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There's still more unpleasantness between AFTRA and SAG: yesterday an ultimatum went out from AFTRA national president Roberta Reardon to her counterpart at SAG, national president Alan Rosenberg. She's demanding to know by March 10th if SAG is prepared to proceed with contract negotiations by March 31st. And she indicates that AFTRA will move forward whether or not SAG is ready. Again, I must say that this fractiousness just plays into the hands of the Hollywood CEOs, whether it's Triple-A list actors vs SAG leadership, petition drive actors vs SAG leadership, or AFTRA leadership vs SAG leadership. I do know that the moguls, convinced that SAG's Rosenberg and national executive director Doug Allen plan to indulge in brinkmanship to get a better contract (so think the pair intend to wait as long as possible until they start negotiating), are immensely enjoying all the inside and outside pressure aimed at the union twosome.
URGENT: AFTRA Sets March 10th Deadline To Know If SAG Will Start Talks Early
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So AFTRA is up to it's old tricks. Undercutting SAG. I trust our SAG leaders BECAUSE they ask for our input as members. They're LISTENING to the needs of the membership. And if they need time to make a good presentation, they need time. My life has been made better by this union. I can't say the same about AFTRA.
Peggy Lane O'Rourke
Dear AFTRA,
Could you please act as if you are not complete amateurs? That would be great.
Another ashamed AFTRA member,
David Anthony
It's no joke. Rosenberg and Allen can take it or leave it. It's time for the people who actually work in the business to get down to business.
Thank goodness there's at least one performers union that gets it.
We're not here to go on strike. We're here to make the best deal we can and go to work.
Thank you Nikki for yet another of your editorials. Everyone is entitled to their opinion.
And here's mine; if all these people are saying the same thing, perhaps the SAG brass should listen. Call me crazy, but on the heals of the debilitating writers strike, faced with an economy that is, for all intents and purposes, in a recession, sabre rattling, delay tactics, and thinnly veiled threats may not be the wisest bargaining position.
Chad Lowe:
If you don't appreciate Nikki's position, don't visit the site. You come on your own accord.
Nikki, as usual, happens to be right on, cutting through the baloney.
Why oh why is AFTRA in such a rush???
Seriously, if AFTRA and SAG present a united front and work together, performers are in the driver's seat going into negotiations.
The studios are in a de facto film strike already. A June 30 walkout lasting more than a couple of weeks will do enormous damage to the Fall television season, and the networks know it.
The AMPTP isn't going to tip their hand, but they're more amenable to a good deal for the actors than they're letting on, so long as the actors are unified.
Why Roberta Reardon would make these moves, at this time, to undercut the performers' position is well beyond me. Maybe because she's in New York and has done much of her work in soap operas, which do not carry the DVD, residual, and New Media value of scripted series, she has no idea what the store's worth, so she has no problem with giving it away.
My experience of Doug Allen and Alan Rosenberg & Company is that they have not listened for one moment to the demands and preferences of the vast majority of the SAG membership over the past year, but have merely continued to grind ahead with their own preconceived ideas to impact others' lives in ways that reflect the flawed notions of their own personal destinies.
Aftra has no business invading SAG jurisdiction; they have three shows on PrimeTime. Aftra does no film.
This is grandstanding of the highest order, because Aftra is preparing to continue undercutting actor's contracts if they violate Phase 1 and go in to negotiate more bad deals, just as they have been in basic-cable. The pretense of caring about actors is disingenuously transparent: just talk to any actor working Aftra basic-cable – no residuals. Or actors working the Interactive contract – no residuals. Does any actor want these crap deals in the TV/Theatrical contract?
Instead of haranguing SAG to go in early, how come actors are not telling Kim and Roberta to lay off?
There is a process in place, Chad. SAG leadership is not "delaying". If more actors stopped sitting on the sidelines and called the Guild to understand the ramifications of Aftra's machiavellian moves, instead of listening to fear-based rhetoric, we would all be a lot better off.
How about a membership meeting?
Tobvious & Lowe (aka Crazy),
Clearly you were both nestled snug in your beds over this last rainy winter and NOT out walking the WGA picket lines.
Meanwhile, SAG is offering no-strike pacts to Indie productions who want to start now and wind up their shooting after June 30.
I am a dual cardholder and I was involved in the Wages and Working Conditions process for the whole month of February and was present as each group (dancers, singers, stunt people, background, minority, disabled, senior and major-role performers — and most importantly to me — working class actors) came into the room and presented what were their most pressing issues as we prepare to negotiate with the employers. It was amazingly educational, and made me very proud to be part of these unions… until, literally, the last hour of the last day, when AFTRA leadership or staff or someone decided to play politics with what had, up until then, been a process devoted solely to concerns of the membership.
I wholeheartedly believe that no one wants a strike — not Doug Allen, not Allen Rosenberg, not any member I've spoken with — no one.
However, when a union goes into negotiations, without the threat of a strike, what do they have? Absolutely nothing. They go into that negotiating room with their hat in their hand, hoping that the employers will give them some crumbs. How many employers give away ANYTHING they don't have to?
I have avoided most of the politics within and between my unions. But this move by AFTRA serves only to weaken any chance we have for getting a decent contract — and I firmly believe that this is the most important contract we have negotiated in my almost 25 years in these unions.
The WGA trusted its leadership and hung tough. We need to do the same. The employers are laughing at us as they watch us do their work for them. And AFTRA should be collecting a paycheck from the AMPTP.
I don't think SAG would HAVE to go on strike. Not for too long anyway. Not the way this town LOVES their movies. They'll destroy an entire t.v. season, but don't touch their precious Oscars. I guess the belief there is that reality is so prevalent that ANYONE can be on t.v.. But that theory doesn't apply to film. Anyone remember Jackass:The Movie?
So while no one in the AMPTP really cares about the rank and file, our best "weapons" ARE the multi-million dollar stars. Shut down film production? Way too much money for the AMPTP to lose. SAG has power in this. WTF AFTRA? Why would you jeopardize this? Why are you hell-bent on destroying hard earned contracts for actors in television? First cable, and now network. Rules of Engagement is an AFTRA show. It airs on CBS. It's not some cable show. It is a huge victory for someone to book a job, and then to find out it's AFTRA is almost always a disappointment. Different pension, different, way more expensive health care. For some actors, it's like just working for a check without benefits. You should be ashamed of that!
And you're not stopping run away production here. A major network sitcom like Rules of Engagement was NOT going to Canada, okay!
Good point about Reardon coming from soaps. Makes a lot of sense. She clearly does NOT get it.
And as for Rosenberg not listening, I recently attended a small meeting of working actors at a private home and Rosenberg, Doug Allen and Anne Marie Johnson not only took the time to attend, but to listen to questions from all of us. A group of working actors. I myself stood up and spoke directly to him about my feelings on qualified voting. I have been a member of SAG for 3/4 of my life and I have never had the opportunity to speak directly to the president of my guild. I am blown away that I got to do that and that he personally took the time to listen and to reply. I fully believe that he IS listening to all members and wants to do what is in the best interest for this union. He has my vote of confidence in where ever he decides to take our union.
Peggy Lane O'Rourke
When a group of actors is told that they, their services, and opinions are worth less than another group of actors, they will eventually listen, and having heard, will rightly respond by asking for less. The end result is that the salaries of all actors will drop.
Film actors in the sixties didn't much care about network TV contracts, as they didn't expect to be working under them. Network TV actors in the eighties paid little attention to Home Video and Cable provisions, because they didn't expect them to apply. Those provisions now comprise the majority of our business. This is not a coincidence– it's a fundamental rule that employers migrate to cheaper sources of labor when given that option.
I advise anyone who expects to be acting ten years from now to pay special attention to the contract AFTRA gets on Basic Cable and New Media, as it's the contract we'll most likely be working under from here on out.
Ron Livingston


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The 77th annual lighting ceremony of New York's most famous tree went as scheduled with performances by top-notch singers like Shakira, Michael Buble and Alicia Keys.
Thousands of people packed the street of New York City to witness the lighting of Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. The annual event that almost went unsuccessful proceeded on Wednesday, December 2 with Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Tishman Speyer CEO Jerry Speyer flipping the ceremonial switch just before 9 P.M.
Hosted by Jane Krakowski of "30 Rock" and Zachary Levi of "Chuck", the event was made merrier with performances by Shakira, Aretha Franklin, The Radio City Rockettes, Alicia Keys, The Roots, Michael Buble, Barry Manilow, Rod Stewart, and several others. They took the ice skate rink stage before the tree was being lit.
This year's venue is little different than previous years since the rink was layered with carpet that enables spectators to come closer to the big tree. According to Rockefeller Center spokesman Keith Douglas, around 750,000 people came to the place during the weeks leading to the tree lit. In comparison, about 350,000 people visit on average day in the rest of the year.
Earlier this week, NBC producers, writers and technicians threatened to "pull the plug" on the network's annual broadcast of the lighting of the Christmas tree celebration because of a contract dispute. The National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians Local 11 said, "We can't let the Grinch at NBC steal another Christmas from thousands of honest working people. This charade must stop. Christmas is supposed to be a time of goodwill, but the network's management is trying to hide behind their fancy lights while leaving their employees in the dark."
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(CBS/AP) KAUFMAN, Texas - The wife of former Justice of the Peace Eric Williams was arrested early Wednesday morning and charged with capital murder, CBS Dallas reports.
Kim Williams, 46, was taken into custody around 3 a.m. Wednesday and is now being held on $10 million bond, according to the station.
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Eric Williams was reportedly questioned and tested for gunpowder in relation to the late January death of assistant DA Mark Hasse, who was fatally shot as he was leaving work in Kaufman, and then again in the March deaths of the McLellands.
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More than 160 people will lose their jobs under plans to close a pharmaceutical packaging company in Swindon. TD Packaging, in Stephenson Road, Groundwell Industrial Estate, has proved unprofitable for multinational parent company United Drug, and the decision to close the factory was taken in early May with costs to upgrade the facility deemed too high. The 45-day consultation period for staff affected by the plans ended last week, and a spokesman for United Drug said there was currently no planned date for closure of the facility, although it is expected to shut down within the next nine to 12 months. The spokesman said: "The facility has been unprofitable for some time and, despite all our efforts, sales have remained relatively flat.
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Two alumni 19 years apart recycle tires, save trees, make sidewalks easier to navigate -- all while running a booming business.
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"People have no idea how much power they have -- they would be amazed to see how much."
Movie producer, screenwriter, and self-avowed "tree-hugger" Lindsay Smith '67 found out how much power she had one day four years ago while taking a routine walk through her California neighborhood. When she encountered 17 tree workers about to cut down 26 perfectly healthy trees, she was enraged -- doubly so because there had been no opportunity for citizen feedback. Her ensuing verbal blast intimidated the workers so much that they temporarily desisted. It was long enough for Lindsay to phone her local newspaper and summon a reporter and photographer. The article in the paper so energized the residents to protest that the project was quashed. The trees survived.
Lindsay learned that the city had decided to cut down the trees because they were harming the sidewalks. Her concern for the trees -- and the benefit they afford people -- prompted her to do some research. She discovered that "a billion and a half square feet of city sidewalks are damaged each year, 80 percent of them by tree roots. Too often the solution is to cut down the trees." She learned about a member of the Santa Monica public works department who was experimenting with using recycled rubber as a replacement for concrete. The newly developed rubber pavement -- made from tires that would otherwise be destined for landfills -- allowed water and air to penetrate; so that the roots could grow underground without needing to fight their way to the surface.
Lindsay began to phone public works departments in cities around the country. She'd start by asking, "Who's in charge of your sidewalk management?" She asked the sidewalk managers if trees were a problem. The reply was always affirmative. Lindsay started typing up information sheets about rubber sidewalks and sending them to the managers. "It was really primitive," she says now.
Lindsay had been a drama major at Ithaca College from 1963 to 1965 but headed for the Los Angeles area to pursue her love of the entertainment business. Her most noteworthy accomplishment was a stint as screenwriter and producer of the filmed-in-Moscow feature Back in the USSR, the first American-made film to use a Russian crew. Although it was just a "blip" at the box office, Lindsay is proud that it helped American-Soviet relations. She is still in touch with writers and producers Jeffrey Kramer '67 and Marty Nadler '67, whom she had met at IC.
Rubber sidewalks offered her an advocacy project; soon it grew into a full-time occupation. The next step was to hire contractors to create rubber-paving pieces. She'd then send the modular "pavers" to each city. It wasn't long before she was running her own company.
Rubbersidewalks was incorporated in 2001. In its first two years Lindsay concentrated on research and development. In 2003 she felt confident enough to work on expanding her sales. In the year from 2003 to 2004 sales increased tenfold. Rubbersidewalks has supplied sidewalks to more than 40 cities around the country, with sales "well into six figures."
"If you're a successful movie producer," says Lindsay, "you can become a successful CEO. In each job you need to be able to handle money, multitask, be organized, and be somewhat persuasive."
As she fleshed out the concept for Rubbersidewalks, Lindsay felt she needed a marketing manager. On a Saturday morning in January 2003 she started looking for candidates via a well-known Internet career site. Call it serendipity if you want, but the previous evening Dan Joyce '86 had posted his résumé for the first time. Lindsay saw it, noted the Ithaca College degree, and called him, she says, "for that reason and that reason alone."
After getting her call, Dan jumped in his car and three hours later was in the audience as Lindsay gave a presentation to managers of 10 California cities. After the talk Lindsay interviewed Dan. "Ithaca gave us an immediate camaraderie," Lindsay recalls, "an instant trust. And he's 20 years younger than I am!" Lindsay hired Dan to be Rubbersidewalks' first vice president of marketing.
"I got a great marketing education at Ithaca," Dan says. He tells of how as seniors he and his roommate Steve Brett lobbied an IC marketing professor for a $500 grant to use for the promotion of a seminar they wanted to conduct. They obtained the money and held a successful seminar. That experience, Dan says, was the catalyst that propelled him into a business career.
At Rubbersidewalks he uses trade shows, regional road shows, and direct mail to further the company's image and reputation. He and Lindsay invite managers from nearby cities to attend their presentations; word of mouth is their most powerful marketing tool.
Rubber sidewalks have some obvious environmental advantages: by allowing trees to be preserved (the company has saved hundreds so far), they cut down on air pollution (trees clean the air by filtering out particulate matter and converting carbon dioxide into oxygen), save energy (trees shade and cool the air), improve water quality (tree roots filter out impurities), and, as Lindsay points out, raise real estate values. Rubber sidewalks have the additional advantage of sustaining a 60 percent lower impact than concrete, according to a company study. It's much easier on the knees and joints and lessens the impact of a fall. "A glass bottle will bounce off it," Lindsay says. Perhaps most significantly, the sidewalks keep a great number of used passenger automobile tires out of landfills.
"The greatest environmental problem with waste tires," explains Lindsay, "is a tire-pile fire. It takes a lot to get tire rubber burning, a sustained temperature of 700 degrees, but once afire it's hard to extinguish and it sends dangerous pollutants into the air."
Rubbersidewalks accumulates tires from auto dealers who have collected them as trade-ins. So instead of going to the landfill they are "granulated" -- ground by machines into tiny bits. Rubbersidewalks buys 4,000-pound sacks of this "crumb rubber" to produce the modular sidewalk pieces.
The company has already forged relationships with like-minded companies in the recycled-rubber industry including U.S. Rubbersidewalks, Grubble, and Turbo-Scape. They share information and markets, a practice that leads them all to more constructive research and development. Lindsay says, "Every day is R&D day. We continually improve the product and develop new products." Eventually she hopes to have installations in all 50 states.
"We envision paving the country with rubber sidewalks, which means saving trees, providing a safer public right of way, and saving cities money." After that, she says, international opportunities beckon. One can just picture the trees where Rubbersidewalks are installed breathing a little easier.


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Adam Levine Threw Out His Mach-5, Apparently, And I Approve!
My dream man is Paul Bunyon, so naturally my girl boner sprung to rapt attention upon seeing this photo (on left) of Maroon 5's Adam Levine with a full, lush beard. When he's not smiling, he's almost unrecognizable, but oh my god, he looks so rough and burly. (Is it obvious that I haven't had sex in a while? Sorry.) Julie says that Adam looks like he just came back from cruising Chelsea, but whatever. What do you think of Adam's hairy new look? [Photos: Splash News and Fame/Flynet]
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Type of Document Dissertation Author Minsky, Barbara Dale URN etd-1112102-140432 Title LMX Dyad Agreement: Construct Definition and the Role of Supervisor/Subordinate Similarity and Communication in Understanding LMX Degree Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Department Management (Business Administration) Advisory Committee
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Date of Defense 2002-09-26 Availability unrestricted AbstractMuch LMX research is predicated upon the assumption that the quality of the supervisor-subordinate relationship is predictive of important organizational and individual outcomes. I propose, however, that leader-member agreement in perception about the nature of the relationship as well as the type of relationship itself is important. I have identified and examined some of the theoretically relevant determinants of leader and member perceptual agreement regarding the nature of their LMX relationship. I hypothesized that relational demography, values, perceived similarity, communication, feedback, and role clarity are related to LMX perceptual agreement. Data was collected through surveys personally administered to employees at four companies in the Southeast. All employees completed the same survey which included measures of LMX, values, perceived similarity, communication, feedback, and role clarity. Supervisors then completed an additional survey that included measures of the supervisors' perceptions of their LMX relationships, their perceived similarity with subordinates, and feedback solicitation with specific subordinates. Supervisor and subordinate responses were matched. Additionally, because of the controversy regarding the use of difference scores as a means to investigate agreement variables, perceptual agreement was not defined as a difference score. My dependent variable, LMX agreement, was examined using multivariate multiple regression analysis by looking at each of its components (LMX and SLMX) and their relationship to each other and to the independent variable(s). The results provide evidence that communication is a key aspect of perceptual agreement. There is support for several of the communication and feedback hypotheses. This dissertation makes several contributions to the leader-member exchange, perceptual agreement, and communication literatures. Direction for future research, study limitations, and implications of the findings for research and practice are discussed. Files
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It really depends on what you base the rivalry on.
I know European posters won't like this, as this may be an ethnocentric North American viewpoint, but I really don't count the World Hockey Championships as rivalry building. Due to the timing of going head to head with the NHL playoffs, it is a secondary tournament that is barely watched or covered in NA. So many of the best players aren't there that it isn't a true best on best. It is nowhere near the importance of the Olympics.
My favorite international hockey is the WJC, so if I was basing it on that, there would be zero question that Russia and Canada are the big rivals. You only have to look at the medal table.
However, given that the squads are generally only 19 & 18 year olds, it is natural that the two deepest nations are rivals. And basing the rivalry on only two years of any age group isn't giving you a fair assessment of what a full national men's team can do.
So to me, it is all about best on best when all players are available to play. That means Olympics and World Cup/Canada Cup tournaments. With those Olympics, anything pre-NHL involvement doesn't count for me either. Again...not best on best. Russia and Canada are still the two teams that are generally chosen as favorites in those tournaments, so the rivalry is still number one. I can see how some might say USA now. 96 World Cup and 02 & 10 Olympics head to head in the finals will do that.
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Talk of "proletarian revolution" may sound antiquated, but it remains topical every two weeks at a Tucson coffee shop.
Every first and third Sunday of the month, Revolutionary Grounds, 606 N. Fourth Ave., hosts a "Marxism discussion group."
When I heard of it, my first thought was, "People still discuss Marx?" My second thought: "I've got to attend."
It turns out there's a vibrant group of Tucsonans who consider Marx and related writings relevant to today's world. The reading for Sunday night's meeting was "Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism" by Vladimir Lenin, the leader of Russia's Bolshevik revolution.
The topic brought out about 30 people for an hourlong, intense discussion as the broiling heat of afternoon mellowed into evening warmth. Hosts Paul Gattone and Joy Soler, the couple who own the coffee shop, had to pull extra tables and chairs into the sandy backyard.
Holding their well-thumbed copies of the "Essential Works of Lenin," the attendees analyzed what the reading meant, and especially, what it means today.
Gattone, a local lawyer, has taken to calling first on David Myers, then moving on to take note of people raising their hands, calling on them one by one. Myers, a retired librarian and history professor who moved to Tucson two years ago, summarized the reading and gave a pinch of his own analysis.
"I love Lenin because he nevers screws around making his points," Myers said. "He bludgeons you with them."
What really struck Myers: "While I was reading this, I thought, my God, he must have written this in 2013."
He wasn't the only attendee to find similarities between that age and now.
"Now, banks control everything," Soler said, as she monitored her young daughter playing in the sand, "and we're not going to be able to do anything about it."
Inevitably, the conversation turned to inevitability - that is the inevitability of proletarian revolution. Lenin argued in the piece, written in 1916, that capitalism was in its final phase, imperialism, that would inevitably lead to international proletarian revolution.
And yet, here we were in Tucson a hundred years later, living in capitalism - happily, I might add, at least in my case.
"Lenin and his comrades at the time never would have expected capitalism to last this long," attendee Joe Bernick said. "We have to think about that when we think about revolution in our country."
"Capitalism, besides everything else, is resilient," Bernick added.
Gattone joked in response: "People say, 'It's inevitable; it's inevitable,' but does that mean we should go to a bar and wait?" As the discussion went on, a karaoke session kicked in at the neighboring IBT bar.
The youngest attendee, 17-year-old Jafe Arnold, did not seem in the mood to wait.
Lenin, Arnold said, "is establishing a framework for revolutionaries to work in the imperialist epoch, which as you're hearing around the table, remains our epoch."
"Imperialism is a moribund system," Arnold said, echoing Lenin's words. "The light at the end of the tunnel is proletarian revolution."
After the meeting, Arnold said he is a student at St. Gregory College Preparatory School who comes from a line of Communists in a family of Polish and Russian descent. Indeed, looking at his unwhiskered, Slavic face, I felt I was looking at a century-old picture of a young revolutionary.
Not everyone who attended was comfortable being quoted, photographed or named in the paper. Someone pointed out to me Tuesday a good reason why: Arizona law still specifies that employers may fire employees for being Communists.
While I enjoyed the intellectual grappling of the discussion, the lack of acknowledgement of some evils committed in the name of Marxism bothered me.
For example, I did a little reading Tuesday on the Red Terror, a campaign of violence by Lenin's Bolsheviks that peaked in 1918, just two years after he wrote "Imperialism." When I asked Myers about it Tuesday, he attributed the violence largely to Bolsheviks fighting counter-revolutionary Czarist forces, who were being helped by European militaries, and by their effort to consolidate power.
Also, the Sunday meeting was the first time I remember hearing anything positive said about Aleksandr Lukashenko, the president of Belarus, whom two people referred to as a sort of carrier of the Communist dream in Eastern Europe. I know him primarily as a dictator who imprisons thousands of dissidents and journalists, when his government isn't killing them.
Attendees at the Marxism group explained away this common wisdom the same way tea-party members and other political true believers have discounted inconvenient facts to me: The media doesn't tell you the truth.
Still, it was nice to be an Arizona Daily Star staff member among a group of people who would never consider the paper left-wing enough to call it the Red Star.
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A deferred like-kind exchange is an exchange, pursuant to an agreement, in which the taxpayer transfers like-kind property held for productive use in a trade or business or for investment and later receives like-kind property to be held for productive use in a trade or business or for investment.
In addition, the exchange must meet the following requirements in order for it to qualify as a like-kind exchange:
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You can do it! You must be getting stressed about the MCAT, I know I was a couple of months before the test. I liked this post, I find that music is really calming and sometimes focusing.
I need to stop watching the news. It makes me paranoid and sad, but for some reason I just flip it on constantly. Everyday another girl is raped and/or murdered, a child is neglected, a parent is missing, someone abused their right to carry a gun….and the list goes on and on. I no longer feel safe in my environment. School shootings, robberies, assaults….
I enjoy hearing about the upcoming election and forming my opinion on the candidates, but I don't really care about their sex lives. Can we discuss the issues, please? Immigration, health care, war, economy, national security, education and not the intern you did or did not sleep with years ago.
I suppose my goal for this week will be to listen to more music and watch less TV, particularly news programs. Music calms me, opens my eyes and reminds me of the good in people. I sincerely believe music can heal the soul.
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I tried but failed too, so I I've stopped fighting it and listen to talk radio. I've become so addicted that I cant even listen to music in the car anymore. i fear i have FOMO (fear of missing out).
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WATERTOWN -- What is the most important thing in your life to have?
That is the question that Joe "Joe-O" Ostaszewski asked Watertown Elementary fourth and fifth graders during a rally emceed by UT Extension Agent Johnny Barnes on Wednesday.
"It is your health," he responded.
Joe-O, a former Florida State University defensive lineman, was featured as a finalist on the television show "The Biggest Loser" where he lost 150 pounds of his 370-pound weight. Following his success on the show, Joe-O partnered with the National 4-H Council to engage young people in living healthy through his "Riding it Forward" campaign.
The campaign is a 2,900-mile bike ride across the country to inspire others to get healthy and talk about the dangers of childhood obesity.
Wilson County Mayor Randall Hutto spoke briefly to students during the rally and said that Tennessee is the fourth highest state in the nation when it comes to childhood obesity and that they could make good choices when it comes to their diet – especially in the school cafeteria. "They have healthy things for you there," he said.
Joe-O focused on encouraging the kids to be healthy after they leave school by staying active and asking their parents for healthy foods at home.
Riding it Forward launched on July 31 at the National 4-H Youth Conference Center in Chevy Chase, Md., and will conclude on Sept. 26 at the Biggest Loser Ranch in Calabasas, Calif. In total, he will have made 42 stops in nine states.
After each stop he invites children to take a pledge of getting healthy and sign his tour bus.
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" Genre: Rock - Psychedelic Rock / Artist: Band of Bees / Enhanced / Audio CD released 2007-03-26 at Virgin "
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Bees: can be annoying and frightening according to our misplaced fear of the creatures. Some are perfectly harmless, with no sting, spending all day digging holes in the ground, buzzing around and working miracles in the natural world.
Others are more social creatures, living in complex communities working together harmoniously to create something magical, something rich, sweet and delicious. Honey.
The Bees that I speak of are not irritating, don't sting and to the best of my knowledge can't actually fly. (I think) But they do create something magical, something rich, sweet and delicious. Musical honey.
Where can you find this precious commodity, you might ask?
The band, known as the Bees over here and the Band of Bees across the pond, hail from Ventnor, on the glorious Isle of Wight. A haven of musical profoundness that has spawned the likes of Level 42 and The Waltons (although the least said about this punk band the better) so you could say that the Bees are definitely the best band from the Isle of Wight in a long time.
This is a band that you love, but didn't know you knew. Some of the tracks from their first two albums have been used in big advertising campaigns for Magners Cider, Citroen Cars, Sure deodorant and Sainsbury's to name a few.
They have supported Oasis and Madness in the past, so some big bands know and love their product too!
So, who makes the honey, honey?
The Bees are a six piece band with lots of hair. The members are, according to Wikipedia:
* "Paul Butler - lead vocals, guitar, piano, saxophone, trumpet, clarinet, mandolin, drums, various percussion instruments
* Aaron Fletcher - bass guitar, guitar, piano, drums, percussion, lyrics, vocals
* Michael Clevett - drums, bass guitar, percussion, hammond organ, vocals
* Tim Parkin - trumpet, bass guitar, piano, rhodes, percussion, vocals
* Warren Hampshire - hammond organ, celesta, acoustic guitar, percussion, jew's harp, vocals
* Kris Birkin - guitar, vocals"
That's a lot of instruments!
What does musical honey sound like?
Well it's hard to describe the product really. It's a mash up of an unusual number of styles ranging from reggae to garage rock; from psychedelic to jazz. There's country, blues, soul and ska thrown in for good measure. In short, this band creates a type of music that defies classification and they seem to enjoy it too.
This album, Octopus, is their third 'studio' album. Well, I say studio, but the first album 'Sunshine Hit Me' was recorded in the garden shed of the front man, Paul Butler, which was met with some acclaim and a nomination for a Mercury Music prize.
The second album 'Free the Bees' was recorded in a studio -perhaps the most famous of them all - Abbey Road. But it was rushed in my opinion as they recorded it on a tight schedule, and budget.
This third album has a holiday feel to it as it was recorded in the newly built "Steam rooms"(looks like a sauna and the name seems to have stuck) on the Isle of Wight , where the band members can relax, have a laugh, play with each others....instruments and generally perfect their product before recording it for the masses to lap up and get addicted to .
Here's what I think to some of the best tracks:
Who Cares What the Question is?
This is one of the best opening tracks I've heard on an album for a long time. It took me right back to a sunny seaside holiday mucking about on the beach in Cornwall. Don't know how. A little bit hurdy-gurdy, a little bit country and folk. A bit weird to be honest. Too much going on on the first listen but by the hundredth you've heard it all: all of it, every single layer and ingredient. Your speakers are on fire!
Love in the Harbour
Overtly country - I think. Great harmonica and geetar. But it also gets a bit rocky in places, so once again they're at it with their mish mash "we're not being pigeon holed" style. It's got that something that just urges you to move around and there's something about the song, and the whole album actually, that is yelling "Suimmertime, beach, barbecues, parties, or all of the above!"
The Left Foot Stepdown
Think The Specials - Ghost town- and you might be somewhere near. It's eery but cheery. Gloomy but boomy. It's the equivalent of a musical Pot Noodle. A very curious mix. Sensational syncopated rhythms and a fair old menagerie of sounds. Magical brass, piano and Hammond organ as well as heavy bassline that together make for a brilliant addition to the album.
Got to Let Go
A real jazz fest and as bold as brass. They don't muck about these boys. They like to blow their own trumpets- and hard! (Now then, settle down). You can imagine a real big band (well six of them at least) with their trumpets, trombones, cornets, whatever they've got pursed tightly between their lips pointing them skyward all swaying together. Fab!. This gets carried away, but it gets you carried away with it. Excellent forte piano sections. Some might say repetitive, but I can't get enough of it.
Listening Man
A track pushed by Radio 2 when it was released in 2007 and my favourite track from the whole album. Maybe I'm influenced by the Video for it though. He's listening to the girl, "yaddayaddayadda" she's going onandonandonandonandon and he keeps listening and keeps listening. Just listening, not saying or doing. Until in a revelation he decides its time for a snogfest. Yes, and a great snog fest it is too. She shuts up and smiles then. She snuggles up to him and they snog a bit more. God we need more snogging in the world!
You can hear Bob Marley in this, some Van the Man Morrison and dare I say it Marvin Gaye? Well it's clear they've been influenced by all three.
Another jazzy smokey joe ska track. Moody and pulsing this still has you moving along despite your best efforts to sit still. A bit darker than the other tracks, this indie jazz track has a ring of something else I've heard. As with all the other tracks, you can hear influences but can't quite place them. A bit of the Coral maybe, or perhaps the Zutons.
(This is for the) Better Days
All the best about jazz and funky stuff rolled into one. It's music for a sunny day. But even on a rainy day, listening to this would indeed make it a better day. Smooth, stylish and technically brilliant Hammond organ once again. Freestyle playing that makes you want to sell your soul to the devil to have that skill. How do they do that?
The Ocularist
A sentimental little latin number here that makes you think he can actually speak the language. Don't think he's a native speaker though. I think the words might have been on a sheet, or a white board or a music stand at least. "The incredible perceptions that the ocularists see." I'm also not sure what someone making false eyes has to do with anything. So I'm not sure about this number at all. Except for the fact that it is another brilliantly catchy number and being about the sea, reflects their roots well.
Hot One
"I've never lifted the morning blanket like I did when you first stayed." This is obviously a boy thing as I haven't a clue what they're talking about, but I bet it's rude! This is another bouncy, rocky, jazzy tune with echoes of the 60s and there's even a Lalalalalala that almost sounds like the Banana Splits. Wow, how do they manage to get all this stuff into their tunes?
End of the Street
They're definitely having a laugh with this one. Lasting less than two minutes, it's cheeky, catchy, bouncy, weird and leaves you wanting more. Using every sound effect they could squeeze in to a song this short, it sums up their style perfectly. Oh, what was that again? Oh yes, a mish mash; eclecticism at its very best.
Oh, that's it I've gone through the whole album and it's all over too quickly - just like the real thing. So sad it has to end, but glad to have a repeat button.
We were listening to this collection of tunes as we drove back from Spain the other week. My dad was driving and he was asking for a repeat performance by the end of it. He's not a jazz fan but he loved it. He's not a 60s fan but he loved it. He hates ska, especially the Specials, but he loved this. He wants me to buy it him for Father's Day or his birthday. He's 67, who'd have thought it -a record that crosses the generational boundary? He likes the country feel to it I think and some of the soul influences.
I just love it. Full stop.
This summer, as you begin to get into a flap about the bees, think twice about swatting, squishing or drowning them.
Instead, take a deep breath, walk inside, reach for your copy of Octopus, insert into the CD player, turn the amp to loud, return to your sunbed than enjoy this quintessentially summer album. But set it to repeat. It's way too short!
You can learn all about The Bees and hear all their happy tunes on:
Disc #1 Tracklisting
1 Who Cares What The Question Is
2 Love In The Harbour
3 Left Foot Stepdown
4 Got To Let Go
5 Listening Man
6 Stand
7 This Is For The Better Days
8 Ocularist
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WOLVES' hard-hitting prop Chris Hill is not letting his mind wander too far into the future.
Despite England boss Steve McNamara stating that World Cup places are up for grabs for players that impress during Super League XVIII, the 25-year-old forward is not allowing the allure of that possibility to influence him this early in the campaign.
And not because he is overly confident of a return to the England fold, either.
More influential is the fact that Hill feels his fellow Warrington forwards breathing down his neck for the starting berth he wrestled from either Garreth Carvell or Adrian Morley last year.
"We have so much quality in Moz, Gaz, Coops, Woody and me battling it out," said the former Leigh Centurion.
"Just because I played all right last year and got picked for England doesn't mean I'm going to get an automatic spot in either team.
"Of course the World Cup is appealing to me, but I want my form back from last year and to be playing well for Warrington.
"My form has to warrant my selection."
That said, Wolves' reigning player of the year would relish England's possible matches against international heavyweights Australia and New Zealand, particularly in the light of the runaway wins he enjoyed during his debut against Wales or the following Autumn International Series victories against France.
"If I was to think about myself in a World Cup, it would be against the likes of Australia and the New Zealand," he said.
"You want to test yourself against the best and that is what I am aiming to do.
"But first you have to test yourself against the best in Super League and internationals will come off the back of that."


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Service-Oriented Architecture and Legacy Systems
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A CANCER survivor will cycle more than 200 miles with his friend to raise money for charity.
Vinny Vesty will ride from London to Manchester in aid of The Christie along with Allan Jones.
Mr Vesty has been treated by the hospital twice — first after being diagnosed with bowel cancer more than two years ago and again after developing a liver problem.
Mr Jones and Mr Vesty work together at Greenhalgh's Lostock site as maintenance engineers, and have been friends for 10 years.
The idea came up in conversation between the pair, when Mr Jones joked to his friend that they should cycle from London to Manchester after he was given the all-clear last summer.
A pipe dream quickly became a reality, and now they will cycle for four days, starting in London's Trafalgar Square on July 20 and finishing in Manchester's Albert Square on July 24.
Mr Vesty, aged 53, of Rutland Street, Leigh, said: "I'm really looking forward for it — I've been wanting to do this for years.
"I'm very confident that we'll do it. It's not going to be easy, but when something like this comes up, you have to go for it.
"I feel I owe The Christie. When I went there, I saw how many people are helped by them and it made me want to give something back."
Mr Jones, aged 52, of West Street, Farnworth, paid tribute to his friend's resilience.
He said: "I've got so much respect for Vinny. A lot of people who are fit wouldn't even attempt to do what he's doing.
"I never thought in a million years we would do it, but here we are. I'm certainly looking forward to having a drink after we've finished!
"We need as many people as possible to get behind us."
Mr Vesty's daughter Sarah, aged 22, said: "I'm really proud of my dad for what he's doing.
"It shows that it doesn't matter what you go through, you can get through it and carry on."
To donate towards Mr Vesty and Mr Jones's bike ride or find out more, visit www.justgiving.com/vinnyandallan.


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Snowsport Scotland Instructor qualifications are designed to train and develop individuals who wish to share their passion and knowledge of snowsports with new or existing recreational participants as part of a UK Snowsports School, Club or other body who oversees the activity.
These qualifications are appropriate for ski and snowboard instructors who have been directed to work with an individual or a group. They are not designed for, nor are they intended to be used as a validating qualification for independent instructors. The 'direction to work' will have been given by an authority (the Authorising Body) which has assumed responsibility for a risk evaluation of the intended instructional session(s) and has deemed that the person being 'directed to work' is a responsible and fit person. In doing so the Authorising Body assumes the responsibility for public liability. The term 'directed to work' is not related to payment.
The normal Authorising Body will be; snowsport schools or clubs, local education authorities*, uniformed groups and outdoor centres. Qualified instructors intending to work with other bodies, such as independent youth groups, should seek advice from the Snowsport Scotland office.
*Schools that are outwith the State Education system but are approved by HMIe, Ofsted or ETI are included in this category.
Snowsport Scotland Instructor qualifications are aimed at those who work in the UK, however it is also recognised that for many people working abroad in many of the other resorts in both the northern and southern hemisphere, is a very strong motivation and a pathway to ensure this is possible is an important consideration.
Snowsport Scotland have formalised a partnership with the Irish Association of Snowsport Instructors (IASI) giving mutual recognition of instructor qualifications.
This recognition allows instructors from both systems to have their existing qualifications recognised at the same level to be able to access further training courses offered by either organisation and gives SSS Instructors a full pathway to qualifications with international recognition by ISIA and IVSI.


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At Best Buy our mission is to leverage the unique talents and passions of our employees to inspire, delight, and enrich the lives our customers through technology and all its possibilities. If you have a passion and curiosity for what is possible and enjoy people, we invite you to join us on this mission.
Best Buy Sales Consultants excel at selling products and services, working closely with other members of the sales team. They accumulate the appropriate knowledge and expertise through continuous learning and self development. Then, armed with the right tools and knowledge, they create ease and add value to the Best Buy shopping experience, ensuring customers' end-to-end needs are met. As a trusted advisor and partner, Best Buy Sales Consultants deliver unique customer value by developing strong relationships with customers, bringing them a little closer to family and friends by helping them close the gaps with technology.
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I've had it for about four years and the problem started about a month ago. Its connected to digital rabbit ears and a blu ray player. I disconnected the hdmi cable for the blu ray and the problem remains.
the problem occurs with both the bluray and the rabbit ears on. right now the screen is not going black. I can see the picture but when I change the channel I hear a loud squeal. then I turned on the bluray player and the screen went black. I could not open the menu screen or change the channel. I turned the tv off and then on and I could the bluray main menu. the tv still makes noise when I change the channel
I would like to repair it myself. o.k. now the tv has gone black watching normal channels. I hear the tv but see no picture. I turned off all lights and shined a flashlight at the tv at an angle and I see a faint picture.
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Pre Orders - ALL PRE ORDERS ARE SUBJECT TO 20% CANCELLATION FEE AFTER 24 HOURS OF PURCHASE DATE.
PLEASE NOTE: If you are attempting to cancel your pre order within 48 hours of the release date, you are subject to a 50% cancellation fee
Our policy lasts 14 days. If 14 days have gone by since your purchase, unfortunately we can't offer you a refund or exchange.
To be eligible for a return, your item must be unused and in the same condition that you received it. It must also be in the original packaging.
A few types of goods are exempt from being returned.
Pre-ordered goods and clothing** are exempt from being returned.
**In the event that your pre-ordered goods and clothing do not fit to your liking, provided that there are exchangeable sizes of the same style and /or price that fit your desire in stock, we can certainly honor a returnable exchange.
There are NO RETURNS for used/VNDS merchandise purchased from our store.
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Once your return is received and inspected, we will send you an email to notify you that we have received your returned item. We will also notify you of the approval or rejection of your refund. ALL RETURNS ARE SUBJECT TO 20% RESTOCKING FEE.
Once approved, then your refund will be processed, and a credit will automatically be applied to your credit card or original method of payment, within 24-72 hours. You will receive an email confirming the refund being sent from us back to you.
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If you haven't received a refund yet, first check your bank account again.
Then contact your credit card company, it may take some time (sometimes up to 30 days) before your refund is officially posted.
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You will be responsible for paying for your own shipping costs for returning your item, however, we will create the label for you to send (if desired). Shipping costs are non-refundable. If you receive a refund, the cost of return shipping will be deducted from your refund (if applicable).
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Willmar City Council delays action on 2011 street improvements
WILLMAR -- The Willmar City Council delayed action on the proposed 2011 street improvement program this week because the council did not have enough members present to cast 7 affirmative votes as required by the city charter.
City Clerk-Treasurer Kevin Halliday said the charter requires 7 affirmative votes to order the improvement and only 6 members were present. But Halliday said the council could still take testimony from the public during Tuesday night's hearing that was held to consider the improvement.
Public Works Director Holly Wilson is proposing the city reconstruct areas of 10 streets totaling 1.53 miles, and overlay Seventh Street Southwest from Willmar Avenue to 19th Avenue and overlay Becker Avenue Southeast from First Street to Lakeland Drive, totaling 1.53 miles.
Wilson also proposes rehabilitating the deck of the First Street bridge, storm water improvements to alleviate street flooding at 15th Avenue Southwest near Taunton Stadium, installing a walk path connection on 22nd Street Southwest, and crack sealing and seal coating projects.
Total estimated cost is $2,686,830.
During the hearing, resident Arlen Roesner said he was concerned about speeding traffic and truck traffic on Becker Avenue. Wilson said her department will monitor the truck traffic and Police Chief David Wyffels said his department will address the speeding problem.
Craig Hanson, who lives on a portion of 11½ Avenue Southeast that's slated to be rebuilt, said a cable company truck damaged the street last year. Wilson said she would talk to the company.
Jon Devenport, who lives on First Avenue Northwest, asked that the city paint a stripe down the middle of a jog in the street to keep vehicles in their proper lanes. Wilson and City Administrator Michael Schmit said the city will look into the request.
Halliday said the improvement report will be placed on the council's next meeting agenda.


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The group, which also owns the Ovaltine drink, Ryvita crispbread and Silver Spoon sugar brands, saw profits to 17 September rise 12% to £590m.
Profits at Primark increased by 30% to £108m, as sales rose 17% to £1bn.
AB Foods plans to expand the 122 store Primark chain by adding 41 stores acquired from Littlewoods and Allders as part of a £1.5bn investment plan.
The company's grocery business also performed well, with sales up by 7% to £2.6bn and profits ahead 18% at £188m.
But trading was more difficult at the bakery division despite the relaunch of premium brand Kingsmill Gold.
Chief executive George Weston said Primark had been "spectacularly successful" and that there would be no long-term effects of a fire which destroyed the group's main warehouse in Leicestershire, although "some limited disruption" was expected.
Shares fall
Nevertheless, shares in AB Foods fell on the London stock market after the results were announced as analysts anticipated a year of consolidation and low growth after a spate of acquisitions.
Shares fell 1.7% to 803p, valuing the group at £6.4bn. The Weston family owns 55% of the shares.
The company said it hoped to raise £200m by selling off the remaining Littlewoods stores it had acquired.
And it plans to increase the dividend by 10% to 18p per share.


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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is among the newest participants in a statewide alliance formed last summer to explore renewable and efficient energy sources. UNC is participating in the N.C. Fuel Cell Alliance through the laboratory of Dr. Joseph DeSimone, W.R. Kenan Jr. distinguished professor of chemistry and chemical engineering at UNC and N.C. State University.
DeSimone recently was elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering.
Fuel cells directly produce power by converting chemical energy into electrical energy. UNC researchers are concerned with Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cells; these use hydrogen or methanol as fuel. Unlike a battery that discharges, a fuel cell will continue to operate as long as it receives fuel.
Using funds from federal grants, UNC researchers have installed a fuel cell test station in the department of chemistry, a component of UNC's College of Arts and Sciences. This station is allowing researchers to test the heart of the fuel cell, the "membrane-electrode assembly," and its components.
Pending grants from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ($2.2 million) and the U.S. Department of Energy ($2.3 million) will, if approved, complement existing support through the National Science Foundation (NSF) Science and Technology Center for Environmentally Responsible Solvents and Processes.
These grants could provide $5 million for operating expenses over three years.
"We think Carolina can have a big impact by making breakthroughs in basic science that can fundamentally transform the way power is harnessed from fuel cells," said DeSimone.
He directs the NSF center, a collaborative endeavor with five universities, and the new Institute for Advanced Materials, Nanoscience and Technology at UNC.
First devised in 1839, fuel cells are not currently used in the commercial industry. Researchers believe they have the potential to provide energy for a wide range of applications, such as powering laptops, providing light and heat to homes and running automobiles.
Fuel cell markets are currently valued at nearly $1 billion and are expected to grow to more than $13 billion in the next decade, according to projections cited by the N.C. Fuel Cell Alliance.
"You can use fuel cells anywhere you use batteries. For example, if you used a fuel cell in a laptop it could last about a week, instead of lasting three-to-four hours with batteries," said Dr. Everett Baucom, deputy director of the NSF Science and Technology Center and adjunct professor of chemistry at UNC. "Then, instead of recharging the cell you would simply replace the fuel cartridge."
UNC's fuel cell research will focus on portable uses for the technology, including laptops, cellular phones and U.S. departments of Defense and Homeland Security applications, DeSimone said.
Fuel cells offer high automotive fuel efficiency (especially in city traffic), low emissions and silent operation. Most major automotive manufacturers worldwide are active in fuel cell development, said Baucom. In addition, several ongoing demonstration projects employ fuel cells in city buses in the United States, Canada and Europe, he said.
"We are working primarily on the chemistry end, designing a new type of membrane that would give higher surface area and higher performance per unit volume," said Baucom, formerly the technology manager for DuPont's PEM division and who joined UNC in 2000. "This would lead to more effective use of the membrane."
UNC researchers are taking this field in a new direction, said DeSimone.
"Most of the PEMs used in fuel cell manufacture are solid materials. We are pioneering liquid precursors. Having a liquid precursor can open new ways of fabricating fuel cells."
UNC researchers will work with the Teflon division of DuPont in Fayetteville, the leading manufacturer of PEMs. UNC's Institute for Advanced Materials, Nanoscience and Technology and its NSF Science and Technology Center both focus on this kind of technology.
Source: The University of North Carolina
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Manitoba has the highest incarceration rate in Canada, primarily because of the high number of people in custody who are on remand waiting for their case to make it to court, according to the latest report from Statistics Canada. Crime is on the decline and the province has expanded its jail system with more beds, yet the squeeze continues.
The usual excuses for this sad profile -- not enough prosecutors and the two-for-one credit that was given to defendants for the dead time spent on remand -- can no longer be trotted out by the province.
The Manitoba government started hiring new Crown attorneys three years ago, including 10 last year, with plans for more hiring over the next few years. A shortage of prosecutors, then, is not the problem, if it ever was.
And the federal government eliminated the two-for-one protocol two years ago because it was blamed for encouraging defendants to delay their sentencing so they would serve less real time in jail.
The incarceration rate is unlikely to ease up on its own, particularly with the introduction of mandatory minimum sentences and other initiatives that could result in more people being locked up for longer periods of time, although it is too early to prejudge the impact of the federal crime legislation.
The fact is there is still a major backlog in dealing with cases expeditiously and it can sometimes take nine months or longer for a case to go to trial, or even to arrive in front of a sentencing judge.
The system seems like it is poorly organized and in chaos, without the organization or leadership needed to clean up the mess.
The courts might start by putting in a full year's worth of work, instead of slowing down dramatically during the summer months. There are no jury trials held in the summer, when you can shoot a cannon through parts of the Law Courts without hitting anyone. If there aren't enough judges, then the province could consider using more retired judges for summer sittings to clear up backlogs.
Another problem reported by some defence attorneys is a judiciary that is largely composed of former prosecutors, some of whom may be more inclined to deny bail to people facing serious charges, even if there is no evidence they won't appear in court or that they might reoffend if released. Without a case by case analysis, however, it is impossible to say if this complaint is valid.
Many people on bail are often re-arrested for minor breaches of their terms of release, such as adhering to a curfew or abstaining from alcohol, which also clogs up the system.
It must be acknowledged, once again, that aboriginals are over-represented in the justice system, a fact that has been known and discussed for decades, without any meaningful response or reversal of the trend.
The same problems and issues can be found in other provinces, but Manitoba leads the pack by a wide margin. The adult incarceration rate of 213 per 100,000 people here is more than double the provincial/territorial average of 90.
Justice Minister Andrew Swan needs to take another, harder look at the system to improve efficiencies and, above all, justice. Manitoba has enough "firsts" to its reputation without also being known as the incarceration capital of Canada.