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Research Committee on
Conceptual and Terminological Analysis, RC35
Program Coordinator
- David STRECKER, University of Jena, Germany, firstname.lastname@example.com
For sessions program and schedule see
Citizenship, Cosmopolitan Recognition and Democratic ImaginariesSession Organizers
Craig BROWNE, University of Sydney, Australia, email@example.com
Gilles VERPRAET, Université Paris Ouest, France, email@example.com
Session in English
It could be argued that cosmopolitanism and citizenship involve two dimensions of recognition. Citizenship is mainly concerned with political recognition, the formal equality of members of a political community, and how rights and duties are combined (Rousseau; Marshall). Whereas the cosmopolitan thematic might be related more to cultural recognition, since it proposes modes of recognition that go beyond the limitations of exclusive citizenship and exclusive nationalism (Kant; Beck; Delanty).
Honneth claims that struggles for recognition have made citizenship more democratic, opening it to wider categories of persons and enriching its meaning in ways that are consistent with T H Marshall's typology of civil, political and social rights. By contrast, cosmopolitanism is suggestive of types of cultural recognition that are not limited to the national frame and that are contrary to the image of citizenship as defined by the exclusion of the other.
This session aims to clarify and explore how the relationship of recognition and democracy bears upon cosmopolitan citizenship. It will consider whether the elucidation of mutual recognition modifies our conception of democracy as a normative ideal and an empirical reality. Yet, it asks whether current understandings of recognition are sufficient and whether they need to be supplemented by other historical frameworks and genealogies. Given that democracy is conditioned by the horizons of expectation (Koselleck) and the sense of meaning that subjects draw from the social imaginary, such as that of a moral order of mutual benefit according to Charles Taylor and Proudhon, or the project of individual and collective autonomy according to Cornelius Castoriadis.
For this reason, historical and genealogical approaches that combine interpretations of cosmopolitanism and statements of citizenship may be heuristic, as they assist in clarifying the relations between State democratization and the extending of cultural exchanges, and between recognition and cosmopolitan democracy. The authors of reference can be reviewed on some historical periods, so as to specify the relations between ideology and utopias, between global imaginaries and proceedings of recognition (Taylor, Balibar, Delanty, Benhabib). From this can be developed some intersecting histories of political recognition.
Finally, does the notion of democratic recognition enable us to enhance a better appreciation of the recent waves of social contestation that have sought to promote democracy and its resonance implicated in their attempts to give expression to democracy through public actions and the mobilising of popular will, such as in the case of the Arab spring or the Occupy movement?
Giving and ReciprocitySession Organizer
Dave ELDER-VASS, Loughborough University, United Kingdom, firstname.lastname@example.com
Session in English
Giving is a topic that has been seriously neglected by sociologists. If we include sharing within the family or household, volunteering, charitable donations, blood and organ donation, assistance to friends, neighbours and co-workers, presents on ritual occasions such as birthdays, and the blossoming culture of digital gifts on the Internet, then giving may be as important economically as the market. Yet this is a set of social practices that is excluded from economics by its very definition of the economy, and thus a prime opportunity for sociologists to demonstrate the importance of social practices that do not conform to the neoliberal logic of the market in our contemporary social world.
Giving may also be seen as an important non-capitalist form that already exists alongside the capitalist economy, and thus as offering part of a viable alternative to the current political and discursive dominance of capitalism. Nevertheless, giving is also entangled with commercial activities, notably in the burgeoning digital economy. Papers are invited that consider how the many social practices of giving operate, as well as those that discuss the critical/political implications of these practices.
Individuality Revisited: A Concept between Cultural and Epistemological Perspectives. Part ISession Organizers
Jochen DREHER, University of Konstanz, Germany, firstname.lastname@example.com
Hisashi NASU, Waseda University, Japan, email@example.com
Session in English
The sociological discipline does not offer a standardized definition of "individualization" or "individuality," but a common tendency within different theoretical orientations points to the fact that the individual is not considered to be the isolated entity or actor, but can only be thematized within societal interrelations and interdependences. There is a focus on a process of removal from traditions and life forms within freely eligible, anonymity gaining networks, a pluralizing of life styles and the emergence of internal and external constraints which put pressure on individuals to make use of their personal freedom. Societal differentiation according to Georg Simmel causes individualization; specialization and division of work lead to individualizing processes.
Individualization is seen as the growing quantity of group affiliation and the individual is considered to be the intersection of social circles. Wilhelm von Humboldt's and Johann Wolfgang Goethe's idea of individuality postulates a "self-unfolding subject" expressing itself in its actions, relationships, and creations. Jean Jacques Rousseau connected individuality to concepts like spontaneity, natural sentiment, and authenticity while John Stuart Mill's political reflections put emphasis on the supreme obligation of government which lays in protecting individuality.
What is the specific nature of the phenomenon of individuality? Are the classical sociological and social philosophical reflections a specific product of Western thought? In some cultures, the individual may cease to be the primary unit of consciousness and instead, the sense of belongingness to a social relation is so strong that it makes more sense to think of the relationship as the functional unit of conscious reflection, especially in Japan, China, Thailand, the Philippines, India etc.
The session will challenge the classical perspectives on "individuality" uniting scholars from different cultural contexts and epistemological approaches.
Individuality Revisited: A Concept between Cultural and Epistemological Perspectives. Part IISession Organizers
Jochen DREHER, University of Konstanz, Germany, email@example.com
Hisashi NASU, Waseda University, Japan, firstname.lastname@example.com
Session in English
Power and Violence Revisited: Understanding the Theoretical Significance of Challenges to Western ModernitySession Organizers
John RUNDELL, University of Melbourne, Australia, email@example.com
David STRECKER, University of Jena, Germany, email@example.com
Session in English
The prevalent notions of power and violence in social theory have been strongly shaped by a dominant self-conception of Western modernity: Power as the capacity to enforce aims is essentially based on violence as the primary resource to suppress resistance; what has been termed modernization has brought about an increasing centralization of violence and, hence, power within the state; democratization has dissolved or, at least, diminished the repressive character of power and violence.
This conceptualization has been challenged for some time: Power does not exclusively or even primarily work by suppression; power's repressive and constitutive functions can go hand in hand and are interlinked in subtle ways; furthermore, the relationship between violence and power is more difficult than is usually assumed; they might even better be understood as antithetical; finally, modernization has not tamed or at least mitigated power and violence; the recent history of the West plainly evinces the contrary; and voices from the Global South have long contested the dominant narrative.
It is not always clear, however, what the challenge raised by postcolonial, decolonial and related critiques of Western social theory exactly consists in. Does it go beyond moral protestation and a demand for historical recognition and inclusion? Do processes of modernization more or less neglected by the dominant narrative also possess significance for how we have to understand and model the central concepts of social theory?
The session is intended to take a closer look at this question by asking: What can we learn from challenges to Western modernization about the functions and mechanisms of power and violence and their relation to each other. Hence, we invite contributions discussing issues like slavery, colonialism, connected histories, and entangled or multiple modernities with the aim of thereby refining our conceptions of power and violence.
RC35 Business MeetingSession Organizer
Renegotiating Modernity: Imaginaries, Projects and CritiquesSession Organizers
Julian GO, University of Boston, USA, firstname.lastname@example.com
Oliver KOZLAREK, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Mexico, firstname.lastname@example.com
Session in English
In the last decades the concept of modernity has been tested time and again. While rejected by many, others observed a multiplication and proliferation of modernities. We welcome papers that present projects, imaginaries and critiques of modernity that draw on `non occidental` perspectives and experiences. What kind of theories of modernity have emerged in the Asia, Africa, and Latin America and how do these negotiate, challenge, contest or even align with modernity projects elsewhere? In many countries the debates about modernity transcend the academic discourse. Literature and the arts in general are important media.
Accordingly, in order to understand how certain societies conceive of modernity, we especially welcome submissions that take these media into consideration. An important question is how a fruitful dialogue between social theory and the arts can be established.
Semantics of the Concept of Community: Different Traditions and Cultural BackgroundsSession Organizers
Alejandro BIALAKOWSKY, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, firstname.lastname@example.com
Pablo DE MARINIS, Universidad de Buenos Aires/CONICET, Argentina, firstname.lastname@example.com
Session in English
Social sciences (among other social and political discourses) are currently participating in some sort of "discursive emphasis" around the idea of community. As, in fact, they always have. All throughout the history of social sciences, there have emerged various semantics of community. Two of the most acknowledged, quite opposed to one another, are the German and the Anglosaxon traditions. The German semantics have generally tended to imbue community with affective, culturalistic, romantic and "natural" elements, and have conceived individuals as immersed in a "collective fusion", often parting from a call to "blood and ground", and making a strict delimitation of a sense of "us" strongly antagonic to a "them".
On the other side, the Anglosaxon semantics have assumed voluntaristic and proactive characteristics, which imply that subjects consciously, rationally and deliberately join a collectivity that includes them but, simultaneously, promotes their individuality. In this sense, this tradition seems to include components of other notions related to it, such as "civil society" and "civic sphere", which are based on a more individualistic, contractual and liberal notion of community than that of the German tradition. Needless to say, we are aware of the fact that the characterization of these semantics is schematic, and that there exists a number of divergent cases, of mixtures, overlappings, etc., even inside the perspective of one single author.
This is why the session calls for the presentation of works on the wide range of concepts of community found in a diversity of authors. We especially welcome contributions of scholars doing research on theories that belong to these traditions and to different cultural backgrounds, where community acquires other distinctive semantics.
Sociological Inquiries into the Concept of 'Crisis'Session Organizer
Marcos GONZALEZ HERNANDO, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, firstname.lastname@example.com
Session in English
Crisis has become a ubiquitous term to describe a widening array of facets of our contemporary societies. Nonetheless, what we mean by it is frequently vague and opaque. When we claim a particular situation is one of 'crisis', we make an underlying statement on a distance from 'normality' that might allow the enactment of profound and transformative actions that are unthinkable in other circumstances. That process, paradoxically, habitually comes accompanied with a recognition of the limits of our understanding. Crises thus point at the junction between knowledge and politics, and the way they are publicly tackled often involves moral and ethical considerations that confront us with essential aspects of our world.
Different modes and accounts of crises, in this sense, also help delineate the contours of the social time in which we dwell: for instance, as part of a cycle and thus finite (e.g. in neoclassical economic theory), as trials of our resoluteness (e.g. in wartime discourse) or more fundamentally to the end of our social world (as in eschatology). Hence what is telling about 'crisis' is not only the situation this word describes, but also the effects it has on it, especially and precisely when we are faced with the limits of our knowledge.
Acknowledging that this process is profoundly subjective, the aim of this session is to shed a light onto the implications of the use of this concept within sociology and elsewhere. Exploring the intersections between crisis and time, narrative, uncertainty and knowledge, we expect to contribute to Edgar Morin's appeal for the foundation of a discipline of crisologie, clarifying what this concept reveals and obscures when uttered – ever more frequently – to describe a rapidly changing world.
We welcome submissions that attempt to tackle these issues from a theoretical, empirical, analytical, comparative or historical point of view.
Technology and Society: How Culture-Bound are Sociological Concepts?Session Organizer
Elísio MACAMO, University of Basel, Switzerland, email@example.com
Dieter NEUBERT, University of Bayreuth, Germany, firstname.lastname@example.com
Session in English
Science and Technology are acknowledged as important features of modernity. Classical modernization theories, including Marxist approaches, articulated them with notions of progress and innovation to derive complex processes of social change largely based on diffusionist ideas. This generally up-beat approach to the relationship between science and technology and modernity came, however, to be viewed with scepticism by theoretical approaches developed within risk sociology and Science and Technology Studies (STS).
Ulrich Beck's notion of a "risk society", for instance, drew attention to the extent to which modern societies organize in response to risk created by complex technologies and the unintended consequences of their use. Equally, Science and Technology Studies (STS) re-defined the (societal) values of scientific fact-production and re-framed the realms in which technology is enacted while focusing on a notion of the "local" that emphasises its distance to notions of universality. These approaches argued against the omnipotence of science and technology, but with regard to (Western) industrialized societies. This raises the question of their validity beyond the Western context and, more importantly, whether their account of modern society yields theoretical and analytical concepts that can be applied to other societies.
In this sense, our panel is interested in raising questions over the process through which concepts and theories developed within the framework of accounts of modernity are made relevant in different societal and cultural settings and the implications of resulting challenges to sociological theory building. This will be discussed with a focus on the relation between technology and society. More specifically, the panel asks:
- How useful are approaches like risk society or STS in non-western settings and/or settings in which technology has only penetrated parts of the society?
- What are the analytical advantages and disadvantages of viewing "risk" (in Beck's understanding) as a feature of modern societies as against the much broader view that the transformation of danger into risk is an anthropological constant and, therefore, not a prerogative of modern society?
- How can the idea that societies shape technological design be applied in settings which are radically different from a cultural and societal perspective?
The Business of GivingSession Organizer
Dave ELDER-VASS, Loughborough University, United Kingdom, email@example.com
Session in English
The Concept of Society: National, Global or None?Session Organizer
Boris HOLZER, University of Bielefeld, Germany, firstname.lastname@example.com
Session in English
Although sociology is usually defined as the scientific study of society, sociologists by no means agree on what society 'is'. Some even hold that the concept is dispensable and therefore advocate a sociology without society. The latter position can be traced back to Max Weber's critique of 'collective notions' (Kollektivbegriffe) and how they reify social phenomena. It has gained new currency in the globalization debate as societies as primary units of analysis are called into question. Obviously, that line of reasoning challenges the everyday usage of the concept of society: Common parlance identifies 'societies' with particular countries and thus distinguishes 'American' from 'Indian' society. Yet precisely that kind of identification of society with the nation-state loses its credibility as increasing transnational flows and networks render any 'container theory' of society implausible. Not only economic relations but also the arts and popular culture, science, religion and political protest transcend the territorial domain of any given nation-state. Yet does it follow that we have to jettison the concept of society? Or is it rather necessary to adopt a concept of society that severs the link with the nation-state, i.e. the concept of global or world society?
Between the two extremes of having no concept of society at all and having only one, there are of course plenty of other options, e.g. various concepts of regional societies (such as European society). Against this backdrop, this session aims to reconsider the concept of society and its criticism. Papers could approach the topic from a theoretical or empirical perspective, highlight historical continuities or discontinuities in the thinking about society or discuss the meaning of 'society' and related concepts in a particular culture or region. Bearing in mind that society is a term that is used in both scientific and everyday discourses, papers could also examine the performative relationship between those two contexts of usage – how has the sociological concept influenced the common sense and vice versa? And finally, the European origins of the term – as it is used today – could spark reflections about its Eurocentrism and possible alternatives.
The session invites contributions addressing some of these issues and concerns.
The Global South and Postcolonial Perspectives in International SociologyIntegrative Session: RC08 History of Sociology, RC35 Conceptual and Terminological Analysis and WG02 Historical and Comparative Sociology.
Not open for submission of abstracts.
Time and Society. Part ISession Organizer
Hartmut ROSA, University of Jena, Germany, firstname.lastname@example.com
Session in English
The concept of time provides key-access to the analysis of the cultural and structural fabric of society. In fact, time can be seen as the essential factor that bridges or intermediates between structure and action, since, on the one hand, it proves to be solidly constructed socially, while on the other hand it figures as an individual resource and experience.
This is the core-insight that led a group of international reseachers to the foundation of the journal Time &Society in 1990. We would like to dedicate this panel to a revision of our current conceptions of social temporality. For this, we invite contributions that approach the subject from a theoretical perspective and ask for the conceptions of time in different strands of social theory. Furthermore, we are looking for contributions dealing with the temporalities of particular social spheres such as the temporality of politics, education or the economy. Finally, a specific interest lies in the identification of temporal conflicts that arise between cultures (multitemporality), classes or social spheres (desynchronization).
The journal is co-sponsoring this session and thus invites all readers and authors as well as everybody interested in the subject to a small reception following the session.
Time and Society. Part IISession Organizer
Hartmut ROSA, University of Jena, Germany, firstname.lastname@example.com
Session in English


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Immediately after Hart boys basketball opened up Foothill League play with a come-from-behind 73-68 victory over defending champions West Ranch, Indians senior guard Lewis Stallworth asked how many assists he had.
Then he asked about his field goal percentage.
"Garbage," was his critique about the answer to how he shot.
However, Stallworth put Hart on his back at West Ranch high in the fourth quarter, scoring 13 of his game-high 23 points in the final 3:30 of the game.
"I knew to win this game, I had to close strong," said Stallworth, who was 2-for-15 from the field in the first three quarters and 5-for-6 in the fourth.
West Ranch (6-10 overall, 0-1 Foothill League) led after every quarter except the most important one — the fourth.
The Wildcats turned the ball over 12 times in the second half to Hart's three, giving the Indians more opportunities to score.
West Ranch head coach Shant Bicakci said that wasn't the biggest reason for Hart overtaking the Wildcats with six minutes to play in the fourth quarter and never looking back.
"I think what it came down to was Lewis made great plays and good players make plays. He did," Bicakci said.
But it wasn't a one-man show.
Hart forward Davis Koppenhaver came off the bench to score 19 points.
He was the beneficiary of two Stallworth no-look passes that turned into layups.
But his 3-pointer with just under six minutes to play gave Hart (13-1, 1-0) a 57-55 lead.
Koppenhaver was also vital in Hart's defense.
Early on the Wildcats started the game on a 10-0 run.
That was keyed by the hot shooting of 6-foot-10-inch center Ryne Williams.
Koppenhaver was inserted after the West Ranch run and stuck to Williams and clogged the post.
The Wildcats senior had two more shots the whole game and after a six-point first quarter, ended the game with nine points.
"My job was pretty much to body up," Koppenhaver said. "He had me on height, but we're about the same weight so I was able to push him off. It was very critical."
Hart answered West Ranch's run to start the first quarter with a 9-2 run to end it.
The Wildcats led 15-13 after one frame and 37-33 going into halftime.
They got double figures in scoring from Alec Rodriguez (14 points with four 3-pointers), Izayah Doyle (12) and Ryan Beddeo (11).
Highly touted Providence of Burbank transfer Christian Ware-Berry scored nine points in his Foothill debut.
Hart received 14 points from Myles Franklin.
The Indians are the Foothill title favorites, but early on things weren't easy against a West Ranch team Bicakci calls a scrappy bunch.
"We knew they were going to come out like gangbusters," Stallworth said.
Yet that's the way Stallworth finished.


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EPSRC Early Career Research Fellow, Applied Mathematics
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Christ Church
Personal Website:
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University of Oxford
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Research Interests:
My research lies at the junction of mathematics, physics, engineering, and computation. In my thesis and early postdoctoral work, my research focussed on adaptive mesh discretisations: changing the computational mesh in some way to make orders of magnitude efficiency gains in solving complex models. In this work, I solved a problem of computational geometry that had been open in the literature for over twenty years. In my later postdoctoral work, I have focussed on the problem of automatically deriving adjoint models. Adjoints are absolutely essential for many important problems, such as weather prediction, optimising the shape of wings, and quantifying the accuracy of nuclear simulations. I have developed an entirely new approach to deriving adjoint models, which yields dramatic gains in automation, robustness and efficiency -- in some cases, from years to days. With these methods in hand, it is now possible to contemplate the automated solution of optimisation problems constrained by the laws of physics. Such applications are of huge interest and importance across all of engineering and the quantitative sciences.
- Practical Numerical Analysis, MT 2014
- Python in Scientific Computing, TT 2014
- Numerical Analysis (tutoring), HT 2014
- Constructive Mathematics (tutoring), TT 2014
- Optimisation (tutoring), TT 2014
Prizes, Awards, and Scholarships:
- EPSRC Early Career Research Fellowship, 2013
- Outstanding Thesis award from the Association of Computational Mechanics in Engineering, 2010
- Represented the UK in the PhD Olympiad of the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences, 2010
- Core member of team winning the Imperial College Research Excellence Award, 2010
- Janet Watson Memorial Prize as the best PhD student in the department in 2009
- Janet Watson Doctoral Scholarship, 2006
- Hamilton Prize, Royal Irish Academy, 2006
- Blayney Exhibition, National University of Ireland, 2006
Major / Recent Publications:
- A. G. Buchan, P. E. Farrell, G. J. Gorman, A. J. H. Goddard, M. D. Eaton, E. T. Nygaard, P. L. Angelo, R. P. Smedley-Stevenson, S. R. Merton, and P. N. Smith (2014). "The immersed body supermeshing method for modelling reactor physics problems with complex internal structures". In: Annals of Nuclear Energy 63.0, pp. 399–408. doi:10.1016/j.anucene.2013.07.044
- S. W. Funke, P. E. Farrell, and M. D. Piggott (2013). Tidal turbine array optimisation using the adjoint approach. Accepted in Renewable Energy. arXiv:1304.1768 [math.OC]
- P. E. Farrell, C. J. Cotter, and S. W. Funke (2013). A framework for the automation of generalised stability theory. Accepted in SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing. arXiv:1211.6989 [cs.MS]
- P. E. Farrell, D. A. Ham, S. W. Funke, and M. E. Rognes (2013). "Automated derivation of the adjoint of high-level transient finite element programs". In: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing 35.4, pp. C369–C393. doi:10.1137/120873558
- J. Southern, G.J. Gorman, M.D. Piggott, and P. E. Farrell (2012). "Parallel anisotropic mesh adaptivity with dynamic load balancing for cardiac electrophysiology". In: Journal of Computational Science 3.1–2, pp. 8–16. doi:10.1016/j.jocs.2011.11.002
- P. E. Farrell (2011). "The addition of fields on different meshes". In: Journal of Computational Physics 230.9, pp. 3265–3269. doi: 10.1016/j.jcp.2011.01.028
- P. E. Farrell and J. R. Maddison (2011). "Conservative interpolation between volume meshes by local Galerkin projection". In: Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 200.1-4, pp. 89–100. doi: 10.1016/j.cma.2010.07.015
- P. E. Farrell, S. Micheletti, and S. Perotto (2011). "An anisotropic Zienkiewicz-Zhu error estimator for 3D applications". In: International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 85.6, pp. 671–692. doi: 10.1002/nme.2980
- P. E. Farrell, M. D. Piggott, C. C. Pain, G. J Gorman, and C. R. G. Wilson (2009). "Conservative interpolation between unstructured meshes via supermesh construction". In: Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 198.33-36, pp. 2632–2642. doi: 10.1016/j.cma.2009.03.004


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February 27, 2013CONTACT:
Andrea Prichett (Berkeley Copwatch)Phone: (510) 229-0527 email: email@example.com Lippman (Coalition For a Safe Berkeley)Phone: (510) 517-8379 email: firstname.lastname@example.com
BERKELEY COALITION DEMANDS ACCESS TO INFORMATION ABOUT DEATH IN POLICE CUSTODYWho: Coalition For a Safe Berkeley, Berkeley Copwatch,Amnesty International UCB ChapterWhat: Press ConferenceWhere: 2100 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, BerkeleyWhen: Thursday 10:00am February 28 2013As details of the tragic death of 41 year old Berkeley resident Xavier Christopher Moore in police custody begin to emerge, residents are asking why this person died and why police are slow to release information in this case.According to Berkeley Police, officers were dispatched for a mental health evaluation at about 11:50 pm on February 12, 2013, although neighbors on the same floor heard no disturbance until the police arrived.After officers appeared at Moore's residence the situation escalated, and shortly thereafter Moore died in police custody. Neighbors observed officers carrying Moore on a gurney, unconscious and in restraints, out of the building. In a city that is known internationally for disability awareness, social consciousness and protection of civil liberties, it is unacceptable that a mental health evaluation should end in death.We are calling on advocates and individuals in the mental health community, civil and human rights, anti-racism and LGBTQ rights communities to demand answers from the City of Berkeley as to what happened that night. If misconduct has occurred, officers must be disciplined. If it was a failure of policy and administration, the public must be allowed to analyze the case and to assist in addressing this breakdown in city services. In any case, we demand that the Berkeley Police Department comply with Public Records Act requests and that they make information about that night's events available to the public as quickly as possible.
Entries Tagged 'Police Violence and Killings' ↓
February 26th, 2013 — Berkeley, Berkeley PD, Berkeley Police Review Commission, Excessive Force, Mental Illness, Police Violence and Killings, Racism, Rights
Man dies after struggle with Berkeley Police: Please come to copwatch meeting this Monday!
February 15th, 2013 — Berkeley, Berkeley PD, Excessive Force, Local Law, Police Violence and Killings, Tasers
Please come to copwatch meeting on Monday at 7pm. 2022 Blake Street * We need allies to come so we can break this into working groups and find out why a mental health call became lethal. Contact homeless services and mental health providers in the city about this.
Update: Man dies after struggle with Berkeley Police
Posted By Emilie Raguso On February 13, 2013 (3:45 pm) In Featured, News
Authorities are investigating the death of a man who stopped breathing after a violent struggle with police Tuesday night, officials said.
According to a statement released by the Berkeley Police Department just after 4 p.m. today, authorities were dispatched to the 2000 block of Allston Way for a mental health evaluation at about 11:50 p.m. Tuesday.
"Upon arrival, uniformed officers spoke with the reporting party and were directed to the 41 year old male subject's residence nearby," according to the statement. "During the contact, the subject became increasingly agitated and uncooperative to the officer's verbal commands and began to scream and violently resist. After struggling with officers they were able to gain control of the subject and place him in restraints. The subject continued to kick and scream at officers."
Police said that, due to the man's "large stature," officers asked the Berkeley Fire Department for a gurney to help transport him "for further evaluation."
"While under restraint officers determined the subject was not breathing and immediately began CPR," according to the statement. The Berkeley Fire Department took the man to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Police notified the district attorney's office, and the case is being investigated by the Detective Division, according to department policy. Also per department policy, the police officers who responded to the call have been placed on administrative leave, said officer Stephanie Polizziani of the Berkeley Police Department.
Sgt. Patricia Wilson of the coroner's office said she did not have details on the case. Generally speaking, she said, it would be investigated in the same manner as any death in Alameda County that is considered "unnatural."
Those types of investigations include consolidating reports from law enforcement agencies, reviewing the medical history, putting together a case file and interviewing witnesses.
"We don't do anything specific for law enforcement-involved cases," she said. "We investigate all deaths from the same perspective."
This story was updated at 5:30 p.m.
URL to article: www.berkeleyside.com/2013/02/13/officials-examine-death-during-berkeley-police-response/
In Chicago, Police Kill 5 African American Teenagers in One Week in November
December 16th, 2012 — Police Violence and Killings, Racism
Uhuru News reports on November 18th that five young people from across African American communities in Chicago were killed in one week in early November of 2012. In one instance, fifteen year old Dakota Bright was chased down the street and then executed with a shot to the back of the head by Chicago Police on November 8, 2012 as he walked from his school to his grandmother's house. Police reported he had a gun. Dakota Bright laid on the ground, dead and surrounded by police officers, while they tried to "locate" the gun. Over two weeks after the incident occured, the family had still not received an autopsy report, police report, or death certificate.
Kovell Curry writes that a statement was released by the family from the funeral on November 16, 'to Chicago as a warning'. It read:
"Today the family was more than disrespected by Chicago police, while trying to lay Dakota to rest there were helicopters and a mob of police following the funeral procession. The police told one of our cousins to 'shut the fuck up before you get fucked up next.' They had rifles in their hands as if we were in a third world country at war. They are trying to scare us but we are not letting up on these killers."
This matches much of what we are hearing across the Bay Area from families–their children are shot down while walking familiar paths between schools and family homes, they are consistently accused of carrying guns, and after they are shot, often at close range and in the back or on the ground, their bodies are left dead or dying for very long periods in public spaces surrounded by police. From here, the family waits months, even longer, for autopsy reports (that often don't add up…), police reports, and death certificates.
For Kovell Curry's full story in Uhuru News, see:
South San Francisco Police Department faces $10 million in damages for killing of 15 year old Derrick Gaines
November 23rd, 2012 — Excessive Force, Police Violence and Killings, Racism
From IndyBay:
"On October 30, the family of Derrick Gaines, the 15 year old who was shot and killed by South San Francisco Police Department officer Joshua Cabillo, filed a federal civil rights action against the City of South San Francisco. Family members, who are seeking $10 million in damages, hired Attorney John Burris to represent them in the wrongful death action. Burris says, "This is a clear case of racial profiling that lead to disastrous results."
The press conference was held in front of the South San Francisco Arco gas station where Gaines was killed on June 5, and Rachel Guido Red, Gaines' mother, said she hopes the civil action will lead to a change in police procedures. "These are our kids out there and there's other ways of dealing with them, other than shooting and killing them," she said.
The civil suit was additionally filed on behalf of Derrick Gaines' father, who is also named Derrick Gaines. "Every day I am having a harder time dealing with this….I know how police are, and it's killing me," he said at the press conference. "Not a day goes by I don't miss my baby…that's my only son."
For full story, see:
Vallejo turns out a crowd and together we organize to document police
September 16th, 2012 — Copwatch in the News, Police Violence and Killings, Racism
There's been a lot of organizing in Vallejo following the horrifically violent murder of Mario Romero by the Vallejo Police Department on September 2, 2012. Mario Romero was sitting in his car in front of his home with his brother-in-law when police opened fire on both men. Over 30 rounds were fired into the car, and Mario's sister, Cynquita, saw the killing unfold. Their brother in law, who was protected by Mario's body, lived through the barrage. The family of Mario and the community around them has refused to take this quietly.
There have been rallies, marches, community meetings, and press conferences. In the latest of an ongoing series of responses to this violence, the Reverend Floyd D. Harris, Jr., president of the National Network in Action, invited Berkeley Copwatch to Vallejo on Saturday, September 15th, 2012 to present a Know Your Rights Training, to discuss ways to document police activity and organize against police violence, and to meet with Vallejo civilians to discuss the role of police in all of our communities. We met at the Vallejo Police Station, and then moved to the park in the afternoon sunlight.
There was an impressive community presence: long time and senior members of the Vallejo community, including Native American activist and allies, young people and mothers, families who have also lost loved ones to the police, including the family of Guy Jarreau, Jr. (killed by police on December 11, 2012) and vibrant children everywhere. Among these gathered was Mario's family. It is difficult to put words to how the Romero family showed up there. In numbers alone, they are a presence. But it is something beyond this that affirms the family as something to reckon with, a force. They were massively pulled together and sharp and strong. They bore witness to the violence as a family.
We offer, again, our immense solidarity with this family, and our sadness with their loss.
There are stories in Vallejo about the police that are disturbing, and that echo stories from Oakland to Anaheim, and towns across California. There is the unrelenting killings of black and brown men that rise weekly in this state. There is the immediate and sprawling devastation that is wreaked on families and friends, on the circles and layers of communities affected by each police killing. And other stories emerge–the chilling details that speak to neighborhoods terrorized by police: where cops practice "predatory policing" (in these cases, specific people or families remain targets for years, even generations); where cops repetitively shine lights into the same people's living rooms night after night; where cop cars roll up on innocent civilians with their lights off, or plain clothes cops crash a scene without uniforms, and violence follows; where violence by cops is investigated internally, by the cops themselves; where ambulances don't arrive for extended periods after a police shooting, no matter how close the hospitals are; where cops make a traffic stop and the first question they ask the driver is, "Where'd you get this car?"
Everyone there knows the figures: Mario's killing was the seventh police shooting since May of this year in Vallejo, five of these were deadly. To be clear: Five people have been killed by police in Vallejo since May of this year. Vallejo has a population of roughly 117,000, with a per capita income of $26,000 and an unemployment rate from two years ago at 15.8%. People are being killed in front of their homes in Vallejo, and the community has no access to the names of officers who have used deadly force against their community in the past and who remain on the force. Even in cases where they may have fired, say, 30 rounds into a car. And, as is far too common in cases of police murders, families have difficulty accessing the autopsy reports. And, as in the recent incident, when families and friends and others in solidarity and anger organize rallies that demand answers, the Chief of Police won't come out to meet them and address their concerns.
We saw a lot of homemade buttons with Mario's pictures on them, commemorating his life cut short. We saw Guy Jarreau Jr.'s family wearing t-shirts with the date and street names of the intersection of Guy's murder remembered on the front of the shirt, and a picture of Guy. We waited to start the training because the family was holding a car wash to raise funds for the funeral.
Berkeley Copwatch stands with the family of Mario Romero, Guy Jarreau Jr., and all the other people shot by police in Vallejo. In these struggles for justice and safety, we remain committed to offer whatever solidarity, training, and resources we can to support Vallejo Copwatch and other police accountability initiatives.
In Vallejo, as in Oakland, Berkeley and across California, we need transparency into police behavior that cannot be achieved as long as Copley, the Police Bill of Rights, and the Caloca Boards are in place to protect police behavior from public scrutiny. It is from this reality that the task of patient documenting of police behavior becomes a critical aspect of a larger struggle to redefine community safety, combined with gathering together to share what we have seen, what we know. These gatherings are inspiring, and in these spaces, we find each other to fight back.
Watch this interview with Mario's sister Cynquita to see some of what is going on in Vallejo:
For local coverage of the recent Berkeley Copwatch training, see
Check this out for a personal account of Guy Jarreau Jr.'s murder by his brother Joshua Henry:
Vigil this evening at 5pm for Alan Blueford, youth killed by OPD on Sunday
May 11th, 2012 — In Memoriam, Oakland PD, Police Violence and Killings, Racism
For more information about the killing and the vigil, please see:
Seven officers placed on leave in North Chicago for assault that led to death
April 30th, 2012 — Excessive Force, Police Violence and Killings, Tasers
All of seven officers are on paid leave for the Taser and beating death of an unarmed man, while the Mayor is in favor of a "resolution that will calm the community". Community pressure remains the most effective site for accountability. For the full story, see:
Conducting Reliable Investigations: Workshop with Ali Winston.
April 25th, 2012 — Excessive Force, Oakland PD, Police Violence and Killings, Uncategorized
This is a reminder that Berkeley Copwatch will be hosting an event this coming Sunday, April at the Grassroots House. This is the second part in our Civilians' Investigation Series:
Conducting Reliable Investigations: Workshop with Ali Winston.
12 noon to 2pm.
What are some ways that civilians can research police? When we witness brutality or misconduct involving law enforcement, are there empowering and credible ways to follow up on these incidents? What are effective methods and practices for gathering information and learning about relevant laws and policies? Can we initiate civilian investigations into police department practices? Can we access information or records on individual officers? What are the legal boundaries that need to be acknowledged when doing this kind of research? In this workshop, journalist Ali Winston will discuss the current climate that allows departments and individual officers to act under a cloak of legal and procedural protections. He will go over effective investigation strategies towards collecting evidence and following up on police misconduct. This will lead into a discussion about these issues, and next steps forward.
The Berkeley Copwatch Civilian Investigations workshop series is collectively imagined with numerous activists and stakeholders. We hope these conversations will generate new ideas and strategies for holding police accountable, and to build civilian power to address policing issues in all of our communities.
Ali Winston is journalist who has reported extensively on law enforcement in the Bay Area. His work addresses misconduct, corruption, brutality, racism, surveillance, gang injunctions, federalization, use of force, the Occupy movement, and other policing issues, both spectacular and every day. His work in Oakland draws important connections between the police, city hall, and business owners, and he also addresses the role of federal law enforcement in local policing issues. Ali currently writes for the East Bay Bay Express, and his work has appeared across many papers and sites. For a serious stretch of cutting edge reporting for The Informant, he wrote almost exclusively on local policing issues, creating an archive of policing practices that included original raw documents–policies, memos, reports and other documents directly from the departments that use force against us. This work has had a significant impact on public awareness, understanding, and action in the Bay Area, and we are delighted Ali will be joining us this Sunday.
Hope to see you there.
Berkeley Copwatch
Grassroots House is located at 2022 Blake Street, 10 minute walk from Downtown Berkeley BART
See Ali's work in Colorlines:
An interview with the mother of Kenneth Harding
July 30th, 2011 — Checkpoints, Excessive Force, Police Violence and Killings, Racism, San Francisco PD
Interview with Denika Chatman on her son's recent killing by San Francisco Police Department for not paying his $2.00 train fare. His slow death, and the lack of medical assistance provided, was well documented on civilian video recordings at the scene. His mother recounts her son's life, and her relations with the police, including a SWAT team that was sent to her house following the killing:
"The way that the police have been talking to me, degrading me – they feel like they have the right to do it to me."
Interview by Natasha Reid for the SF Bayview Newspaper:
'Why should you die for a transfer?'
July 20th, 2011 — Excessive Force, Police State, Police Violence and Killings, Racism, San Francisco PD
Willie Ratcliff reports on the SFPD killing of 19 year old Kenneth Harding on 3rd Street between Palou and Oakdale in Bayview Hunter's Point on July 16th:
Ratcliff quotes Sister Halimah Allah from Los Angeles: "As I watch another Black man – shot down in the street like a mad dog by occupation forces paid for by our tax dollars and 456 years of dehumanization – I read accounts of the incident and wonder: What is this young man's name? Who are his people: family, friends etc.? Does he have a mother? Does she know her son is dead? (Peace be upon him.)"
Ratcliff also writes:
"The San Francisco Municipal Railway, known as Muni, has followed up major rate increases in recent years with greatly intensified police fare enforcement, imposing heavy fines and even jail time for riders who are unable to prove by showing a paper transfer that they paid their fare."
See the SF BayView Newspaper, July 17th, 2011


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Board secretary Amy DeHaan-Legge resigned last week for personal reasons. The board is required to fill that vacancy within the ensuing 30 days.
Those interested in the position are asked to send a letter of interest to the board by 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 9, to board president Marie McFarland at Bay City Public Schools Administration Building, 910 Walnut St.
DeHaan-Legge's replacement will be selected by the board of education and will fill the seat until the election in November.
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By Jeanne
Meisler, MD
Lankenau Hospital
There have always been negative associations with menopause. One
concern I hear repeatedly is that depression is a fact of life once a
woman makes the transition into menopause. As you will learn from Dr.
Meisler's article, other factors can influence mental health. The
changes in hormones that occur with menopause are not the only
cause of changes in mood and a woman's sense of well being. — Beverly
Vaughn, MD, Medical Coordinator, Menopause and You Program
Menopause is an emotionally charged word, and some would say
menopause is an emotionally charged time during a woman's life. There
are a number of myths surrounding menopause, and I will try to help
distinguish myth from reality.
First of all, it is a myth that women inevitably become depressed,
irritable and/or forgetful at this time. The reality is that some women
may experience all or some of these symptoms, but others may experience
none of them.
Women have a wide range of emotional responses to menopause, based on
their individual physiology, general health, past mental health, and
familial and cultural factors. No two women will bring the same set of
contributing factors, let alone the same attitudes, fears, and
fantasies, to this watershed life event.
Certainly, women who have experienced episodes of depression earlier in
life may be at risk for developing depression with menopause, but not
necessarily. If a woman has had recurrent episodes of depression
earlier, she may be on a maintenance regimen of antidepressant treatment
(medication, which may or may not be combined with psychotherapy) which
may protect her from becoming depressed.
Many factors can affect a woman's emotional response to menopause. For
women whose main identity has been as a wife, menopause may bring an
unprecedented sense of freedom, in which they see themselves as "freed
up" to pursue other aspects of their lives.
Familial and cultural factors play a role here, as well. If a woman
experienced/observed her mother's menopause as a neutral, or positive
event, she may be more likely to have that expectation for herself. The
opposite, of course, is also true.
Similarly, in a culture such as ours, which puts a high priority on
youth and youthful beauty, this may imply to some women that after
menopause, they won't be valued as highly as before. Conversely, in
cultures in which age is respected, indeed venerated, such as in China
and Japan, women may look forward to this stage of life, when they can
take their place among the highly respected elders.
Menopause is also a time of multiple life changes for many women.
Children may be leaving home, for college or work, resulting in
so-called "empty-nest" syndrome. Simultaneously, elderly parents may be
developing age-related illnesses and infirmities, leaving women in the
middle—the filling in the so-called "sandwich generation".
Also, at this time, marriages may be ending, either by divorce or by the
death of the middle-aged husband. All of these are significant losses,
and loss is a major predisposing factor to depression.
Not all women, though, may experience the time of menopause as one of
loss; for some women, there is a sense of liberation. A woman may see
herself as finally free of the responsibility of daily, nurturing
motherhood. If she's been working, she may find herself with more time
and energy to devote to her career. If she's not worked outside the
home, she may now find freedom to start a career or devote time to other
interests and pursuits.
Finally, for women who never had children, for whatever reason,
menopause may bring mourning for the mother role that now will never
In short, there are a variety of psychosocial, as well as physical,
factors which may come to the fore in menopause. A key point to
remember, from a psychiatric point of view, is that depression is not
inevitable part of menopause. Of course, if depressive symptoms do
develop, professional help should be obtained.
Basically, there are some symptoms that occur with any depression:
First, depressive mood most of the day, nearly every day, and/or
significantly decreased interest or pleasure in all, or almost all,
activities most of the day, nearly every day, for at least two weeks.
One or both of these symptoms must be present along with three or more
of the following:
significant weight loss, when not dieting, or weight
gain (e.g., a change of more than 5% of body weight in a
month), or decrease or increase in appetite nearly every
insomnia or excessive sleep nearly every day
feelings of restlessness or being slowed down nearly
fatigue or loss of energy nearly every day
feelings of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate
guilt nearly every day
diminished ability to think or concentrate, or
indecisiveness nearly every day
recurrent thoughts of death or suicide, with or without
a specific plan
These are the hallmark symptoms of depression and any woman experiencing
the first and/or second, along with at least three of the others for
more than two weeks should seek psychiatric help.
For the majority of women, however, menopause is either a neutral or
positive milestone. Given current life expectations, for most
women, if they take care of themselves in terms of basic healthy
lifestyle (diet, sleep, exercise, etc.) and keep their minds challenged
(with paid careers, volunteer work, active social lives, etc.), the
decades of menopause can be a challenging, fulfilling part of
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Brazilian distributor teams on cinema deal
Vet Brazilian distribution exec Marco Aurelio Marcondes has teamed with the country's digital cinema pioneers Fabio Lima and Jose Eduardo Ferrao to create MovieMobz, a groundbreaking Cinema on Demand initiative.
The COD company has struck its first output deal, sealing all Latin American rights to the back catalog and first-run films of Argentinean sales agent FilmSharks Intl.
One of Brazil's best-known distrib execs, Marcondes formerly partnered with top indie distrib Europa Films. Rain Network is Latin America's biggest digital cinema operator. It has already aided the installation of digital projection systems and software theater management systems — allowing digital systems to function — in all of Brazil's 149 arthouse screens, transmitting pics to hardtops via Comsat.
But MovieMobz takes digital cinema one step further. Aiming to launch in early April, Rain's COD will allow moviegoers, grouped in online MovieMobz.com film clubs, to recommend what films play when and where over Rain's digital cinema network.
Once exhibitors slot a film, virtual cinema club members can buy tickets, refer further wishlists to friends and, exploiting MovieMobz's social networking system, let other people know what films they're attending.
"For the first time in the market, we are offering new opportunities for the entire cinema chain: Consumers can choose their content; exhibitors can more efficiently program their screens; and content licensors can more easily find their audience," Lima said.
MovieMobz will book film screenings of new and old features as well as niche content, Marcondes added.
The FilmSharks deal is a split-revenue arrangement, with MovieMobz making a minimum advertising commitment. Pact, inked at the Berlinale, includes Conrad Clark's "Soul Carriage," "Futuro perfecto" and "The Photographer."
MovieMobz plans to open subsidiaries in Argentina and Mexico this year, playing off the rollout of digital cinema screens via Rain Network.


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CHAMPION - As a man who spends a lot of his time driving the highways and byways, Shawn Rounavaara made one request of the students at the "Act Out Loud" rally Thursday at Trumbull Career and Technical Center:
"Shut your phones off when you're driving. That's the safest thing you can do when you're driving," the truck driver from Warren said.
Rounavaara said the view from the cab of a semi truck offers a different perspective.
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A medical helicopter prepares to land at a mock crash scene in the parking lot of Trumbull Career and Technical Center. The simulation was set up to raise awareness to the dangers of distracted driving. Students Making A Safer Highway was among the sponsors.
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"Truck drivers can see right into your cars. I see people of all ages all the time texting while driving, talking on their phones, cutting other people off or following them too close when they're driving and on their cell phones. It's just not worth it. I've seen too many crashes and too many people get hurt," he said.
Rounavaara was one of the speakers at the rally against distracted driving. The event, hosted by TCTC and its Business Professionals of America chapter officer team, was held in a TCTC parking lot.
TCTC's Students Against Drunk Driving (SADD) organization and the center's Public Safety Program assisted.
Students participated in activity stations related to safety while driving, including a driving simulator provided by the Department of Public Safety and a tricycle driving obstacle course. NASCAR Truck Racer Jimmy Weller also spoke.
Students Making Safer Highway (SMASH) school representative Chandler Hodges said the event was designed to give students an understanding of how operating a vehicle while impaired or distracted impacts their ability to drive.
"This is the first time we've had something like this rally. It really is a way to raise awareness about the importance of safe driving," Hodges said. ''They could see this firsthand and what could happen to them if they were to get in an accident.''
Justin Habraken, a senior, said classmate Ryan Francis, a senior, portrayed the driver of one of the vehicles who was checked by paramedics before being asked by Ohio State Highway Patrol officers to walk a line to see if he had been drinking.
Kris Doran, multimedia instructor at TCTC, said the distractive driving could be due to alcohol, texting, talking on a cell phone or eating while driving.
''This was to warn of the dangers of distractive driving of any kind. We were able to get different groups from the school together to get the message across and create awareness,'' Doran said.
Students in the public safety program took part in the crash rescue while multimedia students recorded it.
Champion Fire Department was on hand to assist with mock crashes. The department provided an ambulance and rescue vehicle to handle casualties.
Emmerine's Towing also took part in the crash, which included victims being transported by ambulance or medical helicopters to hospitals.


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if one thing has been made clear with these injuries, it's that tatar/nyquist are not players in the mold of datsyuk/zetterberg - they aren't the guys that are going to carry your team. they're secondary players.
WTF it's their rookie seasons. Didn't realize Datsyuk/Z could have taken over for Stevie/Feds in 02/03 time frame
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It has been more than a year since I have talked to Skeeter Skates, owner of Skeeter's Tree Stump Removal and Plow Repair in greater metropolitan Pooler.
One of the most widely debated topics today is health care. Between physicians and patients, the dialogue is markedly louder. In an ideal world, physicians successfully could manage their patients' individual health, based on years of medical training using prescribed treatments determined by examinations, appropriate tests, diagnoses and patient histories.
The Georgia General Assembly was not officially in session last week; however, work still took place on behalf of the people. With only three days remaining of the 2011 legislative session, several items still are on the agenda. The No. 1 priority is the passage of the upcoming budget for Fiscal Year 2012. In addition to the budget, numerous other highly publicized and debated issues have yet to pass this session, including tax-reform legislation, the local option for Sunday sales of packaged adult beverages and immigration legislation.
This week I got several e-mails from various associations encouraging me to become a vegetarian ... to swear off meat. I didn't read too far into any of them because it ain't gonna happen. And besides, I was taught not to swear.
The glaring exception in Georgia's lobbyist disclosure requirements is not the kind of thing for which any state should want to be singled out. Yet Peggy Kerns, director of the Center for Ethics in Government at the National Conference of State Legislatures, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution she knows of no other state where that exception applies.
Much has happened since the Georgia Board of Education unanimously adopted the Common Core State Standards Initiative. Both a new governor and new state school superintendent have come on board, and we will receive a $400 million Race to the Top grant to help improve our public schools.
Buried beneath all of the political ploys and nearly 14 trillion dollars of debt are members of the United States military and their families, all deeply concerned for their futures.
A couple years ago, officials in Georgia thwarted an alleged plot by a group of third-grade special-education students to kill their teacher. According to the story, various versions of which were published by news outlets and websites across the state, administrators at Waycross' Center Elementary School learned of the plan when a student told authorities about it.
Just hearing the words "dependent exemption," "itemized deductions" and "tax credit phase out" makes most of us want to run screaming to our friendly CPA for help. As policy collides with politics in the tax debate, these concepts have moved to center stage.
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel through a storm drain? Well, on Earth Day, which is April 22, attendees will have the opportunity to find out for themselves. Normally, the only things that travel through our storm drains are rain water and, unfortunately, litter and debris that accumulate in areas around the drains.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as ObamaCare, was signed into law March 23, 2010. More than one year later, the law remains unpopular with the public and a core fiscal concern for many voters, while many are learning just how intrusive the government mandates are.
Let's dip into the mailbag today, boys and girls, and see what is on the minds of discerning readers.
The 2011 legislative session of the Georgia General Assembly is close to the finish line, with only three days of session remaining.
The threat from the misuse of anonymous shell companies is real, and routine. Criminals use them to scam consumers, defraud the government, and launder money.
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