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We help international clients expand into the UK and expand from the UK overseas.
International and cross-border work
As you'd expect, much of our work has an international element. We act for multi-national organisations and institutions, entrepreneurial businesses and wealthy individuals and families. Our services range from providing specialist UK advice to our international clients and clients of other international law firms to co-ordinating advice for our clients across multiple jurisdictions.
Our independence means that you'll receive a service that is tailor made to your requirements.
UK legal advice for international clients
As a leading independent UK law firm we deliver award winning sector and specialist advice across all three UK jurisdictions (England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland).
UK legal advice for overseas law firms
Overseas law firms come to us because they know that we have no ambitions to compete in their domestic markets. We also work alongside significant US, European and other law firms with UK offices who benefit from our sector knowledge, areas of expertise and resources.
Co-ordinating international legal advice for our clients
Our independence offers the key advantage of flexibility.
When clients require advice in other jurisdictions we work with like-minded leading independent firms around the world. This is our Preferred Firm Network - a non-exclusive network of law firms which we have assembled over many years, who share our values and provide expert advice and excellent service at a fair price in their jurisdictions. We invest considerable time and resources in developing and maintaining these relationships which enables us to provide a seamless service to our clients - through a single point of contact at Burges Salmon, delivering consistent, high quality advice they can act on and based on a single retainer and billing arrangement.
Alternatively, we can work with our clients' chosen overseas law firm.
We project manage the legal advice our clients receive across multiple jurisdictions, often acting as a hub for European legal matters, particularly for clients based in the US or Asia, using the mix of law firms that works for them.
Our independence means that we can work with the right firm for your matter every time.
Advising Victoria's Secret in protecting one of its core brands in Europe, including multiple opposition proceedings. This was a pan-European matter.
Advising National Express Group on its tenders to run public transport services in several projects across the Middle East. The competitions are mainly for bus concessions and include a mixture of operation, maintenance, infrastructure and construction contracts. We have advised on all areas of these projects, from the completion of compliant bids and negotiations with public authorities in each country, to the ongoing running of services following successful bids. We co-ordinated matters across Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Qatar.
Advising WEX Europe Services on the HR and employment issues arising following the acquisition of the fuel services credit card company across nine European jurisdictions. The team project managed the advice for the US parent and UK subsidiary.
Advising UK dairy co-operative Milk Link on its merger with Danish dairy co-operative Arla Foods amba to create a £2 billion UK dairy business.
Advising The Spear Group on its acquisition by Vienna headquartered Constantia Flexibles Group, working alongside Thompson Hine LLP in the US. We co-ordinated matters across Vienna, South Africa, the US and the UK.
Advising foreign governments seeking to introduce new nuclear legal regimes and applying IAEA laws and standards. We have provided legal support to contractors in the Middle East, to an owner/engineer appointment in a western European jurisdiction and export controls advice to numerous clients with global multi-site, multi-jurisdiction operations.
Coordinating ongoing trade mark work for Harrods in all 10 countries in South America working with local attorneys in each country.
Advising an international bottling and distribution organization on its European data protection programme (incorporating preparation of procedures handbooks) and covering over 40,000 employees. This was a pan-European matter.
Advising United Arab Emirates Armed Forces on an AED5 billion plus YahSat project for the provision of military satellite communications services.
Co-ordinating employment advice for Thomson Reuters across 19 jurisdictions for an IT outsourcing project including obtaining advice as to whether TUPE/ARD would apply in each relevant jurisdiction and planning for potential transfers. The matter spanned Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Advising a global US business on a major HR/employment project relating to the implementation of a psychometric assessment for recruitment and promotion purposes and IT policies. This involved co-ordinating advice from 23 separate jurisdictions and assimilating it into one report for the client, as well as managing the legal spend and producing one invoice in US$. Jurisdictions included Europe, Asia, South America and the US.
Advising on the UK aspects of a multi-jurisdictional transaction involving the acquisition by CMST Development Co of a majority stake in Henry Bath & Son Limited from commodities trader Mercuria Energy Group Ltd. The matter involved supporting Fangda Partners alongside law firms in the US, Singapore and the Netherlands.
Advising on ECI's acquisition of Investis, the corporate communications company, from Gresham Private Equity involved co-ordinating advice in the UK, Finland, France, Germany, India, Italy, Sweden and the US.
Advising on the £78.8 million disposal of the majority of FirstGroup's bus operations in London to Metroline (owned by Singapore based ComfortDelGro) and Tower Transit (owned by Australian based Transit Systems).
Advising the sellers of the shariah compliant AUB UK Student Accommodation Fund on the sale of the fund's entire portfolio of eight student accommodation properties located throughout the UK for £271 million. This was a UK, Middle-Eastern matter.
Advising the Mayor of London and the Greater London Authority on plans for the regeneration of a 35 acre site in London's Royal Docks. The £1 billion deal will re-instate the Royal Docks as a commercial and trading centre for the 21st century, delivering around 20,000 full-time jobs and boosting local employment in Newham by 30 per cent according to the GLA. The deal is also one of the first direct investments by a Chinese developer in London's property market and will eventually be home to more than 3.2 million square feet of high quality work, retail and leisure space – becoming London's third business district. This was a UK and Asia matter.
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Burges Salmon advises BSW Timber on Maelor Forest Nurseries acquisition
Financial services regulation: updates for FCA and PRA regulated firms
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Q: How can I run the Blackberry 10 Simulator (VMWare VMX) in a Windows Azure VM? I'm having some issues running the BB10 Simulator in my azure vm, but before I give up, I thought I'd reach out to the experts. My vm in Windows Azure is Windows Server 2012. It has 2 gigs of memory and more than enough drive space. When I installed the simulator from http://developer.blackberry.com/develop/simulator/, I was not immediately able to run the VMX file as instructed. Some research showed me that I needed VMWare Player, so I installed it too. Now, when I double-click the VMX file, it opens VMWare Player and shows a black screen for a moment before returning to a menu where I can select VM's to start. The BB10 Simulator is the only VM in the list. I can try to "Play" it again, but the same thing happens again.
I suspect that I can't use the azure vm as a host for the bb10 vm. On the other hand, I'm hoping there's some way to get around this and be able to use it since I have several hours invested in the azure vm already. Any help will be appreciated.
UPDATE:
I found a log file for VMWare Workstation that shows the progress of loading the VM:
<Action><Time>1409951292</Time><Act>ViewMode</Act><ID>c3 a5 fe 35 00 52 68 9e-34 58 47 86 86 25 6a f9</ID><Detail>Console</Detail></Action>
<Action><Time>1409951293</Time><Act>ConnectToServer</Act><ID></ID><Detail>VMware Workstation 10.0.3 (local hostd)</Detail></Action>
<Action><Time>1409951294</Time><Act>PowerOnVM</Act><ID>c3 a5 fe 35 00 52 68 9e-34 58 47 86 86 25 6a f9</ID><Detail>other</Detail></Action>
<Action><Time>1409951294</Time><Act>HardwareVersion</Act><ID>c3 a5 fe 35 00 52 68 9e-34 58 47 86 86 25 6a f9</ID><Detail>7</Detail></Action>
Not sure what that means, though. :)
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My study will provide a brief overview into the following subcomponents of Emergency Management concerning "The Station" Nightclub Fire of 2003 in Warwick, Rhode Island.
This tragic event took the lives 100 patrons and approximately 200 were injured. The band that played before an estimated crowd of 450 people used pyrotechnics for special effects purposes during the opening performance. The pyrotechnics ignited highly-flammable polyurethane foam insulation lining the wall and ceiling of the platform area where the band was performing, resulting in the deadly fire.
Crowd managers are required to conduct a daily safety inspection using a checklist in addition to directing patrons to safety during an emergency. This was not a requirement before.
Safety inspections by fire and building officials are now required in order to obtain or renew liquor licenses. Prior to the incident it was not mandated This includes ensuring no building or fire code violations exist and in addition,( there was a violation concerning a door that opened inward and noted as an egress hazard ) where required, there are trained crowd managers on staff and that the daily safety checklists are completed.
A two-strike rule was created for bars, nightclubs, discotheques, etc. with occupancies of less than 100 that exceed capacity. If a club is cited for an occupancy violation twice in a year, or exceeds its capacity by more than 50%, automatic sprinklers must be installed within 90 days or the business will be shut down (MGL C 148, S 26 G1/2). Brockton's Emu Safari club was the first nightclub required to install sprinklers due to overcrowding.
A statewide non-criminal ticketing system was implemented that streamlines enforcement of fire and building codes. This program has been adopted in 189 communities to date. Communities are required to select and train a hearings officer in order to participate in this method of code enforcement (MGL C 148A). Violations are subject to $100, $500, and $1,000 fines for a respective 1st, 2nd, or 3rd violation of the applicable code requirements.
3) Communication- the imparting or interchange of thoughts, opinions, or information by speech, writing, or signs.
The major shortcoming and resulting deaths in the fire was from failure to recognize the threat too late and then the ensuing panic. Some would simply say that the patrons lacked situational awareness. The manager supposedly did not have permission to use the pryrotechnics or "Gerbs" as they were called. Failure on the inspectors part prior to the incident by communicating the need for sprinkler systems and also the changing of the occupancy capacity.
The events following the fire in subsequent days and weeks lead to some very bad discoveries. There was no shortage of reporters covering the fire. By late morning, over one hundred of media personnel were on the ground at the site of Americas fourth deadliest club fire in the cold of winter. They awaited any new bit of news, to phone in stories and practice interviews beside network uplink trucks strategically parked about the area. | {
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This past weekend I had the pleasure of hosting the great pianist/composer Sunna Gunnlaugs and her band (check her out here) for a double-bill gig at the Buttonwood Tree, and I offered to provide the pre-gig meal as well. Sunna is dealing with a significant range of food intolerances, so my task (which I chose to take on, as Sunna herself said she was content to essentially fend for herself) was to come up with a meal that was satisfying for a van full of hungry musicians while avoiding (among other things) wheat, gluten, soy, dairy, fruit and vinegar. I came up with a 3-course meal that was well-received (whether due to quality or musicianly politeness I'll leave you to speculate). There was a chilled brown rice salad with vegetables (garden snow and snap peas, garden garlic scapes, corn, cherry tomatoes) and nuts (toasted pecans and almonds) with a simple salt/olive oil/lemon juice dressing. The "main course" was a baked lentil "loaf" (although it didn't hold its shape too well) which was basically cooked brown lentils mixed with a "sofritó" of sautéed onion, red pepper, garlic and tomatoes) and some salt, pepper, oregano and cumin, with a couple eggs to bind it all together.
The biggest hit, though, was ironically the simplest dish. I had been planning a mushroom soup when I found out that fungi were off limits as well. Only moderately daunted I had a rare moment of fairly comprehensive culinary inspiration (as opposed to being inspired to change 1 or 2 ingredients in an otherwise reliable dish, or doing something from the seat of my pants and having it turn out not so well). This dish was tasty and REALLY EASY – I dare say that it might even be worth trying even by folks who aren't looking for dairy alternatives (UNLESS those folks have nut allergies – sorry). If you already have a bulb of roasted garlic, we're looking at 15 minutes total. If not, that's super easy (see notes) but will require an additional 45 minutes of mostly waiting around, which ideally can be done in advance when you're using the oven anyway. See the notes after the recipe for more info on that.
1) Heat up the water in a pot or kettle. Measure out the cashew butter.
2) Scoop the roasted garlic guts (I just spear them with a small paring knife) into a small/medium bowl (even a soup/cereal bowl is fine) and mash with a fork. Plop on top of the pile of cashew butter and scrape the pile of glop into a medium to large saucepan or soup pot.
3) When the water is hot, turn the heat under the soup pot up to medium and pour about a cup of hot water in along with the salt, whisking vigorously to keep the mixture smooth. Over the course of the next 5 minutes or so, add a cup of water at a time, continuing to whisk.
4) Once all the water is in there and you have a nice, thick broth, whisk in the herbs. Immediately thereafter, discard the whisk and switch to a wooden (or plastic) stirring spoon and add the spinach.
5) Stir/cook until the spinach is just soft (will be very quick if using fresh, a little longer if frozen) and then you're done.
– To roast garlic, first preheat an oven to 375 (or thereabouts – if you're already baking something at 350 or 400, just adjust your timing a little). Peel off the outer layer of papery stuff, leaving the bulb intact (e.g. the cloves still attached). Chop off the very outer bit of the pointy side, exposing a little bit of each clove. Spoon or brush a little bit of olive oil over the now-exposed part and wrap loosely in foil. Throw in the oven for about 40 minutes, until the garlic guts have become quite soft. Voila!
– If you like the basic broth part, many other lightly-cooked vegetables could be substituted – had we had them in the fridge (and/or had we not been using them for other dishes), I might have been inclined to use red pepper, Swiss chard, beet greens, broccoli or Vidalia onion.
This is an awesome recipe lineup. I love the challenge of cooking within tight restrictions–brings out creativity in ways one normally would not be inclined to go. I will definitely be trying the "Cream" of Spinach Soup.
We are working on recipes for Kale at our house as the garden in overflowing with it at the moment. | {
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Basmachis (set №3), 28 mm
Women Legionnaires (set №2); 28 mm
Polish infantry (set №7), 28 mm
Polish officers; 28 mm
76-mm gun of the Russian (White) army (№1), 1914-21; 28 mm
Banner of the 49th Gdov Rifle Regiment, 1918-21; 1/48 (28 mm)
The banner of the 1st Timpton-Vladimirovsky partisan detachment in the Amur region, 1919-22; 1/48 (28 mm)
Soviet commander in uniform m.1919; 28 mm
Russian warrior with the banner of St. George, 11-13 centuries; 54 mm
Heavily armed Mongol warrior, 13th century; 54 mm
Injun; 54 mm
01. Thespiae hoplite, 5 century BC
02. Athenian hoplite, 490 BC
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New Dev Community Delivers 411 for SQL
By Jason Turcotte
A new program launched this week places SQL under the limelight, as one company looks to laud and standardize the programming language for data queries and analysis. And build a developer community in the process.
Boston-based StreamBase Systems announced Project StreamSQL in hopes of expanding the SQL-based language and to ease the development of real-time streaming data apps with a flexible, scalable solution. Building real-time apps with StreamSQL–which adds time and event-based windows to standard SQL–equates to transaction fraud detection, automated stock trading, Web site monitoring and more–all features that enhance the Web services experience.
"The rapid growth of the complex event processing marketplace suggests that the standardization of a programming language that processes and analyzes streams of real-time data would make sense," said Philip Howard, research director, Bloor Research. "Acceptance of such a standard would facilitate adoption of CEP technology and enable enterprise developers familiar with current query languages to more easily build real-time streaming data applications."
According to StreamBase CTO and Founder, Michael Stonebreaker, the knowledge is out there. He cites millions of relational database servers running SQL already, and that tens of thousands of SQL database programmers are well-versed in the language. He says coding in Java and C++ is too low level for real-time apps, but those using SQL for stored data queries can extend the same technology for streaming data.
Take Wall Street, for example. With StreamSQL technology an enterprise can evaluate traders in real-time, enabling them to quickly cut off an investor's money flow when things get ugly. The product co-relates history (time windows) with data analysis, which would include trading patterns in this particular scenario.
"You want to get these apps up in hours or a small number of days," Stonebreaker said. "And you want to enforce a collection of business rules in real-time."
Stonebreaker says developers can code StreamSQL more quickly than other programming languages, and need only write the code once. That code can be shared with other vendors to create high-level standards and help build a developer community. The real crux of this offering, he says, is processing speed and agility. StreamBase reps predict StreamSQL will quickly become 'the Oracle of streaming data,' and they say it will be the ubiquitous language for the development of real-time streaming data apps.
StreamBase offers free interactive workshops for developers in select cities. Thus far, training sessions have been scheduled Oct. 10, 11 in New York City, and Oct. 17, 18 in Dulles, Va. A free trial of StreamSQL Developer Edition is available now at the company's Developer Zone.
Jason Turcotte is an assistant editor at Application Development Trends. He can be reached at [email protected]. | {
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Can I retire at age 50 with 100,000?
How long will my money last in retirement? Person retiring at age 50 starting with $100,000, adding $5,540 every year, while hoping to spend $53,816 every year in retirement. These numbers increase with inflation. | {
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Since moving to New York City from Israel 20 years ago, I have longed for two things: falafel and real Moroccan couscous. I opened Taïm to satisfy my longing for falafel; now I'm opening Kish-Kash to satisfy my longing for couscous. I couldn't be more excited to share our real, hand-rolled, hand-sieved couscous with New York.
- Einat Admony
Einat Admony, also known as the ultimate balaboosta, (meaning "perfect housewife" in Yiddish) is the chef and owner of Balaboosta, the fine-dining Middle Eastern restaurant; Kish-Kash, New York's first couscous bar; and the beloved falafel chain, Taim. She is also the author of two cookbooks: Balaboosta, and the upcoming Shuk (Fall 2019), with Artisan Books.
Einat, named a "fiercely determined chef" by The New York Times, grew up in Tel Aviv, worked as a cook in the Israeli Army, walked away from college after two months, roamed around Germany as a gypsy, then packed up her life to move to New York City. Now, after 20+ years in New York, Einat persists in her work and expansion with her new ventures, including Kish-Kash. Hand rolled couscous, deemed "fine as sand" by Eater, is served fresh there every day and is a perfect example of how Einat continues to innovate and push the food scene.
"Cooking is a way to express my love and compassion for those around me," Einat says. "It is also a way to connect the past with the present and future. The flavors, the smells, the sounds, they flood me with memories and bring me instantly back to my childhood. And make me feel whole."
When she is not at one of her restaurants, she can be found at home in Brooklyn, cooking for her two children, Liam and Mika, her husband and business partner, Stefan Nafziger, plus, a constant flow of dinner parties with family and friends.
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Community Profile for South Mountain, Phoenix, Arizona
With close to 17,000 acres, South Mountain Park is the world's largest city park. It's one of the Phoenix icons like "Camelback Mountain" and "Superstition Mountain". From a distance, South Mountain looks like one big dead mountain, but those that hike it realize that it features some gorgeous scenery and great horizon views in all directions. South Mountain features some of the most popular urban hiking and biking trails in the city and also very enjoyable horseback riding. The mountain is 11 miles across and is home to more than 150 animal species and two mountain ranges including "Ma Ha Range" and "Guadalupe Range".
The ancient Hohokam Indians and possibly prehistoric peoples before them roamed this area as evidenced by the petroglyphs carved into rocks almost everywhere you look. Enjoy these artifacts left as a gift by the ancient Native Americans and try to imagine what life was like thousands and thousands of years ago. Ruins of stone structures also speak of other people in another time. Please don't touch the petroglyphs. They have been worn down through human touching and we all want to protect these relics to be enjoyed by future generations.
Located within the park's foothills is the famed Mystery Castle. This dwelling is home to the founder's daughter. The structure is a conglomeration of stone, adobe, cement, and some say goat milk that forms a castle-like home. Built for by Boyce Gulley during the 1930s for his daughter, the home's interior is no longer open for tours, but many visitors still marvel at the exterior view.
There are over 50 miles of hiking, biking and equestrian trials and more than 2 million visitors trek this mountain preserve every year. But whether you hike or just want to picnic and enjoy the scenery and the great outdoors, the park has many large and small ramada covered picnic areas that include picnic tables, barbecue grills and restrooms. The smaller group areas are available on a first-come basis. Larger group areas, one of which will accommodate 5,000 people must be reserved in advance. There are even concrete dance floors. Although some areas permit alcohol and music entertainment by permit, a couple of areas do prohibit alcohol and music. The views across the Valley below are incredible from these view points. For more information and reservations, call (602) 534-6324 or visit the South Mountain Environment Education Center at 10409 South Central Avenue, Phoenix.
There are several scenic drives that originate from the park's main entrance at Central Avenue. Just take Central Avenue South from Baseline Road and you'll run right into the entrance. Dobbin Lookout is a scenic 5.5 mile drive. Stay on the main entrance road and it will become Summit Road.
The San Juan Road follows a valley between the two ranges at South Mountain. Stay on the main road and at the 1.5 marker, the road turns left where a marker designated San Juan Road. Follow the main entrance to Big Ramada which will reward you with the best views of the city. Find the communication towers with the red lights on top, then turn right and another right will take you to Gila Valley Lookout on the south side of the towers. From here on a clear day you can see Tempe, Chandler and Mesa. On a really clear day one can see Picacho Peak almost to Tucson, Arizona.
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The method involves pulverizing wood into a creamy paste and then adding yeast and an enzyme to start the fermentation process. By avoiding using heat, researchers say they are able to preserve the specific flavour of each tree's wood. So far, they have produced tipples from cedar, birch and cherry.
Four kilos (8.8-pounds) of cedar wood gave them 3.8 liters (eight pints) of liquid, with an alcohol content of around 15 percent, similar to that of Japan's much-loved sake. Researchers experimented with both brewed and distilled versions of the new beverage, but "we think distilled alcohol appears better", researcher Kengo Magara told AFP.
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Some remarks on the Roberto de Mattei interview
It is disconcerting to see the Second Vatican Council, an ecumenical council of the Catholic Church, listed alongside Modernism, a pernicious heresy, as if both could have been contributors to our present woes.
December 13, 2017 Edward N. Peters The Dispatch 38 Print
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Italian historian Professor Roberto de Mattei was interviewed over at OnePeterFive. The professor musters some evidence for his interpretation of recent ecclesiastical events but some alternatives to his interpretations seem reasonable, too. I'll mention a few here.
De Mattei: "The present crisis in the Church did not originate with Pope Francis, and it is not focused in one single person; rather, it dates back to the Second Vatican Council, and, going back even further, to the Modernist Crisis [of the early twentieth century]".
Perhaps that came out wrongly, but it is disconcerting to see the Second Vatican Council, an ecumenical council of the Catholic Church, listed alongside Modernism, a pernicious heresy, as if both could have been contributors to our present woes. Ignorance, even betrayal, of conciliar teachings by many of those responsible for its implementation is not the fault of a council, and an ecumenical council should not be listed alongside a heresy as a possible source of disaster.
De Mattei: "The fact that the guidelines of the Argentine bishops and the approval of the Pope have been published in AAS has made it official that 'no other interpretations are possible' of Amoris Laetitia other than that of the Argentine bishops, which authorizes communion to be given to those divorced and remarried people who are in an objective state of mortal sin. The letter was private, but the publication in AAS transforms the position of Pope Francis into an act of the Magisterium."
This is simply wrong, and at several levels.
First, content and authorship of ecclesiastical assertions are crucial—crucial—in assessing what counts, and what does not count, as "magisterial".
At the risk of over-simplifying, the great majority of "magisterial" assertions convey doctrine not discipline (however much disciplinary provisions might serve doctrinal values, they themselves are rarely doctrinal—thus 'magisterial'—in nature). Now, the Buenos Aires directives do offer some doctrinal assertions (mostly aspirational, vague, and excessively wordy) that in my view are either sound or at least cannot be proven as heterodox, and they offer some disciplinarypoints that, again, are either sound or do not directly contradict Canon 915 (see below).
Second, the publication in the Acta Apostolicae Sedis of a dicastery official's memo about what a pope apparently told him about one of that pope's letters to a group of bishops concerning a document that the bishops had written does not transform said memo or pope's letter or bishops' statement into "magisterial acts" no matter what labels might later be attached to them. In the interest of time, let's just focus on the weight to be accorded the Argentine's document itself.
Episcopal conferences cannot issue doctrinal statements unless such statements are "unanimously approved by the bishops who are members [of the national episcopal conference], or receive the recognitio of the Apostolic See if approved in plenary assembly by at least two thirds of the Bishops belonging to the Conference and having a deliberative vote." John Paul II, ap. con. Apostolos Suos (1998) Comp. Norm 1, emph. added. The "Bishops of the Buenos Aires Pastoral Region", authors of the Buenos Aires directives, are not the Argentine episcopal conference.
Moreover, sub-groupings of episcopal conferences cannot, under any circumstances, carry out acts of "authentic magisterium", as John Paul II made clear in Apostolos, Comp. Norm 2: "No body of the Episcopal Conference, outside of the plenary assembly, has the power to carry out acts of authentic magisterium. The Episcopal Conference cannot grant such power to its Commissions or other bodies set up by it."
I see, in other words, no "magisterial act" from an episcopal conference that could be 're-magisterialized' in the first place or 'magisterialized' by the several-steps-removed publication process outlined above.
(By the way, this whole notion that publication in the Acta Apostolicae Sedis means something is "magisterial" and/or that basically nothing is ecclesiastically important unless it appears in the AAS will not survive two minutes' reflection. Great swaths of material in the AAS have nothing whatsoever to do with magisterium, and boatloads of, say, John Paul II's magisterium never appeared in the AAS (e.g., most of his Wednesday addresses on Theology of the Body); moreover, some important Church documents took effect in virtue of their publication in, say, L'Osservatore Romano (e.g., CDF penal decree of 2008 against attempting the ordination of women) or even in Roman academic journals (the tribunal instruction Dignitas connubii of 2005). So, yes, the AAS is important (Canon 8), but it is not the only show in Rome.)
Third, no matter what theory might find some kind of 'magisterium' operative in the Argentine's document or in the pope's endorsement of it, the simple fact remains that neither the Argentines nor the pope has ever directly said that civilly-divorced-and-remarried Catholics may (outside of the narrow application of the internal forum option known as "brother-sister") be administered holy Communion in disregard of the divinely-rooted and pontifically legislatedprohibition against such administration set forth in, among many other places, 1983 CIC 915 and CCEO 712. As far as I can see, the Buenos Aires directives never quite confirm what Amoris laetitia never quite says. It is a situation ripe, of course, for exploitation by those bent on avoiding, among other things, the implications of Our Lord's teaching on the permanence of marriage, which brings me to my next point.
De Mattei: "The line of thinking of those cardinals, bishops, and theologians, [and canon lawyers] who maintain that it is possible to interpret Amoris Laetitia in continuity with Familiaris Consortio 84 and other documents of the Magisterium has been reduced to dust."
I strongly disagree with de Mattei's bleak assessment of the state of this debate and I say that as one who has steadily opposed the implementations of Amoris being wrought by, say the bishops of Malta and German episcopal conference committee. The point, as I see it, is not whether these bishops are implementing Francis's "desires" (I have no window into the pope's intentions, so how would I know?), the question is whether they are applying his words, and I say, they are not applying his actual words.
De Mattei: "Amoris Laetitia is a document which serves as a litmus test: it must be either accepted or rejected in toto."
How can anyone make such a stark, all-or-nothing claim about a +50,000 word document so replete with pastoral insights, tiresome platitudes, scholarly applications and embarrassing misappropriations, and clever insights, as is Amoris?
Reasonable minds should "examine everything, and keep what is good."
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Edward N. Peters, JD, JCD has doctoral degrees in canon and common law. Since 2005 he has held the Edmund Cardinal Szoka Chair at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit. His personal blog on canon law issues in the news may be accessed at the "In the Light of the Law" site.
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Joe M
Somehow Peters is not especially reassuring. If it is this hard to figure out what is and is not part of the Magisterium, how is this very different than Protestants invoking an infallible Bible with so many varying interpretations. Vatican II have a foothold to Modernism by its format of highly prolix documents that allowed diverse readings…. much like this papacy.
Dr. Edward Peters
Hi Joe M. Actually, I am quite reassuring. The norms for navigating these waters are fairly clear at this point, but when those in high places refuse to adhere to them, well, yes, it is hard to figure out what is going on. We do the best we can with the hand we are dealt. Cordially, dr.p.
Piers Forrester
I really hate using the term, but… the neo-Catholic band marches on.
Of course AL is a litmus test. As Peters' response suggests, there are some bad parts that we should reject–but what's wrong with a little leaven?
To use a the words of AL itself, it can no longer simply be said that small errors infect the whole. Leo XIII must have left mercy at the door when he taught: "There can be nothing more dangerous than those heretics who admit nearly the whole cycle of doctrine, and yet by one word, as with a drop of poison, infect the real and simple faith taught by our Lord and handed down by Apostolic tradition."
Aunt Raven
Sorry, I'm not that bright, but Pope Francis and Pope Leo XIII can't both be right. I have more confidence in Pope Leo if I am forced to choose.
. I wonder how many very intelligent human beings look into Catholicism and turn away because of this endlessly complex area of what is authoritative…what isn't….and what might be but authorities vary on that too….where is it printed…how many times did he say it. It seems endless. Two dissenters on Humanae Vitae were periti at Vatican II…one a previously conservative moral theologian, Bernard Haring,….the other Karl Rahner who edited Denzigers Enchiridion Symbolorum which calibrates what's authoritative. It's simply off putting…the endless non clarity of the whole topic. Then when no Pope censured either of those two men in their dissent…the fog thickened. We convert often people from the African bush and parts of Asia but are we turning off many educated who see this said area of the doctrinal as endlessly foggy measured by the pedigree of those within the Church who disagree on what is definitive. It seems endless especially when Popes censure virtually no one…unless a writer attacks something mega major like the Trinity…then there's excommunication.
"Ignorance, even betrayal, of conciliar teachings by many of those responsible for its implementation is not the fault of a council, and an ecumenical council should not be listed alongside a heresy as a possible source of disaster."
No; but writing the documents of a council so poorly that they permit ignorance and misinterpretation and provide cover for betrayal is the fault of a council. And is a possible source of disaster.
Carl E. Olson
In my experience, 97%+ of Catholics have never read the documents, or even the four Constitutions, of the Council. That even goes for many priests, who spout nonsense about this or that being "of the Council", even though it's simply not the case.
Yes. I wonder if the Council Fathers who took those documents back to their archdioceses and implemented them– read them.
Ramjet
I'll stick with Dr. Peters and Canon 915 on a better technical understanding of the actions in this papacy.
At some point, Pope Francis will have to show his hand in a manner that will not need the intricate explanations of a seasoned canon lawyer.
Chris in Maryland
I love and admire Dr. Peters, and I know that he is right about Canon Law and authority.
But in practice (I.e. the gaming of the system by Ivereigh's Team Bergoglio) the gigantic problem is mentioned in para 7: a lot of the content of AL and the associated letters, memos etc etc (and V2 documents) is sound theology and moral teaching, and the other parts "cannot be proven to be heterodox." And then in a later paragraph – Dr. P states the main problem (I.e. the intention of Ivereigh's Team Bergoglio): all of this can be exploited.
I must admit that Ivereigh's Team Bergoglio, and "theologians" like Cdl. Kasper (a Cardinal! is the Church out of its mind?) and Massimo Faggioli et al are post-Catholic. Their "theology" doesn't have to cohere with authentic Catholic teaching – their job is polluting and dissolving the Catholic Faith – and then substituting the "new authority" to replace the Apostolic Faith – that new authority being THEIR GIGANTIC SELVES.
And as Cdl. Kasper stated about V2 (I believe he stated it live on the air in an interview with Raymond Arroyo) it was purposefully written to be ambiguous to admit conflicting interpretations.
That's the game: ambiguity.
And no, I haven't read every V2 document, but I have read SC over and over and over, and it is utterly ambiguous, and the "practical result" of exploiting SC is what the faithful Laszlo Dobszay called "the Bugnini Mass."
Grief seems to be the apt emotion.
I think I owe Dr. Peters an apology for missing his point.
He is reminding us that we, as Catholic people, are all people under the law, and per the memorable movie scene (in A Man for All Seasons) as St. Thomas More reminds us, the law is there to protect us from tyranny, including tyranny in the Vatican.
Dr Peters does not reassure me when he references writings of John Paul II. The powers in the vatican can simply continue on as if those writing are not important. No?
Fr Peter Morello
"Reasonable minds should "examine everything, and keep what is good" is a good start in assessing AL. Dr Peter's is most often pertinent except regarding the intent evident in AL. Perhaps it's that he cannot or declines to distinguish between canonical stricture and reasonable opinion ["I'm not a mind reader"]. The Pope has personally affirmed intent. Anyone who reads AL intelligently cannot gloss over intent to permit communion for D&R [that position of Hierarchy is what's exacerbating division and error]. Roberto de Mattei is well intended but as Peters says is wrong in his assessment of Vat II. De Mattei is excessive in his condemnations there and elsewhere which harms his overall credibility. I agree with de Mattei on Vat II insofar as Dignitatis Humanae [Modernist Fr Courtney Murray SJ authored Dignitatis Humanae and believed God himself could not demand we deny our conscience] is a theological disaster placing preeminence on conscience v doctrine [in tandem with Cardinal Kasper who recently said conscience is a secret conclave between God and Man as if Christ's words don't exist]. Although there was effort that it be declared dogmatic it never was raised to that level and is not binding. Only Lumen Gentium and Verbum Dei were declared dogmatic. I strongly agree with de Mattei's bleak assessment of the state of this debate in stark contrast to Edward Peters' assessment who figures the Maltese Argentine German Philippine flights of heresy must be like derailed trains off the track of AL's orthodoxy. Doesn't the fact that the Pope hasn't corrected or even criticized these heretical derailments mean anything? Edward Peter's salient point however is "the Acta Apostolicae Sedis does not transform said memo or pope's letter or bishops' statement into "magisterial acts".
Timothy J. Williams
So…. a few simple questions: Are divorced and "remarried" people committing adultery, or are they not? Is the gravity of a sin erased by the length of time it has been going on, or is it not? Does either question matter, or not? To interpret anything said or written by Pope Francis, we now have to depend upon the good will and orthodoxy of a whole busload of canon lawyers. This article clarifies nothing. It just adds to the confusion.
Since the D&R people were not remarried by a Catholic priest in a Catholic ceremony, they are not married. They are living in a free union, in concubinage. Concubinage is a mortal sin, a sin as serious as fornication or adultery.
I fully agree with Dr. Peters that the document of the Argentinian Bishops of the Buenos Aires province has not become part of the magisterium, but what about Francis' answer? He promulgated it as an Apostolic Letter, maybe the lowest degree of the Magisterium, of course, but yet as a magisterial document, it seems.
The letter to the Buenos Aires bishops, as it was published in the AAS includes a special rescript as an addendum by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State. This rescript declares that Pope Francis expressly intends that BOTH documents – the pope's letter and the Buenos Aires guidelines themselves- bear the character of his "authentic Magisterium".
Even if canonically the specialists can say that the documents are not "authentic Magisterium", the huge majority of bishops will say they are and implement the communion to D&R in their dioceses.
The is no other alternative.
Unless the Fraternal Correction is issued and the Pope declared a heretic, the change will become irreversible.
Jack if you say there is no other alternative you imply agreement that the letters per se regardless of the affirmation by Cardinal Parolin are binding. Cardinal Parolin is not the Pontiff and doesn't share his authority. If you mean the large majority of bishops will follow suit as the only alternative we have to wait and see. Remember the majority voted in favor of Bishop Naumann to manage pro life agenda rather than the Pope's favorita Cardinal Cupich. And the law matters. This Pontiff cannot abrogate the necessity to personally in writing or by his own spoken words definitively state his intention for communion for D&R. Many bishops are well aware of that.
A fraternal correction can be issued on particular ambiguities; but that doesn't mean the Pope can be declared a heretic [even if he is].
"Perhaps that came out wrongly, but it is disconcerting to see the Second Vatican Council, an ecumenical council of the Catholic Church"
Latin traditionalists will have arguments for their claim that the council is not dogmatic. But non-Latins may question whether it should be regarded as an ecumenical council at all.
Peters does an excellent lawyerly job defending a client. But who is his client? Certainly it is not Bergoglio, who does what he wants and makes it pretty clear, to all who have eyes to see and ears to hear, what he is doing and means to do.
There is no excuse for anyone to be "confused" about it. Bergoglio is, in fact, intent on undermining the very basis of the Church's moral doctrine, replacing reason and logic with a debased casuistry that also goes by the names consequentialism and proportionalism. The AAS publication of the Argentine correspondence is his response to the Dubia: In your faces. Whether or not that publication is or is not a magisterial act — or whether or not a magisterial act may include error — are questions of little moment. Bergoglio certainly isn't interested in the answers. He speaks and acts as an exercise of raw power.
The problem with all well-meaning efforts to fit Bergoglio into some kind of continuity with Wojtyla and Ratzinger, or with the pre-Vatican II magisterium of the ages, is that he patently is not and obstinately and pertinaciously does not want to be in continuity. Thus, the Dubia, for example, though they profoundly and comprehensively raise all the "right questions", come across as disingenuous ("Say it ain't so, Father").
Peters leads by saying: "… it is disconcerting to see the Second Vatican Council, an ecumenical council of the Catholic Church, listed alongside Modernism, a pernicious heresy, as if both could have been contributors to our present woes. Ignorance, even betrayal, of conciliar teachings by many of those responsible for its implementation is not the fault of a council, and an ecumenical council should not be listed alongside a heresy as a possible source of disaster."
Here again, though, the question is not a matter of magisterial weight or authenticity. The real question is the use (or abuse) of power. Sure, one can pick through all of the Vatican II documents and find a way to reconcile them with the perennial teaching of the Church. (To a certain extent, that was what Wojtyla and Ratzinger believed to be a foundational task of the hermeneutic of continuity). But every "exegetical" exercise of this kind misses the main thing about Vatican II: it was a raw exercise of power to transform the Church under the inspiration of Modernism. The same can be said of the Council's ongoing "implementation".
The great virtue of de Mattei's history of Vatican II is that he has documented the use of raw power that characterized the acts of the Council and its promoters.
Bergoglio truly is the heir of Vatican II.
Bravo. Best assessment of PF and his agenda.
Edward Pentin has a Dec.13 piece on part of this at NCRegister citing a number of diverse Catholic voices on this Argentine letter event. But here is yet another position by the AAS editors…with which I think Ed Peters would differ…
" The Vatican made clear in Acta Apostolicae Sedis that this private papal letter congratulating the bishops on their guidelines would be raised to the magisterial status of an apostolic letter (less magisterial than an encyclical but more than an apostolic exhortation). It also included a special rescript — an official papal decision on doctrine — written June 5 by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the Vatican secretary of state, which declares that Pope Francis expressly intends that both his letter and the Buenos Aires guidelines are "authentic magisterium".
The busy Catholic biologist, dentist, school teacher with endless homework correcting…does not have any spare time to sort out which Catholic canonist, Vatican secretary of state, theology prof, AAS editor….is correct that this letter is magisterial, non magisterial, lacking pan Bishop participation, etc. ec. etc.
Peter and Paul were simply preaching Christ. Those were the good ole days prior to 2000 years of nuances.
I imagine a father now telling his son to clean the basement…and the son asking…." how magisterial is that disciplinary exhortation, dad,( and can it be magisterial at all with no doctrinal assertion that the cellar is dirty) …is it less magisterial than marry a good woman but more magisterial than take out the garbage…what say ye?"
This excerpt from Prof Pink's essay Conscience and Coercion 2012 is relevant to Dignitatis Humanae and the discussion here on conscience v Church doctrine and papal authority.
"The Catholic debate about religious liberty needs to move on from what is, where religion is concerned, the secondary issue of the authority and competence of the state, and address what is fundamental: the authority of the Church over those subject to her. We particularly need what is currently lacking—a theology of the Church that properly addresses her traditionally claimed authority to coerce individual belief and practice while explaining the doctrinal basis of and limits to the Church's power of coercion. This will involve an appropriate theology of baptism and in particular of the obligations to the Church incurred through baptism. These are the very obligations that, as traditionally understood, could take political form and thus underpin state involvement in coercion, and which Dignitatis Humanae so carefully undertakes to preserve, but not to explain". Thomas Pink is professor of philosophy at King's College London.
Rowland Stenrud
Just as murdered people are in fact dead so a marriage is in fact ended when there is a divorce plus sexual intercourse with the new spouse. This is why adultery is so evil. A Catholic can be dedicated to the sanctity of marriage without declaring marriage indissoluble in all cases. A Catholic can be dedicated to the sanctity of life without having to declare the murdered person to be still alive. Murder, among other reasons, is evil precisely because the victim dies. Divorce and remarriage is evil precisely because there is disobedience toward God and because the bond of marriage is indeed broken. The first marriage no longer exists. Adultery is not an ongoing sin just as murder is not an ongoing sin if there is repentance. Just as the repentant murderer cannot bring his victim back to life so the repentant divorced and remarried cannot bring the first marriage back to life. In fact, an attempt by the spouse to go back to his first spouse after having divorced and remarried is condemned in the Bible. See Deuteronomy 24:3-4. The remarried persons must publicly confess the sinfulness of their actions and then publicly resolve to be faithful in the second marriage.
My wife divorced me and I was able to get an annulment from the Catholic Church. I never remarried though. I now see that this annulment to be more damaging to the Catholic Church's determination to defend marriage than if the Catholic Church would have declared the marriage dead when my divorced wife remarried. Up until the remarriage, my wife and I could have reconciled. But the remarriage ended that possibility per Deut. 24:3-4. My former wife was now one flesh with her second husband. I believe my take on this subject to be biblical.
Rowland, Christ's words contradict you in John 4:
" 16 Jesus said to her, "Go call your husband and come back." 17 The woman answered and said to him, "I do not have a husband." Jesus answered her, "You are right in saying, 'I do not have a husband.' 18 For you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true."
Christ is saying her real husband even now is a previous husband. A theologian from Boston College had your view of dead marriages but Christ did not. Theologians nowadays sometimes ignore Christ's words…e.g. the head of the Jesuits says we don't really have a tape recording of what Christ said…which of course means every human on earth can substitute their idea in place of Christ's idea on any subject. Insanity is the name for that.
Shawn Albert
What is disconcerting is that Dr. Peters (and many others) doesn't seem to understand the following:
1. Divine law trumps human law.
2. Canon law didn't even exist for centuries.
3. The Magesterium trumps canon law.
4. Vatican II was declared by Pope Paul VI AND Pope John Paul II to be a PASTORAL council on 2 occasions each.
5. The implementation of the 'teachings' of Vatican II were carried out with papal sanction. Say not so all you want, the fact that no Pope after Vatican II has done anything to "correct" the implementation is all the proof necessary to one who sees reality as it truly is.
6. It is a matter of record that the documents that now comprise Vatican II are not what was originally drawn up to be voted on, and that the liberals at VII screwed with the whole process.
7. So called "conservative catholics" with the mindset of Dr. Peters had for decades trashed Traditional Catholics claiming that the Traditional Latin Mass was abrogated, that is until Pope Benedict XVI set the record straight in 2007.
8. These same people love to claim that the pope would never promote a heretic to the status of Cardinal, especially Pope John Paul II. I have 2 words in response to that assertion. Cardinal and Kasper.
The bottom line is that Dr. Peters is attempting to explain away something that has never happened in the history of the Church, rather than standing against it.
Too bad, since he has done a lot of good work in the past.
I am very grateful for the cogent analyses that Dr Peters has been offering in these confused times.
At this point, however, it just seems to me that no matter the proper distinctions to be made ( and that should be made), in the end, no one will pay much attention and a lot of damage is being done. I'm not reassured…
Pete in New Mexico
I wouldn't say it was Vatican II, but rather how Vatican II was interpreted, or even misinterpreted that has caused a lot of problems for the Roman Catholic Church and faithful. Some religious and lay people seemed to think that Vatican II had given the Church its Protestant wavier and that all of a sudden Priests could marry, Nuns could marry, women could be ordained as Priests, you didn't have to go to Mass, you didn't have to do anything you didn't want to do. Except, that wasn't true. Most just seemed to think they knew what was in Vatican II, rather than actually reading it to find out. The problem persists to this day, unfortunately.
Am I missing something? The Pope knows that a valid marriage is forever; however, if the marriage is not valid, and the Pope has given Bishops the authority to guide those in such non-marriages, and with their guidance bring the persons back into the Church and allow them Communion – how can that be wrong. If there is no mortal sin (three things needed to be mortal), isn't that person allowed Communion?
Alas, Eva, you appear to have missed the past four years…
Yes, Eva, you are missing a lot (that, or you're being all wide-eyed disingenuous). We are not talking about people who were in invalid marriages, whose marriages were declared null, and who then married someone else. We are talking about people whose marriages are presumably valid, who divorced their spouses, and then, despite still being married (since divorce is a purely civil affair and Christian marriage is indissoluble), "married" someone else and are living in a state of adultery, which is a mortal sin.
Quote from Pope Francis:
"A lasting and consummated marriage, with everything in order, continues and will continue to be indissoluble, and the Church can't do anything about it because her Lord and Master did not grant her that authority. We are all disciples before Christ: only one is the Master, only one is the Guide, only one is the Lord," he (Pope Francis) stressed.
This above quote doesn't match how some people are interpreting and understanding what the Pope is saying. Maybe people are picking and choosing phrases out of context?
"This above quote doesn't match how some people are interpreting and understanding what the Pope is saying."
What he's saying when, exactly? That's the problem. He'll say something orthodox, and then proceed to undermine it by saying other things that are most definitely not. And then when the unorthodoxy of the undermining statements is pointed out, people say, "But how can you say he's unorthodox when he said something quite orthodox at some other point?"
If nothing else, such confusion and lack of clarity is very uncharitable.
Reference to "We are talking about people whose marriages are "presumably" valid,…"
Here, Leslie, I believe the Pope was indeed talking about marriages that are invalid and not "presumably" valid. (He previously made the comment that he believed a lot of marriages that were in the Church could be considered invalid.
I believe he is offering the Lord's mercy to those.
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Editorial: Allow state's adults to grow their own marijuana
Legislation would allow adults to grow six plants at home, joining eight other states that allow it.
Tuesday, January 21, 2020 10:34am
OpinionIn Our View
With the passage of Initiative 502 in 2012, Washington state residents 21 and older — and visitors, for that matter — are allowed to possess and use any combination of the following: an ounce of usable marijuana, 16 ounces of marijuana-infused edibles, 72 ounces of marijuana-infused liquids and 7 grams of marijuana concentrate.
What you can't have — unless you have a doctor's permission for medical marijuana — are any live marijuana plants in your own home or garden.
Under penalty of law and potential seizure of property, you can't grow your own.
Washington state is an outlier among states that allow the sale and possession of recreational marijuana. Of the 11 states where state law has legalized recreational cannabis, only Washington and two other states forbid growing marijuana at home; the other eight allow between three and 12 live plants per person, with most states allowing six.
The bias against "green thumbs" is among the restrictions that remain from the state's cautious and gradual roll-out of cannabis laws. Last year's legislative session saw a reasonable loosening of the state's seed-to-sale controls that too-often came down hard and cost growers — otherwise operating legally — their licenses because of minor violations, such as a smudged identification tag.
Legislation in the state Senate and House would lift that restriction and allow adults to grow up to six plants at a time at home, one more example of easing paranoia regarding state law and public sentiment over cannabis.
"We're past the 'Reefer Madness,' days," said Maureen Walsh, R-College Place, who is the sponsor of Senate Bill 5155. A self-described libertarian, Walsh says allowing adults to grow a few plants seems a logical extension of state law on cannabis.
While each adult would be allowed six plants, each residence would be limited to a maximum of 15 plants. Under other restrictions outlined in the bills, each plant would have to be labeled and identify the owner and none of the marijuana produced could be sold, traded or bartered. Additionally, property owners could prohibit a renter from growing marijuana.
Both bills, introduced last year, were vetted during committee hearings but didn't advance further. House Bill 1131 is scheduled for an executive session before the House Committee on Commerce and Gaming today, after which it could advance. Committee Chairman Rep. Strom Peterson, D-Edmonds, has indicated his support for the House bill. Walsh expected her bill could also be approved soon by the Senate Labor and Commerce committee without an additional hearing.
Among the objections raised to allowing adults to grow their own marijuana have been concerns over increased availability to children and illegal sales. That hasn't been the experience in states where home-grown marijuana is allowed, David Ducharme, an attorney working with the legislation's proponents, told The Herald Editorial Board recently. The legal availability of cannabis in Washington state hasn't shown to have increased its use by minors, according to the state's Healthy Youth Survey; in fact, marijuana use among youths has showed declines in recent surveys. Allowing marijuana plants, particularly in homes where cannabis already is consumed, isn't likely to increase the risk of kids' exposure.
Law enforcement hasn't reported significant problems with home production of beer and wine; the experience with home grows, limited to a few plants, is unlikely to show a different result. Like hobbyists making their own beer and wine, those growing their own cannabis are almost always law-abiding folks, Walsh said.
"Don't assign illegal motives to my constituents," the Eastern Washington senator said.
Among the arguments favoring the grow-your-own legislation:
It would allow those growing cannabis for their own use to know for certain what went into the marijuana. The recent scare over vaping products — especially regarding vaping liquids containing THC derived from cannabis — is now believed to have been caused by the addition of a vitamin E oil that was causing a pneumonia-like illness for hundreds of users nationwide.
It could also provide an economic boost to those providing supplies to home growers, in particular lighting and hydroponic systems that would allow for year-round cultivation.
While recreational marijuana has been legal in the state for about seven years, state lawmakers and officials have addressed various aspects of its legalization during the same period. That continues today, tightening the reins here and loosening there. Among a bill that seeks to set a new standard, House Bill 2546 would set a potency limit of 10 percent THC level for cannabis concentrates.
Legislation allowing adults to grow a few plants in their own homes is a reasonable adjustment to the voters' wishes regarding recreational marijuana.
Growing pot at home could become legal in Washington state
Other states that have legalized recreational cannabis already allow home growing, but Washington does not.
Washington legislators are considering a bill that would allow anyone age 21 and over to grow up to six marijuana plants at home. (Richard Vogel/AP)
Washington state residents have long been able to brew their own beer in their basement, or ferment homemade wine in their living room. If they want to smoke a joint to unwind, though, their only legal option is to get dressed and buy one at a store.
More than eight years after Washington voters legalized recreational cannabis, some state lawmakers say it's past time to let people grow their own pot at home.
A bipartisan group of legislators is proposing a bill that would let adults 21 and over grow cannabis plants at home for recreational use.
House Bill 1019 would limit each adult to six home-grown plants. No more than 15 plants could be cultivated per household, limiting the ability of roommates to band together and create a small-scale marijuana farm.
Under Washington state law, qualified medical cannabis patients can already grow a limited amount of marijuana plants. But for nonpatients, growing marijuana at home is a class C felony, punishable by up to five years in prison, a fine of up to $10,000, or both.
Washington's ban on home growing puts the state at odds with most others that have legalized recreational pot use. Of those 15 states, at least 10 allow home growing, including Oregon, Vermont, Nevada, California and Colorado. Last fall, voters in South Dakota, Arizona and Montana also approved ballot measures that legalized growing marijuana at home.
State Rep. Shelley Kloba, D-Kirkland, called Washington's ban on home growing of cannabis "an antiquated policy."
"It is time for us to evolve in this space," said Kloba, the prime sponsor of the bill to allow home growing.
The measure has been introduced several times in the past, but has stalled. Kloba thinks that the number of states that have recently embraced home growing builds the case for Washington to do the same.
She said many of the fears associated with allowing home growing — that it would fuel illegal activity, or create neighborhoods that constantly reek of weed — haven't come to pass in other states.
Law enforcement officials still worry, however, that homegrown pot could be easily sold on the illicit market, or that backyard cannabis plants could prove an attractive target for thieves and burglars.
"Our members, candidly, are not comfortable with the public safety aspects and public safety concerns associated with allowing marijuana home-grows," said James McMahan of the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs, which represents law enforcement leaders.
"We also, of course, have great concern over the exposure to children," McMahon added at a Jan. 15 public hearing.
That concern was echoed by substance-abuse prevention advocates, particularly because the bill says the state Liquor and Cannabis Board wouldn't have authority to enforce the rules that would apply to home marijuana grows.
"We do not want to create an environment where adults are freely growing, producing and processing marijuana at home without any training or standardization," said Jesse Jimenez of Prevent Coalition, an organization based in Vancouver, Washington, that works to prevent youth drug and alcohol use.
John Kingsbury, co-founder of the group Homegrow Washington, said many of the concerns people express about home growing seem to relate more to large-scale cannabis operations.
"What I often hear is conflation of large-scale illicit activity with what we are actually advocating for here, which is legalizing six-plant, noncommercial home gardens," Kingsbury said.
He added that most people won't choose to cultivate cannabis at home, simply because "growing it is hard, and the product is readily available in stores."
Still, some new provisions have been added to the bill this year to try to address public safety and nuisance concerns.
For one, the measure would create a new civil infraction for anyone who grows marijuana in public view, or whose marijuana production can be "readily smelled" by neighbors or passersby. Those offenses could result in a $50 fine, but wouldn't go on someone's criminal record.
Marijuana growing would also be banned in homes that provide day care services or host foster children.
As before, selling homegrown cannabis to another person would not be allowed. Landlords could also restrict renters from growing marijuana on their property, if they choose.
The measure passed out of the House Commerce and Gaming Committee on Friday. It would still need to pass both chambers of the Legislature — and not be vetoed by the governor — to become law.
Last year, the bill died in the House Appropriations Committee, which reviews budget-related measures.
But it's not clear that the state's tax collections would be hurt by allowing people to grow marijuana at home.
Timothy Nadreau, a research economist at Washington State University, said he studied how allowing marijuana home growing would affect state revenue. He concluded that cannabis tax collections would most likely continue to increase if HB 1019 passed, in part because home growing could boost people's interest in cannabis products.
Right now, the state is collecting about $1 billion per year in marijuana excise tax revenues.
"I don't see this having a significant impact on the state budget," said state Rep. Drew MacEwen, R-Union, who is co-sponsoring the measure.
Lara Kaminsky, co-founder of the Cannabis Alliance, said she thinks allowing marijuana home growing will actually be good for the cannabis industry in Washington state. She said it could create a market for greater variety in cannabis products, much as homebrewing and microbreweries did for the beer industry.
As things stand now, many customers simply go for whatever pot product is cheapest and has the highest level of THC, the psychoactive component in marijuana, she said.
If homegrows are allowed to flourish, "The consumer will be more discerning, have better questions and look for products that have more qualities than just a number on a package," Kaminsky predicted.
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Tony Curtis, US Navy. Sub tender USS Proteus. In Tokyo Bay for the surrender of Japan.
Rod Serling. US Army. 11th Airborne Division in the Pacific. He jumped at Tagaytay in the Philippines and was later wounded in Manila.
Gene Autry, US Army Air Corps. Crewman on transports that ferried supplies over "The Hump" in the China-Burma-India Theater.
Wiliam Holden, US Army Air Corps.
Russell Johnson, US Army Air Corps. B-24 crewman who was awarded Purple Heart when his aircraft was shot down by the Japanese in the Philippines.
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Don Adams. US Marines. Wounded on Guadalcanal, then served as a Drill Instructor.
John Wayne. Declared "4F medically unfit" due to pre-existing injuries, he nonetheless attempted to volunteer three times (Army, Navy and Film Corps.) so he gets honorable mention.
And of course we have Audie Murphy, America's most-decorated soldier, who became a Hollywood star as a result of his US Army service that included his being awarded the Medal of Honor.
Would someone please remind me again how many of today's Hollywood elite put their careers on hold to enlist in Iraq or Afghanistan?
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This is so for 8-year old Darina, whose holiday wish looks much different than most kids her age. With a dad in prison over 2,000 miles away, her wish is for him to "move closer, so [they] could just drive" to see him. The wish for her father's transfer from a federal prison in Texas to one in Oregon shouldn't arise to a miracle, but it does. Darina can't even think of the ultimate miracle— having her dad come home. At her young age, she understands that absent any changes in the law, he has 10 more years to serve, and she must wait until she is 18 for him to come home. Due to distance, Darina has only been able to see her father once in the past 3 years. After a long plane and car ride, she had only one hour of viewing him through plexi-glass and hearing his voice through a phone as most federal facilities do not allow "contact" face-to-face visits.
The time spent away missing moments of childhood can't be recaptured, and these missed experiences may be crucial for a child's well-being and development. Prison visitation programs are just a Band-Aid solution for the deep wound that is caused by parental incarceration. Sporadic visits, long distances to travel, ill-equipped prisons and inadequately trained prison staff are just a few of the difficulties that perpetuate the trauma visited on our children. Darina's mom, Gina, indicates that "She had some medical stuff where she had to have a heart monitor for a little while and testing to find out if there was anything wrong with her. And after all the reports and readings of the monitor during this time, everything was normal medically, but emotionally she has a broken heart." Support for family-friendly visits and opportunities for consistent in-person contact can help lessen the negative impact on families and children, but nothing beats having a parent home in the community.
Stories like Darina's remind us that when finding solutions, we must prioritize the needs of children and their families while improving public safety. Advancing family unity for all, enhances public safety for everyone. Our children should not bear the burden of our country's tough on crime policies, and whether it be at the state or federal level, our children should be considered by the judiciary and our lawmakers. As we reflect on President Obama's call to overhaul sentencing laws, as well as the 2014 directive of the United Nations' Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (paragraph 20(c)) to the United States government to consider parental diversion, here are four easy steps to ensure families are not left out. First, at pre-sentencing, the judge should be required to inquire whether the person is a parent. Second, if the individual is a parent, then the judge should be required to hear and consider — through the means of a Family Impact Statement — what the impact of incarcerating that parent will be on their children. Third, at sentencing, a judge should have options to sentence a parent to an alternative to prison which is likely to promote family unity (i.e. probation; education or job training programs; housing support; social, and psychotherapeutic supports; and medical supports including drug treatment). And last, but not least, any changes to our sentencing laws should also have a Family Impact Statement addressing the impact that any new laws or policies will have on children of incarcerated parents and their families. It may take more than a holiday miracle, but we can do better. | {
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Donald Trump jumps in: The Donald's latest White House run is officially on
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Updated 11:07 AM EDT, Wed June 17, 2015
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Donald Trump finally took the plunge.
The real estate mogul and TV reality star launched his presidential campaign Tuesday, ending more than two decades of persistent flirtation with the idea of running for the Oval Office.
"So, ladies and gentlemen, I am officially running for president of the United States, and we are going to make our country great again," Trump told the crowd in a lengthy and meandering 45-minute speech that hit on his signature issues like currency manipulation from China and job creation, while also taking shots at the president and his competitors on the Republican side.
"Sadly the American dream is dead," Trump said at the end of his speech. "But if I get elected president I will bring it back bigger and better and stronger than ever before."
Business mogul Donald Trump announces his candidacy for the U.S. presidency at Trump Tower on June 16, 2015 in New York City.
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Donald Trump in the public eye
Just over four years after he came closer than ever to launching a campaign before bowing out, Trump made his announcement at the lavish Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in New York, laying out a vision to match his incoming campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again."
The 68-story tower venue Trump used Tuesday was more than just the backdrop to Trump's presidential announcement, instead becoming a physical embodiment of what Trump is bringing to the table and the challenges he'll face as he formally enters politics: it's both a sign of his overwhelming success in business and, as the site of the famous "Apprentice" boardroom, a symbol of the reality TV label he'll struggle to shake off.
The Tower, also home to "The Apprentice" television shows, crystallized the challenge Trump faces as he looks to win over voters.
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Donald Trump's best lines during his 2016 speech
Many Americans now view him primarily as a reality TV star after 14 seasons of his "Apprentice" series, and his numerous flirtations with a presidential run – first in 1987, then 1999 and again in 2004, 2008 and most recently in 2011 – have left voters eye-rolling as he prompted yet another round of will-he or won't-he speculation.
Trump has already billed himself as the "most successful person ever to run for the presidency, by far," pointing out even that he owns a "Gucci store that's worth more than Romney."
That Gucci store wasn't far as Trump made his announcement – it's located in the lobby of the Trump Tower.
But Trump showed Tuesday that he won't shy away from the out-of-reach luxury and opulence that makes up his day-to-day lifestyle.
Instead, he flaunted his wealth and success in business as a centerpiece of his presidential platform, and he began that officially on Tuesday, trumpeting his whopping $8.7 billion net worth during his announcement speech. Trump's net worth was previously estimated at roughly $4 billion.
"That's the kind of thinking our country needs," Trump said after reading off his net worth, to the thousandth dollar.
He pointed out that his wealth and successful business career not only qualified him to be president – "I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created." – but that it would allow him to rid himself of the special interests that he said control American politics.
That's because the billionaire said he would self-fund his presidential campaign, not only ridding himself of some outside influences, but also freeing up more time to campaign as candidates can often spend about half their time raising funds to keep their campaign coffers from depleting.
"I'm really rich," Trump said, adding that his confident attitude is what the country needs after having "losers" run the country.
Trump's press aide released a one-page summary of his assets and liabilities on Tuesday and Trump pledged to release the full financial disclosure, including income tax returns, required by the Federal Election Commission before the first debate.
Trump's wealth and results-driven success is business is part of what he hopes will be his appeal to voters as he looks to set himself apart from career politicians.
"I've watched the politicians, I've dealt with them all my life," Trump said. "They will never make America great again. They don't even have a chance."
It's his confidence that business associates say has made him the successful mogul he is today.
"He has the guts and the balls," said Roberto Bezjon, a Trump Organization board member and owner of a high-end New York hair salon located in a Trump building. "He's a straight shooter."
Supporters gathered for the announcement had the same impression. Many of them were either several-time supporters of Trump's past flirtations with elected office or small business owners in New York who said they were confident Trump would be a boon for the economy.
Supporters donning "Make America Great Again" T-shirts – several of them boisterous and interjecting loudly in the middle of Trump's speech – shuffled up golden elevators to watch from two stories up.
Outside, campaign volunteers flagged down pedestrians to hand them the campaign T-shirts and invite them inside for the announcement.
The spectators got a flavor for the type of candidate Trump plans to become – one who shoots from the hip and doesn't care for a script – and the ideas he'll promote.
Trump called for everything from new infrastructure ("We're becoming a third world country!") to erecting a massive fence on the border with Mexico – which he said he would have Mexico pay for – to the need for a thorough plan to defeat ISIS.
And the man himself was always at the center of Trump's ideas:
"No one would be tougher on ISIS than Trump," he said, referring to himself in the third person.
"We need a truly great leader," he said earlier, before pointing several times to his skills as a negotiator.
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Who's running for President?
But it's not clear whether Americans are ready yet to give Trump a chance to become that leader.
In recent polls, more than half of Republicans said they had a negative view of him – a tough spot to start a campaign.
He and his aides remain confident, though, that voters will take Trump seriously after he has now made his intentions clear and announces he's running.
"We can change that dynamic in 15 seconds by Mr. Trump sending out a press release saying he's running for president," Trump's top political adviser Corey Lewandowski said before the speech. "Mr. Trump's single biggest detriment is that people don't think he's going to run."
But over the past several months, Trump has ramped up his political activity, making key staff hires in the early states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina – including the political strategist who drove former Sen. Rick Santorum to a surprise victory in the Iowa caucus in 2012.
And even as he becomes the 12th candidate to throw his hat into a ring that will become even more crowded before the first televised debate in August, Trump could find himself grinning on Fox News along with the rest of the top 10 candidates who made the cut.
Fox is limiting participation in the first debate to the top 10 GOP contenders based on national polling, and Trump is just on the edge based on the latest polls.
He tied for 10th place with 3% in the latest CNN/ORC poll earlier this month and earned 4% in both the most recent Fox News and Washington Post/ABC News polls – coming in 10th and tied for ninth, respectively.
That puts Trump right in line with would-be-rivals like Santorum, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former New York Gov. George Pataki – and above hopefuls like Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal.
Trump will look to escape that grouping as he challenges conventional political notions of nominating a presidential candidate who's held elected office, instead calling for an end to the politics he says are heavy on talk and light on action.
Trump is no stranger to either, though.
He famously fanned the flames of the "birther" movement and today takes credit for President Barack Obama's decision to release his birth certificate – which Trump said this year at CPAC hasn't completely quelled his concerns.
And he won't mince words when it comes to his GOP foes, either. And he may take the opportunity to draw a contrast with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who formally announced his candidacy just a day before Trump's announcement.
Trump said earlier this year in Iowa: "The last thing we need is another Bush."
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Q: How to get time difference of two values taken by Winforms DateTimePicker only considering hours minutes and seconds and without miliseconds in C#? I'm getting values from two dateTimePickers and I need to get the time difference between them. Now, I'm calculating the difference using the below code, but I'm getting a wrong time difference with Milliseconds. Is there a way to calculate the time difference without considering Milliseconds.
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TimeSpan difference = dateTimePicker2.Value - dateTimePicker1.Value;
Example 1;
*
*Start time : 4/24/2022 2:30:11 PM
*end time : 4/24/2022 2:30:11 PM
*Actual difference : -00:00:00.0049863
*Expected difference : 00:00:00
Example 2;
*
*Start time : 4/24/2022 2:29:01 PM
*end time : 4/24/2022 10:29:01 PM
*Actual difference : 07:59:59.9037925
*Expected difference : 08:00:00
Example 3;
*
*Start time : 4/24/2022 4:24:28 PM
*end time : 4/24/2022 10:30:28 PM
*Actual difference : 06:05:59.9648821
*Expected difference : 06:06:00
It will give expected answers, when I'm retyping the time value in both dateTimePickers in Winform but doesn't work when I didn't retype minutes field in each dateTimePicker.
I don't want to round up the answers. I want to do the difference calculation without considering milliseconds. So that it will give correct answers for what ever the values we parse for dateTimePickers.
(I'm a newbie to c#. so I'm sorry if I'm not much clear. Thank you so much!)
A: DateTime adjustedDateTimePicker2 = dateTimePicker2.Value.AddMilliseconds(dateTimePicker2.Value.Millisecond * -1);
DateTime adjustedDateTimePicker1 = DateTimePicker.Value.AddMilliseconds(dateTimePicker.Value.Millisecond * -1);
TimeSpan difference = adjustedDateTimePicker2 - adjustedDateTimePicker1;
A: You may read hours, minutes, and seconds separately:
int hourCnt = difference.Hours;
int minuteCnt = diffenrence.Minutes;
int secondCnt = difference.Seconds;
A: You can first round the timespan, then format the result using a Custom Timespan format string like "hh':'mm':'ss" or @"hh\:mm\:ss":
var d1 = DateTime.Parse("4/24/2022 4:24:28 PM");
var d2 = DateTime.Parse("4/24/2022 10:30:28 PM");
var d = d2 - d1;
int precision = 0;
const int TIMESPAN_SIZE = 7;
int factor = (int)Math.Pow(10, (TIMESPAN_SIZE - precision));
TimeSpan roundedTimeSpan =
new TimeSpan(((long)Math.Round((1.0 * d.Ticks / factor)) * factor));
MessageBox.Show(roundedTimeSpan.ToString(@"hh':'mm':'ss"));
Which shows:
06:06:00
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New Star Wars and Marvel Series Announced for Disney+ Streaming Service - The Walt Disney Company
New Star Wars and Marvel Series Announced for Disney+ Streaming Service
The Walt Disney Company's new direct-to-consumer streaming service will be called Disney+. Disney Chairman and CEO Bob Iger revealed the service's name today during a live audio webcast of Disney's fiscal full year and fourth quarter 2018 financial results. Disney+ is scheduled to launch in the U.S. in late 2019.
Iger also announced that Lucasfilm is in development on a second Star Wars live-action series for Disney+ that will go into production next year. The series will follow the adventures of Rebel spy Cassian Andor during the formative years of the Rebellion and prior to the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Diego Luna will reprise the role of Andor, which he originated in the 2016 film. "Going back to the Star Wars universe is very special for me," said Luna. "I have so many memories of the great work we did together and the relationships I made throughout the journey. We have a fantastic adventure ahead of us, and this new exciting format will give us the chance to explore this character more deeply." The rousing spy thriller will explore tales filled with espionage and daring missions to restore hope to a galaxy in the grip of a ruthless Empire. A release date for the series will be announced at a later date.
Disney+ is also assembling a live-action series centered around a fan-favorite character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Iger today confirmed that Marvel Studios is developing a series based on Loki, the god of mischief, to star Tom Hiddleston.
The new projects join an impressive slate of films and series planned for Disney+ that includes new stories set in the worlds of Disney•Pixar's Monsters Inc. and Disney Channel's High School Musical, as well as a galaxy far, far away. Earlier this year, Lucasfilm revealed that Emmy®-nominated producer and actor Jon Favreau will write and executive produce The Mandalorian for Disney+. The live-action series, which is set after the fall of the Empire and before the emergence of the First Order, is currently in production with a lineup of directors that include Deborah Chow (Marvel's Jessica Jones), Rick Famuyiwa (Dope), Dave Filoni (Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Star Wars Rebels), Bryce Dallas Howard (Solemates) and Taika Waititi (Marvel Studios' Thor: Ragnarok).
AKA, Nov 8, 2018
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PaulKTF Senior Member
Bring on all the "Classic Disney" stuff that used to be on The Disney Channel back in the 80's and 90's.
PaulKTF, Nov 8, 2018
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gabacabriel Forum Resident
So the Star Wars spin-offs are now getting their own spin-offs !?!
Barrel-scraping, much ???
gabacabriel, Nov 8, 2018
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Encuentro Forum Resident
Sounds good to me. I'm in! But I've been in since rumors of a Star Wars live-action series on a new Disney streaming service started circulating.
Encuentro, Nov 8, 2018
gabacabriel said: ↑
They spent $4 billion to buy LucasFilm- they're going to be making Star Wars movies and TV shows until the end of time to recoup that cost and profit from the acquisition. Buckle in.
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PaulKTF said: ↑
I think they've already broken even on the Lucasfilm investment. The problem is this year's $71.3 billion dollar purchase of 20th Century-Fox, and that's gonna take awhile to pay for.
I wonder how many countless meetings, arguments, focus groups, ad agencies, and PowerPoint presentations they had to go through in order to come up with "Disney+"? I'd also like to see the 117 names they discarded in favor of this one.
Vidiot, Nov 8, 2018
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Vidiot said: ↑
I would have gone with "Disney YEAH!"
Or "Disney WOW!" That would be a good one.
"Disney RAD!" There are so many possibilities.
Encuentro said: ↑
I would have gone with "Disney YEAH!" Or "Disney WOW!" That would be a good one. "Disney RAD!" There are so many possibilities.
"Disney Sucks More Money" would've been my choice.
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Deesky Forum Resident
Mine would be Disney Meh. I'm probably in the minority here, but there's nothing much here that is attractive enough for me to want to sign up.
Deesky, Nov 8, 2018
Ron Stone Offending Member
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I've often wondered why Disney didn't have their own franchise channel. Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar and Disney proper make up a pretty hefty chunk of the Hollywood GDP.
Ron Stone, Nov 8, 2018
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JCM Forum Resident
So what I'm wondering (and have been) is how this is going to work out long term. Of course Netflix did an exclusive deal with Disney back in 2012 and (presumably) it has been very lucrative for both sides. Now, some six years removed, Disney is taking their ball and going home. I just wonder will the subscribers follow?
While it's very nice to have these OTT services to choose from, there's something to be said for the convenience of your old fashioned cable provider and whatever streaming perks come from them. Shouldering the cost of the "big guns" (ABC/Disney, NBC/Universal, etc) with your fellow cable subscribers does have its privileges.
JCM, Nov 8, 2018
Deesky said: ↑
Eh, I dunno. The entire 90-year library of 20th Century-Fox, plus 60 years of Fox TV, plus everything Disney ever did for TV and film, plus every Marvel feature & TV series (at least the ones owned or controlled by Marvel Studios or Fox), plus all the Pixar films, all the Lucasfilm properties, all the Muppet-produced films... that's a lotta stuff.
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tommy-thewho, Nov 9, 2018
I do get it and I'm sure the service will be hugely popular, but I was just speaking for myself. None of the old Disney stuff matters to me and neither does the Marvel and Star Wars stuff. I've seen the first few SW films and was unimpressed to say the least. Comic book movies have no real appeal to me either, nor the Muppets (which I did enjoy in my youth).
The only category that does have some appeal is Pixar, but even there, not every film is a must see. So, that's just not enough to warrant a regular subscription. Again, that's just my personal preference. For my tastes, I find Netflix and Amazon far more valuable.
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Welcome to the new Disney Vault. Only one Disney animated classic at a time, available for 3 months then going away until the cycle reaches that point in the chronology again. Fun for the whole family, year after excruciating year.
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Holy Socks Active Member
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Wonder if it going to show classics like "Old Yeller" and "Herbie the Love Bug?" That would be really neat-o.
Holy Socks, Nov 9, 2018
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Oooh, I forgot about National Geographic, which is also part of this channel (and that one I didn't know about):
Note this logo omits 20th Century-Fox, which is interesting. I would expect all of the Marvel Netflix TV shows to switch to the new Disney+ over the next year.
BeatleJWOL said: ↑
If it's streaming, then I would expect they'll have a large menu like Netflix or iTunes and basically everything in the library will be there. They have no incentive to keep certain titles off the service. The whole point is to give people access to a vast library 24 hours a day.
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OldSoul College Graduate
Pretty sad that the article focuses more on Star Wars and Marvel stuff than actual Disney.
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genesim Forum Resident
Gonna be painful for some when they feel that Netflix license bye bye squeeze.
Disney's catalog is lush and there are going to be pulling the rug out pretty soon.
Smart move to whore out catalog to determine viable market then woo the ones that aren't in denial away.
Unlike some companies, Disney continues to have serious physical assets while not operating on a balooning debt.
Continuing success with the Marvel box office tends to do that. Fine fun films.
genesim, Nov 9, 2018
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"Disney Also"
"Disney Some More"
"Disney Also Some More"
"Disney In Addition To"
"The Late-Night Home of The Suite Life With Zack and Cody Marathon"
"The Other Disney Channel That Won't Run Any Of The Good Classic Stuff"
"The Only Way We Could Cram Hannah Montana Back Into The Vault"
"Lassiter's Retirement Fund"
...and, I guess, 99 others...
-oh, wait..."Prestige Ewok Theatre"...
Dillydipper, Nov 9, 2018
Yeah, but I imagine they A). Won't put it all up at once, and B). Will "cycle" through things so things will come and go every couple of months to change the lineup up.
Quadboy Forum Resident
Leeds,England
A Marvel TV show based around Loki .........now they can kill him every episode instead of every film ........... and have him alive and well for the next Ep.
Quadboy, Nov 9, 2018
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zombiemodernist Forum Resident
Northeastern USA
This should hopefully be the end to all the "vault" nonsense and finally mean complete access of all animated Disney films. Streaming is the end point of that model — rather than rebuying every 5 years, you're rebuying every month lol.
I think this service makes a lot of sense, honestly I've never been a diehard fan of the core Disney IP, but what they've acquired in the past decade has something for everyone. The original shows sound solid, (I'm sold on Mandalorian by the directors roster) but I think they will have to get some streaming exclusive IP to make this work like Netflix and Hulu.
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I wouldn't be surprised if the pre-1997 versions of the original Star Wars trilogy are released on Disney+ before being released on disc. Disney+ will be your one-stop Star Wars shop.
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PhantomStranger Man of Mystery
Between the known and the unknown...
This streaming service is going to up-end Hollywood as we know it. Things are never going to be the same for entertainment consumers once Disney's service gains traction.
Buckle up, kiddies. This is going to change the entire business model for entertainment content companies. There will be winners and there will be losers.
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The Influence of Literature and Myth in Videogames
How have myth and seminal writers of horror, science fiction, and fantasy shaped today's videogame landscape? IGN taps the literary roots of the industry for answers.
By Douglass C. Perry
Updated: 16 Jun 2012 6:48 pm
Posted: 18 May 2006 4:13 pm
H. P. Lovecraft, J. R. R. Tolkien, Robert Bloch, Robert E. Howard, Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Larry Niven, Orson Scott Card, E.E. Smith. This small sampling of influential authors' work in the genres of science fiction, horror, and fantasy has laid the bedrock for some of the best videogames in the business. Rarely, however, will you find them mentioned or credited. That is hardly needed. Their work is so ingrained in Western pop culture, so influential, that saying something is "Tolkien-esque" or "Lovecraftian" is too obvious. These writers' ideas have permeated the landscape to such a degree they influence just about every single game, comic book, movie or novel in their respective genres.
But how exactly have myth and literature shaped the videogames we play today? Why do they matter? For developers, to improve the games of the future, they must understand the right and wrong of the present, and seek lessons from the past. The videogame medium isn't an island unto itself. In fact, in a way, it's a symbiotic creature that thrives on other entertainment successes; it's also a shiny junkyard of rehashed, reshaped, and re-invented ideas re-forged for a powerful new medium still going through growing pains. Publishers constantly look to movies, TV, and books to create popular games to sell their products for quick fixes and big bucks. If a movie is popular, bamph! It's a game. If a popular book series becomes a movie, shazam! It's also a game. J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" and J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" series epitomize what the videogame industry does so well. But while licenses and popular intellectual properties have forged the success of some companies (Electronic Arts has created an empire on big licenses), other companies have failed using the same strategy (Acclaim lived and died by its licenses). Living off other licenses isn't enough to sustain itself. There has to be more.
In Western culture, the influences on videogames are vast. A quick glance at the store shelves in Electronics Boutique displays games based on movies such as The Godfather, Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, or Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six series. But recently, due in large part to accelerated technology and smarter directors and writers who "get it" (witness the movies Spider-Man, Batman, even Hell Boy), game publishers have grown savvier and more sophisticated about making high quality comic-book videogames. Now, more than ever, videogame designers are searching for more original, unlicensed, and mature stories to tell. Given the broadening and maturation of the videogame audience, we'll get see a greater variety of stories in the next generation, and they will be told in an extraordinary way -- in a way that will ascend beyond TV, movies, and every other storytelling medium.
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Many of the most beloved hardcore videogames aren't based on movies, books or comics. They're more deeply ingrained than that. Recent titles such as Shadow of the Colossus, God of War, and the renewal of the Prince of Persia series have demonstrated deeper, more ancient texts as their sources, sources like Japanese literature, Greek myths, Persian folklore. There is a litany of games -- Half-Life 2, Resident Evil 4, Halo 2, The Legend of Zelda, and The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion -- that use science fiction, myth and fantasy texts to shape their narratives. Did you know Bungie's Halo series is believed to be influenced by Larry Niven's books Ring World and Known Space? (Or is that too obvious?) Or that much of J.R.R. Tolkien's work is largely influenced by Norse mythology? That novelists T.S. Eliot and James Joyce influenced the direction of Crystal Dynamics' Soul Reaver series?
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"I would go as far to say that all literature and all entertainment are influenced by myth," said Denis Dyack, head of Silicon Knights, the development team behind the original Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, Eternal Darkness, and the upcoming Xbox 360 game, Too Human. "Whether people think so or not, basically, we are immersed in the mythologies in our culture. In some sense, mythology defines culture. It's unavoidable. Any typical storyline almost always falls back to some mythology."
If the videogame industry could be organized into game types, aside from annual standards such as racing games, shooters, and parlor games, the most creative games spring from fantasy, horror, and science fiction. The most obvious example of literature influencing the fantasy genre of videogames is the work of J.R.R. Tolkien. John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (January 3, 1892 to September 2, 1973), the professor of Anglo-Saxon language and English language and literature at Oxford, is widely known as the father of the fantasy genre in all its various forms. Culling from English, Greek, Norse and Germanic cultures, Tolkien created languages and eventually a universe in which mythic archetypes and figures were grounded with histories and lives of their own. Dwarves and elves were part of fairy tales and myths in Western culture prior to Tolkien's days, but in his stories, their histories were intertwined in a newly fashioned history and geography. Their tribes were fleshed out and are made into a bigger, grander fantasy landscape.
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Victims Of Mass Shootings Have Struggled To Hold Larger Forces Responsible In Court After An Attack
While victims of international terrorism can hold terrorist groups accountable in court, the legal path is less clear in cases of domestic terrorism.
by Zoe Tillman
Posted on August 6, 2019, 6:38 pm
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People pray beside crosses with the names of victims who died in the El Paso shooting.
WASHINGTON — Victims of mass shootings in recent years have gone to court to take on what they see as the larger forces at play behind the attacks — social media platforms that host hate speech, companies that make guns, and law enforcement agencies that failed to stop a shooter from getting a gun or didn't stop an attack right away.
Those efforts have largely failed, although a handful of cases testing new or little-used legal avenues are working through the courts.
The mass shootings last weekend in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, as well as the shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in California, have renewed the debate about the root causes of the rise in mass shootings and other acts of domestic terrorism, and how to stop them. But in past cases, victims have struggled to successfully translate the belief that other actors, besides the shooter, should be held accountable into a lawsuit that holds up in court.
Although the Justice Department is treating the El Paso shooting as a case of domestic terrorism, victims won't necessarily have the same avenues to file civil lawsuits as those involved in foreign terrorism cases. When Americans are killed overseas in terrorist attacks, there are federal laws that explicitly give them a way to sue terrorist groups and the foreign governments that support them. US courts have issued billions of dollars in judgments over the years against Iran, for instance, for its role in backing al-Qaeda.
There is no equivalent law specific to when and whom victims of domestic terrorism can sue. In the absence of a clear path, lawyers for victims have pursued a hodgepodge of claims and legal theories.
Law enforcement authorities believe the suspected shooter in El Paso posted an anti-immigrant manifesto on the online forum 8chan and was inspired by others who used the platform. It was the third time this year the site was tied to a mass shooting, and website security firm Cloudflare announced it was cutting off service to the forum. Lawsuits seeking to hold Twitter, Facebook, and Google liable for content that allegedly radicalized mass shooters have been dismissed in the past, and it's not clear if El Paso victims could succeed trying to sue 8chan or Cloudflare.
The suspect in the El Paso attack allegedly expressed hatred for immigrants and Mexicans, turning attention once again to the resurging white supremacist movement in the US. Lawsuits seeking to hold white supremacist organizations responsible for racist violence in the past have been successful, but it's not clear if the El Paso suspect was acting on behalf of a specific group — inspiration isn't the same as an official affiliation under the law.
The El Paso and Dayton attacks have renewed calls for stricter gun laws and revived criticism of companies that make and sell high-capacity firearms to the public. But federal law provides immunity in many instances for gunmakers and sellers against litigation, and lawsuits filed after mass shootings have had mixed success.
In the 1980s and 1990s, the Southern Poverty Law Center won millions of dollars on behalf of victims of racist violence carried out by members of groups such as the KKK and Aryan Nations. The SPLC has sued white supremacist organizations under the same legal theory that consumers routinely use to sue companies for the negligent or dangerous actions of their employees.
Residents of Charlottesville, Virginia, are taking a similar approach in a lawsuit filed in the aftermath of neo-Nazi and white supremacist demonstrations that turned violent in August 2017; anti-racism protester Heather Heyer was killed and others were injured when a white supremacist drove his car into a crowd.
The plaintiffs sued neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups as well as individual organizers who allegedly planned and promoted the Charlottesville demonstrations under a federal law known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, which makes it illegal to conspire to violate someone's civil rights, as well as Virginia laws that make it a crime to aid terrorism and harass or intimidate someone based on race, religion, or ethnicity. In July 2018, a federal judge ruled the case could go forward, finding the plaintiffs "adequately alleged that Defendants formed a conspiracy to hurt black and Jewish individuals, and their supporters, because of their race."
In cases involving lone mass shooters with more nebulous ties to the white supremacist community, a conspiracy claim might be harder to pursue. There was evidence that the white supremacist convicted in the June 2015 mass shooting at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, was inspired by the KKK and the activities of other white supremacist groups, but there wasn't any indication he was formally supported by them or acting in coordination.
Amy Spitalnick, executive director of Integrity First for America, one of the groups involved in the Charlottesville suit, said their case was unique in the amount of evidence they could find about alleged coordination among different organizations leading up to the protests.
"As we grapple with these questions of domestic terrorism — federal action, the social media sites — we need to understand the ways that these attacks are coordinated and the way one attack is used as inspiration for the next," she said.
After the Emanuel AME shooting, which killed nine people, some victims tried to sue the federal government based on evidence that failures in the federal background check process allowed the Charleston shooter to buy the pistol he used in the attack. In June 2018, a federal judge in South Carolina dismissed the case, finding the government was immune from those types of claims. The victims appealed, and the US Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit heard arguments in May; the court has yet to rule.
Taking social media platforms to court
Efforts to hold social media platforms responsible for the role they play in facilitating hate speech and other communication connected to acts of mass violence haven't been successful. Victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando in June 2016, and victims of the shooting at a state social services center in San Bernardino, California, in December 2015, have filed lawsuits against Twitter, Facebook, and Google.
Plaintiffs in those cases invoked the Anti-Terrorism Act, a law that gives victims of international terrorism a way to file civil lawsuits for damages, arguing the shooters had been radicalized by ISIS through social media. Federal judges dismissed the cases, finding the plaintiffs failed to establish a direct or indirect link between the shootings and the fact that the tech companies served as a platform for ISIS to communicate; the Pulse plaintiffs lost on appeal earlier this year, and the San Bernardino plaintiffs have an appeal pending.
Keith Altman, a lawyer representing victims in the Pulse and San Bernardino cases, maintained in an interview with BuzzFeed News that they had a strong case against the tech companies, who he said "have gotten away with murder." Without a connection to international terrorism and laws that explicitly allow private claims against those who support it, though, he said he wasn't sure what law would give victims of domestic terrorism the ability to bring a similar case.
"You're effectively now in the same place as the gun manufacturers, and I think that you would have the same difficulties in going against Google, Facebook, and Twitter for domestic terrorism," Altman said, referring to unsuccessful lawsuits in the past seeking to hold gunmakers liable for mass shootings. "I don't know if I would take one of those cases."
The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, passed by Congress in 2005, gives gunmakers and sellers immunity from lawsuits seeking to hold them liable for violence involving their products. In March 2015, a federal judge in Colorado relied on the law in dismissing claims brought by the parents of a victim of the July 2012 mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, against websites that allegedly sold ammunition and other materials used in the attack.
Families of victims of the December 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, have had some success trying to pursue claims against the companies that made and sold the semiautomatic rifle allegedly used by the shooter. In March, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that federal law largely immunized the companies that were sued. However, the court found that the plaintiffs could go ahead with a claim accusing the companies of violating Connecticut law in how they marketed the weapon. The defendants earlier this month petitioned the US Supreme Court to hear the case.
Last month, the family of a woman killed in an October 2017 mass shooting at a concert in Las Vegas sued companies that made and sold the assault rifles used in the attack. They're arguing that the sale of the weapons violated Nevada law against machine guns, given the ease with which the rifles could be modified for automatic fire.
Joshua Koskoff, a lawyer representing families in the Sandy Hook and Las Vegas cases, said that when his firm first got involved with the Sandy Hook families, they explored a range of potential claims, including the role of violent video games — notwithstanding doubts Koskoff said he had about the link between games and real-world violence — and whether school and local officials had done enough in terms of security. In the end, he said they decided suing the gunmakers and dealers and that challenging the limits of the PLCAA was the best option.
"I kept coming around to this thought that any time you have a mass shooting, if there's a case, it ought to get to the root cause, and not the downstream issues," he said.
The El Paso Shooting Is Being Treated As "Domestic Terrorism," But The Suspected Shooter May Not Be Charged As A Terrorist Zoe Tillman · Aug. 4, 2019
People In El Paso Are Afraid To Go To The Grocery Store After A Domestic Terrorist Targeted Their Town Brianna Sacks · Aug. 6, 2019
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The July 2012 mass shooting mentioned was in Aurora, Colorado. The location was misstated in an earlier version of this post.
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(Between 8:49 a.m. and 9:02 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NMCC Responds to First Crash at WTC, Notifies Senior Pentagon Officials
Officers in the National Military Command Center (NMCC) at the Pentagon begin notifying senior Pentagon officials about the plane crashing into the World Trade Center after learning of this from television, but they are apparently unaware of the hijacking of Flight 11. [9/11 Commission, 7/21/2003 ; 9/11 Commission, 4/29/2004 ; 9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 35] The NMCC's three main missions are monitoring worldwide events for the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), maintaining a strategic watch component, and maintaining a crisis response component. The NMCC has live feeds from numerous television stations, and the operations team on duty there learned from CNN that an aircraft had hit the WTC (see (8:48 a.m.) September 11, 2001).
NMCC Directors Notify Senior Pentagon Officials of Crash - In response, members of the operations team monitor media reports and begin making notifications up the chain of command. [9/11 Commission, 7/21/2003 ; 9/11 Commission, 4/29/2004 ] Captain Charles Leidig, who is currently standing in temporarily as deputy director for operations in the NMCC (see 8:30 a.m. September 11, 2001), will later recall, "Initially… the National Military Command Center was primarily a means to notify senior leadership that, in fact, an event had occurred." [9/11 Commission, 6/17/2004] Leidig and Commander Patrick Gardner, the assistant deputy director for operations, start notifying those on the internal JCS notification list, including the office of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, about the crash. They also notify the office of the secretary of defense. Based on incorrect information being reported on television, Leidig tells the senior Pentagon officials that a small airplane has crashed into one of the towers of the WTC. [9/11 Commission, 4/29/2004 ; 9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 35]
NMCC Unaware of Flight 11 Hijacking - According to military instructions, "the NMCC is the focal point within [the] Department of Defense for providing assistance" in response to aircraft hijackings in US airspace, and, "In the event of a hijacking, the NMCC will be notified by the most expeditious means by the FAA" (see June 1, 2001). [US Department of Defense, 6/1/2001 ] However, while details of the hijacking of Flight 11 have been circulating within the FAA, the 9/11 Commission will say it "found no evidence that the hijacking was reported to any other agency in Washington before 8:46." The NMCC apparently learns of the hijacking for the first time when one of its officers calls the FAA at 9:00 a.m. (see 9:00 a.m. September 11, 2001). Leidig will recall that, before the second plane hits the WTC at 9:03 a.m., he and Gardner think it is "something unusual… that a light plane had crashed into the WTC and that there was a report of a hijacking." [9/11 Commission, 4/29/2004 ; 9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 35, 462]
Entity Tags: Charles Leidig, Patrick Gardner, National Military Command Center
9:03 a.m. September 11, 2001: Pentagon Command Center Staff See Second Attack on WTC, Yet Accounts Conflict Over Urgency of Their Response
Those in the National Military Command Center (NMCC) within the Pentagon see the second plane hitting the World Trade Center live on television. According to Dan Mangino, an operations officer at the center, the staff there had thought the first WTC crash was a "terrible accident," but after seeing the second one, "we knew immediately that it was a terrorist attack." The American Forces Press Service later reports, "Personnel in the center shifted into hyperdrive.… Phones in the center began ringing off the hook." Mangino says he initiates "the process to stand up a working group in advance of the direction that would come down later." One of his deputies is responsible for this process. Yet, despite this supposed urgency, Mangino later recalls that he "knew he would have little time in the days ahead, so he quickly ran to the concourse to get some money out of an automated teller machine." He will not arrive back at the NMCC until after the Pentagon is hit. [American Forces Press Service, 9/7/2006] Brigadier General Montague Winfield had earlier on allowed a colleague to temporarily take over from him as the NMCC's deputy director for operations (see 8:30 a.m. September 11, 2001). Yet, despite the obvious emergency now taking place, he does not retake charge of the center until more than an hour later, at around 10:15-10:30 a.m. (see (Shortly After 9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [9/11 Commission, 6/17/2004] Furthermore, according to the 9/11 Commission, the NMCC does not begin a "significant event" conference call in response to the attacks until 9:29 a.m., which is 26 minutes after the South Tower is hit (see 9:29 a.m.-9:34 a.m. September 11, 2001). [9/11 Commission, 6/17/2004 ; 9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 37]
Entity Tags: National Military Command Center, Dan Mangino, Montague Winfield
(Shortly After 9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Pentagon Command Center Director Does Not Return to Post, Even though Officials Conclude that US Is under Attack
Brigadier General Montague Winfield. [Source: US Army]Brigadier General Montague Winfield, the deputy director for operations (DDO) in the National Military Command Center (NMCC) at the Pentagon, apparently remains in a pre-scheduled meeting that is unrelated to the terrorist attacks and does not resume his key duties as DDO, even though others in the NMCC have concluded that the US is under attack. [9/11 Commission, 4/29/2004 ; American Forces Press Service, 9/7/2006] Since around 8:30 a.m., Winfield has been attending what the 9/11 Commission will describe as a "closed-door personnel meeting convened by the Air Force to discuss the rating of Air Force officers." Captain Charles Leidig, who only qualified to stand in as the DDO about a month previously, has taken over Winfield's position while he is in the meeting (see 8:30 a.m. September 11, 2001).
NMCC Officers Realize US Is under Attack - Leidig will later recall that after those in the NMCC see Flight 175 crashing into the World Trade Center live on television at 9:03 a.m., "[t]o him it was obvious it was a terrorist attack or a coordinated attack." [9/11 Commission, 7/21/2003 ; 9/11 Commission, 4/29/2004 ] Other officers in the NMCC also realize this is a terrorist attack (see 9:03 a.m. September 11, 2001). [American Forces Press Service, 9/7/2006] Winfield himself will later describe, "When the second aircraft flew into the second tower, it was at that point that we realized that the seemingly unrelated hijackings that the FAA was dealing with were in fact a part of a coordinated terrorist attack on the United States." [ABC News, 9/14/2002]
Winfield Stays in Pre-Scheduled Meeting - According to the 9/11 Commission Report, "The job of the NMCC in such an emergency is to gather the relevant parties and establish the chain of command between the National Command Authority—the president and the secretary of defense—and those who need to carry out their orders." [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 37] However, Winfield does not return to his post, and apparently remains in the Air Force-convened meeting. The reason for this is unclear. According to one 9/11 Commission memorandum, "Such meetings" as Winfield is attending "are generally not disturbed unless the reason is significant." Winfield will only resume his duties as DDO after Flight 93 crashes in Pennsylvania, apparently at around 10:30 a.m. (see (10:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [9/11 Commission, 4/29/2004 ; 9/11 Commission, 6/17/2004] Whether Winfield and the other officers with him in the meeting learn that America is under attack immediately, or are only notified of this later on, is unstated.
Entity Tags: Charles Leidig, Montague Winfield, National Military Command Center
9:29 a.m.-9:34 a.m. September 11, 2001: Pentagon Command Center Holds Significant Event Conference Call
The National Miilitary Command Center, inside the Pentagon. [Source: US Department of Defense]The National Military Command Center (NMCC) at the Pentagon finally commences and runs a "significant event conference" in response to the ongoing crisis, 26 minutes after the second plane hit the World Trade Center and officers in the NMCC realized the US was under terrorist attack. [9/11 Commission, 6/17/2004 ; 9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 37; American Forces Press Service, 9/7/2006]
NMCC Directors Decided to Establish Conference - After those in the NMCC saw Flight 175 hitting the WTC live on television at 9:03 a.m. (see 9:03 a.m. September 11, 2001), Captain Charles Leidig, the acting deputy director for operations (DDO) in the center throughout the attacks, and Commander Pat Gardner, the assistant DDO, talked about the need to convene a significant event conference so there could be a discussion of what actions were to be taken in response. The DDO and the assistant DDO are the two officers responsible for deciding what type of conference the NMCC should convene, and when it should do so. Because there is no specific procedure for dealing with terrorist attacks, Leidig and Gardner decided a significant event conference would most suit their needs, because it would have the flexibility of allowing more people to be added in as required. They also discussed who would need to be on this conference. [9/11 Commission, 4/29/2004 ] But Major Charles Chambers, who is currently on duty in the NMCC, will give a slightly different account. According to Chambers, Staff Sergeant Val Harrison had a phone in her hand and said NORAD was asking for a significant event conference. Leidig had agreed, and so Harrison started establishing the conference.
Conference Begins with Recap of Situation - According to Chambers, "The computer does a mass dialing to connect to those command centers that are always included" in an NMCC conference call, but Harrison also had to manually call the civilian agencies that were going to be included in the conference, such as the FAA, the FBI, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). [US Department of Defense, 9/2001] The conference then begins at 9:29 a.m. with a brief recap: Two aircraft have hit the WTC, there is a confirmed hijacking of Flight 11, and fighter jets have been scrambled from Otis Air National Guard Base in Massachusetts (see 8:46 a.m. September 11, 2001). The FAA is asked to provide an update, but its line is silent as the agency has not yet been added to the call (see (9:29 a.m.-12:00 p.m.) September 11, 2001). A minute later, Leidig states that it has just been confirmed that Flight 11 is still airborne and is heading toward Washington, DC. (This incorrect information apparently arose minutes earlier during a conference call between FAA centers (see 9:21 a.m. September 11, 2001).) [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 37] NMCC conference calls are moderated by the DDO. [9/11 Commission, 7/21/2003 ] Leidig will tell the 9/11 Commission that they are conducted over "a special phone circuit, and it's classified to be able to pass information, relay information between very senior leadership all the way over to the White House." [9/11 Commission, 6/17/2004]
NMCC Struggled to Convene Conference - Some officers currently on duty in the NMCC will later complain about circumstances that delayed the establishing of the significant event conference. Chambers will recall that the conference took "much longer than expected to bring up." [US Department of Defense, 9/2001] Gardner will tell the 9/11 Commission that the NMCC had been "struggling to build the conference," which "didn't get off as quickly as hoped." [9/11 Commission, 5/5/2004] He will describe his "frustration that it wasn't brought up more quickly." [9/11 Commission, 5/12/2004]
Other Conference and Connection Problems Delayed Call - Preparations for the conference were disrupted as a result of the CIA convening a National Operations and Intelligence Watch Officer Network (NOIWON) conference call between government agencies in the Washington area, reportedly at sometime between 9:16 a.m. and 9:25 a.m. (see (Between 9:16 a.m. and 9:25 a.m.) September 11, 2001). According to a 9/11 Commission memorandum, the NMCC had "abandoned its attempt to convene a [significant event conference] so its watch officers could participate in the NOIWON conference." [Federal Aviation Administration, 9/11/2001; Federal Aviation Administration, 9/11/2001; 9/11 Commission, 7/21/2003 ] Another factor that slowed attempts to convene the significant event conference was a problem with connecting some agencies to it. According to Chambers, "A couple of the civil agencies couldn't be reached and others kept dropping off moments after connecting." He will recall, "We finally decided to proceed without those agencies that were having phone problems." [US Department of Defense, 9/2001] Leidig had announced that the NMCC would have to start without those agencies and add them to the conference later on. [9/11 Commission, 5/12/2004]
Call Ends after Five Minutes - The significant event conference ends after only a few minutes, following a recommendation by NORAD that it be reconvened as an "air threat conference." It is brought to an end at around 9:34 a.m., and will resume as an air threat conference at 9:37 a.m. (see 9:37 a.m.-9:39 a.m. September 11, 2001). [9/11 Commission, 4/29/2004 ; 9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 37]
Entity Tags: Charles Leidig, Federal Aviation Administration, Val Harrison, Patrick Gardner, Charles Chambers, North American Aerospace Defense Command, National Military Command Center
9:37 a.m.-9:39 a.m. September 11, 2001: Pentagon Command Center Begins Air Threat Conference Call
The National Military Command Center (NMCC) at the Pentagon commences an "air threat conference" at 9:37 a.m. in response to the terrorist attacks, which will last for more than eight hours and have numerous high-level government and military officials participating at various times.
NORAD Reports Two More Hijackings - Captain Charles Leidig opens the call at 9:39 a.m. [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 37-38] As the acting deputy director for operations (DDO) in the NMCC during the attacks, Leidig is responsible for moderating the air threat conference and generating a military response to the crisis. [9/11 Commission, 4/29/2004 ] He begins the call saying: "An air attack against North America may be in progress. NORAD, what's the situation?" NORAD says it has conflicting reports, and its latest information is of "a possible hijacked aircraft taking off out of JFK [International Airport in New York], en route to Washington, DC." [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 38] NORAD says the FAA has also passed it information about a second additional hijacking. Major Charles Chambers, who is currently on duty in the NMCC, will later recall, "This was probably a communications mix-up, but we all thought for a while that there were a total of five hijackings." [US Department of Defense, 9/2001]
NMCC Reports Pentagon Attack - The NMCC reports that there has been a crash into the mall side of the Pentagon and requests that the secretary of defense be added to the conference. (However, despite being in the Pentagon when it is hit, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will not enter the NMCC and join the air threat conference until around 10:30 a.m. (see (10:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001).) [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 38] The air threat conference is broadcast over a loudspeaker inside the NMCC. [US News and World Report, 8/31/2003] According to Chambers, "Questions were flying left and right on the conference, and trying to keep things straight was very difficult." [US Department of Defense, 9/2001]
NORAD Recommended Air Threat Conference - Leidig and Commander Pat Gardner, the assistant DDO, had earlier on decided to convene an all-purpose "significant event conference" in response to the attacks on the World Trade Center. That call commenced at 9:29 a.m. (see 9:29 a.m.-9:34 a.m. September 11, 2001). NORAD had recommended that it be reconvened as an air threat conference. [9/11 Commission, 4/29/2004 ; 9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 37] According to Chambers, an air threat conference is used when aircraft are considered to be hostile and involves many more people than are in a significant event conference, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the secretary of defense, and officials from the White House. [US Department of Defense, 9/2001] However, Leidig thought a significant event conference was the correct kind of call for the situation. He will tell the 9/11 Commission that an air threat conference "had Cold War implications and brought a different group of people to a conference." [9/11 Commission, 4/29/2004 ] Gardner will say that threat conferences are intended for dealing with external threats. [9/11 Commission, 5/12/2004]
Deputy Director Ordered Upgrading of Conference - All the same, Leidig gave the order to transition to an air threat conference. [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 37] He will tell the 9/11 Commission that, in retrospect, the reason he thinks he did so "was because he perceived an air threat at that time." [9/11 Commission, 4/29/2004 ] Therefore, the significant event conference was brought to an end at around 9:34 a.m., and resumes as an air threat conference three minutes later. [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 37] Staff Sergeant Val Harrison could have established the air threat conference either by leaving all of those participating in the significant event conference on the line and then adding new participants one at a time, or by simply hanging up on everyone in the significant event conference and then having the computer do a mass dialing. Harrison recommended the second option. Leidig had agreed, and directed her to disconnect the conference call and start over.
Problem with Connecting Some Agencies - As happened with the significant event conference, there are problems connecting several agencies to the air threat conference. [US Department of Defense, 9/2001] Despite repeated attempts, operators struggle to get the FAA connected (see (9:29 a.m.-12:00 p.m.) September 11, 2001), and it will take until 10:17 a.m. for an FAA representative to finally join the call (see 10:17 a.m. September 11, 2001). [9/11 Commission, 7/21/2003 ; 9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 37] Other agencies had not understood what Leidig meant about convening the new conference, and so did not hang up their phones when the NMCC disconnected the previous conference call. As a result, all the NMCC got from them was a busy signal over the line. Chambers will recall, "As with the [significant event conference], it took longer than expected to convene the [air threat conference]." [US Department of Defense, 9/2001]
Top Officials Participate - Throughout the more than eight hours the air threat conference is running for, numerous key officials will participate in it at various times, including President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, acting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers, military personnel from the Presidential Emergency Operations Center below the White House, and the president's military aide on Air Force One. [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 37] Brigadier General Montague Winfield, the original DDO, who had Leidig take his place so he could attend a pre-scheduled meeting (see 8:30 a.m. September 11, 2001), will later recall, "All of the governmental agencies… that were involved in any activity that was going on in the United States… were in that conference." [ABC News, 9/11/2002]
Winfield Runs Conference after Returning to Post - Winfield will take over the running of the air threat conference from Leidig after returning to his post at around 10:30 a.m. (see (10:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [CNN, 9/4/2002; 9/11 Commission, 4/29/2004 ; 9/11 Commission, 6/17/2004] But although NMCC conference calls are moderated by the DDO, Rumsfeld will use the DDO's phone to participate in the air threat conference, meaning that Winfield is unable to moderate the conference when the defense secretary is participating. [9/11 Commission, 7/21/2003 ]
Entity Tags: Charles Leidig, Federal Aviation Administration, Montague Winfield, Charles Chambers, Patrick Gardner, North American Aerospace Defense Command, National Military Command Center, Val Harrison
Shortly After 9:37 a.m. September 11, 2001: Officer in Pentagon Command Center Only Learns from TV that Pentagon Has Been Hit
The Pentagon's National Military Command Center (NMCC) is located on the other side of the building to where it is hit. Therefore, when the attack on the Pentagon occurs, those inside it supposedly do not feel the impact. [CNN, 9/4/2002] According to Newsweek, the NMCC has been called "the primary nerve system" of the Pentagon, from where "commanders can monitor and communicate with American forces around the world." [Newsweek, 9/28/2001] A military instruction for dealing with hijacked aircraft describes it as "the focal point within Department of Defense for providing assistance" in response to hijackings. [US Department of Defense, 6/1/2001 ] But supposedly NMCC personnel do not initially realize the Pentagon has been attacked. Steve Hahn, an operations officer at the center, later says, "I didn't know [the Pentagon had been hit] until I heard the news report on television." [American Forces Press Service, 9/7/2006] Yet an article in the New York Times later claims, "During the hour or so that American Airlines Flight 77 was under the control of hijackers, up to the moment it struck the west side of the Pentagon, military officials in [the NMCC] were urgently talking to law enforcement and air traffic control officials about what to do" (see (Shortly After 8:51 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [New York Times, 9/15/2001] Furthermore, at about 8:50 a.m. according to the FAA, or 9:20 a.m. according to the 9/11 Commission, the FAA had established several phone bridges linking key players, including the NMCC (see (8:50 a.m.) September 11, 2001) (see (9:20 a.m.) September 11, 2001). The FAA states that it shares "real-time information on the phone bridges," which includes "actions being taken by all the flights of interest, including Flight 77." [9/11 Commission, 5/23/2003; 9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 36] Why NMCC personnel do not therefore know immediately that the Pentagon has been hit is unclear. Also around this time, Officer Aubrey Davis of the Pentagon police is outside Donald Rumsfeld's office. He hears what he later describes as "an incredibly loud 'boom,'" when the Pentagon is struck (see 9:38 a.m. September 11, 2001). Yet no mention is made of anyone in the NMCC hearing this "boom," even though the center is located only around 200 feet from where Davis is standing. [WBZ Radio 1030 (Boston), 9/15/2001; Cockburn, 2007, pp. 1] Dan Mangino, an operations officer in the NMCC, went out earlier to withdraw some money from a cash machine (see 9:03 a.m. September 11, 2001), and rushes back to the center after the Pentagon is hit. He finds the people in it are very calm. He says, "There was no panic, no raised voices. We train for emergencies all the time, and that training took over." [American Forces Press Service, 9/7/2006]
Entity Tags: Steve Hahn, National Military Command Center, Dan Mangino
(Between 9:55 a.m. and 10:25 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Acting Joint Chiefs Chairman Myers Finally Enters NMCC; Prior Whereabouts Disputed
Acting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers enters the National Military Command Center (NMCC) within the Pentagon, though exactly when this happens remains unclear. According to his own statements, he was on Capitol Hill, in the offices of Senator Max Cleland (D-GA), from just before 9:00 a.m. until around the time the Pentagon was hit. He'd then headed back to the Pentagon (see Shortly Before 9:00 a.m. September 11, 2001 and (Shortly After 9:37 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [Armed Forces Radio And Television Service, 10/17/2001; MSNBC, 9/11/2002; Council on Foreign Relations, 6/29/2006] According to the 9/11 Commission, Myers joins the air threat conference call from the NMCC at "shortly before 10:00." [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 38] But the American Forces Press Service reports that he arrives at the NMCC "about 15 minutes" before Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (who arrives around 10:30), meaning at about 10:15 a.m. [American Forces Press Service, 9/8/2006] Rumsfeld claims that, as he enters the NMCC, Myers has "just returned from Capitol Hill." [9/11 Commission, 3/23/2004] Cleland verifies that Myers was with him on Capitol Hill until around the time of the Pentagon attack. [CNN, 11/20/2001; Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 6/16/2003] But counterterrorism "tsar" Richard Clarke claims that Myers has been taking part in a video conference since shortly after the second attack on the WTC, and has been visible on the Pentagon screen (see (9:10 a.m.) September 11, 2001 and 9:28 a.m. September 11, 2001), thereby implying Myers has been at the Pentagon all along. [Clarke, 2004, pp. 3 and 5] Myers tells the 9/11 Commission, "After I reached the National Military Command Center (NMCC), I asked questions to determine where Secretary Rumsfeld was, how the FAA was handling airborne flights, and the status of fighters prepared to intercept any hijacked aircraft inbound to Washington." [9/11 Commission, 6/17/2004 ]
Entity Tags: Richard B. Myers, National Military Command Center
(10:03 a.m.-10:10 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Flight 93 Crashes; Seven-Minute Discrepancy in Exact Timing of Crash
Smoke rising, minutes after Flight 93 crashes in Pennsylvania. [Source: CNN]Exactly when Flight 93 crashes is unclear. According to NORAD, Flight 93 crashes at 10:03 a.m. [North American Aerospace Defense Command, 9/18/2001] The 9/11 Commission gives an exact time of 11 seconds after 10:03 a.m. It will claim this "time is supported by evidence from the staff's radar analysis, the flight data recorder, NTSB [National Transportation Safety Board] analysis, and infrared satellite data." It does note that "[t]he precise crash time has been the subject of some dispute." [9/11 Commission, 6/17/2004] However, a seismic study authorized by the US Army and drafted by scientists Won-Young Kim and Gerald Baum to determine when the plane crashed will conclude that the crash happened at 10:06:05 a.m. [Kim and Baum, 2002 ; San Francisco Chronicle, 12/9/2002] The discrepancy is so puzzling that the Philadelphia Daily News will publish an article on the issue, titled "Three-Minute Discrepancy in Tape." This notes that leading seismologists agree on the 10:06 a.m. time, give or take a couple of seconds. [Philadelphia Daily News, 9/16/2002] The New York Observer will note that, in addition to the seismology study, "The FAA gives a crash time of 10:07 a.m. In addition, the New York Times, drawing on flight controllers in more than one FAA facility, put the time at 10:10 a.m. Up to a seven-minute discrepancy? In terms of an air disaster, seven minutes is close to an eternity. The way our nation has historically treated any airline tragedy is to pair up recordings from the cockpit and air traffic control and parse the timeline down to the hundredths of a second. However, as [former Inspector General of the Transportation Department] Mary Schiavo points out, 'We don't have an NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) investigation here, and they ordinarily dissect the timeline to the thousandth of a second.'" [New York Observer, 2/15/2004]
Entity Tags: 9/11 Commission, North American Aerospace Defense Command, Federal Aviation Administration, Won-Young Kim, Mary Schiavo, Gerald R. Baum
(10:06 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Flight 93 Crashes into Filled-in Mine in Pennsylvania Countryside
Flight 93 crashed in the Pennsylvania countryside. Resue vehicles arrive in the distance. [Source: Keith Srakocic/ Associated Press]Flight 93 crashes into an empty field just north of the Somerset County Airport, about 80 miles southeast of Pittsburgh, 124 miles or 15 minutes from Washington, D.C. Presumably, hijackers Ziad Jarrah, Ahmed Alhaznawi, Ahmed Alnami, Saeed Alghamdi, and all the plane's passengers are killed instantly. [CNN, 9/12/2001; North American Aerospace Defense Command, 9/18/2001; Guardian, 10/17/2001; Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 10/28/2001; USA Today, 8/12/2002; Associated Press, 8/21/2002; MSNBC, 9/3/2002] The point of impact is a reclaimed coal mine, known locally as the Diamond T Mine, that was reportedly abandoned in 1996. [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 9/12/2001; St. Petersburg Times, 9/12/2001; Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 9/11/2002] Being "reclaimed" means the earth had been excavated down to the coal seam, the coal removed, and then the earth replaced and planted over. [Kashurba, 2002, pp. 121] A US Army authorized seismic study times the crash at five seconds after 10:06 a.m. [Kim and Baum, 2002 ; San Francisco Chronicle, 12/9/2002] As mentioned previously, the timing of this crash is disputed and it may well occur at 10:03 a.m., 10:07 a.m., or 10:10 a.m.
Entity Tags: San Francisco Chronicle, Ziad Jarrah, Ahmed Alhaznawi, Saeed Alghamdi, NBC, Ahmed Alnami
(10:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Pentagon Command Center Director Finally Takes Over from Stand-In
Brigadier General Montague Winfield finally returns to his post as the deputy director for operations (DDO) in the National Military Command Center (NMCC) at the Pentagon, after leaving a colleague, who only recently qualified to take over the position, to stand in for him throughout the terrorist attacks. [9/11 Commission, 4/29/2004 ; 9/11 Commission, 6/17/2004] At 8:30 a.m. Winfield left his post to attend a pre-scheduled meeting that was unrelated to the morning's attacks and had been convened by the Air Force. Since that time, Captain Charles Leidig has replaced him as the DDO (see 8:30 a.m. September 11, 2001). Leidig, the deputy for Command Center operations, only qualified to stand in as the DDO in the NMCC about a month ago. Even though officers in the NMCC realized the US was under terrorist attack when the second plane hit the World Trade Center at 9:03 a.m., Winfield did not return to his post at that time (see (Shortly After 9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [9/11 Commission, 7/21/2003 ; 9/11 Commission, 4/29/2004 ; 9/11 Commission, 6/17/2004 ]
Winfield Returns to His Post, but Timing Unclear - Now Winfield finally relieves Leidig and resumes his duties as DDO. This happens after Flight 93 has crashed in Pennsylvania (see (10:03 a.m.-10:10 a.m.) September 11, 2001 and (10:06 a.m.) September 11, 2001), although the exact time is unclear. In a private interview with the 9/11 Commission, Leidig will say he is "certain that Winfield returned [from the meeting] after the Pentagon was hit" at 9:37 a.m. (see 9:37 a.m. September 11, 2001), but he "is not certain of Winfield's arrival in relationship with the vice chairman" of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Richard Myers. [9/11 Commission, 4/29/2004 ] (According to the 9/11 Commission Report, Myers arrived at the NMCC shortly before 10:00 a.m. (see (Between 9:55 a.m. and 10:25 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 38] ) Winfield then takes over as DDO "at some point in relation to the report of the Pennsylvania crash," according to Leidig. As the 9/11 Commission will point out, since the crash of Flight 93 happened around 10:03 a.m., "any reporting would be after that time." [9/11 Commission, 4/29/2004 ] During a public hearing of the 9/11 Commission, Leidig will similarly say that Winfield takes over from him "[r]ight after we resolved what was going on with United 93." He will also say that a report over the NMCC's air threat conference at 10:37 a.m., about an anonymous threat against Air Force One (see (10:32 a.m.) September 11, 2001), occurs "right after I was relieved on the watch by General Winfield." [9/11 Commission, 6/17/2004] This would indicate that Winfield takes over from Leidig at around 10:30 a.m.
Unclear If Winfield Returns to Post Immediately after Meeting - It is also unclear whether Winfield returns to his position as DDO immediately after leaving the Air Force-convened meeting, or he allowed Leidig to continue in his place even while he was available to resume his duties. A 9/11 Commission memorandum will state, "Winfield transitioned into the position [of DDO] upon his return to the NMCC," following the meeting. [9/11 Commission, 7/21/2003 ] Leidig will recall that he "looked up at one point and General Winfield was standing next to him." He will also recall that Myers "looked at him at one time and realized the coordinator [i.e. the DDO] was not a general as the position called for, and asked who the general or admiral was that had duty that day." The guidance that was subsequently given was "to get General Winfield briefed up and in the chair."
Leidig Listens to Conference before Returning to Post - After Winfield returns to his position as DDO, Leidig initially "stands next to him and listens to the [NMCC's air threat] conference." Leidig will then transition into his regular job, which involves making sure the NMCC operates properly, and start dealing with the smoke coming into the center and other issues effecting operations there. [9/11 Commission, 4/29/2004 ]
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(10:32 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Vice President Cheney Warns President Bush about the Threat to Air Force One
Will Chandler. [Source: National Geographic]Vice President Dick Cheney phones President Bush and tells him the White House has received a credible threat against Air Force One. [Sammon, 2002, pp. 106-107; Woodward, 2002, pp. 18; CBS News, 9/11/2002] The White House has just received an anonymous phone call in which the caller said the president's plane would be the next terrorist target (see (10:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [Woodward, 2002, pp. 18; 9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 554] The caller referred to the plane as "Angel," which is the Secret Service's code name for Air Force One. [Fleischer, 2005, pp. 141-142] Details of the call were passed on to government officials, including Cheney, in the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) below the White House. [White House, 11/19/2001; Newsweek, 12/30/2001; 9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 554]
Cheney Tells Bush about a 'Credible' Threat - Cheney now tells Bush: "We're getting reports of a threat against you. It appears credible," Major Robert Darling of the White House Military Office, who is with Cheney in the PEOC, will later recall. Cheney says, "We're scrambling fighter escorts and the Secret Service is taking internal precautions on board Air Force One." [Darling, 2010, pp. 61] Bush turns to Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Gould, his military aide, and passes on the news, saying, "A call came into the White House switchboard saying, 'Angel is next.'" Bush then continues talking with Cheney and says, "We're at war, Dick, and we're going to find out who did this and we're going to kick their ass." [Sammon, 2002, pp. 107; Fleischer, 2005, pp. 141-142]
Pilot Is Told of the Threat and Asks for a Guard at the Cockpit Door - Colonel Mark Tillman, the pilot of Air Force One, is told about the threat. [CBS News, 9/11/2002] Noting that "Angel" is "a classified call sign of Air Force One," Tillman will comment that "the only people that knew that call sign was us, [the] Secret Service, and the staff." Therefore, he will say, "for somebody [to] call into the White House and say that Angel was next, that was just incredible." [US Air Force, 2/29/2012 ] "It was serious before that, but now… no longer is it a time to get the president home," Tillman will comment. "We actually have to consider everything we say. Everything we do could be intercepted and we have to make sure that no one knows what our position is." Tillman asks to have an armed guard at his cockpit door. Will Chandler, the chief of security, is therefore summoned to the front of the plane and stands watch at the base of the stairs leading to the cockpit. No one is then allowed up these stairs. Secret Service agents double-check the identity of everyone on the plane, while the crew reviews the emergency evacuation plan. [CBS News, 9/11/2002; Politico Magazine, 9/9/2016]
Threat Influences the Decision to Fly to Nebraska - White House press secretary Ari Fleischer, who is on Air Force One with Bush, will say the threat against the president's plane is what leads to the decision to take Bush to Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska (see 2:50 p.m. September 11, 2001) and is also one of the reasons why Bush does not head back to Washington, DC, right away. [White House, 9/12/2001] However, during the afternoon, the Secret Service will determine that the reported threat was unfounded. [9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 554] Shortly after Bush learns about the threat, Tillman will be informed that an aircraft that may have been hijacked is heading toward Air Force One (see (10:35 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [CBS News, 9/11/2002; CBS News, 1/17/2009] White House chief of staff Andrew Card will say he in fact learned a threat had been made against Air Force One almost an hour earlier, while he was being driven with Bush to Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport (see (Between 9:35 a.m. and 9:43 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [White House, 8/12/2002; White House, 8/16/2002; White House, 8/16/2002]
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Organectomy guitarist Sam Mcroberts Interview
By techmusicreview on June 19, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )
Anyone who is anyone has been following the rise to power of NZ heavy hitters Organectomy. Self releasing their debut album to catch the attention of the underground, then having it re-released by Unique Leader, and now dropping what for a lot of people will be the album of the year in the form of their sophomore album. These are some very hardworking fellas that are destined for great things. I took a few minutes of guitarist Sam McRoberts time to ask him a few questions and shed some light on a few things. Have a read below and see what he says about the new album! dropping extremely soon!
TMR: "Domain Of The Wretched" is a consistent play for me when it comes to brutal death metal. Recall some memories from making such a bruiser of an album.
Thanks man! Yeah it was a very stretched out process making that one. Not having any deadlines or contracts to fulfill meant we could really tick away at it at our own pace. DOTW was the epitome of everything Organectomy was up until that point and to tell you the truth we didn't expect the band to continue beyond that point, but we are certainly very thankful that it has!
TMR: Getting to re-release your debut album on a record label must have been awesome. I remember you guys looking for a label. How are you finding working with Unique Leader?
Unique Leader have been absolutely fantastic to work with from the get go. Very professional team yet very easy going, relatable dudes who are just as passionate about music and the industry as we are. We 're extremely honored to be on their roster among such amazing bands, many of which we looked up to as teenagers growing up.
TMR: What, in your opinion makes "Existential Disconnect" different than your debut album?
The whole idea for this sophomore album was to be much more hard-hitting, ferocious, fast, intense, no bull-shit brutal death metal from start to finish. We definitely feel we have achieved that and have hopefully done so without fatiguing our listeners by breaking it up with a few less intense melodic sections here and there. Also having real drums haha.
TMR: Organectomy is a great up and coming band. Having a legendary vocalist Matti Way stamp his seal of approval on a song must be exhilarating!
Bands like Disgorge and Abominable Putridity are literally the reason we started this band so having Matti being so supportive of us is nothing short of a dream come true let alone having him feature on one of our tracks!
TMR: What's your favorite track from "Existential Disconnect"?
Man, to be honest it changes all the time, right now i'd have to say probably 'The Agony of Godhood'. Mainly because it's a solid mix of all the sub-genres we try to infuse into our sound and not to mention very fun to play on guitar.
TMR: How has Levi been working out for you guys on drums?
Having Levi in the band has been truly amazing on every level. He brings the perfect balance of skill, dedication and party that was very much needed. He's an absolute freak of nature on the kit and that has been very motivating for the rest of us to step up our game.
TMR: Has the change in lineup with Matt also taking the reins from Ashton on guitar effected your guys writing in any way?
We are yet to begin anymore writing as a band, so time will tell! The album was already written when Matt jumped on board.
TMR: Having already played in bands with Matt Previously, do you find that that has helped with bringing him into the fold at such a momentous time for the band?
Yeah man, Matt and I have always gelled together really well as guitarists so it was a no brainer getting him on board really. I'm looking forward to seeing what he brings to the table writing wise and what becomes of it!
TMR: It's no secret you guys love Abominable Putridity. Name your single favorite track and only one!
It's not often I listen to single tracks, you've gotta blast the full album! I guess I'd have to say 'The Last Communion' though since we did used to cover it at our live shows.
TMR: What lineup would you love to tour with?
Uhhh let me think… Devourment, Devourment and uhhh Analepsy? Haha honestly dude there are countless bands we are dying to tour with. Definitely excited for what the future holds!
TMR: Any plans for more overseas tours after Bloodletting is done and dusted?
Yeah we're trying to lock something down in Europe at the moment but that might not be till mid next year at this stage. We definitely want to head back over to Australia before the end of the year though!
TMR: What was the first concert you ever attended?
I think it was Guns 'n' Roses haha first metal show I attended (other than the locals bands I went to school with eg. Plague of the Fallen and Rectophagia) was 8 Foot Sativa I believe! Would've been right after I started high school. Good times.
TMR: Favorite show you saw? And favorite show you were a part of?
Possibly either Cattle Decapitation or Archspire. Cattle had the craziest energy and sound, it was so sick. Archspire were just so on point with their professionalism and skills, it was extremely inspiring.
I couldn't pick a favorite show I've been a part of, I've been fortunate enough to be part of some insanely awesome shows. One that does always stick out for me is when we headlined the Sunday at Satanfest in 2017. We really weren't expecting much being a Sunday but the energy in the crowd was just absolutely crazy and ended up being one of the most fun shows we've done. I also vividly remember playing our last song and the venue owner jumping up on stage and telling me that there had been a couple of concussions and my girlfriend at the time had broken her arm and we should probably wrap it up so I can take her to the hospital…
TMR: What influenced your band name?
Haha we always get comments like "ooh look, another 'ectomy' band, how original" but believe it or not back in 2010 when Tyler formed the band, the only 'ectomy' band we'd heard of at the time was Vulvectomy so we really did think it was original. The story goes, after Tyler had decided he wanted his one man slam project 'Scat Hammer' to be a full band, he decided to change the name too and being 14/15 he didn't think his Mum would approve of 'Cuntectomy' so he came up with 'Organectomy' and here we are hahaha.
TMR: How did Organectomy begin?
Like I said, Tyler decided he wanted to make grotesque noises in front of a band so he found Jae and Hayden, our original drummer and bassist at the local all ages venue then approached me about playing guitar (we were already friends at school) then we just started jamming. We were just 4 dudes who all agreed that Slam was the heaviest genre in existence and we needed to be playing it.
TMR: What is your favorite NZ band that you would love to take with you around the world?
Haha I could never pick any one band sorry dude, there are so many amazing bands around the country right now and we'd love to tour with all of them eventually. There are definitely a few to watch out for who I suspect will be making big moves over the next few years too.
TMR: Having listened to the new album I can already tell it holds up against the first album, and building upon the songwriting, are there any lyrical themes that have carried across the albums or are they their own entire entities?
They are most definitely their own entities especially with both being concept albums. Alex took the lead with coming up with this concept and it goes very deep but i'll sum it up as best I can:
"A man has become so disconnected from humanity and has tried everything to feel. So in the end he constructs a machine to obliterate himself into pure energy so that he can transcend to godhood.
Upon doing so realizes how bad of an idea it is that a human becomes a god.
After a fit of rage, suffering, and after failing to fix a load of problems on different planets a pantheon of real gods turn up and strip him of all his power and force him between the membranes of all of the multiverses, where he is to watch every possible event ever to happen for the rest of eternity."
TMR: Seeing you guys open for Cattle Decapitation was an absolutely killer affair, how stoked was everyone about that?
Amazing like I said one of the best shows/tours we've done. Such cool dudes too, would love to play with them again!
TMR: With all of the international bands you have played with, what would you say is the biggest lesson you have taken away from watching them play?
Practice more often and upgrade your gear haha. The top dogs of the metal industry are so tight and professional these days and are running absolutely insane rigs so yeah that's definitely what I took from playing with these guys. Practice everyday and get yourself a professional rig if you want to be treated as a professional.
I want to thank Sam for taking the time to answer a few questions, and hopefully you guys can see Organectomy on the road and ask them anything I left out! Catch them on the Bloodletting tour in America later this year, and hopefully elsewhere in the world soon enough!
As for me, I'll be seeing them in roughly a weeks time at their album release for Existential Disconnect. If you're in Christchurch, I highly suggest you come along and get your face caved in with riffs. They are joined by local heavyweights returning to the scene Plague of the Fallen, Grind legends Vixen Execution, and Doom-Slam pioneers Swamp Dweller. Not to be missed!
I've seen a few songs off this album live already when they opened for Beyond Creation and Rivers Of Nihil and they are absolutely pummeling.
Catch Existential Disconnect releasing on all platforms on the 21st of June!
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Racially Diverse Workplaces Have Largest Revenue Growth
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By Claire Hastwell
Why closing the racial gap is better for people and better for business.
The area of Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) has emerged as one of the hottest topics in the business world in the past few years. The D&I field refers, in large part, to the fair treatment of racial and ethnic minorities in organizations.
Heightened attention to racial equality in the work world may have something to do with the growing body of research on the business advantages of diversity. It may also stem from our polarized national climate, where racial extremism has sparked a reaction from leaders in many social sectors, including business.
Much of the attention to organizational diversity has remained focused on the representation of different ethnicities. Our research suggests that taking the conversation deeper yields tangible business benefits.
Hiring for diversity is not enough
Looking at statistics on how many African American or Black, Latino, Asian, and other people of color a company employs is a good place to start, but it fails to tell the whole story.
To get a clear picture of a company's diversity, it's also vital to explore the kinds of experience those employees are having relative to their white colleagues.
The experiential data will uncover workplace gaps and their root causes. This will enable companies to make practical decisions that can help create a more consistent and equal experience for all employees.
Not only does this contribute to a fairer society, it's a savvy business strategy: when organizations close the gaps between racial groups, performance improves.
Where the gaps show up
According to our data, employees who identify as a racial or ethnic minority have a less positive experience than their white counterparts in key areas of fairness such as promotions, equal pay, and fair treatment. White employees are far less likely than minorities to perceive racism at work.
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We also discovered additional areas where minorities do not enjoy as positive a workplace as whites. In particular, one of the largest gaps between the racial groups had to do with whether employees felt that people in the organization care about each other, with minorities being significantly less likely than whites to feel they're part of a caring community.
Two other vital differences echo this disparity:
1. People feeling welcome when they switch job units.
2. Management hiring people who fit in well.
The picture that emerges is one where fewer minorities feel a strong sense of community at work as compared to their white colleagues.
When a portion of your workforce feels less care than others, growth is stymied.
While you may doubt that the "soft" issue of caring at work could have hard-edged business implications, we have found that employees experiencing a caring community at work is one of the top drivers of revenue outperformance for small and medium-sized companies.
In particular, when employees in a high-trust culture experience a caring workplace, they are 44 percent more likely to work for a company with above-average revenue growth.
Homogeny hurts productivity
Likewise, the racial gaps in fairness and levels of responsibility are red flags for business results. Employees who perceive an unequal playing field are less likely to be fully engaged or productive than employees who feel welcome to play an important role.
The numbers bear out this analysis. In our examination of Great Place to Work-Certified™ companies, we found the 100 companies with the largest gaps between the experiences of white employees and minorities had significantly lower revenue growth than the 100 companies with the smallest disparity.
As this chart shows, the companies with the most significant gaps averaged 8.6 percent revenue growth, while companies in the top quartile averaged 11.1 percent growth.
Companies with the most consistently positive experience between minority and white employees posted revenue growth nearly one-third greater over the same period.
The story doesn't end there
We also found employees' productivity, brand ambassadorship, and intent to stay also rise when racial gaps narrow.
As the data shows, organizations get the full benefits of a diverse workforce not just by hiring for diversity, but by creating a great workplace experience for all people.
Curious about your company's racial gaps? Our employee surveys can help you understand how your employees' workplace experience differs based on race.
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Wow. Jeff didn't pull any punches on this one. Good job here.
I thought you'd like it. The trolls are flying in from all over.
I bet. And I wholeheartedly approve. Definitely a step up.
Scroll down the Masters article to comment 167 (starNCpws1).
There's the whole conundrum in a nutshell! True of the industrial world and particularly the USA.
The problem is that irrational, demented people like starNCpws1 actually influence policy, which is why we have Trump in the first place.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Xcel Energy has announced plans to invest $1.6 billion to build two wind farms in eastern New Mexico and West Texas over the next three years. ……………….. Taken together, the two new facilities and the agreement with NextEra will provide a total of 1.23 gigawatts of electricity, or enough to power about 440,000 average homes annually. ……………………… The wind projects will help lower the cost of Xcel's energy, saving the company's Texas and New Mexico customers about $2.8 billion over the next 30 years, said Xcel spokesman Wes Reeves.
Trump is fighting against the tide. We just have to give him hell, hold him accountable, and make sure the growth in renewables keeps sticking.
Actually would make a good addition.
Yes, all those promised coal-mining jobs will go to ROBOTS… run on fossil fuels and by algorhythms. Right now people are employed in both mountain top removal, strip mining and underground mining, but the fossil fuel magnates are working on the removal of the remaining worlers from the equation.
Unfortunately Trump is rigid in his thinking so there is no way (in my opinion) to change that viewpoint at least for the four years he'll be in there and maybe 8 if the voters can be flimflammed again. If you think I'm wrong, remember he met with Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio and neither one of them evidently made a dent in his perspective. Now Congress is suggesting 'Red Teams' to question climate scientists conclusions on the topic of GW. To act as 'Devil Advocates' is how it's termed. As one scientist said, it's ridiculous to take this approach at this point. But hopefully renewables will continue to be installed on an increasing scale, essentially acting as a way of ignoring rejections of the science of GW.
Resistance at every level is the best policy at this point.
Trump was on record some years ago as concerned re AGW.
This apparently puts the Paris targets for the US out of reach, from one article I read. We were supposed to beat the insufficient Paris targets, not miss them.
If William D. Nordhaus is correct when he says "A target of 2½ °C is technically feasible but would require extreme virtually universal global policy measures" then we are very quickly running out of time before we take this climate beyond human experience.
I think that's still up in the air. Looks like there will be a huge assault on Trump's attempts to remove and repeal this plan and many states are moving forward with it full bore.
Thanks, let's hope. Where I live in California we're going ahead with measures despite the new administration in DC.
Us here in Maryland too. Although I think we can do far better than 25 percent.
RS, please remove if you feel it's inappropriate. Thought this gif summed it up nicely.
In this case, lack of decorum is highly appropriate.
Referring back to Goebells, to paraphrase.
When the basis of your power is the Big Lie, it's enemy is the Truth and all actions must be taken to ensure that does not become public.
s an Arctic researcher, I'm used to gaps in data. Just over 1% of US Arctic waters have been surveyed to modern standards. In truth, some of the maps we use today haven't been updated since the second world war. Navigating uncharted waters can prove difficult, but it comes with the territory of working in such a remote part of the world.
Over the past two months though, I've been navigating a different type of uncharted territory: the deleting of what little data we have by the Trump administration.
At first, the distress flare of lost data came as a surge of defunct links on 21 January. The US National Strategy for the Arctic, the Implementation Plan for the Strategy, and the report on our progress all gone within a matter of minutes. As I watched more and more links turned red, I frantically combed the internet for archived versions of our country's most important polar policies.
I had no idea then that this disappearing act had just begun.
Since January, the surge has transformed into a slow, incessant march of deleting datasets, webpages and policies about the Arctic. I now come to expect a weekly email request to replace invalid citations, hoping that someone had the foresight to download statistics about Arctic permafrost thaw or renewable energy in advance of the purge.
"Referring back to Goebells, to paraphrase.
Which is why these scandals just won't go away. People instinctively know there's something going on. In the end, it may just be the free press that saves our democracy from these guys.
Great post, Robert! And thank you for the hat tip, it's truly an honor for me. I should apologize for my comment on the last thread about the US populace being troglodytes…I know that more than half this country supports clean energy and wants change. And we have some of the hardest fighting individuals and groups on the planet. And the readers of this blog are especially enlightened and passionate and courageous. It's only the minority that support Trump, but they're a very vocal and especially nasty bunch, and sometimes I let them get to me and I feel like the whole country is against me. That's how I was feeling when I made that previous comment.
Ryan, no worries, my friend. I think we all here share your frustrations and your impatience with those who refuse to see the—dare I say it—-truth of what is coming at us. .
Hey Ryan. Thanks so much for the kind words and perspective.
I certainly understand the frustration. But we should do our best not to make blanket generalizations for the whole country. Painting America in a negative light or attacking democracy (which you didn't do, but some here have) is not helpful in the present situation where we have a foreign power that is preying on extremes on both the left and the right in an attempt to heighten divisions, erode democratic institutions, and force our fragmentation.
And to be clear, Trump job approval is presently at 35 percent. The guy never had much approval. He lost the popular vote by the largest margin in modern history. Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by about as much as Obama did in 2012.
With regards to climate change, despite all the constant and loud misinformation, Americans are more and more aware of what's happening.
Though it's not in line with the high level of certainty among the sciences, this is not the sentiment of a troglodyte nation.
If you're online a lot — and most of us are these days — you can often fall prey to intentionally manufactured false impressions. In one example, a recent twitter meme sought to raise awareness of climate change solutions through the hashtag #stepstoreverseclimatechange. The meme was then invaded by climate change denier trolls aiming to attack these solutions. The hashtag thread got flooded with bots and political operatives. And the effect was basically an internet megaphone trying to shout down concerned citizens. But the truth is that only a rather small group of people were involved in this, authoritarian-style, shout-down effort. The effect was outsized, though, creating the false impression that there were more climate change deniers than there really are. Giving an inappropriately large weight to the denial segment. If you're not a veteran in the climate wars that have been ongoing in the electronic sphere for years and years, when you saw this you might succumb to despair and think that we really are a nation of trogs. But the amazing thing is that, despite all the efforts to shout down people who are concerned about climate change, climate change awareness is rising and people are more and more concerned.
The appropriate response at this time is to not lose faith and to hold America up. She is under attack in so many ways (climate change denial being just one). We now need to stand together. To unite. To stand for our shared liberal democratic values (we are, after all, a liberal democracy in a liberal democratic west) Indivisible.
But this does not mean that we should give climate change deniers or what appear to be petrostate (Putin) sympathizers an out. In this country, they're the cause of the problem.
If we hit near 2 C we start to get significant instances where wet bulbs exceed the human survivability threshold of 35 C. Hansen, one of the authors of this, very pertinent, study (thank you for linking it) has now been highlighting this risk for some time.
Well we need to figure out what to do before 2020 and then do it between 2020 and 2050. This involves total decarbonisation of the economy and development of technologies to remove excess carbon out of the atmosphere at at least 5gT per year to reach the 2100 goal of 2 C is what I've read. Trump and the GOP in the places they're in makes this very impossible (Indian immigrant lingo for extremely difficult) now.
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Clean energy IS the future, period. He who manufactures it, owns the future. The Chinese understand this.
Those companies / countries / individuals who embrace it own the economy of tomorrow. What value being the last one who can build and deploy a coal plant? It makes me think of the last company (Staedtler) who made slide rules. They made the best slide rules of all, and how is that going today? Last year? Last Decade?
We are farting around trying to bring back coal? Charles Dickens is laughing at us now, we have become Greater Expectations, but in a bad way.
We are being turned into a nation called "Staedtler".
And when I say "He who manufactures it, owns the future. The Chinese understand this."….
I also imply the flip side, he who impedes this, is acting in a treasonous manner. The leader down to the blowhard supporter. They are treasonous towards this nation, and far more (the species).
For the trolls that Robert has to sweep up in here, you are treasonous. Your behavior will relegate this nation to the back of the pile. You hate America, you love YOUR own perceived convenience over your nation. YOU are not the greatest generation, and you prove it every day. Congrats, you gave the win to others because you couldn't be bothered to look beyond the convenient headline that dovetails with your laziness. That takes effort, you are too busy for that "effort" thing.
Slide rule, coal powered nation. We don't want to go back to that. Really.
Your comment made me think of a recent report that explored the arising synergy between powerful computer networking capabilities and the potential to solve the climate crisis.
A bit open-ended and speculative. But the central point is absolutely valid. Smarter systems can provide higher energy efficiency, better designs, and provide nimble power sharing infrastructure that synergize well with renewable energy capabilities. In addition, it's worth noting that solar power and electric vehicles are an outgrowth of the electronic technology revolution and have now seen a similar scaling growth curve to what we've seen in computer chips. Together this represents a very capable set of technologies that can be pointed at the climate change problem. And it's emerging just when we need it the most.
That photo made my heart ache.
Wow. That's crazy, Vic. We've been seeing this kind of thing in the streets of Miami recently during the seasonal high tides.
At nearby Springbrook, in the Gold Coast hinterland, a massive 380mm had fallen by midday, with as much as 500mm predicted — more than four times the average monthly rainfall in Brisbane for March.
A lot of commentary on the dangers that President Trump poses to the American republic have focused on everything that makes him an extraordinary figure in our politics — his fondness for conspiracy theories, unapologetic contempt for the Fourth Estate, singular incompetence, and unprecedented flouting of norms against leveraging public office for personal profit (to name just a few).
But for all his ignominious idiosyncrasies, it's quite possible that Trump's most dangerous quality is one that he shares with virtually every elected Republican — a depraved indifference to the reality of climate change.
This week, Trump offered a potent reminder that his most damaging legacy may be his most conventionally Republican, when he signed an executive order reversing a large swath of the Obama administration's climate agenda.
A supervisor at the Energy Department's international climate office told staff this week not to use the phrases "climate change," "emissions reduction" or "Paris Agreement" in written memos, briefings or other written communication, sources have told POLITICO… At the meeting, senior officials told staff the words would cause a "visceral reaction" with Energy Secretary Rick Perry, his immediate staff, and the cadre of White House advisers at the top of the department.
I gather that sales of "1984" have increased since Trump arrived. Readers will recognise this tactic.
People talk about the credibility gap. This is where it starts for me. Climate change. If you're the modern version of a flat-earther then you shouldn't be involved in the governing of a nation that is entering a very round earth situation that is hitting the level of a pretty serious crisis short term and that of an existential threat long term.
It certainly is like moving closer to the sun. Some people have explained it that way before 😉 But the metaphor is not the reality. To somehow claim that the Earth is falling into the sun is yet one more pretty ridiculous statement by climate change deniers.
Oh yeah. I'm wondering who went back in time to shoot the dinosaur and stepped on the butterfly?
NAKOROTUBU district in the Ra Province is laden with picturesque landscapes, some of the most beautiful and peaceful scenery in Fiji.
But it is beauty that is fragile.
Threatened by climate change, the appeal of this coastal region can be lost in the not too distant future.
The adverse change in weather is already impacting the lives of the thousands who live there.
Some communities, however, are refusing to give in, making efforts to adapt to the weather patterns rather than let it overtake their lives.
A team from this newspaper, visited the district which is home to more than 20 villages.
Some dot the coastline — while the rest are further inland.
There are so many places like this around the world that are on the brink of simply being washed away.
Employees of DOE's Office of International Climate and Clean Energy learned of the ban at a meeting Tuesday, the same day President Donald Trump signed an executive order at EPA headquarters to reverse most of former President Barack Obama's climate regulatory initiatives. Officials at the State Department and in other DOE offices said they had not been given a banned words list, but they had started avoiding climate-related terms in their memos and briefings given the new administration's direction on climate change.
This is what tyrants do — they first attempt to erase knowledge. And when that knowledge is a requirement for human civilization survival, then we have a problem not just of tyranny, which is terrible enough, but of a tyrant involved in a self-inflicted genocide.
The Energy Department's excursion into newspeak has depressing implications.
Whatever happened to "Speak truth to power" ?
Trump and his cronies are not interested in serving America. They are interested only in serving themselves.
So the Energy Department is under the auspice of the president. The administration runs the department. Scientists are being fired, deniers are being promoted, and the politicization of the agency is now ongoing. The only legal recourse members of the agency have is to go to court with the Administration for malfeasance and to charge political operatives with the same. I can say that there are other active resistances going on at DOE. So the resistance is ongoing. It's just a tough situation when your boss is basically trying to wreck your organization's ability to communicate critical scientific information.
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Good for China — holding Trump to account.
Under Obama, we forged an amazing partnership with China regarding climate change policy. Trump is now trying to wreck that and China is doing the moral thing by speaking up.
We should be clear that Trump's actions do not benefit the U.S. so much as they benefit fossil fuel corporations and petrostates (like Putin's Russia — which worked so hard to get him elected). This interest group and set of foreign bad actor regimes clearly colluded to get Trump elected and now they're getting a pay-off. Whether it's successful in wrecking the larger switch to renewable energy is still up in the air. But it is absolutely having a deleterious and destructive effect on global climate policy through Trump's bad actions.
As Australia remains mired in a broken debate about the supposed dangers of renewable energy, some states and territories are ignoring the controversy and steaming ahead.
While Australia is far from the renewable capital of the world, the Australian Capital Territory may soon be among the world's top renewable energy regions. And as it transitions, the ACT is demonstrating the benefits of the renewables boom to the rest of the country.
In 2016 the ACT government legislated the target of sourcing 100% renewable energy by the end of this decade. It is the most ambitious renewable plan in the country, although Victoria is pushing ahead with a target of 40% by 2025. New South Wales has lagged behind other states, and doesn't have a specific renewable energy target, but it aims to have net-zero emissions by 2050.
As part of the ACT renewable energy plan, the government has run a smaller-scale community solar scheme,says Lawrence McIntosh, project leader of SolarShare, a member-owned company building solar projects in and around the ACT.
"Motivations for backing the project are varied. McIntosh himself is doing it because he thinks community ownership of electricity supply is important. He sees it as a form of participatory democracy. "I think that's important because it means people get to take part economically in the way our energy system is changing," he says.
A local resident, David Osmondlin, plans to invest in the SolarShare project. He's been involved in a number of renewables projects, and sitting on his veranda underneath a wind-powered Ikea light, he says he's passionate about the political role community-owned renewable energy can play.
This is what effective resistance looks like, folks. You too can be the mouse that roared.
Arctic sea ice is turning progressively greener, and for years now, scientists couldn't for the life of them figure out what was going on.
They knew the green had to come from blooms of microscopic marine plants called phytoplankton growing under the sea ice, but that didn't make sense – phytoplankton need light to photosynthesise, and it should have been far too dark for them to survive down there, let alone thrive.
Now, an international team of researchers has cracked the mystery, and the truth is pretty unsettling.
The record low levels of sea ice we now see in the Arctic have worn down the barrier for sunlight, so instead of being reflected, it's being absorbed by dark melt pools that are proliferating on the surface.
The ice that remains is now darker and thinner than ever before, and below, phytoplankton colonies are booming as light penetrates the ocean below.
"[W]e went from a state where there wasn't any potential for plankton blooms to massive regions of the Arctic being susceptible to these types of growth," says one of the team, Chris Horvat from Harvard University.
The amplifying feedbacks for albedo loss are considerable. We're seeing an amazing and terrifying state change that's ongoing.
One of America's most prominent climate-denying groups, galvanized by the Trump administration listening to their claims, has set it sights on a new target: teachers.
The Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank that's become one of the loudest voices when it comes to climate denial, has sent more than 25,000 science teachers across the country a package of material it hopes they'll use in the classroom, according to a report from PBS Frontline. Alongside a note from Lennie Jarratt, the group's project manager for transforming education, the package contains a book called Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming and a 10-minute video about using their guidance.
A little more on this very disturbing story. The devil's advocates are gearing up to take their evil flat-earth message into the classrooms of the nation.
The only thing that stands in their way is–the teachers of America.
They're basically an advertising and lobbying arm of the fossil fuel industry. The fact that it's legal to send this kind of harmful misinformation out to the nation's teachers is unconscionable.
As part of Tuesday's order on energy independence, Trump will repeal two of Obama's orders aimed at focusing the government on addressing those risks. Among them is one directing federal agencies to plan for climate change and to coordinate with other offices to reduce its impact.
That proposal is "the cornerstone for adaptation planning throughout the government," according to Christy Goldfuss, managing director for the White House's Council on Environmental Quality under Obama and now a vice president at the Center for American Progress.
Its effects ranged from the mundane to the radical. For example, the order directed the General Services Administration, which manages federal buildings, to make sure the government wasn't signing long-term leases in areas likely to get inundated with floods, Goldfuss said. It also allowed different federal agencies to coordinate more far-reaching programs, like the relocation of communities most threatened by climate change.
Trump's executive order will also revoke a memorandum Obama signed last September directing the Department of Defense to account for climate change in its national security planning and policies.
It told the military to account for climate risks when deciding where to build new facilities and also in how it prepares for future threats, according to Sharon Burke, who was assistant secretary of Defense for operational energy under Obama.
What better way to create conditions favourable to chaos than to downplay planning and preparedness.
"OTTAWA—Environment Canada is projecting that, based on policies in place last November, the country was on pace to miss its reduction target for greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, pumping out at least 30 per cent more than promised that year.
The projections, which were compiled in February and published online this month, are not a forecast of how emissions will change in the coming years. The report describes the projections more as an educated guess based on policies in place as of Nov. 1, 2016…..
161 gigawatts of renewable energy installed is a huge gain for a single year. We are closing in on the range where net global carbon emissions reliably start falling at a substantial rate. If we hit 250 gw of new renewables each year, we will be actively replacing a significant portion of the fossil fuel based system. We're getting close to that mark and we need a good push to make it happen.
Of that, nearly half was from China – averaging about 15% capacity growth per year for the past few years. Doubling about every 5 years at that rate, seems they may very well beat their 2020 targets.
I think Trump looks fondly at those pictures of smog filled American cities and rivers burning and thinks — gee, that was great… Another WTF moment from this Administration. Sure makes me think fondly of the Obama years.
Fantastic work by Gore here. Seems like he's finally got the fire in the belly.
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Phillies Drop 5th Straight Game With Loss To Nationals
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Wilmer Difo drove in the go-ahead run with an RBI single in the seventh inning and Anibal Sanchez pitched seven solid innings as the Washington Nationals beat the Philadelphia Phillies 5-2 on Wednesday night.
The Nationals maintained a one-game lead over Milwaukee in the race for the top NL wild card.
Washington faced a 2-1 deficit when Asdrubal Cabrera singled and Yan Gomes doubled with one out in the seventh. Victor Robles followed with a sacrifice fly that tied the game. Difo, who was making his first start since May 16, followed with a single to right-center off reliever Mike Morin (1-3) that scored Gomes.
Howie Kendrick and Brian Dozier homered for the Nationals, who have won four straight.
Sanchez (11-8) allowed two runs and six hits, striking out seven without a walk. Sean Doolittle earned his first save since a stint on the injured list. He pitched a scoreless ninth for his 29th save in 35 attempts and first since Aug. 16.
Brad Miller hit a solo homer in the seventh, his third in two games, and Bryce Harper had two hits for the Phillies, who have lost five straight.
Phillies starter Drew Smyly allowed two runs in 6 1/3 and struck out a season-high 10 batters.
While Anthony Rendon and Trea Turner rested, Kendrick, Juan Soto, Adam Eaton and Victor Robles were in the lineup.
"I still want to play these games to win," Nationals manager Davey Martinez said. "But we got to be smart about giving guys some days off. Today is no Anthony, no Trea. Both deserve days off, obviously. We'll see how it goes, and hopefully get Juan a couple of days off in the near future."
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Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 67, No. 108, Ed. 1 Monday, January 19, 1981
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Pollution in the region's rivers and streams comes mainly from farmland.
In this region, discharges of treated human sewage are a major cause of pollution in our waterways.
*Note that no knowledge statements were asked in the 2003 survey.
In 1998 and 2000, people were asked: 'Do you agree or disagree with this statement?' and then read a set of statements about things which might harm the environment. In 2006, they were asked: 'Could you please tell me if you agree or disagree with each?' In 2013 and 2016 respondents were asked to rate each statement using a five point scale, specifying whether they strongly agree, agree, disagree, strongly disagree or neither agree nor disagree with each statement. Therefore, comparisons over time should be interpreted with caution.
Since the survey began a mix of negative and positive statements have been used. The negative statements' polarity have been reversed for the analysis.
The scores of each statement were added together to give a rating out of four in 1998 and 2006, and a rating out of five in 2000, a rating out of three 2013 and a rating out of five in 2016. The regional result was compiled into the per cent of people giving each score and the average was calculated.
In 1998, 2000, 2006 and 2013 the mean scores were 3.15 out of 4 (or 79 per cent), 3.31 out of 5 (or 66 per cent), 2.03 out of 4 (or 51 per cent) and 1.26 out of 3 (or 42 per cent) respectively. In 2016 the mean score was 2.38 out of 5 (or 48 per cent).
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Coastal Carolina Regional Airport is getting a solid and safe reason to bolster its reputation for stress-free travel.
It will be the third North Carolina airport to get an engineered materials arresting system (or EMAS) at the end of its major runway to protect passengers and planes.
The EMAS bed of 2,800 four-feet-by-four feet blocks is made of a patented crushable concrete that feels light under foot and is being installed to prevent damage to passengers and aircraft should a plane overshoot the runway or be unable to slow fast enough to stop before the runway ends.
Coastal Carolina Regional Airport Authority Chairman Bill Naumann and Director Tom Braaten monitored the first day of the rapidly progressing $6.4 million project to install the cushioned blocks, which rise gradually from six inches to 17 inches.
In April 2011, Coastal Carolina Regional Airport was listed among the top 10 most stress-free airports by smartertravel.com.
Dallas Blakiston of LPA Engineering Group is onsite engineering coordinator for the project designed by Hugh DeLong. It will be paid for by a 90 percent Federal Aviation Administration grant with a local 10 percent match.
Blakiston said the blocks crush with the weight of the plane and usually don�t even damage the landing gear. And the force of aircraft speed is sufficiently softened so passengers are not injured.
Barnhill Construction is the primary contractor installing the blocks manufactured by Engineered Arresting Systems Corporation, a division of Zodiac Aerospace, at its New Jersey plant, which has John Curry of Nottingham, N.J., here to assist.
Braaten said each block costs about $1,200. They are already secured in air ride trailers and a forklift puts each in position at the end of the paved runway on top of hot tar-like caulk.
Installation is expected to be completed by Jan. 9, 2013, making Coastal Carolina the 67th domestic airport with EMAS and the 74th worldwide. Charlotte International in 2008 and Smith Reynolds in Winston Salem in 2010 are other N.C. airports with EMAS installed.
�There have already been at least eight incursions � none in North Carolina � on the EMAS beds with no human injury and minimal aircraft damage,� Curry said.
EMAS was first installed in 1996 at JFK. Studies showed 23 fatalities, 300 injuries, and multi-million dollar losses of assets at airports and to aircraft since 1982 that could have been prevented with the runway end bed.
The data prompted the FAA to initiate a long-term requirement to install EMAS at U.S. commercial airports with runways at least 500 feet wide by 1,000 feet long or those that end in a waterway, cliff, structure or populated area.
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Have you seen this beautiful Remembrance Day window display?
A homeware shop have crafted a touching tribute to the lives of fallen servicemen and women, in the build-up to Remembrance Sunday.
Secret Messages Interiors, on Bridge Street, are hosting a poppy display for the second year and will be selling Royal British Legion merchandise to raise funds for the charity.
Building on last year's display, which featured 1,200 paper poppies to commemorate the First and Second World Wars, owners Chris and Rob Sanderson wanted this year's presentation to recognise the sacrifices made in all other conflicts as well.
A picture of Lee Rigby, the british soldier who was murdered in a barbaric attack in 2013, is also featured.
If you haven't picked up a poppy, plenty of locations throughout Buckingham have them on sale.
This year's Remembrance Service parade will meet at the Bull Ring on Market Hill, at 10:15am, and will commence at 10:40am, travelling to St Peter & St Paul Church via Castle Street.
Dame Milly Soames, the Deputy Lord Lieutenant, will be representing Her Majesty the Queen and will taking the salute this Sunday. | {
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Digital media solutions manufacturer, Tripleplay is to showcase a host of new features to its digital signage solutions at ISE (from the 5th to the 8th of February at the Amsterdam RAI) – including a unique Multiview feature.
According to the firm, Multiview allows up to four multicast HD streams to be delivered to one screen via a single Digital Signage Media Player. This makes is an ideal solution for live events, sports arenas, broadcasters and town hall addresses, it said. | {
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I'm searching for a 5 string Double bass.
Has anyone already played on a Panelli basse?
Few years ago, I had the opportunity to try a 4 string basse built by him and I liked it very much!
Never head of them but if that bass is 9500 Euros and is hand made in Italy, it is very cheap. That is more like the price of a Romanian made bass, contracted to his model and finished off by him. Hard to believe that is the price for a bass he makes in Italy from scratch from wood.
Maybe the wood is not Italian, but the construction of the instruments is completely made in Italy.
Mayhap for USA the italian luthiers have higher prices.
In 2016 I played a wonderfull basse by Panelli. Great sound and very very good tonal blend.
The problem is that it was a 4 string and as I'm playing in professionals orchestras, I need a 5 string basse.
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Масакадзу Ито (; род. в Йокогаме, Япония) — японский профессиональный шоссейный и трековый велогонщик, выступающий за проконтинентальную велокоманду «»
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2015
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The International Trade Commission (ITC) today again confirmed the seriousness of the injury to American steel producers caused by the flood of low-priced foreign imports in recent years. The overwhelming majority of the Commissioners recognized that substantial tariffs of 20% to 40% must be imposed to address the critical steel import problem. The domestic industry urges the President to adopt the recommendations of the majority of the Republican members of the Commissioners who recommended 40% tariff levels. Imposition of a fully effective remedy is essential to the President's Steel Program announced earlier this year.
Today's vote by the ITC concludes the second phase of its investigation under Section 201 of the U.S. trade laws. The ITC completed the first phase of review in October when, after weeks of testimony and extensive and rigorous review of technical and economic data, the independent, bipartisan panel unanimously found that American flat-rolled steel producers are being seriously injured by low-priced foreign imports.
"The industry welcomes the ITC's recognition that tariff-based remedies are necessary at this time," said Thomas J. Usher, Chairman and CEO of USX Corporation. "However, in these market conditions, 20% tariffs are inadequate to redress the serious injury caused by foreign imports. We urge the President to act quickly to adopt 40% tariffs on all flat-rolled imports, including slabs. That is the only remedy that will give America's steel industry the chance to restructure and recover from years of excessive low- priced imports."
The ITC will forward its recommendations with explanations to the President by Dec. 19. The President will then have up to 60 days to review the ITC's report and determine what course of action to take.
"President Bush correctly recognized that bold steps are necessary to address the crisis gripping America's steel industry," said Robert S. Miller, Jr., Chairman and CEO of Bethlehem Steel Corporation. "The ITC's decision in October and again today support the President's position and underscore the urgency with which the government must now move forward to correct the situation. We urge the President to act promptly and forcefully."
The Commission's failure to recommend a meaningful remedy with respect to slab products undermines relief for the steel industry and the President's steel program. Slab production is the first step for all flat-rolled steel production and it is where most of the capital investment and innovation occurs. To be effective, relief must cover all the major steel product lines. Granting relief on some products but not others will simply encourage the shifting of foreign capacity to the products exempted from import relief, without significantly reducing the excess capacity that is the cause of the current crisis. Partial relief will therefore not address the structural problems of the global steel market.
The implementation of the strongest possible trade remedies by the President will further the remaining components of the Administration's Steel Program. In June, the President laid out a comprehensive three-part strategy to address the cumulative effect of 50 years of foreign subsidization and unfair trade practices. The ITC investigation is one element of his steel plan. The other two pieces are multilateral negotiations to address foreign overcapacity and continued aggressive pursuit of foreign anti-competitive practices, such as subsidization and closed markets.
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Q: How to fit Stargazer tables to the page width (! please not scale the table) Is there a way to get page-width tables by slightly revising the tex code generated from Stargazer?
Tex code generated from Stargazer does not adjust the table's width, so it is often too long or narrow.
A short example of the original Stargazer code is as follows. You could offer advice applied to the code. That is, how to slightly revise the code so that the table width fits the page width in a way not scaling the table.
\begin{table}[!htbp] \centering
\caption{}
\label{}
\begin{tabular}{@{\extracolsep{5pt}}lD{.}{.}{-3} }
\\[-1.8ex]\hline
\hline \\[-1.8ex]
\\[-1.8ex] & \multicolumn{1}{c}{Duration Gap in 0.5M} \\
\hline \\[-1.8ex]
Constant & 8.496^{***} \\
& (0.060) \\
& \\
\hline \\[-1.8ex]
Observations & \multicolumn{1}{c}{2,241} \\
R$^{2}$ & \multicolumn{1}{c}{0.820} \\
Adjusted R$^{2}$ & \multicolumn{1}{c}{0.820} \\
\hline
\hline \\[-1.8ex]
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
I found the solutions, such as using \resizebox, but the scales of the table are changed.
Other solutions using different packages (i.e. tabularX), seem to need many changes in the code generated from Stargazer. Is there a way to get page-width tables using the Stargazer code without making many changes?
A: Start from here
library(stargazer)
linear.1 <- lm(mpg ~ cyl + disp + hp, data=mtcars)
linear.2 <- lm(mpg ~ log(cyl) + disp + hp, data=mtcars)
stargazer(linear.1, linear.2, type="latex")
% Table created by stargazer v.5.2.3 by Marek Hlavac, Social Policy Institute. E-mail: marek.hlavac at gmail.com
% Date and time: Mi, Jan 11, 2023 - 17:06:46
\begin{table}[!htbp] \centering
\caption{}
\label{}
\begin{tabular}{@{\extracolsep{5pt}}lcc}
\\[-1.8ex]\hline
\hline \\[-1.8ex]
& \multicolumn{2}{c}{\textit{Dependent variable:}} \\
\cline{2-3}
\\[-1.8ex] & \multicolumn{2}{c}{mpg} \\
\\[-1.8ex] & (1) & (2)\\
\hline \\[-1.8ex]
cyl & $-$1.227 & \\
& (0.797) & \\
& & \\
log(cyl) & & $-$7.833$^{*}$ \\
& & (4.136) \\
& & \\
disp & $-$0.019$^{*}$ & $-$0.018$^{*}$ \\
& (0.010) & (0.010) \\
& & \\
hp & $-$0.015 & $-$0.014 \\
& (0.015) & (0.014) \\
& & \\
Constant & 34.185$^{***}$ & 40.165$^{***}$ \\
& (2.591) & (5.139) \\
& & \\
\hline \\[-1.8ex]
Observations & 32 & 32 \\
R$^{2}$ & 0.768 & 0.777 \\
Adjusted R$^{2}$ & 0.743 & 0.753 \\
Residual Std. Error (df = 28) & 3.055 & 2.996 \\
F Statistic (df = 3; 28) & 30.877$^{***}$ & 32.488$^{***}$ \\
\hline
\hline \\[-1.8ex]
\textit{Note:} & \multicolumn{2}{r}{$^{*}$p$<$0.1; $^{**}$p$<$0.05; $^{***}$p$<$0.01} \\
\end{tabular}
\end{table}
and change
\begin{tabular}{@{\extracolsep{5pt}}
to
\begin{tabular*}{\textwidth}{c @{\extracolsep{\fill}}
Note that you have an option inside stargazer to adjust column width, I get a very similar result within stargazer via:
stargazer(linear.1, linear.2, type="latex", column.sep.width = "120pt")
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As we continue our My Best Self campaign, we are asking some of our Mantra friends and followers to share their stories with us, of how using mantras helps them.
The idea is to share stories about how we can all step up and be our best selves in life, and how having a mantra – a memorable set of words – in a given moment can really help to change our thoughts and our behaviours.
Our June interviewee is Sandra Garlick, a remarkable woman who runs the 'Woman Who' network, which encourages and supports women in business, and who was awarded an MBE last year for her work. I met Sandra first when she was a practicing solicitor, but knew little of the detail of her background, so it has been fascinating finding out more about her.
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Sandra: I've had a varied career to date which spans many sectors. I started out not knowing what I wanted to be in life. With virtually no qualifications my sole aim was to earn money, buy shoes and meet boys (I went to an all-girls school!). I fell into secretarial work and ended up as a PA. From there into banking, estate agency and ultimately sales. I was always searching for that elusive career and failing to be inspired. I had no role models.
Always unfulfilled. It took a divorce and two children to really make me focus on a career, and after 8 years of study and training, I qualified as a solicitor.
It didn't really inspire me. I still had no role model. After running my own law firm for 8 years, I completely stepped away and after a very low period in my life, coupled with a badly broken ankle, I completely refocussed and ignited my passion to work with women in business to inspire them and be a role model to others.
Jo: Your work now does a lot to encourage businesswomen and give them support, with your 'Woman Who' organisation. Tell us more about that, and what drives that work?
Sandra: I founded 'Woman Who' to inspire women in business to recognise their achievements and celebrate them. Many women lack the confidence to put themselves out there or believe that they have the capacity within them to inspire others. It was simple, I'd hold a one-off Awards event and I'd achieve my purpose. Little did I realise that this was the catalyst for a whole new business venture. From there the network events followed and subsequently books produced annually featuring the stories of these women in business who are now role models who inspire others. I now educate women through the Woman Who Achieves Academy.
If I can create more local women in business role models to inspire others, I will achieve my mission. The Awards and the Network are now entering their 5th year and I love the face that each winner at the Awards is presented with a Mantra Necklace.
I must be doing something right, as I was awarded an MBE in the New Year's Honours List for my services to women in business.
Jo: Talking of inspiration, you have 'Be Inspired and Inspire Others' engraved on your myMantra necklace. Tell me more about that phrase – why you chose it, and what it means to you?
Sandra: Woman Who is all being inspired and inspiring others. I want to take each woman who I engage with on a journey to be inspired and to take that learning and inspire others with the philosophy that 'you can't be what you can't see'. Research has shown that we need more local women in business role models. They are so important and that's the meaning behind it and it's a phrase I use frequently.
Jo: And do you find yourself holding onto your necklace, or saying those words to yourself at various times? Does it encourage you / change how you feel?
Sandra: I wear myMantra at all Woman Who events, and socially. I love it! I find myself gently holding onto it unconsciously when I'm reflecting. The words 'Be Inspired and Inspire Others' run through everything that I do and subconsciously they are with me when I wear my Mantra. I feel that it's a part of me when I'm delivering my events and beyond… it's a constant reminder of my purpose.
Jo: Which design of myMantra necklace did you choose, and why?
Sandra: I chose the Ornate Lotus in Rose Gold, as it just felt right. I visualised wearing the necklace and it just felt as though it belonged to me. It represented the real me and I almost felt as if it had been personally designed for me.
Jo: And talking of the Lotus Necklace, I know you also chose that same necklace for your Mum, for Mother's Day last year. What did you have engraved on it for her?
Sandra: This was a particularly special mantra. My Dad was terminally ill and my Mum was providing 24 hour care. She's in her late 80s and not in great health herself. I felt that the necklace which was engraved with "Strength" would give her exactly that. She needed it. She cared for Dad for a full 12 months before he passed away. We don't know where she found the strength but I like to think that the Mantra helped to remind her and gave her that inner strength that she so needed. It also made me realise that I've had a role model all along… my Mum.
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Why Don't Spammers Get Shut Down Faster?
Spam schemes survive significantly longer than other types of Internet fraud. Why?
While researching today's story about crafty phishing techniques, I came across some statistics that reveal the lifespan of various types of nefarious Internet schemes. The chart below, put together by Milcord, a company that collects real-time data about botnets, shows that spammers survive for a couple of months, while phishers typically make it only about five to ten days. Malware schemes are in between.
What's the reason for this time difference?
Though ordinary people are the ones who ultimately get burned, phishers can affect the reputations of companies with deep pockets. Caglayan says that some security companies offer service-level agreements that promise to get a phishing site hosted in the U.S. taken down in under an hour.
Spam, on the other hand, has no such highly-motivated opponents. While it's a nuisance to everyone, no particular company suffers publicly for it, and therefore, the money to halt it simply isn't there.
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using RAspect.Patterns.Exception;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
namespace RAspect.Patterns.Threading
{
/// <summary>
/// Attribute when applied to a class will require at ReaderAttribute and WriterAttribute to be applied to method or properties otherwise it will throw exception
/// </summary>
[AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Class | AttributeTargets.Assembly)]
public sealed class ReaderWriterSynchronizedAttribute : AspectBase
{
/// <summary>
/// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="ReaderWriterSynchronizedAttribute"/> class.
/// </summary>
public ReaderWriterSynchronizedAttribute() : base(WeaveTargetType.Class)
{
}
/// <summary>
/// Validate if Reader and Writer are properly applied to given type
/// </summary>
/// <param name="type">Type</param>
/// <param name="methods">Type Methods</param>
internal override void ValidateRules(Mono.Cecil.TypeDefinition type, IEnumerable<Mono.Cecil.MethodDefinition> methods)
{
var hasReader = methods.Any(x => x.GetCustomAttribute<ReaderAttribute>() != null);
var hasWriter = methods.Any(x => x.GetCustomAttribute<WriterAttribute>() != null);
if (!(hasReader && hasWriter))
{
throw new ThreadingValidationException(String.Format("ReaderWriterSynchronize validation: {0} must have at least one reader and writer attribute for it members", type.FullName));
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Gets weave block type
/// </summary>
internal override WeaveBlockType BlockType
{
get
{
return WeaveBlockType.Inline;
}
}
}
}
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Are my gifts used for missionary retirement?
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NFS Litigation Weekly March 11, 2022
March 24, 2022 by Jon Haber
The Forest Service summary is here (ignore the date on the Summary): Litigation Weekly March 11 2022 EMAIL (1)
Links are provided to court documents.
0001_Sawtooth (except this isn't Sawtooth – see below)
Friends of the Crazy Mountains v. Erickson (D. Mont.) – On February 18, 2022, a Magistrate Judge in the District Court of Montana recommended granting summary judgment to the Forest Service regarding its decision to relinquish claims to public access rights on trails on the Custer Gallatin National Forest and to reroute the trails.
BONUS: The potential implications of allowing the agency to not enforce its rights as a result of this case have been brought up in Congress by Senator Martin Heinrich New Mexico: "These decisions affect access in every state in the nation. Why is the Forest Service and DOJ changing its position on public rights of access on that trail in particular, and what does that mean for trails everywhere in the U.S.?"
0002_Grand Canyon Trust et al v. FS et al 20-16401 9th Cir. 13-8045 D.Ariz. Opinion 2.22.22
Grand Canyon Trust v. Provencio (9th Cir.) – On February 22, 2022, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the district court's summary judgment that intervenor Energy Fuels held a valid existing right to operate the Canyon Mine to produce uranium on the Kaibab National Forest in an area near the Grand Canyon that had been withdrawn from new mining claims. The issue of validity involved the costs used in determining profitability. (The Havasupai Tribe was one of the plaintiffs, as mentioned here.)
0003_Memorandum Decision and Order claims 3-9 _ Sawtooth Ranches
Sawtooth Mountain Ranch LLC v. United States of America (D. Idaho) – On February 24, 2022, the District Court of Idaho upheld the construction of the Stanley Redfish Trail on a public trail easement across plaintiffs' property to the Sawtooth National Forest and National Recreation Area. Here is some additional background. The opinion on the Quiet Title claims is here.
0004_20-36125_Cottonwood decision dimissing IP and affirming IP (2)
Cottonwood Environmental Law Center v. Gianforte (9th Cir.) — On March 2, 2022, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the district court's denial of a preliminary injunction sought against the Interagency Bison Management Plan for the area in and around Yellowstone National Park, including the Custer Gallatin National Forest, alleging the likelihood of increased tribal bison hunting and associated NEPA violations.
0005_Brebner Flat – DN84 – Order granting Plaintiffs Summ. J. in Part
Friends of the Clearwater v. Petrick (D. Idaho) – On March 2, 2022, the District Court of Idaho found that the Fish and Wildlife Service did not provide an explanation for how it determined that grizzly bears were not "present" for the purpose of ESA consultation on the Brebner Flat project on the Idaho Panhandle National Forest, but it did not vacate the decision while such explanation is being provided.
0006_ComplaintKlamath Forest Alliance v. Vilsack (D. Or.)22-180
Klamath Forest Alliance v. Vilsack (D. Oregon) – On February 3, 2022, Plaintiffs filed a complaint in the District of Oregon claiming the Forest Service violated NEPA when using a categorical exclusion to authorize the paving of Forest Service Roads 20, 20A, 40S30 and 40S30A on the Mt. Ashland/Siskiyou Peak Botanical Area on the Klamath National Forest.
BONUS: As explained here, the Forest was surprised to discover that the roads had never been paved, which made the project ineligible for the funding it expected to use, and they have rescinded this paving decision.
0007_Capital Trail Vehicle Service Association et al v USFS et al 22-15 D.Montana Region 1 Helena NF NFMA NEPA APA
Capital Trail Vehicle Association v. U.S. Forest Service (D. Montana) – On February 25, 2022, Plaintiffs filed a complaint in the District Court of Montana claiming the Divide Travel Plan on the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest would close 144 miles of roads to all vehicle use without proper analysis of its environmental and social impacts.
OTHER AGENCY CASES
0008_Komor v US et al 22-77 D.Arizona
Komor v. United States (D. Arizona) ‐ On February 14, 2022, Plaintiff filed a complaint alleging violations of the Fifth, Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution for actions resulting in the generation of greenhouse gasses. The complaint specifically refers to the Department of Energy.
BONUS: In other climate litigation, a case in Montana involving the state constitution's right to "a clean and healthful environment" may be the first climate change case to go to trial (a year from now).
BLM Colorado oil and gas
Court decision in Board of County Commissioners of San Miguel v. United States BLM (D. Colo.) – On February 9, 2022, the district court found that the BLM had violated the Endangered Species Act when it failed to consult with the Fish and Wildlife Service prior to approving oil and gas leases in southwest Colorado in habitat for the threatened Gunnison sage-grouse. The court held that prior consultation on the resource management plan was insufficient because there was new information available for the leasing decision. (The article includes a link to the opinion.)
Gray wolf relisting
Court decision in Defenders of Wildlife v. U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service (N.D. Cal.) – On February 10, 2022, the district court restored Endangered Species Act protections to gray wolves in most of the lower 48 states. The court found the government improperly relied on gray wolf recoveries in the Great Lakes and Northern Rocky Mountains to decide wolves across the contiguous U.S. no longer qualify for federal protection. (The article includes a link to the opinion.)
Utah railroad
New case: Center for Biological Diversity v. Surface Transportation Board (D.C. Cir.) – On February 11, 2022, five environmental organizations petitioned the court of appeals for review of the Board's authorization to construct and operate an approximately 85-mile rail line in the Uinta Basin, including portions of the Ashley National Forest, much of it in roadless areas. (This news release includes a link to the complaint.)
Barred owl killing
Court decision in Friends of Animals v. U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service (9th Cir.) – On March 4, 2022, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals approved permits for private logging companies to incidentally take spotted owls while killing barred owls on their lands to determine how that would benefit spotted owls. The panel found the government's experiment would yield important information that would help it create a policy to better protect northern spotted owls, thus complying with the "net conservation benefit" requirement under the Endangered Species Act. (The article includes a link to the opinion.)
Illegal camping
A defendant pleaded guilty and was given a $2,000 fine and 3-year ban from being on the Bridger-Teton National Forest for use or occupancy of National Forest System lands for residential purposes.
Illegal woodcutting
Forest Service law enforcement has located and cited 3 individuals harvesting wood without a permit on the Six Rivers National Forest.
Stealing fees
A California man was sentenced to 21 months in prison for burglarizing fee collection sites on the Coronado National Forest. He also admitted breaking locks to commit 42 similar burglaries in multiple states.
Avoiding litigation: In January, the Environmental Protection Agency announced will take a systematic approach to evaluating pesticides' harmful effects instead of being forced to comply by lawsuits (particularly with regard to ESA).
The Energy Transition: Let's Call Folks on "Unnecessary Moralizing"
Framings of the Decarbonization Problem: Some Alternatives, Nordhaus, Yglesias and the Hartwell Paper
3 thoughts on "NFS Litigation Weekly March 11, 2022"
I thought there's probably a back story to this one..
from your link:
"These decisions affect access in every state in the nation. Why is the Forest Service and DOJ changing its position on public rights of access on that trail in particular, and what does that mean for trails everywhere in the U.S.?" Heinrich asked.
French responded: "Our approach is to defend access in all the places we can, as a stated policy."
But then he appeared to struggled to address the specifics of the Crazy Mountains access case.
"My understanding is [the landowners] have fulfilled many of the obligations that have changed our ability to defend those access rights, but it's very complicated," French said. "It is not a broad policy. We handle these things on a site-by-site approach."
Private landowners who are also named in the lawsuit likewise argued that the Forest Service failed to establish any easements via "clear and convincing evidence under state law."
In a May 2021 filing, Pacific Legal Foundation attorney Ethan Blevins, who is representing the landowners, noted the Forest Service opted to negotiate access via a new route known as the Porcupine Ibex trail in 2018, including formalized easements.
"The Forest Service and private landowners amicably resolved a longstanding access dispute concerning private property, thereby avoiding costly, time-consuming, and uncertain litigation over a potential prescriptive easement claim," Blevins wrote.
Plaintiffs in the case argued that the new 8-mile trail is destructive, pointing to the need for excavators "blasting and hammering" to clear surface rock and other obstacles in "undisturbed forested lands."
Perhaps OGC or DOJ didn't think they had a very good case based on specifics (that French didn't want to go into during a hearing due to the complexity and the likelihood that a non-lawyer could get something wrong).
Also if the FS and landowners could work out an agreement to provide access, isn't that a good thing? Is building trails that "destructive? "
Bob Zybach
I'm interested in the racial purity issue in which taxpayers are covering the costs of federal employees systematically killing barred ("hoot") owls because they are breeding and producing viable young with spotted hoot owls. My opinion remains that this is nuts, and probably not even politically correct by anybody's standards: http://nwmapsco.com/ZybachB/Articles/Magazines/Oregon_Fish_&_Wildlife_Journal/20200620_Spotted_Owls/Zybach_20200620.pdf
There is long back story. Here's is plaintiff's version:
https://westernlaw.org/crazy-mountains-public-access-faqs/
I don't think the environmental impacts of new trail construction played as big of a role as the precedent it could set for abandoning public rights.
And here are some other things that apparently neither plaintiffs nor Chris French wanted to talk about – possible Congressional interference to benefit well-connected landowners. https://forestpolicypub.com/2017/07/06/personnel-politics-and-public-access-to-public-lands/
(I can't swear this is the same trails, but if it's more of the same in the same mountains, you get the flavor.) | {
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Chris Ledyard: Athletic Director of the Year
BY ERIN MADDEN
Chris Ledyard, Franciscan University's athletic director, was named the College Athletic Director of the Year by Sports Faith International and was enshrined in the Sports Faith Hall of Fame in May.
"I think organizations like Sports Faith International are crucial in recognizing those individuals who affect the culture in a more positive and godly way," Ledyard said.
Ledyard has spent 20 years with the university, starting off as a recreation director for the school's two club teams. Now he serves as the athletic director, in charge of 16 varsity teams that compete at the NCAA Division III level.
Leydard (right) at the awrd ceremony.
Under his tenure, the university is now in its fourth year of full NCAA membership with tremendous success so far as seven different sports have already qualified for national competition.
Also under Ledyard, Franciscan became the first school to partner with SportsLeader, a virtue-based training program specifically for coaches.
"When you look at John Paul II's writings, he is basically saying that sports is a main vein in society and we, as Catholics, should be in that vein and affecting that culture," Ledyard said.
Academically, the department has also won the Peak Performer Award in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference in the past. The award is given to the school in the conference with the highest cumulative GPA.
Ledyard was inducted into the Hall of Fame during a ceremony in Lincolnshire, Illinois, along with 11 other Catholic athletes, coaches and teams, including Olympians, Heisman Trophy winners and professional athletes.
Angela Tomlinson, co-founder of Sports Faith International said that she found Ledyard to be a great role model as someone who lives out his faith through sports.
"We see someone who is giving 100 percent to spreading the faith and the formation of virtues in his players," Tomlinson said.
Sports Faith International is a Chicago-based organization that seeks to change the current sports culture through different media initiatives that feature and encourage athletes that are courageous in living out their Christian faith.
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Q: how to find using mongoose query if user is inside an array of users I'm trying to find a way to check if a student is signed to a course/s using mongoose.
I have these schemas:
Course schema:
const mongoose = require("mongoose");
const User = require("../models/User");
const CourseSchema = new mongoose.Schema(
{
courseName: { type: String, required: true, unique: true },
teacher: {
teacherName: { type: String },
teacherID: {
type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId,
ref: "User",
},
},
students: [
{
studentName: { type: String },
studentID: {
type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId,
ref: "User",
},
},
],
},
{ collection: "courses" },
{ timestamps: true }
);
module.exports = mongoose.model("Course", CourseSchema);
In here I'm saving all of the students that signed the course inside students array of objects.
Student schema:
const mongoose = require("mongoose");
const UserSchema = new mongoose.Schema(
{
username: { type: String, required: true, unique: true },
email: { type: String, required: true, unique: true },
password: { type: String, required: true },
userType: {
type: String,
enum: ["student", "teacher"],
default: "student",
},
isOnline: { type: Boolean, default: false },
},
{ collection: "users" },
{ timestamps: true }
);
module.exports = mongoose.model("User", UserSchema);
Now I'm trying to make a query that will return a list of courses which the student signed for.
For example:
If I have 3 courses = [math, English, programming]
and a student with id = 1 who signed (is in students array) for math and English, then the query will return math and English courses.
I've tried this without success (getting null, but user is in students array of objects):
router.post("/:id", async (req, res) => {
try {
// get user
var user = await User.findOne({
username: req.body.username,
email: req.body.email,
password: req.body.password,
});
// search user courses by user id.
const coursesList = await Course.find({
students: {
$in: [{ studentID: user._id, studentName: user.username }],
},
});
res.status(200).json(coursesList);
} catch (err) {
res.status(500).json(err.message);
}
});
A: You can do it like this:
const coursesList = await Course.find({ "students.studentID": user._id });
Working example
A: If you only want to return the matched user, you could use the aggregation pipeline. Live demo here
Database
[
{
"course": "Math",
"students": [
{
studentID: "id_1",
studentName: "Name 1"
},
{
studentID: "id_2",
studentName: "Name 2"
}
]
},
{
"course": "English",
"students": [
{
studentID: "id_1",
studentName: "Name 1"
},
{
studentID: "id_3",
studentName: "Name 3"
}
]
},
{
"course": "Programming",
"students": [
{
studentID: "id_4",
studentName: "Name 4"
},
{
studentID: "id_5",
studentName: "Name 5"
}
]
},
]
Query
db.collection.aggregate([
{
$unwind: "$students"
},
{
$match: {
"students.studentID": "id_1"
}
}
])
Result
[
{
"_id": ObjectId("5a934e000102030405000000"),
"course": "Math",
"students": {
"studentID": "id_1",
"studentName": "Name 1"
}
},
{
"_id": ObjectId("5a934e000102030405000001"),
"course": "English",
"students": {
"studentID": "id_1",
"studentName": "Name 1"
}
}
]
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Anthropological reflections on citizenship focus on themes such as politics, ethnicity and state management. Present day scholarship on citizenship tends to problematise, unsettle and contest often taken-for- granted conventional connotations and associations of citizenship with imagined culturally bounded political communities of rigidly controlled borders.
This book, the result of two years of research conducted by South African and Japanese scholars within the framework of a bilateral project on citizenship in the 21st century, contributes to such ongoing efforts at rethinking citizenship globally, and as informed by experiences in Africa and Japan in particular. Central to the essays in this book is the concept of flexible citizenship, predicated on a recognition of the histories of mobility of people and cultures, and of the shaping and reshaping of places and spaces, and ideas of being and belonging in the process.
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How do you deal with your inner evil voice? Do you think you succeed?
What do you forget most often?
Where do you get most of the decorations for your home?
Always be good and help people.
What do you do if someone misuses your trust?
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In this paper, the authors present a security visiting guiding system SVG composed of RFID, smart phone, and Wi-Fi signal widely available. The SVG system can provide visitors with the map of a given building, so that the visitor can easily find the target under its guide. It can also protect user's privacy location information by cryptographic two-dimension code and RFID. The two-dimension code can be easily obtained by a mobile phone and it authorizes a visitor to obtain the navigation service of SVG. The visitor receives the permission from his host and makes a date through SVG. | {
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A business intelligence competency center (BICC) or center of excellence has always been a key component of BI success.
"It has been one of two major recommendations for an effective BI strategy, the other being an executive business sponsor," says Pat Saporito, global COE for BI and SAP's BI strategy program leader. However, with the growing demand for business user self-service fueled by Big Data and the Internet of Things, organizations are either creating new BICCs or retooling existing more technically oriented BICCs that were more shared services or project management offices. "We found that BICCs and information governance were the two hot topics companies wanted more information on as a follow-on to a BI strategy discussion or workshop," added Saporito.
More than 40% organizations currently have a BI competency center in place, and approximately 60% of them are less than 5 years old.
33% organizations follow a best-practices-driven model for managing their BI competency centers.
Only 12% organizations have more than 50% business ownership or engagement in their BI competency centers.
Almost 85% organizations find "increased BI usage/adoption" as one of the top 5 benefits they have attained or seek to gain through BI competency centers.
57% of BI competency centers are funded from corporate or IT and have CFO as an executive business sponsor other than the CIO.
These findings substantiate the fact that many BI and analytics leaders now are looking at redefining the BICC to support more impactful use cases aimed at improving business performance. It may be an intuitive step, but it underscores the reality that developing a BICC strategy holistically across an entire organization is a critical first step in operationalizing your BI strategy, and is the key to business alignment and BI success.
To learn more about BI Competency Centers, visit our BI Success website and download the BICC eGuide. | {
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Troubled skin? Try the Korean Aromatica Tea Tree line!
I received these lovely Aromatica Tea Tree items from the Dutch Korean webshop named Ippo Cosmetics. The owner Hyesun is the most amazing person I've ever met! We occasionally meet each other paired with some amazing delicious food. A collaboration is not all about selling items, but also the relationship between the brand and person. To me it is more important to have that connection so you can really stand behind the product you are presenting. For today I will share you my experience with the Tea Tree line from the Korean brand Aromatica. As an oily skin girl with troubled skin I'm always looking for new skincare items to help recover my skin. Come take a read!
Natural and safe, our promise to you is the motto of aromatica (with the small 'a'). Aromatica is a brand with EWG Certification for cosmetics safety and Ecocert certification for organic sources. It's Vegan and cruelty free!
If you are looking for a skincare brand that can promise you that they won't harm the environment than aromatica would be the one. I think that there are only a few Korean skincare brands that can offer what they do. I became a big fan of the brand when Michelle Phan was trying their products. If I can remember it clear she used the Rose pink line which is for a dry and aging skin. I'm not yet at that age that I will use anti-aging products constantly but it may come one day (or this year).
Aromatica Tea Tree Balancing Toner is a refreshing organic toner that contains 80.9% of Tea Tree Leaf Extract. Tea Tree Leaf Extract is very effective to control excess sebum and soothes skin with breakouts. Aloe Vera Extract gives this toner extra hydration so that your skin feels most comfortable. This organic toner contains certified organic ingredients and natural essential oil. Light citrus scent from Verbena and Bergamot oil makes this toner extra fresh and pleasant to use.
This has to be my favorite product out of this set! Why? Because when I use this toner during the morning, I can really feel that it takes away all the excess oil and sebum and it makes my skin feel calm. When I have breakouts around my jawline the toner will gently dry out the pimples. I never had that my pimples started to get bigger or worse when I used the toner. During my morning routine it is important to prep my skin for the entire day and how amazing is it when this toner makes my skin feel clean and fresh. I know, you may think your toner will do the same. To me I can really feel the difference between the aromatica Tea Tree Balancing Toner and my other favorite one from Klairs (review). With the Klairs my skin feels smooth and moist, which is great if you have dry combination skin. But for me I can only use this toner during my night routine because it may cause some excess oil during the day. I just can't handle anything that gives my skin an extra glow or hydration, that is something I prefer during my night routine. The aromatica Tea Tree Balancing Toner can be used day and night and is just simply the best toner I ever had! Ippo Cosmetics, can I have a life time supply of this toner haha!
Apply generous amount on cotton pad and apply to face and neck. For best result, combine with Aromatica Tea Tree Balancing Foaming Cleanser and Aromatica Tea Tree Balancing Emulsion.
This product is suitable for oily skin, sensitive skin and acne prone skin.
Aromatica Tea Tree Balancing Emulsion is a light fluid cream that contains Tea Tree Leaf Extract and herbal extracts to hydrate and nourish acne prone skin. Tea Tree Leaf Extract effective regulates excess sebum and fights again breakouts while other natural herbal ingredients sooth irritated skin. This gentle emulsion will help you to recover from acne and prevent new breakouts. The cream texture is very light and absorbs quickly and doesn't block pores. This product comes in hygienic bottle with a pump, so it is easy to use and product will remain clean and safe till the end of the bottle. This organic emulsion contains certified organic ingredients and natural essential oil. It has a refreshing neutral herbal scent which makes it great for both men and women. This product is highly concentrated and lasts really long, worth investment for good skin.
This was just my second time I used an emulsion in my life (I know right, I'm a disappointment). I avoided the emulsions for a long time because I thought my skin would not need it. I already use an essence in my skincare routine so an emulsion might make skin more oily (was what I thought). Ofcourse it never came in my mind to use an emulsion on its own or as a replacement for the moisturizer. The texture is lighter and gets absorbed faster than a moisturizer. I usually used the emulsion on my days off when I stayed home all day. When applying it on the skin I can instantly feel my skin getting soft and moist without creating that wet/oily feeling. Two pumps are enough to cover your face and neck. Just spread it between your fingers and massage it into the skin. You will be surprised how quick the emulsion gets into the skin and the results: calm skin that feels moist and smooth but without that heavy or sticky feeling of a moisturizer. This would be amazing for my skin during the hot summer days!
Aromatica Tea Tree Balancing Foaming Cleanser is a refreshing cleanser that contains Aloe Vera Extract and Tea Tree Leaf Extract. Aloe Vera Extract is the main ingredient of this gentle cleanser. It soothes and hydrates skin while it effective removes all the impurities and oil in skin. Tea Tree Leaf Extract is very effective to control excess sebum and soothes skin with breakouts. Your skin will feel fresh, soft and will be in perfect pH balance. No more breakouts with this cleanser! This organic cleanser contains certified organic ingredients and natural essential oil. It has a refreshing neutral herbal scent which makes it great for both men and women. Big size tube lasts really long, worth investment for good skin.
Okay, this was clearly my least favorite product for me. When I use a skincare product I expect a great experience with visible results. When I first tried it out I used my Clarisonic Mia 2 to wash my face (review) and the other times with my hands. I squeezed some of the product onto my Clarisonic brush and started to make circular motions on my face. Nothing weird happened, untill I washed my face. I used a towel to dry my face and then I suddenly felt something strange: my skin felt like rubber? The texture of my skin felt so weird, like when you touch a balloon. I got goosebumps when I touched my face, but after maybe 5 minutes this effect disappeared. I know that this is a Tea Tree product so it might washed away all the excess sebum and oil which caused the weird feeling, but it was nothing I had expected. I do have to commit that my face, after 5 minutes, felt really good and clean. Mehhh, I told Ippo Cosmetics how I felt about this product and she confirmed she had the same experience. Nothing wrong happened with my skin afterwards, but just don't touch your face after you washed it for 5 minutes haha!
Apply on hands and add bit of water and work into a lather. Massage on your face and rinse off with luke warm water. For best result, combine with Aromatica Tea Tree Balancing Toner and Aromatica Tea Tree Balancing Emulsion.
The thicker cream is the cleanser which has a light but textured feeling when you apply it. The fluid is the toner which is by far my favorite! Feels smooth when applying it on the skin and get absorbed quickly. The emulsion is super light, something I'm used to when it comes to emulsions.
It is clear that the aromatic Tea Tree Balancing Toner is a must have! Once again, I'm a super oily skin girl so this line may create a different effect on your skin. The toner is my holy grail during those really oily days (usually when I have my period) and makes my skin feel calm. The cleanser is my least favorite because I just don't enjoy it while I wash my face. It makes my skin feel weird and rubbery. when I use a skincare items and especially when it is a mask or cleanser, the experience has to be perfect for me. I recommend you to check their other lines they created for different skin types, because aromatica is a Korean brand you definitely have to try! Ippo Cosmetics sells all the lines (pink, blue and green) for the different skin types so check it out.
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DSM's new insurance programs include a dashboard. We have dashboards in our cars, what's a dashboard doing in an insurance system? The term "dashboard" is commonly used now to describe what in the past might have been the "menu", but that term just doesn't quite cut it for the more modern applications. An automobile's dashboard organizes and presents information in a way that is easy to read and for that reason the term has been adapted to computer applications that try to do the same thing. OK, now that's out of the way, let's look at how the new DSM "dashboard" organizes and presents information in a way that is easy to read.
Just like the "oh" meters in your car, the left side of the dashboard has graphics to tell you things like, how many unfiled claims there are, how many have been filed, how many are unpaid etc.
This dialog box which is part of the dashboard, let's you choose what you want to see.
Once the user chooses, filed claims for example, then the user specifies what period to review, today, yesterday, a week etc.
The right side of the dashboard helps you keep up with the work flow, allowing the user the choice of viewing claims that have failed the scrubber, been denied, are unpaid as well as messages the system uses to inform the user of any important situations.
By double clicking on the patients displayed in the "failed scrubber" view, the claim can be reviewed with the results of the scrubbing.
These are just the options that we have added so far, additional options will be added, but we think it's the way to go, hope you do too!
The DSM programmers didn't skimp on anything in designing the new programs for 5010. No, really, I mean they didn't skimp on ANYTHING in 5010. ALL FIELD SIZES ARE TO 5010 MAXIMUM LENGTHS. This "design to the max" philosophy might have been considered a waste in the past, BUT due to new technologies which increase disk sizes, compress transmissions, and compress the backups, our programmers have taken the high road to system design.
Attrition of programs by regulation has always been the bane of healthcare programmers. The problem with regulation requirements is the simple fact that new fields, field lengths, types and how the data is captured cannot always be anticipated by program designers. Typically the regulations come from entities interested only in a particular end result. The assumption is that any obstacles created by their legislation will be overcome without any problem. And if problems do arise, it's not THEIR problem. Luckily, the regulators are mostly right. The programmers do overcome the problems but the inability to foresee changes has resulted in solutions that would have benefited from "design" rather than "accommodation". The lack of the ability to foresee requirements has been one of the most limiting factors in healthcare program design. In recent years standards have helped to mitigate this hindrance, but it has not eliminated it. The fact that 5010 is an upgrade within the X12 standard helps a lot, but without committing to a re-design can cause obstacles which cannot be appreciated by the end user.
Our new programs have benefited greatly in the area of supporting file design. After years of experience with submitter ids, taxpayer ids we have designed the supporting files to be able to accommodate changes in these areas that normally only programmers and support personnel have to deal with. This makes our staff better able to react to changes at the intermediary level.
Our Claredi Classic relationship for testing our claim transmissions way in advance of 5010 is another tool in the hands of our programmers. No longer do the programmers have to wait for testing from the intermediary. Instead, changes are tested immediately by mock transmissions to our partner for confirmation or identification of any problem in the format.
An example of the type of solution we are avoiding by re-design would be what I saw often in the year 2000 programming (Y2K) done by some of our competitors' programmers. When working with their files we often would find a date minus the century, only to find the century for that date in another field in another record. These "accommodation" programming methods even had names, "re-partitioning" and "windowing". Those were cool sounding names for what were really bad solutions born out of desperation. Believe it or not many of our competitors still have these poor database designs within their products. (Rest easy, all dates in the HDMS product were made to include the century, "re-sizing" is the cool name and it is the ultimate solution). One might say that the year 2000 should have been anticipated, it's not like legacy programmers didn't know it was coming. Yes, but most programmers thought they would never face it!
Experience is a dear teacher and we have applied our experience to predict where regulations are going and the programmers have made educated "guesses" with respect to what areas are going to be addressed next by regulation. The "Y2K" accommodations mentioned above might be necessary to transition ICD9 to ICD10 without re-design. The problems most software companies face is that there is no space for the additional characters, just like in the Y2K situation. The new 5010 addresses ICD10 which positions our new programs for ICD10 as well.
Our design decisions will mean the ability to accommodate field changes for years to come, without the need to do re-"partioning" or "windowing", the euphemisms for legacy work-arounds. But our new design decisions will not cause the new product to run off and leave our legacy applications. Rather, the new browser based graphics make it easier to get to and use the legacy apps.
For example, note the tabs on the top of the insurance screens. Click the "image" tab for images captured in our eBOSS scanning module.
Click the "Eligibility" for eligibility information received from Passport. "Notes" for the account notes that show maintenance changes, FC changes etc.
The most important design difference is the legacy insurance system in use by our customers was designed around clerks building claims as accurately as possible before transmission and the new insurance system is designed around the computer programs building claims accurately for automatic transmission without clerical intervention. Only rejected claims will require attention by the insurance clerks to work the exceptions. That's where our clearinghouse and claim scrubbing partners come in, to exploit the opportunity to get clean, paying claims through without intervention.
Keep us bookmarked, more information is coming. | {
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We treat your business as if it were our own!
That has been our mantra since we started back in 1997, and we constantly work to keep it that way! We are a cooperative made up of five members, most of whom are communications, marketing and management graduates and we continuously strive to deliver a top notch turn-key service from creative marketing concepts, to, script-writing, production and post-production, as well as training and team building.
We embrace the cooperative aspect and we believe that great communication and excellent teamwork are key. Mediacoop is built around motivated, creative and positive-minded people who together can create the synergy needed to produce outstanding results.
Our base in the heart of Valletta is equipped with audio-visual studios, meeting and conference rooms and recreational areas meant to give creative minds a boost.
Which means we are not employees. We are a democratically – owned enterprise, and our living depends on what we do together. So your mind is at rest. We have a sense of belonging because its ours. We feel privileged to be of service to you and as a team, we share your passion.
A proud member of The Malta Cooperative Federation, Mediacoop's directors believe in the ethical values of honesty, openness, social responsibility and caring for others. Through effective teamwork, you can rest assured that the cooperative way of doing business is not just beneficial to us. It is beneficial to you too.
Don't just take our word for it, this is what others say about us!
I can state that Mediacoop has provided us with a very professional service, were flexible to our specific needs, timely in their delivery, and very creative in their approach.
Throughout this time, we have known Mediacoop and its staff to be extremely professional, creative and resourceful.
I am pleased to say that we have been working with Mediacoop for the past five years during which this cooperative has carried out various Public Relations and Promotional Tasks with very high standards of professionalism and technical expertise. | {
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With law school enrollments nationwide declining, Cornell Law and Fordham University of Law are ramping up new programs!
The growing problem facing law schools, the legal profession and ultimately the clients of lawyers was discussed recently in the article, 'Correlation Or Coincidence?…Desperate Law Schools = Lowest Bar Exam Pass Rate In A Decade!'.
Extrapolating that statement out I take that to mean that some in the new yearly crop of aspiring lawyers may not be as learned and skilled as their predecessors.
Given the documented decline in enrollment, however, there are two law schools being aggressive and proactive in their attempt to increase the student body.
'At a time when many law schools have reduced class enrollment in response to a decline in applications, two schools are going against the trend. Cornell Law School and Fordham University School of Law in recent weeks both have announced the creation of two new masters programs for lawyers.
LLMs, as the masters degrees are more commonly known, are certainly not new, although many are geared towards either foreign students hoping to practice in the U.S. or focus on specialties, like the longstanding tax program at New York University School of Law.
But changing, challenging times have spawned new LLM programs that can address both the uncertainty in the legal market and the ability to train practicing lawyers in areas that either didn't exist, or weren't as important, when lawyers were initially in law school, some just a few years ago.
…Fordham, on the other hand, is launching an LLM in compliance. The program is, essentially, capitalizing on the capital markets based in New York.
Corporate compliance departments have grown rapidly over the last decade at financial services firms, accelerating with the passage of laws like the Dodd-Frank Act after the onset of the financial crisis.
Will other law schools around the country take notice of this effort to increase enrollment and embark down the same path?
If Cornell and Fordham's programs prove to be successful then duplication and implementation elsewhere is most likely assured! | {
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Slave Lake experience suggests fire cleanup to test Fort McMurray
Cleaning up Fort McMurray's wildfire will test the city's ability to handle everything from asbestos to rotting food and leave a lasting legacy of higher costs and dangerous residue.
EDMONTON — Cleaning up Fort McMurray's wildfire will test the city's ability to handle everything from asbestos to rotting food and leave a lasting legacy of higher costs and dangerous residue.
So says Tom Moore — and he should know. Moore manages the landfill at Slave Lake, where one-third of the town was gutted by a fire five years ago this month.
"It overwhelms you," Moore recalled Thursday. "I received, in about four months time, about three years of waste into my facility."
Moore said the landfill took in about 40,000 tonnes of waste after the fire destroyed more than 400 buildings. The influx forced the dump to expand as well as to buy bigger equipment and upgrade its roads.
"There are landfills in Alberta that receive hundreds of thousands of tonnes every year," said Moore. "But if all of a sudden they're receiving four times that, in a short period of time, that's devastating."
Most of the concrete and metal was recycled, but much of the rest of that waste was problematic.
"All of the houses have been shut off from their power. Now you've got refrigerators full of food. You have to handle that safely so nobody gets sick and nobody gets exposed to that."
More than 4,200 refrigerators and freezers were hauled to the Slave Lake landfill. Moore, who's also the informal chairman of waste officials who have all experienced disaster recovery, said High River, Alta., sent 7,500 refrigerators full of food to its landfill after the 2013 flood.
Then there's the ash. Slave Lake's ash, all of which went to the landfill, was tainted with levels of heavy metals including lead and arsenic that were many times higher than guidelines.
"We made sure all our operators had the right type of respirators," Moore said. "Every day we changed out the filters in the cabs on the equipment."
Moore said that ash is still leaching toxins. Contaminants haven't been found in groundwater off the site, but workers have to drain and test fluids that collect in the bottom of the landfill twice a year instead of once annually — at twice the expense.
The municipality had to spend about $2 million upgrading its landfill after the fire.
"Right now, we're actually having some financial issues," Moore said.
"We had to dig this cell, we had to buy equipment and now we've got some big debt that we've got to pay that we don't have revenue for. It is a financial burden."
Any problems experienced by Slave Lake are likely to be much more severe in Fort McMurray, which lost more than 2,400 buildings.
"They're going to receive probably five times their normal waste going into their facility for a while," said Moore.
Scott Long of the Alberta Emergency Management Agency said Thursday that officials are already considering waste disposal.
"All of these things are being looked at right now by a large team of specialists in conjunction with Regional Emergency Operations Centre," he said at a press briefing. "We're doing this as safely and quickly as we can."
Moore said he's already been in touch with Fort McMurray municipal officials to offer advice. His group has people with experience from floods to fires to accidental deaths in landfills.
"After our disaster and the one in High River, we said we need some group that can be available to call and help through these disasters. We had nobody when we had ours."
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Il battifredo mobile era una macchina d'assedio in uso in Europa a partire dal XIII secolo. Si trattava di una struttura semovente in legno, su ruote, a volte in forma di torre a volte di semplice tettoia, provvista all'interno di una specie di ariete basculante, spesso costituito da una trave di ferro. Il mezzo era in buona sostanza un antesignano del carro corazzato, avente lo scopo di fare breccia nelle mura delle fortezze/castelli garantendo una relativa incolumità all'equipaggio. Il tetto era spesso ricoperto di cuoio appositamente conciato per proteggere il battifredo dal rischio di una combustione provocata dal lancio degli assedianti di torce, fiaccole, olio bollente o frecce incendiarie.
Il battifredo mobile "a torre" era spesso una struttura complessa, che fondeva al proprio interno il battifredo mobile "classico" e le funzioni della torre d'assedio. Dotato di quattro o sei ruote, si alzava per anche tre o quattro piani.
Armi bianche da assedio medievali
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Signing boards are now a rite of passage for the young. Bar and Bat mitzvah's, 18th's and 21st's. But they shouldn't just be wasted on the young.
One of the Fastframe owners (Sami) recently celebrated his 60th Birthday and he decided to mark the occasion with a party and a special signing board for his guests to sign. The completed signboard is both a representation of the customers life and an elegant and fun memento for them to reflect on.
Most signing boards we do for Gen Y's and Z's are a collage of photo's of themselves, friends and family. Recently we've seen an increase in single photo signing boards where parents get some photograph's taken professionally of the star of the party.
Sami wanted something different, more sophisticated, elegant and classic (to match his years).
We collected a number of his passport and drivers licence photographs. These are all taken in a similar manner so we immediately had a continuity of size and pose.
While most of the pictures weren't damaged, when a photograph is enlarged and printed, any imperfections will be magnified. It was therefore decided to enhance and restore the images so that the backgrounds were removed and made uniform, the colours were converted to black and white and sharpened so that the images were crisp. This made the world of difference.
Fastframe recenlty bought an Wide Format Printer. This allows us to print beautiful colour correct pictures up to 24inch wide and up to 60inch long !
Sami wanted a sleek, sophisticated and elegant signing board. We decided that a black matt would complement the photographs best. A white matt would have washed them out and changed the tone of the signing board to fun and festive. On the night, guests were asked to pen their best wishes using a silver pen. By having everyone write in one colour also helps to unify and focus your attention on the photographs before the writing. Multi-coloured pens can result in your attention being distracted.
Sami's framed signing board was a huge success! For your next special occassion, think about asking us to design a custom signing board, it will be a wonderful reminder of your day. | {
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Mahmoud Abbas claims to recognition of a Palestinian state by the UN are absurdity piled on absurdity.
Yes, the Theatre of the Absurd' is alive and well so it seems and living in Sydney, directed by an 'Australian Lawyer', the very person alluded to yesterday when discussing the need for an oath of allegiance for all such people in Australia as now being demanded of Palestinian people by the Israeli government of ill repute. This 'local' organisation, name probably taken from the back of a Corn Flakes packet, has the fanciful title "Foundation Member of the International Analyst Network and Convenor of Jordan is Palestine International". Just another front for Israel with a membership of one, an "Australian Lawyer".
It must have been somewhat galling to Israel to see the regard shown to Palestine at the United Nations last week, regard for which Israel has always aspired but has never achieved and never will as its place as the pariah state in the world grows daily. Why even this week, Israel has shown its contempt for the world body by announcing further building programs on Palestinian land after having probably murdered the occupants and/or bulldozed their homes.
The US, per courtesy of the Jewish fellow-traveller, Clinton, did put on her rehearsed irate face and stated that such an action was "unhelpful". Really?
All arranged beforehand with Netanyahu during his failed attempt to bribe, threaten and cajole other nations into conforming to their wishes to give the Palestinian matter the thumbs down. Why Clinton would bother is hard to understand as Obama, in his sycophantic responses to Israel last week, made if perfectly clear that honesty and justice were not part of America's agenda any more, now totally isolated from any further involvement in that part of the world.
How times change. Israel was quite content to arrogantly ignore more UN Resolutions than any other country in the history of this world body while spending the rest of the time acting like a frightened child hiding behind the skirts of the US veto in the Security Council as it continued its apartheid policies.
Rexw, very well put. The pathetic Zionist apologist rears his head once again.
Mr Singer questions Palestine's 'territorial boundaries'. Could he please advise which territorial boundaries Israel had on entry to the United Nations and which territorial boundaries it has now?
Don't forget to include the "Occupied Territories"
So little support here Mr Singer.
Well we all understand fairness and decency. | {
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Setsuko Sasaki, née le , est une joueuse de volley-ball japonaise.
Joueuse de l'équipe du Japon de volley-ball féminin, elle remporte le tournoi olympique de volley-ball de 1964 à Tokyo.
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Joueuse japonaise de volley-ball
Championne olympique de volley-ball
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Naissance en octobre 1944
Joueuse de volley-ball aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 1964 | {
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Q: How can I unregister user's device directly from Google's GCM server? I want to let users to toggle to select whether or not they want to receive notifications on their devices, I am able to remove deviceID from my server using a web service call, however the devices still receive notifications so I figured out that the deviceID still lives on GCM server, I tried using GCMRegistrar.unregister(context); but it has no effect and I still receive notifications.
Can someone please help me with this, I have no clue how to shut down receiving notifications, is there some other way?
This is my BroadcastReceiver
<receiver
android:name="com.google.android.gcm.GCMBroadcastReceiver"
android:permission="com.google.android.c2dm.permission.SEND" >
<intent-filter>
<!-- Receives the actual messages. -->
<action android:name="com.google.android.c2dm.intent.RECEIVE" />
<!-- Receives the registration id. -->
<action android:name="com.google.android.c2dm.intent.REGISTRATION" />
<category android:name="com.dfdsf.fdsf" />
</intent-filter>
</receiver>
A: It can be easily controlled by following:
*
*User selects "I don't want to get notified anymore"
*App notifies your push server.
*Your server remove the GCM id record in the DB.
You don't have to inform the GCM server. Because your server is not going to send anything to this phone anymore. If the user still get, it's your server bug.
Later, if the user decided to receive again. Just inform the gcm id to your push server again.
To block the message on Client side, there are 2 ways:
1) Unregister your app from gcm by issuing an unregistration Intent.
See the first part of this URL.
2) Whenever you receive a push message, check your app setting. If setting is ON, then do sth with the message, e.g. show notification. If setting is OFF, ignore the message.
The advantage of server side blocking is you have strict control over which users can receive message. E.g. The subscription expire, you will want to delete the record from server directly instead of relying on client to block.
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NEO: The World Ends with You Released on Steam
Oct 19, 2022 Carley Garcia
The title was previously an Epic exclusive on PC.
Originally launched for the PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch in July 2021, NEO: The World Ends with You managed to get a PC release in September 2021. After being available exclusively on the Epic Games Store for the past year, those who prefer Steam can now grab the game–and for a discount. The title is 25 percent off until October 25, bringing the price of the Square Enix action RPG down to $44.99.
Check out the Steam Release Trailer for the game below.
NEO: The World Ends with You is a sequel to the 2007 title The World Ends with You. Co-developed by Square Enix and h.a.n.d, the title features a new cast of characters playing something called the Reapers' Game in a reimagined Shibuya. This game is a week-long competition that will determine the fate of the characters themselves, and it also appeared in the original title. While everyday life continues like normal in the Realground, a number of deceased individuals are chosen and brought to an alternate plane of existence called the Underground. Winners will be brought back to life or, if they prefer, brought to heaven.
Recently, Square Enix announced that the original physical soundtrack for NEO: The World Ends with You would be restocked due to popular demand. The soundtrack is also available to stream on Spotify.
The World Ends with You became a smash hit upon its release in 2007, with critics and fans instantly falling in love with the title's unique graphical style, soundtrack, and reimagination of one of Tokyo's most popular areas. Many consider it to be one of the greatest video games of all time.
Those purchasing the game on PC will receive the following purchase bonuses.
Legendary Threads Set
Legendary Headphones – Greatly increases the item drop rate.
Legendary Tank Top – Greatly increases Attack.
Legendary Shorts – Shortens the duration the wearer is knocked down.
Legendary Sneakers – Increases movement speed during combat.
Legendary Music Player – Enormously increases HP.
Reapers' Game Survival Set
Pin: UFO Rescue – Hold the button to slowly restore your team's HP.
Threads: Virupaksa Hoodie – Greatly increases HP.
CD: Twister (NEO Mix) – Adds this song as a main menu music option.
Neo: The World Ends with You was released for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 in July 2021. In September 2021, it was ported to the PC and made available on the Epic Games Store. The first game, The World Ends with You, was released in Japan in July 2007 and in North America in April 2008. An advanced port was released for mobile devices in 2012 under the title The World Ends with You: Solo Remix. Another enhanced port, The World Ends with You: Final Remix, was released for the Nintendo Switch in 2018. | {
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7inch (* 20. April 1983 in Berlin; bürgerlicher Name: Simon Alexander Eichinger) ist ein deutscher Musikproduzent und Komponist.
Leben
7inch machte seine ersten Schritte im Musikgeschäft 2001 als Rapper der deutsch-finnischen Crew Querdenker. Die Crew veröffentlichte mehrere Untergrundtapes, so unter anderem Mutabor und Kreuz und Quer. 2005 ging 7inch dann eigene Wege und veröffentlichte seine erste Soloplatte, Hollaluja. Zu dieser Zeit lernte er den deutschen Rapper Spax kennen und fing an für ihn zu produzieren sowie ihn als MC auf den Festivals splash! und Hip Hop Open zu unterstützen. Im Jahre 2006 unterschrieb er einen Labeldeal bei dem Kölner Plattenlabel La Cosa Mia und veröffentlichte 2007 das Konzeptalbum The Lovemovement. Zu dem Zeitpunkt produzierte 7inch für Big J, Franky Kubrick, Kid Kobra, den Schweizer Fratelli B. und Macka ENA.
2007 folgten Produktionen für Seryoga, Curse, Die Firma, Taichi und Sabrina Setlur. Ende 2007 trat 7inch dem Produzententeam Hustle Heart um Executive Producer Shuko bei. 2008 produzierte er unter anderem Joe Rilla, Lady Bitch Ray, Die Firma, MC Bogy und war auf dem Ecko Unltd. Vol. I (hosted by Stat Quo)-Mixtape vertreten. Auch auf dem Online-Mixtape von Kool Savas, No Money, No Problem, steuerte er Beats bei. 2009 folgten Produktionen für Prinz Pi, Franky Kubrick, Casper, Basstard, B-Tight, Tony D, MontanaMax und Shiml. Er produzierte unter anderem den Sommerhit Cali Love für Tyga und beteiligte sich an Produktionen für Lil Wayne, Papoose und The Game gemeinsam mit der Crew Hustle Heart. Der Song Hollywood des Rappers Bligg, produziert von 7inch und Shuko, erreichte in der Schweiz die Grenze von 90.000 verkauften Einheiten und erhielt dreifach Platin.
Im September 2009 trennte sich 7inch von Hustle Heart, um eigene Wege zu gehen. Seit der Trennung produziert 7inch selbstständig und ist an Produktionen von Casper, Franky Kubrick, Snaga & Pillath, Hammer & Zirkel, Colos, Medizin Man, Prinz Pi, Gimma beteiligt. Im gleichen Jahr erhielt 7inch in der Schweiz dreifach Platin mit dem Song Hollywood des Rappers Bligg. 2010 veröffentlichte der Produzent zum ersten Mal zwei eigene Remix-Projekte unter dem Namen Digital Love Music. Mit dem Mixtape gelang ihm auch in Amerika ein weiterer Durchbruch. Er landete mit einem Song auf dem Coast to Coast Mixtape hosted by Lloyd Banks. Anfang 2011 folgte passend zum 10-jährigen Jubiläum ONE – The 7inch Collection. Über das Portal hiphop.de wurde 7inch in der Vergangenheit unter die Top 3 der "besten Produzenten im Bereich HipHop" gewählt. Am Nummer-1-Album Aura von Kool Savas war er ebenso beteiligt wie an dessen Nummer-1-Kollabo-Album Gespaltene Persönlichkeit mit Xavier Naidoo. Für das Projekt von Xavas erhielt der Produzent im Dezember 2012 Gold und Platin. Eine weitere Gold-Auszeichnung folgte für das Kool-Savas-Album Aura.
Momentan steht 7inch bei Sony/ATV Music Publishing und Berlin Music Publishing unter Vertrag. Hier ist er vor allem als Produzent für die Bereiche Urban und Pop sowie als Songschreiber aktiv.
Diskografie
Alben und Singles
Alben
2001: Querdenker – Mutabor
2002: Querdenker – Kreuz und Quer
2005: 7inch – Hollaluha E.P.
2007: The Lovemovement – Stadtgespräch
2011: 7inch – ONE – The 7inch Collections
2012: 7inch – The Lost Treasures
2014: 7inch – H.E.R.
Mixtapes
2010: Digital Love Music (Drake Remix EP)
2010: Digital Love Music (Trey Song Remix EP)
2013: Ready (Kendrick Lamar Remix EP)
Singles
2005: Sonnenlicht auf All City Allstars feat. Spax
2005: Schattenkrieger auf Spax: Wer/ OHH!!!
2007: Hey Girl auf The Lovemovement
2007: Ich denk an dich mit Taichi feat. Kobra, Vanessa S.
2011: Get It feat. Slim Thug, Jeune Ras
2014: Ein Schuss feat Jonesmann und Nine auf King Keil Luxusdampfer
2014: Oldschool Mcs feat Ag auf King Keil Luxusdampfer
2014: Vanilla Kush feat Killah Priest auf King Keil Luxusdampfer
2014: RetroStyle feat Vaniss auf King Keil Dopebaron
2014: Raumschiff feat Small Mike auf King Keil Dopebaron
Produktionen
Weblinks
7inch Presseseite auf MACHEETE
Offizielle Website
Interview mit WildstyleMag
Einzelnachweise
Hip-Hop-Produzent
Rapper
Musiker (Berlin)
Pseudonym
Deutscher
Geboren 1983
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More than one in three U.S. consumers are following a specific diet or eating pattern, and they are increasingly averse to carbohydrates and sugar, according to the 13th Annual Food and Health Survey, released in May by the International Food Information Council (IFIC) Foundation, Washington, D.C. Thirty-six percent of Americans reported following a specific diet or eating pattern within the past year like intermittent fasting (10 percent) and paleo (7 percent), it adds.
The survey highlights that more Americans blame carbohydrates, and specifically sugar, for weight gain. Although sugars continue to be the most cited cause of weight gain (33 percent), carbs ranked second at 25 percent, up from 20 percent in 2017, the survey states.
The IFIC notes that both of these numbers are the highest since 2011. Fats (16 percent), protein (3 percent) and "all sources" (17 percent) lagged behind when placing blame.
Although consumers' definitions of "clean label" continue to evolve, in the beverage space, a continual push for new products with no artificial colors or sweeteners also has progressed, says Andy Ohmes, global director of high-intensity sweeteners at Minneapolis-based Cargill.
When it comes to consumer awareness and preferences, honey, sugar and maple syrup were the Top 3 choices at 64 percent, 59 percent and 31 percent, respectively. While 58 percent of consumers were aware of stevia, just 22 percent preferred it. Despite garnering 63 percent recognition, high-fructose corn syrup was only preferred by 7 percent of respondents, while aspartame ranked last in consumer preference with 6 percent of the vote.
Experts note that the use of plant-based, zero-calorie sweeteners like stevia and monk fruit are rising in preference. Taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration's (FDA) proposed 2019 "added sugar" labeling requirement, and more educated consumers looking for new sweetener options is driving major change in the market.
For instance, Westwood, Mass.-based Blossom Water LLC reformulated its signature blossom botanical drink to contain half the original's low calorie and sugar content. Blossom Water Version 2.0 uses a proprietary sweetener system that blends a low concentration of steviol glycosides (less than 0.5 percent by dry leaf weight) with a small amount of raw organic sugar cane.
In 2017, the use of natural high-intensity sweeteners in the beverage category globally increased by 40 percent in volume compared with 2016, says Abigail Storms, vice president of global platforms for sweeteners at Tate & Lyle, Hoffman Estates, Ill. She suggests that the majority of the volume is generated from the following high-intensity sweeteners: acesulfame potassium, aspartame, cyclamate and sucralose. "Natural high-intensity sweeteners, mainly stevia based, make up the remainder and have grown year-on-year for the past several years," she says.
"ENLITEN Fusion 7200 and 9200 stevia sweeteners and BESTEVIA Reb M are high-purity stevia sweeteners that can enable 100 percent sugar reduction without compromising on taste," says Akshay Kumar Anugu, Ingredion's associate for global sweeteners research and development.
Although the sugar alcohol erythritol is commonly used in beverage applications for calorie reduction, a restricted usage level of 3.5 percent is limiting its usage, Anugu notes. Allulose, on the other hand, can replace erythritol in a one-to-one ratio without adding calories.
To combat the bitter taste and lingering aftereffects associated with stevia, experts note that more ingredient suppliers are innovating to create stevia solutions without off-notes.
For beverage clients, Savannah, Ga.-based Sweetener Solutions USA offers high-intensity sweeteners and blends, technical formulation and blending expertise to help companies achieve sweetener and caloric reductions while providing cost-savings of 25-35 percent, it says.
Among its offerings is SucraSweet Stevia Ultra 100, an all-natural product that replaces nutritive sweeteners at as high as 100 percent in natural fruit drinks, CSDs, teas, protein beverages, sports drinks and energy drinks; and SucraSweet HIS Malto-600, a replacement for sucralose that is 600 times sweeter than sugar, it says.
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The practice situates itself within a wider research context that includes teaching and writing on art, architecture and the city. It has achieved critical recognition both for its built projects and through competition. Its work has been published and exhibited internationally. Within its central London studio, the practice has expertise in, and access to, a wide range of physical and digital techniques for design development and representation, from physical model making and photography through to computer visualisation and Building Information Modeling (BIM). | {
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Home Oral History Collection Dag Larsen oral history interview transcript
Dag Larsen oral history interview
Dag Larsen oral history interview transcript
Title Dag Larsen oral history interview
Subject United States. Army Air Forces. Bombardment Group (H), 5th, Bomb Squadron, 394th
World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American.
Description The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Dag Larsen. Larsen volunteered to join the US Army Air Forces in October, 1942 and trained in New Jersey. He qualified to become a navigator and trained in Alabama, where he earned a commission. He flew 47 combat missions in B-24s against oil fields in Borneo, the Japanese naval base at Truk, the Philippines and other targets. Larsen returned from the Pacific in August, 1945. He stayed in the service after the war and served as a navigator for the Strategic Air Command and flew on B-29s, B-36s and B-52s.
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Contributors Misenhimer, Richard
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Death of Louise Labe, the "Belle Cordiere," and poet, who served in the Royal Army of France as a cavalryman under the name "Loys"
Highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier became the first person under French law to be executed by the guillotine.
"La Marseillaise," composed the night before by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, was sung for the first time, in Strasbourg, France.
Paul Julius Reuter, founder of the news agency that bears his name, used 40 pigeons to carry stock market prices between Brussels and Athens.
Ground was broken for the Suez Canal. This canal links the Mediterranean to the Red Sea. Egyptian workers started construction under harsh working conditions described as 'slave labor.' The project was not completed until 1867.
Franz Liszt took the four minor orders of the Roman Catholic Church, a preliminary step toward becoming a priest. Liszt never took it any farther. But sensing the dramatic impact of his tenuous church connection, he wore a cassock for the remaining 21 years of his life.
Radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi was born in Bologna, Italy. He invented the wireless telegraph in 1895.
Congress formally declared war on Spain in the battle over Cuba. As a result of the Spanish-American War, America took its first step in becoming a world power. America was given Puerto Rico and Guam as a result of the war.
William S. Porter entered the Ohio Penitentiary after being convicted of embezzlement. While in prison, he began writing short stories under the pseudonym "O. Henry."
New York became the first state to require automobile license plates. The fee was $1.
The American composer John Knowles Paine died.
Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow in Pole Creek, North Carolina. In the 1950's, he was the first newsman to challenge the "witch hunting" tactics of Senator Joseph McCarthy.
During World War One, Allied soldiers invaded the Gallipoli Peninsula in an unsuccessful attempt to take the Ottoman Turkish Empire out of the war.
Ella Fitzgerald was born in Newport News, Virginia. She won 12 Grammy Awards.
"Buddy," the first seeing eye dog, was presented to Morris S. Frank.
The great Belgian violinist Eugene Ysaye once composed an opera in Belgium's Walloon language. It was called "Peter the Miner," and it premiered in Brussels. Ysaye was supposed to conduct, but he collapsed at the first rehearsal and was still sick on opening night.
During World War Two, US and Soviet forces linked up on the Elbe River, a meeting that dramatized the collapse of Nazi Germany's defenses.
Delegates of 46 countries gathered in San Francisco to organize a permanent United Nations.
The prototype manufacture of a new solar battery was announced by the Bell Laboratories in New York City.
The St. Lawrence Seaway opened to traffic, saving shippers millions of dollars. By going from the sea to the Great Lakes across upstate New York, folks no longer had to ship the long, costly way around.
Colorado Governor John Love signed the first law legalizing abortions in the United States. The law was limited to therapeutic abortion when agreed to, unanimously, by a panel of three physicians.
200,000 anti-Vietnam War protesters marched on Washington, D.C.
A U.S. commando mission to rescue 53 American embassy hostages in Iran was abandoned in the desert with the loss of eight American lives when a helicopter collided with a tanker aircraft.
Israel turned over the final third of the occupied Sinai peninsula to Egypt under the Camp David peace agreement.
Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov invited Samantha Smith to visit his country after receiving a letter in which the Manchester, Maine, schoolgirl expressed fears about nuclear war.
The Pioneer Ten spacecraft crossed Pluto's orbit, speeding on its endless voyage through the Milky Way.
David Anthony Kennedy, the 28-year-old son of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, was found dead in a hotel room in Palm Beach, Florida.
257 members of the U.S. House of Representatives sent a letter to President Reagan, urging him to cancel his planned visit to the German military cemetery at Bitburg.
President Reagan left Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington on the first leg of a 13-day journey to the Far east that included an international economic summit in Tokyo.
Tens of thousands of people gathered in Washington for three days of protests against US foreign policy, particularly toward Central America and South Africa.
To the cheers of spectators, a judge in Jerusalem sentenced John Demjanjuk to death after the retired Ohio autoworker was convicted of being "Ivan the Terrible," a Nazi death camp guard who'd killed tens of thousands of people (however, Demjanjuk's conviction was later overturned).
Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita announced his resignation in order to take responsibility for his involvement in Japan's "Recruit" stock scandal.
The Hubble Space Telescope was deployed from the space shuttle Discovery.
Violetta Chamorro assumed the Nicaraguan presidency, ending more than a decade of leftist Sandinista rule.
The White House threatened to "take whatever steps are necessary" should Iraq fail to meet a deadline for withdrawing its security forces from the refugee zone in northern Iraq.
Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, facing harsh criticism during a closed-door meeting of the Communist Party's Central Committee, offered to resign as party leader, an offer that was rejected.
The United States announced its first financial aid to Hanoi since the 1960s: $1 million to make artificial limbs for Vietnamese disabled during the war.
An earthquake measuring seven-point-one on the Richter scale shook northern California.
Voters in Russia participated in a referendum, giving President Boris N. Yeltsin a sturdy vote of confidence.
Hundreds of thousands of gay rights activists and their supporters marched in Washington DC, demanding equal rights and freedom from discrimination.
Terrorist bombers struck twice on the eve of South Africa's first all-race election, killing about a dozen people.
Conservative Tsutomu Hata became prime minister of Japan, succeeding Morihiro Hosokawa.
Regular season play by major-league baseball teams got underway and was the first official action since the longest strike in sports history began in August 1994.
Show business legend Ginger Rogers died in Rancho Mirage, California, at age 83.
A day after the PLO annulled clauses calling for Israel's destruction, the governing Labor Party abandoned its long-standing opposition to a Palestinian state.
A court in Gdansk, Poland, dropped proceedings against Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski over the 1970 fatal shootings of 44 protesters by security forces when he was defense minister.
Ford Motor Company announced a recall of about 8 million cars, minivans and pickups because of an ignition switch fire hazard.
The prosecution began calling witnesses in Timothy McVeigh's Oklahoma City bombing trial.
A federal judge ruled for the first time that the Food and Drug Administration can regulate tobacco as a drug - but said it couldn't restrict cigarette advertising.
Christian Mortensen, who emigrated to the United States from his native Denmark in 1903, died. He was thought to have be the oldest man in the world at the age of 115.
Whitewater prosecutors questioned first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton on videotape about her work as a private lawyer for the failed savings and loan at the center of the investigation.
More than 70,000 mourners gathered in Littleton, Colo., to remember the victims of the Columbine High School massacre.
Lord Killanin, former president of the International Olympic Committee, died in Dublin, Ireland, at age 84.
On the third and final day of their Washington summit, NATO leaders promised military protection and economic aid to Yugoslavia's neighbors for standing with the West against Slobodan Milosevic.
Assailants shot and killed Zika Petrovic, an ally of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic.
Broadway producer David Merrick died in London at age 88.
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class BLOBNBOX_LIST;
class TO_BLOCK;
class TO_BLOCK_LIST;
class TO_ROW;
struct Pix;
namespace tesseract {
class Textord;
// Class to compute and hold baseline data for a TO_ROW.
class BaselineRow {
public:
BaselineRow(double line_size, TO_ROW* to_row);
const TBOX& bounding_box() const {
return bounding_box_;
}
// Sets the TO_ROW with the output straight line.
void SetupOldLineParameters(TO_ROW* row) const;
// Outputs diagnostic information.
void Print() const;
// Returns the skew angle (in radians) of the current baseline in [-pi,pi].
double BaselineAngle() const;
// Computes and returns the linespacing at the middle of the overlap
// between this and other.
double SpaceBetween(const BaselineRow& other) const;
// Computes and returns the displacement of the center of the line
// perpendicular to the given direction.
double PerpDisp(const FCOORD& direction) const;
// Computes the y coordinate at the given x using the straight baseline
// defined by baseline1_ and baseline2_.
double StraightYAtX(double x) const;
// Fits a straight baseline to the points. Returns true if it had enough
// points to be reasonably sure of the fitted baseline.
// If use_box_bottoms is false, baselines positions are formed by
// considering the outlines of the blobs.
bool FitBaseline(bool use_box_bottoms);
// Modifies an existing result of FitBaseline to be parallel to the given
// vector if that produces a better result.
void AdjustBaselineToParallel(int debug, const FCOORD& direction);
// Modifies the baseline to snap to the textline grid if the existing
// result is not good enough.
double AdjustBaselineToGrid(int debug, const FCOORD& direction,
double line_spacing, double line_offset);
private:
// Sets up displacement_modes_ with the top few modes of the perpendicular
// distance of each blob from the given direction vector, after rounding.
void SetupBlobDisplacements(const FCOORD& direction);
// Fits a line in the given direction to blobs that are close to the given
// target_offset perpendicular displacement from the direction. The fit
// error is allowed to be cheat_allowance worse than the existing fit, and
// will still be used.
// If cheat_allowance > 0, the new fit will be good and replace the current
// fit if it has better fit (with cheat) OR its error is below
// max_baseline_error_ and the old fit is marked bad.
// Otherwise the new fit will only replace the old if it is really better,
// or the old fit is marked bad and the new fit has sufficient points, as
// well as being within the max_baseline_error_.
void FitConstrainedIfBetter(int debug, const FCOORD& direction,
double cheat_allowance,
double target_offset);
// Returns the perpendicular distance of the point from the straight
// baseline.
double PerpDistanceFromBaseline(const FCOORD& pt) const;
// Computes the bounding box of the row.
void ComputeBoundingBox();
// The blobs of the row to which this BaselineRow adds extra information
// during baseline fitting. Note that blobs_ could easily come from either
// a TO_ROW or a ColPartition.
BLOBNBOX_LIST* blobs_;
// Bounding box of all the blobs.
TBOX bounding_box_;
// Fitter used to fit lines to the blobs.
DetLineFit fitter_;
// 2 points on the straight baseline.
FCOORD baseline_pt1_;
FCOORD baseline_pt2_;
// Set of modes of displacements. They indicate preferable baseline positions.
GenericVector<double> displacement_modes_;
// Quantization factor used for displacement_modes_.
double disp_quant_factor_;
// Half the acceptance range of blob displacements for computing the
// error during a constrained fit.
double fit_halfrange_;
// Max baseline error before a line is regarded as fitting badly.
double max_baseline_error_;
// The error of fit of the baseline.
double baseline_error_;
// True if this row seems to have a good baseline.
bool good_baseline_;
};
// Class to compute and hold baseline data for a TO_BLOCK.
class BaselineBlock {
public:
BaselineBlock(int debug_level, bool non_text, TO_BLOCK* block);
TO_BLOCK* block() const {
return block_;
}
double skew_angle() const {
return skew_angle_;
}
// Computes and returns the absolute error of the given perp_disp from the
// given linespacing model.
static double SpacingModelError(double perp_disp, double line_spacing,
double line_offset);
// Fits straight line baselines and computes the skew angle from the
// median angle. Returns true if a good angle is found.
// If use_box_bottoms is false, baseline positions are formed by
// considering the outlines of the blobs.
bool FitBaselinesAndFindSkew(bool use_box_bottoms);
// Refits the baseline to a constrained angle, using the stored block
// skew if good enough, otherwise the supplied default skew.
void ParallelizeBaselines(double default_block_skew);
// Sets the parameters in TO_BLOCK that are needed by subsequent processes.
void SetupBlockParameters() const;
// Processing that is required before fitting baseline splines, but requires
// linear baselines in order to be successful:
// Removes noise if required
// Separates out underlines
// Pre-associates blob fragments.
// TODO(rays/joeliu) This entire section of code is inherited from the past
// and could be improved/eliminated.
// page_tr is used to size a debug window.
void PrepareForSplineFitting(ICOORD page_tr, bool remove_noise);
// Fits splines to the textlines, or creates fake QSPLINES from the straight
// baselines that are already on the TO_ROWs.
// As a side-effect, computes the xheights of the rows and the block.
// Although x-height estimation is conceptually separate, it is part of
// detecting perspective distortion and therefore baseline fitting.
void FitBaselineSplines(bool enable_splines, bool show_final_rows,
Textord* textord);
// Draws the (straight) baselines and final blobs colored according to
// what was discarded as noise and what is associated with each row.
void DrawFinalRows(const ICOORD& page_tr);
// Render the generated spline baselines for this block on pix_in.
void DrawPixSpline(Pix* pix_in);
private:
// Top-level line-spacing calculation. Computes an estimate of the line-
// spacing, using the current baselines in the TO_ROWS of the block, and
// then refines it by fitting a regression line to the baseline positions
// as a function of their integer index.
// Returns true if it seems that the model is a reasonable fit to the
// observations.
bool ComputeLineSpacing();
// Computes the deskewed vertical position of each baseline in the block and
// stores them in the given vector.
void ComputeBaselinePositions(const FCOORD& direction,
GenericVector<double>* positions);
// Computes an estimate of the line spacing of the block from the median
// of the spacings between adjacent overlapping textlines.
void EstimateLineSpacing();
// Refines the line spacing of the block by fitting a regression
// line to the deskewed y-position of each baseline as a function of its
// estimated line index, allowing for a small error in the initial linespacing
// and choosing the best available model.
void RefineLineSpacing(const GenericVector<double>& positions);
// Given an initial estimate of line spacing (m_in) and the positions of each
// baseline, computes the line spacing of the block more accurately in m_out,
// and the corresponding intercept in c_out, and the number of spacings seen
// in index_delta. Returns the error of fit to the line spacing model.
double FitLineSpacingModel(const GenericVector<double>& positions,
double m_in, double* m_out, double* c_out,
int* index_delta);
// The block to which this class adds extra information used during baseline
// calculation.
TO_BLOCK* block_;
// The rows in the block that we will be working with.
PointerVector<BaselineRow> rows_;
// Amount of debugging output to provide.
int debug_level_;
// True if the block is non-text (graphic).
bool non_text_block_;
// True if the block has at least one good enough baseline to compute the
// skew angle and therefore skew_angle_ is valid.
bool good_skew_angle_;
// Angle of skew in radians using the conventional anticlockwise from x-axis.
double skew_angle_;
// Current best estimate line spacing in pixels perpendicular to skew_angle_.
double line_spacing_;
// Offset for baseline positions, in pixels. Each baseline is at
// line_spacing_ * n + line_offset_ for integer n, which represents
// [textline] line number in a line numbering system that has line 0 on or
// at least near the x-axis. Not equal to the actual line number of a line
// within a block as most blocks are not near the x-axis.
double line_offset_;
// The error of the line spacing model.
double model_error_;
};
class BaselineDetect {
public:
BaselineDetect(int debug_level, const FCOORD& page_skew,
TO_BLOCK_LIST* blocks);
~BaselineDetect();
// Finds the initial baselines for each TO_ROW in each TO_BLOCK, gathers
// block-wise and page-wise data to smooth small blocks/rows, and applies
// smoothing based on block/page-level skew and block-level linespacing.
void ComputeStraightBaselines(bool use_box_bottoms);
// Computes the baseline splines for each TO_ROW in each TO_BLOCK and
// other associated side-effects, including pre-associating blobs, computing
// x-heights and displaying debug information.
// NOTE that ComputeStraightBaselines must have been called first as this
// sets up data in the TO_ROWs upon which this function depends.
void ComputeBaselineSplinesAndXheights(const ICOORD& page_tr,
bool enable_splines,
bool remove_noise,
bool show_final_rows,
Textord* textord);
private:
// Average (median) skew of the blocks on the page among those that have
// a good angle of their own.
FCOORD page_skew_;
// Amount of debug output to produce.
int debug_level_;
// The blocks that we are working with.
PointerVector<BaselineBlock> blocks_;
};
} // namespace tesseract
#endif // TESSERACT_TEXTORD_BASELINEDETECT_H_
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#include "config.h"
#include "core/editing/iterators/SimplifiedBackwardsTextIterator.h"
#include "core/dom/FirstLetterPseudoElement.h"
#include "core/editing/EditingUtilities.h"
#include "core/editing/iterators/TextIterator.h"
#include "core/html/HTMLElement.h"
#include "core/html/HTMLTextFormControlElement.h"
#include "core/layout/LayoutTextFragment.h"
namespace blink {
static int collapsedSpaceLength(LayoutText* layoutText, int textEnd)
{
const String& text = layoutText->text();
int length = text.length();
for (int i = textEnd; i < length; ++i) {
if (!layoutText->style()->isCollapsibleWhiteSpace(text[i]))
return i - textEnd;
}
return length - textEnd;
}
static int maxOffsetIncludingCollapsedSpaces(Node* node)
{
int offset = caretMaxOffset(node);
if (node->layoutObject() && node->layoutObject()->isText())
offset += collapsedSpaceLength(toLayoutText(node->layoutObject()), offset);
return offset;
}
template <typename Strategy>
SimplifiedBackwardsTextIteratorAlgorithm<Strategy>::SimplifiedBackwardsTextIteratorAlgorithm(const PositionAlgorithm<Strategy>& start, const PositionAlgorithm<Strategy>& end, TextIteratorBehaviorFlags behavior)
: m_node(nullptr)
, m_offset(0)
, m_handledNode(false)
, m_handledChildren(false)
, m_startNode(nullptr)
, m_startOffset(0)
, m_endNode(nullptr)
, m_endOffset(0)
, m_positionNode(nullptr)
, m_positionStartOffset(0)
, m_positionEndOffset(0)
, m_textOffset(0)
, m_textLength(0)
, m_singleCharacterBuffer(0)
, m_havePassedStartNode(false)
, m_shouldHandleFirstLetter(false)
, m_stopsOnFormControls(behavior & TextIteratorStopsOnFormControls)
, m_shouldStop(false)
, m_emitsOriginalText(false)
{
ASSERT(behavior == TextIteratorDefaultBehavior || behavior == TextIteratorStopsOnFormControls);
Node* startNode = start.anchorNode();
if (!startNode)
return;
Node* endNode = end.anchorNode();
int startOffset = start.deprecatedEditingOffset();
int endOffset = end.deprecatedEditingOffset();
init(startNode, endNode, startOffset, endOffset);
}
template <typename Strategy>
void SimplifiedBackwardsTextIteratorAlgorithm<Strategy>::init(Node* startNode, Node* endNode, int startOffset, int endOffset)
{
if (!startNode->offsetInCharacters() && startOffset >= 0) {
// NodeTraversal::childAt() will return 0 if the offset is out of range. We rely on this behavior
// instead of calling countChildren() to avoid traversing the children twice.
if (Node* childAtOffset = NodeTraversal::childAt(*startNode, startOffset)) {
startNode = childAtOffset;
startOffset = 0;
}
}
if (!endNode->offsetInCharacters() && endOffset > 0) {
// NodeTraversal::childAt() will return 0 if the offset is out of range. We rely on this behavior
// instead of calling countChildren() to avoid traversing the children twice.
if (Node* childAtOffset = NodeTraversal::childAt(*endNode, endOffset - 1)) {
endNode = childAtOffset;
endOffset = lastOffsetInNode(endNode);
}
}
m_node = endNode;
m_fullyClippedStack.setUpFullyClippedStack(m_node);
m_offset = endOffset;
m_handledNode = false;
m_handledChildren = !endOffset;
m_startNode = startNode;
m_startOffset = startOffset;
m_endNode = endNode;
m_endOffset = endOffset;
#if ENABLE(ASSERT)
// Need this just because of the assert.
m_positionNode = endNode;
#endif
m_havePassedStartNode = false;
advance();
}
template <typename Strategy>
void SimplifiedBackwardsTextIteratorAlgorithm<Strategy>::advance()
{
ASSERT(m_positionNode);
if (m_shouldStop)
return;
if (m_stopsOnFormControls && HTMLFormControlElement::enclosingFormControlElement(m_node)) {
m_shouldStop = true;
return;
}
m_positionNode = nullptr;
m_textLength = 0;
while (m_node && !m_havePassedStartNode) {
// Don't handle node if we start iterating at [node, 0].
if (!m_handledNode && !(m_node == m_endNode && !m_endOffset)) {
LayoutObject* layoutObject = m_node->layoutObject();
if (layoutObject && layoutObject->isText() && m_node->nodeType() == Node::TEXT_NODE) {
// FIXME: What about CDATA_SECTION_NODE?
if (layoutObject->style()->visibility() == VISIBLE && m_offset > 0)
m_handledNode = handleTextNode();
} else if (layoutObject && (layoutObject->isLayoutPart() || TextIterator::supportsAltText(m_node))) {
if (layoutObject->style()->visibility() == VISIBLE && m_offset > 0)
m_handledNode = handleReplacedElement();
} else {
m_handledNode = handleNonTextNode();
}
if (m_positionNode)
return;
}
if (!m_handledChildren && m_node->hasChildren()) {
m_node = m_node->lastChild();
m_fullyClippedStack.pushFullyClippedState(m_node);
} else {
// Exit empty containers as we pass over them or containers
// where [container, 0] is where we started iterating.
if (!m_handledNode
&& canHaveChildrenForEditing(m_node)
&& m_node->parentNode()
&& (!m_node->lastChild() || (m_node == m_endNode && !m_endOffset))) {
exitNode();
if (m_positionNode) {
m_handledNode = true;
m_handledChildren = true;
return;
}
}
// Exit all other containers.
while (!m_node->previousSibling()) {
if (!advanceRespectingRange(m_node->parentOrShadowHostNode()))
break;
m_fullyClippedStack.pop();
exitNode();
if (m_positionNode) {
m_handledNode = true;
m_handledChildren = true;
return;
}
}
m_fullyClippedStack.pop();
if (advanceRespectingRange(m_node->previousSibling()))
m_fullyClippedStack.pushFullyClippedState(m_node);
else
m_node = nullptr;
}
// For the purpose of word boundary detection,
// we should iterate all visible text and trailing (collapsed) whitespaces.
m_offset = m_node ? maxOffsetIncludingCollapsedSpaces(m_node) : 0;
m_handledNode = false;
m_handledChildren = false;
if (m_positionNode)
return;
}
}
template <typename Strategy>
bool SimplifiedBackwardsTextIteratorAlgorithm<Strategy>::handleTextNode()
{
int startOffset;
int offsetInNode;
LayoutText* layoutObject = handleFirstLetter(startOffset, offsetInNode);
if (!layoutObject)
return true;
String text = layoutObject->text();
if (!layoutObject->firstTextBox() && text.length() > 0)
return true;
m_positionEndOffset = m_offset;
m_offset = startOffset + offsetInNode;
m_positionNode = m_node;
m_positionStartOffset = m_offset;
ASSERT(0 <= m_positionStartOffset - offsetInNode && m_positionStartOffset - offsetInNode <= static_cast<int>(text.length()));
ASSERT(1 <= m_positionEndOffset - offsetInNode && m_positionEndOffset - offsetInNode <= static_cast<int>(text.length()));
ASSERT(m_positionStartOffset <= m_positionEndOffset);
m_textLength = m_positionEndOffset - m_positionStartOffset;
m_textOffset = m_positionStartOffset - offsetInNode;
m_textContainer = text;
m_singleCharacterBuffer = 0;
RELEASE_ASSERT(static_cast<unsigned>(m_textOffset + m_textLength) <= text.length());
return !m_shouldHandleFirstLetter;
}
template <typename Strategy>
LayoutText* SimplifiedBackwardsTextIteratorAlgorithm<Strategy>::handleFirstLetter(int& startOffset, int& offsetInNode)
{
LayoutText* layoutObject = toLayoutText(m_node->layoutObject());
startOffset = (m_node == m_startNode) ? m_startOffset : 0;
if (!layoutObject->isTextFragment()) {
offsetInNode = 0;
return layoutObject;
}
LayoutTextFragment* fragment = toLayoutTextFragment(layoutObject);
int offsetAfterFirstLetter = fragment->start();
if (startOffset >= offsetAfterFirstLetter) {
ASSERT(!m_shouldHandleFirstLetter);
offsetInNode = offsetAfterFirstLetter;
return layoutObject;
}
if (!m_shouldHandleFirstLetter && offsetAfterFirstLetter < m_offset) {
m_shouldHandleFirstLetter = true;
offsetInNode = offsetAfterFirstLetter;
return layoutObject;
}
m_shouldHandleFirstLetter = false;
offsetInNode = 0;
ASSERT(fragment->isRemainingTextLayoutObject());
ASSERT(fragment->firstLetterPseudoElement());
LayoutObject* pseudoElementLayoutObject = fragment->firstLetterPseudoElement()->layoutObject();
ASSERT(pseudoElementLayoutObject);
ASSERT(pseudoElementLayoutObject->slowFirstChild());
LayoutText* firstLetterLayoutObject = toLayoutText(pseudoElementLayoutObject->slowFirstChild());
m_offset = firstLetterLayoutObject->caretMaxOffset();
m_offset += collapsedSpaceLength(firstLetterLayoutObject, m_offset);
return firstLetterLayoutObject;
}
template <typename Strategy>
bool SimplifiedBackwardsTextIteratorAlgorithm<Strategy>::handleReplacedElement()
{
unsigned index = m_node->nodeIndex();
// We want replaced elements to behave like punctuation for boundary
// finding, and to simply take up space for the selection preservation
// code in moveParagraphs, so we use a comma. Unconditionally emit
// here because this iterator is only used for boundary finding.
emitCharacter(',', m_node->parentNode(), index, index + 1);
return true;
}
template <typename Strategy>
bool SimplifiedBackwardsTextIteratorAlgorithm<Strategy>::handleNonTextNode()
{
// We can use a linefeed in place of a tab because this simple iterator is only used to
// find boundaries, not actual content. A linefeed breaks words, sentences, and paragraphs.
if (TextIterator::shouldEmitNewlineForNode(m_node, m_emitsOriginalText) || TextIterator::shouldEmitNewlineAfterNode(*m_node) || TextIterator::shouldEmitTabBeforeNode(m_node)) {
unsigned index = m_node->nodeIndex();
// The start of this emitted range is wrong. Ensuring correctness would require
// VisiblePositions and so would be slow. previousBoundary expects this.
emitCharacter('\n', m_node->parentNode(), index + 1, index + 1);
}
return true;
}
template <typename Strategy>
void SimplifiedBackwardsTextIteratorAlgorithm<Strategy>::exitNode()
{
if (TextIterator::shouldEmitNewlineForNode(m_node, m_emitsOriginalText) || TextIterator::shouldEmitNewlineBeforeNode(*m_node) || TextIterator::shouldEmitTabBeforeNode(m_node)) {
// The start of this emitted range is wrong. Ensuring correctness would require
// VisiblePositions and so would be slow. previousBoundary expects this.
emitCharacter('\n', m_node, 0, 0);
}
}
template <typename Strategy>
void SimplifiedBackwardsTextIteratorAlgorithm<Strategy>::emitCharacter(UChar c, Node* node, int startOffset, int endOffset)
{
m_singleCharacterBuffer = c;
m_positionNode = node;
m_positionStartOffset = startOffset;
m_positionEndOffset = endOffset;
m_textOffset = 0;
m_textLength = 1;
}
template <typename Strategy>
bool SimplifiedBackwardsTextIteratorAlgorithm<Strategy>::advanceRespectingRange(Node* next)
{
if (!next)
return false;
m_havePassedStartNode |= m_node == m_startNode;
if (m_havePassedStartNode)
return false;
m_node = next;
return true;
}
template <typename Strategy>
Node* SimplifiedBackwardsTextIteratorAlgorithm<Strategy>::startContainer() const
{
if (m_positionNode)
return m_positionNode;
return m_startNode;
}
template <typename Strategy>
int SimplifiedBackwardsTextIteratorAlgorithm<Strategy>::endOffset() const
{
if (m_positionNode)
return m_positionEndOffset;
return m_startOffset;
}
template <typename Strategy>
PositionAlgorithm<Strategy> SimplifiedBackwardsTextIteratorAlgorithm<Strategy>::startPosition() const
{
if (m_positionNode)
return PositionAlgorithm<Strategy>::createLegacyEditingPosition(m_positionNode, m_positionStartOffset);
return PositionAlgorithm<Strategy>::createLegacyEditingPosition(m_startNode, m_startOffset);
}
template <typename Strategy>
PositionAlgorithm<Strategy>SimplifiedBackwardsTextIteratorAlgorithm<Strategy>::endPosition() const
{
if (m_positionNode)
return PositionAlgorithm<Strategy>::createLegacyEditingPosition(m_positionNode, m_positionEndOffset);
return PositionAlgorithm<Strategy>::createLegacyEditingPosition(m_startNode, m_startOffset);
}
template class CORE_TEMPLATE_EXPORT SimplifiedBackwardsTextIteratorAlgorithm<EditingStrategy>;
template class CORE_TEMPLATE_EXPORT SimplifiedBackwardsTextIteratorAlgorithm<EditingInComposedTreeStrategy>;
} // namespace blink
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Extern at the Missouri Attorney General
Missouri Attorney General January 2015 - April 2015
Wuestling & James August 2014 - April 2015
St. Clair County August 2014 - December 2014
United States Attorney's Office May 2014 - August 2014
St. Louis City Board of Aldermen General Counsel August 2013 - April 2014
St. Louis County Circuit Court Division 16 May 2013 - August 2013
The Hein Law Firm April 2012 - August 2012
Matt Ashley
Associate Attorney at White Bear & Ankele
Doctor of Law (JD), Environmental Law and Land Use
University of Colorado at Boulder 2003 — 2007
Bachelor of Arts, Environmental, Population, and Organismic Biology
White Bear Ankele Tanaka & Waldron May 2015 - Present
Metropolitan State University of Denver August 2014 - May 2015
Mountain Area Land Trust February 2013 - May 2015
Saint Louis University August 2009 - May 2012
City of St. Louis August 2011 - December 2011
Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts May 2011 - August 2011
Missouri Coalition for the Environment June 2010 - August 2010
The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company LLC September 2007 - September 2008
University of Colorado at Boulder August 2003 - May 2007
Legal Research, Legal Writing, Environmental Law, Contract Management, Hearings, Community Outreach, Land Conservation, Contract Development, Project Management, Environmental Impact..., Environmental Litigation, Water Law, Real Estate Transactions, Contract Negotiation, Friendly Personality, Mountain Biking, Environmental Issues, Policy Analysis, Westlaw, Lexis, Land Use
Matt Braunel
Intellectual Property Attorney at Thompson Coburn LLP.
Juris Doctor (J.D.)
Matt Diehr
Attorney at Husch Blackwell
Tulane University 2002 — 2006
Husch Blackwell September 2013 - Present
Jensen, Bartlett & Schelp, LLC November 2010 - August 2013
Trial Practice, Civil Litigation, Appeals, Torts, Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Legal Research, Legal Writing, Criminal Defense
Matt Fakhoury
Attorney/Owner at XpungeChicago
Bachelor of Science, Commerce
Law Offices of M. Fakhoury July 2011 - Present
XpungeChicago July 2011 - Present
DePaul University January 2007 - Present
City of Chicago, Department of Administrative Hearings 2011 - 2012
Cook County State's Attorney's Office February 2006 - June 2011
Criminal Law, Criminal Defense, Litigation, Courts, Trial Advocacy, Trial Practice, Criminal Litigation, White Collar Criminal..., Trials, Administrative Law, Appeals, Civil Litigation, Hearings, Legal Research, Family Law, Personal Injury, Legal Writing, Felonies
Matt Ference
JD, Law School
Purdue University - Krannert School of Management 1984 — 1988
BS, Business
RW Troxell 2005 - Present
GM Snyder 1995 - 2005
KPMG Peat Marwick 1994 - 1995
Arthur Andersen 1992 - 1994
Insurance, Property & Casualty..., Health Insurance, General Insurance, Commercial Insurance, Underwriting, Legal Liability, Casualty, Risk Management, Account Management, Strategic Planning, Long-term Care, Life Insurance, Employee Benefits, New Business Development, Disability Insurance, Team Building, Customer Service, Workers Compensation, Brokers
Matthew Bigham
Associate Attorney at Danna McKitrick, P.C.
BA, Political Science, Business
Jacobson Press & Fields, P.C. February 2015 - Present
Danna McKitrick, P.C. June 2014 - February 2015
Freeark, Harvey & Mendillo, P.C. September 2012 - May 2014
Blake Law Group PC November 2011 - September 2012
Estate Planning, Legal Research, Legal Writing, Westlaw, Civil Litigation, Trial Practice, Professional Malpractice, Commercial Litigation, Torts, Corporate Law, Personal Injury
Matthew Clifford
Associate Attorney at Franke Schultz & Mullen
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Civil Engineering
Franke Schultz & Mullen August 2012 - Present
The Simon Law Firm May 2011 - May 2012
Law Office of Mark Brown May 2010 - August 2010
Burns & McDonnell May 2006 - August 2008
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Writing, Social Media, Public Speaking, Research, Intellectual Property, AutoCAD, Outlook, Westlaw, LexisNexis, Trials, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Legal Research, Civil Litigation
Matthew Clune
Attorney at Martin, Pringle, Oliver, Wallace & Bauer, LLP
BA, English, Business Administration
St. Thomas Aquinas 1990 — 1994
Martin, Pringle, Oliver, Wallace & Bauer, LLP 2012 - Present
Spradley & Riesmeyer 2006 - 2012
Dysart Taylor 2003 - 2006
Jackson County Judge Thomas C. Clark 2002 - 2003
Civil Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Intellectual Property, Trade Secrets, Litigation, Non-compete Litigation, Insurance, Appeals, Product Liability, Trademarks, Personal Injury, Trials, Legal Issues, Estate Planning
Matthew Durbin
Master's Degree, Criminology & Criminal Justice
Marquette University 2001 — 2005
Bachelor's Degree, Criminology & Law Studies
St. Louis County June 2014 - Present
McGurk's May 2001 - March 2014
St. Louis County April 2013 - July 2013
Madison County Illinois April 2012 - April 2013
Dependable Team Player, Close Attention to..., Oral & Written..., Time Management, Legal Research, Legal Writing, Legal
Matthew Fields
Shareholder at Jacobson Press & Fields PC
B.S., Political Science/Pre-Law
Jacobson Press & Fields PC February 2015 - Present
Danna McKitrick, P.C. February 2013 - January 2015
Butsch Fields & Associates LLC August 2012 - January 2013
Butsch Simeri Fields LLC November 2008 - August 2012
Green Jacobson & Butsch P.C. February 2002 - October 2008
Rabbitt, Pitzer & Snodgrass, P.C.. October 2000 - February 2002
Asbestos Litigation, Litigation, Property & Casualty..., Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury, Civil Litigation, Appeals, Claim, Courts, Dispute, Legal Research, Legal Writing, Liability, Licensing, Mediation, Product Liability, Torts, Toxic Tort, Trial Practice, Trials
Matthew Ghio
Ghio & Desilets LLP
Honors A.B., History and Art History
Ghio & Desilets LLP May 2009 - Present
GST Properties LLC 2011 - 2013
Law Offices of Matthew J. Ghio November 2008 - April 2009
Chackes, Carlson, Spritzer & Ghio, LLP April 2003 - October 2008
Van Amburg, Chackes, Carlson & Spritzer, LLP August 1996 - April 2003
Missouri Court of Appeals - Eastern District June 1995 - August 1996
United States District Court - Western District of Tennessee June 1994 - June 1995
Employment Litigation, Historic Preservation, Art, Litigation, Civil Litigation, Mediation, Legal Research, Courts, Legal Writing, Licensing, Arbitration, Dispute Resolution, Legal Advice, Real Estate
Matthew Guymon
Vice President at Twain Financial Partners
B.A., Political Science, History
National University of Ireland, Galway 2001 — 2001
Twain Financial Partners July 2014 - Present
Husch Blackwell LLP January 2007 - July 2014
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri, Honorable David D. Noce August 2004 - December 2004
U.S. House of Representatives May 2000 - August 2000
Real Estate Development, Construction Law, Investment Properties, Loans, Real Estate Transactions, Corporate Law, Investments, Finance, Equities, Real Estate, Financial Structuring, Real Estate Financing, Private Equity, Tax Credits, Historic Rehabilitation..., Real Estate Economics
Matthew Haas
Associate Attorney at Brown & James, P.C.
BSBA, Finance Major, Accounting Minor
Mount Michael Benedictine High School 2001 — 2005
Brown & James, P.C. August 2013 - Present
Pleban & Petruska Law, L.L.C. September 2012 - April 2013
Betterman Law Offices May 2011 - August 2012
BKD, LLP February 2010 - August 2010
First Data Corporation May 2008 - August 2008
First Data Resources May 2007 - August 2007
Microsoft Office, Legal Research, Legal Writing, Problem Solving, Analysis, Corporate Law, Leadership, Civil Litigation, Research, Strategy, Microsoft Excel, Westlaw, Financial Modeling, Criminal Law, Consulting, Courts, Finance, Pleadings, Legal Issues, Trials, Litigation, Appeals, Product Liability, Torts
Matthew Iodice
Student at Saint Louis University School of Law
Matthew Jagger
Shareholder at Hall Render Killian Heath & Lyman
J.D., Health Law Focus
Hall Render August 2005 - Present
Missouri Attorney General May 2004 - August 2004
SBC June 2000 - August 2002
Healthcare, Mergers, Hospitals, Corporate Law, Contract Negotiation, Civil Litigation, Non-profits, HIPAA, Risk Management, Health Law, Strategic Planning, Microsoft Office, Mergers & Acquisitions, Health Care Compliance, Project Management, Transactional Law, Legal Writing, Legal Research, Physicians, Nonprofits, Health Care Fraud, Corporate Governance
Matthew J. Rossiter
Lawyer/Partner at Rossiter & Boock, LLC
Bachelor of Science (BS), Business Administration/Finance
Rossiter & Boock, LLC 2007 - Present
Matthew J. Rossiter, LLC March 2002 - May 2007
St. Louis, Missouri January 1998 - March 2002
Associate Attorney February 1995 - January 1998
Fiduciary Litigation, Trial Practice, Estate Administration, Estate Planning, Fiduciary, Torts, LLC, Public Liability, Wills, Civil Litigation, Small Business, Litigation, Criminal Defense, Courts, Appeals, Product Liability, Legal Research, Family Law, Powers of Attorney, Elder Law, Commercial Litigation, Trials, Medical Malpractice, Construction Law, Trusts, Guardianship, Wrongful Death, Mediation
Matthew Leppert
Partner at Schuchat Cook & Werner
Saint Xavier High School 1988 — 1992
Schuchat Cook & Werner May 2003 - Present
Humana Military Healthcare Services July 1998 - July 2000
HealthPartners January 1998 - July 1998
Humana Military Healthcare Services January 1996 - January 1998
Humana July 1991 - August 1991
Employee Benefits, ERISA, Litigation, Training, Legal Research, Health Law, Courts
Matthew Luby, Esq.
Matthew Luby, Attorney at Law
Bachelor of Science (BS), Organizational and Political Communication
Joshua M. Javits, Arbitrator September 2012 - June 2014
Transport Workers Union of America 2012 - 2013
Phillips, Richard and Rind P.A. June 2011 - August 2011
Labor Relations, Railway Labor Act, Labor Arbitration, Legal Research Skills, Collective Bargaining, Employment Contracts, Employment Law, Legal Writing, Employment...
Matthew Rodman
Rule 13 Municipal Prosecutor at St. Louis City Counselor's Office
University of Nevada-Reno 2009 — 2013
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Criminal Justice
St. Louis City Counselor's Office August 2015 - Present
United States Soccer Federation May 2012 - Present
St. Louis City Circuit Attorney's Office May 2015 - August 2015
Saint Louis University School of Law August 2014 - May 2015
Clark County Courts, District Court: Dept. 11 June 2014 - August 2014
University of Nevada Reno August 2011 - May 2013
University of Nevada Reno May 2012 - August 2012
Bailey Kennedy, LLP May 2011 - August 2011
Legal Research, Public Speaking, Legal Writing, Research, PowerPoint
Matthew Schuh
Attorney at Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP
B.A., Economics/Political Science
Murphysboro High School 1996 — 2000
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP August 2012 - Present
Herzog Crebs October 2007 - August 2012
Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen May 2006 - August 2006
United States Senator John Cornyn May 2005 - August 2005
Toxic Tort, Civil Litigation, Litigation, Product Liability, Legal Research, Asbestos, Courts, Legal Writing, Depositions, Torts, Trials, Hearings, Employment Law, Wrongful Death, Legal Issues, Trial Practice, Motions
Matthew Stahlhut
Vice President; Senior Operations Manager at Bank of America
Doctor of Law (J.D.), Business and Transactional Law
The New School University 1999 — 2003
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Jazz Performance
Bank of America May 2011 - Present
The Law Firm of John Evans November 2007 - May 2010
Wolfgram & Associates, P.C. September 2005 - May 2007
Litigation, Civil Litigation, Legal Research, Legal Writing, Commercial Litigation, Mediation, Product Liability, Arbitration, Personal Injury, Courts, Trade Secrets, Trademarks, Process Improvement, Process Engineering, Management, Negotiation, Coaching, Employee Training, Presentations, Microsoft Excel
matt jessee
Policy Advisor
The George Washington University - School of Business 2007 — 2010
Bryan Cave March 2005 - Present
Matt McArthur
Attorney at Evans & Dixon
B.S.B.A, Finance and Banking with an emphasis in Real Estate
St. Louis University High 2003 — 2007
Evans & Dixon September 2012 - Present
Brown & James, P.C. September 2010 - September 2012
National Sports Agency 2003 - 2007
Civil Litigation, Litigation, Legal Research, Personal Injury, Legal Writing, Trials, Commercial Litigation, Criminal Defense, Hearings, Criminal Law, Torts, Mediation, Westlaw
Matt Morrissey
Owner, Matthew J. Morrissey & Associates, Ltd.
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), History/Political Science
Leo High School 1969 — 1973
Matthew J. Morrissey & Associates, Ltd. 1987 - Present
Johnson & Bell, Ltd. 1984 - 1987
US Navy September 1980 - August 1984
Litigation, Automobile Accidents, Personal Injury, Public Liability, Class Actions, Legal Research, Legal Assistance, Defense, Torts, Trial Practice, Courts, Depositions, Product Liability, Motions, Liability, Legal Writing, Appeals, Criminal Defense, Civil Litigation, Hearings, Trials, Accident, Claim
Matt Petersen
Associate at Bryan Cave
Wartburg College 2002 — 2006
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Finance, General
Bryan Cave May 2010 - Present
City of Chicago January 2010 - April 2010
Bryan Cave May 2008 - August 2008
Bozeman, Neighbour, Patton, & Noe LLP May 2007 - August 2007
Olsen Enginerering LLC June 2006 - August 2006
Engelbrecht, Ackerman, & Hassman August 2005 - May 2006
Quad City Bank & Trust June 2005 - August 2005
Litigation, Courts, Depositions, Pleadings
Matt Prickett
Asst. Vice President, New Markets and Historic Tax Credit Investments at U.S .Bancorp Community Development Corporation
JD Candidate, Civil Litigation; Commercial Transactions
Master of Arts, Public Policy Studies/Urban Affairs
BA, Sociology
U.S .Bancorp Community Development Corporation May 2012 - Present
Clayco November 2004 - February 2009
City of O'Fallon, Missouri January 2002 - October 2004
St Louis County Department of Planning January 1998 - January 2002
Real Estate, Real Estate Development, Due Diligence, Litigation, Leases, Investment Properties, Zoning, Government, Commercial Real Estate, Disposition, Negotiation, Project Planning, Analysis, Land Use, Construction
Matt Vigil
Assistant Public Defender at Missouri State Public Defender System
JD, Civil Litigation
Grinnell College 2003 — 2007
Missouri State Public Defender System October 2012 - Present
Saint Louis University Legal Clinic March 2012 - October 2012
Wuestling & James, L.C August 2010 - May 2011
The Rubin Law Firm, LLC. August 2009 - August 2010
Criminal Defense, Criminal Law, Litigation, Family Law, Legal Research, Westlaw, Civil Litigation, Legal Writing, Mediation, Trials
Maura Kelly
Associate General Counsel at McCarthy Building Companies, Inc.
Maureen Hughes Bulgrin
Associate Attorney at Brown & Crouppen
J.D., Civil Litigation
Brown & Crouppen September 2013 - Present
Stange Law Firm, PC February 2013 - June 2013
Goffstein Raskas September 2009 - February 2012
Cremer Kopon Shaughnessy & Spina 2007 - 2009
Litigation, Legal Research, Civil Litigation, Legal Writing, Courts, Personal Injury, Family Law, Trial Practice, Hearings, Mediation, Trials, Corporate Law, Arbitration, Depositions
Mavis Kennedy
Attorney at South County Senior Law & Estate Planning Center, LLC
Maxwell Lim
Real Estate at Amdocs, Inc.
Amdocs May 2013 - Present
Lim Law Office September 2007 - Present
ICL - Performance Products LP January 2014 - May 2014
Catholic Legal Assistance Ministry August 2013 - December 2013
Saint Louis University Law School September 2012 - December 2012
Habitat for Neighborhood Businesses May 2010 - May 2011
Lutheran Senior Services September 2005 - May 2006
QuickBooks, Management, Microsoft Office, Accounting, Microsoft Word, Nonprofits, Customer Service, Financial Accounting, Non-profits, Marketing, Legal Research, Legal Writing, Legal Documents, Tax Law, Alternative Dispute..., USCIS forms, Immigration Law, Family Law, Contract Negotiation, Real Estate Transactions, Commercial Real Estate, Budgets, Public Speaking, Inventory Management, Financial Analysis, System Administration, Strategic Planning, Data Entry, PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, Research, Analysis
Maya Patel, JD/MHA
Associate General Counsel & Privacy Officer at Corizon Health
Saint Louis University School of Public Health 2002 — 2005
M.H.A., Health Administration
JD, Certificate of Health Law
B.S., Psychology
Corizon Health October 2013 - Present
Corizon Health June 2011 - October 2013
Correctional Medical Services, Inc. January 2007 - June 2011
Correctional Medical Services, Inc. December 2005 - January 2007
Corporate Law, HIPAA, Healthcare Management, Healthcare, Employment Law, Healthcare Information..., Contract Negotiation, Health Law, Healthcare Industry, Pharmaceutical Industry, Pharmacy, Health Care Compliance, Managed Care, Medicaid, Administrative Law, Hospitals, Physician Relations, EHR
Maylin Mahoney
attorney at Maylin Mahoney, ESQ.
Maylin Mahoney, ESQ. October 2006 - Present
Missouri Asian-American Bar Association 2003 - 2004
Mayo Alao
Saint Louis University College for Public Health and Social Justice 2013 — 2016
Master of Public Health (MPH), Health Management and Policy
Hall Render May 2015 - Present
Express Scripts Inc. May 2014 - March 2015
Missouri-American Water Company May 2013 - August 2013
Franklin D. Azar & Associates, P.C. July 2010 - August 2012
Legal Research, Legal Writing, Westlaw, Research, Public Speaking, Microsoft Office, Social Media, Fundraising, Customer Service, Microsoft Word, LexisNexis, Courts, Litigation
Mayra Flesner
Attorney at Law at Flesner Wentzel
Flesner Wentzel July 2013 - Present
Lincoln County Public Defender May 2009 - May 2010
Sue Shear Institute for Women in Public Life 2005 - 2007
Family Law, Legal Research, Civil Litigation, Defense, Immigration Law, International Law, Prenuptial Agreements, Wills, Mediation, Separation, Juvenile Law, Criminal Defense, Trials, Depositions, Litigation, Legal Assistance, Enforcement, Hearings, Modifications, Legal Writing, Legal Issues, Courts, Trial Practice, Domestic Relations, Estate Planning, Paternity, Legal Advice, Adoption, Litigation Support, Criminal Law, Divorce Law, Felonies, Trusts, Powers of Attorney, Guardianship, Administrative Law, Bankruptcy, Alternative Dispute..., Westlaw
M. Christine Markel
Bachelor of Arts, Political Science
Nerinx Hall High School
Iascone & Associates February 2008 - May 2010
Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office May 2006 - December 2006
Shuart & Associates June 2005 - December 2005
BRYAN CAVE LLP September 2005 - October 2005
PALMER LEGAL STAFFING January 2004 - May 2004
Evans & Dixon November 2002 - November 2003
Circuit Attorney's Office January 2002 - May 2002
Litigation, Legal Research, Legal Writing, Trials, Personal Injury, Hearings, Criminal Law, Civil Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Courts, Motions, Product Liability
McLane Poteet
Senior Vice President at Sterling Bank "Conforming to the Highest Standard"
University of Missouri-Columbia, College of Business
Sterling Bank "Conforming to the Highest Standard" January 2013 - Present
Loans, Commercial Banking, Credit, Commercial Lending, Small Business Lending, Credit Analysis, Financial Analysis, Investments, Strategic Planning, Sales, Trade Finance, Treasury Management, Management, Consumer Lending, Customer Service, Loan Origination, Public Speaking
Megan Bricker
Associate at Swanson, Martin & Bell, LLP
B.A., Political Science, History, Philosophy
Swanson, Martin & Bell, LLP October 2014 - Present
Kernell Law Firm, P.C. January 2011 - October 2014
Roberts, Perryman, Bomkamp & Meives, P.C. 2008 - January 2011
Simon Passanante, P.C. 2007 - 2008
Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission 2006 - 2007
Personal Injury, Legal Research, Litigation, Civil Litigation, Product Liability, Legal Writing, Commercial Litigation, Courts, Trials, Westlaw, Appeals, Family Law, Personal Injury..., Arbitration, Mediation, Contract Negotiation
Megan Davia Mikhail
Loyola University Chicago School of Law 2005 — 2006
Attorney at Law January 2015 - Present
U.S. Department of Energy October 2006 - January 2015
University of Chicago Hospitals and Health System 2005 - 2006
Megan Flaskamper
Senior Corporate Counsel at Centene Corporation
B.A., Political Science/Economics, magna cum laude
Centene Corporation December 2007 - Present
Polsinelli Shughart December 2005 - December 2007
Armstrong Teasdale LLP November 1999 - December 2005
Megan Nolan
Associate Attorney at Johnson & Johnson
Murray State University 2002 — 2006
Johnson & Johnson September 2013 - Present
Stange Law Firm, LLC July 2012 - August 2013
Blake Law Group PC June 2010 - July 2012
Klar, Izsak & Stenger, LLC September 2009 - June 2010
Klar, Izsak & Stenger, LLC November 2007 - September 2009
St. Louis University Legal Clinic August 2008 - May 2009
Goldenhersh & Goldenhersh, P.C. May 2007 - August 2007
Murray State University Women's Center August 2003 - May 2006
Tropical Sno August 1999 - May 2006
City of O'Fallon May 2003 - August 2005
Family Law, Divorce, Child Custody, Child Support, Legal Research, Depositions, Trial Practice, Legal Issues, Wills, Pleadings, Paternity, Guardianship, Appellate Practice, Court Appearances, Arbitration, Attorneys, Legal Advice, Automobile Accidents, Legal Documents, Lexis, Document Drafting, Domestic Relations, Prenuptial Agreements, Divorce Law, Powers of Attorney
Megan Robert
Doctor of Law (J.D.), Health Law
Bachelor of Health Science, Communication Sciences and Disorders
Consumer Direct September 2015 - Present
Saint Louis University July 2013 - Present
The Law Offices of Kathleen E. Shaul, P.C. January 2015 - August 2015
Legal Services of Eastern Missouri May 2014 - December 2014
Cosmetic Laser Center April 2013 - August 2013
DSW August 2012 - April 2013
TouchPoint Autism Services January 2011 - May 2012
Customer Service, Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Telephone Skills, Microsoft Excel, Social Media, Marketing, Teamwork, Event Planning, Public Speaking, Time Management, Facebook, Legal Research, Research, Social Networking, Leadership, Health Law, Legal Writing, Team Management
Megan Seper
Legal Counsel at Blackhawk Network
Missouri State University 1998 — 2002
Bachelor's Degree, Summa Cum Laude from the Honors College, Business Administration
Blackhawk Network April 2011 - Present
Steven M. Hamburg, P.C January 2010 - March 2011
Gallop Johnson & Neuman August 2005 - September 2008
AML, Westlaw, Contract Negotiation, Legal Writing, Fraud, Negotiation, Corporate Law, Business Development, Intellectual Property, Legal Research
Megen Hoffman
Law Offices of Rick Barry, P.C. October 2006 - Present
Law Offices of Rick Barry, P.C. September 2004 - October 2006
Megen Siebelts
Attorney at Law Offices of Rick Barry, P.C.
Meggie Farrell
Attorney at Farrell Law Firm
Juris Doctrate, Law
Farrell Law Firm January 2009 - Present
Meghan Flaherty
Greater Salt Lake City Area
Compliance Manager at Intermountain Healthcare
J.D., Health Law
B.A, History and International Studies
Intermountain Healthcare May 2014 - Present
Abbott September 2010 - April 2014
Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Regional Counsel August 2009 - December 2009
Department of Health and Human Services April 2009 - August 2009
HealthOne June 2008 - August 2008
Litigation, Legal Research, Health Law, Legal Writing, Administrative Law, Employment Law, Privacy Law, HIPAA, Healthcare, Medical Malpractice, Westlaw, Research, Civil Litigation, Mediation, Commercial Litigation, Appeals, Lexis, Health Policy, Policy Analysis
Meghan Kane
Wood River, Illinois
Associate Attorney at Unsell & Schattnik
Doctor of Law (J.D.), Employment Law
Unsell, Schattnik & Phillips, P.C. November 2011 - Present
Unsell & Schattnik January 2009 - November 2011
Thompson Coburn LLP. May 2008 - August 2008
Lear Werts LLP September 2006 - May 2008
Litigation, Westlaw, Legal Writing, Legal Research, Civil Litigation, Appeals, Personal Injury, Hearings, Courts
Meghan Karhliker
Assistant General Counsel at Memorial Health System
J.D., Health Care Law*, International and Comparative Law*
Memorial Health System September 2013 - Present
Memorial Health System November 2011 - September 2013
Leadership Springfield 2012 - 2013
Memorial Health System November 2010 - October 2011
Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of the Regional Counsel January 2010 - April 2010
United States Attorney's Office - Central District of Illinois May 2009 - July 2009
Legal Writing, International Law, Health Law, Legal Research, HIPAA, Administrative Law, Healthcare, Corporate Law, Legal Issues, Legal Advice, Due Diligence, Leadership
Meghan Kelly
Finance Manager, US Retail Field Finance at Starbucks
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management 2010 — 2012
MBA, Finance & International Business
JD, Concentrations in Tax & Business Transactions; Certificate in International and Comparative Law
The University of New Mexico 2001 — 2005
BBA, Accounting & Finance
Starbucks April 2014 - Present
Starbucks December 2012 - April 2014
Starbucks July 2012 - December 2012
Target June 2011 - August 2011
Deloitte August 2008 - May 2010
Deloitte June 2007 - August 2007
Financial Modeling, Accounting, Excel, Data Analysis, PowerPoint
Meg Thomas
Associate at Carmody MacDonald P.C.
Bachelor of Science (BS), Civil Engineering
Melanie Cowart (home)
Senior Counsel at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Melanie G. Ramey
CEO at The HOPE of Wisconsin
MSW, Social Work
The HOPE of Wisconsin January 2003 - Present
League of Women Voters July 2006 - 2012
Community Health Charities 2004 - 2009
Madison Community Foundation January 1997 - December 2006
The Center for Creative Management January 1998 - January 2003
YWCA-Madison April 1990 - November 1997
Non-profits, Fundraising, Program Development, Volunteer Management, Community Outreach, Event Planning, Grants, Public Speaking, Grant Writing, Leadership, Board Development, Program Management, Nonprofits, Community Development, Leadership Development, Healthcare, Public Relations, Strategic Planning, Social Media, Marketing Communications, Philanthropy, Coaching, Organizational..., Volunteering, Higher Education, Team Building, Staff Development, Strategic Communications, Program Evaluation, Public Policy, Policy Analysis, Policy
Melanie Ohmes Moredock
Director of 30 Days to Family at Foster & Adoptive Care Coalition
Foster & Adoptive Care Coalition February 2011 - Present
Foster Care, Social Services, Adolescents, Program Development, Case Managment, Community Outreach, Program Implementation, Training, Workshop Facilitation, Public Speaking, Non-profit Leadership, Legal, Mediation, Consulting, Child Advocacy, Child Welfare, Family Services, Community Engagement, Nonprofits, Staff Supervision, Employee Training, Parenting Skills..., Adoption, Case Management Services, Community Organizing, Crisis Intervention, Program Evaluation, Case Management
Melanie Renken
Labor & Employment Counsel at Aegion Corporation
Master of Arts, Journalism & Mass Communication
Bachelor of Journalism, Journalism
Francis Howell
Aegion Corporation October 2014 - Present
Greensfelder, Hemker & Gale, P.C. September 2007 - October 2014
MasterCard 2001 - 2004
Fleishman-Hillard 1999 - 2001
Buckeye International September 1996 - May 1998
Melissa Crowe Schopfer
Shareholder at Simmons Hanly Conroy LLC
BS, Economics, Finance
Simmons Hanly Conroy LLC April 2004 - Present
Toxic Tort, Litigation, Asbestos, Product Liability, Civil Litigation, Personal Injury, Personal Injury..., Trial Practice, Depositions, Courts, Trials
Melissa Griffeth
Richland Community College 1995 — 1997
AA, General
Law Office of Melissa Griffeth LLC August 2014 - Present
Law Offices of Pari Sheth LLC August 2012 - July 2015
Hudson Legal (temporary assignment with Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP) April 2012 - July 2012
Williams Venker & Sanders LLC February 2011 - March 2012
Dubail Judge, P.C. May 2004 - October 2010
Criminal Law, Document Review, Litigation, Legal Research, Courts, Criminal Defense, Civil Litigation, Personal Injury, Immigration Law, Family Law, Domestic Relations, Motions, Hearings, Pleadings
Melissa Leavy
Attorney/Owner at The Elder Care Law Practice, LLC
Juris Doctor, Tax Concentration in Estate Planning
Bachelor's Social Work, Community Development, Political Science
The Elde Care Law Practice,LLC 2014 - Present
The Elder Law and Disability Advocacy Firm March 2012 - September 2014
City of Collinsville, IL March 2007 - May 2010
Legal Writing, Editing, Appeals, Trusts, Legal Research, Westlaw, Litigation, Wills, Elder Law, Civil Litigation, Family Law, Trial Practice, Legal Assistance, Courts, Commercial Litigation, Mediation, Estate Planning, Estate Administration
Melissa Moss
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - College of Business 1997 — 2001
BS, Finance
Law Office of Melissa Moss January 2012 - Present
Page Law, LLC June 2010 - December 2011
The Todt Law Firm, PC March 2008 - June 2010
Madison County State's Attorney's Office August 2005 - March 2008
Domestic Relations, Family Law, Litigation, Depositions, Legal Advice, Commercial Litigation, Trial Practice, Legal Writing, Civil Litigation, Legal Assistance, Prenuptial Agreements, Torts, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury
Melissa Overmann
Independent Consultant at Mary Kay Idependent Consultant
Doctor of Law (J.D.), General, Criminal and Employment Law
Walsh University 2008 — 2012
Bachelor's degree, Psychology
Mary Kay Idependent Consultant September 2014 - Present
Madison County State's Attorney April 2014 - Present
LexisNexis March 2013 - Present
Federal Public Defender May 2013 - August 2013
Sam R. Bradley Attorney at Law May 2010 - August 2012
Legal Writing, Westlaw, Legal Research, Lexis, Courts, Criminal Law, Legal Assistance, Legal Issues, Employment Law, Family Law, Document Review, Intellectual Property
Melissa Siew
Associate Attorney at Nodiff & Billy
J.D., Concentration in Intellectual Property
MS, Biomedical Engineering
BS, Neuroscience
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy 2001 — 2004
Nodiff & Billy July 2014 - Present
The Carson Law Firm January 2013 - February 2013
Missouri Attorney General's Office May 2012 - July 2012
The Law Office of Jeffrey A. Heater, P.C. October 2011 - March 2012
Abelson-Taylor June 2009 - July 2010
The Private Bank And Trust Company October 2008 - June 2009
Mean SAT September 2007 - April 2008
LocalLaunch! May 2007 - July 2007
Research, Teaching, Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, Data Analysis, Microsoft Word, Editing, Legal Research, Data Entry, Fundraising, Legal Writing, Outlook, Westlaw, LexisNexis
Melissa Stephan, J.D.
Jackson, Tennessee
Saint Louis University, College of Arts and Sciences 2006 — 2009
Bachelor of Arts, Criminal Justice; Political Science and Pre-Law; Justice and Sociology
Journey November 2012 - July 2015
Women's Foundation of Greater Saint Louis April 2011 - January 2013
Saint Louis University Legal Clinic August 2011 - May 2012
Ryals and Breed August 2008 - August 2011
Martin, Leigh May 2008 - August 2008
Inventory Management, Event Management, Customer Service, Time Management, PowerPoint, Word, Microsoft Office, Legal Research, Legal Writing, Legal Compliance, Non-profits, Administrative Work, Mediation
M. Elizabeth Stachura
Assistant Division Manager, Employee Services and Labor Relations at Prince Georges County Government
Master of Science (M.S.), Labor Relations and Human Resources
Prince George's County Government January 2015 - Present
Bowie State University September 2011 - January 2015
Sayer Regan & Thayer, LLP September 2004 - June 2010
Silva Law Group, Ltd. September 1995 - September 2004
Attorney-at-Law, M. Elizabeth Breslin Stachura, Esq. September 1993 - September 1994
Higgins Cavanagh Cooney June 1987 - March 1992
Meredith Coley
Assistant General Counsel & Associate Compliance Officer at Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago January 2015 - Present
Northwestern Memorial Hospital September 2011 - December 2014
Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP September 2007 - September 2011
United States District Court August 2006 - August 2007
Health Law, Arbitration, Policy, Negotiation, Internal Investigations, Litigation, Microsoft Office, Business Litigation, Legal Research, Research, Commercial Litigation, Management
Meredith Farese
Assistant Regional Counsel at US Department of Health and Human Services
J.D., Health Law Certificate
Health Care Ethics
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Harrah's Entertainment (later named Caesars Entertainment Corporation, previously The Promus Companies) was an American casino and hotel company founded in Reno, Nevada, and based in Paradise, Nevada, that operated over 50 properties and seven golf courses under several brands. In 2013, it was the fourth-largest gaming company in the world, with annual revenues of $8.6 billion. It was acquired in 2020 by Eldorado Resorts, which then changed its own name to Caesars Entertainment.
At the end of its existence, Caesars was a public company, majority-owned by a group of private equity firms led by Apollo Global Management, TPG Capital, and Paulson & Co.; and Carl Icahn. Caesars's largest operating unit filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2015, which led to the foundation of Vici Properties as a result.
History
William F. Harrah era (1937–1978)
The company's background can be traced to October 29, 1937, when Bill Harrah opened a small bingo parlor in Reno, Nevada, a predecessor to Harrah's Reno. In 1955, he expanded to Stateline, Nevada, on the south shore of Lake Tahoe, where he would eventually open Harrah's Lake Tahoe.
Harrah's Inc. made its initial public offering in 1971. In 1972, it was listed on the American Stock Exchange and in 1973, Harrah's became the first casino company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Bill Harrah died at the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota, at the age of 66, during a cardiac surgery operation to repair an aortic aneurysm.
Under Holiday Inn
In February 1980, Holiday Inn acquired Harrah's, Inc. for $300 million. Liquidation of Harrah's collection of almost 7,000 antique automobiles reportedly returned the full purchase price of the company to Holiday Inn. Holiday Inn at the time had interests in two casinos: the under-construction Holiday Inn Marina Casino in Atlantic City, and a 40 percent stake in the Holiday Casino, adjacent to the Holiday Inn hotel on the Las Vegas Strip.
In July 1987, Bill's Casino Lake Tahoe opened. Harrah's Laughlin opened in August 1988.
The Promus Companies
The company that would become Harrah's Entertainment was formed in 1990 as The Promus Companies. To effect the sale of the Holiday Inn hotel business to Bass PLC, Promus was created as a corporate spin-off, holding Harrah's, Embassy Suites, Homewood Suites, and Hampton Inn; Bass then acquired Holiday Corp., which retained only the Holiday Inn assets. The next year, the company's headquarters moved from Reno to Memphis, Tennessee.
In April 1992, the Holiday Casino was rebranded as Harrah's Las Vegas.
The late 1980s and early 1990s saw a rapid increase in gambling markets with the growth of Indian gaming and legalization of riverboat casinos. In 1993 and 1994, the company opened Harrah's Joliet, Harrah's Vicksburg, Harrah's Tunica, Harrah's Black Hawk, Harrah's Central City, Harrah's Shreveport, Harrah's North Kansas City, and Harrah's Ak-Chin.
Renamed as Harrah's Entertainment
In 1995, Promus decided to spin off its non-gaming hotel businesses, in part because they had been undervalued by investors due to perception of the company as a risky gaming stock. Promus Hotel Corp. was established, holding Embassy Suites, Hampton Inn, and Homewood Suites, while the parent company, holding 16 casinos, was renamed as Harrah's Entertainment.
Harrah's continued its expansion over the next ten years, opening Harrah's Skagit Valley, SkyCity Auckland, Harrah's St. Louis-Riverport, Harrah's Cherokee, Harrah's Prairie Band, Harrah's New Orleans, and Harrah's Rincon, and acquiring the Southern Belle Casino, Showboat, Inc., the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino, Players International, Harveys Casino Resorts, Louisiana Downs, Horseshoe Gaming, and the World Series of Poker.
On September 4, 1997, Harrah's Entertainment launched its Total Gold loyalty program (renamed as Total Rewards on April 4, 2000 and again as Caesars Rewards on February 1, 2019), developed at a cost of $20 million. It was the first gaming company to offer a systemwide comps program, allowing points earned at one casino to be redeemed for goods and services at any of the company's other casinos. The system would be credited as a major driver of Harrah's growth over the coming years.
Harvard Business School professor Gary Loveman joined Harrah's as chief operating officer in 1998, and would go on to serve as chief executive officer from 2003 to 2015.
In 1999, the company moved its headquarters from Memphis to Las Vegas.
Purchase of Caesars Entertainment, Inc.
Harrah's made its largest single expansion in 2005, when it acquired Caesars Entertainment, Inc. for $10.4 billion. Negotiations were spurred on by news of a merger agreement between MGM Mirage and Mandalay Resort Group. The two companies sold several properties ahead of the merger to assuage antitrust concerns, including Harrah's East Chicago and Harrah's Mardi Gras. The acquisition increased Harrah's portfolio to 40 casinos, plus four cruise ship casinos. The deal furthered Harrah's goal of gaining a larger presence on the Las Vegas Strip, where Caesars owned four casinos, and improved its ability to market to high rollers.
Harrah's began to push for a larger international presence in 2005, announcing joint venture agreements to build casinos in Spain, Slovenia, and the Bahamas, and applying for a license to build a major resort in Singapore, though none of these projects would come to fruition. Harrah's also acquired London Clubs International in 2006, and the Macau Orient Golf club in 2007.
From 2005 to 2010, the company consolidated control of a long stretch of the east side of the Las Vegas Strip, acquiring the Bourbon Street, Imperial Palace, Barbary Coast, and Planet Hollywood casinos, along with large tracts of land behind the Strip properties.
In 2005 and 2006, Harrah's Entertainment closed its Lake Charles casino due to damage from Hurricane Rita, sold the Flamingo Laughlin and sold Grand Casino Gulfport.
Company goes private
Loveman at some point sought advice from private equity tycoon David Bonderman about the possibility of spinning off ownership of Harrah's Entertainment real estate as a separate real estate investment trust (REIT), hoping to attain the higher price-to-earnings ratios at which hotel companies traded, compared to gaming companies. In 2006, the discussions evolved toward the idea of a leveraged buyout of Harrah's by Bonderman's company, TPG Capital. Another private equity firm, Apollo Global Management, approached Loveman about a buyout and he encouraged them to collaborate with TPG. By the end of the year, an agreement was announced for the two companies to buy Harrah's Entertainment for $17.1 billion in cash plus $10.7 billion in assumed debt. The transaction closed in January 2008, leaving Harrah's with $25.1 billion in debt.
The Linq
It was widely announced in previous years that the company planned to implode properties and build new ones from scratch, but after the market downturn the company conceded that it had little experience in building major resorts. Instead it developed Project LINQ in 2009, which would add 20 restaurants and bars between the company's Imperial Palace, O'Sheas and Flamingo casinos, on the east side of the Las Vegas Strip. The goal was to create an entertainment district similar to what had developed organically in Los Angeles, Memphis and New Orleans but did not yet exist on the Strip, with its enclosed and casino-centric zones. It provided competition for the Fremont Street Experience.
Las Vegas Arena
The Anschutz Entertainment Group first tried to build an arena in Las Vegas in association with Harrah's Entertainment. In 2007, the joint venture announced they would build a 20,000 seat stadium behind the Bally's and Paris casino-hotels. Caesars Entertainment, Inc. had previously envisioned using the location to build a baseball park, but the company's buyout by Harrah's cancelled the plans. Through the following year, Harrah's got uncertain on continuing with the project, not knowing if AEG would split the costs and whether building a major league-ready stadium without a guaranteed franchise to play on it would be feasible given the enduring financial crisis. The original plans were to break ground in June 2008 and finish the arena in 2010, but by 2009, it was revealed the stalled project had not even done a traffic study despite being located near a busy intersection. In 2010, the plans were changed to use an area behind the Imperial Palace. However, given the financing would require a special taxation district, opposition from the Clark County Commission regarding using public money in the project stalled it even further. AEG eventually backed out completely by 2012, once MGM Resorts International came up with their own project using a terrain behind the New York-New York and Monte Carlo resorts. This attracted AEG primarily for not relying on public funding.
The acquisition of Planet Hollywood provided Harrah's Entertainment with a contiguous property bordering the strip. The vacant lots behind the casinos had been slated for a sports arena large enough to hold a professional basketball or hockey team. The three casinos will have over 8,000 rooms which can be directly connected to the arena.
It was announced in August 2010 that Harrah's Entertainment would run casinos in Cincinnati and Cleveland in Ohio when they opened in 2012.
Renamed as Caesars Entertainment Corporation
On November 23, 2010, plans for an IPO were canceled, but a planned name change from Harrah's Entertainment to Caesars Entertainment Corporation did go forward and was made official on the same day. This change was intended to capitalize on the international name recognition of the Caesars brand. The Harrah's brand would remain one of the company's three primary casino brands.
On February 8, 2012, an initial public offering took place, with the common stock trading on the NASDAQ under the symbol "CZR."
Caesars Acquisition Company merger
On December 22, 2014, Caesars announced its intention to acquire Caesars Acquisition Company. Under the terms of the transaction, shareholders of Caesars Acquisition Company would receive 0.664 share of Caesars Entertainment common stock for each share of Caesars Acquisition Company held.
Casino unit files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
The casino operating unit, Caesars Entertainment Operating Company, Inc. and approximately 170 of its subsidiaries filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on January 15, 2015. The casino unit's parent company, Caesars Entertainment Corporation, did not file for bankruptcy protection. The casino operating group's investors initiated litigation against the parent company, Caesars Entertainment Corporation's over the parent company's debt guarantees. Vici Properties was founded as a result.
On November 2, 2015, Rock Gaming announced it would begin assuming management of Horseshoe Casino Cleveland, Horseshoe Casino Cincinnati and ThistleDown Racino from Caesars Entertainment and complete the transition by June 2016.
Playtika Company acquisition and sale
Caesars acquired Playtika in May 2011 for an amount between $80 and $90 million. Playtika, a social game developer company, was founded in 2010 by Robert Antokol and Uri Shahak and produced Facebook social gaming platforms (slotomania.com & caesarsgames.com). In June 2016, a Chinese consortium, which included Alibaba chief Jack Ma's Yunfeng Capital, agreed to purchase it in a buyout for $4.4 billion.
On November 29, 2017, Caesars announced it was selling Harrah's Las Vegas to Vici Properties while Caesars continued to operate it. The same day, they announced that they were buying Centaur Gaming. In addition, they were building a new convention center in Las Vegas named Caesars Forum.
Caesars and Eldorado merger
On March 17, 2019, it was announced that Caesars Entertainment Corporation and Eldorado Resorts were exploring a merger of the two companies. On June 23, 2019, Caesars officially accepted Eldorado's offer, reported to be worth almost $8.6 billion. Caesars controlled 53 assets compared to Eldorado's 26. After completion of the merger, 5 board members would come from Caesars and 6 would come from Eldorado. Shareholders of both companies approved of the merger on November 15, 2019, and it was completed in July 2020.
Carl Icahn investment, new CEO
On April 16, 2019, Caesars announced that Affinity Gaming CEO Anthony Rodio would become the CEO of Caesars within 30 days, replacing Mark Frissora, who announced his intention to step down in November 2018. Rodio came recommended by investor Carl Icahn, who owned almost 100 million shares (a 28.5% stake in Caesars as of June 17, 2019) and had reportedly been pushing Caesars to sell the company.
Fines and settlements
In 2015 the US Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) fined Caesars Entertainment's Las Vegas casino $8 million for failing to properly police transactions for illicit activity. A 2012 IRS examination found Caesars had failed to report to the authorities over 100 incidents involving potential criminal activity. The Nevada Gaming Control Board announced a related $1.5 million penalty.
Caesars Entertainment was censured by the UK's Gambling Commission in 2015 for lax money-laundering controls in at two of its London casinos. Caesars entered into a voluntary settlement, agreeing to improve its anti-money laundering processes and making a payment of £875,000 to be used for "socially responsible purposes".
In 2020 the UK Gambling Commission fined Caesars Entertainment EMEA a record £13m for failures relating to VIP schemes. The failures included allowing a customer to lose £323,000 in 12 months, despite showing signs of gambling addiction. Caesars was also found guilty of failing to prevent money laundering, and failing to check the source of funds of someone who bet £3.5m in three months, and a politically exposed person (PEP) who lost £795,000 in just over a year. Three senior managers lost their licence to run a gambling business.
Sale
In April 2020, Twin River Worldwide Holdings announced a deal with Caesars Entertainment and Vici Properties to purchase Bally's Atlantic City in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Properties
At the time of its acquisition in 2020, Caesars operated the following properties:
Bally's
Bally's Atlantic City
Bally's Las Vegas
Caesars
Caesars Atlantic City
Caesars Palace
Caesars Southern Indiana
Harrah's
Harrah's Ak-Chin Casino
Harrah's Atlantic City
Harrah's Cherokee
Harrah's Cherokee Valley River
Harrah's Council Bluffs
Harrah's Gulf Coast
Harrah's Hoosier Park Racing & Casino
Harrah's Joliet
Harrah's Lake Tahoe
Harrah's Las Vegas
Harrah's Laughlin
Harrah's Louisiana Downs
Harrah's Metropolis
Harrah's New Orleans
Harrah's North Kansas City
Harrah's Northern California
Harrah's Philadelphia
Harrah's Resort Southern California
Horseshoe
Horseshoe Casino Baltimore (50% ownership with Jack Entertainment)
Horseshoe Bossier City
Horseshoe Council Bluffs
Horseshoe Hammond
Horseshoe Casino Tunica
Other Las Vegas Strip
The Cromwell Las Vegas
Flamingo Las Vegas
The Linq
Paris Las Vegas
Planet Hollywood Las Vegas
Other US casinos
Harveys Lake Tahoe
Indiana Grand Racing & Casino
Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino
International casinos
Caesars Windsor, Canada
London Clubs International (12 locations)
Properties previously operated by the company included:
Atlantic City Country Club
Atlantic Club Casino Hotel
Bill's Casino Lake Tahoe
Binion's Horseshoe
Bourbon Street Hotel and Casino
Caesars Golf Macau
Caesars Palace at Sea
Flamingo Laughlin
Grand Casino Gulfport
Harrah's East Chicago
Harrah's Prairie Band
Harrah's Reno
Harrah's Shreveport
Harrah's Sky City
Harrah's St. Louis
Harrah's Casino Tunica
Harrah's Tunica Mardi Gras Casino
Horseshoe Casino Cincinnati
Horseshoe Casino Cleveland
IP Casino Resort Spa
Rio Secco Golf Club
Showboat Atlantic City
Showboat Hotel and Casino
ThistleDown Racino
Tunica Roadhouse
Turfway Park (50% stake)
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Trump Administration Rolls Back Important Health Care Protections for People with Disabilities and Chronic Health Conditions
By: Dania Douglas
On June 24, 2020, the Trump Administration announced it would roll back regulatory provisions protecting against discrimination in health care. Delivered in the midst of a global pandemic, this news was particularly devastating to people with disabilities and chronic health conditions who have been disproportionately impacted by COVID 19.
Prior to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), people with disabilities and chronic health conditions routinely faced discrimination in obtaining health coverage and accessing critically important services and supports. Insurance companies regularly denied coverage to people with pre-existing conditions, charged higher premiums for care, and often imposed treatment limits, restrictions and caps on certain types of services.
Existing civil rights laws like the Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act did not protect people with disabilities from discrimination in private insurance. The ACA helped dismantle decades of discrimination by prohibiting these practices, paving the way for people with disabilities and chronic health conditions to access health services.
Section 1557 of the ACA prohibits discrimination against people on the basis race, color, national origin, language proficiency, sex, sex stereotypes, gender identity, age, and disability. A final rule implemented in 2016 helped ensure that these protections were robustly enforced.
Yet, a new final rule issued by the Trump administration would gut many of these provisions, making it harder for people with disabilities and chronic health conditions to enforce their rights and access health care. The COVID 19 epidemic has highlighted the depth of disability discrimination in health care. If anything, this pandemic should serve as an example of how important these nondiscrimination protections are. Despite this, the Administration has pressed forward in its attempts to deconstruct these protections
Section 1557 applies to all health programs and activities that receive federal financial assistance, health programs and activities that are administered by the federal government, and entities created under part of the ACA such as the federal Marketplaces and insurance plans sold through the Marketplace.
Under the law, any entity that receives federal financial assistance would be subject to Section 1557. However, the 2020 rule would create a major exemption to this provision by claiming that health insurance companies are not primarily engaged in providing health care. This faulty interpretation would exempt most private health insurance plans from the nondiscrimination provisions. This interpretation would be especially harmful to people with disabilities, their families, and caregivers who receive health insurance coverage through their employer.
The new rule also eliminates provisions of the 2016 rule that expressly prohibited discrimination in insurance plan benefit design and marketing. Historically, people with chronic health conditions and disabilities have been subject to these discriminatory practices. For example, in 2014 the National Health Law Program and The AIDS Institute filed a complaint against four Florida insurers who placed all drugs used to treat HIV in the highest cost tiers, limiting access to treatment.
The 2016 rule clearly prohibited such practices. The ACA and prior civil rights laws still contain protections against disability discrimination. However, the elimination of the Section 1557 regulatory provisions along with the narrowed scope of the rule, makes it especially difficult for people with disabilities pursuing discrimination claims, particularly against employer-based health insurance sold outside the ACA marketplace.
Additionally, the rule eliminates notice and tagline requirements that informed people of their rights under Section 1557 and detailed how to file a complaint in the event of discrimination. This requirement shifts the burden of compliance and enforcement from providers to individuals.
People with disabilities and chronic health conditions are frequently seen by multiple specialists and are regularly juggling multiple sources of information, paperwork, and care coordination issues. Health care is complex and people need to be clearly informed of their rights, and ways to enforce them. The elimination of notices and taglines is likely to deter people with disabilities from asking for the supports and assistance they are entitled to and from filing complaints when they do encounter discrimination.
Finally, the rule eliminates important protections for people with limited English proficiency, for people seeking reproductive and sexual health care, and LGBTQ individuals. People with disabilities often live at the intersection of multiple identities. Many are non-native English speakers, an issue which can be compounded by intellectual, developmental, or sensory disabilities.
For example, an individual with an intellectual disability, who has limited English proficiency, may have a difficult time accessing appropriate materials and information. People with disabilities often face discrimination in their choices about reproductive and sexual health and it is critical that they be provided with clear, accurate, and easy to understand information about their rights and choices.
A significant portion of LGBTQ individuals also have disabilities and have difficulty accessing appropriate care. This Administration's repeal of nondiscrimination regulations creates irreversible harm to individuals who are already struggling to receive appropriate health care.
For more information on the final rule, check out NHeLP's overview—HHS Eliminates or Weakens Regulatory Protections Against Discrimination in Health Care.
And see the rest of our blogs in our series on Section 1557:
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Trump Administration Rolls Back Important Health Care Protection Roll Back for People with Disabilities and Chronic Health Conditions
Fighting Fire with Lighter Fluid: Trump Administration Rule Incites Health Care Discrimination and Jeopardizes Reproductive Health
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Telehealth is an increasingly important tool for states to address patient needs under COVID-19 social distancing requirements. Federal COVID-19… | {
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No more messy spills! Child-activated SipEase system with easy screw-on lid that won't pop off.
Available in convenient two pack.
Size (inches): 7.28" X 3.54" X 9.06"
I had these cups sent over to the UK as they are the only ones that REALLY do not spill and are easy for my children to use. We are very pleased with them.
The cups live up to their name and do not spill. | {
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X-Men: Apocalypse: Trailer 3 Brings Mutant Mayhem (and Surprise Cameo)
Be sure to watch til the very end for a special cameo!
The world needs the #Xmen. #Apocalypse #SoDevastatinghttps://t.co/nexma2dY5T
— X-Men Movies (@XMenMovies) April 25, 2016
"Following the critically acclaimed global smash hit X-Men: Days of Future Past, director Bryan Singer returns with X-MEN: APOCALYPSE. Since the dawn of civilization, he was worshipped as a god. Apocalypse, the first and most powerful mutant from Marvel's X-Men universe, amassed the powers of many other mutants, becoming immortal and invincible. Upon awakening after thousands of years, he is disillusioned with the world as he finds it and recruits a team of powerful mutants, including a disheartened Magneto (Michael Fassbender), to cleanse mankind and create a new world order, over which he will reign. As the fate of the Earth hangs in the balance, Raven (Jennifer Lawrence) with the help of Professor X (James McAvoy) must lead a team of young X-Men to stop their greatest nemesis and save mankind from complete destruction." - 20th Century Fox
In Theaters - May 27, 2016
Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Oscar Isaac, Nicholas Hoult, Rose Byrne, Tye Sheridan, Sophie Turner, Olivia Munn, Lucas Till, Evan Peters, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Alexandra Shipp, Josh Helman, Lana Condor, Ben Hardy
trailers X-Men:Apocalypse | {
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> Al Cotey
Al Cotey
Al Cotey, 1919. Originally in the Library of Congress, 1919, so copyright lapsed. JPEG copyright, Richard Jenkins, 2011.
New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Dirt and board track racer, sometimes in road races. Later became a car owner but suffered tragedy when Herb Jones died in Cotey's car in 1926 Indianapolis 500 qualifying. Al entered his own car, the Elcar, for his 1927 effort. Cotey was a long time racer who specialised on board ovals. Cotey, who was also a long-time stunt driver, often drove for the Ogren Motor Car Company who were based in Chicago for a while. Often referred to in race reports as A. E. Cotey.
Biography last updated 17 Feb 2017
Ralph Beardsley, Ben Brandfon, Joe Cooper, Percy Ford, Jim R Hill, Art Johnson, John Mais, Charles Merz, Robert Pennebaker, Harold van Gorder, Noel van Raalte, Lou Wilson.
Guy Ball, Rex Easton, Dave Evans, Harry Hartz, W. Douglas Hawkes, Eddie Johnson, Cy Marshall, Barney McKenna, Fred Merzney, Marvin Pifer, Peter Revson, Bob Sall. | {
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