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EconomicsSeptember 14, 2020
British legislation must be able to override EU law – that is what independence means
Piety has no bounds it seems. The Sunday Times ran an Op Ed at the weekend (September 12, 2020) – John Major and Tony Blair: Johnson must drop shameful no-deal Brexit bill or be forced to by MPs (paywall) – which told us how angry former British Prime Ministers Tony Blair and John Major are with Boris Johnson about the Government's intention to introduce the Internal Market Bill to ensure the so-called Withdrawal Agreement is compatible with national law. They started by appealing to the international treaty status of the Withdrawal Agreement, which outlined Britain's terms of exit from the EU. The Op Ed called the decision by government as "shocking". The Remainers are jumping on the 'breach of international law' bandwagon like there is no tomorrow. Of course, they never highlight the fact that they want to be part of an arrangement, which is created by international law and which regularly violates that law to serve its own political and elite interests. And those breaches, which include gross human rights abuses and deliberately undermining the prosperity of its own citizens through mass unemployment and more, have had severe consequences for humanity. The fact that the British government is now declaring national law will no longer be subjugated and subservient to international agreements is not in the same ball park of international violations.
The Blair/Major Op Ed stated:
How can it be compatible with the codes of conduct that bind ministers, law officers and civil servants deliberately to break treaty obligations? As we negotiate new trade treaties, how do we salvage credibility as "global Britain" if we so blatantly disregard our commitments the moment we sign them? …
… if the government itself will not respect the rule of law, then the High Court of Parliament should compel it to do so,
Both Blair and Major were clearly pro-Europe.
When Major was Prime Minister and introduced the Maastricht Treaty into British law, he was met with a major internal Tory Party rebellion (the so-called Maastricht Rebels).
He was dumped by the electorate in the 1997 general election after a period where he oversaw a massive recession while pushing ahead with his destructive privatisation program (British rail, coal etc). His period in office was marked by a series of high profile financial and sex scandals (which penetrated into his cabinet).
Importantly, he was PM during Black Wednesday (September 16, 1992), which led to Britain finally realising it could not participate in the European Exchange Rate Mechanism, despite his zeal for fixing the British pound within the ERM.
In his 10-year period as British Prime Minister, Tony Blair hardly respected international law.
He deployed British troops more than "any other prime minister in British History" (Source).
He put British troops at the convenience of the US in illegal invasions of Afghanistan, and, later Iraq. He lied to the British people about the claim that Saddam Hossain had weapons of mass destruction, which he intended to use against the US, despite no evidence being provided to justify that claim.
The link between Saddam Hossain and Al-Qaeda was never substantiated.
The Iraqi invasion essentially created ISIS and has made the world a much more dangerous place.
The Independent article (December 15, 2006)- Diplomat's suppressed document lays bare the lies behind Iraq war – disclosed that the nature of Blair's lies about the war in Iraq.
Britain's key negotiator to the UN, who had been kept silent "because he was threatened with being charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act", subsequently revealed that:
… at no time did … Her Majesty's Government … assess that Iraq's WMD (or any other capability) posed a threat to the UK or its interests.
He admitted that British diplomats had "warned US diplomats that bringing down the Iraqi dictator would lead to the chaos … "
He told a British government enquiry (chaired by Lord Butler) that:
There was, moreover, no intelligence or assessment during my time in the job that Iraq had any intention to launch an attack against its neighbours or the UK or the US …
A formal Dutch government enquiry (chaired by Dutch Supreme Court judge Willibrord Davids) later found that the 2003 invasion was not justified in international law.
This was endorsed in statements by the then UN Secretary-General who said in 2004 that (Source):
I have indicated it was not in conformity with the UN charter. From our point of view and the UN Charter point of view, it … was illegal
Even the British – Chilcot Enquiry – which largely avoided considering the legality issue, concluded that the invasion had:
… undermined the authority of the United Nations.
Further, it was fairly clear that Blair mislead the British Parliament on the invasion. Even his Deputy PM, John Prescott admitted the invasion was illegal (Source).
The point is that it is a bit much for Tony Blair to come out now and claim that 'international law' should take precedence in determining British interests.
Further, the Remainers are once again becoming apoplectic about the 'international law' issue, as a last-gasp attempt to salvage their neoliberal dream of being part of the European Union, if not as an official member, as a nation tightly bound by the single market rules and tight constraints on democratic choice and sovereignty.
Yet, they are desperate to be part of a organisation – the EU – that regularly violates international agreementsand has a shocking record of human rights abuses in terms of its border policies.
An Oxfam Report from April 5, 2017 – A dangerous 'game': the pushback of migrants, including refugees, at Europe's borders – noted that:
In 2015 and 2016, more than a million people arrived in Europe after crossing the sea from Turkey to Greece and continuing their journey along the so-called Western Balkan route. In response, European Union Member States and other European countries hastily erected fences on their borders …
Rather than being places of safety … EU member states – have used brutal tactics, such as attack dogs and forcing people to strip naked in freezing temperatures.
The EU approach to the migration disaster – the "pushbacks" – violated Article 4 of Protocol No 4 to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
A recent Oxfam report (July 2, 2020) concluded that (Source):
Greece's new law is a blatant attack on Europe's humanitarian commitment to protect people fleeing conflict and persecution … The European Union is complicit in this abuse, because for years it has been using Greece as a test ground for new migration policies.
On June 18, 2019, the Council of Europe concluded that (Source) the European Union was "breaking international law with its treatment of migrants and refugees".
I can cite many examples where the EU undermines its own international obligations.
The curious part is that the EU is founded on the principle that international treaties supercede national law.
Think about the Eurozone, which is a creation of international law.
The rules are regularly broken and the enforcement mechanisms are not applied consistently.
Germany, for example, consistently breaks the rules.
I considered that in this blog post – Germany's serial breaches of Eurozone rules (May 11, 2015).
Thinks back to 2003, where France and Germany were the first nations to violate the Stability and Growth Pact and the EU changed the rules to suit.
Germans violated the SGP for several years from 2001 to 2005.
See this blog post – The hypocrisy of the Euro cabal is staggering (November 14, 2011).
But when Greece violates the international laws, all hell breaks loose and a nation is destroyed by pernicious policy interventions from Brussels (EU), Washington (IMF) and Frankfurt (ECB).
And what about the ECB, legally prevented from funding fiscal deficits among the Member States, buying government debt as if there was no tomorrow, and clearly funding fiscal deficits?
Smoke and mirrors.
All the time, international law being breached.
And the Remainers, the Woke, Blair, etc are all quiet as mouses about all of this.
They only get their voices back when the British government actually starts to assert its regained independence from the EU cabal and proposes to use its legislative independence to determine what is in the national interest rather than what serves the interests of the European elites.
An article in Spiked (September 11, 2020) – 'The EU can't handle British independence' – gets to the point clearly:
Therefore, there is this group of people, particularly those who used to be known as Remainers, who, while they see international treaties as the highest form of law, in fact, support an organisation – the EU – that is prepared to depart from international law when it suits its interests.
It goes on to make the next obvious point in all of this:
Most people would not buy the idea that a government should put a deal it has done with foreign powers before the interests of its own people. The idea of international treaties being sacred is a piety and a lot of the faux outrage after the government's announcement is just more of the kind of pearl-clutching we have been seeing over the past few years.
The British Brexit negotiator, David Frost summarised it clearly:
That's what being an independent country is about, that's what the British people voted for and that's what will happen at the end of the year,
The conclusion the Spiked article (which is an interview with Brussels journalist for The Times, Bruno Waterfield) channelled this sentiment in a different way:
… the EU just can't handle the fact that Britain is now an independent and sovereign country that isn't part of its order.
I also think all the arguments about the Internal Market Bill constraining Wales and Scotland to follow British law are weak.
Are they a part of Britain or not?
If they want to be free of such a legislative fiat then they can restore their sovereignty in the same way Britain left the EU.
The whole point of the Bill is to ensure the integrity of the 'country' is preserved. That country is Britain.
Of interest to me, is the fact that the 'British question' is once again bugging Europe.
Charles de Gaulle vetoed British accession throughout the 1960s because he didn't want a big nation like Britain inside the tent, given that his ambitions were for France to becomes the 'Kings' of Europe and exploit the shame that Germany was facing after its conduct during the War.
He knew that without Britain's efforts during the War, France would not be in any shape at all. Which gave Britain the status of giants in the region.
And now, as Britain leaves the EU and reasserts its independence and desire to drive policy in different directions, Europe is again exhibiting signs of paranoia.
The Spike interview considers that:
Having a powerful country that has announced it wants to make a radical departure does rattle the EU. It's worried about having to compete with Britain, which would be much more nimble-footed because it would be able to make decisions quickly without notifying Brussels. Again, it's often dressed in a load of fretting that Britain would 'race to the bottom' in terms of tearing up labour standards or environmental standards, but it really is motivated by the fact that the EU doesn't like the idea of having to engage in competition with a country right on its doorstep.
And in closing, I remind people that most nations signed up to the – The Universal Declaration of Human Rights – on December 10, 1948.
Article 23(1) says that:
Everyone has the right to work …
So which governments do not violate their international agreements in this respect?
I will pass no judgement on the specifics of the 'Internal Market Bill' until I have had more time to evaluate it.
But the principle that a nation has legislative primacy is a basic tenet of any democracy.
The European Union nations, especially the Eurozone 19 subset, have subjugated national interests to international agreements, which are not consistently applied and generally serve the interests of the elites at the expense of the workers.
The distributional consequences of the inconsistent way Brussels applies the international law, which gives it an existence are staggering.
And the basic human rights violations on the EU borders outstrip anything that Britain is planning to do with the Internal Market Bill.
That is enough for today!
(c) Copyright 2020 William Mitchell. All Rights Reserved.
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Algae embedded in sea ice drive the Arctic food web
Species that live in the open ocean may suffer as sea ice disappears
This Themisto libellula amphipod, a type of tiny crustacean, lives in the open waters of the Arctic. But even organisms like this get a lot of their energy from algae that live in sea ice, a new study finds.
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By Sarah Zielinski
For much of the year, a layer of sea ice covers the Arctic Ocean. It builds up in winter. Come summer, the sea ice thins or shrinks in overall size. But 2016 has been a really warm year, which has led to far less sea ice than normal. So the Arctic is on track this year to match or perhaps even exceed the record low summertime sea ice seen in September 2012, scientists say. A new study shows why this could be a big problem for life in and around the Arctic.
Disappearing sea ice is a symptom of a warming planet. It also poses risks to the life associated with that ice. That includes the algae that live in brine-filled channels within this ice.
"These algae are adapted to grow under very low light conditions," says Doreen Kohlbach. She is a marine biologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, Germany. These algae are some of the species that form the base of the Arctic food web. And they are an important source of food even for species that don't live under the ice, her team now reports.
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Climate change could therefore be a big problem for the Arctic ecosystem. That's because a loss of ice there will affect more than just the organisms that have a close connection to the ice. It also will affect life in the open ocean, Kohlbach says. This is a region known as the pelagic (Peh-LAAJ-ik) zone.
Zooplankton are tiny creatures that eat algae and other simple ocean species. For its new study, Kohlbach's team looked at various species of zooplankton during late summer. Some of these tiny critters live near the sea ice. Others are pelagic. The researchers determined how much of their diet had come from sea-ice algae. To do that, they looked for markers of the algae. These were building blocks of the algae known as fatty acids. If they showed up in the zooplankton, it was sign these small animals had dined on the algae.
Animals that lived beneath the sea ice got a lot of their energy — sometimes described in terms of carbon (an ingredient in everything they eat) — from ice algae. Indeed, 60 to 90 percent of their meals had consisted of the algae,. But even pelagic species "showed a significant dependency" on ice algae, notes Kolbach. Those animals got 20 to 50 percent of their dietary energy from algae that had been embedded in sea ice.
The researchers described their findings July 8 in Limnology and Oceanography
Scientists have yet to look for markers of algae higher up in the food web — in bigger animals that may have dined on the zooplankton. So for now, the scientists can't yet predict how the loss of sea ice algae might affect larger species, such as fish, seals or polar bears. But they, too, will likely be affected, Kohlbach says. If falling summer sea ice affects life at the bottom of the food web, she says, eventually it also will affect those higher up.
There's also a chance that species could switch to dining on other species if their preferred sea-ice algae disappear. But the concern is that some species might not be able to make that switch, Kohlbach says. "To determine the consequences on a species-level, we need to do more research."
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algae Single-celled organisms, once considered plants (they aren't). As aquatic organisms, they grow in water. Like green plants, they depend on sunlight to make their food.
Arctic A region that falls within the Arctic Circle. The edge of that circle is defined as the northernmost point at which the sun is visible on the northern winter solstice and the southernmost point at which the midnight sun can be seen on the northern summer solstice.
behavior The way a person or other organism acts towards others, or conducts itself.
brine Water that is salty, often far saltier than seawater.
carbon The chemical element having the atomic number 6. It is the physical basis of all life on Earth. Carbon exists freely as graphite and diamond. It is an important part of coal, limestone and petroleum, and is capable of self-bonding, chemically, to form an enormous number of chemically, biologically and commercially important molecules.
climate The weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period.
climate change Long-term, significant change in the climate of Earth. It can happen naturally or in response to human activities, including the burning of fossil fuels and clearing of forests
colleague Someone who works with another; a co-worker or team member.
fatty acid A large molecule made of up chains of carbon and hydrogen atoms linked together. Fatty acids are chemical building blocks of fats in foods and the body.
food web (also known as a food chain ) The network of relationships among organisms sharing an ecosystem. M ember organisms depend on others within this network as a source of food.
limnology A branch of ecology that studies inland waters, including lakes, streams and groundwater. A scientist who works in this field is called a limnologist.
marine Having to do with the ocean world or environment.
marine biologist A scientist who studies creatures that live in ocean water, from bacteria and shellfish to kelp and whales.
marker (in biomedicine) The presence of some substance that usually can only be present because it signals some disease, pollutant or event (such as the attachment of some stain or molecular flag). As such, this substance will serve as a sign — or marker — of that related thing.
molecule An electrically neutral group of atoms that represents the smallest possible amount of a chemical compound. Molecules can be made of single types of atoms or of different types. For example, the oxygen in the air is made of two oxygen atoms (O2), but water is made of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom (H2O).
oceanography (adj. oceanographic ) The branch of science that deals with the physical and biological properties and phenomena of the oceans. People who work in this field are known as oceanographers.
organism Any living thing, from elephants and plants to bacteria and other types of single-celled life.
pelagic An adjective for life or conditions in the open ocean. These are regions far from coastlines and often deep below the surface.
planet A celestial object that orbits a star, is big enough for gravity to have squashed it into a roundish ball and it must have cleared other objects out of the way in its orbital neighborhood. To accomplish the third feat, it must be big enough to pull neighboring objects into the planet itself or to sling-shot them around the planet and off into outer space. Astronomers of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) created this three-part scientific definition of a planet in August 2006 to determine Pluto's status. Based on that definition, IAU ruled that Pluto did not qualify. The solar system now includes eight planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
sea An ocean (or region that is part of an ocean). Unlike lakes and streams, seawater — or ocean water — is salty.
species A group of similar organisms capable of producing offspring that can survive and reproduce.
symptom A physical or mental indicator generally regarded to be characteristic of a disease. Sometimes a single symptom — especially a general one, such as fever or pain — can be a sign of any of many different types of injury or disease.
zooplankton Small organisms that drift in the sea. Zooplankton are tiny animals that eat other plankton. They also serve as an important food source for other marine creatures.
D. Kohlbach et al. The importance of ice algae-produced carbon in the central Arctic Ocean ecosystem: Food web relationships revealed by lipid and stable isotope analyses. Limnology and Oceanography. Published online July 8, 2016. doi: 10.1002/lno.10351.
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Sarah Zielinski is managing editor of Science News for Students. She has degrees in biology and journalism and likes to write about ecology, plants and animals. She has two cats, Oscar and Saffir.
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Divorce. The ugly d-word. Why in the world would I share this today on my travel/dog centered blog? Well, because it was on my heart to share and I want you to know the real me. Bet you didn't know I was divorced twice before I turned 30. Now before you go judging me, I'm sure you're aware how common divorce is today. My divorce reasons are a story for another day. Today I want you to think of someone you know who is going through this or has been through this recently and really think about if this is how they may be feeling right now.
#1. You are not damaged goods.
After my second divorce, I was absolutely positively sure that no one would want me because I was now considered 'damaged goods.' I was also absolutely positively sure that I would become a crazy old cat lady for real. My friends told me I was crazy and dudes wouldn't think that at all, but I'm headstrong and I didn't believe them. Finally, after about a month of dating, I asked my now-husband "You aren't concerned about the fact that I was married twice before?" He was so confused. "Why would that matter to me?" he said. Turns out, he thought I was crazy too. He was not afraid of me whatsoever.
#2. You may not feel like they do in the movies.
I had this idea of divorce that involved depression and eating ice cream in bed for days. I blame the movies for this. My divorces were nothing like this. In fact, both times I was much happier about where I was at!
My emotions manifested in different ways. I had terrible anxiety after my second divorce because I was afraid of being alone at night. I had never had this problem previously, but it definitely manifested in my new apartment. It was not a great area and I would get up multiple times during the night to look out the peephole and windows of my apartment to see if anyone was outside. After a few months, the anxiety subsided, but just be advised that you may do things or be afraid of things you never thought you would be afraid of.
Sometimes you'll find yourself sitting on your son's bean bag drinking $5 wine because your couch hasn't been delivered yet, and that is OK! You drink that wine and watch Jane the Virgin, honey, because your kiddo isn't home and, by god, you can.
Seriously though, there will be nights where you question what you will do next. You will finger tap on your side table wondering if it will ever be YOUR bedtime. Yes, you might not miss the person you left, but you do miss having someone there. It's a feeling you just don't fully understand unless you've been divorced.
#4. It is expensive in ways you don't expect.
Yes, you have to pay your portion (or all?!) of the lawyer fees, but divorce is costly in other ways. You will have to remember that you need a new comforter, a new bath mat, and trash cans! Those sneaky trash cans. If you're lucky you get the big TV and some of the furniture. However, you still might find yourself in a rent-to-own store buying a couch on their floor so you don't have to spend another night on the floor in your son's beanbag. I'm just saying… from experience.
#5. It's awkward changing your name back.
What is something no one told YOU about divorce?! Leave a comment below with your input and you may just help someone in my community!
This list is such an eye opener. I have known people to have gone through divorce but because I myself am not married, I never was able to relate but reading your list has given me insight. I think it made me sad to think that people feel like they are damaged goods. That is definitely not okay and not true at all.
This is such a real story that many people forget. Not only is it costly for trash cans, but you are now paying everything by yourself, and for many it means finding a new place and all the set up fees… on top of all the emotional and social things you are going through. Thanks for sharing.
I've never experienced a divorce (knock on wood), but the things that I herd in my friends and have in common is that is very difficult and is living in hell in that period.
All of these are true, watched my parents go through it. But it's not the end of the world. Great post!
Thank you so much for sharing this personal post with us. I hadn't thought of #4 and #5.


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Sea-level rise expert helps Florida cities plan for survival
"When things collapse … it's much harder to put them back together than it is to keep them whole in the first place."
Sea-level rise expert helps Florida cities plan for survival "When things collapse … it's much harder to put them back together than it is to keep them whole in the first place." Check out this story on tcpalm.com: http://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/local/florida-voices/2018/07/19/sea-level-rise-researcher-helps-florida-cities-plan-survival/731942002/
Eve Samples, Treasure Coast Newspapers Published 11:08 a.m. ET July 19, 2018 | Updated 11:55 a.m. ET July 19, 2018
Jason Evans, 43, of DeLand, measures a Satellite Beach stormwater drain pipe on June 28 on the Indian River Lagoon. Evans is an assistant professor of environmental studies and sciences at Stetson University and is currently involved in a Sea Grant program with the city of Satellite Beach, where he is doing an inventory of stormwater drains with a team of assistants. The drains were likely installed in the 1960s, but since then, the sea level has risen 5-6 inches. Evans' research will help city planners determine which pipes need replaced as the sea level continues to rise, in order to prevent flooding. So far, flooding has not be an issue, "but it will happen," Evans said. "It's going to happen at some point in the future."(Photo: LEAH VOSS/TCPALM)Buy Photo
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It's just after 9 a.m. and the air is thick, even on the water.
Jason Evans is aboard an aging pontoon boat, scanning the banks for drainage pipes. He closes in on a 12-incher coated with barnacles, then hauls out his GPS device.
"Go ahead and mark this as No. 1," he tells his two research assistants from Stetson University.
A pileated woodpecker thumps on a palm while the GPS plots the pipe's location along the Grand Canal in Satellite Beach. Evans and his crew bake in the sun as they wait.
This is the life of a sea-level rise researcher. It's not glamorous work — but it's increasingly vital to the future of the Sunshine State.
"We know it's accelerating in Florida," Evans says of the rate of rising sea levels. "That's a big deal. It's a really big deal."
Stetson University assistant professor of environmental science and studies Jason Evans (left) and GIS assistant at the Stetson Institute for Water and Environmental Resilience Eilyn Mitchell ride on a city of Satellite Beach boat as they monitor stormwater drains on June 28 on the Indian River Lagoon. (Photo: LEAH VOSS/TCPALM)
And, increasingly, the responsibility for addressing it is falling on local governments. That's where Evans, an associate professor of environmental science and studies at Stetson, has found his niche.
The 43-year-old researcher has worked with local governments from the Florida Keys to the Carolinas on climate-change adaptation. Flooding from Hurricane Irma last year triggered even more interest from local governments.
"I wouldn't have known 10 years ago if you'd asked me if this was what I'd be working on," he says.
Satellite Beach has been an especially proactive locale. Like so many Florida communities built on barrier islands, it's vulnerable to increased flooding. But the city has confronted stark projections head-on: It forecasts a tipping point for its municipal operations around 2050, when sea levels are expected to be 2 feet higher, according to the city's 2017 Sustainability Action Plan.
"Negative effects of this rise will be seen earlier in the form of enhanced storm surges, tidal flooding, and stormwater runoff issues," the report states.
With support from Florida Sea Grant, Evans is working with the city to safeguard against those impacts. For example, the city is relocating an older fire station in part because of future flood vulnerabilities on the current site.
It's also why Evans and his team are surveying 28 pipes along the Grand Canal in the city limits. The pipes are typical of Florida infrastructure from a half-century ago — unsophisticated tubes that dump water directly into waterways.
As the Atlantic Ocean rises, neighborhoods from which those pipes carry water will be more difficult to keep dry. In documenting their location, elevation and condition, the researchers are giving Satellite Beach an inventory to work from and plan for.
Jason Evans, 43, of DeLand, is an assistant professor of environmental studies and sciences at Stetson University and is currently involved in a Sea Grant program with the city of Satellite Beach, where he is monitoring stormwater drains with a team of assistants to help prevent future flooding. Evans documents climate change and has observed Florida growing at a rapid rate. "I worry about water quality, about flooding. I think about pretty much any community along the coast. I think about climate change a lot, of course that's what I work on," Evans said. "I look at the most dire scenarios, and we don't know that those are the ones that are going to come to pass, but when we think about them they are quite dire." (Photo: LEAH VOSS/TCPALM)
"It's not sexy to work on stormwater," Evans concedes. However, "it's critically important, and that's the kind of stuff that needs to get done."
It's also more fiscally conservative, he asserts.
"When things collapse … it's much harder to put them back together than it is to keep them whole in the first place," he says. "We know that with environmental systems."
The work is a calling for Evans. He was born and raised in Orlando, went to University of Florida for graduate school and now lives in DeLand with his wife and 7-year-old son.
"I grew up thinking that the environment was getting cleaner," Evans says.
The Clean Water Act was approved a few years before he was born. Regulators were cracking down on polluters during his childhood.
"So I've been shocked over the past 10 to 15 years that we've seen this reversal," he says.
Evans is concerned about the environmental problems we're leaving the next generation.
When he gets disheartened, he spends some time talking with city councils.
"Getting engaged at that level, that can break through the cynicism. When we think of the federal government ... it's easy to get cynical because it's big money, it's all on TV, shouting at each other," Evans says. "Your local government, if you have a pothole, they have to fix it. You have flooding issues … the city is going to try to figure out how to help you with your problem."
That's not to say the solutions are easy.
"A lot of the environmental problems, I think, are more complicated than even going to the moon," Evans says. "But I think we're still up to the task. It's just a matter of garnering the resources, garnering the will."
How would you describe Florida at this moment in history?
To use a metaphor, we're kind of at a crossroads. We're growing extremely rapidly, as we have been for the past 100 years. The environment is really starting to see a lot of stresses. We're seeing a lot of growing pains with traffic, schools.
There's a lot of work that needs to be done to try to clean up waterways, to try to figure out what to do with sea-level rise and climate change. For me, it's exciting because that's what I work on. It also seems very daunting.
How has your life in Florida changed over the past 8 years?
I think over the past 8 years we've gone through this up and down. For a while there was this economic crisis — growth at all costs — and now we're kind of backing away from that and thinking, "How can we do this more intelligently, and how can we clean up some messes?"
What worries you when you think about the future of Florida?
I worry about water quality, I worry about flooding. I think about pretty much any community along the coast. I think about climate change a lot; of course, that's what I work on.
I worry, are we giving the kids a world that they're going to have to clean up? I really think that's fundamentally unfair.
What makes you hopeful about Florida's future?
I get to work with students ... the intelligence, the passion, the recognition of the problems that they face, that really gives me hope. I think that they're up to the task. I am ultimately an optimistic person.
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Jason Evans
Occupation: Associate professor of environmental science and studies, Stetson University
Lives in: DeLand (Volusia County)
Election issues: Environment, especially climate change and sea-level rise
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O2 competition: Are these the next big business apps?
Are these the next big business apps?
SPONSORED: O2 reveals the four finalists of its #mybizapp competition.
After whittling down scores of entries, O2 has picked out four finalists with the potential to create the next 4G supercharged business app.
When O2 launched the competition in October, the mobile phone giant stated that entrants should build on the advantages of 4G – such as faster access to video and large files – to help businesses become more productive and to create a better experience for their customers.
Report Back allows people to create highly detailed, location based reports from their smartphone. Businesses can incorporate images, video, 360 degree views, 'stitched together' tours, audio, document scans and text into their reports. For example, if a user is checking out potential new business premises, they can select a template and choose to customise it with photos and text only, video with audio commentary, or video only. Users can then upload their reports online, using Google Hangouts and Skype to share with others.
'It gets rid of inaccurate 'pen and paper' tasks and reduces time spent and paperwork involved by automating repetitive tasks and removing the need to return to the office to file reports or attend meetings to discuss them,' Teague says.
The judges thought the ReportBack app demonstrated 'an innovative way for any business with a remote presence to make the most of 4G technology. The application was well thought-out and excited us with the number of possibilities for where it could be used'.
BillMeUp is a 'time and place tracking, billing software with a twist', the entry says. Aimed at contract or temporary workers, the app allows agencies to assign jobs to their register workers. It will also automatically clock people in when they arrive for work and allow them to easily generate invoices.
'There are plenty of timesheet apps out there. But most of them require manual entry which is yet another form to fill,' Chu says.
EnviroM8 is an application that allows organisations to accurately monitor and minimise their carbon emissions and mileage expenses. The driver uses the app to select journey start and end points. These are uploaded to the EnviroM8 cloud where a dashboard of information can be viewed, including actual mileage for expenses claims and accurate CO2 emissions for each driver.
Rahman's idea is to create an app which allows receipts to be stored on a user's smartphone, saving retailers money from having to print out receipts for customers. A QR code will be created at the end of each shopping transaction, which customers will then scan on their phones. The app also promises to break all the costs down to what day, what time, which shop and which month you have spent the most or least in.
'Not only will shoppers be able to track what they are spending but businesses will be able to see anonymous data from shoppers, in terms of what it is that they are purchasing,' Rahman says.
The winner will take home a whopping £30,000 towards the development of the app, a full day of mentoring from an O2 marketing expert, a chance to beta test the app with O2's business customers and a handy 12 months free 4G with O2. The three runners-up will walk away with free O2 4G for 12 months.


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What factors hinder the decision-making process for women with cancer contemplating fertility preservation treatment?
Jones, GL and Hughes, J and Mahmoodi, N and Smith, E and Skull, J and Ledger, W (2017) What factors hinder the decision-making process for women with cancer contemplating fertility preservation treatment? Human Reproduction Update. ISSN 1355-4786 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/humupd/dmx009
Background: Although fertility preservation (FP) treatment options have increased, the existing evidence suggests that many women with cancer do not feel well supported in making these decisions, but find them stressful and complex and fail to take up fertility care at this crucial time. Whilst existing reviews have all made important contributions to our understanding of the FP decision-making process, none of them examine solely and specifically these processes for women of reproductive age with a diagnosis of any cancer, leaving a gap in the knowledge base. Given the expectation that care is patient-centred, our review aims to address this gap which may be of help to those managing patients struggling to make difficult decisions in the often brief period before potentially sterilising cancer treatment is started. Objective and rationale: Underpinning this narrative review was the question "What factors hinder the decision-making process for women with any cancer and contemplating FP treatment?" Our objectives were to i) assess and summarise this existing literature, ii) identify the factors that hinder this decision-making process, iii) explore to what extent these factors may differ for women choosing different methods of FP, and iv) make recommendations for service delivery and future research. Search methods: A systematic search of the medical and social science literature from the 1st January 2005 up to the end of January 2016 was carried out using three electronic databases (Web of Science (PubMed), Ovid SP Medline and CINAHL via Ebsco). Included in the review were quantitative, qualitative and mixed-method studies. Reference lists of relevant papers were also hand searched. From the 983 papers identified, 46 papers were included. Quality assessment was undertaken using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool and thematic analysis was used to analyse the data. Outcomes: From the analysis, six key themes with 15 sub-themes emerged: 1) fertility information provision (lack of information, timing of the information, patient-provider communication); 2) fear concerning the perceived risks associated with pursuing FP (delaying cancer treatment, aggravating a hormone positive cancer, consequences of a future pregnancy); 3) non-referral from oncology (personal situation, having a hormone positive cancer, not a priority, transition between service issues); 4) the dilemma (in survival mode, whether to prioritise one treatment over another); 5) personal situation (parity, relationship status); and 6) costs (financial concerns). Wider implications: This review has found that a wide range of internal and external factors impact the FP decision-making process. Key external issues related to current service delivery such as the provision and timing of FP information, and lack of referral from oncology to the fertility clinic. However, internal issues such as women's fears concerning the perceived risks associated with pursuing FP also hindered decision-making but these 'risks' were typically overestimated and non-evidence based. These findings suggest that the implementation of a range of decision support interventions may be of benefit within the clinical care pathway of FP and cancer. Women would benefit from the provision of more evidence-based FP information, ideally received at cancer diagnosis, in advance of seeing a fertility specialist, for example through the implementation of patient decision aids. Health care professionals in both oncology and fertility services may also benefit from the implementation of training programs and educational tools targeted at improving the communication skills needed to improve collaborative decision-making and deliver care that is patient-centred. Exploration of the current barriers, both intellectual and practical, that prevent some patients from accepting FP will help care providers to do better for their patients in the future. Finally, the extent to which a poor prognosis and moral, ethical and religious beliefs influence the FP decision-making process also warrant further research.
https://doi.org/10.1093/humupd/dmx009
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GL Jones ORCID: 0000-0002-5267-1776
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N Mahmoodi
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Why Legalizing Marijuana on Election Day Might Not Be a Good Idea
Should voters in two states end the ban on pot. Tony Dokoupil explains why they should think twice.
Tony Doukopil
Updated Jul. 14, 2017 1:46AM ET / Published Oct. 29, 2012 4:45AM ET
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No government has ever created a commercial pot market. But next week voters in Colorado and Washington State are poised to do just that, passing ballot initiatives that legalize, tax, and regulate marijuana much like alcohol. Both efforts are polling above 50 percent, but regardless of whether they pass, the country is bending toward historic reforms and the remaining prohibitionists are on the run.
Only about one in three Americans think pot should remain illegal, and that shrinking block of opposition is poorly organized and underfunded, producing no formidable spokesperson, not even a sad-sack orator to argue futilely, that legalization is the devil's work. "It's actually hard for us to find people to debate," says Rob Kampia, cofounder of the Marijuana Policy Project, a leading national reform organization. "I think a lot of folks have given up."
But such a profound policy shift deserves a two-sided debate. And, yes, despite the gin-clear failures of prohibition and the face-raking lies told about marijuana in the past, there remains a prohibitionist case to be made. This much is obvious: the upsides of legalization have been wildly oversold, and the potential downsides blithely ignored. I'd like to correct that balance, not because I support prohibition but because I think legalization should succeed or fail on the merits, as much as they can be known.
Perhaps the best neutral source on the subject is "Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know," published earlier this year by Oxford University Press. The book is the work of four scholars who collectively bring nearly 70 years of experience to the issue. Because there is no "objective" choice on marijuana policy, they provide a stew of good data and best guesses: the raw material for an honest, logical debate they hope will benefit all sides. In the end, however, the prohibitionist side seems to benefit most of all.
The case against legalization begins with a defense of its opposite: the benefits of prohibition. Reformers sometimes say prohibition is pointless, because everyone who wants to use pot already does. But as state laws have softened, pot use has risen sharply. More than three million people started smoking it regularly in the past five years, and the rate of high-school experimentation is at a 30-year high. One in 15 high school seniors are smoking daily or near daily. And when a kid first lights up at about age 16, it's usually not with a cigarette.
Prohibition prevents an even more tremendous uptick, according to "Marijuana Legalization." Remove it and you can expect a doubling or even tripling of the existing market, a spike to levels far surpassing any on record, and this in a country that already consumes the plant at three times the global average. What would be the health and welfare cost of such an explosion? The honest answer is: we don't know. No one actually knows what legalizing marijuana will do to adult use, teen experimentation, and public health and safety overall. No one knows because no modern society has ever tried it.
We know enough, however, for serious concern. The mantra of marijuana legalization is "Safer than Alcohol," which—to be fair—is generally true. But safer than alcohol is not the same as "safe." Every year about 375,000 people end up in the ER with marijuana-related "averse reactions," more than any drug other than cocaine. Some of those cases are the result of multiple drug interactions, where marijuana gets the blame while cocaine does the damage. But for many tens of thousands of ER visits marijuana is the only drug mentioned. And there's even data suggesting that, as the authors of "Marijuana Legalization" put it, "marijuana can kill." Between 1999 and 2007, the Centers for Disease Control, somewhat curiously, attributed 26 deaths to cannabis use—half in the subcategory "dependence."
But at least pot isn't addictive, right? Wrong. More than 4 million people self-report behavior that meets the clinical criteria for marijuana dependency or abuse. The "capture rate," as scholars call it, was once about 9 percent, according to one study, but for people who start before age 25—as almost everyone does today—it jumps to 15 percent, the same capture rate as alcohol and just a percentage point less than cocaine. Drug treatment programs for marijuana have fives times the number of enrollees as they did just two decades ago. Most are referred by the U.S. criminal justice system, but many are not—and enrollment has more than doubled in European and Australian programs as well.
The most common explanation is that pot has grown more potent over that period. In the 1960s and '70s, the percentage of THC (the stuff that gets you high) in good bud was usually less than 10 percent. Today, it's often 15 percent and higher, with average potency more than doubling since the mid-1990s, according to tests run on seized pot.
Marijuana has also become more variable, coming in hundreds of strains and edible forms. One medical marijuana company makes a chocolate truffle with 60 times the THC of a joint. Others make hash, hash oil, and specialty bud with more than 25 percent THC. This isn't automatically a problem, especially if potency means people use less to get high. But it's hard to judge whether your first truffle has hit the spot before you have an urge to eat another. And a greater percentage of THC means a greater high—so much greater that the Netherlands has proposed policing all products with 15-percent-THC-and-up like "hard drugs."
This high potency pot is pricey, and comprises only a fraction of the existing black market. But, again, that's only because of prohibition. If legalization were passed, high potency products would probably fall in price and blanket the market, according to "Marijuana Legalization." That's worrying because even studies of low-power pot use—the only kind of studies available—show significant risks, especially for young people. Research released this past summer connected teenage pot use to a permanent drop in IQ between the first puff and early middle age. Other emerging literature suggests that pot use elevates the risk of schizophrenia and psychotic symptoms.
Besides harming themselves, pot users also put others at risk: driving high raises one's likelihood of crashing—and driving with a little booze and little pot is much more dangerous than driving with either alone. Marijuana use may also have measurable domestic costs. Only two holidays a year show a spike in sudden-infant-deaths: New Year's Day is one, and the other is the day after 4/20, when pot use is celebrated.
Finally, there are the long-term ramifications of legalization. Under prohibition, marijuana is an out-of-sight product with little branding and virtually no advertising. Expect that to change. The alcohol and tobacco industries traditionally get 80 percent of their profits from heavy users, and there's every reason to believe that marijuana sellers would need at least the same ratio. That means the pot business could be the basis for a third huge, blood-sucking vice industry, dependent on converting kids and supporting heavy users. "If we create a licit market," write the authors of "Marijuana Legalization," "we should expect the industry's product design, pricing and marketing to be devoted to creating as much addiction as possible."
Is there anything good that would come with legalization? Reformers argue that legalizing weed would goose the economy, free law enforcement resources to pursue more serious crime, and unclog the criminal justice system. They say it would empty prisons and undercut the black market. The problem is: none of this is necessarily true.
Start with the economics. Marijuana is not America's largest cash crop, contrary to a boast so widely repeated it's assumed to be true. The value at the farm-gate is no more than $4.3 billion, or "somewhere between almonds and hay," according to authors of "Marijuana Legalization." Sales would skyrocket with legalization, but prices would plummet, deflating the overall market value. Bottom line: pot's not the new corn.
It's also not a surefire tax winner. The proposed tax is between $30 and $60 an ounce. Tobacco tax evasion is rampant at a fraction of that rate. And even if all the tax dollars came in, much of it would go not to schools or other worthy programs but to the costs of regulating and enforcing the new marijuana law. Lastly, because legal pot would be so easy grow, its job-creating power would be weak. It probably wouldn't support more than 15,000 growers and an army of minimum-wage service workers—not the kind of jobs someone touts on the campaign trail.
As for the war on pot, it's just not as high stakes as you might assume. About 750,000 people are arrested on possession charges every year, a howlingly large number. But virtually none of those folks end up in prison. Fewer than 400 people are serving state or federal sentences for marijuana possession alone, and many of those people plead down to that charge, or have serious histories of violence. Legalization wouldn't mean the end of marijuana arrests either, because police will still be called on to enforce the new laws, just as they do with alcohol. And it wouldn't mean the end of the Mexican gangs, which, contrary to another common boast, are diversified enough to survive entirely without marijuana profits.
And yet despite all this I still am not a prohibitionist. As the Seattle Times recently put it in an editorial endorsing legalization in Washington State, the relevant question isn't whether marijuana is good: "It is whether prohibition is good. It is whether the people who use marijuana shall be subject to arrest, and whether the people who supply them shall be sent to prison. The question is whether the war on marijuana is worth what it costs."
Quite obviously, the answer is no. In fact, of all the available options the status quo of arresting hundreds of thousands of people—most of them nonwhite, poor, and in for a world of collateral damage as a result of their arrest—is probably the least attractive choice, worse only than full legalization. The better decision is incremental reforms at the state level and a hands-off approach from the feds. Let people grow pot, and sell it, but not for profit, and without advertising, and in a tightly regulated marketplace. Tinker every year, adding new provisions and privileges as much needed new research comes in. And always update the law with a sunset provision. That way the process can't be hijacked by lobbyists and special interests—and only one thing goes up in smoke.


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It seems that during good times or bad there will always be financial advisors who violate the trust their clients place in them. Although the miscreants below actually represent only a tiny fraction of the many reputable and trustworthy CFPs out there, I am sharing their stories in the hope that it will make you more vigilant with respect to selecting an advisor with whom to work.
According to the Department of Justice, Marcus Boggs, an ex-Merrill-Lynch employee, stole over $3 million of his client's investment funds to pay for a lavish lifestyle. Most egregious was his theft of part of the recompense paid by the State of Illinois to a man who had been released from prison after having been wrongfully convicted of murder. Not only did Boggs lose his job, he was permanently banned from providing financial advice in the future as well as sentenced to three and a half years in federal prison.
Next we have William Neil "Doc" Gallagher, a radio personality in Texas known as the Money Doctor who promoted himself on Christian radio and through books with titles such as "Jesus Christ, Money Master." He was convicted of running a Ponzi scheme that bilked seniors out of over $30 million and was sentenced to three life sentences in prison. Lori Varnell, chief of the Tarrant County DA's Elder Financial Fraud team, said that "Doc Gallagher is one of the worst offenders I have seen. He ruthlessly stole from his clients who trusted him for almost a decade."
Roderick Len Whited was a managing director of Northwestern Mutual Investment Services (NWIS) in Florida. He diverted almost $45,000 collected from fundraising events held at his branch office into his own account instead of into the account of the pediatric cancer charity for which they were intended. Without admitting guilt (and after paying back $35,000) he was allowed to resign from NWIS and agreed not to work in the brokerage industry again.
A Maryland man fraudulently posing as an investment advisor was indicted by a federal grand jury for stealing $750,000 from a non-profit foundation that provided services to wounded military veterans. Brian McQuade told the foundation he would invest the money for them but instead appropriated it for his personal use. He faces a maximum sentence of twenty years in federal prison if convicted.
As deplorable as these behaviors are, they pale in contrast to what some other advisors have been accused of. Scott Jay Matalon, a broker at RBC Capital Markets in Florida, was fired after having been arrested twice for allegedly battering two different women over a span of three weeks. He has pleaded not guilty. Texas broker Gregory Estes was charged in January with child sexual assault. Anthony Duwayne Turner was charged with felony murder and residential burglary in August for the killing of California Bank of America executive Michelle Avan, who had been a former girlfriend and colleague.
To me it makes no difference whether a financial advisor steals $100 or $10 million. Advisors should be held to a high standard because illegal (or even immoral) behavior can have a devastating impact on their clients' financial future. What can you do to protect yourself? As I have written before, at a minimum check out the advisor on https://brokercheck.finra.org/ or on https://adviserinfo.sec.gov/. If you see any disclosures, or if you can't find the person at all, that would be a flag that the advisor may not be worthy of your trust.
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What are the most popular trends that are currently observed in automotive & transport?
Automotive & transport is certainly an area that is improving relatively quickly, which we might often observe at present as inter alia more and more people have their own cars. Thus, almost every bigger city on the Earth has to cope with miscellaneous problems like inter alia those referred to traffic jams.
Autor: Butz.2013
This means that this trend has its benefits, as having car provides us almost uncountable number of possibilities, as well as drawbacks as the more cars are there on the roads, the more the air is polluted. Thus, substantial number of people, who function in the bigger cities suffer from the poor air quality and have difficulties connected with insufficient functioning inter alia of their lungs. Therefore, there is an improvingly visible pressure towards making the vehicles function on alternative sources of energy.
One of the most popular exemplification is referred to vehicles that contain their own batteries that can be refilled after for example passing more than 100 kilometers. Thus, we ought to also not forget that in the area of automotive & transport we are possible to expect in the future that similar vehicles would be more popular as well as less complicated and cheaper accessible. Who knows, maybe in about five decades from now more than half of automobile owners would no longer demand to use fuel and, therefore, stop polluting the planet. Despite the fact that this trend is with no doubt positive, we ought to also keep in mind that there is also a strong lobby that contain in significant percentage of cases petrol companies, which want this kind innovations to develop as slow as possible.
Autor: Montgomery County Planning Commission
It is implied by the fact that the more people would have electrical cars, the lower would be the sales records regards sales of fuel. This means that in the field of automotive & transport in the nearest future there is no possibility that this kind cars would become something standard. However, in the longer future, such as for example 50 years we might be certain that driving a car through the streets of any bigger city we would be far more likely to see more ecological vehicle than these days.
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Without any doubt, in the 21st century the legislation system has faced a big problem regarding the legal concepts, such as murder, manslaughter, and homicide. Historically, the first recollection of homicide dates back to the ancient times. For instance, Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire chose the episodes of murder as the main dramatic theme for their theaters. Blood, cruelty, aggression and death were the core motives in these performances associated with criminal acts. Moreover, most sacred religious edifications include many examples of homicide and murder to their Holy Writs. Since the ancient times, scholars began to develop different approaches of classification of crime cases. Consequently, it is highly recommended to point out the main peculiarities of murder, manslaughter, and homicide, by evaluating academic investigations in that field in order to deduce the legitimate definition of these types of crime.
First of all, murder is defined as a form of killing a person intentionally. English judge and politician, Edward Coke, determined murder according to the Latin term actus reus that means a guilty act. Furthermore, law contains three types of murder, such as first-degree murder, second-degree murder, and third-degree murder. The degrees of murder are differentiated according to the gravity of the offence and the sentence of that offence. The first-degree murder is defined as a "willful, deliberate, premeditated" murder. Moreover, it can be called as a "cold blooded" murder or an "A-class" felony. Additionally, the first-degree murder will encompass the deliberate intention to cause serious injury or death. The second-degree murder is defined as a murder that has"intent to inflict grievous bodily injury". This type of murder, commonly known as a "B-class" felony, has an intention to injure a person being unaware that his/ her action can lead to the death of the injured person. he third-degree murder is defined as a "deprived heart" murder or involuntary manslaughter. This murder can be called as a "C-class felony" who willfully disregards the life of the victim; however, this murder does not bear any intention to kill the victim (Gilbert, 2004).
Secondly, in the framework of defining different types of crime, it is necessary to mention the definition of manslaughter and its types, since this type of crime tightly interlaces with murder and homicide. However, the difference amidst murder and manslaughter is in the constituent of intent. According to the definition, manslaughter can be referred to the third-degree of murder. Moreover, manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a person without an implied malice to cause the death of a victim. Criminal law contains two types of manslaughter such as voluntary manslaughter and involuntary manslaughter. In order to accuse a person of voluntary manslaughter, the prosecution should confirm that the person who did that offence was in the same mental state that is required for murder. However, in case of voluntary manslaughter, a person has inadvertently acted in illegal act due to the impairment of physical sate, diminished responsibility, and loss of self-control or provocation. This mental state is characterized as a state of "heat of passion".
In order to condemn the person of manslaughter, the prosecution should prove that the person who committed the murder had mental problems that considerably had influenced his/ her loss of control. Furthermore, involuntary manslaughter is also distinguished in criminal law. According to the definition, involuntary manslaughter is unlawful killing of a person resulting from criminal negligence. This definition is a new legal concept with respect to penal law and sometimes it is identified as the third-degree murder or a "D-class" felony. In order to charge a person with involuntary manslaughter, the prosecuttion should prove that illegal act that led to death of a victim included a considerable departure from the fundamental principles of care to be expected from a prudent. Moreover, a common law distinguishes three types of involuntary manslaughter, such as reckless manslaughter, huge negligence manslaughter, and "illegal and perilous" manslaughter (Gilbert, 2004).
Furthermore, in the scope of giving the correct definitions to the cases in criminal law, it is highly recommended to identify the law-term justifiable homicide and to point out its main features in order to broaden personal knowledge of juridical terms. Amenably to the definition, justifiable homicide is the killing of a person without criminal intent or malice. For instance, during a time of war, the soldiers killed many enemies who menaced to the national security. Moreover, federal statistics indicates that justifiable homicide was mostly committed by police officers who resorted to killing in order to protect civilians. The police officers allowed using deadly force to apprehend or to stop offenders. However, the deadly force should be applied regardless of the circumstances. For example, in case if arrest is possible in order to stop the felon, deadly force should not be used. It is clearly seen that the utilization of deadly force depends on the standard of "objective reasonableness" (Hatch, 2003).
All in all, the importance of differentiation between the legal concepts, such as murder, manslaughter, and homicide can be amplified by the fact of utilization of right accusation of crime, and type of imprisonment that are resorted to the offender according to the type of offence. The legitimate definition of crime act will significantly influence the offender's life, since each type of offence has specific peculiarities of magnitude of an offence. Consequently, the prosecution should assiduously investigate the crime case and announce a definite sentence.


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by Melanie Israel
The CDC Numbers Versus Guttmacher Numbers
The CDC found that the number of abortions in 2020 decreased 2% from 2019. That seems like good news. Unfortunately, Guttmacher found that there's been an 8% increase from 2017 to 2020.
Why don't these two reports agree?
The CDC issues an annual report of abortion surveillance in the United States by collecting data from those states that choose to submit their data (California, Maryland, and New Hampshire don't do so).
In contrast, the Guttmacher Institute—formerly the research arm of Planned Parenthood—surveys abortion providers and clinics directly. This "Abortion Provider Census" is done every three years.
So, these two entities have different missions and draw from different sources. With no federally mandated system, these reports are the best we have. Still, both had shown a reliable trend of declining abortions for many years.
What the Numbers Say
The CDC reported:
There were 620,327 abortions in 2020. This is a 2% decrease from 2019 and a 15% decrease from 2011.
Ninety-three percent of abortions occurred in the first trimester (at or before 13 weeks gestation).
Fifty-one percent of abortions were conducted via abortion pills rather than a surgical procedure, though this is likely an undercount. The use of abortion pills went up 22% in the last year and an incredible 154% since 2011.
Guttmacher reported:
There were 930,160 abortions in 2020. This is over 300,000 more abortions than the CDC reported and an 8% increase since 2017.
Fifty-three percent of abortions were conducted via abortion pills—again, still a likely undercount. The use of abortion pills has gone up 45% since 2017.
As Guttmacher puts bluntly, their "findings demonstrate that the long-term decline in abortion in the US had reversed." That's good news for the abortion industry. It's horrific news for babies and for Americans who want our laws and our culture to protect every human person.
Undercounting?
Why is there likely an undercount?
First, the CDC is missing data from abortion-friendly states like California and Maryland. Guttmacher also acknowledges the limits of its own census, which, like the CDC, is voluntary.
Second, the growing use of abortion pills at home makes it harder to count actual abortions. Guttmacher counts chemical (abortion pill) abortions that "occurred in clinical settings" but points out that during their census, roughly 55,000 people requested abortion pills online without going to a facility, according to one study. How many of these women got pills and went through with an abortion? And how many more women got abortion pills from unscrupulous foreign and domestic sources? We don't know.
Abortion Pill Risks
The complication rate from abortion pills is four times that of a first-trimester surgical abortion. One study found that between 2002 and 2015, emergency room visits following a chemical abortion ballooned by more than 500%.
Both the CDC and Guttmacher confirm that more and more women are opting for abortion pills. And without better data collection and adverse event monitoring, we can't know just how many women take this health and safety risk.
Policymakers should agree that we can do better than the status quo in which we don't fully understand where, when, how, and how often abortions occur.
At the federal level, a better path forward should start with:
Creating a streamlined national standard for abortion reporting to encompass data from all states and territories to ensure that federal abortion data is both reliable and accurate.
Reversing the Food and Drug Administration's decision allowing telemedicine abortion, abortion pill by mail, and retail pharmacies to dispense abortion pills.
Enforcing existing laws and preventing international actors from shipping chemical abortion drugs to women in the United States while prosecuting those who fail to comply.
These actions would help address the problem of counting—and undercounting—the number of abortions that occur in the U.S. each year. And they would be a step in the right direction to protect unborn children and women's health and safety from the emerging do-it-yourself abortion pill Wild West.
Last summer in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the Supreme Court corrected a grave wrong and overturned Roe v. Wade. This paved the way for lifesaving laws to go into effect in states across the country.
But the CDC and Guttmacher reports are a sobering reminder of just how high the stakes are. Every single life lost to abortion is precious and irreplaceable. We won't see the impact of the Dobbs decision in the data for a couple more years. But it's clear that abortion pills will pose the single biggest threat to pro-life progress in a post-Roe world.
Melanie Israel is a policy analyst with the DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family at The Heritage Foundation.
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Nzoia Sugar pick Oduor as new coach in bid to salvage season
By Joseph Saasia For Citizen Digital Published on: May 08, 2019 04:44 (EAT)
Kenyan Premier League side Nzoia Sugar has appointed Oduor Godfrey as the team's new head coach.
Club chairman Yapets Mokua told Citizen Digital on Wednesday that Oduor has signed a three-year contract with the sugar millers, who are sponsored by Nzoia Sugar Company Limited.
He takes over from Nicholas Muyoti who is now managing Kakamega Homeboyz.
Oduor moves to the Bungoma-based outfit after resigning from his position as Kibera Black Stars coach in February. Mokua said Oduor would be deputised at Nzoia Sugar FC by long serving assistant coach Vincent Sifuma.
"We appointed Oduor on merit. He has the qualities of a good coach," Mokua revealed.
He pointed out that the new coach has not been given stringent targets to meet while with the team.
"We felt it is good to give the coach time with the players instead of piling targets on him. What we require from him is to assist the team finish the league in a respectable position," the chairman added.
Oduor is best remembered for guiding Kibera Black Stars to the National Super League in 2016. In his first season in the second tier, he finished 10th with 45 points before slipping to 11th last season with a tally of 48 points.
Nzoia, who have lost a massive 11 matches in the current campaign, are currently in 12th position with 32 points from 27 matches in the 18-team league.


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It was revealed earlier this week that Outlast 2 would be released in Australia. The games Australian publisher, 18point2 has now released a statement on the issue. According to this statement, the original submission contained a video file taken from the Alpha version of the game. The video "should not have been sent" and "its content was not a representative of the final game".
The publisher went on to say that the same game has been re-submitted. This time however the game was sent with a video file that reflected the final game. As a result, Outlast 2 was then given a R18+ rating.
So this confirms what the mistake was when the game was first submitted. This also confirms that there is only one version of Outlast 2 which will be available for worldwide release next month.
Outlast 2 will be released on April 25th for most of the world and on the 26th for Australia.
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An inclusive and viable democratic multi-party system in Kenya.
To promote institutionalized democratic political parties in Kenya.
(h) Perform such other functions as may be conferred by the Act or any other written law.
The statutory functions of the ORPP are founded by the basic requirements for political parties and the framework for political parties legislation under Article 91 and 92 of the Constitution.


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Meteoristis is a genus of moth in the family Gelechiidae. It contains the species Meteoristis religiosa, which is found in India (Bengal).

The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are whitish-ochreous slightly tinged grey and irregularly sprinkled dark grey and blackish with a small dark fuscous spot above the dorsum near the base. There are small spots of blackish suffusion representing the plical and first discal stigmata, forming with a larger spot on the middle of the costa, an inwards-oblique series. There is some darker subterminal suffusion and a row of cloudy dark marginal dots around the posterior part of the costa and termen. The hindwings are light grey.

The larvae feed on Ficus religiosa. They bore the aerial roots of their host plant.

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Gelechiinae


In the aftermath of Britons' vote to leave the European Union, the UK is going to redouble efforts to strengthen its other international ties, including with Israel, according to Ambassador David Quarrey.
A great deal of uncertainty surrounds how the British exit from the EU, or Brexit, will move forward. Following the vote, British Prime Minister David Cameron said he would step down and leave it to his successor to carry out the process, but that successor will not be chosen until late September or early October.
Quarrey believes, however, that the next prime minister will not try to overturn or ignore the results of the June 23 referendum, as many pundits (and, indeed, many Britons) have suggested.
"The people have made their decision and the people decided we will be leaving" the EU, he said.
On Thursday, it emerged that Home Secretary Theresa May and her euroskeptic rival Energy Minister Andrea Leadsom are the two candidates who will battle to become Conservative Party leader, and thus Britain's next prime minister. May won 199 votes and Leadsom 84 in a second ballot of lawmakers of the governing Conservative Party. The party's members will choose between them.
When the next prime minister invokes Article 50 of the EU treaty that deals with withdrawal from the union, it will kick off a two-year process for Britain to renegotiate its economic relationship with the EU. At the same time, it will have to renegotiate its trade relationships with countries such as Israel, which currently trade with it as a member of the union.
One concern for Israel is what will happen it does not have a new trade arrangement with the UK in place by the time the two-year period is over.
Like other British politicians, Quarrey tried to project an image of stability, noting that all the things that make the British economy a strong one remain in place.
But for Israeli companies, 15 of which Quarrey met with earlier in the day to assuage concerns, the possibility that the UK will no longer serve as a springboard to the EU could be a major drawback.
The remains little clarity as to how the negotiations will play out, or whether there will be a compromise to allow the UK access to the EU's single market.
Israel's first quarter GDP growth was a disappointing 1.3%.
Outside the economic sphere, Quarrey acknowledged that the Brexit vote would leave Israel with one fewer strong ally within the European bureaucracy, but said Britain would remain a steadfast friend.
"We were a strong friend and partner before we were in the EU, during our time in the EU, and will be once we have left the EU," he said.
With the UK scrambling to pick of the pieces after the referendum unexpectedly swung toward Leave, The Jerusalem Post asked Quarrey for his views on recent calls from Israel's opposition to hold a referendum on the two-state solution.
"I think that's a very important issue for the Israeli people to discuss," he responded with a smile.


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Ди́на Ю́рьевна Кори́цкая () — российская легкоатлетка, специалистка по многоборьям. Выступала за сборную России по лёгкой атлетике в 1994—2005 годах, победительница Кубка Европы в командном зачёте, чемпионка и призёрка первенств национального значения, участница летних Олимпийских игр в Сиднее. Представляла Краснодарский край. Мастер спорта России международного класса.

Биография
Дина Корицкая родилась 27 февраля 1975 года в Краснодаре.

Занималась лёгкой атлетикой под руководством тренера С. А. Чернова. Выступала за физкультурно-спортивное объединение «Юность России» и Российскую армию (Краснодар). Окончила Краснодарский государственный институт физической культуры.

Впервые заявила о себе на международном уровне в сезоне 1994 года, когда вошла в состав российской национальной сборной и выступила на юниорском мировом первенстве в Лиссабоне, где в программе семиборья заняла четвёртое место.

В 1997 году в семиборье выиграла бронзовые медали на открытом чемпионате России по многоборьям в Краснодаре и на молодёжном европейском первенстве в Турку.

В 1998 году в пятиборье взяла бронзу на зимнем чемпионате России в Липецке. В семиборье успешно выступила на Кубке Европы в Таллине, где стала восьмой в личном зачёте и помогла своим соотечественницам выиграть женский командный зачёт. Позже одержала победу на летнем чемпионате России в Туле, отметилась выступлением на чемпионате Европы в Будапеште.

В 2000 году на зимнем чемпионате России в Челябинске завоевала золотую медаль и установила свой личный рекорд в пятиборье (4665), показав при этом лучший результат мирового сезона. В семиборье с российской командой победила в командном зачёте Кубка Европы в Оулу, с личным рекордом (6401) была третьей на летнем чемпионате России в Туле. Благодаря череде удачных выступлений удостоилась права защищать честь страны на Олимпийских играх в Сиднее — набрала здесь 5975 очков, расположившись в итоговом протоколе соревнований на пятнадцатой строке.

В 2005 году представляла страну на Кубке Европы в Быдгоще, где стала третьей в личном и командном первенствах.

Впоследствии оставалась действующей спортсменкой вплоть до 2008 года, продолжая принимать участие в различных всероссийских соревнованиях.

За выдающиеся спортивные результаты удостоена почётного звания «Мастер спорта России международного класса».

Завершив спортивную карьеру, работала инструктором по физической культуре в Детском саду № 50 в Санкт-Петербурге.

Примечания

Многоборцы России
Легкоатлеты на летних Олимпийских играх 2000 года
Чемпионы России по лёгкой атлетике
Мастера спорта России международного класса по лёгкой атлетике
Спортсмены Краснодара
Выпускники Кубанского университета физической культуры, спорта и туризма