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Suchomimus was a genus of spinosaurs that lived about 121-112 million years ago in the Cretaceous. This particular example was found in Niger, Africa in 1997, and was nearly 85% complete. Back in its day, Suchomimus grew to 12 feet (4 meters) high at the hips, and 36 feet (11 meters) in length.
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Suchomimus ("crocodile mimic") was named for its narrow, 4-foot (1.2 meters) long skull, which resembles that of a long-snouted crocodile. With the most powerful forelimbs of any two-legged land animal and foot-long thumb claws, Suchomimus was the largest and most common predator of its day.
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Speaking from the Truman Library in his last speech as U.N. secretary-general, Kofi Annan excoriated the United States for abusing its power in the world community: "No nation can make itself secure by seeking supremacy over others."
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About Nicolaes (or Claes) Hals
Dutch painter
Haarlem 1628 – 1686 Haarlem
Son of Frans Hals and his second wife Lysbeth Reyniersdr.
Painter of landscapes and of genre scenes.
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His interior scenes are influenced by Jan Miense Molenaer and by Judith Leyster, both students of his father, Frans Hals.
Five of the eight sons of Frans Hals (1582/83 – 1666) became painters, after having studied under their father :
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- Frans II (1618 – 1669) genre and portrait painter
- Jan (circa 1620 – 1674) portrait painter
- Reynier (1627 - 1672) genre painter
- Nicolaes (1628 – 1686) landscape and genre painter
In 1655 Nicolaes married a rich widow, Jenneke Hendricksdr. van der Horst; they did not have any children.
About 17th century Dutch winter landscapes
North-Western Europe went through a small ice age from circa 1550 until the middle of the 19th century.
Two thirds of the winters in Holland between 1600 and 1700 were very cold with long periods of frost and snow. Especially the winters of 1662-63 and of 1671-72 were very cold; January 1684 must have been the coldest month of that century.
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It is a combination of things that has kept the Florida offense under wraps. A good portion of the blame can be heaped on team health. When Bubba Caldwell went down with a broken leg in the Tennessee game (game three on the schedule), Florida lost its one threat that scared the bejabbers out of every opponent. Caldwell was so fast and so dangerous that it left Chad Jackson in single coverage where there are few defenders capable of matching up. Without Caldwell, Jackson has been double-teamed every game and safeties have played a few yards closer to the line and that's helped stuff the run.
But it isn't just Caldwell. There's Jemalle Cornelius who hasn't been the same since a high ankle sprain in the Alabama game (game five). Jackson has been fighting through hamstring problems and other aches and pains that have limited his effectiveness the last four games. The hamstrings have limited his ability to turn on the after burners so he's mostly been found on the receiving end of dinks and dunks. Dallas Baker went down with an ankle in the Georgia game after a brilliant start in Florida's first four offensive series.
Tailback DeShawn Wynn has been bothered by a nagging shoulder injury that limited his effectiveness early in the season. He's had two excellent games back to back but he's been limited in practice during the week. Markus Manson was going to get some serious playing time at LSU but he landed with the point of the football in his chest and he bruised his sternum. He finally got on the field healthy for significant playing time against Georgia.
On the offensive line, tackles Randy Hand and Lance Butler have played healthy, but center Mike Degory has battled through some MCL and ankle problems. The real health issues have been at the guard position where Tavares Washington has missed all or parts of four games with a nagging elbow injury and Jim Tartt has been unable to play a complete game. Tartt has continuing problems from shoulder surgery in the offseason that have been complicated by a recently sprained ankle that caused him to miss the Georgia game completely.
Then there is quarterback Chris Leak, who sprained his shoulder in the Alabama game. He's been limited in practice since then but the off week prior to the Georgia game allowed him to heal up. He played his best game in weeks against Georgia.
When you throw in the learning curve to go with the lingering effect of the injury situation, it's no wonder the offense has struggled. Mullen remembers what it was like at Utah in year one when the Utes went through similar injury problems and the problems in picking up the offense, particularly with the offensive line. There were games that year --- BYU (3-0 win) and the bowl game against Southern Mississippi (17-0 win) --- that had to be won by defense and special teams.
Throughout that first year at Utah, there were struggles in the offensive line and also with quarterback Alex Smith, a pure drop back passer since his high school days, learning the nuances of the spread option offense. There were stretches during games when everything clicked for Utah and a few games when the Utes ran up a bunch of points, but there just wasn't that satisfying win where the coaching staff knew that everyone on the offense was on the same page.
All that changed in the first game of the 2004 season. The opponent was Texas A&M, which would go on to face Tennessee in the Cotton Bowl at the end of the year. Utah roared out of the gate with a 41-21 win and never looked back. The Utes went 12-0 with at least 35 points in 10 of the 12 games.
"At Utah we really struggled with the line the first year," said Mullen, who was Utah's quarterback coach. "Then in the second year, the offensive line just got it and when they got it, kinda everybody else got it at the same time.
"The lights just went on for everyone at the same time. It was that first game of the second year when it happened and all of a sudden, it was like wow! We've all got it now and then played with tremendous confidence from then on."
Do not for one second underestimate what confidence does for a team with an offensive scheme this intricate. It only takes one or two players lacking confidence to throw the entire offense out of whack and for the Gators, the confidence levels in one or two grew to several over the three-week stretch which saw road losses at Alabama and LSU.
The off week between LSU and last Saturday's Georgia game factored in as critical for Florida's staff. Chief among the goals was to somehow regain the team's self-confidence on the offensive side of the ball. That started with the offensive line.
"We spent a bunch of time cleaning everything up in that off week," said Mullen. "We showed them not just what Georgia was going to do but the mistakes they had made in previous weeks. What we tried to do was really slow it down so they could see it and grasp a better picture of things so if Georgia came out and played us in some brand new defense --- which they didn't do --- we wouldn't be overwhelmed or unprepared. We got in a good week of practice and when we got the final work on all the looks they [Georgia] had shown on film, our guys were very confident that they knew what they were doing and that they had fixed the mistakes they had been making."
In particular, the week off allowed the guards to get up to speed with Butler, Hand and Degory. Entering the Georgia game, Florida had given up 24 sacks, most of which came straight up the gut and over the guards.
In his Monday media day press conference, Coach Urban Meyer stressed how important it was for the guards to hold their own in the middle, particularly with a quarterback who is only 6-0 tall. When the pressure comes straight in his face, it's very difficult for Chris Leak to get the ball to an open receiver.
"When this happens out here [hands stretched outward to show pressure from the edge where the tackles protect] at least he can step up in the pocket and throw the ball," said Meyer. "When this happens here [hands moved inside] and that's the result of center and guards with penetration … the guards have to play better to give our quarterback the opportunity to step up and throw the ball."
Mullen got the play he needed from the guards against Georgia and because the guards made all their assignments, the entire line functioned in a very efficient way. Sophomore guard Drew Miller was so effective that he was chosen the Southeastern Conference Offensive Lineman of the Week.
Florida scored on its opening two drives and had another outstanding drive end just before the half with a fumble at the Georgia six. Had the Gators scored on that drive, it would have been a formidable 21-3 halftime lead.
Instead of the big halftime lead, the Gators led just 14-3 and with the injury situation, Florida went conservative the rest of the way. It was senseless to try to throw the ball on Georgia's very fast secondary when the Gators didn't have one of its playmaking wide receivers (Cornelius, Baker and Jackson) at full speed.
Still, Florida ran the ball very effectively, gave up just one sack and got 75 percent completions without an interception from Leak. That kind of result was made possible by the solid play from a line that didn't bungle assignments and held the Georgia pass rush at bay.
"It takes solid play all the way across the front," said Mullen. "What I really think we saw was not just solid play but great communication. I don' think we had one snap where the right guard went one way and the left guard went the other. Everybody was on the same page for once.
"It just takes a while for everyone to get it, especially on the offensive line. Even with a veteran group it takes awhile, usually longer for them than anyone else on the team. They have to function as a group and for them to work like one as a unit, it takes awhile sometimes. I think we're finally really starting to see what they can do."
The way the Gators took it to Georgia on those first two possessions and on that last possession of the first half, there is hope that Florida will grow in confidence the way that Mullen saw his Utah players grow after that first game of the 2004 season.
"Once the lights went on for them, they played with so much confidence the rest of the year," he said. "They knew what they were doing and they knew they would get the job done. It makes a real difference when all of your guys know they're going to get the job done the moment they step on the field, whether it's for practice or for a game."
The confidence gained in the Georgia win showed in Monday's practice, too. Mullen thought he saw a team starting to realize just what is possible.
"Coming out of this [Georgia] game, maybe we've gained some of that confidence," he said. "Maybe they knew what to do and what was going on in our other games, but it showed in the way they were coming off the ball and the way they played that they didn't have that inner confidence.
"They started the last game playing with the kind of passion and emotion you see with confident teams. That's something we're going to be building on all this week so we can go out and play with confidence and play hard and fast on every play. The team as a whole, you can see that the confidence gained in that win and how it showed in practice. Today [Monday] we were just a bunch of guys with a little more snap in our steps. Maybe we don't have it all figured out yet, but when we move ahead from now on, I think you'll see how we do it with a lot more confidence. We're not where we need to be yet, but I think we're going to see a difference."


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Imagine being afraid to fall asleep. Afraid, that when you close your eyes, there is a world waiting for you to explore. Waiting for you to fall asleep and then luring you into a city that you never want to see. When I close my eyes, my world is a nightmare.
I am walking along a dark, gloomy street with my footsteps echoing around me. Shadows are bouncing off the brick walls portraying people who are not there. I am alone. There is no one around me, no one to comfort me when I am scared, no one to feel my fear. I have the feeling that someone was watching me, waiting for me to make the wrong turn. The butterflies in my stomach will not go away. The full moon is towering over me, twinkling rays of light over the street and making shadows jump out at me. The sky is empty, no stars looking down on me, keeping an eye on me. I was alone. The sound of footsteps follow me but every time I look round there is no one there. The butterflies get stronger as I realise that the street I am walking along is a dead end.
I appear at home, walking through my front door waiting for my mum and dad to tell me everything is ok. Silence. There is no one at home. All the lights are off and all I can hear is the wind ratterling the windows making then bang against their frames. As I go upstairs, each step creaks under my weight. I try to tiptoe but the sound just seems to get louder. I creep into my parents' room and to my relief I see them sound asleep. I start to leave the room but I hear the stairs creaking. The fear of being followed returns with the butterflies. I step back into my parents' room only to find that they have disappeared, leaving me feeling trapped and claustrophobic. Sweat is pouring down my face and my hands are sticking to my clothes. I start to panic and sobs are chocking me as I realise that I could die here. I close my eyes and remember all the good things in life.
When I open my eyes, I am at school. I sigh in relief because I am free. I wander around the grounds, wondering why it is so empty. Then a maze starts to form around me, making me feel lost and unaware. The sound of a chain saw being revved up brings the fear back into me. I hear a scream and realise that is it coming from my own mouth. The chain saw is getting closer, I turn to run only finding that wherever I turn is a hedge. I find an opening and run as fast as legs can carry me. Suddenly my legs are pulled out from underneath me and my head smashes into a stone. My eyes close leaving me in darkness.
I awake on the school astro. It's raining and the rain is plastering my hair to my face. I can feel the warm blood trickerling down my face from when I fell. A clap of thunder rolls through the sky followed by a flash of lightning. The lightning keeps on coming, flashing all around me like strobe lightning in a theatre. I see a figure coming towards me out of the darkness. Each time he is getting closer yet he is walking so slowly. I start to shuffle backwards, faster and faster until my back hits the fence. Horror crosses my face.
Without realising it, I am on top of the Empire State building. A man is running towards me getting closer and closer. I feel his weight rush into me and I'm falling, faster and faster.
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Technology for Speech, Language, and Voice Impairments. Carrie Bruce, M.A., CCC-SLP, ATP CATEA at Georgia Tech. Communication. Provides a window into our inner selves Permits a person to express Basic wants, needs, and desires Thoughts and feelings Knowledge
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Technology for Speech, Language, and Voice Impairments
Carrie Bruce, M.A., CCC-SLP, ATP
CATEA at Georgia Tech
What is it like to not be able tospeak?
Basically, we communicate to get our needs met
If you want to know what it's like to be unable to speak, there is a way. Go to a party and don't talk. Play mute. Use your hands if you wish, but don't use paper or pencil. Paper and pencil are not always handy for a mute person. Here is what you will find: people talking; talking behind, beside, around, over, under, through, and even for you. But never with you. You are ignored until finally you feel like a piece of furniture.
Rick Kreech p. 104 in Musselwhite & St. Louis (1998),
Doreen Joseph (1986), who lost her speech following an accident, wrote:
"Speech is the most important thing we have. It makes us a person and not a thing. No one should ever have to be a thing."
Ruth Sienkiewicz-Mercer, a woman with severe physical disabilities who has never spoken, wrote
"If I were granted one wish and one wish only, I would not hesitate for an instant to request that I be able to talk if only for one day, or even on hour."
From Sienkiewicz-Mercer & Kaplan (1989)
Historical Overview Cont.
The F. Hall Roe's communication board consisted of letters and words printed on Masonite, and it was the first widely available communication aid.
Perhaps the earliest electric communication device was the POSM (Patient Operated Selector Mechanism)
Reg Maling in 1960
The Patient Initiated Light Operated Telecontrol (PILOT) allowed people to control typewriters by simply pointing a beam of light (1967)
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"The Talking Brooch," a wearable communication aid, was designed for individuals who could not talk but could type on a keyboard held in the hand.
Historical Overview Cont.
The Tufts Interactor Communicator (TIC) used scanning to provide access to display and printers and later introduced changing the scanning letter arrangement dynamically based on the most probably next characters to by selected.
Historical Overview Cont.
The Auto Monitoring Communication Board (AutoCom) was a user programmable communication/control aid designed to allow users with severe motor impairments to directly select words and phrases to communicate and write.
First portable communication (and later, computer access) aid where the user had the freedom to change their own vocabulary and rearrange the letters, words, and phrases
Historical Overview Cont.
The Portaprinter was a portable printing communication aid built into a thick briefcase like box with a scanning display and strip printer.
Historical Overview Cont.
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The thing continued to switch between looking at Anna, and trying to get a look at the stump that lay behind her.
"You're not good at subtle clues are ya?" It looked her in the eyes for a few more moments, "You're in my way."
Anna had been standing, mouth agape ever since the creature had started to talk. She was so taken aback by the circumstances that she did the only thing that seemed logical at the time.
"I'm... I'm so sorry," she apologized, stepping off to the side of the path and clearing the way.
The creature nodded to itself satisfied. It titled its head down towards the ground and the whistling sound began to build again. Steam flowed from its mouth, down to the ground and wrapped wispy trails around its paws. When a nice blanked of vapour had covered its feet, it turned around again and began backing towards the stump.
Anna had only stopped it a few feet away from the stump. It took only a few moments of travel before its rump rested against bark and it stopped once again, the whistle fading and the mist dissipating.
A toothy smile passed over the things face when it made contact with its destination.
"Home," it sighed. "Nothing like it."
It yawned and stretched its body out on the ground, closing its eyes, apparently ready for a nice nap.
"Excuse me?" Anna reached out a hand toward the thing. She had finally found the courage to talk.
A single blackish eye opened and gazed at Anna. "You're still here?"
"Yes, I'd rather not be if I could help it. You see, I've tried to leave this area before, but I ended up back here again."
Two eyes open now, the thing lifted its head a little. "I see, well that might be a problem then. What's your name girl?"
"Anna, Anna McKay."
"Blasted fairies and their dirty tricks," mumbled the creature. It stood and walked towards Anna. "I'm Teak."
"Fairies..." Anna whispered. "And what are you?"
Teak looked at Anna with an shocked look on his face. "You mean you haven't heard of a teakettler?" Teak looked solemn, "No I suppose not, we don't mess with the humans like the fairies do. We might approach a woodsman and steal an snack but that's about it. The fairies," shuddered Teak, "Take people."
Anna shivered. Her Grandmother had told her of the fairies when she was a small child. Tiny bearded folk, they would often pick on a lone traveler, whisking them away into their realm. Some would never be seen again, while others would reappear days, even weeks later and could never recall what happened to them.
"I've been taken?"
Teak shook his head. "Almost. The fairies probably scattered when I showed up. You are a very lucky girl."
Anna looked back and forth the path, she noticed that the forest was becoming much darker. It was getting very late.
"So, can I just go home?"
The teakettler looked up at Anna with its large back eyes.
"It's not that simple."


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LONDON: Expectations of easier monetary policy in Japan, along with a weaker yen, have revived talk of yen-funded carry trades, with investments in some emerging market currencies seen as most attractive.
Strategists said the prospect of selling the weak and low-interest rate yen for higher returns elsewhere could provide a final money-making opportunity of 2012 for banks' trading desks and macro funds, which have struggled in an uncertain global environment where few are willing to take on risk.
With depressed interest rates and bleak economic outlooks in many developed countries, investors looking to sell the yen are increasingly focusing on currencies from emerging markets in Asia, Europe and Latin America with higher interest rates, relatively better fiscal positions and robust growth prospects.
The yen shed around 4 percent against the US dollar in the week after Nov. 14, when talk surfaced of an early election in Japan, raising the prospect of a new government pushing the BOJ into easing its ultra-loose monetary policy.
The yen's trade-weighted value, an index calculated against a basket of developed and emerging currencies, has fallen to a near eight-month low, data showed.
"Using the yen (as a funding currency) has made sense in the last 6-7 months, but the question is, 'What do you buy?'," said Peter Kinsella, FX strategist with Commerzbank.
"Trying to find decent carry currencies with reasonably solid fiscal dynamics and with a generally positive story is difficult."
With volatility subdued, riskier and less liquid emerging market currencies are increasingly targeted by investors as they tentatively return to leveraged carry trades.
"With the fall in volatility, conditions are definitely in place for carry to come back, but perhaps in the emerging market space," said Geoff Kendrick, currency analyst at Nomura.
Indeed, while the yen has fallen to its lowest in nearly eight months against the high-yielding Australian dollar and the New Zealand dollar, it hit its weakest in 17 months against the South Korean won.
If Japan were to ease policy, yield-hungry Japanese retail investors and asset managers could give such trades a boost.
Before the financial crisis, near-zero rates in Japan saw these investors sell the yen to buy the Australian or New Zealand dollar, whose interest rates were around 7 percent.
Both those countries have since slashed rates. Australia's official cash rate stands at 3.25 percent and the central bank is expected to cut in coming months, a factor likely to keep investors away from the Aussie.
Morgan Stanley strategists recommend selling the yen against a basket of Chinese yuan, Korean won, Taiwanese dollar and the Singapore dollar.
Some money managers have already waded in.
"We are adding the Korean won, the Malaysian ringitt and looking at the Turkish lira while selling the yen," said Stuart Frost, fund manager at RWC Capital.
Investors, though, would be hesitant to make large carry trades with the euro zone debt crisis and, particularly, the US "fiscal cliff" unresolved.
Most investors expect US lawmakers to solve the problem, but if no deal is reached, the world's largest economy could be headed for a recession. That would see investors return to safe-haven currencies like the yen.
"One can see why people are dipping their toes into carry trades but I doubt they are fully going to set major positions for 2013 until the (fiscal) issue is resolved," said Chris Turner, head of FX strategy at ING.
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Despite the trigger of the yen's recent slide, the volume of carry trades is unlikely to hit levels seen before the fall of US investment bank Lehman Brothers in 2008.
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Today was a special day, The first Black President was sworn into the white house, a good thing, but my problem is.. he's one man, and human, he is prone to err..
I don't know what people expect but, I am thinking there are going to be many that will be disappointed. Some are looking for a quick fix, that isn't possible. I think we should be a little wiser than to hang our hopes on one man.
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On April 21-25, meetings were held at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, SIA informs.
Azerbaijan at these meetings was represented by a delegation led by Deputy Minister of Communications and High Technologies Elmir Velizadeh.
The delegation included head of the Information Society Development Department of the Ministry of Communications and High Technologies (MCHT) Isbandiyar Aliyev, head of Department for International Cooperation of MCHT Ayaz Bayramov, leading adviser of the same department Abbas Mammadov, chairman of the National Nuclear Research Centre (NNRC) under MCHT Adil Garibov, deputy chairman of NNRC Ibrahim Gabulov, head of the Nuclear Physics Department of NNRC Anar Rustamov and technical director of the International Relations and Accounting Centre of MCHT Mazahim Guliyev.
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On the first day of the visit, the delegation met with responsible executives of CERN and familiarized themselves with the activities of CERN's research centres - Synchrotron, ATLAS, LHC superconducting magnet test hall and others. During the meeting, CERN representatives expressed their interest in developing relations with Azerbaijan. During the meeting with leaders of the ALICE project they discussed the possibility of participation of National Nuclear Research Centre in the project.
On the next day of the visit, head of the Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (WLCG) project Ian Bird informed the delegation about the centre's computer network and TIER 0 data centre. The Azerbaijani side provided detailed information about the state-of-the-art data centre, which is expected to be commissioned in the republic in the near future.
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D.Md.: Compensatory Damages for Emotional Distress Are Available Under §§ 215 and 216(b) for Retaliation Claims
Randolph v. ADT Sec. Services, Inc.
This case was before the court on several pretrial motions of the parties. As discussed here, among the issues briefed before the court was whether compensatory damages are available to a plaintiff-employee pursuing a claim of retaliation under the FLSA. The court answered this question in the affirmative, noting the issue was one of first impression within the Fourth Circuit.
Restating the parties' respective positions, the court explained:
ADT maintains that, as a matter of law, Plaintiffs are precluded from seeking emotional distress damages because such damages are unavailable under "the very similar damages provision of the ADEA." (ECF No. 101, at 18). Plaintiffs disagree, pointing to several circuit court opinions upholding such awards. On this issue, Plaintiffs have the better end of the argument.
The court noted that the issue presented was one of first impression in the Fourth Circuit and then examined case law from other circuit and district level courts:
Neither the Fourth Circuit nor any district court within this circuit has previously determined whether a plaintiff may recover compensatory damages from emotional distress in an FLSA action. Four circuit courts of appeal—the Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Circuits—have, however, either directly or indirectly addressed the issue, and all have permitted the recovery of emotional distress damages. Moore v. Freeman, 355 F.3d 558, 563–64 (6th Cir.2004) (explaining that "consensus on the issue of compensatory damages for mental and emotional distress [in FLSA cases] seems to be developing"); Broadus v. O.K. Indus., Inc., 238 F.3d 990, 992 (8th Cir.2001) (upholding a compensatory award that may have included damages for emotional distress); Lambert v. Ackerley, 180 F.3d 997, 1011 (9th Cir.1999) (affirming an award of emotional distress damages in an FLSA action); Avitia v. Metro. Club of Chi., Inc., 49 F.3d 1219, 1226–30 (7th Cir.1995) (reducing an award for emotional distress damages after finding the award excessive, but noting that such damages are available under the FLSA (citing Travis, 921 F.2d at 111–12)).
The compensatory nature of the remedies in § 216(b) supports the outcome in these cases. "The [FLSA's] statutory scheme contemplates compensation in full for any retaliation employees suffer from reporting grievances." Moore, 355 F.3d at 563 (citing Snapp, 208 F.3d at 934; Lanza, 97 F.Supp.2d at 740); Republic Franklin Ins. Co. v. Albemarle Cnty. Sch. Bd., 670 F.3d 563, 568 (4th Cir.2012) (citing Snapp and Lanza for the proposition that the relief provided in § 216(b) "is compensatory in nature"). The text of § 216(b) expressly provides for "such legal or equitable relief as may be appropriate to effectuate" this compensatory purpose, employing the broad phrase "without limitation" to indicate that the enumerated remedies within that section are not exhaustive. 29 U.S.C. § 216(b). "[L]ike the forms of relief mentioned [therein], damages for mental anguish are intended to compensate the injured party for harm suffered." Moore, 355 F.3d at 564.
Certainly, an argument could be made that the availability of liquidated damages [under § 216(b) ] would be sufficient to fully compensate a plaintiff with proof of actual economic damages but only minor, subjective mental anguish occasioned by an employer's violation of the [FLSA]. However, in a case involving only nominal economic losses but proved retaliation consisting of concerted, directed harassment, resulting in grave emotional distress, such nominal economic damages or the available doubling of those damages would be insufficient to make the plaintiff whole. Damages for mental anguish would be the necessary compensatory legal relief "appropriate to effectuate the purposes of [the anti-retaliation provision]." Bogacki v. Buccaneers Ltd. P'ship, 370 F.Supp.2d 1201, 1203 (M.D.Fla.2005) (quoting 29 U.S.C. § 216(b)); cf. Snapp, 208 F.3d at 937 (reasoning that "district courts may have to exercise some creativity in awarding relief in retaliation cases" beyond those forms set forth in the statutory text).
The court then rejected the contrary holdings of courts that had held ADEA cases to be persuasive based upon the fact that the ADEA was patterned after the FLSA, noting that such reasoning:
fails to consider that the relief authorized under both statutes must be determined 'not in isolation, but in conjunction with the other provisions of the Act[s], the policies they further, and the enforcement framework[s] they envision.' Dean, 559 F.2d at 1038." The court further distinguished the ADEA legislative framework by pointing out that "[t]he ADEA includes an administrative conciliation process that is critical to its enforcement framework… [and] [l]ooking to this process, circuit courts have repeatedly held that emotional distress damages are unavailable in ADEA actions because they would impede mediation and conciliation by discouraging early resolution of ADEA claims.
Thus, the court concluded:
Because "full compensation is the evident purpose and paramount policy" in an FLSA retaliation action, "the more reasoned approach" would permit a plaintiff who makes a proper showing to recover damages for emotional distress. Id.; Moore, 355 F.3d at 563–64. Neither party here has addressed the strength or weakness of Plaintiffs' evidence of alleged emotional distress. Until the parties do so at trial, the court cannot conclude—as a matter of law—"that damages for mental anguish should be disallowed." Id. at 1205–06. Plaintiffs will be permitted to seek emotional distress damages through a jury trial, and their motion on this issue will, therefore, be granted.
In light of the continuing disagreement of courts regarding this issue, this might be one to watch for further appellate level developments in the future.
Click Randolph v. ADT Sec. Services, Inc. to read the entire Memorandum Opinion.
4th Cir.: Intracompany Complaints Regarding FLSA Violations Are Protected Activity Within the Meaning of Anti-Retaliation Provision of 29 U.S.C. § 215(a)(3)
Minor v. Bostwick Laboratories, Inc.
Jafari v. Old Dominion Transit Management Co.
In two new opinions, one published (Minor) and one unpublished (Jafari) the Fourth Circuit confirmed that post-Kasten, intracompany complaints of FLSA violations are sufficient to trigger the protections of the anti-retaliation provision of 29 U.S.C. § 215(a)(3).
In Minor, the lower court had dismissed the plaintiff's complaint premised on a violation of 215, holding that internal complaints, as opposed to those to a government agency, do not constitute protected activity. Reversing the lower court, the Fourth Circuit held that such intracompany complaints are indeed protected activity and thus, trigger the protections of 215.
Framing the issue the Fourth Circuit explained:
"The sole question presented by this appeal is whether an employee's complaint lodged within her company—as opposed to a complaint filed with a court or government agency—may trigger the protection of the FLSA's antiretaliation provision. This is an issue of first impression in this circuit."
Initially the court noted that neither Kasten, nor any Fourth Circuit case law was directly on point. However, following the majority of circuits to have addresssed the issue, the court concluded that the statute was ambiguous as to this point and given the remedial nature of the FLSA such informal complaints should be protected.
After discussing the ambiguity in 215's language regarding "filing" a complaint, the court reasoned:
"The Supreme Court in Kasten determined that oral complaints could constitute protected activity within the meaning of § 215(a)(3) based upon "functional considerations." 131 S.Ct. at 1333. In light of the ambiguous nature of § 215(a)(3)'s "filed any complaint" language, we find that these same functional considerations dictate that intracompany complaints qualify as protected activity within the meaning of the FLSA's antiretaliation provision.
We first consider the basic goals of the FLSA. Consistent with other authority, we conclude that, because of the statute's remedial purpose, § 215(a)(3) must be interpreted to include intracompany complaints.
The FLSA was enacted to combat "labor conditions detrimental to the maintenance of the minimum standard of living necessary for health, efficiency, and general well-being of workers." 29 U.S.C. § 202(a). "The central aim of the Act was to achieve … certain minimum labor standards." Mitchell v. Robert DeMario Jewelry, Inc., 361 U.S. 288, 292, 80 S.Ct. 332, 4 L.Ed.2d 323 (1960). To ensure compliance with the provisions enacted to serve this purpose, Congress "chose to rely on information and complaints from employees seeking to vindicate rights claimed to have been denied." Id. It included the antiretaliation provision in recognition of the fact that "fear of economic retaliation might often operate to induce aggrieved employees quietly to accept substandard conditions." Id. In light of these objectives, the Supreme Court has consistently held that the FLSA "must not be interpreted or applied in a narrow, grudging manner." Tenn. Coal, Iron & R.R. Co. v. Muscoda Local No. 123, 321 U.S. 590, 597, 64 S.Ct. 698, 88 L.Ed. 949 (1944). We likewise recognized in Ball that where the statutory language permits, "we are instructed to read the FLSA to effect its remedial purposes." 228 F.3d at 363–64.
With the statute's purpose in mind, Kasten stated that "an interpretation [of § 215(a)(3) ] that limited the provision's coverage to written complaints would undermine the [FLSA's] basic objectives." 131 S.Ct. at 1333. The Supreme Court further observed that such a limitation on the scope of the anti-retaliation provision would circumscribe flexibility in enforcing the FLSA. Id . at 1334. As a supporting point, the Supreme Court stated that "insofar as the antiretaliation provision covers complaints made to employers …, [limiting the scope of § 215(a)(3) ] would discourage the use of desirable informal workplace grievance procedures to secure compliance with the Act." Id. Following this reasoning, we conclude that an interpretation that limits § 215(a)(3)'s coverage to complaints made before an administrative or judicial body would overly circumscribe the reach of the antiretaliation provision in contravention of the FLSA's remedial purpose. Allowing intracompany complaints to constitute protected activity within the meaning of § 215(a)(3), on the other hand, comports with the statute's objectives as described by Congress's findings and the Supreme Court's interpretation of those findings.
Amici offer several persuasive policy arguments in support of this conclusion. They point out that protection of internal complaints encourages resolution of FLSA violations without resort to drawn-out litigation—and that failure to protect internal complaints may have the perverse result of encouraging employers to fire employees who believe they have been treated illegally before they file a formal complaint. Our sister circuits have voiced the same concerns in concluding that § 215(a)(3) protects intracompany complaints. See Valerio v. Putnam Assocs., Inc., 173 F.3d 35, 43 (1st Cir.1999) ("By protecting only those employees who kept secret their belief that they were being illegally treated until they filed a legal proceeding, the Act would discourage prior discussion of the matter between employee and employer, and would have the bizarre effect both of discouraging early settlement and creating an incentive for the employer to fire an employee as soon as possible after learning the employee believed he was being treated illegally.").
Indeed, the majority of circuits to consider the question of whether intracompany complaints are protected activity within the meaning of "filed any complaint" have answered in the affirmative, basing their decisions on the FLSA's remedial purpose.FN8 See, e.g., Hagan v. Echostar Satellite, LLC, 529 F.3d 617, 626 (5th Cir .2008) ("We adopt the majority rule, which allows an informal, internal complaint to constitute protected activity under Section 215(a)(3), because it better captures the anti-retaliation goals of that section."); Lambert v. Ackerley, 180 F.3d 997, 1004 (9th Cir.1999) (en banc) (finding that § 215(a)(3) covered internal complaints based on its remedial purpose); Valerio, 173 at 42 (same); EEOC v. White & Son Enters., 881 F.2d 1006, 1011 (11th Cir.1989) (same); Love v. RE/MAX of Am., Inc., 738 F.2d 383, 387 (10th Cir.1984) (same); Brennan v. Maxey's Yamaha, Inc., 513 F.2d 179, 181 (8th Cir.1975) (same); see also EEOC v. Romeo Cmty. Sch., 976 F.2d 985, 989 (6th Cir.1992) (holding that an employee's complaints to her employer were sufficient to trigger protection of the FLSA's antiretaliation provision without explaining its rationale). Cf. Brock v. Richardson, 812 F.2d 121, 124–25 (3d Cir.1987) (holding that, because of the FLSA's remedial purpose, a retaliatory firing based on an employer's belief that an employee had filed a complaint—even when he had not—was prohibited by § 215(a)(3)). Thus, we adopt the majority view by holding that the remedial purpose of the FLSA requires intracompany complaints to be considered protected activity within the meaning of its antiretaliation provision.
Supporting our conclusion is the Secretary of Labor and the EEOC's consistent position that intracompany complaints are included within the meaning of "filed any complaint." We afford agency interpretations that do not have the force of law, like agency manuals and litigation documents, respect to the extent that they possess the "power to persuade." Christensen v. Harris Cnty., 529 U.S. 576, 587, 120 S.Ct. 1655, 146 L.Ed.2d 621 (2000) (quoting Skidmore v. Swift & Co., 323 U.S. 134, 140, 65 S.Ct. 161, 89 L.Ed. 124 (1944)). Factors we consider when determining whether an agency interpretation has the power to persuade include "the thoroughness evident in its consideration, the validity of its reasoning, [and] its consistency with earlier and later pronouncements." Skidmore, 323 U.S. at 140; see also Cunningham v. Scibana, 259 F.3d 303, 306–07 (4th Cir.2001).
Here, the EEOC has set forth the position that intracompany complaints constitute "fil[ing] any complaint" within the meaning of § 215(a)(3) in the compliance manual it issues to field offices. 2 EEOC Compliance Manual § 8–II(B) & 8–II(B) n. 12 (2006). In addition, both the Secretary and the EEOC have argued in litigation that intracompany complaints are covered by the FLSA's antiretaliation provision. See, e.g., Br. for the Sec. of Labor and the EEOC as Amici Curiae at 26–30; Br. for the Sec. of Labor as Amicus Curiae, Kasten v. Saint–Gobain Performance Plastics Corp., 570 F.3d 834 (7th Cir.2009) (No. 08–2820). Thus, although it is not determinative, because the Secretary and the EEOC have consistently advanced this reasonable and thoroughly considered position, it "add[s] force to our conclusion." Kasten, 131 S.Ct. at 1335.
We conclude by emphasizing that our holding that intracompany complaints may constitute "fil[ing] any complaint" under § 215(a)(3) does not mean that every instance of an employee "letting off steam" to his employer constitutes protected activity. Kasten, 131 S.Ct. at 1334. To the contrary, "the statute requires fair notice" to employers. Id. To protect employers from unnecessary uncertainty, "some degree of formality" is required for an employee complaint to constitute protected activity, "certainly to the point where the recipient has been given fair notice that a grievance has been lodged and does, or should, reasonably understand that matter as part of its business concerns." Id. Therefore, the proper standard for the district court to apply is the aforementioned test articulated in Kasten: whether Minor's complaint to her employer was "sufficiently clear and detailed for a reasonable employer to understand it, in light of both content and context, as an assertion of rights protected by the statute and a call for their protection." Id. at 1335.
Minor's allegations here meet the standard we have articulated to the extent required to survive a motion to dismiss. The facts as alleged in her complaint indicate that Minor expressed her concerns regarding FLSA violations to the chief operating officer of her company in a meeting specifically called for that purpose. Minor also alleges that this executive-level employee agreed to investigate her claims. At this stage, these allegations are sufficient. We note again that we express no view as to whether Minor should ultimately prevail under the standard we have articulated. We simply hold that, on the facts alleged, her complaint survives a motion to dismiss."
Click Minor v. Bostwick Laboratories, Inc. to read the entire published Opinion. Click Jafari v. Old Dominion Transit Management Co. to read the companion unpublished Opinion. Also of interest is the DOL/EEOC Amici Brief filed in Jafari.


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Warren Buffett, the legendary US investor famed for his folksy homilies and his eye of the cobra, is back in the spotlight, thanks to his BBC interview this week.
The BBC billed him as "the world's greatest money maker", which seems reasonable enough, even if he has slipped from number one to number two in the wealth league table behind Bill Gates. In the States he certainly has star status. Over here he has perhaps a lower public profile than that other legendary investor, George Soros, the man who bet against sterling in 1992.
They have made their money from very different investment strategies, with Buffett focusing on long-term investment in growing companies and Soros in spotting market anomalies and exploiting them – and thereby hangs a mighty message for the whole investment community. What will lead to growth in the future? The answer has to be long-term principled investment in successful companies.
Consider where the world is now in the economic cycle. The worst of the financial crisis is past. That does not mean that there will be no unpleasant surprises in the months ahead. There will. I can see one coming when the present "quantitative easing" and other special measures come to an end. But we are not going into financial meltdown and the focus therefore shifts to what is going on in the real economy. There, some sort of turning point may have been reached but the recovery is far from secure. Even when growth has resumed it will be held back by the need to get public finances back under control.
If you want to catch a feeling for what the next few years will feel like it is hard to beat the description of the great classical economist Alfred Marshall of the world after a financial crisis. "The commercial storm leaves its path strewn with ruin," he wrote in 1879. "When it is over there is calm, but a dull, heavy calm."
The Economist magazine dug out this quote and commented that the world was facing neither a 1930s-style depression nor a decade of stagnation such as Japan experienced in the 1990s, but something more akin to Continental Europe in the 1980s, with slow growth and high unemployment.
That feels right to me. The reasons why the 1980s were so sombre on much of the Continent was the combination of the high interest rates needed to chip away at the inflation left by the 1970s, and the structural rigidities of the labour and product markets. Looking ahead the whole developed world will need to chip away at the budget deficits left over from this crisis and will have to live with inevitably risk-averse financial markets. It will be a dull and heavy period as demand is suppressed and debts are paid off.
So what can be done? Well I think we have to accept that people will continue to be angry. Right now people are angry with politicians and bankers. Clever politicians are seeking to exploit the anger at bankers and hence deflect it from themselves, hence George Osborne's attack on bankers' bonuses.
There will be a lot more of this in the months ahead. But if you find that prospect depressing, as I do, it is worth turning instead to the principles of investment as set out by Warren Buffett. We have had a period where the market manipulation approach to investment has dominated and we need one where long-term support for good companies comes to the fore.
Ultimately our wealth will be delivered by the private sector. Companies and their employees will pay the tax to underpin the services that government provides. Now whether those companies make cars or run trains – or turn people's savings into mortgages – is a secondary issue. They need capital to invest and it is the task of the financial markets, functioning properly, to provide them with that capital.
The financial markets, not the banks? Well, both of course, but we are in a period where the ability of banks to lend money will inevitably be constrained. There will, quite properly, be new regulations on them and they will have set aside more capital against their lending. In any case a lot of companies either don't want to borrow from banks or fail to meet their prudential standards.
Banks in the US and UK, though not so much in Germany or Japan, have traditionally supplied only short-term and medium-term funds for the commercial sector. Longer-term investment funds came from long-term investors, of which Warren Buffett is currently the best example. If we are going back to a more traditional allocation of financial functions – and that is what the regulators seem likely to demand – then we will need more traditional investors. That is already happening, as companies queue up to issue corporate bonds and raise new equity capital.
What can we learn from him? There are lots of Buffett quotations and here are two of my favourites: "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently." And: "We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful." But behind the quips lie a fundamental principle, which is that the point of investment is to provide capital for good companies. If the company is providing a service or producing goods that people want, eventually an investor in that company will make money out of it.
Eventually? Warren Buffett is 79 and his long-term business partner Charlie Munger is 85, so maybe it helps to be able to take a long view – it also says something about compulsory retirement ages and the youth culture of financial markets. But during this period of economic recovery it is absolutely vital for the financial services industry to demonstrate to the world that it is able and prepared to take a long view. It is in the self-interest of the industry to rehabilitate itself in the eyes of the wider community but it is also in the self-interest of the rest of us to have fully-functioning financial services.
I find it troubling that people who should know better seem to assume that it will be a benefit to society to have a smaller financial services industry. We need a more effective and secure industry and we probably need to shift the balance between banks and securities markets. But the world economy needs finance to sustain its recovery and that in turn needs investors who can look to the long term.
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