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January 10, 2021 at 7:55 pm CDT | by Holger Stolzenberg 2 Comments
While no decisions have been made yet or will be made in the coming weeks, Florida Panthers head coach Joel Quenneville split his roster in practice, with the core of the team on one side and the fringe players on the other. One notable name on the wrong side of the ice was veteran defenseman Keith Yandle, who was working with the fringe players, according to FloridaHockeyNow's George Richards.
Quenneville said those groups can change throughout this week, but he said he wants to see some of the team's younger defensemen for a while. While it might be easy to dismiss a move like this, the team is trying to develop a better defense-first attitude, something that the highly-paid Yandle can struggle with at times. The 34-year-old blueliner still has three years remaining on his contract at $6.35MM per season, meaning there is a chance that Yandle may sit from time to time this season. Yandle's playing time dropped last season under Quenneville after years of averaging more than 20 minutes. He averaged 19:42, almost three minutes less than the previous year.
Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman points out that this is worth keeping an eye on, especially since he is currently the top active player in the league in consecutive games with 866 and is fourth all-time.
The Vancouver Canucks are expected to sign and begin playing 2019 first-round pick Vasili Podkolzin later this season after his contract with KHL's SKA-St. Petersburg expires on April 30. Of course after being a healthy scratch by SKA Saturday, rumors began that the 19-year-old Russian could be heading to Vancouver sooner than later. However, TSN's Rick Dhaliwal reports that there is no truth to the rumor. According to his sources, the plan remains to leave the forward with SKA for the remainder of the season.
Despite an injury prone season last year, New York Islanders forward Casey Cizikas was hoping for a healthy season in 2021. Cizikas missed time with a left leg laceration and then suffered a detached retina in the postseason bubble last season. However injuries keep hitting the fourth-line forward. Newsday's Andrew Gross reports that Cizikas went down Sunday in a team scrimmage. Linemate Matt Martin and Cizikas sandwiched defenseman Thomas Hickey along the boards during the scrimmage and Cizikas went down in pain. He was attended to on the ice, then on the bench and taken into the locker room after the game. "He's getting checked out," coach Barry Trotz said. "The first indication may be more positive than negative. But I don't have a firm update."
Colorado Avalanche head coach Jared Bednar said he expects goaltender Philipp Grubauer to be the team's starting goaltender entering the season and expects him and Pavel Francouz to split games 60/40, according to The Athletic's Peter Baugh. Bednar is confident that Grubauer, who missed the first three days of camp, will be ready for opening night.
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the Yandle thing seems to be reading into the decision a bit. maybe he was moved just to see what the youngesters could do without his presence.
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Yandle is solid offensively, but a liability defensively. He's obviously not the top d man in Florida, however I don't think he's a top 4 either. Ekblad and Weegar are hands down better. You can make the argument that Stralman and Stillman are better too
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Q: How to fill the null values with the average of the above value and the below value in python? My Data looks like this:
    ID      gcs    compact    active_clay       WTS     LOI
0   EA01    1530    40          9.02            22.7    4.58
1   EA02    NAN     NAN         NAN             NAN      NAN
2   EA03    1550    39          9.02            23.9    4.58
3   EA04    NAN     NAN          NAN            NAN      NAN
4   EA05    NAN     NAN          NAN            NAN      NAN
5   EA06    NAN     NAN          NAN            NAN      NAN
6   EA07    1520    40           9.02           24.9     4.58
7   EA08    NAN     NAN          NAN            NAN      NAN
8   EA09    1530    40           9.02           23.9     4.52
9   EA10    NAN    NAN           NAN            NAN      NAN

i wanted the null values to be filled with the average of the above and the below values for the entire data.
Example:
The null values in the 1st index should be filled with average(index 0 value, index 2 value)
The null values in the 3rd index should be filled with average(2nd index value,6th index value)
The null values in the 4th index should be filled with average(3rd index value,6th index value)
The null values in the 5th index should be filled with average(4th index value,6th index value) and so on..
This should be done for all the columns How can i do that.Please help.

A: I believe you need DataFrame.interpolate with back filling missing values:
df = df.interpolate().bfill()
print (df)
         Date     GCS  Compactability  Active Clay   WTS   LOI  Moisture
0  01-01-2019  1530.0            40.0         9.02  22.7  4.58      3.10
1  01-01-2019  1540.0            39.5         9.02  23.3  4.58      3.05
2  01-01-2019  1550.0            39.0         9.02  23.9  4.58      3.00
3  01-01-2019  1550.0            39.0         9.02  23.9  4.58      3.00
4  01-01-2019  1550.0            39.0         9.02  23.9  4.58      3.00

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At times it is interesting to see at times what fellow detectorists find from other places in the world, and one such interesting place is Königsberg (Kaliningrad). East Prussia is full of history, it is not surprising that some detectorists there find items from ancient Rome, very rare finds in the Baltic region!
From a conversation with an old digger: "We used to go through the woods and German helmets were just being kicked around. They were in different colors, and at times with liners … We did not take these goods, because we did not know that in 20 years it would all be worth something." Well, yes, and the grass used to be greener, and the sky was bluer. But there was such a time, yes, when you went into the woods and found tons of finds – helmets, rusty iron objects, knives, and other stuff. Today such a trip would be a whole event!
Now, helmets can only be unearthed, there are almost no surface helmets. Each piece of iron in the forest has already been picked up by all sorts of "detectorists".
This helmet sure is something to keep! It seems to be intact, and the condition is quite alive. Just clean it, and it will decorate the shelf of some collector.
There are especially many things to find in the Kaliningrad region. The soldiers dumped everything – equipment, personal things, weapons, medals, and awards. When they went into captivity, they threw off everything to survive.
Here you can find almost everything – coins, a bracelet, a fork, an Iron Cross, and real amber! All found in a dugout.
The bracelet is interesting. Silver, self-made – so-called "trench art".
For the most part, it's all the crumbs of those finds that used to lie in the ground about 30 years ago under your feet and nobody took them.
They did not take rusty iron, who was interested in it?
A piece from a German magnetic mine, it was put to the armor of the tank to blow up the tank and the entire crew inside. This is dangerous, I can not even imagine what kind of strong nerves and guts you need to have with such a thing to run up to an enemy tank, which is also covered by infantry. It is easy to be torn apart by a machine gun while doing this, and then you will be missing for 70-80 years.
And such good things can also be found there!
It is quite possible to clean them up. They will never shoot again, but as a collectible, it will be perfect!
And then there are three of them. Mauser 98k – the standard weapon of the German army from the Second World War.
And now a snack – Sturmgewehr 44, STG-44. Some people not familiar with weapons and weapons history call the STG44 a prototype of the Kalashnikov, but for those people, everything is the same.
I would not have refused to have such an item in my collection, of course. They were made for a limited time, but now there are even less of them. I saw some photos from the Middle East – they are still fighting with them, but these are all remnants of the former luxury.
Good luck and finds to all!


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Block Starz Music is an American independent record label owned and operated by Bayer Mack. Its catalog includes independent releases by Machine Gun Kelly, Lega-C, Wiz Khalifa, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, Big Sean, Rhymefest, and Ceddy Bu Rap Sumo. The label also includes its subsidiaries such as the independent film and television production company Block Starz Music Television.

History

2008–2009: Early years
Block Starz Music's first official mixtape, Suburban Empire by ex-VH1 reality show star John Brown, was released in early 2009. An alumnus of Ego Trip's The White Rapper Show, XXL Magazine put Brown "in the same category as Weird Al Yankovic" and lampooned the project. The first Block Starz compilation, West Coast Block Starz, was released in early February 2009 and featured various new artists and guest appearances by Snoop Dogg, E-40, Keak da Sneak, and Daz Dillinger.

In the summer of 2009, Block Starz partnered with Atlanta-based D-Lo Entertainment to release Certified, the debut mixtape from future Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta cast member Rasheeda. The company would go on to have more success with the mixtape release What's High? by a nineteen-year-old Jewish rapper from Youngstown, OH named Throwback, who at the time had the same manager as a then unsigned Wiz Khalifa. Block Starz Music quickly signed Throwback, who had recorded two songs with Khalifa, as its first official artist and began work on East Coast Block Starz in the fall of 2009. Released on December 29 with the song "Was It" by Throwback featuring Wiz Khalifa as the lead single, East Coast Block Starz received generally favorable reviews, though critics noted it had a decidedly more commercial slant than its predecessor. In addition to "Was It", which benefited from the growing popularity of Wiz Khalifa, Boston native Supastar LT's collaboration, "I Love My City", with Kardinal Offishall and Red Cafe also became a popular-selling download from the project.

2010–2011: Rise of the brand
As part of a grassroots marketing effort to promote its brand and scout new talent, Block Starz began co-sponsoring regional music awards, beginning in February 2010 with the 4th Annual Pittsburgh Hip-Hop Awards and later with the 3rd Annual South Carolina Music Awards held on July 10, 2010. It was also during this time that the label came across a young, unsigned Cleveland, Ohio artist named Machine Gun Kelly, who had won "Best Performer" at the Ohio Hip-Hop Awards in 2009, and signed an agreement to release the rapper's single "Alice In Wonderland" as part of its upcoming Midwest Block Starz compilation.

On March 5, 2010, Block Starz announced that Grammy Award winner Rhymefest had signed on to the Midwest Block Starz project, which by then already featured appearances by rappers Twista, Shawnna, and newcomer Big Sean. Released on May 26, the compilation spawned a minor hit with Rhymefest's radio-friendly "Say Wassup" featuring Phonte of Little Brother, but "Alice In Wonderland" would go on to become the company's best-selling single to date, with the music video winning "Best Video" at the 2010 Ohio Hip-Hop Awards.

Block Starz Music signed Topeka, Kansas rapper Mike Schpitz after his appearance on Midwest Block Starz and released his 11-track EP debut, Stanley Ipkiss: Year of the Nice Guy on August 3, 2010. Inspired by Jim Carrey's character from the 1994 box office smash The Mask, critical response to project was mixed, but the EP debuted in Amazon.com's Top 20 new Hip-Hop releases and Top 50 new Alternative releases in Germany, becoming the label's best-selling solo release to date.

In April 2011, it was widely reported that Jay-Z had outbid executives at Universal Records and Jive Records to acquire Block Starz Music.

On September 1, 2011, the label announced the signing of Tulsa, Oklahoma rapper/singer/producer Lega-C, whose viral YouTube video, "White Girl Raps Fast", would go on to generate millions of views at various popular music and entertainment websites online. Seeking to capitalize off Lega-C's growing YouTube popularity, Block Starz Music announced the release of a video mixtape titled "Who Got Tha Heater" featuring eight freestyle remixes of popular singles by artists like Jay-Z, Lil Wayne, Drake, Kanye West, and two original songs. On December 5, 2011, in a statement released through her label, Lega-C confirmed the existence of a pornographic home video and pictures taken by an ex-boyfriend years earlier.

On November 29, 2011, Block Starz Music released "Macho Man" by Delwin Tha Krazyman, which featured the national debut of 650-pound Plaquemine, Louisiana rapper Ceddy Bu Rap Sumo. Ceddybu also collaborated with Lega-C for track "Don't F Around" featured on the CD version of the female rapper's major indie debut Off My Medication.

2012: Left Eye, "Bath Salts", Off My Medication
On February 9, 2012, Block Starz signed 16-year-old Auburn, New York rapper and Floyd Mayweather Jr. protégé Cameron Sanders, aka Young Siege, and announced plans to feature him on East Coast Block Starz 2.
 On February 22, 2012, the label signed Bootleg of Flint, Michigan rap group The Dayton Family and unveiled the rapper's previously unreleased collaboration with Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes of TLC to commemorate the upcoming tenth anniversary of the pop star's death on April 25, 2002. Recorded a few months before her death, Left Eye's verse on the song "Fantasies" is the only 16-bar feature she ever recorded with another rapper.

Block Starz Music's newly signed satirical comedy rapper, Dickward Codgers, made national headlines in August 2012 with the release of his controversial music video, "Bath Salts", which featured what label executives deemed to be excessive drug references and graphic depictions of violence and was the company's first to carry an official disclaimer.

Lega-C's debut album on Block Starz Music, titled Off My Medication, was released October 31, 2012. The first music video from Off My Medication, "That Bitch", debuted online October 22 as a street release to the official radio single, "Speaking Sublimely", which features Wrekonize of Strange Music's acclaimed rap/rock band ¡Mayday!. Reviews for the album have been positive, with critics declaring, "the Tulsa Twista is more than a one trick pony" and the release as "a collection of defiant grit anthems that exhibit how Lega-C continues to prove that looks can be deceiving". The album's sound has been praised as, "real rap; kinda West-Coastish from the late 90s but definitely 2012. Hard beats and a sleek, clean lyrical flow." One day after the digital release of Off My Medication, it was announced that a CD version of the album would be  distributed nationally by Select-O-Hits.

2014 to present: Darrell Cole
In 2014, the label introduced Afro-Belgian rapper Darrell Cole and released the rapper's North American debut,"Swahili", the following year. On the song, Cole, who was born in London, England and raised in Sierra Leone, raps about the dual stigmatization Africans face in Europe and their homeland. In 2016, it was announced Darrell Cole had signed with Sony Music.

Waffle House controversy
 Less than a week after the July 20, 2011, digital release of "Waffle House", the debut single from newly signed Block Starz Music recording artist J.R. Bricks, legal counsel for WH Capital, LLC and Waffle House, Inc., owner and licensee of the Waffle House® trademarks respectively, issued a cease and desist letter to the label claiming improper and unauthorized usage. In response, Block Starz Music changed the song's title to "After the Club". This sparked cries of racism by some in the online Hip-Hop community who saw the southern restaurant chain's move as an effort to distance itself from its, predominately black and Latino, early morning weekend customers. In a statement to Billboard, a Waffle House spokesperson denied claims of racial or cultural discrimination saying, "We embrace all cultures within Waffle House.  All you have to do is come eat with us and you see that."

Removal of CEO
On December 24, 2012, the label announced that its German chief executive officer, Kai Denninger, would no longer be with the company and that the label's founder and president, Bayer Mack, would take over Denninger's duties, effective immediately.

"Kai Denninger will no longer be with the company," Mack said in a brief statement posted to his personal LinkedIn profile on Christmas Eve. "Kai was instrumental in helping us build the Block Starz Music brand. He will be greatly missed and we wish him nothing but the best in all his future endeavors."

Block Starz Music Television

Origins
Block Starz Music Television LLC is an American independent film and television company based in Sarasota, Florida. The studio is best known for its documentary film The Czar of Black Hollywood, as well as its leadership in developing and distributing online video and original web programming, like the documentary series Profiles of African-American Success. Block Starz Music Television was founded by independent record executive and filmmaker Bayer L. Mack as The BlockStarz.Tv Network in 2013 and organized as Block Starz Music Television LLC in 2014.

In February 2013, after arranging for Block Starz Music artist Ceddy Bu Da Rap Sumo to appear on the TruTV comedy series Upload with Shaquille O'Neal, the label announced the formation of the spinoff company The BlockStarz.Tv Network to produce an original web series around Ceddy Bu and other recording artists on the label's roster. On January 3, 2014, it was reported that Ceddy Bu (born Cedrick Smith) was killed when a car he was a passenger in ran off the road and flipped.

This Is Dante
On May 8, 2013, Block Starz Music Television co-produced "This Is Dante", a half-hour comedy web series that followed the misadventures of Bronx, NY native Dante Hillmedo (Andrew Hillmedo Jr.), an American actor, who most notably appeared in 2008's major motion picture Baby Mama starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, and his struggles to launch a rap career.

The Czar of Black Hollywood

The Czar of Black Hollywood is a 2014 documentary film chronicling the early life and career of African-American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux (1884-1951). Block Starz Music founder Bayer L. Mack conceived, wrote and produced the film about Micheaux using Library of Congress archived footage, photos, illustrations and vintage music. An eight-minute trailer premiered online March 31, 2014.

The documentary is narrated by William Bell, features an original score by Nicholas Jones and art direction by Julie Anderson.

On February 13, The Czar of Black Hollywood was announced by American radio host Tom Joyner on his nationally syndicated program, The Tom Joyner Morning Show, as part of its "Little Known Black History Fact" on Oscar Micheaux.

In an April 2014 interview with The Washington Times, Block Starz Music founder Bayer L. Mack said that he read the 2007 biography Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only by Patrick McGilligan and was inspired to produce The Czar of Black Hollywood because Micheaux's life mirrored his own. In a June 2014 interview with The Huffington Post, Mack said he was shocked there "was virtually nothing out there about Micheaux's life" in spite of his historical significance.

The film's executive producer, Frances Presley Rice, told the Sun Sentinel that Micheaux was the first "indie movie producer."

Oscar Micheaux: The Czar of Black Hollywood had its official premiere on September 27, 2014, at the 99th Annual Association for the Study of African American Life and History Convention in Memphis, TN and received a Best Independent Documentary nomination from The Foundation for the Advancement of African-Americans in Film (FAAAF) at the 2015 Black Reel Awards.

Discography

Albums
 BSM-1000: West Coast Block Starz – Various Artists
 BSM-1001: East Coast Block Starz – Various Artists
 BSM-1002: Midwest Block Starz – Various Artists
 BSM-1003: Top Model Super Fashion – The NUV
 BSM-1004: Stanley Ipkiss: Year of the Nice Guy – Mike Schpitz
 BSM-1005: The Ripple Effect – Ragz Mo' Rocka
 BSM-1006: She Got Next 2011 – Various Artists
 BSM-1007: Digital Money – Money First
 BSM-1008: Down South Block Starz – Various Artists
 BSM-1009: Soul: Best of the Block Vol.1 – Various Artists
 BSM-1010: The Manual Procedures – Boom Blake
 BSM-1011: Off My Medication – Lega-C

Singles
 BSM-0100: "Alice In Wonderland" – Machine Gun Kelly
 BSM-0101: "Was It" – Throwback ft. Wiz Khalifa
 BSM-0102: "Catch Me" – Barbara Kiss
 BSM-0103: "Where We Started" – Life Size Ghost
 BSM-0104: "Ima Be Okay" – Nicole Michelle
 BSM-0105: "Shoe Fetish" – Shelly B
 BSM-0106: "Thought I Had It All" – Illa Scorsese ft. Lela Bizz & Cakes
 BSM-0107: "Waffle House" – J.R. Bricks
 BSM-0108: "After The Club" – J.R. Bricks
 BSM-0109: "Got It On Lock" – Boom Blake
 BSM-0110: "White Girl Raps Fast" – Lega-C
 BSM-0111: "Who Got Tha Heater" – Lega-C
 BSM-0112: "Macho Man" – Delwin Tha Krazyman ft. Ceddy Bu & Hollyhood Bay Bay
 BSM-0113: "Fuck Em All" – Lega-C
 BSM-0114: "Fantasies" – Bootleg (of The Dayton Family) ft. Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes
 BSM-0115: "We Doin' It" – Loced Out Ent. ft. Lil Young & Tum Tum
 BSM-0116: "Wilt Chamberlain" – Boom Blake
 BSM-0117: "Bath Salts" – Dickward Codgers
 BSM-0118: "Swahili" – Darrell Cole

References

External links
 Official website

American independent record labels
Companies based in Louisville, Kentucky
Companies based in Tampa, Florida
Film production companies of the United States
Record labels established in 2008
Television production companies of the United States
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FX CEO John Landgraf blasts Netflix for "not telling you the whole story"
Is You really the smash that Netflix says it is? What about Sex Education? Its most public scold says don't believe the hype.
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FX CEO John Landgraf continued his years-long blitzkrieg against Netflix on Monday at the annual, winter Television Critics Association gathering in Pasadena, California. One of Hollywood's most vocal critics of the streaming giant, Landgraf has long bemoaned the fact that Netflix is able to declare that some of its shows are "hits," despite the fact that it does not play the ratings game.
Rather, Netflix releases its own stats on a highly selective basis. At TCA, Landgraf blasted this practice, using the show You as an example. After bringing the psychological thriller over to Netflix from Lifetime, where it had been a dud, Netflix recently boasted that 40 million people were expected to watch the show on Netflix within its first four months on the platform.
Landgraf called that proclamation a "not remotely accurate representation of a longform program performance."
Instead he cited Nielsen data saying that the actual viewership of You was one-fifth of what Netflix has claimed. "An average audience of 8 million viewers is good. But its not as good as 40 million, which would make you the number one show on television."
According to Landgraf, the Netflix original show Sex Education has similarly not been the 40-million-viewers bonanza that Netflix has claimed. Landgraf said the actual audience for the show was only 3.1 million.
"The source of those numbers: Netflix," Landgraf said. "But Netflix is not telling you the whole story."
"TV content providers take hundreds of at-bats," he went on. "You're going to get some singles, some doubles, and some home runs." But Netflix has never released data on any of its outs, while misrepresenting, he says, how big its successes are. He accused the company of creating the "myth of a magic bullet that has eluded everyone since the beginning of television."
"Netflix has some good shows and numerous hits," he continued. "But creative failure is inevitable and no one is exempt."
Landgraf has reason to feel particularly stung by Netflix these days—last year the company poached Glee and American Horror Story showrunner Ryan Murphy from 20th Century Fox TV, FX's sister production company, in a huge, $300 million deal.
Beyond Netflix, Landgraf spoke about the race not just for talent, but for content among TV and streaming companies. While HBO and others are ramping up their pipelines, he said, at FX "any increased output . . . will be measured and focused."
Any further details will have to wait until the Fox-Disney merger is complete, he said. But in the meantime, "The more I've gotten to know (Disney CEO) Bob (Iger), the more optimistic I've grown about the future of FX."
Nicole LaPorte is an LA-based senior writer for Fast Company who writes about where technology and entertainment intersect. She previously was a columnist for The New York Times and a staff writer for Newsweek/The Daily Beast and Variety
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If you are going through a divorce in Tennessee, you have likely found that there are several terms you are unfamiliar with. Many seeking to separate from their spouses wonder what an uncontested divorce is and how it may change certain aspects of their agreement. Findlaw has detailed the specifics of this designation and the benefits it may hold for you.
You may be eligible to file an uncontested divorce if you have no major issues that will require extra court time, such as determinations of property ownership and spousal support, as well as any children who will need a custody arrangement. You also need your spouse to agree to this type of divorce before you can file and realize that, if approved, no further financial support will be offered by either spouse after the divorce is finalized.
The major differences include the time and paperwork involved. Since many of the most complicated aspects of dissolving a marriage do not apply, you will not have to spend time negotiating parenting time and support payments. There will also be no property division, meaning you must each be able to decide which vehicles, furniture and other items of property belong to whom and divide those on your own.
The reduced time and complexity translate to one of the greatest benefits of this type of divorce, which is the financial savings. You will likely spend less time in court and with your attorney, meaning your bill will be lower. Uncontested divorces are also generally completed in much less time than a traditional divorce. This information is intended for your education and should not be taken as legal advice.


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144 L.R.R.M. (BNA) 2617, 126 Lab.Cas. P 10,917
LOCAL 144, HOTEL, HOSPITAL, NURSING HOME & ALLIED SERVICES
UNION, SEIU, AFL-CIO and New York State Nurses
Association, Petitioners (93-4008(L) and 93-4014),
NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Respondent (93-4008(L) and 93-4014),
Juan Quiles, Leonard Washington and Iraida Cabrera,
Intervenors (93-4008(L) and 93-4014).
NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD, Petitioner (93-4044),
The BROOKLYN HOSPITAL CENTER, Respondent (93-4044).
Nos. 212, 251 and 269, Dockets 93-4008(L), 93-4014 and 93-4044.
United States Court of Appeals,
Second Circuit.
Argued Sept. 15, 1993.
Decided Nov. 4, 1993.
James I. Wasserman, New York City (Vladeck, Waldman, Elias & Engelhard, P.C., of counsel), for petitioner Local 144, Hotel, Hosp., Nursing Home & Allied Services Union, SEIU, AFL-CIO.
Richard J. Silber, Albany, NY (Harder Silber and Bergan, of counsel), for petitioner New York State Nurses Ass'n.
William M. Bernstein, Office of Gen. Counsel, N.L.R.B., Washington, DC (Jerry M. Hunter, Gen. Counsel, Yvonne T. Dixon, Nicholas E. Karatinos, Acting Associate Gen. Counsel, Aileen A. Armstrong, Deputy Associate Gen. Counsel, Charles P. Donnelly, Jr., Office of Gen. Counsel, John Truesdale, Office of Executive Secretary; and David Cohen, Office of Director, Region 29, Brooklyn, NY), for respondent and petitioner N.L.R.B.
Richard A. Levy, New York City (Daniel J. Ratner and Elisabeth A. Werby, Martin Garfinkel, Eisner, Levy, Pollack & Ratner, of counsel), for intervenors.
Allan Weitzman, New York City (Proskauer, Rose, Goetz & Mendelsohn, of counsel), for respondent Brooklyn Hosp. Center.
Before: LUMBARD and OAKES, Senior Circuit Judges, and MAHONEY, Circuit Judge.
OAKES, Senior Circuit Judge:
The National Labor Relations Board ("Board") seeks enforcement of an order, The Brooklyn Hosp. Ctr., 309 N.L.R.B. No. 174, Nos. 29-CA-13813, 29-CA-13842, 29-CA-13933, 1992 WL 442366, * 1-* 3 (N.L.R.B.) (the "Order") modifying the decision and recommendation of Steven Davis, A.L.J. (reported in 1992 WL 442366, * 4-* 48). Pertinent to this petition, the Order mandates the Brooklyn Hospital Center ("TBHC")1 (1) to cease and desist from (a) encouraging membership in the Unions2 as the "exclusive collective-bargaining representatives" of workers employed at the Caledonian Hospital ("CH"); (b) giving effect to the collective agreement between TBHC and the Unions with respect to TBHC employees located at the CH site; (c) deducting union dues from the pay of CH employees; (d) contributing to joint labor-management trust funds pursuant to the unlawful application of the collective agreements to CH employees; (e) permitting Local 144 and Local 3 access to CH premises; and (f) interfering with CH employees in the exercise of their right "to self-organization ... to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing" under 29 U.S.C. Sec. 157 (1988); and (2) to take affirmative action to (a) withdraw and withhold recognition from the Unions as the exclusive bargaining representatives of the CH employees; (b) reimburse CH employees for any moneys deducted from their wages on behalf of the Unions; (c) provide alternative benefits coverage; (d) preserve and make available all records necessary to analyze payments due under this Order; and (e) post at the Brooklyn Hospital ("BH") and the CH sites notice of the substance of the Order. See Appendix to Order, "Notice to Employees," 309 N.L.R.B. No. 174, 1992 WL 442366, * 3-* 4. In addition, Juan Quiles, Leonard Washington and Iraida Cabrera (the "Intervenors") seek Rule 38 damages.
The Unions petition us to review and vacate the Order for the Board's abuse of discretion in disregarding the basic policies of the National Labor Relations Act ("NLRA"), 29 U.S.C. Sec. 151 et seq., and as contrary to relevant Second Circuit case law, see NLRB v. Stevens Ford, Inc., 773 F.2d 468 (2d Cir.1985); Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Ctr. v. NLRB, 685 F.2d 29 (2d Cir.1982), and Board precedent, West Jersey Health System, 293 N.L.R.B. 749, 1989 WL 223929 (1989); Manor Healthcare Corp., 285 N.L.R.B. 224, 1987 WL 89813 (1987). In the alternative, the Unions petition us to apply the residual unit doctrine.
We uphold the Board's Order in its entirety but deny the Intervenors' request for Rule 38 damages.
Standard of Review
The Board has broad discretion to determine the appropriateness of bargaining units. See South Prairie Constr. Co. v. Local 627, Int'l Union of Operating Engineers, AFL-CIO, 425 U.S. 800, 805-06, 96 S.Ct. 1842, 1844-45, 48 L.Ed.2d 382 (1976) (per curiam). Although "the judgment of the Board is subject to judicial review ... its construction of the [NLRA] ... should not be rejected merely because the courts might prefer another view of the statute." Ford Motor Co. v. NLRB, 441 U.S. 488, 497, 99 S.Ct. 1842, 1849, 60 L.Ed.2d 420 (1979) (citing NLRB v. Local Union No. 3, Int'l Ass'n of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers, AFL-CIO, 434 U.S. 335, 350, 98 S.Ct. 651, 660, 54 L.Ed.2d 586 (1978)). On the other hand, the courts have the final say in matters of statutory interpretation, Ithaca College v. NLRB, 623 F.2d 224, 228 (2d Cir.), cert. denied sub nom. Ithaca College Faculty Ass'n, NYSUT-AFT v. NLRB, 449 U.S. 975, 101 S.Ct. 386, 66 L.Ed.2d 237 (1980), and an administrative agency, like the National Labor Relations Board, is bound to follow the law of the Circuit. See Reich v. Contractors Welding of W. New York, Inc., 996 F.2d 1409, 1413 (2d Cir.1993) (citations omitted); Ithaca College, 623 F.2d at 228. Finally, the Board's factual findings "if supported by substantial evidence on the record considered as a whole shall be conclusive." 29 U.S.C. Sec. 160(e) (1988); see also Universal Camera Corp. v. NLRB, 340 U.S. 474, 477, 71 S.Ct. 456, 459, 95 L.Ed. 456 (1951) (interpreting section 160(e)) (citations omitted).
Reading the decision of the A.L.J. as affirmed by the Board, The Brooklyn Hosp. Ctr., 309 N.L.R.B. No. 174, 1992 WL 442366, * 4-* 48 (N.L.R.B.) ("Board Decision"), we find that the record substantially supports the following factual findings.
On October 1, 1982, the BH and the CH, physically separated by three miles, merged into TBHC. Prior to the merger, each hospital operated continuously and independently. After the merger, TBHC continued to operate two geographically separate divisions, BH and CH. TBHC took certain steps to integrate the two sites financially and operationally. For example, hospital resources were pooled and patients were readily transferred between the two sites. See Board Decision at * 8.
Nevertheless, BH and CH workers remained distinct. Employees at BH were unionized; those at CH were unorganized. Most important, up until late 1986, TBHC's intention was to maintain the historically unorganized status of workers at the CH site. See Board Decision at * 8-* 9. In fact, prior to November 14, 1988, TBHC had no written policy on employee transfers between BH and CH and job postings were available only at the particular site. Since 1987, only eleven employees have transferred between sites and another four or five transferred for one day. Id. at * 35-* 36. In short, between 1982 and 1986, management took extensive steps to integrate the operations of the two facilities, but followed a policy of accretion avoidance. Id. at * 11.
On October 14, 1986, the Joint Commission of the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations ("JCAHO") issued a letter of tentative non-accreditation to TBHC ("JCAHO Letter") finding major deficiencies relating to the lack of operational integration between the two hospital sites. Many of the problems ultimately related to TBHC's lack of coordination between the two sites: inadequate evidence of a single medical staff, problems with housekeeping and sanitation techniques at CH, inadequate infection control committees (two uncoordinated medical staff committees performing this task), decentralization of the nursing department, two separate safety committees whose directors failed to coordinate efforts or to share information. See Letter from JCAHO to Frederick D. Alley, TBHC President, of 10/14/86.
TBHC responded that this dual corporate structure was maintained to accommodate the wishes of CH employees who wished to remain unorganized. See Letter from Alley to JCAHO of 10/30/86. In affirmative response to the JCAHO Letter, TBHC endeavored to standardize policies, procedures and job descriptions in an overall effort to integrate fully the two sites. TBHC instituted a corporate-wide quality assurance program to ensure uniform quality performance in both divisions. Consequently, by September 1988, there became "a great amount of functional integration between the [BH] and [CH] locations." Board Decision at * 40.
TBHC claims that it also read the JCAHO letter as requiring union integration. Thus, as part of its integration efforts, in October 1988, TBHC decided to accrete the smaller CH division employees into the existing BH bargaining units. The unions agreed to extend contractual coverage to the CH employees. See Letters from Local 721 to TBHC of 11/9/88; from TBHC to Local 144 of 11/10/88; from Local 144 to TBHC of 11/11/88; Local 721 to TBHC of 11/14/88; from TBHC to Local 3 of 11/14/88; and from TBHC to NYSNA of 11/15/88. See also Board Decision at * 9 (summarizing Alley's testimony that TBHC's "goals in avoiding accretion were to honor the right of the Caledonian employees to decide for themselves whether they wished to be represented by a labor organization"). However, a thorough reading of the Board's Decision leaves open the question of TBHC's motives for changing policies. Although some evidence supports TBHC's claim that it accreted the employees in response to the JCAHO Letter, see, e.g., Testimony of Alley, other evidence supports the claim that TBHC accreted to avoid dealing with another union which had been trying to organize the CH employees. See Board Decision at * 10; Letter from Amy Gladstein, Esq., Local 1199 to John E. Truesdale, Esq., NLRB of 3/14/89 (stating Local 1199's belief that "the true reason for the precipitous accretion of the approximately 450 Caledonian workers has nothing to do with the alleged merger of the Hospital's operations. Rather it is attributable to the fact that the Hospitals became aware in the fall of 1988 that Local 1199 had begun a concentrated organizing drive, the goal of which was to be able to file representation petitions for all employees of Caledonian Hospital," and discussing Local 1199's representation petitions).
A number of CH employees filed unfair labor practice charges against TBHC challenging the legality of the accretion. The A.L.J. found that TBHC had violated 29 U.S.C. Secs. 158(a)(1), (2), and (3) by (a) unlawfully recognizing the Unions, (b) applying the terms of their collective agreements to CH employees, and (c) permitting Local 144 and Local 3 access to CH business premises to engage in union activities during work hours. The A.L.J. did not order reimbursement of dues and initiation fees because the unions had not enforced the union security clauses. See The Brooklyn Hosp. Ctr., decision of Davis, A.L.J., attached to Board Decision at * 46-* 47. The Board adopted the A.L.J. position, but ordered reimbursement of dues and fees as well. See Board Decision at * 1-* 3.
The Board had jurisdiction over the unfair labor practice charges under 29 U.S.C. Sec. 160(a), (b) (1988). This Court has jurisdiction over the Board's petition for enforcement and the Unions' petitions for review under 29 U.S.C. Sec. 160(e) and Sec. 160(f) (1988), respectively.IV.
Under the NLRA, a union must be "designated or selected for the purposes of collective bargaining by the majority of the employees in a unit appropriate for such purposes." 29 U.S.C. Sec. 159(a) (1988) (NLRA Sec. 9(a)). An employer who recognizes a union which lacks majority support ("minority union") is in violation of 29 U.S.C. Sec. 158(a)(2) (1988). See ILGWU, AFL-CIO v. NLRB, 366 U.S. 731, 81 S.Ct. 1603, 6 L.Ed.2d 762 (1961). The policy behind this rule lies in the importance of employee self-determination.
B. The Accretion Doctrine
Accretion is an exception to this policy. Pursuant to the accretion doctrine, an employer may incorporate a small group of employees to an already existing collective bargaining unit, without holding elections, so long as the added employees (1) do not constitute a separate bargaining unit and (2) do not outnumber the employees who belong to the existing bargaining unit. See NLRB v. Stevens Ford, Inc., 773 F.2d 468, 473 (2d Cir.1985); Kaynard v. Mego Corp., 633 F.2d 1026, 1030 (2d Cir.1980). Accretion promotes the policy of industrial stability. However, accretion can preclude self-determination and therefore should be narrowly applied to situations where the smaller group has lost its separate, independent identity. Stevens Ford, 773 F.2d at 473. Thus, for example, where the two groups of employees can be classified appropriately into separate, viable bargaining units, accretion is not permissible. Id.
Factors to consider in determining whether employees should be accreted into an existing bargaining unit without an election include (1) the usual factors concerning bargaining unit determinations of several employee groups (i.e., geographic proximity, similarity of skills and functions, similarity of conditions of employment, centralization of the employer's administration, managerial and supervisory control, interchange between the employees, functional integration of the employer, and bargaining history), Stevens Ford, 773 F.2d at 473; (2) size of the group to be accreted relative to the size of the existing unit, id.; (3) whether the group to be accreted was in existence at the time the existing bargaining unit was recognized, id. at 474; (4) whether the existing group is the result of prior accretions, id.; (5) views of the employees to be accreted, id.; and (6) an independent determination "whether the group of employees to be accreted constitutes an appropriate unit." Id. at 473. If the group to be accreted does not constitute its own appropriate unit, then the employees should be accreted so long as accretion does not cast into doubt the majority status of the bargaining representative. Id. Where the group does constitute a separate bargaining unit, the employees of that unit have a right to choose whether or not they wish to elect a different bargaining representative or no representative. "A 'balancing' of the elements bearing on a finding of accretion must be made because, in the same case, some elements favor such a finding, and others do not." Board Decision at * 38 (citing Gould, Inc., 263 N.L.R.B. 442, 446, 1982 WL 23866 (1982)).
C. TBHC's Unfair Labor Practice by Accreting the CH Employees into the Existing BH Bargaining Units
Although the accretion doctrine is narrowly applied, the Circuit had been inclined to favor nonproliferation of bargaining units in nonaccretion contexts in the healthcare industry. See Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Ctr. v. NLRB, 685 F.2d 29, 34 (2d Cir.1982) (NLRB's "single-facility presumption is inapplicable in the health care context"); see also West Jersey Health Sys., 293 N.L.R.B. 749, 751, 1989 WL 223929 (1989) (holding that the single-facility presumption is applicable but the presumption can be rebutted "where a labor disruption at one division ... would adversely affect the health care available at other divisions").
Given our previous and the Board's own precedents, TBHC and the Unions argue that the Board neglects (1) the Second Circuit warning that the single facility presumption should not apply in multi-site healthcare facilities, Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Ctr., 685 F.2d at 34, and (2) its own guidelines that the extent to which industrial action at one site would cause work stoppage at another site is evidence that the sites constitute an appropriate single bargaining unit. See West Jersey Health Sys., 293 N.L.R.B. at 750-51 (citing Manor Healthcare, 285 N.L.R.B. 224). The Petitioners argue further that when Congress extended NLRA coverage to all private health care institutions, it expressed concern that "the proliferation of bargaining units in the health care industry might lead to disruptions in patient care." Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Ctr., 685 F.2d at 33 (citing T. Merritt Bumpass, Jr., Appropriate Bargaining Units in Health Care Institutions: An Analysis of Congressional Intent and its Implementation by the National Labor Relations Board, 20 B.C.L.Rev. 867, 871-74 (1979); Lawrence F. Feheley, Amendments to the National Labor Relations Act: Healthcare Institutions, 36 Ohio St.L.J. 235, 287-89 (1975)). The Petitioners conclude that the Board's decision disregards the law of this Circuit and should be vacated. See Reich, 996 F.2d at 1413 (administrative agencies are bound by the law of this Circuit); Ithaca College, 623 F.2d at 228 (same).
However, the Board does not arbitrarily disregard the teachings of Long Island Jewish or West Jersey Health System. A careful reading of the A.L.J.'s opinion as affirmed by the Board indicates that the Board did not apply the single-facility presumption but properly applied the more restrictive accretion standard, with the careful balancing of all of the elements (favoring and disfavoring accretion) including the fact that between 1982 and 1988, the critical dates, TBHC properly tried to avoid accretion by keeping employee operations at the two facilities quite separate.
Specifically, the Board determined that three factors opposed accretion in this case: (1) the deliberate historical exclusion of the CH employees from the BH bargaining units, see Board Decision at * 40; see, e.g., Stevens Ford, 773 F.2d at 474 ("[i]f the group was in existence and excluded from an election, then accretion should not normally be permitted") (citations omitted); (2) the views of the CH employees who initiated this complaint, id.; and (3) the lack of interchange between the employees. See Board Decision at * 35-* 36 (only eleven employee transfers since 1987). Moreover, the evidence suggests that the CH licensed practical nurses ("lpns") outnumbered their BH counterparts. See Direct examination of Lynn Ende, State Field Representative of Local 721; Redirect examination of Alley. Consequently, at least with respect to the lpns, the accretion doctrine could not possibly be applied. See Stevens Ford, 773 F.2d at 473-74.
Other factors, however, favored accretion: in particular, the functional and operational integration of the two sites as well as their relatively close geographic proximity. Board Decision at * 40. However, the Board concluded that on balance factors favoring non-accretion outweighed factors favoring accretion. See Id. at * 40 ("I do not believe that the record factors favoring accretion are sufficient to overcome the factors disfavoring accretion. When viewed with respect to the operation of the hospital as it affects the Caledonian employees, it is clear that the Caledonian employees possess a separate identity from that of the Brooklyn Hospital employees."). In striking this balance, the Board was sensitive to the "long-held policy that a finding of accretion, imposing a union upon employees that they have not selected, and foreclosing such employees from their right to choose a labor organization of their own choosing, is restrictively applied." Board Decision at * 41. Given the broad discretion afforded the Board in determining the appropriateness of bargaining units, we cannot say that the Board was arbitrary and capricious in its balancing analysis.
Moreover, Long Island Jewish has been undercut by the unanimous opinion of the Supreme Court in American Hosp. Ass'n v. NLRB, 499 U.S. 606, 111 S.Ct. 1539, 113 L.Ed.2d 675 (1991), where Justice Stevens' opinion reads the congressional committee reports not as containing an authoritative statement of congressional intent but merely as an admonition to the Board to give due consideration to the special problems that proliferation might create. See St. Margaret Memorial Hosp. v. NLRB, 991 F.2d 1146, 1155 (3rd Cir.1993) (reading American Hospital as undercutting the Third Circuit's own previous precedents).
Given that our precedent has been brought into question by the reasoning of Justice Stevens' opinion in American Hospital, we cannot say that the Board was bound to follow this Circuit's preference for consolidating bargaining units in multi-site hospital situations.
In summary, the Board did not abuse its discretion in failing to apply the accretion doctrine.
D. TBHC's Unfair Labor Practice by Permitting Access of CH Premises to Local 144 and Local 3
The Board also found that TBHC engaged in unfair labor practices in violation of 29 U.S.C. Secs. 158(a)(1), (2) (1988) by recognizing the Unions as the exclusive bargaining representatives of the CH employees without their elected support, and then permitting access to Local 144 and Local 3 to CH premises during business hours. See Board Decision at * 45. Having found that accretion was not appropriate in this case, the A.L.J. concluded that TBHC's acts of accreting the CH employees and then permitting Local 144 and Local 3 (unelected unions with respect to the CH employees) to use CH premises during business hours (1) interfered with CH employees in the exercise of their NLRA Section 7 right "to self-organization ... to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing" and (2) violated the NLRA's prohibition against an employer who "dominate[s] or interfere[s] with the formation or administration of any labor organization or contribute[s] financial or other support to it." 29 U.S.C. Secs. 158(a)(1), (2) (1988).
We find nothing in the record to contradict the Board's findings with respect to these charges.
E. The Residual Unit Doctrine
The Petitioners also ask us to apply the residual unit doctrine in the event we uphold the Board's decision not to apply the accretion doctrine. The residual unit doctrine is invoked where (1) the majority of employees in a plant, department or otherwise appropriate unit, are already represented by one union, NLRB v. Horn & Hardart Co., 439 F.2d 674, 681 (2d Cir.1971); and (2) another union attempts to organize the remaining unorganized employees who have been historically excluded from the existing bargaining units. Id. If the Board determines (1) that a group of employees is residual, and (2) that either an overall bargaining unit or separate bargaining units would be appropriate, then the Board may order a self-determination election. Id. (citing Pennsalt Chems. Corp., 119 N.L.R.B. 128, 129 (1957)); Sealtest, Ohio Div. of Nat'l Dairy Prods. Corp., 117 N.L.R.B. 1628, 1629-30 (1957). The purpose of the election is to permit the employees to express their desires as whether to be represented in a separate unit, to be included in an existing unit, or to remain unorganized. Rostone Corp., 196 N.L.R.B. 467, 467-68, 1972 WL 12480 (1972).
In determining that accretion did not apply in this case, the Board was silent on the question of the appropriateness of bargaining units. The A.L.J. found that "it is clear that the Caledonian employees possess a separate identity from that of the Brooklyn Hospital employees." Board Decision at * 40. From this we cannot deduce whether one or two bargaining units is appropriate in any of the categories of workers before us. We can only infer that CH employees and BH employees do not possess such a common identity as to merit a finding of accretion that would circumvent the rights of the CH employees to self-determination. The Board may resolve this question in a representation proceeding. However, we will not review this question before the Board has had a chance to resolve it.
Board's Reimbursement of Dues and Fees
The Board, unlike the A.L.J., ordered reimbursement of dues and fees. We perceive no abuse of discretion.VI.
Fed.R.App.P. 38 Sanctions
The Intervenors ask us to award damages under Fed.R.App.P. 38 because the Petitioners' claims are frivolous. We find insufficient cause to award damages in this case.
Accordingly, we find that the Board did not abuse its discretion in making its factual findings and did not disregard the law of this Circuit, as modified by the Supreme Court. We uphold the Board's findings that TBHC engaged in unfair labor practices by accreting the CH employees into the existing BH bargaining units and by permitting Local 144 and Local 3 access to CH premises. We also uphold the Board's unwillingness to order a self-determination election as a remedy. We therefore deny TBHC's and the Union's petition to vacate the Order and grant the Board's petition to enforce the Order.
The Brooklyn Hospital Center is an acute care hospital comprised of two geographically separated divisions: the Brooklyn Hospital and the Caledonian Hospital
The Unions involved are Local 144, Hotel Hospital, Nursing Home and Allied Services Union, Service Employees International Union, AFL-CIO ("Local 144"); New York State Nurses Association ("NYSNA"); Licensed Practical Nurses, Technicians and Health Care Workers of New York, Inc., Local 721, Service Employees International Union, AFL-CIO ("Local 721"); and Local Union No. 3, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, AFL-CIO ("Local 3") (collectively, the "Unions") (TBHC and Unions, collectively, the "Petitioners")


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InsightsMade a mistake? Tell the client asap or risk a finding of deceit
INSIGHTS: Made a mistake? Tell the client asap or risk a finding of deceit
The decision of O'Callaghan J in the Federal Court at Victoria in Neville's Bus Service Pty Limited v Pitcher Partners Consulting Pty Limited & Ors [2018] FCA 2098 sends a salutary warning to professionals to act honestly and appropriately as soon as they discover that they, or colleagues whom they supervise, may have made a mistake.
The case involved Neville's Bus Service Pty Limited (NBS), a bus company run by the Calabro family, as applicant and its accountants as respondents. The three respondents comprised a consulting firm, a partnership (collectively PP) and Mr S, a director of the consulting firm and a partner of the partnership until 2014 after which he became a consultant to both PP entities.
In 2012 the Department of Transport sought tenders from private bus operators for the right to provide bus services in metropolitan Sydney. NBS retained PP to assist it with financial modelling for the tender. PP made a simple yet critical error in the tender response. As a result of the error, the costs incurred by NBS in performing the tender contract were significantly higher than the costs stated in the tender bid and upon which the contract price had been agreed. The profitability of the contract under which NBS was bound was reduced by about $660,000 per year.
The nature of the error was not in dispute. The respondents ultimately conceded that the error occurred as a result of negligence, breach of contract and conduct that was in contravention of Section 18 of the Australian Consumer Law. The dispute concerned the point in time at which the respondents became aware of the error and whether they fraudulently concealed that error from NBS.
The Court concluded that:
Mr S acted dishonestly, including by fraudulently concealing the error and that the five elements of deceit had been made out against the respondents. His Honour commented that the "obstinate refusal to confront and admit the fact of the error" on the part of the respondents "reflects no credit on any of them";
the acts or omissions of the respondents caused losses of $5.485 million;
the PP consulting company was acting as agent for the PP partnership but both entities purported to provide, and take responsibility for, the services provided to NBS and were liable to it;
the respondents were not acting as fiduciaries; and
given the finding of dishonesty, it was unnecessary for the Court to consider whether the Professional Standards Schemes in Victoria and NSW operated to limit liability in the circumstances of this case to $1,000,000.
The lessons from this litigation are:
always be candid and upfront with clients promptly about mistakes which may have been made
if a dispute proceeds to litigation, decide as soon as possible what, if any, admissions can be made
a finding of professional negligence is much more palatable than a finding of dishonesty or deceit
always make sure that witness statements/affidavits are well tested at the time they are served and avoid trying to change evidence in the witness box
review evidence carefully for inconsistencies
never be unresponsive or evasive in the witness box
if you intend to object to any aspect of your opponent's case, make sure you plead and particularise all available defences and that you adduce evidence in support of your contentions and/or conduct effective cross examination to challenge your opponent's case, and
a settlement is always preferable to a finding of dishonesty.
Disclaimer: This information is current as of January 2019. This article does not constitute legal advice and does not give rise to any solicitor/client relationship between Meridian Lawyers and the reader. Professional legal advice should be sought before acting or relying upon the content of this article.


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    return item.userid === userid;
  })
  console.log(current);
  const tot = current.map((item) => {
    return item.votes;
  })

  console.log("tot is " + tot)
// this logs 50, 0 ,0
//so each of the three posts that belong to that user have those amount
//of votes respectively.How can I add these?
  return
votes: {tot}
;
}

When I have tried adding these using a for loop the strings concatenate so ill get 5000, I have searched how to stop that on stack overflow but none of the answers had little to any relation to my circumstance.
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A: You can use the reduce method instead of map to add each item's votes.
const tot = current.reduce((total, item) => total + Number(item.votes), 0);

However, you can actually filter, map and reduce all at once.
const getTotalUserVotes = (userid) => {

    const tot = this.state.posts.reduce((total, post) => {
        return post.userid === userid ? total + Number(post.votes) : total
    }, 0)

    return
votes: {tot}
;
}

A: You can cast item.votes to a Number (since it sounds like it's stored as a String) and then use your for loop or reduce()  to sum the values:
const tot = current.map((item) => {
  return Number(item.votes);
})

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Home NewsBusiness & Orgs	Leanne Tormey on a New Community Learning Curve at Carver
Leanne Tormey on a New Community Learning Curve at Carver
by admin November 23, 2017 January 23, 2019
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By Janice Llanes Fabry
As Carver Center's first Chief Learning Officer, Leanne Tormey is committed to helping shift the longtime program-focused organization into a more client-focused learning center. "We believe that learning is the most powerful lever to pull," said Tormey, the former Superintendent of Schools of Stonington, Connecticut.
"Being the first person in a role is a gift," she added, "because it allows you to craft the position and tailor it to the organization's immediate needs and to capture the spirit of what we hope to become."
From the minute Tormey stepped into the new role in June, she felt she'd come to the right place. "Everything happening here was in some way connected to experiences I'd had or ones I'd wanted to explore. Carver is explicitly saying, 'We want to evolve and build a vision.'"
The lifelong educator's preoccupation with learning was ignited early on. "I knew from a very young age that I wanted to be a teacher," she said. "In elementary school, I was fascinated by the way my teachers taught, whether it was how they presented information or how, at times, they broke the class into groups. Early on, I knew what worked for me as a learner and what didn't. School became a learning lab for me that helped me make sense of my world."
She cut her professional teeth as an elementary and middle school teacher over 25 years ago. "I ultimately fell in love with middle school. It was an amazing opportunity to work with young people who wanted to figure out who they wanted to be when they grew up, much like myself," she quipped.
Her professional trajectory took her from teacher to dean of students to principal and director of curriculum. "I always wanted to remain a teacher," said Tormey, who accepted administrative roles as long as they involved teaching. "As a director of curriculum, I felt I was teaching teachers how to develop and craft curriculum and testing it in the classroom. My scope of influence increased."
While earning a doctorate in Educational Leadership, she initiated a strategic plan in Stonington designed to increase student achievement by incorporating every aspect of the education process, from academics to community partnerships.
"It really opened my eyes to working with systems and organizational structures. I introduced equity audits that not only looked at test scores, graduation rates, and college acceptances, but analyzed how the data played out for different segments of the population," explained Tormey.
Tormey went on to serve as the National Chief Academic Officer of Family Urban Schools of Excellence and as the Director of Educator Development at LEARN, Southeast Connecticut's regional education service center. Before landing at Carver, she established The Advantage to help children and their families navigate the educational landscape.
Currently, she is instrumental in spearheading the Carver Learning Continuum, which reflects the Center's commitment to excellent programming for all stages of life. In addition to empowering families through programs that meet their nutritional, emotional, and social service needs, Carver is endorsing the view that we are lifelong learners and focusing on five developmental learning benchmarks: infants and toddlers, school-aged children, tweens and teens, adults, and seniors.
As a result, planning for a far-reaching needs assessment is underway that incorporates feedback from Carver families as well as the Port Chester community-at-large. "We must engage in collaborative inquiry and embrace our membership in the larger global community," noted Tormey.
All programming will be guided by research and, subsequently, exemplary facilitators that will design appropriate learning experiences for each stage of development.
"In keeping with our commitment to honor client voice, there will be a continuous feedback loop. We have to take the time to embrace feedback, so the work that follows responds to the community's wants and needs," said Tormey. "At this point in the assessment process, Carver is developing the tools through which we will gather this feedback. We seek rich, deep information."
There's already a plethora of new and exciting programming in motion, such as a partnership agreement with 5 Steps to Five to increase support for growing families and lay the groundwork for infants and toddlers so they're better prepared for school.
Along with the afterschool programs and the mindfulness lessons already being provided to Port Chester elementary school children, there are initiatives for learning events that will bring children from across the school district together. For tweens and teens, a Maker Space is in the works. For adults, resume development workshops and stress management offerings are being explored. In addition, intergenerational learning forums for seniors are in motion.
"I'm learning and teaching every day here," said Tormey. "My goal is that through this work, I might be a steward for the mission of Carver, and part of a team that collectively builds and actualizes a new vision for a community learning center."
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Home >Press & Media >ANEXIO Ranks in Top 12 Percent of the 501 Global Managed Service Providers
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Company's Global Ranking Climbs Ten Spots in One Year
RALEIGH, North Carolina – July 10, 2018 – ANEXIO, the leading "Desktop to Data Center" infrastructure-as-a-service company, ranks in the top 12 percent of the world's 501 most strategic and innovative managed service providers (MSPs) in the Channel Futures 11th-annual MSP 501 Worldwide Company Rankings. ANEXIO moved up 10 spots in 2018 and now ranks 58th among the top 501 global MSPs. This is the second year in a row ANEXIO has broken the top 100. The company ranked 68th in 2017.
The MSP 501 is the first, largest and most comprehensive ranking of managed service providers worldwide. This year Channel Futures received a record number of submissions, as applications poured in from Europe, Asia, South America and beyond. As it has for the last three years, Channel Futures teamed with Clarity Channel Advisors to evaluate the progressive companies and identify the best ones.
"At ANEXIO, we believe that when you take care of the customer everything else falls in line after that," said Tony Pompliano, President and CEO of ANEXIO. "Being ranked in the top 12 percent of the 2018 MSP501 is proof positive that we are meeting and exceeding the managed services needs of our customers around the corner and around the world. We have the right products, we have the right people and this is definitely the right time for ANEXIO."
MSPs were ranked according to a unique methodology, which recognizes that not all revenue streams are created equal. Channel Futures weighted revenue figures according to how well the applicants' business strategy anticipates trends in the fast-evolving channel ecosystem.
"This year's applicant pool was the largest and most diverse in the history of the survey, and our winners represent the health and progressivity of the managed services market," says Kris Blackmon, Channel Futures content director and editor of the MSP 501. "They're growing their revenue, expanding their customer influence and exploring new technology that will propel them for years to come."
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Top FTSE executive earns 2,500 times more than low-paid employees
By Martin Williams
The best paid FTSE 100 executive received more than 1,700 times the average UK wage last year, an analysis by FactCheck shows.
Sir Martin Sorrell, who runs the advertising and marketing giant WPP, earned more than £48m, including perks and pension.
Overall, the highest earning executives in each of the FTSE 100 firms were paid an average of more than £4.5m each.
That's more than 160 times the UK average earnings – and 262 times the Living Wage.
Our analysis follows new plans by the government to tackle "excess in the boardroom". The UK's biggest corporations will be forced to say how much more their chief executives earn compared to their average employee.
The prime minister, Theresa May, said that a "small minority of executives narrowly put their own short-term interests first," with pay rises that "far outstrip the company's performance".
The new transparency measures will give us a more detailed look at the wage gap of big corporations. But, in the mean time, we looked at existing data to build a picture of the issue.
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We looked at the latest available financial accounts of every FTSE 100 company. Each firm lists the total earnings of its highest paid director.
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The vast majority of these companies had at least one director who earned more than £1m. But many directors received far more.
Thirty of the companies paid more than £5m to at least one of their directors. And the top five executives earned £99m between them.
Although the accounts don't give details on the average or lowest paid staff, we can compare the figures to UK averages, as well as the Living Wage and Minimum Wage.
Sir Martin Sorrell is not alone among FTSE executives to have earnings that eclipse typical wages in the UK.
Well known firms like BP, Unilever and the pharmaceutical firm Astrazeneca are among those with the highest paid directors.
However, it is important to note that this is a comparison with median UK earnings, rather than a reflection of average earnings within each company. That data is not available.
Sir Martin Sorrell and WPP
Sir Martin's total pay packet has totaled more than £200m over the last five years, but he has defended his earnings, saying it is "pay for performance".
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However, we did find an advert for a graduate scheme with part of the business group.
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Q: Is there any way of plotting several categorical variables against one numerical variable in Python? I have a dataframe that looks like this:
categorical_1    categorical_2    categorical_3 ... dummy
A                YY               DDDE              0
A                ZZ               EEFG              0
B                ZZ               DDDE              1
C                YY               DDDE              1
A                XX               EEFG              0
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I want to make plots of the average of the column dummy in the y-axis and the categories in the x-axis. Usually, I would do something like this:
df.groupby("categorical_1")["dummy"].mean().plot(kind="bar")

However, there are too many columns and I don't know how to do that for all of them. Is there an easy way of doing this?
I know that for numeric variables we could do something like this:
#scatterplot
sns.set()
cols = ['column1', 'column2',...,'columnn']
sns.pairplot(df[cols], size = 2.5)

But I'm not sure what to do with categorical variables

A: There are several possibilities that I can think of.
First, you can use seaborn, but you have to change the format of you dataframe. The problem with this solution is that all hue-levels appear at each x-level.
df2 = df.melt(id_vars=['dummy'], value_vars=cols)
plt.figure()
sns.barplot(data=df2, x='variable', y='dummy', hue='value')

Or, you can stick with pandas, and iterate through the columns, but then it'll be easier to create one subplot per column:
cols = df.columns[df.columns.str.startswith('categorical')]
target_col = 'dummy'
height = 2
width = 2
n_cols = len(cols)

fig, axs = plt.subplots(1,n_cols, figsize=(n_cols*width,height), gridspec_kw={'wspace':0}, sharey=True)

for col,ax in zip(cols,axs):
    df.groupby(col)[target_col].mean().plot(kind="bar", ax=ax)
plt.tight_layout()