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Our aim is to provide a efficient and high quality NHS service
for children with hormonal (endocrine) and bone problems, delivered
by EC accredited specialists in accordance with best practice.
We offer diagnosis, treatment and support for a whole range of
common and complex endocrine conditions in children,
We run a busy service covering a large geographical area in the
North-West of England with 1000 day case endocrine admissions per
annum, over 150 children with adrenal insufficiency patients (100
children with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia) in the adrenal clinic
and over 350 children treated with human growth hormone in the
growth clinic. We run a national centre (Northern Congenital
Hyperinsulinism service, NORCHI) for the rare disorder of
congenital hyperinsulinism with over 160 active patients with the
condition. NORCHI is an European centre of excellence and provides
highly specialised PET scanning facilities for the diagnosis of
focal hyperinsulinism for children in the north of the UK.
The consultants are supported by a team of endocrine nurse
specialists. We also support young people to transition to
adult endocrinology services at two monthly Young Person's
endocrine clinics, which are run at the Manchester Royal Infirmary
(MRI) in conjunction with our adult colleagues Prof. Fred Wu and
Prof J Davies.
We also work closely with colleagues from other paediatric
specialties by holding multidisciplinary team meetings for patients
with complex kidney disorders, DSD, hypothalamic / pituitary
tumours and genetic disorders.
We provide local outreach clinics at district general hospitals
in Barrow-in-Furness, Blackburn, Lancaster, Macclesfield and
Stockport. We also provide a peripheral congenital
hyperinsulinism clinic service at Nottingham.
Basal blood tests may be performed on the day of your outpatient
appointment and if required, stimulation endocrine function tests
are performed by the trained nurses on the Medical Investigations
Unit at the Elective Treatment Centre (ETC) on Ward 76.
Inpatient procedures and admissions are arranged as required and
supervised by junior doctors.
We accept referrals from GPs, paediatricians at district
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other centres. We aim to see all urgent referrals within a week of
request. Emergency referrals by phone call are usually seen within
48 hours (including congenital hypothyroidism notified by the
Central Manchester Hypothyroidism screening laboratory).
Referral to visiting local outreach clinics are usually made
through local paediatricians in discussion with consultants or
transfers from Manchester endocrine clinics. Availability of
these clinics are limited and triaged accordingly.
The clinical service is run by five NHS consultants
Two academic consultants
Two Specialist Endocrine nursing practitioners
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Considering how well known the Burlington community is for the love of outdoor sports and open-minded culture, it is no surprise that the Sailing Team is one of the most popular and competitive club sports at UVM. We compete in the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association (NEISA), which is undoubtedly the most competitive district in college sailing. The team attends an average of 4 to 6 regattas per weekend. While the competition for spots at top events each weekend is hot, the expansive schedule ensures that everyone who demonstrates commitment and hard work at practice, will have the opportunity to sail. Most regattas that we attend are either fleet or team racing in double-handed dinghies, but the team sails in a variety of sloop and single-handed regattas as well. The team is funded as a club sport through the Student Government Association at UVM, and fundraises actively to augment its budget each season. We were lucky enough to get a brand new fleet of 18 FJs in the spring of 2013 and will have a beautiful new sailing facility, shared with the Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center, starting in the fall of next year.
We practice four days each week. On Monday through Thursday we begin practice around 2:00 and work on drills through about 6:00 PM. We run drills that emphasize boat handling and boat speed daily and mix in practice races throughout the week.
On average, we travel to 4-6 regattas each weekend. Our coach makes the pairings and decides who will go to each event by the Tuesday before the event. On Friday, each group will drive to their respective venues after classes end. For the most part, the team competes at schools that are also in the NEISA (New EnglandIntercollegiate Sailing Association), which are usually a 3-5 hour drive away. On occasion we will drive to further venues for some intersectional events.
For some it can be an adjustment, and may seem over whelming at first. However, once things slow down after the first week or two, managing your time becomes rather easy. Many of our sailors are very active members (or even officers) of other clubs and organizations and have plenty of time for other activities, school work, and social life during the sailing season.
Absolutely! We encourage recruits to come during the fall of their senior year of high school. On this trip you would have the opportunity to stay with a Freshman or Sophomore in the dorms, sit in on classes that are part of your expected major, watch a practice, and meet with our coach. In addition to getting a feel for the team and UVM's academics, you would be able to enjoy all Burlington has to offer.
Yes, though you may not be able to sail, Lake Champlain can sometimes offer chilly conditions and you want to be comfortable on the coach boat during practice. (We recommend you bring spray gear, a life jacket, proper shoes and appropriate layers.)
We have workouts twice each week. On Tuesdays and Thursdays we meet in the gym. We do a variety of exercises that place emphasis on improving agility, strength, and endurance. We meet at 7:00AM so classes usually aren't a conflict, however if you are one of the poor souls who has a class that begins at 8:00 then you can leave a few minutes early to make it on time.
We sail from September until November, and then begin again as soon as the ice thaws, usually in late March. As a substitute for lost time in March, we have a spring training trip during Spring Break, and often train with Boston teams on Fridays.
The University of Vermont does not offer scholarships for sailing; in fact, under ICSA rules no sailor may receive financial support based on sailing ability.
Burlington is a great town - it is in the truest essence a college town, complete with four local colleges. The surrounding scenery is absolutely breathtaking, and one can pursue a plethora of outdoor sports. As soon as the season ends, our sailors often head to the mountains to enjoy the winter season. With such great surroundings and such fun people, the city of Burlington is really a great place to live.

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Shane McKeever20 year old Shane McKeever is from Crossmaglen, Co. Armagh in Ireland. He has been Line dancing since the age of 3 and won his first World Championship at the age of 6. Since then he has won 18 World Titles and is currently World Male Superstar Champion and World Allstars Young Adult Male Champion, which are the top divisions in Line Dancing.
Shane also currently holds the WDSF Line Dance Male Gold medal, which he won in Taiwan, representing Ireland.
At the age of 7, Shane began to train in other styles of dance at the Ann-Marie Morgan School of Dance where he obtained Grade 5 Ballet, Grade 6 Tap, and Grade 7 Modern.
Shane then turned 12 and decided to turn his back on dancing, but instead started Gymnastics. He trained in Sports Acro with him and his partner taking 2 All-Ireland Gold Medals and a European Gold Medal in the Mixed pairs division. However Shane greatly missed the thing he enjoyed most in life, and after 4 years he returned to dancing.
Shane now also trains in Hip Hop with Ajendance Dance Company in Belfast, who are currently N.I Senior Team Hip Hop Champions and N.I Senior Duet Hip Hop Champions which is made up of Shane and the company boss Annika.
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Soles4Souls has received 213,000 pairs of new Bobs shoes from Skechers USA and is redirecting them to the affected areas, spokesman Steven Silvers said. Silvers said other shoe companies also plan to donate to the cause, but he declined to identify them until details are finalized.
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Pascual H. Poblete
Pascual H. Poblete (17 May 1857— 5 February 1921), whose real name was Pascual Hicaro, was a Filipino writer and publisher. He is recognized as one of the Tagalog translators of Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere.
Early life and education
Poblete was born in Naic, Cavite on 17 May 1857. His parents, Francisco Hicaro and Maria Poblete, named him Pascual Hicaro. He would later take his mother's maiden name for his surname. He finished his Bachelor of Arts degree at the Liceo de Manila.
Poblete wrote columns and essays for the periodical La Oceanie Española and cofounded Diariong Tagalog with fellow journalist Marcelo H. del Pilar. He also helped found another newspaper called Revistas Popular de Filipinas,s notable for being one of the first to carry articles on the lives of Filipino women. Poblete was an editor and translator for this newspaper.
He also worked on other publications such as the Patnubay ng Catolico, and was an associate editor for Ang Pliegong Tagalog in 1896.
Afterwards, Pascual Poblete founded the patriotic periodical El Resumen, in which he wrote the following passage on 12 June 1892:
Maganglalapi tayong nangagkakaisa sa usaping sarili at bakahin natin ang mga kabalbalan at paghihinala niyaong mga nagnanasang ang lalawigang kastilang ito ay maging kutang luma ng matandang kaugalian, at di man nila nagugunita na ang di mapigilang pagunlad, sa kanyang banayad na kilos ay nagbubukas ng landas sa lahat ng dako at ginigipo ang sino mang sa kanyang paglakad ay sumagabal.
United by a common tongue, let us thwart the suspicions of those who desire this land be kept a rotting stronghold for obsolete ways. They do not realize that change, inevitable, gradually opens new paths in all directions. And those who try to hinder it shall fail.
During the Philippine revolution, Poblete was first arrested as a subversive and sent to Spain, then to Africa.
When he was finally able to return to the Philippines, he became the editor of El Grito del Pueblo (Voice of the People) for the Nacionalista Party and Ang Kapatid ng Bayan.
Poblete translated Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere into Tagalog. He also published a compilation of Rizal's works under the title Dia Filipino. It was published on 30 December 1913, the seventh anniversary of Rizal's death.
During the American period, Poblete staged Amor Patrio (Beloved Homeland), a play named after an article Rizal wrote for Diariong Tagalog. The play's patriotic themes were considered subversive by the American authorities, but Poblete managed to evade arrest.
On 5 February 1921, Poblete suffered from a heart attack. He died in Manila at the age of 63.
- "Pascual Poblete." Wikipedia: The free encyclopedia. [1] (June 18, 2010).
- "Talambuhay ni Pascual Poblete." Tagalog Lang. [2] (June 18, 2010).
- Propaganda revolucionaria en Filipinoas: el Resuman y la Liga Filipina. [3] (June 18, 2010).
- "Remembering the Unremembered Filipino Patriots in Philippine Revolution." National Historical Institute. [4] (June 18, 2010).
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Social rank and Tradition were important elements of ancient Roman fashion and taste for both ancient Roman men and Roman women. However this doesn't mean that fashion and individual taste were blotted out, especially as the well-being of the Empire made the austerity of the Roman Republic a distant memory.
Caesar was well known for his flamboyant manner of dress and nowadays we might define him as a "dandy" - rather like a rebellious school child will wear a school tie in a hundred different ways so too Caesar hung his garments in a distinctive, loose and according to witnesses of the day - a rather effeminate manner.
As for women we imagine things being a little harder on them because of their relative lack of freedom, but again, riches and well being brought a strong degree of emancipation. As the traditional Roman matron's clothing left little room for fashion, a degree of self expression was found through complex hairdos and jewelry, so much so that a hairdo is often a good means of dating a Roman portrait.
Persons who had important positions of state or religion would be allowed variations in order to signify their standing. Children, by virtue of their age and sacredness, wore the sacred toga Praetexta like that of the magistrates and senators. Vestal virgins had a particular type of plaited hairdo as well as their sacred gowns. Senators had a purple stripe (clavus) down the front of their tunic.
The manner of folding and wearing the toga was also extremely important to the Romans and it would be unusual for it to be seen worn or folded the wrong way round, draped over the right shoulder rather than the left.
The Etruscan influence on Roman dress codes was particularly noticeable in the roman priesthood which being generally conservative in habits (no pun meant) left its fashions unchanged since the earliest times. It is interesting to note that during religious ceremonies such as funerals it was customary for men to cover their heads and women to uncover them which was totally the opposite to their everyday customs. The priesthood on the other hand would always cover their head.
Another interesting custom was that applied in times of disaster. In these cases everybody would dress according to the rank below them. Magistrates as Senators, Senators as Knights, Knights would remove their rings of Equites rank and the commoner-plebeians would wear the military cloak.
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The most awesome way to score in basketball is definitely a dunk. Few things will get the crowd on their feet instantly like dunking, especially when you can dunk over someone. When you can throw down in someone's face is the coolest way to beat the other team, both with points and with just making them feel defeated.
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The second point, how to palm a basketball, is really a finger strength thing. Don't ever use the excuse that your hands are too small and your fingers are too short. It is true that it is easier to palm the ball if you have big hands, but I know a lot of athletes who can palm a ball and have much smaller hands than I do.
The best way to build that is by doing finger exercises with a basketball. One of my favorite is slapping the basketball back and forth between my hands and squeezing the ball with my fingers each time. Really try to grab the ball and hold it. This will get your fingers used to grabbing the ball rather than just holding it.
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The practical side of raising seat heights is that with a U.S. population growing older and chubbier all the time, getting into these new cars is a lot easier than getting into and out of their predecessors.
Among the taller sedans:
• Ford Five Hundred and Mercury Montego sedans and Ford Freestyle wagon, launching later this year. They sit the driver and occupants 4 inches higher than the Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable that they are replacing as the heart of Ford's family car offerings.
• Chrysler 300C and Dodge Magnum, launching this spring. They have seats almost 3 inches higher than the Chrysler Concorde and Dodge Intrepid that they replace.
• The redesigned 2005 Subaru Outback wagon and sedan, due this fall. They've gained an inch of ground clearance and sitting-position height on the current models.
• Nissan Altima, which was redesigned for the 2001 model year. It sits drivers 2 inches higher than the model it replaced. It added 2 inches of overall height and 11/2 inches of headroom.
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The new Fords have made the biggest gain in height, and the automaker is confident the change will be a selling point.
"People who got in the car when we went through testing really liked it. But they didn't know right off that it was the higher position until they sat and drove awhile and got in and out," says Amy Marentic, marketing manager for the new Fords. "Then it hit them: 'Hey, it's higher; this is nice.' "
Ralph Gilles, Chrysler's director of product design, had a similar experience testing the Chrysler 300C sedan. "Ride height is one of the things people like about SUVs. But the height of these new models is actually closer to a minivan's height than an SUV's, which many consumers tell us is the ideal height," he says.
J.D. Power and Associates analyst Tom Libby says the design trend is smart. "The surge in SUVs, we think, has given a lot of traditional sedan buyers a sense of inferiority on the road," he says.
Those who study human interaction with products and design, known as ergonomics, say cars that sit higher have both emotional and practical appeal.
Emotionally, a higher, more commanding seating position gives some people a better sense of control and security.
But practically, arthritis and chronic joint disease affect one of three U.S. adults, about 45 million people. For 8 million Americans, the conditions already limit everyday activities. That makes getting out of a low-slung car or a high-slung SUV increasingly problematic.
Also making getting into and out of either the low cars or high SUVs more difficult: aging. And with the top end of the baby boom turning 58 this year, that's a surging population.
Last month, Elaine and StuartCapers of Mesa, Ariz., traded in their Jeep Grand Cherokee, the couple's fourth SUV, for a Cadillac CTS sedan. Stuart, who recently retired, is 66. And at 5 foot 4 inches tall, Elaine, 47, was tired of climbing in and out of an SUV.
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Ford says consumer testing found that buyers who are trading in minivans and SUVs for cars want to be higher because they are surrounded by much larger SUVs. "With all the big vehicles on the road, they said they didn't feel like they were in the game anymore in a traditional sedan like a Taurus," Marentic says.
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No. 24
Once and Future Houseboy
D.A. Powell
Might have stranded you there
in the pumpkin dotted tillage of Wheatland or
the strawberry patch with your bum self sucking
every last drag off the cigarette you wore
like a piece of tacky jewelry piercing your upper lip.
But you are my little liebschen.
Refined as a packet of sugar I dump
into 8 ounces of coffee. I like it when you're sweet
enough to peel the gums away from my teeth.
I like when we're in misery together, accustomed
as we are to the sad café. Zip open that pouch of crystal.
Let the cloying begin, my fine friend.
Do houseboys have houseflies? Something spews
white maggots still warm on the chaise, some
lone peacock preens in the sideyard, shakes
its feathers loose all over the portico roof.
I'm not pointing fingers. I know what happens:
you're feeling blasé; you go to the convenience store.
Six days later, you're disentangling from Reno,
pawning the only portable device you have
(which might just be your booty) and hoping
the locks weren't changed while you were away.
I should be glad to be rid of such a profligate.
But you're my evening lark. Up ahead, I am lost:
Clouds smutching the drouthy stalks of corn.
My rake, unreliable as you are. Care for me awhile.


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Multinational corporations are demanding a colossal tax break before they'll "repatriate'' billions in profits they have been hoarding overseas.
A select alliance of America's largest companies — Cisco, Pfizer, Qualcomm, and Google, to name a few — has been pressing for a bill that would temporarily slash the federal corporate income tax on offshore profits from 35 percent to 5.25 percent — a break of 85 percent. The tax holiday would ostensibly provide an incentive to return to the US Treasury between $750 billion and $1 trillion in overseas profits the companies have been sitting on.
Using a fanciful formula assuming that every dime in returned tax revenue would subsidize a new hire, Cisco's CEO, John Chambers, predicted in a Wall Street Journal column that the tax holiday would create 2 million new jobs. He called it "a privately funded stimulus of up to a trillion dollars.'' But as experience has shown, this scheme is less a jobs bill than a thinly veiled amnesty for corporate tax-dodging.
Yeah, right. Stimulus for themselves!!!


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Rose from NYC writes:
Which is the greater data connection speed – 1/.5 Mbps or 29 Mbps?
Mbps stands for Megabits per second. The slash in 1/.5 Mbps stands in for the division symbol. 1 divided by .5 equals 2 Mbps. Of course, for 29Mbps (Megabits per second) is faster than 1/.5 Mbps.
For voice calls you'll want at least a .1 Mbps connection. For HD video calls over service like Skype, you'll need at least 1.5 Mbps. To stream movies at top quality, you'll want at least 5.0 Mbps.
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In 2019 ICM celebrates 100 years since the first meeting was recorded in Belgium in 1919, the year after the first world war ended.
It is known that midwives have been making efforts to meet internationally for more than 100 years. There are records of a midwives´ conference held in Berlin, Germany, in the year 1900, when over 1,000 midwives attended. Very impressive considering at that time there were no telephones, computers, credit cards or aeroplanes, and it was not easy or even acceptable for women to travel on their own. In 1919, a group of European midwives, centred in Antwerp, Belgium, established the first beginnings of what was to become the International Confederation of Midwives. By this time, many countries already had a national association of midwives; communication among them increased and a series of regular meetings was launched.
During the 1930s and 1940s, travel and communication in Europe was disrupted by war and unrest. Unfortunately, the detailed records of the earlier midwives´ meetings and documents were destroyed.
It is not clear that every Congress was Triennial: the RCM UK book 'Behind the Blue Door' points out that the 6th Annual Congress of the International Midwives Union was held in London in 1934. Certainly there were Congresses from the late 1920's and this record would suggest a first Congress in 1928/29. At the 1934 Congress, 309 members attended from 10 countries and 5 other countries sent representatives including India and China. The Patron of the 1934 Congress was HRH the Duchess of York, later to become Queen and then Queen Mother.
After the end of the second world war in 1945, the Swedish Midwives contacted the UK midwives to see if they could revive the pre-war international grouping. In 1949 an international meeting was held in London attended by eight European countries. Over the next five years they planned a Congress and the 1954 Congress was attended by 800 midwives from 46 countries. There have been Triennial Congresses since then. As a result of the Congress, the name ´International Confederation of Midwives´ was decided and established in 1955 replacing the former International Midwives Union. The HQ was established in London with the RCM's assistant secretary Marjorie Bays as the ICM's first executive secretary.
Head Office
The ICM Council decided in 1999 to move the location of the headquarters office from London to The Hague, in the Netherlands and it has been there since. The headquarters' permanent staff has increased from the appointment in 1987 of one part-time executive secretary, to the present larger group including the Chief Executive, Technical Midwife Advisors, Communications Manager, Project Coordinator and other administrative staff.
ICM Council
The Council meets in full every three years immediately before Congress over four days. Each Midwives Association, irrespective of size, sends two voting delegates to the Congress. The maximum strength of Council is 2 x each Midwives Associations. Delegates debate and discuss policy and update core documents for example Position Statements, Guidelines, and Midwifery Standards. They provide strategic direction for ICM. They review financial statements and reports. The Board for the next triennium is appointed. Council also hears presentations from three shortlisted Midwives Associations (countries) and votes on the Congress country for 6 years hence.
Triennial Congress
ICM Congresses have become the major, regular focus for midwives' global business, professional and scientific meetings. In addition, regional meetings and conferences are often held in the years between Congresses. The venue for each Congress is decided six years ahead, and the event is co-hosted by ICM and one of its Midwives Associations. Venues over the past 50 years have included Jerusalem, Kobe, Manila, Santiago, Sydney, Vancouver and Washington, as well as numerous European cities.
ICM Archive
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Resolved: For-profit prisons in the United States should be banned.
For part one of this series, click here.
Pro PositionPrivate (for-profit) prisons for adult offenders have been operating in the United States for at least three decades and juvenile offenders even longer and now the Pro position is calling for them to be banned. They should not be scaled back or reformed or more tightly regulated. They should be banned. To justify such a position there must be a compelling problem that scaling back, reformation or regulation will not solve. For this article, I will include many of the expected positions dealing with economics and quality and I will look at the civil and moral implications of for-profit prisons, but the underlying theme will be, the existence of the profit motive as perhaps the biggest flaw of all.
No Cost BenefitThe Con cannot legitimately claim a cost benefit to allowing governments to shift prison operations to private entities.
Central to the argument in favor of privatization is the perceived inefficiency of labor costs in the operation of prisons. In using mostly nonunion labor and by controlling wages and fringe benefits, private prison companies maintain that they can efficiently reduce the costs of labor and thereby net substantial savings for the government. The promise of meaningful savings, however, is specious at best. Research to date has concluded that there is little evidence that privatization of prisons results in significant public savings. In a 1996 General Accounting Office (GAO) review of several comparative studies on private versus public prisons, researchers acknowledged, "because the studies reported little difference and/or mixed results in comparing private and public facilities, we could not conclude whether privatization saved money."7 A study by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) released in 2001 had similar conclusions, stating that "rather than the projected 20-percent savings, the average saving from privatization was only 1 percent" and "the promises of 20-percent savings in operational costs have simply not materialized." These modest savings, furthermore, "will not revolutionize modern correctional practices." [pages 1-2]
Cody Mason of the Sentencing Project cites a 2009 meta-analysis at the University of Utah looking at eight studies which concluded there was no clear fiscal advantage or disadvantage when compared to publicly managed prisons [Mason 2012:7]
Mason 2012:
Results vary somewhat, but when inconsistencies and research errors are adjusted the savings associated with investing in private prisons appear dubious. Even minimal savings are far from guaranteed, and many studies claiming otherwise have been criticized for their methodology. The available data belies the oft-claimed economic benefits of private contracting, and points to the practice being an unreliable approach toward financial stability.[page 17]
No Quality of Service BenefitCon should not be able to cite any significant increase in the quality of care or services provided by private (for-profit) prison operations. In the past, private prisons routinely degraded the quality of their services in the interest of higher profits [Austin & Coventry 2001:17]. To justify continued shift toward privatization in light of past abuses may require a genuine act of faith in the benevolence of corporations.
Austin & Coventry 2001:
The current movement to reprivatize primary facility management assumes that modern entrepreneurs are somehow more benevolent and humanistic so that the exploitations of the past will not reoccur (Walker, 1994). Critics, however, contend that privately managed facilities will bring new opportunities for corruption. Given poorly paid, undereducated, and inadequately trained staff, opponents question the professionalism and commitment that privatized staff will bring to the job.
[Alexander] Sasha Volokh wrote a revealing piece published in the Washington Post which examined the research which attempts to answer the question, "Are private prisons better or worse than public prisons?" [Volokh 2014]. Volokh compares several important aspects for determining which is measurably better. Frustrated with the lack of good cost comparisons he looks at the question of quality of service.
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Moving on to quality comparisons, the picture is similarly grim. As with cost comparisons, sometimes no comparable facility exists in the same jurisdiction. Some studies solve that problem by looking at prisons in different jurisdictions, an approach that has its own problems. (If one had a large database with several prisons in each jurisdiction, one could control for the jurisdiction, but this approach is of course unavailable when comparing two prisons, each in its own jurisdiction.) Many studies just don't control for clearly relevant variables in determining whether a facility is truly comparable. Often, the comparability problem boils down to differences in inmate populations; one prison may have a more difficult population than the other, even if they have the same security level. Usually prisons have different populations because of the luck of the draw, but sometimes it's by design, as happened in Arizona, when the Department of Corrections chose "to refrain from assigning prisoners to [a particular private prison] if they [had] serious or chronic medical problems, serious psychiatric problems, or [were] deemed to be unlikely to benefit from the substance abuse program that is provided at the facility." It's actually quite common to not send certain inmates to private prisons; the most common restriction in contracts is on inmates with special medical needs.
The Profit MotiveOne of the most important arguments which justify the Pro position is found in the profit motive. Corporations are in business to make money and increase returns for their share-holders. Granted, one may claim it is in the best interests of the corporation to provide quality services at a fair price, but in fact such balance for the long term is not normal. The directors are driven to continually ratchet-up the returns. In the prison industry, corporations can leverage the popular idiom, 'keep the criminal off the streets' to maximize profits.
Cheung 2004:
As an industry, private prison companies are beholden to the bottom line and maximization of profits. In a March 1997 Securities and Exchange Commission filing, CCA acknowledged that "the rate of construction of new facilities and the Company's potential for growth will depend on a number of factors, including crime rates and sentencing patterns in the United States." Thus, higher profits require more inmates. And because most private prisons operate on a per diem rate for each bed filled, there is a financial incentive not only to detain more inmates but also to detain them for a longer period of time. The profit motive of private prison companies inherently creates a problematic entanglement between interest in profit and public policy. Corporate Contributions and Sentencing Policy-- Private prison companies deny that they are motivated to take proactive steps in pursuing legislation to keep their private facilities filled. Yet, both CCA and Wackenhut are major contributors to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a Washington, D.C. based public policy organization that supports conservative legislators. ALEC's members include over 40% of all state legislators—representing a serious force in state politics. One of ALEC's primary functions is the development of model legislation that advances conservative principles, such as privatization. Under their Criminal Justice Task Force, ALEC has developed and helped to successfully implement in many states "tough on crime" initiatives including "Truth in Sentencing" and "Three Strikes" laws.[page 4]
Ari Melber, writing for MSNBC describes how cost-cutting by private prisons resulted in law suits filed in Mississippi when mentally ill inmates were denied food and medical care and in Florida, prisoner health care was cut up to 50% raising concerns of mistreatment [Melber 2014].
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Many criminal justice experts say that a business built on incarceration can't help but support incarceration. A 2011 report by the Justice Policy Institute, "Gaming The System," documents how private prison companies, including CCA, have sought to advance "pro-incarceration" policies at the state and federal level. "Private prison companies have had either influence over, or helped to draft, model legislation such as three-strikes' and truth-in-sentencing' laws," the report explains, "which have driven up incarceration rates."
It is also widely reported thanks to increasing incarceration of undocumented persons living in the U.S., private corporations are seeing large profit increases as more and more of these individuals are transferred to private facilities.
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As the AP explains, these remarkable profits come in the wake of an equally remarkable lobbying campaign. In the past decade, three major private prison companies spent $45 million on campaign donations and lobbyists to push legislation at the state and federal level. At times, this money has gone to truly nefarious legislation. A 2011 report found that the private prison industry spent millions seeking to increase sentences and incarcerate more people in order to increase the industry's profits. 30 of the 36 legislators who co-sponsored Arizona's now mostly invalidated immigration law — which would have landed many more people in detention — received campaign contributions from private prison lobbyists or companies, including CCA and GEO. According to a report released last year, CCA spent over $900,000 on federal lobbying and GEO spent between $120,000 to $199,992 in Florida alone during a short three-month span in 2011. $450,000 went to the Republican national and congressional committees, while Democrats received less than half that number. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) were also among the private prison lobby's top benefactors.
For those who wish to extend the impacts of this contention, I suggest going back and reread the January 2013 PF topic on the Citizens United decision. The amount of political influence corporate America can "buy" is virtually unlimited if politicians are willing to open their hands.
Civil ResponsibilityCorporations as well as people and governments have a responsibility to be good citizens under the social contract. This generally means no one has the right to infringe the basic civil and human rights of others in society. Many feel that prisoners give up their rights when they enter the penitentiary but that simply isn't true. Many basic rights are retained founded in fundamental human rights. For example, they retain the right to be safe, to not be denied health-care, to continue to receive basic human needs including sufficient sustenance. After all, the constitution does grant everyone should be free from cruel or unusual punishment. When these things are denied, social organizations along with prisoners will sue. Some authors note an increasing number of lawsuits being filed charging private prison facilities with various civil offenses which many believe result from poorly constructed contracts between the government and the corporation and cost-cutting measures in the interest of increasing profits.
I am not going to include specific articles for this contention. You will have no trouble finding many specific examples which speak to the horrors experienced by some prisoners and the lawsuits brought before the courts. One import thing to consider, however is what happens if the corporation decides to shutdown a facility or files bankruptcy? Think about it.
The Normative ViewUntil now we have tended to look to the practical measurables of cost, quality, and so forth. We may also include in that evaluation, recidivism or numbers of violent incidents. In most cases and as exposed by scholastic researchers, there are very few "good" studies from which one may draw an overwhelming conclusion. The Pro may leverage these facts to conclude there is no reason to believe that for-profit prisons are capable of solving harms more effectively than government facilities. Since the resolution states "should be banned" we are open to explore the normative question as to why for-profit prisons "should" be banned. What important values are being harmed or is there a moral imperative to ban these corporations.
At the root of the value debate is the some-what repugnant notion it is okay for individuals to profit from the misery of others. On face it is a clear violation of Immanuel Kant's categorical imperative and the prohibition against using individuals as a mere means to an end. Most moral theorists recognize the necessity to punish criminals. This issue is, how the punishment is carried out and by whom is it carried out? This is a tricky contention because addressing philosophical issues in Public Forum debate is not common so I caution against diving deeply into the discussion and losing the judge.
For example, consider the theory of justice espoused by John Rawls who suggested a thought experiment to determine if choices are just or moral. If one was placed behind a veil of ignorance and did not know when the veil lifted would she be a free citizen or stand guilty of some crime, what choices would be made as to how the punishment should be carried out. Behind Rawls' veil where no one knows their status until the veil is lifted, people will tend to make choices which favor the least advantaged.
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Behind the veil, the parties know nothing of their own social position or personal particulars, but they do know that they will have some conception of the good that they will want to realize. They also know that they are choosing principles of punishment for a partially compliant society, that is, a society with some measure of crime, where innocent people are sometimes wrongfully convicted and punished, and in which social goods are unjustly distributed. The parties will thus anticipate a threat to their security and integrity from both crime and punishment, and they will seek principles that best protect these goods...The parties will thus select those principles of punishment that provide the greatest possible protection for the security and integrity of the worst off. This means the parties would not agree to principles that could compromise the security and integrity of the worst off in order that other better-off members of society might satisfy their less urgent interest in accruing financial advantage—an interest that is less urgent because it is unconnected to the protection of anyone's security and integrity.[page 465-466]
The impact for a government which allows its criminal justice system to operate in a way repugnant or immoral to its citizens is a loss of public trust and ultimately loss of legitimacy. Under the social contract, citizens have delegated the responsibility for criminal justice to the state to act as a neutral, unbiased administrator of justice. Is it just or moral to hand that responsibility over to private concerns whose first motivation is profit? That is the basis of the normative debate.
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On May 19, Maya Rudolph made her television producing debut with the airing of her variety show special, The Maya Rudolph Show. Rudolph, whose career took-off as an actress on NBC's Saturday Night Live, meant for the show to be a refurbished 70's era variety show reincarnation. What audiences received was.... questionable. Despite the mixed reviews of the show's pilot run, however, NBC has announced intentions to return The Maya Rudolph Show to air sometime in the near future.
The pilot version of The Maya Rudolph Show aired directly after part one of the season finale of The Voice, a popular singing competition. That night, some 7.2 million viewers tuned in to watch Rudolph and her comedian friends attempt to bring the variety genre back to NBC, something which the network had not attempted since 2010's disastrous results with Rosie O'Donnell (a show which aired only once).
Telegdy: "We're very much in discussions with" Maya Rudolph about more episodes of her variety show. Not sure on creative/format yet.
— Joe Adalian (@TVMoJoe) July 13, 2014
After the show aired, however, it was clear that the viewers who had tuned in did so for one of two simple reasons: 1) They loved Rudolph and company in Saturday Night Live and/or Bridesmaids; or 2) A large majority of the 11.5 million who tuned into The Voice simply left the TV on. My vote is for the latter.
While Rudolph may have had good intentions with the show, stating, "... 'You know what, I really feel like this is what people want right now.' I think people want to watch TV and feel good and laugh... I do feel like people want this and need this. And I wouldn't say that they're lacking it, but in the sense that there's a whole generation that doesn't even really know TV in this way," she simply missed the boat.
Rudolph herself mentions that there is a whole generation of people that have never really seen a 70's era variety show... and that's probably for a reason. Audiences today aren't near as entertained by a few B-list actors getting on stage and performing in some poorly written and acted scenes with some more poorly written and performed musical numbers spliced in-between. And with the plethora of glorious entertainment with high production values and amazing acting, who would?
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Simply put, The Maya Rudolph Show wasn't funny and potentially belonged in a completely different time and place altogether. If NBC decides to bring the show back to air, hopefully it is not as a full-time series but rather as a monthly special. If given a month to produce one show, hopefully Rudolph and crew could pull together something with better comedic theme, timing, and pizzazz. If not, Rudolph may find herself heading down the same road as Rosie O'Donnell (and no one would wish that upon anybody).
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Affectionately called the "father of motivation" by his fans, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer was an internationally renowned author, speaker, and pioneer in the field of self-development. Over the four decades of his career, he wrote more than 40 books (21 of which became New York Times bestsellers), created numerous audio programs and videos, and appeared on thousands of television and radio shows. His books Manifest Your Destiny, Wisdom of the Ages, There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem, and the New York Times bestsellers 10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace, The Power of Intention, Inspiration, Change Your Thoughts—Change Your Life, Excuses Begone!, Wishes Fulfilled, and I Can See Clearly Now were all featured as National Public Television specials.
Wayne held a doctorate in educational counseling from Wayne State University, had been an associate professor at St. John's University in New York, and honored a lifetime commitment to learning and finding the Higher Self. In 2015, he left his body, returning to Infinite Source to embark on his next adventure.
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In the first hours of life of a baby experiences so many things for the very first time. She finally has the opportunity to see the mother whose voice has been keeping her company for so long. He experiences his first breath of air, his first touch, his first kiss, his first gaze. She has her first taste of food. But there are also some unpleasant things a newborn will experience – and a few of them involve the newborn screening tests.
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