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This is Too Easy
Submitted by ep on Wed, 01/20/2010 - 21:45
Of late my (admittedly limited) experience suggests that Americans like their politics like they like their '40s era fission experiments: reactionary, but not too reactionary and- even then- placed directly under a large bank of retarding control rods besides. This last week in particular drives the point home quite nicely. But, then, election years always have these days.
Both republicans and democrats are in entangled particle mode, with republicans in spin up angular momentum (read: the Massachusetts election is a firm display that Americans hate everything about the utter failure of a president that is Barack Obama and his legions of cloned fiscal storm troopers, their energy policy, their elitism, their handling of the nation's economy, a degradation of national morals manifest in the inability of The Bachelor to consummate even a single enduring marriage after fourteen seasons, and, oh yeah, the health care bill) and democrats in spin down angular momentum (read: the Massachusetts election is a firm display that Americans hate everything about Martha Coakley and the pack of shiftless, good-for-nothing vagabonds she apparently pulled in from the homeless shelter to clandestinely staff her campaign with such ninja-like invisibility and silence that neither the White House or the Democratic National Committee was able to detect the abyssall depth of their deficiency until late yesterday afternoon after it was too late... and plus we are just going to pass health care anyhow even if we have to change the Senate rules, you'll see).
If nothing else (and, believe me, there's actually a lot else) the last several days have been a literal government printing press of written and spoken folly of such volume that I quite earnestly fear that even the likes of Lewis Black may suffer a cerebral embolism in the days to come and expire in a fashion as physically analogous to having one's head explode as is possible without the assistance of an ATF license and a detonator. True, democrats seem to have out-stupided republicans by about 6 to 1 on the unfortunate quotables board, but this is only because a revision to the rules in 2009 excluded the mass media in official scoring.
For pure, unadulterated idiocy, however, the prize simply has to go to Chris Van Hollen, Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. It takes a political operative of simply scintillating wit and craft to both refute the possibility that the political climate had undergone such significant global cooling that Coakley might actually lose the seat held for so long by the Senate fraternity's legacied-in brother Edward Moore Kennedy, and somehow still manage to weave this apt analogy in with the same breath:
Why would you hand the keys to the car back to the same guys whose policies drove the economy into the ditch and then walked away from the scene of the accident?1
But if the democrats were caught off guard enough to actually use a Chappaquiddick reference (one hopes unwittingly) to commend the bright legacy of Ted Kennedy to the voters, it is somewhat hard to blame them. Even given recent upsets in Virginia and New Jersey, the most optimistic of conservatives never dreamed things had gone so far. And the Kennedys are... well... Kennedys.
Given the sudden change in the winds, observers might even be tempted to point out that between Edward, Joseph II and John Jr., Kennedy bucks operating heavy machinery have managed to kill three woman and paralyze a fourth in just three short decades. (That's three easy installments of one fatality and .33 spinal injuries every ten years, but Marilyn doesn't count, obviously). But then, recollections that tend to upset the reality distortion field that surrounds and protects the Kennedys are not generally spoken of in polite company.
Notice how even reading these facts about the Kennedys in print on this very blog tends to make you uncomfortable with respect to a topic that normally glides easily under the eye and out of mind when found instead in the daily crime blotter. The brain has been conditioned somehow to reject the co-existence of the two spheres [Kennedy|Negligent Homicide] in the same paragraph. This is an absolutely astounding bit of marketing. This is an amazing bit of politics. This may actually go a long way to explaining the habit Massachusetts voters seem to have adopted for repeatedly and mindlessly checking boxes next to Kennedy names over the last several decades.
In fact, when wading through the lionizing even deifying miasma of Edward's ongoing and seemingly never ending eulogy, it is easy to forget that Massachusetts elected to office nine times, and thereby granted a forty six year tenure in the United States Senate, a reckless driving, alcoholic, womanizing, Harvard expellee who couldn't muster the energy to best the dauntless political juggernaut that was Jimmy Carter's campaign in a 1980 primary challenge.
No matter how many apparently innocent defendants Martha Coakley may have endeavored to keep in the slammy-slam-slam in order to avoid the humility of moving another chalk mark into her prosecutorial loss column, she couldn't possibly have come up wanting when hooked up to the Massachusetts E-Meter if Ted Kennedy kept passing somehow for all those years. Right?
There is no question that Coakley had already taken the deepest solace in her anointed destiny this way. Even as the walls were crumbling, you could easily detect a bit of poor old Teddy in Coakley. Christopher Hitchens put his finger on it recently with the usual perfection:
One of the many dreadful aspects of the Kennedy "legacy" is the now-unbreakable grip of celebrity politics, image-doctoring, stage management, and "torch passing" rhetoric in general. One of the film-archive obits showed an early moment when this began to happen. In 1962, despite having been all but fixed up by his family for the Massachusetts Senate seat, Edward Kennedy (as I feel I must call him since I didn't know the man) ran into a tough and articulate primary opponent named Edward J. McCormack, the state's attorney general. The old footage shows McCormack getting some mileage with his charge of family coat-tailing and carpet-bagging—and then a sort of light coming on in Kennedy's eyes as he bluffs away and says that the election is nothing to do with his ability to peddle influence in Washington but instead concerns "the destiny" of the people of Massachusetts. As the cheap applause starts to rise and it hits McCormack that times have changed, you can almost see the hereditary senator-to-be thinking aloud: This is too easy. 2
Asked if she might be acting just a little passive in the face of a tighter than expected race what else would you expect from a Kennedy heir other than:
As opposed to standing outside Fenway Park? In the cold? Shaking hands?
And if that just wasn't quite enough to drive the point home, Coakley follows with the coup de grâce:
This is a special election. And I know that I have the support of Kim Driscoll. And I now know the members of the [Salem] School Committee, who know far more people than I could ever meet.
Just your run of the mill special election. Not like this is the major leagues or anything. It's going spinningly. You know....
Just then, Irony knocks...
In the hallway, a delivery man taps a reporter on the shoulder.
"Hey, what's going on here? Why are there all these cameras?'' he asks. He is told that the Kennedys have announced their support of Martha Coakley for Senate.
This is too easy.
One wonders if the Boston Globe's David Filipov was even embarrassed to find the apologetic headline "In Short Race, Coakley Picks Targets Carefully," above his article.
One old Boston political hand, and friend of finem respice, mused that the speed with which Coakley imploded on the tail end of what was expected to be a cakewalk race may have precluded the full deployment what she euphemistically referred to as the "Massachusetts get out the vote machine" (meaning the base instrumentalities of election fraud). I'm not certain that even these formidable adversaries of free elections could cause over 100,000 manufactured votes to materialize, even in Boston, but I'll stop just short of wagering on the matter and instead muse that it is probably a good thing that the special election wasn't in Illinois. Inventing one liners referencing the phrase "votes saved or created" is left as an exercise for the student.
Of course a lot of after-action analysis is already flying around, but it seems clear at least to the cynic-optimist in me that much of it misses the mark. Four observations close the square:
A large part of George W. Bush's failure is related to the fact that W was a bit out of his depth as his last term drew to a close. Things had gone swimmingly for quite some time and no one dared even a dirty look at an America stung so painfully in those months. You could almost read it embroidered on a shoulder flight-suit patch:
A large part of Obama's electoral success is related to the fact that he is not George W. Bush. Without a doubt "43 backlash" contributed significantly in the process of ushering Obama into office. Even today the fact that this is a deeply internalized worldview for the present administration stands out almost daily as Robert Gibbs is forced to sheepishly and retroactively cast his gaze and point an accusing finger back towards 2007 to remind everyone of those earlier days when it was so clear that they were who they had been waiting for. Even back then, as he expertly crafted a platform composed entirely of George W. Bush antimatter, one could hear a low, smug muttering, still muted, under the breath of the aides who saw fit to erect the plaster and plastic Greek temple that would platform his democratic nomination acceptance speech:
At least part of Obama's electoral success is related to the fact that he is not Hillary Rodham Clinton. It is actually almost possible to feel sorry for the former First Lady when one imagines a few of those scarce private moments away from the Obama appointed aide/babysitter and in front of her Observatory Circle dressing room mirror (so convenient to the British Ambassador's residence). Bill's snores are, thankfully, long since a memory. (Given that it is only around 5,000 square feet, you didn't think he'd actually be permitted in the D.C. residence long-term, did you?) You can about feel the tension warping the fabric of space-time around the deep stare she bores into her own mirror image as she absorbs the ignominy that is the title of "Secretary of State." How can it sit with her that she'd have to off, not just the President, but also Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Robert Byrd to fully ascend the presidential line of succession? Hell, what does it mean when Robert Born-At-The-Close-Of-The-Fucking-First-World-War Byrd outranks you?
It is easy to drift with her back to January 2007, to the mentality that produced the 3am White House Phone call clip. Even farther back to the First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt reincarnated, with more wit, charm and looks, handling (for a time) all Congress had to throw at her on health care. Or maybe to a time before yet another fucking, philandering politician with a career suicide wish (this time it was John Edwards) threw cold water on the burning-hot passion for power that only a Clinton can radiate. Just before people began to wonder if she might be taking the nomination just a little too lightly. Back when you could smell the acceptance speech on her breath, a musky, Crown Royal sour as she hissed between her teeth to herself:
At least part of Obama's electoral success is related to the fact that organized labor realized he was not Hillary Rodham Clinton. Only New York would have provided a candidate with a wider labor mound from which to pitch than Chicago and where Labor endured NAFTA under the great Clinton moderation, here was a champion who would not shrink from bold promises made early on. It was almost possible to hear the sneering as the likes of Rattner and Emanuel breezily reordered creditor priority under the nose of a Federal Bankruptcy Judge. If sneers could speak, you could be forgiven for thinking you heard:
But, suddenly, the dynamic has changed. The Bush, Clinton, and now Coakley examples are starting to look awfully familiar. Obama exceptionalism may be enduring a jarring halt.
Only a few months ago, emboldened by how easy it all was, any number of personal interventions must have seemed, just before they were actually attempted, no more than a charisma casting, formulaic repeat of his November performance. One can almost, but not quite, register the shock of a spoiled child on receiving the first birthday that dares to produce something other than the perfect gift. What the hell is this?
Chicago Olympics? Even absent a personal trip to Copenhagen (it was just icing on the cake sending the Barack, Oprah and Michelle dream team), you could see it reflected off the faces of the anxious crowds gathered in Daley Center right before the news hit:
Hitting the reset button with Russia? Get a thingy from the prop department.
China? If Nixon could pull it off, what could go wrong?
Copenhagen pact? Not even a moment's hesitation in returning to the battlefield that had just delivered him a shameful loss. No thought to the possibility that BRIC negotiators might just blow him off and play in their own sandbox or that China would deliver a humiliation no power would have considered inflicting on a Western diplomat since Khrushchev was banging shoes on podiums.
Corzine in trouble in New Jersey after spending $25 million of his own money? We'll be right over.
What must have Obama been thinking when it seemed that the Virginia governor's mansion was so sewn up that Obama could afford to hilariously prank call the incumbent, Tim Kaine's radio show appearance as "Barry from DC," a disgruntled voter.
Just a small cognitive whisper might permit the always generous finem respice reader to wonder if "legacy fatigue" (Bush, Clinton, Kennedy, hand me that towel will you?) might not have played a role in seating the totally unknown, totally unproven and, in fact, somewhat mysterious Mr. Obama. Of course, this interpretation would have deleterious effects on any theory granting Obama a mandate to do... well... anything more dramatic than open a slow trickle of foreign troop withdraws.
And really, this is the trouble. Any number of circumstances and conditions have somehow conveyed the impression that, well, this is all easy stuff and you could swing for the fences with abandon. Coasting in as the Anti-Bush and relegating the heir to the Clinton political dynasty (no campaign spring chicken as it happens) to a position of general obscurity (did you give that terrorist a visa Mrs. Secretary?) may have been the entry exam, but that's all it was. Trillions of dollars of spending, major shifts in the economy, massive deficits? This was not a minor error.
What faces the Legislature, the Executive (and perhaps even the Judiciary) in the months and years to come is going to be anything but easy. The days of pouring deficit spending into housing, public employees, defined benefit plans, state subsidies and any other problem that manages to show its head above water for a sufficient interval are numbered. Someone is going to have to face the sorry task of explaining to the American people that, when you actually add it all up, the debt comes to almost $550,000 for each and every household in the United States, and that successive Comptroller Generals of the United States have been trying to get people to pay attention for five or ten years.
In an environment where even discussing shifting social security age eligibility by a few months can bring down the angry fist of voter wrath with such violence that even the CBO looks for cover, how are leaders today going to break the news that there is simply no water-boarding procedure severe enough to torture Social Security math past the point where it gives up enough money to pay for even a substantial fraction baby boomers? When something as trivial as a $1 trillion dollar health plan results in the forfeiture of god-given progressive birthrights like "The Kennedy Seat," what sort of effect might $30+ trillion in unfunded Medicare have when the bill comes due and remains unpaid?
Sure, it is nice to fantasize that the latest "republican revolution" means something in the grand scheme of things, but if American politics are "played inside of the 40 yard lines," then neither party is anywhere close to possessing the testicular fortitude to handle real fiscal reform. Balancing the budget today (which does nothing except stop the hemorrhaging for a while) would require no less than 35% across-the-board cuts in government spending- and this totally ignores the massive off-budget items that have become so fashionable to spin off. To say that Obama, who despite his Chicago machine pedigree couldn't seem to fix the Olympics RFP even with Oprah batting clean-up, isn't up to the task is stating the matter mildly.
The United States' days of finger-banging ol' Mary Jane Lowinterestrates through her pretty pink Federal Reserve panties are over. There is no Greenspan put left to exercise and while finem respice wishes him well, it is going to take a lot more than Scott Brown to undo the damage inflicted by three decades of unabashed and bipartisan "celebrity politics, image-doctoring, stage management, and 'torch passing.'" If congressional seat volatility seems awfully high just now, just wait a few seasons.
Perhaps if I reflected long enough I could see the virtue in retaining in Congressional seats the old, weathered masters of the game, those adroit manipulators like Kennedy who could yet bend the fabric of space-time and the laws of mathematics to push the day of reckoning out past even optimistic figures for my life expectancy.
1. "Health Bill Can Pass Senate With 51 Votes, Van Hollen Says," Bloomberg (January 16, 2009).
2. Christopher Hitchens "Redemption Song," Slate (August 31, 2009).
[Art Credit: Unknown Artist "Khrushchev," Photograph (September 29, 1960), from the author's private collection. Even play-to-the-base naked ire at the United Nations probably couldn't sweep 500-600% of the GDP under the rug.]


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Can generalism help revive the primary healthcare vision?
Reeve, Joanne L., Irving, G. and Dowrick, C. F. (2011) Can generalism help revive the primary healthcare vision? JRSM Short Reports, Volume 104 (Number 10). pp. 395-400. doi:10.1258/jrsm.2011.110097
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1258/jrsm.2011.110097
It is more than 30 years since the World Health Organization (WHO) called for a paradigm-shift to a model of primary healthcare: a vision of creating 'Health for All' through 'putting people at the centre of health care'.1 Since then, we have seen significant advances in health and healthcare. People are 'healthier, wealthier and liver longer today than 30 years ago'.2 Economic growth, increased resources, and rapid expansion of scientific knowledge and technological advancement have all contributed.2 But we see growing concerns that the primary healthcare vision is being lost, with a worrying impact on our current systems of healthcare.2 The burden of care on individual patients is increasing.3 An excessive focus on disease, fragmentation of care and unregulated commercialization2 has been linked to inefficiency, ineffectiveness and inequity.4 All against a background of changing health needs, notably a rise in the burden of chronic, complex illness.2,5 WHO calls for a revival and strengthening of the primary healthcare vision to meet modern needs, refocusing health services around people.2 Generalism describes an approach to care which is person-, not disease-focused; continuous, not episodic; integrates biotechnical and biographical understanding of illness; and promotes health as a resource for living, and not an end in itself.6 So can generalism help revive the primary healthcare vision?
Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Social Science & Systems in Health (SSSH)
JRSM Short Reports
Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd.
October 2011 Published
10.1258/jrsm.2011.110097

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On the final night of primary season — after a week spent questioning the capacity of Mexican Americans to recognize a legitimate real-estate school when they see one — Donald Trump chained himself to a teleprompter. Standing in front of several American flags and family members, the GOP nominee got through an entire speech without saying anything his co-partisans would have to distance themselves from.
Elected Republicans started breathing a little easier. Trump had gotten the message: He would stay on message. And even if Trump's scripted speeches still took an approach to trade and foreign policy that was antithetical to the party line, as long as the standard-bearer stopped drawing attention to his own racism and legal woes, Mitch McConnell would sleep at night.
And then Omar Mateen killed 49 people in the Pulse nightclub, and the GOP nominee accepted congratulations. And then called for the president's resignation. And then suggested the president might be sabotaging our counterterrorism efforts to execute some unspeakable design.
Trump had been slated to give a "major speech" Monday even before the massacre in Orlando. That speech now appeared critical; it was an opportunity to erase the messaging errors of the past 48 hours and to center the general-election fight on the authoritarian-friendly terrain of national security. All eyes turned to Trump; his eyes turned to the teleprompter.
The Republican nominee proceeded to reframe the 2016 election as a referendum on a proposal his party's leadership universally condemns. Trump didn't merely revive his Muslim ban — he radically extended its scope. To avoid the logistical challenge of determining the true religious commitments of every individual immigrant, the mogul proposed a blanket ban on immigration from "areas of the world when there is a proven history of terrorism against the United States, Europe or our allies." Of course, the most recent high-profile terrorist attacks against America and Europe have largely been carried out by Americans and Europeans. In positing immigration policy as a solution to a mass murder carried out by an American citizen born in New York, Trump argued Omar Mateen's parents never should have been allowed into the country. While the GOP nominee insisted his ban would be temporary, he also argued that it wouldn't be lifted until the United States can "perfectly screen" incoming Muslims — an impossible feat if one wishes to screen for the ideological leanings of an immigrant's unborn children.
Trump's speech was scripted. The candidate was on message. And that message made life a little harder for Republican lawmakers.
Democrats' Senate challenger in Pennsylvania, Katie McGinty, called on incumbent Republican Pat Toomey to denounce Trump's remarks. Texas senator John Cornyn mocked a reporter's request for a response, saying, "There you go again, asking about Trump" — as if the mogul were still a fringe figure and not his party's presidential nominee. "I'm not gonna make a career out of responding to every comment and every tweet," Mississippi senator Roger Wicker scoffed at a gaggle of reporters following a leadership meeting.
For elected Republicans, the most dangerous thing about Trump's revived Muslim ban may be its popularity. Throughout the 2016 campaign, Trump has heightened the contradictions between the party's rank and file and the rest of the country, including the GOP donor class. In March, a poll found that 71 percent of Republican voters favor the ban, compared with 49 percent of independents and 34 percent of Democrats. Among big-dollar GOP donors, who tend to favor expansive immigration policies and oppose overt racism, that percentage is likely quite small.
If the GOP nominee succeeds in increasing the issue's salience, the task facing blue- and purple-state Republican senators will become more daunting: Disavowing the ban alienates your base; embracing it alienates the crossover voters you need to win statewide.
Trump is back on message. And Republicans don't know what to say.


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Born in Cotton Valley, March 12, 1895, Mrs. Alford was graduated from Cotton Valley High School, Mansfield Female College, and Nursing School in Waco, Texas, in the '20's. A graduate of Scarritt College for Christian Workers in Nashville, Tennessee, she was cornmissioned as a missionary nurse to China. In July of 1931 she went by ship (three weeks) to Shanghai and from there to Huchow Methodist Hospital for language study, also teaching English to Chinese nurse trainees. Later she had the job of training student nurses in Huchow and other hospitals. She served in China (having one furlough) until forced to evacuate in 1941 because of the increasing risk caused by the Japanese invasion of China.
Ava Morton continued to serve in the mission field, working in several of Louisiana's mission institutions, finally working in Charity Hospital in New Orleans. It was there that she met "Brother Jay", Methodist Chaplain in the hospital. After what she called a "whirlwind courtship" they were married and established a home in New Orleans, remaining there until their move to Minden in the 1950's. She was widely known over the conference, having spoken in local churches and at conferences during furlough, and serving in summer camp as camp nurse.
Services were conducted at Rose-Neath Funeral Home in Minden, May 30, with Reverend James Poole of First United Methodist Church, Minden, officiating, assisted by Reverend Franklin Chlastak of the Pine Grove Church. Surviving were nieces - - Margaret Morton Davis, Mary Vashti Morton Taylor, Frances Hilburn Utz, Mildred Hilburn, and nephews - - Dale and James Morton, Meredith Hilburn, and Robert Morton, grand nieces and nephews, and cousins.


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Hardin makes the important point that, even though human beings may consider themselves grandest end-product of a natural process, there is nothing in evolution as a biological science that supports that view.
He is also the author of the very influential essay "The Tragedy of the Commons."
Hardin, Garrett Nature and Man's Fate, Jonathan Cape, London 1960 Pg 64 – 71 [abridged – 1500 words] — does the development of parasites represent progress?
Is Evolution Progress?
It is difficult for people today to realize that the idea of progress is an extremely young idea. Of course a few of the ancients had a word to say for progress—a few of the Greeks, for instance. But the idea never really caught on among the masses of men until about two hundred years ago, as J. B. Bury has shown in his history, The Idea of Progress.
During most of man's existence, a properly conducted public-opinion poll would have shown that, almost without exception, men interpreted human history—both past and to come—in terms either of a Golden Age concept, or in cyclical terms. The Golden Age concept takes various forms, among them the Garden of Eden story. Details vary, but the sense is always the same: Things were once wonderful, but look at the mess we're in now. Such an interpretation is natural to old age, and can always be supported by facts, if they are properly biased and selected. An equally plausible interpretation, also supportable by carefully chosen facts, is the cyclical theory of history: Things are always getting either better or worse, but there's never any real change or genuine direction to history…
In contrast to these interpretations, the idea of progress asserts that there is, in some sense, a progressive improvement in man's life. Not at all times, but viewed over a long period of time. Not at all places simultaneously, but ultimately everywhere. The idea must not be stated with the precision of a mathematical theorem, for it is not such; it is primarily a feeling that governs a man's view of the world and motivates his actions. The feeling has been immensely important in the development of the Western world during the last two hundred years, and now is becoming explosively effective in the Eastern…
Judged by his actions, Western man now worships the great god Progress more faithfully than ever he did Jehovah. In this religious conversion… human history made sense. [And] perhaps natural history did, too. Was not the succession of forms revealed in the rocks evidence of a progression from lower to higher forms of life? Perhaps to be descended from an ape was a repulsive thought; but why not say instead that we have ascended from—well, why not say from an innocuous amoeba, without mentioning any closer cousins? "From amoeba to man" became a catchword after Darwin. Upward! Progress! Evolution! Even today, "the common man," in so far as he accepts evolution, probably does so because the theory rides on the coattails of that most popular of all gods, Progress.
But is evolution progress? The philosopher, Bertrand Russell, has wryly remarked, "A process which led from amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously progress—though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known."
Biologists have been by no means agreed in their opinions. The issues are complex…
Darwinian adaptation is not in its essence a progressive change, but merely a dynamic way of preserving the status quo… We conceive of an initial cybernetic system [a population of animals, for example] as being subjected to a strain. As the result [there is] an environmental redefinition of "fittest." (The mean temperature may drop, thus favouring larger organisms than formerly.) Under the new definition, the whole [population shifts], as it were, to a new position—at which dynamic stability will be maintained. [The previous norm is replaced by a new one] until the next redefinition of "fittest," i.e., the next change in the environment…
[This is an] attempt to depict what we call "secular change," that is, a drift in the state of the world that is not merely part of a temporary fluctuation… We must remind ourselves of the dangers of implying direction… [What these shifts] represent, really, is change not direction to change…
Man himself has, unwittingly and unwillingly, brought about some well-authenticated cases of evolution in a small way by altering the meaning of "fittest" for some of his pests. In California, scale insects attacking citrus trees were for many years successfully controlled by cyanide fumigation. In three different species, at different times and places, insects have been found which could no longer be killed in this way. In each instance, there must have been present, at the time fumigation began, several mutant forms that just happened to be resistant to cyanide. The mutants survived fumigation and bred a new generation that was more resistant than the initial one. Successive fumigations continued the selection process. With the passing of the years, the resistant forms spread out from each centre of origin, displacing the "normal" types. For the insects, cyanide had become a new aspect of "natural selection."…
Another instance of the same phenomenon is that of penicillin-resistant strains of disease-causing microbes, which constantly threaten to replace the "normal" strains, as the antibiotic continues to be used…
What about the relevance of these phenomena to the concept of progress? Would we say that each of the changes described is an example of "progress"? Our first impulse may be to say, Not from man's point of view—since the change makes the human situation more difficult. This, however, is a relatively trivial point. Is the change progressive from the point of view of the pest? It is tempting to say, Yes—to say that the pest, in response to the threat of a new selecting agent, develops a new and superior form.
But it is important to note that the new form is superior only in the new environment. If it is set in competition with the old form in an environment that is lacking the special selecting agent, the resistant strain is speedily displaced by the nonresistant strain through a process of natural selection. In other words, the resistant strain is not a kind of Superpest that possesses some sort of generalized superiority; it is merely a variant that has developed a specialized resistance to a particular agent, for which development it has had to pay a price (in some sense) in the loss of other elements of vigour. Is this progress?
It does not seem quite like what we have in mind when we use the word. With each pest we have two possible cybernetic systems, each one with a different norm-element. Is one norm "higher" than the other? Only if it is, will we be willing to say that the shift from one cybernetic level to another is a form of progress.
By far the greater part of the evolutionary process consists of small steps of the sort discussed, in which the shift from one cybernetic system to another cannot usefully be said to involve direction at all. Over a long period of time, the shift may (for the most part) be in the same sense—but must we speak of this as direction? The horse of today has evolved from a four-toed ancestor about the size of a dog. The evolution involved the proliferation of many forms now extinct, and frequent reversals in "direction," i.e., from larger to smaller. But even if we ignore the extinctions and the reversals, should we say that horses have evolved "progressively" "upward" from the little Eohippus of thirty million years ago to the big, modern Equus? Surely we are not to succumb to the superstition of our time that holds that bigness is, per se, superior to little-ness? And if we do not make this error, how can we say that the evolution from Eohippus to Equus was a progress? The former undoubtedly enjoyed as good a cybernetic equilibrium with its environment as the latter.
Even those who are not tempted to equate Bigger with Better are likely to succumb to another temptation: to think of parasites as immoral, and the evolution from the free-living state to a condition of dependence as being somehow a "downward" evolution, a "degenerative" or "retrogressive" evolution. "Degenerative" it certainly is, if one means by this no more than that unneeded organs wither away in the process—but is this bad? What virtue would there be in a tapeworm's having eyespots, living as it does in the perpetual darkness of the mammalian gut? Is extravagance a virtue? And as for "retrogressive,"—well, a tapeworm is like nothing on its family tree. It has not gone backward to become an earlier species; it has gone forward (if we must use direction words) to develop new adaptations to its particular situation. Not any old worm can be a successful parasite; it takes special gifts.
So we see that the concept of progress, for all its historical importance in sheltering the idea of evolution, is not easily applicable to facts of biology. There may be a sense in which it is useful to say that progress has occurred; but we have not yet discovered it. Perhaps we will later. For the present, it is best to agree that neither adaptation alone, nor adaptation coupled with secular change, necessarily constitute progress.


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Not an engineer? Find out where you belong
Whether you've been working for decades or are just starting in non-engineering tech role, this advice can help you figure out where you belong.
18 Feb 2021 Dawn Parzych Feed
In the first article in this series, I explained the problems with dividing people and roles into "technical" or "non-technical" categories. In the second article, I shared some of the tech roles for people who don't code. Here, I'll wrap up this exploration into what it means to be technical or non-technical with some recommendations to help you on your journey.
Whether you've been working in tech for decades, are just starting, or are looking to change careers, consider the advice in this article from people who have been labeled as non-technical but are succeeding in tech roles.
"Don't tie up what you do and your identity. Get them separate."
—Adam Gordon Bell, Developer Relations, Earthly Technologies
Switching roles doesn't mean your skills will disappear and you no longer have value. If you take on a new role, you need to focus on that role's critical skills. It takes time to develop skills. Take your time, and figure out the important skills for the new position.
If you manage engineers, encourage them to develop their non-engineering skills and their technical skills. These skills often make a more significant difference in career growth and success than coding and technical skills.
"Don't let other people define whether you are technical or not-technical. "What's technical and what's not, and whether that's important or not is something the people have to figure out for themselves."
—Adam Gordon Bell
"Don't ever start a conversation with, 'I'm not technical.' It can come across as, 'I need to warn you about this thing,' which is never a good impression to make for an interview, but it also has the potential to come across as a lack of confidence in your skills."
—Mary Thengvall, Director of Developer Relations, Camunda
Avoid the stereotypes; not all engineers like Star Wars or Star Trek. Not all engineers wear hoodies. Engineers can speak to people.
"People have a lot of perceptions about the technical, non-technical piece, in terms of how you present. When I was working in the office, I would wear a dress because that's how I feel comfortable."
—Shailvi Wakhlu, Senior Director of Data, Strava
As I discussed in the first article, being labeled non-technical can lead to impostor syndrome. Recognize your value, and don't apply the non-technical label to yourself because it can limit earning potential and career growth.
"People kept reboxing me into something else because they thought I was different from the normal stereotype that they had for an engineer. I'm so glad that I didn't listen to any of those people because inherently they were also telling me to go for a lesser-paying job on the basis of something that was in addition to the skills that I had."
—Shailvi Wakhlu
"It is more likely the younger and … the woman in tech, especially new to tech, who's going to have imposter syndrome, who's going to consider themselves not technical enough. Like, 'oh, I only do front-end.' What do you mean you only do front-end? Front-end is incredibly hard."
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Find where you can add value and help people
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"I always say to people when they try to contribute to open source projects, 'don't think, it's got to be a commit, it's got to be a pull request.' It's like, 'No. How can you add value to that project?' If you haven't got time to do the pull request, are you raising an issue and putting the points down?"
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"Realize how important everybody is, including yourself at all times, and the overall picture of things. Being creative shouldn't be ego-driven. Realize that you can always be better. You can also be worse at what you do. Don't be afraid to ask for help, and realize that we're in there together."
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"The hackathons that I have attended where we've all been technical, we've built a great team of four or five hardcore coders, we've lost. I kid you not, we've lost. And before COVID, I won six previous hackathons, and half the team was focused on other areas. In the hackathons we won, half the team would be considered non-technical by most people, although I do not like this term, as it is about adding value to the team/project. We won because we had so many different perspectives on what we were building."
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"The more we can move away from those labels of technical/not technical, developer/not developer, and understand that there's a continuum, the better off we're all going to be as far as hiring the right people for the job, instead of letting ourselves get hung up by the presumption that you need a technical team."
—Mary Thengvall
The more diverse our communities and teams are, the more inclusive they are.
"I honestly think the most important thing, whether it's from a community perspective or whether it's from a product perspective, just in general, we have to make sure that we built an inclusive community, not just for our products, not just for the technology that we're working on, but as a human society in general. And I'm going to guess… I'm going to wager that if we do that, as a human species, we will actually be better than what we were yesterday."
—Leon Stigter, Senior Product Manager, Lightbend
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One of the fun things about having moved around a lot is that you learn that most places look a whole lot alike any more, from the strip malls to gas stations, from fast-food chains to housing developments. And don't even get me started on the "industrial parks", where large metal sheds are the new factories (no windows, two doors, completely anonymous). Even Josiah Bounderby would think they were a little too utilitarian.
On the other hand, the other fun thing you learn is that, underneath all that sameness, there are real differences.
One thing that puzzled me when I first moved up here, was why there were so many cornfields standing, unharvested, well into November, December, January, February... I mean, there's brown corn, with cobs, with snow. So I asked about that: "Was there some sort of blight?" And was told that the corn was freeze-drying in the fields, to save the cost of corn dryers. Who knew? I'd been living in the South for the last 17 years, where they harvest at harvest time, i.e., the fall, because if they leave the corn in the field, it'll rot with all the rain. Up here... well, we're colder than that.
Here's another puzzler:
There's lots of signs here in South Dakota for "Limousin Service". As a newcomer, I had two questions:
(1) why were there so many limousine services in rural South Dakota?
(2) why didn't they spell it right?
Later I learned that a Limousin (outside of Sioux Falls) is a cow. French origin, from the Limousin, but all over the place up here, along with Angus, Shorthorn, Simmenthal, etc. And, of course, Limousin Service is about breeding. (Which sometimes happens in limousines, too, but we won't get into that.)
BTW, this is NOT a misspelling, but deliberate:
There are more than one of these signs along I-29 between Sioux Falls and Mitchell. Dick knows how to make you look. Betcha he gets a lot of calls, too.
BTW, this is why I regularly put characters asking stupid questions into my stories. God knows I've done it often enough.
Thankfully, there are other ways to find out what's going on in a new area than running around asking crazy questions. For one thing, find out who's the biggest gossip in town and park yourself next to him at the Norseman's Bar or her down at the Laskin Cafe.
Another way is to read the local paper. And not just the local daily paper, but the local weekly paper, which services the whole county. We have one, called "The Peach". If you need field irrigation wells, farm & home wells, high capacity pumps; if you want to buy a limousin 2 year old bull or an Angus yearling; if you need retrenching or a ride to Branson to see Daniel O'Donnell; or any sort of job in the healthcare, farming, or hog confinement industry, the Peach is the place to go.
Did I mention barn straightening? Seed cleaning? Bean stubble baling?
Also pork loin feeds, and church suppers, all of which are other places where you can go and get fed while catching up on the news/gossip/weather report.
And then there are the Locals, where we find out what to do with our spare time:
Dist. 8 Conservatives Luncheon
Laskin Duplicate Bridge
Sr. Citizens Dance (hugely popular; if you're a guy who loves to dance, you will not sit down for longer than it takes to have a cup of coffee or a highball to pep you up for the next dance.)
Christian Motorcyclists Association
VFW Auxiliary Sunday Brunch - every Sunday, great pancakes, come on down!
The Country Swingers (more dancing; get your mind out of the gutter)
Now granted, it's not the Agony Column that Sherlock Holmes read every day, but things slip in.
Like what happened to the person who posted "Acres of good used hog equipment for sale"? What happened to THAT hog containment operation? And why does s/he say, "Save this ad"?
Or why is someone "looking for used mobile homes, 1995 or older, will pay CASH." Do they breed? Are they refurbished and sold as new? Or are they being shipped up to the Bakken for the man-camps?
Or the sale of "Positive Rain Gutters". (Watch out for negative rain gutters, they will leak and you.)
And there are auctions galore, of course. These are important, not only because you can bid on everything from TOOLS OF ALL KINDS (and they ain't kidding!) to Antiques, Trucks, Household Goods, Implements, Stationary Engines, Parts & Pieces, and the land itself. Auctions are where people gather. They last all day; food (or at least coffee) is often served; and people stand around and catch up on everything, from who's there and who isn't.
And speaking of auctions, we had a humdinger back in September. You remember the Gear Up! scandal, where, early in the morning of September 17, 2015, a fire destroyed the home of Scott and Nicole Westerhuis and their four children in Platte, South Dakota. Our Attorney General Marty Jackley determined that Scott Westerhuis shot his entire family, torched the house, and then shot himself, all because he was about to be caught for embezzling enough funds - and no one still knows how much - to build a $1.3 million rural home, a $900,000 gym complete with basketball court, etc., etc., etc., on a combined salary of $130,000.
Well, look to your right, folks. Yes, they auctioned off what stuff survived the fire that night. For a detailed look at what was on auction, read Cory Heidelberger's blog HERE.
As you might expect, the auction was a major topic of discussion around town. Many of us agreed that we would not be anxious to have any item from that property because we are almost all superstitious, and feel like the TVs might go on and off by themselves, or perhaps the desk roller chairs might start swiveling around in the middle of the night, like at, say 2:57 AM when someone used the Westerhuis landline to call Nicole Westerhuis' cell phone...
The land itself was sold at auction to the Platte Area Ministerial Association, who plan to open an interdenominational Christian camp there. Unfortunately, they only had the $37,000 down payment and are trying to raise the rest of the $370,000 bid. They've set up a GoFundMe page, which hopefully will work. (Although I can't but wonder if an exorcism might also help...)
And where did the funds that were raised go? To pay for the funerals; compensation for estate representatives and attorneys; a dozen credit card companies, banks, and workers. Meanwhile, Gear Up! will not be reimbursed nor, apparently, the State of South Dakota.
And speaking of Gear Up - Mid Central Educational Co-op Director Dan Guericke is accused of backdating contracts to avoid a government audit, plus sighing at least 17 illegally secret contracts on behalf of Mid Central worth $3.8 million. Where, oh, where did the money go? (see all of Angela Kennecke's report HERE.
Speaking of Guericke and Westerhuis, "Guericke spent more than an hour on the phone with Scott Westerhuis the evening before the tragedy and when the board questioned him about what was said, sources tell me that Guericke told them the two really didn't talk about much at all." Mm-hmm.
Did I mention that they STILL haven't found Scott Westerhuis safe?
Ah, South Dakota, where we talk like Mayberry, act like Goodfellas, and the crazy just keeps on coming.
Labels: arson, corn, embezzlement, gear up, ghost, limousines, moving, murder, neighborhoods, news, newspapers, South Dakota
See You In The Funny Papers
by David Dean
by Jim Doherty and David Dean
There's an old saying that goes, "See you in the funny papers," which, I have to admit, I never quite got. I mean, how are you going to see me in the funny papers? I'm a real, live, three-dimensional sort of guy. I must also be a literal kind of guy because now I find that the impossible has happened—I'm in the funny papers! That's right. I find that I've been reduced (some might say enhanced) to two dimensions and basking in the reflected glory of none other than that venerable crime fighter, Dick Tracy! Lest you doubt, I've attached proof of my brief appearance.
There, see me? I'm the thin dude in the Hall Of Fame box. It appears that amongst Dick's many skills and talents at detection, he has also honed an appreciation of fine crime writing—mine… amongst others it seems. Can you believe he also honored some dude named Wambaugh in a previous issue? What kind of name is that for a writer? Get a clue, Wambaugh.
When I got the news it was via a forwarded email from Janet Hutchings at Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. It being a weekday, I was hard at work hammering out my next story when, during a brief lull in my creativity I checked all my social and communication media. Half an hour later, I'm reading a very kind note from a police sergeant named Jim Doherty telling me of my inclusion in Dick Tracy's Hall of Fame. He had also attached the comic strip. Jim, as I learned, is the police technical advisor to the comic strip's creative team.
To say that I was blown away would be putting it mildly. Having spent a big part of my adulthood as both a cop and a writer, this inclusion rang all the bells and blew all the whistles for me. I loved it. And it's great fun to boot.
But that's enough about me. Though you probably couldn't tell, I intended my little victory dance to serve as an introduction to my new friend and colleague, Sgt. Jim Doherty, the person most responsible for my induction into the Hall of Fame. On my honor (which is now unquestionable), Jim and I have never met, and he only knew of me through my writing. It was he that submitted my name and bio to the editors, and it was on his recommendation that I was accepted. May his name be sung in the mead halls of Valhalla forevermore.
Jim, as mentioned earlier, is both a police sergeant and technical advisor, but he is also a writer of crime fiction himself. So, I thought it might be interesting if he shared with us a bit about his own background, as well as his relationship with the square-jawed Detective Tracy and his crime-busting comic strip. I think you'll find it interesting.
Thank you for the introduction, David.
It might seem odd to be discussing a comic strip character on a blog devoted to the mystery genre, until one considers that Dick Tracy's as important a figure to crime fiction as he is to the comics medium.
Leave aside the obvious fact that, with the exception of Sherlock Holmes himself, Tracy's the most famous detective in any fictional medium. Leave aside that, like Holmes, he's a multi-media star, successful in movies, novels, TV and radio, stage productions, and just about any other story-telling medium you can imagine.
Forget about all that and look at him:
The rugged features. The snap brim fedora. The trench coat. Comics are a visual medium, after all, and that being the case, it's clear that our whole idea of what a hard-boiled sleuth is supposed to look like comes to us direct from Tracy. Every time we think of how cool Humphrey Bogart, Robert Mitchum, Alan Ladd, Jack Webb, or Dick Powell look in that particular ensemble, we're admiring a look that Tracy's creator, Chester Gould, invented, or at least connected to crime fiction, as indelibly as Sidney Paget connected the deerstalker cap and the Inverness cape in the pages of The Strand Magazine.
And imagine about how many people must have been introduced to crime fiction through Tracy. Most mystery fans, at least in the US, will probably mention the Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew when asked how they first got started, but, how many of them, even before they knew how to read, thrilled to the four-color adventures of the most famous of all fictional cops. I know one of my fondest memories is of my dad reading Dick Tracy to me years before I even knew how to read. Aside from turning my into a mystery fan, and eventually a mystery writer, Tracy also clearly had an influence on my choice of day job (though, being Irish, and having a lot of law enforcement types in my family Tracy was, perhaps, not the only influence).
I was fortunate enough to get involved in with Tracy professionally, or at least semi-professionally, when two guys I knew through the Internet, both of them well-known comics professionals, decided to start a web page called Plainclothes as a tribute to the famed law enforcement icon. (When Chester Gould first conceived the strip, he called it Plainclothes Tracy).
Mike Curtis, who had briefly been in law enforcement himself (he once served as a deputy in the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office), started in the business writing scripts for Harvey Comics about character like Casper the Friendly Ghost, Richie Rich, and Wendy the Good Little Witch. Later he would form his own company, Shandafa Comics. Though an admirer of Dick Tracy, Mike's first love is really Superman, and he owns one of the biggest collections of memorabilia devoted to the Man of Steel in the country.
He'd formed a friendship with legendary comics artist Joe Staton, who, since he got his first professional job in 1971, has been so active in the business it's easier to list the characters he hasn't drawn, than those he has. From Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern for DC to the Hulk, Captain America, Phoenix, and the Silver Surfer for Marvel, to say nothing of work for just about every other comic book company in the US, including Charlton, Western, Comico, First, etc., etc. etc.
The one character Joe always longed to draw, but never got a chance to, was Dick Tracy. Or make that rarely got a chance to. He'd done a comic book story for Disney in the early '90's to tie in with the Warren Beatty film, but it never got published due to the rights being clouded. And he'd done some covers for books collecting reprints of the old strips. But he'd never gotten a chance to do the strip, or even a regular comic book series.
Mike had heard that Dick Locher, the Pulitzer-winning artist/writer who had been drawing the strip since 1983, and writing it since 2005, might be retiring.
He suggested that he and Joe do the website, not only as a tribute to the character, but as a sort of high-tech audition, in case Tribune Content Agency, the syndicate that distributed the strip, really was looking for someone to replace Locher. The main attraction on the Plainclothes website was an original Tracy comics story, done in daily newspaper strip format. This was accompanied by articles, original artwork, and prose stories about the character.
Knowing that I was a cop, a Tracy admirer, and a mystery writer, Mike invited me to contribute two prose stories featuring Tracy. I was at the point where I was actually getting paid to write stuff. I'd had two books published, a collection of true-crime articles, Just the Facts, which included a piece called "Blood for Oil," about the Osage Indian Murders of the 1920's which won a Spur from the Western Writers of America, and a study of the creator of iconic private eye Phil Marlowe, Raymond Chandler – Master of American Noir. Writing for free seemed, on the surface, like a step back.
On the other hand, my only novel, An Obscure Grave, though a finalist for a British Crime Writers Debut Dagger Award, was still unpublished, and how many chances would I ever get to write about my favorite detective?
It turned out that the Tribune folks were aware of us. And, though our use of the character could be construed as a copyright violation, they were inclined to look at it as an audition, just as we hoped. It turned out that Mr. Locher really was retiring. On the basis of the work displayed in Plainclothes, Mike was hired to write the actual strip, Joe to illustrate it. Mike invited me to be the police technical advisor, since I'm still an active cop, and I live in Chicago (the unstated, but obvious, setting for the strip).
The first person to have that job was a fellow named Al Valanis, a respected detective in the Chicago Police who has the distinction of being one of the first forensic sketch artists in the history of law enforcement. He created a new feature in Tracy that's become almost as familiar to fans as Tracy's two-way wrist communication device. "Crimestoppers' Textbook," a panel at the beginning of every Sunday strip that gave safety tips for cops, crime prevention tips for citizens, and the occasional pithy editorial comment. As the new technical advisor, I was also to write the copy for "Crimestoppers."
A few months into the gig, I had an idea for a new feature that would occasionally replace "Crimestoppers." A feature that would profile a noteworthy real-life police officer, to be called "Dick Tracy's Hall of Fame," appearing roughly once a month. Over the years, we've honored such famed law officers as Eliot Ness, Frank Serpico, Robert Fabian of the Yard, Mary Sullivan (the first-ever female homicide detective), Eugene Vidocq (the founder of the Sûreté), and Bill Tilghman (the greatest of all frontier lawmen).
During this last year, being a policeman who writes crime stories, I had the notion of building the "Hall of Fame" entries for 2015 around a particular theme, cops who also write cop fiction. A few of the more obvious choices have been Joseph Wambugh, William Caunitz, Maurice Procter, and A.C. Baantjer.
But police work isn't carried out exclusively on big city streets. And crime fiction doesn't exist only in novels. And so, when I conceived the notion of devoting a year's worth of Hall of Fame inductees to cops who were also fictioneers, small-town police chief and short story ace David Dean was one of the first persons I thought of.
I've admired David's stories for years, and was pleased to learn that, upon retiring from the Avalon Police in New Jersey, he intended to start writing novels. His first book-length fiction, The Thirteenth Child, was a first-rate genre-crossover, effectively blending the elements of a realistic police procedural thriller with a supernatural horror novel. I couldn't put it down.
I was also struck by the fact that, when I saw a picture of David, tall, lean, ruggedly handsome, square-jawed, he seemed to remind me of someone.
Maybe if his hair was dark instead of sandy, or if he changed out of the uniform and into a business suit, trenchcoat, and snap-brim fedora, I'd be able to put my finger on just who it is he puts me in mind of.
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Labels: comic strips, David Dean, Dick Tracy, Hall of Fame, Jim Doherty, newspapers, police writers
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I Never Saw A Strange Red Cow
by Robert Lopresti
Late last year I was interviewed by a researcher for a Canadian radio show about advertizing called Under The Influence. This was for an episode about classified ads, although you won't find my name in the credits. Fame slips through my fingers once again.
But what fascinated me in this broadcast was the reference to a book called Strange Red Cow by Sara Bader. Bader explains in her introduction that she had been looking through eighteenth century newspapers for reactions to the Declaration of Independence when her eye was caught by the following classified ad:
CAME to my plantation, in Springfield, township, Philadelphia county, near Flour-town, the 26th of March 1776, A STRANGE RED COW. The owner may have her again, on proving his property, and paying charges. - Philip Miller, May 1, 1776. Pennsylvania Gazette.
(I should say that the ad actually said townfhip, but in the interest of your time and sanity I have changed all the extraneous Fs in this piece to Ss.)
So this is a book about old classified ads, and it is endlessly fascinating, especially to a writer. Each of these ads in an unfinished short story, a beginning with no middle or end.
$15 REWARD - LOST, ON THE HUDSON RIVER Railroad, in the quarter to 5 o'clock train from New York, a set of teeth on a gold plate. They were dropped out of the window on the right hand side of the way, supposed between the Tarrytown and Sing Sing stations, or at a short distance this side of Tarrytown... -April 4, 1855, New York Herald.
$50 REWARD - STOLEN, ON WEDNESDAY (17th) evening, between 9 and 10 o'clock, a curiously deformed Hen, without a beak, and head shaped somewhat like a monkey; highly valued as a curiosity. -May 19, 1865, New York Herald.
STOP THE RUNAWAY.
FIFTY DOLLAR REWARD, ELOPED from the subscriber, living near Nashville, on the 25th at Hune last, a Mulatto Man Slave, about thirty years old, six feet and an inch high, stout made and active, talks sensible, stoops in his walk, and has a remarkable large foot, broad across the root of the toes -- will pass for a free man, as I am informed he has obtained by some means, certificates as such... ten dollars extra, for every hundred lashes any person will give him, to the amount of three hundred. -ANDREW JACKSON, Near Nashville, State of Tennessee
Yes, it was THAT Andrew Jackson
Information Wanted
Of PATRICK FITZGERALD, a native of Ownscoil, county Kerry, who came to America about three years ago, leaving his wife and one child in Ireland. He was seem in Boston 3 weeks ago. Any information respecting his hereabouts at present will be thankfully received by his wife, Bridget, who has lately arrived in Boston in search of him.... July 14, 1849, Boston Pilot.
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE - LEFT his lodgings a short time since, a young man of rather prepossessing appearance, dark eyes and florid complexion, hair dark brown and inclined to curl. When last seen he was dressed in a broadcloth coat, peppered breeches, and silk hat. Any information concerning him, left either at the Granite hotel, Lester place, or at this office, will be thankfully received.
P.S. A very curious kind of written poem has been found in his room in his own handwriting. I should be obliged if some of our best critics would call and examine this queer poem.
One type of ad still popular today in alternative papers, is the personal, which Sherlock Holmes lovingly referred to as the "agony column."
J.A.R. - SARCASM AND INDIFFERENCE HAVE driven me from you. I sail in next steamer for Europe. Shall I purchase tickets for two, or do you prefer to remain to wound some other loving heart? Answer quick, or all is lost. EMELIE. 1865.
ROSE -IT IS USELESS - YOU ARE TOO LOVELY TO be trifled with. I am married. BENEDICT.
A YOUNG LADY, COUNTRY BRED, BUT EASILY tamed and civilized, would like to correspond with a city gentleman, with a view to matrimony. It is necessary for him to be wealthy, and not less than forty years of age, as she would "rather be an old man's darling than a young man's slave." The advertiser is 21, and presumes her manners and apparance will recommend her to tastes not over fastidious... 1861.
NIBLO'S, MONDAY EVENING -- OCCUPIED Adjoining seats in parquet; repeated pressure of arm and foot and hands met when seperating. If agreeable, address Bruno... 1867.
And then there is that old favorite, the want ad.
At the Bennington Cotton Factory,
SEVERAL FAMILIES that can furnish a number of children each. To such constant employ will be given, and wages paid according to the ability of the children....1821, Vermont Gazette.
WANTED, A YOUNG HEALTHY WET NURSE. One who has had the smallpox will be most agreeable... 1765, Georgia Gazette.
One mandolin, with all its strings, dulcet tone for basket of vegetables. - December 1835.
Now, that last one is tragic. But don't you wish you could read all those stories? Or write them?
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Nike officially unveils its 'Royalty Collection' for NBA All-Star Weekend.
Earlier this week we gave a you an initial glimpse of what Kobe Bryant's final NBA All-Star Game shoe will look like. Now we get an official look at Nike's entire "Royalty Collection" of kicks for the upcoming weekend in Toronto.
Inspired by the Toronto's "royal origins," All-Stars LeBron James, Anthony Davis, Paul George, Kevin Durant, and of course, Kobe will each get a distinct colorway of either their own signature shoe or the shoe they have predominantly worn this season. Let's run through them.
With its muted green colors on the upper, the LeBron 13 "All-Star" has a military feel, but it's actually supposed to remind us of the colors of the long Toronto winter. Gold speckle throughout the upper and around the swoosh are probably the best of the shoe's design elements.
The KD 8 "All-Star" gets a crazy, multicolored treatment with blue, orange, yellow, white and red mixing with each other throughout the upper. The colors are supposed to represent the myriad of flags in and around Toronto, symbolizing the city's diversity.
The kicks Paul George will rock during the All-Star Game, the Nike Hyperlive features a candy-red upper matched with a maple sole and finished off with the Toronto maple leaf stitched into the tongue.
The Brow, a.k.a., Anthony Davis, will lace up a gray, blue and yellow pair of the Nike Air Audacity. The upper is made of heathered textile, and the words "Fear The Brow" appear on the visible Nike Zoom Air pocket that wraps around the heel.
With its black, gray and turquoise upper, meant to represent the Northern Lights, the Kobe XI Elite also features molded leather on both the tongue and the heel for a classy touch.
You can grab your favorite shoes from the Royalty collection when they all hit retail on Feb. 11, a day before All-Star Weekend.


In this Where are They Now? episode, Christie interviews Jonathan, now a Senior Vice President at a global marketing firm and a former consulting colleague with the brand of a rockstar. Jonathan shares stories of his career journey and how he transitioned from the media & entertainment industry into consulting and back into the music industry.
Moving from Virginia to NYC to Los Angeles and living differences between the various cities.
Genesis of shareholder value as a strategic priority in corporations and its impact on organizational cultures.
Things to consider when deciding to pursue an MBA and how to get a free education.
Realities of firing a client that compromises integrity and values.
Becoming a trusted advisor for your client and Jonathan's definition of a great consultant.
Hacks to get promoted quickly as a newbie in a consulting firm.
In career dilemma segment of the show, Christie and Jonathan gives advice on how to manage conflicts and build relationships with a difficult client.


Don't we all have days where our minds are bombarded with stimulation? One cannot help but wonder if this level of redundant stimulation in everyday life has always been considered normal or whether it is unique to today's society. The answer may be unclear but what it yields to is pretty obvious: choked up nervous systems; resulting in decreased life quality.
As a result of over-stimulation, we either find ourselves possessing too much energy that our bodies and minds could handle. Or with no energy left at all, as if our life light has been sucked, leaving us with the feeling of an empty-shell.
Chemicals, drugs, coffee and sports training are ingrained approaches encouraged by Western medicine tradition to handle with imbalanced life energy. They all are different but at the same time analogous tools, and there is a scientific explanation behind it. These tools are argued to originate from the dominant reductionist approaches, which pre-accept that illnesses result from a biologic defect or pathogen.
So, an energy imbalance that discomforts our everyday life, is not qualified as a disease to be addressed by Western medicine traditions, unless an underlying somatic effect exists. Fortunately, it is also our societies that have begun to see the inefficiencies of these tools and to realise the healing power of ancient Indian practices.
As you have probably heard before, the main difference of such practices is hidden in their holistic approach towards human existence. Treating the mind, soul and the body as a whole.
Yin Yoga is one of the most underrated yoga practices in its ability to destress and declutter the mind.
Yin Yoga originates from the Taoist concept of Yin and Yang, which presents opposite and complementary elements in nature.
Yin embraces stillness and non-reactivity. Having combined patience, flexibility, and equanimity as its essential elements, Yin Yoga takes things nice and slow.
If you have ever experienced a Yin Yoga practice, you'll know how important holding long postures (for five to 20 minutes) is. It is through these postures that Yin Yoga spreads therapeutic vibes.
Those gentle pigeon postures, forward bends, and lunges are there to invite you to test your patience, to encourage to raise your consciousness, and to assist to empty your mind.
Concentrating on your breath opens up a reality where you can allow any thought patterns to arise, to observe them, and then let go without getting involved.
Experiencing a posture at its fullest to switch to the next posture in a few minutes, lights your way to realise how serene stretching can be.
Regular Yin Yoga practicing is reported to release the body into the parasympathetic nervous system on a mental and emotional level, which is a spectacular revitalisation.
Negative energy does not manifest itself only in mind, but also in body. That is why deep stretching and breathing help you to release not only your tissues, but also energy around it. From head to spine, every different part of your body is known to coincide to different energy wheels. These energy wheels are described as "chakras" in the Sanskrit language. Each chakra vibrates at a different periodicity, refers to a particular colour, associated with a functionality of a specific organ.
The identification of chakras paves the way to clean the blocked energies that may be collected in our bodies. When cleaned of blocked energies, chakras become balanced, and the energy begins to flow freely. As a result, your circulation improves, flexibility improves, mind, body and soul get balanced.
Less stress, more focus? Sign me up!
A range of unique Yin Yoga classes are offered at The Conscious Club.
Yin Yoga, Ying/Yang, and Yin Restorative run regularly and are open to people at all levels. You can read more about these classes here. Tickets for our regular classes can be purchased here.
We also have a range of special classes that are available once a month. These classes expand on the practices we offer on a regular basis, giving you the opportunity to dive deeper into the classes you love.
This Saturday 7 April we have a Yin & Qi Gong class at 4:15pm.
Yin Yoga and Qi Gong are not like other workouts. While a long swim or jog might leave you feeling drained, ancient mind-body practices like these have the power to do just the opposite. They produce more energy than they consume. When we practice Yoga or Qi Gong, we feel calm, invigorated, and clear-headed. We experience a sense of renewal on all levels.
We also have a beautiful Hip Openers class that focuses on Yin Yoga running this Saturday 7 April at 2:00pm.
Hip openers might not be your favorite thing to do. It can be quite intense, and it might be even more intense in a Yin practice. Yoga is not always comfortable the moment we are in the poses. In this special hip openers yin class we explore the hips in a yin way: really slow and subtle. We focus at the pelvis area for grounding, with opening poses. We will search our edges and we might want to take it slow. We do not only play our physical edge in yoga, but certainly also our emotional and mental edge. To eventually release every tension in this area.
If you you have not practiced yoga before, let Yin Yoga be your starting point. It is one of the warmest gifts you can give to your mind, body, and soul!
If you have previously practiced yoga, we recommend giving Yin Yoga a go. It may be your next chance to challenge yourself, and stay consistent to your principle of trying new things throughout your own yoga journey.
No matter where you view yourself to be in your yoga journey, there is definitely something to learn from a Yin Yoga practice!


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Policy Dialogue: Reforming National Examinations in Sri Lanka
Posted by Yureshya Perera on June 16, 2020 / 0 Comments
Held on June 13, 2020, via Zoom
Video: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1021915811544559
Dr. Sujata Gamage presented "An Assessment Framework with Built-in Accountability for Reforming the National Examination System in Sri Lanka". The framework included the progression of a child fromm early childhood education, primary and secondary education, to further education leading to tertiary certificates, diplomas, advanced diplomas, and degrees. She noted that students dropout and go 'off-the-radar' of the policymakers and the public at various stages of education. After age 18, only 7% of a given youth cohort will gain access to higher education, while the other 93% are 'off-the-radar' for all practical purposes. The lack of accountability on the part of authorities is a clear gap that needs to be addressed.
The framework introduced also the idea of an aptitude test carried out at each key stage of education after Grade 5, 9, 11, and 13, covering the literacy, numeracy, and the general cognitive ability of a student necessary to proceed to the next level. An optional second part of the same aptitude test which is more cognitively challenging can be used at the end of Grade 5 in lieu of the present Grade 5 scholarship examination. Since the aptitude tests will not require any rote learning, the teaching-learning process will not be corrupted, as presently evident. During the discussion, it was noted that the competition to succeed will continue as long as disparities in schooling exist.
Dr. Upali Mampitiya, Senior Lecturer at OUSL and a former Chairman of Academic Affairs Board of the National Institute of Education, expanded on the assessment framework with a presentation on "Redefining Senior Secondary Curriculum for Tomorrow's World." He noted that Sri Lankan schools spend 90% of their time preparing students for the GCE (O/L) while the internationally accepted minimum for that examination is 35% of the hours spent in school over a two-year period. Schools across the world use up to 50%-64% of their teaching to the GCE(O/L) curriculum with 5-6 core subjects, and leave the rest of the school time for giving their students general or transversal competencies by way of a 'whole curriculum.' The general competencies are to be acquired through activity-based with assessments limited to summative assessments based on student project reports, field notes, and portfolios.
The place of religion in the core curriculum, reasons for dropouts, the expected outcomes of this policy framework, what will be included in the aptitude exam, the necessity for literate and numerate individuals with ability express themselves in the fieldwork to be maintained by students going onto vocational training were some of the issues raised by participants. A policy brief will be prepared after taking all views into consideration and will be shared widely.
Policy Dialogue #11 Bottom-up Solutions to the Grade 1 Admission Problem
A policy dialogue on "Bottom-up Solutions to the Grade 1 Admission Problem" was held by the Education Forum Sri Lanka (EFSL) on January 16, 2021, via Zoom. LINKS: Full Video: PD#11, 2 hours 23 minutes Mini clips: Documents: OVERVIEW: Every year, beginning its cycle in June and ending in January of the following year, the issue of Grade 1 Admissions rears its head, posing problems for parents, teachers, principals and education administrators alike.
Cheating in Online Assessments during the Pandemic
*All interview respondents have been given pseudonyms, and their places of work/study have been excluded due to the sensitive nature of the topic discussed. Since schools and universities shifted to remote learning in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, the question of examinations – how and whether to conduct them – have yielded different answers from exam boards and ministries of education in different parts of the world.
Education News, December 2020
Schools | E-Learning | Teachers | Universities | Technical and Vocational Education | Private Education Institutions | Funding/Development Schools Opening & Closing: Schools in the Northern and Eastern provinces closed in early December due to inclement weather. Following this, they remained closed due to the Covid-19 situation, while schools in districts in other parts of the country such as Galle, Kandy and Trincomalee were also closed due to Covid-related health concerns.
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Anthony Antognoli focuses his business practice on the representation of large and mid-size clients in the areas of employee benefits, state and federal taxation, executive compensation, and tax-exempt organization matters.
Tony advises employers on the design and drafting of qualified retirement plans, nonqualified deferred compensation plans, equity compensation plans and welfare benefit plans. He also regularly counsels employers on a broad range of related issues, including multiemployer pension plan withdrawal liability, employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), employee benefit plans of tax-exempt or governmental employers (including school district 403(b) plans), educational assistance and other fringe benefit programs, and requirements for the investment of plan assets. He has devoted a substantial portion of his practice to advising employers on complying with 2010's health care reform legislation and related guidance.
He primarily counsels clients on transactional matters, focusing on issues arising in mergers and acquisitions. Tony has served as lead ERISA counsel in a $320 million acquisition of an industrial firm, as co-tax and ERISA counsel in the $90.5 million sale of a managed care firm, and as co-tax and ERISA counsel in the acquisitions of many health care practices.
He also has represented clients in controversies before the Internal Revenue Service, the U.S. Department of Labor and various State Departments of Revenue, and in litigation in the United States Tax Court and the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
He continues to serve as an Adjunct Professor of Tax Law at Loyola University Chicago School of Law (Taxation LL.M. program) since 2007.
Recognized as a Leading Lawyer in Employee Benefits Law by Leading Lawyers magazine, 2018-Present
Recognized as an Emerging Lawyer by Leading Lawyers magazine, 2015-2016
Recognized on the Rising Stars list by Illinois Super Lawyers magazine, 2012 – 2015
Co-Presenter, "Update on Employee Benefit Plans," Hinshaw's 26th Annual Labor & Employment Seminar, Hoffman Estates, Illinois, October 27, 2022
"Defining Health Plan Eligibility in an Evolving Landscape," 2022 Reta Trust Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 20, 2022
"What's on the Legal Horizon for Catholic Health Plans and Entities," Board of Trustees Meeting for the Reta Trust. San Francisco, California, December 10, 2021
Co-Presenter, "Insights and Practical Considerations for Business Owners and Lenders Navigating the COVID-19 Pandemic," seminar and webcast of the State Bar of Wisconsin, April 17, 2020
Co-Presenter, "Navigating the COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights and Practical Considerations for Business Owners and Lenders," Hinshaw webinar, March 31, 2020
"Update on Fringe Benefits," Hinshaw's Annual Labor & Employment Seminar, Hilton Chicago-Northbrook, Northbrook, Illinois, November 7, 2019
"Storms on the Horizon: Issues of Rising Concern in Employee Benefits Law," Hinshaw's Annual Labor & Employment Seminar, Hilton Chicago-Northbrook, Northbrook, Illinois, October 17, 2018
Co-Presenter, "Hinshaw Employment Webinar Series: Employer-Assisted Student Loan Repayment Programs," Hinshaw webinar, March 8, 2018
"Employee Benefits Law – Policy, Trends and Key Issues to Consider in the Trump Era," Hinshaw's Annual Labor & Employment Seminar, Hilton Chicago-Northbrook, Northbrook, Illinois, October 12, 2017
"Illinois Secure Choice Act Requirements and Association Retirement Plans," Technology and Manufacturing Association, Schaumburg, Illinois, February 9, 2017
"What to Do When the Wolf Comes Knocking: Anticipating and Surviving IRS and DOL Investigations of Employee Benefit Plans," Hinshaw's Annual Labor & Employment Seminar, Hoffman Estates, Illinois, October 2016
"Group Health Plans in the ACA World," College Of Imaging Administrators, Eighteenth Annual Spring Assembly, Lisle, Illinois, May 5, 2016
"Avoiding Fiduciary Pitfalls and Tar Pits: Best Practices for Retirement Plans," Hinshaw's Annual Labor & Employment Seminar, Hoffman Estates, Illinois, October 2015
"Practical Tips for Navigating the Latest Challenges in Employee Benefits Law," Hinshaw's Annual Labor & Employment Seminar, Hoffman Estates, Illinois, October 2014
"Health Care Reform Update," DuPage Society for Human Resource Management Legislative Update, Lisle, Illinois, March 20, 2014
"A to Z for Bank ESOPs," Community Bankers Association of Illinois Seminar for the Community Bank Attorney, Springfield, Illinois, November 15, 2013
"The Employer Mandate Under Health Care Reform: Take a Deep Breath and Get Ready for 2015," Annual Hinshaw L&E seminar, Hoffman Estates, Illinois, October 2, 2013
"Countdown to 2014 — Offering Health Care Coverage to Employees: Who, What, How, and When?" Hinshaw breakfast briefing and national webinar, Chicago, Illinois, June 27, 2013
"Health Care Reform Update: DuPage SHRM Legislative Update," DuPage Society for Human Resource Management, Lisle, Illinois, March 21, 2013
"Labor and Employment Law Update for Health Care Employers," Hinshaw's Annual Health Care Conference, Lisle, Illinois, November 2012
"Affordable Care Act After the Supreme Court Decision," Hinshaw's Annual Labor & Employment Seminar, Hoffman Estates, Illinois, October 2012
"Health Care Reform: It's Alive (for Now)," Hinshaw's Annual Labor & Employment Seminar, Hoffman Estates, Illinois, October 2012
"The Affordable Care Act: A Primer," Significant Recent Legal Changes Impacting Wisconsin Businesses seminar, Brookfield, Wisconsin, September 2012
"Employee Stock Ownership Plans as a Business and Tax Planning Vehicle," Strafford Publications, live webinar, January 2012
"Using Leveraged ESOPs," Northern Trust, Chicago, Illinois, May 2011
"The Evolving Look of Health Care Reform," DuPage Society for Human Resource Management, Lisle, Illinois, April 2011
"Health Care Reform: Where We Are Now," Illinois Association of School Boards' Joint Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, November 2010
"Perspectives on Health Care Reform," Hinshaw's 2010 Health Care Conference, Lisle, Illinois, November 2010
"Health Care Reform: Where We Are Now," Hinshaw's Annual Labor & Employment Seminar, Hoffman Estates, Illinois, October 2010
"Health Care Reform," Hinshaw Breakfast Briefing, Chicago, Illinois, April 2010
"Health Care Reform: The Uncertain Shape of Things to Come," DuPage SHRM Legislative Update Meeting, Naperville, Illinois, April 2010
"Employee Benefits Update – Health Care Reform," Hinshaw's Annual Labor & Employment Seminar, Hoffman Estates, Illinois, October 2009
"Mediation Skills and Strategies," Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education, 12th Annual Employment Labor Law Update, Champaign, Illinois, March 2009
"Annual Employee Benefits Update," Hinshaw's Annual Labor & Employment Seminar, Oak Brook, Illinois, November 2008
"Wellness Programs: Navigating the Waters," Mid American Group, Inc. 2008 Employee Benefits Seminar and Luncheon, Oak Brook, Illinois, May 2008
"Keeping Up with 403(b) Compliance," Professional Development Alliance of Will County Boards of Education, Joliet, Illinois, January 2008
"Employee Benefits Issues in Individual and Mass Terminations," Hinshaw's Effectively Dealing with Current Labor & Employment Issues seminar, Chicago, Illinois, September 2007
"Retaining Employees Through Employee Benefit Programs," Life Services Network, 2007 Annual Convention & Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, March 2007
"Selected Provisions of the Pension Protection Act of 2006," Hinshaw's Effectively Dealing with Current Labor & Employment Issues seminar, Lisle, Illinois, November 2006
"The Latest Regulatory and Legislative Changes Affecting Employee Benefits," Hinshaw's Effectively Dealing with Current Labor & Employment Issues seminar, Chicago, Illinois, September 2005; Lisle, Illinois, November 2005
Author, "Special Employee Plan Issues Arising in Reduction in Force or the Sale of the Employer," Chapter 8, Employment Termination: Procedures, Grounds, and Challenges, Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education, 2011, 2013, 2018, and 2022 Editions
Quoted in "Debt Busters," an article published in the June-July 2020 edition of PLANSPONSOR magazine
Quoted in "7th Circuit leaves EEOC concerns about employer wellness program unaddressed," an article published in the February 28, 2017 issue of Westlaw Journal: Employment, a publication of Thomson Reuters
Quoted in "Is your business ready to prevent workplace violence?," an article published in a September 6, 2014 edition of Crain's Chicago Business
Quoted in "Weighed in the Balance," an article published in the October/November 2013 national edition of Poder magazine
Quoted in "Big suburban firms joining private health exchanges," an article published in the September 9, 2013 Daily Herald
Quoted in "Fiduciaries Take the Heat," an article published in the August 2009 edition of Human Resource Executive magazine
His other publications include:
Co-author of comments to the Internal Revenue Service of the Chicago Bar Association's Employee Benefits Committee regarding future of the Employee Plans determination letter program, August 2003
"State Taxation of Business Trusts: Limits, Concerns and Opportunities," co-author, Journal of Multi-State Taxation in February 2000 and reprinted by Business Entities, September/October 2000
"Fiduciary Duties Under the 'Serious Consideration' Standard," co-author, DC Plan Investing, November 2000
Hinshaw Attorneys Antognoli, Burman, and Harbert Author Chapters in IICLE Handbook on Employment Termination
Anthony Antognoli Discusses Options and Potential Benefits of a Stand-Alone Employee Student Debt Repayment Program
Deal Spotlight: Client Oak Bank Acquired by Wintrust Financial Corporation
Hinshaw Attorneys Contribute Three Chapters to 2018 Edition of IICLE Employment Termination Handbook
Anthony Antognoli Weighs in on What's Next After ACA Repeal Failure
27 Hinshaw & Culbertson Attorneys Honored as Emerging Lawyers
Anthony Antognoli Quoted in Crain's Chicago Business Article on Troubled Employees and Workplace Violence
Anthony Antognoli Quoted in Poder360° on What Employers Should Know About Obamacare
Employment Law Observer
Finally Some Good News for Employers Challenging Pension Withdrawal Liability Assessments
Employers Need to Go Back to the Drawing Board for Their Wellness Program Incentives
District Court Judge Stops HHS Regulations Regarding Contraception Mandate
IRS Releases New Tables for Employee Income Tax Withholding
EEOC Ordered to Reconsider What "Voluntary" Means for its Wellness Program Guidance
Supreme Court Confirms Standards for ERISA's Church Plan Exception
House Passes American Health Care Act: Potential Impact on Employer Plans
EEOC Issues Sample Notice for Employers Offering Wellness Programs
EEOC Issues Final Regulations on Wellness Programs
Anthony E. Antognoli, Aimee E. Delaney
New IRS Initiative Highlights Trust Fund Tax Compliance Issues
The Dangers of Reimbursing Employees for Individual Health Insurance Premiums — and the Limited Relief for Small Employers
October 1 Deadline Approaching for Employers to Issue "Notice of Coverage Options" to Employees
Seventh Circuit Upholds Arbitrator's Reduction of Withdrawal Liability
Plan Fiduciaries Entitled to a Presumption of Reasonableness in Employer Stock Drop Cases
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Reviewing Employer Health Plan Coverages in the Post-Roe Era
New COBRA Rules Require Employer Action, Impose Significant Noncompliance Penalties
IRS Issues Guidance on Presidential Memorandum Payroll Tax Deferral Opportunity
Hinshaw Alert
CARES Act Program Expands Scope of Educational Assistance Plans to Include Employer Repayments of Student Loans
Small- and Medium-Sized Illinois Employers: Deadlines Fast Approaching for Illinois Secure Choice Act Registration
Labor & Employment Chronicle - Spring 2019
Employer-Assisted Student Loan Repayment Programs: A Possible Solution to a Growing Problem
No Tax Deduction for Confidential Settlements of Sexual Harassment and Sexual Abuse Claims—Effective Immediately
Tax and Employee Benefits Policy Under the Trump Administration
Employment Practices Newsletter - June 2016
Employment Practices Newsletter - January 2016
Employment Practices Newsletter - April 2014
Employment Practices Newsletter - February 2014
October 1 Deadline Approaching for Employers, Including Schools, to Issue "Notice of Coverage Options" to Employees
October 1 Deadline Approaching for Employers to Issue "Notice of Coverage Options" to Employees
REMINDER OF JULY 31, 2013 DEADLINE: Employers Sponsoring Self-Insured Health Plans Must Pay New Health Care Reform "Fee" by July 31, 2013
Employment Practices Alert
Surprise Announcement From Treasury Department Delays Employer 'Pay or Play' Mandate for One Year
Employment Practices Newsletter - October 2012
Business & Commercial Transactions
Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs)
Life, Health, Disability & ERISA Litigation
J.D., Certificate in Tax Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, 2000
B.S., Finance, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997
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