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Junnosuke Taguchi, left, and Rena Komine, 38, Photo: YOUTUBE/FNN
Former KAT-TUN singer admits to marijuana use
May 23	04:05 pm JST	 May 30 | 12:06 am JST
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May 23	04:25 pm JST
Who is the snitch?
Honestly, he can do better than her.
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Kaerimashita
What is the point of this? Ridiculous to prosecute. And yes, someone must have grassed them up.
sourpuss
Uh, guys, you know beer is legal, right?
Smart.
Watched this morning on TV was pleasantly suprised with the adult commentary. As one commentor rightly pointed out tobacco and alcohol are both 100% poison. But are OK marijuana is viewed as a gateway drug but there is actually very little proof. In fact it's medical properties are proven. Who cares? Did they destroy property? Harm someone? I find it difficult to fathom why adults at home laughing and relaxing are in someway a threat to society. If that's a threat then tickling my wife is also a crime. 2019 and stupidity should be the crime not a herb that offers nothing but an aromatic smell and a feeling of comfort.
Lock up these menaces to society and throw away the key! Glad to see the J police spending their resources on such high-profile crimes instead of wasting it on traffic enforcement or child abuse cases!
Madden at least this time the police didn't hire an airplane, fly to a outlying island hide in the trees and arrest a cancer patient who was using this devils brew to lessen his pain. Curse this reefer madness, just say no and get really drunk vomit on the street, sexual assault and don't remember. The last thing we need is reefer madness.
sensei258
He's a celebrity, he's going to get a suspended sentence. If it were me, I'd be jailed until my trial and then deported.
Johnny Park
Might as well be the same as jail time when you're a Japanese celebrity. That fall from grace will never recover. Blacklisted, probably chastised from society. Forever be known as the KAT-TUN member who was arrested for drugs.
macv
a real Japanese man for ya - Taguchi told investigators the marijuana belongs to both of them while Komine said it was hers alone.
u_s__reamer
The police mania for prosecuting people for possessing minuscule amounts of cannabis is costing the taxpayers of Japan a pretty penny and is not sustainable in the long run because cannabis is widely used and is gaining acceptance in all developed countries as evidenced by the now unstoppable wave of legalization. The paranoid drug obsessions of the Reiwa "nanny state" fixated on restricting people's freedom to change their consciousness are doomed to failure just like the failed ruinous "war on drugs" waged by a succession of US administrations. "The times they are a-changing even in Japan, but in the meantime, the rule of thumb is, if you want to avoid the risk of getting grassed up in Japan, don't smoke your grass with them.
SaikoPhysco
You all saw the new Law passed last year. Japanese Citizens are forbidden by Law to use Marijuana anywhere in the world even if it is legal where that person is.
JJ Jetplane
That photo is misleading. The photo would lead you to believe they committed murder.
papigiulio
Another problem in Japan with these sort of arrest and the strict law regarding marijuana is the rise of kikendoragu. Self fabricated drugs which are dangerous compared to marijuana due to use of weird substances. Which is why marijuana also has a bad rep here.
@Cricky
Don't believe everything the potheads tell you:
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/01/new-york-times-journalist-alex-berenson-tell-your-children-marijuana-crime-mental-illness-1/
Ganbare Japan!
I am really disappointed in Jun-chan. I never would imagine he would be caught up in using drugs. Unforgivable. KAT-TUN was my 2nd favorite group, after SMAP.
nandakandamanda
Smoke extractor full blast?
It could have been anyone in their apartment block who dobbed them in.
Bungle
And yes, someone must have grassed them up.
I see what you did there. Have a recommend.
Strangerland
What are you basing this on? The one guy I know who got arrested for marijuana possession was not deported.
mph-1212
Police are really going to spend time finding out where they got it? It's not rocket science. Go to Roppongi, talk to the Nigerians, exchange money. But seriously, these pot laws are asinine. 2020 is coming right around the corner and you better believe all sorts of people will be smoking up when they come visit for the Olympics. Oh and apparently Chinese-style censorship is in style now on this website.
finally rich
I have a client, almost 30 years of Japan, clean record, permanent residency.
He is locked up right now at immigration for almost 2 years, as he refuses to be deported.
The cops got marijuana in his urine, he got a suspended sentence but the immigration canceled his visa and issued his deportation.
Regardless of your point of view, drugs are no joke in this place, if you have a life in Japan, stay away from drugs. Anything else will be meaningless.
Do the hustle
Oh, no! How disastrous for Japanese society! These hardened drug users have totally destroyed the reputation of the Japanese music industry both domestically and abroad. They must be severely punished! Their CDs must be removed from sale all over the world and all royalties must be forfeited to the Japanese government for casting such a huge cloud of shame on Japan. They also need to spend many years in jail for their crime against Japanese society. How dare they possess a few grams of pot and admit to using it! (Sarcasm button released)
The knee-jerk proscription of cannabis in Japan has a strong correlation to the growing popularity of "kikendoragu" which are far more harmful, even life-threatening. Pot smokers deserve the same rights as tobacco (nasty!) addicts, so let's have more prescription and less proscription of the natural plant products that can help us chill and make our short sojourn on beautiful planet earth more enjoyable.
Simon Foston
Does anyone really care? If so, why?
Just returned from my daughter's graduation in California, and my favorite memory was a small, warm, dimly-lit dorm room where I toked with her classmates and we talked for hours. Weed has a way of breaking down barriers. Too bad for those two.
Ganbare Japan!Today 06:05 pm JST
I am really disappointed in Jun-chan
"Jun-chan?" Sounds like you're talking about a six-week old pet kitten.
The knee-jerk proscription of cannabis in Japan has a strong correlation to the growing popularity of "kikendoragu" which are far more harmful, even life-threatening.
They are, but I don't believe they are growing in popularity, on the contrary, Japan seems to have managed to pretty much get rid of them.
Seems to me like a harmless act. Japan allowed marijuana cultivation and use before the USA invaded Japan in 1945. Japan tobacco needs to get on board and find a better product to peddle instead of those cancer sticks. Shichimi togarashi even has hemp seeds in it. Wake up Japan.
Yesterday some 'expert' on TV was explaining that after those notorious synthetic loophole drugs got labelled 'Kiken-doraggu' ('Dangerous Drugs'), the bottom dropped out of the market and as a consequence most users have sought refuge back in good old-fashioned Marijuana use.
Ironic, but from a health perspective, an infinitely better choice.
an infinitely better choice.
An infinitely uninformed statement.
Again this is stupid, an outdated law that punishes people for not self harm, not destruction of property. Just doing something in their own home. Sure there would be more complaints were they drunk fighting ranting or having tobacco on their balcony. But it's Japan and personal choices are at the whims of the group. Happiness is to be frowned apon.
thepersoniamnow
Very hard to believe your story. permanent residency is permanent. There are many permanent residents who have been arrested for all kinds of crimes, but your saying immigrations canceled his visa and detained him for two years for a positive piss test??
zichi
Permanent resident can be rescinded whenever the government wants to and there's no appeal or recourse. But getting arrested for a crime and even being imprisoned does not necessarily lead to it being canceled.
The case outlined by rich seems extreme and unusual.
Agreed Zichi.
I am a citizen, but ai know many halfs, permanents, and whatnots, but to piss positive and then have residency revoked...
Would you find that highly irregular?
I am basing my logic simply off of life stories and experience, but it doesn't seem the usual MO.
yes but anything can happen with authorities especially if you piss them off.
Educator60
Finally rich, "The cops got marijuana in his urine, he got a suspended sentence"
If he got a suspended sentence then he must have had a trial and been found guilty. But what were the charges? Use of cannabis isn't a crime here, but possession is. So to be found guilty, there must have been something other than the positive urine test.
JenniSchiebel
I am against drug use too, but "unforgivable"? That's rather harsh.
Very few things in life are unforgivable, and this doesn't even come close to reaching that level.
Words mean things.
smithinjapan
Ganbare Japan: "I am really disappointed in Jun-chan"
You should be disappointed in yourself for the woeful lack of education on the subject in question, while probably enjoying the rampant alcoholism in this nation that occurs during enkai seasons (which is all the time), and even smoking. Japan is ridiculous when it comes to marijuana, although you have to wonder about the origin of the family name 大麻 or such, who obviously dealt in growing hemp or hemp products -- which is MARIJUANA. In fact, I bet you don't know a single thing about it, except you've been told it's ba-a-a-a-a-aaaad.
socrateos
finally rich:
if you have a life in Japan, stay away from drugs...
Yes. You'd better believe it whether you like it or not.
That marijuana is infinitely better than the untested, unregulated, chemicals they sprayed on untested, unregulated herbs - aka kikendoraggu?
No, it's not even remotely uninformed. That 'spice' that they were selling (also called k2 in America) had people smoking, then driving their cars into groups of people. Or freaking out.
Marijuana on the other hand has been tested more than almost any other drug on the planet. Never been anyone who died from it. On the contrary, it helps a lot of health issues.
And you're trying to tell me I'm uninformed. Ummm, yeah, right.
Use of cannabis isn't a crime here, but possession is. So to be found guilty, there must have been something other than the positive urine test.
I had thought they could get someone just for having it in their bloodstream in Japan, due to the Japanese government's threats that they could prosecute their citizens who smoke in Canada, now that it's legal.
But reading back on it, now I think they were making an empty threat, since they can't prove possession in another country.
Gambare Japan.
Isn't admitting that you are way into boy band groups and have first, second and third favorites that you will or will not forgive...kind of sets a (hilarious) stage for you to put yourself on?
You are fully on the J and K pop mania train aren't you?
FYI - Most girls over 18 in most places don't like to admit they are into that nonsense.
@thepersoniamnow
Actually his worst "crime" in this story was being a 100% free foreigner roaming Japan on his permanent visa, no strings attached.
I assume most of permanent residents have a family, japanese kids. He was divorced (ex was a nikkei) and didn't have kids in Japan, a very delicate situation as the Immigration can revoke your residency for literally anything, even traffic offenses.
30 years in Japan, but as he didn't have any links or family in Japan, in the Immigration's eyes he was just a temporary guest who caused trouble and should be sent home. It's almost as if they are waiting for an opportunity to boot out foreigners without any links to Japan. Getting married to a japanese girlfriend while in detention didn't help much.
Danny Nguyen
Such a waste of taxpayer money. What's the purpose of punishing people for something they do in private and yet do not really affect anybody else around them? There are other things that are more worthy of police and prosecution procedures than this. And considering how hectic Japanese society is about working conditions in all spheres, can you blame people for using pot as a means to escape for just a moment? Some US states, Canada, and the Netherlands do fine after legalizing marijuana and after putting forward prevention campaigns against DUI.
Strangerland, "I had thought they could get someone just for having it in their bloodstream in Japan, due to the Japanese government's threats that they could prosecute their citizens who smoke in Canada, now that it's legal."
I think a lot of people just assume that but they're wrong. I've seen retired narcs explain this on TV many times. You could for instance unknowingly/unwillingly ingest by walking past an open window where someone is smoking weed. Or unknowingly eat food containing it (wasn't there a case involving chocolate brought to a dance class or something recently?). You might test positive but it wouldn't be fair to prosecute you for that.
If you read this carefully, you'll find they never actually say they can bust you for simply using overseas.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/10/22/national/canada-legalizes-recreational-marijuana-japanese-citizens-warned-law-home-may-apply/#.XObB0xZcWEc
And this is from the wiki entry for the law:
However, unlike other drug control laws, "possession and use" together will be subject to control, whereas the Cannabis Control Law can not punish for "cannabis use only". This is because hemp is growing in nature and there is a possibility that hemp may be aspirated without knowing it.
Yubaru
The former singer in KAT-TUN, which was created by major entertainment agency Johnny & Associates Inc. in 2001 and released its debut album in 2006, left the group in March 2016 to launch a solo career.
Here is your "snitch", someone in the agency knew about him smoking, and didnt like he being out of Johnny's.
I have a client, almost 30 years of Japan, clean record, permanent residency. He is locked up right now at immigration for almost 2 years, as he refuses to be deported. The cops got marijuana in his urine, he got a suspended sentence but the immigration canceled his visa and issued his deportation.
Cops didnt just stumble upon his urine sample, he had to have been detained or arrested, which says that your story about "clean record" is BS. You say client, what? His "teacher", because if you are his lawyer, I'd fire you in a heartbeat.
Kobe White Bar Owner
Where's the "grass".
Thank you so much for that explanation. I understand better now and totally can see that happening.
Still doesnt explain why the cops got his urine sample though. He had to have been arrested or detained for some type of offense, other than just being a free-range foreigner in Japan.
There are plenty of them down here in Okinawa, and I suspect throughout Japan, and they do nothing to get themselves on the radar of the cops here.
He was smoking in his own apartment, got a bit high a turned up the radio. Pissed neighbors called 110 and one of the cops suspected he wasn't "drunk". 30 years for a joint. He had a clean record, I'm his translator/interpreter. There are many other stories like this (I work with and against the Immi) but the bottom line of all this is that drugs are no joke here, all your life, spotless record, contributions to society will be irrelevant if you get caught.
Kevin Ford
Hopefully he won't get more than 6 months in prison. A medieval unprogressive country in many aspects, smoking a plant with more medical purposes than most prescription drugs and way less dangerous than alcohol. Government controls the people, people do not control the government. Not a democracy.
The way you state it, marijuana seems completely safe and even healthy.
The reality is that there is growing research showing increased consumption and higher potency leading to increased psychosis, and therefore increased suicide and violent behavior.
Sure, cbd oil has shown positive effects for some health issues, but it can be isolated from mj and isn't necessarily consumed in the regular drug form.
I'm not completely against mj, but what I can't stand is the way it seems to get a free pass, when it shouldn't. Alcohol and tobacco are often judged more harshly by mj fans who fail to hold their drug of choice to the same standard.
Finally rich, "30 years for a joint."
So, as I thought, it wasn't a case of being charged solely for the positive test results, but also for possession? But 30 years for a joint? I highly doubt it. Under the Cannabis Control Law, the maximum for possession is 5 years (7 if possession with intent of distribution). It also seems odd that a 30-year sentence would be suspended. I've never heard of suspension being granted for such a long sentence.
Too bad he didn't take a trip to Canada to enjoy his toke in a way more relaxing environment.
Correction: "with intent of distribution"
I think "profit", rather than distribution might be more accurate.
kohakuebisu
My missus said that this was the second ex-member of Kattun to be caught for dope.
In keeping with the treatment of Pierre Taki of Denki Groove, does this mean the airwaves will now be clear of Kat-tun music? Is that too much to hope for?
While they're at it, could they give the same treatment of Morning Musume for their member doing that drunken hit and run? That offends me much more than anyone doing a bit of cocaine.
@kohakuebisu
Lol. Don't start. The list is endless...
sourpuss, good post at 08:40 am today. Roses are beautiful, but they usually have thorns. Neither alcohol, tobacco, nor MJ should get a clean pass. Setting aside the differing laws by country for a moment, let's stay globally objective here.
Northernlife
@finally rich your stories seem pretty far fetched...
@Educator60
read my previous comments, I was referring the guy lost his spotless 30 years working in Japan for a joint because the immigration revoked his residence, the "highest" in terms of freedom and time spent to acquire it (永住権 eijuuken)
@Northernlife
I guess you are talking from experience of paying frequent visits to prisons, detention centers, immigration, courts, bar associations... if so see you around.
No there isn't. You must be mistaken.
It has been shown that people who are predisposed to schizophrenia may have adverse reactions to it. But they were already predisposed.
I've known too many people who smoked too much, without any adverse reactions either instantly, or in the overall scope of their life, and I've read too much research for the fear propaganda to work on me. Any time you see one of those "studies" you speak of, it's actually an author who wrote their own, often incorrect, conclusions on studies that other people did.
Yeah, because alcohol and tobacco are significantly worse for you than marijuana. Decades of studies have shown this.
Never considered marijuana to be problem and better than alcohol. But I know nothing about the more modern potent types. Never tried them.
Chico3
I really want to know if they inhaled.
I'm sure most any guy can do better than her.
Finally rich, "read my previous comments"
I'll skip doing so again as I already had when I responded to your implication that your acquaintance was arrested merely on the basis of a positive marijuana test.
"I was referring the guy lost his spotless 30 years working in Japan for a joint because the immigration revoked"
Well, where I come from "30 years for a joint" means being sentenced to 30 years for possession of a joint. But as you are a translator/interpreter I'm sure you're aware of the importance of precise, careful wording.
"his residence, the "highest" in terms of freedom and time spent to acquire it (永住権 eijuuken)"
Yes, I know. I've had it for more than two decades. It did take a lot of effort to get it and I wouldn't want to lose it.
If you want to remain in Japan has a foreigner with permanent residence then don't do anything which will endanger that, including using banned drugs. Go and take a vacation to Thailand or somewhere and come back clean.
Go and take a vacation to Thailand or somewhere and come back clean.
Thailand is even more dangerous than Japan. Go to Canada, or one of the American states that has legalized recreationally.
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U.S. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey will deliver keynote remarks for the virtual ceremony honoring the winners of the 2021 Toner Prizes for Excellence in Political Reporting. The prerecorded ceremony will be available for viewing March 26 starting at 7 p.m. ET. To register, visit cc.syr.edu/Toner2021.
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The Toner Prizes, sponsored by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, honor the life and work of late alumna Robin Toner '76, the first woman to be national political correspondent for The New York Times. Prizes will be presented for local and national reporting. Melanie Hicken '09, senior writer with CNN Investigates, will serve as master of ceremonies. Chancellor Kent Syverud and Dean Mark J. Lodato will also offer remarks.
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Q: SUM columns based on condition from another table I have two tables.
Table 1 is:
Week / Team  / Player  / Stat1 / Stat2 / Stat3 / ...

   1 / Team1 / Player1 / #     / #     / #     / ...

   1 / Team2 / Player2 / #     / #     / #     / ...

Table 2 is:
Player  / Team  / Played Game / Tiebreaker /
Player1 / Team1 / N           / #
Player2 / Team2 / Y           / #

Where Played Game either displays a Y means they have played at least one game and N means they haven't played any.
What I'm trying to do is sum the stats by column for each player from Table 1 and add their tiebreaker value from Table 2 to it, but I want a condition where if Played Game is equal to N, it just returns 0 as the value. Hopefully this makes sense.
This is my code:
$sql = "SELECT Player,

SUM (Stat1) AS Stat1,
SUM (Stat2) AS Stat2,
SUM (Stat3) AS Stat3

FROM Table 1

GROUP BY Player
ORDER BY Stat1 DESC";

Which obviously just sums the values up for me. My problem is I'm not sure how to retrieve the information from the other table and do what I want in the same query. I've tried a CASE WHEN and IF statement with the sum, but hasn't worked. I'm new, so I'm trying to learn, but I'm currently stuck.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

A: You want conditional summation, which is using a CASE statement as the argument for an aggregation function:
SELECT t1.Player,
       (SUM(CASE WHEN t2.Played = 'Y' THEN Stat1 ELSE 0 END) +
        MAX(CASE WHEN t2.Played = 'Y' THEN TIEBREAKER ELSE 0 END)
       ) AS Stat1,
       SUM(CASE WHEN t2.Played = 'Y' THEN Stat2 ELSE 0 END) AS Stat2,
       SUM(CASE WHEN t2.Played = 'Y' THEN Stat3 ELSE 0 END) AS Stat3
FROM Table1 t1 LEFT JOIN
     Table2 t2
     ON t1.player = t2.player AND t1.team = t2.team
GROUP BY t1.Player
ORDER BY Stat1 DESC;

A: To get data from both tables include the other table in
`FROM table1, table2`

and join them with
`Where Table1.Player=Table2.Player`

That way, in the result the Player column will have every player once, the sum columns (as Stat1, Stat2, Stat3) will be summing the Stat column for each record in Table2 that has a corresponding Player in Table1 (which is all of them).
I don't know the php part, and I don't know what you mean by

I only want the tiebreaker added once, after the stats have been summed.

but I think this query will work right for the rest.
`SELECT Table2.Player, #I assume Table1.Player has repeat values and stuff,
SUM ( if ( Table2.PlayedGame="Y", Table1.Stat1, 0) ) AS Stat1,
SUM ( if ( Table2.PlayedGame="Y", Table1.Stat2, 0) ) AS Stat2,
SUM ( if ( Table2.PlayedGame="Y", Table1.Stat3, 0) ) AS Stat3
FROM Table1, Table2
Where Table1.Player = Table2.Player
GROUP BY Player
ORDER BY Stat1 DESC";`

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A Connecticut woman today accused Harvard University of the wrongful seizure, possession and monetization of photographic images of her family's patriarch, an enslaved African man named Renty, and his daughter, Delia. The images, believed to be the earliest-known photographic images of slaves, were commissioned in 1850 by a Harvard Professor, Louis Agassiz, and used to support a theory, known as polygenism, that Africans and African-Americans are inferior to whites. Polygenism, widely advocated by the Harvard Professor, was used to justify both the ongoing enslavement of Black people prior to the Civil War, and their segregation afterward. As detailed in a lawsuit filed today, Harvard stood by its professor and, to this day, has never sufficiently repudiated Agassiz and his work.
The images, known as daguerreotypes, were captured in the winter of 1850 in a South Carolina photography studio. Renty was brought to a photography studio, stripped naked and photographed from every angle; next to him, his daughter Delia was then stripped to the waist and forced to pose for the photographs.
The lawsuit filed today in Middlesex County Superior Court alleges that Harvard has ignored Tamara Lanier's repeated requests to stop licensing the pictures for the university's profit and stop misrepresenting her great-great-great grandfather, the man she knows as Papa Renty. A direct linear descendant of Renty, Ms. Lanier is seeking return of the photos to her family, as well as damages from Harvard.
In 1847, Harvard had recruited Agassiz, whose work as a zoologist had focused on grouping living things together based on observable characteristics and placing them in hierarchical order, to head the university's Lawrence School of Science. With the prestige and support of Harvard, Agassiz soon became a zealous advocate for polygenism.
The famed Harvard professor's assertion of Black inferiority came at an opportune time for slave owners and northern profiteers from the cotton trade and aided their fight against abolitionists. The Fugitive Slave Act, widely seen as a barometer for the relative strength of the pro-slavery and abolitionist camps, was being hotly debated in Congress. For those seeking to prove that African-Americans were inferior, Agassiz's work, backed by Harvard's prestige, was an invaluable gift.
Based upon the oral history passed on to Tamara Lanier, Renty was born in Africa. After being kidnapped by slave merchants, he was enslaved on the B.F. Taylor plantation in South Carolina. Renty was small in stature but towering in the minds of those who knew him. Though prohibited by South Carolina law, Renty taught himself and other enslaved people to read and also conducted secret Bible readings and Bible study on the plantation.
museum's attic. Despite Ms. Reichlin's expressed concern for the families of the men and women depicted, Harvard University chose to make no effort to locate the subjects' descendants. In displaying and licensing the images, Harvard has avoided the fact that the daguerreotypes were part of a study, overseen by a Harvard professor, to demonstrate racial inferiority of Blacks.
To this day, Harvard insists that anyone seeking to view the photographs sign a contract, and anyone wishing to reproduce the images, even for educational purposes, pay a hefty fee to the university. In other words, Harvard – the wealthiest university in the world – has seen fit to further enrich itself from images that only exist because a Harvard professor forced enslaved men and women to participate in their creation without consent, dignity or compensation.
In 2011, Tamara Lanier, then the chief probation officer in Norwich, CT, wrote a letter to Dr. Drew Faust, the President of Harvard University from 2007-2018. Faust, a Civil War historian, was the first President of Harvard to have been raised in the South. Lanier detailed her ancestry and expressed her belief that she was a direct, linear descendant of Renty and Delia. Dr. Faust's evasive response made no mention of Lanier's heritage and offered no opportunity to discuss returning the pictures to the Lanier family.
Harvard continues to use the Renty images as a source of income. For example, in 2017, Harvard used Renty's image to sell its 13th Anniversary Edition of "From Site to Sight: Anthropology, Photography and the Power of Imagery." Renty's image is the cover of the book, which sells for $40.00. The same year, Harvard hosted a national academic conference called "Universities and Slavery: Bound by History." The program for the conference referred to Renty as "anonymous," even though Ms. Lanier, who was in attendance, had repeatedly told the renowned university that the man was her great- great-great grandfather.
Even though Agassiz helped lay the groundwork for over 100 years of state-sanctioned segregation, discrimination and violence against African-Americans, Harvard continues to defend him as a great scientist of his time, according to the lawsuit, and continues to profit from the images while refusing to acknowledge the legitimacy of Ms. Lanier's familial relationship.
Tamara Lanier is represented by Benjamin Crump, Talley Kaleko and Scott Carruthers of Ben Crump Law, Michael Koskoff, Joshua Koskoff, Preston Tisdale and Katie Mesner-Hage of Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder, and Elizabeth Mulvey of Crowe & Mulvey.


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The Party and the People: Chinese Politics in the 21st Century
The Party and the People
Bruce J. Dickson
How the Chinese Communist Party maintains its power by both repressing and responding to its people
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Since 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has maintained unrivaled control over the country, persisting even in the face of economic calamity, widespread social upheaval, and violence against its own people. Yet the party does not sustain dominance through repressive tactics alone—it pairs this with surprising responsiveness to the public. The Party and the People explores how this paradox has helped the CCP endure for decades, and how this balance has shifted increasingly toward repression under the rule of President Xi Jinping.
Delving into the tenuous binary of repression and responsivity, Bruce Dickson illuminates numerous questions surrounding the CCP's rule: How does it choose leaders and create policies? When does it allow protests? Will China become democratic? Dickson shows that the party's dual approach lies at the core of its practices—repression when dealing with existential, political threats or challenges to its authority, and responsiveness when confronting localized economic or social unrest. The state answers favorably to the demands of protesters on certain issues, such as local environmental hazards and healthcare, but deals harshly with others, such as protests in Tibet, Xinjiang, or Hong Kong. With the CCP's greater reliance on suppression since Xi Jinping's rise to power in 2012, Dickson considers the ways that this tipping of the scales will influence China's future.
Bringing together a vast body of sources, The Party and the People sheds new light on how the relationship between the Chinese state and its citizens shapes governance.
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Bruce J. Dickson is professor of political science and international affairs and chair of the Department of Political Science at George Washington University. His many books include The Dictator's Dilemma and Allies of the State. He lives in Vienna, Virginia.
"The Party and the People provides a wonderfully clear-eyed look at how the CCP has reinvented itself since 1989."—Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Mekong Review
"Dickson's book gives a useful overview of the various bodies that run China and the party's involvement in them. He also surveys a series of important questions, such as why the CCP doesn't like civil society or religious groups. He is especially strong on the issue of nationalism, which many foreign observers assert is growing in China, especially among young people. Dickson gives a sure-footed assessment of public opinion data to show that this is not the case, and that young people are in fact less nationalistic than their parents' generation."—Ian Johnson, New York Review of Books
"The Party and the People ... drafts a helpful balance sheet of the party's strengths and weaknesses, giving readers a better understanding of how the CCP's versatility enabled it to become the longest-ruling communist party in history."—Orville Schell, Foreign Affairs
"A good treatment of exactly what the title promises."—Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution
"An ideal text for college courses on Chinese politics, and the writing is fully accessible to general readers as well."—Choice
"Bruce J. Dickson offers a comprehensive description of how China's authoritarian political system operates. ... Dickson observes how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) manages to stay in power without the necessary elements of Western liberal democracy, such as individual rights, freedom of speech, and multiparty competitive elections."—Wenfang Tang, American Affairs Journal
"Dickson offers a comprehensive primer on how the CCP chooses leaders and makes policy, how it responds to political protests with repression both hard and soft, and how it may use or constrain the forces of nationalism based on what aids its political survival. ... In calm, lucid prose, Dickson traces the evolution of the CCP since 1949, focusing on the recent divergence between local and higher-level leaders."—Nicolas Gattig, Japan Times
"An authoritative survey of the major issues confronting China."—Walter C. Clemens, Jr., New York Journal of Books
"A richly detailed, nuanced, and comprehensive analysis of Chinese politics today. Dickson pulls back the veil of mystery that surrounds China's leaders, what keeps them in power, their relationship with the Chinese people, and what might bring change in the future. There is no more important book for understanding China in the coming decades."—Elizabeth Economy, author of The World According to China
"Drawing on a truly impressive range of academic literature to support an innovative argument, The Party and the People provides an accessible analysis of the relationship between the Chinese Communist Party and China's citizens. This valuable book delves into such critical issues as protests, religion, nationalism, and future prospects for democratization in China, and could only have been written by someone with a stellar understanding of Chinese politics."—William A. Joseph, editor of Politics in China: An Introduction
"Bruce Dickson has written a sharp, insightful, and cogent dissection of China's party-state and its sophisticated management mechanisms, from grading officials to quelling protests and co-opting useful NGOs. Repression has gone up under Xi Jinping, but Dickson shows how this is only one of the many tools in China's governing kit."—Richard McGregor, author of The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
"The Party and the People tackles some of the most important questions about contemporary China and provides nuanced and persuasive answers regarding the survivability of the Chinese party-state in the post-Mao era. This illuminating survey of Chinese politics sets the research agenda in the field for some time to come."—Minxin Pei, author of China's Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay
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New Law Won't Recreate Long-Gun Registry, Goodale's Office Says
The Canadian government said it won't recreate a database of gun owners and many of our rifles and shotguns when it proposes a new law tomorrow to change legislation that ended the so-called "long-gun registry."
The Minister of Public Safety, Ralph Goodale, will introduce a bill entitled "An Act to amend the Ending the Long-gun Registry Act," according to a Notice Paper today on parliament's website. The title of the bill is visible, but not its text.
"For now I can only assure you that we will NOT recreate a long-gun registry," Scott Bardsley, a spokesman for the minister, said today by e-mail. "Parliamentary privilege constrains what we can say until the bill is tabled in Parliament tomorrow. We'll have more to say then."
Life-Threatening Database?
The previous Conservative-led government scrapped the database in 2012 and ordered its data destroyed after the registry was criticized for its costs, errors and ineffectiveness, and for potentially jeopardizing the lives of police who trusted it.
At the end of 2011, the registry listed 1.9 million licensed firearm owners who had more than 7.1 million shotguns and rifles classified as "Non-restricted." It listed law-abiding gun owners and their registered firearms, and left out people who acquired guns legally and didn't register them, and also excluded violent criminals and their guns, which are generally obtained illegally.
Quebec sued the federal government to oppose the destruction of data. The Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights said today on its website that the bill "will no doubt satisfy the Quebec provincial government's request for the records and end the court battle between Quebec and the federal government."
The RCMP continues to run a database of more than 500,000 individual gun owners and businesses that legally own more than 1 million so-called "Restricted" and "Prohibited" shotguns, rifles and handguns.
Update 08 June 2017: The name of the law is being changed to remove references to the long-gun registry, and will be "An Act to amend Chapter 6 of the Statutes of Canada, 2012," MP Bob Zimmer said on Twitter today. The law is meant to resolve a constitutional challenge over the desctruction of data from the database, the Times Colonist newspaper reported today, citing Goodale.
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Q: Sql server select condition case when I use IF condition and i got to long script.
So I want to use CASE WHEN to make script shorter.
How to change scipt below to use CASE WHEN instead of IF:
DECLARE @SDATE1 DATE='2015-01-01'
DECLARE @EDATE1 DATE='2016-01-01'
DECLARE @ASOF VARCHAR(10)='YES'

IF @ASOF='YES'

select * from customer

ELSE

select * from customer WHERE
CAST(CUSTDATE AS DATE)END
BETWEEN @SDATE1 AND @EDATE1

A: DECLARE @SDATE1 DATE='2015-01-01'
DECLARE @EDATE1 DATE='2016-01-01'
DECLARE @ASOF VARCHAR(10)='YES'

SELECT  *
FROM    customer
WHERE   (CAST(CUSTDATE AS DATE) >= @SDATE1 AND CAST(CUSTDATE AS DATE) <= @EDATE1 AND @ASOF <> 'YES')
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I've also removed the syntactically incorrect END, and replaced the between with >=  <=. See here for some potential problems with between.

A: Well how about just write more complex condition
SELECT *
FROM customer WHERE
(@ASOF != 'YES'
   AND CAST(CUSTDATE AS DATE) BETWEEN @SDATE1 AND @EDATE1)
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Study reveals 'over-design' in UK buildings
Ramboll's UK managing director Mathew Riley
A new study has revealed that the design of UK properties is resulting in building systems with up to 50% more electrical capacity than is necessary.
The research, undertaken by UK-based engineering company Ramboll, also found that many new buildings have up to 30% more heating and cooling capacity than would ever be needed.
Ramboll has put the cost of this 'over-design', in London alone, at just over €81 million.
Moreover, the needless capacity – which Ramboll attributes to the construction industry's efforts to achieve technical compliance and adhere to current codes and guidance – is potentially resulting in an additional 23,000 tonnes per year of CO2 gas entering the atmosphere.
In response to its findings, Ramboll says it has been utilising lessons learned from engineering in extreme environments.
Working with a team from the British Antarctic Survey on the first phase of the Rothera Modernisation Project in the British Antarctic Territory, Ramboll developed a design that targets a reduction in energy consumption by up to 35%.
Researchers developed a modelling tool called the Evolutionary Energy Solver that processes millions of possible scenarios and mimics nature to identify the combination of inputs that will provide the best performing, or 'fittest' solution.
Mathew Riley, UK managing director at Ramboll, said, "Over-design is wasting capital investment for building owners and driving higher energy consumption for building occupiers. Nobody wins.
"The key to efficient design is to really understand how a building will perform, by simulating its operation early in the design development, allowing more informed decisions to be made. At Ramboll we learned from our work, engineering buildings in extreme environments such as the Antarctic, methods that we are now working to apply back into the UK so that we can deliver leaner and greener systems."
Riley added, "We need to break free from outdated delivery models and conventional thinking. By embracing data driven design the industry can reduce capital expenditure, cut carbon emissions, reduce energy consumption and deliver leaner and more sustainable buildings."
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Htc One 2
Kid leaks HTC phone, receives threat, denies everything
By Casey Johnston
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A kid posted a 12-minute hands-on review of HTC's as-yet-unreleased HTC One successor on 2 March. In the same night, he earned himself a threat from HTC's senior global communications manager, Jeff Gordon. Gordon has since backtracked on his statements, but the company is still taking the airing of its secrets seriously.
The video review was originally posted to YouTube by Roshan Jamkatel. During the video, he demonstrated several differences from the original HTC One, including dual cameras on the back of the phone, a lack of buttons on the bottom of the body, and a lack of Beats Audio branding with different sounding audio hardware (demonstrated by the 2008 hit song "Crank That (Soulja Boy)"). The body and screen are both slightly bigger, and the metal accents appear to have a different finish. As Jamkatel turned the phone over and over in his hands, he displayed the IMEI number on the back of the phone.
The video circulated quickly after it was posted and was highlighted by Shen Ye of xda-developers' XDA TV. After the video made its way around to Gordon, Gordon tweeted at Jamkatel, "it's not going to be a good week for you, my friend :-(". Jamkatel tried to claim the phone was fake, at which point Gordon said HTC has the IMEI info, and the company would be "in touch."
Gordon has since deleted the tweets and denied that he ever threatened the boy. Jamkatel variously claimed that the phone was fake, that he did not post the video, and someone else had done it for him against his wishes, and that a parent who worked at HTC had been fired due to the course of events. The IMEI of the phone strongly suggests it is not fake, and third parties on Twitter found evidence that neither of Jamkatel's parents work at HTC.
The leak bears some similarity to that of Apple's iPhone 4 in 2010. An engineer's concealed model was left in a bar and shopped around by its finder to technology blogs and sites before Gizmodo picked it up. The coverage ended with a private police force breaking into editor Jason Chen's home and confiscating his laptop.
It's unclear how Jamkatel managed to obtain the phone in the first place, though he does refer to the handset as a developer version during the review. HTC could not provide Ars with a comment given that the handset is now an ongoing legal matter, but the person who will be held accountable will ostensibly be the party who signed an NDA to get the handset, not Jamkatel himself. The HTC One's successor, colloquially referred to as the HTC One 2, will likely be announced at a 25 March event in London.
This story originally appeared on Ars Technica.
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January 19th, 2016 by Kayla Chamness
Get the scoop on Honda's all new crossover SUV, the HR-V, in this Expert Review from Edmunds.com.
Full Expert Review: 2016 Honda HR-V
The 2016 Honda HR-V is all-new.
Given the continued growth, both in sales and girth, of its popular CR-V, Honda saw an opportunity to create a new entry-level crossover SUV model. The result is the all-new 2016 Honda HR-V. If Honda's Pilot is "papa" and its CR-V is "mama," then the HR-V should fit perfectly within the family as the "baby."
Being the tyke of the family doesn't mean there's a lack of utility, though. Just like the subcompact Fit hatchback on which it's based, the HR-V has what Honda calls a "Magic Seat," which is a configurable rear seat that gives the HR-V a distinctive ability to take on bulky or long cargo items with relative ease. The HR-V also provides high fuel economy, a sporty driving feel, available all-wheel drive and a solid collection of tech and convenience features for the money. If you want a crossover SUV but have found the mainstays a little too big or expensive, Honda's HR-V could very well meet your needs.
The HR-V happens to be part of a growing group of subcompact crossover offerings. The segment includes Nissan's Juke, which is more powerful but less roomy than the HR-V, and the recently introduced Jeep Renegade, which boasts the best off-roading credentials of the bunch. Another new option is the Mazda CX-3, which distills the Mazda CX-5's sporty personality into a smaller package. There's also the stylish Fiat 500X to consider. You'll want to check out at least a few of these before you decide, but if interior versatility and space are priorities, Honda's "baby" crossover could very well be the ideal pick.
The 2016 Honda HR-V subcompact crossover seats five and comes in three trim levels: LX, EX and EX-L Navi. The LX starts off with 17-inch alloy wheels, full power accessories, cruise control, a tilt-and-telescoping steering wheel, a height-adjustable driver seat, a configurable 60/40-split folding rear seat (Magic Seat), a 5-inch display screen, a rearview camera, Bluetooth phone and audio connectivity, and a four-speaker sound system with a CD player and a USB port.
Opt for the EX and you'll enjoy a sunroof, rear privacy glass, foglights, keyless ignition and entry, heated front seats, automatic climate control, a passenger-side blind spot camera (Honda's LaneWatch), a 7-inch touchscreen display, a six-speaker sound system (with an additional USB port) and HondaLink.
Topping the line is the EX-L Navi. It further comes with roof rails, leather upholstery, a navigation system, an auto-dimming rearview mirror, and satellite and HD radio.
The Honda HR-V comes with a 1.8-liter four-cylinder engine good for 141 horsepower and 127 pound-feet of torque. For the front-wheel-drive LX and EX, the engine comes paired with a standard six-speed manual transmission. A continuously variable automatic transmission (CVT) is optional on those trim levels and standard for the front-drive EX-L Navi. All-wheel drive (AWD) is an available option on all three trim levels, but only with the CVT.
In Edmunds testing, an HR-V EX-L Navi with AWD accelerated from zero to 60 mph in 9.7 seconds, which is slower than average for a subcompact crossover.
According to the EPA, a front-drive HR-V will get 28 mpg in combined driving (25 city/34 highway) with the manual transmission or 31 mpg combined (28/35) with the CVT. Opting for all-wheel drive reduces fuel economy slightly to29 mpg combined (27/32).
Standard safety features for the Honda HR-V include antilock disc brakes, stability and traction control, front seat side airbags, side curtain airbags and a rearview camera. Honda's LaneWatch blind-spot display is included in both EX and EX-L Navi trim levels.
In our instrumented testing, an EX-L Navi AWD stopped from 60 mph in 124 feet, which is an average distance.
Even in base LX trim, the 2016 Honda HR-V's interior impresses with its design and amenities. Entering and exiting is very easy, and once inside you'll enjoy an interior devoid of gimmickry. The gauges are large and visible, and most controls fall readily to hand and are simple to use.
The 7-inch touchscreen display on EX and EX-L Navi trims handles the entertainment, communications and navigation functions as well as the HondaLink smartphone app integration system. It's not our favorite interface, as we've found the on-screen menus a little confusing and the lack of a physical volume knob off-putting. Note that Android phones are currently incompatible with HondaLink, although Honda claims that this will change soon.
Seating is comfortable for four average-size adults. And with its relatively generous greenhouse, there's an expansive feel to the HR-V often missing in compact crossovers with more adventurous styling (Nissan's Juke) and/or coupelike profiles (the Mercedes GLA). To be sure, this isn't your neighbor's Suburban, but it's big enough that you can take the neighbors to dinner.
You'll still be able to haul a good amount of stuff with your HR-V, though. With a child safety seat on the "40" side of the 60/40-split rear seat, for instance, the HR-V can still easily accommodate a road bike on the other side (with the front wheel removed), which is a rare feat for a subcompact crossover. The rear seat bottom can also be raised to create a narrow but tall space behind the front seatbacks, or you can lower the front passenger seat to accommodate long items like surfboards.
With the rear seats up on a front-drive HR-V, there are 24.3 cubic feet of luggage space available. Folding the seats flat opens 58.8 cubic feet, which is excellent for this class. All-wheel-drive HR-Vs have slightly less space (23.2/57.6).
While the 2016 Honda HR-V's gas savings will bring a smile, its 1.8-liter four-cylinder engine's power is less impressive. In-town driving or highway cruising are sufficiently relaxed and efficient, but when forced to accelerate quickly, the 2016 HR-V feels sluggish. The droning engine sound on CVT-equipped models at full acceleration is also loud and off-putting. Going with the six-speed manual transmission helps alleviate the droning, but it's only available with front-wheel drive.
Beyond the performance disconnect with the 1.8 liter four and CVT, we are pleased by the HR-V's level of on-road refinement and composure. It feels solid and sporty when driving around turns, and its highway ride is comfortable and composed. Another bonus is the HR-V's excellent outward visibility, which combines with its small size to make it an easy car to drive in urban environments.
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With a Tour de France victory and Olympic gold against his name in 2012, Bradley Wiggins is looking to fulfil further ambitions in cycling next year.
As if ending the sport's most famous race in the yellow jersey was not enough, he went on to top the podium in the time trial at the London Games - and Wiggins is already looking ahead to his next challenge.
"I've already started training for next year because it is about doing it all over again," he said.
"I think initially you think there is nothing else to do. In a sporting sense I'm 32 now and I went from the Champs-Elysees in Paris and winning the Tour de France to winning the Olympic time-trial in London. That is never going to happen to anyone again, perhaps in my lifetime.
"I still don't think that it's fully sunk in to be honest how incredible those two weeks at the Olympics were.
"It was probably the best time of my life in terms of a sporting sense.
"From now on it's just trying to achieve other things - things that I hold close to my heart like Paris-Roubaix, the Giro d'Italia or maybe even trying to win the Tour again."


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Building on his experience, in 1866, Mattson proposed the creation of a state Board of Immigration. The board would recruit immigrants to homestead land in Minnesota. Until the 1880s, immigration to the U.S. was regulated by states rather than the federal government. In 1867, Governor William Marshall established the board and named Mattson to be its first secretary. The state was especially interested in recruiting Scandinavian immigrants, who were considered to have good moral character. As a booster, Mattson promoted Minnesota in Sweden and Norway. He also promoted the state to Scandinavian immigrant communities in the Eastern U.S. Mattson recruited immigrants to Minnesota by several means. He wrote for Swedish American newspapers; he encouraged immigrants to write letters to friends and family in Europe; and he published pamphlets about the benefits of Minnesota. During the course of his life, Mattson founded several Swedish newspapers in Chicago and Minneapolis, including the Minnesota Statstidning.
Author: Reminiscences: The Story of an Emigrant, 1891.
He was a Swedish American politician.
In 1851, he immigrated to the U.S. with a friend. He settled on a farm in an established Swedish colony in Illinois in 1853 and brought his family from Sweden to join him. But Mattson did not find Illinois promising. He left in search of better land just a few months after settling there.
In 1857 due to panic Mattson was financially ruined. He served with distinction as a colonel in the American Civil War (1861–1865) and then returned to Minnesota.
After returning to Minnesota, Mattson began his work as an immigration booster. First he worked with the St. Paul & Pacific Railroad Co, where he was a protection agent to greet Swedish and Norwegian arrivals in Chicago.
Building on his experience, in 1866, Mattson proposed the creation of a state Board of Immigration. The board would recruit immigrants to homestead land in Minnesota. Until the 1880s, immigration to the U.S. was regulated by states rather than the federal government. In 1867, Governor William Marshall established the board and named Mattson to be its first secretary. The state was especially interested in recruiting Scandinavian immigrants, who were considered to have good moral character.
As a booster, Mattson promoted Minnesota in Sweden and Norway. He also promoted the state to Scandinavian immigrant communities in the Eastern U.S. Mattson recruited immigrants to Minnesota by several means. He wrote for Swedish American newspapers; he encouraged immigrants to write letters to friends and family in Europe; and he published pamphlets about the benefits of Minnesota. During the course of his life, Mattson founded several Swedish newspapers in Chicago and Minneapolis, including the Minnesota Statstidning.
Mattson had become one of the most prominent Swedish Americans in United States politics.
Member Minnesota Board Immigration, 1867-1872.


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Maps show who's putting Montrealers to work
ScarletCoral posted a topic in Resources
Carte intéressante sur la répartition des types d'industries par arrondissement : Via Montreal Gazette : http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/maps-whos-putting-montrealers-to-work Maps show who's putting Montrealers to work ROBERTO ROCHA, MONTREAL GAZETTE Published on: October 23, 2014Last Updated: October 28, 2014 2:06 PM EDT If you want a job at a clothing store, you'll have better chances finding work in St-Léonard. But if working at a private residence is your thing, Hampstead is a good place too look. Data released by Montreal's statistics bureau breaks down the number of jobs in each industry, for every borough and demerged suburb. The data confirms obvious truths — that the main industry in Dorval is transportation, and that manufacturing is heavy in St-Laurent and the east end — but it also offer some surprises. The data details the number of jobs in each type of industry and workplace. These are jobs that exist inside a borough's or city's borders, not the jobs of residents who live in those places. There's a large swath, stretching from Pierrefonds to Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, where the dominant industry is health care and social services. And though it's no surprise that places like Ville-Marie and Westmount would be heavy in professional services, but Sud-Ouest is less obvious. We can assume the condo boom in Griffintown, as well as the gentrification of Pointe St-Charles created demand for skilled workers. However, only 13 per cent of jobs in Sud-Ouest are in that field, which suggests the borough has a rich diversity of jobs. However, this maps only gives us a big-picture view of general industries. The data also breaks down the number of jobs by more granular workplaces. Here's another map, this time by type of employer. We see that the boroughs where health and social services are strong are split between hospitals and schools as main employers. Banking, not surprisingly, is the main employer downtown, while the top job in the Plateau is in restaurants. Surprisingly, it's the same in Dollard-des-Ormeaux. And did you ever imagine so many people in Montreal-East worked in furniture stores? Or that the federal government employs lots of Westmounters? A curious outlier is Hampstead, which has, as the dominant employer, private households. These refer to domestic labour, like cleaners, maids and cooks. "Being a city with one of the highest incomes in the region, it's plausible to find so many jobs in that sub-category," said Yan Beaumont, researcher at Montréal en statistiques. Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue also stands out, with colleges and CEGEPs being the main employer. The tiny, partly rural city is home to John Abbott College and Gérand Godin College. Here is the summary of the data for the three levels of the Montreal area. [TABLE=class: grid, width: 600] [TR] [TD][/TD] [TD]Montreal metropolitan region[/TD] [TD]Montreal agglomeration[/TD] [TD]City of Montreal[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Largest industry[/TD] [TD]Retail[/TD] [TD]Health care and social services[/TD] [TD]Health care and social services[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Second-largest industry[/TD] [TD]Health care and social services[/TD] [TD]Manufacturing[/TD] [TD]Professional, scientific, and technical services[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Largest employer[/TD] [TD]Hospitals[/TD] [TD]Hospitals[/TD] [TD]Hospitals[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Second largest employer[/TD] [TD]Primary and secondary schools[/TD] [TD]Primary and secondary schools[/TD] [TD]Primary and secondary schools[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] Full data sheet at the end of the article
Ontario : Liberals refuse to confirm report Ontario to run near $1-billion deficit
ErickMontreal posted a topic in Current events
Liberals refuse to confirm report Ontario to run near $1-billion deficit Wed, 2008-10-22 13:04. By: THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - The Ontario government refused to confirm Wednesday in advance of handing down its fall economic update that the province will run a deficit of almost $1 billion this year because of the world financial crisis. For the past two weeks, Premier Dalton McGuinty has signalled he is prepared to run a deficit because of declining government revenues. In the legislature, Opposition Leader Bob Runciman wanted to know how Ontario went from a balanced budget four weeks ago to what he said was an expected deficit of $1 billion. "Less than a month ago, (Finance Minister Dwight Duncan) said the budget would be balanced, even with a downturn in the U.S. economy," Runciman said. "Premier, how is it that just four short weeks ago the budget was balanced, but today there's going to be a deficit of almost $1 billion?" McGuinty told the house he didn't know where Runciman was getting his numbers. People would have to wait until the finance minister delivers the fall economic update later Wednesday to see what red ink exists, McGuinty said. "We're in a pretty good position now to withstand these powerful winds that are blowing out there," he said. But, McGuinty added, the government also has to find a way to "make advances on the poverty front, to act in a way that is fiscally responsible, to protect health care and to protect education." On Monday, McGuinty said he told Duncan not to run a deficit unless not doing so would mean cutting back on public services. He also vowed that Ontario would not close hospitals or cancel infrastructure programs after more than 200,000 people lost their jobs. On Tuesday, he warned schools, cities and hospitals that funding projections would have to be scaled back during challenging times that may last as long as two years. Government officials will say only that Duncan's statement will outline which new government programs will have to be delayed because of falling revenues. Anti-poverty activists are worried that will mean the government will fail to keep its promise to help the poorest of the poor improve their living standards.
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Edinburgh : Edinburgh Childrens Hospital, United Kingdom
LindbergMTL posted a topic in General discussions
Ancient Scottish capital city to receive explosion of colour in Children's Hospital Locally regarded as Sick Kids, Edinburgh's historic Royal Hospital for Sick Children is to be relocated to a colourful new building designed by Nightingale Associates. Branching into a new location, this will be only the second of Nightingale's projects in Scotland, following a successful bid for Dumfries Royal Infirmary earlier this year. Edinburgh is a notoriously difficult city for modern architecture. The Scottish Parliament building, designed by Spanish architect, the late Enric Miralles, sits at the foot of the Edinburgh's Royal Mile despite intense disapproval from many residents from the design stage. But while the new design for the Sick Kids features an impactful, brightly coloured facade, resistance is less likely as the project will move services from the existing city centre hospital to the outskirts of the city adjacent to the new Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. The £150m design for NHS Lothian was won through the new Frameworks Scotland scheme. It will provide 30,000sqm of space containing children and young people's A&E, day case and inpatient areas; an imaging department; outpatients unit; therapy suite: theatre suite; a critical care unit; Child and Adolescent Mental Health day case and inpatient unit; as well as a child and family hotel. There will also be facilities for rehabilitation, education and staff administration. Kieren Morgan, Health Development Director, said: "Nightingale Associates was awarded the contract based on, amongst other things, the innovation displayed in its design, which used new concepts such as 'cruciform wards', Sense Sensitive Design and the much-discussed single-bed wards. The practice was able to draw on its pervious similar experience on the Design for Life NHS framework in Wales, through which it was selected to design the first ever 100% single-room hospitals to be built in the UK." He continued: "It is extremely important that the design of this building reflects the significance of the project, and that we therefore use and build on our pioneering research completed for the Welsh Designed for Life 'pathfinder' hospitals to ensure that this building is regarded as a benchmark in healthcare design." Niki May Young News Editor http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=11452
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theodore123abc posted a topic in Visions
So I cannot sleep as I keep thinking the rest of Canada keeps hating on Montréal and our developments, economy, government and so on. A, I don't buy the bs that we're lagging behind (We could be growing much much faster I realize) but more importantly the hate on our new architecture m'enerve en poutine. Not my point however, I was thinking it would be fantastic to develop both the northern and souther corners of René-Lévesque and Guy. Not in a standard way of developer says this, city says that, study shows this, ok simple tower that sells and doesn't cause much fuss. But in a very Montréal way rather, through a system of all Montréal companies who care about here(Wsp accross the street for example), ideas from all groups of people like students from our excellent engineering universities like ÉTS/Polytechnic/McGill/Concordia all in the visinity, people on this forum with fun ideas that we can all talk about and turn into something Montréal in general can ve proud of. It be an awesome place to have the highest outlook as well, all along the boulevard, the new Champlain, the general, both new mega hospitals, the other new developments popping up all around the area. I'm gonna spend some free time trying to come up with some designs and 3d models and I hope someone else on this vibrant forum will do so with me. To all my francophone friends , I wrote this in english because I'm better in english, and I know you understand just as I understand when you write you're long French posts.....another great Montréal thing where we don't care what language just as long as it's a good idea [emoji14] Sent from my C6806 using Tapatalk
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Quebec city hospital upgrades outpace Montreal's
jesseps posted a topic in Current events
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Toronto ERs feel weight of downtown condo boom
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http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1230226--toronto-ers-feel-weight-of-downtown-condo-boom Sarah-Taïssir Bencharif Staff Reporter Anil Chopra can't believe some of the things happening in his emergency departments' waiting rooms. Or triage areas. They're just too crowded. It's clear to him where the surge of people comes from. "You just have to look outside your window," says Chopra, head of emergency medicine at the University Health Network, which comprises four hospitals: Princess Margaret, Toronto Western, Toronto General and Toronto Rehab. "Toronto has a great reputation as being a condo king in North-America," he says. Amidst the debate ignited by Deputy Mayor Doug Holyday over who should live in the city's downtown core, Torontonians are wondering what services are available for the increasing number of people who do. Chopra and other doctors and hospital administrators say the rate at which downtown Toronto's density is increasing is outpacing the area hospitals' capacity and infrastructure. Both Toronto Western and Toronto General's emergency departments have exceeded their capacities, with a combined total of more than 100,000 visits to the ER every year. "We do things I wouldn't have imagined," says Chopra. Nurses in his department started doing some therapies right in the triage area. Patients with IV drips are sitting in chairs — there aren't enough beds. Chopra's had to examine patients' right in the waiting room, "knowing full well I'm in earshot of other people," he says. "Otherwise, they will wait four more hours." He doesn't like saying it, but they're just trying to survive. The city and province's plans to curb urban sprawl have pushed development vertically with a multitude of condos sprouting up in the downtown core. While there are environmental and social benefits to building up, doctors say hospital infrastructure hasn't been able to catch up. The emergency waiting rooms are getting as crowded as Toronto's skyline. "We're seeing a 5 to 10 per cent increase (in emergency room patients) year after year after year," says Chopra. "It seems to be endless." Planning for downtown urban growth can be challenging, says Sandeep Agrawal, professor of planning at Ryerson University. Usually, when planners prepare new subdivisions, they design and allocate services according to the planned density. "Downtown, it's a bit the other way around, where the population has increased multiple folds and hospitals have to keep up with that," he says. "Obviously they were not designed initially to cater to that density." Agrawal is worried urban planners have forgotten their discipline's original purpose which was to mitigate the spread of disease caused by living in close quarters. "City planning as a profession has moved far from health planning agencies with relatively little or no contact with health and health planning agencies," he writes in an email. In downtown Toronto, the quarters are getting closer. The city's population grew by almost 112,000 residents, a rise of 4.5 per cent between 2006 and 2011. That's more than five times the growth reported in the previous five-year period, according to Statistics Canada. The city of Toronto's website reports there are 132 high rises currently under construction. It's the most out of any city in the world. The Ministry of Infrastructure's plan for Toronto is to increase the density of residents and jobs in downtown Toronto to a minimum of 400 per hectare by 2031. That figure is already at 708 jobs and residents per hectare in Toronto Centre, according to MPP Glen Murray's office. The downtown population boom has also put pressure on St. Michael's Hospital. When its emergency department was built in 1983, it was designed to handle 45,000 patients a year. Today, that department annually sees more than 70,000 patients. That figure is growing alarmingly fast. "We've been going up 5 to 8 per cent a year over the last five years," says Doug Sinclair, St. Mike's executive vice-president and chief medical officer. He says there are likely other factors behind the rapid increase in the number of ER visits, but the increased downtown population is an important one. "The vast majority of patients who come to St. Mike's are from the downtown area . . . most of the emergency department visits are local. We're presuming it's had an effect," he says. It's hard to beat the rush. Since securing government approval for a hospital revitalization project which will include a new 17-storey patient care tower, they've had to revise the emergency department's size and resources to fit the new volume of patients. But it's nearly impossible to really build for future projections. "We can design it for the number we have now or guesstimate a few thousand more, but clearly the government never wants to build something too big," says Sinclair. Money is tight. The Ministry of Infrastructure sets its density forecasts and communicates them to other relevant ministries, like the Ministry of Health. The two are responsible for funding and building hospitals in the province. The Ministry of Health changed its funding model from an across-the-board increase to funding hospitals based on the services they deliver. This should provide funding that better matches each hospital's changing population and needs, according to Tori Gass, spokesperson for the Ministry of Health. But emergency doctors like Chopra aren't sure the new funding model or all the cost-saving strategies already in place will help them much. "I'm not that optimistic," he says.


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Hugo de Abt (overleden op 12 mei 886 in Orléans) was van 865 tot aan zijn dood graaf van Auxerre en van 866 tot aan zijn dood graaf van Tours. Hij behoorde tot de Welfen-dynastie. Zijn bijnaam dankte hij aan de omstandigheid dat hij als lekenabt verschillende beduidende kloosters en prebenden bezat.

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Hugo was een jongere zoon van graaf Koenraad I van Auxerre uit diens huwelijk met Adelheid van Tours, dochter van graaf Hugo van Tours. Hij was tevens een neef van de West-Frankische koning Karel de Kale.

In 853 werd hij als opvolger van zijn vader lekenabt van het Saint-Germainklooster in Auxerre. Hij bekleedde in die tijd ook het ambt van zendgraaf voor Nivernais, de regio waarin hij landgoederen bezat. Van 859 tot 861 was Hugo lekenabt van de Abdij van Sint-Bertinus, een functie die hij tot in 861 ook uitoefende in het klooster van Saint-Riquier. In 861 viel hij blijkbaar in ongenade bij Karel de Kale en leverde hij zijn titels in. Kort daarna trad hij in dienst van koning Lotharius II van Lotharingen, die hem in 864 tot aartsbisschop van Keulen wilde benoemen, hoewel Hugo slechts de rang van subdiaken had. Dit laatste schijnt tot plaatselijke weerstand te hebben geleid, waardoor het plan van Lotharius II mislukte. Na enige tijd verzoende Hugo zich met Karel de Kale en in 865 werd hij in opvolging van zijn broer Koenraad II graaf van Auxerre.

In 864 was zijn moeder hertrouwd met Robert de Sterke, hertog in Neustrië en graaf van Tours. Nadat Robert in 866 sneuvelde in de Slag bij Brissarthe tegen de Vikingen en de Bretoenen, werd Hugo de Abt door Karel de Kale tot opvolger benoemd in diens landerijen tussen de Seine en de Loire. Daarnaast werd hij ook markgraaf in de Bretonse mark, graaf van Tours en Angers en verwierf hij de prebende van lekenabt in het Saint-Martinklooster in Tours.

Na de dood van Karel de Kale in 877 stelden hij, aartskanselier Jocelin en aartsbisschop Hincmar van Reims de voorwaarden voor de troonsbestijging van de West-Frankische koning Lodewijk de Stamelaar. Nadat Lodewijk twee jaar later zelf stierf, probeerde Hugo de verdeling van het West-Frankische Rijk tussen diens zonen Lodewijk III en Karloman II te verhinderen. Om de dreiging van het Oost-Frankische Rijk tegen te gaan, besliste Hugo in 880 dan om Lodewijk en Karloman allebei te kronen en bovendien slaagde hij erin om het regentschap over de minderjarige jongens te verwerven. In die tijd verloor West-Francië de Provence aan Boso van Vienne en moest het rijk Lotharingen na het Verdrag van Ribemont afstaan.

Hugo de Abt bleef de voogd van Karloman in Aquitanië en Bourgondië, aartskanselier Jocelin bekleedde die positie in Neustrië en ging van hieruit de strijd aan met Boso van Vienne om de Provence weer bij het West-Frankische Rijk te voegen. Toen na de plotse dood van Lodewijk III het koninkrijk opnieuw verenigd werd onder de heerschappij van Karloman, won Hugo opnieuw sterk aan invloed, maar hij kon die echter niet handhaven tegenover Jocelin.

Ondertussen verwierf hij ook nog verschillende geestelijke ambten: in 874 werd hij abt van de Abdij van Sint-Vaast, in 876 abt van het Saint-Aignanklooster in Orléans, in 877 abt van het Saint-Julienklooster in Auxerre en het Sainte-Colombeklooster in Sens. In 880 werd hij ten slotte aartskapelaan van de koninklijke kapel.

Na de dood van Hugo in 886 werden zijn bezittingen in de Loirestreek geërfd door Odo van Parijs, de zoon van zijn stiefvader Robert de Sterke, die hierdoor eindelijk in het bezit kwam van de erfenis van zijn vader. Hugo de Abt werd bijgezet in de kerk van het Saint-Germainklooster in Auxerre.

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Unique Barn Find Citroën Rosalie Van at French Auction
Sunday, January 21, 2019 was quite a day in Tarbes, France (near the border of Spain). An exceptional collection of 81 cars, albeit in rather neglected condition, were sold by the French firm Adam Encheres. They were owned by Henri Ruggieri, a secret and lonely man who died in Pau, (just 40 kms northwest of Tarbes), in 2018. He was described as a "compulsive buyer" who apparently never used most of the vehicles — instead, leaving them scattered around five different locations. They were recovered from barns and fields, hidden beneath rubbish and under overgrowth. To ensure they weren't stolen, Ruggieri would remove a component from each, and from the appearance of most, neglect them from that point on.
An astounding find in the collection was this 1937 Citroën Rosalie van. Very rare indeed with custom bodywork by Currus in Paris. Powered by a 4 cylinder inline 1,766 cc diesel engine with drum brakes on all 4 wheels. At one point in its life, it had been used on a vineyard property in the region of Marseille. Now it shows an old product plate of Magarian, a defunct furniture factory once in Saint Marcel (Bouches du Rhône). The Rosalie van was in rough but restorable shape and commanded a sale price of 8.400 €.
There were also some other Citroëns in the auction in rather ratty condition:
A 1991 Type C15 that sold for 90 €
An equally decrepit 1981 GSA that sold for 350 €
A very sad 1960 2CV that fetched 1.300 €
An even more decayed were a 1919 Type A (10 HP) that went for 2.300 €
And a 1921 Type 10 HP Type A (10 HP) that sold for 650 €
The star of the auction was a battered 1968 Lamborghini P400 Miura (number 118 of just 275 built) that need a full restoration but still managed to sell for 560.000 €.
There were many North American and other interesting finds in the collection. View a full list and the auction results here: https://docs.prod-indb.io/2019/01/21/102951_554393427_5ac8b507c3915f10af50d273460b606d.pdf
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The best value in auctions are the auctions you don't hear about. I am sure we will see the Rosalie again at a larger auction sell for much more.