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Regional Synod News January 17, 2022
New 2022 IRS Mileage Rate
Corresponding Delegate Opportunities
Anti-Racism Training and Prayer Gatherings
Commission on Nominations Needs You
2022 Compensation Guidelines
Links You May Find Useful
For previous newsletters, resources, and other information, visit www.rsmam.org.
President: Bob Wierenga (Wisconsin)
Vice President: Chad DeJager (Chicago)
At-Large Members: Scott Stephan (Illinois), Chad Farrand (Naciones), Stu Swenson (Illiana)
Dear Friends: We are halfway through the first month of 2022 and so far there hasn't been much change from 2021 or 2022. COVID-19 continues to dominate the news and many people we know are testing positive and getting sick. It can all seem overwhelming and with so much emphasis on change and making 2022 a better year over the last month, it can also seem demoralizing. Nothing has changed. We could focus on how God hasn't changed: that he is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow – and that is Gospel fact to hold on to fiercely! But instead, I wonder, have you changed? How are you living in this chaos? How is your faith? How is your response to this adversity? God doesn't change, but we can. It may seem like the stress of our world won't change (it will), but we can change. We can hold on to God with faith, we can respond to the trials and tribulations we face with trust. We can respond to the world around us with love, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, and self-control. May the God who doesn't change give us the grace we need so we can.
— Chad
As a reminder, the RSMA has made some staffing changes – Wayne Van Regenmorter will be continuing in his role as Facilitator of Multi-Ethnic Church Partnerships and Chad Schuitema will be continuing as Regional Synod Executive, but in a much more part-time role. We will continue to be a resource to our classes and churches, and because of these changes, we will be lowering our Regional Synod assessment rate to $5 per confessing member for 2022.
The IRS mileage reimbursement rate has changed to $.585 per mile.
One of the recommendations at General Synod 2021 had to do with opportunities for anti-racism training within the denomination. We would like to offer you an opportunity for a six-session Lecture Series on How to Become Anti-Racist. Starting MLK Jr. Holiday we will meet for one hour via zoom with a small cohort of leaders, pastors, and parishioners learning about what it means to be an anti-racist church. You can register using this link.
Dismantling Racism prayer gathering: January's Dismantling Racism prayer gatherings will explore the impact of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s teachings. The January 11 Zoom gathering will feature the Rev. Kelvin Spooner as speaker; he is moderator of the RCA Commission on Race and Ethnicity and pastor of Cambria Heights Community Church in Queens, New York. A second gathering on January 25 will offer additional prayer time. Calls are second and fourth Tuesdays, from 1:30-2:30 Easterm time. Register for the Zoom link HERE.
Renovations Project: In 2019, the RCA gathered leaders from around the United States—missiologists, planters, leaders, pastors, and theologians—to share with us what they were seeing in the church, and how the church needed to pivot and adapt for the future. This diverse group of men and women, young and old, from various races and ethnicities, elevated seven themes that drive the Renovations Project, which is launching early this year. (Many of those experts came back as faculty for Renovations digital masterclasses.) Renovations helps churches to take the very best of their treasured traditions and reimagine them for flourishing ministry today and beyond; in a world constantly reshaped by the pandemic, Renovations gives a theological framework for disruption and practical tools for leadership and managing change. You can be the first to experience Renovations as part of the Renovations Cohort, a curated and personalized nine-month transformation process will build on your church's strengths to transform your ministry. The journey will begin in early 2022. To learn more, click HERE.
Delegates to General Synod 2022 – We are still looking for 2 Corresponding Women Delegates and a Youth Delegate to General Synod 2022 at Central College in Pella, Iowa from June 9-14. 2022. Corresponding Delegates participate in all the discussions of General Synod and have a voice, but not a vote. If you are interested in serving our denomination in this way, or know of someone who might be, please have them contact chad@rsmam.org.
The Commission on Nominations is looking for committed, talented, passionate individuals to serve on RCA commissions, agencies, and boards. They may have more vacancies to fill than usual this year and the Church needs your help. If you are interested in serving our denomination, visit this link and download a profile to fill out and email back to the commission at nominations@rca.org.
General Synod 2021 made some decisions for our denomination. You can read a recap of those decisions here. If you prefer to read the journal (minutes) you can click here.
The RSMA's 2022 Compensation Guidelines are available HERE. These guidelines are created by a team and then sent to all our classes for approval. Some classes have met and approved these already, others will be meeting soon to do so.
Free Christian Counseling for Pastors and Church Employees – The RCA's Board of Benefits Services Employee Assistance Program provides free, confidential Christian counseling either at at an outpatient clinic in your area or via an online telehealth session. Up to 3 sessions per issue are provided at no cost to any employee of an RCA church. Some common issues addressed are depression, anxiety, work-related problems, marital issues, family issues, substance abuse, and others. The 24 hour hotline number is (833) 244-2490. For more information click HERE.
NEWS FROM CAMP MANITOQUA
Camp Manitoqua is looking to enrich the land God has provided with new trees. If you would like to donate to this project, click here.
10 Dangerous Myths About Church Growth – Myths about church growth are rampant because there's a lot of discussion that goes on about church growth: What causes it; how to generate it, prepare for it, launch it, build it, cultivate it and even, to some degree, manufacture it. Many of the discussions are helpful, but there are a number of subtle beliefs that still creep up that aren't healthy. In fact, they're downright superstitious and, at times, dangerous to the church.
How to Lead Meetings People Want to Attend – Many people hate meetings and I've heard from pastors that it is difficult to get people to attend meetings. I've also heard from church leaders that meetings often don't seem worth it. These suggestions may help you create meetings people enjoy attending and are even more fruitful.
Don't Neglect the 4–14 Window of Children's Ministry – Much of our formation happens between the ages of 4-14. Research shows 63 percent of Christians accepted Jesus Christ between the ages of 4 and 14. Children are considered both the most receptive to evangelization and the most effective at evangelizing their peer group between the ages of 4 and 14. These suggestions may help you maximize your church's efforts in discipling those in this window.
6 Ways to Overcome The Great Resignation in 2022 – In our chaotic world many people are feeling a deep sense of resignation. Nowhere is this felt more than with pastors. This article offers some help for church leaders to try and minimize what is being called The Great Resignation.
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John Krasinski shared a hilarious Spooky World story from his childhood
By Kevin Slane Boston.com staff,November 3, 2019, 3:15 p.m.
John Krasinski at the season-two premiere of "Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan" on Oct. 29 in New York.Getty Images
Before moving to New Hampshire and partnering with Nightmare New England, Spooky World provided scares and memories for Bay Staters of all ages at its large "scream park" in Berlin — including Newton native John Krasinski.
The former star of "The Office" stopped by "Late Night With Seth Meyers" last week to talk about the second season of his Amazon series "Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan," which debuted on the streaming platform Nov. 1, and shared an amusing anecdote about the haunted attraction.
Krasinski told Meyers that he was standing in line for a haunted house at Spooky World behind a 7-year-old boy and his father, who was way more nervous about the potential frights than the young child.
"He's like, 'You know what, let's not go in, I think you're too young and I think you're scared, and I don't think we should do it,'" Krasinski told Meyers, in his best Boston accent. "And the kid's like, 'No I'm fine,' and you could tell it was definitely the father who was terrified."
When the group reached the first jump-scare of the attraction — Dracula popping out of a coffin — Krasinski said the man's fight-or-flight instinct took over.
"I kid you not, Dracula's like 'Bahhhh,' and [the dad] goes [bam] and hit Dracula," Krasinski said. "And Dracula's like, 'Aghhhh' and the coffin went back. And I swear to God as we're leaving, I saw Dracula talking to a cop and the guy. . . . It was fantastic. Worth the price of admission."
"To see a Massachusetts guy punch Dracula," Meyers said. "That's why there's almost no reports of vampires in Massachusetts, because they're like, 'It's not worth the trouble.'"
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Q: Как оптимально решить эту задачу на php? Недавно решал тестовое задание на стажировку в одну контору. Не смог тогда в положенное время решить одну задачу, собственно пролетел. Потом решил её для себя, но у меня возник вопрос - достаточно ли моё решение оптимально, или, исходя из условий задачи, его можно как-то улучшить?
Вот сама задача:

Вот моё окончательное решение (после строки комментария):
<?php
$cars = [
    ['name' => 'Такси 1', 'position' => rand(0, 1000), 'isFree' => (bool) rand(0, 1)],
    ['name' => 'Такси 2', 'position' => rand(0, 1000), 'isFree' => (bool) rand(0, 1)],
    ['name' => 'Такси 3', 'position' => rand(0, 1000), 'isFree' => (bool) rand(0, 1)],
    ['name' => 'Такси 4', 'position' => rand(0, 1000), 'isFree' => (bool) rand(0, 1)],
    ['name' => 'Такси 5', 'position' => rand(0, 1000), 'isFree' => (bool) rand(0, 1)],
];

$passenger = rand(0, 1000);

/* ===== Ваш код ниже ===== */

$min = null;
foreach($cars as $car){
    if($car['isFree']==true){
        if(abs($car['position'] - $passenger) < $min OR $min === null){
            $min = abs($car['position'] - $passenger);
     }
 }
}

foreach($cars as $car){
    echo $car['name'].", стоит на ".$car['position']." км, до пассажира ".abs($car['position'] - $passenger)." км";
    if($car['isFree']==true){
        echo " (свободен)";
        if(abs($car['position'] - $passenger)==$min){
        echo " - едет эта машина";
        }
        echo "
";
    } else{
        echo " (занят)"."
";
    }
}
?>

Я знаю, что эта задача здесь уже фигурировала, но тогда отвечающий при её решении использовал создание функции, а это запрещено условием. Заранее спасибо)

A: Безотносительно PHP, общечеловеческие замечания:
Зачем два (в итоге даже три) раза вычислять для каждой машины abs($car['position'] - $passenger)? Функция min поможет оформить сравнение более кратко. Если она вдруг запрещена - можно записать в переменную.
Что будет, если до двух машин одинаковое расстояние? Обе поедут?
При обновлении минимума нужно запоминать индекс, тогда вывод будет однозначен

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Q: How to call a method that takes in a string? I am trying to save a .txt file where the user chooses using JFileChooser.
I have 3 methods
Thing 1 gets the file path and stores it into a string called File1.
Thing 2 requires this string in order to save the file in the correct location.
However when I run thing2 in the GUI ActionPerformed it gives me an error as it requires a string to be passed in. I pass in "String File1" however it doesnt work.
thing1
JFileChooser chooser;
        String choosertitle = null;
        String File1 = null;

chooser = new JFileChooser();
chooser.setCurrentDirectory(new java.io.File("."));
chooser.setDialogTitle(choosertitle);
chooser.setFileSelectionMode(JFileChooser.DIRECTORIES_ONLY);

chooser.setAcceptAllFileFilterUsed(true);

if (chooser.showOpenDialog(this) == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION) { File1 = chooser.getCurrentDirectory() + "";
  }
else {
  JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"No Selection ");

  }

    fileTextField.setText(File1);
return File1;

thing 2
      String nameOfFile = ("");
    String choice = comboBox.getSelectedItem() + "";

  JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,File1);

    if ("All Messages".equals(choice)){
        nameOfFile = ("Messages");
    } else if
        ("All Email Address".equals(choice)){
         nameOfFile = ("Address Book");
    }

    File f = new File (File1 + nameOfFile+ ".txt");
    FileWriter fw;
    try {
        fw = new FileWriter(f);
        fw.write("This is a file created by Joe ");
        fw.close();
    } catch (IOException ex) {
        Logger.getLogger(Export.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
    }

    boolean allFieldsCheck = !choice.equals("Please Select What You Would Like To Export") && !fileTextField.equals("");
    if (allFieldsCheck == false) {
        InputError ipe = new InputError();
        ipe.setVisible(true);
    } else {
        //add new message
    }

ActionPerformed
private void exportButtonActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {

       thing2(String File1);

    }

all i want the above code to do is get the location of where the user wants to save the file and then save it there.
Any help would be grateful as I am new to this

A: You have to modify the exportButtonActionPerformed() method:
private void exportButtonActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
    thing2(File1);
}

but the variable File1 defined in thing1 has to be visible from this method, example:
public class AClass
{
    /* declared here in order to be visible both from thing1 and to ActionPerformed */
    private String File1 = null;

    /* thing1 */
    public void AMethod() {
        JFileChooser chooser = new JFileChooser();
        chooser.setCurrentDirectory(new java.io.File("."));
        chooser.setDialogTitle(choosertitle);
        chooser.setFileSelectionMode(JFileChooser.DIRECTORIES_ONLY);

        chooser.setAcceptAllFileFilterUsed(true);

        if (chooser.showOpenDialog(this) == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION) {
            File1 = chooser.getCurrentDirectory() + "";
            fileTextField.setText(File1);
        } else
            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"No Selection ");
    }

    /* ... */

    /* ActionPerformed */
    private void exportButtonActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
        thing2(File1);
    }
}

A: You should just call it like this:
private void exportButtonActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
    thing2(File1);
}

(BTW: A bit more Java-like naming would make it easier to follow.)

A: First define your variable File1 and then pass it to your method.
String file1 = "file path";  // variable name should be start with small case
thing2(file1);


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North Carolina's top GOP lawmakers plan to appeal same-sex marriage ruling
RALEIGH, N.C. -- North Carolina's Republican legislative leaders plan to appeal a ruling that struck down the state's gay marriage ban. Legal experts say any appeal would face an uphill battle. House Speaker Thom Tillis and Senate leader Phil Berger's appeal would go to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia...
By Associated Press Friday, October 17, 2014
North CarolinaSenate leader Phil Berger (left) and House Speaker Thom Tillis.Photo:
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina's Republican legislative leaders plan to appeal a ruling that struck down the state's gay marriage ban.
North CarolinaSenate leader Phil Berger (left) and House Speaker Thom Tillis.
Legal experts say any appeal would face an uphill battle.
House Speaker Thom Tillis and Senate leader Phil Berger's appeal would go to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, which ruled this summer that Virginia's same-sex marriage ban was unconstitutional. That ruling led the way for North Carolina's ban to be struck down.
A spokeswoman for Berger, Shelly Carver, confirmed in an email that the lawmakers plan to appeal. Carver says additional details are being worked out.
Two federal judges ruled in recent days that North Carolina's ban must be struck down because of the 4th Circuit's ruling earlier this year.
© 2014, Associated Press, All Rights Reserved.
Marriage Equality, North Carolina, Phil Berger, Thom Tillis, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Federal judge strikes down Arizona same-sex marriage ban
Judge hears arguments in challenge to South Dakota gay marriage ban


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LOWELL, Mass. (AP) — A judge has dismissed a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a teen who drowned in a Massachusetts high school pool.
WOBURN, Mass. (AP) — A former clerk for a Massachusetts public school system has pleaded not guilty to charges in connection to money missing from a student activities fund.
LOWELL, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts lawmaker is among a group of more than three dozen first-term members of the U.S. House pledging to tackle the nation's deadly opioid addiction crisis.
U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan says she has joined the bipartisan Freshmen Working Group on Addiction. The Lowell Democrat says her state has seen overdose death rates above the national average and notes that Americans are more likely to die from opioids than from car crashes.
LOWELL, Mass. (AP) — A 30-year-old man has been shot and killed in Lowell.
Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan says the shooting happened around 6:20 p.m. on Saturday and the victim died after he was taken to the hospital.
The Lowell Sun reports the victim's family and friends identified him Sunday as James Iem.
The Middlesex County District Attorney's Office says the death is being treated as suspicious because of where the body was found and because the woman wasn't "dressed in appropriate clothing for the cold temperature."
LOWELL, Mass. (AP) — Authorities have made an arrest in the fatal stabbing of an 18-year-old man near a Massachusetts college campus.
A spokeswoman for the Middlesex district attorney says the victim was stabbed just after 7 p.m. Monday near the University of Massachusetts Lowell's East Campus.
LOWELL, Mass. (AP) _ Enterprise Bancorp Inc. (EBTC) on Thursday reported fourth-quarter net income of $6.5 million.
The bank, based in Lowell, Massachusetts, said it had earnings of 55 cents per share.
The bank posted revenue of $33.2 million in the period. Its revenue net of interest expense was $28.9 million, which topped Street forecasts.
For the year, the company reported profit of $28.9 million, or $2.46 per share. Revenue was reported as $120.8 million.
LOWELL, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts man who repeatedly stabbed his wife and intentionally crashed his car into a tree last year will spend up to 10 years in prison under terms of a plea agreement.
BOSTON (AP) — One of the state's newest members of Congress has been appointed to a powerful committee.
Democratic Rep. Lori Trahan — who represents the state's 3rd Congressional District including Lowell, Lawrence and Haverhill — was appointed Tuesday to a seat on the House Armed Services Committee.
WOBURN, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts doctor charged in the death of a woman who overdosed on opioids he prescribed has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter.
Dr. Richard Miron appeared in Middlesex Superior Court on Thursday and was allowed to remain free on his own recognizance. The state attorney general's office says it's the first time the state has charged a doctor with manslaughter for an opioid overdose death.
LOWELL, Mass. (AP) — A civil rights attorney representing a man who was punched in the head while handcuffed by a civilian detention attendant for the Lowell police is seeking $75,000 in a claim against the city.
BOSTON (AP) — Max Mahoney and Tyler Scanlon combined to score 43 points and Boston University broke the game open in the second half, defeating UMass Lowell 79-60 Tuesday night.
LOWELL, Mass. (AP) — It was 3 1/2 years ago that Julian Viviescas left Colombia and started high school in Lowell.
LYNN, Mass. (AP) — Dozens of people in Massachusetts have been displaced from their homes by several fires on a Thanksgiving Day when temperatures dipped into the teens.
Thirteen people were forced into the cold by a fire in a multi-family Brockton home at about 3 p.m. Thursday. A fire official says the cause appears to have been smoking.
LOWELL, Mass. (AP) — Massachusetts health officials have confirmed a second case of measles in Lowell and are warning area residents the person went to several public locations, possibly exposing others to the disease.
WOBURN, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts woman has pleaded guilty to embezzling nearly $136,000 from her employer, a nonprofit that serves people with disabilities.
LOWELL, Mass. (AP) — A 45-year-old Massachusetts man who beat his girlfriend until she was unconscious and suffered bleeding in her brain has been sentenced to up to eight years in prison.
LOWELL, Mass. (AP) — Officials in Lowell are backing off from a previous request for mounted police patrols after hearing about potential costs.


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Up in D.C., readers are angry at The Washington Post for yanking a week's worth of "The Boondocks" comic strip. Down here, critics of the edgy cartoon are grousing because the Star-News, like every other one of the strip's roughly 250 clients, ran with it.
In the panels, several of the little children characters speculated that national security adviser Condoleeza Rice needed a boyfriend. Having romance and a man in her life, they hypothesized, might soften her supposedly hardline policy stands.
The strip's author, Aaron McGruder, clearly wasn't expecting anyone to take the preposterous notion seriously. By grafting one kid's always extreme anti-establishment paranoia onto a politically incorrect suggestion, he seemed interested only in needling the national security policies of the Bush administration, one of his pet targets.
The Post's editor said the strip "violated our standards for taste, fairness and invasion of privacy" and printed reruns instead. I have no quarrel with that decision because each paper should edit as it sees fit, according to its own standards. But Post readers lodged complaints with the paper's ombudsman. They accused the paper of kowtowing to Ms. Rice and of being inconsistent, since other comics have taken hard shots at public figures.
In our neck of the woods, a small contingent of "Boondocks" haters have been after me for some time to get rid of it altogether, or at least remove it from the funny pages.
You can imagine how these strips on Ms. Rice went over with them. Blind to the satire, they fumed that Mr. McGruder got away with insulting Ms. Rice because she and the president she serves are conservative and we're all liberals at the Star-News (not so).
It used to be rare for newspapers to have a reason to spike a comic strip. It isn't anymore. Papers these days routinely find themselves agonizing over what humor is in acceptable taste. Or they're defending themselves for printing a comic that ignited a firestorm. Changing times and attitudes keep rearranging the playing field of funny pages, and it's not always clear now what's in or out of bounds.
Among others, "B.C.," "For Better or For Worse," "Andy Capp," and even "Beetle Bailey" have in recent years offended reader sensibilities.
As I said, you can't be sure anymore, but editors certainly spend more time than they once did trying to anticipate potentially upsetting funny pages content.
Many papers, this one included, pulled a "Doonesbury" cartoon a month or so ago over concerns that its subject matter included masturbation. About half of "Doonesbury" client papers ran the strip, though, and reader objections reportedly were few.
This week "Boondocks" skewered Ann Coulter, the conservative author and pundit (next week the topic apparently returns to Ms. Rice).
Though it doesn't look that way to me, the editor of Mr. McGruder's strip, Greg Melvin, told me this week that the cartoonist isn't fixated on political conservatives. Mr. Melvin pointed out that "Boondocks" has satirized a wide variety of public figures, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Mike Tyson and BET founder Bob Johnson among them. He's an equal opportunity satirist. It's how he makes his points about society.
Two years ago this month, I wrote another column defending "Boondocks," a strip I've personally never cared for. Then people were hopping mad because he was lampooning the administration's response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Readers fumed that he was disloyal and sowing dissension when the country needed unity. The right of dissent is what makes this country so great, so it seemed wrong to can him for going against the grain.
In that previous column, I also wrote that the bottomline criteria for a comic strip is its ability to keep a following. If a strip drives away readers, it can't go on.
Coincidentally, the newsroom has launched a comics page committee to assess all our strips, which of course includes "Boondocks."
If you'd care to offer your opinion on it or any of our other panels, your input is welcome.
(Allen Parsons is editor and associate publisher of the Star-News.)


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A Police Officer Killed Their Mother, and Her Sons Want to Know Why He Hasn't Faced Trial
Mary Knowlton and her husband.
Courtesy Steve Knowlton
By Melissa Chan
July 18, 2019 6:00 AM EDT
Mary Knowlton was 73 years old when she was shot to death by a police officer demonstrating to civilians the perils of his job. The officer, Lee Coel, was playing the "bad guy," and Knowlton was randomly selected to play a cop during the exercise in Punta Gorda, Fla. back in 2016. Instead of firing blanks as the retired librarian approached him, Coel shot her with two live bullets. The shooting was captured on video, which shows Knowlton spinning around, slumped over and grabbing her stomach, before collapsing in front of a stunned crowd that included her husband of 55 years.
"She goes down and no one knows if she's pretending," says one of her two sons, Steve Knowlton, 53. "Then they flipped her over."
As panicked authorities rushed to help Knowlton and usher away the 30 other civilians who were watching the exercise, Knowlton bled out from her abdomen and left elbow in the Punta Gorda Police Department's parking lot. She died about an hour later at a hospital. "It just feels like our souls got ripped out of our chest," her son says. "This is the kind of thing some people don't come back from."
August marks the three-year anniversary of Knowlton's death, but Coel, 31, has yet to stand trial on a manslaughter charge and is free on bond. He remained on the job for seven months after the shooting and was not fired until the state attorney filed charges—something his defense attorney, Thomas Sclafani, says should never have happened. "This case should not have even been prosecuted," says Sclafani. "It's a tragic accident. That's all it is." Sclafani has twice filed motions seeking to move Coel's trial out of the county, which he says was necessary to find jurors who are not extremely familiar with the case and one reason it's moving slowly. In June, Coel's trial was rescheduled for at least the third time, to Oct. 15.
"I haven't given up hope," Steve Knowlton says, "but I don't think we're going to get justice."
History suggests he's right. Since Eric Garner died five years ago while being wrestled to the ground by a New York City police officer in a case that sparked national outrage, few instances of civilian deaths at police hands, either accidental or intentional, have ended with cops facing trial. According to Mapping Police Violence—one of the few groups that tracks deadly police encounters in the absence of a comprehensive national database—law enforcement officers in the U.S. intentionally or accidentally killed more than 6,800 civilians between 2013 and 2018. Other groups and media that track data report similar figures. In 2017 and 2018, KilledbyPolice.net said more than 2,300 people were shot and killed by police, and the Washington Post recorded 1,978 instances in the same two-year period. Among deaths reported by Mapping Police Violence, an officer was charged with a crime in 1.7% of the cases, says Samuel Sinyangwe, a policy analyst who co-founded the on-line non-profit site, which compiles data from news articles, police reports, social media and other sources.
Gwen Carr, mother of the late Eric Garner, speaks to the press outside the U.S. Attorney's office following a meeting with federal prosecutors, in New York on July 16, 2019.
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Federal prosecutors on Tuesday announced they would not bring civil rights charges against Daniel Pantaleo, the white officer who held Garner down in July 2014 as the 43-year-old father of six repeatedly gasped "I can't breathe." While calling Garner's death a tragedy, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District, Richard P. Donoghue, said the evidence "does not establish beyond a reasonable doubt that Officer Pantaleo acted in willful violation of federal law." A grand jury had also previously declined to indict Pantaleo. In May, the officer faced an internal NYPD disciplinary trial before an administrative judge who has not yet delivered a verdict to the police commissioner. Pantaleo continues to collect his salary of $98,000 on desk duty. "Eric is crying from heaven," Garner's mother, Gwen Carr, said at a news conference at the start of the trial.
What the Knowltons are going through is very different from what Garner's family has gone through, and what the families of scores of mostly black and Hispanic men and boys killed in use-of-force incidents involving police have experienced. The Knowltons know their loved one wasn't targeted because of race—Mary Knowlton was white, as is the officer—and she was not assumed to be committing a crime. Her sons didn't grow up with the wariness toward law enforcement shared by many young men of color, which Steve Knowlton, a realtor in Cocoa Beach, Fla., acknowledges. "This is far beyond anything I could ever imagine could happen to us," he says. But after all this time, they share something with those other families: the loss of faith in a system that is supposed to protect them.
For most of the last three years, Steve Knowlton has been driven by the need to secure justice for his mother, who taught her children never to harbor hate. "I started becoming this person who was on a mission," he says. But now the task is taking its toll.
"I don't know if I can make this my life, my cause," he says. "It's killing me."
While it's rare to see officers indicted for killing civilians, convictions are rarer. Of the 104 state and local law enforcement officers who have been arrested for murder or manslaughter for fatal on-duty shootings since 2005, 36 have been convicted of a crime, according to criminologist Philip Stinson, who was a police officer in New Hampshire in the 1980s. By comparison, of the 217 people charged with murder and manslaughter in the nation's 75 largest counties in May 2009 alone, 70% were convicted of murder or other felonies, according to the most recent data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Even when officers are convicted, they're often found guilty of lesser offenses and receive more lenient sentences than civilians convicted of the same crimes, according to researchers. "There's clearly bias there in the system," says Sinyangwe.
Michael Brown Sr. (center) leads a march from the location where his son Michael Brown Jr. was shot and killed following a memorial service marking the anniversary of his death in Ferguson, Mo. on Aug. 9, 2015.
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Lawyers involved in prosecuting police say there are several factors at play in these cases, including the powerful unions that often represent police officers and discourage elected district attorneys from pursuing charges. It's also difficult for many civilians to see police as anything but good guys. "Oftentimes, because you have enough people in society who have such a favorable opinion of the police, you end up in a situation where one of those people almost always makes it onto a jury," Sinyangwe says.
Jurors may also be reluctant to question the split-second decisions police officers must make during life-or-death moments in an unquestionably dangerous line of work. More than 1,500 law enforcement officers have died on the job in the past decade, and tens of thousands more have been injured, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund and the FBI. In 2018, the FBI says, 55 officers were gunned down or run over while making arrests, responding to disturbance calls and conducting investigations and traffic violation stops. That was nine more than in the previous year.
The idea of convicting an officer for a mistake made in the heat of the moment—or while conducting what was supposed to be a friendly exercise with civilians—is especially difficult for people who've been brought up to see police as their friends. Mary Knowlton was one such person. Days before she died, Knowlton told her family she wanted to attend the event to support her local police after a particularly perilous summer for law enforcement: in 2016, eight Baton Rouge and Dallas officers had been murdered in attacks amid a string of fatal police shootings of black men.
"We are on combat every day, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, against an enemy we don't know," says Thomas Lake, who was a St. Louis police sergeant in November 2016 when he was shot twice in the face while on patrol. Lake was in his marked patrol car at a traffic light when another driver pulled up next to him, whipped out a gun and opened fire without saying a word. "I registered it was a gun after he pulled the trigger and hit me in the face," Lake says. "My situation happened in less than a fraction of a second, and it changed my life forever."
Studies show that in the U.S., white people are far more likely to trust law enforcement officers than people of other races. While 42% of white adults said they have a lot of confidence in their local police, only 14% of black adults shared that same confidence, likely due to the spate of deadly encounters between law enforcement officers and minorities, a Pew Research Center study found in 2016. But since Garner's death brought a surge of momentum to the Black Lives Matter movement, this distrust is proving to be formidable. In St. Louis County, Missouri last year, longtime prosecutor Bob McCulloch lost his re-election bid in a major upset traced to his office's failure to prosecute the officer who'd killed Ferguson, Missouri teenager Michael Brown.
Under use-of-force standards set by at least two U.S. Supreme Court cases in the 1980s, police officers may be justified in using lethal force when they have reason to believe there is a credible and immediate threat to themselves or others. That threshold, critics say, makes it hard to prosecute officers or even challenge them. "It's a free get-out-of-jail pass from the highest court in America," says attorney Ben Crump, who has represented several families in high-profile cases involving police use-of-force, including the family of Michael Brown.
Because there's no federal requirement that officers working for the country's 18,000 law enforcement agencies first exhaust other resources before using lethal force, advocates for police reform say there's no incentive for them to change their ways. "Police behaviors have been very, very slow to change," says Stinson, the criminologist. "It's like trying to turn an aircraft carrier around on a dime."
It's especially difficult to expect change when the job risks remain so high, says Lake, 49, who says the trauma of his shooting forced him to retire early after 22 years as a police officer. "When your life is based on a split-second decision, everyone can Monday morning quarterback you," he says. "But until you're the person in that position and you've seen the things that that officer has seen, you don't know that you wouldn't make the same decision."
While states can set use-of-force laws that are stricter than the current standards, most have not. A 2015 Amnesty International USA report found nine states and Washington, D.C. had no such laws in place, while 13 had laws more lax than the standards. The human rights group said none of the 50 states complies with international law that says officers can only use deadly force as a last resort to protect themselves and others from death or serious injury. States that have tried to pass stronger laws matching the global standard have faced intense uphill battles.
In February, when California legislators introduced a bill that would have been the first in the nation to allow officers to use deadly force only when there is "no reasonable alternative," dozens of police unions opposed it. The unions argued the bill would criminalize public safety, discourage proactive policing and embolden criminals. It was proposed after protests erupted over the police killing of Stephon Clark, a 22-year-old unarmed black man who was shot seven times in his grandmother's backyard in 2018 by police investigating a vandalism complaint.
Among the bill's proponents was Laura Serna, whose father, 73-year-old Francisco Serna, was shot dead by police who mistook the wooden crucifix he was holding for a weapon. Francisco Serna, who suffered from dementia, was outside his Bakersfield, Calif. home shortly after midnight on Dec. 12, 2016 when police—responding to a neighbor's call of an older Hispanic man with a gun—shot him five times. At a news conference, Bakersfield Police Chief Lyle Martin said the shooting was justified because Francisco Serna had ignored officers' commands to stop walking and to remove his hand from his jacket. "A person with dementia with a gun can kill you just like a person without dementia with a gun could kill you," Martin said. The district attorney agreed. "It was another punch to the stomach," says Laura Serna, a 50-year-old social worker. "They had just gotten away with murder."
Francisco Serna, 73, was shot dead by police in Bakersfield, California on Dec. 12, 2016.
Photo courtesy Rogelio Serna
By the time a revised version of the California legislation passed the State Assembly at the end of May and the State Senate in July, it had lost some of its strongest language. If approved by Governor Gavin Newsom, who has indicated his support, the bipartisan legislation would require officers to use deadly force only when "necessary" and not just when they believe there is a reasonable fear. But it no longer requires officers to exhaust all other reasonable alternatives or try to first de-escalate confrontations. "They watered down the bill a lot from what we wanted," says Crump, the civil rights attorney, who represents Clark's family. "I'm still cautiously optimistic that it gives us hope for change."
Laura Serna agrees. "This is the beginning of change," says Serna, who joined a coalition of activists fighting for police reform after her father's death. "It would set a pattern for the rest of the country."
When it comes to incidents like the one that killed Mary Knowlton, though, there are no clear precedents or rules for families to turn to for guidance. In 1984, a jury in California acquitted an officer who shot and killed a 22-year-old woman as she fled from the bank robber who'd been holding her hostage. After nearly five years of trying to pursue a wrongful death suit against the city of Escondido, outside San Diego, the family of the woman, Leslie Landersman, gave up. "I was hoping to see some justice, but it became apparent that there wasn't ever going to be any, and I was told by some judges that I would never feel satisfied, even if it did get to court," her widower, Mark Landersman, said at the time. Thirty years later, a family on the other side of the country found itself facing a similar tragedy when a police officer shot dead Andrea Rebello, a 21-year-old Hofstra University student, while responding to a home invasion at her off-campus house in Uniondale, N.Y. Her family said police acted recklessly by firing at the intruder as he held Rebello in a headlock, but the officer was not charged.
In September, however, jurors will begin hearing the case of former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger, who's charged with murdering Botham Jean, an unarmed black man, in his own apartment. Guyger, who is white, says she accidentally walked into the 26-year-old's apartment instead of her own after work one night and opened fire, thinking there was an intruder in her home. And in a rare conviction—believed to be the first of its kind in decades in Minnesota—a jury in April found Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor guilty of murder after he fatally shot Justine Ruszczyk Damond, a 40-year-old woman who had called 911 to report a possible rape and who was unarmed when she approached Noor and his partner in their police car. Noor was the third police officer in the last year to be found guilty of murder for fatal on-duty shootings in the U.S. following the convictions of Roy D. Oliver II in Balch Springs, Texas and Jason Van Dyke in Chicago.
"Policemen are no better than any other citizen. They should be held accountable like any other citizen," says Lake, the retired St. Louis police sergeant who was shot on-duty. But Lake adds that the circumstances surrounding police on trial often are unique from those involving civilians. "What makes policemen different," he says, "is they're carrying different baggage—the experiences of meeting dangerous people and the burdens of carrying everyone else's problems."
Though the circumstances in Knowlton's case are unusual, her death has been described as an accident—as is often the defense in civilian deaths—rather than the result of carelessness. "It's not a criminal case," says Sclafani, Coel's defense attorney. The idea for the role-play exercise came from watching other departments conduct it on YouTube, the Punta Gorda Police Department's operations commander told investigators from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. The deadly mix-up happened when Coel—who stored boxes of both live ammo and of blank cartridges in the back of his patrol car—reached for the wrong box and loaded his revolver with what he thought were blank firing cartridges, investigators said. Coel's "inability to differentiate" between the two types of ammunition, which are similar in shape and size, led to Knowlton's death, the state investigation found.
Mary Knowlton with her son Steve (left) and husband Gary (right).
In the months after the shooting, Steve, his 56-year-old brother William and their father assumed law enforcement would investigate what had gone wrong and hold accountable those responsible for the mistake. When the city offered the family a $2 million settlement, they took it instead of filing a civil lawsuit. But as time went on, the family says it felt ostracized for demanding justice. When Tom Lewis, the Punta Gorda Police Chief at the time, faced a misdemeanor negligence charge as a result of the shooting, local businesses raised money for his legal defense. Uniformed officers packed the courtroom during his trial, which ended in acquittal after his attorney argued that Lewis had no way of knowing Knowlton could be harmed during the exercise. "You're not only the victim, but you're the bad guy," Steve Knowlton says.
"Our family has to sit here as it drags on," adds his brother, William. "The way that she got taken away," he says, before trailing off. "The moment I'm a happy person is the moment I forget what happened to her."
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If God granted you 1 wish, what would it be?
The nation of Israel was suffering a siege that left them starving. Food was astronomically expensive. One could purchase a donkey's head for 80 pieces of silver, something along the lines of a year's wages, most likely. If donkey head was not your cup of tea, how about a cup of dove dung? That sold for a mere 5 pieces of silver.
Some inhabitants of Samaria had resorted to cannibalism. It was bad, folks! The King blamed God's servant Elisha, just as many people do who hate God. But when he sent his servant to chop off Elisha's head (I wonder how much he was going to sell that for!), Elisha had a prophetic word: by this time tomorrow, everything will be as it was before the siege. The king's servant scoffed incredulously at Elisha's prediction. It was simply too good to be true.
What is too good to be true for you this Christmas season?
So often we don't ask for much because we don't want to be disappointed. Well, then! That's what we will get: not much. You see, we really do get what we have faith to expect.
Come! Let's ask Big! We have a Big God! But let's make sure we ask for what is aligned with His will and something that will further His purposes in our lives and in the world.
You know my heart's desire! It is Big, Lord. You are all-powerful and equally as loving. You know that what my heart longs for. I am certain that it is your will, for I have searched your Word thoroughly and found it to be so.
Lord, I believe with all my heart that by this time tomorrow things will be different than they are today. I receive my miracle, my Christmas gift from you! I receive it today as I received my salvation – instantly as I prayed. And I await the manifestation of this gift as a child does, knowing her gift is just waiting to be unwrapped.


Velib (a bike rental service) is my favorite way of getting around Paris. You see so much more than by metro, and as a bonus there's much less contact with the bodily fluids of others. It's faster than walking, but I guess entering and re-entering a code and pin can get pretty annoying. Here's how to get around that.
1. Show up at any city hall in Paris and ask for a "Velib Express" card. They're free.
Now, time for a funny story. You are perhaps concerned that you're not the best biker, and Paris is too busy and scary of a city. Believe me, you couldn't be a worse biker than me. I never took the training wheels off my first pink bike with streamers at the handles. I didn't see the need. The first time I tried biking in Paris, we had to stop at a red light and as I was wobbling to a halt, I crashed into a police riot van. With actual police officers in it. I took off again a moment later and saw the police officers staring out to window trying to see who was attacking. I gave them by best sheepish-sorry look and said sorry (yes, in English). The officers looked 2/3's confused and 1/3 amused. Luckily, it was France. If it were America, I would probably have been shot for ramming a police vehicle.
* Important note: when I was sitting at city hall trying this, the 1 year option was only available on the French version of the website. If you choose English, it disappears. So pretend to be French, I guess!


Herzog, who was defeated last week in the Labor primary leadership elections, is considering Gabbay's offer to remain as the head of the party.
Opposition leader Isaac Herzog (Zionist Union) is considering new Labor Party leader Avi Gabbay's offer for him to remain in his position.
Contrary to some media reports, Herzog has not ruled out the offer, his spokesman said on Tuesday, and the two plan to meet and discuss the matter on Wednesday.
Gabbay cannot be opposition leader, because he is not a member of Knesset.
Gabbay never directly asked Herzog to remain opposition leader, but Gabbay said publicly several times in recent days that he would like Herzog to, including in his Monday-night victory speech.
Meanwhile, prominent Labor activist Eldad Yaniv called for Gabbay to give the job to young, firebrand Zionist Union MK Stav Shaffir, who supported Gabbay in the Labor primary runoff.
Yaniv compared Gabbay's victory to that of French President Emmanuel Macron, who, like Gabbay, had only briefly held public office before winning.
Unlike Gabbay, however, Macron founded his own party, which went on to win a large number of parliamentary seats.
"The public gave you a Macron-like victory," Yaniv tweeted. "Now be Macron.
With 24 Knesset seats, the Zionist Union – made up of Labor and Hatnua (formerly the Tzipi Livni Party) – is the largest faction in the opposition. The law states that an MK from the largest opposition party will be opposition leader, unless most MKs in the opposition vote to choose a different lawmaker.


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Swin Cash the latest woman to break barriers in broadcasting
Ian Begley, ESPN Staff Writer
For Swin Cash, gender never really mattered on the playing fields of McKeesport, Pennsylvania. "When I first started playing — baseball, basketball — everything was against the guys," Cash says. "Seventh, eighth grade, that's when the institutionalized stuff — this is girls' basketball, this is boys' basketball — that's when it kicked in."
Cash thrived within those "institutionalized" boundaries, winning two NCAA titles at UConn, two Olympic gold medals and three WNBA championships. She's one of the most decorated female players of her generation.
But now, she's ready to help break down other the traditional gender boundaries.
Cash will work this season as an analyst for Knicks telecasts on MSG Networks. She's believed to be the first woman to serve as a studio television analyst for an NBA club.
"I think it's great," Knicks coach Derek Fisher says. "It's probably long overdue because analyzing a game is not based in gender."
Barrier breaker
In the not-so-distant past, networks exclusively hired men to analyze men's games. Period. The thought of a woman breaking down the intricacies of a men's game was completely foreign. Women were hired to cover games from the sideline, not the television studio.
But things have changed over time.
ESPN has led that charge with Doris Burke as a game analyst, commentator, studio host and sideline reporter for NBA and WNBA basketball and men's college basketball. Sage Steele is an ESPN studio host for the weekend edition of NBA Countdown. Jessica Mendoza made history two months ago on ESPN when she became the first woman to call a nationally televised MLB playoff game. Lisa Leslie is now appearing on TNT's NBA broadcasts. The gender-associated restrictions in sports media are eroding.
Suzyn Waldman, the New York Yankees' color commentator and a barrier breaker in the industry, wishes the issue of gender in media would go away altogether.
"Why are we still having this discussion?" says Waldman, who is the first woman to provide play-by-play for a major league team. "It if were a guy, no one would discuss this. I'm stunned that this is still being discussed. As long as we are, Swin is perfect, and I hope that she does this for the next 20 years. All you need is credibility. She's a champion. So there's your credibility."
Sage Steele (pictured) and ESPN colleagues Doris Burke and Jessica Mendoza are among the first women to serve as studio analysts for the NBA and baseball. Deanne Fitzmaurice for ESPN
Old-school still persists
Late last month, Cash was standing on the sideline at Madison Square Garden. It was a few hours before tipoff, and days after she'd been announced as a studio analyst for the Knicks. Over the course of a 10-minute conversation, three members of the Charlotte Hornets stopped by to say hello. The 13-year veteran has many friends in the men's game and says "they think nothing of it when a woman's in basketball — they know it's just basketball."
"Swin is perfect, and I hope that she does this for the next 20 years. All you need is credibility. She's a champion. So there's your credibility."
Suzyn Waldman, Yankees broadcaster
In this setting, among her male counterparts, Cash oozes credibility and professionalism. However, sometimes even unimpeachable knowledge isn't enough to keep others from passing judgment based on gender.
Cash has analyzed men's college basketball as a guest analyst for CBS Sports Network, ESPN and NBA TV, among others. Cash, who is African-American, says she has run into instances of being treated differently because of race or gender.
"I've gotten nothing but positive feedback with MSG Network," Cash says. "But I've seen the good and the bad with a lot of different people.
"You're going to run into people — whether they're male or female — they can be jealous. It can be because I'm a woman. It can be because I'm African-American, you don't know. I just try to do the best that I can do and make sure that I do my research and that I speak about the things that I know."
Stephanie Ready, the first female full-time local television game analyst and color commentator, knows this all too well. Ready, who is an analyst on Charlotte Hornets broadcasts, says she has received overwhelming support from members of the Hornets organization, their fans and people around the NBA. But there are unfortunate occasions such as when an angry, anonymous social media user made what Ready calls "very crass" comments.
"I cannot believe that in 2015 someone just told me to go back to the kitchen," Ready says. "To me, it's unbelievable that would even occur, let alone that you would press 'send.' It's ignorant, and it's beyond political incorrectness. I've got two kids, and there's no way that I would ever want my daughter to think that she's limited in any way, in any part of her life, just because she's a girl."
Swin Cash is one of basketball's most decorated players, even winning an award at the NBA All-Star Weekend in 2013. Garrett Ellwood/NBAE/Getty Images
It's the same game
Ready's daughters might not have to encounter such limitations. The gender barrier is being broken all across basketball. Becky Hammon was hired by theSan Antonio Spurs last season as a full-time assistant coach. She was the first woman to hold a full-time coaching position on an NBA staff. Nancy Lieberman now has a similar position with the Sacramento Kings.
"[Basketball] is the one game in the world where it doesn't matter what your gender is," Ready says. "The rules are the same. You play the same way."
That's one reason Cash brushes off any question about the challenge of analyzing the men's game.
"If I go sit down right now and talk to Coach [Derek] Fisher about the triangle, nothing is going to change about what we're talking about if it was the Liberty or the Knicks," she says.
"If I go sit down right now and talk to Coach [Derek] Fisher about the triangle, nothing is going to change about what we're talking about if it was the Liberty or the Knicks."
Cash played last season for the Liberty. She says the organization — including team president Isiah Thomas and senior vice president Kristin Bernert — was extremely supportive of her seeking the job with MSG.
"In our exit meetings, they asked me, 'What do you want to do? What are you looking to do?" Cash said. "They've been supportive since day one."
Cash says that Thomas is one of many people from whom she sought advice for her new role. When Thomas' hire as Liberty president was met with negative reaction because of his role in a sexual harassment case, Cash was one of the public voices for the Liberty. She appreciated Thomas' "open" conversation with players at the time, and the team thrived with Thomas as president last season.
"The organization was supportive at the top — not just for me but for all of us," Cash said.
Clearing the way for others
Cash will begin her career as a studio analyst later this season. She already has started working with Fisher on the coach's "Nothing but Knicks" show.
Fisher has two daughters at home. They are 9 and 13. The coach hopes Cash's presence can further erode or even eliminate gender-associated boundaries before they ever enter the workforce.
"I would like to think that there would be more opportunity for young girls and women to do more things in sports or business or wherever they want to do it," Fisher says. "I hope that their abilities and talents and skills are the decision-makers on whether they get opportunities, as opposed to their genders or race."
As long as women such as Cash, Mendoza, Burke and Waldman continue to break barriers, there's hope for the Fisher girls — and for young women everywhere.
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Deep Leadership
Essential Insights from High-Risk Environments
By Joe Macinnis
Category: Business | Personal Growth
About Deep Leadership
In this new twist on a topic of perennial interest, Joe MacInnis shows how the leadership traits forged in extraordinary circumstances are transferrable to our everyday lives. Simply put, this is a handbook for building character.
Some people are born leaders. The rest of us find ourselves in positions where leadership is required. Self-described "accidental leader" Dr. Joe MacInnis found himself in such a situation: deep beneath the ice of the Arctic Ocean. Starting with his undersea explorations, this physician, scientist, author and motivational speaker shares an accessible–and obtainable–list of leadership traits inspired by his own journey and the icons he's learned from over the years. Deep Leadership is an eminently digestible book with short lessons and anecdotes. Think Rework meets Iacocca. Its centre is the author's 12 "Essential Traits of Leadership": Cool Competence, Powerful Presentations, Physical Toughness, Hot-Zone Humour, Mental Resilience, Strategic Imagination, High-Empathy Communication, Enduring Trust, Fierce Ingenuity, Team Genius, Resolute Courage and Warrior's Honour.
Each trait is communicated with an anecdote from MacInnis's experience, making it totally memorable. MacInnis also gives the reader a primer to navigate his or her own path toward leadership, including such practices as keeping a journal, building a library, and finding mentors.
About Joe Macinnis
JOE MacINNIS is a physician, scientist, author and motivational speaker who led the teams that made the first science dives at the North Pole and built the world's first polar undersea station. He was among the first to dive to… More about Joe Macinnis
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Home > News > Events > Business leaders raise over £50,000 to help change young lives in the North East
Business leaders raise over £50,000 to help change young lives in the North East
Unemployed young people hoping to transform their lives can look forward to a bright future, thanks to the support of business leaders across the region.
Over 400 guests from the business community gathered at the North East's first ever Fundraising Dinner in aid of youth charity The Prince's Trust at the Hilton Newcastle Gateshead. All of the money raised will go towards helping young people in the region into jobs.
More than one in four (26 per cent) 1 young people in the North East are struggling to find work, highlighting the need for support from charities like The Trust.
The completely sold out event started with a champagne reception, and the guest speakers were BBC Sports Presenter, John Inverdale, and Prince's Trust Ambassador and former professional footballer, Dion Dublin.
Entertainment was provided by the glamorous London Retro-Girlband, The Tootsie Rollers, and the evening was compered by Matt Lee-Alliston, another ambassador, who set up his now, highly successful, stage and production company with a grant from The Prince's Trust.
Guests were treated to a grand finale of an exclusive 'money can't buy' auction, with lots including a once in a lifetime trip to San Francisco to visit Apple's global HQ and a week's sailing in the Caribbean for six people. The auction alone raised over £12,000, with all proceeds going to The Prince's Trust in the North East, to help unemployed young people who are struggling to find work.
The Fundraising Dinner was the brainchild of four of the North East's leading business people – Ian Gilthorpe of Square One Law, Mick Thompson of KPMG, Chris Thompson of Express Group and Carole Beverley of TSG. They saw an opportunity to combine their contacts to obtain support from local businesses and raise a significant amount of money for The Prince's Trust.
Ian Gilthorpe, of Square One Law said: "Youth unemployment is big issue in the North East so it great to see so many of the local business community coming together to help tackle this problem.
"The Prince's Trust carries out vital work with young people in the region and to be able to get behind that and help change young lives is extremely important to us. The evening was a great success and the money raised will go a long way to ensuring that the young people here in the North East have the support and opportunities to move forward with their lives."
Chris Gray, head of private sector fundraising, for The Prince's Trust in the North East, said: "Without the fundamental support of the local business community in the region, The Trust would not be able to carry out the vital work it does to change young people lives.
"We need to raise over £1 million per week to achieve our work across the UK. Local fundraising activities like this are crucial to help us continue supporting disadvantaged young people to get their lives back on track and move into work, training or education."
Guests were given the chance to hear from Dave Clayton, 29, owner of Northern Garden Sheds, who transformed his life with the help of The Trust's Enterprise programme: "Without the support of The Prince's Trust, I very much doubt I would be in the position I am today. I have gone from unemployed to running my own company, which is amazing."
Thanks to funding from events like the Fundraising Dinner, The Prince's Trust was able to support 3,700 young people in the North East last year, giving them the skills and confidence to find a job. Three in four young people on Prince's Trust schemes move into work, education or training.
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Q: Deserialize Json to Pojo without case sensitivity I have been trying to figure out how to deserialize json coming from an API response to models and ignore case.  I can get it to work with something like this:
Json:
{
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}

Model:
@Data
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I have SOOOO many because for some reason the API returns properties in pascal case rather than camel. I dont really want to create a new mapper for something so trivial.  I was hoping there was some property in spring boot that I could add to my applicaition yaml file.
Any ideas?

A: Try configuring like below it will work :)
@JsonFormat(with = JsonFormat.Feature.ACCEPT_CASE_INSENSITIVE_PROPERTIES)
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Even the smallest rooms in small homes can be reinvented to suit your needs. Check out these smart closet transformations that inspire function and form while providing key small space solutions.
Concealed behind pocket doors that help it blend into the wall when not in use, this bar boasts remarkably rich storage despite its small size. It not only includes storage for 32 bottles of wine, a full supply of spirits, and glassware and other essentials, but even features integrated lighting.
An under-the-stairs closet becomes a cozy work nook with the addition of a built-in desk and chic graphic wallpaper. The rich hardwood floors help warm the space.
Designer Brian Patrick Flynn transformed a cluttered closet into a functional and efficient laundry space full of color and most importantly -- storage.
This spacious kitchen includes a small office space that can easily be concealed by a set of sleek sliding doors in a moment's notice.
Creating balance in your small space is key. A good tip for this design style is to create balanced lines with shelving. Parallel lines allow the eye to maintain stability and anchor the space, no matter how big or small. Add a few fun accents, like affordable vases in pops of turquoise, and you're good to go!
Although small in square footage, many apartments and homes can enjoy a washer and dryer. Find room to create your own laundry room right behind a closet door. Liven it up by painting the entire small space a bright color.
To create a home office in her tiny home, Killy Scheer of Frisson Design hung a curtain from the main room's ceiling. When the curtain was open, the office felt spacious enough for both work-at-home spouses. When it was closed, Scheer and her husband could forget work and enjoy their living room.
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To free up square footage in this kids' shared bedroom, the closet was outfitted both as a clothes-hanging space and as a concealed workstation for crafts and homework. The central column provides open storage as well as a child-height desktop. To add flair to the space and break up the dark charcoal color throughout the rest of the room, the closet's walls were painted red-orange.
With a laundry nook right smack in the middle of the bedroom, the homeowners decided to mask it with a simple drapery panel that easily slides open for instant access.
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Data General Corp. v. Digital Computer Controls, Inc. was a 1971 case in which the Delaware Court of Chancery determined that widespread, confidential disclosure of trade secrets does not necessarily compromise their secrecy.  Data General Corporation distributed design documentation with its Nova 1200 minicomputer, notifying owners of the confidentiality of these design drawings through contractual agreements and explicit text on the drawings (essentially a shrinkwrap license). After acquiring drawings with a Nova 1200 purchase, Digital Computer Controls designed its own nearly identical minicomputer. Digital Computer Controls maintained that its use of the documentation was proper because Data General Corporation inadequately maintained the secrecy of the design drawings by distributing them to many customers.  The court found that Data General Corporation had sufficiently protected the secrecy of the drawings and that Digital Computer Controls was thus in violation of trade secret law for improperly using confidential information.

Such a view of disclosure had been held by previous courts in non-information technology contexts  and has become relevant to trade secrets embodied in widely distributed software commonly protected by clickwrap licenses.

Facts

In 1970 Data General Corporation released the Nova 1200, a minicomputer twice as fast as previous models.  Upon purchaser's request, Data General Corporation would include with the computer design documentation intended to allow customers to maintain and repair their own computers.  These design drawings were annotated as confidential, and customers received a contractual agreement of confidentiality with their purchase.  In March 1971, the president of Digital Computer Controls purchased a secondhand Nova 1200 from a third party.  Before receiving the computer, Digital Computer Controls requested the accompanying design documentation from the seller and subsequently photocopied the drawings.  The drawings explicitly stated that they could not be used to manufacture similar items without the written permission of Data General Corp.  Digital Computer Controls then used the design drawings to create the D-116 minicomputer, which the court determined was "substantially identical in design"  to the Nova 1200.

Decision

Data General Corporation requested a preliminary injunction barring Digital Computer Controls from selling the D-116 based primarily on a claim of trade secret misappropriation.  Digital Computer Controls consequently moved for summary judgment, claiming that Data General Corporation had not adequately protected the secrecy of its proprietary information.  The court found that the adequacy of secrecy precautions was not a matter of law and must be determined at trial, thus denying summary judgment.  The court also denied Data General Corporation a preliminary injunction, reasoning that even if Data General Corporation won at trial, the duration of injunctive relief should only be as long as necessary to reverse engineer the minicomputer.  Thus, issuing a preliminary injunction would grant Data General Corporation the maximum relief it could hope to obtain.  This holding was affirmed by the Delaware Supreme Court in 1972.

In 1975, Data General Corporation filed for permanent injunctive relief and damages based on Digital Computer Controls alleged misappropriation of trade secrets.  Digital Computer Controls argued again that Data General Corporation took insufficient measures to protect the secrecy of their trade secrets.  In determining whether Data General Corporation took adequate measures despite widespread distribution, the court considered several factors: 1) each drawing stated that its contents were confidential, 2) a contractual agreement applied to any order filled by Data General Corporation, 3) such contracts were requisite to sale for every customer, 4) employees and vendors signed confidentiality agreements, and 5) design documents were only available to purchasers of the Nova 1200.

The court found Data General Corporation's secrecy precautions sufficient, securing trade secret status for the design documentation.  Accordingly, Data General Corporation could not claim copyright protection of the drawings, as their limited disclosure did not amount to publication, and thus Digital Computer Control's acquisition of the design documentation was appropriate, as the purchaser of a Nova 1200 was entitled to the drawings.  However, Digital Computer Controls improperly used the trade secrets when designing the D-116.  A permanent injunction was granted to Data General Corporation, and the case for damages was referred to a jury in Superior Court.

Impact

The court's decision that widespread disclosure does not compromise a trade secret has particular implications for widely distributed software.  The nature and use of software often requires the customer have access to trade secrets embodied in the software.  Clickwrap and shrinkwrap licenses are commonly used to preserve the confidentiality of sensitive material in software.  Although in this case the defendant admitted to having seen the confidentiality agreement on the design drawings, the enforceability of clickwrap contracts remains a legal issue. Additionally, the distribution of current software and hardware products far exceeds that of the Nova 1200, which was distributed to between 80 and 6000 customers, leaving open for debate the threshold upon which widespread disclosure indicates public knowledge.

References

External links
An Introduction to California Trade Secrets Law
Recent Decisions in Enforcement of Clickwrap Licenses

Trade secret case law
United States computer case law
Data General
Delaware state case law
1971 in United States case law
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The Minister for Communications announced the outcome of the Radio Spectrum Fees Framework review on 11 April.
The changes announced included that the number of fee categories will be reduced to four, including a new standard fee category for most licences, set at $150 (annually, including GST). The online payment discount and the licence interference investigation discount will be discontinued and a manual payment fee of $25 established.
These changes will take effect in late 2017. Radio Spectrum Management (RSM) will announce the date of the changes via the RSM website and the Business Update e-newsletter. The announcement will include more detail about implementation and how the changes affect your licences.
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The changes for IoT and land mobile radio will be introduced following further consultation with industry in late 2017.