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The Budget Timeline | Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development Skip to main content Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development Free Hotline 0800 229 229 Mon – Fri 9am – 5pm budget@finance.go.ug Toggle navigation Uganda Budget Information Home About Budget Process The Budget Process The Budget Timeline Budget Data LG Allocation Detail Budget Dashboard Excel Downloads Budget Library FY 2022-23 FY 2021-22 FY 2020-21 FY 2019-20 FY 2018-19 FY 2017-18 FY 2016-17 FY 2015-16 FY 2014-15 FY 2013-14 FY 2012-13 FY 2011-12 FY 2010-11 FY 2009-10 All Documents Register Budget Process The Budget Timeline The Budget Timeline Budget Timeline At a Glance The budget process calendar is drawn below - you can use the filter to switch between Budgeting publications and Reporting publications. Hover your mouse over the colourful dots to see the publications leading up to the Budget Speech by the Minister of Finance in June! Below the timeline the information is also presented in a table. The timelines are presented again below, with National documents in black and Local documents in blue for clarity. Pubication Date Document Sphere Purpose of Document End February Budget Framework Paper (BFP) National First publication of estimates for the next fiscal year End April Draft Budget Estimates National Draft budget estimates themselves Background to the Budget National The economic context for the choices made in the budget Ministerial policy statement (MPS) National Accompanies and justifies the draft budget on a ministerial level Budget Framework Paper (BFP) Local First publication of estimates of expenditure and revenue for the next fiscal year End May Public investment plan National Details the government’s capital projects in the approved budget Approved Budget Estimates National Presents the approved budget estimates, as approved by Parliament Mid June Budget Speech National Speech by the Minister of Finance presenting the approved budget Central government expenditure limits National Breaks the Approved Budget into quarterly spending limits for agencies End July Approved Budget (Contract Form B) Local Presents the approved budget estimates, as approved by Parliament Workplan Local Provides detailed information on government plans including quarterly outputs The budget process itself is only part of the story, however. Once the budgets have been set government and Agencies are required to report performance against them throughout the year. The timeline for the quarterly and annual reports is set out below, again with National documents in black and Local documents in blue for clarity. Publication Date Document Sphere Purpose of Document Within 1 month of the end of the quarter Quarterly reports National Cumulative progress towards approved budget output targets and expected expenditure Within three months of the end of the fiscal year Annual Budget Performance report (ABPR) National Information on how the central government performed against the budget Within six months of the end of the fiscal year Audited financial statements (AFS) National The final audited financial figures for the year Within 1 month of the end of the quarter Quarterly reports Local Cumulative progress towards approved budget output targets and expected expenditure Submitted to central government three months after the day of the period. Annual report Local Information on how each local government performed against the budget | negative |
What Makes Pylons Stand Out As a Web Framework
After 6 release candidates, Pylons 0.9.7 final has been released. Big congrats to all developers. Although it's just a point release, I think this is a huge milestone for Pylons for one reason: It has proper documentation! I've been using both Pylons and Django for several web applications and Pylons' old docs were sparse and hard to navigate. This didn't stop me from digging in and playing around with the framework but for a project to really reach a wide audience it needs well-organized, readable documentation. I can think of many well designed, solid programming tools that have failed because, simply, their docs were not readable. There is a difference between having comprehensive documentation and having documentation that is readable. Django got this right from day one.
As a Pylons user, I'd like to point out a few reasons why I like it and some reasons I don't. It's not meant as a fair comparison to Django, but Django is the only other web framework I know pretty well so it is my point of reference.
Likes:
It's a "hacker's" framework. When you install it, Pylons generates just enough code to expose its operational mechanisms but not too much code to make upgrading hard. In other words, the core of Pylons is in the pylons module yet all that initialization and request handling code is exposed to you in your own application.
Pylons is just a wrapper around lots of other modules maintained by the community. Just like Python itself ;) This is an advantage to me because the PyPI has a lot of neat stuff and it's easier to create, test, and maintain a small component that does one thing well than it is to fit that into a large framework that does everything. In the critique I've seen of this feature, I think mostly it was due to a misunderstanding of the setuptools module (and easy_install script), which provides utilities for handling large amounts of dependencies. There is already a nice alternative to easy_install which allows for flat installation of dependencies (no egg directories) and more, called pip. Wrapping up lots of other powerful tools makes for a powerful web framework. Here are just a few of what I think are excellent add-ons to Pylons (or any web framework) : Paste (especially the _debug view; Django should steal that :)) WebOb WebTest WebError SQLAlchemy Nose Fixture
WSGI Middleware At some point in the past I might have marked this as a dislike. WSGI is hard to understand. Admit it, it will make your brain bleed! But once you get it, it is very clever. I have written a lot of custom middleware to do things like intercept URLs to stub out web services, add static file handling for development, and provide custom error handling. Most of Pylons is implemented as middleware so you can literally strip it down to the core if you need extra speed and simplicity. Also, WebOb provides utilities that make WSGI simpler to implement.
Dislikes:
Short variable names and from yourapp.lib.base *. UPDATE : I just found out the import * and short variable names c and g are no longer the defaults in 0.9.7.
: I just found out the import * and short variable names c and g are no longer the defaults in 0.9.7. Sharing applications? I admit I haven't tried to share applications in a Pylons app the way I have in Django. I suppose this can be done in Pylons simply with middleware? Anyway, Django seems to have thought about this problem a little more and makes it easy to "glue together" multiple applications so that their URL spaces can merge effectively.
Routes I don't like Rails-style routes, the default dispatching middleware for Pylons. I much prefer Django's URL patterns which are more pythonic. OK! I guess that means I need to write a Django-style URL middleware :) Obviously it doesn't bother me too much because I have not written my own. UPDATE: In the comments, L.C. Rees posted a link middleware that does this: urlrelay. Cool!
As a disclaimer I should point out that I am one of those developers who likes to build low level tools. I certainly reuse existing components when possible but building small tools that do one thing and do it well is fun because it's easy. Pylons fosters this approach to software. Not all developers are like this and I'd say, overall, Django probably offers more of a "batteries included" feeling.
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Asahi Production and the Hakone-chan Production Committee announced on Wednesday that a television anime adaptation of Daisuke Yui's Onsen Yōsei Hakone-chan (Young Hot Spring Spirit Hakone-chan) manga has been green-lit. The "warm slapstick hot spring comedy" centers around a hot spring spirit in the popular Japanese resort town of Hakone.
The story follows Hakone, a hot spring spirit who descended to a spa resort on Earth. However, with her long slumber, she looks like a little girl on the outside. (The "Yōsei" in the title is a wordplay on the Japanese words for fairy and a young child.) The high school boy Tōya stumbles across her at a hot spring and ends up joining Hakone in retrieving her original powers.
Takeyuki Yanase (Himegoto) is directing the anime at Asahi Production and Production Reed. Korie Tomonaga (writer on Soreike! Anpanman, Funassyi no Funafunafuna Hiyori) and Momoko Murakami (writer on Pretty Rhythm Aurora Dream, Futsū no Joshikōsei ga Locodol Yattemita) are in charge of the series scripts. Yanase and Masaaki Sakurai (Nisekoi, Survival Game Club!) share the chief animation director role, and Yanase is also designing the characters.
The anime series will premiere in October and run for 13 episodes on Animax, Teletama (TV Saitama), and other stations.
Yui launched the manga in Aplix's Comic Metor website in 2012, and Holp published the second compiled book volume in April 2014. Comic Meteor reposted the first three chapters to celebrate the announcement of the television anime. Hakone is the real-life locale inspiration for many anime such as Evangelion and Initial D.
Source: Dream News | positive |
Cottesloe Council bans release of helium balloons, and smoking on beaches
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Cottesloe Council, in Perth's wealthy western suburbs, has voted to ban the release of helium-filled balloons.
Councillors this week unanimously supported a motion to outlaw the release of gas-filled balloons which rise into the air — also banning smoking in public places under the control of the council, including beaches.
Several councils on the eastern seaboard have already banned the release of balloons, but Cottesloe is the first in Western Australia.
Cottesloe Mayor Jo Dawkins said evidence showed the remnants of balloons ended up harming marine life.
"The reasoning behind this was, there is environmental concerns, fish and birds and other animals are being found with the remnants of rubber and plastic in their bodies," she said.
In April last year councillor Sandy Boulter successfully introduced a motion banning the use of helium-filled balloons at council-run events and the council also agreed to look into banning the release of gas-filled balloons into the air.
Councillor Phil Angers said Tuesday night's motion did not prevent helium balloons altogether.
"I still think a kid's party should be allowed to have balloons in the house as long as they don't let them blow away," he said.
Call for further plastic bans
Earlier this month, the Government announced single-use plastic bags would be banned from next July.
But the Greens and the Conservation Council of WA want further action against single-use plastics, calling for all plastic balloons and straws as well as microbeads to be banned across the state.
Environment Minister Stephen Dawson, who was contacted for comment, has previously made clear the Government did not support a ban on balloons and plastic straws, saying he was "not going to be a party pooper".
The minutes from Tuesday night's council meeting said that from the public submissions received, it appeared there were no objections to the smoking and balloon release ban.
Council rangers would ensure compliance with the new bylaw.
Greens environment spokesperson Robin Chapple said the McGowan Government should follow Cottesloe's lead.
Mr Chapple said mass balloon releases were a form of illegal dumping and should be treated as such by the law.
"If I were to drive into a national park with a trailer full of organic waste and dump it in the bush I could easily be fined upwards of $10,000, yet I could head out to Horizontal Falls Marine Park tomorrow with a thousand balloons and let them go without a single consequence," he said.
"A single balloon, even one made from natural latex to the highest industry standards, will take at least five years and potentially many more to break down, whilst a balloon release is enjoyed for just a few fleeting moments."
The state opposition has been contacted for comment.
Topics: conservation, environment-education, environmental-impact, environmental-health, smoking, cottesloe-6011
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New Delhi: Air India plans to provide more autonomy to its managers at airports under a stricter framework being prepared to deal with unruly passengers.
Since the incident of Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad assaulting an Air India staffer last month, the national carrier as well as the government have been exploring ways, including a no-fly list to bolster the existing mechanism to rein in unruly passengers.
Providing more autonomy for Air India managers at airports, stronger mechanism to report incidents of untoward behaviour and possibility of seeking monetary compensation from the unruly flier are being looked at under the new framework, airline officials said.
“The draft guidelines, which have been prepared with the assistance of Air India’s legal department, are now with the CMD Ashwani Lohani for his approval. Once we get the go-ahead from him, we will make them public," one official said.
According to the official, under the new guidelines, the airport manager would be empowered to take any “action" against a passenger showing unruly behaviour either onboard or on the ground without waiting for approval of the chairman and managing director.
“The draft guidelines also have a provision for seeking financial compensation from any such passenger for the loss of revenue if the flight is held up due to such incidents," the official added.
Officials also said the airline has changed the log book entry format to ensure that exact reason for delay in flights are recorded rather than having generic explanations. Now, all details, including the specific reason for the delay, especially in cases of unruly passenger behaviour would be furnished in the eventuality of a flight failing to depart on time due to an unruly passenger, one of the officials said.
The government is planning to come out with a ‘no fly’ list as part of stronger measures to deal with unruly behaviour by individuals on board flights. Following the Gaikwad incident, Air India and other domestic airlines had barred him from flying with them. The ban was later revoked. | positive |
Grazie. Giro d Perth Cinque was a bella compleannno (birthday) party.
It has been over a month since the best Giro d Perth so far. The smiles and laughing, the eating and drinking, the riding and exploring were out standing. The love for bicycles and the sense of community was glorious. Something I am very proud to be a part of.
Thank you to everyone for their support and love of Giro d Perth (2013-2017). Giro d Perth has grown and never faded. It has always been about the bike and the explorer in all of us.
I have sad news, there will be no Giro d Perth in 2018.
I have thought long and hard and decided on doing some personal exploring. New odyssey's are calling me.
I challenge you ride to with your friends, explore more, and live la dolce vita.
Grazie, Ciao, Toby x | positive |
Iran is home to perhaps the most strictly enforced dress code in the world. In the capital, Tehran, thousands of Gashte Ershad, or morality police—both in uniform and plainclothes—patrol the streets, looking for men with flashy jewelry or certain haircuts and women in form-fitting clothes or loose hijabs, which are required by law to be worn at all times.
According to Amnesty International, between March 2013 and March 2014, upwards of 2.9 million women received a police warning for dress code infractions. This May, a woman was even arrested for posting a photo of herself without a hijab to Instagram. And Tehran is cracking down further, deploying 7,000 new officers last month to keep an eye out for insufficiently pious outfits.
"As a woman, every time I venture out into the streets, I am constantly pre-occupied by how I should dress," said Neda, a 32-year-old Iranian woman who spoke to VICE under the condition of anonymity. "Should I be wearing this tight-fitting coat? Is my coat too short? Am I likely to be arrested because of what I am going to wear?"
Some Iranian women have resorted to cutting their hair short and dressing like men to blend in, avoid detection, and protest. Others use an app designed to alert users to the presence of patrols.
And some have also taken to removing their hijabs, sometimes just for brief moments, and taking photos of their uncovered heads as an act of resistance. The resulting photos are compiled by a site called My Stealthy Freedom. The project's Facebook page recently hit a million followers and has continued to grow despite efforts by the government to shut it down and discredit its founder, Masih Aleinjad.
With the recent influx of thousands of undercover police in Tehran, using My Stealthy Freedom has never been more important—or more dangerous—for the city's women. The platform is one of the few remaining relatively safe spaces left for Iranian women to unveil and express themselves, though the risk of getting caught has also been heightened, as anyone could be an plainclothes morality officer. This has bred an Orwellian degree of paranoia amongst Iranian women, but most My Stealthy Freedom users, including Neda, are unfazed.
"I am so much in the mood to fight for my own rights in my own country that I am not scared anymore. I want to be able to dress as I see fit," said Neda, whose photographs on My Stealthy Freedom have been featured by CNN and other international news outlets. "I could get arrested anytime, but I have no intention of giving up on fighting despite the possible dangers lurking for me."
For maybe just for a few ephemeral moments, women using My Stealthy Freedom unveil themselves in front of the lens of their smartphones. It's an open act of rebellion, a taste of freedom, and a portal of expression for oppressed women, who also view its as a pipeline to change in their country.
"There is a cultural revolution going on in Iran," said another My Stealthy Freedom user in a video sent to the site. "Our women are increasingly courageous to flout these laws and their numbers are growing. Just think about it: If everyone complied with the compulsory veiling, we would not have this new 7,000-strong police force. These women are no longer scared of the police."
"Through social media you can see the true face of Iran"—Masih Aleinjad
"For 37 years, not only my hair, but the hair of millions of Iranian women has been held hostage by the Islamic Republic," said Aleinjad, My Stealthy Freedom's founder, who created the site in 2014 while living in London. "Our hair has been held hostage because the government wants to control our bodies."
Aleinjad, 39, an Iranian journalist now living in Brooklyn, thinks this type of behavior, coupled with the existence—and popularity—of platforms like My Stealthy Freedom, speak to a turbulent cultural shift unfolding in Iran. (If she returned to her home country she would be imprisoned.)
"It's a cultural war between two lifestyles: The lifestyle that the government wants to put pressure on people to follow. And the lifestyle that the youth is already following," she added.
But this cultural shift is fueled largely by the proliferation of social media, and one, that Aleinjad suspects, is responsible for the massive deployment of undercover morality officers in Tehran.
"When you turn on the TV in Iran, you only see women in hijabs. But this is not Iran," Aleinjad contends. She described a "legal Iran," which is seen on Iranian official media, and "illegal Iran," which lives and breathes online. "Through social media you can see the true face of Iran," she said.
"Social media is a tool and weapon for Iranian people who have been censored for more than 30 years," she continued. "The government of Iran has guns, bullets, prisons, and power, but the people of Iran have Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, social media, and their own words."
It's unclear, however, whether social media alone can truly be a catalyst to real change in Iran.
"Websites like My Stealthy Freedom show there is a very strong support for change in Iran," said Alireza Nader, an Iranian foreign policy researcher for the RAND Corporation. "[But it's] not necessarily going to change the political system today or tomorrow. It's going to take a very long time for Iran's political system to change or evolve. The political system is very much reactionary. As long as Iranians question the system, they can chip away at it in the long term."
But neither that skepticism nor the ever-hovering threat of harassment, arrest, prison, or worse, are deterrents for women like the ones promoting My Stealthy Freedom.
"If I did not challenge these laws, my conscience would be full of guilt," Neda said. "I have at least managed to contribute in my own way to making it known to the entire world what Iranian women really are like and how they really wish to live."
Dorian Geiger is a multimedia journalist based in Brooklyn and a freelance contributor for VICE. His work has appeared in The New York Times, TIME Magazine, Politico, Narratively, and other publications across North America. Follow him on Twitter and Instagram. | positive |
Music Related Junk : Review of 'Clppng' by Clipping Music Related Junk “A collection of profound and epic album reviews and musical articles by former astronaut and brain surgeon, Alasdair Kennedy. Reaching levels of poetry that rival Keats and Blake, the following reviews affirm Alasdair to be a prodigy, a genius and a god whose opinion is always objectively right. He is also without a doubt the most modest man in the universe.” - Alasdair Kennedy Pages Home Albums Tracks of the Week Interviews Good Junk Bad Junk OK junk Opinion Contact Friday, 6 June 2014 Review of 'Clppng' by Clipping Clipping are bursting with creative ideas on their second album. Cali group, Clipping, are an experimental hip hop act with elements of industrial noise and Death-Grips-style abrasiveness thrown in. Unlike Death Grips, their emcee, Daveed Diggs, takes a traditional, clean style of rapping (i.e. no angry shouty hobo vocals). The crazy intensity and experimentation is mainly in the beats. Highlights include the minimal ambient track ‘Dream’, which rolls straight into the track ‘Get up’ literally featuring an alarm clock bleep as an instrumental. Then there’s the second track, ‘Body and Blood’, which has a menacing industrial Gesafflestein vibe to it. The beats are less noisy than on Clipping’s debut, Midcity, which was too harsh for me in most parts. They feel more creative and varied this time round. Worth noting even more than the instrumentation is Daveed Diggs’ delivery. Although by no means as experimental as the beats, there are still some extremely original ideas being thrown around such as the flows on ‘Story 2’ that constantly keep morphing to match the ever-changing timing of the beat. The eery whispered chorus on ‘Dream’ also sticks out. Who whispers a chorus? Most impressive however is the speed and precision that Daveed Diggs pulls out on this record. If the first track of Midcity didn’t already wow you, then the lightning speed of this album’s ‘intro’ track certainly will. There are moments on here that I’m not completely down with. ‘Tonight’ featuring Gangsta Boo contains an auto-tuned chorus. I already expressed my views on Auto-tune in my review of Future’s lastest album ‘Honest’. To put things mildly, I’m not a fan. The closing track – a noisy mish-mash of excerpts from the album cut and clipped together – also drags on a little too long for my liking. It’s a creative touch but isn’t pleasant on the ear and could be made more succinct. With these issues in mind, I shouldn’t really give the album a full score. However, part of me is so impressed by the originality of this record that I feel I can overlook these two moments. Clppng might just be the most original album I hear this year! Not only does it challenge my perceptions of music, it also feels a suitable length, showcases impressing musical talent both in production and rapping ability and succeeds in invoking a whirlwind of emotions in me – the most important being suspense. The first time I heard this record was at 4am and it was such a surreal, mindblowing experience I thought I’d dreamt it the next morning. Repeated listens keep offering me new insights (I forgot to mention that the lyrics here are pretty inventive too) showing that this album also has playback value. 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Perhaps the most bizarre aspect of the 2011 NFL season is the push by subsections of Miami and Indianapolis fans that want their favorite teams to "Suck for Luck."
The "Suck for Luck" campaign started in the beginning of the season, with fans of miserable-looking teams joking online that they could take consolation in their teams' losses because enough losses would put them in position to draft Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck with the top pick in the draft.
Luck is by far the best NFL prospect to come out of college since Peyton Manning and arguably since even John Elway. It makes sense for a fan to want his or her team to purposely lose games in the short term in order to obtain a player who will allow them to win consistently in the long term. It makes absolutely no sense for a fan to think such a situation has even the slightest chance of actually occurring.
Luck has all the tools to be a Hall of Fame caliber quarterback and would probably solidify his NFL team's quarterback position for the next 10 to 15 years. Teams without an established franchise quarterback would instantly improve leaps and bounds with Luck under center. Teams with an established franchise quarterback would reap a massive bounty of draft picks and suffer very little, if any, drop-off by drafting Luck and trading their entrenched starter.
The hype is understandable, but to think NFL players and coaches would purposely tank their season to obtain Luck is borderline laughable. Sure, Luck will make the team better, but if a team does poorly enough to draft Luck, the current coaches and most of the players on the roster will not be around to reap the benefits of Luck's presence, because they will no longer be employed by the team.
In short, asking a team to "Suck for Luck" is unrealistic at every level of a football organization. Owners don't want to be drafting with the No. 1 overall pick, because then the entire team needs to rebuild. General managers and coaches also don't want to be part of the worst team in the league, because such a poor outcome to the season will cause them to lose their jobs.
As for players, their effort (or intentional lack thereof) is most necessary for a team to "Suck for Luck" but they have the most to lose from wasting an entire season. Players have a shorter career than coaches or front office personnel, so they can least afford to lose their jobs due to a poor season. Colts center Jeff Saturday highlighted players' attitude towards a "Suck for Luck" campaign the week before his team played against the Tennessee Titans.
"I've done this for 13 years," Saturday said, per Terry McCormick. "I'll steal a Robert Mathis quote, 'I ain't sucking for anybody.' That's the reality of it. Robert said it best. I'm out there every week trying to win games. I don't care about all the rest of it." | positive |
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Nintendo Underdogs Reorchestrated (or NUREO for short) is a fan-driven project dedicated to re-imagining twenty of the very best Nintendo songs as epic orchestral scores without losing the spirit of the original tracks. Fan projects like Pokémon Reorchestrated, Zelda Reorchestrated, and the Banjo-Kazooie Symphony have already proven game music as a force to be reckoned with, and I’m here to take the same love and passion to the rest of the Nintendoverse!
Nintendo’s most recognizable tunes have already been orchestrated by some group or another, so instead of orchestrating the main Mario theme, Pokémon theme, and other all-stars, I’ve decided to set my sights on some of the less famous music from Nintendo’s library. After all, fan-favorites and hidden gems all deserve their time in the spotlight... So I’m here to give it to them!
What music will be in NUREO? There are very few songs set in stone for the album, because I have a list of over 150 songs that I'd like to reorchestrate eventually. But there really are no guidelines to what Nintendo music constitutes an "underdog." I'm digging into themes as obscure as Joy Mech Fight and themes as famous as Super Mario Bros. 2, so there's going to be an incredible variety for all Nintendo fans to enjoy.
Why Kickstarter? Like similar fan projects, NUREO will use a library of high-quality MIDI samples to mimic a realistic, fully orchestral sound. I currently have a small library of basic orchestral MIDI instruments, which I use to create the music you can hear in the Kickstarter video above. But unfortunately, these samples can often sound too synthetic and unrealistic. The funds I hope to raise through Kickstarter will go directly towards upgrading my music software so that NUREO will finally achieve a rich, authentic orchestral sound.
Where will the money go? I'm asking for $6000 to fund NUREO, and I'm going to use it to cover many different things. The vast majority of that money (right around $4,800 for the number people) will go towards updating my sound library with professional orchestral samples that far outclass what you've heard in the video. Amazon and Kickstarter can then take up to 10% of the raised funds as service fees, which brings my expenditures up to $5400. I've also set aside a small fallback fund, which accounts for the unlikely event that 4% of all donated pledges (which is twice Kickstarter's average) are rejected by creditors, bringing me up to $5640. The remaining $360 will go towards fulfilling backer rewards—that is, producing and shipping CDs, shirts, and the other goodies you can see in the fancy little bar to your right.
If you’d like to know more about the project, be sure to watch the video above, and check the FAQ at the bottom of the page. If you’re thinking about backing the project, just pop on over to that convenient little bar to the right of the page, and you’ll see all the special backer rewards you can get. Thank you so much for your support!!
$7000: Live Soloists!
NUREO will include several live-recorded solos from talented musicians, including Jules Conroy (better known as FamilyJules7x), Marc Papeghin, Jake McCoy, and many others, so that the album sounds more beautiful than ever!
$7500: Artwork!
Brian Scheid, also known as Archaois, will provide a watercolor-style piece of artwork to accompany each track in the album, as well as two full-scale pieces of Nintendo-themed artwork for you to enjoy! Brian is the talent behind the artwork you see above, so you can be sure that it will be top-notch stuff.
$8000: Guest Arrangements!
Eric Buchholz, a composer who has worked on live concerts such as The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddesses and PLAY! A Video Game Symphony, as well as Zelda Reorchestrated’s Twilight Symphony, will contribute an additional track to the album!
Braxton Burks, long-time composer behind Pokémon Reorchestrated and its many albums, and orchestrator for the upcoming game, Bacon Man: An Adventure, will contribute a guest arrangement of the heart-wrenching “Love Theme,” from the cult hit Mother 3!
$?????: A Secret to Everybody!
I don’t ever dream of making it past $8000, but with your love and support, who knows? If this project makes it far enough, you can expect something crazy awesome. I have a few ideas in mind, but we’ll cross that bridge if we get there ;)
Nintendo Underdogs Reorchestrated is not is officially associated with Nintendo or any of its affiliates. I am, however, working with the incredible team at Loudr to ensure that all music included in NUREO is properly licensed. Not only does this mean that NUREO will be available through Loudr and iTunes, but it ensures that the original copyright holders receive proper royalties for NUREO’s music.
*This section will be continually updated as more NUREO news rolls in!*
UPDATE 3/27/2014 — I will be at PAX East 2014. If you're interested in meeting up to talk about NUREO or just to hang out, send me a message!
UPDATE 4/20/2014 — I've announced four songs that will be on the official album, and there's even a new demo for teh hypez. Click the link to your left to check it out. There's one week left, so let's get excited!
Nintendo Life — "Another awesome way Nintendo fans will get to jam out"
GenGAME — "Beautiful reorchestrated versions of [Nintendo's] many great tunes" | positive |
From PornTube to Pinsex to Pornostagram, sex websites are following the lead of social networks, allowing users to like, share, repost and comment on each other's pornography
In his 2008 book, Click, online behaviour expert Bill Tancer declared that social media was overtaking pornography as the most popular destination on the internet. Those aged 18 to 24 in particular were replacing pornography use with more stimulating social networking pastimes. After the porn frenzy that was the first decade of the internet's life, users seemed to be finding more "sociable" ways to occupy their time.
Five years later and social media seems to be firmly ahead of pornography in the race for internet dominance – social networking sites make up four out of 10 of the world's most visited sites. Research from Pew's internet project suggests that 90% of 18- to 29-year-olds in the US use social networking and 71% of online adults are on Facebook.
But it's safe to say that pornography still remains popular. It's notoriously difficult to come by reliable statistics on porn use or the porn industry, but Pornhub – one of the biggest online providers – claims to have had more than 14.7bn visits in 2013, with more than 1.68m visits an hour.
However, the line between porn and social media is beginning to blur. From Fuckbook (a porn version of Facebook) to Pornostagram (a porn version of Instagram), to PornTube (a porn version of YouTube), online pornography websites are increasingly starting to behave like social networks – encouraging users to share, like, rate, comment, curate and even create content.
Traditional social media sites have always struggled with the "pornography problem" – the peculiar fact that whenever a means for people to share things online is created, people will start sharing explicit material. It only took four days after Twitter launched Vine for a pornographic video to creep to the top of its "Editor's Picks" list.
From his position in the digital startup industry in Barcelona, Christian Thorn noticed this tendency and spotted a business opportunity. "If people are putting that stuff up on social media, then they want a site that will allow them to do it," he says.
Thorn went on to found Pinsex – another addition to the social porn family – just over a year ago. It behaves like the photosharing website Pinterest – a virtual pinboard that allows users to collect images they like and follow others who have similar tastes. Pinsex does exactly the same, but with porn. In its first year 50,000 users have signed up and the site attracts 300,000 visits each day.
A tamer example of the material on the site – a photograph of a topless woman on a beach at dusk posted by a user called Nick – has had 124 repins and 382 likes. Many of the comments cannot be repeated for obvious reasons. "Pure perfection man," one user has commented. "Doesn't get much better than that," reads another. One user, who is apparently female, writes that she will follow Nick, if he follows her back.
"A few years ago nobody would have predicted that people would take pictures of their food and put them on Facebook," says Thorn. "People would have said: 'Who is interested in what I had for lunch today?'" Nowadays people are happier to share, he says, and that applies to porn too.
Pinsex users can be broadly split into two categories – those who just like to curate their own collections and enjoy other people's, and those who are creating their own images. "There are a lot of users posting amateur porn on the site and that porn might not be as beautiful and airbrushed – like you see in magazines or whatever – but it's very popular."
The socialisation of internet pornography has been noted with interest by academics. "Traditionally pornography was 'used', 'consumed' or whatever verb you wish to use, by people on their own," says Simon Lindgren, a professor of sociology and social media researcher at Umeå University in Sweden.
He is clear that today's online porn audience is no longer made up of "isolated masturbating loners", but of an interactive and creative group of critical audience members.
Sharif Mowlabocus, a senior lecturer in media studies at the University of Sussex, argues that the idea of pornography as an intensely antisocial activity is actually relatively new. "With the exception of certain times in history, pornography has actually always had a social dimension," he says. He points to the blue records of the 1920s and 30s – audio recordings of people having sex – which were often listened to in groups, and to the stag movies of the 1940s, which, again, were watched alongside other people in cinemas. "It was covert, but it was also social," he says.
The social side of pornography has perhaps been even more important in the history of oppressed sexualities: "In the 1980s there was widespread sharing of porn among particular groups, like the gay community or BDSM community. Those communities have a long history of developing social relationships around porn."
This all changed when the videotape came along. "The videotape took porn off the street, out of the movie theatres and into the intimate and domestic spaces of the home," says Mowlabocus.
'Whenever a means for people to share things online is created, people will start sharing explicit material' Photograph: Fabrice Lerouge/Getty Images/Onoky
If being sociable with your porn habits isn't new, then other things that come with the rise of social porn might be. Just as social media was credited as a catalyst for political revolution and a platform for hitherto unheard voices, some argue that the rise of social porn may democratise the world of pornography, providing space for alternative sexual desires.
Some argue that once the content is driven by the user, the porn landscape will look much more representative. "The rise of social media in a range of forms has had a crucial impact on the kinds of pornography that are available and how it is made available," says Susanna Paasonen, professor of media studies at University of Turku, Finland. "You get different production practices, different aesthetics and different politics."
"I started off studying mainstream online porn and now I don't think I know what that is any more – it's become so diverse," she says. "There are of course examples that are immediately recognisable as mainstream, but then on the same platforms you have all kinds of content that is a far cry from the mainstream."
Thorn says he wants to attract a diverse audience to Pinsex: eighty per cent of users are currently male and a tiny percentage are trans, says Thorn, but the site would like to attract a wider range of people – especially women. "We want to be a service for everybody because we're a service that's created by the users … In the old days people would say, 'but women don't like porn' and we can see now that that's not necessarily very true."
"I don't think that it's surprising that in some of these more social spaces – where porn is consumed, uploaded, distributed, commented on – we are beginning to see discussions about the alternative politics of pornography," says Mowlabocus.
But, although there is the opportunity and potential to democratise pornography, he says, it won't necessarily happen. "Those same types of sociality are still being used to uphold some very misogynist views," he says. "We need more than a technological platform to make those ideological shifts."
One thing seems clear – social porn isn't going anywhere. A Pew survey asked whether people thought the group referred to as Generation Y would continue to be "ambient broadcasters who disclose a great deal of personal information in order to stay connected" throughout their lives; 67% of those questioned thought so.
"It'll be interesting to see if those pornography networks seep out and connections start to be made with your personal email address," says Mowlabocus. But he suspects that social activity around online porn will always largely be done under the cloak of anonymity. "While porn has always had a social dimension, that social dimension has always been heavily policed."
It doesn't seem likely that your social porn activity will be recorded on your Facebook page, for example, as it is with other sites, including music-streaming site Spotify. "The people watching the stag films didn't tell their bosses and parents," says Mowlabocus.
"In the end, when you think about the people you're connected to on Facebook, there are a lot of people you wouldn't want to share your sexual desires with." | positive |
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TITLE 2. GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY
CHAPTER 9. JUSTIFICATION EXCLUDING CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY
SUBCHAPTER A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 9.01. DEFINITIONS. In this chapter: (1) "Custody" has the meaning assigned by Section 38.01. (2) "Escape" has the meaning assigned by Section 38.01. (3) "Deadly force" means force that is intended or known by the actor to cause, or in the manner of its use or intended use is capable of causing, death or serious bodily injury. (4) "Habitation" has the meaning assigned by Section 30.01. (5) "Vehicle" has the meaning assigned by Section 30.01. Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994; Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 293, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997. Amended by: Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 378), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2007. Sec. 9.02. JUSTIFICATION AS A DEFENSE. It is a defense to prosecution that the conduct in question is justified under this chapter. Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994. Sec. 9.03. CONFINEMENT AS JUSTIFIABLE FORCE. Confinement is justified when force is justified by this chapter if the actor takes reasonable measures to terminate the confinement as soon as he knows he safely can unless the person confined has been arrested for an offense. Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994. Sec. 9.04. THREATS AS JUSTIFIABLE FORCE. The threat of force is justified when the use of force is justified by this chapter. For purposes of this section, a threat to cause death or serious bodily injury by the production of a weapon or otherwise, as long as the actor's purpose is limited to creating an apprehension that he will use deadly force if necessary, does not constitute the use of deadly force. Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994. Sec. 9.05. RECKLESS INJURY OF INNOCENT THIRD PERSON. Even though an actor is justified under this chapter in threatening or using force or deadly force against another, if in doing so he also recklessly injures or kills an innocent third person, the justification afforded by this chapter is unavailable in a prosecution for the reckless injury or killing of the innocent third person. Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994. Sec. 9.06. CIVIL REMEDIES UNAFFECTED. The fact that conduct is justified under this chapter does not abolish or impair any remedy for the conduct that is available in a civil suit. Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994. SUBCHAPTER B. JUSTIFICATION GENERALLY
Sec. 9.21. PUBLIC DUTY. (a) Except as qualified by Subsections (b) and (c), conduct is justified if the actor reasonably believes the conduct is required or authorized by law, by the judgment or order of a competent court or other governmental tribunal, or in the execution of legal process. (b) The other sections of this chapter control when force is used against a person to protect persons (Subchapter C), to protect property (Subchapter D), for law enforcement (Subchapter E), or by virtue of a special relationship (Subchapter F). (c) The use of deadly force is not justified under this section unless the actor reasonably believes the deadly force is specifically required by statute or unless it occurs in the lawful conduct of war. If deadly force is so justified, there is no duty to retreat before using it. (d) The justification afforded by this section is available if the actor reasonably believes: (1) the court or governmental tribunal has jurisdiction or the process is lawful, even though the court or governmental tribunal lacks jurisdiction or the process is unlawful; or (2) his conduct is required or authorized to assist a public servant in the performance of his official duty, even though the servant exceeds his lawful authority. Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994. Sec. 9.22. NECESSITY. Conduct is justified if: (1) the actor reasonably believes the conduct is immediately necessary to avoid imminent harm; (2) the desirability and urgency of avoiding the harm clearly outweigh, according to ordinary standards of reasonableness, the harm sought to be prevented by the law proscribing the conduct; and (3) a legislative purpose to exclude the justification claimed for the conduct does not otherwise plainly appear. Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994. SUBCHAPTER C. PROTECTION OF PERSONS
Sec. 9.31. SELF-DEFENSE. (a) Except as provided in Subsection (b), a person is justified in using force against another when and to the degree the actor reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to protect the actor against the other's use or attempted use of unlawful force. The actor's belief that the force was immediately necessary as described by this subsection is presumed to be reasonable if the actor: (1) knew or had reason to believe that the person against whom the force was used: (A) unlawfully and with force entered, or was attempting to enter unlawfully and with force, the actor's occupied habitation, vehicle, or place of business or employment; (B) unlawfully and with force removed, or was attempting to remove unlawfully and with force, the actor from the actor's habitation, vehicle, or place of business or employment; or (C) was committing or attempting to commit aggravated kidnapping, murder, sexual assault, aggravated sexual assault, robbery, or aggravated robbery; (2) did not provoke the person against whom the force was used; and (3) was not otherwise engaged in criminal activity, other than a Class C misdemeanor that is a violation of a law or ordinance regulating traffic at the time the force was used. (b) The use of force against another is not justified: (1) in response to verbal provocation alone; (2) to resist an arrest or search that the actor knows is being made by a peace officer, or by a person acting in a peace officer's presence and at his direction, even though the arrest or search is unlawful, unless the resistance is justified under Subsection (c); (3) if the actor consented to the exact force used or attempted by the other; (4) if the actor provoked the other's use or attempted use of unlawful force, unless: (A) the actor abandons the encounter, or clearly communicates to the other his intent to do so reasonably believing he cannot safely abandon the encounter; and (B) the other nevertheless continues or attempts to use unlawful force against the actor; or (5) if the actor sought an explanation from or discussion with the other person concerning the actor's differences with the other person while the actor was: (A) carrying a weapon in violation of Section 46.02; or (B) possessing or transporting a weapon in violation of Section 46.05. (c) The use of force to resist an arrest or search is justified: (1) if, before the actor offers any resistance, the peace officer (or person acting at his direction) uses or attempts to use greater force than necessary to make the arrest or search; and (2) when and to the degree the actor reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to protect himself against the peace officer's (or other person's) use or attempted use of greater force than necessary. (d) The use of deadly force is not justified under this subchapter except as provided in Sections 9.32, 9.33, and 9.34. (e) A person who has a right to be present at the location where the force is used, who has not provoked the person against whom the force is used, and who is not engaged in criminal activity at the time the force is used is not required to retreat before using force as described by this section. (f) For purposes of Subsection (a), in determining whether an actor described by Subsection (e) reasonably believed that the use of force was necessary, a finder of fact may not consider whether the actor failed to retreat. Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994; Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 190, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995. Amended by: Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 378), Sec. 2, eff. September 1, 2007. Sec. 9.32. DEADLY FORCE IN DEFENSE OF PERSON. (a) A person is justified in using deadly force against another: (1) if the actor would be justified in using force against the other under Section 9.31; and (2) when and to the degree the actor reasonably believes the deadly force is immediately necessary: (A) to protect the actor against the other's use or attempted use of unlawful deadly force; or (B) to prevent the other's imminent commission of aggravated kidnapping, murder, sexual assault, aggravated sexual assault, robbery, or aggravated robbery. (b) The actor's belief under Subsection (a)(2) that the deadly force was immediately necessary as described by that subdivision is presumed to be reasonable if the actor: (1) knew or had reason to believe that the person against whom the deadly force was used: (A) unlawfully and with force entered, or was attempting to enter unlawfully and with force, the actor's occupied habitation, vehicle, or place of business or employment; (B) unlawfully and with force removed, or was attempting to remove unlawfully and with force, the actor from the actor's habitation, vehicle, or place of business or employment; or (C) was committing or attempting to commit an offense described by Subsection (a)(2)(B); (2) did not provoke the person against whom the force was used; and (3) was not otherwise engaged in criminal activity, other than a Class C misdemeanor that is a violation of a law or ordinance regulating traffic at the time the force was used. (c) A person who has a right to be present at the location where the deadly force is used, who has not provoked the person against whom the deadly force is used, and who is not engaged in criminal activity at the time the deadly force is used is not required to retreat before using deadly force as described by this section. (d) For purposes of Subsection (a)(2), in determining whether an actor described by Subsection (c) reasonably believed that the use of deadly force was necessary, a finder of fact may not consider whether the actor failed to retreat. Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 5316, ch. 977, Sec. 5, eff. Sept. 1, 1983; Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994; Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 235, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1995. Amended by: Acts 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 378), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2007. Sec. 9.33. DEFENSE OF THIRD PERSON. A person is justified in using force or deadly force against another to protect a third person if: (1) under the circumstances as the actor reasonably believes them to be, the actor would be justified under Section 9.31 or 9.32 in using force or deadly force to protect himself against the unlawful force or unlawful deadly force he reasonably believes to be threatening the third person he seeks to protect; and (2) the actor reasonably believes that his intervention is immediately necessary to protect the third person. Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994. Sec. 9.34. PROTECTION OF LIFE OR HEALTH. (a) A person is justified in using force, but not deadly force, against another when and to the degree he reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to prevent the other from committing suicide or inflicting serious bodily injury to himself. (b) A person is justified in using both force and deadly force against another when and to the degree he reasonably believes the force or deadly force is immediately necessary to preserve the other's life in an emergency. Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994. SUBCHAPTER D. PROTECTION OF PROPERTY
Sec. 9.41. PROTECTION OF ONE'S OWN PROPERTY. (a) A person in lawful possession of land or tangible, movable property is justified in using force against another when and to the degree the actor reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to prevent or terminate the other's trespass on the land or unlawful interference with the property. (b) A person unlawfully dispossessed of land or tangible, movable property by another is justified in using force against the other when and to the degree the actor reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to reenter the land or recover the property if the actor uses the force immediately or in fresh pursuit after the dispossession and: (1) the actor reasonably believes the other had no claim of right when he dispossessed the actor; or (2) the other accomplished the dispossession by using force, threat, or fraud against the actor. Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994. Sec. 9.42. DEADLY FORCE TO PROTECT PROPERTY. A person is justified in using deadly force against another to protect land or tangible, movable property: (1) if he would be justified in using force against the other under Section 9.41; and (2) when and to the degree he reasonably believes the deadly force is immediately necessary: (A) to prevent the other's imminent commission of arson, burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, theft during the nighttime, or criminal mischief during the nighttime; or (B) to prevent the other who is fleeing immediately after committing burglary, robbery, aggravated robbery, or theft during the nighttime from escaping with the property; and (3) he reasonably believes that: (A) the land or property cannot be protected or recovered by any other means; or (B) the use of force other than deadly force to protect or recover the land or property would expose the actor or another to a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury. Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994. Sec. 9.43. PROTECTION OF THIRD PERSON'S PROPERTY. A person is justified in using force or deadly force against another to protect land or tangible, movable property of a third person if, under the circumstances as he reasonably believes them to be, the actor would be justified under Section 9.41 or 9.42 in using force or deadly force to protect his own land or property and: (1) the actor reasonably believes the unlawful interference constitutes attempted or consummated theft of or criminal mischief to the tangible, movable property; or (2) the actor reasonably believes that: (A) the third person has requested his protection of the land or property; (B) he has a legal duty to protect the third person's land or property; or (C) the third person whose land or property he uses force or deadly force to protect is the actor's spouse, parent, or child, resides with the actor, or is under the actor's care. Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994. Sec. 9.44. USE OF DEVICE TO PROTECT PROPERTY. The justification afforded by Sections 9.41 and 9.43 applies to the use of a device to protect land or tangible, movable property if: (1) the device is not designed to cause, or known by the actor to create a substantial risk of causing, death or serious bodily injury; and (2) use of the device is reasonable under all the circumstances as the actor reasonably believes them to be when he installs the device. Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1975, 64th Leg., p. 913, ch. 342, Sec. 6, eff. Sept. 1, 1975. Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994. SUBCHAPTER E. LAW ENFORCEMENT
Sec. 9.51. ARREST AND SEARCH. (a) A peace officer, or a person acting in a peace officer's presence and at his direction, is justified in using force against another when and to the degree the actor reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to make or assist in making an arrest or search, or to prevent or assist in preventing escape after arrest, if: (1) the actor reasonably believes the arrest or search is lawful or, if the arrest or search is made under a warrant, he reasonably believes the warrant is valid; and (2) before using force, the actor manifests his purpose to arrest or search and identifies himself as a peace officer or as one acting at a peace officer's direction, unless he reasonably believes his purpose and identity are already known by or cannot reasonably be made known to the person to be arrested. (b) A person other than a peace officer (or one acting at his direction) is justified in using force against another when and to the degree the actor reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to make or assist in making a lawful arrest, or to prevent or assist in preventing escape after lawful arrest if, before using force, the actor manifests his purpose to and the reason for the arrest or reasonably believes his purpose and the reason are already known by or cannot reasonably be made known to the person to be arrested. (c) A peace officer is justified in using deadly force against another when and to the degree the peace officer reasonably believes the deadly force is immediately necessary to make an arrest, or to prevent escape after arrest, if the use of force would have been justified under Subsection (a) and: (1) the actor reasonably believes the conduct for which arrest is authorized included the use or attempted use of deadly force; or (2) the actor reasonably believes there is a substantial risk that the person to be arrested will cause death or serious bodily injury to the actor or another if the arrest is delayed. (d) A person other than a peace officer acting in a peace officer's presence and at his direction is justified in using deadly force against another when and to the degree the person reasonably believes the deadly force is immediately necessary to make a lawful arrest, or to prevent escape after a lawful arrest, if the use of force would have been justified under Subsection (b) and: (1) the actor reasonably believes the felony or offense against the public peace for which arrest is authorized included the use or attempted use of deadly force; or (2) the actor reasonably believes there is a substantial risk that the person to be arrested will cause death or serious bodily injury to another if the arrest is delayed. (e) There is no duty to retreat before using deadly force justified by Subsection (c) or (d). (f) Nothing in this section relating to the actor's manifestation of purpose or identity shall be construed as conflicting with any other law relating to the issuance, service, and execution of an arrest or search warrant either under the laws of this state or the United States. (g) Deadly force may only be used under the circumstances enumerated in Subsections (c) and (d). Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994. Sec. 9.52. PREVENTION OF ESCAPE FROM CUSTODY. The use of force to prevent the escape of an arrested person from custody is justifiable when the force could have been employed to effect the arrest under which the person is in custody, except that a guard employed by a correctional facility or a peace officer is justified in using any force, including deadly force, that he reasonably believes to be immediately necessary to prevent the escape of a person from the correctional facility. Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994. Sec. 9.53. MAINTAINING SECURITY IN CORRECTIONAL FACILITY. An officer or employee of a correctional facility is justified in using force against a person in custody when and to the degree the officer or employee reasonably believes the force is necessary to maintain the security of the correctional facility, the safety or security of other persons in custody or employed by the correctional facility, or his own safety or security. Added by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 512, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994. SUBCHAPTER F. SPECIAL RELATIONSHIPS
Sec. 9.61. PARENT-CHILD. (a) The use of force, but not deadly force, against a child younger than 18 years is justified: (1) if the actor is the child's parent or stepparent or is acting in loco parentis to the child; and (2) when and to the degree the actor reasonably believes the force is necessary to discipline the child or to safeguard or promote his welfare. (b) For purposes of this section, "in loco parentis" includes grandparent and guardian, any person acting by, through, or under the direction of a court with jurisdiction over the child, and anyone who has express or implied consent of the parent or parents. Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994. Sec. 9.62. EDUCATOR-STUDENT. The use of force, but not deadly force, against a person is justified: (1) if the actor is entrusted with the care, supervision, or administration of the person for a special purpose; and (2) when and to the degree the actor reasonably believes the force is necessary to further the special purpose or to maintain discipline in a group. Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994. Sec. 9.63. GUARDIAN-INCOMPETENT. The use of force, but not deadly force, against a mental incompetent is justified: (1) if the actor is the incompetent's guardian or someone similarly responsible for the general care and supervision of the incompetent; and (2) when and to the degree the actor reasonably believes the force is necessary: (A) to safeguard and promote the incompetent's welfare; or (B) if the incompetent is in an institution for his care and custody, to maintain discipline in the institution. Acts 1973, 63rd Leg., p. 883, ch. 399, Sec. 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1974. Amended by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 900, Sec. 1.01, eff. Sept. 1, 1994. | positive |
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Im Schatten des Doms hat die Schweizer Künstlerin Milo Moiré am Freitagvormittag mit einer Nacktperformance zu den Übergriffen in der Silvesternacht Stellung genommen. Zehn Minuten lang stand Moiré vollkommen unbekleidet auf der Domplatte und hielt ein Plakat hoch, auf dem stand: „Respektiert uns! Wir sind kein Freiwild, selbst wenn wir nackt sind!!!“ Mit der Performance wollte die in Düsseldorf lebende Künstlerin vermitteln, dass es egal sei, ob Frauen nackt oder angezogen sind, ihnen sei stets der gleiche Respekt entgegenzubringen.
Im Anschluss kritisierte sie Verhaltensregeln für Frauen und Mädchen, wie Oberbürgermeisterin Henriette Reker sie ins Spiel gebracht hatte. „Es kann nicht sein, dass Frauen sich maßregeln lassen müssen“, erklärte Moiré. Dass den Opfern der Attacken mitten in Europa so etwas geschehen konnte, sei ihr an Herz und Nieren gegangen.„Wir können Frauen nicht vermitteln, dass sie etwas falsch gemacht haben. Sie müssen erhobenen Hauptes durch das Leben schreiten können, mit wachsamen Augen, aber selbstbewusst.“
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Schiff, Trott Introduce Bipartisan Resolution to Recognize Armenian Genocide
Washington D.C. – Today, U.S. Representatives Adam Schiff (CA-28) and Dave Trott (MI-11) introduced legislation to officially recognize the Armenian Genocide of 1915. The Resolution recognizes the genocide against the Armenian people from 1915-1923 by the Ottoman Empire, while drawing links to the modern scourge of genocide, including attacks on religious minorities in Iraq and Syria by ISIS.
"Over 100 years ago, the Ottoman Empire undertook a brutal campaign of murder, rape, and displacement against the Armenian people that took the lives of 1.5 million men, women, and children in the first genocide of the 20th century," said Schiff. "Genocide is not a historic relic - even today hundreds of thousands of religious minorities face existential threat from ISIS in Syria and Iraq. It is therefore all the more pressing that the Congress recognize the historical fact of the Armenian Genocide and stand against modern day genocide and crimes against humanity."
“After over a hundred years, it is long overdue that the United States government stand in solidarity with the Armenian people to officially recognize the genocide waged against their families a century ago,” said Trott. “I am honored to be able to represent such a vibrant Armenian population in Southeast Michigan and I will continue to fight for them in Congress.”
Representatives Adam Schiff and Dave Trott were also joined by the other leaders of the Congressional Caucus on Armenian Issues, Representatives Valadao, Bilirakis, Pallone, and Speier in underscoring their support for the recognition of the Armenian genocide.
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Fixing unusable network-manager-openconnect-plugin on Xenial Xerus
sudo apt-get purge network-manager-openconnect network-manager-openconnect-gnome
sudo apt-get build-dep network-manager-openconnect
sudo sed -i s/#deb-src/deb-src/g /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo apt-get install libnm-dev
wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/NetworkManager-openconnect/1.1/NetworkManager-openconnect-1.1.93.tar.xz
tar -xf NetworkManager-openconnect-1.1.93.tar.xz
cd NetworkManager-openconnect-1.1.93
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --libexecdir=/usr/lib/NetworkManager/ --enable-more-warnings=yes --disable-static
make
sudo make install
sudo apt-get install openconnect
sudo checkinstall
On Ubuntu 16.04 the network-manager-openconnect and network-manager-openconnect-gnome plugins are not usable because they are to old to use with the current version of network-manager.Unofficial built packages are available here:NOTE: You won´t get any security updates for this! It is just a workaround until the packages will have been fixed in the official repository!Using VPN is a security feature - so it is better to build the package manually from source because you don´t know what I put into the packages. :-PAt first remove the unusable packagesYou will need the build-dependencies.(NOTE: For this the 'deb-src'-Sources in /etc/apt/sources.list must be active.)You can do this with sed e.g.the new dependency for the new version.and the sourcecode from GNOME project.Unpack the tarballchange to the unpacked directoryand run the configure script.start compilingand install manuallyinstall the dependency for use the softwareor build a package with checkinstallIf you do so enter this:
networkmanager-openconnect
as package name
adduser, libc6, libdbus-glib-1-2, libglib2.0-0, libnm-glib-vpn1, libnm-util2, network-manager, openconnect
as requirementsand
network-manager-openconnect, network-manager-openconnect-gnome
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo adduser --system --quiet --home /var/lib/NetworkManager --no-create-home --gecos "NetworkManager OpenConnect plugin" --group nm-openconnect}
as conflicts.If you get errormessages by installing the package tryto resolve unmet dependencies.To use the software it is necessary to add a systemuser for thisAt last restart the system. | positive |
Taking Cues From Human Nutrition To Reduce Antibiotic Use In Livestock
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On a cold windy morning, Kelly Nissen feeds the cows at the Iowa State University Beef Nutrition Farm. He weighs out specific rations and carefully delivers them to numbered feed bunks.
"When you're feeding, you're always double-checking yourself to make sure it's going in the right lot," Nissen says. It's important — because these cows munch on more than just the common mix of hay, corn and distiller's grain. They're also charged with testing out different formulas developed by the researchers in the animal science department at Iowa State.
Among the goals here is to find ways farmers can reduce how often they put antibiotics in animal feed — which they use not just to treat sick animals, but also to prevent disease and get animals to grow faster. The issue is that some of the antibiotics used on farms are the same ones that doctors prescribe to humans fighting off infections.
The more these antibiotics are used, the more likely it is that some squirrelly bacteria will develop resistance — and those pesky drug-resistant bacteria can infect humans.
The government has asked drug companies to stop the use of antibiotics for growth promotion. And last year, the Obama administration announced a plan aimed at cutting down reliance on these medicines. Meanwhile, researchers like Stephanie Hansen at Iowa State have been looking for alternatives to antibiotics in animal feed.
Recently, they've been taking cues from human diet trends, trying an ingredient you can probably find in your fridge, inside that tub of Greek yogurt: healthy bacteria.
A good yogurt will contain several live bacteria — or probiotics — which help keep our guts healthy and happy. No one's going to feed pigs, chickens or cows Fage. But researchers think that a bacterium commonly found in yogurt, Lactobacillus acidophilus, could help keep animals healthy — so farmers don't have to give them as many antibiotics.
"Acidophilus would have the same impact in a production livestock animal as it would in humans," Hansen says. This friendly bacterium likes hanging out in guts — and once it settles into either a human or an animal's gut, it thrives and multiplies, crowding out the other harmful bacteria that live there — which, in turn, can keep you, or a cow, healthy.
Poultry researcher Alejandro Penaloza at Oklahoma State University has a similar idea: He's testing two strains of Lactobacillus in poultry feed. Some large chicken producers are interested, he says, because it helps the birds gain weight with less feed, a benefit they used to get from antibiotics.
"We cannot say that probiotics is the silver bullet to completely eliminate antibiotics," Penaloza says. "But I am sure that they can help a lot."
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Researchers are still testing just how much of an impact probiotics have on livestock. But some animal feed companies are already marketing Lactobacillus supplements. Iowa-based Diamond V, for instance, has developed a pig feed supplement made from the bacteria.
"We've seen improvements in weight gains, feed conversion, food intake in young pigs," says Jason Frank, the director of non-ruminant nutrition research at Diamond V. "But more interestingly, we've seen that by improving general health and performance, that those pigs are requiring fewer [antibiotic] treatments."
Of course, these bacteria are no panacea, Frank says. "As antibiotics become more limited in their use, we're going to have to make changes in how we raise animals, perhaps develop more vaccines, change our stocking densities, nutrition programs," he notes.
Moving beyond antibiotics on the farm will be a gradual process, but it's getting a little inspiration from our diet trends.
Amy Mayer is a reporter based at Iowa Public Radio. This story comes to us from Harvest Public Media, a reporting collaboration focusing on agriculture. A version of this post originally ran on the Harvest website. | positive |
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Hampton, Florida (CNN) -- How off-the-charts corrupt do you have to be to capture somebody's attention in the Sunshine State?
You can lay claim to a 1,260-foot stretch of busy highway a mile outside of town and set up one of the nation's most notorious speed traps. You can use the ticket money to build up a mighty police force -- an officer for every 25 people in town -- and, residents say, let drugs run rampant while your cops sit out by the highway on lawn chairs, pointing radar guns at everybody who passes by.
Of course, none of those things are illegal. But when you lose track of the money and the mayor gets caught up in an oxy-dealing sting, that's when the politicians at the state Capitol in Tallahassee take notice.
Now they want this city gone, and the sooner the better.
A state audit of Hampton's books, released last month, reads like a primer on municipal malfeasance. It found 31 instances in which local rules or state or federal laws were violated in ways large and small.
Read the audit (PDF)
Somewhere along the way, the place became more than just a speed trap. Some say the ticket money corrupted Hampton, making it the dirtiest little town in Florida.
That's saying something, because Florida has seen enough civic shenanigans to lead the nation in federal corruption prosecutions and convictions, according to a watchdog organization called Integrity Florida. The group's 2012 study revealed that more than 1,760 of Florida's public officials had been convicted of corruption since 1976.
"It's a mess," Dan Krassner, the group's co-founder, said of the situation in Hampton. "Clearly, there has been misuse of public funds and lack of oversight. The cronyism and nepotism is out of control."
As for the city's prospects, "They don't look good."
Sure enough, a criminal investigation is gaining steam. On Friday, Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigators and the Bradford County Sheriff's detectives searched Hampton City Hall. The door of the police chief's office was removed from its hinges as investigators combed the tin-roofed building for documents and other evidence.
How did things get so bad that lawmakers now think the the dirtiest little town in America has forfeited its right to govern itself?
The local sheriff, never at a loss for a colorful turn of phrase, has a theory: The speeding tickets were such a cash cow, they proved to be Hampton's undoing.
"It became 'serve and collect' instead of 'serve and protect.' Cash register justice," said Sheriff Gordon Smith. "Do y'all remember the old 'Dukes of Hazzard'? Boss Hogg? They make Boss Hogg look like a Sunday school teacher."
Whom did the pipeline of easy money corrupt in this postage stamp-size town with fewer than 500 people? And if money is missing, how much are we talking about, anyway: $200,000, $600,000? One lawmaker has suggested it's as much as $1 million.
And where did it all go? There aren't any McMansions rising up out of the swamp, no country clubs, no casinos, no swimming pools, no stadium, not even a new City Hall, although the old one got a fresh coat of paint when the auditors came to town.
There are some nicer homes with fishing boats tied to docks along Lake Hampton, but they sit outside the city limits. Hampton proper -- several blocks on either side of City Hall -- consists of ramshackle homes with sagging tin roofs. Yards are filled with junk, high grass and overgrown trees and bushes. The proliferation of No Trespassing signs is disconcerting. People here seem to have so little and yet fear losing it so much.
Some old-timers remember when it used to be much grander, the Bradford County seat, with a hotel and a railroad station and large homes with sweeping lawns. Then the fancy folks packed up and moved 10 miles up the road to Starke, taking Hampton's dreams (and the county seat) with them.
The Florida Legislature convened last week, and by the time the session closes at the end of April, Hampton could be history.
Some residents think that would be a crying shame.
Other people say that dissolving Hampton would be more like a mercy killing.
'Crooks or stupid people'
Despite its polite audit-speak and dry title -- "Operational Audit: City of Hampton" -- the 42-page report from the state auditor general makes for riveting reading. Nepotism is rampant. City cars, cell phones and credit cards were misused. The city clerk was overpaid by some $9,000, and employees ran up $27,000 on the city's credit card and charged another $132,000 on an account at the convenience store at the BP station next door to City Hall.
"What's wrong with that picture? That's a lot of cigarettes and beer and what-have-you. That's corrupt as heck," said Jim Mitzel, who was mayor of Hampton from 2000 to 2008. He's sitting on the bleachers of a baseball field at a city park, one of the few things Hampton has done to improve the lives of its 477 residents. (Not with speeding ticket money, though. Hampton received a grant.)
Mitzel, who is in his early 50s, acknowledges his role in greasing the revenue pipeline from the speed trap out on U.S. 301. But he says he always intended for the money to come back to the city. All he ever saw was shiny new police cars in a place where old cars rust in front yards because there's no code enforcement.
"Where did all the money go?" he asked. "I hate to say it, but in somebody's pocket."
Mitzel's daddy served on the City Council for years. He said the way Hampton's government is set up, the employees had the run of City Hall and they didn't cotton to dissent.
"If you start questioning, they turn things on you. I got out when the getting was good." His salary as mayor -- $125 a month -- wasn't worth the hassle, he said.
The last mayor, Barry Layne Moore, was in office for just a few weeks when he was locked up and accused of being a drug dealer. He says he's not sure whom to blame for his predicament.
On a recent afternoon, Moore shuffled into a visitor's room at the Bradford County Jail in orange plastic slide-on sandals that matched his orange jumpsuit. His hands were cuffed in front of him, his ankles shackled. He took a seat and smiled, looking a little puzzled.
He allegedly sold a single 30-milligram pill of oxycodone -- a "blueberry" in street parlance -- to an undercover sheriff's informant for $20. He denies the charge and swears he's going to beat the case in court. He's been sitting in jail in Starke, about 10 miles up the road from Hampton, since a few days before Thanksgiving. He can't raise the $4,500 required to bond out.
He's still the mayor, he thinks, although Gov. Rick Scott has suspended him. He thinks he's being made a scapegoat to steer attention away from the audit and Hampton's bigger problems. He talks about himself as a little fish swept up in a big net.
"They made it sound as if I was running some kind of pill mill right out of my house, which is not the case at all," he said. "If I was some kind of drug dealer, I would at least have a car. I ride a bicycle around town. I had my lights cut off twice last year. If I am a dope dealer, why are my lights getting cut off?
"I'm a good guy that got caught up in a bunch of nonsense that was bigger than me."
He grew up in Hampton and worked as a general laborer until he got hurt. The first time, a forklift hit him. The second time, he fell off a roof. He says he is in constant agony and has taken prescription painkillers for the past 22 of his 52 years. He admits that he is addicted to oxycodone, which is what brought him to this little yellow brick jail.
He wasn't in office during the period the audit covers, and he hadn't seen a copy. But from what he's heard, it made it appear as if Hampton were being run by a coterie of crooks.
"I think that's not very far from the truth at all. They are either a bunch of crooks or a bunch of stupid people," he said with a rueful laugh. "I hate to say it like that, but it's the truth. I look like a crook sitting here in an orange suit, don't I?"
The way Moore sees it, he was targeted for arrest "as part of a systematic way to tear the town of Hampton down."
But why would anyone want to do that? Hampton seemed to be doing a pretty good job by itself.
'One heck of a debacle'
There are two reasons for the City of Hampton to exist: to provide water to 477 people and to protect the peace. Some 89 years after it became a city, the audit revealed how badly Hampton botched both jobs.
Nearly half the water the city pumps from the Suwanee River simply vanishes. Leaky pipes are partially to blame, but in some cases, the water goes to buildings without working meters. Some customers may have been getting free water for years.
Hampton's bigger problems grew out of the city's duty to "keep the peace." It led to what everyone calls "the annexation" in the early 1990s.
Somebody got the idea to snap up an easement along both sides of County Road 18 and a 1,260-foot stretch of U.S. 301. Because of the annexation, the bird's eye view of Hampton resembles a lollipop on a stick. Or, depending on your point of view, a fist with a raised middle finger. Most outsiders take the second view.
Hampton set up its speed trap, just like its neighbors, Waldo and Lawtey. Since Hampton has no schools, homes or businesses along 301, traffic safety really wasn't the issue. The focus always was on revenue -- and state and county officials say that's where the city went wrong. It's the crack that allowed corruption to creep in and take hold.
The key players in this chapter of the saga are the county sheriff and Hampton's chief of police.
Almost from the minute Sheriff Gordon Smith was sworn into office, he started hearing about Hampton and its speed trap. He couldn't go to the store or church or a Friday night football game without running into somebody with a gripe about the city.
At first, all of the complaints were about the speed trap. But as time went by, people started complaining about what was going on at City Hall, too. They told him they couldn't talk to anyone else. If they spoke up at City Hall, their water got shut off.
Smith is a bit of an anomaly: a Democrat in conservative North Central Florida. He's a redhead and fair-skinned. When something angers him, he sputters: "That makes my freckles pop."
He had started his law enforcement career on the police force in Starke, where he met another young officer named John Hodges. The two began as friends, but it didn't last.
Hodges became the police chief in Hampton. And what was going on in Hampton was enough to make the sheriff's freckles pop.
Hampton cops were a fixture out on U.S. 301. They sat on lawn chairs, pointing radar guns at unsuspecting motorists. They hid behind recycling bins. As more and more money came in, they idled in slick SUVs, trolled the median strips in riot gear and toted state-of-the-art firepower. Locals gave one the nickname "Rambo" because he slung an AR-15 rifle across his chest.
All to write tickets.
Money generated by the tickets was poured back into law enforcement.
They "were just out there writing tickets galore," recalled Moore, the jailed mayor-for-a-minute. "I mean, you can hear all those sirens all day long -- woo, woo, woo -- lighting up everybody. It got ridiculous."
The American Automobile Association's Auto Club of the South labeled Hampton a "traffic trap" and warned members about the town, along with Lawtey and Waldo, on its maps. The AAA also erected warning billboards along U.S. 301.
People complained that Hampton officers were stopping them without cause, leaving kids and pets in hot cars and impounding cars based on outdated allegations that surfaced in computer searches. The sheriff's department investigated some of the complaints, but those inquiries never went anywhere.
Hodges bristled at the interference. Smith said he asked the chief for a roster of his officers so they could be trained to use the county's radios and computers. He also wanted to verify that people who radioed in and said they were Hampton cops actually were authorized to run criminal records checks.
Hodges handed him a list of four names and indicated that 15 others either worked "undercover" or were assigned to "special details" and would not be named.
The ticket money continued rolling in: $616,960 between 2010 and 2012. Hampton's peak year came in 2011, when 9,515 speeding tickets brought in more than $253,000.
That was the year state Rep. Charles Van Zant got his speeding ticket. He says he drove directly to the courthouse in Starke and paid it. And, he insists, he carries no grudge. But later, he observed, "When I got my ticket, you couldn't hardly pass by Hampton without getting a ticket. You can say that's law enforcement, but no. That's banking using the U.S. highway system."
By 2012, Smith was playing hardball. He questioned whether the city had legally annexed the 1,260-foot stretch of U.S. 301; he said nobody could find a document recording the easement. He also believed that Hampton was illegally tracking cars with its radar outside the city limits.
He persuaded a judge to dismiss Hampton's tickets and cut the city's officers off the county radio and national criminal record database. He ordered his deputies not to accept Hampton's prisoners at the county jail.
Responding to the pressure, Hampton took down its speed trap. The ticket money for 2012 dropped more than 40 percent from the previous year.
Smith and Van Zant weren't finished with Hampton. They wanted to follow the money.
On April Fool's Day 2013, Van Zant asked the state auditor general to step in and go over the city's books. Lots of money was coming in, he observed, and Hampton had plenty of police officers and shiny new cars, but there was no sign that other services had improved.
Hodges did not return CNN's calls requesting comment. He has retired from his $400-a-week job as chief, leaving Hampton without a police force.
The sheriff's department has been patrolling the city for more than a year. Hodges has said he plans to run against Smith in the next election.
He told a local newspaper, The Gainesville Sun, that he considers the audit a one-sided political "witch hunt," even though he acknowledged he didn't read it.
Culture of entitlement
City Hall is locked up tight. Trucks parked out back have been stripped of parts and left to rust. The mail is piling up. There's no money coming in, so the last three employees have walked off the job.
It's as if Hampton has already given up.
Tough times can leave people feeling both deprived and, oddly, entitled. Listen closely, and you can hear that culture of entitlement when some folks from Hampton speak. Moore, the jailed mayor, talks about his disability checks as his "salary."
Smith, the sheriff, believes that folks at City Hall came to treat their government perks in much the same way. He said residents complained to him that police officers and other employees drove city cars home without signing them out. They took them to run personal errands at Walmart. When they filled them up at the BP station, they brought lawnmowers and gas cans from home too and put it all on the city charge card.
The audit was harshest on the former city clerk, Jane Hall. It did not accuse her of any crimes but called into question her handling of some of the city's business.
She acknowledged to CNN that she isn't the most organized person and had no formal training in bookkeeping or accounting. But the books always passed muster with the outside accountants the city hired, she said.
Hall was camera-shy when CNN visited Hampton but later defended herself at length during several phone conversations and e-mail exchanges. She provided spreadsheets and other documentation to support her points. She believes that the case against Hampton has been blown out of proportion.
The money that came in from the tickets went back into the police department, she said. And the police still outspent their budget almost every year.
Hall denies that she was overpaid by $9,000 and says the city's outside auditing company backs her up. The $27,000 on the city's credit card was spent on Christmas parties, flowers, gifts, a fall festival and other events, she said.
The auditors questioned whether parties were an appropriate use of public funds. But she pointed out that the audit never suggested that the card was used for personal expenses.
And she said she provided receipts for the $132,000 charged at the BP. It all went to gas for 10 city vehicles, including police cars, over a three-year span.
The audit also questioned several city checks issued to Hall's family members that were never cashed. Later, a single check in the aggregate amount was made out to Hall herself. She said that the uncashed checks were "payroll" and that if she employed family, it was because nobody else wanted the work. She said she spent hours working with the auditors after she stepped down but was never paid for her time.
Her husband, Charles Norris Hall, served on the City Council for years but didn't take his $125 monthly paycheck when the city was struggling financially, she said. (He resigned from his council seat last week.) It never was the case of a small-town big shot putting his wife on the City Hall payroll. Jane Hall had been a council member as well. She was first elected when she was just 22 years old.
"I think that some of the audit findings have either been misconstrued or deliberately skewed to show me in an unfavorable light," she said. "I do think the move to dissolve Hampton is completely unfair and don't understand who will gain by it."
There is little doubt that Hall has a strong personality and may have intimidated some people in Hampton and angered others. Residents say she spent the days sitting in her City Hall office, chain-smoking. Sometimes she'd turn on the little black-and-white TV and watch soap operas. She is not the type to pull punches.
But if the Halls, Hodges or anyone else in Hampton were getting rich off speeding tickets, they don't have much to show for it.
The Halls' home, a two-block stroll from City Hall, is hardly a palace. As a neighbor described it in a complaint to the sheriff's office, it seems like something from the reality television show "Hoarders":
"This property is full of debris and cars that are not tagged or registered. This yard is very unsafe. They have garbage that is all around their home. There are probably 30 cats and kittens that are running loose in her yard. Looking in her home windows, she is a hoarder."
The complaint describes "unsafe living conditions," including boxes stacked to the ceiling and "a porch so cluttered that a path has been cleared to pass through it all."
Hall responded with a typed, two-page letter asserting that the person making the complaint was doing so out of spite and "using your office as a tool to punish me for her anger against the City of Hampton that she for some reason blames on me." She added that the complainant had her own code violations to worry about and questioned why the county believed it had jurisdiction over the Halls' property, which was within the city limits.
As CNN walked the neighborhood, 81-year-old Jerry Warren grumbled at the nosy strangers about the "vendetta" he thinks is being waged against the Halls. He was quick to defend the couple, describing them as caring neighbors and "honest as the day is long."
Hall said she received three visits in one week from the sheriff's office. Two concerned the feral cats overtaking her yard, and one was to check on a child who came home from school with one of her grandchildren.
She said the visits stirred up the rumor mill. People were sure the police activity was audit-related.
"I certainly do not want any issues with the sheriff's department and have lived my whole life as a law-abiding citizen," she said. She thinks she being made to "look like some kind of criminal mastermind."
"That would be like saying Snoopy is Cujo's twin brother."
'Why is this even a city?'
The politicians in Florida's capital, Tallahassee, were gobsmacked by the audit when it was unveiled February 10 at a public hearing. They used words like "crazy," "outrageous" and "weird" to describe what they heard and struggled to find the right metaphors and points of comparison: Southern Gothic literature, John Grisham novels and Al Capone came to mind.
The city doesn't pay its bills on time, if it pays them at all, the audit says. It doesn't balance the checkbook or withhold employee payroll taxes or hold elections when it should. It doesn't maintain insurance on city vehicles. Record-keeping is hit or miss. The auditors were told that the records they sought were destroyed by an accident or in a flood. The water meter readings? Those were "lost in the swamp."
This was perhaps the most disturbing bit of news to come out of that hearing: City officials acknowledged that petty cash and money from water customers -- the city clerk often demanded payment in cash -- were kept together in a bag. When police said he needed cash to buy drugs for "undercover investigations," it came out of that bag, Smith and Van Zant said.
No records were kept, so nobody had a clue what happened to the money -- or the acquired contraband. This much is clear to Smith: No prosecutions resulted.
In the end, the auditors unearthed a problem far deeper than speed traps and mismanagement. They found evidence of what legislators called "wholesale corruption" and "abuse of the public." The vote was unanimous: request a criminal investigation, a forensic audit and a grand jury and look into getting a special prosecutor.
It was the outraged legislators' idea to take matters a step further and dissolve Hampton. They included Hampton's own representatives in Tallahassee, Van Zant and Sen. Rob Bradley.
"Why is this even a city?" asked Bradley, a former prosecutor whose district also includes the wealthier suburbs of Jacksonville.
It is an unusual step, and no one can recall the last time anyone in Florida pulled the plug on a city for corruption.
Acting Mayor Myrtice McCullough was the only person from Hampton brave enough to travel to Tallahassee and face the legislators in early February, when the audit was released. She looked like a deer in headlights.
"I know that all this stuff looks bad and is bad," she said, adding that most of the council members didn't know what was going on until the audit came back. "We're working really hard to address these issues."
She was asked then whether dissolving the city would have a negative impact on anyone in Hampton.
"I don't know how to answer that," she said.
If this were a script for a Hollywood movie, it would be time to cue the weepy, inspirational music.
McCullough gathered her wits and seemed ready to take on what needed to be done when she addressed the legislators a second time at a recent meeting at the county courthouse in Starke.
She is a lifelong resident of Hampton, and her mother was a popular mayor back in the day. She presented the legislators with a petition to Save Hampton, with about 120 signatures. She asked for their help in teaching Hampton how to function as a city again.
"We have a wonderful bunch of people in Hampton," she said. "I think our people deserve a chance."
Other residents said that they'd been victimized by the monkey business at City Hall and that taking their city away would only victimize them a second time. Two preachers spoke about forgiveness and redemption. One man called Van Zant a "bully" and accused him of "decimating Hampton because you got a speeding ticket."
Van Zant, a God-fearing man himself, denied acting out of spite.
"Read the audit," he retorted. "Enough said."
The first vote was unanimous: dissolve Hampton's 1925 city charter.
Van Zant agreed to delay taking the legislation before the full House to give Hampton a chance to show that it can govern itself. The city has just four weeks to make its case. If it fails, the House will probably pull the plug on Hampton, and the Senate will rubber-stamp its approval. Hampton then would become part of unincorporated Bradford County.
To survive as a city, the good people of Hampton must toss out the old regime at City Hall and bring in new people. Legislators said everyone must go, both elected officials and staff. The city has to get out of the ticket business and give up that finger of annexed land. It has to fix the water system and figure out how to dig itself out of its deep financial hole -- a prospect that could cost every man, woman and child in Hampton at least $500.
It's a tall order. There isn't much time.
"I want to see you succeed," Bradley said. "I want everyone to live in a community they are proud of. But I want everyone to understand that what happened was unacceptable. They should be outraged. I am outraged."
The lawmakers promised to return to Hampton in late March or early April to see for themselves.
Someone will have to find the keys and unlock City Hall, because it could be the biggest crowd since the AAA came to town in 1995 to label Hampton a speed trap.
Can Hampton save itself?
Across from City Hall, behind the BP station where the city ran up $132,000, a typical Hampton house with a No Trespassing sign slowly collapses into itself. Wires run from the house to a camper out back, and three small children play in the tall grass on a broken swing set, among the scavenged toys, bicycles, coolers and car parts.
The children seem happy; their shrieks of delight fill the air when they find a barbell and a wheel rim and make a game of it. Two sluggish men wearing sleeveless undershirts watch from lawn chairs.
This is Hampton, 2014. There's no mortgage on the house; that was paid off years ago. There's no job to go to, no money for this generation to keep the family place fixed up. They don't have anywhere else to go, anyway. This is home.
The malaise that grips the place comes from generations of limited opportunity. It creeps in, takes hold, kills hope and dulls the spirit. When you can't get a break, you learn not to expect one. Hampton looks like a dog that knows what it feels like to be kicked.
The most recent census data show that the average income in Hampton is just under $30,000; about a quarter of the residents live below the poverty line.
"It's just sad, sad that it's getting this bad," said 34-year-old Justis Smith, who has lived in Hampton most of her life. "This is embarrassing for all of us. I think people just got lazy, and nobody was paying attention."
Smith's family runs a successful business fixing up bank-owned houses, and she'd love to fix up Hampton, too, but she thinks the place might be too far gone.
"Right now, honestly, I'd be too ashamed," she said. "It's not all a town of bad people." She believes the current sad state of affairs "isn't necessarily malicious"; people at City Hall just "got a little careless."
For Hampton to make a comeback, "there will have to be a plan that provides confidence quickly," said Krassner, of Integrity Florida. "That community is going to have to find in their 477 residents some strong leadership quickly if their local government is going to continue. There may not be enough time and leadership in that community to restore trust."
But Mitzel, one of the former mayors, echoes the sentiments of many in Hampton when he says a whole city shouldn't die because a state representative got a speeding ticket and two law enforcement officials couldn't get along.
He hopes Tallahassee will give Hampton another chance.
"The government bailed out General Motors. The government bailed out Chrysler. Why can't the state of Florida bail out the City of Hampton?"
He has launched a campaign to "Save our Town of Hampton, Fla." It even has a Facebook page. And 81 followers. | positive |
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By Nate Raymond
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York City resident who prosecutors said tried two years ago to board a flight to Turkey on his way to Syria in order to join Islamic State pleaded guilty on Thursday to having conspired to provide material support to the militant group.
Akhror Saidakhmetov, a 21-year-old citizen of Kazakhstan, entered his plea in federal court in Brooklyn to conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, prosecutors said.
He faces up to 15 years in prison and removal to Kazakhstan, prosecutors said. A lawyer for Saidakhmetov did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
He is one of six individuals charged in the case and one of more than 100 people who have faced U.S. federal charges in connection with Islamic State since 2014.
The investigation began when Abdurasul Juraboev, an Uzbek national living in Brooklyn, came to law enforcement's attention after making a post on an Uzbek-language website that supported Islamic State, prosecutors said.
The probe revealed that Juraboev and Saidakhmetov, a friend and coworker who shared similar views, planned to travel to Turkey and then to Syria to join Islamic State, prosecutors said.
Speaking to a paid law enforcement informant, Saidakhmetov said his mother had feared he would do so and had taken his passport, which he planned to get back by saying he was going to Uzbekistan to visit relatives, according to court papers.
According to charging documents, Saidakhmetov had also expressed interest in joining the U.S. military to either pass information to Islamic State to help in their attacks or to open fire on soldiers to kill as many as possible.
Saidakhmetov's efforts to join Islamic State received funding help from four co-defendants, prosecutors said.
He was arrested in February 2015 at John F. Kennedy International Airport, where he was attempting to fly to Istanbul. Juraboev was scheduled to leave the United States in March 2015, prosecutors said.
Juraboev pleaded guilty in August 2015 to conspiring to provide material support to Islamic State. Charges against the four other men - Azizjon Rakhmatov, Abror Habibov, Dilkhayot Kasimov and Akmal Zakirov - remain pending.
(Reporting by Nate Raymond in New York; Editing by Chris Reese) | positive |
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The entire Bannon -vs- Kushner storyline is beyond silly for all the aforementioned reasons. However, The Hill is reporting today that R&R Mercer may have recalled Bannon for duties elsewhere.
Unfortunately, the ridiculous presentation of the Hill outline completely skips the entire connection between Robert Mercer, Rebekah Mercer, Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway and Breitbart media. The article makes it seem as if they are disparate entities.
[…] Two two sources briefed on the meeting told The New York Times that Bannon met with Rebekah Mercer, the daughter of major Republican donor Robert Mercer, last Friday. According to the newspaper, the meeting took place in Mercer’s office at Cambridge Analytica in New York and focused on possibilities for Bannon if he decides to leave the White House. (read more)
If you know the relationship between each of the aforementioned entities I would strongly suggest you read the article to see just how obtuse The Hill can be in one outline.
For those who don’t know the relationship, here’s a quick explainer.
Billionaire Robert Mercer owns the majority stake in Breitbart Media. Mercer invested $15 million in Breitbart when Bannon was editor. Breitbart media then went full bore in support of Ted Cruz. Mercer then established the Cruz Super-PAC “Keep the Promise”.
Robert Mercer’s daughter is Rebekah Mercer, a friend of Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway.
Cambridge Analytica, one of Robert Mercer’s enterprises, was the primary data-gathering organization for Ted Cruz’s data-driven campaign. Under Steve Bannon’s leadership Breitbart Media ran a candidate poll for two years gathering the user data on behalf of Cambridge Analytica and Robert Mercer who then sold the data back to the Cruz campaign to use in donor solicitations.
These are not unfamiliar people.
White House strategist Steve Bannon meeting with Robert or Rebekah Mercer is essentially Bannon meeting with his former boss and his bosses very political daughter.
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The Board of Regents will drastically alter the way it allocates state funds to Iowa’s three universities over the next four years by tying a majority of dollars to resident enrollment – a move that could ramp up competition among the institutions and pull millions from the University of Iowa.
UI leaders and faculty members urged the Board of Regents to delay its decision and more extensively study how a new performance-based funding model would impact the universities and the state. But a majority of regents agreed Wednesday that the state’s current funding model for its universities is archaic and “perverse” and needs to be changed.
The Board voted 8-1 – with regent Robert Downer of Iowa City voting no – to adopt the new funding model that ties 60 percent of state-allocated higher education funds to resident enrollment. If immediately applied, Iowa State University would become the top funded institution in the state, and the UI would lose $47.8 million of its appropriations.
But, following the board’s vote, UI President Sally Mason told reporters that “Hawkeyes love a challenge,” and so does she. Mason said the UI “fully intends” to increase enrollment of in-state students while maintaining its out-of-state and international enrollment.
She said the UI in recent years hasn’t been in a position to grow due to damage and renovation costs associated with the 2008 flooding. But now it is, and it will, Mason said.
“We’re going to get larger,” she said. “We can continue to grow in strategic ways.”
ISU President Steven Leath expressed gratitude for the new funding metrics and said they will help ISU manage its tremendous growth. The Ames campus now boasts the largest student body among the regent universities.
UNI President William Ruud said the change will be “significantly” helpful in making up for years of inadequate state funding for his institution.
The funding model approved by the Board of Regents on Wednesday was amended slightly from the original model recommended by a task force charged to review how state funds are allocated.
Instead of tying 5 percent of state funds to job placement and continuing education, the approved funding model associates that portion with graduate and profession student enrollment.
The approved funding model is set to roll out over a three-year period beginning in the 2016 budget year. And it will cap the amount of money that can move from university to university each year at 2 percent of the 2013 budget.
The original proposal would have meant a hit to the UI of about $60 million – if implemented over one year. The approved funding model drops the impact slightly to $47.8 million or $12.9 million a year based on the 2 percent cap.
That amount is based on an assumption that the universities’ enrollment proportions remain the same. Regents on Wednesday said each university can adjust their recruiting and admission efforts to increase in-state student enrollment.
As for the remaining 35 percent of state funds, the new funding model ties 15 percent to progress and attainment, 10 percent to access, 5 percent to sponsored research, and 5 percent is left up to the regents to decide.
Former Regent David Miles, who led the task force charged with recommending a new way of funding the universities, said he thinks the new model better aligns state funding with regent goals. He said it also more appropriately subsidizes in-state student tuition, which does not cover the cost of education like out-of-state tuition does.
“I for one believe the University of Iowa has broad shoulders and that it will respond to the priorities articulated in the new budget model, as it has effectively in the past,” Miles said. “And I think the University of Iowa, along with Iowa State University and the University of Northern Iowa, will be stronger, more successful, and frankly better funded by the citizens of Iowa in the years to come based on the board’s actions today.”
Both regents Downer and Subhash Sahai expressed concerns with how the new funding model could affect the UI, referred to as the state’s flagship university, and the state as a whole.
“If we discourage the universities or punish them for enrolling out-of-state students, that will impact the state’s economy,” Sahai said.
He said the funding change could prompt universities to shift attention from out-of-state or international recruiting, affecting the state’s ability to become more diverse and grow its population. He said it also could prompt universities to increase tuition for out-of-state students, resulting in more student debt and driving graduates to seek employment elsewhere.
Sahai stressed the importance of making sure Iowa communities have enough doctors, dentists, attorneys and other professionals.
“I think if we try to squeeze this down where everything is going to be heaped on the backs of students in those programs, we are going to see very sad results in terms of the ability to recruit those persons to serve communities in Iowa,” he said.
Regent statistics show the UI is the only institution that gets a majority – 52 percent – of its freshmen from outside the state. Conversely, ISU has a 42 percent out-of-state freshmen enrollment and UNI gets just 9 percent of its freshmen in the form of out-of-state students.
Meanwhile, the UI received 46 percent off state general-education funding in 2013, while ISU got 36 percent and UNI got 18 percent. That is unfair, given the fact that in-state student tuition doesn’t cover the cost to provide them an education, according to the task force and its leader Miles.
“What we have created is a system whereby we penalize a university for taking on additional residents,” Miles said.
Still, Miles said, some states have applied different funding levels for the various metrics at different institutions – meaning the UI still could get a larger portion of the funds, if regents choose to go that route.
Sahai acknowledged the need for a funding change, but he criticized the recommended model for failing to address quality of education, rather than just quantity of students enrolled. Miles acknowledged that inadequacy and said “it would be wonderful” if the board could, over time, find a way to sort that out.
“I think it’s not the quantity, but the quality that should be addressed,” Sahai said.
The Board of Regents years ago did create a “regent admission index” that scores Iowa high school students and qualifies them for automatic admission to the three regent universities. The score is based on ACT or SAT scores, high school rank, cumulative grade-point average and the number of completed high school courses. Students who earn a score of at least 245 have automatic admission while those will weaker scores can be considered for admission on an individual basis.
Regent documents show that, in fall 2013, 5.3 percent of new freshmen applicants to the UI had scores below 245, while ISU had 8.1 percent of applicants with lower scores and UNI had 11.2 percent of applicants under the 245 mark.
Of those applicants, the UI in fall 2013 admitted 20.8 percent of the lower-achieving students – or 237. ISU admitted 36.9 percent – or 526 – and UNI admitted 79.6 percent – or 367, according to the regent enrollment reports that were made public in October.
In fall 2010, the UI admitted 13.6 percent of the applicants with scores below 245, ISU admitted 41.8 percent and UNI admitted 56.9 percent, regent documents show.
Regent President Bruce Rastetter said he’s not concerned that new funding metrics will prompt universities to lower their admission standards. Board of Regents Executive Director Robert Donley said many of the students admitted with low index scores succeed and do well at the respective universities, and that’s why admission officials have the flexibility to consider each student holistically. | positive |
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More than a dozen states have laws that either prohibit counties and cities from operating their own broadband internet networks, selling service directly to consumers, or expanding their service behind a prescribed footprint. In 2015, the FCC voted to preempt two of these laws — in Tennessee and North Carolina — but this morning a federal appeals court says the FCC lacks the legal authority to do so.
As he hinted at during the oral arguments for this case back in March, Judge John Rogers of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals sees the FCC’s efforts as an attempt to reverse the local government pecking order.
“The FCC order essentially serves to re-allocate decision-making power between the states and their municipalities,” writes Rogers [PDF] for the three-judge panel.
Counties and cities must follow state law, contends the court, and if that state law forbids local governments from building networks or selling access to a municipally owned network, then the FCC has no business to say otherwise.
The FCC had argued that it has a statutory obligation under Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act, which mandates the Commission “encourage the deployment on a reasonable and timely basis of advanced telecommunications capability to all Americans.”
So when the cities of cities of Wilson, NC, and Chattanooga, TN, separately petitioned the FCC to preempt state laws that bar these cities from expanding their broadband service, the Commission ultimately concluded that the respective laws were too restrictive and primarily served to protect the interests of the cable and phone companies — who help to draft and push these laws through state legislatures — over consumers, many of whom have few choices for broadband.
“For scores of Americans, the choice of one, let alone multiple, broadband networks, is a dream deferred, and the promise of universal access remains unkept,” said FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn at the time.
Both North Carolina and Tennessee sued the FCC, arguing that the preemptions were effectively forcing the states to displace the structure of their own subdivisions — a violation of a core tenet of state sovereignty.
In the majority opinion for the Sixth Circuit, Rogers concludes that the FCC was overstepping its bounds because, while Sec. 706 might require the Commission to encourage broadband deployment, “no federal statute or FCC regulation requires the municipalities to expand.”
For the FCC to preempt the state laws, Rogers says it would need “at least a clear statement in the authorizing federal legislation,” and that the requirement set out in Sec. 706 “falls far short of such a clear statement.”
The opinion acknowledges that the municipal broadband providers involved here have provided benefits to consumers.
EPB, the name for the Chattanooga utility that sells broadband within its electrical service footprint but which is forbidden from selling service to communities outside that footprint, is noted as have “received uniform praise… led to job growth and attracted businesses to the area.”
Chattanooga schools and student in formerly underserved areas have also benefited from EPB’s broadband service, admits the court.
Additionally, notes Rogers, by introducing EPB to the marketplace, it’s resulted in lower rates and improved service from existing providers in the area. And counter to claims made by opponents of muni broadband who say it’s always a money-losing venture, the court points out that EPB “has also put more money in Chattanooga’s coffers, which contributed to Standard and Poor’s upgrading of the EPB’s bond rating to AA+ in 2012.”
Likewise in Wilson, NC, the introduction of the municipally owned Greenlight service has also been a net positive, offering more affordable service, providing free WiFi throughout the hole downtown area, and maintaining a positive cash flow.
“Each of the top seven employers in Wilson is a customer of the fiber network,” writes the court. “Local schools benefit from using Greenlight, as does the City’s main public library.”
Yet a North Carolina law prohibits Wilson from selling Greenlight outside its home county, even to locations that request it.
So why can the states decide if/when a city or county can sell broadband service? The court says that’s just the way the governmental food chain works.
“What the FCC seeks to accomplish through preemption is to decide who — the state or its political subdivisions — gets to make these choices,” writes Rogers. “The FCC wants to pick the decision maker for the discretionary issues of expansion, rate setting, and timeliness of rollout of services. It wants to provide the EPB and the City of Wilson with these options notwithstanding Tennessee’s and North Carolina’s statutes that have already made these choices.”
Rogers cautions that today’s ruling is limited in scope and should not be misread to imply that the FCC has no preemptive authority under Sec. 706.
In a statement emailed to Consumerist, FCC Chair Tom Wheeler says his office is reviewing the decision, but that it “appears to halt the promise of jobs, investment and opportunity that community broadband has provided in Tennessee and North Carolina.”
“The FCC’s mandate is to make sure that Americans have access to the best possible broadband,” says Wheeler. “We will consider all our legal and policy options to remove barriers to broadband deployment wherever they exist so that all Americans can have access to 21st Century communications.”
Meanwhile, FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai — an outspoken advocate of telecom providers and one of the two commissioners to vote against preemption of the Tennessee and North Carolina laws — says “Today’s decision also represents an opportunity for the FCC to turn the page. Rather than wasting its time on illegal efforts to intrude on the prerogatives of state governments, the FCC should focus on implementing a broadband deployment agenda to eliminate regulatory barriers that discourage those in the private sector from deploying and upgrading next-generation networks.”
EPB president David Wade says this issue isn’t just about his network, but about the need to find a way to connect Tennesseans who don’t have access to reliable or affordable broadband.
“Ultimately, Tennessee’s broadband gap is a problem for Tennesseans, and we need a Tennessee solution,” said Wade. “We will continue to work with the growing number of state legislators and grassroots citizens interested in removing the barriers that prevent EPB and other municipal providers from serving our neighbors in surrounding areas who have little or no access to broadband.”
Lawmakers in Tennessee have tried to pass legislation that would have made the FCC preemption unnecessary, but lobbyists from AT&T and Comcast successfully pushed the state legislature to kill the most recent attempt in March 2016.
Greenlight in Wilson, NC, says it is “disheartened” by today’s decision.
“We are currently reviewing specifics of the opinion and its full impact on our ability to continue service in areas such as Pinetops. The purpose of our request for preemption was to allow us to provide broadband infrastructure to all existing utility customers that desired access,” reads a statement from the company. “No matter the impact on services in Pinetops, the infrastructure will continue to provide its primary purpose of supporting continued smart grid deployments.”
Former FCC Chair Michael Copps — now a special adviser to Common Cause — derided the Sixth Circuit’s ruling, pointing out that the laws the FCC tried to preempt aren’t exactly the will of the people.
“Let’s be clear: industry-backed state laws to block municipal broadband only exist because pliant legislators are listening to their Big Cable and Big Telecom paymasters,” explains Copps. “These corporate providers invest in campaign contributions rather than in deploying high-quality broadband.”
He continues, “This decision does not benefit our broadband nation. Nor is it a good reading of the law. But if the FCC cannot set aside these bad laws, then the people must. We will redouble our state-by-state efforts to repeal these odious policies.”
Likewise, Deb Socia, Executive Director of Next Century Cities — a coalition of pro-muni broadband city leaders from around the country — calls today’s ruling a “blow to communities in Tennessee and North Carolina that were fighting for more accessible, affordable internet access for their residents, [that] will sadly prevent the expansion of each city’s broadband network to neighboring underserved communities.” | positive |
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President Obama on Tuesday ordered U.S.-owned waters in the Arctic Ocean and certain areas in the Atlantic Ocean placed "indefinitely" off-limits for future oil and gas leases, in a final fossil-fuel crackdown before he leaves office.
The move, intended to protect the area’s ecosystem, is a final push by Obama to seal his environmental legacy, and a possible way to bind the hands of his successor.
“Today, in partnership with our neighbors and allies in Canada, the United States is taking historic steps to build a strong Arctic economy, preserve a healthy Arctic ecosystem and protect our fragile Arctic waters, including designating the bulk of our Arctic water and certain areas in the Atlantic Ocean as indefinitely off limits to future oil and gas leasing,” the White House said in a statement, issued while Obama is on vacation with his family in Hawaii.
The White House announced the actions in conjunction with the government of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, which also placed a moratorium on new oil and gas leasing in its Arctic waters, subject to periodic review.
The Atlantic waters placed off limits to new oil and gas leasing are 31 canyons stretching off the coast of New England south to Virginia.
Industry groups swiftly protested.
Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) Senior Vice President Dan Naatz said in a statement the group was “extremely disappointed in President Obama’s eleventh hour decision to shut down economic development and lock away America’s true energy potential for communities that need it most."
Although the move uses executive powers, environmental groups are hoping the ban will be difficult for President-elect Donald Trump to reverse. The billionaire has repeatedly pledged to unleash the nation’s untapped oil and natural gas reserves.
Obama used a 1953 provision that allows the president to ban offshore leases in the outer Continental Shelf permanently. The administration has been considering opening an area of the Atlantic Coast to drill, but has slowly backed away from the idea, culminating in Tuesday’s announcement. Earlier this year, the administration removed potential Atlantic lease sales from its blueprint for offshore drilling. But that ban only applies to a five-year period starting in 2017, and could be more easily reversed by Trump in his own five-year blueprint.
Trump is looking to fill his administration with nominees who opposed Obama’s environmental agenda. He has tapped Environmental Protection Agency opponent Scott Pruitt to head the agency, and has picked former Texas Gov. Rick Perry to head the Department of Energy, which Perry once vowed to eliminate. Trump has called for more offshore drilling and to make the U.S. energy self-sufficient.
Some in the industry have expressed confidence the ban will not stand under the Trump administration, noting he can simply issue a new proclamation after taking office.
"There's no such thing as a permanent ban," Erik Milito, a policy director at the American Petroleum Institute, told The Associated Press.
However, Niel Lawrence, a senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council, told the AP that the result of a Trump proclamation isn’t that simple, as while the statute says a president can withdraw waters from the country's leasing plans, "it doesn't say you can put back in."
If Trump does issue an order reversing Obama's proclamation, it would be up to environmental groups or others to challenge his actions in court. If he doesn't, then it would be up to Congress to intervene.
Fourteen senators had signed a letter calling on Obama to ban offshore drilling permanently. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., had said before the announcement that he doesn’t think future administrations can undo the order without congressional approval.
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CLOSE A class of female inmates at California’s Folsom Prison graduated with coveted certificates in computer-aided design programs in November. Elizabeth Weise
Monica Oliva, 37, who graduated from a computer design training program at Folsom Prison on Nov. 19, 2015. (Photo11: Elizabeth Weise)
FOLSOM, Calif. — Monica Oliva is getting out of prison in November after 13 years and she's got plans — plans that include a job, a life and a lot of time on the computer.
Oliva, 37, graduated last week with a coveted certificate in three computer-aided design programs, after a grueling eight-hour-a-day, six-month course she and 17 other women completed while incarcerated at Folsom State Prison Women's Facility.
"You're talking to the happiest person in the world," Oliva said as she used a computer in the training center to show off a house she designed using AutoCAD.
Originally from Hawaii, she was imprisoned for assault with a deadly weapon. Today she hopes to find a job in the San Francisco Bay Area working as a draftsman. "I'm eager, eager to get out of here and put this stuff to use," she said.
The offenders are part of a program through the California Prison Industry Authority's Autodesk Authorization Training Center Program. They are the second class to have completed the training, which is the only Autodesk training offered in a correctional institution.
The inmates face a tough road. With less education and little work history, felons have difficulty finding jobs. A survey by the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights found that for 76% of the formerly incarcerated, finding work was difficult or nearly impossible and 26% were still unemployed five years after their release. Only 40% were working full time five years after leaving custody.
Skills and jobs are what will keep them from returning to prison, the inmates were told during the graduation ceremony.
"You have figured out what it takes to be successful even in tough times," Robin Harrington, chief deputy warden for female offender programs with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, told the graduates at a ceremony on the prison grounds. "You have achieved something."
Autodesk, headquartered in San Rafael, Calif., donated the software and the curriculum for the program and helped the prison find instructors.
Prison job training isn't just about stamping out license plates any more, said Charles Pattillo, general manager of California Prison Industry Board.
"These ladies have worked hard and they've learned skills that will help them get good jobs when they leave us. This certificate alone is really door-opener," he said.
So far 69 women have graduated and several have since been paroled and gotten jobs using their skills doing landscape design and drafting, he said.
Jobs for skilled mechanical drafters with CAD certification are growing at 10% in California, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. The annual average salary is $52,200.
Spending the money to train inmates makes good financial sense, Pattillo said.
The overall program costs $400,000, but the average offender costs California $63,000 for a year in prison and the recidivism rate for women is 49%. While there isn't data on this particular program because it's so new, overall just 7.1% of inmates who've received technical career training return to prison, Pattillo said.
Caitlin Churchill, a graduate of a certification program in Autodesk at Folsom State Prison, Folsom, Calif. (Photo11: Alan Barrett/CALPIA)
Caitlin Churchill has 10 more months at Folsom for a home-invasion offense. She says the program took a lot of hard work, but she's sure it will pay off in a job when she leaves.
"I barely even knew how to use Microsoft Word before I came into this program," the 29-year-old said.
"I've built a variety of houses, some from blueprints, some from the ground up," Churchill said. "You start with a blank page, then you begin with the blueprints and then you watch it become 3D. It's amazing."
The inmates have learned three of Autodesk's most popular programs, AutoCAD, Revit and Inventor.
"There will be so many opportunities for these women when they graduate. It’s an open field out there and we just don’t have enough of these designers to fill all the jobs there are,” said Lynn Allen, a community outreach director with Autodesk.
Oliva was already making the most of the opportunity.
"I told the representative from Autodesk that she had my dream job," she said. "I've got my resume and cover letters all written and I've been collecting business cards today so I can send them to everyone as soon as I get out."
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Fantasy analysts don't always get along. They don't always agree. And while our algorithms spit out some amazing projections each and every year, we're bound to disagree with the computers at times.
Insert the fantasy football roundtable, where the football guys here at numberFire are able to disagree and argue for a particular player or ranking in fantasy football. The topic for today: Who should be the number one running back in fantasy football?
The Argument for Jamaal Charles
From Drew Lieberman
If you have the first overall pick in fantasy football this year, Jamaal Charles should be your choice.
Charles tops our FireFactor rankings, which uses a player’s projected point total against the value of a replacement at the position. In a standard scoring setting, Charles’ FireFactor number tops 235, over 15 points higher than second-place LeSean McCoy and over 40 points higher than Adrian Peterson. Just know that our computers love him.
Charles’ career began in 2008, but he didn’t break 70 carries in that season, so his real usage began for all intents and purposes in 2009. Conveniently, that was LeSean McCoy’s rookie year, and Adrian Peterson’s third year in the league, so the numbers of all three can be compared pretty easily since 2009.
Name Total NEP Total NEP RB Rank Rushing NEP Rushing NEP RB Rank Jamaal Charles 192.34 2nd 83.63 1st LeSean McCoy 172.47 3rd 58.12 2nd Adrian Peterson 109.91 8th 50.59 3rd
The above table looks at our Net Expected Points (NEP) metric as well as Rushing Net Expected Points (Rushing NEP), both of which help determine how a player’s performance impacts his team’s final score. As you can see above, since 2009, Charles leads the three running backs in both categories, despite missing most of the 2011 season to an ACL injury. With a healthy 2011 campaign, there's not much reason to think Charles wouldn’t be significantly further from the pack.
With Andy Reid still the head coach in Kansas City, I think Charles could very well perform at a similar level as last season in which he amassed the third-highest point total by a running back since 2009, while only participating in the team’s first 15 contests.
A big reason for this was the offense’s reliance on Charles inside the opponent’s 10-yard line, where Charles totaled 14 of his 19 total touchdowns on 32 touches. When comparing this to his six touches inside the 10 in 2012 and 12 in 2010, it's clear that he's more of a focal point near the end zone than he was before Reid arrived in Kansas City.
But why I think Charles can provide value that McCoy and Peterson can’t is ultimately his contribution to the passing game. Last season, Charles set career-highs in pretty much every receiving category. He had nearly as many yards receiving as McCoy and Peterson combined (693 versus 710), over double their receiving scores (seven versus three) and now McCoy has Darren Sproles to compete with on third downs and for passes out of the backfield. Five of Charles’ touchdowns and nearly half of his yards came from passes outside of the backfield, and with the football in his hands, he's a threat to score from anywhere on the field.
Charles’ role in the passing game provides him a high floor that the other two backs don’t necessarily have, especially in PPR formats. Even if his carries take a dip, Charles is still going to produce elite numbers. No disrespect to McCoy or Peterson, but a healthy Charles will be the best fantasy running back in 2014.
The Argument for Adrian Peterson
From Brandon Gdula
I'm not afraid to take on the challenge of suggesting that Peterson should go first overall. Jim Sannes did a good job discussing why Peterson may be fade-worthy this season, but every back in the discussion has some question marks. Every player does.
The main issue with fantasy backs is regression. It's not often people are willing to vault unproven rushers into the number-one discussion, so it's not a surprise that the two prime candidates are Charles and McCoy, two guys who have track records of being near the top of the fantasy leaderboards.
However, top-level fantasy production can come and go and never come back. That's never been the case with Peterson, even during his down years. Sure, Peterson has had his struggles from injury and from poor supporting casts, but he's never failed to place outside the top eight at running back in seven years.
Three of his seven seasons were good for first or second. That's absurd.
He's also been able to produce elite Rushing NEP marks as well. He finished second in 2011 and first in 2012 in the metric. Aside from finishing 33rd in 2009, he's never finished outside the top-18 in his career, and 4 of his 7 years were top-10 Rushing NEP finishes.
The point is, all backs regress to an extent, and Peterson's steps back have only been temporary. Charles could repeat as the top fantasy back, but history isn't on his side. Here's how the top fantasy backs fared in subsequent years. The drops don't deem former-number-ones useless, but repeating as number one is optimistic at best.
Season Fantasy RB1 Points Following Year Pts Difference Rank 2012 Adrian Peterson 307.4 203.7 -103.7 8 2011 Ray Rice 298.8 222.1 -76.7 6 2010 Arian Foster 327.0 250.1 -76.9 4 2009 Chris Johnson 345.9 229.9 -116.0 5 2008 DeAngelo Williams 285.6 177.9 -107.7 14 2007 LaDainian Tomlinson 307.6 224.6 -83.0 6
Fourth is the highest a back has been able to achieve after leading backs in scoring. So while scoring leaders dip, others have to take over. And the runner-up doesn't get to snag the crown the next year.
Season Fantasy RB2 Points Following Year Pts Difference Rank 2012 Doug Martin 262.6 56.2 -206.4 58 2011 LeSean McCoy 281.4 145.3 -136.1 22 2010 Adrian Peterson 240.9 187.9 -53.0 7 2009 Adrian Peterson 282.8 240.9 -41.9 2 2008 Michael Turner 273.0 146.6 -126.4 23 2007 Brian Westbrook 280.4 215.8 -64.6 10
Peterson owns the two smallest drop offs of the 12 top-two backs in the sample, but also owns a tangible decline last year, in fairness. But since we're being fair, he missed two games and would have been top-five last season, and dropping 74.6 points from his league-leading 2012 season.
That would give him three of the four smallest declines out of the 12 backs in the sample. You can cite his age and his injuries and his sub-par teammates. But regression is real, and Peterson is the least affected by it of anyone (thanks to his 10-plus touchdowns every season), which is why I'd draft him all day over Charles and McCoy whose quest to the top in 2014 would be quite historic.
The Argument for LeSean McCoy
From Daniel Lindsey
You want to judge a running back by how he's used, right? You want him to get enough carries to make a difference, and a few receptions out of the backfield doesn’t hurt either. Take a glance at the table below to see how Shady, Jamaal Charles, and Adrian Peterson were all used in 2013.
Rushes Rush NEP per Rush Success Rate Receptions Reception NEP per Target Success Rate LeSean McCoy 314 0.12 51.30% 52 0.49 81.3% Adrian Peterson 280 0.03 40.36% 29 0.21 72.50% Jamaal Charles 260 0.05 46.15% 70 0.53 67.14%
McCoy didn’t just outrush both backs, but did it more efficiently as well. He had over 300 rushing attempts for the first time in his career, yet still destroyed the other two rushers in Rushing NEP on a per attempt basis. And we should expect that to continue with Chip Kelly’s offense. Charles, on the other hand, had over 70 receptions (on 104 targets) with Andy Reid at the helm. While I still think Charles could catch a lot of balls this year, that's quite a jump in just one campaign with a new captain. McCoy has averaged 58 receptions per season over the last four years, whereas Charles’ never had more than 45 receptions before last season.
Another thing to point out is the fact that McCoy's Success Rate both on the ground and through the air a season ago trumped the other two runners. This measures the percentage of rushes or receptions that contribute positively towards a player's NEP, which is a clear sign of consistency. McCoy wins that debate.
Charles may not regress in receptions, and Peterson could even see an increase over his usual 29 receptions per year with Norv Turner. But there’s no denying the fact that, of the running backs considered to be the top ones overall, it's LeSean McCoy who has done well consistently both on the ground and through the air through the years. That's why he should be the first running back selected this year. | positive |
Pro-choice Methodist minister John M. Swomley, who was the subject of a LifeNews article in May, attempts to refute the claim that preborn babies are “innocent.” The argument appeared in a book over a decade old, but it is so strange and disturbing that I’m writing about it now that it has come to my attention.
The gist of Swomley’s argument is that preborn babies are not “innocent” as pro-lifers claim, but are actually guilty – guilty enough, he implies, to justify aborting them.
Swomley first tries to refute the baby’s claim to innocence using theology:
The first claim is that society should protect innocent human life that is unable to protect itself. The term “innocent,” originally used by various popes, refers to fetal life which has committed no sin. Yet the Roman Catholic Church has proclaimed only one person, Mary, the Mother of Jesus, as having an immaculate conception and hence free from original sin. In any event, public policy cannot be founded on theological claims to innocence.
It seems unusual to see a Protestant arguing from a Catholic standpoint. Although I don’t know that many Catholic theologians who would say that because a preborn baby has been conceived with Original Sin, her life should not be protected. Our society does not enforce the death penalty lightly, and condemning a preborn baby to die for having Original Sin goes against both the Christian “Golden Rule” and the physicians’ ethic of “Do No Harm.”
Swomley’s argument would also justify infanticide. A baby outside the womb would still be considered to have “Original Sin” until baptism, in many faith traditions. Therefore, prior to the moment when the priest or pastor pours water on the child’s forehead (or baptizes him some other way) it would be permissible to kill the child.
Also, unless we single out Original Sin as the only type of sin that justifies murdering the sinner, no one would have a right to life because by the standards of modern Christianity, all human beings are sinners. Even by the standards of common sense, if the baby cannot be considered innocent, the rest of humanity certainly cannot be considered innocent either.
Finally, Swomley says that “public policy cannot be founded on theological claims to innocence.” Yet he has no problem justifying abortion with his own theological claim to guilt. His argument is self-refuting because he starts out by making a theological argument, and then says that theological arguments should not be used in the abortion debate, at least not to condemn abortion. Perhaps he is claiming that theological arguments can only be used by the pro-abortion side. This is inconsistent, arbitrary, and unfair.
Swomley has another argument against regarding preborn babies as innocent:
There is another meaning of “innocence” which comes from two Latin words, in (not) and nocere (to harm), and therefore means “not harmful or dangerous.” However, it is precisely the fact that some pregnant women (and their physicians) view the fetus as harmful or threatening to their health or welfare and hence leads them to consider abortion.
Very few pregnancies are a serious risk to a woman’s health, to the extent that her life is in danger. In fact, abortionist Dr. Don Sloan, who has performed for the 20,000 abortions, has said:
If a woman with a serious illness- heart disease, say, or diabetes- gets pregnant, the abortion procedure may be as dangerous for her as going through pregnancy … with diseases like lupus, multiple sclerosis, even breast cancer, the chance that pregnancy will make the disease worse is no greater that the chance that the disease will either stay the same or improve. And medical technology has advanced to a point where even women with diabetes and kidney disease can be seen through a pregnancy safely by a doctor who knows what he’s doing. We’ve come a long way since my mother’s time….The idea of abortion to save the mothers’ life is something that people cling to because it sounds noble and pure- but medically speaking, it probably doesn’t exist. It’s a real stretch of our thinking.
There are specialists who can get a woman through pregnancy even when they have a serious illness. The number of women who need to abort to save their lives is minuscule. Legalizing abortion across the board because of this tiny group of women does a great injustice to the vast majority of babies killed for less serious reasons, including convenience.
In the court case Doe v. Bolton, the Supreme Court defined the term “health” in abortion law extremely broadly to include emotional distress. The presence of a preborn baby in her womb may be upsetting to a woman, but that does not mean that the baby (placed there, in fact, by her own actions) is guilty of a capital crime. Some women may be emotionally upset by their pregnancies, but we do not allow people to execute those who upset them.
Swomley’s arguments are disturbing — even shocking, considering he is a Christian pastor. But they, like most pro-abortion arguments, it can be refuted with little effort by any ethical person with common sense. | positive |
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UPDATE: 1AM PST Sumerian Records posts image on their Facebook of Danny and Ben from the music video for “To The Stage“.
UPDATE #2: A video has surfaced of a previously deleted video that Ben Bruce’s girlfriend briefly posted on her Instagram of band practice, and what appears to be Danny singing
UPDATE #3: Danny Worsnop posted 3 snaps of him drinking with Ben and James on his snapchat:
In January of 2015, Asking Alexandria announced the departure of original vocalist Danny Worsnop, with Worsnop stating that at the time the band wasn’t “Best for me”. Shortly after the departure of Worsnop, guitarist and founding member Benjamin Bruce stated that the band would go on to play Vans Warped Tour in 2015 with their new vocalist. Fast forward nearly two years later, Asking Alexandria went on to release their forth studio album “The Black” with their new vocalist Denis Stoff and have played various tours world wide. While this was happening, Worsnop was experimenting with his classical rock band, We Are Harlot, which released their debut album in May of 2015.
This is where things get interesting. Over the past few months, various rumors have been flying around the music scene about the possible return of Danny Worsnop to Asking Alexandria. Undisclosed sources have stated that the band has decided to move on from replacement vocalist Denis Stoff. Sources claim that the band had various issues contacting Denis over the past two months. This draws concern with the “10 Years In The Black Tour” starting in less than a week. Aside from this, other sources have stated that the band has had issues with getting along with Denis, similar to the issues pertaining to the break up of Stoff‘s original band, Make Me Famous The band has also faced financial issues due to Denis losing his visa, forcing the band to cancel various shows.
Over the past few days, we can only assume that the hints posted on Asking Alexandria’s Facebook page are leading to the announcement of Worsnop’s return.
Check out the picture posted by Asking Alexandria‘s record label, Sumerian Records below, featuring the original line up of Asking Alexandria.
Images surfaced late Wednesday night on both Ben Bruce and Danny Worsnops instagram accounts. The images appeared of various unknown people taking shots of what appears to be Asking Alexandria.
Daddy needed a little tequila to get the blood moving after this morning’s hangover. Guess I’ll get drunk now… A photo posted by D A N N Y . W O R S N O P (@snoptropolis) on Oct 19, 2016 at 10:45pm PDT
Below are images of albums featuring Danny Worsnop, which were posted on Asking Alexandria‘s page on Wednesday.
With all of this sparks the concern of what the band will do in relation to their tour starting on October 25th. Undisclosed sources have stated that after meeting various times, Ben and Danny have been able to settle their differences and Ben offered Danny the position to return to the band. This all draws with evidence that both members have posted on their personal Twitter and Instagram accounts. It has also been stated, that Danny will be the permanent vocalist for the band once again, with the official announcement expected from the band no later than Friday.
About to fly to Arizona to visit Mr @benjaminbruce and Mr @mattg00d. Who knows, maybe play a little music… — Danny Worsnop (@dannyworsnop) September 28, 2016
Tonight haha. What a weird and awesome night A photo posted by mattg00d (@mattg00d) on Sep 29, 2016 at 5:22am PDT
A photo posted by Ben Bruce (@benjaminpaulbruce) on Sep 28, 2016 at 9:15pm PDT
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SPRINGFIELD -- The teenager was lucky, Springfield Police Officer Daniel J. Cintron explained.
During a dispute outside the Eastfield Mall, a tall, bearded man named Matt had just punched the teen's friend twice in the face and taken his cellphone. But the teen, unlike his friend, had avoided Matt's wrath, Cintron pointed out.
"You're lucky I didn't let Matt kill you," Cintron said, according to an arrest report. "He's an ex-con, and I would have done nothing about it."
The officer threatened the teen with arrest and a decade in prison. "I'll see you in court," he said later, according to the report.
Three weeks later, Cintron, 28, and Matthew Mattoon, 31, came to Springfield District Court to answer eight charges from the Aug. 20 confrontation outside the mall. During separate appearances Tuesday, both men pleaded not guilty to one count of unarmed robbery, three counts of assault and battery and four counts of witness intimidation.
By then, Cintron had already been suspended for five days without pay for his role in the incident, according to a spokesman for the Hampden district attorney's office. The suspension, imposed Monday, is the maximum amount Police Commissioner John Barbieri could impose as a punishment prior to any department discipline hearing, spokesman James Leydon said.
Angry over text messages sent to Mattoon's younger sister, the two defendants confronted the sender and his two friends outside the food court at the Boston Road mall, Assistant District Attoreny Cary Szafranski said.
As a security guard approached, Cintron -- armed with a knife and gun and wearing a Springfield police badge with black tape over his identification number -- told her "to back off in an aggressive manner," the arrest report said.
He also chest-bumped one of the teens and threatened the others, the report said.
Cintron refused three times to identify himself to mall security. But after the confrontation ended, he acknowledged being a police officer and said he would handle the incident, though he never filed a report, Szafranski said.
Besides being witnessed by security guards and shoppers, the incident was partially recorded on mall security cameras. Witnesses also jotted down the license plate number of a vehicle that left the scene, and the plate was traced to Cintron, Szafranski said.
Defense lawyer Charles Dolan, representing Cintron, said the police report offers a one-sided version of the confrontation. Police failed to interview his client and as many as six witnesses before filing charges, he said.
Based on his initial review, Dolan said the mall surveillance tape also appears to be inconclusive.
In addition to serving for three years as a city police officer, Cintron has been a member of the Army National Guard for a decade. Given his background, the decision to issue an arrest warrant, rather than a standard court summons, "was ridiculous," Dolan said.
Cintron turned in his firearm and voluntarily appeared in court Tuesday, his lawyer said.
Judge William Rota rejected a prosecution request to set bail at $5,000 for both men and released them on personal recognizance, with orders to have no contact with the alleged victims and to stay away from the Eastfield Mall.
Cintron and Mattoon are due back in court for a pretrial hearing on Oct 25. | positive |
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau says he will wait until 2015 to articulate his party's policy platform, insisting that he doesn't want to limit the consultation process just because some people are "impatient" for more details.
Speaking outside a Liberal caucus retreat in Prince Edward Island on Wednesday, Mr. Trudeau also announced that the Liberals will return to Ottawa next month, even though Parliament has been prorogued and is not expected to resume until October.
Mr. Trudeau said Liberals would return to Ottawa in the third week of September and hold meetings and roundtables in an effort to engage more people in the party's policy-making process. Asked repeatedly for more information about his party's policies, Mr. Trudeau told reporters he has no plans to address until the 2015 federal election.
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"My responsibility is to put forward a comprehensive, robust platform in 2015 that is going to demonstrate to Canadians that the Liberal party is serious about working hard for them and responding to their concerns," he said. "And I'm not going to short-cut that process, which is a serious and responsible process, just because people want to know right now and they're impatient to know."
Mr. Trudeau is expected to focus his message this fall on support for Canada's middle class, setting the stage for a battle with the Conservatives over issues such as personal debt and youth unemployment. The Liberal leader said he participated in roundtable meetings on youth employment and internships throughout the summer and plans to continue holding public policy forums over the next two years.
He told reporters that his caucus also discussed transparency, another key theme the Liberals plan to push forward on this fall. Mr. Trudeau said the party would follow through on its pledge to have MPs' post their hospitality and travel expense reports online.
"I think Canadians demand a level of transparency from their government and from political parties that the Liberal Party is happy to step up to and happy to take the lead on," Mr. Trudeau said. "I know the other parties will not take long to realize that they cannot operate in secrecy anymore."
The Liberal Leader added that he was recently briefed on the situation in Syria by Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird. He said his party is extremely concerned by recent events in the country and called the use of chemical weapons "unacceptable."
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John Hanlon, Media General Contributor - INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - A man stopped his car on I-465 in Indiana, shed his clothes as he strolled down the interstate and was hit by a car while walking naked into traffic Monday afternoon, according to Indiana State Police.
ISP troopers were called to I-465 near 38th Street around 1 p.m. on report of a naked man walking along the interstate.
Shortly before police arrived, witnesses said the man was hit by a car, ISP said.
Troopers found the naked man lying in the road conscious and breathing. The driver of the car, 76-year-old Carol Hoffman of Indianapolis, was not injured.
Investigators believe the man stopped his car on the right shoulder of southbound I-465 for an unknown reason.
He then began walking and "leaving a trail of his clothes behind him on the ground," ISP said in a media release.
Witnesses told troopers the man "repeatedly flailed his arms and threw himself against the concrete wall along the interstate."
ISP said the man may have been under the influence of drugs. He faces preliminary charges of public intoxication and indecent exposure.
His injuries are not life-threatening, ISP said.
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And nearly 20% of the population of Turkey's landmass lies in Europe. Pretty sure the Russian landmass in Europe is similar to that of Turkey's percentage-wise.
Turkey has more than 10 million people living in European Istanbul and the rest of Thrace, that's more than what many European countries can say.
Although by no means do I think Turkey is fully European, in many parts it is. The foundation of Turkey is based on European values.
I suggest you all read about this man:
During this era, Turkey executed radical Islamists like people from the royal Saudi family, and embraced entirely European customs and clothing.
The only reason Turkey is getting worse each day is because of the demographic shift. The uneducated and Arabized folks in the east are reproducing at incredibly high rates - some locations as high as an average of 6 children per woman. Meanwhile Western Turks have very low fertility rates (1-2) and that's why this demographic shift occurs. | positive |
HARARE, Zimbabwe — On his eighth visit to Singapore this year — and those are just the ones we know about — it is inevitable that speculation should swirl around the topic of President Robert Mugabe’s health.
At 87, he now depends upon Malaysian and Singaporean specialists for treatment despite the fact that first-class surgeons are available in Zimbabwe.
Mugabe’s staff insist that his visits to the Far East are private — he has a daughter at university in Hong Kong – but it is clear that what ails him is more serious than his spin-doctors claim. The official diagnosis is glaucoma. But recent pictures show his aides standing close-by in anticipation of a fall.
Fuelling speculation have been WikiLeaks cables which tell of Zanu-PF luminaries lining up to inform US embassy officials that their leader is on his last legs.
“They refer to a prostate condition that varies in its seriousness according to who is telling the story,” a former official related.
These disclosures must be galling for a president who wants to manage his own departure from office — and indeed beyond.
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Adding to his sense of impermanence must be the steady erosion of ideological underpinnings as his contemporaries exit the world stage one by one.
First to go was Romania’s Nicolae Ceausescu who, like Mugabe, rejected attempts by the Soviet Union to exercise tutelage. Both leaders remained firmly attached to their Chinese allies. When Ceausescu was executed in 1989, Mugabe lost a soul-mate. At the same time the fall of the Berlin Wall which saw other Communist regimes collapse deprived Mugabe of the Marxist-Leninist support structures he had taken for granted.
The release of Nelson Mandela in 1990 was also a worrying development for Mugabe’s regional authority as it challenged his narrow nationalist and exclusivist paradigm and replaced it with a constitutional order that was diametrically opposed.
Mugabe bitterly resented Mandela’s criticism of Zimbabwe’s intervention in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1998. And more recently he has proved uncomfortable with French intervention in the Ivory Coast which upheld the election victory of Alassane Ouattara and forced Laurent Gbagbo to leave office.
In February this year, Mugabe lost another friend when Egypt’s long-time ruler Hosni Mubarak was deposed. The two men, roughly the same age and with the same time in office, had much in common as they hung on to power in the teeth of popular resistance.
Air Zimbabwe planes carrying the Mugabes to Europe and the Far East were regularly diverted to Cairo so the veteran rulers could compare notes.
The overthrow of Mubarak led in turn to Col. Muammar Gaddafi’s grisly end. His flight from Sirte, capture and execution has prompted comparisons with Mugabe’s possible fate. But such a scenario can be misleading.
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Mugabe runs a tight ship but nothing like the vicious regime presided over by Libya’s ruler. He is called “Bob” by his white compatriots — not to his face, of course — and doesn’t seem to mind. Despite police crackdowns on civic protest, middle-class Zimbabweans carry on with their lives, eating out at sidewalk cafes, going to the movies and playing cricket on neatly watered pitches.
Zimbabwe was readmitted to Test status recently, a small sign of normality.
Everywhere across the capital, Harare, are the bright purple canopies of jacaranda trees. Next month the red flamboyants bloom as the rain arrives — invariably on time.
Libya it ain’t.
But the shadow of repression cannot be ignored. The Libyan ambassador to Harare was booted out when he changed sides. Radio and television are tightly and crudely controlled to reflect the views of Mugabe’s regime. Gaddafi is portrayed on the state media as a nationalist hero who went astray toward the end.
Gangs of Mugabe’s supporters break up the opposition Movement for Democratic Change gatherings while the police look on. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, on a visit last month presented Mugabe with a dossier of human rights violations against Anglican members whose schools and churches have been occupied by a Mugabe-backed faction — again with police complicity.
Hundreds of supporters of Zimbabwe's opposition have been killed during election campaigns. Thousands more have been tortured. The murders have been carried out with impunity by Mugabe's militias or by state agents.
Gaddafi was a generous patron of Mugabe’s Zanu-PF regime but was never taken seriously in his Gilbert & Sullivan uniforms accompanied by large female Nubian bodyguards. Even in official circles Zimbabweans resented Gaddafi’s pretensions and the implication that they had been bought.
Gaddafi splashed Libya’s oil money around generously. But as South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu pointed out, “Gaddafi had this wonderful dream of a United States of Africa, but I think we are going to remember what happened in the latter days of his rule when he actually bombed his own people.”
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SIRTE, Libya — As Libyan rebels from the east and those from the west converge on Sirte, the hometown of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and the last major loyalist holdout in the country, the tension between them is awkward at its best, dangerous at its worst.
The rivalry, while nothing new in this fractious country, is reaching new heights as rebels prepare for what will likely be the final showdown of the Libyan conflict.
In one of the few rebel-controlled neighborhoods of Sirte earlier this week, a seasoned fighter from the western rebel stronghold of Misrata sidled up to a rebel from the revolutionary city of Benghazi, which is in the east, and offered his ostensible ally a few choice words:
“You’re late.”
Although the competition manifests itself in playful and innocent ways, between the lines lies the future of Libya. As the eastern and western rebels vie for power and prestige in a post-Gaddafi world, and given the difficulty the two sides have had working together, the repercussions could be dire.
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Both east and west claim to be the true heroes of the revolution, and neither appears willing to share.
Rebels from Benghazi say they provided the impetus for the uprising when a small but long-running protest movement began to gain traction earlier in the year. The uprising then began in earnest on Feb. 17, they say, when security personnel opened fire on unarmed protesters gathered in the center of their city.
Rebels from Misrata to the west, however, say they are more deserving of the hero mantle because they endured the most sacrifices and put up the most impressive fight. For months they successfully battled back against Gaddafi's troops during one of the bloodiest sieges of the conflict. More than a thousand rebel and loyalist fighters are thought to have died on the streets of Misrata in March and April.
Tensions between the two groups were further stoked by a report on Al Jazeera after the fall of Tripoli in which a Misrata resident claimed that Benghazis made them pay millions of dollars for the weapons they used in their assault on the capital.
Benghazi denies the accusation, saying that it donated the weapons, along with several boatloads of medical supplies.
To their dismay, the Benghazi rebels were not present for Tripoli’s shockingly swift, and well-televised, demise. With several Gaddafi strongholds, including Sirte, lying between Benghazi and Tripoli, they were forced to go by boat, missing out on the initial victory.
“They [rebels from Misrata] say they did everything by themselves, the liberation of Tripoli,” said Osama, a Benghazi native, shaking his head.
Libya: For love of guns
Now that Benghazi rebels have penetrated Sirte from the east and Misrata rebels from the west, the rivalry has arrived in what will likely be the final battle of the Libyan revolution.
But the tension between the two heavily armed groups is unlikely to end when Sirte falls, worrying some ordinary Libyans who fear that the seeds of civil war are being laid.
Hassan Sadaw, a mild-mannered English teacher from Misrata, said he worried that divisions between the two sides would fester, and eventually erupt.
Sadaw said he’s never been a fighter and mostly stayed home during the battle for Misrata, preoccupied only with moving his family from one safe location to another.
“Maybe we’ll have a civil war. We are afraid, if we continue to talk about his, maybe there will be a political vacuum,” he said.
Part of Sadaw’s fear, much like many others from Misrata, is rooted in his distrust of anyone from Benghazi.
“People in Benghazi are reckless,” Sadaw said. It was an impression he said he formed 15 years ago when he visited his sister there. He said he was shocked at how openly Benghazi residents spoke out against Gaddafi, down to only offering black tea instead of green, the color of the flag introduced by Gaddafi in 1977 and a symbol of his political philosophy.
“We are afraid of Benghazi people. They will try to take everything — oil, power, everything — because they said they were abused by Gaddafi,” Sadaw explained. “Here in Misrata, people work a lot. There, they mostly wait for money.”
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Perhaps foreshadowing events to come, some rebel brigades from Misrata have been accused of overstaying their welcome in Tripoli neighborhoods they claim to have liberated. The National Transitional Council, Libya's interim government, asked them to stay in Tripoli to guard strategic places like hospitals, TV stations and army camps. But other reports say that protests by Tripoli residents against the armed groups have begun.
The rivalry between east and west in Libya is nothing new. Instead of emblazoning their pick-up trucks with the traditional revolutionary martyr, Omar Muktar, for instance, Misrata fighters have instead used the image of its own revolutionary hero, Ramadan Al-Swehli, who fought against the Italian occupation in the 1930s.
“He fought the Italians directly,” said Farouk Bin Hamed, a Misrata native.
Omar Muktar, on the other hand, who was finally captured and hung by the Italians in Benghazi in 1931, “just set up ambushes,” he said.
Benghazi natives, of course, disagree. They believe Swehli was gunned down unceremoniously by a tribal group in Bani Walid after they refused to fight alongside him.
Whatever the case may be, the drawn-out feud continues as Libyan rebels, amassing on the outskirts of Sirte, prepare for an all out offensive against the last-remaining Gaddafi loyalists. For the past week, the eastern rebels have engaged in most of the heavy fighting in and around Sirte, and have taken and held some ground in the southeast of the city.
The Misrata rebels, though, say they were the first to enter Sirte.
“The eastern guys are working like a turtle. They have all the weapons. But the first who entered Sirte are the ‘Thawar,’” said Abdul Hakim, a pilot in his professional life, referring to the Misrata rebels, who he supports.
The rivalry, at times, gets downright petty. One fighter complained that Benghazi rebels sprayed bullets into the air for no reason and others lazed about doing nothing. Observers, however, say such behavior is rampant on both sides. Misrata rebels firing indiscriminately into the air after the fall of Tripoli was well-documented by global television networks.
“No one wants to be the last to die, but people need to be doing their job. With some, it’s not clear what their job is,” one Misrata fighter said, referring to what he felt was widespread incompetency among the Benghazi fighters.
Of course, not all love is lost between Misrata and Benghazi. And there is nothing that seems to bring them closer than the imminent demise of Gaddafi’s loyalist army.
When a convoy of several hundred Misrata rebels swept through the Southeast of Sirte on Monday, they met up with Benghazi rebels at their positions around an embattled traffic circle.
“Today, for the first time, we meet,” said Benghazi rebel Mohammed Borega, as he embraced Misrata fighters. “This a new and happy day to connect with our brothers. Misrata and Benghazi all connected together. … Now we go to Sirte.” | positive |
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The relationship between a man and his car is an ever-evolving one. When you're a young gear head and first get into the hobby your car is everything. You spend every waking moment tinkering with it, thinking about it and slaving away just to buy parts and modify it. But as you get older, things change. You develop other goals to work toward besides just having a nice car. School, a job and "being an adult" come into play. If you're fortunate enough, you still get to enjoy your hobby and have the opportunity to further your build. You may not have as much time as you did before, but like every good relationship, your car should grow with you and not be a hindrance. If you have to find specific routes to get to a job interview so you don't get stuck on a driveway or you find yourself unable to make it to work because your engine swap is no good, well then, you may need to reconsider your relationship with your modified vehicle.
Sas Lari, owner of this complete Spoon Sports-themed S2000, is a man with goals. He originally bought this AP2 as a daily driver but had long-term plans for it from the start. "I wanted something that I could drive around and have fun in for a few years before I turned it into a dedicated track car," Lari says. "My vision for the car was to build what I thought a track-inspired S2000 should be—similar to what Porsche had done with the GT3 and the GT3RS. I wanted to improve the car by finding the right balance of modifications: reducing weight, increasing traction, strengthening the chassis, building the proper suspension and aero."
Sas had a long list of ideas for his S2000 but he could not put those plans into motion right away because he still needed the car to get around in. Nine years ago when Sas bought the car, he had just started grad school while also working full-time at an advertising agency in Culver City, California. His commute in L.A. traffic was not an ideal one so it was important to be in a car that was fun to drive. As he explains, "I needed something that I could look forward to after those very long days. It was great to just be able to get into the car and drive. Going into it, I knew it would live two completely different lives at different stages of my life. The first half of its life would be my commuter car that I could occasionally take to the track, and the second half would be the full track car that would be ever-evolving, which is where it is at currently."
From talking to Sas, we could immediately tell that he was a man of high standards. Seeing his S2000 in its current state makes that obvious, but even in its early stages of development his daily S2K was already better than most full show car builds. The car had a nice set of Prodrive GC-07Cs, Mugen hardtop and an array of high quality suspension pieces to help maneuver the car around the track. As he progressed in his career, he was able to put his plans in motion for the next phase of his build. For that, he turned to Tony Fuchs at Mid Valley Auto Repair, Betos Auto Body and Evasive Motorsports to help transform the daily driver into what you see on the track today.
The outside of his AP2 is a cornucopia of authentic Spoon products from Japan. The bumpers, front fenders and rear blister fenders are all from Spoon's S-Tai aero package. The Spoon Mooncraft Remix hardtop by Bulletproof adds modified side windows. Mounted to it is a carbon GT rear spoiler with wings stands made of titanium. Downforce carbon diffusers add aggression to the sides of the S2000 while matching the styling of the Spoon carbon rear diffuser. One detail touch that you probably wouldn't notice at a glance is that both the hood and trunk itself are carbon-fiber replacements that have been color-matched to the car. Underneath the widened Spoon fenders are a square set of 17x9" Volk Racing CE28 wheels. The additional room created by these fenders allow for Lari to run a beefy 255-wide Toyo R888 tire front and back.
Under the hood is a collection of parts to bump up performance of the motor while not sacrificing the reliability of it. Sas opted to keep his 2.2-liter naturally aspirated, unlike many who typically run a Vortech blower or turbo it. Keeping the car N/A just makes it that much more fun and is less worry-some. The factory intake sees more airflow with a Spoon intake snorkel and air box modification. A J's Racing header replaces the OEM piece and drives exhaust gases out through a Berk test pipe and one-off prototype GReddy exhaust.
Making this Spoon S2000 a nimble beast around the circuit is a collaborative effort of quality suspension components. Spoon Rigid Collars and a Whiteline X-brace help to stiffen the chassis while J's lower arms enhance the torsional rigidity of the vehicle. KW Clubsport coilovers with Swift springs enhance the handling of the car but what is mounted to these dampers is a little unconventional for most track vehicles. Lari enlightens us, "Once I had all my aero installed, the drivability of the car became an issue. The front bumper, splitter and rear diffuser made it hard to get the car around. I wasn't daily driving the car anymore but I did continue to drive it on the street. Simple things like getting into gas stations became a huge challenge so I had to do something drastic. I came across a company called Umbrella Auto Design, which offered a variable ride height system that works in combination with my coilovers. Their VRH kit added a cup to my KWs that allowed me to get the car up and down quickly without compromising my track alignment settings. Unlike most air suspension systems where there is no spring, their kit adds a cylinder and piston that fits on top of the suspension's coil spring without adding unsprung weight."
Lari's S2000 has seen quite a bit of changes in the nine years he's owned it. One motivating factor in his build is that he's never had to ask for anyone's help. He's worked hard for the parts on his car. You won't find any decals or stickers because he has no sponsorships to fulfill or any obligations. His AP2 is no longer a daily driver but he has no plans of ever selling it. As mentioned earlier, these types of relationships only work when the car is a mutual partner and not a burden. The S2000 got him everywhere he needed to be when he was a student, working a nine-to-five, and now, they meet on the track for some fun-filled, spirited driving. | positive |
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A congressman once admitted to me that he and his colleagues know a lot of things, generally speaking, but their knowledge only “extends about one inch deep.” In other words, the briefings provided by staffers and in committees is intended to touch only on what is important to know to look well informed in front of the C-SPAN cameras without any unnecessary depth that would only create confusion. And the information provided must generally conform to what the congressmen already believe to be true and want to hear so no one will be embarrassed.
That such ignorance would be particularly notable in the realm of foreign policy should surprise no one because congressmen as a group are no longer very well educated. Few speak foreign languages and no one any longer studies the history or culture of any country but the United States, and sometimes not even that.
Some Congressmen nevertheless boast about all the countries they have visited to “fact find.” They fail to recognize how they travel in a bubble, whisked to foreign lands via military aircraft on the virtually worthless congressional delegations known as CODELS. On these trips, spouses go shopping while American legislators are briefed by the ambassador’s staff and the CIA station, both of which, for budget reasons, are more interested in demonstrating what a wonderful job they are doing rather than explaining the complexity of the local situation. And that is followed by the obligatory visit to listen to the local head of state lie about how everything is going just fine in his country. Given the reality of garbage in, garbage out, it is no wonder that buffoons like Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham are lauded as foreign-policy experts in the Republican Party. It’s called setting the bar really low.
For a Congress intent on appearing to be doing something while doing nothing, one of the worst time wasters is the committee hearing, where the senators and congressmen call in “experts” to explain to them why a certain policy is either worthwhile or useless. Of course, it usually doesn’t exactly play out that way, as the committee generally wants to hear testimony that supports its preconceptions about whatever is being discussed, so it only invites those to the party who will say what it wants to hear.
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To cite only one of many examples of Congress’s unwillingness to listen to any opinion that might challenge the establishment view, a February 16 hearing by the House Foreign Affairs Committee entitled “Iran on Notice” featured four “experts,” all of whom were hostile to Iran and advocates of “solutions” ranging from actively encouraging regime change to using military force. No one knowledgeable enough to explain Iran’s behavior and/or offer non-confrontational approaches was invited or asked to participate.
I have been closely following some recent hearings that relate to Russia, most particularly the Senate Judiciary session that was supposed to look into the issue of registry under the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 for Russian agents. The hearing, which started on July 26, and was extended to the following day, was entitled “Oversight of the Foreign Agents Registration Act and Attempts to Influence U.S. Elections: Lessons Learned from Current and Prior Administrations.” The first day’s session included statements by three Justice Department and FBI officials regarding how the FARA legislation is enforced and how presumed violations of it are investigated. There were some specific comments and questions from individual senators regarding Russian and Saudi government attempts to influence opinion in the United States, but little in the way of drama.
The second day was for additional “expert testimony.” It consisted of billionaire hedge-fund director William Browder, who read a prepared statement and then responded to questions. (Video of the statement and the following discussion are available here, with Browder beginning at minute 24.) Browder, who clearly has his own agenda to debunk a film made last year attacking him and a narrative about a former employee Sergei Magnitsky that he has been promoting, was embraced by the senators, who should have known better. Veteran award-winning journalist Robert Parry describes what took place: “…last week, Senate Judiciary Committee members sat in rapt attention as hedge-fund operator William Browder wowed them with a reprise of his Magnitsky tale and suggested that people who have challenged the narrative and those who dared air the documentary one time at Washington’s Newseum last year should be prosecuted for violating the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA).”
Not even one senator challenged William Browder’s sometimes extraordinary claims about Russia’s government in general and its President Vladimir Putin in particular, including that Putin is the richest man in the world due to all the money that he has stolen. As Browder appears to be seeking to use FARA to punish those who have criticized him or even watched a movie about him based on the assumption that they must be Russian agents, he might well be regarded as not exactly a disinterested source providing objective information about Russia and its government.
American-born British citizen Browder has been the principal promoter of a narrative about Russian government malfeasance relating to his former employee Sergei Magnitsky, who, Browder claims, was a courageous whistleblower who was falsely arrested after exposing corruption and eventually died in a Moscow prison after being tortured. Browder’s energetic promotion of the Magnitsky story has poisoned relations with Moscow and led to the passage of the Magnitsky Act by Congress in 2012. Russia rightly has seen the legislation, which includes sanctions on some officials, as unwarranted interference in the operation of its judicial system.
Browder astutely portrays himself as a human-rights campaigner dedicated to promoting the legacy of Magnitsky, but his own biography is inevitably much more complicated than that. The grandson of Earl Browder, the former general secretary of the American Communist Party, William Browder studied economics at the University of Chicago, and obtained an MBA from Stanford.
From the beginning, Browder concentrated on Eastern Europe, which was beginning to open up to the west. In 1989 he took a position at highly respected Boston Consulting Group dealing with reviving failing Polish socialist enterprises. He then worked as an Eastern Europe analyst for Robert Maxwell, the unsavory British press magnate and Mossad spy, before joining the Russia team at Wall Street’s Salomon Brothers in 1992.
He left Salomon in 1996 and partnered with Edmond Safra, the controversial Lebanese-Brazilian-Jewish banker who died under mysterious circumstances in a fire in 1999, to set up Hermitage Capital Management Fund.
[Editor’s Note: After this article was published the family of Edmond Safra contacted TAC an asked that the following statement be included for the record: The tragic death of Edmond J. Safra in 1999 was caused by criminal arson. The crime of setting the fire was legally established in Monaco court in 2002 after Mr. Safra’s nurse, Ted Maher, admitted to setting the fire. He was found guilty and was sentenced to ten years in prison.]
Hermitage is registered in tax havens Guernsey and the Cayman Islands. It is a hedge fund that was focused on “investing” in Russia, taking advantage initially of the loans-for-shares scheme under Boris Yeltsin, and then continuing to profit greatly during the early years of Vladimir Putin’s ascendancy. By 2005 Hermitage was the largest foreign investor in Russia.
Browder had renounced his U.S. citizenship in 1997 and became a British citizen apparently to avoid American taxes, which are levied on worldwide income. In his book, Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder and One Man’s Fight for Justice, he depicts himself as an honest and honorable Western businessman attempting to function in a corrupt Russian business world. That may or may not be true, but the loans-for-shares scheme that made him his initial fortune has been correctly characterized as the epitome of corruption, an arrangement whereby foreign “investors” worked with local oligarchs to strip the former Soviet economy of its assets paying pennies on each dollar of value. Along the way, Browder was reportedly involved in making false representations on official documents and bribery.
As a consequence of what came to be known as the Magnitsky scandal, Browder was eventually charged by the Russian authorities for fraud and tax evasion. He was banned from reentering Russia in 2005, even before Magnitsky died, and began to withdraw his assets from the country. Three companies controlled by Hermitage were eventually seized by the authorities, though it is not clear if any of their assets remained in Russia. Browder himself was convicted of tax evasion in absentia in 2013 and sentenced to nine years in prison.
Browder has assiduously, and mostly successfully, made his case that he and Magnitsky have been the victims of Russian corruption both during and since that time, though there have been credible skeptics, including Israel Shamir, who have dissected the sordid side to his rise to power and wealth. Browder has reportedly used political contributions and threats of lawsuits filed by his battery of lawyers to popularize and sell his tale to leading American politicians like Senators John McCain and Ben Cardin, ex-Senator Joe Lieberman, as well as to a number of European parliamentarians and media outlets.
But there is, inevitably, another side to the story, something quite different, which documentary filmmaker Andrei Nekrasov, an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, presented to the viewer in his film The Magnitsky Act: Behind the Scenes. The film has only been shown publicly once, at the Newseum in Washington on June 13, 2016—a viewing that I attended, and that proceeded in spite of threats from Browder and attempted disruption by his supporters. Browder has characteristically used lawsuits and threats of still more legal action to intimidate numerous television stations in Europe and prevent additional showings.
Nekrasov discovered what he believed to be holes in the narrative about Magnitsky that had been carefully constructed and nurtured by Browder. He provides documents and also an interview with Magnitsky’s mother maintaining that there is no clear evidence that he was beaten or tortured and that he died instead due to the failure to provide him with medicine while in prison or treatment shortly after he had a heart attack. A subsequent investigation ordered by then Russian President Dimitri Medvedev in 2011 confirmed that Magnitsky had not received medical treatment, contributing to this death, but could not demonstrate that he had been beaten even though there was suspicion that that might have been the case.
Nekrasov also claimed that much of the case against the Russian authorities is derived from English language translations of relevant documents provided by Browder himself. The actual documents sometimes say something quite different, including that Magnitsky is consistently referred to as an accountant, which he was, not as a lawyer, which he wasn’t. Browder calls him a lawyer because it better fits into his preferred narrative. Magnitsky the accountant appears in the document of his deposition which was apparently part of a criminal investigation of possible tax fraud, meaning that he was no whistleblower and was instead a suspected criminal.
Other discrepancies are cited by Nekrasov, who concludes that there was indeed a huge fraud related to Russian taxes but that it was not carried out by corrupt officials. Instead, it was deliberately ordered and engineered by Browder with Magnitsky, the accountant, personally developing and implementing the scheme used to carry out the deception.
To be sure, Browder and his international legal team have presented documents in the case that contradict much of what Nekrasov has presented in his film. It might be that Browder and Magnitsky have been the victims of a corrupt and venal state, but it just might be the other way around. Having a highly politicized Congress and a vengeful Browder lining up against a conveniently unpopular Russian government just might suggest that one is hearing a narrative that peddles lies as much as it tells the truth.
The Senate just might consider looking more deeply into Browder’s business activities while in Russia before jumping to conclusions and bringing him in as an “expert” on anything. He should not be given a free pass because he is saying things about Russia and Putin that fit neatly into a Washington establishment profile and make Senators smile and nod their heads. As soon as folks named McCain, Cardin and Lieberman jump on a cause, it should be time to step back a bit and reflect on what the consequences of proposed action might be.
One might also ask why anyone who has a great deal to gain by having a certain narrative accepted should be completely and unquestionably trusted, the venerable Cui bono? standard. And then there is a certain evasiveness on the part of Browder, who notably makes outrageous claims about the Russians but does not do so under oath, where he might be subject to legal consequences for perjury. The film shows him huffing and puffing to explain himself at times and he has avoided being served with subpoenas on allegations connected to the Magnitsky fraud that are making their way through American courts. In one case, he can be seen on YouTube running away from a server, somewhat unusual behavior if he has nothing to hide.
So, if you wonder why the United States Congress makes such bad decisions, it just might be due to the kind of information that it gets when it travels the world and holds hearings. Inviting a man who has renounced his U.S. citizenship to avoid paying taxes, who likely engaged in questionable business practices, and who very definitely has his own agenda, which includes vilifying the Kremlin, is hardly the way to go if one truly wants to understand Russia, particularly as no one participated in the hearing to rebut his claims. And if fining American citizens or forcing them to register as enemy agents because they may have supported or gone to see a movie is reflective of that gentleman’s mindset, there is even more good reason to reject the snake oil that he might be selling.
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Rockstrom and Smith took Lidstrom to a Pizza Hut in Vasteras — in Smith's estimation the most expensive Pizza Hut he's ever been to — and talked about his game and what he wanted to accomplish. When Smith returned to Detroit, he told general manager Jimmy Devellano that Lidstrom was worth taking in the third round, the latest a team could draft an 18-year-old.
"I said to Jimmy if we don't take him in the third round this year he'll go in the first round next year because he'll play in the world juniors for Sweden and then everybody will know about him," Smith said.
Devellano agreed, but with the draft months away, the Red Wings were determined not to let the secret get out. Smith ordered his scouting staff not to talk about Lidstrom.
Lidstrom's agent Don Meehan got wind that the Wings had scouted his client and called Smith to do some digging. After a back-and-forth, Smith conceded he knew plenty about Lidstrom but pleaded with Meehan not to say anything and not to bring his client to the draft.
"I said, 'I'm taking him, but don't screw me on this,'" Smith recalled. "He listened to me."
At the 1989 draft, the Red Wings took Mike Sillinger in the first round, Bob Boughner in the second round and then in the third round, 53rd overall, selected Lidstrom. Smith called it by far the best pick of his career — and that includes Steve Yzerman.
By taking Lidstrom and then a round later Russian Sergei Fedorov, who's also in the 2015 Hall of Fame class, the Red Wings' fortunes changed. Rockstrom, who now works for the Montreal Canadiens, remembered them being called the "Dead Wings," but now they're a model NHL franchise lauded for superior drafting.
Lidstrom wasn't the only home run the Red Wings hit on, but he was the most satisfying. By the next season Lidstrom already stood out, and it was clear the Red Wings pulled off a steal.
"That wouldn't happen today," said Red Wings GM Ken Holland, who was a western scout at the time. "I don't know how we got him in the third round, but I know he's a top-10 pick today."
Lidstrom was so hidden that the Philadelphia Flyers took Vasteras teammate Patrik Juhlin 19 picks earlier while Lidstrom slid by.
"This was a very unique case. It was the only time in my career it ever happened," Smith said. "There are fables about guys getting diamonds in the rough, but they're all fables. That never happens."
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Introducing: Bridgeport Pasty Company
By Chuck Sudo in Food on Sep 6, 2011 3:00PM
2011 has been the Year of the Food Truck in Chicago. Here in Bridgeport, it's also been the Year of the Pie. Pleasant House Bakery, with its wonderful take on Yorkshire style meat pies, has been one of the best restaurant openings of the year and they make an amazing steak pasty.
Today marks the launch of Bridgeport Pasty Company. The pasty, a style of meat pie that originated in Cornwall, England, was very popular with Michigan tin miners in the 1800s, who would leave orts from their pies in the mines to appease the spirits they believed haunted the mines.
Bridgeport Pasty owners Jay Sebastian and Carrie Clark hit upon the idea of selling pasties locally after stopping at a pasty kiosk while in London two years ago. "We said to each other, 'Why doesn't Chicago sell these?' " said Clark.
Clark, who works at Argonne National Laboratory during the day, and Sebastian, a business manager at a downtown law firm, started doing their homework, researching pasty recipes and the labyrinthine Chicago health and business codes with an eye toward starting some sort of mobile pasty service. The two decided to source as much of the ingredients for their pasties locally and also wanted to have their mobile service be off the grid.
Originally they wanted Bridgeport Pasty to be a food bike. Sebastian had gone so far as to buy a bike cart similar to the ice cream and frozen fruit bar cart vendors who patrol the parks and lakefront every summer. After going back and forth with various city departments, Sebastian discovered the city "would not allow a bike with propane tanks attached to them to keep the pasties warm" - an effective missile hazard.
Instead, he and Clark bought an all-electric GEM car - one of the first legal all-electric vehicles in Chicago - and, with the help of Sebastian's brother-in-law in Virginia, retrofitted it with a recirculated heating system used by the Swiss Army to keep their pasties warm for transit.
While Sebastian oversaw the "Pastymobile" construction, Clark narrowed the recipe research down to six. She tweaked the recipes and tested them out on a group of locals, her old college friend, Chef Art Smith and, in the interest of full disclosure, me, to get to the final three recipes she and Sebastian will be rolling out today.
Bridgeport Pasty will carry a traditional Cornish pasty (the "Yooper") with ground beef, onions, potatoes, rutabaga, garlic, parsley, seasoning; a curry-seasoned chicken pot pie with peas, carrots and a Béchamel; and a veggie pie with spinach, mushroom, Gruyere, onion and Béchamel sauce.
Sebastian and Clark have been eager to roll out Bridgeport Pasty for months. The research into licensing and recipes and unforeseen happenings like Sebastian's brother-in-law breaking his back during the retrofitting of the GEM car, have afforded them the chance to scale back the expectations, if not the excitement.
I was at Zaytune Mediterranean Grill in Bridgeport in July as Sebastian and Clark prepped a small order of pasties for a test run during the Newberry Library Book Fair. Sebastian was able to reflect positively on the gestation of his and Clark's new baby.
"If everything fell neatly into place and we launched this six months earlier, we would have gotten lost in the excitement and quit our day jobs," Sebastian said with a laugh.
Bridgeport Pasty Company launches its first official run at 11 a.m. at Dearborn and Monroe. Follow them on Twitter to see where they'll be stopping every day. | positive |
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Jamie Vardy has described Claudio Ranieri’s decision to give the Leicester City players a week off in February as a “great idea” and described it as one of the defining moments in the club’s title‑winning season. The England striker also revealed that his break in Dubai was made all the more enjoyable by the fact that the Sunderland players were pounding the beach across the road while he was topping up his tan.
Ranieri made the bold call to give everyone an extended breather after Leicester lost 2-1 against Arsenal on Valentine’s Day. With no match for a fortnight because of their FA Cup elimination, Ranieri reasoned that it was an ideal opportunity for his players to switch off from football following the injury-time defeat at Arsenal that Vardy described as a “killer blow”.
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The striker said: “I think a good thing that helped us straight after that game was the gaffer had seen exactly how much we’d all fought for each other and put into that game, and because we weren’t in the week after because we’d been knocked out of the FA Cup he gave us a week off to completely forget about everything and recharge the batteries.
“We all ventured off, quite a few of us went to Dubai together as a team, and I think that moment, for him to even think about doing that, showed what he’d thought of us as a team and how much work we’d already put in. So to get those batteries recharged for that week and come back fighting stronger was a massive part [in winning the league].
“It was a great idea. I went to Dubai and I remember sitting on a sun lounger and in the same hotel Sunderland were there, running up and down the beach doing fitness. For me to be relaxing while they’re doing the training was quite nice. It worked out perfectly, no one was going to go on a seven-day bender. It was a case of being there to relax with family and that’s all we did until we got back to training.”
Speaking at the launch of his V9 Academy in Manchester, which has been set up to give non-league players a chance to break into the professional game and follow in his own footsteps, Vardy was on good form as he reflected on winning the league with Leicester and that slightly mischievous tweet he sent out showing the Lion King’s Mufasa falling down a cliff. “That’s just my favourite kids’ film!” he said, smiling.
Vardy posted that picture immediately after Leicester claimed the title on the back of Tottenham Hotspur being held to a 2-2 draw at Chelsea, and in response to the picture Harry Kane had put on Instagram after Ranieri’s side had dropped points at home against West Ham United a fortnight earlier. Kane’s image showed a pack of lions about to go a hunt.
Asked whether there was a friendly rivalry between himself and Kane, who could be playing alongside one another at Euro 2016 this summer, Vardy replied: “We’re away with England to do a job for England and that’s all we focus on while we’re there. After that when you go back to your own clubs, I’m sure a few of us can put a few pictures out and let the media join the dots up themselves.”
Mauricio Pochettino, the Spurs manager, has criticised other managers and players for expressing their “personal opinion” about who they wanted to win the title before it had been decided and implied that some clubs may have got caught up in the Leicester fairytale, yet Vardy was dismissive of the idea that his team benefited in any way during the run-in. “I can’t see any team doing that, to be honest with you. I don’t think anyone would like to just turn up and be rolled over to let someone else win, I don’t think that is inside anyone, it wouldn’t look good on the club if they were doing that and I’m sure the fans wouldn’t like it. So I can’t see that being true whatsoever.”
Vardy’s Premier League winners’ medal is hung up by the side of his bed and he has not given up hope of picking up the golden boot to go along with the Football Writers’ player of the year award that he will receive in London on Thursday. He is on 24 league goals, level with Sergio Agüero and one behind Kane with the trip to Stamford Bridge to come on Sunday. “I’d have been level if I’d not put that penalty in the garden,” he said, smiling at the memory of the spot-kick that sailed over the crossbar in the 3-1 win against Everton on Saturday and which cost him the chance of a first Premier League hat-trick.
Alluding to the team spirit that has been such a cornerstone of Leicester’s success, Vardy described his team-mates as being like “brothers” and said that the camaraderie among them is “the main thing that has got us where we are”. He expressed his hope that their achievements this season will keep the squad together. The 29-year-old also suggested that his own future – in February he signed a contract extension until 2019 – is secure.
“We’ve just won the league and will be playing in the Champions League next year. I am happy here,” Vardy said.
Vardy’s rag-to-riches story is the inspiration behind his academy, which receives its first intake of players in May next year. Held at Manchester City’s Etihad Campus, the academy will host 42 non-league players across five days and offer elite coaching as well as the opportunity to train and play in front of scouts from professional clubs.
Sat alongside his agent, John Morris, who is the co-founder of the V9 Academy, Vardy talked about wanting to “give something back” after his own experiences in non-league football. Released from Sheffield Wednesday at the age of 16 for being too small, Vardy spent seven years with Stocksbridge Park Steels and another two with Halifax and Fleetwood Town before breaking into the professional game with Leicester at the age of 25.
“I think you have got to give everyone the full time to develop, to see how big and strong they become, up until 21,” Vardy said. “It is a long time to keep someone on, for teams to hope you are going to fulfil that potential. But [it cannot be right if] you’re telling them six years previously. When I was released, I was only 4ft 11in, so I probably was too small. Two months later I had a massive growth spurt, so who knows what difference it would have made. I doubted myself as soon as I got released. It was my boyhood club, I had made them the highlight of everything. To be told at that age I was not big enough or strong enough was hard to take. The important thing was playing non-league football and enjoying it again, but it was a long hard process.”
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UAMS campus security officials today say that they have located the man who became lost in 2010 while searching for the cafeteria.
William Monroe, 45, became lost while visiting a relative in February 2010. Monroe left the room of his niece Elaine Matthews, to get lunch for her from the cafeteria. Matthews, who was in recovery following giving birth to twin boys, became worried about her uncle when he did not return after 4 hours.
Matthews became worried and alerted a nurse attending to one of her sons. The nurse along with members of campus security searched throughout the hospital for Monroe and were unable to locate him. Officials believed Matthews had left the hospital and gave up the search.
Early this morning janitorial staff alerted campus security about a seemingly deranged man with a massive beard who was continuously muttering “I need to get her chicken nachos”. The man was located in a seldom used storage area in a third level basement under the library. Officials quickly confirmed that the individual was Monroe.
“This happens more than you would think,” a UAMS spokesperson tells us. “Over the years we have connected new buildings, destroyed old connections, and periodically just rearrange things. Most of this happens on the basement levels, which happen to contain the cafeteria. We just completely lose on average 4-5 individuals a year in the basement, most of which are looking for the cafeteria and are found within a week. We are just thankful we were able to recover Mr. Monroe, he has a lot of questions about the past 3 years.”
In 2009 UAMS opened the new hospital. Instead of building a new cafeteria they connected several winding corridors through the basement leading from the new hospital to the old cafeteria. The cafeteria has taken on a mythological persona, similar to the Bermuda Triangle. Few believe it actually exist and others never return after trying to find it.
This is only the second case of a missing individual from UAMS cafeteria being recovered this year. Earlier this year a student was lost for 2 weeks after returning from lunch in the cafeteria. She was later found near the State Capitol after turning down a hall way that had previously been closed off, but was left unlocked. | positive |
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A flight attendant escorted the girl on her eventual flight to Paris Staff at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel have found a four-year-old girl alone in a duty-free shop after her parents accidentally took a plane without her. The parents boarded the flight to Paris with four of their five children. The mother and father were sitting in different parts of the aircraft and did not realise their mistake until the captain informed them after take-off. The girl was accompanied on the next flight to Paris. The parents will be questioned when they return to Israel. It is understood that the ultra Orthodox family, who were emigrating to France, were late for their flight and carrying a large amount of luggage. Each parent thought the girl was with the other, but she was instead wandering around the airport's large circular duty free area in tears. She was able to give her name to officials who spotted her. They tried to contact her parents over the airport's public address system before realising the plane had already taken off. "She was upset, crying, and asked over and over again for daddy and mummy," said Sarit Ben-Eden, the police officer in charge of the departures hall. The incident was a reminder of the 1992 film Home Alone 2 in which a large family leave one of their children behind in an airport while rushing off on a Christmas holiday. 'Top-notch people' It is usual that travellers in a rush forget their luggage but not a child
Police official The child's grandmother, who had driven the family to the airport, told the Ha'aretz newspaper she did not know how the mistake could have happened. "We're in shock. They're very responsible and organised, top-notch people. Apparently each one relied on the other and this is what happened," she said. Friends of the couple have told the Israeli media that they had a lot on their mind. But a police official told AFP news agency: "It is usual that travellers in a rush forget their luggage but not a child. This never happens." An Israeli police spokesman told the BBC that they would be keen to speak to the couple on their return to Israel to examine the extent of their negligence. Separately, the Israeli airline company is investigating how it allowed only six people on board with seven ticket stubs.
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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Staff Sgt Robert Bales pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty, as Alastair Leithead reports
The US soldier who murdered 16 Afghan villagers last year has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Staff Sgt Robert Bales, 40, opened fire on men, children and women during the attack in Kandahar on 11 March 2012.
The father of two pleaded guilty in June to avoid the death penalty.
He apologised during his sentencing hearing at a Washington state military base on Thursday, calling the attack an "act of cowardice".
Sgt Bales had been making a case for why he should one day be eligible for parole, which would have meant he could have been released in 20 years.
Weeping mother
But on Friday the military jury of six ruled against him at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, south of Seattle.
In court The minute-by-minute account of the night Staff Sgt Robert Bales left his base revealed a cold-blooded killer who murdered 16 civilians at random with astonishing brutality. The court was shown gruesome pictures of the dead and the injured, heard how he crushed the skull of an elderly woman under his foot, how he executed men, women and children and set fire to their bodies, before calmly returning to base as though having accomplished a routine mission. Nine Afghan survivors of his attack and relatives of those killed or injured were flown in to give evidence at the hearing. After the verdict, some of them made a statement to journalists outside the court. One man shot and injured by Sgt Bales said he should have received the death penalty.
Sgt Bales showed no emotion as the sentence was announced. His mother bowed her head, rocked in her seat and wept.
An interpreter gave a thumbs-up to a row of Afghan villagers who were flown out by the US Army to give evidence at the trial.
But afterwards they were far from happy with the outcome.
"We wanted this murderer to be executed," Haji Mohammad Naeem, who was shot and injured in the attack, said through an interpreter.
"We came all the way to the US to get justice. We didn't get that."
He added: "I saw his [Sgt Bales'] mother trying to cry, but at least she can visit him. What about us? Our family members are actually six feet under."
Sgt Bales was serving his fourth combat deployment when he attacked two villages in the middle of the night, spraying bullets into mostly women and children.
His lawyers argued that post-traumatic stress disorder and a brain injury were factors in the killings.
Nine Afghan villagers testified at the court martial.
Among them was Haji Mohammad Wazir, who lost 11 family members, including his mother, wife and six children.
The jury returned the sentence just hours after the prosecution and defence made closing arguments.
'Darkness swallowed him'
Prosecutor Lt Colonel Jay Morse showed jurors photos of a young girl who was killed as she screamed and cried.
Image copyright AP Image caption Afghan villagers flown out to attend the trial said Sgt Bales should be executed
In his closing arguments, he showed surveillance video of Sgt Bales returning to his base with what he said was "the methodical, confident gait of a man who's accomplished his mission".
"In just a few short hours, Sgt Bales wiped out generations," Col Morse said. "Sgt Bales dares to ask you for mercy when he has shown none."
The prosecution focused on Sgt Bales' remark when he returned to base after the slaughter: "My count is 20," a reference to the number of people he apparently believed he had killed.
But defence lawyer Emma Scanlan read a letter the soldier sent to his children 10 weeks before the killing: "The children here are a lot like you.
"They like to eat candy and play soccer. They all know me because I juggle rocks for them."
She told the court: "These aren't the words of a cold-blooded murderer."
She also read from a letter sent by an Army captain who said that Sgt Bales seemed to have snapped from all his deployments.
"The darkness that had been tugging at him for the last 10 years swallowed him whole," it said.
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The average American soccer fan may not be as rowdy as their European counterparts, but judging by a day spent with the NYCFC’s rabid “Third Rail” fanbase, it doesn’t mean their fervor is to be taken lightly. Lastweekend's matinee match against the New England Revolution was an awesome display of stamina for the bleacher fans who stand for the full 90 minutes, chanting and serenading theirhometown players’ names, and singing songs in unison at the top of their lungs. While the game itself was a fun experience, a 1-1 tie, the real action was in the bleachers – and even before kickoff. Recommended Slideshows 4 Pictures PHOTOS: Singapore's treasures star in NY Botanical Garden's 2019 Orchid Show 4 Pictures 36 Pictures Oscars 2019: Red carpet looks and full list of winners 36 Pictures 36 Pictures All of these celebrities have had their nudes leaked 36 Pictures More picture galleries 16 Pictures These photos of Trump and Ivanka will make you deeply uncomfortable 16 Pictures 4 Pictures Inside Brooklyn's Teknopolis is tech that makes us more human 4 Pictures 4 Pictures Inside The Strand's Fight Against Being Named a New York City Landmark 4 Pictures Samantha from Hoboken isn’t what you’d call a fervent soccer fan, but even she felt the excitement before entering Yankee Stadium. "I’m with a friend, whose family has season tickets in a suite – the Legends suite,” she said. “It’s my first time in a suite at a game. I’m excited.” The exhilaration continued right into the stadium. The bowels featured numerous stations to take advantage of for the hardcore and casual fan alike, including the gift store -which the Yankees graciously allow NYCFC to take over and garnish with their merchandise, numerous food and drink kiosks, and family-friendly stations for free face painting and a stand where fans can adorn their hair to match NYCFC’s blue and white colors. One person who truly appreciates the ambiance that NYCFC matches offer is an avid fan named Anthony. The Staten Island native has been a fan since the franchise’s inception and was as exuberant as any spectator in the 237 section. The crescendo of Anthony’s cheering came at the 10-minute mark when Thomas McNamara found the back of the net with a creative header. Almost simultaneously, the celebration commenced, equipped with frenetic towel waiving, streamers being tossed, and voluntary beer showers among the bleacher faithful. Related Articles The Muddled History of How the Margarita Was Invented Everything you need to know about Alamo Drafthouse Brooklyn English FA Cup Manchester United Chelsea free live stream, watch online The goal put the entire stadium into a frenzy, but perhaps none more than the Staten Islander, who was a very loud participant during many of the section’s songs that were sung in unison. Anthony said the atmosphere at every game is electric, and that as a season-ticket holder, he enjoys voicing his opinion and fandom as loudly as possible. “I have season tickets. This is my first season with season tickets. Last year, I just went to games here and there,” he said, adding soccer at the Stadium isa better value than anything the NFL or NBA has to offer. “It’s great because season tickets come out to like $25 a game. This is way more affordable, even though the drinks are still expensive as [heck]. It’s way more affordable than going to a football game or the Knicks -especially since they stink.” Anthony added that while he doesn’t personally know many of his fellow “Third Rail” fans, it’s still a family atmosphere. “It’s an awesome experience being here. The team is awesome, and it’s so much fun. It’s kind of a tight-knit community between the supporters. There’s Facebook gatherings and there’s a website for the Third Rail, where you can learn all the chants and songs. It’s great,” he said. About the only con is the amount of stamina it takes to be in the “Third Rail,” as no fan sits during the entire 90-minute affair, with halftime being the only reprieve to take a load off and recuperate. “Dude, it’s a workout, and I’m out of shape, so I’m already done,” he said during halftime, but added he’s thankful there’s finally a local team for which he thinks is worth rooting. “I’m a huge fan. I’ve always liked MLS, but I couldn’t root for the [Harrison, New Jersey-based] Red Bulls, and I wasn’t really a fan of the MetroStars either. So, when they announced we’d get a team, I was super excited.” The excitement is literally drummed up by a rabid core of fans who are adjacent to the “Third Rail.” The Los Templados have their own entity, clad in bright orange T-shirts. They add to the guttural singing and chanting with their own flair, via drumming. Gretta Fernandez is a loyal soccer fan from Ecuador, and she proudly supports NYCFC. “We have a team from our country we root for, but we’re also living in New York City and this is our team now, too,” she said. “We’ve been living here for so many years, so we’re now all into this team now, too.” Chelsea Socias is a Queens native and one of the primary drummers. Like Gretta, she is an ardent supporter and has been with the team since day one. “I’m hardcore. It’s game day and I’m always ready to go. We’re here every game,” she said, explaining the Los Templados moniker. “In Ecuador it means we’re the strongest of the group. We’re powerful, we’re brave. No one can mess with us. It’s a great name because it represents us and who we are as fans.” She added that she gets great joy and pride from rallying the sections. “I play the drums. And we put our hearts out there every game for NYCFC. We’re here as a support group. We are one, [but] this section is different from the Third Rail. We are the New York City Support Club – NYCSC,” she said, noting their fandom isn’t exclusive to Yankee Stadium. “We’re at every home game and sometimes we travel to away games. We’ve been to Boston, Philly, D.C., and Chicago, too. We’re serious.” Notes: -During the player introductions, the “Third Rail” loudly screamed “sucks!” after every Revolution player intro. They then emphatically shouted the last name of every NYCFC player during his intro. 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Imran Khan in Turkey on the invitation of Tayyip Erdogan
Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI), Imran Khan is currently in Turkey as he was invited by the Prime Minister of Turkey, Tayyip Ordogan.
Ordogan is currently one of the most popular Muslim political leaders of the world. Under his leadership, Turkey has now become a force to reckon with in the world and the lives of the ordinary citizens have improved massively since last eight years.
This is a very encouraging sign for the Muslim countries as the political leaders are sharing each other’s vision and helping each other to eradicate the problems of their countries.
It is quite interesting to note that Turkey was a secular country before Ordogan took over as the Prime Minister. However, the Justice Party has changed the face of Turkey and now Islam has a major role to play in the law-making of the country.
On the other side of the coin, Imran is rapidly becoming the most popular political figures of Pakistan. He founded PTI in mid-1990s but his party failed to make an impression on the political scene of the country for a number of years, before the situation
changed drastically last year after massive public processions in Lahore and Karachi, the two major cities of Pakistan.
Ironically, just like Ordogan’s, Imran’s party also means movement for justice. The vision of both the leaders is quite similar as they are the believers of Islamic welfare system.
At the present moment of time, Pakistan is going through a number of problems. The major political parties of the country, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and Pakistan Muslim League (N) have headed a number of governments since last two and a half decades.
Most of the educated people in Pakistan have a consensus that the people of Pakistan must look for a change and should get rid of the tried and tested politicians. There does not seem to any other option of change at the moment apart from the cricketer turned
politician.
It remains to be seen that PTI can convert its popularity into the electoral system or not, which has a lot of flaws in it. However, one thing is for sure that Pakistan is in dire need of an educated and visionary leader. | positive |
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LeBron James was rarely seen on the court without a headband throughout the first 11 seasons of his NBA career. However, midway through the 2014-15 campaign, he decided to ditch his signature look.
Before this year, Game 6 of the 2013 NBA Finals was really the only time fans ever saw James play without one. That "Headband Game" was a huge deal at the time, but now it has become a common occurrence.
The Cleveland Cavaliers superstar never publicly revealed why he made the move...until now. According to Chris Haynes of Northeast Ohio Media Group, James ditched his headbands as a sign of solidarity with his teammates.
"I did it because I just wanted to look like my teammates. Just wanted to be one. Nothing more than that."
That unified stance fits right in with the Cavaliers' "All In" playoff motto.
James has made quite a few changes this season. He has returned to Cleveland, went back to wearing No. 23 and is now the headband-less king. Soon we'll get to see if those changes help James earn his third NBA championship, as the Cavs square off with the Chicago Bulls in the Eastern Conference Semifinals starting Monday. | positive |
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The TedxDeExtinction conference, discussing how and whether to resurrect extinct species from DNA, took place on the Ides of March 2013 at the National Geographic headquarters in Washington, DC. Watch archived versions of the talks.
If people had the ability to resurrect extinct species (dubbed “de-extinction”) and reintroduce them to the wild, should we direct our energy and resources towards it?
I will admit my bias straight off: I’m skeptical of the utility of resurrecting extinct species for a multitude of reasons. Many extinct species no longer have the wild habitat to support them, even if a population could be resurrected from DNA, as Brian Switek wrote. Cloning technology is advancing quickly, but not yet ready for large-scale implementation, a topic Ferris Jabr takes on. And, to note the more mundane step between cloning and wild release, we can’t keep most wild animals alive in captivity, which is why you see the same species in zoos around the world. Are we really prepared to keep animals alive if, for example, we don’t even know what environment they prefer or what they eat?
But the main thing that bugs me is the blatant narcissism and anthropocentrism behind it.
This morning, speaker Mike Archer argued that resurrecting extinct species is worth doing to "restore the balance of nature that we have upset.” This statement assumes that nature has some pristine state—an Eden containing an ideal balance of organisms. Over the years, ecologists have tried to find this balance and fit organisms and ecosystems into models. But, time and time again, they haven’t been able to fit ecosystems into neat, balanced pockets.
Ecosystems change constantly. Animals migrate. Weather kills off local populations and allows others to thrive. Disease strikes. And, yes, animals go extinct. Most of the time, ecosystems continue on as they were, with organisms making slight changes to their behavior to compensate for the loss. Sometimes the changes are more drastic and the relationships between organisms are reconstructed. It’s a shocking thing to witness—organisms and ecosystems shifting around us—but this isn’t anything new. It’s been happening since the beginning of life.
So not only are we trying to restore nature to a balance that doesn’t seem to exist, but we’ve picked a rather arbitrary point in time to return it to: the moment when people first started paying attention. The only species we are capable of resurrecting are those that we know went extinct, those large and common enough to leave fossils, and those that we watched die off. So you see a familiar cadre of de-extinction candidates on the list: mammoths, passenger pigeons, thylacine tigers. These are all big animals that we are sure used to be around because they are large enough to leave an impact on human culture—or, as speaker Stanley Temple put it later in the afternoon, “species that I lamented as a boy.”
This suddenly is less about the species themselves and more about us.
But why shouldn’t it be, if we’re the ones causing so much damage? Sure, people have caused many recent extinctions, as our species spreads and displaces others. And because we are aware of our actions, we have a moral obligation to try to not drive species to extinction. But to say that our extinctions are worse than any other extinctions is a display of narcissism. Extinction is part of life.
What makes our extinctions different, however, is that we can learn from them. We can avoid having to lament species by learning how to take better care of habitats and ecosystems, how to use technology and back-crossing to induce greater genetic variation in small, endangered populations to give them a better chance of survival, and how to properly raise animals in captivity and then release them into the wild.
It’s to the future we must look, not the past. Cut your extinction losses, people: we have to focus our energy on the extinctions that haven’t happened yet. | positive |
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Despite the chancellor’s NICs U-turn, those who earn below £6,000 still face a five-fold increase – unless the government acts before next year
Jane Clark, a self-employed maths tutor who earns around £2,500 a year, faces a 400% increase in her national insurance contributions (NICs) if she wants to retain her right to a state pension.
That equates to an extra £588 a year, which is a good chunk of Clark’s earnings – and she is far from alone. Potentially, several hundred thousand self-employed people who earn below £6,000 a year will be clobbered, unless the government brings in measures between now and April next year to reduce the impact.
Philip Hammond had to ditch his grand plan to increase “class 4” NICs for the self-employed just a week after he announced it in the budget. It’s a spectacular U-turn – but it doesn’t mean the self-employed have got off scot-free.
While the chancellor’s latest announcement means middle and higher-earning self-employed people – those who would have been hit by the increase – are now off the hook for the time being, their less well-off counterparts are not so lucky.
The government is pressing ahead with the previously announced abolition of “class 2” NICs for the self-employed from April 2018. As things stand, this means many of Britain’s lowest-earning self-employed workers will either have to pay an extra £588 a year, or lose their entitlement to a state pension.
Tutors are just one of the groups likely to be affected by this little-known change, which could disproportionately impact women. Others who could be hit include those, for example, in hairdressing, and people working in the arts.
Clark is in her 50s and lives in the West Country, and while her earnings are relatively small, she and her husband are not solely reliant on her income – he receives a pension.
Class 2 NI is payable at the rate of £2.80 per week for the self-employed who earned more than £5,965 in 2016-17. Crucially, though, those who earn less than that can choose to pay class 2 NI contributions in order to gain entitlement to a state pension. That’s exactly what Clark does – she voluntarily pays £145.60 a year (ie, 52 x £2.80). But from April 2018 she won’t be able to do that – she will have to either pay class 3 voluntary contributions, at a cost of £733.20 a year at current rates, or “give up on a state pension”. That’s a 404% increase.
Clark told the Guardian the extra £587.60 represents a sizeable slice of her earnings. She says: “Until now, the low-paid self-employed have had, in some ways, quite a good deal via class 2 contributions. This will certainly affect many negatively by making it harder for them to accumulate pension rights.”
She adds: “It’s going to affect mostly women. I’d say probably older women whose husbands work or are retired, and who are suddenly going to have this huge change put upon them. For example, if you have a husband working who earns enough so that you don’t get tax credits. I’m not saying I’m terribly poor – my husband has a pension, and we do have money which we live off. It’s not in itself that there’s anything wrong with it – it’s just that no one has highlighted these changes, and maybe there should be a period during which they are phased in.”
This change only affects self-employed people whose earnings are below what’s known as the “small profits threshold” (SPT), currently £5,965. However, there are more people in that bracket than you might think.
A few days ago the Office for National Statistics revealed that in 2015-16 there were 967,000 people with an annual income from self-employment of less than £5,965.
It is important to make clear that not all of these people will be adversely affected. Those with profits below the SPT, but who are eligible for national insurance credits, would continue to build up qualifying years for the state pension. This typically includes people who receive certain benefits (eg, working tax credit or universal credit), parents of children under 12, foster carers and those receiving carer’s allowance.
If you are not eligible for NI credits, and want to protect your future entitlement to the state pension, you would need to pay voluntary class 3 contributions, says the government. The current rate is £14.10 a week or £733.20 a year.
Another Guardian reader got in touch to say that “nobody in the media” seems to have picked up on this, adding that many of the low-earners affected “will be people starting up and being self-employed for the first time, or those who can only work part-time because, perhaps, they have caring commitments for children, sick or elderly family members, or they work in low-paid sectors like the arts”.
Can it be true that the government is really hammering people earning just a few thousand pounds a year in this way? We asked the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, and its technical director Robin Williamson confirmed this was the case. He told us: “If you’re opting into class 2 at the moment to preserve your state pension entitlement, from 2018 you’re going to have to pay five times more if you want to maintain that contribution. This particular group of people will be worse-off.”
But others will argue that even paying the increased £733.20 a year still gives the self-employed a very good deal. In simple terms, it means that, over 35 years, they would pay £25,600 at current rates to obtain the right to a full state pension, currently worth £8,093 a year.
Of course, the government may put transitional arrangements in place to mitigate the cost of the changes. As this week has shown, things can move fast in the world of NICs. Williamson reckons that if the government doesn’t do something, “there’s going to be another big outcry”.
HM Revenue & Customs says: “Abolishing class 2 NICs removed a regressive levy on the self-employed. We expect a very small proportion, around 2%, will choose to pay class 3 NICs to build entitlement to contributory benefits, such as the new state pension which is worth £1,800 a year. Choosing to do so is entirely voluntary.”
This £1,800 is the difference between the £8,093 new pension annual amount and the £6,203 basic state pension annual amount for 2016-17.
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And fishermen don’t escape the net
The low-paid self-employed aren’t the only ones who face having to cough up more money because of the scrapping of class 2 national insurance contributions in April 2018. Others affected range from fishermen to people doing volunteering work overseas.
As we explain above, the self-employed who earn less than a certain amount, are able to voluntarily pay class 2 NI contributions to gain access to the state pension.
However, they are also paid by certain groups who are not necessarily self-employed in the UK, in order to gain access to contributory benefits. They include those working abroad, either on a self-employed or employee basis. They will need to pay class 3 voluntary NICs instead to protect their state pension record, following the abolition of class 2 NICs. On a BritishExpats.com website forum, one poster said: “It used to be an ‘excellent’ deal, now it’s just a ‘great’ deal.”
Meanwhile, the special rates of class 2 contributions which two other categories of people – share fishermen and volunteer development workers (those who take part in projects in developing countries) – are able to pay, will no longer be available in future.
Share fishermen are those who work in the UK fishing industry and are paid a share of the earnings, or profits, of the boat they work on. They can pay £3.45 a week. Those doing voluntary work abroad are able to pay £5.60 a week. | positive |
AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat high court on Thursday dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) that had challenged the performance of religious rituals in the court campus. The court observed that "secularism" is not "anti-god."While dismissing the PIL, the high court has also slapped a penalty of Rs 20,000 on the petitioner, Rajesh Solanki who is a Dalit activist. The court raised doubts over bonafide intentions of the petitioner.Rajesh Solanki had filed the PIL questioning performance of Hindu religious rituals on the high court campus on the ground that a public place should maintain its secular credentials in a secular country.The PIL referred to the laying of foundation stone ceremony that had taken place on the high court campus situated in Sola area of Ahmedabad on May 1 last year. The function was to mark the expansion of the existing court campus.The petition claimed that the court campus was a secular place and religious rituals - Bhoomi-pujan followed by a prayer and chanting of shlokas - should not be permitted, else the judiciary would lose its secular credentials in the public eye. The petitioner sought the performance of rituals be declared as unconstitutional by the high court.This PIL first came up for hearing before Chief Justice SJ Mukhopadhaya, who refused to hear it saying that he too was part of the ceremony. Apart from the chief justice, the governor and many Supreme Court and high court judges were present during the function.Later the case was heard by a bench of Justice Jayant Patel and Justice JC Upadhyay, who concluded that performance of rituals was intended for betterment of mankind and hence it should be viewed in this context.Rejecting the contention of the petitioner to declare the act of rituals on court campus as unconstitutional, the judges have observed that secularism is not anti-God. Quoting ancient scriptures and judgments delivered by other courts in relation to this idea, the court has concluded that the word "dharma is not contradictory to secularism, if interpreted in a proper manner". The court ruled out the contention that performance of religious rituals on the foundation laying ceremony was a non-secular act. | positive |
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THE AFL has admitted it erred in exposing easybeats Greater Western Sydney and the Gold Coast in its dismal Easter Sunday double feature, which resulted in thrashings of 129 and 92 points respectively.
League executive Gillon McLachlan said last night it had not occurred to his fixtures team that the Giants and the Suns had been scheduled in the only two games on Sunday - an anomaly that will be repeated in round 12 when the only two games on Saturday, June 16, feature the AFL's fledgling sides.
Outgunned... GWS received a flogging at the hands - and feet - of North Melbourne. On the same day, Gold Coast received a similar hiding, courtesy of St Kilda. Credit:Getty Images
''It was a soft day's football,'' said McLachlan, ''and we'll take it on the chin. The fixture is so difficult and there are so many elements we need to take into account and, to be honest, that situation had not even occurred to us.
''With hindsight, could we have done it differently? Maybe. With hindsight, were they great games? No. Would we rather they were more competitive? Yes. We would rather every game was settled by a few points.'' | positive |
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If Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s wins re-election this year--his third gubernatorial race in four years--he just might snatch the title of Comeback Kid from a certain charismatic Southerner.
He reformed public sector unions and helped turned a $3.6 billion state budget deficit into a more than half-billion dollar surplus, yet now he’s fighting for his political life in a close race against wealthy Democratic businesswoman Mary Burke.
A resurrected investigation into his time as Milwaukee County executive thus far appears benign--POLITICO reporter Elizabeth Titus calls it a “scandal snoozer”--and a previous iteration of the same probe exonerated him last year, even as several aides were punished.
Of the many potential 2016 Republican candidates for U.S. president, Walker stands out as most thoroughly vetted. He weathered vicious attacks during his successful union fight and became the only governor in American history to survive an electoral recall. This after some 100,000 protesters swarmed the state capitol building in Madison, furious that Walker wanted to let local governments and school districts bring healthcare and pension contributions from public sector workers closer to parity with private sector workers.
In his recent book, Unintimidated, the governor details how haters opposing Act 10 etched Walker dead body chalk outlines, urinated on his office door, scattered .22 bullets on state capitol grounds and even menaced his wife, threatening to “gut her like a deer.”
“There were times that I did feel like a masochist,” Walker told me in a recent interview.“I’ve had way more scrutiny than we ever anticipated. But you get through it, and you’re stronger because of it.”
Besides the pro-union protesters--many non-Wisconsinites credited with launching the Occupy Movement from Madison--a scrum of national and international press pilloried Walker, dubbing him “the most divisive politician in America.”
Between the protesters and media hordes, Walker’s detractors have written his political and personal obituaries multiple times over. Yet his thorough background check ensures there’d be no untested surprises--a la Sarah Palin, for example--on a national stage. And some commenters say Walker’s 2016 star has only risen following New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s recent bridgegate implosion.
“Even though he’d been getting a lot of national attention, there’s a difference between getting attention and getting scrutiny,” Walker said. “I thought he handled it pretty well.”
Walker, who considers Christie a friend, says he believes Christie at his word that he was unaware of the politically-motivated closure of the George Washington Bridge. However, Walker clearly contrasted their different political styles.
“I wasn’t holding townhall meetings to get to YouTube,” Walker said in a subtle jab at Christie while discussing how to handle teachers’ unions. “I was literally talking to people about what was going on.”
Christie became a darling of the political right after an exchange with an angry teacher went viral online.
“Chris and I are pretty outspoken in terms of what we think our beliefs are, what we believe about things,” Walker said. “I always say the difference is I have a Midwestern filter. If I think someone’s stupid or they’re asking me a ridiculous question, I just say ‘ridiculous.’ Chris tends to say, ‘You’re stupid. That’s a stupid question, you’re an idiot.’ That’s probably the biggest difference between the two of us.”
Though his personality’s much less brash than Christie’s, Walker faced criticism that he overhyped the state’s fiscal situation and manufactured a fiscal crisis that didn’t require such dramatic steps to rein in public sector unions.
Indeed, Wisconsin’s general obligation bond rating has been “extremely steady,” with “basically no rating changes in about 14 years,” according to David Jacobsen, a spokesman and former colleague of mine from Moody's Investors Service.
Back in 2001, Moody’s downgraded Wisconsin to a Aa3 rating (still strong, but three notches below the highest possible Aaa rating), but upgraded it in 2010 by a notch after a Moody’s systemwide recalibration, i.e., Moody’s upgraded other peers, too, not for anything they’d done but because the agency changed its approach. Wisconsin’s G.O. bond rating stayed at Aa2 since then and was never placed on Moody’s “watchlist” for troubled credits at risk of downgrade, either before or after Walker’s union battle.
“I didn’t say the state was going bankrupt,” Walker said. “I said the state was broke, meaning we were operating on an existing deficit at the time and going into the next budget. Nobody’s disputing that we had a $3.6 billion deficit, that was set by the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau.”
Moody’s did issue a favorable special comment after it became apparent that Walker’s successful union campaign helped ease budget strains for Wisconsin municipalities, whose funding was cut to close the state budget deficit.
A subsequent Moody’s report on Walker’s two-year budget starting in 2013 pointed out that unlike in previous budget cycles, the current one doesn’t include any fund transfers or debt restructuring to solve an existing budget gap. Plus it includes “approximately $1 billion in tax relief, including budget actions resulting in $650 million in income tax relief and the elimination of little used tax credits.” In sum, Walker’s post union-busting budget closed the budget deficit while also cutting taxes.
“There are two kinds of people in politics,” Walker said of his approach to governing. “There are people who want to be somebody great and there are people who want to be do something great. And I’ve always tried to be the latter.”
For now Walker’s focused on keeping his governorship, this year facing Burke, a multimillionaire Harvard Business School grad who was too busy to meet with President Obama last month during one of his rare trips to The Badger State.
Burke’s privileged pedigree--she’s the daughter of a bicycle manufacturing mogul--contrasts sharply with Walker’s status as a college dropout.
“If people are hung up on that, they’ll be hung up on that,” Walker said. “Most people can look at that and know either in their own house or in their circle of friends people they work with, people in similar circumstances. I think all of those people like me would appreciate being judged by what we’ve done not just based on whether we have a degree or not.”
If he wins again this year, onlookers say there’s a good chance Walker would seek higher office. He’s got close personal ties to national GOP figures like former vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, both of whom grew up within a close radius of the governor.
“The three of us have known each other for more than twenty years,” Walker said. “I don’t know about whether that’s an advantage or not, but we we talk quite a bit.”
Walker’s union-based fame helped propel to garner $37 million fundraising to prevent a recall in 2012.
“Interestingly, about 70 percent of that, a little bit more than 70 percent, gave 50 dollars or less,” Walker said. “We’ve got folks who’ve given us a few bucks and folks that have given us tens of thousands of dollars that would still be helpful to us in 2014 and whatever might be helpful to us in the future.” | positive |
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