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Join us for the Lewisham teachers forum on 24 April
Food Growing teachers forum at Kilmorie Primary school, 24 April, 4.00-5.30
All primary schools in Lewisham are invited to this free training event on food growing at school.
The session will cover a range of topics: linking food growing to the curriculum, exploring whole school/environment benefits, how to get started and how to further develop food growing at school.
There will be a Q&A tour of Kilmorie's extensive growing beds led by the school gardener and all attendees will be given a resource pack to take home.
This promises to be an inspiring session for those keen on developing their growing activity or just thinking about how to set it up.
The session is free to attend, please register your interest with Nick Ives, nives@gardenorganic.org.uk, or call 07454519749 to hear more details.
Author adminPosted on March 28, 2018 March 28, 2018 Categories FGSL News 2018Tags curriculum, food growing, Forum, free, kilmorie, Lewisham, nick ives, teachers
London schools celebrate food growing success at City Hall
Junior Gardeners' Question Time panelists from Trafalgar Infant School (Richmond), Rokesly Junior School (Haringey) and Reay Primary School (Lambeth). Photo: Jane Baker/Garden Organic.
From strawberry jam to tomato ketchup, and the great British apple to winter salad bags – young entrepreneurs from 10 London schools shared their food growing skills with the public at City Hall on Thursday 13 October 2016. They represent the increasing number of London students experiencing the huge benefits of food growing since the launch of Food Growing Schools: London (FGSL) in 2013.
On Thursday 13 October 2016 during a unique FGSL Celebration Event, students showcased their school-grown produce at the sixth FGSL Schools Marketplace, run in partnership with Capital Growth, and took to the stage in the prestigious London's Living Room.
The event was opened by Joanne McCartney AM, Deputy Mayor for London, and Deputy Mayor for Education and Childcare, for the Greater London Authority. It included the launch of the FGSL Interim Report (October 2016), showing the wide ranging benefits of food growing. There was also FGSL's very own Junior Gardener's Question Time, chaired by former Blue Peter Gardener Chris Collins – with food growing questions answered by children from schools across London.
When he attended the last Schools Marketplace at City Hall, the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said: " I'm really pleased to host the Schools Marketplace in City Hall. I want to help Londoners to have access to better food, and lead healthier lifestyles, so it's great to see these young people growing their own grub and developing entrepreneurial skills."
Students from schools in Croydon, Ealing, Greenwich, Haringey, Kensington and Chelsea, Lambeth, Lewisham, Richmond and Southwark took part, and won prizes as part of the *Schools Marketplace Competition.
Fred Wilcox, RHS Young Gardener of the Year at the Schools Marketplace, selling produce from the Trafalgar Infant School stall (Richmond) to City Hall staff. Jane Baker/Garden Organic
*Schools Marketplace participants and competition prize winners:
Athelney Primary School, Lewisham
Charlton Park Academy, Greenwich
Dormers Wells High School, Ealing
Elmwood Primary School, Croydon
*Holy Trinity C of E Primary School, Lewisham: Winners – 'Best Dressed Stall'
*Kelvin Grove Primary School, Lewisham: Winners – 'People's Choice'
Reay Primary School, Lambeth
*Rokesly Junior School, Haringey: Winners – 'Most Enterprising Product'
Rotherhithe Primary School, Southwark
Trafalgar Infant School, Richmond
Mark Dale-Emberton, Principle at Charlton Park Academy, Greenwich said: "Working with Food Growing Schools: London has helped us re-evaluate and reenergise the staff and students. We have looked afresh at our curriculum and how we can use the food that we grow to improve our meals, health and general wellbeing."
Since their launch in 2013, Food Growing Schools: London have seen an amazing 25 out of 33 London boroughs step up to promote food growing in schools. The Benefits of Food Growing are impressive and far reaching – showing a positive impact on children's physical and mental health, environment and education, and the local community and economy. Nearly 80% of schools engaged with FGSL have reported improved behaviour or attainment in students as a result of food growing, and one in four schools now use food growing as a teaching tool linked to curriculum activities. The FGSL report, containing the outcomes of an independent project evaluation by University of the West England, celebrates the successes of this innovative London-wide partnership, led by Garden Organic. The project is supported by the Mayor of London and the Big Lottery Fund.
James Campbell, Chief Executive, Garden Organic said: "I am deeply proud of what we have achieved so far — *87% of London schools are now growing food and considerably more pupils, parents, community members and businesses are involved."
Speakers at the celebration event included Chris Collins (former Blue Peter Gardener, Broadcaster and Head of Horticulture at Garden Organic), James Campbell (CEO Garden Organic), Judy Orme (Professor of Public Health and Sustainability) and Mat Jones (Associate Professor of Public Health, University of West England).
Chris Collins, Broadcaster and Head of Horticulture at Garden Organic said: "I'm lucky to be out and about meeting students all the time, and it's been amazing to see the difference Food Growing Schools: London is having in our London schools. The food growing support, resources and expertise the partnership provides is fantastic. Every school should take advantage and get involved!"
Whether you are already growing food in your school, you wish to get started, or you represent an organisation who can help, Food Growing Schools: London is open to all to Get Involved.
Jane Baker – Communications Officer, Food Growing Schools: London
07474210703 (PT – Mon to Thurs only)
jbaker@gardenorganic.org.uk
www.foodgrowingschools.org / https://twitter.com/FoodGrowSchools
Spokespeople – Chris Collins (Broadcaster and Head of Horticulture at Garden Organic) and James Campbell (CEO Garden Organic)
Food Growing Schools: London is an ambitious Lottery funded project, supported by the Mayor of London that aims to get every London school growing their own food. Garden Organic as the lead organisation is working together with partners, Capital Growth, the Soil Association's Food For Life project, the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), School Food Matters and Trees for Cities. The Schools Marketplace, organised with FGSL partner Capital Growth, took place as part of Grow Your Own Business 2016. #GYOBusiness
FGSL Interim Project Report (October 2016)*
An independent project evaluation by University of the West England (Bristol), summarising the progress of the programme in its third year, assessing the impacts of FGSL for participants and wider stakeholders, focusing on schools and those supporting school food growing. To download the full report visit: Our Achievements
*Figures based on evaluation surveys with lead school teachers in September 2013 (n=504) and July 2016 (n=241). The independent FGSL project evaluation was carried out by research teams from the University of the West England and Cardiff University.
Author adminPosted on October 18, 2016 October 3, 2017 Categories FGSL Events & TrainingTags Charlton Park Academy, Chris Collins, City Hall, Croydon, Deputy Mayor for London, Ealing, FGSL Interim Report, Food Growing Schools: London, Fred Wilcox, Garden Organic, Greenwich, Haringey, James Campbell, Joanne McCartney AM, Judy Orme, Kensington and Chelsea, Lambeth, Lewisham, London's Lving Room, Mark Dale-Emberton, Mat Jones, mayor of London, RHS Young Gardener of the Year, Richmond, Sadiq Khan, Schools, Schools Marketplace, Southwark, University of West England
FGSL News December 2015
We are recruiting! – Food Growing Schools: London – Project Manager
Location: London (Sustain Offices, Old Street)
Hours: 35 Holiday Entitlement: 25 days
We are looking for an enthusiastic individual with experience and an excellent track record in project management and partnership working, bid writing and a good knowledge of relevant activity and stakeholders in London. The person will join our team to offer project management to deliver the main project objective of supporting all schools in London to become food growing schools.
Application Closing Date: Sunday, 10 January 2016
Interview Date: Tuesday, 19 January 2016
For more information and to apply visit the Garden Organic website: Vacancies
London Councils show leadership on school food
31 out of 33 London boroughs are doing more to improve the food available to their residents, workers and school pupils
More London councils than ever are serving sustainable fish; higher welfare meat, eggs and dairy; Fairtrade products; and organic and freshly prepared food in schools
Many are tackling food poverty by encouraging breastfeeding to ensure the best start in life for infants, and also paying the Living Wage to Council staff and contractors
Increased support is being shown for food growing in the community and in schools.
The results of an annual survey of food initiatives supported by London Councils were published today by campaigning network London Food Link. The 'Good Food For London' report [1], supported by the Mayor of London and partner food and farming organisations [2], is now in its fifth year, measuring progress and encouraging local councils to take action on good food.
Rosie Boycott, chair of the London Food Board [3], said: "It is heartening to see so many of London's councils taking action on good food initiatives. Our local authorities are very much on the front line when it comes to improving the diets of Londoners and while they are doing a fantastic job, I hope that they will continue to find new and innovative ways to tackle obesity and promote healthy eating."
Despite the improvements, London continues to have higher rates of obesity compared to the rest of England, in part reflecting the proliferation of unhealthy food offers on our high streets. With new food ventures opening daily, many of which do not serve or promote healthy food and often located in poorer areas, people find themselves faced with an unhealthy food environment.
"Councils have great scope to influence the food served in their borough. While many are doing great work to improve school food, this is not the case the moment children step outside the school gates. We need more done to tackle the quality of high-street food", explained Sofia Parente from London Food Link. The 'Healthier Catering Commitment' is a first step to help local authorities improve food in high-street takeaways, but despite its importance the report found sign-up to the scheme had slowed this year.
The Good Food for London league table 2015 is topped by the London Boroughs of Greenwich, Islington and Tower Hamlets. In addition, four boroughs were recognised for having been consistently in the top five since results started to be compiled in a league table two years ago: Camden, Islington, Lewisham and Tower Hamlets. Eight boroughs were also celebrated for being 'most improved', demonstrating change is possible even in a short period of time: Barking & Dagenham, City of London, Croydon, Greenwich, Hackney, Newham, Wandsworth and Westminster.
Full report, Good Food for London 2015: View our online interactive Good Food for London league table 2015 and download the report
Good Luck Tim!
British ESA Astronaut, Tim Peake, flies to the International Space Station tomorrow
Tomorrow at 11:02am, British European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Tim Peake will fly to the International Space Station (ISS) for his six-month Principia mission.
Tim is launching on a Soyuz spacecraft from Baikonur, Kazakhstan which was rolled out onto the launch pad yesterday – watch here. Tim and the crew are due to rendezvous with the ISS at 5:23pm before climbing on-board to their new home at 7pm.
You can watch Tim's launch on a very special episode of Stargazing Live tomorrow at 10:30am on BBC One. There will then be a second evening Stargazing Live programme at 7pm on BBC Two showing Tim's arrival on the ISS.
Tim is an inspirational role model for young people across the UK and is dedicated to encouraging children to engage with STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) subjects. It is because of this, we partnered with the UK Space Agency several months ago to launch Rocket Science, an exciting project allowing schools to grow seeds that have been to space.
In September we sent 2kg of rocket seeds to the International Space Station and they will be stored there until March when they are due to come back to Earth with American astronaut Scott Kelly.
When the seeds return, we will send them to up to 10,000 schools to grow alongside seeds that haven't been to space in a huge nationwide science experiment. Read more about the project and sign up to take part here. We will be accepting applications until March when the seeds return to Earth.
Tomorrow we will be exhibiting at the Science Museum in London and Edinburgh International Science Festival in Scotland along with a host of other organisations that are running educational projects to celebrate Tim's mission. You can read more about these projects at the UK Space Agency's brilliant Principia website here.
If you're on Twitter, keep in touch with us and involved in the launch by using #RocketScience and #Principia.
You can also tweet Tim Peake himself using @astro_timpeake
RHS Campaign for School Gardening
Young Photographers Awarded Prizes
London students Theo and Indra were presented with their prizes for winning this year's RHS Young Herb Photographer of the Year.
Over the last couple of weeks we visited this year's winners of RHS Young Herb Photographer of the Year to present them with their prizes.
Winner of the 5 to 10 age category was Indra, 8 years old from 11th Newham West Scout Group in Stratford, London for his beautiful image of borage (Borago officinalis). The photograph, which was taken in the Peak District, was chosen by the judges for its exquisite detail, clarity and colour.
Winner of the 11 to 17 age category was Theo, 11 years old from Thomas's Clapham School, London for his stunning photograph of rosemary (Rosmarinus). The photo showed a sprig of rosemary in the sun and rain and judges loved the dramatic contrast of the soft raindrops against the dark background.
Alana Tapsell from the RHS Campaign for School Gardening and Chris Moncrieff from Vitacress visited both Indra and Theo to present them with their prizes of an iPad Mini for themselves and £500 worth of horticultural materials for their school or group.
You can see the photos from the presentations and the winning photographs below.
Congratulations Indra and Theo!
To read more about the competition, click here.
To see the winners, runners up and finalists, click here.
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Enterprise Food Garden Award winners
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A groom is preparing to be wed. His mother is having trouble coping with the idea of him leaving. She lives in the past, eaten away by her grief after the violent death of her husband and eldest son. She yearns for revenge on the family that ruined her life. While the bride-to be prepares for the big day, her former lover Leonardo gallops past her house every night. The passion between the two has far from cooled. Even before the wedding celebration warms up, the bride and the ex lover flee the scene. The shamed families open the hunt on the forbidden lovers and execute their cruel, bloody revenge.
Together with Yerma and Bernarda's The House, Blood Wedding forms the trilogy of the Spanish countryside. In a world of scarcity where family ties and property are sacred, love and lost struggle to survive. Lorca's tragedy is the portrait of a society weighed down by dark family feuds, moral masochism and sickly grief.


Chemotherapy plays an important role in the cure and palliation of women with gynaecological cancers, but it is associated with significant physical and psychological distress. The provision of information before commencing treatment can greatly assist in helping women to address their concerns and cope with the experience. In this chapter learn more about chemotherapy; its purposes, administration and side-effects. Also, understand more about new target therapies.


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UNITED STATES V. DIONISIO, 410 U.S. 1 (1973)
JUSTICE STEWART delivered the opinion of the Court.
A special grand jury was convened in the Northern District of Illinois in February, 1971, to investigate possible violations of federal criminal statutes relating to gambling. In the course of its investigation, the grand jury received in evidence certain voice recordings that had been obtained pursuant to court orders. The grand jury subpoenaed approximately 20 persons, including the respondent Dionisio, seeking to obtain from them voice exemplars for comparison with the recorded conversations that had been received in evidence. Each witness was advised that he was a potential defendant in a criminal prosecution. Each was asked to examine a transcript of an intercepted conversation, and to go to a nearby office of the United States Attorney to read the transcript into a recording device. The witnesses were advised that they would be allowed to have their attorneys present when they read the transcripts. Dionisio and other witnesses refused to furnish the voice exemplars, asserting that these disclosures would violate their rights under the Fourth and Fifth Amendments.
The Government then filed separate petitions in the United States District Court to compel Dionisio and the other witnesses to furnish the voice exemplars to the grand jury. The petitions stated that the exemplars were "essential and necessary" to the grand jury investigation, and that they would "be used solely as a standard of comparison in order to determine whether or not the witness is the person whose voice was intercepted. . . ."
Following a hearing, the District Judge rejected the witnesses' constitutional arguments and ordered them to comply with the grand jury's request. He reasoned that voice exemplars, like handwriting exemplars or fingerprints, were not testimonial or communicative evidence, and that consequently the order to produce them would not compel any witness to testify against himself. The District Judge also found that there would be no Fourth Amendment violation, because the grand jury subpoena did not itself violate the Fourth Amendment, and the order to produce the voice exemplars would involve no unreasonable search and seizure within the proscription of that Amendment:
"The witnesses are lawfully before the grand jury pursuant to subpoena. The Fourth Amendment prohibition against unreasonable search and seizure applies only where identifying physical characteristics, such as fingerprints, are obtained as a result of unlawful detention of a suspect, or when an intrusion into the body, such as a blood test, is undertaken without a warrant, absent an emergency situation. E.g., Davis v. Mississippi (1969) and Schmerber v. California (1966)."
When Dionisio persisted in his refusal to respond to the grand jury's directive, the District Court adjudged him in civil contempt and ordered him committed to custody until he obeyed the court order, or until the expiration of 18 months. The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed. It agreed with the District Court in rejecting the Fifth Amendment claims, but concluded that to compel the voice recordings would violate the Fourth Amendment. In the court's view, the grand jury was
"seeking to obtain the voice exemplars of the witnesses by the use of its subpoena powers because probable cause did not exist for their arrest or for some other, less unusual, method of compelling the production of the exemplars."
The court found that the Fourth Amendment applied to grand jury process, and that, "under the fourth amendment, law enforcement officials may not compel the production of physical evidence absent a showing of the reasonableness of the seizure." In Davis v. Mississippi, this Court held that it was error to admit the petitioner's fingerprints into evidence at his trial for rape, because they had been obtained during a police detention following a lawless wholesale roundup of the petitioner and more than 20 other youths. Equating the procedures followed by the grand jury in the present case to the fingerprint detentions in Davis, the Court of Appeals reasoned that
"the dragnet effect here, where approximately twenty persons were subpoenaed for purposes of identification, has the same invidious effect on fourth amendment rights as the practice condemned in Davis."
In view of a clear conflict between this decision and one in the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, we granted the Government's petition for certiorari.
The Court of Appeals correctly rejected the contention that the compelled production of the voice exemplars would violate the Fifth Amendment. It has long been held that the compelled display of identifiable physical characteristics infringes no interest protected by the privilege against compulsory self-incrimination. In Holt v. United States, Mr. Justice Holmes, writing for the Court, dismissed as an "extravagant extension of the Fifth Amendment" the argument that it violated the privilege to require a defendant to put on a blouse for identification purposes. He explained that "the prohibition of compelling a man in a criminal court to be witness against himself is a prohibition of the use of physical or moral compulsion to extort communications from him, not an exclusion of his body as evidence when it may be material."
More recently, in Schmerber v. California, we relied on Holt, and noted that:
"Both federal and state courts have usually held that the privilege offers no protection against compulsion to submit to fingerprinting, photographing, or measurements, to write or speak for identification, to appear in court, to stand, to assume a stance, to walk, or to make a particular gesture. The distinction which has emerged, often expressed in different ways, is that the privilege is a bar against compelling 'communications' or 'testimony,' but that compulsion which makes a suspect or accused the source of 'real or physical evidence' does not violate it."
The Court held that the extraction and chemical analysis of a blood sample involved no "shadow of testimonial compulsion upon or enforced communication by the accused." These cases led us to conclude in Gilbert v. California that handwriting exemplars were not protected by the privilege against compulsory self-incrimination. While "one's voice and handwriting are, of course, means of communication," we held that a "mere handwriting exemplar, in contrast to the content of what is written, like the voice or body itself, is an identifying physical characteristic outside its protection."
And similarly in United States v. Wade, we found no error in compelling defendant accused of bank robbery to utter in a lineup words that had allegedly been spoken by the robber. The accused there was "required to use his voice as an identifying physical characteristic, not to speak his guilt."
Wade and Gilbert definitively refute any contention that the compelled production of the voice exemplars in this case would violate the Fifth Amendment. The voice recordings were to be used solely to measure the physical properties of the witnesses' voices, not for the testimonial or communicative content of what was to be said.
The Court of Appeals held that the Fourth Amendment required a preliminary showing of reasonableness before a grand jury witness could be compelled to furnish a voice exemplar, and that in this case the proposed "seizures" of the voice exemplars would be unreasonable because of the large number of witnesses summoned by the grand jury and directed to produce such exemplars. We disagree.
The Fourth Amendment guarantees that all people shall be "secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures. . . ." Any Fourth Amendment violation in the present setting must rest on a lawless governmental intrusion upon the privacy of "persons," rather than on interference with "property relationships or private papers." In Terry v. Ohio, the Court explained the protection afforded to "persons" in terms of the statement in Katz v. United States that "the Fourth Amendment protects people, not places," and concluded that "wherever an individual may harbor a reasonable 'expectation of privacy,' . . . The is entitled to be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion."
As the Court made clear in Schmerber, the obtaining of physical evidence from a person involves a potential Fourth Amendment violation at two different levels—the "seizure" of the "person" necessary to bring him into contact with government agents, and the subsequent search for and seizure of the evidence. In Schmerber, we found the initial seizure of the accused justified as a lawful arrest, and the subsequent seizure of the blood sample from his body reasonable in light of the exigent circumstances.
And in Terry, we concluded that neither the initial seizure of the person, an investigatory "stop" by a policeman, nor the subsequent search, a "pat-down" of his outer clothing for weapons, constituted a violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments. The constitutionality of the compulsory production of exemplars from a grand jury witness necessarily turns on the same dual inquiry—whether either the initial compulsion of the person to appear before the grand jury or the subsequent directive to make a voice recording is an unreasonable "seizure" within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment.
It is clear that a subpoena to appear before a grand jury is not a "seizure" in the Fourth Amendment sense, even though that summons may be inconvenient or burdensome. Last Term, we again acknowledged what has long been recognized, that "citizens generally are not constitutionally immune from grand jury subpoenas. . . ." We concluded that:
"Although the powers of the grand jury are not unlimited, and are subject to the supervision of a judge, the longstanding principle that 'the public . . . has a right to every man's evidence,' except for those persons protected by a constitutional, common law, or statutory privilege, is particularly applicable to grand jury proceedings."
These are recent reaffirmations of the historically grounded obligation of every person to appear and give his evidence before the grand jury. "The personal sacrifice involved is a part of the necessary contribution of the individual to the welfare of the public." And while the duty may be "onerous" at times, it is "necessary to the administration of justice." The compulsion exerted by a grand jury subpoena differs from the seizure effected by an arrest or even an investigative "stop" in more than civic obligation. For, as Judge Friendly wrote for the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit:
"The latter is abrupt, is effected with force or the threat of it, and often in demeaning circumstances, and, in the case of arrest, results in a record involving social stigma. A subpoena is served in the same manner as other legal process; it involves no stigma whatever; if the time for appearance is inconvenient, this can generally be altered; and it remains at all times under the control and supervision of a court."
Thus, the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit correctly recognized in a case subsequent to the one now before us, that a
"grand jury subpoena to testify is not that kind of governmental intrusion on privacy against which the Fourth Amendment affords protection, once the Fifth Amendment is satisfied."
This case is thus quite different from Davis v. Mississippi, on which the Court of Appeals primarily relied. For, in Davis, it was the initial seizure—the lawless dragnet detention—that violated the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments, not the taking of the fingerprints. We noted that "investigatory seizures would subject unlimited numbers of innocent persons to the harassment and ignominy incident to involuntary detention," and we left open the question whether, consistently with the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments, narrowly circumscribed procedures might be developed for obtaining fingerprints from people when there was no probable cause to arrest. Davis is plainly inapposite to a case where the initial restraint does not itself infringe the Fourth Amendment.
This is not to say that a grand jury subpoena is some talisman that dissolves all constitutional protections. The grand jury cannot require a witness to testify against himself. It cannot require the production by a person of private books and records that would incriminate him. The Fourth Amendment provides protection against a grand jury subpoena duces tecum too sweeping in its terms "to be regarded as reasonable."
And last Term, in the context of a First Amendment claim, we indicated that the Constitution could not tolerate the transformation of the grand jury into an instrument of oppression:
"Official harassment of the press undertaken not for purposes of law enforcement but to disrupt a reporter's relationship with his news sources would have no justification. Grand juries are subject to judicial control and subpoenas to motions to quash. We do not expect courts will forget that grand juries must operate within the limits of the First Amendment as well as the Fifth."
But we are here faced with no such constitutional infirmities in the subpoena to appear before the grand jury or in the order to make the voice recordings. There is, as we have said, no valid Fifth Amendment claim. There was no order to produce private books and papers, and no sweeping subpoena duces tecum. And even if Branzburg be extended beyond its First Amendment moorings and tied to a more generalized due process concept, there is still no indication in this case of the kind of harassment that was of concern there.
The Court of Appeals found critical significance in the fact that the grand jury had summoned approximately 20 witnesses to furnish voice exemplars. We think that fact is basically irrelevant to the constitutional issues here. The grand jury may have been attempting to identify a number of voices on the tapes in evidence, or it might have summoned the 20 witnesses in an effort to identify one voice. But whatever the case, "a grand jury's investigation is not fully carried out until every available clue has been run down and all witnesses examined in every proper way to find if a crime has been committed. . . ."
As the Court recalled last Term,
"Because its task is to inquire into the existence of possible criminal conduct and to return only well founded indictments, its investigative powers are necessarily broad."
The grand jury may well find it desirable to call numerous witnesses in the course of an investigation. It does not follow that each witness may resist a subpoena on the ground that too many witnesses have been called. Neither the order to Dionisio to appear nor the order to make a voice recording was rendered unreasonable by the fact that many others were subjected to the same compulsion.
But the conclusion that Dionisio's compulsory appearance before the grand jury was not an unreasonable "seizure" is the answer to only the first part of the Fourth Amendment inquiry here. Dionisio argues that the grand jury's subsequent directive to make the voice recording was itself an infringement of his rights under the Fourth Amendment. We cannot accept that argument.
In Katz v. United States, we said that the Fourth Amendment provides no protection for what "a person knowingly exposes to the public, even in his own home or office. . . ." The physical characteristics of a person's voice, its tone and manner, as opposed to the content of a specific conversation, are constantly exposed to the public. Like a man's facial characteristics, or handwriting, his voice is repeatedly produced for others to hear. No person can have a reasonable expectation that others will not know the sound of his voice, any more than he can reasonably expect that his face will be a mystery to the world. As the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit stated:
"Except for the rare recluse who chooses to live his life in complete solitude, in our daily lives we constantly speak and write, and while the content of a communication is entitled to Fourth Amendment protection . . . the underlying identifying characteristics—the constant factor throughout both public and private communications— are open for all to see or hear. There is no basis for constructing a wall of privacy against the grand jury which does not exist in casual contacts with strangers. Hence, no intrusion into an individual's privacy results from compelled execution of handwriting or voice exemplars; nothing is being exposed to the grand jury that has not previously been exposed to the public at large."
The required disclosure of a person's voice is thus immeasurably further removed from the Fourth Amendment protection than was the intrusion into the body effected by the blood extraction in Schmerber.
"The interests in human dignity and privacy which the Fourth Amendment protects forbid any such intrusions on the mere chance that desired evidence might be obtained."
Similarly, a seizure of voice exemplars does not involve the "severe, though brief, intrusion upon cherished personal security," effected by the "pat-down" in Terry—"surely . . . an annoying, frightening, and perhaps humiliating experience." Rather, this is like the fingerprinting in Davis, where, though the initial dragnet detentions were constitutionally impermissible, we noted that the fingerprinting itself "involves none of the probing into an individual's private life and thoughts that marks an interrogation or search."
Since neither the summons to appear before the grand jury nor its directive to make a voice recording infringed upon any interest protected by the Fourth Amendment, there was no justification for requiring the grand jury to satisfy even the minimal requirement of "reasonableness" imposed by the Court of Appeals. A grand jury has broad investigative powers to determine whether a crime has been committed and who has committed it. The jurors may act on tips, rumors, evidence offered by the prosecutor, or their own personal knowledge. No grand jury witness is "entitled to set limits to the investigation that the grand jury may conduct." And a sufficient basis for an indictment may only emerge at the end of the investigation when all the evidence has been received.
"It is impossible to conceive that . . . the examination of witnesses must be stopped until a basis is laid by an indictment formally preferred, when the very object of the examination is to ascertain who shall be indicted."
Since Dionisio raised no valid Fourth Amendment claim, there is no more reason to require a preliminary showing of reasonableness here than there would be in the case of any witness who, despite the lack of any constitutional or statutory privilege, declined to answer a question or comply with a grand jury request. Neither the Constitution nor our prior cases justify any such interference with grand jury proceedings.
The Fifth Amendment guarantees that no civilian may be brought to trial for an infamous crime "unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury." This constitutional guarantee presupposes an investigative body "acting independently of either prosecuting attorney or judge," whose mission is to clear the innocent, no less than to bring to trial those who may be guilty. Any holding that would saddle a grand jury with minitrials and preliminary showings would assuredly impede its investigation and frustrate the public's interest in the fair and expeditious administration of the criminal laws. The grand jury may not always serve its historic role as a protective bulwark standing solidly between the ordinary citizen and an overzealous prosecutor, but if it is even to approach the proper performance of its constitutional mission, it must be free to pursue its investigations unhindered by external influence or supervision so long as it does not trench upon the legitimate rights of any witness called before it.
Since the Court of Appeals found an unreasonable search and seizure where none existed, and imposed a preliminary showing of reasonableness where none was required, its judgment is reversed and this case is remanded to that court for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.
It is so ordered.
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The recently established Ford administration has announced new revisions will soon be implemented to the prior government's amendments to the Employment Standards Act. The apparent impetus for these pro-business changes was that the prior revisions were the cause of higher prices and the need to reduce staff.
The first to go will be the promised increases to the minimum wage. This will now be remain at $14 per hour and the planned increment to $15 will be eliminated. This $14 rate will, however, be tied to inflation beginning in the fall of 2020. The present government declined to roll back the wage increase to $14 as this would be "immensely unfair" to the workers.
There will also be amendments to this issue as well. Under the present "new" law, employees are entitled to up to 10 personal emergency leave days annually, two of which are paid.
The "newer new" law will allow for up to three such days, all of which are unpaid. Three days are allowed for personal illness, two of these days will be for bereavement leave and three will be allocated for family responsibility. Unlike the prior new law, the newer new law will permit the employer to request a medical certificate attesting to an illness.
The recently enacted amendments allow for the same sum to be paid for part-time and casual staff as full-time employees. The apparent purpose was to prevent a part-time economy. This provision will also be scrapped. The law which mandates the same pay for male and female employees will remain.
The prior law required the employer to prove that a worker is not an employee and rather a contract worker. This provision will be repealed.
As noted above the newer new law has been presented for first reading this week. More changes may yet follow.
Whether you be employer or employee, it is important to be current on the dynamics of this seemingly ever changing law. Stay current. For advice on this issue from either side, contact the offices of Toronto employment lawyers Grosman Gale Fletcher Hopkins. We regularly advise workplace parties on a wide range of legal workplace issues. Contact us online or by phone at 416 364 9599 to schedule a consultation.
 By the Liberal government's the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act. The new revisions are to be enacted by the Making Ontario Open for Business Act which recently was presented for first reading.


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Garcia Wins As Late Restart Spikes Emotions at Five Flags
While Jake Garcia celebrated the win, two drivers who went into a lap 80 restart hoping to challenge Garcia for the win were left frustrated with one another.
by Zach Evans on Nov 8, 2021
In an encore performance of his last-lap pass at Montgomery Motor Speedway to start the month of May, Jake Garcia went to victory lane at Five Flags Speedway in the Allen Turner Pro Late Model Series by passing Kyle Plott with two laps to go in the 100-lap event. While Garcia celebrated the win, two drivers who went into a lap 80 restart hoping to challenge Garcia for the win were left frustrated with one another.
Garcia took the lead on the second lap of the race and maintained the top spot until the caution flew with 80 laps complete. Garcia took the outside lane for the restart, with Connor Okrzesik lining up to his inside. That restart also allowed Kyle Plott to join the battle for the win, with all three drivers battling fiercely and making contact over the next few laps.
When the dust settled, Plott led the way, with Garcia rallying to play catch-up and Okrzesik falling through the field with damage. Garcia chased down Plott, taking the lead with two laps to go, while Plott settled for second and Okrzesik fell to eighth.
The lap 80 caution was the last thing Garcia wanted to see after leading nearly every lap to start the race.
"That caution came out, and I was really struggling and debating whether or not to take the top on that restart," Garcia told Speed51. "I took the outside, so, I don't know, it kind of worked out but not really."
"We all got stacked up there and went three wide. I didn't want to crash my race car over it, so I just hung back, waited for themselves to get sorted out, and passed them all."
When Garcia set his sights on Plott hoping to retake the lead, he flashed back to his win over Christopher Tullis at Montgomery on May 1, hoping to recapture that late race magic.
I was thinking back to a couple of weeks ago at Montgomery. We were a straightaway behind Christopher Tullis with 10 to go or whatever it was. Just being able to run consistent laps and ask the most out of your car without hurting yourself or making a mistake. I think that's what I was trying to do, the same thing as last week, just reel him in and pass him.
— Jake Garcia
"I told my guys over the radio, 'Man, these Pro Late Model races stress me out.' It's too, too close. A couple of weeks ago, we won with one to go. Tonight, we won with two to go. Maybe next time, on lap 97 we'll take the lead."
As jubilant as Garcia was following his win, Plott and Okrzesik were equally frustrated in defeat. The two briefly exchanged words on the front stretch following the race, and did not mince words when discussing the late-race restart afterwards.
"I had a really good run coming out of two and made it three wide," said Plott describing his view of the lap 80 restart. "I knew it wasn't going to work, three-wide never works. I backed out, gathered everything back up. We went into one, and I think Jake was up under [Okrzesik], I was up under Jake. Just one of those chain deals. I was there and couldn't let off. I got into them and they both went out of the way. It worked out for me and I took the lead.
"Passing the 14 [of Okrzesik], he wants to right-rear me down the front straightaway. He ain't ever had no problems with me, but he better know I'm not one to mess with. We'll see. His dad wants to flip me off and call me all kind of names."
Okrzesik shared a differing view of the late-race battle.
"I was really surprised when Jake chose the outside," said Okrzesik. "It obviously worked out for him in the end because third place, we had a freaking monkey who can't drive a race car to save his life, apparently.
"It felt like a power steering belt or something came off. I got taken three-wide three times by the same car, then I got ran over, then I got doored."
"I wouldn't have been mad if I had gotten moved. It's just time after time. It's not the first time I've had trouble with this idiot. It won't be the last time I have trouble with him, either. I'm sure it will continue. I hate to say that, but it is."
Plott was disappointed to come away with a runner-up finish, but tipped his cap to Garcia on his late-race charge to the win and took solace in finding speed since his last appearance at Five Flags.
"I'm frustrated," said Plott. "We had a good car. We definitely improved from our last race here. We went back to the shop and did a lot of work just trying to figure out what we needed to do to get the car handling better. We got it there, we've just got a little more work to do.
"I'm happy we could end with second place and glad I could race with Jake. He had a really good car, he had us beat, no doubt. He raced us clean, got around us and took off."
Okrzesik was also happy to see Garcia ultimately took the win.
"I love the fact that Jake won," said Okrzesik. "He's one of my favorite drivers on the race track. If I'm gonna get beat, it's going to be by Jake and I'll be fine with that if it's anybody."
Defending Allen Turner Pro Late Model Series champion Chris Davidson finished third, with Charlie Keven and John Bolen completing the top-five.
The Allen Turner Pro Late Model Series will return to action on August 20. The next race date for Five Flags Speedway is June 4, headlined by the season opener for the Deep South Crane Blizzard Series for Super Late Models.
-Story by: Zach Evans, Speed51 Content Supervisor – Twitter: @ztevans
Unofficial Results – Allen Turner Pro Late Models at Five Flags
Jake Garcia
Kyle Plott
Chris Davidson
Charlie Keeven
John Bolen
Dylan Fetcho
Connor Okrzesik
Ryan Luza
Augie Grill
Elliott Massey
Colin Allman
Rafe Slate
Steven Chunn
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Steven Davis
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Using funding from the CRUK–EPSRC Multidisciplinary Project Award, Mathematician Dr John MacKenzie from the University of Strathclyde and molecular biologist Professor Robert Insall from the CRUK Beatson Institute have teamed up their respective skills to take a novel approach to understanding cell migration.
Understanding the transformative influence that new skills and techniques can bring to research, Robert and John have brought together a group of mathematicians, statisticians and cell biologists to tackle one of the most fundamental challenges in cancer research – metastasis.
In isolation, classical mathematical approaches – excellent at uncovering linear pathways – struggle to explain the complexity of positive feedback and self-organisation involved in cell migration. To overcome this, the team are using a combination of theoretical and experimental components.
They are first designing new realistic computational models to describe how individual molecules drive the shape, movement and steering of a cell when it is driven out of a primary tumour and into the blood, lymph and surrounding tissues – a process which is responsible for around 9 in 10 deaths in people with solid tumours. The theoretical results are then tested experimentally by tracking melanoma cells using video microscopy, with the team adapting their predictions for comparison to data derived from real tumours.
Robert contacted the mathematics department at Strathclyde back in 2008 looking for possible collaborators willing to get involved with the computational modelling of cell migration and chemotaxis (the process of cells moving across self-generated gradients of molecular signals, which are created when cells take up or break down the molecules around them). He was particularly interested in models that could explain the experimentally observed phenomena of pseudopod splitting and its role in chemo-taxis.
Although I had no previous experience of mathematical modelling in biology, I was fascinated by Robert's movies of cell chemotaxis. As a team we worked well and made rapid progress with an initial model that captured many aspects of real cell behaviour in a relatively simple system.
As well as progressing their understanding of metastasis, which can hopefully lead to improving treatments and survival rates, both researchers will be armed with new insight they can carry with them to other areas of their research.
This simulation demonstrates how mathematical modelling can uncover unexpected traits of cancer cell movement. Here, the cell is initially surrounded by equal amounts of ligand (the chemical it is attracted to). The simulation plots the cell's response to changing concentrations, caused by slight imbalances in the rate at which the cell breaks down the ligand - blue indicates low levels around the cell and red indicates high levels. As the cell breaks down the ligand it changes shape and distribution of surface receptors which interact with the chemical, resulting in distinct patterns of movement.
The results of this multidisciplinary study will help researchers to further understand the range and capabilities of self-organisation. This will encourage future research into the causes of metastasis, allowing clinicians to better identify what causes tumour cells to spread in vivo and leading to more accurate diagnosis and the development of metastatic treatments. This simulation demonstrates how mathematical modelling can uncover unexpected traits of cancer cell movement. Here, the cell is initially surrounded by equal amounts of ligand (the chemical it is attracted to). The simulation plots the cell's response to changing concentrations, caused by slight imbalances in the rate at which the cell breaks down the ligand - blue indicates low levels around the cell and red indicates high levels. As the cell breaks down the ligand it changes shape and distribution of surface receptors which interact with the chemical, resulting in distinct patterns of movement.
The committee who reviewed Robert and John's application agreed that the team's proposal outlined a clear set of complementary and realistic experiments. They praised the high quality of the mathematical models John had designed, and felt Robert's previous work and expertise in different approaches to experiment design provided a strong indication that, together, the team could achieve what they proposed.
The Multidisciplinary Project Award is co-funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) . The next deadline for the scheme is 25 January 2017, please get in touch if you'd like to discuss a project idea.


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Treasury computer systems hacked!
A group of hackers of Russian origin are requesting US$10 million from the Government of Costa Rica for the information apparently stolen
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QCOSTARICA – The Ministerio de Hacienda (Ministry of Finance) admitted the exposure of historical data from the General Directorate of Customs and reported that investigations are being carried out in this regard.
The Treasury accepted that its computer systems were hacked and that there was public exposure of data from the National Customs Service, but assured that the information is of a historical nature. (Rafael Pacheco Granados)
Initially, Hacienda did not use the word "hacked" with respect to its website and services such as Administración Tributaria Virtual (ATV) – Virtual Tax Administration and the Tecnología de Información para el Control Aduanero (TIC@) – Information Technology for Customs Control, that were temporarily suspended and the services will be restarted once the analyzes are finished.
However, following an alert on Twitter by Better Cyber of a cyberattack by a group of hackers of Russian origin, Conti, requesting US$10 million from the Government of Costa Rica for the information apparently stolen, the Minister of Finance, Elián Villegas, said in an interview that the government will not pay any hacker for the information .
"We ask only 10M USD for your taxpayers' data" reads the message.
🚨 Latest update from #Conti:
"We ask only 10m USD for keeping your taxpayers' data" pic.twitter.com/cTrHnLMYfj
— BetterCyber (@_bettercyber_) April 18, 2022
Better Cyber claimed that Conti downloaded a Terabyte of data from the Hacienda systems, and would release it on April 23.
The cyberattack is a Ransomware (extortion program) that restricts access to files on an infected system by encoding them and requesting money in exchange for reversing this situation.
This morning the Hacienda website (https://www.hacienda.go.cr/) is still down.
On Facebook, Hacienda assured that the exposed information does not affect the operational or control actions carried out by the National Customs Service.
"Since early today we have been facing a situation in some of our servers, which has been attended by our staff and by external experts, who during the last few hours have tried to detect and repair the situations that are occurring.
"This Ministry has made the decision to allow the investigation teams to carry out an in-depth analysis of the information systems, for which it has made the decision to temporarily suspend some platforms such as ATV and TIC@, and the services will be restarted once the teams complete their analyses (…) The data identified so far are of a historical nature and are used by the National Customs Service as inputs and support," reads part of the statement.
The Ministry of Finance also issued an alert that users (taxpayers) are not being asked to reset their access codes.
"Unscrupulous people have been contacting citizens on behalf of this Ministry, to request the reset of their access codes to computer systems.
"The Ministry of Finance clarifies that it is not requesting the regeneration of any type of password and reminds the population that our officials will never request passwords, access codes, installation of computer programs or access to their bank accounts. If you receive calls or messages of doubtful origin, notify the OIJ, through the numbers 800-8000-645 and 8800-0645."
For its part, the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación, Tecnología y Telecomunicaciones (Micitt) – Ministry of Science, Technology and Telecommunications – confirmed that, since this Sunday, April 17, it informed the Treasury about the alleged "malicious activity" of the Conti cybercriminal group, in the ATV and the TICA, administered by Customs.
The Computer Security Incident Response Center (CSIRT-CR), of the Micitt, was the body that detected the alleged publication of ransomware in the tax and customs systems.
The Director of Digital Governance, Jorge Mora, explained that in September 2021 and on March 15 of this year, alerts were sent as part of the monitoring carried out with public institutions.
According to a report by the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), cyberattacks by the Conti group have increased to more than 1,000 internationally in recent months.
"In typical Conti ransomware attacks, cybercriminals steal files and documents from servers, then demand a ransom payment," a CISA statement said.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued an alert last May about Conti attacks in the United States and revealed that the extortion to release sensitive information has reached up to US$25 million.
Extension to pay taxes
This Monday, taxes such as the impuesto sobre el valor agregado (IVA) – value added tax (VAT) – the selective consumption tax, casinos and games, the single tax on fuels, alcoholic beverages, the simplified regime, among others, was to be paid.
"Given the situation with various Treasury computer systems, we have made the decision to extend the presentation and payment of some taxes, such as VAT, until we report that the systems are fully restored. In the case of exports, we are applying an emergency system that allows us to continue with the process on a regular basis," Miniser Villegas stressed.
The issuance of certificates of legal status in digital and physical format by the National Registry was also suspended due to the impossibility of making inquiries in the Treasury databases. The service will be reactivated until the treasury platforms are restarted.
Additionally, the Customs Service will apply a contingency plan so as not to affect the process of exporting goods.
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Boundary Tussle: A'Ibom, C'River Blame FG For Continued Bloodletting
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Apparently disturbed by the festering boundary conflict between Ikot Offiong community in Odukpani Local Government Area of Cross River State and Oku Iboku communities in Itu Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State that has continued to take the lives of citizens in the conflict area, the two states are currently blaming the Federal Government for the protracted crisis.
Governments of the two states are finding it hard to understand why Abuja was delaying in demarcating the boundary between the two bloodletting areas by the National Boundary Commission (NBC).
Akwa Ibom Deputy Governor, Moses Ekpo and his Cross River counterpart, Ivara Ejemot Esu, made their feelings known at a three-day meeting of officials of their Inter-state Boundary held at Uyo, the Akwa Ibom state capital.
Esu, a professor, said the expected action from the NBC which has been dragging for too long, has given room for the escalation of the conflict between the warring communities in Odukpani and Itu, leading to destruction of avoidable human lives and property.
While pointing out that the boundary commission should carry out physical demarcation on ground at the boundary points, Esu urged Abuja to expedite actions on the matter as he and Ekpo jointly called on the federal government to establish projects such as fishing industry to benefit the people, in addition to the establishment of either a Military or Naval base to ensure maintenance of security cover to the affected communities.
Ekpo specifically stressed the need for the government to construct the Calabar – Itu – Road to ease movement of goods and services to enhance integration between the people.
In a communique later read by the Acting Director General of the NBC, Adamu Adaji, which was signed by the two deputy governors, the meeting resolved that, the field exercise for the permanent demarcation will commence with the identification of the boundary points for documentation from this coming November 11 to December 10.
Surveyor General of the two states, according to the document, are to meet and strategise on the best ways to ensure the success of the demarcation exercise before the commencement date of November 2019 and communicate same to the Surveyor General of the Federation.
While it was agreed that the Surveyor General of the Federation should award the contract for the emplacement of the boundary pillars immediately after the identification of the points among others, he is also expected to be in regular communication with his counterpart in both states to ensure that the exercise was accomplished.
The boundary commission is to monitor the preparedness of the states and ensure that all necessary arrangements are made as the two states concerned are to provide their respective contingents on the Joint Field Team, the required logistics support to ensure their uninterrupted participation in the demarcation work.
Meanwhile, Akwa Ibom and Cross River are to continuously reach out to the affected communities through their relevant local government councils and their traditional institutions on the need to maintain peace in the flash points.
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An Expert Discusses Celebrity Weight Loss
By Misty Karam
Jackie Keller helped Uma Thurman get her post-baby body picture-perfect.
Celebrity weight loss astounds and amazes the general public. You see it time after time-- mere weeks after giving birth, celebrity moms are back in their "skinny" jeans. And, who hasn't marveled at the stunning transformations both male and female stars make for the movies? According to Jackie Keller, nutrition expert and the founder of NutriFit, healthy, rapid weight loss is possible for everyone.
Meet Jackie Keller
LoveToKnow (LTK): Tell us about your background.
Diet for a Pear Shape
Why Do People Diet?
Jackie Keller (JK): I am a graduate of USC, and have attended and completed UCLA's widely respected Professional Fitness Instruction Certificate Program. I also attended Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, France, for professional chef's instruction. Before starting NutriFit in 1987, I spent nearly 10 years in hotel/restaurant management, and ended my (non-self-employed) career in high technology as a Director of Human Resources.
LTK: Tell us about Body After Baby. What prompted you to write the book?
JK: Following my own experience of having two children, and after years of working with women who shared the same dilemmas revolving around body image and self-esteem in the postpartum period, I had the opportunity to work with Uma Thurman. The book has been a catalyst for this work.
Body After Baby by Jackie Keller
LTK: You have said that Uma Thurman was your inspiration for Body After Baby. How did she inspire you?
JK: Uma's tremendous success helped me believe that women everywhere might benefit from a book that really had all of the ingredients necessary for anyone, postpartum or not, to be successful. It was the easiest and most logical way to share the information with what I hope would be a large number of people.
LTK: Can a "regular" woman, without the resources of Hollywood, achieve the same results?
JK: Without a doubt - the Body After Baby 30-day plan is for ANYONE.
LTK: Is rapid postpartum weight loss safe?
JK: The body is pre-disposed to weight loss in the postpartum period. Rapid weight loss can be the result of a sound, well-balanced program that promotes consistency of effort. That's what the Body After Baby plan is all about. Its completely safe, doctor-approved, and the rate of weight loss will vary from person to person. But safe, and usually rapid!
LTK: Is it safe even for nursing mothers?
JK: The 30-day plan is for nursing mothers. For those not nursing, each day contains a recommendation for which foods to take out of the plan. This plan doesn't adversely affect the production of breast milk at all.
LTK: What are the basics of your plan?
JK: Three meals, three snacks/day, 1800-2200 calories for breastfeeding moms, 1500-1600 calories for non-breastfeeding women (Moms or not), plus 30 days of safe and effective movements designed to be done with minimal equipment in a time-efficient manner.
LTK: Is it a fad diet?
JK: It's not a diet at all. It's a healthy eating plan that someone can start anytime, and follow for life.
LTK: Is there anything you would like to add?
JK: I really believe that eating well needs to be a life-long habit - and belongs in the same category as good hygiene. It's also as simple as that!
LTK: Celebrities seem to recover their pre-pregnancy bodies overnight. Why do they get in shape so much faster than the average woman?
JK: They're more motivated to get on it right away. Most of the rest of us don't feel we will be "on show," and we give ourselves permission to be a bit "lazier" in that regard.
LTK: Which celebrity client had the most remarkable transformation?
JK: Tia Carrere and Uma Thurman. Working with Tia Carrere has been an amazing experience. She's very down-to-earth, and so is her husband, photojournalist Simon Wakelin, whose love for her shows in the remarkable photographs he's taken. They have a fabulous home with a magnificent, panoramic view, and Tia, who really loves hiking and outdoor activities, takes daily hikes with her baby, Bianca, strapped into a baby carrier in front (for the view). She relies on the meals completely, as so does her husband - they both use NutriFit to stay healthy, and Tia has lost 50 pounds, and she looks incredible.
LTK: Is a sweet tooth ever an issue in celebrity weight loss?
JK: When I found out that Uma had a penchant for chocolate, I made it my mission to include NutriFit chocolate desserts as often as possible! From darkly rich, NutriFit Double Chocolate Fudge Cake, to deliciously decadent NutriFit Fudgy Brownies, Uma's menus had just enough of the healthy delights to keep her focused and "on the plan", instead of indulging in M & M's! Watching her train for some of the incredible stunts/shots in Kill Bill was really amazing - as she is quite formidable when "flying through the air".
LTK: You've worked with some of Hollywood's funniest men. What was that like?
JK: Hysterical, and a real pleasure. Will Ferrell is charming and never said "no" to a request for autographs. He was generous with compliments about his NutriFit meals.
George Carlin is very nice. He calls us to provide organic soups. It's so funny, because he calls just every so often and says, "How about some soup?", just like you spoke with him yesterday. Bill Maher is, well, a bit different.
Martin Lawrence is a hoot, but he's very serious about his diet, and well-attended by his lovely young wife, Shamicka Gibbs. She's a real beauty, and quite the devoted mom & wife - taking "very good care of her man" is what this mother of 3 little girls does best!
Learn more about Jackie's postpartum weight-loss plan at LoveToKnow Pregnancy.
Visit Jackie's site, JackieKeller.com.
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Gigabit vouchers are available for small businesses, and the local communities surrounding them, to contribute to the installation cost of a gigabit capable connection.
Eligible businesses can claim up to £2,500 against the cost of connection, either individually or as part of a group project. Residents can also benefit from the scheme with a voucher worth £500.
The scheme is now even easier for groups of residents to pool their vouchers together with small and medium-sized businesses in project schemes.


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Joseph J. Garboczi passed away on Friday, February 15, 2013, at Lancaster General Hospital, Lancaster PA. He had resided at Pleasant View Retirement Community, Manheim PA, for 11 years prior to his hospitalization.
He was born in Wilkes-Barre Township August 19, 1919, son of the late Nicholas & Madeline (Dobos) Garboczi. He resided in Kingston, PA from 1946 to 2002. He was a graduate of Wilkes-Barre Township High School and Wyoming Seminary Dean School of Business and had taken courses at Wilkes College.
Prior to his retirement he was employed by the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Wilkes-Barre for 33 years as chief of Purchase & Contract Section. One of the last contracts he supervised was the building of the new VA nursing facility in Wilkes-Barre.
Joe was a veteran of WWII in the South Pacific attaining the rank of Sergeant. He served in New Guinea, was wounded in New Britain, and was awarded the Purple Heart.
Joe was a life-long member of the Hungarian Presbyterian Church on Bowman Ave, Kingston, PA, which was destroyed in the 1972 Agnes flood. Joe continued membership in Bennett Presbyterian Church in Luzerne PA where he served as elder and Treasurer. He attended chapel services at Pleasant View.
Surviving him are a sister-in-law, Dorothy (Sorber) Garboczi of Manheim PA; nephews: Joseph Ishley of Decatur, Alabama, John Garboczi of Lancaster PA, and David & Edward Garboczi both of Gaithersburg MD; a niece, Linda Garboczi of Alexandria VA plus seven grandnephews, two grandnieces, three great grandnephews, and one great grandniece.
He was preceded in death in addition to his parents, a sister, Elizabeth Ishley of Wilkes-Barre and a brother, Nicholas Garboczi of Lancaster PA.
The funeral service will be held Saturday February 23 at 11 am at the Hugh B. Hughes Funeral Home, 1044 Wyoming Ave., Forty Fort, PA with Pastor James Quinn officiating. Friends may call Friday evening at the funeral home from 6 to 9 pm and one hour before the service on Saturday. Interment will be in the family plot at Cedar Crest Cemetery, Trucksville PA following the service. In lieu of flowers, contributions in Joe's memory may be sent to Bennett Presbyterian Church, 501 Bennett Street Luzerne PA 18709.
I,too,am a PVRC resident for 12 years & had the pleasure of knowing Joe. He was a very fine person & when you mention his recent passing, the first comment you hear is, "Joe was a gentleman in every sense of the word." I think it is important that you all know that.
May you feel God's presence as you travel through this valley.


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Looking for Kansas City Chiefs vs. Pittsburgh Steelers free Week 2 picks & NFL odds? Week 2 NFL betting sees the Chiefs taking on the Steelers on Sunday September 16th at the Heinz Field . Cappers Picks provides complimentary handicapping picks all NFL season long including all Week 2 games so stay tuned for more FREE NFL predictions like this Kansas City Pittsburgh matchup.
We have reached week two of the NFL season and we already have a few key college football showdowns. That is the case in this game when the Kansas City Chiefs make the trip to Heinz Field to take on the Pittsburgh Steelers.
The last time these two teams faced off was last year when the Steelers came out ahead 19-13.
There were some questions about the Chiefs trading away Alex Smith this offseason and turning over the keys to the franchise to Patrick Mahomes but so far it looks like the trade has worked out in their favor.
Mahomes and Tyrek Hill already have a really good connection and it was the difference in them beating the Los Angeles Chargers.
Mahomes finished the game throwing for 256 yards, four touchdowns, and zero touchdowns. There were some concerns about interceptions but so far it looks like that isn't an issue.
On the defensive side is where the Chiefs are going to have issues and that showed in the first game of the season. They gave up 541 yards which is 32nd in the NFL and they are going to need to figure out a good scheme in this game or Big Ben is going to pick them apart.
Chances are the defense isn't going to be better in this game so it's going to fall on Mahomes having another big game and not turning the ball over.
If Mahomes struggles in this game the Chiefs are going to have a really hard time pulling the upset.
On the other side of this matchup is the Pittsburgh Steelers who come into this game after playing to a draw against the Cleveland Browns which is a very disappointing result.
It was a wet sloppy day but the Steelers really had some issues with turning the ball over and it led to them not being able to come away with a victory.
Big Ben threw for 335 yards and a touchdown but he also threw three interceptions and probably could have thrown one or two more.
He was 23-41 which is very inaccurate for his standards and he needs to be better. He will be facing a bad secondary in this game and he needs to take advantage.
The offense needs to light up the scoreboard and James Conner needs to run wild again in this game. The defense is probably also going to need to create a few turnovers.
The Steelers are mad about the first week and I think they will take it out on the Chiefs.
I think that Big Ben will light up the defense of the Chiefs and it will lead to an easy victory that covers the spread.
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With Thursday's announcement from the Congregation of the Doctrine on the Faith about a revision to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, people have questions. What does this change to the Church's teaching on the death penalty mean? How can the Catechism be changed?
Yesterday Pope Francis updated the Catechism of the Catholic Church regarding the death penalty. It is now inadmissible. This is the second time this paragraph on the death penalty has been revised since the original publication of the Catechism in 1992. The first time was in 1995 after Saint John Paul II's encyclical "Evangelium Vitae." At that time Pope John Paul II specified that the need to use the death penalty was "rare, if non existent." Now the Church teaches that it is inadmissible.
This change represents a prudential judgment by Pope Francis on the practical application of the fifth commandment, "Thou Shalt Not Kill", in the contemporary context of the Church's pro –life efforts and defense of human dignity. Jesus did the same with the woman caught in adultery. This is a change in application of the law, not a change in dogma.
This change does not affect the Church's teaching about legitimate use of lethal force in non-penal situations of self-defense.
Finally, changes in the Catechism do happen from time to time. The second edition of the Catechism notably incorporated changes on the definition of lying and the personal moral culpability for sexual sin.
We pray for the day when all human life, from conception to natural death, may be protected in law, and nurtured by all.
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It's that time of year for the Lakers to pin all their hopes on the whims of 4 plastic balls. What I'm talking about is the NBA Draft lottery and what is now an annual occurrence, the Los Angeles Lakers taking part in the Lottery. They have strict restrictions on their first round pick and how a coded combination of four numbered plastic balls determine whether they either: 1 – keep a top three pick in a front-loaded draft or 2 – transfer a top 4 thru 7 pick to the Philadelphia 76ers as final payment for the Steve Nash trade from the summer of 2012.
1 – The Lou Williams trade saves face – Lou Williams having a bounce-back year earned the Lakers a first-round pick from the Houston Rockets. Yes, it's a late pick but worst case they get an invite to the draft party. Unlike last year, this is a relatively deep draft and drafting 28th can land a strong rotation player the likes of Caleb Swanigan. The pick isn't high enough to move for Paul George but it'll land a decent player.
2 – No. 3 Second Round Pick – This is essentially a late first round pick but with second round contract obligations. Meaning, the Lakers have their pick of the litter on desired long-shots. Lakers landed Zubac last year at the 32nd overall pick and he looks like he'll pan out. These type of players are available at this spot.
3 – Finally, closure on the 2012-13 disaster – 4 years of will they or won't they lose the pick finally ends. After today we'll have full closure on the disastrous Nash/Howard trades as all picks will be transferred and the Lakers can focus on the long-term building process knowing where their draft assets stand. These 4 years of draft purgatory have been an excruciating process.
4 – Lakers are finally headed in the right direction – Gone is the bumbling process that is the Jim Buss era. In Luke Walton the Lakers have the right coach with the right mentality to build a young team around. Magic still owns every room he walks in and will provide the needed, and much improved, face of the franchise. Rob Pelinka seems to be the smart and innovative hire for the GM spot. Mix in small things like a new training facility and it feels like the reset button has been properly hit and the Lakers momentum is headed in the right direction. Not to mention that the rotation of Russell, Clarkson, Nance, Zubac, Randle and Ingram feels like the right mix to build with.


Had TONS of fun at Kommeda's Chef Showdown V event. Check out the re-cap and let me know what you think! Shoutout to everyone and I met and to the founder of Komeeda, Jabber for having me.
Another year means another summer in NYC.
Longer days, longer nights, harder drinks, more drinks, more friends, & of course the Big Apple Barbecue block party!!
But first, what is The Big Apple Barbecue?
2016 marks the 14th annual Big Apple BBQ Block Party. It is an annual barbecue festival that is held in New York City at Madison Square Park.
In the park, there are games, barbecue related samples/products, musical performances, a shaded area with seats, and a beer and wine station among other things. However, on the outskirts of the park, in the street and along the sidewalks are where the food and fun truly lie.
Lining the sidewalks are some of the most well-known Pitmasters from all over the country who come and show off what they can do! This year, there were 14 contestants. I listed them below and you can read more about each pitmaster by clicking on their name, and visit their restaurant's website by clicking on the name of the restaurant.
Have a smokin good Fathers Day weekend y'all!
They bring their squads, their smokers, their best meats, their recipes and their game faces. They feed thousands of hungry new yorkers as they line up for sample-sized plates that are for sale.
scanning through any pictures and videos that I could find of what I felt was a dream event called The Big Apple BBQ.
I had Promised myself that I would catch this huge event one day because I love barbecue so much and genuinely wanted to learn more about it.
Fast forward – Three years and three Big Apple BBQ's later I'm living in New York City, where I've been able to take full advantage of the event which is one of the largest barbecue festivals in the United States.
After my first two experiences, I saw that this event was everything that I had been hoping for and more. I was able to try great food from pitmasters from around the country, began to learn about smokers, techniques, and other real barbecue equipment, and was able to meet some really cool people from all over in the process.
But for my third trip, I really wanted to do something different.
By the time my third Big Apple BBQ experience came around, I felt that I wanted to capture the experience for people who are like I was before. I was just at home looking for the best pictures, videos, and any other coverage on the event that I could find, and although I did get an idea of what the event was like somewhat, I couldn't find anything that I was truly looking for, or that really made me feel like I knew what the event was about, so I decided to try to help by making it on my own.
The day of The Big Apple Barbecue was scorching hot. I took my camera out and tried to get some good shots of the people, food, and the event in general while also attempting to not melt away. Soon after the event, I wrote this post, put the footage together, and uploaded a video that I feel represents The Big Apple BBQ Block Party much better than anything I've seen.
If you're watching this, I encourage you to leave your comments and/or your thoughts.
If you're thinking about trying to make it to The 15th Annual – 2017 Big Apple BBQ Block Party in NYC, it is highly suggested that you do!
You don't like apple pie?
How could you not like apple pie?! I think I can speak for most people when I say it brings a very warm and nostalgic feeling. I didn't used to eat apple pie very often, but after shooting the apple pie contest, I gained a new found respect for it, and I have definitely enjoyed my fair share of pies since. No ice cream included yet, but ask me about that in a week. At the apple pie contest, I was lucky enough to not only learn about making pies, but I also got to meet some cool people who work with food in various ways which I am very thankful for.
no to my request of shooting the event, but luckily, that didn't stop me from asking. I sent the e-mail off thinking something along the lines of "well it's worth a try!". The day after, I received an e-mail back with a few questions. After those were answered, I got the ok! I was amped. Special shoutout to Eva and Mona Creative for letting me shoot this.
n the day of the apple pie contest, I got there pretty early (read: very early). Early enough that people were surprised that I was there for the apple pie contest (and yes that was a little awkward). I stepped outside and got some shots of GG's to burn time. After 45 minutes, I went back inside and Eva looks and me and says, "I don't know what to expect of this event", meanwhile, I was just happy to be there shooting something cool. Slowly but surely, people began to file in. There ended up being 14 different pies, and they were all unique in their own way, but they all had one thing in common – deliciousness!
It was a night full of laughs, light booze, and great pies. What I found very interesting was how the crowd meshed together in its own way. Although not everyone knew each other, it was the type of environment where it didn't feel crazy to just walk up to someone and say hi. That was my favorite part of shooting this event.
This was the first of what will hopefully be many apple pie contests. Who knows, maybe I'll get in the lab for a year and participate in next year's competition. I might just have some tricks up my sleeve because I got to ask some questions.
Thank you for reading this, thank you for (hopefully) watching the video. If you have any constructive feedback or general comments, I'm all ears and you can find me on Twitter, Instagram or Pinterest.
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Holy s*** it's finally up.
pizza because the Providence pizza game is immaculate/undefeated/the best/fire/lit – I'll let you choose how to describe it here.
At the time, I just knew that I wanted to involve pizza somehow/someway and record a video, so I let my mind just chew on the idea as I so often do. Fast forward about a week ( even though I honestly have no clue how much time was in between), It was a warm morning and I was on the A – train heading to work. Suddenly, a large group of very f****** annoying high school students get on the train. After some light thoughts on how annoying I must've been (read: was) in high school, I overheard one of them say something like "I bet you wouldn't eat that if you were blindfolded". It immediately clicked and I suddenly wasn't as mad at these children (read: devils).
But, in all seriousness, Providence has some amazing pizza spots and I felt like this would be a good chance to shine some light on that. I contacted some friends who I thought would be good for the video, and everyone loved the idea so I thought I was on the right path. On the day of the actual shoot, a few people didn't show up so I asked Hil if he'd step in. SO glad that he said yes, because him and Sabrina together were funny as f***, it worked well. I knew Ben was gon' be Ben so that was that, knew Annie would just naturally say something worth capturing, & asked Okie to join in because anything could go from 0-100 when he's around (I've seen it happen). There were so many laughs and so much background commentary that I couldn't cut it all out, which I think is a good problem. We had a lot of fun, and I hope you have at least half as much fun watching as we had eating cold pizza. I planned for this video to be shorter, but I had a hard time trying to cut too much out just to fit a quota I set for myself. That's stupid.
Thank you for reading this, thank you for (hopefully) watching the video. If you have any constructive feedback or comments, I'm all ears and you can find me on Twitter, Instagram or Pinterest. I also love meeting new people, so don't hesitate to reach out to me via my contact page.