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Sun Country to provide new service to Eau Claire, Wi.
Selected by U.S. DOT under the Essential Air Service program
MINNEAPOLIS, July 14, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sun Country Airlines (NASDAQ: SNCY) announced today that it has been selected by the U.S. Department of Transportation to provide Essential Air Service (EAS) for Chippewa Valley Regional Airport (EAU) in Eau Claire, WI, beginning in December 2022. Sun Country will provide Eau Claire with a total of four weekly round trips per week including two round trips to Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and approximately two round trips per week to Orlando, Las Vegas or Fort Myers adjusted seasonally.
Sun Country is well known to Wisconsin travelers. It already provides service to Green Bay, Milwaukee and Madison. The Chippewa Valley Regional Airport approached Sun Country about providing the service last spring when SkyWest Airlines/United Express filed a notice that it intended to terminate EAS service at Chippewa Valley.
In response to the DOT request for comments from the community regarding air carrier proposals, the Chippewa Valley Regional Airport Director said: "The Chippewa Valley Regional Airport Commission would like to express their unanimous support for the Sun Country Airlines proposal to provide airline service to EAU. Sun Country Airlines provides an exciting opportunity to work with an Ultra-Low-Cost Carrier with a brand that is already known in our region."
"Sun Country's business model surges in times of peak demand, including the winter months, and utilizes cargo and charter flying at times of the year with less demand for scheduled service flying," said Grant Whitney, chief revenue officer. "This is a great fit for Sun Country to provide additional service in Wisconsin, and we are excited to bring new service to the Chippewa Valley region," said Grant Whitney, Sun Country Airlines Chief Revenue Officer. "We appreciate the enthusiasm of and partnership with the Chippewa Valley Regional Airport to connect the Chippewa Valley with Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and the 78 destinations we serve as well as to provide service to Las Vegas, Orlando and Fort Myers."
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Alleged Methbot scammer Zhukov asks judge for new attorney in ad fraud case
In a letter, Alexander Zhukov said he felt "helpless and alone" against the U.S. government's case.
By Jeff Stone
Aleksandr Zhukov is not happy.
The accused leader of an advertising fraud scheme that U.S. officials say defrauded international companies out of millions of dollars wrote a letter last week to Judge Edward Korman of the Eastern District of New York asking for assistance in finding new legal representation.
Zhukov, in the note submitted Friday, asked the judge to appoint Simone Bertollini, a New York-based attorney, as his public defender. He hopes to hire Bertollini because of the attorney's representation of Fabio Gasperini, an Italian man convicted in 2017 of operating a botnet of 100,000 hacked computers for malicious purposes.
Bertollini would replace Igor Litvak, another New York-based attorney who withdrew from the case in March because of Zhukov's inability to pay his legal fees. Litvak also appeared to be negotiating with prosecutors seeking a plea deal, though it's clear now Zhukov intends to go to trial.
In his letter to Korman, the Russian cited Bertollini as "the only lawyer in history of USA who won the jury with cyber crime case," adding that he has no money to pay a lawyer.
"I have Russian lawyer education," he wrote. "Being in jail I read law library and found the only pretty similar with [my] case. If we call American judgment and American judge system as the standards for all over the world…[it must be] FAIR and EQUAL for both sides of trial."
In an article posted on his website, Bertollini said the Gasperini case was the first time he represented a client accused of click fraud. Gasperini faced five felony charges and up 70 years in prison, but the jury acquitted him on all but one misdemeanor charge.
"The cases are essentially identical," said Bertollini, who only learned of Zhukov's request when reached by CyberScoop. "The judge can make the appointment and, in turn, I will be paid by the government. If they do so, I'll be happy to take the case."
Zhukov's letter, made public Monday, also makes clear that he is unhappy with the government's case against him. He and four other men are accused of using more than 1,900 computer servers to simulate humans viewing ads on fabricated web pages. The group, known as Methbot, developed relationships with legitimate ad networks, collecting at least $7 million between 2014 and 2016.
"Being in USA now, I feel myself absolutely helpless, because I have here no family, no parents, no friends," he wrote in broken English from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. "My cyber crime in my indictment is just imagination of FBI and I wish to go to jury…I had invented the Artificial Intelligence and use it to run absolutely legal business in advertisement industry. I'm a weaponless soldier in front of a tank with name FBI."
Zhukov, a Russian national, was arrested in Bulgaria on Nov. 6 last year. He was extradited to the U.S. in January, where he has pleaded not guilty.
It ultimately is up to the court whether to appoint a specific lawyer as a public defender, and that attorney often must work on such cases pro bono.
Zhukov's letter to the judge is available in full below.
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This story was updated on April 18 to include comment from Bertollini.
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Aleksandr Zhukov
Methbot
Simone Bertollini
U.S. recovers millions from infamous '3ve' advertising scam group
By Tonya Riley
Aleksandr Zhukov, as pictured in an evidentiary photo from the U.S. Department of Justice.
Aleksandr Zhukov, self-described 'king of fraud,' is sentenced to 10 years
The sentence caps a years-long investigation into the fraud scheme known as 3ve or Methbot.
As Methbot trial gets underway, prosecutors say a former scammer will testify against alleged ringleader
The Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, NY (Bureau of Prisons).
Lawyer for alleged Methbot scammer refuses to visit jail over coronavirus concerns
Lawyer for alleged Methbot boss Aleksandr Zhukov wants case dismissed amid coronavirus concerns
Another Methbot suspect, Sergey Denisoff, arrested more than a year after initial charges
Two Methbot suspects set to plead guilty as alleged ringleader maintains his innocence
The FBI is diving deeper into the Methbot ad fraud case

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Bearded tits reach record numbers
Harry Bellew
The bearded tit - one of the UK's rarest breeding birds - has continued to bounce back from a population crash to the highest numbers recorded in the UK, according to the latest survey.
The Rare Breeding Birds in the UK report, published by the Rare Breeding Birds Panel, revealed that the bearded tit population has increased from 618 pairs in 2013 to 772 pairs in 2014 - the highest number since monitoring of bearded tits began in 1995.
The record population is made even more remarkable by the population crash that occurred in 2011. Bearded tits are very sensitive to cold hard winters and this can have a knock on effect on their breeding success - the 2011 survey revealed the population had declined by nearly half to only 360 pairs after a disastrously cold December the previous year.
This is the third year in a row that numbers have increased and it is hoped that the work to improve and create more habitat for them across RSPB nature reserves will allow bearded tit numbers to continue to grow into a more stable population.
Dr Mark Eaton, RSPB Conservation Scientist and Chairman of the Rare Breeding Bird Panel, said: "It is always special to see bearded tits dancing and diving about the reedbeds on a crisp winter's morning - such a charismatic bird.
"Unfortunately they are very sensitive to the hard winter weather and there was a big dip in numbers after a particular harsh weather in 2010. But when they have a good breeding season, like in recent years, they can produce lots of young so numbers can bounce back rapidly. As the population can fluctuate year on year it's vital that we continue to manage the reedbeds they call home to give them the best chance of thriving."
Named after their similarities with long-tailed tits and the dark facial markings on the males that resemble a moustache, bearded tits make their homes on well-managed reedbeds. The historic loss of this wetland habitat across the UK has resulted in the population becoming fragmented across isolated areas in the south west, eastern and northern parts of England.
The Humber, a large tidal estuary on the east coast of Northern England, is one area that has become a stronghold for bearded tits in the UK. Work to create new ponds and extra management of reedbeds has resulted in the population bouncing back, with good numbers at RSPB's Blacktoft Sands helping to take the population on the Humber from around 40 to 250 pairs in just five years.
Pete Short, RSPB Humber Reserve Sites Manager, said: "Bearded tits are a rare bird, which makes it all the more important that numbers are doing well. Over the last few years there has been a lot of hard work put in to creating new habitat for them on the Humber has allowed the population to boom.
"Five years on from the winter population crash, numbers have bounced back and to see bearded tits back on the Humber again in such good numbers is an amazing sight that many more people will now be able to enjoy."
RSPB Blacktoft Sands remains the best place to see bearded tits in the North East of England, but the larger population means this distinctive looking bird can be spotted at many other sites in the UK including; RSPB Leighton Moss in Lancashire, RSPB Titchwell in Norfolk, RSPB Minsmere and RSPB Lakenheath Fen in Suffolk, and RSPB Raidpole Lake and RSPB Lodmoor in Dorset.
For further information and to arrange an interview, please contact:
Harry Bellew, Media Officer: 01767 693418 / Harry-jay.Bellew@rspb.org.uk
High-res images can be downloaded at https://www.dropbox.com/sh/p5zm27xzjxl0c6z/AACmdxxgfa90r53gerj-T5wXa?dl=0
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Report on Karangetang (Indonesia) — 4 August-10 August 2010
Smithsonian / US Geological Survey Weekly Volcanic Activity Report,
4 August-10 August 2010
Managing Editor: Sally Kuhn Sennert
Global Volcanism Program, 2010. Report on Karangetang (Indonesia). In: Sennert, S K (ed.), Weekly Volcanic Activity Report, 4 August-10 August 2010. Smithsonian Institution and US Geological Survey.
Weekly Report (4 August-10 August 2010)
According to news articles, an eruption from Karangetang on 6 August produced pyroclastic flows on the W flank that destroyed at least seven houses. A hot ash plume rose above the crater, and incandescent material was ejected from the crater and descended multiple flanks. At least four people were missing, five were injured, and about 65 were evacuated. An article also stated that CVGHM raised the Alert Level to 3 (on a scale of 1-4). According to reports from CVGHM and analyses of satellite imagery, the Darwin VAAC reported that an ash plume rose to an altitude of 9.1 km (30,000 ft) a.s.l. and drifted W.
Sources: CNN, Associated Press, Darwin Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre (VAAC)


First of all, – THANK YOU for your interest to our work and for your time. We love our work and we are grateful for your support! These two months were full of good things and we are glad we can share them with you.
It was a great time, – lots of challenges and, hope, even more discoveries. From the other hand, even though it seems to us, that all the three workshops went well, I feel that when next time we happen to teach one in the Holy Cross Monastery, we should better connect our workshop with worship. And it is not only about adjusting our time to the schedule of services, it's much wider – about icons "working" in liturgical space, – both theory and practice.
We have already started thinking about the next year workshop in Holy Cross, but I think we will only be able to launch it in October.
It's only July, but both our January Icon Drawing Workshops in Melbourne are filled up or almost filled up. We talked to the ACU and decided to launch one more, this time more universal, – like we did in the past. We called it "General Icon Painting Workshop" intending to say it's about painting an icon from scratch to the end, going through all sorts of activities we used go to in our daily work. Planning it we mostly thought of potential students, who'd never attended our workshops before, so they could catch up and grab their piece of experience.
And – an important notice, – if you have already signed up for any of previously announced workshops and want to switch to a new one, please, let us know in the nearest time, before it is filled up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vcucGcwaoA. Please, leave your comments, – it's a beginner's experiment, any constructive critique is appreciated. Within a couple of months from now we think of making some more of this kind, and we will take into account every consideration.
Another video to share, – our Australian friend Sister of Mercy Margaret Broadbent was interviewed almost two months ago: https://vimeo.com/218884778.
If you are in northern hemisphere we wish the most beautiful spring, if in the southern, we hope you are having an enjoyable autumn!
As the time runs, we have to make some changes in our workshop schedule, couple of new works, couple of exhibitions and a special website to share.
Groups in Calgary and Seattle are filling up well, but last week we have been contacted by Wesley Seminary (Washington DC) and we were informed that our workshop has to be cancelled because of widescale renovation works.
But since every cloud has a silver lining, with a generous invitation of Peter Pearson's now we happily launch a brand new Icon Drawing Workshop in the Holy Cross monastery in West Park NY, – reachable by direct trains from NYC).
It's a 4 days course for $650 with lodging and meals included, – lots and lots of drawing! We think it's essential for all.
The Last Supper by Olga Shalamova. Egg tempera on wood.
Besides, we are surprised to see constant and unpredictable interest to iconography exhibitions. As always we publish some photos at our Flickr, hope you may find something inspiring.
The first one was a "85 years of Union of Artists of Saint Petersburg", which included our iconography section not a special one iconography (February 20 – March 10 2017, St. Isaac's Square Manege, Saint Petersburg, Russia).
Passions of Christ (March 5 – April 10).
Thanks you very much for your time, hope next one will have less news and more images to share!
The first word of this newsletter we want to be the word Gratitude!
Though we often wished to say it before, somehow yet there was no special occasion. Now we think it can be a good time. Looking back at our 10 years of workshops in Melbourne and even more in the US, we are happy to say how grateful we are to God, to our friends and relatives. We feel that in these years we had been immensely blessed, helped and inspired, our work – valued.
I know, I should list the names, but it would need many pages and simple listing of course would not be enough… We thank you all very much and wish that this coming year (and many more to come) will bring you the peace, joy and blessings in Christ.
Now we are back home-sweet-home, and thanks to Margaret Broadbent (see the photograph) we had a great cultural program in Sydney and feel very much rested… Time to stir paint for new sketches, time to bring together all we have seen and experienced lately.
Photographs from our last workshops (and exhibition) in ACU can be found on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/25669502@N07/albums/72157677715164470.
NEXT ONES are planned for June 2017 (Seattle and Calgary, – filling up). In addition to them we announce our traditional workshop in Wesley Seminary (Washington DC, USA).
Though yet it's not sure, but we may as well have one more workshop in the UK, but this should be happening in the second half of the year, – it's just a "maybe" for now. And to conclude this listing, it's good to say, – we always look forward to hear your critique, questions, comments or proposals, hoping that our educational methods and principles may be considered as an open system, changeable and upgradable.
And hopefully more to come!
One more time we thank you very much for being with us!
The history of Russian Sacred Art and Architecture through Millennia July 10 – 30, 2017 The "Russian Icon" tour is the first comprehensive study tour that along with all of the major collections of Russian Icons will include many less famous, generally overlooked, but yet very important monuments and collections of the Russian Medieval Sacred Art. The itinerary includes visits to Moscow, most cities of the Golden Ring, Vologda, Ferapontovo, St. Petersburg, Novgorod and Pskov. Travelers will get a real in depth course not only on the History of Russian Sacred Art and Architecture, but also on the History of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian State. Another benefit of this trip is the fact that we will work directly with museum staff and clergy along the way. With many of them we have longstanding and personal friendship that enables us to see and to do learn about the things that usually remain behind the closed doors.
Detailed itinerary available upon request.
The Year of Prayers for Peace!
Hmmmmm… What?? Wait a minute…What kind of "New Type" can an iconographer talk about, if the whole his or her life has to be dedicated to the main vocation – painting the Face of Invisible God and His saints???
And, yes, – now we have an answer… For a number of years we wondered about extending iconographers professional possibilities. The question is this – what can an icon painter paint, avoiding to compromise or disgrace tradition and own skills, but trying to make a new type (genre) of image with different goals and functions.
And we found the answer… simply working with our sketches… The answer can be a GRAPHIC WORK. From point of view of the materials, it's similar to the manuscript illumination process, but since we are not obliged to make it a direct text illustration, we may think of a special kind of visual, recalling traditional iconography, but using a slightly different language and pursuing different goals.
A reminder to our Australian Subscribers, especially to those, who signed for the workshop(s) in Melbourne! The first workshop begins on Monday, the 16th of January! Please, make sure you are coming relaxed, fresh and open in your thoughts&spirit, ready for the challenges and for discoveries!
Installation of our collective third exhibition "The Visions of Beauty" is scheduled to be done in the morning on Saturday, the 14th of January. Please, bring your works to participate, – the more and more – the better!
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Lost Deposits. Reimbursement of your deposit if a vendor goes out of business, declares bankruptcy before your wedding, or simply fails to show up.
Understand the difference between wedding liability insurance and wedding cancellation insurance. They are both referred to simply as wedding insurance, however they provide very different types of protection for you, your venue, and your wedding. Be certain that when comparing different wedding insurance plans, you have the option to buy Liability or Cancellation coverage individually, or both together, depending on your needs.
Selecting the most appropriate wedding insurance depends on a number of factors, including where you are having the reception, your wedding budget, and your tolerance for risk. Evaluate those factors when selecting a wedding insurance program to protect you.
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United Way Emergency Food and Shelter Program applications due Jan. 3
The United Way of Southeast Georgia is making local nonprofits aware that the Emergency Food and Shelter Program, a division of The Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program, is now open.
Grice Connect Jan 1, 2023 8:28 AM
The United Way of Southeast Georgia is making local nonprofits aware that the Emergency Food and Shelter Program, a division of The Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program, is now open. Bulloch County has been awarded funds from Phase 39, ARPAR, and Phase 40. The total amount of the award is $116,274 (Phase 39: $21,870, Phase ARPAR: $67,594 and Phase 40: $26,810).
Funds will be awarded to local service organizations that provide emergency food and shelter programs. Distribution of funds for the aforementioned jurisdiction will be determined by a local board. The board has the responsibility of recommending agencies to receive funds for Phase 39, ARAP-R and Phase 40.
Applications are due by 4 p.m. Tuesday, January 3, 2023.
Applications are due Tuesday, January 3, 2023.
Under the terms of the grant from the National Board, local organizations chosen to receive funds must meet the following criteria:
Have non-profit status (501 c3);
Maintain an accounting system;
Practice non-discrimination;
Demonstrate the capacity to deliver emergency food and/or shelter programs;
Have a voluntary board (if the agency is a private voluntary organization).
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The YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSN. of Cleveland, one of the country's first, was founded in 1854 to prevent "the ruin, physical and spiritual, which overtakes so large a proportion of the multitude of young men constantly arriving in our city." It operated out of rooms at Superior and W. 3rd streets, offering prayer meetings, a Sunday school, a lending library, and lectures by figures such as Henry Ward Beecher and Cassius M. Clay. The Cleveland YMCA disbanded in 1863 due to the Civil War, but was reestablished in 1867 with the leadership of Chas. E. Bolton, SERENO P. FENN, Henry A. Sherwin, and Chas. J. Dockstader. It grew rapidly, and by 1872 had opened the country's first YMCA specifically for transient railroad workers (eventually the Collinwood Branch). During the 1870s, religious and missionary work intensified, and interest broadened to include younger boys. In 1875 the YMCA opened a home for "newsboys and bootblacks." In 1879, under president Joseph B. Merian, the agency shifted away from reformation and toward character development, establishing educational and physical-culture programs (1881), a Juniors Dept. (1887), and equipping the city's first supervised playground (1900). During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, supported by men such as JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, the YMCA built new main buildings and branches: the Broadway Branch (1883); the West Side Branch (1901), and the East End (UNIV. CIRCLE) Branch (1911), and new central buildings in 1891 and 1912. The latter, at Prospect Ave. and E. 22nd St., remained its headquarters into the 1990s.
The Cleveland YMCA worked with SETTLEMENT HOUSES and WELFARE/RELIEF agencies and promoted the Allied cause with a "War Work" fundraising campaign during World War I. After the war, it continued to add branches and increased its attention to physical training and work with young boys. In 1921 the educational work formally organized into the Cleveland School of Technology of the YMCA (renamed FENN COLLEGE in 1930), which the agency assisted in directing until 1951. Despite financial problems, the YMCA continued to offer services and added employment counseling during the Depression. It entered into joint management of some local facilities with the YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSN. in the 1950s, but the relationship eroded and was formally terminated in 1986. By the 1990s, with over 20 branches, the Cleveland YMCA provided residential facilities for men, and maintained a nationally recognized physical-training program, a camping program, outreach, counseling, leadership training, and job placement. In Oct. 1994 the headquarters on Prospect Ave. was closed, although soon after the YMCA announced it was renovating the facility with $8.4 million in physical and structural improvements. Funds were drawn mainly from grants, tax credits, and loans from the City of Cleveland, the CLEVELAND FOUNDATION, and other benefactors. In 1995 Kenneth W. McLaughlin served as president and CEO of the YMCA of Greater Cleveland.
Finding aid for the Young Men's Christian Association of Cleveland Records, WRHS.
Finding aid for the Young Men's Christian Association of Cleveland Records, Series II. WRHS.
Finding aid for the Young Men's Christian Association of Cleveland Photographs, WRHS.
Health and Human Services Directory, 1989.
See also CLEVELAND STATE UNIV.


Studies continue to show that corruption risk remains high on the list of concerns expressed by the directors and officers of global companies. These companies struggle to identify and implement effective compliance controls, which require the commitment of significant resources across a variety of challenging emerging markets, each with its own corruption issues. The challenge of effective anti-corruption compliance seems only to intensify as the US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) press in their enforcement actions to broaden and extend the application of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).
Two recent high-profile SEC enforcement actions against Oracle Corporation and Eli Lilly and Company illustrate aggressive FCPA enforcement and instruct global companies on the challenges of keeping their anti-corruption compliance programs at a level that will meet the expectations of US regulators.
The first lesson reminds companies not to limit their focus solely to transactions involving payments to foreign government officials. In August 2012 the SEC charged Oracle with violations of the books and records and internal controls provisions of the FCPA based on Oracle's failure to oversee properly its Indian distributor. The SEC alleged that Oracle's Indian subsidiary structured transactions with government-owned customers through third-party distributors to enable the distributors to accumulate substantial funds. Oracle India then instructed those distributors to make payments to suspicious Indian vendors from which there was little evidence of legitimate services being performed.


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About Society of Australian Genealogists
The Society of Australian Genealogists was established in 1932 to encourage the pursuit of family history and to provide guidance and resources for those tracing their family trees. We run an active program of lectures, workshops, seminars and tours, and can give advice on all aspects of genealogy. Our library, located in the Sydney CBD, has a world-class collection of resources and manuscripts, much of which is unique to us. We are a membership society but most of our activities and services are available to non-members as well.
Holdings include:
• Manuscript material collected over more than 75 years - much of which is not available elsewhere
• Over 2,500 published Australian family histories and biographies
• Copies of many NSW parish registers for most denominations
• Over 1100 electronic resources from around the world
• Local histories, cemetery records, school & post office histories
• Images relating to both individuals and places
• Resources relating to all states of Australia and New Zealand, as well as most overseas countries, especially England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland
• Access in our libraries to the major 'pay to view' websites from around the world
Find more about the Library, including opening hours and a link to the online library catalogue here.
You can join the SAG wherever you live - find out more here
The Society has a very active program of lectures and events, including webinars (webinars are member-only). See our current list of events here.
Our monthly newsletter SAGe is emailed to both members and non-members and you can subscribe to receive this by clicking here. SAGe is free to both members and the public.
Society of Australian Genealogists records online
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n the Middle Ages, the most rewowned tournaments of poetry in all of France were held at the court of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Celebrated troubadours gathered there to demonstrate their art, and once a year the winner of this poetic joust was announced.
On one occasion, the winner was an unknown and very handsome young man, who refuse to give his name or say where he came from, despite the entreaties of Eleanor herself. The aura of mystery surrounding the anonymous troubadour, together with his kindness and beauty, soon made him one of the favorites among the ladies of the court. Griselda, a young and wistful maiden, the youngest daughter of the lord of Foix, fell passionately in love with the knight and declared fer love for him. Moved by the maiden's entreaties, the troubadour agreed to marry her in secret and take her to his home, but on condition that Griselda should never try to see him other than when he chose, and that she should never try to discover his secret.
The lovesick lady promised to comply with this strange condition. It seemed little to ask in exchange for being able to remain with her loved one.
One night, the young Griselda had fallen asleep in the arms of her lover in the castle of Eleanor of Aquitaine where she lived, and on opening her eyes she found herself in an unfamiliar room. It was luxurious place, adorned with silk and precious stones, and beside her lay her husband smiling benignly at her.
"You are in my house, which belongs to you," said the troubadour. "You may give orders to my servants and do whatever you please. There are stables with horses at your disposal, huntsmen and hawks for hunting, and you may go as you wish. You are my lady, and all that is mine is yours. There are maidens ready to serve you and to carry out your every whim, dancers and musicians to entertain you, jewels and silks to adorn you. If you need anything, tell me and I will give it to you."
"I wish only for the love of my lord," replied the young woman, bewildered.
"That is good, my love, but do not forget your promise."
Griselda, full of happiness, demonstrated her compliance by flinging herself into the arms of her beloved husband.
For a while the lady kept her promise and believed she was in paradise. The troubadour knight, who was kind and passionate, spent most of his time with his wife. Occasionally he would disapear into a locked room, and she, faithful to her promise, did not ask him any questions. However, curiosity gradually got the better of her. One day she decided to find out the secret of her knight. She crept up to the door of the forbidden room, which he had left ajar, and spied through the chink. Horrified, she watched as the troubadour turned into a huge dragon with green scales and powerful wings. She could not prevent a cry of horror escaping her lips. The dragon prince wheeled round, and saw his terrified wife in the doorway. Deeply hurt by this betrayal, the knight bade his servants remove Griselda immediatly to the court of Aquitaine, and never again did he turn to see her.
The lady could not forget her beloved, and not a day went by without her recalling the months of happiness beside the gentle dragon. Full of repentance and sadness, she wrote down her adventure; that is how the famous story of the dragon prince has found its way to us.
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In February of 2016, Testimonial Cultures awarded two scholarships to graduate students conducting research in the area of testimonials as a social and cultural interventions. The Scholarship Evaluation Committee (Simon Corneau, Aurélie Hot and Karine Espineira) wishes to congratulate the winners!
Here are the recipients' profiles:
Clark Pignedoli
PhD student in sociology, concentration in feminist studies (UQAM)
Research Project : ''Gender technologies : Drag King Workshops in France and Italy as The Micropolitical Subjectification of Transmasculine People'', under the co-supervision of Janik Bastien Charlebois and Alexandre Baril.
Project Summary (Coming soon in English)
The Drag King (DK) workshops are collective practices where, in a "non-mixed" setting (defined differently depending on the workshop), one learns to perform a male character temporarily, through exercises and accessories allowing him/her/them to be perceived as a cisgender male in public spaces. The identification, the study and the re-enactment of masculinity codes allows participants to experiment "in the flesh" the privileges of the dominant masculinities. At the same time, they can deconstruct essentialist conceptions of gender and highlight its performative dimension. Thus, these workshops contribute to the denaturalization of the heteronormative sex-gender system, because DK explores how social norms of masculinity and, a fortiori, femininity are assimilated and incorporated. The workshops also affect cisgenderism in that they reveal how, from the assignment of gender at birth, bodies are fabricated as "male" and "female" on a daily basis, through the constant intervention of social institutions who construct "gendered" bodies. Through an (auto)ethnographic approach of DK workshops in France and Italy, I will document the potential for subjectivation of these spaces on transmasculine people, as well as the possibility of producing non-hegemonic masculinities. These new forms of masculinities can play an important role in queer and feminist movements, as well as in anti-oppressive practices on a daily basis. In fact, DK can be a subjectivation tool for people who self-identify on the spectrum of transmaculinities. These participants can use DK as a "technology of gender" to construct their masculinity differently, to distance themselves from dominant masculinities and the privileges associated with them.
Jamie Goodyear
PhD student in études et pratiques des arts (UQAM)
Research Project: ''Exploring My Intimate Stories of HIV: An autoethnographic study of identity and art making'', under the co-supervision of Maria Nengeh Mensah and Micheal Blum.
My research-creation project is centered on my life and my newly disclosed stereological status as HIV positive. This life shift also marks a turn in my creative practice toward the making art expressly concerned with HIV, while using storytelling and testimonial as my creative core. As a means to study my own identity, as someone with HIV, I will draw on the use of testimonial through an autoethnographic study of my life with HIV through my stories of risk and pleasure. My conceptual framework is based on the idea that as an artist I am a queer storyteller. This concept has three components: identity and positionality, symbolic interactionism, and a sociology of stories. With my method of analytical autoethnography, as a form of self-reflection and writing, I am exploring my personal experience, or autobiographical story, to access wider cultural, political, and social meanings and understandings. My creative methodologies will rely on that autoethnography to nourish the use of the traditional craft material of glass, to produce stained glass neon work, with the sculptural use of sound, to produce a sound object, which will convey my narratives and their political and social meanings. By means of the gathering of my stories, and the discovery of my own symbols and signs, I will produce an exhibition that articulates my thoughts on sex and marginality, risk and pleasure, as a person living with HIV.


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Associated Bank executive appointed to Illinois State University's Insurance School Advisory Board
Sunday, February 05, 2012 | General Release, News Releases
CHICAGO - February 6, 2012 - Associated Banc-Corp announced today that Peter Bulandr, senior vice president and head of its Insurance Industry Banking Group, has been appointed to the Insurance Advisory Board of Executives at Illinois State University's Katie School of Insurance and Financial Services (Katie School) in Normal, Ill. Associated is the first commercial bank to be represented on the Insurance Advisory Board.
Bulandr joins the 36 person Insurance Advisory Board of Executives, which is comprised of industry leaders who represent national and regional financial and insurance organizations and are committed to supporting Illinois State University's exemplary undergraduate insurance program. Members of the Advisory Board are involved in all aspects of the insurance program, including curriculum, student development, faculty research, continuing education and industry services.
"I am honored to have the opportunity to be formally involved with the Katie School," said Bulandr. "This outstanding institution sets itself above the rest through its strong connection to the industry and its dedication to providing real-world lessons and opportunities for students. Associated prides itself on connecting with the industries we serve, providing specialized financial services for industries, such as insurance, and leveraging our expertise to advance the profession and enrich the lives of students."
The Katie School is recognized as one of the nation's top academic centers supporting insurance and risk management studies. The Risk Management and Insurance program at Illinois State University is one of only a few in the nation that offers an insurance-specific curriculum.
"Peter's ongoing involvement with the Katie School's executive forums, dedication to raising awareness about the school to industry leaders and generous contributions of time and talent make him an ideal candidate for the school's Advisory Board," said Jim Jones, director of the Katie School. "As a representative of Associated Bank, he brings a unique and valuable commercial banking perspective to the board."
Bulandr has been with Associated since June 2010 and has more than 30 years of experience in the insurance and banking industries. He earned his MBA in finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and his bachelor's degree in economics from Lake Forest College.
ABOUT ASSOCIATED BANC-CORP
Associated Banc-Corp (NASDAQ: ASBC) has total assets of $22 billion and is one of the top 50 financial services holding companies operating in the United States. Headquartered in Green Bay, Wis., Associated has approximately 270 banking locations serving more than 150 communities throughout Wisconsin, Illinois and Minnesota. The company offers a full range of banking services and other financial products and services. Associated Bank, N.A. is an Equal Housing Lender, Equal Opportunity Lender and Member FDIC. More information about Associated Banc-Corp is available at www.associatedbank.com.
About the Katie School of Insurance and Financial Services
The Center for Risk Management and Insurance at Illinois State University (also known as The Katie School of Insurance and Financial Services) was established in 1991. The Katie School helps develop students and prepare them for careers in the risk management and insurance professions. The school is guided by an Advisory Board of Insurance Executives and provides annual scholarships and grants totaling more than $100,000 to attract future industry leaders. The Katie School also offers internships and mentorship programs to prepare students for careers in the industry. More information about the Katie School is available at katie.cob.ilstu.edu.
Autumn Latimore
autumn.latimore@associatedbank.com
Caitlyn McClain
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In typical Driggs fashion, March held a little bit of everything...and a lot of snow. What started out as a light snow year in Eastern Idaho ended up being above normal, thanks to February & March.
A couple of trips outside the valley helped mix things up, too. This photo is from an amazing weekend on Antelope Island in northern Utah; the scenery & terrain were Baja-like.
Enjoyed some nice family time while in SLC, too. Mark, Annie, and their 3-year old bundle of energy Corbin are all doing great.
As the month rolled by, adventures piled up like the snow banks around town. And Romeo loved it all.
There were some nice snowbike rides, too. Morning "crust cruising," whether on skis or fatbike, was exceptional during most of March.
A mid-month work-related week around Fruita, CO brought sunshine, singletrack...and smiles. Big time.
Back home in the snow, we attended the Jackson Hole World Championship Snowmobile Hillclimb on a sunny weekend. It's an event that my former winter clothing business used to display at...and it was awesome seeing lots of old industry friends, from all over the country. The snow conditions & racing were exceptional this year, too.
Adieu, March. Only two more months of snow around here!
I have a family friend who just moved to Driggs to be a firefighter with Teton County Fire District. Love all the pictures in this blog!


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Education law: An Overview
One government function is education, which is administered through the public school system by the Department of Education. The states, however, have primary responsibility for the maintenance and operation of public schools. The Federal Government also has an interest in education. The National Institute of Education was created to improve education in the United States.
Each state is required by its state constitution to provide a school system whereby children may receive an education. State legislatures exercise power over schools in any manner consistent with the state's constitution. Many state legislatures delegate power over the school system to a state board of education.
There is a strong concern with equality in education. Within states this leads to efforts to assure that each child no matter where he or she is situated receives an adequate education. The Equal Education Opportunities Act of 1974 provides that no state shall deny equal educational opportunity to an individual on the basis of race, color, sex, or national origin.
Parents have a fundamental right to direct the education of their children, including the right to choose a private school. However, states have the power to regulate private schools. That power is limited because the majority of private schools are religious institutions. The U.S. Constitution restricts public funding of private schools. See Establishment Clause. Consequently, there have been numerous Supreme Court opinions delineating the bounds of what is and is not public funding.
For children with disabilities special education is available. To qualify for special education a child's disability must adversely affect the child's educational performance. The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (20 U.S.C. §§ 1400 et seq) establishes a process for evaluating a child's special needs and for providing an individualized education program. The Federal Act is binding on all states. In addition, most states have their own laws which parallel the Act. Under the Act, parents and families of special education children have specific rights such as the right to inspect the child's school records.
Lastly, homeschooling is an option for some families. Homeschooling is legal in all fifty states, but it requires a large time commitment on the part of the family. In some states parents need to register their intent to homeschool with the department of education or the local district school board. In addition, many states require yearly proof of progress. States do not provide many services to homeschools, though some allow students to attend public school classes and to participate in public school activities.
Federal Material
20 U.S.C.- Education
20 U.S.C. §§ 1400 et seq. - Individuals with Disabilities Education Act
20 U.S.C. §§ 1701-1721 - Equal Education Opportunities Act
Family Educational Rights & Privacy Act or 20 U.S.C. § 1232g
Federal Agency Regulations
Code of Federal Regulations: 34 C.F.R.- education
34 C.F.R. §§ 300.1 et seq. - Special Education
34 C.F.R. §§ 99.1 et seq. - Family Educational Rights & Privacy Act
U.S. Supreme Court:
Recent Decisions on Education
liibulletin Oral Argument Previews
U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals: Recent Decisions on Education
CRS Annotated Constitution:
First Amendment: Financial Assistance to Church–Related Institutions
State Material
New York State law pertaining to Education - New York Education Code
California law pertaining to Education - California Education Code
State Statutes Dealing with Education
State Statutes Dealing with Higher Education and Vocational Training
State Regulation of Private Schools (brief description by state of legal requirements applying to private education)
State Departments of Education
Department of Education (Listing by State)
N.Y. Court of Appeals:
commentary from liibulletin-ny
Appellate Decisions from Other States
Office of Elementary & Secondary Education
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS)
Office of Migrant Education
Office of Post-Secondary Education
Office of Non-Public Education (private schools)
Office of Vocational & Adult Education
Special Education and IEPs (Nolo)
National Library of Education
Higher Education Legislation
Journal of Law and Education
BYU Education and Law Journal
Good Starting Point in Print: Mark G. Yudof et al., Educational Policy and the Law, Wadsworth (2001)
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Reproductive Justice in the Time of Zombies
October 29, 2012 by Farah
Some lawyers are unable to watch procedurals like Law and Order or CSI without screaming at the television. My particular vice is AMC's post-apocalyptic zombie horror series The Walking Dead, and lately it's getting harder to watch without getting annoyed at the misinformation. Yes, yes, I know it's a TV show adapted from a comic book series, not a documentary or public service announcement. But when most of your time is dedicated to protecting and promoting reproductive justice, it can be hard to be "off duty" when you are confronted with misinformation in the media. I'll let you be the judge…
First it was the Season 2 "morning after pill" fiasco. Lori, who is caught in a love triangle between her husband (whom she thought was dead) and his best friend (who saved her life), finds herself pregnant. That is, she pees on a pregnancy test and it tells her that she is pregnant. She is already responsible for her young son in a world that has been taken over by flesh-eating zombies, with no help in sight from the government or anyone else, and she is not even sure whose baby it is. So she sends Glenn, the group's scout, into the zombie-infested town to get some undisclosed medication from the pharmacy. I think, wow, is it possible that this small town pharmacy carries Cytotec (misoprostol) when so many women have a hard time accessing it in the real world? And is it possible that we're about to see a compassionate treatment of a woman who has a pretty darned good non-medical reason for terminating? After being attacked by a zombie in the pharmacy, Glenn and his girlfriend Maggie return with a cardboard sheath of pills marked "Morning After Pill" in giant letters. "Here's your abortion pills!" spits a furious Maggie. For someone who manages to remain pretty calm during a gory, suspenseful show about the undead, I totally drop my basket at this point. Glenn asks, "Will these even work?" "NO! THEY WON'T! She is already pregnant!" I shout, but sadly he can't hear me.
Lori reads the package insert, which in the zombified future apparently does not say that Plan B won't interrupt a pregnancy already in progress, and takes a handful of pills. By now, I'm glowering. This is the point where we will see how carefully researched the show is. Somehow, I can suspend disbelief when the CDC says that some strange virus is causing the dead to roam the earth, but not when a woman tries to terminate a pregnancy using the wrong medication.
For better or for worse, we never get to that point, as Lori rushes into a field minutes later and retches contritely. The survivors have hacked their way through hundreds of zombies by this point in the series. They have shot people they know in the face when they reanimate. They've left living people for dead. And yet somehow none of this is a good enough reason to terminate the pregnancy. There is some subsequent brouhaha where Lori's husband starts freaking out that she nearly aborted his [presumable] offspring, but I'm so busy writing angry letters to the producers of the show that I can't hear what's going on. Cue outcry, cue half-assed response from producers.
I admit, I found the whole thing so off-putting that I took a break from the show and didn't watch the rest of the season until Season 3. The show picks back up with the group trying to find a place where they can hunker down until the now heavily-pregnant Lori can give birth.
Lori's pregnancy poses a range of plot possibilities, including pregnancy loss ending in being devoured by her fetus because all people are infected with the zombie virus. When the group's doctor (veterinarian, actually) is laid out by a zombie bite, their concerns turn to who will assist in the delivery. TV births tend to be infuriatingly stereotypical, so I don't have the highest hopes after the show's treatment of abortion.
Turns out, not even the zombie apocalypse can kill the "once a cesarean, always a cesarean" myth. Contrary to what Carol says, the fact that Lori had her firstborn by cesarean does not mean that she will "most likely" have to have another cesarean. According to the National Institutes of Health and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) is a "reasonable option" for most women. In fact, most women who attempt a VBAC will succeed. Experts recommend that women attempt VBAC in a location with surgical capabilities "immediately available," but chances are that the surgical capabilities they were contemplating were a notch above a housewife whose only surgical experience is with zombies wielding an unsanitized scalpel in an abandoned prison.
Sure, I might be overreacting. But considering how hard it is for many women to access reproductive health care and information, you can't blame a girl for hoping that in the event of zombie apocalypse, shame, stigma, and misinformation would die . . . and stay dead!
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Home / High Court dismisses claims against senior employees and confirms provisions of Employment Ordinance are part of the mandatory employment laws of Hong Kong
High Court dismisses claims against senior employees and confirms provisions of Employment Ordinance are part of the mandatory employment laws of Hong Kong
In a judgment, the Court of First Instance dismissed claims that a group of senior employees had breached their contractual and fiduciary duties by resigning and signing contracts to work for the same employer on the same day. The Court also confirmed that an employee working in Hong Kong is entitled to exercise rights under the Employment Ordinance (EO) even if his or her contract is stated to be governed by a foreign law. (Cantor Fitzgerald Europe and Cantor Fitzgerald (Hong Kong) Capital Markets Limited -v- Jason Boyer and Others [2012] HKEC 301 (Unreported, Reyes J, 29 February 2012).)
The case involved a number of claims by Cantor Fitzgerald against four former employees, all but one of which were dismissed by the Court. It addresses a number of issues that often arise in Hong Kong when one or more employees leave to join the same employer and is likely to be of interest to both employers and employees, particularly in the financial services sector in which Cantor Fitzgerald operates.
Key findings in the case include:
Freedom of choice of occupation is protected under Hong Kong law and an employee or director has the right to resign from his or her employment to work elsewhere;
"Kiss-and-tell" clauses requiring an employee to disclose approaches by a competitor will be construed strictly. Any ambiguity will be decided against the drafter of the clause. The term "competitor" may not encompass a business which is a start-up company;
Under sections 6 and 7 of the EO employees have the right to terminate employment by giving notice at any time or by agreeing to make a payment of wages in lieu of notice (PILN). These rights form part of the mandatory employment laws of Hong Kong and can be exercised by employees working in Hong Kong even if their contract is stated to be governed by foreign law;
Contractual terms which provided a narrow window for the employees to give notice and to pay liquidated damages higher than sums provided for in the EO for leaving before the end of the term reduced the employee's rights under the EO and were not enforceable;
Restrictive covenants, including a 12 month non-poaching of employees clause, were unenforceable as there was no evidence to justify the length or scope of the restraints;
Cantor Fitzgerald was ordered to repay monies wrongly deducted from employee's commission without his agreement.
The circumstances in which these findings were made is discussed in greater detail below.
The Plaintiff employers were Cantor Fitzgerald Europe (CFE) and Cantor Fitzgerald (Hong Kong) Capital Markets Limited (Cantor HK). The four Defendants were all former executives who had held senior roles within Cantor Fitzgerald in Asia: Boyer was seconded from CFE to Cantor HK, where he was a director of Cantor HK and one of two leading resident executives in Asia. Ainslie and McGonegal were top revenue generators and co-heads of Cantor HK's Cash Equities Desk who held the title of Managing Director. Von Parpart was Managing Director, Chief Economist and Strategist (Asia) and was responsible for providing research support.
On 30 May 2011 the four executives resigned from their employment with Cantor Fitzgerald and signed contracts with a new employer, Mansion House. The executives all terminated their employment by agreeing to make PILN the same day but did not begin work for Mansion House until September and October 2011.
Cantor Fitzgerald claimed that the four executives had breached their duties by procuring the others to resign to join a competitor, acting in concert to leave together to join a competitor and failing to disclose their intention to leave or the approaches made by their new employer.
CFE and Cantor HK had refused to accept the PILN tendered by Boyer, Ainslie and McGonegal, claiming that Boyer was not entitled to terminate by PILN because his employment contract was governed by English law and that the payments tendered by Ainslie and McGonegal were insufficient.
Cantor HK also claimed liquidated damages from Ainslie for terminating his employment before the end of the Renewal Term and sought to enforce a number of restrictive covenants in the executives' contracts.
McGonegal in turn counterclaimed against Cantor HK for amounts he claimed were wrongfully deducted from commission due to him and given to him in the form of Cantor 'grant units' instead.
Employees not acting in concert and no breach of duty
The first issue determined by the Court was whether any of the Defendants had breached their fiduciary duties or duties of fidelity owed to Cantor Fitzgerald. The Court determined that Ainslie and McGonegal did not have any overall responsibility for the corporate governance of Cantor HK and did not owe fiduciary duties. For present purposes it was not necessary to distinguish too finely between the duty of fidelity and a fiduciary duty as the Court proceeded on the basis that where a person owes either a duty of fidelity or fiduciary obligation, that person must not act in a way which is contrary to the interests of an employer or company.
The Court stressed that this did not mean that an employee or director may not resign from his or her employment to work elsewhere as the freedom of choice of occupation is a right recognized at common law and guaranteed by the Basic Law: "The Court will not compel a person to serve as employee or director of a company against one's will. For the Court to act otherwise would be tantamount to consigning an employer or director a form of enslavement."
The evidence was that prior to their resignations, each of the executives were aware that the others were negotiating to join Mansion House, their draft contracts were nearly identical and that they instructed the same solicitors to revise their contracts with Mansion House. The Court determined that this was not sufficient for it to infer that they acted in concert or procured, persuaded or encouraged each other to resign. On the contrary, the evidence was that the executives made up their minds separately from each other. The Court held that the executives were not acting in concert and there was "no shred of evidence" that they had conspired to injure Cantor.
In any event, the Court was unable to conclude that Cantor HK had suffered anywhere near the 29% loss of revenue allegedly suffered due to the executives' departures and that had it found any breach, it would have been hard-pressed to quantify damages at other than a nominal figure.
No breach of the "kiss and tell" clause as not a competitor
Cantor Fitzgerald argued that Boyer and Ainslie had breached their contract by not disclosing they had been approached to join Mansion House. Both had clauses in their contracts requiring that they disclose to Cantor Fitzgerald if they were approached to take up employment with a competitor.
The Court considered the expression "competitor" in the relevant clauses was vague and noted that any ambiguity in the sense of who was a competitor must be decided against the drafter of the clause, Cantor Fitzgerald. At the time the contracts were entered into Mansion House was emerging from the insolvency and near de-listing of its parent and was starting from scratch. The Court considered it would be wrong to read the expression "competitor" as encompassing a business which was little more than a start-up.
The Court held that a duty to inform an employer of one's intended resignation or having been approached can only arise from (and must be strictly delimited by) the express terms in an employment contract. Even where there is an express term to such effect, given that an employee cannot be forced to work where one is unwilling, the Court noted it may be difficult to establish damage consequent upon the breach of the term as an employee is free to make up one's mind whether to stay or leave. The Court expressed doubt at the suggestion that there was any duty on other employees at law or in equity to persuade another employee not to leave if the employee learnt the other was thinking of resigning.
Right to terminate by PILN part of mandatory employment laws of Hong Kong
Under section 6 of the EO either party to an employment contract may "at any time" terminate the employment by giving the other party notice under the contract. Section 7 of the EO further provides that either party may "at any time" terminate the contract without notice by agreeing to pay a sum by reference to the length of notice required multiplied by the average monthly wages earned by the employee during the 12 months before the date of notification.
CFE argued that Boyer was not entitled to terminate his employment in accordance with the EO because his contract with CFE stated that it was governed by English law "save for any mandatory employment laws of Hong Kong". Boyer argued that ss6 and 7 EO were mandatory provisions of Hong Kong employment law, which overrode the express terms of his contract with CFE. Boyer's Counsel referred to s70 of the EO, which nullifies any term of a contract of employment which purports to extinguish or reduce any right, benefit or protection conferred on an employee by the EO.
The Court agreed that given s70 of the EO, ss6 and 7 of the EO must be treated as over-riding provisions and that these provisions form part of the "mandatory employment laws of Hong Kong" binding on CFE.
The Court expressly disagreed with the reasoning applied in the earlier decision of HSBC Bank plc v Wallace, in which Deputy Judge Gill had held that the EO did not override a foreign proper law of an employment contract. The Court noted that "One cannot attempt to get around the protection afforded by the EO to employees working here through the expedient of choosing a foreign law. Such attempt will be struck down by EO s.70".
Clause limiting when notice can be given unenforceable
Both Ainslie and McGonegal's contracts provided that they could only give notice during a narrow window of two weeks at the end of the last month of the Renewal Period of their contracts. The contracts provided that their employment would then terminate "on the expiry of three (3) months (which period of notice the parties agree is reasonable) from the latest date notice could have been given".
Ainslie and McGonegal had both tendered PILN for three months but Cantor HK argued that the period of notice required under the notice clause was three months after the end of the Renewal Period (a period of approximately ten and eight months respectively). The Court held that under ss6 and 7 of the EO Ainslie and McGonegal were entitled to give 3 months' notice to terminate or 3 months' PILN at any time and not just within the narrow window stated in the employment contract.
Liquidated damages claim dismissed
Cantor HK also claimed liquidated damages of US$1,430,340 against Ainslie under a clause in his contract, which imposed liquidated damages if Ainslie left Cantor HK without its consent prior to the expiry of the term of his employment contract. The Court dismissed this claim stating that Ainslie had legitimately terminated his employment in accordance with the EO and to impose liquidated damages in the circumstances would operate as impermissible fetter or restraint on an employee's freedom to exercise the rights under ss6 and 7 of the EO.
The Court further noted that even if the clause was enforceable in principle, it must also be shown that the liquidated damages stipulated constitute a genuine pre-estimate of the damage to be suffered by Cantor HK as a result of Ainslie's premature departure. The Court was not satisfied on the evidence that this was the case.
Restrictive covenants void and unenforceable
Cantor Fitzgerald sought to enforce a number of restrictive covenants contained in the executive's contracts, including a restrictive covenant which restricted the executives from poaching certain Cantor Fitzgerald employees for 12 months after termination.
Whilst the Court was prepared to assume it was reasonable to protect Cantor Fitzgerald's interest for the executives to be restrained from poaching certain employees, it held that the covenant was unenforceable as there was no evidence to justify the 12 month period imposed.
The Court declined to enforce a second restriction in Boyer's contract, which enjoined him from commencing employment with certain classes of persons in a business in competition with Cantor for 12 months on the basis the covenant was too wide and there was ambiguity as to what constituted a business in competition.
The Court also commented on a number of the restrictive covenants that had expired before trial. Ainslie and McGonegal's contracts both contained clauses restricting them from competing with Cantor Fitzgerald for six months after termination. The Court considered the clause was unreasonably wide and questioned how six months could be justifiable as no more than necessary to protect Cantor Fitzgerald's interests. It noted that contractual acknowledgements that a restrictive covenant is reasonable are a factor to be taken into account by the Court but that the Court must still be satisfied (as it was not) on the totality of evidence that the restrictive covenants are no more than what is reasonably required to protect the legitimate interests of an employer.
Von Parpart's contract contained similar restrictive covenants but for a period of three months only. The Court noted that the 3 month restrictions must still be regarded as too wide in the absence of evidence showing how the duration was reasonably necessary for the protection of Cantor HK's interest. It observed that reasonableness may be hard to establish in light of Von Parpart's limited functions, which were essentially confined to research and public relations within Cantor HK.
Employee required to repay loan by CFE
CFE was successful in its claim for repayment of a loan it had advanced to Boyer in the form of a Cash Advance Distribution Agreement (Cash AD), which was repayable on termination of his employment. Boyer had signed the terms of the Cash AD but claimed that it was not enforceable for various reasons including that it was not signed by CFE and that the Cash AD was part of his discretionary bonus entitlement. The Court determined CFE had offered the discretionary bonus subject to the terms of the Cash AD, which Boyer had accepted by signing the Cash AD. Boyer was bound by the terms signed by him and the Cash AD was accordingly repayable to CFE.
Cantor HK required to repay amounts wrongly deducted from commission
Under the terms of his contract, McGonegal was entitled to be paid commission. However, some 10% of the commission payable to McGonegal was paid to him from time to time in the form of Cantor Fitzgerald 'grant units' instead of in cash. McGonegal claimed repayment from Cantor HK of the deducted amounts on the basis he had not agreed to receive payment of his commission by way of grant units.
The Court found that McGonegal had signed two Incentive Unit Bonus Plan Award Agreements agreeing to receive part of his 2008 commission by way of grant units and was bound by his signature on those agreements. For subsequent commission payments, however, McGonegal had not agreed to receive any part of his commission in the form of grant units. The Court determined that Cantor HK had wrongly deducted the amounts from McGonegal's commission and ordered that these be repaid to him with interest to run on the wrongly deducted sums from the date when the deduction was made.
This case provides some interesting guidance and reminders for employers and employees working in Hong Kong.
For employers, some of the key points to take away from this case are:
If an employer wants to require its employees to disclose if they are approached by a competitor, an express clause must be included in the contract and should be carefully worded to avoid any ambiguity.
Employers should ensure that the terms of their employment contracts are in accordance with the Employment Ordinance (EO) as any terms of an employment contract which extinguish or reduce rights, benefits and protections granted to employees under the EO will be null and void.
Contract clauses which purport to restrict the employee to giving notice during a narrow window are likely to be void and unenforceable.
If employees have been seconded from overseas or are employed in Hong Kong under contracts governed by foreign law, they are entitled to and should be afforded the same rights, benefits and protections that other employees are entitled to under the EO. Any contract term that purports to extinguish or reduce those rights will be void if exercised while the employee is based in Hong Kong.
Employees working in Hong Kong are entitled to terminate their employment at any time by giving notice or agreeing to make payment in lieu of notice even if the contract is governed by foreign law and/or does not provide for this.
Restrictive covenants should be drafted narrowly to ensure they protect the employer's legitimate interests and go no further than is reasonably necessary to protect those interests. This can be more readily achieved if the covenants are tailored to the particular employee. Employers should be prepared and able to justify the scope and period of any restraint they seek to enforce. Covenants drafted too broadly without justification will be held to be unenforceable by the Courts.
For employees, additional points to take away from the case are:
An employee has the right to resign from his employment to work elsewhere although an employer may restrict the employee from engaging in certain activities post-termination for a limited period if the contract contains enforceable restrictive covenants.
An employee will be bound by the terms of any agreement he or she signs with the employer, save to the extent the terms are in breach of s70 of the EO or are otherwise void and unenforceable. Employees asked to sign any documents by their employer which may change or vary the terms of their employment should read the agreement carefully and take legal advice if they have any concerns regarding the terms offered.
Note: Tanner De Witt acted for the Defendants, Messrs Boyer, Ainslie, McGonegal and Von Parpart in Cantor Fitzgerald Europe and Cantor Fitzgerald (Hong Kong) Capital Markets Limited -v- Jason Boyer and Others [2012] HKEC 301 (Reyes J, 29 February 2012).
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Bret Stephens: Yes, anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism
Anti-Semitism is anti-Zionism, because like all forms of Jew hatred in history, it has adapted itself almost like a virus to the cultural and political fashions of our day
Bret Stephens, Special to National Post
Nov 28, 2019 • December 3, 2019 • 3 minute read • Join the conversation
The Israeli flag flutters in front of the Dome of the Rock mosque and the city of Jerusalem. Photo by THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images
The following was adapted from remarks recently delivered on a Munk Debate podcast.
There is a common misconception that anti-Zionism amounts to nothing more than very strong criticism of Israel, and I'd like to begin by dispelling that notion. People who don't like the Netanyahu government, that includes me, are not anti-Zionist. That is part of the normal democratic debate. People who oppose Israel's settlement policies or its policies, vis-a-vis Gaza or anywhere else, aren't necessarily anti-Zionist. There are many patriotic Israelis who feel just the same way. Anti-Zionism is unique because its view is that the Zionist enterprise, that is to say, the state of Israel, is misconceived, it's wrong, and at the end of the day, it isn't simply Israeli policy that has to change, but it is Israel itself that has to go.
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This is unique when you think about other countries around the world. Many of us are critics of China's occupation of Tibet, or Russia's occupation of parts of Ukraine. Some people are aware that Turkey is occupying northern Cyprus, in violation of international law and putting down settlements there too. But none of those critiques extend to calls that are now increasingly pervasive around the world, not only for Russia, China, or Turkey to change their policies, but for the states themselves to disappear, to be eliminated. So even if you accepted the premise for one second that anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism, you have to come to grips with the eliminationist ideology that is at the heart of anti-Zionism.
Anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism because it singles out the Jewish state for opprobrium
Anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism. It's anti-Semitism because it singles out the Jewish state for opprobrium, and with a prescription that anti-Zionists, with very few exceptions, apply to no other state. So, if you just happened to be opposed to the concept of the nation state altogether, nation states like Denmark or other nation states, then it's plausible you can just simply be an anti-Zionist in the same way that you're against all states founded on nationhood. But otherwise, it is singling out a Jewish state for treatment that isn't applied anywhere else.
The second point that's very important, is that anti-Zionism tends, very frequently, to traffic in images, tropes and libels that have a long history in an anti-Semitic tradition stretching back for thousands of years. For example, when you hear that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, which it of course manifestly is not, you are abusing that word and trafficking in a classic anti-Semitic trope, suggesting that the Jewish people have a particular kind of bloodlust. Or if you say that Israel or Israeli leaders have hypnotized the world to get them to do their bidding, that again, goes back to an old anti-Semitic trope.
And finally, anti-Semitism is anti-Zionism, because like all forms of Jew hatred in history, it has adapted itself almost like a virus to the cultural and political fashions of our day. Today, it is very difficult for people to be anti-Semites and to hate Jews for racial reasons, for the obvious reason that that kind of ideology fortunately went out of fashion with the destruction of the Third Reich. It's unfashionable to hate Jews simply on a religious basis, but it has become fashionable to hate Jews using the excuse of their statehood, of their nationality, and of their willingness to defend their borders, as the latest pretext to single out Jewish people for opprobrium and for hatred that is applied to almost no other people in the world. That is why in a nutshell, anti-Zionism is indistinguishable from anti-Semitism, and it is the anti-Semitism of our day.
Bret Stephens is a columnist with The New York Times.
For more on the Munk Debates podcast visit Munkdebates.com/podcast


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2014 MLB Draft: Dodgers sign Colin Hering, Devan Ahart
A pair of left-handed hitting outfielders were signed by the Dodgers.
By Eric Stephen@ericstephen Jun 12, 2014, 10:17am PDT
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Devan Ahart was drafted by the Dodgers in the 16th round out of Akron.
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LOS ANGELES -- The Dodgers on Thursday announced the signings of a pair of outfielders selected in last week's MLB Draft. Colin Hering, the club's 10th-round selection out of Coastal Carolina, and Devan Ahart, the 16th-round pick out of Akron, are the newest members of the organization.
Terms were not disclosed.
Still can't believe it. Guess I gotta pull for the #Dodgers now! Let's gooooooo
— Colin Hering (@shooting_gaps24) June 7, 2014
Colin Hering (Photo: Coastal Carolina)
Hering, 23, bats and throws left-handed. The Washington native hit just .213/.283/.264 in 55 games as a senior at Coastal Carolina, after hitting .297/.407/.375 as a junior.
He is the third Coastal Carolina player drafted by the Dodgers, joining Chance Gilmore in 2010 and Scott Woodward in 2011.
The slot value of Hering's pick, No. 309 overall, is $137,600, though it's unlikely the outfielder got anywhere near that amount. Hering was signed by Dodgers scout Lon Joyce.
Ahart bats left and throws right. The fourth-year junior hit .311/.395/.404 with 30 walks and 16 strikeouts in 2014, with 27 steals in 56 games. He was third in the Mid-American Conference and 18th in the NCAA in steals.
The 21-year-old Michigan native was signed by Dodgers scout Marty Lamb.
More Draft: Every Dodgers pick, 1-40 Hering (10th) Ahart (16th)
The Dodgers have now signed six of their top 10 picks. Here is a look at the Dodgers draft bonus pool based on what we know now:
Dodgers 2014 Draft Bonus Pool
Round Pick Name Pos Bonus Slot amount Overage
1 22 Grant Holmes RHP $1,980,500
2 62 Alex Verdugo OF $914,600 $914,600 $0
3 98 John Richy RHP $534,400 $534,400 $0
4 129 Jeff Brigham RHP $396,300
5 159 Jared Walker 3B $296,700 $296,700 $0
6 189 Brock Stewart RHP unknown $222,200 unknown
7 219 Trevor Oaks RHP $166,600
8 249 Hunter Redman C $154,500
9 279 Matt Campbell RHP unknown $144,300 unknown
10 309 Colin Hering OF unknown $137,600 unknown
Bonuses over $100,000 (rounds 11-40) $0 $0 $0
Totals $1,745,700 $4,947,700 $0


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Who is Nicole Malliotakis' Staffer Benjamin Bifalco?
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Benjamin Bifalco has been identified as the staffer who until recently worked under Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis.
Bifalco who was busted earlier this week is said to be heavily involved in a Mafia scheme to fix a college basketball game. According to reports, Benjamin Bifalco was caught in FBI wiretaps speaking to Colombo family capo Joseph Amato about a plan to "pay thousands of dollars to multiple members" of an unidentified team to lose an NCCA Division 1 basketball game.
According to court papers, Bifalco allegedly encouraged Amato Jr. to bet big but apparently couldn't pull off the December 2018 scam. As a result, Bifalco was charged with one count of attempted sports bribery.
Malliotakis immediately fired the staffer upon learning about his indictment.
Nicole Malliotakis was first elected to the New York State Assembly on November 2, 2010. She currently represents a district spanning the boroughs of Brooklyn and Staten Island. Nicole was re-elected to her third term in November 2014.
She said she hired Bifalco back in September.
25-year-old Benjamin Bifalco is originally from Staten Island, he is a nephew of former US Rep. Vito Fossella, a Staten Island Republican who served more than a decade in Congress.
According to social media, Benjamin Bifalco currently lives in Rochester, New York. He attended both Genesee Community College and Monroe Community College. Another profile says he was a student at Wagner College from 2015 until 2019.
Last September he was hired as a director of community affairs by Nicole Malliotakis. The Assemblywoman said about Benjamin's criminal activity "I am shocked and saddened by this news. I have zero tolerance for criminal activity."
Benjamin is among 20 defendants named in a few indictments that allege a vast selection of prison exercise dating to January 2014. The young man is currently awaiting arraignment in Brooklyn federal court.
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