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Skipped out on doing these for a couple weeks as I head my head down in the trenches producing pages for a brand new writing project I'm cooking up. Sometimes, you have to quit consuming to create. This week, we're back!
The Future of Work
I've specifically tried to not link to or quote anything from the big social media men on campus like Brogan or Godin. It's simple linkbait for one thing, and more importantly, a lot of their content lately has been less than interesting. This post from Chris Brogan, however, is a spot-on bit of writing. Others have been writing about how we're changing the definition of "work" in the 21st century, but Brogan has a good summary of the high points in this conversation here. I think more of us should be sticking this post in front of our bosses and every worker over the age of 25 in this country.
Another Runaway General: Army Deploys Psy-Ops on U.S. Senators
Developing this week is a Rolling Stone story about LTG William Caldwell's orders to an Afghanistan IO/PSYOP cell to influence the perceptions of visiting U.S. legislators. There is a HUGE kerfluffle happening in DC over this, and it's the latest ding against military psychological (or information support) operations. On the front lines, Joint forces – and particularly the Army, historical home of the PSYOP regiment – have been trying to make sense of convoluted legislation and backwards policy governing the employment of information warfare in combat. There are clear lanes between strategic communicators, and one is that IO/PSYOP pros are only allowed to deploy their craft against foreign populations. To do so against Americans would be an illegal propagandizing effect, which seems to have been committed by LTG Caldwell.
That said, the modern information environment is such that easy distinctions between what's propaganda and what's neutral information are fast becoming irrelevant. Worse, America's national security apparatus has essentially thrown in the towel on addressing this issue, afraid to engage the White House and Congress on the very real need to reform our en toto strategic influence and communication capability. Until such a thing happens, mistakes like Caldwell's will continue to provide justifications to know-nothings in the Pentagon and on the Hill to further eviscerate our badly-needed interagency strategic communications and influence budget.
FUBAR: Army Inquiry Taints Its Next Chief
For those not familiar with the U.S. Army's non-warfighting components, this should be an interesting read. The Army's Training and Doctrine Command, or TRADOC, should be designing the doctrine of the future and developing or modifying training programs across the force to support soldiers' learning needs against future threats. Instead, TRADOC is INFESTED with old, ineffectual men trapped in the Cold War who are convinced the U.S. will be going to conventional war again any day now. I think Ackerman is way too lenient in this Danger Room post. Having worked at Fort Leavenworth myself for a TRADOC element, I can say with authority that the Army's future leaders are FUCKED if we keep guys like Dempsey in charge of things. Buddies of mine who have recently graduated Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth have told me that things are getting somewhat better: counterinsurgency training is finally attaining primacy. But if I were Secretary Gates, I wouldn't have nominated Dempsey for Chief of Staff of the Army with such a horrid track record for backsliding behind him at TRADOC.
Kirk to Clapper on Muslim Brotherhood: WTF?
I used to have a modicum of respect for James Clapper, former Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and recently appointed Director of National Intelligence. However, he has made a number of embarrassing gaffes answering questions in public lately, so many so that I'm beginning to think the guy really doesn't know what he's talking about. I echo Congress' WTF on this one. If ANYONE should know ALL the nuances of the Muslim Brotherhood – to include its doctrinal promise to subvert America using its own legal system – it's the top intel guy in the country. FAIL.
Pentagon's Clandestine Killers Get New Chief
Here's some good news: the only uniformed officer of the American military for whom I would lay down in traffic is taking over Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), the military command that coordinates the activities of Delta Force, Navy SEALS, and other elite American special ops teams. Major General Joseph Votel was nominated by Secretary Gates for his third star last week and command of JSOC. I worked for Votel on the IED Task Force back when he was a wee colonel and I was a wet-behind-the-ears contractor. He's the type of leader we need more of in our government: fearless, risk tolerant, intensely dedicated to his people, and a true patriot. I'm really proud that he's achieved such success.
Many STAR TREK Bridges, No Bathrooms
Count on my new favorite pop culture blog, BADASS DIGEST, to find the OCD Star Trek fan's guide to every bridge design in the history of the series.
Happy 50th Birthday, Bruce Timm! [Art]
To round off this week's batch of catch-up links, here's Comic Alliance's tribute to Bruce Timm, one of the AWESOMEst animators and comic artists EVAR. Timm was one of the design brains behind the landmark Batman: The Animated Series from the 1990s, which went on to spawn a host of AWESOME television featuring DC characters (Superman, Justice League Unlimited, etc). Aside from his inimitable artistic style that defined said generation of DC characters, Timm's an amazing storyteller and producer. He has since left television behind but not the DCU: Timm continues to adapt popular DC storylines and characters into direct-to-DVD features. Comic Alliance has a full gallery of their favorite Bruce Timm art at the link.
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- Happy 50th Birthday, Bruce Timm! [Art] – ComicsAlliance | Comics culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews (mmcelhaney-media.blogspot.com)
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Maksim Chmerkovskiy isn't the only one upset with the judges on Dancing with the Stars.
Chaz Bono and Lacey Schwimmer, who once again scored the lowest (with only 19 points) for their Phantom of the Opera tango, feel particularly wounded by the judges' use of animal comparisons in critiquing the couple.
Bruno Tonioli offered this reaction to their routine: "It was like watching a cute little penguin try to be a big, menacing bird of prey. "It has to be menacing, dark, dangerous, hypnotic ... like a panther stalking."
"I always go out there and give my best and I feel like I've improved week to week and I don't feel like this week was any different," Bono, 42, told PEOPLE after Monday's show.
"They called you an animal," Schwimmer said. "They said you have a bad personality ... I think it's fair to say he's not a favorite."
Bono elaborated about the "disrespectful" animal comparisons. "I've been called an Ewok, a cute and cuddly bear, now tonight a penguin," he said. "It's disrespectful to me. "
"It's rude and unnecessary, and as his friend I'm embarrassed," Schwimmer said. "We are both anti-bullying ... And having the judges refer to him as animals or dis his personality, it's unnecessary. It's rude and it's going back on everything that people are trying to fix. It's disappointing that it has to be here and it has to be one of my friends."
Schwimmer says she was so upset about what the judges said that she couldn't hold back tears. "I cried today because I was so hurt, and I was so embarrassed that they had said that," she said. "I'm glad that Maks stood up, because I was about to jump on that table and rip their heads off."

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A couple patients made my day
A couple patients made my day,made a nice comment and I said thank you.Their names are Ben and Hannah whom are brother and sister.Both had a dentist appointment and I called them up.Noticed my British accent on the spot and I did tell them I was born in Great Britain.They are very nice and said I have a cool accent.I don't get this a lot,sometimes I get a negative comment once in a while getting called a limey and I don't like that.
People actually make negative comments about your accent? Completely rude!!!! Too bad people are so negative. Glad you had a good day.
Some people do make negative comments about my accent.It is rude and I will not take it


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WHEN I first got to Cape Town, I was pretty amazed. I kept thinking "what's wrong with these people?". What blew my mind was the seemingly chronic inability to care about less-fortunate people. All this gaily running around the mountain as without a care in the world. I was amazed by the stark imbalances, and how so clearly racial they are. Every day, tens of thousands of black and coloured people get onto buses and trains and taxis from the Cape Flats to go and work for white people, who live in the city and the suburbs. That's how Cape Town works.
Since then, however, I've met more people. And I've worked out that while there is indeed this layer of dramatically entitled hipster white folk here with an infuriating accent, there are also a great many ordinary people who regard Cape Town's imbalances with the same horror I do. Indeed, those upcountry people who have rained scorn upon this city need to look at themselves.
Cape Town's disastrously overcrowded townships, such as Khayelitsha, are not a function of Cape Town being a "racist city". They're a function of being in South Africa. The City of Cape Town is no more structurally responsible for the unpleasantness of Khayelitsha than the City of Joburg is for Diepsloot.
Joburg and Cape Town face vastly different challenges. Joburg is Egoli; it attracts migrants from across the continent, and on a scale that makes Capetonian problems seem very small beer. But, it also has a far greater capacity to absorb them. Gauteng is the place that produces 10% of Africa's gross domestic product, according to one report.
Cape Town's challenges lie in the fact that it is a small city with a limited capacity to absorb new arrivals. Helen Zille got into a lot of trouble when she noted that the city was attracting "economic refugees" from the Eastern Cape, but Cape Town's size means it cannot absorb people fleeing the collapse of education and healthcare in that province into its economy.
Cape Town's imbalances are maintained not by political intent, but by the lack of capacity to grow away the problem. If you look at car ownership as a measure of wealth, there are 80% more registered cars in Gauteng now than in 1994. Joburg has boomed, and that's created a black middle class. In the pie language so beloved of leftist commentators, Joburg hasn't just been slicing the pie differently, it's crucially grown the pie as well.
So, then, all this shouting at Cape Town seems a bit off. A bit too easy. It's self-flagellation in a way, because the truth of the matter is that, yes, in Joburg there is a large and growing black middle class and this is a very good thing. But Joburgers (and I am a proud one, I'm just in exile at the moment) need to understand they live in city that has a fairly unique ability to at least begin to grow the problem away. But the rest of the country doesn't look at all like that.
Outside of Gauteng, change in the demographics of wealth are awfully slow - in Cape Town, but also in Port Elizabeth or Durban or Bloemfontein.
Cape Town's detractors don't like the Democratic Alliance, and, I daresay, they don't like the ("entitled") white and ("over-supplied") coloured folk who keep on voting for them. So, really, who's racist now?
Joburg's relative success at getting wealth into black hands is because of its economy, not just because of endless fiddling with growth plans and state interventions. If people want the face of middle-class South Africa to look more like Joburg than Cape Town, it's the economy that'll do it. Because the government can't. If only they would see that black people - not enough, but some - are getting rich in Jozi. And there's a reason for it that could be exported nationally. It's the economy, stupid.
Oh well, in the meantime I suppose we all ought to cut our coats according to our cloth (so unlike a Joburger to say that, I know), and while the eurozone's perpetual crisis rumbles on, a notable trend in car buying of late has been the down-buyers. People replacing a posher car with a not-so-posh car.
The skill is to find the cheerful among the sort-of cheap, and I've been driving something with the potential to be just the thing. It's the Suzuki Swift Sport. It is an absolute hoot. It looks great and is simply brilliant fun to drive.
It's completely chuckable and it enthusiastically snouts about like a little ferret of a car in the twisty stuff. The steering could be better - it's a bit lifeless - but the chassis is a real gem.
It's also got a lovely snick-snick six-speed gearbox, a great driving position and a sane ride quality. The 1,6l motor pushes out 100kW, which is just enough to qualify the Sport as an amusingly quick little hot hatch. It'll dispatch 100km/h in about nine seconds at sea level.
Inside, it's pretty basic. There's lots of cheap plastic and the spec is really pretty Spartan. Not so much as a USB dock or Bluetooth for your phone. That's old school, to put it nicely.
And that's the problem with the Swift. It's just R15000 or so cheaper than an equivalent Mini Cooper. Yes, it's a smidge quicker, but it's not quite as fun to drive, and the Mini is distinctly more than just R15000 more premium inside.
Now, I know a good reason to buy the Swift is because everyone in the world seems to have a Mini. Fair enough, I suppose, but price this thing at, say, R199000 and it makes a ton of sense. At R213000, and with the Cooper at R228000, I fear everyone will carry on buying the Mini. And that's a pity, because the Swift is a seriously fun little hatchback. Somebody at Suzuki needs to be brave and take a punt on volume, not margins.


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isango! Peru Review0
As a current intern for isango! part of my job allows me to review my previous travel experiences through writing. The posters on the wall in the office serve as an inspiration for where I want to travel next, such as the Great Barrier Reef, and the world map on the wall across from me always leads me right back to Peru. I visited this past January and would go back in a heartbeat. There is nothing like the world famous Machu Picchu hike and boating through Lake Titicaca. I would recommend taking a visit to anyone. A piece of my heart will always lie in Peru.
Q: Why did you choose to visit Peru?
A: At my university in North Carolina, U.S.A., they encourage sophomores, (or second year students) to take our winter term class for the month of January to study abroad in a foreign country. I, who have been traveling all my life across the states and throughout Europe, took it upon myself to apply for the Peru trip. I'd never been to South America before, and knowing that they spoke Spanish, I figured I'd get the chance to immerse myself in an entirely new culture while working on another language. I couldn't have been happier to have chosen and been accepted into this trip, as it was one of the best experiences of my life.
Q: Which places did you visit?
A: Peru is divided into three, distinct different sections: the desert, the mountains and the amazon. Over the course of the month, our class was able to travel the desert section and the mountain section. Main city stopping points were in Lima, Arequipa and Cusco. Both the desert and mountain sections were different but equally beautiful in their own light. One day, I'm hoping to go back and see the amazon!
Q: Which experiences were the best?
A: Machu Picchu was definitely the top destination of the whole trip. I always tell people, you can do as much research as you want, see countless pictures and think you know everything there is to know, but until you actually arrive on site, you don't fully know what it's like. Taking a four-hour tour through the ruins is so informational. The best part is when the alpacas randomly come past you! Normally, they're not the friendliest, but since they are so used to humans here, they come much closer. The next day, when we took the Machu Picchu hike, we did 4,000 ft. climbing up, and then 2,000 down (and then were too exhausted to do the final leg, which is completely optional), so we had the bus take us home. You can take the first 2,000 ft. up via bus as well, we just wanted a challenge. Another great experience was to stay at a homestay on the islands of Lake Titicaca. These people don't normally speak Spanish, they have their own language they use, so it was much harder to communicate, but totally worth the experience. I got to help with the work that these people do on a daily basis. These chores included plowing a field, taking the corn off the cob to be crushed, feeding the animals, etc. On Lake Titicaca, they live a traditional, simple way of life. We actually were there for one of their top celebrated ceremonies, so we dressed up in costume as they did and danced to their music, respected their traditions and ate the food grown right in their backyards.
Q: What tips would you give to other travelers?
A: When you are up in the mountains, you travel up to a much higher level above sea level. Our highest elevation was 16,000 ft.. Chances are, especially if you're jumping up numbers at a fast pace, that you are going to get altitude sickness. The answer to all of your problems, is Pepto Bismal. You experience just about every symptom it treats for unfortunately. Luckily Pepto Bismal does help, so make sure to bring a lot of it. Another tip for other travelers is to try out your Spanish! Everyone is willing to help and they will be happy that you're attempting to fit in with their culture. Not once did I experience someone who walked away or gave up on me when I was trying to communicate with them. Finally, my last tip is to try new foods. Peru is actually quite famous for their food. I did an entire research paper on it, actually. Alpaca is something to try, especially if you are a steak lover and guinea pig, although as far as food goes this one is pretty far out there but is something definitely worth trying as well. In Peru it is known to be a delicacy. You will have fun no matter where you go in Peru. My whole class absolutely loved it and you will too!


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rev. who gave sermon (Acres of Diamonds) that said people earn their lots in lie off good or bad
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A local electrician is accused of stealing a $6,000 diamond ring from a customer.
Arrest records show Kenneth Lynch was hired to do work on the victim's house.
After the victim reported the theft, police said Lunch told his boss that the missing ring could have fallen in the carpet.
Lynch's boss said he then found the ring in his work truck.
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Tanushree Dutta is a model and Indian actress. She was born in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand on March 19, 1984. She has completed her secondary education from D.B.M.S English School in Jamshedpur. She has dropped her Bachelor's degree in mid-way to pursue her modeling career. She was crowned with Femina Miss India Universe in 2004. In 2004 she was one of the contestant of Miss Universe beauty pageant and one among the top ten finalist. Govt. Of Jharkhand honoured her by issuing postcards and stamps of her. She started her acting career in 2005 with movie, 'Aashiq Banaya Aapne'.
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Verizon Ad Slams AT&T Coverage: "There's a Map for That"
During last night's Monday Night Football broadcast, Verizon shot across AT&T's bow with a new ad that capitalizes on the prevalence of complaints about the latter's network.
The ad leverages a litany of feedback about dropped calls, poor coverage, and slow speeds on AT&T, with a money quote about browsing the web and downloading content at 3G speeds "in five times more places than the nation's number two wireless carrier."
Given that iPhone owners tend to be big data users, they are also perhaps the most vocal critics of AT&T's network as a result of its lackluster 3G coverage. Certainly as compared to Verizon, there's no contest — which the latter company points out directly in the ad with a play on Apple's signature tagline for the iPhone: "There's a map for that."
The 3G coverage maps of the two companies are displayed above the heads of two college students passing each other, with Verizon's dense red contrasting starkly with AT&T's spotty blue.
iPhone Exclusivity Ending?
It's a timely direct hit, as AT&T is expected to lose its iPhone exclusivity in the U.S. sometime next year (it just happened in Canada as well). Analysts predict iPhone sales could double as a result.
The company is pushing hard to get consumers to consider network coverage and speed as a higher priority than hardware: "Before you pick a phone, pick a network." Plus, with Verizon and Google getting together to bring Android handsets to the best 3G network in the U.S., they're hoping to make the available hardware more attractive as well.
Check out the video below and let us know what you think: cheap shot, or fair fight? Verizon is hitting AT&T where it hurts — does it make any of you think twice about renewing your AT&T contracts? Or would VoIP over 3G help to keep you loyal?
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Year of Preventing Identity Crime - When the Image in the Mirror Is No Longer You: Recovering from Identity Crimes
By Walter B. Donaldson, Certified Fraud Examiner, and Senior Vice President, Investigative Services, Bank of America
dentity crime comes in many different forms as criminals gain access to personal information that they use to open credit card accounts or buy an automobile, a home, and more. Unfortunately, there are many ways to become a victim, ranging from basic shoulder surfing and dumpster diving to the more complex and modern phishing and malware, including polymorphic trojans, which can obtain personal data from your computer without being detected. The ease with which people become victims of identity crime makes prevention strategies an important message for law enforcement agencies to deliver to the public. Community members must have confidence that if they become victims of identity crime, officers will assist them and then investigate the perpetrators. There are many tips for preventing identity crime, which can be incorporated into a community policing or education program. One good starting point is the IACP's ID Safety Web site, www.idsafety.org. The site is a useful tool for both the public and law enforcement agencies.
Knowledge Increases Credibility
When a community resident comes forward with a complaint of identity crime, the law enforcement agency with jurisdiction over that community has an obligation to assist the victim to the best of its ability. Citizens can easily be confused and overcome by all that is necessary to restore their good name after being victimized. Generally, victims become aware that their information has been compromised when debt collectors call their home, when they are declined for credit, or when they do not receive expected mail. When fraud is suspected, their first call is usually to a financial institution. Although all financial institutions will help victims begin the recovery process, the directions victims receive will vary among financial institutions and the internal process to which these institutions adhere. Many of these members of the financial services industry are also members of the Identity Theft Assistance Center (ITAC; www.identitytheftassistance.org). ITAC is a nonprofit organization that provides a free victim assistance service for customers of member companies and also works closely with the law enforcement community. Furthermore, ITAC adds victim information to the Consumer Sentinel Database (http://www.consumer.gov/sentinel), managed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC; www.ftc.gov). These sites are excellent resources to educate officers in advance of taking a complaint, and they also provide tools and information to assist during the course of an investigation. Recovering from an identity crime takes consumers on average more than 25 hours of telephone calls, letter writing, and filing of police reports. Their out-of-pocket expenses are more than $500, while the average fraud loss currently exceeds $5,500. Law enforcement agencies can best help victims by taking the initial report from a victim and offering further assistance where possible. Knowing what constitutes an identity crime and the challenges that victims face will serve officers well. In the end, the best possible experience for a victim is to work with a competent, concerned law enforcement officer who helps the victim wade through the recovery effort.
Victim versus Suspect
Determining if a person filing a report is truly a victim can be a sensitive issue, one that must be managed carefully. Right now, about half of all states have a mandatory police reporting law in effect. This requires law enforcement officers to take a police report from people who reside in their jurisdiction and who believe they are the victims of an identity crime, even if the perpetrator resides or committed the crime in another jurisdiction. This is an important change, and all jurisdictions should follow suit. Every company must provide victims, by law, all documents associated with a fraudulent transaction if victims submit a request, in writing, accompanied by a police report. Credit applications, authorization logs, check copies, and other supporting documents related to the theft or misuse of a victim's identity may be all the evidence available to support a case. These documents may be used to compare the victim's signature with that of the fraud documents. Together, a police report, a signed and sworn affidavit the victim provided the institution, and an FTC complaint indicate that a victim is taking steps to prove the crime happened and to get help. More importantly, the documents may contain information about the identity criminal that may help in the investigation. Investigating officers can find additional information about state-specific laws at www.idsafety.org.
The Road to Recovery
As with all contingency planning, it is best to prepare for the worst-case scenario. How do law enforcement agencies help victims get on the road to recovery from an identity crime?
Victims will quickly accumulate a lot of documentation, notes, copies of statements, and other documents that may serve as evidence. Officers should advise victims to create a file to organize all information and communication with their financial institutions for future reference.
As a first step, victims should contact their financial institutions, such as banks, credit unions, credit card companies, mortgage companies, and brokerages, including all locations where victims suspect that a fraudulent account has been established or where an existing account may have been taken over by the fraudster. Each institution has a security or fraud division that handles claims on card, checking, or deposit accounts, as well as mortgages. Victims should file their claims, close all accounts, stop payment on all outstanding checks that they did not authorize, and request affidavits from the bank. Above all else, victims should document all conversations, requests, and expectations.
Once all financial accounts have been closed, victims should also contact major utilities and confirm that no changes have been made to their accounts. Examples include changes to victims' postal addresses, telephone numbers, or e-mail addresses. All of these pieces of information allow fraudsters to obtain legitimate utility invoices that they can use to confirm their identity with landlords, rental agencies, and lenders.
Victims should be encouraged to place a fraud alert with each of the three major credit bureaus. This is a major step in informing future creditors that individuals have been victimized and helps to avoid any additional fraud. There are two different types of alerts:
The FTC is responsible for taking complaints from the public under the Identity Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act. In that role, it collects information and assists victims by forwarding details to appropriate enforcement agencies and by giving victims a complaint form and letter that should accompany the police report. Officers can direct victims to the FTC and file an online form. The printed FTC ID Theft Complaint, in conjunction with the police report, can constitute an identity theft report. As mentioned earlier, this report is necessary to provide the credit bureaus a means to place the seven-year alert.
Are We There Yet?
The process of recovery for victims can be tiring and cumbersome. Even after spending considerable time and money, victims cannot enjoy an immediate restoration of their good name. Once victims reach an understanding with their financial institutions about the fraud and the credit bureaus place alerts, it can take an extended period of time for victims to get back on track financially. For this reason, they should check the credit bureaus four to six months after reporting the crime to guarantee that all fraudulent transactions have been removed.
The IACP's Investigative and Training Resources
The IACP and Bank of America have partnered to create a national strategy to prevent and respond to identity crimes. One resource of this partnership is the Identity Crime Toolkit for Police Executives. This toolkit is available to all agencies to help them battle identity crime. Toolkits can be downloaded by visiting www.idsafety.org or requested by sending an e-mail message to firstname.lastname@example.com. ■
1See "Filing a Complaint with the FTC," http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/idtheft/consumers/filing-a-report.html (accessed November 6, 2007), for details.
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Don't go there
Don't be fooled by the beautiful lobby and olympic sized pool. The rooms are atrocious to put it mildly. I checked out immediately upon arrival. Specifically the rugs were filthy, the rooms, I was shown three, were either moldy smelling or reeked of strong clorox. The air conditioners/heating unit vents were corroded with dirt. THe windows units had holes in the screens and badly peeling paint. THe walls had multiple badly patched-over holes. There was dirt and what looked like stuck on candy on the carpets. Be advised, don't go there. The management understood my disappointment and was decent in helping me find other arrangements. THis was booked via Travelocity and they were contacted. I implored them to take this INN off their choices of Hotels. They said they have received other such comments. Hope they do so.
The historic Lafayette is currently undergoing a facelift, and we invite you to come back and give us another shot.
Completely Disappointing as 1st Stop on 2 week Vacation!
This review is very delayed, however, the most recent reviews posted are dead on. This hotel is really 2 areas, the "hotel" area around the pool and the "townhouse" suites which are outside of the locked gates and surround the hotel on the street. We stayed in a 2 bedroom townhouse with a sofabed. Upon entering, we were very letdown. The rooms were dirty, very dated and stains everywhere - carpet and furniture. We had 3 adults and 3 kids so we were expecting to use the sofabed. Big mistake. Upon opening the sofa there was food under the cushions - obviously had not been cleaned. Sofabed also was not useable for sleeping - very uncomfortable, no bedding provided and also it is located downstairs where there is an extra entrance door in the room leading to the street in a not very safe looking neighborhood. There was a terrible odor every time you walked into the room - we had to buy an air freshner at the store to mask it.We tried to change rooms but there was a parade that week in San Diego and they said they coulnd not move us. They are destroying these townhouses to be replaced with condos at some point so they obviosly don't feel the need to renovate them. They are like old apartments which haven't been cleaned, painted, or carpeted in 20 years or more! Save your money and stay elsewhere. I hope to post the photos I took of the room and surrounging area soon.
No Cold Water!!
We stayed in Room 603 (also known as the "Bush Presidential Jacuzzi Suite"). It appeared that the suite is actually two rooms that had been combined into one, with two bathrooms. As described by other reviewers, a portion of the hotel is being torn down and replaced with what looks like a nice condominium project. It is obvious that the management is not interested in maintaining the buildings that will (hopefully soon) be demolished. I don't think they should be permitted to continue to rent out the rooms in the "back building" where we stayed. During our brief stay, there was essentially no water pressure in the COLD water lines of the back building. This meant the only water we could use for showering was scalding hot. We also could not flush the toilets (since they use cold water). It was disgusting. They gave us a key to another room, 611 (also a Presidential Suite), to use that bathroom, but it had the same problem. I don't believe this was a one-time maintenance problem. The woman at the front desk said they call the plumbers "all the time" but that they can't find anything wrong. She did give us $30 off the room price, but for almost $100 I'm sure there are better rooms with decent showers in San Diego.
If you're looking for a pool, complimentary breakfast, and nice lobby great, but if you're looking for an affordable room, STAY AWAY at all costs!!! Cockroaches in room, three barrels of what was labeled non-hazardous waste outside my room (I wonder?), a police bust in the hotel room next to me at 3:30 a.m. for what I presume was drugs, non-stop noisy traffic, etc!!! May I say more? Of course! The high-speed Internet connection which they advertised did not work, one of two telephones did not work, and they didn't even dare ask me how my stay was. I wonder why??? This is being converted to high-rise condomimiums over the hotel!!! Oh my lord!!! I think they need to remove all guests for three-four weeks, fumigate the whole place and then only should the city of San Diego grant them a building permit, In fact, I'm writing the city of San Diego community development department to stop all plans for their condos until they get rid of their cockroaches and rodents!!!!
Dissapointing! Advise NOT to stay
Our family (kids 11,13 and 15) stayed here 11-13th November and wished we had stayed somewhere else.
The foyer is nice, we did love the internet access and we could use our laptop in the room.
Our first room was a poolside room (nice location) with2 queen beds and a sofa, which we couldn't open.
We were moved to the room next door and the sofa bed worked.
Both rooms had dirty carpet and some holes in the walls. Sheets were thin and the bed skirt was badly ripped. The bathroom was old and not so clean, but adequete.
My 11 y/o didn't feel safe with the parking lot and street access right outside our door and we had a little trouble getting her to settle.
The neighbourhood looked somewhat dubious, and was not really convienient to the sights, even with a car.
I had corresponded with Jim Green, the Manager and got numerous replys before our stay.
I have not had a reply to my post stay email!!!
I really don't know how they can book rooms as bad as this, it is bad business practice. On check out I did notice in the foyer that the poolside rooms on one side are being demolished next year. We should have been told and offered a cheaper rate. Or they simply should not be using that side of the hotel.
I don't like the way he runs his hotel, it seems deceitful. It may have been grand in the past, but it is seedy now and Management does not care, as long as the money is coming in.
This was the only hotel on our 3 1/2 week vacation that let us down.
I would advise NOT to stay here, but if you have to, ask for rooms that are not going to be demolished and you may have better luck than us.
Should have paid a little extra...
This is more like motel than a hotel. I paid over $100 each night and it was not worth it. The sofa and carpet were dirty and stained. The room were stinky and old. They need big time up-grading. Their continental breakfast was not all that great: just cereal and yogurt. There was not enough parking. In addition, the hotel was in a bad neighborhood. The pictures looks nice but don't be fooled.
We stayed at this hotel for four nights in October. Upon arrival the hotel seemed really impressive, nice lobby and lots of little perks - free internet access, free shuttle to the zoo, seaworld and the airport etc. and complimentary soft drinks 'happy hour.' We were given the key to Suite 608 which is at the back of the hotel. Basically you are not even in the hotel it is past the pool and is accessible to anyone i.e. non hotel residents. The suite was really awful, really old fashioned, smelled damp, really creepy and the carpet was worn and dirty and the furniture very dated. My partner felt it was haunted and didn't sleep a wink! We were moved to Suite 253 within the hotel the following morning, slighly better but same carpet, dated decor and furnishings and still a bit creepy. The hotel staff were really nice and did all they could to help but it really is in need of renovation.
It is quite a way out of San Diego although the bus (number 15 and 115) only took about 15 minutes to the centre as it goes down the highway. We chose this hotel as it was cheaper than the ones in the Gaslamp district and due to the bad reviews on trip advisor of the Ramada Gaslamp we paicked the Lafayette. Upon inspection the Ramada looked a much better choice.
This hotel was the 4th place we stayed on our extended USA holiday, it was also the most expensive and the worst which was a shame as it cast a bad shadow on a great holiday.
I would have given this review one star, however, the hotel staff were great and so was the free shuttle which we made good use of. Also the Red Fox pub sort of attached to the hotel was really good for food and the service was good.
One last thing, their website price did not state that it included service tax upon booking (all the others on our trip included tax in the total price when booking) so over $40 was added to our bill on checkout, however it was refunded by the manager after complaining about this.
Huge Disappointment
Ours was an aweful stay. We were scheduled to stay 2 nights, but only could stomach 1 night.
We checked in at the lobby, which was recently remodeled. It was beautiful. We were told that we were upgraded to a 2 room suite. Excited we went to our room to discover that there was a rusted storm door and stair well that allowed us access to the back side of the hotel.
Figuring they were "underconstruction" we continued to find a unbelivable site. The couch had a huge slash in the arm rest, the carpet was stained, the walls had "something" on them and the breakfast was aweful. It took us all night to realize the mess we had gotten our selves into.
The final blow came at breakfast the next morning when I went to use the public restroom in the breakfast area. The mess was horrifying. The trash cans had not been emptied from the night before and the supplies were replenished. Toilets weren't clean and floors were full of "water".
We will not recommend this hotel to anyone. It really is too bad since there appears to be alot of history in this building.
Surprisingly Bad
The first thing I noticed upon opening the door to our room was the smell. It reeked of paint. It became obvious that the room had recently been painted, and not professionally either. It looked like my 5 year-old niece had done it. There were also paint splashes and splatters all over the bedspread. The AC unit was very noisy and prone to making a shrill squeaking noise. The TV had a habit of turning the volume up all by itself at random times. The toilet seat in the bathroom was stained/discolored and the finish on it was rippled (like what happens to plastic if it touches something hot). The bed fell apart our second night there. There was a loud cracking noise and it caved in in the center.
Only one of the windows in our room opened and the carpet was stained and worn. The grout between the tiles in the bathroom was grey and dirty.
The complimentary breakfast was scrambled eggs, toast and cold cereral every morning. No variety, and not even any cream for the coffee.
The only thing I can say I liked about it was the architecture and history.
We had a wonderful stay at inn suites!
we were very happy with this hotel. we stayed there for six nights, from sept. 14th - 20th. we got a terrific rate of 79.99 per night, and we had an awesome room (212) - the betty grable suite.
it has a very comfortable king bed, TV, good sized bathroom, plus a living area (a totally separate room) with love seat, another TV, desk with high speed net access, fridge, microwave and coffee maker. the closet could have been bigger, but it was okay.
it also had a huge balcony that overlooked el cajon blvd, and the carpet was quite clean. it wasnt brand new, but it was just fine, and we walked barefoot with no worries (i was concerned after reading some of the TA reviews).
we loved the pool and jacuzzi, and the front desk staff was friendly and helpful. we used the shuttle a couple of times, but did not use the gym. it was too nice to stay inside, and we got plenty of exercise walking.
the breakfast is more than adequate - very healthy scrambled eggs, bread that you toast yourself, yogurt, cereal, apples, coffee, tea, juice, and the coldest milk i have ever had (from a large dispenser).
the hotel currently is not able to provide complimentary alcoholic beverages at their evening social hour. im not sure how long this will be the case, but if anyone wants more info, feel free to email me for more details, or call the hotel.
before arriving in san diego, we were a bit worried that inn suites was not in the most central location. however, we were able to find our way around very easily, using the hotel shuttle, the public buses and our rental car.
being more of a residential area than a tourist area, there is not an overabundance of restaurants. that said, we were able to find many places to eat. a few of note are the chicken pie shop, vesuvio's italian food (we ordered in from there), bahia mexican and tori tori, a sushi place very close by. if you want to do any extensive wining and dining close to the hotel, you may be disappointed. with being in san diego a total of 10 days, we found one way of cutting costs was to take food back to the room. and the suite was so enjoyable - our home away from home!
oh yes...if you eat at or order from vesuvio's, the eggplant parmagiana is to die for!
hotel renovations are to start in january, from what ive heard. we are so glad we had the opportunity to stay there last month.
kudos to general manager jim green and staff.
feel free to email me if you have any questions - email@example.com
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Generation Y (Gen-Y) customers are predicted to be tomorrow"s wealth accumulators. Their behavior and consumption pattern is different from the earlier generations. Banks will have to adopt different business paradigms to serve them.
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Jeff Garcia and I covered Hispanic Heritage month in late September with a few posts. In a post titled "Blazing New Trails", I talked about the NBA marketing to all of the subcultures and country's that make up the Hispanic culture and using the one thing that strings them all together, Spanish, the language they all share.
That got us to thinking that we are leaving a lot of people out in the cold by doing the Spurscast in English only. While, I'm not conversationally fluent in Spanish, luckily Jeff is. While he won't do the entire Spurscast in Spanish, he will now be doing a separate segment of the Spurscast just in Spanish. He'll be recapping the week and talking about upcoming games. We'll also be sure to put it in our Spurscast feed by itself in addition to having it as part of the regular Spurscast episode every week.
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PHILADELPHIA — Tony Parker scored 37 points, Gary Neal added 18 off the bench and the San Antonio Spurs beat the Philadelphia 76ers, 100-90, in a matchup of division leaders Wednesday night.
Tim Duncan had 16 points and 11 rebounds and Tiago Splitter scored 15 for the Southwest Division-leading Spurs.
Lou Williams led Philadelphia with 22 points. Andre Iguodala had 17 and Thaddeus Young scored 16.
The Atlantic Division-leading Sixers fell to 4-2 during a seven-game stretch that coach Doug Collins termed "Death Row" because of the quality of their opponents. After building a strong record early in the season against lesser competition, they beat Orlando, Chicago, Atlanta (on the road) and the Los Angeles Lakers. Their other loss was at home to Miami.
The Spurs are a much different team on the road. But they outplayed the Sixers throughout to improve to 5-8 away from home. They're 13-1 in their own building.
Down 83-71 near the midpoint of the fourth quarter, the Sixers scored seven straight points and had the crowd rocking after Jrue Holiday's 3-pointer. But Neal answered with his fourth 3-pointer of the night and his free throw a minute later after Williams got a technical foul gave the Spurs an 89-80 lead.
Williams hit a 3 to cut the deficit to 95-90 with 1:46 left. But Parker nailed a jumper and Philadelphia couldn't get any closer.
Starting center Spencer Hawes didn't play for the Sixers. Hawes had missed 10 games with an Achilles injury before returning to play the previous two.
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"It's a part of the world that doesn't get so much focus because everyone, quite rightly, is all excited about India and China and the whole ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) region."
Chinese banks were among the first to make their way into the continent, with ICBC, the world's biggest bank by market value, having bought a 20% stake in Standard Bank in 2007.
Since then, other banks have started making their way into the region, mostly to facilitate trade between Africa and resource-hungry China.
Simon Cooper, HSBC's CEO for the Middle East and North Africa, said: "There's a lot of work facilitating companies from China that want to go to Africa and we expect such trade to continue to grow."
Asian companies such as Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei have been in Africa for years, building telecoms towers in countries from Libya to Kenya.
"We've invested in companies that are doing a lot of work in Africa," said John Zhao, CEO of Hony Capital, a private equity firm.
"We see the weak infrastructure in some African countries as an opportunity."
Acquisitions and other attempts to grow in Africa have often proved difficult to pull off successfully.
In 2011, HSBC walked away from a bid for Nedbank, saying it failed to meet its acquisition requirements. The revenue pie for banks in Africa is also far smaller than in other regions, with total investment banking fees in Africa and the Middle East being about $1bn last year, compared with Asian fees that clocked in at almost 10 times that.
Meanwhile, European Central Bank president Mario Draghi said at Davos on Friday that "positive contagion" on financial markets was not yet feeding into the economy at large, but the eurozone should see recovery in the second half of the year.
Activists protesting against the WEF in Davos have claimed responsibility for explosions that broke a window at a Zurich branch of Credit Suisse and blew up the postbox of former South African Ivan Glasenberg, the boss of commodity trader Glencore.
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Here is the unofficial translation of the reasons behind the first draft of the new constitution and how it has been designed to improve on the political system.
The Draft Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand B.E. 2550 has been written with an aim of taking the Kingdom back to a full democracy, with a general election expected within 2007. It seeks to correct the weaknesses inherent in the 1997 Constitution, which led to monopoly and abuses of State powers, political mismanagement that lacked transparency, good governance, and ethics; to failure to scrutinize the exercise of State powers and inadequate protection of the rights and freedoms of the people.
The present Draft Constitution addresses those problems on four fronts, including:
1. Protection, promotion, and expansion of the rights and freedoms of the people;
2. Reduction of concentration of power and elimination of its abuses;
3. Making politics transparent, moral and ethical; and
4. Strengthening and increasing the effectiveness of the scrutiny process by making the scrutiny bodies freer, stronger, and more efficient.
1. Protection, promotion, and expansion of the rights and freedoms
A constitution does not belong to just a handful of people or politicians, but should belong to all people. It should give political space to all and encourage all to participate in determining their own destiny.
1.1. The present Draft Constitution provides more rights and freedoms than the 1997 Constitution. The new features include:
- Recognition of the rights and freedoms of international conventions, to which Thailand is party, with the same binding effect as those provided in the present Draft Constitution (Section 4);
- Protection of the privacy of personal information (Section 35);
- Increase of rights in the criminal justice process through reform to improve access to the justice process, making it easier, quicker, more convenient, and more widely available at reasonable costs. Children, youths, women, the old, and the disabled and handicapped will get appropriate protection in the criminal procedure (Section 40). And more significantly, for the first time the people will have the right to bring a case before the Constitutional Court directly;
- Legislation for the first time of labour rights to safety and welfare at work and security of employment during and after employment (Section 44);
- Greater protection of the rights and freedoms of the press than ever before, prohibiting not only closure of mass media, but also interference in the presentation of information, directly or otherwise (Section 45 and Section 46); prohibiting ownership or share-holding in mass media by holders of political office to prevent the use of mass media to advance their own personal benefits (Section 47 paragraph five);
- Twelve years of free education with special support for the needy, the disabled or handicapped, or those in financial difficulty so that they may receive education on par with others (Section 48). In addition, there will be educational courses and trainings by vocational units and the private sector. Alternative education, self-education, and learning as a life-long process will also receive support (Section 48);
- Children, youths, and family members to enjoy more rights for physical, mental, and intellectual development compatible with their potential and environment (Section 51);
- Persons without a home or adequate income to have the right to receive State aids for the first time (Section 54);
- Extension of community rights to cases where individuals get together, with duration not long enough to be an original local community (Section 66 paragraph one). Further, before undertaking any project or activity which may cause serious environmental damage, the public, particularly those directly affected, will have to be consulted (Section 66 paragraph two). The community can sue a government agency, State agency, State enterprise, local government, or other State agency which is a juristic person to ensure compliance with the community rights provisions (Section 66 paragraph three);
- Rights for the people to monitor and to demand scrutiny of the performance of duties of a holder of political office - first time ever (Section 61 paragraph one), including access to detailed contents of Bills being considered by the National Assembly (Section 138 paragraph five) in addition to the right of access to official information (Section 55);
- Public hearings to be required before signing any international agreement with an impact on the people. After signing the agreement, the State has to give the people access to the detailed contents of the agreement signed and promptly provide remedies for those adversely affected in a fitting and just manner (Section 186 paragraph two and paragraph four); and
- People of 100,000 or more to be able to petition to get the Constitution amended - another first (Section 281(1)).
1.2 To make the exercise of rights easier through the following measures:
- Rights and freedoms are arranged in a clear and readable form: rights and freedoms of individuals (Section 32-Section 38), rights of the criminal justice, rights of information and complaint (Section 55-Section 61), rights of community (Section 65-Section 66), rights to uphold the Constitution (Section 67-Section 68), etc;
- Rights and freedoms provided in the Constitution may be invoked even if they have not been enacted; the people may exercise those immediately in courts (Section 28 paragraph three);
- The State has to promote, support, and help the people to exercise rights and freedoms (Section 28 paragraph four); and
- The number of signatures needed to recall a holder of political office will be reduced to 20,000 from 50,000 (Section 160 and Section 262 paragraph three).
1.3 Making the exercise of rights and freedoms more efficient with clear safeguards:
- Removing the phrase "as provided by law" from all Sections on rights and freedoms, which means the provisions of the people's rights and freedoms take immediate effect upon the passage of the Draft Constitution, not pending their enactment;
- Placing a time limit on enactment of organic-law Bills, so as to prevent those in authority from delaying their passage to restrict rights and freedoms (Section 293 and Section 298);
- Giving the people the right to bring before the Constitutional Court directly cases involving violation of the rights and freedoms provided in the Constitution (Section 208);
- Giving a community the right to bring cases involving violation of the rights and freedoms directly before the Constitutional Court (Section 66 paragraph three); and
- Allowing the National Human Rights Commission initiate legal action in the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Administrative Court where a law, rules, or injunctions contravene the Constitution, or human rights have been violated, doing so on behalf of the injured party (Section 248(1) and (2)).
1.4 Making the Directive Principles of the Fundamental State Policies explicit all round and more binding than before on the government by:
- Clearly differentiating the Chapter on the Directive Principles of the Fundamental State Policies to cover all aspects, including security, religion, society, education and culture, law and justice, international affairs, economy, land, natural resources and environment, science, intellectual property, energy, or public participation;
- Increasing the Principles of the Fundamental State Policies in key areas. Inter alia, the State has to develop a work system that stresses development of quality, morality and ethics of its staff; has to encourage the State agencies to adopt good governance; has to undertake law and criminal justice reforms (Section 80(5), (6)); has to encourage and support the philosophy of sufficiency economy (Section 82); has to restructure the tax and duty system to make it more equitable (Section 83(3)); has to protect the interests of farmers in production and marketing (Section 83(9)); has to provide basic public utilities and make sure they do not fall into private monopoly (Section 83(11)); has to regulate land uses based on professional principles, covering lands and waters throughout the country; has to give farmers land-use rights widely (Section 84), etc; and
- Requiring the in-coming government to declare its policy to the National Assembly ensuring that it is in line with the Directive Principles of the Fundamental Policies, stating setting out clearly what it plans to do and the related timeframes. In addition, it has to submit an annual report to the National Assembly documenting the implementation progress and results as well as problems or obstacles encountered over the past year.
1.5 Allowing public participation in the administrative activities of the local government and greater decentralization of powers to local governments so as to make them the bedrock of democracy at the national level.
- The local government has complete freedom to manage its own affairs in all aspects, including organization of public services with variety and diversity (Section 274 paragraph one) and determination of its own administrative structure to suit the local conditions and needs (Section 275 paragraph nine).
- Personnel management of the local government will be reformed such that the personnel will have the status of civil servants like their counterparts at the national level, with their own committees independent of the central government's control, powers to transfer personnel across agencies, and their own ethic committee as well (Section 279).
- Public participation at the local level will be boosted, allowing local residents to hold referendums on local matters of importance (Section 278 paragraph one and paragraph two), reducing the number of signatures required to recall a holder of local political office and to legislate local ordinances (Section 276 and Section 277), making the local government inform the public with respect to budgeting, spending, and performance so that the latter can tale part in scrutinizing and monitoring its management (Section 278 paragraph three).
- The supervisory and monitoring system of the local government will be restructured to improve its efficiency, adopting a common standard so that the administration can operate independently, giving due consideration to the suitability and difference in development levels and management efficiency of the area. The local authority is to be encouraged to determine its own modus operandi according to its needs and to set up their scrutiny mechanism (Section 273 paragraph two).
2. Reduction of concentration of power and elimination of its abuses
The 1997 Constitution wants a strong and efficient government, which is well and good. However, if the strength and efficiency is concentrated in the hands of one single person, it can easily lead to abuses of powers, as it obviously did. It is therefore necessary to reduce concentration of power and adjust the balance of power. This the new Draft Constitution tries to do by the following measures:
2.1 Empowering the people so that they become players, not watchers on the sideline by virtue of the numerous Sections cited in Part 1, for example:
- Allowing public participation in all political spheres, e.g., in administering affairs of the State (Section 55, Section 138 paragraph five, and Section 186 paragraph two), holding referendum on important issues (Section 161), and amending the Constitution (Section 282 paragraph one);
- Giving the people and the community power to sue the State for improper use of powers (Section 208 and Section 66 paragraph three); and
- Making it easier for the people to exercise their rights, e.g., reduction in the number of signatures required to recall a politician and to propose a law both at the national and local level (Section 159, Section 160, Section 276, and Section 277).
2.2 Preventing monopoly and abuse of State powers by the government as follows:
- The Prime Minister can only serve two terms or eight years (Section 167 paragraph three);
- In issuing a Royal Decree, the government will be subjected to scrutiny by the Constitutional Court. Not something to be done at whims and fancy, such legislation is reserved only for unavoidable emergency, not just to evade the scrutiny of the National Assembly (Section 181).
- A Chapter on money, finance, and budget is to be added - the first ever in Thailand - to prevent undisciplined spending and creation of a financial burden on the future government and on the country (Section 162 to Section 166). Under the present Draft Constitution, the government is required, specifically in its budget statement, to clearly state objectives, activities, plans, and projects (Section 163 paragraph one); spending from the central budget will be capped and must be justified on the basis of necessity (Section 163 paragraph two);
- The National Assembly, courts, and statutory Independent Agencies can request amendment directly to Parliamentary committees so that the government can no longer use budget appropriations as a bargaining chip (Section 164 paragraph nine). Similarly, the statutory agencies can table amendment to its own regulations to the National Assembly directly and unobstructed by the government (Section 138(3));
- The Office of Public Prosecutors will be independent from the government and can thus inspect the exercise of State powers without the government's interference, especially in proceedings against holders of political office (Section 246); and
- The scope of responsibilities of the care-taker government will be defined clearly such that it will not be able to interfere with civil servants' performance of duties, nor to use State apparatuses to support any political party or any candidate in a general election (Section 177).
- Merger of political parties with sitting members is prohibited during the term of the House to prevent excessive majority (Section 99).
2.3 Giving good people a chance to sit in the House of Representatives and freeing the members of the House from the undue influence of their party so that they can fully and truly represent the interests of the electorate and country, with the following provisions:
- The electoral system of the House of Representatives will be changed. Constituencies will be larger so that good candidates can compete in a more level field with their moneyed counterparts. The party-list system will be replaced by proportional representation with constituencies based on provincial groupings rather than the whole country, which will prevent excessive concentration of representatives from the central region. The 5% cutoff rule will also go, which will give small parties a better chance, thus conducive to political diversity.
- Members of the House of Representatives will be free from parties' resolutions in interpellating, debating, and even voting on a motion of no confidence (Section 158 paragraph two); and
- Members of the House of Representatives will be table a Bill without his or her own party's permission (Section 138(2)).
2.4 Members of the Senate will be free from the dominance of political parties since they will be selected from provinces and, separately, from occupational groups (Section 106), not through election which is prone to political meddling. With the proposed selection process, Thai politics will cease to be the exclusive preserve of elected politicians, but will belong to the people from diverse backgrounds, areas, occupations, and genders while opening up opportunities to the socially underprivileged as well (Section 108 paragraph two).
2.5 Members of the House of Representatives and of the Senate are prohibited from intervening and interfering with the performance of duties by civil servants to advance their own or party's interests, directly or otherwise, as well as in posting, appointment, move, transfer, promotion or salary increases (Section 257).
3. Making politics transparent, moral and ethical
Political transparency, morality and ethics were in serious deficit in the 1997 Constitution. Flouting those rules, the ruling politicians used all tricks and cunning to get round the law, breed conflict of interests, and enrich themselves on the back of hardships of the nation and people. For good governance, the present Draft Constitution offers the following solutions:
3.1 A clearly written Chapter on morality and ethics for holders of political office and State officials
- The ethics for holders of political office and State officials will set a clear code of conduct and criteria, apparatus, and system for efficient performance of duties, complete with a penal procedure for breaches of the code (Section 270 paragraph two); and
- A serious breach will, under the present Draft Constitution, result in removal from office (Section 270 paragraph three).
3.2 Measures to prevent political conflict of interests:
- Members of the House of Representatives and of the Senate are not permitted to hold any position in the civil service, State agencies, State enterprises, local councils, or as an administrator or civil servant in the local government. They must not receive, infringe, and interfere in the award of concessions from the State, civil service agencies, State agencies or enterprises, or be a partner in contract with the State, civil service agencies, State agencies or enterprises construable as monopoly, collusion, or partnership or holding shares in companies that obtain concessions or be a partner in contract thereof, directly or otherwise. They are not permitted to receive any payments or benefits from civil service agencies, State agencies or enterprises beyond what the civil service agencies, State agencies and enterprises offer others in a comparable business deal. Nor are they permitted to be partners or shareholders in companies involved in mass media, or partners in contract (Section 256);
- The Prime Minister, ministers, spouse, and minor offspring are prohibited to be a partner or a shareholder in partnership companies or companies, or to retain partnership or shares in the partnership companies or companies in amounts as specified by law. If the Prime Minister or a minister wishes to continue to receive the said benefits, he or she must inform the President of the National Counter Corruption Commission within 30 days of his or her appointment to office. He or she must transfer all the shares into a trust to be managed by an assets management company as required by the law. And he or she must refrain from any act that bears the resemblance of management of the shares or in the activities of the company in question (Section 260).
3.3 Stricter rules on the declaration of assets and liabilities for the holder of political office. Apart from his or her own, his or her spouse's, and minor offspring's, the amounts declared must include assets entrusted to others as well, directly or otherwise (Section 250). Just like ministers, members of the House of Representatives and of the Senate are also required to disclose their wealth to the public (Section 252).
3.4 Easier removal of members of the House of Representatives, of the Senate, the Prime Minister, and ministers on judgment by the court
- Upon the final judgment of imprisonment by the court, regardless whether it is a suspended sentence or not, a member of the House of Representatives or of the Senate is considered officially removed from office except in the case of negligence or minor offence (Section 119(4)).
- Upon delivery of a prison sentence regardless whether a final judgment or a suspended sentence, the Prime Minister or the minister is considered officially removed from office, except in the case of negligence, a minor offence, or defamation (Section 178(4)).
3.5 The President and Vice-President of the House of Representatives, the Prime Minister and ministers are prohibited from engaging in anything that bears the characteristics of a conflict of interests.
- The President and Vice-President of the House of Representatives are not permitted to concurrently hold an executive post in a political party (Section 119 paragraph six).
? The Prime Minister and ministers are not permitted to vote on matters relating to post assignment, performance of duties, or being party to the benefits thereof (Section 173 paragraph three).
4. Strengthening and increasing the effectiveness of the scrutiny process by making the scrutiny bodies freer, stronger, and more efficient
The scrutiny bodies and statutory Independent Agencies, which were the high hope of the people in the 1997 Constitution, were subjected to heavy political meddling and in the event failed to discharge their duties effectively. They stand in need of restructuring.
4.1 The selection process for the scrutinizing bodies must be restructured, and persons of independence recruited. Under the Draft Constitution, the Selection Committee will comprise the President of the Constitutional Court, the President of the Supreme Court, the President of the Supreme Administrative Court, the President of the House of Representatives, and the Opposition Leader.
4.2 The powers and duties and the way the scrutinizing bodies work must be improved. The Draft Constitution proposes the following measures:
- Under the Draft Constitution, the Constitutional Court will be vested with the power to consider cases of rights and freedoms violation brought before it directly by the people (Section 208).
- The Division of the Prosecution of Holders of Political Office of the Supreme Court will consider cases of politicians accused of not declaring their assets and liabilities or cases involving falsification of assets and liabilities declared (Section 254 paragraph two).
- The National Counter Corruption Commission will only handle cases involving high-ranking political officer holders and civil servants so as to increase its efficiency (Section 243(3)).
- Ombudsman may initiate lawsuits where public damage has occurred or public interests must be protected without waiting for complaints (Section 237(1) paragraph two).
- The National Human Rights Commission is also to receive a boost in power as it will be allowed to bring cases before the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court if any a law, ordinance, decree, or act contravenes the Constitution; and to act for and on behalf of the injured party whose human rights have been violated (Section 248(2) and (3)).
- The National Economic and Social Advisory Council will give comments on all Bills (Section 249).
- The statutory Independent Agencies, the National Assembly, and the courts can amend their own budgets directly before the Parliamentary committees (Section 164 paragraph nine).
- Members of the House of Representatives can censure the Prime Minister more easily if they can gather votes of one quarter of the total number of the existing members of the House (Section 154 paragraph one). They can also lodge a no-confidence debate against a minister who has moved to another cabinet post to avoid sanctions (Section 155 paragraph two and paragraph three). Both the Prime Minister and ministers can now be made to answer questions in person on the House floor (Section 158).
- The Office of Public Prosecutors will be separated from the government so that it can work more independently in the scrutiny of the exercise of State powers (Section 246).
4.3 Setting up a system of scrutiny over the performance of the statutory Independent Agencies
- Issue of a "red card" and "yellow card" by the Election Commission can be appealed to the Supreme Court. Similar problems at local government elections can be dealt with by the provincial appellate court or regional appellate court (Section 233).
- Rules, orders, or other actions of the statutory bodies relating to the application of law or to performance of administrative duties can be scrutinized by the Supreme Administrative Court (Section 218 paragraph one).
- Ombudsman will have power to investigate negligence of duties or misfeasance of other statutory agencies or agencies within the justice process (Section 237(1)(d or ?)).
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LISBON - In Columbiana County Municipal Court, an Aug. 5 pretrial was set for Valerie J. Rockenberger, 44, North Market Street, East Palestine, charged with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct for allegedly interrupting deputies' attempts to investigate a call about a person with a gun in the area of Lotze Drive, East Palestine on Monday.
Brian L. Jarvis, 59, last known address Saltwell Road, Lisbon, signed a waiver of extradition allowing him to be returned to Texas where he has a warrant for an alleged parole violation. Jarvis was stopped by Perry Township police on state Route 344 at Cunningham Road on Monday.
Logan D. Hull, 24, Arbor Road, Mechanicstown, was fined $1,000, had his license suspended for a year and was sentenced to 10 days in jail for OVI second offense. A failure to display a valid sticker citation was dismissed.
Eric Bell, 25, North Lincoln Avenue, Salem, was fined $825, required to attend a three-day counseling program and had his license suspended for 180 days for drug paraphernalia and physical control.
James T. Mills, 49, West Pershing Street, Salem, was fined $700, had his license suspended for a year and required 40 hours community service for OVI first offense and a turn signal violation.
John R. Hall, 23, Niles, was fined $675, required 30 hours of community service, had his license suspended for six months and sentenced to attend a three-day program for OVI first offense.
Heath A. Broadbent, 29, state Route 7, Columbiana, was fined $300 and had his license suspended for 180 days for possession of marijuana paraphernalia, open container, turn signal violation and loud exhaust.
Steven Watters, 36, Depot Street, Rogers, was fined $250 and required 40 hours community service for driving under suspension.
Tanya A. Papic, 59, Elberon Avenue, Salem, was fined $250 and required 25 hours community service for driving under suspension.
Jerad J. Chestnut, 24, McAllister Road, Lisbon, was fined $250, credited with one day served in jail and required 40 hours community service for persistent disorderly conduct amended from domestic violence for allegedly holding Alicia Bailey from behind while his sister, a juvenile, struck Bailey. He then threw her to the ground and injured her wrist.
Heather L. Richardson, 26, Metz Road, Columbiana, was fined $225 for speeding and no license amended from driving under suspension.
Thomas L. Kidder, 34, East Sixth Street, East Liverpool, was fined $160 for failure to reinstate a license, speeding and a seat belt violation.
Lance M. Morris, 28, Hilltop Drive, Lisbon, was fined $150, credited with a day served in jail and required 40 hours community service for assault for pushing Melissa G. Doyle, dragging her outside and slamming her head off the ground several times on June 24.
Jeremiah A. Javens, 19, Hazel Run Road, Hammondsville, was fined $150 for failure to control and permitting an operator to drive without a valid license.
Christopher Juillerat, 25, West Clark Street, East Palestine, was fined $150, sentenced to 40 hours community service and sentenced to three days in jail for criminal damaging for ripping part of another person's fence out of the ground and throwing it onto the railroad tracks on June 12.
William R. Beesler Jr., 33, County Home Road, Lisbon, was fined $150, credited with 14 days served in jail and sentenced to an additional 166 for theft. Beesler took a purse belonging to Dana Blackburn from a vehicle while it was parked at the Lisbon Eagles on June 4, taking the contents from the purse and hiding it in a mailbox.
John M. Elliott, 38, North Sumner Street, East Palestine, was fined $150, credited with three days served in jail and required 30 hours community service for disorderly conduct amended from domestic violence for grabbing Dakota Mitchell, choking him, grabbing him and pushing him into a window on April 11.
Issac LeMasters, 44, Salineville Road, Salineville, was fined $100, credited with one day served in jail and required 40 hours community service for unauthorized use of property amended from theft for taking a heater from Nancy Dixion's house and putting it at another relative's house of Feb. 27.
Amy D. Heald, 31, Depot Road, Salem, was fined $100 for two counts of license expired less than six months.
Joshua C. Pastore, 28, Alderlick Road, Salineville, was fined $100 for lighted lights required amended from speeding.
John D. Dunlap II, 40, Pennsylvania Avenue, Sebring, was fined $100 for no license amended from driving under FRA suspension.
Phoebe A. Crochet, Bayard Road, Minerva, was fined $100 for disorderly conduct amended from domestic violence for allegedly slapping her daughter in the face several times for being disrespectful.
Charges of of criminal damaging and domestic violence were dismissed against Jedidiah Wilson, 23, East Main Street, Salineville, due to the inability to locate the victim, Courtney Wilson. He was fined $75 for dogs running a large.
Artur J. Marques, 41, Brockton, Mass., was fined $70 for speeding and a seat belt violation.
Pete L. Gibson, 29, Jennings Avenue, East Liverpool, was fined $50 for no license amended from driving under FRA suspension.
Adam Lodge, 22, Boston Street, Washingtonville, was fined $50 for failure to reinstate a license and marked lanes.
A domestic violence citation against Megan R. Morrow, 27, Maple Street, Leetonia, was dismissed without jeopardy to to evidentiary issues.
A July 24 pretrial was set for George E. Faulkner, 27, Quincy Avenue, Columbiana, cited with failure to comply, hit skip private property, failure to reinstate a license, failure to control and speeding. Faulkner allegedly was found driving at 63 mph in a 25 mph zone in Columbiana, fled the vehicle and was found by a K-9 from Beaver Township behind another Quincy Avenue home on Friday.
A July 24 pretrial was set for Lance J. Dangelo, 23, East State Street, Salem, charged with assault and obstructing official business for allegedly injuring the arm of his roommate, Gerald Depanfilo on Thursday and then running from police.
A July 28 pretrial was set for Zachary D. Plumley, 23, Clark Avenue, Wellsville, charged with domestic violence for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend, Amber Watkins by slamming her to the floor, choking her and striking her in the head on Sunday.
An Aug. 7 pretrial was set for Robbin K. Zimmerman, 45, North Market Street, East Palestine, cited with passing bad checks for allegedly writing a check for $500 to Terri and Doug Riley as rent for an apartment, which was returned as being written on a closed account.
An Aug. 14 pretrial was set for Bobbi J. Mosser, 46, Fair Avenue, Salem, charged with theft for allegedly taking a bottle of liquor costing $17 from Gene's Drive Thru in Salem.
An Aug. 18 pretrial was set for Shirley Edward Moore, 52, Fairfield Avenue, Columbiana, charged with domestic violence for allegedly shoving Linda S. Moore into a refrigerator using his elbow during an argument on Sunday.
An Aug. 21 pretrial was set for John P. Clemens, 32, Tower Road, Salem, cited with OVI third offense, hit skip private property, failure to control, driving under suspension, speeding and falsification for allegedly giving Salem police a false name and birthdate on May 15.
A Sept. 2 pretrial was set for Diana L. Andre, 34, Franklin Avenue, Salem, charged with theft for allegedly having $170 in stolen merchandise stuffed under the seats of a van she was riding in on May 16. The items were reportedly taken from the Salem Walmart just before the traffic stop.


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For the fourth straight year, on a Saturday in autumn when the Syracuse University football team has a day off, Richard is organizing what he calls "Saying 'Bye' to Litter."
The idea is simple, and Richard still hopes SU, on some level, might someday get involved. Richard - a longtime advocate of efforts to beautify our metropolitan area - asks that we think about some spot in our neighborhood where the trash drives us crazy, and that we take 44 minutes out of a day when we might typically be watching football to instead clean up that spot.
Richard, a grants procurement specialist with the Syracuse school district, has been following the buildup to the visit of the Dalai Lama for an October symposium and Carrier Dome concert at SU. He said the effort to take on high-profile eyesores carries a quiet urgency this year. He's hoping that state, city and Onondaga County officials are already thinking about undertaking a major cleanup of our trashed interstate gateways before thousands of visitors start pouring into town for a gathering that will also include many prominent entertainers.
"We've got him coming here to talk about beauty and world peace, and let's face it," said Richard, who always uses this Saturday to do a neighborhood cleanup with his children. "If we can't clean up our roads for the Dalai Lama, when are we ever going to clean them up?"
- Sean