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A New England Education for the FDA
When the FDA team responsible for implementing the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) came to New Hampshire and Vermont last week, they got an earful -- and an education. At an August 20th Listening Session at Dartmouth College, about two hundred vegetable and fruit farmers, food processors, local food advocates, and consumers showed up to tell the visitors from inside the Beltway of the many ways in which the FDA's proposals for new food safety regulations would affect them. Farmers and others, including NOFA Vermont's Fruit and Vegetable Technical Assistance Advisor Lynda Prim, stood in line for an hour or more for the chance to detail increased production costs, harms to the environment, and economic disincentives, especially on smaller-scale operations. Those who presented remarks voiced a number of specific concerns. Many pointed out that the FDA's proposed requirement that farmers test irrigation water weekly was unnecessary, impractical, and would increase costs significantly. Others pointed out negative consequences on wildlife and biodiversity on farms. Lynda Prim joined a number of organic farmers present in voicing concern about conflicts between proposed FSMA requirements and the National Organic Program rules, despite the fact that the FDA is explicitly directed to avoid such conflicts. For instance, proposed requirements for waiting periods before crops can be harvested after field applications of manures (270 days) and compost (45 days) greatly exceed, and are in direct conflict with, such waiting periods required by the National Organic Program. Additionally, these extended waiting periods are impractical in New England's short growing season, and would likely increase the use of chemical fertilizers on non-organic farms. Farmers' incomes and the environment would be negatively affected. Many spoke of how increased compliance costs -- estimated by the FDA to run to thousands of dollars annually on even small-scale operations -- would either force them to leave farming entirely or significantly damage opportunities for farm expansion and new farm enterprises. Such specific, informed and heartfelt criticisms of the proposed regulations continued for over two hours straight. Later that day and the next, the FDA team visited local farms and food businesses, including the Mad River Food Hub and Hartshorn Farm in Waitsfield, and the Intervale Farm in Burlington. They got a first-hand look at the diversity of farming practices, production systems, distribution and marketing innovations that are critical to the continued development of our emerging local food economy in the region. (You can see their impressions of the visit on the FDA's blog.) Throughout their visit, the members of the FDA team listened intently. They had a lot of questions and asked for advice and recommendations. More than once, Michael Taylor, the FDA Deputy Commissioner who led the team, indicated that he wanted to make sure that the vigor of local farms and the local food economy would not be derailed by burdensome and unnecessary food safety regulations. We agree, and hope to see his statements translated into action when the final regulations are published next year. Our visitors are now back at their desks in D.C.. But farmers, organizations, consumers and businesses throughout the country have until November 15 to submit their own written comments expressing their concerns about proposed regulations, as well as their recommendations for improving them. The FDA is, by law, required to read and consider every one of these written comments before it develops and publishes its final food safety regulations in the next year or so. It's up to all of us to make sure it's a highly educational experience for them. More information about the proposed rules and how to submit your own comments can be found in our earlier post on the the FSMA. NOFA Vermont and Vermont Organic Farmers are working on an official comment of our own; stay tuned to learn more. [by Dave Rogers, NOFA Vermont Policy Advisor]


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The Leasehold Reform Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 gives individual tenants with long leases of most residential flat developments the right to extend their leases for an additional 90 years on top of the residual term of their lease (it is the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 for leasehold houses). The right to a new lease coexists with the right to collective enfrancisement and was introduced in the same statute as that right. The difference is that the right to extend your lease is a individual rather than a collective right. The main questions people want to know the answers to are:
a) Why extend my lease?
b) How does it work? And most importantly;
c) How much will it cost me?
All of these are dealt with below.
Why extend you lease?
I have acted on well over 300 lease extensions over the last couple of years for both landlords and tenants and so am well versed in the procedure invovled. Firstly though, a few thoughts on why should you consider extending your lease?
1. Collective enfrancisement is too difficult
One of the key reasons for long leaseholders to buy the freehold of their building is to protect the value of the leases (ie being able to extend it at will for a nominal premium). Combined with the greater control over repair and maintenance and development that this brings (for a broadly similar cost), buying the freehold is often preferable to simply extending the lease.
However, one of the problems with the right to collectively enfranchise is that is often difficult to gather together the requisite number of qualifying tenants together to proceed with a claim. The legislation requires that at least 50% of the qualifying tenants in the building gather together to bring a claim to buy the freehold. That is quite easy where you have a converted house of say 4 flats. However, there tends to be considerably more apathy for a claim in larger blocks where the coordiantion of 20/30/40 or more tenants is required.
Therefore, a lease extension is often the only realistic choice for tenants who want to protect themselves from the financial consequences of their diminishing lease term and cannot get sufficient support from their neighbours to make an enfranchisement claim.
2. Depreciating asset
As mentioned above, a lease becomes less valuable the shorter it is and at the end of the term you have to give the property back to the landlord for nothing. Not a particualrly attractive proposition. However, the Leasehold Reform Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 solves this problem by entitling most residential tenants with long leases to apply to extend their lease for an additional 90 years on top of the remaining term in exchange for a premium calculated in accordance with a statutory formula. So while you have to compensate the landlord for the extension of the term, you can protect yourselve against the depreciation of the lease.
3. Extinguish the ground rent
Most long residential leases contain an annual ground rent provision payable to the landlord, generally this will be a few hundred pounds a year. However, under the legislation tenants extending their lease are entitled to have their ground rent reduced to zero, which can represent a considerable saving over the remainder of the term of the lease.
How do I extend my lease?
There are two main ways:
1. By negotiation
Just because there is a statutory procedure that you can invoke doesn't mean that you have to. A direct approach to your landlord may result in an offer to extend your lease without having to go though the process of serving notice and waiting for a counter notice. If terms can be agreed then what follows is a fairly straightforward conveyancing process to complete the transaction.
This should be the most cost effective way of proceeding but comes with a warning. Landlord's often require at least some of their costs paid up front as that mirrors the statutory scheme. However, in practice I often find that this immediately weakens a tenants negotiating position as the landlord is not under any duty to make a reasonable proposal.
2. Statutory notice
The legislation allows qualifying tenants to extend their lease by 90 years on top of the existing term at a peppercorn ground rent in exchange for payment of a premium governed by a statutory formula. If the terms of the lease extension can't be agreed between the parties then the legislation provides for the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal to determine the issues in dispute. This is the advantage over the negotiated route but it is in general a more time consuming and expensive process.
Which one is right for you? That depends upon the circumstances that you are faced with. In general I would only recommend the negotiated route where time is of the essence or if paying a reasonable premium is not that important. This is because the statutory procedure has some inbuilt fairness that puts commercial pressure on the parties to reach a sensible settlement (see cost explanation below).
Almost the first question I'm asked by tenants who want to extend their lease is "what will it cost?". Valuation advice is beyond a solicitors competance although we may anecdotally have some idea. I always recommennd to tenants considering extending their lease that they obtain a formal valuation. A proper valuation is important in establishing a realistic price for the lease extension in order that you can measure any offers made by the landlord against an objective marker. It is important to ensure that you have appoint an expert with suitable experience in the field of lease extensions. This is because once notices have been served it is generally your surveyor who is conducting the negotiations and those unfamiliar with the valuation methodology will not be able to negotaite you the optimum agreement.
The legal processes are very difficult to begin without a valuation because as a tenant you risk invalidating your notice by specifying an unrealistic premium in it. In a negotiated setting, the valuation should be able to help you understand if the landlord has made you a competitive offer.
I work with many valuers all over London and the South East and am always happy to make a recommendation.
If you reach a negotiated agreement with your landlord then the procedure to extend your lease is quite straight forward. A Deed of Variation is usually used to update the term and ground rent provisions of the lease and record the premium paid. If you have a mortgage then consent of your mortgagee may be required along with a Deed of Substituted Security which secures the mortgage against the extended lease. This is all registered at HM Land Registry and the process is complete . This exercise can usually be completed in a couple of weeks once terms are agreed, although where management companies are involved they can cause some delays.
If you are following the statutory procedure then the legislation is the starting point as it provides a strict timetable:
i) Firstly, you serve your notice on the landlord, any superior landlord and any third parties to the lease, such as a management company.
ii) The landlord then requests payment of a 10% deposit and commissions its own survey/valuation.
iii) The landlord must then serve its counter notice within the period specified in the tenants notice (not less than two months).
iv) There is then a period of two months for negotiations on any of the terms in dispute. Thereafter, either party can apply to the Leasehold Valuation Tribunal to determine any of the terms in dispute. The tenant must make this application within 6 months of the date of the counter notice or their claim is deemed withdrawn.
v) Once terms are agreed then the form of draft lease is agreed. There are specific regulations governing the timing of the preparation and approval of this document and it should be agreed within 42 days of the agreement of terms.
vi) The new lease must complete within 4 months from the date that the terms of the lease extension are agreed or determined by the LVT. If no application is made to court in time then the tenants claim is deemed withdrawn.
As you can see, the statutory process can take around 9-12 months even without a contested LVT claim which can easily add another four months to this timetable.
Deemed and Express Withdrawal
Once you have started the process there are penalties for failing to complete it. The statutory deadlines are strict and a failure to make the appropriate LVT or court application results in the tenants claim being withdrawn.
If circumstances change and a tenant can no longer afford to or does not want to proceed with the claim then it can also be withdrawn.
In either case once the claim is withdrawn the tenant is prohibited from starting the claim again for a period of 12 months me will also still have a liability for the landlords costs.
Section 60 of the 1993 Act sets out that tenants are responsible for the landlords reasonable costs of investigating their right to a new lease, their valuation and conveyancing costs. These are of course in addition to the tenants own costs.
Neither party is entitled to recover their costs of any LVT proceedings under the terms of the Act. The position is different if there are court proceedings relating to the validity of the notice or a failure of either party to complete according to the timetable. While the legislation makes no provision for statutory costs liability in those circumstances, the court rules can provide for the successful party to recover a proportion of their costs.
Lease Extension Quotation
Now you've read this far, why not email me for a costs quotation to extend your lease at email@example.com. Most of the costs are fixed to completion and there are no hidden charges.

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The season for asparagus is here. There's green and white asparagus to choose from, but today, I have taken the white one to make it really creamy. Its a very easy dish to prepare, and tastes best when you still do have some bits and pieces to bite.
- 1 bunch of white asparagus (~ 400g)
- 2 tbsp butter
- 2 tsp potato starch flour
- salt to taste
- 1 tsp vegetable stock
- dash of nutmeg
- 250ml creme fraiche
- 1 cooked potato, cleaned and diced
- 5 cups of water
- Shave the asparagus clean. Wash and save the skin.
- In a pot with 5 cups of water, boil the asparagus skin and 1 potato.
- In the mean time, cut the asparagus in 3cm pieces, leaving about 5 cm to the end of the tip aside. Add this to the pot (except the tips) and boil for 20 mins.
- Remove the shaved skin from the pot, leave only the diced asaparagus behind.
- Using a food processor (best is a hand blender) blend the mixture together until it is very creamy.
- Add butter, potato starch to the soup and bring it to boil
- Add cream fraiche and the tips of the asparagus, add nutmeg, vegetable stock and salt to taste
- Boil and cook for another 10 minutes.
Serve hot. Garnish with some greens and a dash of pumpkin seed oil.
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It's a good idea to start gentle physiotherapy exercises after the second day of your baby's birth.
Most hospitals offer physiotherapy services or classes before you go home — it's a good idea to take up the offer, as you'll be able to find out if you're doing the exercises correctly.
Sometimes mothers are given lots of handouts from their hospital, some even advising that physio classes are available.
However, when you're so busy coming to terms with being a mother and learning about childbirth and breastfeeding, it's understandable that your interest may wane when it comes to taking care of your body. Until you find out that pelvic floor exercises are responsible for good bladder and bowel control!
What Exercise Should I Be Doing?
Walking is a great and gentle exercise, particularly for the first six weeks while your body is recovering. It's very easy, gets you and baby into the fresh air, and is excellent for stress. Start your walks slowly, and increase the speed, time and distance of your walks as you feel comfortable. If you experience any pain or discomfort, stop, and see your doctor.
Swimming is another great exercise following birth; however you can only do this as long as your blood loss has stopped. Bike riding is okay, as soon as you are comfortable. Exercise classes or sport are best to hold off until your 6 week check up, so you can get the all clear from your care provider.
Below are some physiotherapy exercises that are great for your after-birth recovery. To make the exercises more enjoyable, set aside some quiet time and put on some music. You could also put your favourite aromatherapy oil in a burner and breathe in the gorgeous smells, helping you to relax as you exercise.
Pelvic Floor Exercises
The pelvic floor muscles are made up of layers of both muscle and other elastic tissues, which stretches from the pubic bone to the tail bone. It supports the uterus, bladder, bowel, vagina, anus and urethra. The pelvic floor muscles are some of the most important muscles a woman has, yet because they are not visible, they are often neglected. Pregnancy and childbirth can weaken these muscles. Try the exercises below to strengthen your pelvic floor, but don't overdo them — you can end up sore. If you do get sore, stop doing the exercises for one or two days before starting again.
While lying down, tighten the muscles around the urethra, vagina and anus, drawing the muscles inside. When doing pelvic floor exercises, remember not to hold your breath or squeeze your legs and buttocks together. If you can feel your abdominal muscles tighten, this is normal and absolutely okay.
If you are unsure of what muscles you should be feeling, when you are on the toilet, stop your stream of urine when midstream and you should be able to identify the muscles. Another method of checking that you are doing the exercises correctly is by using a mirror. Hold the mirror so you can see the vaginal area and when you squeeze your pelvic floor muscles, you should be able to see the area tighten. Hold the squeeze for three seconds, then rest. Repeat three times.
Do three quick, hard squeezes in a row hold, then rest between each one.
As you progress, try the exercises in sitting and standing positions. When you cough, lift, sneeze or blow your nose, try squeezing your pelvic floor muscles at the same time. Aim to be doing 3-4 holds for five seconds each and 3-4 faster squeezes by the time you are six weeks post-natal. Continue to increase up to ten if you can do so.
Pelvic floor exercises are very beneficial for women – you should try to make it a lifelong habit. Do the exercises at traffic lights, the doctor's waiting rooms, even right now! No-one will notice that you are exercising your pelvic floor muscles. If you can get yourself into a good routine, you will be less prone to problems which result due to poor pelvic floor muscles later, for example, poor bladder control.
At approximately 12 weeks post-natal, you can test your pelvic floor strength. If you want to return to playing high impact sports, you will need to pass this test. A couple of hours after going to the toilet, jump a few times, then star jump. This exercise requires very good muscle strength, so if you did not have bladder control, then you still need to work on your pelvic floor exercises. It would also be a good idea to speak to your physiotherapist or doctor.
In the early days after the birth, it is good for your pelvic floor, back and wellbeing to lie down flat whenever you can. Take phone calls lying down, feed baby lying down and anything else you can think of. Avoid heavy lifting and straining on the toilet, which can weaken the pelvic floor muscles.
Back exercises
These exercises should be performed slowly and should not cause pain. If you do feel any pain or unusual discomfort, please stop doing the exercises and consult your doctor or physiotherapist.
Pelvic Rocking
Helps with good posture and relieves wind pains.
Lie flat on the floor with a pillow underneath your head. Put your knees up. Roll your pelvis off the floor, to flatten the small of your back. Tighten your pelvic floor muscles at the same time. Repeat 10 times.
Pelvic Rolling
Roll your knees over to one side. Keep your feet flat on the floor and look to the opposite side. A gentle stretch should be felt in your back. Repeat 5 times on each side.
Abdominal exercises
It is important to exercise the abdominal muscles after having your baby, as they play a very important role in supporting your back and abdominal organs. It will help you regain your figure as well as strengthen back support by doing the below exercises. Please note that following research, sit-ups are no longer recommended as a safe or appropriate way to strengthen your abdominal muscles post-natally.
Abdominal Stretch
This exercise will help with good support and posture for your back and tummy.
You will need to be on your hands and knees. Ensure that your back is flat, and let your tummy drop. Inhale, and as you exhale, draw the lower part of your stomach up as if you are bringing your belly button towards your back. Hold for a few seconds, then relax. Repeat 5 times. Slowly build yourself up to 10 holds for 10 seconds. This exercise can be done whenever you can during the day. Remember not to tilt your pelvis or hold your breath!
Upright Abdominal Stretch
When you have mastered exercise number 1, try this! Kneeling upright, place your hands on your hips, and make sure your back is flat. Inhale, and as you exhale, draw your belly button towards your back, and you will feel the muscles tightening underneath your fingers. Imagine you are doing up your belt one more notch! Build up to 10 holds for 10 seconds each.
The next progression is to do the above exercise in a sitting or standing position. Aim to always have these abdominals working, particularly if you are carrying or lifting.
Tips for taking care of your back
Following the birth of your baby, you are suddenly faced with tasks that you and your body are not used to, for example, carrying baby in a capsule and bathing baby. Below are some tips on how you can avoid injuring your back.
Baby capsules are heavy and awkward, so avoid carrying them. Opt for leaving the capsule in the car, and choose either a pram or a sling for moving baby.
When purchasing a pram, select one that either has an adjustable handle height, or one that is approximately at your waist height.
When bathing your baby, try to have the bath at waist height. Some laundry sinks are at the right height for doing this, and you can even use the washing machine as a change table afterwards! Do make sure you have one hand on baby at all times and that it is safe. If you prefer to use the baby bath, don't carry a full bath of water — it is likely you will hurt your back, or could cause a terrible accident if you spill water and slip. Try and have the bath filled where you plan to bathe baby, even if you have to fill the bath with jugs of water.
When changing baby, again, you should have the table at waist height.


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February. It's got to be summer somewhere, right? And that's all we need to know to throw our 'Summer Somewhere' barbecue at The Beach Hut – an evening event with hay bale seating and a lot of Caribbean flava.
Drawing on his experience as a chef in Barbados, our executive chef Neil Haydock is cooking fresh fish and barbecued jerk chicken with rice, peas and other Caribbean classics alongside Tequila Sunrise and Pina Colada cocktails.
Make sure your limber up for the limbo too!
"If you like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain" then this is the cocktail for you!
Makes one
50ml Barbados Golden Rum
125ml Pineapple juice
70ml Coconut milk
Glass: High ball
Add all the ingredients to a cocktail shaker and shake.
Pour over ice into glass.
Garnish with Pineapple.
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- Case Referrals
Any person may file a complaint against an Organization for violations of the Student Code of Conduct. The complaint shall be prepared in writing and directed to OSI. The procedures for filing a complaint can be found on the OSI website. This complaint should be submitted as soon as possible after the event takes place or when it is reasonably discovered, no later than thirty (30) business days following the discovery of the incident. In extraordinary circumstances, OSI may waive this timeline for good cause.
- Communication
All communication (requests for meetings, notifications, notice of hearings, etc.) will be provided via the official Institute e-mail address of the Organization's President, as defined by the Office of Information Technology. If the Organization president is not currently enrolled, the notification will be sent via U.S. Postal Service to the Student's last known address on file with the Office of the Dean of Students and notification will be sent to the Organization's Advisor via his or her official Institute email address.
- Rights of the Respondent Student Organization
Throughout the conduct process, the Respondent is granted the following rights:
- to seek information from a Student Conduct Administrator about the Investigation and Resolution Process
- to be informed of the charge(s) and alleged misconduct upon which the charge is based
- to be informed of the Information upon which a charge is based and afforded an opportunity to offer a relevant response
- to be accompanied by an Advisor
- to remain silent with no inference of responsibility drawn
- to call and question relevant Witnesses
- to present Information in the Student Organization's behalf
- to be considered not responsible until proven responsible by a Preponderance of the Evidence
- to appeal the decision
- to waive any of the above rights.
- Investigation and Resolution Process
The Institute's conduct process utilizes an investigatory model, not an adversarial model, with the primary goal of uncovering the truth. The standard of proof shall be a Preponderance of the Evidence. During the investigation, the Organization should continue to participate in Institute functions unless otherwise instructed by the Dean of Students. The investigation and resolution process is as follows:
After OSI receives a complaint, the Student Conduct Administrator will review the complaint and any supporting Information to decide what, if any, process to initiate. The Student Conduct Administrator willdetermine whether the facts as alleged in the complaint or report are sufficient to initiate Institute conduct proceedings.
- If the Student Conduct Administrator determines that the facts of the complaint or report, even if true, would not constitute a violation of policy, no further action will be taken. Otherwise, the Student Conduct Administrator may (1) attempt to resolve the situation through an informal resolution process including but not limited to mediation or a meeting between the Organization and a Student Conduct Administrator or a third party; or (2) initiate a conduct process.
- The Student Conduct Administrator may also determine, in consultation with the Director of Greek Life or the Director of Student Involvement, that the facts of the complaint may constitute a violation of that Organization's own governing documents or bylaws and should be adjudicated by the Organization's governing board conduct process. If the Organization conducts its own process, that process may occur at the same time as any Institute Conduct process.
- If OSI receives multiple complaints involving the same Organization, each complaint will be considered separately in determining whether a conduct process should be initiated. Multiple charges against the same Respondent will generally be investigated and adjudicated separately; however, multiple charges may be aggregated under appropriate circumstances, which may include, but are not limited to, consent of the partiers, similar or related conduct, and the administrative burden of considering the charges separately.
- If the Student Conduct Administrator initiates a conduct process, the Organization president is notified and is requested to contact the Student Conduct Administrator within five (5) business days of the notification to schedule an Administrative Conference. During the conduct process, the Respondent should continue to engage in Institute functions unless otherwise instructed by the Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students or by the Student Conduct Administrator. Should the Organization president fail to contact the Student Conduct Administrator within five (5) business days, or fail to attend the Administrative Conference, the Student Conduct Administrator may resolve the case in the Organization's absence, or may refer the case to a Student Conduct Panel.
- At the Administrative Conference, the Organization president is presented with the alleged violation of the Student Code of Conduct, supporting Information and an explanation of his/her rights. The Organization president may bring an Advisor. However, if the Advisor disrupts the investigation and resolution process, he/she may be asked to leave.
- The case will be adjudicated by the Student Conduct Administrator or a Student Conduct Panel. The Organization president may state a preference for a decision to be rendered by the Student Conduct Administrator or by a Student Conduct Panel. The Organization president may also request that the case be adjudicated by a different Student Conduct Administrator than that initially authorized to hear the case in the event of perceived bias of the initially authorized official. The Organization president's reasons for his/her preference must be conveyed to the Vice President for Student Life and Dean of Students, in writing, before the investigation begins. Ordinarily, the Organization president's preference will be honored; however, the Vice President for Student Life and Dean of Students will make the final decision in his/her sole discretion. If the Organization president's preference is not honored, the rationale for the decision will be provided to the Organization president in writing. The Vice President for Student Life and Dean of Students reserves the right to determine the process to be used based on the relevant facts and circumstances, including, but not limited to::
- imminent graduation of the Student(s) associated with the Organization;
- end of the semester; or
- extraordinary circumstances.
- If the case is to be adjudicated by the Student Conduct Administrator, the Organization president shall provide his/her statement regarding the alleged misconduct, supporting Information, and names of Witnesses, no later than forty-eight (48) hours following the conclusion of the Administrative Conference. The Student Conduct Administrator shall continues the investigation as necessary by meeting with the Complainant(s), and Witnesses and gathering additional Information. If the Student Conduct Administrator determines that a Witness (including faculty or staff) may have relevant Information, s/he will make a good faith effort to contact such Witness to obtain a statement from the Witness. Before rendering a decision, the Student Conduct Administrator will communicate with the Organization president and share with the Organization president the Information collected. The Student Conduct Administrator will then render a final decision, which will be sent to the Organization president's Institute email address.
- If the case is to be adjudicated by the Student Conduct Panel, the case shall be referred to the Student Conduct Panel and follow the procedures outlined in Section 5.b of this Code.
- Resolution of the case should be made within thirty (30) business days of the Administrative Conference. If resolution cannot be reached in thirty (30) business days, OSI will inform the Organization president and the Complainant. OSI may waive this timeline for good cause.
- Forms of Case Resolution
- Administrative Resolution
The Student Conduct Administrator renders a decision of 1) Not Responsible, which closes the case or 2) Responsible for one or more violations with an appropriate Sanction, and, as warranted, one or more from among the Supplementary Requirements. The Organization president, after being notified of the Student Conduct Administrator's decision, may submit an appeal to the Vice President for Student Life and Dean of Students according to appeal procedures described in Section G of the Student Code of Conduct.
- Student Conduct Panel
- Decisions and Sanctions
The Student Conduct Panel, after convening a hearing, makes a recommendation of (1) not responsible, or (2) responsible, with an appropriate sanction to the Director of Student Integrity. The Director of Student Integrity, after reviewing the case, renders a decision of 1) Not Responsible, which closes the case, or 2) Responsible for one or more violations of the Student Code of Conduct with an appropriate Sanction and, as warranted, one or more from among the Supplementary Requirements. The Organization president, after being notified of the decision and Sanction, may appeal to the Vice President for Student Life and Dean of Students, according to appeal procedures described in Section G of the Student Code of Conduct.
- Scheduling of Student Conduct Panel Hearing
After the case is forwarded to a Student Conduct Panel, the Complainant(s) and the Respondent(s) will be notified of available dates and times for a hearing. The Organization president may indicate preferences from among the available dates and times, which will be considered by OSI if received within three (3) business days.
This official notice will be provided at least five (5) business days prior to the hearing and will include the time, date, and location of the hearing. In addition, the notice will specify the Complainant(s), Witnesses(s), and nature of the alleged misconduct. The Organization president may waive the notification timeline in order to expedite the hearing process. Upon request, the Organization president may meet with a Student Conduct Administrator to review Information and hearing procedures.
- Hearing Participants and Attendees
- Student Conduct Panel hearings shall ordinarily be closed except for the Respondent(s), the Complainant(s), Advisor(s), and Witnesses. Exceptions may be made at the discretion of the Chairperson. Witnesses are allowed at the discretion of the Chairperson. The Chairperson may exclude any person, including the Organization, who disrupts a hearing.
- A Organization who fails to appear after proper notice will be deemed to have responded "Not Responsible" to the charges against him/her and to have exercised the right to remain silent without prejudice. At the discretion of the Chairperson the hearing may be conducted in the absence of the Student(s) and all the Information regarding the alleged misconduct shall be presented and considered.
- The Complainant(s) and Respondent(s) have the right to be accompanied by an Advisor. The Complainant(s) and/or Respondent(s) should select an Advisor who can attend the hearing at the scheduled date and time. Delays are not usually granted due to scheduling conflicts of an Advisor.
- Subject to the Chairperson's control of the hearing, the Complainant(s), Respondent(s) and their Advisors, shall be allowed to attend the Student Conduct Panel hearing, but not Panel deliberations.
- In Student Conduct Panel hearings involving more than one Accused, OSI may permit the Student Conduct Panel hearings concerning each Organization to be conducted either separately or jointly.
- A maximum of two (2) character Witnesses will be allowed in a hearing.
- Hearing Procedures
- The Chairperson shall exercise control over the proceedings to achieve orderly completion of the hearing.
- Advisors are restricted to private communications with their advisee(s). If the Advisor disrupts the investigation and resolution process, he/she may be asked to leave.
- All questions by the Complainant(s) and Respondent(s) must be directed to the Chairperson, rather than to the Witness directly. Questions of whether potential Information will be received shall be resolved at the discretion of the Chairperson.
- In addition to the Information provided by OSI, the Student Conduct Panel, at the discretion of the Chairperson, may accept additional pertinent Information and testimony (including impact statements). Any letters of recommendation submitted by the Respondent will be admitted for consideration at the discretion of the Chairperson and, if admitted, will be viewed only during Panel deliberations.
- All procedural questions arising during the hearing are subject to the final decision of the Chairperson.
- The Student Conduct Panel's standard of proof shall be a Preponderance of the Evidence.
- The Student Conduct Panel in consultation with OSI, may reasonably accommodate concerns for the personal safety, well-being, and/or fears of confrontation of the Complainant(s), Respondent(s), and/or Witnesses during the hearing.
- The Student Conduct Panel shall make a recording and/or summary transcription of the proceeding, which will serve as the official record of the hearing. No other recording will be permitted. The Respondent or the Complainant may request a copy of the Institute's recording upon payment of the cost to reproduce the recording, or may listen to the original recording in a location designated by OSI at no charge. The record shall be the property of the Institute, and is subject to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, 20 USC §1232g.
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The mob gathers pitchforks and torches.
If Mark Nepermann avoids the death penalty, they'll see justice done themselves. Afterward, they'll march to the County Courthouse, pull State's Attorney Julia Rietz from her comfortable office, and boil her in hot tar.
No published evidence suggests Mark Nepermann knew anything about the sign he pulled from a yard as he staggered home. Perhaps he interpreted its message correctly. Maybe he misinterpreted it. Maybe he is an anti-Chief activist, and wanted to put the sign in his yard. Maybe he's pro-Chief, and wanted to destroy it. Maybe he just thought it was funny.
But the circling vultures have already determined his mindset: Hate crime.
As a matter of law, it seems likely that Nepermann had no specific intent regarding the sign he removed from a lawn near the Quad. Given the time of day, his age and the location, one might even conclude that he had been (shock!) drinking.
In Illinois, voluntary intoxication is a defense if the defendant can demonstrate that she or he, as a result of the intoxication, was unable to form the specific intent necessary for the crime. (720 ILCS 5/6-3)
What is a Specific Intent Crime?
The best example of a specific intent crime is theft. Most every theft statute requires that when you take something that you take it with the intent to deprive the owner permanently.
It will be plenty hard getting a charge of theft to stick. Theft in Illinois is a crime that involves a heightened level of mens rea. Specifically, you can't commit a theft without knowing it. "Knowledge" is the second highest level of culpability. It's easier to prove that a person acted recklessly.
Rietz could have charged a variety of other offenses from the Illinois Criminal Code, but they all have the same "knowledge" mens rea requirement.
(720 ILCS 5/21‑1) (from Ch. 38, par. 21‑1)
Sec. 21‑1. Criminal damage to property.
720 ILCS 5/21‑1.2) (from Ch. 38, par. 21‑1.2)
Sec. 21‑1.2. Institutional vandalism.
(720 ILCS 5/21‑4) (from Ch. 38, par. 21‑4)
Sec. 21‑4. Criminal Damage to Government Supported Property.
"Voluntary intoxication" means you went to a bar, smoked some doobage, or in some way consumed a mood altering substance. The term exists to differentiate "involuntary intoxication," in which someone slipped you a roofie.
The voluntary intoxication defense is hard to prove in Illinois, especially where defendants have evinced some kind of plan, or awareness of their actions. It's even harder to achieve with serious crimes. Nepermann's crime was neither serious (when contrasted with the systematic disemboweling of a loved-one) nor contrived.
In yesterday's opinion from the Editors of this publication, Rietz was vilified for charging Nepermann with a misdemeanor, rather than a felony.
In a public statement, Rietz explained that the level of offense is determined by the value of the property stolen. Over $300 = felony. Some people might consider Edgar Heap of Birds's signs to be worth millions. But you could have one made for $88.65, and that's the gist of the nub.
Does this mean you could steal a Picasso, and elicit a misdemeanor charge? Yes, it does. If you steal a print of a Picasso made by a third party (as were the signs) you'd likely be charged with misdemeanor theft. Had Heap of Birds hand-carved the sign from a chunk of aluminum, the value would have been less easily ascertained by local police. But they had a receipt from the manufacturer. And that's the most important thing to know when forming an opinion about Rietz's mindset. Nepermann and his attorney will have access to that receipt. They can prove to a jury that the sign cost $88.65, and that's prima facie evidence that Nepermann did not steal something worth over $300.
The most basic distinction between any misdemeanor and any felony concerns time spent in the clink. Misdemeanors = 364 days or fewer. Felonies will tie you up for 365 days to life.
In Illinois, few class 4 felony convictions incur a prison sentence. (The prisons are already overflowing with dope smokers.) So charging Mark Nepermann with a felony would have accomplished no greater punishment. It might have reduced the odds of getting a conviction, though. Juries are somewhat predictable, and no matter how thorough the voir dire, a jury is likely to include someone who thinks "felony" is too grave a mark on the permanent record of a guy who, it will be argued, made a snap decision to grab a yard decoration on his drunken lurch home from a bar. One thing we do know about Nepermann is that he was an Eagle Scout.
Rietz has no way of knowing what the jury will be thinking. She's unlikely to make an error of overbearing.
The problem with the Chief/anti-Chief discourse is that either side invariably claims to know the mind of the other. The anti-Chief crowd fired the first shot, claiming anyone wearing Orange and Blue was a racist. The retort claimed activists were communist thought police.
The majority moderates amused and bemused themselves, watching from the sidelines.
More elegant arguments arose. From the anti-Chief side: Studies showed American Indian caricatures had a detrimental effect on the self-esteem of aboriginal youth. From pro-Chief: That's Chief Wahoo, not our noble Illiniwek, whose regalia and dance were, after all, given to us by the Lakota Sioux.
In the end, the University of Illinois decided no one would be able to divine or distort whatever statement was made by Chief Illiniwek. It simply stopped making the statement.
So now, each side of the Chief fight is left to decipher and translate what the University isn't saying, or why it doesn't say what it really wants to say. This makes message control easier for both sides. When one is determined to put words in the mouth of another, it's best if there are no words there already, as they might conflict with the message.
As for Mark Nepermann, the most fervent true believers likely don't care whether the charge is misdemeanor theft or felony theft. They don't want theft charges. They want a hate crime prosecution. That would require a determination of Nepermann's perception.
Julia Rietz is wise. She will not attempt to interpret Mark Nepermann's thoughts. More importantly, she will not try to persuade twelve persons to unite against Chief Illiniwek. That's what this case is really about.
Proving Nepermann's determination to injure "injuns" might be done, but the state would need a whole lot of pictures of Nepermann attending pro-chief rallies, wearing Chief paraphernalia, and possibly war paint. They might present some permissibly accumulated communications (a MySpace blog, for example) in which Nepermann declared his hatred of all things anti-Chief. If such evidence existed, I expect we'd have heard about it. Given the demographic of Champaign County's jury pool, it might not bring a conviction in the Nepermann case. But it might get him elected.


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Studio Happenings
Posted on October 31st, 2007 in Columns, Monthly, Studiophile by IE
At ENERGY COMMAND STUDIOS in Park Ridge, A Better Place To Be finished their five-song, self-titled CD. Amery (Amo) Schmeisser did ProTools editing and mixed two tracks. Schmeisser and Dave Banks engineered the sessions, and Banks produced the CD . . . Rapper Young Eighty (Darius McGee) recorded and released his latest CD, Madison Square. Art Garceau engineered and mixed most the tracks. The CD was produced by Banks and McGee . . . Singer-songwriter Kim Wilkens layed down a piano-and-vocal demo track called "Sleepy Town" . . . Nozzle Nibbler started work on their first demo with sessions engineered and produced by Schmeisser . . . Simmering is back in the studio.
At GALLERY OF CARPET RECORDING STUDIO in Villa Park, Sars Flannery completed their debut LP, Sale Of The Century, with producer/engineer Brian Zieske . . . Zieske will be attending Abbey Road Studios this November for mastering with Steve Rooke (Wilco, Beatles, David Bowie) . . . Bailiff recorded their debut EP live and mixed off of analog tape . . . Chicago vets Leave worked on their third full length . . . Santa completed work on their upcoming EP, to be released this winter.
At I.V. LAB STUDIOS in Chicago, The Villains Of Verona recorded with producer Jon Alvin . . . Scott Jackson of Cealed Kasket continued work on his first solo record with engineer Sarcicus . . . Justin Griffin (Stellar Road) recorded and mixed with Manny Sanchez . . . Blink also recorded and mixed with Sanchez . . . Janus began work on a new record.
At JEFF FRANKEL RECORDING in Chicago, Grant and Ben of The Electric Shoes mastered their forthcoming CD with enginer Ed Tinley . . . Karlye Lapetina worked on tracks for her new CD with Tinley and Dave Cottini.
At LINDER AVENUE RECORDING in Roselle, singer Allan W. Pallante laid down vocal tracks with owner/engineer Dom Palmisano . . . Singer-songwriter Michael Borkowski wrote and tracked material; Palmisano engineered and produced those tracks.
At SOUNDSCAPE STUDIOS in Chicago, owner Michael Kolar recorded a fundraising album for the charity The Happiness Club, which teaches kids positive values through the music-making process, culminating in a yearly concert at Park West. Rhymefest, Naledge, and The Rich worked on the album. "It is a rare opportunity to leave the studio and feel like you have made the world a better place," Naledge said . . . New Molemen Inc. artist Astonish recorded and mixed his debut EP with Kolar in the Red Room. It features production by Panik, Memo, and PNS.
The Sleepers are recording the follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2005 debut, Push It Nationwide, at Southside Recording in Pilsen. Vince Cassamatta is the engineer/producer. Their sophomore record will be released in early 2008 on Pravda Records.
At SONIC PALACE in Oak Park, The Tall Hush put finishing touches on Back From Zero, out in November . . . Royal finished three songs . . . Himalaya And Dutch Dinero started recording a new CD for Chicago hip-hop label Infinite Hustle . . . Studio owner Matt Mercado's band, Supermercado, are deep into recording their swan song, tentatively titled Chupacabra . . . Widdle Monsters recorded a six-song EP.
Twin Wrecks The Memory began recording their new LP with John Sullivan at Left of south studio in Joliet. This will be TWTM's follow-up to 2005's Royal Drug Lodge: Trouble For The Rest Of Us and the group's first with new drummer Mike Marcinkowski (ex-Jesus And The Devil).
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At the end of the First World War, the great empires of Eastern Europe, the Russian, Austrian, Prussian and Ottoman all collapsed and were replaced with a variety of successor states. Some of those states were carved out by the treaties like Lausanne and Versailles after the war, others were essentially created by military facts on the ground- and in most cases the treaty recognised what had already happened. Its worth remembering that most of the territorial changes in Europe occurred far away from the areas in which the dominant powers at Versailles- the US, UK and France- had their troops- ie the North East corner of France. Look at a map of Western Europe in 1914 and the frontiers haven't changed really that much up to today, look at a map of Eastern Europe and the world is completely different.
What happened in 1918 in order to accomplish that, and happened in 1945 as well, was the massive transfer of populations across frontiers. We often think of that as a fairly harmless process- it wasn't. To take one example, for centuries, for millennia, numerous Greeks had lived in Asia Minor. Thales one of the first philosophers, if not the first, lived for example in Miletus on the coast of modern day Turkey. By the time of the Ottoman Empire, those people calling themselves Greeks still lived there- still constituted a large minority in cities like Istanbul, Smyrna and other places. In the period after World War One the Greeks and Turks battled over the frontier between their states, in 1922 the Greeks finally lost and withdrew from Asia Minor and as they did, the Greeks living there were forced out as well. I thought of this when I first heard of it, doing my history GCSE, as a fact of history, a bloodless fact- in fact of course it wasn't- there was great brutality.
Just to appreciate how horrible that process of ethnic movement was, its worth looking at some of the accounts from Greeks at the time. Thalia Pandiri has collected some and published translations in the International Literary Quarterly- I suggest you go and have a read, but what she describes is truly horrifying. Women with sticks driven through their bodies till they emerge coming out of their mouths. Some of the stories are equally horrifying for the poverty they display- women feeding children flour in water for example or walking for miles with a bag gripped between their teeth and a child in each hand. When they arrived in Greece, many of them found a less than hospitable reception awaiting them as well. Many of them afterall looked not to the new Greece but to the Russian Tsar, traditional protector of orthodox Christians in the Ottoman Empire, as their prince.
Bringing up old atrocities has more purpose to just wallowing in misfortune. The experience of Greeks moving from Asia Minor to European Greece was horrific, but it is relatively unknown. It highlights something though of worth to consider- that moving populations is always difficult. You encounter the fact that people don't want to leave their homes, you encounter the fact that newcomers aren't always welcome when they arrive. That is even true, when unlike say in Palestine, the moving population are in the end absorbed by another population- as in the Greek case where most of the immigrants report that they did eventually become successful Greeks. Ultimately though the experience of the Greeks moving across from Asia to Europe reminds us of two things: firstly that we should not be blase about moving populations around the globe- should for example climate change result in the destruction of Bangladesh we would see the events of Asia Minor on an even greater scale even if we found somewhere for those people to go. Secondly and perhaps more importantly, it reminds us of our own powerlessness. By the end of World War One, there was barely an army around apart from those of the Western Allies and even then in Eastern Europe, it was the facts on the ground that mattered, not the pious declarations from Paris, London and Washington. International politics requires modesty as well as ambition.
November 06, 2007
The End of Greek Asia Minor
At the end of the First World War, the great empires of Eastern Europe, the Russian, Austrian, Prussian and Ottoman all collapsed and were replaced with a variety of successor states. Some of those states were carved out by the treaties like Lausanne and Versailles after the war, others were essentially created by military facts on the ground- and in most cases the treaty recognised what had already happened. Its worth remembering that most of the territorial changes in Europe occurred far away from the areas in which the dominant powers at Versailles- the US, UK and France- had their troops- ie the North East corner of France. Look at a map of Western Europe in 1914 and the frontiers haven't changed really that much up to today, look at a map of Eastern Europe and the world is completely different.
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- Anonymous said...
And if the Allies had been a bit less keen on sticking it to the Turks in the Treaty of Sèvres it might never have had to happen. It was there that the immodest ambitions began
- Tuesday, November 06, 2007 6:30:00 pm
- Anonymous said...
Great post
a) I think the truth was not powerlessness but indifference (perhaps putting t a bit harshly) they could have intervened and stopped this- and stopped the even greater horror of the Bolshevik takeover of Russia, it was a matter of public and political will not incapacity.
b) Note of historical interest" Greeks" were Greek orthodox- including some Turkish speakers
C) it's worth noting lots of Turks got kicked out of Greece in somewhat similar circumstances.
d) It's also worth remembering the perpetrator of this crime was Kemel Ataturk- the hero of modern Turkey including its establishment and the bigger hero of the supposedly "progressive" opposition- a grim insight into the black heart of modern Turkey.
c) On the minor side points Bangladesh i think no one wants Bangladesh to be flooded! And of course the ethnic cleansing n the 40's was bigger even than the turkish-Greek one
but I) If it happens this will be decades not months -after all millions of Bangladesh have left Bangladesh over the last few decades
II) given it takes decades it will be rather less traumatic! Also it will not be done at gunpoint but by slow rises in water levels- ditto!
III) It's possible Bangladesh could deal with rising water levels (after all the rising water levels being predicted are under several of the projections only slightly higher than the rising water levels in the world in the 20th century) given natural improvements in flood defences-
IV) This is particularly the case as Bangladesh under the economic projections the IPPC relies on for it's projections for its weather will be as affluent then as the US is now. They could certainly afford flood defences that seriously dwarf says the Dutch or Louisianan!
V) It would be cheaper for the west to pay for such defences than to cripple their economy through carbon limitation
vi) The Case the world would agree to such reductions in carbon usage is laughable anyway- China and India aren't even signing the polite lie/ red herring (for most signatories apart from the UK) that are Kyoto. So in other words the point is its inevitable- death from old age for the world's population is terrible much more so than this- it's also inevitable.
- Wednesday, November 07, 2007 3:18:00 am
- Gracchi said...
Edmund and Eamon I agree with much of what you say here.
- Wednesday, November 07, 2007 12:18:00 pm
- Unknown said...
Just saw this and as I think this is one of the most important events of the 20th century, a few more comments:
- this was not just a tolerated, but an internationally authorised "population exchange", approved in the Treaty of Lausanne signed by all major powers. As pointed out, also involved the eviction of thousands of Turks and other Muslims from Greece. (Interestingly, Lloyd George was brought down by an attempt to intervene in the Greek-Turk war that preceded this.)
Why is it important? I'd argue because it has created one of the most destructive myths in international relations - that stability comes from ethnically or religiously pure states, and that minorities should be eliminated (by eviction in this case, assimilation or worse). The peace treaties of 1919-20 had certainly promoted the idea of self-determination, but also required all new states to protect their minorities, in the name of creating stable states. Lausanne changed this - creating a belief that the only way to peaceful relations between Greece and Turkey was to have no minorities in either (albeit the treaty did allow a few minorities to persist in each country).
This "exchange" has subsequently been touted as a great success by anyone promoting division/partitions. A view of its "success" lay behind the Peel Commission, the first proposal for the partition of Palestine, and, I'd say you can see its legacy today in the thinking of peacemakers on Cyprus, Bosnia, Iraq where partition and "pure" areas are still seen as the way to stability.
But in fact, the Lausanne mentality is also partly the same belief that had led to the genocide of Christians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 (not only Armenians, but also Assyrians and Greeks) who were at that time seen as a threat with the Russian invasion. Whilst the partitions of India and Palestine in 1947-8 were NOT planned to lead to ethnic/religious cleansing, it was very easy for such cleansing to occur at the time of the partitions, given the persistent belief in purity and separation as the only way to stable states.
And has the Treaty of Lausanne led to stability in relations between Greece and Turkey? Hardly, but the myth persists.
- Sunday, November 11, 2007 12:03:00 pm
- Gracchi said...
Yes I'd agree and I think one of the most dangerous aspects of both this and the partition in India was the idea that you could manage this huge movement of people without much fuss. Of course there are unintended consequences to doing it which people neglect and those unintended consequences of this attitude are horrible ultimately.
- Sunday, November 11, 2007 2:05:00 pm


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Post release wrap up
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Times have changed and so have I. I now highly encourage reading, witnessed by the fact that I maintain THREE libraries: my theological library of well over 800 texts, my WORDsearch electronic library of nearly 1,000 volumes, and my hobby library which consists of almost 700 outdoor sports-related titles. All of my libraries are suitable for academic research, reference, equipping, and, of course, recreational reading. And yes, I've read all of the books or parts thereof (or I'm working on it).
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