTW, worker suicides are up. Working conditions are beside the point. These kamakazi workers are merely trying to cash in on the deep pockets of their employers. Diving from company rooftops to oblivion never looked so inviting, when hope has faded. These free-loaders are merely cashing in. The obvious solution is to install "suicide nets" in strategic places. Then have worker-bees sign anti-suicide pacts with the company. Always think PR. Control the press, spin the discussion, and the collective amnesia of the masses will do the rest. Above all keep the production lines operating. If things continue to fall apart, we'll move operations to an even more bereft corner of the world, where they'll open their hearts and minds to the magic of our Capital.
In some ways it's easier to accomplish now. That sense of desperation can swing both ways. It can work for us captain, or it can swing the other way. Jobs. Carrot? Or Stick? No matter. When they're hungry and cold they'll see the logic. Docility can come from desperation or from hunger. Weak body, weak mind. You get the picture. I think we can make this work. As long as things don't continue to fall apart. As long as all we captains stick together. Stick to the script. Deserters will be shot.
This essay was written in response to a discussion I had last night with an expat businessman who thought parroting the rhetoric of Heritage and Cato, (even filtered through his third generation sources), is the balm the nation and the world needs now, if only the blind would see, and the deaf open their ears. My thinking is further influenced the Matthew Stoller's excellent essay. In Stoller's own closing words:
"One day a chunk of the elites will break away from this consensus, as the system experiences a breakdown that is so severe it threatens the interests of a powerful constituency group. For now, we will be watching the embers."
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The apartment needs to updated badly. The new windows still leak flies are able to get in. They have security but you only see them every blue moon. I have had maintenance change an air filter and leave it for me to throw away. Also when they come in your house they need to leave some type note stating they been in your apartment.
I would love to use the exercise room 3 times a week but I get home at 5:15 and by the time I get home it's closed. The gym and the pool should be more convenient, Also maybe think about adding a feww garbage cans throughout the complex there is way to much trash around. Maintaince should have atleast 5 of certain supplies on hand, everytime I've haf to jave something fixed in my apartment its always the part had to be ordered.
Big mold issue at complex, wish I hadnt renewed, staff is lazy, maintenance does not clean up after themselves, would not recommend Bridgeport to anyone
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When we first moved into the apartment, we didn't know that the apartment had mold and water damage. We had to stay in an hotel for a week so that they could fix the problem after 5 months of being there. Then, someone from upstairs had bed bugs and they came down to our apartment and they made us pay for the treatmeant which was not right because they know that we didn't have that problem to begin with. My closet rack has been broken for months and nobody came to fix it yet.
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I think a lot of the problem may be people's definition of sexual harassment. In the Tess Fowler case, until Wood publicly humiliates her, it doesn't really seem like sexual harassment to me. The same thing with the DC woman and Wood. The way I read it is that they went for a walk and he asked for oral sex. She said no and he didn't press the issue. But where he crossed the line from my perspective is when he started mentioning her to Bleeding Cool. Until Wood starts mouthing off about these women and from where I sit, publicly demeaning their character, he is just basically a jerk coming on to women for a sexual encounter.
I would think my description of sexual harassment should be revealed. If my views seem skewed knowing my definition of harassment will probably explain it. Sexual Harassment: any kind of touching of another person that's designed to feel them up – usually a breast of butt cheek, sticking in sexual innuendo in what should be professional dialogue whether spoken or written, sexual favors for work place advancements or jobs, continued dialogue from one person seeking a relationship when the other has plainly told the first 'no', and purposely communicating to another that they are not wanted or disapproved using gender devaluing tactics.
That's probably not an exhaustive list but it is what I can think of at the moment. This issue does affect me as noted in your article but also because I have a female co-worker that I have been flirting with. I think, from our discussions, that some interest might be returned. I don't want to be one of those accused and I certainly hope I am not guilty of sexual harassment. I try to keep things tame. No amount of sex has coming into our conversations and I have only sort of asked her out to see a movie.


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Rubio's Reclaim America political action committee says in the new ad that Ayotte has sought to reduce gun violence in New Hampshire, home of the nation's first presidential primary. The ad points to "safety, security, family. No one understands these things like a mom and no one works harder for them than this one."
Ayotte opposed a key part of President Barack Obama's push to curb gun violence, a measure that would have required expanded background checks for people who buy guns online or at gun shows.
Since the vote, the senator has been criticized in tough ads aired by gun control advocates led by wealthy New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Ayotte, who faces re-election in 2016, was recently confronted at a town hall meeting by a woman whose mother was killed in last year's school shooting in Newtown, Conn.
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Thorntown, Indiana
For population 25 years and over in Thorntown:
For population 15 years and over in Thorntown town:
3 residents are foreign born
Median real estate property taxes paid for housing units with mortgages in 2012: $774 (0.7%)
Nearest city with pop. 50,000+: Lafayette, IN (24.0 miles , pop. 56,397).
Nearest city with pop. 200,000+: Indianapolis, IN (33.8 miles , pop. 781,870).
Nearest city with pop. 1,000,000+: Chicago, IL (130.9 miles , pop. 2,896,016).
Nearest cities: Colfax, IN (2.3 miles ), Ulen, IN (3.0 miles) , Darlington, IN (3.0 miles ), Lebanon, IN (3.0 miles ), Advance, IN (3.0 miles ), Clarks Hill, IN (3.2 miles ), Frankfort, IN (3.4 miles ), New Ross, IN (3.6 miles ).
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Latitude: 40.13 N, Longitude: 86.61 W
Area code: 765
Unemployment by year (%)
Population change in the 1990s: +62 (+4.1%).
Work and jobs in Thorntown: detailed stats about occupations, industries, unemployment, workers, commute
Average climate in Thorntown, Indiana
Based on data reported by over 4,000 weather stations
Tornado activity:
Thorntown-area historical tornado activity is above Indiana state average. It is 216% greater than the overall U.S. average.
On 4/11/1965, a category F4 (max. wind speeds 207-260 mph) tornado 15.7 miles away from the Thorntown town center killed 28 people and injured 123 people and caused between $5,000,000 and $50,000,000 in damages.
On 4/11/1965, a category F4 tornado 18.2 miles away from the town center injured 44 people.
Earthquake activity:Thorntown-area historical earthquake activity is slightly below Indiana state average. It is 91% smaller than the overall U.S. average.
On 9/12/2004 at 13:05:19, a magnitude 3.8 (3.5 MB, 3.8 MW, 3.6 LG, Depth: 3.8 mi, Class: Light, Intensity: II - III) earthquake occurred 56.8 miles away from the city center
On 4/14/2000 at 03:54:20, a magnitude 3.6 (3.6 LG, Depth: 3.1 mi) earthquake occurred 26.6 miles away from Thorntown center
On 12/20/1990 at 14:04:17, a magnitude 3.6 (3.6 LG, Depth: 6.2 mi) earthquake occurred 38.8 miles away from the city center
On 12/17/1990 at 05:24:59, a magnitude 3.2 (3.2 MD, Depth: 6.2 mi) earthquake occurred 23.4 miles away from the city center
On 12/16/1996 at 01:58:31, a magnitude 3.1 (3.1 LG, Depth: 3.1 mi) earthquake occurred 60.5 miles away from Thorntown center
On 4/24/1990 at 09:41:24, a magnitude 3.0 (3.0 LG, Depth: 6.2 mi) earthquake occurred 94.8 miles away from the city center
Magnitude types: regional Lg-wave magnitude (LG), body-wave magnitude (MB), duration magnitude (MD), moment magnitude (MW)
Natural disasters:The number of natural disasters in Boone County (12) is near the US average (12).
Major Disasters (Presidential) Declared: 8
Emergencies Declared: 4
Causes of natural disasters: Floods: 5, Storms: 5, Tornadoes: 4, Winter Storms: 2, Storm: 1, Blizzard: 1, Hurricane: 1, Ice Storm: 1, Snow: 1, Snowstorm: 1 (Note: Some incidents may be assigned to more than one category).
Birthplace of: Anson Mills - General.
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Percentage of residents living in poverty in 2012: 9.5%
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Religion statistics for Thorntown town (based on Boone County data)Percentage of population affiliated with a religious congregations: 47.10%
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Food Environment Statistics:
Number of grocery stores: 10
Number of convenience stores (no gas): 2
Number of convenience stores (with gas): 11
Number of full-service restaurants: 38
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9.19% of this county's 2006 resident taxpayers lived in other counties in 2005 ($75,452 average adjusted gross income)
0.07% of residents moved from foreign countries ($146 average AGI)
Top counties from which taxpayers relocated into this county between 2005 and 2006:
7.15% of this county's 2005 resident taxpayers moved to other counties in 2006 ($82,091 average adjusted gross income)
10 or fewer of this county's residents moved to foreign countries between 2005 and 2006.
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Thorntown, Indiana:See more detailed statistics of Thorntown fatal car crashes and road traffic accidents for 1975 - 2011 here
FCC Registered Cell Phone Towers:2 (See the full list of FCC Registered Cell Phone Towers in Thorntown)
FCC Registered Antenna Towers:23 (See the full list of FCC Registered Antenna Towers)
FCC Registered Private Land Mobile Towers:1
FCC Registered Microwave Towers:5
FCC Registered Paging Towers:1
FCC Registered Amateur Radio Licenses:21 (See the full list of FCC Registered Amateur Radio Licenses in Thorntown)
FAA Registered Aircraft:1
Detailed HMDA statistics for the following Tracts: 8102.00
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A bouquet of lilacs for rancho purchase; a brick for explosive legal-fee bill
A bouquet — the Scent of Lilacs award — to SANDAG and Caltrans for working together to buy Rancho Lilac, a 902-acre prize in the northwest reaches of Valley Center.
For more than 20 years, this stretch of bio-diverse wilderness, home to 17 different "vegetation communities" (SANDAG's phrase) and wildlife corridors, has been slated for development, a dream that kept receding from reality when the costs of an access road through difficult terrain, in addition to a sewer treatment plant, were factored in.
In a happy alignment of the stars, SANDAG's Environmental Mitigation Program, funded by TransNet sales tax, needed to find a willing buyer to offset the expansion of state Route 76.
The program has bought 18 other properties in the past three years, but Rancho Lilac dwarfs all others.
The $16.5 million purchase of Rancho Lilac from owners Lou and Abbe Wolfsheimer-Stutz rivals Escondido's acquisition of Daley Ranch as a stunning investment in the region's biological integrity as well as several historic ranch buildings and Native American artifacts.
Though details of how Caltrans will manage the property, and what access the public will have, are not available at this early blush, the late Col. Irving Salomon's ranch is like Christmas coming early.
As Walt Whitman might have put it, lilacs are blooming in North County's dooryard.
A brick — the Fizzled Finale award — to North County environmental attorney Marco Gonzalez for hoping to exact a pound of bitter flesh from the city he was trying to protect from ... fireworks.
To start, Gonzalez is not, in my opinion anyway, a crazy crank. If he didn't exist, we'd have to invent him. Like his sister Lorena, the region's most prominent labor leader, Gonzalez is a true believer who doesn't shy away from a fight. He's our Oliver Cromwell in boardies, an enviro Puritan, and no one should doubt his sincerity.
We can, however, question his bill. In seeking from the city of San Diego $756,132 in legal fees, twice what his law firm normally charges per hour, Gonzalez is, in effect, asking for punitive damages.
Why? Because the vast majority of San Diegans love fireworks over water and believe Gonzalez's jaundiced view — that ocean fireworks run afoul of the California Environmental Quality Act — is as goofy as PETA's claim that Orcas should be protected by the 13th Amendment.
To be sure, the blowback from Gonzalez's actions against pyrotechnics has been bitter, a reaction that Gonzalez cites to justify the doubling of his bill.
Well, I wish I got paid double for the negative backlash some of my columns generate.
Unfortunately, the enforcement of CEQA, like the Americans With Disabilities Act, relies in large part on public-interest lawyers to promote the general good and, if they prevail, claim attorney fees. Unfortunately, some less than scrupulous attorneys game the system.
Gonzalez is better than this. It's a shame he's opened himself up to the blistering view that he and his law firm, Coast Law Group of Encinitas, belong in that sordid company.


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I recently brought a flat via the Stratford office. I had an excellent service. I was regularly kept informed. Staff were responsive, professional and helpful. I felt I had honest answers to my questions. Things got complicated at the last moment due to some delay. I believe that if it were not for input from Alex, my home would have fallen through. Eternally grateful!
Throughout the process, Charlotte has been the consummate professional and it has been an absolute pleasure working with her. As you may be aware, our purchase was a shared ownership property and with this, came a few more intricacies to the transaction with various parties involved, including the Housing Association and their solicitors.
At times during the transaction, from my perspective, Charlotte was the only individual who had a handle of what was going on and what was required from each party involved. She often went above and beyond the role of agent and at some points, stepped into the breach and completed tasks which the solicitors should have been taking care of.
I would happily recommend Foxtons and more specifically, Charlotte, to anyone looking to sell their property.
Apologies for the long email but I felt Charlotte's sterling work shouldn't go unrecognised!
I would just like to seize this opportunity to say a very big thank you to the staff of Foxtons Stratford in their role in helping me to secure the sale of my property in Stratford London. In particular I'd like to thank Alex's team: (Natel and Saima) - thank you very much for your help! I would definitely recommend you to friends and family and of course would always look to using you in any future sales and/or purchases.
I'd like to register a compliment for Alex at your Stratford branch. He and his colleagues sold our flat for us very quickly in 2012 and we were particularly impressed by Alex's tireless attempts to move the dawdling chain along. Due to his professional support and diligence, we are quite sure we'll use Foxtons again next time we wish to sell.
Charlotte, thanks for being just nothing short of marvellous, you've been a true professional and made the whole process so much less stressful, I really appreciate it.
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