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Avid Everywhere: The Future of Production and Media Distribution
At the recent NAB Show in Las Vegas, Avid unveiled their vision for the future with the Avid Media Central Platform and the Avid Everywhere vision. This new platform will be accessible directly within Avid products such as Pro Tools and Media Composer and allow users from all over the world to collaborate on projects. Users will be able to "invite" other people to share their session via the web while also able to message and video conference with those people. Imagine being able to work with musicians, artists, producers, and singers all from the creative comfort of your own private studio space. Pro Tools Cloud Collaboration will allow you to work and communicate with people from around the globe as if everyone were hanging out in the studio together. It will soon be common for people to work via collaborative Pro Tools sessions in real-time.
The most exciting features of the Avid Media Central Platform (for music production & recording) is the ability to work with talent via a remote Pro Tools session. I can "share" my session with a singer in LA, for example, once she downloads my session we can communicate via the built in web-chat feature, she can then record her vocal parts and once we're happy with the result, I can download the new track and changes back to my session.
While you're working on the remote Pro Tools session any changes that are made can easily be downloaded between each person simply by clicking a button in Pro Tools. The reason it is so fast is that you are downloading changes on a track by track basis so it's not a lot of data. Another key aspect is that all of the data is being tagged to keep track of who contributed to the project and which parts. This ties into the Avid Marketplace and the ability to manage and sell your media to the world.
My favorite aspect of all these new feature is how it will impact mixing in Pro Tools. It will be easier than ever for artists and record labels to work with mix engineers while keeping expenses to a minimum. Once the Pro Tools session is sync'd and the mix engineer starts to work on it, they can broadcast the mix back to the client via a Pro Tools iPad App or web browser. Yes! Remote mixing in Pro Tools will allow you to stream you mix directly to the client!
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Diane Edwards has spent the last eight months praying for a miracle after losing her son Adrian in a freak car accident at Seattle's Lakeridge Park. When she finds Adrian back in his bed one night—alive and well and oblivious to his death—it appears her prayers have been answered.
But this isn't the kind of miracle Diane was expecting, because she soon learns Adrian is not the only one who's forgotten that fateful day in Lakeridge Park. The entire world has no memory of it, with the exception of Diane and three other people:
Michael Edwards—Diane's estranged husband and Adrian's father.
Laura Carrillo—Adrian's teacher, who loved him almost as much as his parents did.
Milton Weisman—The agnostic, sixty-eight-year-old widower and alcoholic who lost control of the car that killed Adrian in Lakeridge Park.
Over the next six days, these four people must struggle to understand what Adrian's return to the living means, and why God Himself would choose them, and them alone, to play witness to it. In the end, all will learn that God's mercy knows no limits—but its permanence comes at a price.
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Your team probably won't win this year's Men's NCAA Basketball Tournament.
Mine probably won't, either.
There are 65 teams in the Men's NCAA basketball tournament. Only one will go undefeated for six straight games and win the national championship. Despite these odds, there are millions of us fans supporting lots of different teams and somehow convinced in our hearts that ours will be the one to cut down the nets.
Nearly all of us will be wrong, but our beliefs won't waiver one iota until we lose.
For those teams seeded in the bottom half of their region, history says that winning is nearly impossible. But even for teams seeded 1st, 2nd or 3rd, the odds aren't pretty.
How do I know that your team probably won't win without knowing who you are or what team you support? Simple probabilities. The ones we all choose to ignore.
This phenomenon isn't limited to basketball, or even to sports. An entire academic field known as behavioral finance has sprung up fairly recently to help explain the reasons and the methods we use to deceive ourselves into ignoring the odds.
We can, however, look at the last 25 years of NCAA tournament results and gain some perspective on the probabilities. That includes 1,600 teams (if we ignore the play-in games) and 1,575 games.
Twenty-five years ago happens to be when the NCAA expanded the field to 64 teams. Yes, there is a "play-in" game for the 65th team, but ignoring those for the last few years won't impact the statistics in any important way.
The 4 through 8 Seeds
First, let's look at the seeds who have slightly better than a snowball's chance. That would be the group of 20 teams seeded 4th through 8th each year. Over 25 years, that group includes 500 teams that have won a total of three championships. The three low-seeded teams that won it all were seeded 4th, 6th and 8th.
The success rate for this group is 3/25, or 12%, so there is a 12% chance that one of the 20 teams seeded 4th through 8th will win the tournament, based on historical results. But, the record for individual teams seeded 4th through 8th is 3 title wins per 500 attempts, so the probability of an individual team seeded in this group winning it all is about 0.06%.
The Bottom Half
4th through 8th seeds may be a long shot, but at least they have three titles.
Not one team in the bottom half of the field has won a championship in the current format. Only four 15-seeds have even made it to the second round. Only two teams seeded lower than 8th have made it to the Final Four (LSU in '86 and George Mason in 2006, both 11-seeds).
No 16-seed men's team has ever won a game.
(A 16-seed did win a game in the Women's NCAA Basketball Tournament once.)
Seeds 9 through 16 have never won a title. Seeds 4 through 8 have won 3. And, a whopping 88% of national titles have been won by 1-, 2- or 3-seeds.
The Top 3 Seeds
How about the top seeds, the ones who have a real shot at putting together a six game winning streak to win a championship? Doesn't it seem like the teams that end the regular season ranked number one in the polls win the NCAA tournament more often than not?
They don't.
1-, 2- and 3-seeds have won 22 of the last 25 championships, but 1-seeds have won 15 of those, or 60%. The remainder have gone about equally to 2-seeds (4 titles) and 3-seeds (3 titles). Now you know why Rick Pitino preached to his Kentucky teams that they needed a 1-seed to have a real chance of winning a championship.
But how likely is the big trophy, even if you are a 1-seed? The NCAA only began announcing overall 1-seeds in 2004, but since 1985, only 4 of the 25 teams (16%) that ended the season ranked number 1 in the major polls have gone on to win the championshipi. That's about 1 in 6.
In the past 25 years of tournaments, 100 teams have received a 1-seed and 15 of those teams won the title. The success rate for those four 1-seeds averages 15% each year.
2-seeds have won 4 of 25 championships, so the probability that the tournament winner will be a 2-seed is 16%, based on historical data. During that period, there have been 100 teams seeded 2nd, but only 4 won titles, so the probability of your 2-seed cutting down the nets is about 4%.
If you're a 2-seed, the challenge is potentially having to beat three 1-seeds, one in the Regional finals, one in the Final 4, and one in the championship game. With a historical winning percentage of .536 for 1-seeds versus 2-seeds, the probability of a 2-seed, like West Virginia this year for example, winning three games in a row against 1-seeds is (0.5363)3, or slightly better than 15%, and that's after having won the first three rounds against lower seeds. The only team to beat three 1-seeds in a single tournament to date was 4-seed Arizona in 1997.
Of course, who's to say that West Virginia is seeded correctly? Maybe they should have been a 1-seed. They think so. And perhaps other 1-seeds will be knocked off before WVU has to play them. But seeding is just one of the reasons that the statistical favorite doesn't win the NCAA basketball championship.
There are new injuries, injured players who are finally healthy, lucky shooting nights (an NC State air-ball that becomes a lob pass against Houston), emotional rivalries, bad coaching decisions (Pitino not guarding Grant Hill on the inbound pass to Laettner), and fortunate calls from the officials.
There are bad matchups. Just because Team A beats Team B and Team B beats Team C doesn't mean Team A will beat Team C. It just doesn't work that way. There is no transitive law of college sports. UK is ranked second in the nation but beat Mississippi State—who didn't even qualify for the NCAA tournament— by one-tenth of a second in the SEC Tournament finals last week.
Probabilities can't tell us who will win the championship, but they do tell us that the winning team, even if they are a 1-seed, will have to beat the odds. No matter how good your team is, the odds are slim that they will win the tournament.
Probabilities also tell us that improbable doesn't mean impossible. If you bet long-term statistical averages, which means just picking the higher seeded team, you will be right more often than you will be with any other method, but these are one-game competitions, not seven-game series. And an individual NCAA tournament is a one-time event.
That's what makes the odds for even the best teams daunting. The winner has to play near-perfect basketball for six games in a row, but it only takes one game for a lower seed to knock you out of the bracket.
While only 4 teams ranked number one at the end of the regular season went on to win titles in the past 25 years, this feat was accomplished twice as often in the past 60 yearsi.
I suspect this is because the fields were smaller before 1985, meaning fewer rounds and fewer opportunities for the regular season champion to get knocked off by a lower seed. If so, that doesn't bode well for the expansion of the tournament to 96 teams, as has recently been discussed.
As I said, improbable outcomes are not impossible. In 1985, Villanova was an 8-seed playing top-seeded Georgetown in the NCAA title game. All it took to win the national championship was to go further than any 8-seed had ever gone in the tournament. . . and then to play one perfect half of basketball.


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Pop star Sia reveals she adopted two teenage boys who were "aging out of the foster care system" last year. She declares, "I love them."
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Sia is proud to confirm that she's now the mother of two teenage boys.
The singer revealed in an interview with SiriusXM's The Morning Mash Up that she adopted two 18-year-old boys in 2019. She said that she made the decision to legally make them members of her family because she knew they were "aging out of the foster care system." She declared, "I love them."
Together, they're getting through the pandemic the best they can. "They are both finding it pretty difficult, one more so than the other," she shared. "But they're both doing things that are really good for them right now, that are really helpful. They're really doing a lot of educational stuff that's good for them."
News of her expanded family comes almost an entire year after the pop star offered to adopt the 16-year-old boy Dasani from the HBO documentary Foster.
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She said in a since-deleted tweet last May, "Hey Dasani from 'FOSTER' on HBO! I'd like to adopt you. We're just trying to find you and get my house check done etc. But I want you to know you will have a home with me."
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It's unclear if the teen is one of the two foster kids that Sia adopted, but she later said in a January GQ interview that she had "adopted a son."
It would seem the Australian singer is raising the boys on her own, as she and her husband of 2-years separated in Dec. 2016. Moreover, the star has said that her two sons will continue to be the main men in her life since she has "decided to be single for the rest of [her] life."
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Blood clots can develop anywhere in the vascular system, and can cause devastating consequences. In order for blood to clot, any two of the following three conditions must be met:
Slow blood flow ("stasis"), such as occurs with prolonged bedrest after surgery, or a long transcontinental flight.
Injury to the vessel lining, such as after knee or hip or pelvic surgery.
Altered clotting system (so-called "Hypercoaguable state," usually due to medication or to a genetic defect).
Because blood flow normally is very brisk in the healthy arterial system, clots almost never form in the arteries. Arteries that become heavily diseased with atherosclerosis, however, can develop clots (see Peripheral Arterial Disease). In veins, blood flow is much slower. This in itself is not enough to lead to spontaneous blood clotting, but when slow blood flow is coupled with another factor, such as local injury to the vein or a genetic defect in the clotting system, the conditions are set for a "perfect storm," and the blood can clot.
The Superficial and Deep Venous System
The venous system is divided into the Superficial Venous System and the Deep Venous System. The superficial veins, which are relatively small veins, are just under the skin and often can be seen with the naked eye. When blood clots form in the superficial veins, this is termed "superficial venous thrombosis," or "superficial phlebitis." Phlebitis refers to the fact that inflammation, in addition to clotting, of the vein is involved. (Greek "phlebo-" for vein, and "-itis" for inflammation). Phlebitis typically does not occur in normal veins. Veins that have become varicose, however, are notably prone to developing phlebitis. Although phlebitis causes a painful lump under the skin, which can be very distressing and scary to the patient, superficial phlebitis generally is not a dangerous condition. It usually resolves on its own in a matter of days to weeks, as the body's own enzymes gradually dissolve away the blood clot.Superficial thrombophlebitis does not lead to the dangerous type of blood clots that break off and travel to the lung. The typical treatment for superficial phlebitis is conservative and involves non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, oral antibiotics, and warm compresses.
In contrast, the Deep Veins are larger and more important to the venous circulation. When clots develop in the deep veins, they can be dangerous. This condition is termed "Deep Venous Thrombosis (DVT)." The danger lies in the fact that, since the deep veins are large, the clots that develop within them have the potential to grow to a large size. If some of these clots break off, they can travel to the right side of the heart and to the lungs and occlude the important pulmonary arteries (This is known as "pulmonary embolus"). The larger size of these clots causes severe limitation of blood flow through the lung. This can be serious and even life-threatening. Blood clots that occur in the region from the thigh to the level of the knee are the ones that are notably dangerous. Blood clots below the knee are not quite as dangerous, as they are small and have a lower propensity to break off and travel to the lungs.
DVT typically causes pain and marked swelling in the thigh/leg, but can also occur without causing any symptoms. Making a definite diagnosis of a DVT requires a vein ultrasound.
The traditional treatment for DVT involves thinning the blood with medications such as intravenous heparin or oral warfarin. These medications do not actually dissolve the existing clot. They work by preventing any further clot formation. The existing clot is gradually dissolved by the body's own clot-degrading enzymes. This is a slow process and takes on the order of weeks. Thus, blood thinners work well, but the significant length of time it takes for the healing process is an important limitation that has consequences.
Chronic Venous Insufficiency and Post Thrombotic Syndrome
The presence of the clot in the vein, and its slow healing process, causes permanent changes in the vein and its important valves. Scarring occurs and these one-way valves become damaged and "frozen," such that they leak. Leaky valves allow blood to be pulled down by gravity and collect in the veins of the leg and ankle when an individual stands up. Over time, these veins progressively enlarge and become bulging and varicose. This results in a condition known as Chronic Venous Insufficiency (CVI).
The high hydrostatic pressure in the veins causes blood cells and water to leak out of capillaries and collect in the soft tissue of the legs and ankles, causing pigment changes (The pigment is actually hemoglobin from blood cells trapped and deposited in the tissue) and edema. The extensive soft tissue edema interferes with oxygen delivery to the skin. Portions of the skin begin to die and skin ulcers can form, typically at the ankle. This syndrome of edema, pigment changes, skin death, and ulceration, is called Post Thrombotic Syndrome (PTS).
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Elbit Systems has been awarded a contract, valued at approximately $1.65 billion, for the establishment and operation of the International Flight Training Center of the Hellenic Air Force, as part of an agreement between the Israeli Ministry of Defense and the Hellenic Ministry of National Defense. The contract will be performed over a period of approximately 20 years and will incl
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Q: parsing int when doing json deserialization I'm writing a custom javascript converter and I'm receiving a string that should contain an int.
This is what I'm doing:
public class MyObjectToJson : JavaScriptConverter
{
public override object Deserialize(IDictionary<string, object> dictionary, Type type, JavaScriptSerializer serializer)
{

  MyObject TheObject = new MyObject;

  if (serializer.ConvertToType<int>(dictionary["TheInt"]) == true)
  {
    MyObject.TheInt = serializer.ConvertToType<int>(dictionary["TheInt"]);
  }

However, it's not working on the conditional statement. What do I need to change? I want to test that I'm getting an int.
Thanks.

A: Change your code to use this condition:
 int value;
 if (int.TryParse(serializer.ConvertToType<string>(dictionary["TheInt"]), out value)
 {
    MyObject.TheInt = value;
 }

This is a better solution than relying on an exception to be thrown, as catching exceptions is  computationally expensive.

A: It's because ConvertToType returns an object of the requested type. To use it as a condition to an if clause it must return bool.
You can do it instead:
try {
    MyObject.TheInt = serializer.ConvertToType<int>(dictionary["TheInt"]);
}
catch(Exception e)
{
    throw new Exception("Could not convert value into int: " + dictionary["TheInt"]);
}

EDIT: Earlier I proposed a check for null equality on the converted value, but realized that it's more likely for the method to throw an exception than returning null when the types mismatch.

A: if you have not sure that the type cannot be an int, use int.TryParse instead.
MyObject TheObject = new MyObject;

  if (!int.TryParse(dictionary["TheInt"], out MyObject.TheInt))
  {
    // conversion to int failed
  }

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OH right, reports this button isnt visible in some Mastodon apps, however I actually gave it a shot originally on web app mobile (Chrome/Firefox).
@Necrotext wait what. Crop doesn't mean....cutting the image up?
@Necrotext lol such a bad name. It might as well be called "delete". I had no idea! Very cool feature. It should be renamed to "recenter" or something!


Student-Led Conference Fun in 1 Rwenzori!
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We had our second round of Student-Led Conferences last Friday. Enjoy the images of our proud students sharing their work, learning, and progress with their families!


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Report suggests 'green-chemistry' solutions
California is reviewing 38 recommended approaches and requirements for reducing toxic compounds in the state.
The findings may help provide a broad-based model for implementation in California and other locales.
In April 2007, the state Environmental Protection Agency launched the Green Chemistry Initiative, primarily through its Department of Toxic Substances Control. A nationally dispersed panel of 21 science advisers was formed in the fall.
The members are ``leading thinkers and innovators of green chemistry,'' DTSC director Maureen Gorsen said in a news release. ``Their willingness to wrestle with our state policy issues demonstrates their belief in the potential of California to create a new, robust green-materials economy.''
Panel Chairman John Warner is president and chief technology officer of Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry LLC, a research and development firm in Woburn, Mass. Most members are academics, researchers or environmental advocates. Corporate representatives include Neil Hawkins, vice president of sustainability with Dow Chemical Co. in Midland, Mich., and William Carroll Jr., vice president of Occidental Chemical Corp. in Dallas.
On June 2, after numerous meetings and seven public workshops, the panel issued a 70-page report with appendices covering another 111 pages. A compendium from the University of Massachusetts' Lowell Center for Sustainable Production references comparable state, federal and foreign programs.
In order to create green-chemistry supply and demand, the state needs a diverse set of options, the report said. Those options should bridge gaps that hinder current efforts.
``The central concept ... is that the advancement of green chemistry in California is an effective vehicle to promote innovation in ways that also protect human health and the environment and provide economic opportunities,'' the report said.
Governmental agencies, industrial concerns, universities and not-for-profit organizations are targeted as possible ``agents of change'' in bringing viable options to fruition.
The scientific advisory panel's proposals may be included in the multiagency initiative's final report, due in a few months to state EPA secretary Linda Adams. The state may seek more feedback on the report's conceptual framework.
No costs were disclosed, but the state is funding the initiative within its existing budget, DTSC said.


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How the Texas puma saved the Florida panther
by The Ohio State University
Scientists have pieced together the first complete picture of the Florida panther genome -- work that could serve to protect that endangered population and other endangered species going forward. Credit: Carlton Ward Jr. @carltonward
Scientists have pieced together the first complete picture of the Florida panther genome—work that could serve to protect that endangered population and other endangered species going forward.
Florida panthers are the only documented population of pumas (Puma concolor) found east of the Mississippi River.
In the mid-1990s, Florida panthers were facing desperate times. Their small numbers (fewer than 30 in the wild) made inbreeding inevitable and that brought the usual health troubles that emerge when any animals, including humans, mate with partners of a similar genetic background. Heart failure, undescended testicles, pathogenic diseases and parasites were common among the animals. So biologists introduced eight female Texas pumas into South Florida, hoping that genetic variation would help shore up the Florida panthers' future.
In the new study, researchers used advanced computer techniques to analyze the genomes of Florida panthers, Texas pumas and their offspring to better understand how the mid-1990s introduction program contributed to Florida panthers' genetic diversity.
Among their findings: Genetic diversity tripled.
"Florida panthers were in trouble because of inbreeding depression. It's like royalty in human history, where mating with close relatives increases the risk of manifesting harmful DNA mutations and reduces the ability to survive and reproduce," said lead author Alexander Ochoa, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology at The Ohio State University.
The study appears online in the journal G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics.
Five of the pumas introduced in the 1990s produced at least 20 offspring. Today, upwards of 230 known individual panthers—many the descendants of this introduction program—roam southern Florida, many in Everglades National Park and Big Cypress National Preserve.
Ochoa and his collaborators examined the DNA of 10 animals—a mixture of Florida panthers and Texas pumas and their immediate offspring. They compared the animals' genetics, looking for patterns that would tell them what happened during the mixing of the populations.
"This tells us a lot about the genetic underpinnings of this iconic conservation success story. The genetic diversity we found was much greater than some scientists previously thought, and likely contributed to the recovery of Florida panthers after the introduction of the Texas pumas," Ochoa said.
In the mid-1990s, about 21 percent of Florida panthers had a heart problem called atrial septal defect, and more than 60 percent of the males had undescended testicles, a serious threat to the survival of the population. In recent years, those numbers have dropped to 7 percent and 3 percent respectively.
Ochoa and his colleagues also identified 17 genes that were linked to the refinement of sensory capabilities in pumas, most notably to improved vision. They also found that the number of genes linked to the animals' sense of smell decreased.
"We believe there's a tradeoff between the development of genes related to the sense of smell and the development of genes related to vision, because pumas are nocturnal hunters," Ochoa said.
The researchers hope this work will serve to help conservationists understand how genetic diversity can impact at-risk animal populations, and that the genetic details they discovered could potentially help those working in veterinary and human medicine, he said. For the Florida panther population specifically, the genetic blueprint offered in this research could help in the detection of harmful DNA mutations.
"It's possible you'd want to intervene in a way to decrease the frequency of these mutations so that there isn't a resurgence of traits that are harmful to the population," Ochoa said.
His next study will focus on the specific contributions of the Texas pumas to the Florida panther gene pool, work that should clarify which introduced genes were beneficial and detrimental to the population.
"Introducing Texas pumas made sense as they were geographically the closest living population of pumas and they carried potential for restoring Florida panther genetic variation, but this activity also could have presented some risks due to the mixing of individuals with adaptations to particular environments. We want to better understand what happened to the Florida panthers on a genetic level."
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More information: Alexander Ochoa et al, De Novo Assembly and Annotation from Parental and F1 Puma Genomes of the Florida Panther Genetic Restoration Program, G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics (2019). DOI: 10.1534/g3.119.400629
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If you're reading this, you probably know about carbon in the atmosphere and multiple frog species extinctions and fires and famine and drought and flooding and... Oh my. These times are on par with Biblical level destruction, confusion, and despair. It's reasonable to feel discouraged, helpless, and overwhelmed by it all.
You may be dizzy with the question "What can I do to make the biggest difference?" Or imagining, "There's nothing I can do!" Or wondering, "How can any action I take help the planet really?" These are all valid thoughts and questions.
Some experts say we're past the point of no return and the amount of ruination we are facing is vast. That may be true.
But the other truth is we're still here. This moment now, you're reading this.
And the best thing any of us can do is shake off our frozen confusion and clarify what is important.
Solutions are what we desperately need: Mechanical, chemical, and engineering solutions; social and administrative solutions; policy solutions and cultural shift catalysts. Each of these is necessary and no player is too small to make a difference.
The planet needs you (pronto!) to be your best self and take action.
This guide is dedicated to the well being of the planet; including you, us, Her, and all beneficent beings.
As the voices for hate clang louder we must refine our clarity and attune to the frequencies of peace. Here's a practical, step by step guide for doing just that.
Self care is practices to keep individuals functioning at the highest possible level and capable of inner peace. Any time you feel confused, lost, or disempowered, practice compassion with yourself first and foremost. Feeling unsettled is a natural part of the cycle between chaos and confidence. Consider what type of self care would help you get back to peace. You are more valuable as an ally when you are well. Plus you will navigate with your loved ones with more skill and grace.
Mindful self care considers the supply chain and end cycle consequences of your self care choices. This doesn't necessarily mean you sacrifice, but it does mean you are informed. If you choose to eat meat for personal health reasons, selecting a family farm with low impact practices is likely preferable to factory farm sourced beef. It's about weighing the variables and making peace with your means and capacity. As you're able, transition to an economy and resources that are regenerative rather than destructive in nature.
Another example is taking a bath. I'm aware it's not the best thing ever for the environment. But it helps me return to my right mind. I don't do it often. I bless and thank the water.
Try to be considerate of everything you touch. Where did it come from? Where is it going? If you don't know the impact of the products, do research or ask the company. Companies need buy-in from their consumers - Literally! Ask for information and make known your commitment for planet-conscious choices.
Until companies make planned obsolescence obsolete, how can you choose wisely from technology offerings? Do you participate in community recycling programs in an informed way?
Remember to be compassionate with yourself regarding your capacity as an individual. What is ecological for your lifestyle and balanced for you personally? It's a balance; striving to grow and feeling good about where you are. Ultimately, a healthy relationship with both peace and dissonance is imperative for thriving.
Two frequently overlooked but crucial elements of self care are wonder and beauty. There is little substitute for the ways these states nourish us. Relish in wonder. Remind yourself what it is we're trying to save here; eco diversity and the wonder and balance of the natural world. If you see a butterfly, someone you adore, or anything that takes your breath away, pause and give yourself time time to feel it fully. It's not a waste of time. It's nourishment.
Opportunities for embodying mindful self care include (but are not limited to) the following: Nutrition, products and services (anything you spend money on), wellness and exercise, spiritual practices, immersion in nature, participation in communities and the topic of the following section, healthy intimacy.
Step One is designed to help you establish an intimate and honest connection with yourself. This is necessary before cultivating healthy intimacy with others.
Intimacy is sometimes described as "Into Me See" - the art and skill of letting yourself be deeply seen and deeply seeing others. One of my teachers described intimacy as, "When I can be me, and you can be you, and we can be close."
Closeness is crucial for human well being. There is a nourishment that happens during intimacy that one can talk about in terms of hormones, the soul, or many levels in between.
In order to create the world we want, we must cultivate healthy communication, intimacy and community. To successfully share the planet with all life, let's begin by developing skills to amicably coexist with one another in homesteads, companies, and world changing initiatives.
Another consideration is that during (increasingly frequent) natural disasters, closeness isn't always voluntary. If it's so hot the pavement outside is melting, or if there is a flood and we are in a shelter, we need to know how to create positive interactions together.
How do we cultivate healthy intimacy so that, whatever comes, we can continue to have clarity, clear boundaries, and kindness at the heart of our interactions?
The truth is that many people don't know how to live harmoniously with others. Then they try to live with a romantic partner and lament all the ways that person is impossible to live with. Well... maybe you or they are impossible to live with. Or maybe there is a gap in knowledge and skill around healthy intimacy.
One of my favorite tools for cultivating healthy intimacy is Nonviolent Communication (NVC), sometimes called Compassionate Communication, founded by author and teacher Marshall Rosenberg. NVC is a skill set that encourages communicating feelings and needs.
A person can share about their experience without giving their power away. Giving your power away sounds like, "You make me...." followed by anything. Empowered language sounds something like "When you (leave the front door unlocked) I feel (angry) because my needs (for security and to matter) aren't getting met."
This is a gross oversimplification of a rich and wonderful body of work I highly recommend you check out for yourself.
If you don't yet have one, I hope that you will consider cultivating a close community. It is important for well being, and also for the kind of growth that only comes when people who care about each other give and receive feedback in supportive ways. People who hold you to your highest and call you on your "stuff" are especially important for growing your leadership, which brings us to the next section.
Now that you're taking good care of yourself and have a community or close friends, it's time to take action. Mind you, you don't need to have the first two steps totally handled before embarking on the third. In fact, all three will be ever growing and evolving. But making some progress in the first two, at least enough to hold the intentions, will be the rich soil and roots that your strategic action can grow from.
As you experience the world around you, what is something you feel strongly about? It can be helpful to begin locally. Maybe it's poverty, homelessness, education, water quality, or nutrition. Is there a project happening that you can contribute toward? Are you inspired to begin a new endeavor?
If you believe in a higher power, you may want to ask for guidance. Marianne Williamson quotes from A Course in Miracles with some version of, "Where would you have me go, what would you have me do, what would you have me say and to whom?" She also reminds readers and listeners of her lectures that, "You're the lamp not the electricity, you're the faucet, not the water. It's not about you."
I find this both humbling and celebratory. I may not be the electricity, but the way it flows through me is unique. Though I am only as unique as everybody is, I am still offering my flavors to the mix. You can too, and you're important. If handling the first two steps is what you have bandwidth for right now, don't make yourself wrong. Do what you can where you can and let that be enough.
Whatever you do, don't go back to sleep. Per step one, take care of yourself. Get good rest. Give yourself space when you need it. But don't succumb to going numb or unconscious. Some say the opposite of addiction is connection.
Give yourself permission to Care. And then Care Loudly.
To survive, thrive and "turn this ship around" we need shifts in technology, behavioral and cultural change, and transformations in public policy and political will. Any of these areas will benefit from your grounded and empowered contribution.
Your attention and participation can amplify the signal of others. You may have a special way of expressing that will help bring truth to power. Don't give up. Do what you can. Ask for help and support from your loved ones and community when you need it, and provide it when you have energy to share.
You matter, and your participation in this great time of change makes a difference.
"Planetary viability starts with me."
Thanks for taking the time to read this little ebook.
Marna Schwartz is a systems thinker, facilitator and regenerative mindset coach. She is a straight-talking gentle guide who helps individuals and groups cultivate well being, connect with their intuition and thrive. Marna has been teaching Kripalu yoga (a practice of kind compassion) since 2006, and has been a Reiki and energy balancing practitioner since 1998. Favored teaching topics include interpersonal resilience, relating yoga, and pleasure. She is passionately committed to Planetary Viability.


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"Cancel Culture Pandemic": Fortune 500 companies are exacerbating society's schizophrenic condition
Mar 1, 2021: As society continues to deal with the incessant wounds and scars exacted by cancel culture and its rotten tech giant accomplices, many of the remaining Fortune 500 corporations have elected to participate in the up-branding and profit opportunities that come with this wayward and 'radioactive' anti-social disorder.
Over the course of the past year, the scourge of cancel culture has touched everyone in some way, either directly or indirectly. Anyone failing to comply with the progressive woke ideology of the left is susceptible to the consequences of an increasingly abusive and hostile gang of ideological thugs. Harper's Magazine published an open letter in July of 2020 calling for a move away from cancel culture altogether. The scourge of cancel culture was denounced as "censorious and an intolerance of opposing views, a vogue for public shaming and ostracism and the tendency to dissolve complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty." (New York Post – Brook Kato; July 10, 2020) The Harper Magazine open letter was signed by more than 150 public figures – it was signed in disappointment and outrage over the bigotry of cancel culture and its evisceration of the unalienable right to free speech and thought. The 150 open letter signatories are noteworthy for their contributions to society, with contributions ranging across all topics and all geographies. Prominent (and formerly respected) open letter signatories included: Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, JK Rowling, Noam Chomsky, Malcolm Gladwell, David Brooks, Bari Weiss, and Matthew Yglesias among many other notable personalities across the entire ideological spectrum.
Apparently, the easy (and profitable) way forward for the Fortune 500 corporate 'superstars' is to pile-on to the cancel culture parade. Indeed, the Fortune 500 have maneuvered in choreographed unison as they simultaneously abandon politically 'un-woke" right-leaning entities/politicians, earn "woke" brand-image and PR points by aligning themselves with the ideological left, and draw incremental profits and undeserved favor by luring rabid and gullible progressives and socialists into their 'web of deceit'. The latest form of casualty in the cancel culture war is the Republican Party or any other entity bearing a resemblance to the right. The fact that the Republican Party (and the right) has become a primary target of the cancel culture army is less important than the expanding trend of persistent 'societal canceling' from all areas of society (woke individuals, corporations, entertainers, athletes, and academics). Unless stopped through a show of united strength, courage and integrity within society, the cancel culture pandemic will continue to rage out of control, especially as our largest multinational corporation intensify their leading and exploitive role in this ruthless and immoral plague.
Based on findings taken from the work of Fortune Magazine's Phil Wahba (January 11, 2021) and Newsweek's Alexandria Hutzler (January 12, 2021), EA is pleased to provide an extensive list of Fortune 500 companies who have openly attacked the Republican Party (via political funding withdrawals, political funding suspensions, contractual withdrawals, withdrawal of service offerings, lopsided financial support of the DNC, overt attacks on right-leaning organizations, campaign meddling and interference, and skewed messaging to fake media and journalists). All American patriots and freedom fighters should take note of each of these Fortune 500 firms and understand that they are actively and aggressively targeting western society (and our freedom) with cancel culture tactics embedded into their day-to-day financial, operational and business models.
Fortune 500 Cancel Culture Participants (in alphabetical order):
Commerce Bank
Ford Motor Co.
Marathon Petroleum
Marriot International
Walt Disney Company
Cancel Culture Pandemic


The end of the 1980s was the "golden age" of Legionella pneumophila serotyping. In recent years molecular genotyping methods have been increasingly applied to the classification of legionellae. This chapter describes a short typing system for L. pneumophila that might be useful in epidemiological investigations. Serotyping of L. pneumophila is mostly done by using indirect immunofluorescence tests. However, in a European multicenter study for typing of L. pneumophila, it was demonstrated that this technique produces variable results, especially for the recognition of serogroup-cross-reactive epitopes by reagents LpH and LpK. These problems can be avoided by using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) that is a more reproducible technique because of reading of positive results with respect to the blank value, whereas microscopically judging is sometimes equivocal and influenced by the laboratory staff. ELISA allows the screening of many colonies in less than six hours. In addition, the selection of only 11 reagents combined with a blank without monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) as the 12th value was done to adapt the typing scheme to the microplate array.
Distribution of L. pneumophila serogroups and MAb subgroups among 1,335 human isolates (Reprinted from Ref. 5 with kind permission of Springer Science and Business Media). Abbreviations for monoclonal subgroups of serogroup 1: Ph, Philadelphia; Be, Benidorm; FA, France/Allentown; Kn, Knoxville; OO, OLDA/Oxford; He, Heysham; Ca, Camoerdown; Bh, Bellingham. n.t., not typeable into the known serogroups.
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Pandita and colleagues suggest that patients with unusual sites of venous thrombosis, such as the upper extremities, should be screened for factor XII deficiency, which they consider to be a rare but important cause of thrombophilia. In our study, we showed that the prevalence of several causes of thrombophilia is not increased in patients with deep venous thrombosis of the upper extremities; the most frequent and important risk factor for this condition is a recent history of strenuous exercise of muscles of the affected extremity. In light of our findings, thrombophilic states of any kind should not be sought in patients with deep venous thrombosis of the upper extremities.
Published: Ann Intern Med. 1997;127(12):1129.


Max sets me down gently, and brushes a strand of wet hair from my face. His eyes are stormy blue in the darkness, and his fingertips hot against my face.
My breath catches. My eyes drift to his mouth, and then just like that, he's pulling me close again, into a hot, reckless kiss.
God, I've been dying to taste him again. His mouth is hard and possessive, claiming mine, and a shudder of lust rolls through me at the feel of him. His hands are all over me, molding me against him as the fire between us blazes hotter, and I forget everything. Like my rules, and our arrangement, and the fact I've sworn off men like him . . . None of it matters, not with Max's tongue doing wicked things to mine, and his body so hard against me.
VIP by Lila Monroe is the first book in her brand new Billionaire Bachelors series. Lila Monroe is a must-read author for me. I absolutely adore the compact stories that take you from meet-cute to hot and steamy to angsty drama to happily ever after at a perfect whirlwind pace. The books can be devoured in one dedicated sitting and her heroes and heroines are addictive. Strong females, alpha males, passion and heat - it all combines to make great story after great story.
Max can't stand 90% or more of his family so when his grandfather has told everyone to attend his 85th birthday in Palm Springs he knows a change is coming. But he is happy reporting worthy stories for the family empire, Carlisle Publications. Globe-trotting is more his thing, not running the empire from behind a desk. In order to keep the family off his back he decides to take a fake-girlfriend to the family gathering. What could possibly go wrong?
I loved this story and cannot wait for Cal's story in the next book in the series, Hot Daddy: A Romantic Comedy. Enjoy!


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In the future envisioned by The Doorkeeper's Secrets, five key philosophical principles function–the first is community. Last time we looked at some factors creating community. Now we need to address the impediments to building community. I see four main stumbling blocks to forming a sustainable sense of community: distance, boundaries, biases, and values.
Distance. Traditional definitions of community include something about being "in proximity to others." In the distant past, a village, tribe or clan needed to work together to secure the necessities of life and fend off danger from animals or enemies.
But as the centuries have passed, some of the original needs for binding together have changed. Other than our family of origin we regularly make choices about our lives. School, work, friendships, religious connections, professional associations, avocations, clubs, as well as community and civic responsibilities are all examples of connections we choose (at least in part).
With our capability to travel long distances and instantaneous access to events anywhere in the world, one could argue that geographic closeness is no longer required to establish community. "Virtual communities" are limited only by our willingness to find, or create one around a subject or connection of our choice. We often select a LinkedIn or Facebook group based on our interest, or a real "time connection" with some of the other members.
There are obvious limitations but much of our "emotional need" to be connected to people "similar to us" can be met through social media as well as personal interactions.
Boundaries. Mostly arbitrary lines divide us into cities, counties, states, nations, or ethnic groups. Some of us believe those divisions should carry less significance than they do. Of course, practical reasons remain for some of these lines regarding responsibilities, taxation, or voting. Those demarcations used to define a community "within the lines" but not so much anymore.
Yes, there are those who would like to make some of the lines harder to cross. However, my being born Caucasian male in the US is purely an accident. Why should I then have more control of my life than people from Mexico, Egypt, India, Japan, South Africa, Palestine, or anywhere else? We are all human regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation, nationality, age, education, language, or favorite sports team. None of those distinctions should inherently impact the respect and dignity granted to everyone.
However, there is another type of "boundary" needing attention. I refer to the "personal space" and privacy surrounding each of us. Everyone has a right to expect those boundaries to be respected. We (especially us white males) must rededicate ourselves to observing other's boundaries.
This is about inappropriate sexual behavior. It is also about respecting others' information and creating a safe, respectful environment all around us.
I can't prevent someone from using a racial slur, or vulgar "joke" when elsewhere, but in my house, my office or my presence such behavior will not be tolerated. Respect needs to become the norm; division the exception.
Next time the obstacles of bias and values.


Sisters Sophie Kallinis-LaMontagne and Katherine Kallinis-Berman have built an empire around cupcakes, resulting in six bakery locations and an extremely successful TLC show. So if anyone can give us some useful holiday baking tips, it's these two!
Luckily, the sisters took some time out to share a few tricks of the trade on how to make the perfect holiday treats!
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This undated photo provided by Paddle8 shows a hand-written poem by Jim Morrison that is being auctioned by Paddle8 with bidding expected to reach 60,000 to $80,000 by the time it ends June 25. Written on the last page torn out of a notebook, ìLast words, Last words outî and ìI have drunk the drug of forgetfulnessî are among the verses found among his possessions in the Paris hotel where he died in 1971. (Paddle8 via AP)AP
NEW YORK >> A handwritten poem by Jim Morrison found among his possessions in the Paris hotel where he died in 1971 ends with the line "Last words, Last words out."
Written on the last page torn out of a thick notebook, the double-sided document is the highlight of an online auction that went live Thursday. Auctioneer Paddle8 said bidding through June 25 is expected to reach between $60,000 and $80,000.
The lead singer and songwriter of the 1960s rock group the Doors died at age 27. The exact cause of death was never determined and speculation has abounded.
Whether the poem's words were a foretelling of what was to come is anyone's guess. The flamboyant rocker famous for such iconic tunes as "Light My Fire," ''L.A. Woman" and "Riders on the Storm" was known for his darkly poetic lyrics and alcohol and drug use.
"He was kind of obsessed" by the theme of death from the very first album, said Simeon Lipman, a specialist who works on Paddle8's "Legendary" series of music memorabilia auctions.
"Obviously, we don't know if it's the last thing he ever wrote ... but it was among the last things he ever wrote — certainly."
The notebook was originally intact and then broken apart and sold in pieces over several years, he said. The page being sold is numbered but not dated.
The "Last Words" poem, which also contains the line "I have drunk the drug of forgetfulness," appears on page 152. The reverse, page 151, contains another poem — or possibly the start of the same poem — beginning with "Well, I'm a Soul Cobra Man" — another favorite theme of the rocker who liked wearing snakeskin and who sang "I'm the Crawlin' King snake."
"What stands out is the fact that the one on page 152 was indeed the last page of the notebook," said Lipman. "I actually saw the notebook when it was intact years ago, and I remember seeing that last page and those last words and thinking, 'Wow, this is pretty powerful stuff.'"
"His writings can be taken so many different ways. Personally I like to visualize what he's saying. ... That's what makes his songs and poems so relevant today because people can envision them," he added.
The notebook the page came from was found inside Morrison's "Fascination Trunk," which contained other personal belongings including books and other notebooks.
Morrison moved to Paris in 1971 to take a break from performing and to focus on his writing. He died a few months later. French police ruled out foul play and an autopsy was never performed.
Morrison's grave in Paris attracts tourists from around the world.
"He is the prototype of that kind of brooding, brilliant rock star," said Lipman. "Because he died young, he's timeless like James Dean and Marilyn Monroe."
What makes the document special is that it "combines a lot of different threads," he said. It's written in Morrison's own hand, deals with the themes of death and snakes, and was found in the hotel where he died.
Paddle8 is a 4-year-old company that targets new and veteran collectors with items of contemporary art, design and memorabilia estimated at $100,000 and under.


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ITALIAN ORIGINAL VERSION
John Elkann was appointed to drive Fiat by his grandfather Giovanni Agnelli but now he finds himself with the company involved in an international scandal such as the size of Fiat Crysler Automobiles, the American giant born in 2014 with administrative headquarters in the Netherlands and fiscal in the Kingdom United that in Italy it preserves only a few establishments and an ancient blazon now tainted by a century of judicial investigations and convictions for corruption. The first to get into trouble, in fact, was his great-great-grandfather 111 years ago. But he escaped condemnation like all his descendants…
Jaki, nickname of Elkann, thunders official announcements against General Motors that has filed a 6.5 billion dollar lawsuit against FCA competitors for a conspiracy perpetrated in illicit agreements between managers of the Fiat-Crysler group and the main US automotive union United Automobile Workers (UAW) and blames the legal action as it brings up former CEO Sergio Marchionne who, dead in 2018, cannot defend himself.
Former Fiat Crysler CEO Sergio Marchionne (left), dead on July, 2018, togheter the FCA president John Elkann
The TG LA7 of Enrico Mentana, where the journalist Lilli Gruber works, the only Italian in the Bilderberg Steering Committee together with the same FCA president, emphasizes the indignation minimizing the resignation of the UAW president Gary Jones who had already taken a period of leave after the enlargement of the scandal that may swee to other men of the union.
Not only. Few of the mainstream Italian media recall that, due to this conspiracy in union agreements aimed at favoring FCA penalizing GM, as many as four US managers of the Italian-American group have already been sentenced, including Fiat Vice President Chrysler Automobiles US LLC (FCA), Alphons Iacobelli, as reported by the US Department of Labor on its official website in connection with the judgment of the Eastern Michigan District Court of November 2018.
This umpteenth scandal on the most famous automobile company on the italian peninsula is an opportunity to reconstruct a century of investigations and processes from which the Agnelli-Elkann families have been increasingly powerful. Now, however, some nodes are coming to a head not only in the US but also in Brazil where an investigation is trying to shed light on the occult relations created with the military dictatorship to avoid union problems by the former Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino, founded by the fascist senator Giovanni Agnelli (1886-1945 ). But let's start with the latest facts and then go back in time …
MANY SENTENCED IN THE FCA-UAW INVESTIGATION
«The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan has sentenced three defendants as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into a multi-year scheme in which Fiat Chrysler Automobiles US LLC (FCA) executives made payoffs to senior United Automobile Workers International Union (UAW) officials involved in collective bargaining agreements between the union and the company» wrote Us Department of Labor official website.
«All three defendants – Michael Brown, Jerome Durden, and Keith Mickens – pleaded guilty to crimes related to a conspiracy to direct millions of dollars in prohibited payments to themselves and their co-conspirators in violation of the Labor Management Relations Act (LMRA). The November 7, 2018, sentencing continues an ongoing investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Labor Management Standards (OLMS) Detroit-Milwaukee District Office, the Department of Labor's Office of Inspector General, the FBI, and the IRS» adds DoL.
"Protecting members against corruption perpetrated by their union leaders is critical to the mission of the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Labor Management Standards" said OLMS Director Thomas Murray, in the Detroit-Milwaukee District office. "These convictions leave no question as to the agency's commitment to seek justice when anyone abuses their union position for personal financial gain. We place a high priority on combatting financial malfeasance and safeguarding financial integrity in labor unions."
Brown – former director for employee relations at Fiat Chrysler from 2009 to 2016 – pleaded guilty to one count of misprision of a felony, and the court sentenced him to 12 months of imprisonment and a $10,000 fine. Brown admitted that he knew FCA executives committed a felony when they authorized and made prohibited payments and provided things of value to UAW officers and employees; that he failed to notify the authorities of the criminal activities as soon as possible and deliberately took actions to conceal the crime by misleading a federal grand jury.
Durden – formerly employed in FCA's corporate accounting department and the one-time controller of the UAW-Chrysler National Training Center (NTC) – pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and one count of failure to file a tax return. The court sentenced Durden to 15 months of imprisonment and restitution of $8,811.16. Between 2009 and 2015, Durden conspired with other defendants to use two tax-exempt organizations – NTC and the Leave the Light on Foundation – to direct millions of dollars in illegal payments to senior UAW officials.
Alphons Iacobelli, former vice president of FCA in the USA, sentenced to 5 years and 6 months for various crimes
Mickens – the third highest union official in the UAW's Chrysler Department – pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate the LMRA by knowingly accepting payments, money and things of value from persons acting in the interest of FCA and facilitating over $700,000 in illegal payments from Fiat Chrysler to other senior UAW officials. The court sentenced him to 12 months of imprisonment and a $10,000 fine.
Brown, Durden, and Mickens are the latest defendants sentenced in the ongoing criminal investigation into illegal payoffs to UAW officials. Two more defendants – Virdell King and Nancy Johnson, both UAW officials – have pleaded guilty and will be sentenced on November 13 and November 19, 2018, respectively.
The former vice president of the American union UAW General Holifield with the Fiat Crysler's former CEO Sergio Marchionne in Detroit before their untimely death
«In August 2018, the court sentenced Alphons Iacobelli – former FCA vice president – to 66 months in prison and 2 years of supervised release based on the conspiracy to pay over $1.5 million in illegal payments to UAW officials and to evade taxes, and ordered him to pay $853,522 in restitution for the tax charge, a $10,000 fine, and a $100 special assessment – wrote DoL's website – In July 2018, the court sentenced Monica Morgan – wife of deceased General Holiefield, former Vice President of the UAW in command of the Chrysler Department – to 18 months in prison and ordered her to pay $190,747 in restitution for tax fraud in connection with the receipt of illegal payments by her husband».
Here ends the official statement of the US Department of Labor. But the scandal seems destined to widen again and is overwhelming the leaders of the United Automobile Workers.
TRADE UNIONISTS IN GOLF COURSES AND VILLAS FOR RENT IN PALM SPRINGS
Thursday, September 12, 2019, the director of the UAW Region 5, Vance Pearson, 58, of St. Charles, Missouri, a member of the union's highest board of directors, was arrested by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents. As reported by the CNBC website, federal prosecutors accuse him of misappropriation of union funds, money laundering, aiding and abetting, conspiracy, mail and wire fraud and filing and maintaining false trade union relations in the government.
Leaders of the UAW American union Gary Jones and Vance Pearson on a golf cart
Pearson, 58, of St. Charles, Missouri, was charged of embezzlement of union funds, money laundering, aiding and abetting, conspiracy, mail and wire fraud, and filing and maintaining false union reports to the government. He's the 10th person to be charged as part of the Department of Justice's four-year investigation, which has led to convictions of nine officials affiliated with the union or Fiat Chrysler.
The UAW, in an emailed statement, said the "allegations are very concerning, we strongly believe that the government has misconstrued any number of facts and emphasize that these are merely allegations, not proof of wrongdoing." The union added it will not let the newest charges or Pearson's arrest "distract" officials from ongoing contract negotiations with General Motors, which it chose last week to lead the contract talks over Ford Motor and Fiat Chrysler.
GM instead said in a statement: "GM is outraged and deeply concerned by the conduct of union officials as uncovered by the government's investigation and the expanding charges revealed today. These serious allegations represent a stunning abuse of power and trust. There is no excuse for union officials to enrich themselves at the expense of the union membership they represent."
A luxurious villa with pool in Palm Srings, in the Sonoran desert, in southern California, a tourist area famous for its spas, wellness centers and golf courses
During the investigations the FBI investigators discovered the good life of the trade unionists: villas with pool for rent in Palm Springs paid by the union for much longer periods of their conferences and thousands of dollars in clubs and golf clothes, bottles of fine liquors , expensive cigars, humidifiers …
Pearson, who joined the UAW in 1981, succeeded Jones as director of UAW Region 5. It is the largest geographic region of the union, spanning 17 Western and Southwestern states, from Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana to California, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii.
But in recent days even Gary Jones himself resigned as president of the UAW after his house was searched in September (without any charge to him) and the lawsuit filed by General Motors against Fiat Crysler, right in the public domain, became public. crucial moment of its merger with the PSA group of Peugeot.
This is why FCA has declared itself "amazed at the contents and timing" judging GM's legal action as an attempt to sabotage the agreement. But the investigation dates back to July 2017 when it developed around a training center in Detroit jointly managed by the UAW and Fiat Crysler.
In the lawsuit, GM accuses FCA of having committed to carrying out a corruption plan that "undermined the integrity of the collective bargaining process and caused substantial damage to GM", explains the car manufacturer led by Mary Barra. "We aim to achieve substantial damage" and the funds the company will recover will be invested in the United States for the benefit of GM employees and job creation, explains Craig Glidden, the builder's legal manager.
In addition, the legal action of the US company pointed the finger at the late CEO Sergio Marchionne, defined as a "central figure" in the scheme of bribes paid by Fca to some Uaw keaders to weaken GM and pave the way for a marriage with Fiat Chrysler.
THE FIAT PLOT WITH THE BRAZILIAN DICTATORSHIP
But it is not only this investigation that sees the Fiat group overseas. In recent months, another scandal in Latin America came to light.
«The federal prosecutor of the state of Minas Gerais, in Brazil, started a civil investigation to investigate the collaboration of the Brazilian factory of Fiat with the civil-military dictatorship (1964-1985) and on the violations of human rights committed against the workers at the 'era. The survey will be conducted for the next four months by the regional prosecutor for citizens' rights, "writes Janaina César in an article for the Rights Observatory last June.
Students held in the General Severiano stadium – Foto: Arquivo Fotografico do Arquivo Nacional
"In October 1978, Fiat found itself on the eve of its first strike. The workers organized themselves in secret for fear of military repression. Years ago, the Brazilian military government had guaranteed that the company would not have had these types of problems".
Thus began the 145 Espiões survey (145 spies), published by The Intercept Brasil site on February 25th. The report denounced how Fiat had set in motion a clandestine espionage network led by Joffre Mario Klein, a colonel in the Brazilian army reserve, in collaboration with the political police. The intention was to persecute political dissidents and annihilate the trade union movement that was organized in the factory at the end of the 1970s.
The dictatorship was established in Brazil on March 31, 1964, when the military overthrew the government of President João Goulart to begin what would be the darkest period in the country's history. For twenty years the military persecuted, kidnapped, tortured and murdered political dissidents.
The prosecutor's office was based on a journalistic investigation to open the file. In the text the prosecutor Tarcísio Henriques Filho, head of the investigation, highlighted part of the final report of the National Commission for Truth (CNV), for which «the workers and their trade union movement were the primary objective of the 1964 coup».
Fiat is the second company to be investigated by the Brazilian prosecutor for violation of human rights committed during the years of lead in the South American country. The first complaint was launched in 2015 against Volkswagen. The German car company admitted his guilt two years later.
THE ROMITI'S BRIBERY IN ITALY
If we go back to Italy we discover, however, that the history of the Turin car manufacturer is full of judicial inquiries for various crimes that in most cases ended with the acquittal of the defendants or even convicts like the former president Cesare Romiti, pardoned by a retroactive political law. The automotive "Tangentopoli (BriberyCity)" is one of the very important tranches of the "Mani Pulite (Clean Hands)" period that in Italy led the Milan prosecutor to make a massacre of corrupted industrialists, businewssmen, DC and PSI politicians, saving almost all the PCI communists and most of the leftists of the same Christian Democrats then merged into the Democratic Party that governs Italy today.
This is well explained by an interesting report by Chiara Ruffino on the portal "ADIR – The other right" in which she dedicates two chapters to the judicial saga of Romiti and the Fiat group, starting from the accusations of bribes paid to obtain public works up to confessions and resounding admission of the president Giovanni Agnelli (1921-2003), namesake and nephew of the founder.
Cesare Romiti with Gianni Agnelli, both presidents of Fiat in differents period
«Just eighty days after the arrest of Mario Chiesa, Maurizio Prada, president of ATM and regent secretary of the Milanese DC, is arrested on charges of extortion. When questioned by the prosecutor Antonio Di Pietro, he reveals the names of the most generous companies with the parties. Four companies of the Fiat group appear in the list: Iveco, Fisia, Fiat Ferroviaria Savigliano and Cogefar Impresit. Prada recalls, in particular, that the Turin company had paid bribes to obtain the contract for the third line of the Milan subway (1.8 billion), for the railway bypass (1.2 billion) and for the construction of a parking lot " it would be interminable to summarize five years of investigations, confessions, trials and sentences.
Instead, it is important to note the defensive strategy of the main future convicted Romiti that unloads the responsibilities of the pollution of the economic system on the political class: "he demanded from citizens and companies the payment of compensation for very often due actions".
Along the same lines, in front of a large audience of entrepreneurs gathered at the famous La Fenice theater in Venice, Gianni Agnelli also pronounced the first, albeit limited, admissions of guilt: "Fiat also experienced some episodes of mingling with the political system. correct ", (…)" it is wrong and misleading to think that the investigations of the judiciary are part of a plot or of obscure political maneuvers ", but "(…) we must distinguish, within the company, the healthy heart, represented by the car sector, from the peripheral areas infected for a round of orders that represents just 5 percent of the turnover of the entire group ".
In March 1996 Gianni Agnelli leaves the presidency of Fiat to the trusted Romiti along with the troubles of the processes against the current managers. A year later, in April, Romiti himself is sentenced along with other managers of the company but he immediately gets the "moral" absolution from the italian economic world's vip.
CUCCIA AND MONTI: BANKERS AND POLITICIANS AMONG FIAT'S FRIENDS
«The day after the conviction, a letter of solidarity was issued to Romiti signed by Enrico Cuccia and forty other prominent figures of Italian finance and entrepreneurship. The presence of Cuccia's signature makes him feel, known for his great privacy ", reports Wikipedia, mentioning the founder of MedioBanca – known to be the son of a venerable masonry master and considered himself affiliated with this lobby. Cuccia gave a fundamental help in allowing to Romiti to take out his rival Umberto Agnelli in the Fiat presidential race.
We have to recall, however, that Cuccia founded MedioBanca together with the banker Raffaele Mattioli, whose nephew Francesco Paolo, vice president of the car manufacturer, was even arrested but then convicted and pardoned as Romiti. Mattioli Jr., who died in 2010, then became Executive Vice President of the Fiat group for the Insurance, Publishing and International Holding sectors in 1999, and since 2001, in the role of consultant to the Turin group, he had been in charge of the Tav Alta Velocity project for the sections in which Fiat is a General Contractor.
«In 2000 the Cassation Court confirmed the sentence to eleven months and ten days of imprisonment for false accounting, illegal financing of parties and tax fraud relating to the period in which he held the position of managing director of the Fiat group, director in RCS MediaGroup and Impregilo – but immediately afterwards the "pardon" for Romiti arrived – The Court of Appeal of Turin, on December 4, 2003, in acceptance of the execution accident, withdrew the sentence for false accounting declaring that the fact for which had been issued sentence is no longer provided for by law as a crime» (a former Berlusconi government law).
Former Fiat president Cesare Romiti, convicted of bribes, and former board member Mario Monti, who became a life senator
Only the trade unionists obtained justice: "150 workers of the Slai Cobas who formed a civil party in the Turin trial were in any case compensated with 1 million and 600 thousand liras a head". The whole investigation revolved around the managers because no one accused Agnelli and therefore the prosecutor did not even dare to investigate him.
«Except that the gup Saluzzo, in the sentence that condemns Romiti and Mattioli, explicitly invites her to open an inquiry on the entire Executive Committee of the years of the bribes, namely on Giovanni and Umberto Agnelli, Gianluigi Gabetti, Franzo Grande Stevens and Mario Monti. The five are therefore investigated for false accounting in May 1998. But any attempt to investigate their possible role in the illicit system is broken behind the "I don't know" and the denials of those who could put them off – SlaiCobas recalled in a document – So the prosecutor only has to request filing, as "there is not enough evidence against the members of the Executive Committee". On 1 September 1998, the investigating judge Paola De Maria therefore filed the file on the lawyer and the other four, writing that it was "historically proven that Giovanni Agnelli had lied to shareholders in denying" FIAT bribes, but it was not proved that he knew them " .
One of the directors of the Turin-based company makes a dizzying political career: "The Bocconi Mario Monti is not only the man of banks and finance (first Comit and Generali and then Goldman Sachcs) but was first and foremost a" Uoomo Fiat ": he was a member of the FIAT Board of Directors from the age of 36 (1979) to the age of 50 (1993); after which, from 1994 to 2004, he was EU Commissioner" the Slai Cobas recall in a document prior to the investiture of Monti as President of the Council (2011-2013) and to his appointment as Senator for life by the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano, accused by socialist Bettino Craxi, during one of the numerous trials of Tangentopoli, of being well aware of the illegal financing also ended up in the coffers of the PCI. But Craxi died in exile in Tunisia, Napolitano became president emeritus with a high pension …
However, it would be simplistic to consider Fiat as one of the great victims of the Italian Tangentopoli of the 1990s. But above all, it would be a great mistake to look for Chiara Ruffino, who was able to find in an immense bibliography a judicial history of over a century that I invite the most curious to read in full (link at the bottom of the page).
ITALIA SUL LASTRICO PER COLPA DI QUESTI TRE
First, however, to mention the older investigations it is necessary to recall the one highlighted by the trade unionists Slai Cobas on the fate of the Turin group, known for publicizing the losses and privatizing the profits: «From 1 January 1987 FIAT had as a gift Alfa Romeo from IRI (Prodi) and from the State (Craxi, Andreotti, Amato, Darida, etc.) pledging in writing with CIPI to keep the 40,000 workers of Arese and Pomigliano and to pay four dollars to the State with 5 convenient annual installments starting from 1993. But in November 1993 it reduced the Arese workers to 4,000 (and then to zero) and then Pomigliano. And while FIAT downsizes and then closes the Alfa, it receives 1,000 billion from the state only to build the Melfi plant for free. And in these years Fiat, while getting rid of 40,000 Alfa Romeo workers, received 2 thousand billion lire State aid for Arese and the same amount for Pomigliano».
In 2014, finally, the newborn FCA group has seen fit to transfer the administrative headquarters in the Netherlands and the tax office in the United Kingdom to pay subsidized taxes after decades of Italian state subsidies in a history started thanks to the founder, who also became senator of the National Party Fascist…
THE FIRST TRIAL AGAINST THE GREAT-GREAT GRANFATHER AGNELLI IN 1908
"The first trial in 1908, barely nine years after the company was founded, saw Giovanni Agnelli and the other founding members of false accounting, price rig and scam accused, dragged himself for four years of postponement and, in the end, saw the acquittal of all the accused, both in the first instance and on appeal ", the researcher Ruffino reminds, referring to the grandfather of the most famous Gianni.
The Fascist Party Senator Giovanni Agnelli with the King of Italy, Vittorio Emanuele III, in a limousine in front of the Lingotto plant in Turin in 1923
«In 1945 the National Liberation Committee accused Giovanni Agnelli and Vittorio Valletta of having collaborated with the fascist regime, but the intervention of the Anglo-Americans guaranteed absolution for both. In August 1971 the magistrate Raffaele Guariniello discovered three hundred and fifty thousand illegal files and filings of as many workers, trade unionists, journalists, teachers, ordinary citizens and, in a safe, a large number of bribes that the company had already prepared for those policemen and carabinieri had worked to provide the company with confidential information. The investigation was transferred to Naples for "legitimate suspicion" because of reasons of public order and, after five years, the first instance sentence led to some slight condemnation, canceled by the acquittal by second degree prescription ".
The story is very reminiscent of the subsequent espionage in Brazil…
«In 1983, Fiat returned to the sights of the judiciary. His local authority manager, Umberto Pecchini, was sentenced to two years in prison for promising a bribe to fixer Adriano Zampini. The sentence was, however, overturned on appeal and the trial ended with a stalemate as it also happened, a year later, to the sentence that condemned Gianni and Umberto Agnelli, together with other managers of the Group, to six million fine for the irregular sale in Italy of cars produced abroad" reports the ADIR article.
"In 1989 Raffaele Guariniello discovered violations of the Workers' Statute and alleged abuses in company medical rooms and opened proceedings against Gianni Agnelli, Cesare Romiti and three Fiat Auto executives. The attorney general Silvio Pieri tried again to transfer the trial to another location raising the exception of "legitimate suspicion", but this time the Cassation denied the authorization. The trial, however, ended prematurely due to the intervention of an amnesty provision» wrote Chiara Ruffino.
A century later the managers of the newly formed Fiat Crysler Automobiles group were caught red-handed by the FBI and condemned by the American justice that does not make great discounts even to the powerful. Elkann puts his heart at rest: his company is now in danger of paying all the back bills in the US, so he has always managed to get away with it in poor Italy, even after bribes, arrests, confessions, trials and convictions.
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CNBC – UAW LEADER CHARGED WITH EMBEZZLING
OSSERVATORIO DIRITTI – LA FIAT E LA DITTATURA MILITARE IN BRASILE
SLAI COBAS – LE TANGENTI DELLA FIAT
IL PROCESSO AI VERTICI FIAT – CAPITOLO 1
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