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Potato breeder HZPC publishes value of share certificates after May 2019 stock trading day.
The value of the stock certificate for shares in HZPC Holding B.V., the world market leader in potato breeding, has been fixed at €162 (done, let) after the half-yearly trading day on 10 May 2019. This means that the value of the share certificate has fallen by the maximum value of 10%.
Mr. Gerard Backx, CEO of HZPC: "After a long period of maximum price increases, the price has fallen on the last two trading days. These days, the supply has been higher than the demand. This offers purchasing options for (potential) shareholders. At the beginning of March, it was announced that the profit for the 2018/2019 year would be higher than the amount realised last year. Now, two months later, the expectation is that the profit will be sharply higher than last year. "
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- Many legal analysts say we are hearing the death rattle of the class action lawsuit, pushed into last sacrament territory by a 5-4 conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court that has enormous sympathy for business but almost none at all for the average consumer.
For the public, the main blow came from the ruling in Walmart vs. Dukes in June, when the high court shattered the largest class action in U.S. history. But legal scholars see the high court's 5-4 ruling in AT&T Mobility vs. Concepcion as far more inimical to the class action concept.
First, the Walmart details.
The Supreme Court unanimously agreed the massive class action sexual discrimination suit against retail giant Walmart could not stand.
But the court's four-member liberal bloc, in a partial dissent, said the putative 1.5 million women in the class should have been given a chance to show there was enough "commonality" in their situations to qualify as a class.
The case started in San Francisco in 2001 when six women filed suit claiming Walmart discrimination, in part because they were passed over for promotion in favor of men.
Walmart had complained the "nationwide class includes every woman employed for any period of time over the past decade, in any of Walmart's approximately 3,400 separately managed stores, 41 regions and 400 districts, and who held positions in any of approximately 53 departments and 170 different job classifications. The millions of class members collectively seek billions of dollars in monetary relief under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, claiming tens of thousands of Walmart managers inflicted monetary injury on each and every individual class member in the same manner by intentionally discriminating against them because of their sex, in violation of the company's express anti-discrimination policy."
A federal appeals court panel and the full 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, both divided, approved the certification of the class.
But the majority opinion written by Justice Clarence Thomas seemed to suggest such claims could only been handled individually. The opinion said when plaintiffs seek individual relief such as back pay or reinstatement, the company has "the right to raise any individual affirmative defenses it may have, and to 'demonstrate that the individual applicant was denied an employment opportunity for lawful reasons.'"
Thomas' opinion said the appeals court tried to replace this procedure with a "trial by formula," using a "sample set," with the result applied to the huge class. "We disapprove that novel project."
The issue in April's AT&T Mobility was somewhat different.
In California, Vincent and Liza Concepcion took advantage of an AT&T offer of free cellphones under their service contract -- then noticed they were being charged a sales tax on the "free" cellphones.
The cellphone contract provided for arbitration of all disputes, but did not permit class arbitration.
The Concepcions sued the company in federal court. Their suit was consolidated with a class action that claimed AT&T had engaged in false advertising by charging sales tax on "free" phones. A federal judge and appeals court rejected AT&T's request to compel arbitration under the contract.
But the Supreme Court eventually ruled 5-4 that the Federal Arbitration Act pre-empted California case law allowing such suits. The FAA makes arbitration agreements "valid, irrevocable, and enforceable, save upon such grounds as exist at law or in equity for the revocation of any contract."
The narrow majority's opinion, written by Justice Antonin Scalia, said the state's 2005 "Discover Bank" rule "stands as an obstacle to the accomplishment and execution of the full purposes and objectives of Congress," and therefore was trumped by the FAA.
The Concepcions, and everyone else, would have to go back to individual arbitration to get the $30.22 in sales tax.
Writing for the four-member liberal bloc, Justice Stephen Breyer asked, "What rational lawyer would have signed on to represent the Concepcions in litigation for the possibility of fees stemming from a $30.22 claim?" Citing an appeals court opinion, Breyer said, "The realistic alternative to a class action is not 17 million individual suits, but zero individual suits, as only a lunatic or a fanatic sues for $30."
"So what?" you may ask.
What if most or all consumer transactions became subject to arbitration contracts?
Ashby Jones, writing in The Wall Street Journal blog, cites Vanderbilt Law Professor Brian Fitzpatrick.
"If the court goes down AT&T's path, the consequences could be staggering," Fitzpatrick said last year. "It could be the end of class action litigation. ... [V]irtually all class actions today occur between parties who are in transactional relationships with one another: shareholders and corporations, consumers and merchants, employees and employers. Because they are in transactional relationships, they are able to enter arbitration agreements with class action waivers.
"Once given the green light," Fitzpatrick warned, "it is hard to imagine any company would not want its shareholders, consumers and employees to agree to such provisions."
In a piece posted on SCOTUSBLOG.com, David S. Schwartz, professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School, conceded, "Walmart vs. Dukes caused much consternation for placing significant limits on class actions. ... [But] AT&T Mobility vs. Concepcion ... goes much farther than Walmart. It entirely kills most class actions."
Schwartz said the AT&T case was the latest "in a long line of Supreme Court decisions interpreting the Federal Arbitration Act in a manner consistently hostile to consumer and employee protection laws. An obscure backwater of contract law, FAA jurisprudence flies under the radar of most policymakers and legal sophisticates, and its low profile is compounded by the obscurity of language and reasoning in the Supreme Court's decisions in the area."
The AT&T high court ruling "appears to hold that a party to an arbitration agreement cannot be sued in a class action."
Schwartz said the AT&T case, which he called Concepcion, was the one to watch out for.
"Without minimizing, Walmart vs. Dukes, getting upset about that case is like flipping out over a brief thundershower a few weeks after having slept through Hurricane Irene," he said. "The implications of Concepcion are staggering. Most class actions arise out of contractual relationships. Consumer, employment discrimination, wage and hour and securities class actions all arise out of transactions that begin with a contract. Any and all potential defendants of such claims can immunize themselves from class actions by the simple expedient of adding an arbitration agreement to their contracts. Since these are almost always adhesion contracts, all that's required is word-processing -- certainly not bargaining."
Writing in the ABA Journal under the headline "The End of Consumer Class Actions?" Debra Cassens Weiss said, "The U.S. Supreme Court has sided with AT&T in its bid to enforce contract provisions banning class actions and requiring individual arbitration in consumer disputes."
Allessandro Presti, writing in the Columbia Business Law Review, also cites Fitzpatrick.
Writing in The San Francisco Chronicle, Fitzpatrick points out, "virtually all class actions today occur between parties who are in transactional relationships with one another: shareholders and corporations, consumers and merchants, employees and employers. ... Sometimes businesses inflict injuries too small to sue over. How many people will sue when someone cheats them out of $100? How many lawyers will take a case worth $1,000? Not many. But, if people don't sue, businesses know they can cheat people out of small amounts with impunity."
But Presti, for now, refuses to join the class action mourners, saying those predicting its death "may be jumping the gun."
Presti said it's unclear how much the Concepcion ruling will affect consumer and other class action litigation. Many realistic attempts to remedy corporate injury do not involve class action.
And there's always the chance Congress could act legislatively to limit the impact of the ruling, though that seems less likely with the major parties dividing up the Congress.
Finally, Presti said, "the heavily overlapping nature of regulatory authority in the United States means that government agencies could use rulemaking, litigation or other regulatory measures to curtail the impact of Concepcion. For instance, many consumer class actions, including the Concepcions', were brought under laws prohibiting false or deceptive advertising, which the [Federal Trade Commission's] Bureau of Consumer Protection has authority to enforce."
Presti said Fitzpatrick notes the Securities and Exchange Commission "has frowned upon arbitration, and could use its authority to prevent Concepcion from reaching shareholder class actions. ... Some have suggested that the newly created Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection may use its rulemaking authority to prohibit class action bans for consumer financial products."
What Presti doesn't say is what would happen to class action if some future administration or congressional majority hostile to government regulation pulls hard on the regulatory reins, or even drums most regulation out of the law.


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Former South African President Nelson Mandela has been hospitalized again, but officials say it's only for a routine checkup.
"Doctors are conducting tests and have thus far indicated that there is no reason for any alarm," according to a statement from the presidential office Saturday.
In January, Mandela completed his recovery from a lung infection and gallstone surgery and gradually returned to his normal routine, officials said at the time.
Mandela, 94, who has not appeared in public since 2010, had continued receiving treatment at his home in Houghton, a suburb of Johannesburg.
Mandela was hospitalized for a lung infection in early December and a week later underwent surgery to remove gallstones. He was discharged from the hospital after a two-week stay.
During the time of apartheid in South Africa, Mandela was convicted of sabotage and was imprisoned for 27 years until 1990.
He and former President F.W. de Klerk, who dismantled apartheid, shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993. A year later, Mandela became the nation's first black president.
In November, South Africa issued banknotes bearing Mandela's picture.
Despite his rare public appearances in recent years, Mandela retains his popularity and is considered a hero of democracy in the nation.
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Ramogi Huma wasn't asking for much. Just for a chance to speak. An opportunity to share a few commonsense ideas about how to make college football slightly safer and more humane for its on-field participants, the young men putting their brains and futures at risk, in part, so that credit card companies and fast food taco peddlers can more easily reach potential customers.
Reduced contact during practices. Limiting the number of regular-season games. Independent sideline concussion experts. More medical and epidemiological research. Support for brain-damaged former players. Simply warning players about degenerative brain conditions associated with contact sports. These were the major components of the plan -- drawn up by the National College Players Association, an advocacy group made up of more than 17,000 current and former college athletes -- and in his role as the organization's president, Huma hoped to hold a press conference on the eve of the BCS championship at the game's official media hotel, the better to tout the notion that maybe, just maybe, the sport should mandate all of the above. And perhaps set aside a chunk of its upcoming annual $300 million reported playoff payday for player health and safety.
So what happened?
"We had it all squared away with the hotel," says Huma, a former linebacker for UCLA. "At the last minute, they checked with the BCS, who told them that they didn't want to have anyone else putting on an event there."
Huma drove to the hotel anyway. He distributed a press release by hand.
"When I got to the hotel, those press rooms weren't booked for the time we had asked for," he says. "They weren't even being used. To think that player safety is such a low priority -- or, even worse, to think that the people that have the power to better protect players are actively avoiding the issue or running away -- that's disturbing."
Of course, Huma wasn't totally surprised. The National Collegiate Athletic Association has ignored him. So have all of the big-time, bigger-money Football Bowl Subdivision conferences, with the lone exception of the Pac-12, which met with Huma last September. "I thought that went well," he says. "They were really open to our concerns. All the other conferences, they really don't seem concerned to the point of any action. There's a lot of silence."
While football at every level is struggling with the issue of brain trauma -- it's hardly hyperbole to call it an existential crisis -- the college game's response has been to do … well, not a whole lot. No systemic effort to reduce injury risk. No comprehensive concussion diagnosis and treatment protocol. No serious blueprint from the NCAA, which typically takes a Supreme Soviet-shaming approach to governing amateurism, crafting and enforcing endless, nit-picky rules that cover everything from text messages to high school recruits to permissible bagel toppings, all in the name of protecting athletes.
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You might think potential brain trauma would fall under the ever-expanding umbrella of the NCAA's warm, solicitous concern. After all, colleges and universities have a longstanding moral duty to act en loco parentis. Football can be hazardous to cognitive health; experts say that the still-developing brains of college-age men are particularly vulnerable to injury. If the NCAA's television commercials and justification for its tax-exempt status are to be believed, campus sports are supposed to help develop young minds, not damage them. Indeed, given that making football acceptably safe was the NCAA's original raison d'etre -- the organization was founded in 1906, after Teddy Roosevelt summoned campus administrators to the White House to address a rash of gruesome football injuries and deaths -- you might think that sheer institutional muscle memory would prompt college sports' governing body to adopt a more aggressive, less laissez-faire approach.
Guess again.
Take potential trauma exposure. Less hitting equals less chance of injury: It's an elementary formula, physics and biology 101. An obvious place to make changes, right? In 2011, the Ivy League limited full-contact football practices to two days a week. But no major conference has followed suit. Nor has the NCAA mandated that they do so -- never mind that medical science indicates that cumulative sub-concussive brain trauma (accumulated little hits over time) may be as dangerous as obvious, full-blown concussions; that brain trauma safety advocates such as Chris Nowinski of the Sports Legacy Institute have called for reducing the number of hits absorbed by football players at all levels, particularly for younger athletes; that both the NFL (one full-contact practice per week) and Pop Warner have slashed allowable practice contact accordingly; that a 2010 National Institutes of Health study found that college football players sustain more hits to the head in practices than in games; and that NFL Players Association president Domonique Foxworth recently told HBO's "Real Sports" that unpaid college players now take more hits than their professional counterparts.
Since 2010, the NCAA has required schools to have concussion management plans that: (a) inform athletes about the signs and symptoms of concussions; (b) remove athletes who show signs of a concussion from play; (c) prohibit students with concussions from returning to play the same day they were initially injured. The organization also has donated $400,000 to research head impacts in sports and recently appointed a neurologist as its first chief medical officer. Beyond that?
To borrow from Tony Kornheiser: That's it. That's the list.
Better than nothing? Sure. But frankly, not by much. The first two concussion plan points are obvious and far past due. The third is a bare medical minimum. The $400,000 donation is less than half of what Outback Bowl CEO Jim McVay earned in 2008 alone. Small wonder, then, that Nowinski says college football is "asleep at the wheel." Or that a UCLA Entertainment Law Review article is titled "The NCAA Needs Smelling Salts When It Comes to Concussion Regulation in Major College Athletics." Published last year, the 43-page piece argues that the organization has failed to adequately educate and protect college athletes.
From a moral and practical standpoint, it's hard to disagree. Unlike the aforementioned bagel topping rules, the NCAA's concussion policy is a set of vague guidelines, the implementation of which is left in the hands of schools. There is no NCAA brain trauma clearinghouse, no compliance office, no monitoring staff, no get-tough punishment of programs that fail to protect athletes from potentially life-altering cognitive harm, as opposed to the unspeakable horror of talking to sports agents. What's the NCAA's plan for helping young men avoid the fate of Adrian Arrington, who in a lawsuit filed against the organization claims he suffered numerous concussions while playing football for Eastern Illinois and now suffers from memory loss, depression, seizures and near-daily migraines as a result of his injuries? Or to keep players like Arrington from joining the nine confirmed cases of the degenerative brain disorder chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) that Boston University researchers have found in players whose football careers concluded with college? Telling its member institutions, Hey, guys, you really need to have a plan.
"You have to question the integrity of a group that chases 17- and 18-year-olds around the nation to make sure they don't get a free T-shirt on a recruiting trip, but when it comes to severe, long-term health consequences of football, they pretty much defer to the schools," Huma says. "The NCAA moves heaven and Earth to pretend amateurism is real to maximize profits. The conference commissioners wanted a playoff for college football. They held meeting after meeting after meeting -- and they got it. It's pretty clear that if either made player safety a high priority, they could implement reform. That's the reason we approached them. They have the power."
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If the NCAA (and, to a lesser extent, the BCS conferences) have the power to unilaterally enact health and safety measures, then why are they largely sitting on their hands? The answer lies in legal liability. Or, more accurately, the calculated ducking thereof. "The NCAA is purposely taking a hands-off approach and delegating any legal responsibility to its individual member institutions," says attorney Paul Anderson, publisher of NFLconcussionlitigation.com. "I think they believe that if they were to even start enforcing their one-line policy that says schools must have a concussion management plan in place -- like the NCAA does with contact between players and agents -- they would be seen as pretty much the guardian of player health and safety and would then owe a duty to all student athletes."
In other words: If the NCAA doesn't acknowledge college football's brain trauma problem in anything but the most general terms, and doesn't try to do anything about the problem beyond making a few general suggestions, then neither a judge nor jury will be able to hold the organization responsible when the sport produces life-altering injuries and subsequent lawsuits. "I use the analogy of walking down an aisle in a grocery store, and somebody falls over and has a seizure," Anderson says. "As an individual, you don't have a legal duty to help them. Morally, you probably do. But the moment you voluntarily assume a duty by picking them up or standing by them, then legally, you now have put yourself in a position where you must act reasonably. Otherwise you can be held accountable."
By declining to create and enforce a stronger brain trauma policy -- by walking past the seizure victim -- the NCAA avoids legal duty, and likely has strengthened its defense against a current class-action lawsuit alleging that the organization has been negligent regarding awareness and treatment of brain injuries to athletes. (Some school districts and youth football leagues have rejected enacting safety measures for similar reasons).
In 2009, Philadelphia's La Salle University paid $7.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of Preston Plevretes, a football player who suffered a severe brain injury in a 2005 game following a mismanaged previous concussion. The school admitted no wrongdoing, but no longer has a football program. The NCAA was untouched. By contrast, the National Football League almost certainly weakened its defense against an ongoing class-action concussion suit filed by more than 4,000 former players by creating a Mild Traumatic Brain Committee in 1994. (The NFL committee reportedly hiding and attempting to discredit scientific links between concussions and long-term brain damage doesn't help, either.) Still, Anderson says, "with all that legal mumbo jumbo aside, the NCAA has failed to protect players. Morally, they have that duty. They have the ability to put things in place. They don't want to end up facing tons and tons of threats in court. It's unfortunate. It's terrible. The players have no voice and no power to leverage. They're left to fend for themselves."
Last season, Southern California receiver Robert Woods absorbed a jarring helmet-to-helmet hit from a Utah defender. He got up, staggered toward the wrong sideline and fell to the ground, face-first. He reportedly took and passed a sideline concussion test not by undergoing a careful exam from a trained neurologist, but by correctly answering three questions: Who is the current president? What is today's date? What is 100 minus seven, minus seven, minus seven? Woods missed one play before returning to the game; afterward, a teammate said, "There's no way you're gonna have Robert sit on the bench, no matter what it is," while coach Lane Kiffin praised him for being a "tough kid."
Tough like Arizona quarterback Matt Scott, who last October absorbed two hits to the head during a single play against USC, vomited on the field and remained in the game to throw the winning touchdown pass. Tough like Connecticut quarterback Chandler Whitmer, who last November suffered a concussion against Louisville and then took two more hits to the head -- one of which he described as "a bullet" -- against Cincinnati the next week before being sidelined. Schools are not forthcoming with medical information, but had any of the three players been concussed and allowed back on the field, they would have been put at risk for second-impact syndrome, in which a second concussion causes the brain to swell rapidly and catastrophically. The result? Severe disability or death.
Yet none of the schools involved were fined or disciplined by the NCAA. None were even subject to an investigation. Had Woods, Scott and Whitmer been photographed in a Lamborghini parked outside a tattoo parlor passing around a bong, they likely would have sent the NCAA's compliance department to DEFCON level 1. Instead, Huma says, all three players were left to fend for themselves.
"That's why our plan calls for the NCAA to have independent concussion experts on the sidelines," he says. "Right now, team doctors make decisions, and they are put into place by athletic programs. Normally, a doctor very clearly sees his or her patient as their number one priority. But if you're officially a team doctor, you have a conflict of interest at times. What's best for the athletic program is not necessarily best for an individual player's health. With Robert Woods, if it was the fourth quarter and USC had been up by three or four touchdowns, would he still have been sent out there? The team doctors and coaches are heavily incentivized to win games at all costs."
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Huma's organization began developing its brain trauma health and safety plan last spring. Former college and pro linebacker Junior Seau had just committed suicide, and during a weekly NCPA conference call, participants were in shock. (The NIH reported last week that an independent examination of Seau's brain revealed abnormalities consistent with CTE). They saw the NFL cracking down on helmet hits and discussing eliminating kickoffs, trying to do something; they saw youth football following suit. But the NCAA? Zilch. "It's the players whose health is on the line when they suit up every day and every practice," Huma says. "They should have some say."
The 2010 NIH study found that football players at Brown, Dartmouth and Virginia Tech averaged about 2,500 total hits to the head over the course of a season during practice; 300 of those were forceful enough to cause concussions. Those numbers, the NCPA argues, can be reduced. Outside of anecdotal evidence, no one knows how prevalent brain damage is among former college players, nor how many of them need help. That can be studied. When current players suffer brain injuries, the NCAA and its member schools are under no obligation to cover subsequent medical expenses. That can be changed. Schools currently are not even required to tell athletes about the dangers of CTE and other long-term health risks that are associated with contact sports. That education -- necessary and overdue -- could start tomorrow.
Huma says the current and former college athletes he works with understand that football is a violent, dangerous sport. They don't expect the NCAA to eliminate risk. They do expect the organization to try. "Everyone knows football is a brutal game," Huma says. "But we were never aware of the full toll until the last few years. There needs to be more of an informed consent in that aspect. One of the things we currently have is a culture among players who play even if they suspect they have a concussion. Our own players' council said that the best shot of changing that is to educate athletes about the severe potential consequences of those actions."
Three years ago, University of Pennsylvania football captain Owen Thomas hanged himself in his off-campus apartment. He had no history of depression or mood disorders. He was 21. Five months later, pathologists found that he was in the early stages of CTE, making him at the time the youngest football player to be found with clear evidence of the disease. Morgan Thomas, Owen's brother, supports the NCPA plan. "Owen would want his death to shed light on the issues with brain trauma," he says. "He would want to help fellow college athletes."
Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-CA) wants to help, too. During Congressional hearings held in 2009, she grilled NFL commissioner Roger Goodell about the league's neglectful, duplicitous handling of active and current players suffering from brain trauma. Pro football was shamed into action, sacking its previous concussion committee, donating money to medical research and establishing a uniform concussion management plan. "For years and years, the NFL denied that multiple hits to your head could cause any kind of serious, long-term brain damage or injury," Sanchez says. "As a result of the hearings we did, that has changed. So clearly when we shine a light on an issue, generate publicity and awareness, that can be a catalyst."
(If you're wondering why Congress hasn't held the NCAA's feet to the fire: Rep. Sanchez has asked Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), the Judiciary Committee chair, to hold additional head injury hearings. Smith has not responded. Last year, the NFL's political action committees gave Smith $25,000 in contributions, part of nearly $877,000 that the league's Gridiron PAC handed out on Capitol Hill. Sanchez did not receive a cent.)
"The NCAA is probably standing in the shadows thinking that nobody is paying attention to them," Sanchez says. "If I ran the zoo -- which I do not -- it would definitely be a topic worthy of [Congressional] exploration. I get that there are some practicality issues involved [with the NCAA doing more to address brain trauma in football]. But when you say, 'We'll leave it to each conference to develop a protocol,' that means nothing is going to happen. People don't generally act unless you provide an incentive to act or a disincentive not to act. It's pretty clear the NCAA is not hands-on with this."
Is the NCAA failing to act out of legal self-interest? Almost certainly. Out of unchecked inertia? Perhaps. After all, the organization owes its existence to Roosevelt's prodding. That said, perhaps the NCAA is simply being realistic. If it does adopt the NCPA plan, or something like it, then the organization takes on the duty Anderson described: the duty to act reasonably. And when it comes to brain trauma in football, does anyone know what a reasonable level of caution actually entails?
The NCAA's insurers don't want to defend or indemnify the organization against the current class-action lawsuit. Concussions are notoriously difficult to diagnose and treat; return-to-play guidelines range from one week to "50 years"; the brain itself largely remains a black box of medical ignorance. Independent sideline neurologists are a wonderful idea, but there are dozens of big-time college football games every week and dozens more at the sub-Division I level, where young men's brains are no less fragile. How many truly qualified evaluators are even available? "Most neurologists don't deal in acute concussions," says Matt Chaney, a football historian and author of "Spiral of Denial: Muscle Doping in America Football." "I have one huge source in concussion science who tells me that there are probably only 5-10 people worldwide who can stand on a football sideline and diagnose concussions within a margin of only 10 percent error."
Cheney played college football. He took more hits to the head than he can remember. In his 30s, he started getting headaches, vision problems, vertigo. He is now 52. He wonders if the worst is yet to come, wonders if even the best-intentioned safety reforms will make any difference. Cheney cites an article, "The Football Situation," written by a Yale professor in response to public outcry over the game's brutality. The author extolls college football as a character-building exercise nonpareil. He describes critics as know-nothings, health and safety concerns as overblown. Grudgingly acknowledging a need for reform, he suggests stricter rules, better coaching and input from doctors and experts, all managed by caring, responsible administrators.
The article in question was written in 1884. Sound familiar?
"I think we're still playing the same old circle chair game that football loves to play," Cheney says. "The NCAA does this better than anyone, and in terms of morality and the stated ideologies of higher education in this country, I think they're the biggest fraud of them all. Football is an ass-kicking blood sport. I got a lot of satisfaction knocking the [expletive] out of people on the field. Anyone who says this game can be safe is lying. The only thing you can do is tell the truth and warn people. Warn them. You're not going to change this game, you know?"


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- Gift shopping is the perfect time to test how far you can go buying local, bloggers say
- Mom: "You have extra time to research, and ... flexibility in what you choose to buy"
- Kids can be hard to shop for because they often want electronics, licensed toys
- Check labels at Target, Wal-Mart for beauty products, paper goods made in U.S., some say
Sarah Wagner's interest in American manufacturing began with a family road trip. She and her husband loaded up their motor home in summer 2011 and visited small towns across the country whose fate seemed to be tied to the presence of industry.
Where plants and factories had closed down, they found empty main streets with boarded-up storefronts. In other places, such as Forest City, Iowa, home to the Winnebago factory, they found vibrant communities where they could tour manufacturing facilities and witness the pride employees took in their work.
When the trip was over, she started a Twitter account to share resources for all things made stateside. As USA Love List has evolved into a website, Wagner has learned that even though she can find plenty of goods made in the United States, it's impossible to live off them.
But she said the holiday season is the perfect time to experiment with how far she can go. For the second year in a row, Wagner has pledged to buy as many gifts as possible made in the United States. Knowing where to start can be a challenge, but Wagner and others for whom conscious consumerism means buying American say there are many places to check out, from craft fairs, Etsy and specialty boutiques to e-commerce.
"Gift-giving creates the perfect opportunity to try to buy American. You have extra time to research, and you have flexibility in what you choose to buy," said the married mother of two from Philadelphia.
"I'm a realist. I know that it's impossible to buy entirely American-made products year-round, but I also know there's a lot of wonderful American-made products, made by proud Americans, and it's worth my time to look for them."
Wagner isn't alone. Motivated by a desire to boost the domestic economy or doubts over outsourcing, some Americans are making an effort to shop local for holiday gifts this year. It's a niche market, but it's one that has been growing in recent few years, and brands are starting to take notice.
A growing number of small companies have been catering to the desire for American-made clothing and accessories, fueled in large part by style blogs touting the benefits of heritage brands.
On a larger scale, Apple announced last week that it would shift some of its production back to the United States, citing customer demand for American-made products. Though some have characterized the announcement as a publicity ploy that won't do much to alter Apple's manufacturing operations, it follows a continuing pattern of American companies bringing manufacturing back home due to rising labor, supply and production costs in China.
Some say buying American is a drop in the bucket when it comes to boosting the domestic economy, but experts agree that every bit counts. Manufacturing has the highest multiplier effect of any industry, meaning that it benefits other sectors that supports its operations.
"Anytime something is manufactured in the United States it's going to have greater gains in terms of jobs than something made overseas," said Chad Moutray, chief economist for the National Association of Manufacturers.
Still, Apple's announcement won't help Wagner. Her son wants an iPod for Christmas, and she's going to get it for him despite the fact that it's assembled in China and will continue to be made there. (Apple only plans to manufacture some of its line of Macintosh computers in the United States.)
Otherwise, just about every gift on Wagner's holiday shopping list is made in the United States or locally sourced. The only other exception is a Skippyjon Jones children's picture book, which is written by an American author, and published by an American company, but printed in China. But pajamas bearing the cartoon cat's likeness that will accompany the book are made in America, she said.
Electronics and appliances made in the United States are hard to come by, but jewelry, clothing, accessories, beauty products, even holiday decorations are easier to find than you might think, she said.
Buying American for the holidays hasn't changed her budget significantly, she said. She'll spend about $700 on family, friends and white elephant gifts, about the same as in recent years. The only difference is that she spends a bit more time searching.
She's giving most of her relatives food gift baskets from local specialty markets, bakeries that make their own products or confectioners across the country. Others are getting hats, sweaters and bags made in the United States from brands whose products are available online.
Big-box retailers sometimes surprise with their "Made in the USA" labels, she said. She has found cast-iron cookware and paper products at Costco. Target and Wal-Mart sell some beauty products, candles and paper products that make great Secret Santa gifts.
"Once you start looking, it's amazing what you find," she said. "When you start to look, you notice patterns. I find new brands every time I go in."
Sarah Mazzone is also on mission to buy only American for the holiday season. She runs the website made in usa challenge, which she started in 2011 with the goal of finding and sharing domestically produced goods, from toys and clothes to food, wine and dog toys.
She spent about $300 on jewelry, toys and clothing from Etsy and e-commerce sites that she has learned about through her site. She even found a coloring book at Urban Outfitters. The only non-American product is a stuffed animal for her 2-year-old son, she said. When she can't find something made in the United States, she turns to thrift stores, which is where she found a life-size sea turtle toy for $8.
"At least I'm keeping it out of a landfill," she said.
Children and teens are often the hardest to shop for because they often want electronics, licensed products or brand-name clothing that is likely made in China -- and that's OK.
"You don't have to be hard core about it," Mazzone said. "Just set a goal and try it in little amounts. Every little bit makes a difference."
For the brand-agnostic, clothing, accessories and jewelry are available in a variety of price points, thanks to a growing resurgence of interest in American-made fashion, Mazzone said. Most of it carries a higher price tag than foreign-made counterparts, but if you're going to splurge on a gift, there's no better time than holidays, Mazzone said. For budget-conscious shoppers, it could just mean spending the same amount as planned on fewer, more meaningful products.
"It's a matter of priorities and choosing quality over quantity," she said. "People didn't used to expect Santa to bring them five to 10 gifts under the tree. It might be more of an investment, but you could end up with fewer disposable products that'll be in your family for generations."


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Lawrie hits grand slam; bullpen works 5 1/3 innings in relief of Morrow
MINNEAPOLIS -- The Blue Jays' offense started off ice cold, but it didn't take long for the bats to warm up despite the frosty conditions at Target Field.
With temperatures hovering around 32 degrees Fahrenheit -- zero degrees Celsius -- for most of the night it appeared as though Toronto's lineup was going into a deep freeze. Minnesota's Phil Hughes typically struggles against the Blue Jays, but on this night he was scoreless through five innings.
All of that changed in the sixth when the Blue Jays erupted to score five runs before eventually going into cruise control en route to backing right-hander Brandon Morrow and an impressive bullpen with a 9-3 victory over the Twins on Tuesday night on Jackie Robinson Day.
"We have a good hitting team and I figured that wasn't going to last very long," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. "Hughes was tough on us early and then we had that one big inning where we broke it open and our bullpen -- they all needed to pitch -- so it was a perfect night for that and they all did a great job."
Toronto's offense has gotten off to a relatively slow start this season, but there have been some encouraging signs in the past couple of games. The Blue Jays scored 11 runs on 17 hits on Sunday in Baltimore and followed that up with the nine runs on 14 hits vs. Minnesota.
The recent hot streak has moved the Blue Jays all the way up to 12th in the Major Leagues with 61 runs scored. After spending the first couple of weeks in the bottom three for average and on-base percentage, Toronto is now 21st and 16th overall in those respective categories.
The most encouraging aspect of Tuesday night's win is it was an all-around team effort. Munenori Kawasaki, Jose Bautista, Edwin Encarnacion and Ryan Goins had multiple hits. Brett Lawrie hit his second career grand slam and drove in a career-high five RBIs. Melky Cabrera singled and now has at least one hit in all 14 games this season.
"You're not always going to have 20 hits between one through nine guys, so I think it's just about picking each other up," Lawrie said. "When some guys don't get it done at the plate they're going to get it done in the field and vice-versa, just picking each other up. Doing the little things, getting guys over and scoring runs when we need to."
Toronto wasn't doing much of that in the early going on Tuesday night. The Blue Jays had the leadoff man reach base in each of the first four innings, but came away empty-handed every time. Hughes was able to get away with some of his mistakes by striking out seven batters through five innings, but his fortunes changed in the sixth.
Kawasaki led off the inning with a well-placed opposite-field double down the third-base line. Bautista followed with a sharp RBI single to center and Adam Lind then put runners on the corners with another single to center. Encarnacion and Dioner Navarro followed with a pair of singles while Moises Sierra and Lawrie added two more runs on a grounder and sacrifice fly.
Hughes was charged with four of the five runs on eight hits and one walk. He threw 60 of his 87 pitches for strikes and appeared to be closing in on his first victory in a Twins uniform until that sixth inning when he was unable to record an out. Hughes is now 5-7 with a 4.96 ERA in 28 career appearances against the Blue Jays, with all but one of those outings coming with the Yankees.
"It looked like the ball was coming out of his hand, but he didn't make any pitches," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. "I don't know how many they hit hard in a row on the screws. He was cruising before that. But then all of a sudden, it's four hits in a row. I don't know what happened. He just couldn't get a ball where he wanted."
Morrow battled some control problems early in the game and the ensuing high pitch count meant he was in store for a relatively short night. He went to a full count on seven batters, and before the end of the second inning the veteran right-hander had already thrown 59 pitches.
Despite the issues with command, Morrow still found a way to limit the damage and keep the Blue Jays within striking distance. The only runs he allowed came on a first-inning double by Chris Colabello and an RBI single by Joe Mauer in the second.
He left with two outs in the fourth inning and Toronto's notoriously strong bullpen was able to take it the rest of the way. Aaron Loup, Neil Wagner, Brett Cecil, Steve Delabar and Sergio Santos combined to pitch 5 1/3 innings, allowing one run to close out the Blue Jays' victory.
"They had guys on and some opportunities to do it but snuck my way out of a couple of situations and then the bullpen came in and just did a fantastic job," Morrow said. "Those guys were great. I thought the way we were putting guys on early in the game that we were going to score some runs. When I came out I knew two runs wasn't going to win this game and then the offense got hot, bullpen shut them down the rest of the way."


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Last page of Her Ladyship today and now you can download all ten pages of this paper doll and print her out at at once, if you haven't been collecting the pages. I never know how to describe black and white paper dolls. Sometimes, I think I should call them, "Paper dolls to color" or I should call them "colorable paper dolls", but "black and white paper dolls" is what I seem to have adopted over the years of this little blogs life.
Fairly early on in the Her Ladyship paper doll set, I had a reader ask me if I was going to ever post a wig of her hair down. Well, here it is. Her dressing gown, nightgown and two wigs of her hair in a braid and loose over her shoulders. I couldn't justify a crazy up-do for sleeping in. I'm a little embarrassed that I take the "reality" of my fantasy paper dolls so seriously, but it is really important to me that the paper doll set makes sense in the context of the world that it exists in.
After all, if I am going to spend my time drawing fantasy paper dolls, I might as well make sure that they are logical fantasy paper dolls.
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Davion Berry scored 22 points, including four 3-point baskets, to pace Weber State to a 70-55 victory over Sacramento State on Thursday night.
Berry also had seven assists for Weber State (21-5, 15-2 Big Sky).
Scott Bamforth scored 14 points for Weber State, including four 3-pointers, and Joel Bolomboy scored 11.
Sacramento State (13-13, 7-10) got 12 points each from Konner Veteto and Dylan Garrity, and Garrity handed out eight assists.
Weber State had a 10-0 advantage in second-chance points and 7-0 edge in fast-break points. The team also had an 11-6 edge in points off turnovers.
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With the 10-year anniversary of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City just three days away, Rockstar Games announced today that it will release an anniversary edition of the game for select iOS and Android devices later this fall.
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The Aug. 21-24 confab will draw some 6,000 attendees, including business heavyweights like former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Former Ebay chieftain Meg Whitman airline and hotel CEOs and even Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn.
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How Often Should You REALLY Go To The Dentist?
In the pursuit to maintain good oral hygiene, there's no underestimating how crucial regular visits to the dentist's office can be. Visiting a dental hygienist periodically may not only prove essential to preserving an attractive smile, but for an array of health reasons as well. There are many risks associated with poor oral hygiene such as gum disease, cavities, infections and worse, but these risks can most often be entirely averted with just two yearly teeth cleanings.
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"Twice-yearly cleanings have been recommended for over 50 years without supporting evidence," study author William Giannobile, a professor of dentistry and biomedical engineering at the University of Michigan, said in a university news release.
But the results of this study "showed that one yearly cleaning is likely to be enough for patients with no risk factors," he said. "Patients with one or more risk factors, which represent over half of the population, should visit at least twice a year and likely more in some cases."
For the study, which was published online June 10 in the Journal of Dental Research, Giannobile and colleagues looked at data from more than 5,100 adults who visited the dentist regularly for 16 straight years, had no history of gum disease and received one or two cleanings each year.
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Two dental cleanings a year provided significant benefits to people with one or more of the three risk factors, while people with two or three of the risk factors may require more than two cleanings a year. But one cleaning per year appears sufficient for people with none of the risk factors, according to the study.
"The future of health care is personalized medicine," Giannobile said. "This study represents an important step toward making it a reality, and in a disease that is widespread, costly and preventable."
"We have long known that some individuals are at greater risk of [gum] disease, but tools haven't been available to adequately identify those at increased risk and prevent disease progression," he said.


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Slugger leaves lasting legacy after St. Louis stint as player, hitting coach
In July 1997, with his contract with Oakland set to expire at the end of the season after 11 years donning hunter green and California gold, it was difficult for Mark McGwire to imagine a future in Cardinal red. A Southern California native, he wasn't shy about his desire to someday play at home.
"Right after the All-Star break in '97, the Oakland A's were playing the Angels, and all the Angels players were telling me, 'Hey, be ready, pack up, a trade is going to happen and you're going to go to Anaheim,'" McGwire said. "St. Louis, it wasn't even on the radar."
But on July 31, the day of the Trade Deadline, a slumping Cardinals team shipped a trio of pitchers -- T.J. Mathews, Eric Ludwick and Blake Stein -- to Oakland for the 33-year-old slugger. Then, McGwire turned heads by re-signing with the club for four more seasons, attributing much of his decision to a desire to reunite with Cardinals skipper Tony La Russa and general manager Walt Jocketty, both formerly with the Athletics.
Despite his 4 1/2-season tenure in St. Louis, the former first baseman left his mark on the franchise with record-breaking 1998 and three All-Star campaigns. It was enough to earn him consideration for the new Cardinals Hall of Fame gallery located in the recently opened Ballpark Village.
From now until April 22, fans can vote at Cardinals.com/HOF for up to two of the eight modern legends -- McGwire, Matt Morris, Keith Hernandez, Jim Edmonds, Bob Forsch, Willie McGee, Ted Simmons and Joe Torre.
The top two vote-getters will be enshrined during an Aug. 16 ceremony at Ballpark Village, joining the 22 Cards who received automatic induction because they are either already in the National Baseball Hall of Fame or have had their number retired by the organization.
In his second season in St. Louis, McGwire and Cubs right fielder Sammy Sosa captivated the nation in a race to break Roger Maris' single-season home record, set at 61 in 1961.
"The whole season was, I would have to say, very stressful," said McGwire, now the Dodgers' hitting coach. "I don't think any athlete at that time had to deal with the individual achievements where the country follows on a daily basis. ... We've had some athletes that carried teams or had some team things, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, you could go down the line, but [not] as far as an individual accomplishment where the country really took over."
McGwire and Sosa, as well as Seattle's Ken Griffey Jr., hit homer after homer at a record pace. On Sept. 7, McGwire matched Maris' record 61 homers. Though Griffey had fallen behind with 50, Sosa was still within reach at 58.
The next day, hours before he would get his first crack at breaking the record, McGwire remembers it being very calm, a far cry from the media frenzy that followed him and Sosa the entire season. By the time he stepped up to the plate in the bottom of the fourth inning, a thought passed through his mind: "The old saying, the calm before the storm."
He lined his first pitch from Chicago's Steve Trachsel -- a sinker, as McGwire recalls it -- just beyond the left-field wall, becoming the new single-season home run king. And it was only fitting that No. 62 came at home against Sosa's Cubs.
"Sammy pushed me all year," McGwire said. "At that time, in Sammy's career, people knew that he hit home runs, but he didn't start really hitting them until I think it was late May and June. And then he came on, and he came on strong.
"It made me go into another level as far as my mindset, because I was the one that broke the record. But, you know, I still had a lot of games left to play where Sammy could have actually finished the season leading and holding the record."
A fact not lost on McGwire as he went into the final two days of the regular season tied with Sosa at 66 home runs apiece. McGwire would smash four more long balls in the Cardinals' last two contests, out-dueling Sosa to set the record at 70, which would hold for just three seasons until Barry Bonds' 73-homer campaign in 2001.
The 12-time All-Star spent two more seasons in St. Louis, retiring as a Cardinal in 2001. His impressive 16-year resume earned him a place on the National Baseball Hall of Fame ballot in 2007, where he has remained for eight years, his Cooperstown candidacy divisive due to his 2010 admission of PED use.
McGwire returned to St. Louis in 2010, serving as the club's hitting coach for three seasons. In 2013, the allure of living at home with his wife and five young children proved too much as he accepted the same position with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Though his St. Louis coaching career was, like his playing career, short-lived, McGwire still managed to once again leave his mark upon the organization. He still talks with great pride of his former players, many of whom credit McGwire for much of their success at the plate.
"It was a very difficult decision to leave St. Louis," McGwire said. "I'm in a really great organization with the Dodgers. I'm very happy."


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Sects and Satanic Cults
1. Phenomenon of Satanism in Contemporary Society - Giuseppe Ferarri
This essay, written by the National Secretary of the Organization for Research and Information
on Sects, and Editorial Director of the journal Religioni e sette nel mondo, defines the concept, before illustrating the "composite phenomenon of contemporary satanism."
2. An Anthropological View of Satanism - Andrea Porcarelli
This essay, written by the editor of the journal Religioni e sette nel mondo, and Professor of
philosophy and religious studies at the Dominican Philosophical Studium of Bologna, approaches the subject from an anthropological point of view, examining the image of man as found in satanic teaching, and and also some of the motives of those who approach the world of satanism.
3. Satanism From a Psychological Viewpoint - Eugenio Fizzoti
A Professor of the Psychology of Religion, School of Education, at the Pontifical Salesian University in Rome, takes two perspectives on the phenomenon, one seeking to understand behavior attributed to demonic forces, the other, the motivational world of a person who accepts a doctrine in which the demonic becomes central.
4. Legal and Juridical Aspects of Satanism - Lucia Musti
A deputy district attorney of the Tribunal of Bologna, Italy, explains that, although the court
system is not interested in sects as such, intervention of the Court becomes necessary when a sect incites actions punishable by law, e.g., fraud, crimes against sexual freedom and against respect for the dead.
5. Satanic Rites in the Church's Judgement - Bishop Angelo Scola
Bishop emeritus of Grosseto, Italy, and Rector of the Pontifical Lateran University, Rome,
Bishop Scola cites Holy Scripture and the Tradition of the Church to show that satanic rites
"separate one radically from communion with God," with effects that can reach from physical
disturbances to diabolical possession.
6. Pastoral Attitudes Towards the Phenomenon of Satanism - Bishop Mario Moronta Rodriguez
The Bishop of Los Teaqes, Venezuela, outlines pastoral strategy in dealing with Satanism,
including knowledge of the phenomenon, attention to vulnerable groups, extensive catechesis,
and proclamation of Christ and His victory over the devil. This was the last of six articles in a
series from 1997, entitled "Sects and Satanic Cults."


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Hundreds of "peace tents" will be illuminated to commemorate the ancient Olympic Truce.
A series of luminous encampments spread all over the British coastline will ring in this summer's Olympic Games and the London 2012 Festival.
Designed by director Deborah Warner in collaboration with actor Fiona Shaw, the massive installation and soundscape, entitled "Peace Camp," will encircle the UK from coast to coast to commemorate the Olympic Truce, the ancient Greek tradition of instituting a ceasefire for the duration of the Games to ensure safe travel and passage of the athletes.
From dusk through dawn, encampments at eight coastal locations – from such historical sites as Mussenden Temple along Ireland's Coleraine to the 700 year-old ruin of Dunstanburgh castle in England – will hum with the recordings of spoken words and love poems, all while a muted orange glow emanates from the illuminated camping tents. The recordings will intermingle with the natural sounds of the coast, ostensibly "representing a spectrum of traditions and languages across the centuries." The composition of the recordings allows for fragments of the poems to be woven together, inhabiting the same soundscape.
An online version of Peace Camp allows users to record their own readings of the poems, as well as write messages and dedications. Visitors can also listen and download the soundscape, created by Mel Mercier, online for a limited time. The installation will open this Thursday, July 19th, running through the weekend until the last of the lights have been extinguished, just in time for the start of the Games.
Photos courtesy of Matthew Andrews.
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The Santa Clara Valley Water District was created by an act of the California Legislature, and operates as a state of California Special District, with jurisdiction throughout Santa Clara County.
The District Act was amended in October 2009 with the passage of AB 466. The bill was an act "to amend Sections 13.2 and 20 of, to add Sections 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 7.10, 7.11, and 8 to, and to repeal and add Sections 7, 7.1, and 7.3 of, the Santa Clara Valley Water District Act (Chapter 1405 of the Statutes of 1951), relating to the Santa Clara Valley Water District."
Complete text of the law (Chapter 443, Statutes of 2009) is available here on the Official California Legislation website.
The introductory paragraph of the original legislation reads:
"An act to create a flood control district to be called Santa Clara County Flood Control and Water District; to provide for the control and conservation of flood and storm waters and the protection of watercourses, watersheds, public highways, life and property from damage or destruction from such waters; to provide for the acquisition, retention, and reclaiming of drainage, storm, flood, and other waters and to save, conserve, and distribute such waters for beneficial use in said district; to authorize the incurring of indebtedness, the issuance and sale of bonds, and the levying and collection of taxes and assessments on property within said district and in the respective zones thereof; to define the powers of said district; to provide for the government, management, and operation of said district and for the acquisition and construction of property and works to carry out the purposes of the district, declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately. The name of the Santa Clara County Flood Control and Water District Act was changed to the Santa Clara Valley Water District. "


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Inconformity amongst prisoners after announcement of 'pardons'
Report by Caridad Caballero Batista
Lady in White, independent journalist
From the 'El Tipco' Prison of Manzanillo, Granma, the dissident prisoner Rafael Sosa Gomez reported about the inconformity and violent reaction of the prisoners after the process of the manipulated releases (pardons) from prison. According to Rafael, from the morning hours of December 24th, when the chiefs of the prisons took around 20 prisoners to be released to their offices, one could hear the first protests by other prisoners, upon hearing the news that highly dangerous delinquents and prisoners at the service of the dictatorship would be released. Once the deceitful words were transmitted through state television and newspaper in regards to the release process, 'El Tipico' looked more like an insane asylum than a penitentiary, with massive protests and self-inflictions. In Detachment # 2, prisoner Angel Estrada stabbed himself twice in the stomach and later sewed his lips shut. In the same vein, the prisoner Carlos Villafane Martinez set himself on fire, causing serious burns on both his legs. Similarly, Luis Matos Tamayo, Nixon Casino Puerta, and other prisoners began a hunger strike.
The dissident prisoner Robert Torres denounced from Canaletas Prison in Ciego de Avila that there were at least 5 deaths caused by violence on behalf of the prison guards and from severe violation of human rights. According to Torres, in this penitentiary all basic freedoms and rights are violated . If any prisoner protests, then they are beaten, tortured, and victims of blackmail until they are killed or they reach the point that they opt for suicide. Torres cited some of the cases (some of which have happened throughout the year, some just now):
- On March 10th, 2011, 30 year old Lacuba, Ciego de Avila native Eliciarsi Nunez Garcia was found dead in his cell number 19. The previous day, Garcia had been victim of a brutal beating at the hands of the prison guards.
- On October 10th, after receiving a horrible beating by uniformed officials on the previous day, Yosvany London, was found hung in Cell # 24, in the torture zone. He was 30 years old and also a native of Ciego de Avila.
- Also from Ciego de Avila, Miguel Ángel Chávez, 29 years of age, was found dead on November 10th after a very violent beating on November 8th.
- On December 11th, the young prisoner Daynier Casolas, who was only 24, was also found hung in cell # 19. Daynier chose death after a functionary from the Order of the Interior- lieutenant colonel Ricardo Perez Diaz- sentenced him under a new cause.
- On December 14th, Eduardo López Consuegra, native of Moron, died of kidney failure after having been denied medical attention on countless occasions. His mother took him to the intensive care unit of the local Hospital where he died on the spot.


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