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In an attempt to create a "solar scandal" that will be "even bigger than Solyndra," Fox News is claiming that SunPower, which recently received a federal loan guarantee, is a "failing company" that is creating jobs "not in America, but in Mexico." In fact, industry experts see SunPower as "a success story" and the loan guarantee supports the construction of a power plant in California, not Mexico.
Fox Brazenly Pronounces SunPower A "Failing Company"
Megyn Kelly Calls SunPower "Another Failing Company." From the October 12 edition of Fox News' America Live:
MEGYN KELLY, HOST: Well, if you thought the Solyndra loan scandal was bad, listen to this one. New questions being raised today as we learn that another failing company, SunPower, was given a government loan guarantee for $1.2 billion, which is of course more than twice the amount given to Solyndra, which is now bankrupt. And right now that company too, not looking good.
ELIZABETH MacDONALD: SunPower has always had a rocky earnings picture. [Fox News, America Live, 10/12/11]
Elizabeth MacDonald: SunPower's Power Plant "Could Really Go Under." From the October 12 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:
BILL O'REILLY: They didn't go bankrupt yet, right?
ELIZABETH MacDONALD, FOX BUSINESS: That's correct.
O'REILLY: But they may.
MacDONALD: They could, this whole project that SunPower is helping to operate could really go under. [Fox News, The O'Reilly Factor, 10/12/11]
Steve Doocy: SunPower Is "Failing." On Fox & Friends, Steve Doocy teased a segment on SunPower by saying, "Another failing solar company, and another federal loan, but this one? Not even in the United States of America." [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 10/12/11] [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 10/12/11]
Brian Kilmeade: SunPower Is "$820 Million In Debt Despite" Getting "1.2 Billion In A Government Lifeline." From the October 12 edition of Fox & Friends:
BRIAN KILMEADE: SunPower is a solar panel company based in California. It's reportedly $820 million in debt despite the fact the company got 1.2 billion in a government lifeline with the promise of creating thousands of new jobs. The problem is, it's taking those jobs to Mexico, where a manufacturing plant was built to make the solar panels. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 10/12/11]
But Experts Say The Opposite: SunPower Is A "Success Story"
NY Times: Analysts Say SunPower Is "Strongly Placed." The New York Times reported that although China has benefitted from solar bankruptcies in the U.S., other American companies such as SunPower "remain strongly placed":
Analysts say that two American companies remain strongly placed. One is First Solar, the largest American manufacturer, which uses a different technology but has its biggest factory in Malaysia. The other, SunPower, is much smaller but is an industry leader in the efficiency with which its panels convert sunlight into electricity, so that they sell at a premium to Chinese panels. [New York Times, 9/2/11]
Expert: Odds Of SunPower Defaulting On Loan Guarantee Are "Almost Zero." "I would place the odds of SunPower defaulting [on the loan guarantee] at almost zero," Shayle Kann, a solar power market expert at GTM Research, said. Kann added, "They've already got financing in place and a guaranteed purchaser for the power." Kann called SunPower "a pretty big success story" and said that if the project were completed today, "it would be the largest solar generating facility in the world, which is part of why they needed the loan guarantee -- private financing would have been more difficult to attain otherwise." [Phone conversation, 10/13/11]
Analysts Cite SunPower As An Example Of A Safe Bet. San Jose Mercury News reported:
"Our team never understood the Solyndra value proposition," said Michael Horwitz, a cleantech analyst at Baird Research who noted that the company's cylindrical solar arrays were more costly than flat panels sold by competitors.
By contrast, he said, "Some of the other companies that have gotten money in the last six to nine months have gone through a long, arduous vetting process."
Horwitz said SunPower -- which in April won a $1.2 billion loan guarantee -- "has years of good sales in the marketplace, billions of dollars sold and a product that's arguably the best in the world."
The Department of Energy has yet to finalize SunPower's loan guarantee to help finance a 250-megawatt solar farm in San Luis Obispo County. But despite the company's recent travails -- its stock has plunged in the past month after it reported a hefty quarterly loss and said costs were rising nearly twice as fast as revenues -- "SunPower's not going anywhere," said Horwitz, whose firm does not own SunPower stock.
Part of his confidence stems from the fact that French oil giant Total S.A. bought 60 percent of the company earlier this year.
While SunPower officials declined to say whether they feared the Solyndra controversy might scuttle their loan guarantee, energy analyst Peter Asmus of Pike Research echoed Horwitz's assessment.
"Of all the solar companies, I'm the most bullish on them," said Asmus. [San Jose Mercury News, 9/23/11]
Wall Street Journal: SunPower "Has Been Competing Successfully" Against Chinese Companies. In an April 30 article, the Wall Street Journal stated: "The San Jose, Calif.-based SunPower is one of a handful of solar-panel companies based in the U.S. and Europe that has been competing successfully for market against rapidly growing Chinese panel makers." [Wall Street Journal, 4/30/11]
Breakthrough Institute: SunPower Is An "Industry Leading Success Stor[y]." Jesse Jenkins, Devon Swezey, and Alex Trembath of the Breakthrough Institute wrote:
Instead of "picking winners and losers," as the program's critics allege, the program actually reduces risk for a suite of innovative clean energy technologies and allows venture capitalists and other private sector investors to invest in the best technology. Rather than picking winners, the LGP enables innovative companies to compete in the marketplace, allowing winners to emerge from competition. And while Solyndra is shutting its doors, companies like SunPower, First Solar, and Brightsource Energy, which also received loan guarantees and other support from the federal government, are industry leading success stories. [Forbes, 9/2/11]
Wash. Post: SunPower Is "Going Strong." Debunking the myth that "Solyndra proves that energy-loan guarantees are a flop," The Washington Post's Brad Plumer wrote:
The Energy Department's loan-guarantee program, enacted in 2005 with bipartisan support, has backed nearly $38 billion in loans for 40 projects around the country. Solyndra represents just 1.3 percent of that portfolio -- and, as yet, it's the only loan that has soured. Other solar beneficiaries, such as SunPower and First Solar, are still going strong. [Washington Post, 9/14/11]
SunPower Holds Record For Most Efficient Solar Panels. Reuters reported in June:
SunPower, the most popular solar panel company in California, which is the clear solar leader in the U.S., was recently awarded the Guinness Book of World Records Award for providing "the most efficient commercially available photovoltaic modules on the market." [Reuters, 6/20/11]
Fox Claims The Loan Guarantee Created Jobs "Not In The U.S., But In Mexico"
Doocy: SunPower Is "Not Even In The United States Of America." On Fox & Friends, co-host Steve Doocy teased a segment on SunPower saying, "Another failing solar company, and another federal loan, but this one? Not even in the United States of America." [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 10/12/11]
Kilmeade: SunPower Is "In Mexico." On Fox & Friends, co-host Brian Kilmeade teased a segment on SunPower, saying "could it be bigger than the Solyndra scandal? Another federal loan handed over to another failing solar company, but this one, in Mexico." [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 10/12/11]
Michelle Malkin: Loan Guarantee Will Create Jobs "Not In America, But In Mexico." On Hannity, Michelle Malkin said of SunPower's loan guarantee, "when we're talking about the need for American jobs, this thing is going to create countless jobs. Where? Not in America, but in Mexico, where they manufacture the photovoltaic solar panels that go into these solar ranches that this company deals in." [Fox News, Hannity, 10/12/11]
Gretchen Carlson: SunPower Is "Creating Jobs Not In The U.S., But In Mexico." On Fox & Friends, co-host Gretchen Carlson teased a segment on SunPower saying, "A solar scandal that may be even bigger than Solyndra -- but this time the company got billions of dollars and they're creating jobs not in the U.S., but in Mexico." The following on-screen graphic aired:
[Fox News, Fox & Friends, 10/12/11]
Kimberly Guilfoyle: SunPower "Export[ed] The 15 Jobs" Resulting From The Loan Guarantee. From the October 12 edition of Fox News' The Five:
GREG GUTFELD: SunPower received $1.2 billion in guaranteed loans, they created, I believe, 15 jobs. So if you divide 1.2 billion by 15 -- I didn't do the math -- it's a lot. So it's pretty crazy stuff, plus it's not as fun as saying Solyndra.
KIMBERLY GUILYFOYLE: It's a manufacturing plant in Mexicali, Mexico. Way to export the 15 jobs that cost a couple bil' -- really? [Fox News, The Five, 10/12/11]
Stuart Varney: SunPower "Moved Some Of Its Production Out Of California And Into Mexico." Stuart Varney falsely stated that SunPower "had moved some of its production out of California and into Mexico" prior to receiving the loan guarantee. Varney added, "so here you have your taxpayer money going to back up a company that sends jobs to Mexico." [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 10/13/11]
In Fact, The Loan Guarantee Supports Jobs In California
SunPower Is Based In California. SunPower is headquartered in San Jose, California. Sun Power states that it has approximately 1,100 employees in 4 states and that of its 26 parts suppliers, 22 are U.S.-based. [E-mail correspondence, 10/12/11]
Loan Guarantee Will Create 350 Construction Jobs In California. The $1.2 billion loan guarantee for the California Valley Solar Ranch, a joint project of SunPower Corporation and NRG Energy, will support the construction of a solar generating facility in California that is expected to create 350 construction jobs and 15 permanent jobs, not including indirect jobs. [Department Of Energy, accessed 10/12/11]
California Factory Will Supply Solar Panels For The Power Plant Project. Separate from its loan guarantee project, SunPower announced in August that it would open a manufacturing plant in Mexico. But it also opened a manufacturing facility in Milpitas, California. SunPower stated in an April 12 press release that the Milpitas factory would supply panels to the California Valley Solar Ranch project:
One of the SunPower systems that will be served with solar panels from the Milpitas plant is the 250-MW California Valley Solar Ranch (CVSR) in San Luis Obispo County, Calif., the company's first central-station PV power plant. The project is planned to begin construction this summer for which it will hire 350 people. The project will create $315 million in economic benefit to California, power approximately 100,000 homes and help the state achieve its Renewable Portfolio Standard. [SunPower, 4/12/11]
SunPower Recently Announced Plans To Build A Solar Farm In Hawaii. PV Magazine reported:
SunPower is set to build a five megawatt (MW) solar farm in Hawaii, after receiving the go ahead from the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission to sell the generated electricity to the Hawaiian Electric Company. [PV Magazine, 10/13/11]
The Project Will Be The Largest Of Its Kind In The Country. From Renewable Energy World:
California Valley Solar Ranch will be the largest utility-scale PV project in the U.S. to utilize tracking technology combined with a monitoring system that will improve annual output by approximately 25 percent compared with traditional fixed PV installations. The project will utilize single-axis trackers controlled by the wireless tracker monitoring and control (TMAC) system to orient the PV modules toward the sun and maximize solar collection. The TMAC monitoring system receives real time weather updates so the solar array can be stowed in harsh weather conditions to preserve the life of the solar modules. Power from the project will be sold to Pacific Gas and Electric Company, the largest utility in California. [RenewableEnergyWorld.com, 9/30/11]
Fox Claims Congressman's Son Is A "Lobbyist For SunPower"
Varney: Congressman's Son Is "Chief Lobbyist For SunPower" And "Had A Lot To Do With" Securing TheLoan Guarantee. From the October 13 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:
STUART VARNEY: Now, the chief lobbyist for SunPower, the guy who had a lot to do with getting that loan --
STEVE DOOCY: Absolutely!
VARNEY: -- is George Miller IV, the son of George Miller, Congressman, Democrat, huge union supporter, out of California.
DOOCY: That's got to be a coincidence. [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 10/13/11]
Eric Bolling: "Maybe A Congressman's Son Was One Of The Lobbyists" That Helped "SunPower Secure That Loan." From the October 12 edition of Fox News' The Five:
ERIC BOLLING: Now we're finding out that maybe a Congressman's son was one of the lobbyists involved in helping SunPower secure that loan.
ANDREA TANTAROS: That's right. George Miller, who is the Senior Democrat on the House Education and Workforce Committee, his son is a lobbyist for the company, and he has been a supporter, he has actually accepted political donations. So a lot of questions, I mean, this really, really stinks. [Fox News, The Five, 10/12/11]
Malkin: Rep. Miller's Son Is "A Lobbyist For The Company." On Hannity, Michelle Malkin said the connections "raise a lot of eyebrows":
MICHELLE MALKIN: The political connections raise a lot of eyebrows -- they should. George Miller, California Democrat who's been pushing federal financing for this thing for a long time, has a son, George Miller IV, who is a lobbyist, just so happens to be a lobbyist for the company. [Fox News, Hannity, 10/12/11]
Sean Hannity: Representative's Son Is SunPower's "Top Lobbyist," Which Is "Unethical." Sean Hannity said on his show that Congressman Miller "failed to mention his son, George Miller IV is their top lobbyist at SunPower." Hannity added, "Now, can it get any more incestuous, can it get any more unethical?" [Fox News, Hannity, 10/12/11]
Lou Dobbs: Representative's Son "Is A Lobbyist For -- You Guessed It -- SunPower." On his Fox Business show, Lou Dobbs said "one of the strongest advocates for the SunPower loan none other than Democratic Congressman George Miller of California, his son George Miller IV is a lobbyist for -- you guessed it -- SunPower." [Fox Business, Lou Dobbs Tonight, 10/12/11]
Kilmeade: "One Of [SunPower's] Lobbyists Is The Son Of A Democratic Congressman." On Fox & Friends, Brian Kilmeade said of SunPower, "One of the company's lobbyists is the son of a Democratic Congressman, who reportedly got campaign donations from SunPower. Darrell Issa, look that up." [Fox News, Fox & Friends, 10/12/11]
In Fact, Rep. Miller's Son Does Not Lobby For SunPower
Firm Did Not Lobby For SunPower At The Federal Level. SunPower stated that it "utilizes the services of Lang, Hansen, O'Malley and Miller" -- the firm that George Miller IV works for -- "in California on a wide range of state-level issues. The company does not retain this firm for any activity at the federal level." [E-mail correspondence, 10/12/11]
Rep. Miller's Son Did Not Handle SunPower's Account. George Miller IV stated that he did not work on SunPower's account. [Phone conversation, 10/12/11]
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text: irreversible 2860 Report post Posted May 9, 2013 (edited) AFAIR this type of thread was created when the game was first released. Well, yeah... I don't do rants often (so if you don't like reading them, better stop now), but having huge appreciation for X-COM, I can't just stay quiet now that I've played the remake/adaption. Let me start with a simple question: why the hell did this game get such high ratings? The remake is a mess of broken mechanics with close to zero actual strategic tension and reliability (and yeah - I'm comparing here). Before you tell me I'm not playing it right, please read the items below. The main qualm I have is with tactical combat: the entire strategic aspect of the game has been removed and replaced with a simplified click-to-walk mechanic fit for 3-year-olds. And then they nerfed that, too. I'm a few hours into the game and so far here are a few of the things that have frustrated me to hell (I would say 9 is a pretty sizable number for a few hours - I don't even have Plasma yet): 1) one-click order finalization. The player can't reconsider anything without loading. Click on that Overwatch too early? Too bad - now you're suck there, because apparently it makes sense to stick to real-time mechanics in a turn-based game. 2) a previously unseen enemy gets an interrupt while I'm moving? Yeah, better NOT give me the option to reconsider my move, finish the action and place the soldier not in one, but three alien's gun sights to make absolutely sure it dies. Want to move one step at a time? Oh, wait - no concept of time units... 3) I fail to understand why accuracy at me or at the aliens never falls below 60% even if I am or they are hiding behind very apparent obstacles. Line of sight is broken at best in the remake. I don't mind getting shot, but I do not want to see bullets going through trees and giant statues, or a cutscene where my soldier clearly sticks their whole body out from behind cover with the express objective of getting shot, despite the fact that I moved them behind said corner with the express objective of not getting shot 4) can the short cutscenes whenever I find a new group of aliens get any more old after an hour or so? Initially I thought they wouldn't be a problem, but retrying a turn can get REALLY old really quickly if the game flow gets interrupted for 10 seconds every 1-2 minutes. Apparently it also makes sense that I can't adjust any settings in terms of gameplay save for camera angles. The game must be really special to adopt such a one-glove-fits-all approach. As a side note: I enjoy a quick flow whereby my units and the enemy move almost instantly, not spending the bulk of my play time watching character animations. 5) I am all in favor of removing about half of the buttons that the original games had in tactical mode, but removing things like stances (crawl, crouch, stand) and replacing time units with a totally non-descript two-moves-per-turn mechanic is just retarded. Moving one tile to use up your shot is nowhere equal to running 15 tiles to do the same. At first I though it was okay, but I've now begun to see how this is potentially the most retarded design decision in any strategy game ever - for the sheer reason that it gets rid of any and all actual strategy and replaces it with either completely unnecessary dying or forces saving and loading multiple times per turn. Oh yeah - and let's not forget the totally fun case where you're flanked and need to move, but you can't quite make it behind cover so your soldier ends up STANDING one tile from cover like an idiot, instead of lying down four tiles from it (*cough* manual stances *cough*). Another thing that totally blows my mind is the removal of burst fire vs single shot. Granted, while not too well done in the original X-COM, this simple mechanic itself provides for a huge variety in strategic planning. But it introduces a point of decision for the player: so yeah - better remove it. 6) Auto-end turn was one of the first things to be turned off in any serious match in the original X-COM (it was useful only when hunting for that last stray alien), because you always left some spare TU-s at the end of the turn to make final adjustments or perform a last minute save with your troop. It kind of makes sense in the remake given that you can't go back on any of your decisions anyway, but that only compounds the fact that it just makes the gameplay all the more rigid, idiotic and frustrating. 7) Abduction sites (essentially terror sites from the original games) don't have any civilians. What. The. Crap? The entire idea of the terror sites was to save as many civilians as you could - in the remake these are just regular missions. The idea of forcing panic up like this is actually cool, but why do you always get exactly three choices and how come the missions no longer have any tension? On hard difficulty in the original you would get roughly one Sophie's choice per month whereby you had to choose between two terror sites. But you could at least work your infrastructure up to be a able to manage both of them. Eventually. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems this isn't even an option in the remake. EDIT: Apparently I mistook abduction sites for terror sites, which is incorrect. 8) Overwatch. Sigh... I can't even start analyzing how good it is in terms of effectiveness, but how annoying they've managed to make it to actually use. First of all - if you've never played the original, the equivalent of Overwatch used to be a button that conserved enough time units so your soldier could make a shot during the aliens' turn in the currently selected mode (burst/single) - the game wouldn't allow you to use up these TUs unless you unchecked the flag. This made sure "Overwatch" was passively on every turn unless you specifically and knowingly used up too many time units. In the remake you have to enable it every. single. turn. for every. single. troop. (okay, fine - I haven't tested it - maybe it stays on through multiple turns, but the game doesn't indicate that). It gets better - you have to manually confirm your decision every time by either keeping your other hand on the Return key or moving the mouse around, because you can't reconsider your decision after you've committed a soldier to an action that, by any logic, takes zero action points. It gets better - Overwatch is under a different shortcut key for each and every soldier depending on what abilities they have, so you have to play minesweeper to actually hit it. I mean - who dumbs down everything else, but makes the single most useful ability your soldiers have a total PITA to use? 9) the dumbed down heads-up display. I spent 15 minutes in RAGE looking for a health bar. I didn't find one, because the only place you can see your health is on your character sheet. And it's numeric. In RAGE you have regenerating health, which kind of gives this design decision some credence. It's still retarded, but you can see where they're coming from with their logic. X-COM takes this a step further. It takes a strategy game and it hides every single bit of useful information from the main view. Yes, you get a health indicator above your soldier, but the absolutely ridiculous extent to which the designers have gone to clear the HUD of anything remotely verbose is just hilarious. So, when you click the little character information button, you instead get a completely overblown and useless overview that tells you what "good things" and what "bad things" you have on your soldier. Is the number next to Health the amount of health you have left or is it your base health? Better not show both - TMI bad! Apparently the player doesn't need to pretty much know anything, because that would melt his brain and he would, well, be forced to be aware of what his options are. I won't pick on smaller stuff like interrupts being forcibly show in slow enough motion so you make a coffee and eat a sandwich before the shot gets fired (and there's no option to turn it off) or the fact that they removed bleeding from the game, which was one of the more interesting combat mechanics when you got hit, or the fact that you're stuck on a single base, which makes absolutely no sense in a remake, or the fact that the Michael McCann epic style music, while cool, is identical to DX:HR and is unfortunately simply distracting in a TBS game. I can understand - to each their own. Okay, I can't understand the above 9 points. But I can understand some of the changes. So yeah - I'm trying. Once again - don't get me wrong: the original games had a plethora of issues and could've used ample modernization. And there are a number of changes that I think are not that innovative, but are kind of okay to make things more streamlined - such as limiting the squad size to 6, removing the concept of ammo and item drops in general (although I remember low ammo making for some really tense endgame in some longer matches - especially near the beginning of the game when you couldn't use most of the dropped weapons yet in Terror From The Deep), removing production time/resource allocation from item production or sillifying the entire research scheme which is run by a woman who seems to have been born in Germany, raised in South Africa, went to middle school in the US and graduated from Oxford. She looks French Russian, though. I also acknowledge the fact that 95% of the players have never played the original and probably don't even know one exists, which actually brings me back to my original notion: the reviewers who deemed this a faithful and "not dumbed down" adaption of the original, on whose account I bought the game. Well done, evolution of gaming - well done, indeed. I mean - at least it has particle effects and you can crank the resolution all the way up to HD. Right? Extra rant item: turning the Floater into a Reaper from SC2 is just silly. They used to be really creepy at the start of the game - now they just look stupid. Who am I kidding - the particle effects are crap, too... Edited May 9, 2013 by irreversible 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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WHOEVER is selected to start up front for Swindon Town when Brentford come calling this weekend, manager Mark Cooper is hoping to see his strikers put their bodies on the line for the sake of the team.
Cooper was critical of his forward pairing of Michael Smith and Miles Storey after the defeat to Carlisle United last weekend, saying neither player did enough to hold the ball up in the final third of the pitch.
With five matches remaining of the season, the Town manager wants his frontmen to prove they are worth their spot in his side by showing a willingness to pick up bumps and bruises as they protect possession.
Brentford arrive at the County Ground tomorrow off the back of a remarkable run of two defeats in their last 22 matches, which came against League One leaders Wolves and third-placed Rotherham United, and he has stressed that combative centre-backs Tony Craig, Harlee Dean and James Tarkowski will present a formidable challenge for his strikers.
Therefore, he is keen to see Smith, Storey or whoever he picks to lead the line for Swindon produce a hard-nosed performance.
He said: "If we play like we did on Saturday at Carlisle and improve dramatically in the final third of the pitch we'll have every chance of causing an upset.
"There are only so many times you can show people and coach people in terms of trying to get hold of the ball.
"If they don't want to take that advice and they don't want to take contact with centre-halves and maybe take the odd knock, bump and bruise then I'm not sure it matters how much you do.
"They certainly have to be better than they have been. It's putting yourself in the right position, taking contact off the centre-half, knowing how to pin him and making sure, when the ball comes into you, he doesn't have any chance of winning that ball.
"With the way we play, we keep possession and at some point the ball has to go forward. At some point it has to go into the frontman. For us to be able to move further up the pitch he has to be able to control the ball.
"We put sessions on to try to replicate that contact but when the whistle goes at three o'clock they have to be prepared to do it.
"We can't go and have 60-odd per cent possession and have so many entries into the final third and 11 attempts and not get anything from the game.
"I think if I was a midfield player I'd be frustrated because I'd know that if the ball went forward I couldn't run past that ball because there's a good chance that it's going to come back.
"That means they have to run 70 yards back. Whoever plays up front on Saturday has to be brave, play against the two uncompromising centre-backs that Brentford will have and be able to take contact.
"We threw points away on Saturday because we didn't protect the ball in the final third of the pitch."
Smith and Storey may well be playing for their place in next season's starting line-up, with Cooper already formulating a list of transfer targets for the summer.
The Swindon manager said: "We're not blessed with options so they have to learn by playing in the team and they have to learn quickly. There's five games to go, the transfer window opens again and I'm sure there'll be players coming in in the summer.
"You're always looking. Of course we're looking to add to the squad in the summer. I don't think we need a lot, we need a bit of tweaking and if we get the right ones we'll be able to bridge the gap to where we need to be."
Just as Town were appearing to find some consistency with a run of four games unbeaten in League One, they came unstuck in Cumbria last weekend. With Cooper branding Brentford the favourites this time around, however, he is hopeful his team can spring a surprise or two.
He said: "I think we are where we are in terms of we go and have three or four results and then we go somewhere where we're expected to grind out a result and we don't.
"I think Brentford is slightly different because we're probably the underdogs and they'll certainly be expected to come and steamroller us."


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In the first of our 'how to' series: tips on how to excel at leadership.
You've been placed in a position of authority at work. You're in charge. This comes with a higher salary but also a greater capacity to impact people's lives on a daily basis for good or for ill. There's a moral and professional responsibility to get it right - to be a good boss.
Fortunately, something as simple as remembering to say "well done" or to smile can have a positive impact on the culture of your workplace, particularly if you're a middle-order boss such as a manager or team leader.
Whether someone loves coming to work is determined more by their immediate supervisor than anyone or anything else
And if you're a leader at the top of the rung - a board director or executive officer - it can be as straightforward as allowing those in the lower orders permission - and the time - to be human, while setting the example.
Treating people respectfully and talking and listening to them are key to being a good boss.
"Emotional intelligence is the biggest thing a boss should be working on to motivate people," says James Adonis, a specialist leadership consultant. "Build relationships. Your words and actions influence other people.
"Whether someone loves coming to work is determined more by their immediate supervisor than anyone or anything else. What a leader says, does or thinks, impacts on whether someone has a great day at work or a rotten day."
John King says it's important to get to get to know the individuals who work for you. King chairs several boards including the Australian Tourism Export Council, and until recently, owned a consultancy business. He says communication must be two-way.
"You really need to allow individuals to take responsibility and to bring out their own personal strengths rather than try to slot them into roles," says King. "Talk to the individual about their role within that organisation and help them feel part of achieving (the organisation's) vision."
Marketing specialist Murray Chenery has long worked by these principles. "You've got to respect the people who work for you and never take them for granted," says Chenery, who has been general manager of several big brands - and had several key staff go with him with his career moves. "Part of a leader's role is to take the barriers out so that people can excel. People want to come to work and do a really good job if they're valued. They'll walk over hot coals for you."
Chenery recommends gaining feedback "that's open and honest" and being "fair and consistently fair" so that staff trust you will react in a consistent way. A bit like parenthood, really.
"Surround yourself with people better than you in their respective disciplines because you can't know everything. Harness that information. Ingest it. Instil it. You can never do it all yourself; you've got to work with people.
"To inspire and motivate is critical."
People are looking for people to lead, Chenery says. "Make a difference. Give people a purpose and clarify that purpose and people will work hard for you."
But how to develop the empathy, the patience and the other social or 'emotional intelligence' skills to do this and become a good boss?
It takes a bit of work but it can be learned.
James Adonis says: "Become a genuine student of leadership. Read the books, do the courses, find a mentor to inspire you. See yourself as a professional. Become a master of leadership without doing a Masters.
"If it's in your own time or at your own expense, so be it. You've been placed in a position of high salary and power and with that comes responsibility. You have a big effect on the quality of people's lives."
Recommended reading:
- The One Minute Manager by Kenneth H Blanchard and Spencer Johnson
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
- Good to Great by Jim Collins
In your opinion, what makes a great boss?


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HORSE lovers are outraged after a foal was allegedly shot by the RSPCA and left to rot in a South Gloucestershire field.
According to locals in Severn Beach the dead foal lay within sight of children using a nearby playground.
A letter from the RSPCA headed "Removal of animals left unattended' was posted at the site on January 8 saying it had dealt with a bay gelding horse in the field because of animal welfare concerns.
The notice says the charity wants to speak to the owner or keeper of the horse to discuss its welfare.
Local resident Kieran Ashdown, who took pictures of the dead horse and sign, said the foal was one of two horses "dumped" in the field on Western Approach Industrial Estate in "rough, old grazing land with no food or water".
He said: "The RSPCA shot one horse and the other was just left to roam the land as it pleased.
"Fly grazing of horses like these is an ongoing problem around here and it isn't getting any better at all.
"I believe the owners of these horses are people who have ASBOs on them and they are not supposed to keep horses under any circumstances.
"But that doesn't seem to bother them as they continue to cause harm to horses. I've even addressed it to the police who are dealing with the ASBOs and also to Robert Griffin the local councillor but nothing is being done about it."
Mr Ashdown's mother, Becky, said: "It was so sad to see that foal dead in the field. The RSPCA have said they shot it but we don't know why.
"The other foal was just left there in the field with the carcass of the dead one and I think it was quite distressed about it. It was close to a playground but someone has now moved the body a bit further away.
"It just isn't right that they should put the horse down but then leave its body behind.
"Those two horses were without water or food for weeks and all they got was from passers-by who felt sorry for them.
"We believe they belong to travellers who have quite a few horses around here. It's terrible how they don't look after them properly."
The plight of the animals shocked horse-lover Katie Merrett from Stroud who has been trying to find out who owned the foal.
"I have been in touch with the RSPCA and as far as I can gather they decided it was in ill health and had to be put down," she said.
"They said it was the kindest thing to do. I told them it was wrong they had left it next to a play area for children but they said it's not their responsibility to remove it even though they put it down.
"They say it's up to the landowner or the owner to remove it.
"It was very distressing for local children leaving a dead foal where they could see it from their play area."
The RSPCA have been asked to comment but have so far not responded.


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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - A man convicted of killing two women and leaving a third woman for dead is once again scheduled for execution.
Gov. Rick Scott on Friday rescinded a temporary stay for 49-year-old Marshall Lee Gore, who is scheduled to die by lethal injection on June 24. Scott order the stay last week after Gore's attorneys claimed he was insane.
The governor's office reports that a three-doctor commission determined Gore was mentally competent and could be executed.
Gore killed Susan Roark and Robyn Novick and attempted to kill Tina Coralis in early 1988. Roark's body was found in Columbia County, and Novick's body was discovered in Miami-Dade County. Two days after killing Novick, Gore attacked Coralis and left her for dead near the scene where Novick's body was found earlier.
Gore was convicted of first-degree murder in Columbia County in 1990 in Roark's death and received a death penalty. Gore was convicted of Novak's death and received a second death sentence in 1995.
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Lt. Gerald J "Danny" Henson, 321stBG,446thBS /KIA 24 Dec.'43
Friday, 24 Dec. 1943 — Italy
Gerald was born in Kansas in 1915, he joined and was accepted directly into the Army Air Corp, on 26 March, 1942 in "WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA" He had completed High School and was still single. He trained and became a Pilot and was assigned to the 321st Bomb Group, the 446th Bomb Squadron that went to the MTO/ WW II in B-25 Mitchell Medium Bombers.
Gerald flew 3 Missions in Nov. '43 in #41-13008, and 1 Mission in #42-64509.
He flew 5 Combat Missions in Dec. also in the #41=13008, which must have been his regular ship (No name or nose art yet) It is unknown what happened....
On 24 Dec. 1943; 321stBG, 446thBS War-Diary;
321stBG,446thBS, Lt. Gerald J. Henson, Pilot
Friday, 24 December 1943
446th BS War Diary: No Missions. Ella Logan and cast entertained at Group. Officers had party at their club. Not much sign of Christmas here but morale not too low.
446th BS: Extracts from Missing Air Crew Report # ?:
A/C No. unknown (MACR-? - crashed into mountain near La Senia Air Base, in Africa)
P Klang, Irving E., 2Lt - KIA
CP Henson, Gerald J., 2Lt - KIA
PAX Graham, Robert W., 2Lt - KIA
PAX Carnes, James B., Sgt - KIA
PAX Bonacich, Matthew G., Sgt - KIA
Family: 1930 Census-Toronto/Woodson Co. Kansas
Clavin E Henson/Head of Household/46
Jessie A Henson/Wife/46
Harold B Henson/Son/16
J Gerald Henson/Son/14
Vernor B Henson/Son/12
Family information from Paula Henson McAlister, her Dad was the oldest brother, Harold Henson. She and her Sister have been into Geneaology and have some information on their Uncle "Danny". It was told to her Dad/Harold that the Turkey (s) had not arrived for the Christmas Dinner for the men, so the journey was to get that "alive and well" Turkey(s) and come back, sadly a dense storm brewed up in the meantime and the weather was bad when they returned. "Poor Visability" was the cause of the crash into the mountains near their African Base. Their youngest brother, Vernon was know as "Toby".
Gerald was married to Gladys D (Jaculi) in Jan. 1943, sadly they had a child that died very near the time of Gerald's death.
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Top Dog
The Science of Winning and Losing
By Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman
Twelve, 240 pages, $30
THE courier Federal Express was about to be stamped dead on arrival. Founder Fred Smith was down to his last $5,000.
Betting it all on blackjack at a Las Vegas casino, Smith won enough to pay the next fuel bill, keep his jets in the air and his fledgling company alive.
You would think such risky behaviour would drive his employees into finding other jobs. Instead, many workers deferred cashing their paycheques, drivers trained their wives to take over their routes if necessary and some pilots paid airport fees with their personal credit cards.
Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing is filled with these counter-intuitive anecdotes as authors Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman parse hundreds of physiology, psychology and business studies to identify the ingredients of a winner.
Their breezy, accessible style is backed up with impeccable references to peer-reviewed journals and authoritative books.
Bronson has written half a dozen books, including What Should I Do With My Life? Merryman has written for the Washington Post, Newsweek and others. Their previous collaboration, NurtureShock, was a bestseller in 2009.
The results of many of the studies are so contrary to common beliefs, that when initial results contradicted their hypotheses, bewildered researchers questioned their data, sometimes ordering new tests.
Among the villains to undergo an extreme makeover is testosterone. The hormone, present seven times more in males than females, is blamed, even by many guilt-ridden men, for everything from fist fights to war.
Not entirely fair, according to the most recent research.
Testosterone increases motivation, whatever the objective, so while it does help boxers and soldiers, it also helps chess nerds win tournaments and surgeons perform complicated cancer surgery.
The COMT gene turns people into warriors or worriers.
The warriors win the Olympics, create music and invent new products.
The worriers cobble together the long-term structures and processes to make the warriors' dreams achievable.
The world needs both.
Despite the key role played by the gene, the authors caution against believing that genetics alone determines who we become.
Instead, the process is much more subtle, as genes, parents, siblings, peer groups and social environment all play off each other to create what sports psychologists call the Individual Zone of Optimal Functioning (IZOF.)
Getting into one's zone is different for everyone. Telling someone to calm down or not get angry is good advice for some, but absolutely wrong for others.
Stress, anxiety, fear and competition bring out the best in them, and provide the best results for society, but only if their environment encourages achievement.
The authors cite the former East Germany as the prime example of how the deadening hand of government control smothered even the most creative and potentially productive citizens.
However, given the authors' use of many other Olympic anecdotes, mostly glorifying American athletes, it would seem only fair that they somehow explain the many Olympic medals won by East German athletes. What was different for them?
Readers looking at the title and expecting a how-to on winning promotion or love should be reminded that the book is pop psychology, but not self-help.
Figuring out how to improve your own "psychoendocrine cocktail" so that you have more of the hormones that work with your genes and environment is up to you.
How you respond to that challenge is your first clue.
Donald Benham is director of hunger and poverty awareness at Winnipeg Harvest.


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Hate crime laws generally fall into one of several categories: (1) laws defining specific bias-motivated acts as distinct crimes; (2) criminal penalty-enhancement laws; (3) laws creating a distinct civil cause of action for hate crimes; and (4) laws requiring administrative agencies to collect hate crime statistics.[1] Sometimes (as in Bosnia and Herzegovina), the laws focus on war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity with the prohibition against discriminatory action limited to public officials.
Andorra Edit
Discriminatory acts constituting harassment or infringement of a person's dignity on the basis of origin, citizenship, race, religion, or sex (Penal Code Article 313). Courts have cited bias-based motivation in delivering sentences, but there is no explicit penalty enhancement provision in the Criminal Code. The government does not track hate crime statistics, although they are relatively rare.[1]
Armenia has a penalty-enhancement statute for crimes with ethnic, racial, or religious motives (Criminal Code Article 63).[1]
Austria has a penalty-enhancement statute for crimes with racist or xenophobic motivation (Penal Code section 33(5)).[1]
Azerbaijan has a penalty-enhancement statute for crimes motivated by racial, national, or religious hatred (Criminal Code Article 61). Murder and infliction of serious bodily injury motivated by racial, religious, national, or ethnic intolerance are distinct crimes (Article 111).[1]
Belarus has a penalty-enhancement statute for crimes motivated by racial, national, and religious hatred and discord.[1][2]
Belgium's Act of 25 February 2003 ("aimed at combating discrimination and modifying the Act of 15 February 1993 which establishes the Centre for Equal Opportunities and the Fight against Racism") establishes a penalty-enhancement for crimes involving discrimination on the basis of sex, supposed race, color, descent, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, civil status, birth, fortune, age, religious or philosophical beliefs, current or future state of health and handicap or physical features. The Act also "provides for a civil remedy to address discrimination."[1] The Act, along with the Act of 20 January 2003 ("on strengthening legislation against racism"), requires the Centre to collect and publish statistical data on racism and discriminatory crimes.[1]
Bosnia and HerzegovinaEdit
The Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina (enacted 2003) "contains provisions prohibiting discrimination by public officials on grounds, inter alia, of race, skin colour, national or ethnic background, religion and language and prohibiting the restriction by public officials of the language rights of the citizens in their relations with the authorities (Article 145/1 and 145/2)."[3]
Bulgarian criminal law prohibits certain crimes motivated by racism and xenophobia, but a 1999 report by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance found that it does not appear that those provisions "have ever resulted in convictions before the courts in Bulgaria."[4]
Croatian law allows for consideration of any extenuating or aggravating circumstances in sentencing, but no explicit provision is made for bias-based motivations.[1]
Czech RepublicEdit
"The Czech Criminal Code defines racist motivation as a specific aggravating circumstance that judges are required to take into account in sentencing, as well as defining specific racist acts as crimes. Section 196 punishes 'violence against a group of inhabitants and against individuals on the basis of race, nationality, political conviction or religion.'"[1]
Although Danish law does not include explicit hate crime provisions, "section 80(1) of the Criminal Code instructs courts to take into account the gravity of the offence and the offender's motive when meting out penalty, and therefore to attach importance to the racist motive of crimes in determining sentence."[5] In recent years judges have used this provision to increase sentences on the basis of racist motives.[1][6]
Since 1992, the Danish Civil Security Service (PET) has released statistics on crimes with apparent racist motivation.[1]
England and WalesEdit
In England and Wales, hate crimes may be physical attack, verbal attack, threats or insults and will be considered a hate crime if they are motivated by the victims race, colour, ethnic origin, nationality or national origins, religion, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation or disability.[7]
In 2007-08 police recorded 4,823 racially or religiously motivated crimes in which somebody was injured, 4,320 crimes without injury and 26,495 cases of harassment.There were also 4,005 cases of criminal damage related to hate crimes. [www.homeoffice.gov.uk]
The Metropolitan police in London identified the typical hate offender as "A young white male who lives locally to the victim. Most homophobic offenders are aged 16-20, and most race hate offenders are under 30".
Finnish Penal Code 515/2003 (enacted January 31, 2003) makes "committing a crime against a person, because of his national, racial, ethnical or equivalent group" an aggravating circumstance in sentencing.[1][8] In addition, ethnic agitation (Template:Lang-fi) is criminalized and carries a fine or a prison sentence of not more than two years. The prosecution need not prove that an actual danger to an ethnic group is caused but only that malicious message is emissioned. A more aggravated hate crime, warmongering (Template:Lang-fi), carries a prison sentence of one to ten years. However, in case of warmongering, the prosecution must prove an overt act that evidently increases the risk that Finland is involved in a war or becomes a target for a military operation. The act in question may consist of
- illegal violence directed against foreign country or her citizens,
- systematic dissemination of false information on Finnish foreign policy or defence
- public influence on the public opinion towards a pro-war viewpoint or
- public suggestion that a foreign country or Finland should engage in an aggressive act.[9]
In 2003, France enacted penalty-enhancement hate crime laws for crimes motivated by bias against the victim's actual or perceived ethnicity, nation, race, religion, or sexual orientation. The penalties for murder were raised from 30 years (for non-hate crimes) to life imprisonment (for hate crimes), and the penalties for violent attacks leading to permanent disability were raised from 10 years (for non-hate crimes) to 15 years (for hate crimes).[1][10]
"There is no general provision in Georgian law for racist motivation to be considered an aggravating circumstance in prosecutions of ordinary offenses. Certain crimes involving racist motivation are, however, defined as specific offenses in the Georgian Criminal Code of 1999, including murder motivated by racial, religious, national or ethnic intolerance (article 109); infliction of serious injuries motivated by racial, religious, national or ethnic intolerance (article 117); and torture motivated by racial, religious, national or ethnic intolerance (article 126). ECRI reported no knowledge of cases in which this law has been enforced. There is no systematic monitoring or data collection on discrimination in Georgia."[1]
The German Criminal Code does not know any direct penalty-enhancement laws in connection with hate or bias. In the German legal framework motivation is not taken into account while identifying the element of the offence. However within the sentencing procedure the judge can define certain principles for determining punishment. In section 46 of the German Criminal Code it is stated that "the motives and aims of the perpetrator; the state of mind reflected in the act and the wilfulness involved in its commission."[11] can be taken into consideration when determining the punishment. In the past hate and bias was regarded here.[12]
The only section in the German Criminal Code where hate and/or bias could be taken into consideration (more or less) directly in case of a violent hate crime is 211 (Murder). The qualification for murder (imprisonment for life) instead of manslaughter (imprisonment not less than five years) is stated in paragraph 2 of section 211: "A murderer is, whoever kills a human being out of murderous lust, to satisfy his sexual desires, from greed or otherwise base motives, treacherously or cruelly or with means dangerous to the public or in order to make another crime possible or cover it up."[13] In the past judges confirmed racial hate and xenophobia as being "otherwise base motives" that enhances a manslaughter to murder.[14]
Besides that the German Criminal Code holds sections against hate speech. Sections 86, 86a were introduced to defend against the ideas of National Socialism. The underlying principle is that propaganda material from forbidden organizations and parties (to which the NSDAP but also modern hate groups belong) can affect the public peace and safety as well as the Free Democratic Basic Order of Germany and therefore may lead to violence.
Section 130 states: "(1) Whoever, in a manner that is capable of disturbing the public peace: 1. incites hatred against segments of the population or calls for violent or arbitrary measures against them; or 2. assaults the human dignity of others by insulting, maliciously maligning, or defaming segments of the population, shall be punished with imprisonment from three months to five years. (...) (3) Whoever publicly or in a meeting approves of, denies or renders harmless an act committed under the rule of National Socialism of the type indicated in Section 220a subsection (1), in a manner capable of disturbing the public peace shall be punished with imprisonment for not more than five years or a fine."[15]
Again the public peace and safety is protected and not the bodily integrity of an individual. Especially paragraph 3 shows a huge difference between Germany and (for example) the U.S. in defining the freedom of speech. In this case the so called "Auschwitz lie" – denying, approving or rendering harmless the Holocaust – is considered to disrespect the suffering of all victims. The legally protected interest of the human dignity (in Germany section 1 of the Grundgesetz (constitution)) limits the legally protected interest of freedom of speech (section 5 of the German Grundgesetz). In the U.S. this would be vice versa.[12]
Article Law 927/1979 "Section 1,1 penalises incitement to discrimination, hatred or violence towards individuals or groups because of their racial, national or religious origin, through public written or oral expressions; Section 1,2 prohibits the establishment of, and membership in, organisations which organise propaganda and activities aimed at racial discrimination; Section 2 punishes public expression of offensive ideas; Section 3 penalises the act of refusing, in the exercise of one's occupation, to sell a commodity or to supply a service on racial grounds."[16] Public prosecutors may press charges even if the victim does not file a complaint. However, as of 2003, no convictions had been attained under the law.[17]
Violent action, cruelty, and coercion by threat made on the basis of the victim's actual or perceived national, ethnic, or religious status are punishable under article 174/B of the Hungarian Criminal Code.[1]
Section 233 of the Icelandic Penal Code states "Anyone who in a ridiculing, slanderous, insulting, threatening or any other manner publicly assaults a person or a group of people on the basis of their nationality, skin colour, race, religion or sexual orientation, shall be fined or jailed for up to 2 years." (The word "assault" in this context does not refer to physical violence, only to expressions of hatred.)
Icelandic Penal Code (in Icelandic)
Iranian constitution's article 19 states: All people of Iran, whatever the ethnic group or tribe to which they belong, enjoy equal rights; color, race, language, and the like, do not bestow any privilege.
Iranian constitution's article 20 states: All citizens of the country, both men and women, equally enjoy the protection of the law and enjoy all human, political, economic, social, and cultural rights, in conformity with Islamic criteria.
Iranian constitution's article 14 prohibits the maltreatment of the non-islamic recognized minorities: In accordance with the sacred verse "God does not forbid you to deal kindly and justly with those who have not fought against you because of your religion and who have not expelled you from your homes" [60:8], the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and all Muslims are duty-bound to treat non-Muslims in conformity with ethical norms and the principles of Islamic justice and equity, and to respect their human rights. This principle applies to all who refrain from engaging in conspiracy or activity against Islam and the Islamic Republic of Iran.[18]
In spite of this, it is well known throughout the international community that Iran has and continues to have state-sponsored torture and executions of homosexuals, as sexual orientation is not recognized as a protected class within the state and homosexuality is treated as a violation of Islamic law.[19][20][21][22][23]
"The Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred Act 1989" makes it an offense to incite hatred against any group of persons on account of their race, color, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, ethnic or national origins, or membership of the Traveller community, an indigenous minority group."[1]
Ireland does not systematically collect hate crime data.[1]
Italian criminal law, at Section 3 of Law No. 205/1993, contains a penalty-enhancement provision for all crimes motived by racial, ethnic, national, or religious bias.[1]
In Kazakhstan, there are constitutional provisions prohibiting propaganda promoting racial or ethnic superiority.[1]
In Kyrgyzstan, "the Constitution of the State party prohibits any kind of discrimination on grounds of origin, sex, race, nationality, language, faith, political or religious convictions or any other personal or social trait or circumstance, and that the prohibition against racial discrimination is also included in other legislation, such as the Civil, Penal and Labour Codes."[24]
Article 299 of the Criminal Code defines incitement to national, racist, or religious hatred as a specific offense. This article has been used in political trials of suspected members of the banned organization Hizb-ut-Tahrir.[1][25]
In Scottish Common law the courts can take any aggravating factor into account when sentencing someone found guilty of an offence. There is specific legislation dealing with the offences of incitement of racial hatred, racially-aggravated harassment and offences aggravated by religious prejudice. A Scottish Executive working party examined the issue of hate crime and ways of combating crime motivated by social prejudice, reporting in 2004.[26] Its main recommendations were not implemented, but in their manifestos for the Scottish Parliament election, 2007 several political parties included commitments to legislate in this area, including the Scottish National Party who now form the Scottish Government. The Offences (Aggravation by Prejudice) (Scotland) Bill was introduced on 19 May 2008 by Patrick Harvie MSP,[27] having been prepared with support from the Scottish Government, and passed unanimously by the parliament on 3 June 2009.[28]
Article 22(4) of the Spanish Penal Code includes a penalty-enhancement provision for crimes motivated by bias against the victim's ideology, beliefs, religion, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, illness, or disability.[1]
Article 29 of the Swedish Penal Code includes a penalty-enhancement provision for crimes motivated by bias against the victim's race, color, nationality, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, or "other circumstance" of the victim.[1]
Eurasian countries with no hate crime lawsEdit
Albania, Cyprus, Estonia, San Marino, and Slovenia have no hate crime laws.[1]
North AmericaEdit
Canada Edit
- Main article: Hate speech laws in Canada
Constitutional scholar Joseph Magnet argues that Canada has more hate crime legislation forbidding certain ideas from being promulgated than any other country in the world.[29] Since 1966 the Canadian Criminal Code has included a penalty-enhancement provision for crimes "motivated by bias, prejudice or hate based on racial group, national or ethnic origin, language, colour, religion, sex, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, or any other similar factor."[30][31] In Section 319 the Code punishes anyone who "advocates or promotes genocide" with genocide defined to require that acts be committed "with intent to destroy in whole or in part any identifiable group".[31] "Identifiable group" is defined as "any section of the public distinguished by skin color, racial group, religion, ethnic origin or sexual orientation."[1][31] Civil remedies are also available in Canada for discriminatory acts.[1]
United StatesEdit
- Main article: Hate crime laws in the United States
Defined in the 1999 National Crime Victim Survey, "A hate crime is a criminal offense. In the United States federal prosecution is possible for hate crimes committed on the basis of a person's race, religion, or nation origin when engaging in a federally protected activity." In 2009, the Matthew Shepard Act added perceived gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, and disability to the federal definition, and dropped the prerequisite that the victim be engaging in a federally-protected activity.
Forty-five states and the District of Columbia have statutes criminalizing various types of hate crimes. Thirty-one states and the District of Columbia have statutes creating a civil cause of action in addition to the criminal penalty for similar acts. Twenty-seven states and the District of Columbia have statutes requiring the state to collect hate crime statistics[32]
According to the FBI Hate Crime Statistics report for 2006, hate crimes increased nearly 8% nationwide, with a total of 7,722 incidents and 9,080 offenses reported by participating law enforcement agencies. Of the 5,449 crimes against persons, 46% were classified as intimidation and 31.9% as simple assaults. 81% of the 3,593 crimes against property were acts of vandalism or destruction.[33]
However, according to the FBI Hate Crime Statistics for 2007, the number of hate crimes decreased to 7,624 incidents reported by participating law enforcement agencies.[34] These incidents included 9 murders and 2 rapes(out of the almost 17,000 murders and 90,000 forcible rapes committed in the U.S. in 2007).[35]
Attorney General Eric Holder said in June 2009 that recent killings show the need for a tougher U.S. hate crimes law to stop "violence masquerading as political activism".[36]
Deliberate attacks on the homeless as hate crimes
A 2007 study found that the number of violent crimes against the homeless is increasing.[37][38] The rate of such documented crimes in 2005 was 30% higher than of those in 1999.[39] 75% of all perpetrators are under the age of 25. Studies and surveys indicate that homeless people have a much higher criminal victimization rate than the non-homeless, but that most incidents never get reported to authorities.
In recent years, largely due to the efforts of the National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH) and academic researchers the problem of violence against the homeless has gained national attention. The NCH called deliberate attacks against the homeless hate crimes in their report Hate, Violence, and Death on Mainstreet USA (they retain the definition of the American Congress).
The Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino in conjunction with the NCH found that 155 homeless people were killed by non-homeless people in "hate killings", while 76 people were killed in all the other traditional hate crime homicide categories such as race and religion, combined.[38] The CSHE contends that negative and degrading portrayals of the homeless contribute to a climate where violence takes place.
South AmericaEdit
In Brazil, hate crime laws focus on racism, racial injury, and other special bias-motivated crimes such as, for example, murder by death squads[40] and genocide on the grounds of nationality, ethnicity, race or religion.[41] Murder by death squads and genocide are legally classified as "hideous crimes" (crimes hediondos in Portuguese).[42]
The crimes of racism and racial injury, although similar, are enforced slightly differently.[43] Article 140, 3rd paragraph, of the Penal Code establishes a harsher penalty, from a minimum of 1 year to a maximum of 3 years, for injuries motivated by "elements referring to race, color, ethnicity, religion, origin, or the condition of being an aged or disabled person".[44] On the other side, Law 7716/1989 covers "crimes resulting from discrimination or prejudice on the grounds of race, color, ethnicity, religion, or national origin".[45]
In addition, the Brazilian Constitution defines as a "fundamental goal of the Republic" (Article 3rd, clause IV) "to promote the wealth of all, with no prejudice as to origin, race, sex, color, age, and any other forms of discrimination".[46]
See alsoEdit
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- ↑ Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus, § 64 (1), para. 9 (translated from the Russian), June 9, 1999.
- ↑ Office of the High Representative, Criminal Code of Bosnia and Herzegovina, January 2003.
- ↑ ECRI, Second Report on Bulgaria, adopted on June 18, 1999, and made public on March 21, 2000.
- ↑ ECRI, Second Report on Denmark, adopted on June 16, 2000, and made public on April 3, 2001, para. 9.
- ↑ Chahrokh, Klug, and Bilger, Migrants, Minorities, and Legislation.
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- ↑ EUMC, Racism and xenophobia in the E.U., p. 51.
- ↑ Penal Code (39/1889) as of 1006/2004. §§ 6:5.1.4 (ethnic hatred as an aggravating factor), 11:8 (ethnic agitation) and 12:2 (warmongering). The points cited remain in force on the day of retrieval, checked from the Finnish version: Rikoslaki. The Government proposal HE 55/2007 will move the § 11:8 to §11:10 without changing the content, if the proposal is passed by the Parliament of Finland. Retrieved 11-23-2007.
- ↑ Loi n° 2003-88 du 3 février 2003 visant à aggraver les peines punissant les infractions à caractère raciste, antisémite ou xénophobe
- ↑ http://www.iuscomp.org/gla/statutes/StGB.htm#46
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Marc Coester (2008): Das Konzept der Hate Crimes aus den USA unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Rechtsextremismus in Deutschland. Peter Lang: Frankfurt/Berlin/Bern/Bruxelles/New York/Oxford/Wien
- ↑ http://www.iuscomp.org/gla/statutes/StGB.htm#211
- ↑ BGH, Decision from 7. September 1993 – 5 StR 455/93
- ↑ http://www.iuscomp.org/gla/statutes/StGB.htm#130
- ↑ ECRI, Second Report on Greece, adopted on 1999-12-10, and made public on 2000-06-27.
- ↑ Sitaropoulos, N.: Executive Summary on Race Equality Directive, State of Play in Greece, section 5, 2003-10-12. Retrieved on 2007-08-02.
- ↑ ICL - Iran - Constitution
- ↑ Search the Iran Human Rights Memorial, Omid - Boroumand Foundation for Human Rights in Iran
- ↑ WikiNews: Execution of two gay teens in Iran spurs controversy
- ↑ SkyNews: Day 58: Obama Backs Global Gay Rights
- ↑ The Washington Post: Pictures From An Execution Come Into Focus
- ↑ The Independent: Brutal land where homosexuality is punishable by death
- ↑ CERD, Consideration of Reports Submitted by States Parties under Article 9 of the Convention; Concluding Observations: Kyrgyzstan, 1999. Retrieved on 2007-08-02.
- ↑ Human Rights in the OSCE Region: Europe, Central Asia and North America, Report 2004 (Events of 2003), International Helsinki Federation, 2004-06-23. Retrieved on 2007-08-02.
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- ↑ Offences (Aggravation by Prejudice) (Scotland) Bill
- ↑ 8078988.stm MSPs approve new hate crime laws BBC News 3 June 2009
- ↑ Magnet, Joseph. Free Expression.
- ↑ Canadian Criminal Code, Subparagraph 718.2(a)(i)
- ↑ 31.0 31.1 31.2 CBC News Indepth: Hate Crimes. URL accessed on 2009-10-19.
- ↑ State Hate Crime Laws, Anti-Defamation League, June 2006. Retrieved 2007-05-04.
- ↑ Statistics, 2006Hate Crime Statistics, 2006, Federal Bureau of Investigation
- ↑ Statistics, 2007Hate Crime Statistics, 2007, Federal Bureau of Investigation
- ↑ Statistics, 2007FBI Crime in the United States 2007, Federal Bureau of Investigation
- ↑ Attorney general urges new hate crimes law - Crime & courts- msnbc.com
- ↑ Lewan, Todd, "Unprovoked Beatings of Homeless Soaring", Associated Press, April 8, 2007.
- ↑ 38.0 38.1 National Coalition for the Homeless: Hate, Violence, and Death on Main Street USA: A report on Hate Crimes and Violence Against People Experiencing Homelessness, 2006", February 2007.
- ↑ National Coalition for the Homeless: A Dream Denied.
- ↑ Português:
http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/Leis/L8072.htm (Law 8072/1990, Article 1st, I)
- ↑ Português:
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- ↑ Law 8072/1990 (aforementioned link), Article 1st, I and single paragraph.
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Dion Lee Line II Summer
Dion Lee's capsule collection does not disappoint.
Now in its second season, we see something different from Dion Lee Line II with the new Summer offering. Launched earlier this year to accompany the mainline, Line II is a capsule collection with a focus on wearability and versatility, characterised by a novel approach to shirting and a talent for tailoring. This latest offering has a more sporty feel than its previous incarnation so oversized jackets, cropped trousers and short jumpsuits are go-to pieces for shooting the breeze when the weather is warmer.
It's great to see that signatures of the Dion Lee label are not lost in translation from mainline to capsule, which is often the case when designers make this leap. The pieces may be ostensibly simple, but details reveal that this collection is distinctly Dion like delicate silk layered over dresses and cut-out panels on shirts.
Let this be our guide for summer dressing, because sometimes all you need is a big, baggy shirt and a pair of sneakers (looking like Julia Nobis wouldn't hurt either). And that pretty palette of baby blue, sorbet cerise and pale mint is just perfection.
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SEC's Top 25 players: No. 17 Andre Hal
Published: Tuesday, July 9, 2013 at 12:00 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, July 2, 2013 at 11:19 p.m.
Gatorsports.com counts down this season's standout players in the nation's toughest conference.
No. 17 Andre Hal
Position: Defensive back
School: Vanderbilt
Height: 6-foot
Weight: 184 pounds
Year: Senior
Why he's No. 17: In his first year as a starter, Hal was named second team All-SEC last season after recording 48 tackles, defending a team-high 14 passes and intercepting two passes. Hal came up huge in one of the Commodores' biggest victories in year. He intercepted two passes and had a combined 68 yards in returns to set up two touchdowns in Vanderbilt's 41-18 rout of arch-rival Tennessee. Hal also played one of his best games of the season in Vanderbilt's victory over North Carolina State in the Music City Bowl, breaking up three passes. Hal is an excellent cover corner who has a knack for breaking on the ball. He's also a threat returning kicks.
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OTTAWA — Two suspicious fires that occurred early Friday morning in Ottawa remain under investigation and have been determined as arson by the State Fire Marshall's Office.
to Ottawa Fire Chief Dan Rieman, the Ottawa Fire Department was first
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Responding to that fire were the Ottawa and Glandorf Fire Department.
just two hours later and only a few blocks northeast of the first fire,
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4 Fantastically Sexy Last Minute Valentine's Day Gifts for Your Guy
Who says you have to lose your mind figuring out a gift or give up the content of your wallet for a memorable Valentine's Day Gift? We have killer ideas that'll cost you next to nothing!
-Gianine Nelson
Well ladies, Valentine's Day is almost here. If you are anything like me, you probably spent the past couple of weeks thinking about all of the things you would like your man to bestow upon you on this glorious day. You know, the "little things" that would make your heart skip a beat. Flowers, diamonds, and chocolates (did I mention diamonds?) can cloud any girl's mind. Given your preoccupied mind, you now find yourself down-to-the-wire when it comes to picking out something special for him to show your adoration. Before you run out and grab those cheesy go-to gifts of silk boxers adorned with red kisses and or a stuffed devil that has the ever so personal sentiment "You're too hot to handle" stitched on its stomach, please consider trying out one of my last minute gift ideas for the Valentine in your life. I know that the majority of them involve sex, but it is important to remember that sometimes cupid's arrow must point south.
1. Be a sexed up Rachel Ray for the day!
Men are pretty simple to please and there isn't anything much simpler than just cooking up a slamming good meal for him on V Day. Now, I know you want to get all fancied up and make him take you to the new overpriced French restaurant in town, but just think of how happy your guy would if he came home to see you grilling up for him a big, juicy steak wearing nothing but an apron and a smile. Throw in a purchase of his favorite team's sporting event on pay per view, and you will have created the perfect Valentine's Day night for him! Nothing says I love you more than feeding his stomach and his fantasies.
2. Give him bragging rights
It is no surprise that shows like American Pickers and Pawn Stars are favorites of the male population. Getting something that is original, whether a part of American history or some foreign ancient artifact (a nice coat of rust would be an added bonus!) would make any man's Valentine's Day extra special. What would make it even better is if you connected a story from his past with the item. I bought my boyfriend an old poster from a concert that his grandfather took him to when he was a kid. He actually teared up when he opened it, which was quite an accomplishment in itself since the only time I saw him cry was when Charlie Sheen was fired from Two and a Half Men. Now you may think this gift would take a lot of time, but all you have to do is go to any antique shop, garage sale or flea market to find a collectable your man will cherish and most importantly, make him cherish you even more for being the one that gave it to him.
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3. Bring back the quickie
Never underestimate the power of the quickie. Men love it when we need to have them right then and there, no matter if we are in the middle of getting our taxes done or painting the kitchen. This Valentine's day give him the gift of spontaneity by showing him you are still the exciting hottie who gave him a little "sompin'-sompin'" in the bathroom of PF Chang's on your second date (Well, in my case it was the first, but I will save that story for another time). Meet him for his lunch break wearing nothing but a trench and heels. Bring some sandwiches for after your 15 minute rendezvous. You will need them because you both will be starved after you steam up the car windows at the most secluded place you can find. This last minute gift will make him wish it was Valentine's Day every day!
4. Make him feel like a kid in a candy store
This is the last and the easiest of my last minute V-day gift ideas. There are a lot of Momma's boys out there and, since most of us do not have the patience it would take to master Mom's award winning apple pie recipe, we can do the next best thing: We can rekindle those childhood memories by creating a grab-bag of his favorite candy. To make it more personal (and, oddly enough, more R-rated), attach a hand written note informing him of the top five naughty acts you would like to perform on him that night. Trust me; he will be gnawing on his Charleston Chews with extreme delight reading about all the tantalizing acts he has to look forward to. For the tamer women out there, you can still do the candy grab bag, but instead of the naughty list, you can make one stating the top five things you love about him. Either way, it's a win-win situation: His ego will be boosted and his sweet tooth completely satisfied.
There it is ladies! I hope this helps those of you who are stuck in a V-day gift idea rut. If not, please remember to heed the following advice: No matter how tempting, steer away from anything that giggles when you squeeze it and underwear that is packaged in a plastic heart container that requires dry cleaning; this way, no matter what you end up purchasing at the end of the day, you should be just fine. Happy Valentine's Day!
In a previous life, Gianine Nelson was a college student studying nutrition and working in the medical field. After spending time contemplating the human condition, she decided her addiction to donuts and writing about the crazy world of dating was her true passion.