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Bad heredity: why whistleblowing is back in fashion in Russia
Experts say that the low level of people's trust in each other is the first sign of not just a totalitarian, but also an economically dysfunctional state
The government and the people
Ivan Zubov
It's no secret that the number of denunciations has sharply increased in Russia: reports about this appear in the media and social networks with unenviable regularity.
Here is one of the latest published at the end of last week: in the Arkhangelsk region, a student Olesya Krivtsova was arrested and two criminal cases were opened against her because of posts in social networks. And her classmates "ratted" on her…
In general, it has long been proven that one of the most lasting consequences of totalitarianism in any country is a decrease in the level of people's trust in each other. Espionage, mass denunciations, censorship, the dominance of the security forces in power, constant checks, passes everywhere, vigilant watchmen, endless fences and so on. This insurance tax is very expensive and is treated for a long time and difficult.
But the most important thing is that the level of trust is directly proportional to the standard of living. According to the results of one of the latest studies, Sweden is the leader in the level of human-to-human trust in Europe. 63% trust each other there. For comparison, in Russia, this figure was only 25% before the start of the special operation, and now, quite obviously, it is much lower.
A curious example on this topic is given by journalists from the famous satirical site Panorama: in 2019, we wrote about the application "My Denunciation" – they say, knock directly from the phone. It seemed absurd at the time.
And now, in 2023, we are looking at what requests people come to Panorama from Yandex, and we see that many have heard about this program somewhere and want to download it..."
The wonderful poet Igor Guberman also responded to this eternal Russian problem:
"Pavlik Morozov's grandchildren were born everywhere without him. And our contemporaries are knocking - one for all and all for one..."The most terrible thing happens when children are engaged in denunciations and they knock on their parents.
This wild practice was brought up in the Soviet school during Stalin's times, and judging by numerous testimonies, it is being resumed in the Russian school. Network analyst Sergey Lukin knows firsthand what it is. His own mother once passed through the "denunciation school":
"My grandfather served in a minor party job. When the great terror began - the so-called time when the bloody wheel rolled through the party, the family lived in Kolpashevo, the infamous Kolpashevsky yar. Grandfather asked for a remote village even beyond the Narym down the Ob. Upon arrival, I went to the only competent, able to write a denunciation - a paramedic. They agreed that they would not denounce each other. So the family survived the great terror. The second problem was a terrible, never-ending hunger to the death of a mustachioed man. Saved potatoes, berries, nuts and most importantly - fish. The commies fucked up the Ob much later. There were plenty of fish. After work, my grandfather sat down in the oblosok (a small dugout boat) and went to check the nets and in storms, too. There was fish all summer, ice fishing began in winter and woodpiles were laid in the barn from burbot.
In general, the family survived thanks to grandfather. In 1944, my late mother was born. Then the terror subsided, and the family moved to Parabel. At the age of 6, my mother went to school, she could already read from her older brother and was very smart. After all, fish provides the brain with fats well, and the constant knitting of nets develops fine motor skills. Together, it launches intelligence completely unwittingly.
But the intellect was fed in the Stalinist school with disgusting filth, fairy tales about Pavlik Morozov, and other abominations. The main thing was that they were forced to follow their parents and hand them over to the authorities. Mom realized that Grandpa was fishing secretly and didn't pay taxes on it. The fish in the river belonged to the state property, and catching and feeding the family - to the theft of state property. The size of the theft is a bath every day or every other day. For this they were supposed to be shot and there were such cases all the time. My mother, having become a pioneer, gathered in the militia. Every time she went out at the next attempt over the threshold, an unknown force stopped her - her body was numb and she could not move her legs. This went on for quite a long time.
A year later, the mustachioed one died. The topic is closed. My late mother recounted this incident with horror in her eyes. She spent the rest of her life imagining an option in which her legs would not be numb. She was unbearably ashamed that she could have betrayed her father, who idolized her. So, the best Soviet education poisoned her life forever. There was no place near her parents' graves, so I buried her near her sisters. Her soul was at rest. Now the same thing is poisoning the lives of our children and grandchildren again... It's time to stop this disgusting practice..."
#Society#The government and the people#Analytics#Russia#Russians#Denunciations#History of Russia#Stalin#Special services#Trust


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Government partners with Ngāti Rēhia to create kauri sanctuary
Hon Shane Jones
The Government and Northland iwi Ngāti Rēhia have today announced up to $6.25 million in One Billion Trees funding for a new kauri sanctuary.
Forestry Minister Shane Jones said the sanctuary would help protect kauri by creating New Zealand's first bio-secure kauri sanctuary, free of kauri dieback disease.
"I am pleased to announce the establishment of a kauri sanctuary that will help protect this precious taonga for future generations. There is no known cure for dieback and without innovations such as this, we may continue to see our kauri forests ravaged by the disease," Shane Jones said.
Ngāti Rēhia have already shown their commitment to protecting kauri. Since 2018 they have been clearing the selected site, building fences, testing the soil and adhering to biosecurity measures to ensure it is free of kauri dieback, with help from funding from the One Billion Trees fund.
"Clearing and caring for this land has been no easy feat, but this is Ngāti Rēhia ancestral land and they are committed to using it to protect kauri and create educational and employment opportunities for their people," Shane Jones said.
Today's funding announcement means Ngāti Rēhia can now move ahead with works such as:
Establishing pest-proof fencing
Creating boardwalks and other requirements for biosecurity such as installing and improving existing quarantine stations
Further land clearing and planting activities
Employment and training of Ngāti Rēhia iwi to become kaitiaki of their lands.
In 2018, Government funding of $288,000 was committed to a partnership between Ngāti Rēhia and Crown Research Institute Scion to determine whether ancestral land in Takou Bay was free of kauri dieback.
This involved soil testing and analysis for kauri dieback. The feasibility study was one of the first of its kind to determine whether kauri, or other native species, could be successfully established in Northland and remain disease-free.
A further $50,000 was then committed to protect the area once it was found to be suitable for a kauri sanctuary. This allowed fences to be built, paths to be cleared, and signage to be added to the boundaries.
The project has also included training and education opportunities for locals in establishing and managing indigenous forests.

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Home/Business/"VAT increase regressive and fuels inflation" – Choppies Chairman
"VAT increase regressive and fuels inflation" – Choppies Chairman
Choppies Enterprises Limited Chairman, Uttum Corea, has condemned the recent government move to increase Value Added Tax (VAT), and other taxes.
Corea says the move is counterproductive, as it came at a wrong time, and hence destructive to the economy.
"I also note the number of macro-economic challenges referred to earlier, including steep increases in power tariffs, fuel price increases, other increases in administered prices and the increase of VAT on 1 April in Botswana. The timing of these could not have been worse as one needs to first stimulate and revive stalled economic programmes and grow the economy before seeking to tax the economy and its people.
The VAT increase in particular is regressive and fuels inflation. Inflation which was contained at 2-3% increased substantially to 8.2% by 30 June 2021, which is the first time inflation has gone above the objective range of 3%-6% since May 2013. Inflation increased to 8.9% by the end of July 2021." Corea highlighted.
Choppies Chairman notes that the inflation rate which was contained throughout the pandemic got out of hand after VAT was increased, and a series of taxes, and levies got introduced. VAT was increased by two percent (2%), power, and fuel tarrifs increased, other taxes- like sugar tax introduced.
Corea is of the view that though Bank of Botswana is hoping that inflation will adjust down in April 2022, this is not only theoretical and will not help the people, but also as these are not normal years and employers will not be able to increase salaries and wages to compensate for inflation quite apart from those who would no longer be in employment due to failing or downsized businesses.
According to Choppies Chairman, to salvage the situation, the government must carry out rapid evaluations of current social upliftment programmes and those that are ineffective should be consolidated into paying a basic income allowance to all those who have lost employment and those who are living below the poverty line.
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Human settlement in Scotland
Scottish Gaelic: Achd Ille Bhuidhe
The Post Office in Achiltibuie
Location within the Ross and Cromarty area
Lieutenancy area
Ross, Skye and Lochaber
Caithness, Sutherland and Ross
58°01′N 5°20′W / 58.02°N 5.34°W / 58.02; -5.34Coordinates: 58°01′N 5°20′W / 58.02°N 5.34°W / 58.02; -5.34
Achiltibuie (/ˌæxɪltɪˈbuːi/; Scottish Gaelic: Achd Ille Bhuidhe or Field of the yellow-haired boy[1]) is a long linear village in Ross and Cromarty, Highland, on the Coigach coast of northwestern Scotland, overlooking Badentarbet Bay to the west. Loch Broom and the Summer Isles lie to the south. Located 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Ullapool as the crow flies. Achiltibuie is the central community of a series of townships and communities stretching from Culnacraig, through Badenscallie and Polglass (where the community hall, the primary school and the Piping School Cafe are located), Polbain, and Reiff to Achnahaird.
1.1 Smokehouse
1.2 Hydroponicum
2 Notable residents
3 Notable recent achievements
4 Cultural connections
The first post office in the village opened on 28 July 1884.[2]
Smokehouse[edit]
For a time the Summer Isles Smokehouse attracted visitors.[3] In 2013 the community had hopes to re-establish the business.[4]
Hydroponicum[edit]
The Hydroponicum, a facility for growing fresh fruit and vegetables indoors using hydroponics, was built in the village in the 1980s by Robert Irvine, then owner of the Summer Isles Hotel. The Hydroponicum was known for growing exotic fruit such as bananas all year round. It attracted up to 10,000 visitors a year until it was sold in 2007 to a company based in the Isle of Man. New greenhouses have since been built apart from the original hydroponicum buildings, and the new owners continue to grow fruit and vegetables for local businesses and residents. A community buyout attempt in 2011 by the Coigach Community Development Company fell through when the site's sellers pulled out.[5] The building has now been demolished. Some of the former staff of the Hydroponicum run a small-scale activity known as The Achiltibuie Garden, situated nearby.[6]
Notable residents[edit]
Tom Longstaff (1875-1964), mountaineer.
Lucy Irvine (b. 1956), writer, lived very briefly in the Summer Isles Hotel with her father, who owned it and the Hydroponicum.
de:Reiner Luyken (b.1951), former foreign correspondent of the German weekly paper Die Zeit
Notable recent achievements[edit]
'Coigach Community Rowing' the crew members of which coastal rowing club are all local, won the World St. Ayles Skiff Rowing Championships in July 2013 and a mixed crew from the club won the Alan Spong Trophy for 1st Mixed crew 4-oar rowing at the Thames Great River Race in September 2013.[7] Coigach Community Rowing hand-built their two St Ayles rowing skiffs, the 'Coigach Lass' and the 'Lily~Rose' and race under the auspices of the Scottish Coastal Rowing Association, which is the governing body of St Ayles class coastal rowing around the world.[8]
Cultural connections[edit]
The Roman epic movie The Eagle, based on the 1954 novel The Eagle of the Ninth by Rosemary Sutcliff, was filmed on location in Achiltibuie for a week in October 2009. The main location was Fox Point, Old Dornie. The Pictish village which was constructed at Fox Point was used on most days of the filming. Other sites included Achnahaird beach where a horse chase was filmed and Loch Lurgainn.
The village and its residents featured in The Wee Mad Road (2008) by Jack and Barbara Maloney.[9]
Achiltibuie is also the setting of a humorous German book about Scotland by Reiner Luyken, Schotten dicht (2015) published by Ullstein Verlag, Berlin.[10]
^ Mac an Tàilleir, Iain (2003), "Gaelic Place Names" http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Gaelic/placenamesA-B.pdf Retrieved on January 1, 2012
^ Mackay, James A. (1989) Scottish Post Offices, p. 28, Dumfries: published by the author, ISBN 0-906440-48-3
^ Brown, Catherine (10 May 1997). "They're wholly smoked". The Herald. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
^ "Achiltibuie smokehouse could return to public ownership". BBC News. 22 February 2013.
^ "Achiltibuie site community buy-out falls through". BBC News. 21 November 2011. Retrieved 23 September 2014.
^ "New Life for Achiltibuie Smokehouse?". Caledonian Mercury. 27 February 2013. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
^ "Great River Race- Results 2013". greatriverrace.co.uk/. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
^ "St Ayles Skiff". buieboat.wordpress.com/. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
^ The wee mad road : a midlife escape to the Scottish Highlands. WorldCat. OCLC 221154071.
^ "Schotten dicht: Nachrichten aus Schottland und Achiltibuie". Ullstein Verlag, Berlin. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Achiltibuie.
Achiltibuie Tourist Association
Coigach Genealogy
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Achiltibuie&oldid=1040086341"
Populated places in Ross and Cromarty
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Kevin MacDonald: Charles Dodgson on Stratfor
January 27, 2010 /22 Comments/in Costs of Multiculturalism, Immigration, Israel, Jewish Double Standards on Immigration and Multiculturalism in Israel vs. the Diaspora, Jewish Support for Multiculturalism, Neoconservatism /by Kevin MacDonald
Kevin MacDonald: Charles Dodgson's current TOO article "Stratfor's Global Forecast: Myopia or Neoconservative Manipulation?" is a real eye-opener. I have often seen Stratfor's forecasts distributed on email lists and other venues as representing objective, hardheaded analysis. Now it turns out that Stratfor is run by a strongly identified Jew who sees the world through a typical neoconservative Jewish lens — biased toward Israel. And, by emphasizing the benefits of immigration into Western countries but not the ethnic costs to Whites, Stratfor is an effective cheerleader for White dispossession in Europe and America.
Because they are tiny minority in Western societies, all successful Jewish intellectual and political movements must appeal to non-Jews. This has certainly been true of the Jewish movements of the left that dominate so much of contemporary thinking in the West. This is also true of neoconservative movements, and Dodgson's analysis shows that Stratfor appeals to non-Jewish conservatives because it emphasizes national sovereignty and other hot button conservative issues. But, in the end, Stratfor is yet another illustration of neoconservative Jews reinforcing the fundamentally leftist, multicultural, anti-White status quo in the West while simultaneously advocating Jewish ethnic nationalism in Israel.
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Vishal Bharadwaj's most awaited Rangoon hit the theaters yesterday and collected 6.07 Crore on day one. Well it's a negative slide towards the box office prediction as we though the film will collect 40 Crore in its weekend. Rangoon needs to show a positive growth on Saturday and Sunday to survive till the 100 Crore club.
The film received mixed reviews from the audience but some social media networking sites have already declared it as the biggest crap movie ever made in Bollywood. However Shahid Kapoor's bold army character and Kangana Ranaut's charm have impressed the audiences.
Let's see if Vishal Bharadwaj's Rangoon manages to survive at the box office or fails to do so.


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ETF Investing / Buy the Market With the Best Fidelity Funds in July
Buy the Market With the Best Fidelity Funds in July
The current climate of uncertainty creates more opportunities than not
July 11, 2017 By Jim Lowell Jul 11, 2017, 2:12 pm EST July 11, 2017
We have arrived at the official mid-year standpoint. So far this year, gains have been the rule; optimism, the exception. With fear on the front burner, many investors are staying out of the market's kitchen. Not me. In fact, I think the current climate creates more opportunities than not — and the following best Fidelity funds to buy the market in July speak for themselves.
Before I go there, let me state unequivocally that now is not the time to buy whole, major markets in passive index fund or exchange-traded fund (ETF) baskets. There are way too many overvaluation ants and spoiled stocks to make me want to go on that picnic.
Instead, as has been the case year-long, actively managed funds, especially actively managed sector funds, offer a compelling way to net the best of both the risk management and return potential worlds. Narrowly focused sector ETFs can also play a meaningful trading role in your July portfolio.
And there's no better place to invest in and profit from sector investing than Fidelity. Fidelity has the broadest array of actively managed sector funds available — and they also have the lowest cost, commission-free sector ETFs.
That's where I'd go to load up my quiver with investment arrows for July's hunt. Here's what I'm hunting:
Attractive absolute and relative valuations and strengthening domestic and global economies make buying any dip in financials a smart July buy. My approach: Buy the Fidelity Select Banking Fund (MUTF:FSRBX) and hold on to it.
The opposite of that buy-and-hold recommendation is my trading call: Oversupply and slow growth have pummeled oil prices all year long; oil prices crashed into bear market territory in June — down over 20%. Aggressive investors may think that that puts a bull's eye on energy stocks. They may be right.
If so, Fidelity Select Energy (MUTF:FSENX) would be my choice to take long-term advantage of any major new down tick. But for traders, those looking to move in and out of a position in a very short time frame, I'd opt for Fidelity's commission free and ultra-low cost MSCI Energy ETF (NYSEARCA:FENY).
The post-election bloom recently came off the banking sector; it fell 11.3% from its post-election peak on March 1 to its mid-April low. (With a large portion of that fall occurring shortly after the Fed's March rate hike.)
The fund went on to gain 6.5% in the month of June, though, thanks to slightly less feverish fear over Trump's inability to act on his stated revised regulatory overhang of this industry, and helped by his administration's issuance of a report (aka game plan) released by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on June 13.
The 150-page report contains 100 suggestions that are expected to be enacted by regulators, as opposed to a bi-partisan effort in congress. Among the suggestions are lifting restrictions on big banks within trading operations and creating an easier stress test process for banks to pass as well.
Even before such regulatory pull backs, we have seen already some progress in the latter, with Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C), Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE:WFC) and Bank of America Corporation (NYSE:BAC) — all top holdings in FSRBX's portfolio — passing the Federal Reserve's stress test in June.
The result: C increased its dividend from 16 cents to 32 cents while announcing a buyback program of $15.6 billion on June 29, which is the largest in the company's history. WFC gave its dividend of 3% a lift to 39 cents and approved an $11.5 billion repurchase. BAC jumped its dividend from 60% to 12 cents and approved a $12 billion buyback.
Given that Citi, Wells Fargo and BofA are top-five holdings in the FSRBX portfolio, this is all good news. But this also comes as stock prices are being pushed higher in the Financials space, a fact likely not lost on manager Matthew Reed, who recognizes the need to proceed with caution and choose wisely when selecting bank stocks.
Matt Reed became the sole manager of FSRBX on March 31, 2017 after John Sheehy stepped down from the portfolio. Previously, Sheehy and Reed had been co-managing the fund together since Matt first arrived at the fund on September 2016, with Sheehy training Reed how to handle the fund (his very first) to ensure a smooth transition after John's departure.
A good move, given the political climate at the time and the bottoms-up approach involved in selecting bank stocks.
Gushing Value
While the kind of economic growth we're experiencing is promising for banks, it has been punishing the oil patch.
At Fidelity Select Energy, manager John Dowd invests in companies involved in many different forms of energy, not just oil, including: gas, electricity, coal, nuclear, geothermal, oil shale and solar power. Plus, Dowd bring 24 years' worth of insight into the oil patch.
However, the price of oil — and the energy industry that supports it — has fluctuated drastically even inside just the past five years, when we've seen a barrel of oil sell for over $110 and under $30. And that has hurt the fund's performance.
While Select Banking was making its comeback in June, oil prices continued to fall on news of U.S. inventory build and no signs of global growth heating up — with WTI plummeting more than 5% on June 6. This translated to a decline of 3% for FSENX in June, and a drop of 18.9% year-to-date.
Energy stocks tend to move up and down with the price of oil, which is notoriously difficult to predict. So while I respect John Dowd's skills as a manager, I want to see more evidence of greater global demand before I shift back into a long-term Buy rating here. But, I don't have to wait to make my July trader call: Buy MSCI Energy ETF if oil prices fall 5% or more from their July open price of $46.02. If they don't, don't.
Choosing quality over quantity along with diversity in the portfolio provides a clearer view of smart and patient risk management. We are seeing some momentum in the banking industry over the last month or so and it will be interesting to see if Reed can push all of the right buttons as a rookie manager to help Select Banking fund stay steady or better off.
If we see banking stocks dip like they did in March and April — whether it's due to markets that doubt the Trump administration's ability to lessen regulation, or a Fed that appears a little more tepid regarding their rate-hike regimen, or something else altogether — FSRBX may be the sector fund to buy July.
Jim Lowell is the editor of Fidelity Investor. Click here for Jim's latest special report and discover Fidelity's Top 20 Favorite Stocks — the most-owned, and most-liked, by Fidelity's top managers.
Article printed from InvestorPlace Media, https://investorplace.com/2017/07/buy-the-market-with-the-best-fidelity-funds-in-july/.
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Q: UITableView reloadData not displaying correctly after deleting row I have this code for a UITableView with two columns I found online. It works fine whenever I add another row to it, but when I pick a row to delete it just deletes the last row instead. I just add rows to the bottom of the array with [NSMutableArray addObject:], but when I delete a row I select the row to be removed first.
here is selecting the row ------( I checked to make sure tableViewIdx was correct)
- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath{

   tableViewIdx = [indexPath row];
}

then the delete button ------( I checked to make sure the object was actually removed from the array)
-(IBAction)bt_DeletePressed:(id)sender{
    [mutableArray removeObjectAtIndex:tableViewIdx];
    //delete actual content
    for(int i = VStableViewIdx;i<10;i++){
        g_vitals[i] = g_vitals[i+1];
    }
    [TableView reloadData];
    tableViewIdx--;
}

and some of the tableView code
- (NSInteger)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView numberOfRowsInSection:(NSInteger)section{
   int count = [listData count];
   if(self.editing) count++;
   tableSize = count;
   return count;
}

 - (UITableViewCell *)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath{

   NSString *MyIdentifier = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"MyIdentifier %i", indexPath.row];

   MyTableCell *cell = (MyTableCell *)[tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:MyIdentifier];
   if (cell == nil){
       cell = [[[MyTableCell alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero reuseIdentifier:MyIdentifier] autorelease];

       NSDateFormatter *formatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
       [formatter setDateFormat:@"HH:mm"];

       UILabel *label = [[[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0.0, 0, 60.00,tableView.rowHeight)] autorelease];
       [cell addColumn:60];
       label.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:12.0];
       label.text = textView.text;
       [formatter release];
       label.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentRight;
       label.textColor = [UIColor blueColor];
       label.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleRightMargin |
       UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight;
       [cell.contentView addSubview:label];

       label =  [[[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(70.0, 0, 60.0,tableView.rowHeight)] autorelease];
       [cell addColumn:500];
       label.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:12.0];
       label.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d",respRateTemp];
       label.textAlignment = UITextAlignmentRight;
       label.textColor = [UIColor blueColor];
       label.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleRightMargin |
       UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight;
       [cell.contentView addSubview:label];
   }

   return cell;
}

Any ideas why it would be removing the last row, instead of the selected one?
EDIT: I was actually able to fix it myself, by using deleteRowsAtIndexPaths: instead of updateData, however now I have another problem. My program runs fine on the simulator, but crashes frequently on a device. It comes up with the error:
Program received signal: "EXC_BAD_ACCESS".
Data Formatters temporarily unavailable, will re-try after a 'continue'. (Can't find dlopen function, so it is not possible to load shared libraries.)

A: There is a problem with the "cellForRowAtIndexPath" delegate.
According to your logic tableview dequeueReusableCells with index numbers, which causes the missing of the last row instead the selected row to delete. May be you can change the logic in cellForRowAtIndexPath or you can use a proper data structure & algorithms to manage the table view.

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Costs not recoverable on 'the nod' - A warning for private prosecutors R (on the application of T M Eye Ltd) v Southampton Crown Court [2021] EWHC 2624 (Admin)
Home Insights Blogs Dispute Resolution Law Blog Costs not recoverable on 'the nod' - A warning for private prosecutors R (on the application of T M Eye Ltd) v Southampton Crown Court [2021] EWHC 2624 (Admin)
Last month, the High Court handed down judgement in R (on the application of T M Eye Ltd) v Southampton Crown Court reinforcing the correct approach to applications for an award from central funds for the costs of a private prosecution. Despite clear 'Jurisdictional error' on the part of the Crown Court, the appellant court took the opportunity to warn private prosecutors; applications will not be approved 'on the nod'.
TM Eye Limited ('the Claimant') brought a private prosecution against Ms Peters ('first interested party'), for unauthorised use of a trade mark in relation to goods, contrary to section 92 of the Trade Marks Act 1994. The Claimant is a firm of private investigators who, as part of their work, are granted powers of attorney by brand owners to investigate and prosecute offenders using their trademark. The Claimants remuneration for this work is derived from the awards under section 17 of the Prosecution of Offences Act 1985 rather than from the brand owners concerned.
Following Ms Peters' guilty plea and subsequent sentencing, the Claimant applied for two orders for costs. The first was for Ms Peters to pay a 'means-tested contribution' to the costs pursuant to section 18 of the 1985 Act. The second was for the remainder of the costs to be awarded from the central fund, pursuant to Section 17. His Honour Judge Rowland declined to make either order.
Whilst explaining the ratio behind his decision, HHJ Rowland declared that he would not make an 'order for costs against [Ms Peters], on the ground of her impecuniosity'. With regard to making an order under section 17, the judge remarked that, in his interpretation of the statute, he saw nothing to suggest that it was mandatory to make the order. He concluded his sentencing remarks by saying it 'doesn't seem to me it's appropriate that the taxpayer should bear the burden of financing this prosecution'. This stance was influenced by a mistaken belief that the brand owners were in fact the 'effective prosecutors'. In his words, granting an order would seem 'unpalatable' as the brand owners had a wealth of resources and Ms Peters had 'very limited means and childcare responsibilities'.
The Claimant's solicitors subsequently sent a Letter before Claim in relation to a proposed claim for judicial review of the judge's decision not to make an award under section 17, asserting that 'the clear default position was that "in the absence of misconduct" an order of costs should be made'. The Claimant's sought an amendment to the order under the slip rule. This was refused but HHJ Rowland provided further explanation for his previous decision:
[28] "I formed the view counsel expected me to grant the application on the nod. I was not prepared to do so. [Counsel] indicated that she should have dealt with the question of costs in her opening note. That was a proper concession to make".
[31] "Where an application is made for £23,751.17 (or £28,501.40) to be paid from central funds it is incumbent on the prosecution to advance properly prepared and comprehensive submissions, referring to relevant authorities. Regrettably, that did not happen in this case. I decline to revisit unprepared and incomplete submissions."
On the 24th November 2020, the Claimant issued a claim seeking permission to apply for judicial review challenging the previous judgments. This claim was made on the grounds that the previous decisions were 'unreasonable, irrational and unlawful'.
The claim for judicial review
Judicial review was brought on the following grounds:
The first decision was a jurisdictional error of sufficient gravity to take the case out of the jurisdiction of the Crown Court because:
a) The judge relied on an irrelevant consideration, namely, the assumption as to the wealth of the brand owners.
b) Even if the wealth of the owners was a relevant consideration, the judge had no evidential basis to make an assumption as to their wealth, and, offered no reasoned basis as to why their wealth would justify his decision.
The second decision 'magnified the jurisdictional errors … previously made'.
When considering the judge's first decision, the High Court emphasised that the roles of both the Claimant and the brand owners were not clearly explained by Counsel resulting in HHJ Rowland's mistaken belief that the brand owners were the 'effective prosecutors'. It was this belief that led to the Judge's concern that the taxpayers would foot the bill for a prosecution being led by three 'extremely wealthy' companies. Nevertheless, the High Court asserted that 'the actual or apparent wealth of the prosecutor' cannot be a proper reason for refusing to make an order and the Judge fell into jurisdictional error when basing his decision solely on the assumption that the effective prosecutors [had] money'.
Whilst there may have been a jurisdictional error in the first decision, it was rejected that the Judge's second ruling simply magnified the jurisdictional errors previously made and, on the contrary, should be taken as his more considered decision because it gave separate more valid reasons.
Persuaded that the Judge fell into jurisdictional error in his first decision, the High Court granted the Claimant permission to apply for judicial review, though the claim for judicial review was ultimately refused.
The granting of any remedy in judicial review proceedings is always discretionary. Despite the Judge's initial error, basing his ruling on the assumed wealth of the prosecutor, the Claimant made its application for costs in an inadequate manner and failed to address the court correctly about the relevant principles. The High Court agreed that the Claimant presented its case 'on the basis that an application for the usual order was all that was required' and that 'it would be granted on the nod'. The High Court took this as an opportunity to confirm this is not the correct way to approach an application for costs from the central funds and to provide private prosecutors with guidance on how to make applications of this kind.
With any application under section 17, the Court must first exercise its discretion in favour of making an order for costs, considering whether making an order is appropriate based on the circumstances of each specific case. If the Court is minded to make an order for costs, a decision is then made whether to 'limit that award in any way'. On this point, the High Court rejected the submissions of the Claimant that the Court's ability to limit the award was restricted to cases of 'misconduct'. The examples within Rule 45.4(5)(b) of The Criminal Procedure Rules 2020 and paragraph 2.6.1 of the Practice Direction are 'plainly not exhaustive' and it falls within the Court's power and its interpretation of the circumstances to decide if it is in fact appropriate to make an order and, if so, in what amount.
Per Mirchandani v Lord Chancellor, the High Court has accepted that private prosecutions are often in the public interest. Consequently, detailed enquiries will often not be necessary to grant an order under section 17. However, it is for the Court to decide whether the process should be 'long or short' and not for the prosecutor to assume. This principle continues even where the Claimant applies for an order that the costs be assessed by the Determining Officer.
Whilst it was accepted that rule 45.4 (4)(A) of the 2020 Act only requires a prosecutor making such an application to outline the type of costs and the amount claimed, the High Court contended that the rule does not infer that a Court, provided with minimal information, is unable to inquire further. In addition, the Court could decide to: 'exercise its power to assess the amount of costs itself pursuant to rule 45.4(6)(b)'. A court cannot be 'manoeuvred into simply granting the application on the nod' and the court is entitled to request any information it needs. Therefore, a private prosecutor should be prepared to provide the court with any information it requires.
Overall, in this case, although the judge had fallen into error in how he reached his conclusion, he was entitled to refuse the application for costs. He had reached an appropriate decision by inappropriate considerations. The judge's second ruling gave more applicable reasons for his decision. Thus, the High Court felt that had the judge not fallen into this error his final decision would not have been 'substantially different'. So the High Court considered why did the Judge fall into error? In response, it was stated that the 'Claimant in our view contributed to [the] error because it made its application for costs in an inadequate manner and failed to address the court correctly about the relevant principles'.
This case has shown that the courts will not put up with private prosecutors assuming that applications will be approved 'on the nod' and that prosecutors will need to ensure that their submissions are properly prepared. An 'unsatisfactory presentation of the application' will not be tolerated.
You can find further blogs on the recovery of costs in private prosecutions by Melinka Berridge here.
For further information on the issues raised in this blog, please contact Melinka Berridge Partner in our private prosecutions team.
Melinka Berridge is a Partner at Kingsley Napley. She is a founding member and the Executive Secretary of the Private Prosecutors' Association and she leads the team at Kingsley Napley responsible for the conduct of private prosecutions.
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Located high on the side of a canyon that branches off the Napa Valley, the residence seamlessly blends into its setting.
The client's vision was to construct a home in which it is hard to tell where the house stops and the landscape begins. The 13,000 gsf main house occupies one of the last available ridge top sites in Napa Valley with sweeping views of the San Francisco Bay to the south, and the length and breadth of the Napa Valley. The guest house served as a successful testing ground for design ideas used in the main house on the ridge above. Designed to merge into the landscape, the guest house incorporates the use of wood trellises, stone elements and colored stucco that reflect the color palette of the surrounding hills.
Limited by local ordinances to 995 gsf of interior space, the plan more than doubles the usable area by adding a covered loggia between the bedroom suites, decks and a courtyard. Upon entering the main house, one crosses a rich white Alhambra limestone floor to the living room. Sliding doors reveal a dramatic wrap-around stone-paved terrace, which spills into the game room linking the interior to a second terrace accessing the pool area. A door in the game room reveals a spiral staircase leading down to a 1,750 gsf wine cave. The wine cave is a series of rooms leading out to daylight at a portal, landscaped with planting and a seating area, with views of Mount St. Helena to the North.


There exist plenty of opportunities to begin a professional future in financial technology and join its increasingly global ecosystem: like going through our own courses or directly through a regional scene. Part of the allure of a prospective career in Fintech is in its perceived modernity and agile business models, especially when compared with so-called 'immobile' financial institutions built upon legacy systems and may be slow to swift operational changes. While we've previously discussed the growing importance of holding Fintech knowledge in financial careers, this all begs the question: what are the skills needed to have a successful career in Fintech?
In the following sections of this article, we explore skills which are both in-demand and crucial if you are seeking a successful professional future in Fintech startups or the wider industry.
The rising expectations of digitally-inclined consumers and aggressive smartphone market penetration has meant an emphasised demand for talent with the appropriate skills to fuel necessary changes in this period of rapid digital transformation. These multidisciplinary skills spread across Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and cloud computing – and include experience with data science toolkits like Python & NumPy; and data visualisation tools such as D3.js & ggplot.
Professionals who can develop websites and integrate mobile applications hold extreme value to an industry powered by usability and responsive design. Software engineers create necessary API (Application Programming Interfaces) for a business' products & services, and the importance of this cannot be overstressed.
Additionally, proficient coders who also happen to have expertise in AI & Machine learning, as outlined above, are known as the "full-stack quant" – as coined by the Haas School of Business— University of California Berkeley.
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The next generation of pro-Orban oligarchs: the Mészáros kids are making 3300 euros a day winning public tenders
Babett OROSZI
Lőrinc Mészáros has become a legendary figure of Hungarian political life. The former mayor of Viktor Orban's home village became the second wealthiest man in the country only in a few years. The former gas pipe fitter says that his talent and hard work pay off. It seems that talent runs in the family as his children have been winning public tenders for the past three years, and they are getting rich as well.
A company called Fejér-B.Á.L. Zrt was registered in 2015. The unusual name refers to the county of its origin (Fejér) and the first letters of the names of the three Mészáros children, Beatrix (33), Ágnes (31) and Lőrinc Jr. (24).
The company very quickly started to bid on public tenders, either as part of a consortium or alone. According to the public tender database, Fejér-B.Á.L. Zrt has already bid for 17 jobs whose total value was approximately 233 million euros (70.8 billion forints). Only two of their bids were unsuccessful, the value of which totaled only 840,000 euros (255 million forints).
Fejér-B.Á.L. Zrt. did not even need much time to start its winning streak. Just three months after it was founded, it had already won a tender together with construction giant West Hungária Bau. The Mészáros kids were rebuilding a destroyed part of the Szombathely Bishop's Palace. The value of the contract was 2.7 million euros (828 million forints).
They only needed to wait until the next year to win a mega-tender. WHB and Fejér-B.Á.L. won a tender worth 8.2 million euros (2.5 billion forints) to rebuild certain structures of the National Stables, a huge complex of stables in Budapest.
According to Atlatszo's research of the public tender database, the Mészáros kids' company has already won public tenders worth 70.5 billion forints. Most of these were won as members of a consortium and their partner in most of the cases is WHB, the construction giant mentioned above.
According to the Opten business database, Fejér-B.Á.L. Zrt. has made a profit of 3.9 million euros (1.182 billion forints) since 2015. This means that the the Mészáros children made more than one million Hungarian forints every day since they founded their company. This translates to roughly 3300 euros a day.
Written by Babett Oroszi
English version by Anita Kőműves, editing by Clare Humphreys
You can read the original, Hungarian language story here.
Company data was provided by Opten.
Cover photo: Viktor Orban and Lőrinc Mészáros, photo: Szilárd Koszticsák, MTI
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Drone video: This is how the Mészáros empire looks from above
Government-aligned businessmen took over regional media in Hungary, are rewarded with huge profits
Hungarian government spent €23 million of taxpayers' money on propaganda before the election
Hungarian government spent €40 million on anti-Soros propaganda in 2017
Hungarian PM's favorite oligarch wealthier than last century's aristocrats
Another 5,5 million euros to PM Orban's friend and his business partner from EU funds


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Mercy – pierwszy solowy album Steve'a Jonesa wyprodukowany przez Neila Dorfsmana i wydany w 1987 roku przez firmę MCA. Utwór tytułowy z tej płyty został wykorzystany w serialu Miami Vice.

Lista utworów
 "Mercy" – 5:04
 "Give It Up" – 4:55
 "That's Enough" – 4:05
 "Raining in My Heart" – 5:33
 "With You or Without You" – 4:29
 "Pleasure and Pain" – 4:51
 "Pretty Baby" – 6:01
 "Drugs Suck" – 4:30
 "Through the Night" – 4:43
 "Love Letters" – 2:57

Skład
 Steve Jones – wokal, gitara, gitara basowa
 Mickey Curry – perkusja
 Jim Keltner – perkusja
 Bob Rose – instrumenty klawiszowe
 Kevin Savigar – instrumenty klawiszowe
 Neil Dorfsman – produkcja

Albumy muzyczne wydane w roku 1987
Albumy Steve'a Jonesa

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Minister Toshima Karki refutes allegations related to ICU protocol
CREDOS : The Dalai Lama — III
By Lama Surya Das
The current Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is only the second ever to have travelled as far from his country as India and China, and he is the first to venture further into the outside world. Indeed, his own charisma and accomplishments — largely in response to Tibet's full takeover by China — have had more to do with his stance among spiritual leaders today than does his position as Dalai Lama in Tibet.
The rise of the Dalai Lamas as an institution within Tibetan Buddhism has taken an tortuous course across six centuries. And only in the last 300 years have the Dalai Lamas held the position of spiritual and temporal sovereign of Tibet. Beyond fulfilling their political duties, the Dalai Lamas have included great poets, scholars, and experts who have brought ever higher honour to the title.
Since the 17th century, when the term came into use, each Dalai Lama has been regarded as the incarnation of Avalokiteshvara (Chenrezig, in Tibetan) and is considered the reincarnation of the previous Dalai Lama. Tibetans believe that the timeless Buddha's emanation in this world alleviates the suffering and confusion of all beings and takes the form of the incarnations of the Dalai Lama, the Karmapa Lama, and other tulkus (incarnated lamas). This practice of recognising reincarnated saints and sages is unique to Tibetan Buddhism. The first Dalai Lama was a learned and renowned monk named Gendun Drub (1391-1474). — Beliefnet.com
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Q: Memory leak for uiimage I'm getting heavy leak in UIImage. Could you please help me?
-(UIImage*)getImage{
  return [self getForrrrImage];
}

-(UIImage*)getForrrrImage{
  NSAutoreleasePool *pool=[[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
  UIImage *imageResult=nil;
  if(index>=0 && index<[imagesPatchs count]){
    NSString *key=[imagesPatchs objectAtIndex:index];
    if(small)
      imageResult=[savedImagesDic objectForKey:key];

    if(!imageResult){
      NSRange range=[key rangeOfString:@"test_bg"];
      if(range.location!=NSNotFound){
        NSString *filePath1;
        if(small){
          NSString *str=[[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"%@_small",key];
          filePath1=[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:str ofType:@"jpg"];
          [str release];
        }
        else
          filePath1=[[NSBundle mainBundle]pathForResource:key ofType:@"jpg"];
        if(filePath1){
          imageResult=[self createImageFromFile:filePath1];
          if(small){
            [savedImagesDic setObject:imageResult forKey:key];

          }
        }
      }

      else{

        NSString *filePath;
        if(small)
          filePath=[[NSString alloc]initWithFormat:@"%@/%@_small.png", DOCUMENTS_FOLDER, key];
        else
          filePath=[[NSString alloc]initWithFormat:@"%@/%@.png", DOCUMENTS_FOLDER, key];

        if([[NSFileManager defaultManager] fileExistsAtPath:filePath]){
          imageResult=[self createImageFromFile:filePath];
          if(small){
            if(imageResult){
              [savedImagesDic setObject:imageResult forKey:key];
              [imageResult release];
            }
            else {
              imageResult=[UIImage alloc];
            }

          }
          else{
            if(!imageResult)
              imageResult=[UIImage alloc];

          }
        }

        [filePath release];
      }
    }
  }
  else
    imageResult=[UIImage alloc];
  [pool drain];

  return imageResult;
}

-(UIImage*)createImageFromFile:(NSString*)filePath{

  NSAutoreleasePool *pool=[[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];

  UIImage *imageResult=nil;
  NSData *data=[[NSData alloc]initWithContentsOfFile:filePath options:NSUncachedRead error:nil];
  imageResult=[[UIImage alloc] initWithData:data] ;  ----->Heavy memory leak

  [data release];
  [pool drain];
  return imageResult;

}

A: Right now, you're returning a mess of autoreleased and retained objects, depending on the code path taken. Here's how to fix that:
First, in your createImageFromFile: you need to do return [imageResult autorelease]; and remove the [imageResult release]; from your getForrrrImage method.
Next, you have a lot of imageResult=[UIImage alloc]; which is wrong since you're allocating but not initializing the object. Also you don't autorelease it. If you don't have an image, then simply return nil instead.
Remember: you always should return autoreleased objects, except if:

*

*your method starts with new

*your method starts with alloc

*your method contains the word copy (as in mutableCopy)

In all other cases it is expected that non-owning (i.e. autoreleased) objects are returned. While until now sticking to this was merely to make your life easier (and that of everyone who works with your code), sticking to these conventions is enforced when using the Automatic Reference Counting of iOS 5. So you want to make sure your code does follow these rules unless you love lots of debugging and refactoring later on.
I also think your use of autorelease pools is overkill and you should remove them (except if you actually debugged and measured and found that they are necessary to prevent a memory warning). Anyway, if you want to stick to them, your will need to do this to save your object from getting deallocated before you return it:
[imageResult retain];
[pool drain];
[imageResult autorelease];

A: Just go through every createImageFromFile and make sure you release afterwards, cause you don't.
Second, you should use NSString's convenience methods like [NSString stringWithFormat], then you don't have to alloc an NString every time. Will save you trouble.

A: You have alloced imageResult in getForrrrImage and createImageFromFile and returned that for which there is no matching release. If you need to return an alloced object from a method then send it an autorelease message.
MyObject *obj = [[MyObject alloc] init];
return [obj autorelease];

Note that you can't release obj in the method as you need that object in the caller. That's why autorelease is used. You can retain the returned autoreleased obj in the caller if you need that in future.

A: Instead of
[[UIImage alloc] initWithData: data];

You might try
[UIImage imageWithData: data];

This would make sure that you do not need to care about releasing the object because you use the class method which initializes the Image for you already.
And then you should also shoot for autoreleases. Like
[[[UIImage alloc] initWithData: data] autorelease]

Just as an example.


Believe it or not, Senate Republicans (with a strong push from the White House) are talking about yet another partisan health-care initiative. This last cookie on the plate is the Graham-Cassidy proposal that was bruited about (though not released or scored by the CBO, much less voted on) during the Senate debate that crashed and burned last week when "skinny repeal" failed to attract 50 votes. While the legislative details vary according to which version of the proposal you read, Graham-Cassidy would reportedly turn both Medicaid expansion and Obamacare-tax-credit money into a block grant for states, put a long-term per capita cap on Medicaid, and allow states significant control on whether to keep, modify, or discard key Obamacare insurance regulations.
Even though senior Republican senator Orrin Hatch has reached the conclusion that his colleagues are too divided to pass a partisan health-care bill, Graham-Cassidy offers a bit of a psychological lifeline. It has, after all, already been endorsed by key GOP "moderate" Dean Heller. It bears some resemblance to the earlier proposal that BCRA/"skinny repeal" holdout Susan Collins co-sponsored with Cassidy. John McCain, the actual slayer of "skinny repeal," is famously Lindsey Graham's amigo. And its two key features — state flexibility over services and regulations, combined with federal funding cuts — should in theory be attractive to conservatives.
There are some major uncertainties about Graham-Cassidy — including one, the possible inclusion of Cruz-amendment (letting insurers offer cheaper and skimpier health plans) language, that could make it more attractive to conservatives while violating its general principle of letting states call the key shots (Graham-Cassidy definitely repeals Obamacare's individual and employer mandates, a real problem for insurers worried about young and healthy people exiting the insurance pools). And there's a pretty good chance the whole thing could run afoul of budget rules and require 60 votes, which would defeat the whole purpose of using the budget process to enact health-care legislation.
Details and procedural hurdles aside, though, the basic idea — offering states more flexibility over use of radically reduced federal funds — is one the Republican Party has liked for decades.
But the marketing of Graham-Cassidy, though, has been dishonest: It does not, in any meaningful sense, let states "keep Obamacare if they want to," as its sponsors frequently imply. All of the new money put into state treasuries by the Affordable Care Act would be phased out after ten years. And indeed, states would have to immediately start matching a percentage of the federal money that is provided. States that expanded Medicaid would lose some additional dollars right away since the baseline for this new block grant would apparently shift some resources to non-expansion states so as not to "discriminate" against them. And the automatic adjustment of both Medicaid and tax-credit dollars to the actual needs of people in individual states would be lost altogether.
The AHCA/BCRA Medicaid per capita cap would cut federal contributions to Medicaid, above and beyond the cuts in Medicaid made possible by Obamacare. There would be three-quarters-of-a-trillion dollars over ten years, with deeper cuts beyond that "window." This would essentially end Medicaid as an individual entitlement program. So to a considerable extent, Graham-Cassidy would give states the flexibility to cut services for vulnerable populations.
The proposal would definitely end any real national scheme for health-care coverage of people who don't qualify for some separate program like Medicare, CHIP, or the VA health system. That could create some particularly troublesome problems for insurers who have no idea how to structure or price individual insurance policies while awaiting state-level decisions on regulations, coverage, and financing.
This would be a marketplace where insurance companies have to accept all patients — but there is little incentive for those who are relatively healthy to purchase plans. There would be no requirement to purchase coverage, nor would there be a guarantee of subsidies to make that coverage affordable (although states could choose to spend their grant toward this purpose).
The main appeal of Graham-Cassidy is to Republicans who just want to pass off the health-care policy issue to the states, and perhaps to sitting Republican governors who will enjoy their new power over federal dollars without worrying about what happens when the dollars really begin to wither away. It's unclear if that's enough to attract senators like Collins, Murkowski, and McCain, without repelling conservatives like Cruz, Lee, and Paul. And again, the Senate parliamentarian could blow the whole thing up by adjudging the regulatory "flexibility" the proposal includes as requiring 60 votes.
It is also possible that some better-funded variation on this idea, perhaps closer to the original Cassidy-Collins proposal, will emerge, aimed at attracting just enough Democratic support to overcome a 60-vote threshold. At that point blue-state Democrats pleased with the idea of their own jurisdiction being able to continue something very close to Obamacare will have a moral quandary to address. Truly letting states govern health-care policy will most hurt poorer and sicker people in red states. Is throwing their interests to the wind acceptable to policy-makers who call themselves "progressive"?
There is one final factor to consider in any "let-states-decide" solution to congressional gridlock on health-care policy: It would make health-care policy central to state elections right away — in 2018, if something like Graham-Cassidy were enacted this year. Do congressional Republicans really want to inflict on their state counterparts the political agonies they have endured as the drive to repeal and replace Obamacare has foundered? That's a question they should be asked often, even as they tout their respect for federalism and state flexibility.


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Building the California Dream Alliance
2021 Priorities
Recovery for All
This pandemic is a clarion call for transformation across our economic and social systems.
Regina Banks, Director of the Lutheran Office of Public Policy – California
The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 has exacerbated and laid bare existing structural inequalities and misplaced legislative priorities that have left millions of Californians and their families unable to withstand any level of economic downturn. Furthermore, unacceptable structural racism in our health care system and in the determinants of health – reinforced by economic and environmental injustice – has resulted in COVID-19's staggering death toll for people of color.
California has an opportunity now to re-shape a crooked economic system and to make a sizable investment in safety net programs needed to ensure a Recovery for All that is equitable and green.
AB 503 (Stone) would end endless probation for youth by limiting time on probation to six months and limiting probation conditions by requiring they be individually tailored, developmentally appropriate, and not excessive. This bill would also advance racial justice and equity by ensuring Black, Brown, and poor youth are protected from long-term contact with the criminal-legal system.
SB 300 (Cortese) would reform California's cruel and racist "felony murder special circumstance" law to ensure that the death penalty and life without the possibility of parole cannot be imposed on those that did not kill, nor intend that a person die during a crime.
CIVIL RIGHTS (DISABILITY RIGHTS)
SB 2 (Bradford) would rein in police misconduct by providing for independent investigation and decertification of police officers committing serious misconduct, and provide remedies to victims and their families by eliminating inappropriate immunities that are often used to evade accountability.
SB 447 (Laird) would allow a victim's human suffering damages to survive even if the victim passes away before trial or resolution of their case. California law incentivizes defendants to prolong court proceedings in hopes that delays will outlive the victims of their own negligence. COVID-19 has made this problem worse, with no end in sight especially for victims who suffer from terminal illnesses.
EDUCATION (EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION THROUGH HIGHER ED)
AB 92 (Reyes) would alleviate financial burdens for families who are low income by creating an equitable sliding scale for child care family fees. California can fund child care for everyone, but instead our state relies on fees paid by families of color (mostly mothers) who earn low wages and can least afford it.
AB 610 (Kalra) would reduce law enforcement involvement in schools by providing them with the flexibility they need to respond appropriately to student behavior. More specifically, AB 610 would eliminate state mandates for school notification of law enforcement, increasing educator discretion in determining when to notify law enforcement about a student's school related behaviors and eliminating prosecution of school staff who fail to report incidents of alleged assaults or physical threats against school employees.
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND JUSTICE
SB 222/SB223 (Dodd) together establishes a long-needed framework for a statewide water affordability assistance program and strengthens and extends inadequate existing water shutoff and bill repayment protocols and procedures to better protect all low-income California households that may face or have already experienced water service disconnections due to the water customer's inability to pay their water bill.
SB 467 (Wiener) would tackle oil and gas extraction – which pollutes the air we breathe, contaminates the water we drink, and accelerates climate change – which is significantly more likely to take place in communities of color, and is compounding the health consequences of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic head on. SB 467 would specifically: 1) phase out fracking and other dangerous oil and gas extraction and production methods by 2027; 2) prohibit any new extraction permits within 2,500 feet of communities by July 1, 2022; and, 3) provide a meaningful just transition pathway for oil workers.
AB 1119 (Wicks) would prohibit discrimination against employees based on their family responsibilities and ensures working families have access to reasonable accommodations to deal with school and care closures.
SB 379 (Wiener) would ensure that UC healthcare providers practicing in non-UC facilities are able to provide comprehensive reproductive and LGBTQ-inclusive healthcare. SB 379 prohibits the University of California from entering into any contract with a health facility that limits the services UC medical providers and students are able to provide patients due to harmful, non-clinical restrictions on care.
HEALTHCARE AND LONG-TERM CARE ACCESS FOR ALL
AB 1130 (Wood) would create the Office of Health Care Affordability to collect and analyze information and identify trends in health care prices in order to address costs across the entire health care system. The Office will set enforceable cost targets for health care affordability while also aiming to improve quality and equity.
SB 650 (Stern) would require nursing homes to file annual consolidated financial statements, giving the State and the public more information on how nursing homes are spending taxpayer dollars.
HOUSING, HOMELESSNESS AND TENANT RIGHTS
AB 71 (L. Rivas) would restore corporate tax rates on corporations with $5 million or more in profits. The funding would be used to fund solutions to combat homelessness.
AB 1487 (Gabriel) would establish the Homelessness Prevention Fund to fund education, outreach, and legal services targeted towards preventing homelessness among particularly vulnerable renter populations
IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE JUSTICE AND INTEGRATION
AB 937 (Carillo), the VISION Act, would protect refugee and immigrant community members who have already been deemed eligible for release from being funneled by local jails and our state prison system to immigration detention. Prohibiting transfers to ICE would protect Californians from being subjected to inhumane and unsanitary conditions in immigration detention, close the main pipeline filling immigration detention beds, and reunite refugee and immigrant families and communities.
SB 334 (Durazo) would require for-profit detention facilities and prisons operating in California to meet and maintain insurance requirements including workers' compensation and liability, adhere to all appropriate state and local health, safety, fire and jail standards, and mandate that they obtain coverage from an admitted insurance carrier authorized to operate in California by the state's Department of Insurance.
INCOME AND FOOD SECURITY
AB 221 (Santiago, R. Rivas) would require the Department of Social Services to provide a food assistance benefit statewide to low-income California residents, regardless of their immigration status.
SB 731 (Durazo) would create a comprehensive process to automatically seal conviction and arrest records in the state of California once a person has fully completed their sentence and successfully gone two years without further contact with the justice system.
LGBTQ EQUALITY AND RIGHTS
AB 1041 (Wicks) would update current law to allow an employee to use their leave time to care for any individual related by blood or whose close association with the employee is the equivalent of a family relationship.
SB 225 (Wiener) would reduce the preventable harm done to people born with variations in their physical sex characteristics, who are often subjected to unnecessary surgeries when they are infants or young children based on generalized assumptions and stereotypes about the way bodies should look.
SB 17 (Pan) would establish the Office of Racial Equity (ORE) and the Racial Equity Advisory and Accountability Council, which would oversee the new office. The Office of Racial Equity will coordinate and lead the state's strategies for advancing racial equity across state agencies and departments.
AB 256 (Kalra) would make the California Racial Justice Act of 2020 retroactive, ensuring that people now in prison and jail can challenge racial bias in their convictions and trials.
ACA 8/AB 310 (Lee/Santiago) would apply a 1% wealth tax on individuals with a net worth of $50 million or more, and an additional 0.5% tax on individuals worth $1 billion or more. The tax generates over $22 billion annually and is applied to all tangible or intangible assets within the state of California, except real property.
AB 1177 (Santiago) would create the BankCal Program to provide essential financial services and allow individuals to open a no-fee, no-penalty transaction account with an associated debit card. In addition, this bill creates the Public Banking Option Board to oversee and administer the BankCal Program.
AB 339 (Lee, C. Garcia, R. Rivas) would provide greater public access to meetings of local agencies as well as the state legislature by promoting the use of teleconference technology to allow remote participation and to increase language access for limited English proficient residents.
SB 286 (Min) would create greater participation and voter representation for local elections by requiring candidates for county nonpartisan offices to have a top-two runoff in a November General Election. Current law allows for county officials to be elected by a majority vote in Primary Elections, which have much lower voter turnout compared to General Elections and are not representative of historically disenfranchised groups of people who continue to be underrepresented in the electorate, including youth, Black, Latinx, and Asian American people.
SB 606 (Gonzalez) would ensure California's workers are safe from egregious and flagrant violations by giving Cal/OSHA the tools and resources it needs to ensure employers are in compliance with the state's laws. Would also ensure workers are protected from retaliation so they feel safe to come forward and report unsafe working conditions.
AB 257 (Gonzalez) would enact the FAST Recovery Act to improve standards for workers in the Fast Food Industry. This act would bring together workers, industry and government to help solve systematic problems like low wages, sexual harassment, and violence on the job.
What our members are saying:
"The disproportionate loss of life in California's communities of color is devastating and unacceptable — and it was preventable. Systemic racism has persisted in health care access and delivery because we have failed to prioritize eliminating it. We will not allow inequities to be forgotten when the immediate threat of COVID-19 is behind us, and we will not relent from our fight for health care equity until every Californian has the opportunity to be healthy."
Nourbese Flint, Executive Director of the Black Women for Wellness Action Project
"Too many workers whom we recognize now as essential have always been treated as if they are expendable. Now is the time for us to start treating every single Californian as essential, valuable, and worthy of dignity and a voice both at work and in their communities."
Amber Baur, Executive Director of UFCW Western States Council
"This pandemic is a clarion call for transformation across our economic and social systems. Within the first few weeks of California's effort to slow the virus' spread, millions of Californians were unable to pay for rent or food – illustrating just how many Californians were living on razor thin margins even in a 'growing' economy. While we give attention to their most immediate needs, California must commit to support their recovery over the long haul and implement the sweeping reforms needed to deliver justice in economic opportunity, education, health care, and the environment."
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It does not surprise me one bit that progressive socialist democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein would surface a decades-old allegation in an attempt to smear the character and service of Judge Brett Kavanaugh and his nomination to the Supreme Court.
Given the political corruption, malfeasance, abuse of power, and leaking of the FBI, one wonders if Feinstein is counting on members of the "deep state" to release her attack on Cavanaugh's qualifications for office? And it is ironic that Feinstein who appears to be corrupt, using insider information to enrich herself and her husband, connected to China, and compromised by a hushed-up Chinese spying scandal should still have her security clearance and position on the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
WASHINGTON—Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) has reported to the FBI an allegation concerning Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh that appeared to be connected to an incident of potential sexual abuse when he was a teenager, a person familiar with the matter said.
Ms. Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Thursday she had "received information from an individual concerning the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court" and referred it to investigative authorities. She said the person providing the information, which she didn't specify, had requested confidentiality. Further details of the allegation weren't immediately available.
Democrats on the Judiciary Committee met informally Wednesday night to discuss the letter, a Senate staffer said.
A person familiar with the matter confirmed Ms. Feinstein's letter was referred to the Federal Bureau of Investigation as the agency that conducts background investigations of Supreme Court nominees.
"Upon receipt of the information on the night of September 12, we included it as part of Judge Kavanaugh's background file, as per the standard process," an FBI spokeswoman said.
Judge Kavanaugh didn't respond to requests for comment.
The fact the Feinstein had the letter in July and did not share it with the committee, and then at the last minute sends it to the FBI, and then announces her actions to the media should be consideration for being expelled from the United States Senate.
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh has been smeared by another "dirty" Democrat politician who should be facing sanctions instead of heading Senate committees. As we approach the 2018 mid-term elections, remember which party has actually colluded with our enemies, China, Russia, and Iran and then vote.


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Brekinja (cyr. Брекиња) – wieś w Bośni i Hercegowinie, w Republice Serbskiej, w gminie Kozarska Dubica. W 2013 roku liczyła 223 mieszkańców.

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Miejscowości w gminie Kozarska Dubica


There are some projects that are just fun and this is one of them. I got involved with the Russian Karaoke Bar Jelsomino NYC through a company called iCrave located in New York.
I went to high school with one of the guys who worked for them and touched base with him through Facebook. He in turn got me involved with the Ginza project that was producing this incredible Russian nightclub Jelsomino nyc located on 204 W. 55th street in NY.
I've loved working for restaurants and nightclubs ever since I started my business working for clubs in south Florida over a decade ago. The great thing about these commercial products is you can work a bit out of the box, creating a mural design or style that is a bit more whimsical. This New York mural project did not disappoint. I was given renderings of the mural wall and a basic idea of adding an aged graffiti-like element to the wall and making the three doors on the wall disappear. A couple of trips into the city and a few sketches later I had a design that was approved. This New York nightclub mural design depicted images of three icons in the music industry, connecting them with decorative scrolls.
When I arrived to paint this mural I was excited to see such progress since my last visit. Jelsomino Karaoke Bar was starting to look like a wonderful project to be involved in. Everything was looking top notch which added a bit of excitement that it was my turn to add my bit to the Ginza project. The entire mural took me three days to complete with an assistant and I left feeling completely gratified. It was a simple mural that made a big impact for the space. I got a big thrill in signing my name to this one. Since the opening they have been in many newspapers including the New York Post and boast to be a once in a lifetime experience.


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Meddling With Medals
Nothing like packing for a trip to empty out the sock and underwear drawers. Buried in the back of one of the drawers were two plastic boxes with foam inserts holding a bunch of pins and medals I accumulated while at Central High School (and, maybe SEMO).
When we got close to Cape, the weather alert kept going off with Tornado warnings; Lila was pulled over at a rest area north of town because a twister was reported south of her. Mother was headed to the basement. Things calmed down by the we all got home, but I decided not to unload the car tonight. We'll fill you in later. Here's a piece I put aside in case I needed a filler.]
The turtle and arrow at the top left signified that I was a Brotherhood member of the Order of the Arrow, the national Scout honor society. The turtle was our lodge symbol. I enjoyed Order of the Arrow much more than regular scouting because we were older boys and did work projects that had lasting value.
Missouri College Newspaper Association (maybe)
The rectangular pin on the left is one I don't recognize. It has the initials MCNA. I was a member of the OCNA, which stood for Ohio College Newspaper Association, so I'm going to guess this was the Missouri equivalent.
National Forensic League
The next four were from debate club. The blue medal was for being elected Outstanding Representative at the State Student Congress in Jefferson City. The red one was for being Superior Representative. NFL, in my case, did NOT stand for National Football League.
The two pins showing the guy in a robe were for the NFL, too. I think the top one might have been a charm like you might put on a bracelet (no, I didn't) or necklace. The other was a pin that you wore on your lapel.
Journalism and academics
Top right is a pin for National Honor Society. Some of the class of '65 got in early in the year. I was in the ones who just barely made it. In fact, I'm pretty sure that it was activity points for stuff like debate and the school publications that counted for more than my grades.
The second pin was for Quill and Scroll, the journalism honor society. It notes that I was a photographer. You've move up in rank based on the number of column inches of your work you had published. I was working at The Jackson Pioneer and freelancing for The Missourian, so I had a lot more opportunities to get in print than someone who might do a couple of stories for The Tiger. On top of that, picture column inches counted the same as written column inches, so photographers could wrack up inches faster than writers.


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Insys Sales Manager Charged In Kickback Scheme
By Lisa Chedekel | September 29, 2016
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Fifteen months after a Derby nurse admitted taking drug-company kickbacks in exchange for prescribing a powerful opioid painkiller, a former district sales manager for the company was arrested Thursday on federal charges that he helped to orchestrate the kickback scheme.
Jeffrey Pearlman, of Edgewood, NJ, who was district sales manager for the New York region for Insys Therapeutics through 2015, and the sales representatives he managed "induced certain physicians, advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) and physician assistants to prescribe the pharmaceutical company's fentanyl spray by paying them to participate in hundreds of sham 'Speaker Programs,'" according to a release from the U.S Attorney's Office for Connecticut.
The scheme "defrauded federal healthcare programs" of millions of dollars that was paid out improperly for the drug, Subsys, which is approved for use only in cancer patients with breakthrough pain.
Federal prosecutors allege that Pearlman "personally profited" from the scheme through inflated quarterly bonuses he received that were based, in large part, on the sales results of the employees he managed.
Pearlman, who is no longer employed by Insys, could not be reached for comment Thursday.
The charges come as a nurse formerly employed by the Comprehensive Pain and Headache Treatment Center of Derby awaits sentencing on charges that she accepted kickbacks from Insys for writing large numbers of prescriptions for Subsys. C-HIT reported in June that the nurse, Heather Alfonso, was cooperating in an ongoing federal probe of Insys' sales tactics.
While the complaint against Pearlman does not include names of the drug company or the cooperating witnesses, details of "cooperating witness 1" match prior details of Alfonso's involvement. The complaint says she "encouraged co-workers to prescribe (Subsys) over similar medications because of the payments" she received from Insys under the sham speaker program.
In August, a C-HIT story revealed high Subsys prescribing by Alfonso and three other APRNs employed by the pain clinic. The four were responsible for nearly all of the state's 2014 Medicare spending on Subsys, federal records show.
Only Alfonso has been charged. The director of the pain clinic, Dr. Mark Thimineur, has not been implicated.
Alfonso has admitted receiving about $83,000 in kickbacks from Insys through a sham speakers' program – typically, dinners held at high-end restaurants that were supposed to be designed to gather healthcare providers and educate them about the drug. Instead, the events were "usually just a gathering of friends and co-workers, most of whom did not have the ability to prescribe the fentanyl spray, and no educational component took place," the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
"Speakers" were paid fees that ranged from $1,000 to several thousand dollars for attending the dinners. At times, the sign-in sheets for the program were forged, with Pearlman's knowledge, so as to make it appear that the programs had an appropriate audience of healthcare professionals, federal prosecutors said.
While Pearlman authorized the payments to Alfonso, according to prosecutors, the affidavit references a second cooperating witness, formerly employed by Insys, who was involved in the scheme. That witness is assisting the government in exchange for not being charged, the complaint says.
In the affidavit, the witness believed to be Alfonso says she asked Pearlman, at one point, about the propriety of the "speaker" dinners.
"Don't worry about the dinners," she was told. "You just worry about writing scripts."
Pearlman appeared Thursday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah A. L. Merriam in New Haven and was released on a $200,000 bond.
The charge of paying or receiving kickbacks in relation to a federal healthcare program carries a maximum term of imprisonment of five years and a fine of up to $250,000.
The investigation by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, with the assistance of the Drug Enforcement Administration's Tactical Diversion Squad, is ongoing.
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The 2018 federal budget included significant changes to filing requirements applicable to trust (T3) income tax returns. These new rules mean that starting in 2021 many family trusts, which given past rules were not required to file annual income tax returns, will now need to do so.
Given the unfairly high statutory penalty for non-filing (or other non-compliance), it is important to communicate these changes to ensure taxpayers are aware of them.
The minimum penalty is $2,500 per year. The maximum, on the other hand, is 5% of the value of assets held by the trust. Imagine the possibility that a family member had in the past transferred a Muskoka cottage into a family trust in order to minimize potential family conflicts, and ensure all extended family members would continue to enjoy it. In the past, if the only use of the cottage was for family, then there would have been no requirement to file an annual T3 return. Under the new rules, however, a return is required and the penalty for non-filing could be shockingly high.
If you have any questions about these or other changes affecting trusts, please contact us.


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Well, it snowed
By Josh Johnson On Feb 9, 2018
ROCKFORD — As forecasted, it snowed a lot in Rockford and the surrounding areas. Six-to-eight inches fell in the city and some places south are still seeing heavy snowfall as officials warn about travel dangers.
Officially, 5.6 inches was recorded at the airport earlier this morning, although some localized areas may have up to a foot of snow. It was a lot of snow.
Along the I-80 to I-88 corridor, snow is still falling at a rate of around 1-2 inches per hour and the Illinois State Police have warned that parts of I-39 in Ogle County are nearly impassable as we approach the noontime hour, Friday.
Pretty much every government office and school in the area is closed Friday, so you don't have to worry about that. But do make sure that if you're parked on the street, you follow the odd/even rules that are in effect. Today, park on the odd side; Saturday, the even. If you're on a street that only allows parking on one side, you better find another place to park.
What's on deck? Tonight—you guessed it—some more snow. Saturday? Probably more snow. Sunday? Probably not any snow. But temperatures aren't expected to climb above freezing anytime soon, so this stuff will be hanging around for a while.
Make sure you have enough gas for the snow blower; remove all the snow from your car before you drive (ALL of the snow. The people driving behind you deserve to see the road, too. It's also against the law.); and be safe out there. R.
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It's easier than ever to capture that perfect shot. Take crisp photos, even in low light. And catch action shots as they happen with Smartburst. Once you've captured the moment, Google Photos keeps all your photos backed up and organized, so you can find and share them faster than ever.
When you need a quick charge, the reversible USB Type-C charger gets you 7 hours of battery life in just 15 minutes.† And when you aren't using your phone, Doze automatically puts it into a sleep state to extend your battery life. So you can always move at your speed.
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