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Planning application decisions record quickest annual figures
Published 25 July 2018
The average decision times for planning applications in Scotland have recorded their quickest annual figures since records began.
Local developments, which include applications for changes to individual houses and smaller developments for new housing, were decided within 9 weeks on average in 2017/18, over one day quicker than the average of 9.2 weeks in the previous year and the quickest annual figure since the start of this data collection in 2012/13.
Local housing applications were decided in an average of 12.2 weeks, three and a half days quicker than the previous year (12.7 weeks).
A total of 19 out of 34 planning authorities have reported improvements in their average decision times for local developments in 2017/18 compared to 2016/17.
Major development decisions, including applications for 50 or more homes, as well as certain waste, water, transport and energy-related developments, larger retail developments, and other developments, were also quicker in 2017/18.
The average decision time for major developments (238 applications) in 2017/18 was 33.6 weeks, almost three weeks quicker than the average of 36.4 weeks in the previous year. Major housing applications were decided in an average of 38.2 weeks, more than five weeks quicker than the previous year (43.4 weeks) and the quickest annual figure since 2012/13.
A total of 17 out of 26 planning authorities with major application decisions in both 2017/18 and 2016/17 have reported improvements in their average decision times for major developments since the previous year.
The number of local development decisions in 2017/18 totalled 26,220, a decrease of 3% (766 applications) from the previous year. This drop was largely due to fewer decisions for householder applications (539 fewer).
The number of major development decisions in 2017/18 totalled 238, a decrease of 3% (8 applications) from 2016/17. There were decreases in other developments, business and industry and electricity generation while decided applications for housing, minerals and waste management increased.
In contrast, the number of applications that were subject to processing agreements increased by 40% from 1,503 in 2016/17 to 2,106 in 2017/18. There were 1,671 local applications (6% of all local applications) and 93 major applications (28% of all major applications) that were subject to processing agreements in 2017/18.
Commenting on the planning service statistics, David Melhuish, director of the Scottish Property Federation, found "cause for concern" in the statistics, particularly given an increase in planning fees.
David Melhuish
He said: "For the average time taken to deliver decisions on major developments to have increased significantly in quarter four, despite a continuing fall in the overall number of applications determined, is particularly worrying and we must simply do better.
"Planning fees were increased six-fold last June with major applicants hoping to see an improvement in the planning service. However, the jury is clearly out on whether an improvement in planning performance has been achieved.
"While we recognise that it can take time to put in place the additional resources necessary, it is critical that local authorities use the new planning fees to invest in their planning services. At the moment that improvement is patchy and we must see tangible progress across the board before any further fee increases are contemplated.
"We urge local authorities to see planning as a tool of economic development and to prioritise these additional fees for the management and delivery of major developments."
He added: "The Planning Bill offers a chance to improve up-front engagement and to streamline the planning process but we cannot afford any further obstacles to investment to be created in the planning system if we are to deliver much needed jobs, investment and economic growth."
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Celebrate the beginning of March with dance in Harlem and Elisa Monte Dance as they celebrate their 35th anniversary and welcome their new artistic director, Tiffany Rea-Fisher. From March 2 to 5 at City College Center for the Arts' Aaron Davis Hall, an array of events is scheduled for this momentous season.
Past company member Rea-Fisher, who retired from the stage in 2010, will premiere "Newton's Cradle and Current." Rea-Fisher will also return to the stage in a solo performance of Monte's signature "Run to the Rock" (1998).
Among the many varied programs scheduled, included is the 20-member alumni reunion in a special reprise of Monte's "Shattered" (2000). A photographic retrospective of the company's 35-year legacy will also be on display in the lobby of Aaron Davis Hall. Finally, the company will participate in free pop-up performances at the Microsoft Store and Hunter College, leading up to this milestone season. For more information, visit www.adhatccny.org.
March 2 – 5: At BAM, kathak dancer Akram Khan and flamenco dancer Israel Galvan come together in "Torobaka," an evening-length New York premiere that is part dialogue and part duel, and continues Khan's ongoing collaboration with artists of other cultures and disciplines. For more information, visit www.bam.org.
March 2 – 6: At the Joyce Theater, dancers Alessandra Ferri and Herman Cornejo join forces with pianist Bruce Levingston for "TRIO ConcertDance" and will present works by Russell Maliphant, Demis Volpi, Fang-Yi Sheu and Angelin Preljocaj. For more information, visit www.joyce.org.
March 3: Soloist Fana Fraser will introduce "Rosie," a work-in-progress as part of the Emerging Artists Theatre's "Best of the New Works Series," curated by Paul Adams, Derek Jamison, Scott Klavan, Scott Raker and Vanessa Shealy Younger at the TADA! Theater. For more information, visit www.fanafraser.com.
March 4: For one night only, Aakash Odedra Company comes to NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts with the New York premiere of "Rising," four solo dance works created by Akram Khan, Russell Maliphant, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Odera. For more information, visit www.nyuskirball.org.
March 5: After nearly a decade away from New York City, at the Kumble Theater and to open 651 ARTS' "Classically Black" spring season, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company brings the New York City premiere of Donald Byrd's "The Geography of the Cotton Field" plus a selection of works under the title "Tapestries." For more information, visit www.651arts.org.
March 2 – 19: The Flamenco Festival returns to New York at BAM, Town Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York City Center and Joe's Pub with performances by Farruquito, Compania Manuel Linan, Compania Rocio Molina, Ballet Flamenco de Andalucia and Nelida Tirado, to name only a few. For more information, visit www.flamencofestival.org.
March 15 – 20: In two programs at the Joyce Theater, the Hong Kong Ballet will present works by Nacho Duato, Krzysztof Pastor and Fei Bo for their weeklong season. For more information, visit www.joyce.org.
March 21 – 28: As part of Maria Hassabi's "PLASTIC" at MoMA, David Thomson and large and rotating cast performs as part of these "overlapping live installations that shift the temporal space and encourages the public to witness the performer as a transforming object where presence, gaze and architecture coalesce," according to the release. For more information, visit www.moma.org.
March 22 – 27: For their New York debut, New Mexico's Juan Siddi Flamenco Sante Fe comes to the Joyce Theater with works ignited by Artistic Director Siddi's "artistic roots in Barcelona and Granada," notes the release. For more information, visit www.joyce.org.
March 30 – April 2: As part of a weeklong series of events and performances dancer, choreographer, actor, writer and educator, Gus Solomons Jr. will be celebrated at the next theater and dance performance event hosted by From the Horse's Mouth. A talk back is scheduled for March 30 with Solomons, hosted by Wendy Perron, former editor-in-chief of Dance magazine, at the 14th Street Y. For more information, visit www.horsesmouth.org.
March 30 – April 10: Ailey II returns for their two-week season at their home, the Ailey Citigroup Theater, with two programs of premieres and repertory works. Slated for this season are works by Jean Emile, Ray Mercer, Kyle "JustSole" Clark, Dwight Rhoden, Manuel Vignoulle, Jennifer Archibald and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater dancer, Jamar Roberts. For more information, visit www.alvinailey.org.
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I've never seen this PROJECT SAMMY'S WAY before and just stumbled on it. Just watched one of the clips, it's hysterical!
You've got to watch this!
That was hilarious! Maybe she'll do one about Kentaro, his piano piece and the dead cat after this week's episode. Tim's reaction was too funny!. I laughed so hard, that I had to rewind and watch that part again!
I have liked several of Kentaro's pieces, and the peach dress was beautiful, but the white outfit and those eyebrows!!!! That was just hideous. I thought Kennya's peach piece was pretty and looked much better than either one of Brandon's outfits. I did not like her black dress though. It did not fit the model well.
That should just stamp Brandon as the winner and move on. I don't care for his work, and it all looks the same. His entire collection is the same fabric! Tim tells Kennya that her collection is too boring with peach, gray and white, and then treats Brandon's same peach fabric for every outfit as a masterpiece. I feel like he purposefully is sabotaging some of the contestants, so Brandon can win. "Look Kennya, use different colors and put this wrap over the black dress. yes, that's perfect!" Then surprise! The judges hate it.
Just watched the show via dvr. And I do think Margarita has a chance. I agree with the judges she needs to make it a little more New York. But I'll tell you, theres lots of Puerto Ricans in New York, which reminds me I loved Margaritas defense of her design aesthetic saying that with 60 million Latinos in the US it will have broad appeal, I agree.
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It's not as easy as it looks. I sew, and it's a long hard process, even with a pattern. The tayloring and the fitting can really be hard. Maybe why some of them don't do much close fitting.
I like Brandon's stuff but agree it all looks alike after a while, layers and straps, been there done that. I'd like to see his face if he didn't win. Margarita's stuff, other than that shirtdress, I can't stand, and I can't stand her, but after the hurricane, a sympathy vote will be a big factor. I do respect her argument and her standing behind her aesthetic. I didn't really love Kenya's stuff all the way through, but thought she was improving and I'm sorry she came this far only to be sent home. I think Ayana has talent, but I'm not sure of some of her fabrics and those dresses. Hmm. And Kentaro is just plain losing his mind between the styling of those models and the dead cat symphony. My reaction was exactly the same as Tim's - and I wonder if he isn't desperate for this season to be over. I know I am and I just can't wait for the tell all episode when the twins come back.
That should just stamp Brandon as the winner and move on. I don't care for his work, and it all looks the same.
But Brandons stuff is good enough to win some of the challenges, but how is he going to put together a collection of fashion? Can he even do a dress? Anyting chic? Any kind of evening wear or red carpet look? And I wonder if 10 looks all using the same flamingo print wont just call attention to the sameness of his designs? It's like sportswear I guess but I don't see how you can just do that and win at FW.
I thought Margarita's reasoning was ridiculous. I'm sorry, but I know a ton of Hispanics, and not one would wear that wannabe 80s style line. I also have an issue with basically saying you're only going to appeal to one ethnicity.
601- Quite a dream. I usually dream about my ex's.
Ayana: I liked her solid look. Didn't really care for the striped one.
Brandon: That top! Salmon on my monitor. Thought it was beautiful. On his other look, while it was not my favorite, I appreciated the details on the long skirt.
Kentaro: Nothing regarding the white; other posters have commented on that, as well as the general styling. NYC and spchtx, I totally did not get the referentials to the cat- until I did... His peach look was gorgeous. Definitely my favorite look of the show.
Kenya: I like her very much. I dislike what she showed very much. TG's advice to her was clearly bad, but she didn't have to follow it. I am sorry she was eliminated, but I understand it.
Margarita: IMO she too should have been eliminated.
So, they showed Brandon's location as San Francisco. N.Cal ; I never lived there but in my previous work life would fly there for one week out of every four. What an amazing, wonderful place.
If the judges could say to Margarita her designs look like resort wear and are not fit for NY Fashion Week, then why didn't they say something to Brandon because his style, to me, at least, isn't what I would think would be something for NYFW either. Everything looks the same to me.
I can't believe they didn't let Kentaro go, he second guesses himself. As soon as they said they didn't like one of his two looks he folded. I wished he would have gone over Kenya. She had passion and a lot of heart and really tried to produce nice work.
I liked Ayana's pant look. I think she may have a good chance of winning depending on her styling. Her looks can look very elegant and mysterious with the right styling, but could also look like fancy Amish wear with the wrong styling.
I agree. I liked her prints and that she used more color than the other designers, but I thought the looks she sent down the runway were tacky.
Overall, I was really underwhelmed by all the final collections. I understand the looks should be cohesive, but all the pink and flamingos in Brandon's collection were too much. Ayana had killer pieces in the last few challenges, but 'm getting a little house on the prairie vibe from her dresses. I was so disappointed in the pieces we've seen from her. I liked kentaros peach dress, but he said himself his collective is not cohesive.
Kenya was my favorite but I understood why she went home. I think she should have sent something else down the runway. I guess they get assigned models and have to go with the look that was made for them? Sounds like she had to send the black dress down the runway. I think it's probably between Margarita and Brandon.
First of all, OMG, Tim's visit with Kentaro. I was DY-ING over Tim's response and facial expressions as Kentaro explained how he got the inspiration for the music he composed. dying. I do like Kentaro's overall aesthetic and point of view. It will be interesting to see how it all comes together with all the pieces on the finale.
I love Brendan's looks. It is a bit weird to have it ALL in the same fabric. and I think Nina's point is spot on, it does look like "him" dressed as a woman, but I don't necessarily see that as a negative. He has translated his sportswear men's vibe into women's wear.
I wanted to like Ayana's looks more, but it just seemed so bland.
Kenya - sigh, I still think she sews beautiful pieces. But kinda like with Margarita, its just nice clothes and some nice fabrics, and lacks the innovation and design.


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The Yellow Dog Project is a groundbreaking initiative created to bring awareness to dogs who need space while training, recovering from surgery, or being rehabilitated. It's aim is to make the public aware that a dog wearing a yellow ribbon should be given 'space' as it is particularly vulnerable for whatever reason.
These links provide invaluable advice from the RSPCA for the care of your furry friends in hot weather. Leaving a dog in a car, with its fur coat can have the same affect as an oven. Many uneccesary deaths occur for this reason each year, here you can find advice from the experts at the RSPCA, plus a link to the AnimAlarm, a fine innovation to prevent such dangers.
"Puppy Mills", otherwise known as "Puppy Farms" are industrialised breeding operations that are notorious for putting profit over the welfare of the animals. These places only exist to supply a demand, and their animals often suffer from isolation, illness and mistrust of humans as a result.
This excellent article from Pets Adviser will help you spot the warning signs and avoid unwittingly supporting these cruel operations.
Service Dogs (such as guide dogs for the blind and for the deaf) may seem adorable but petting them without permission can be hazardous to the human they are helping. This article from PetJoy online is worht a read as to why this is the case, and may help you explain things to over-enthusiastic younger members of the family who might not fully understand the animals role.
With so many dog foods on the market, the packaging can often be misleading as marketing experts find ways around the law to mis-sell a product using clever wording and legal loopholes. This article from the Whole Dog Journal casts some interesting aspersions on this practice and lets you read between the lines. This is based on present statutory merchandising laws in the United States, but will no doubt open your mind to spotting similar practices in the UK dog food market.
Dog Training Guru Robin Bennett explains how to avoid disaster when children and animals meet in the same envoironment, including a detailed warning sign system that will help stop any potential mis-hap before it has chance to take place. Essential expert advice for any parent and/or dog owner. Well worth a read, you may discover some warning signs you previously overlooked !
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Amazon reportedly will build a distribution center near Birmingham that will eventually employ about 3,000 people.
Jefferson County Commission President Jimmie Stephens is quoted saying agreements were signed Thursday to locate the $325 million facility west of Birmingham in Bessemer.
Officials are set to announce the project during an event on Friday.
The more than 850,000-square-foot center will initially employ about 1,500 people, and Stephens says that number is expected to double eventually. Employees will receive full benefits and an average hourly wage of $14.65.
Birmingham is one of the last U.S. cities its size without an Amazon facility to fulfill orders. The region previously submitted a proposal for Amazon's new headquarters but wasn't selected.
Amazon already has a sorting center on the Gulf Coast at Mobile.


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Guy Saint-Jacques was Canada's Ambassador to the People's Republic of China from 26 September 2012 until 9 October 2016.

Biography
St Jacques joined the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1977.

St Jacques served in New York City, Mexico City, Kinshasa, Hong Kong, Washington and London.

St Jacques was appointed Ambassador for Climate Change in 2010.

St Jacques was appointed to Beijing by John Baird, and presented his credentials to Hu Jintao. He liaised in Beijing extensively with Cong Peiwu, while the latter was Director-General of the Chinese Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs.

St Jacques retired after 30 years of service in October 2016, while Stephane Dion was Minister of Foreign Affairs and just short of one year after the Trudeau government came to power.

Controversies

Drop the gloves with China on canola
In March 2019, St Jacques suggested that in retaliation for China's suspension of canola imports from Canada that Canada could expel Chinese athletes who were training in Canada for the 2022 Beijing Winter Games and could bring Beijing before the UN Security Council where it could level accusations of bad faith. He also suggested bringing the Chinese to the WTO process.

To PMO: call me
St Jacques made the headlines in July 2019, when someone at the PMO convinced Paul Thoppil, ADM for Asia-Pacific at Global Affairs Canada, called him to ask for him not to comment on China in the media. St Jacques said the PMO should call him directly if it has a problem with what he is saying.

It came to light that the PMO had employed similar tactics with another Ambassador, David Mulroney. Later on once the damage had been done, the Minister in charge of Global Affairs, Chrystia Freeland, called him privately to beg his forgiveness, and her colleagues quashed a motion for an investigation by a Parliamentary subcommittee into the affair.

The two Ambassadors earned strong support in from Colin Robertson, a former colleague, when he said:

Chinese supply-chain v Hong Kong refugees
In early May 2020, St Jacques pointed out that it would be nice to shelter refugees from Hong Kong in light of the 2020 police crackdown on 2019 protestors for democracy:

References

Living people
Ambassadors of Canada to China
Year of birth missing (living people)

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Young Africans Are Dying And It's Time To Take Notice
Anthony Mba 2 years ago 2 3 min read 1268
In finance, there's quite a bit of hysteria surrounding Africa at the moment. GDP is predicted to have risen by 2.4% in 2017. Foreign direct investment is booming, particularly from China, and a new middle class is expected to emerge, with more spending power and increasingly expensive tastes within a relatively young demographic.
However, the findings from a study released on Wednesday serve as a sober reminder that the members of that young workforce are more than just dazzling numbers on a chart.
The report, conducted over 25 countries, included 11,422 adult patients at 247 hospitals spread over 25 countries – including the relatively prosperous Egypt. Even Zambia found that 18% of in-patients developed post-surgery complications: 2.1% who underwent any kind of surgery and 1% of patients who had elective surgery died 30 days afterwards, twice the global average. This is despite those in-patients being younger and healthier than those who underwent surgery elsewhere in the world.
Bruce Biccard, Professor at the University of Cape Town and co-author of the study, ascribed the problem to manpower:
"[The reason] that people do so terribly in Africa from a surgical point of view is that there are just no human resources," he said.
The authors of the report identified several practical causes that have led to this predicament, including a workforce that is thin on the ground, a lack of hospital beds, and a poor patient aftercare system. The most harrowing element of the report is that these individuals are so young and yet dying entirely preventable deaths.
Indeed, we can identify these problems in manifest form through what recently occurred in Uganda. The country's doctors went on strike, protesting poor pay and a lack of resources. One can only imagine the desperation that must be felt by qualified professionals who have dedicated themselves to public service to take what is quite frankly pernicious industrial action.
African governments, generally speaking, are experiencing the best period economically in post-independence history. This isn't to say that structural or external challenges still don't persist. However, this is a matter of prioritisation as much as anything.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari
Still, African leaders are treating their countries as play things where the cult of personality is the overriding driving force of their policy making, or are simply using the wealth of the nation to enrich themselves.
The fact that Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari flies out to Europe for medical treatment when instead he has the option to invest in his people, hospitals and infrastructure is a sad indictment of how little African leaders think of of their people.
Tragedy and Africa are often mentioned in parallel in Western media. Far from trying to perpetuate the stereotype, this article is more intended as a kick up the backside. Africa clearly possesses the potential.
West Africa handled the Ebola crisis of 2016 much better than many had expected it to, for instance. The continent is capable of so much more and quite honestly it owes so much more to each and every African citizen.
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Doctors have several anti-seizure options to treat epilepsy, but little data exists to show which of these treatments is best for children. Nevertheless, according to a recent study on therapies prescribed for children under 3 with epilepsy, doctors in the U.S. appear to prefer Keppra (levetiracetam) as either a first or second option for treatment.
The study, "Initial Treatment for Non-Syndromic Early-Life Epilepsy: an Unexpected Consensus," was published online in Pediatric Neurology.
The study notes that when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves a new medicine, it's up to clinicians to prescribe that medicine off-label to all age groups. But trials leading to approval of therapies for adults often exclude information about which medications are best for children, says William D. Gaillard, MD, lead author of the study and head of Child Neurology and Epilepsy, Neurophysiology and Critical Care Neurology at Children's National Health System in Washington, D.C.
Before this study, the general belief was that clinicians had a wider range of epilepsy treatment options with the increased availability of several medications in the past two decades. But wider availability has not translated into a diversified use of therapies, the study found.
For the study, 495 children recently diagnosed with epilepsy were enrolled from 17 pediatric epilepsy centers in the U.S. Researchers found that virtually all of them had been treated with a single medication — Keppra — instead of a cocktail of medicines. Of those treated with a single medication, 63% were prescribed Keppra as a first choice.
The next most popular choices by U.S. doctors were Trileptal (oxcarbazepine) and phenobarbitals, followed by Topamax (topiramate) and Zonegran (zonisamide).
Another indicator of Keppra's popularity with doctors is that 62% of the pediatric patients under study who did not receive Keppra as the first choice received it as the second choice after initial therapy proved ineffective or caused severe side effects, according to the study.
This makes Keppra the most popular first and second choice for the treatment of pediatric epilepsy in 74% of the cases, even though more than 20 anti-seizure medications have been approved.
So why is Keppra so popular with U.S. doctors? Gaillard isn't certain, and data doesn't yet provide an answer. Gaillard speculated, however, that it might be due to Keppra's availability in liquid form and because it causes no ill effects and can be administered intravenously.
This trend appears to be occurring only in North America. In a different international survey, Gaillard found that Trileptal and Tegretol (carbamazepine) were the preferred treatments for focal seizures outside the U.S.
Gaillard said more data is needed on the effectiveness of each of these medications in pediatric patients with epilepsy.
Tagged Keppra, levetiracetam, oxcarbazepine, pediatric epilepsy, phenobarbital, Topamax, topiramate, Trileptal, zonisamide.


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Thousands Pay Tribute to Lady Bird Johnson About 2,000 mourners gather at a church in the Texas Hill Country to remember Lady Bird Johnson. Earlier, a family spokeswoman says nearly 10,000 visitors streamed past the casket as it lay in repose at the LBJ Library and Museum in Austin, Texas.
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Lady Bird Johnson was remembered today in Austin, Texas. Mrs. Johnson, the wife of former President Lyndon Baines Johnson, died of natural causes Wednesday at her home in the Texas capital. She was 94 years old.
NPR's Cokie Roberts attended Mrs. Johnson's private funeral this afternoon and joins us now.
Cokie, it appeared to be an extraordinary gathering there.
COKIE ROBERTS: Indeed, it was here at the River Bend Church outside of Austin. Representatives of family members of every administration from John F. Kennedy's to the current are there - were here.
Caroline Kennedy and her husband, Trisha Nixon Cox was here, and Susan Ford Bales, both President and Mrs. Carter, Nancy Reagan - looking very frail - Barbara Bush, and Senator Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, and Laura Bush, the current first lady, all gathering to honor this woman who had been first lady, before any of them were, who had been an older woman when they were children. And then, of course, Texans galore: current and former members of the Texas delegation, the Speaker Jim Wright among them, and many, many members of the Johnson's family, including 50 Secret Service agents who had served Mrs. Johnson.
This was a woman who was so devoted to her friends, family and staff that they loved her throughout the years and showed up for her in her death.
ELLIOTT: There were so many facets of Mrs. Johnson's life to talk about. What did the speakers talk about today at her funeral?
ROBERTS: Well, they talked about her graciousness and her love of nature, and the rain came down, sort of, emphasizing nature's role here, and now it's sunny and beautiful as people leave the church.
But Bill Moyers, of course, was Johnson's press secretary, talked about her special courage, how brave it was for her to go out on that Lady Bird's special with people spitting and shouting at her in the South in 1964. And Tom Johnson, who was the president's chief of staff after his presidency, talking about her courage and her willingness to release the White House tapes, without having any idea what was on them of her husband's phone conversations.
And Harry Middleton, who was the head of the Johnson Library for so many years, talking about her sense of humor, and her grandchildren telling wonderful personal stories because she was very involved in their lives and about their own children's relationship with her - and then, of course, Lynda Johnson Robb and Luci Baines Johnson talking about her love. And they were all quite eloquent. It was really a remarkable ceremony.
ELLIOTT: There have been commemorations now for days in Austin. I understand Texans have really turned out to say goodbye to Lady Bird Johnson.
ROBERTS: Indeed. Thousands showed up. She was laid to rest over the last day at the Johnson Library; her coffin there under a brocade shroud. They filed in all night long. Her - granddaughter Lucinda Robb, a four-year-old, tells the story of being there last night after midnight and seeing families coming in with little children still coming in to say goodbye to her grandmother. And the University of Texas marching band showed up to say goodbye at the end of the ceremony today, playing the "Eyes of Texas Are Upon You" and with many members of the congregation, including the clergy, holding up their two fingers for the Texas Hook' em sign.
ELLIOTT: Hook 'em Horns, yeah.
ROBERTS: Hook 'em Horns.
ELLIOTT: And Cokie, she'll be buried tomorrow there?
ROBERTS: In a private ceremony at the Johnson ranch, along the Pedernales River as there will be a cortege of public of seeing her go all the way from here to there.
ELLIOTT: NPR's Cokie Roberts. Thank you so much.
ROBERTS: Thank you.
ELLIOTT: We will close our segment of the program now tonight with words from one of the eulogists, Bill Moyers, who was President Johnson's press secretary.
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Like her beloved flowers in the field, she was a woman of many hues - a strong manager, a canny investor, a shrew judge of people - friend and foe - and she never confused the two. Deliberate in coming to judgment, she was sure in conclusion.


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El Partido Popular Democrático de Puerto Rico (PPD) es un partido político en Puerto Rico fundado en 1938 por Luis Muñoz Marín.

El objetivo principal del partido es el de defender y mantener la relación actual que existe entre Puerto Rico y Estados Unidos y que desde el 1952 se le conoce como Estado Libre Asociado en español (en inglés, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico). Cabe destacar que existe una facción notable en el partido conocida como los soberanistas, quienes desean la descolonización de Puerto Rico y el terminar la relación territorial actual y obtener la mayor autonomía posible de los Estados Unidos, sin ser país independiente. La pieza musical Jalda arriba es considerada el himno del partido, su emblema es el jíbaro puertorriqueño y su lema es Pan, Tierra y Libertad escrito por Gabriel Negrón Melendez.

Historia

Fundación
El PPD fue fundado por Luis Muñoz Marín en 1938. Inicialmente abogaba por la independencia de Puerto Rico, aunque luego abandonó el ideal independentista, abrazando la creación del concepto del Estado Libre Asociado, una relación denominada por su ley habilitadora como "en la naturaleza de un pacto" con Estados Unidos de América. Esa transición del Partido Popular Democrático hacia el estadolibrismo (ELA) provocó un decreto de incompatibilidad entre los independentistas del Congreso Pro Independencia y el PPD. Estos independentistas harían su reagrupamiento en el Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño en 1947.

EL PPD y la era de Luis Muñoz Marín
En 1948, el partido gana de nuevo las elecciones generales en Puerto Rico, siendo las elecciones más importantes de la historia política puertorriqueña, ya que por vez primera los puertorriqueños votaban para elegir a su gobernante. Luis Muñoz Marín se convierte en el primer gobernador electo. El 21 de mayo de 1948 la Asamblea Legislativa de Puerto Rico, dirigida por el PPD,  aprueba en sesión tres proyectos de ley encaminados a castigar toda acción contra el gobierno de la Isla. No es hasta el 10 de junio del mismo año que se convierte en la Ley 53 de Puerto Rico que declaraba "delito grave el fomentar, abogar, aconsejar o predicar, voluntariamente o a sabiendas, la necesidad, deseabilidad o conveniencia de derrocar, destruir o paralizar el gobierno insular por medio de la fuerza o la violencia". A esta ley se conoce como Ley de Mordaza cual su propósito era perseguir a los independentistas, su primer arrestado fue el líder de Partido Nacionalista Pedro Albizu Campos. En cuanto este, Albizu Campos mandó un ataque al gobernador en La Fortaleza y varios ataques en la década de los 50's.  En 1952, el Partido Popular Democrático promueve e impulsa el establecimiento de la Constitución del Estado Libre Asociado redactada por una Asamblea Constituyente y aprobada por el pueblo de Puerto Rico y por los Estados Unidos de América. Tras gobernar entre 1948 y 1964, Luis Muñoz Marín se retira, dándole paso a Roberto Sánchez Vilella quien se convierte en gobernador de 1965 a 1968, así manteniendo el dominio político del Partido Popular.

División de 1968
Ante un escándalo personal del gobernador Roberto Sánchez Vilella, en donde este se casó con su ayudante legal, Luis Muñoz Marín decide no apoyarlo para la reelección en el 1968. En una asamblea general del partido, que estuvo llena de discordias, Muñoz anuncia que el candidato oficial del PPD a la gobernación lo será Luis Negrón López, quien fue su mano derecha en el Senado de Puerto Rico. Ante esta situación Sánchez Vilella protesta esta decisión, como también la protestan varios seguidores y líderes del partido. Ante la negativa de Muñoz Marín de otorgarle una primaria interna a Sánchez Vilella, este decide abandonar el partido y fundar uno nuevo. El Partido del Pueblo nace como parte del intento de Sánchez Vilella a aspirar a la reelección y utiliza como lema del partido "Que el pueblo decida", en referencia a la decisión tomada por Muñoz Marín de no otorgarle una primaria interna de partido.

Primera derrota electoral
El PPD sufre su primera derrota electoral en el 1968 a consecuencia de la división que sufrió el partido. Luis A. Ferré, fundador del Partido Nuevo Progresista (PNP), gana las elecciones de 1968. A consecuencia de esto Muñoz Marín se siente responsable de la derrota y decide exiliarse en Italia para evitar intervenir nuevamente en el partido.

El PPD y la era de Rafael Hernández Colón
En 1972 Luis Muñoz Marín regresa a Puerto Rico, esta vez para presentar a Rafael Hernández Colón quien fungía como presidente del Senado y ahora sería el candidato a la gobernación del PPD.

En las elecciones de 1972, el PPD vuelve a ganar las elecciones y el control gubernamental cuando el candidato Rafael Hernández Colón gana las elecciones.

En las elecciones de 1976 pierde ante Carlos Romero Barceló del PNP. Las elecciones del 1976 fueron matizadas por un alza en el valor del petróleo lo que obligó al gobierno a poner un impuesto a artículos como refrescos y otros que se le conoció popularmente como "La Vampirita", lo que favoreció indirectamente a Romero Barceló en su campaña de elección. Durante su primer término la Policía de Puerto Rico continuó la persecución hacia sectores independentistas reclutando hasta menores de edad como incubiertos. El más famoso de todos fue Alejandro González Malavé quien en 1973 fue reclutado como incubierto cuando apenas estaba en escuela superior. Años más tarde Alejandro González Malavé (alias "El Fraile") se convierte en protagonista del Caso del Cerro Maravilla.

Las elecciones generales de 1980 se convirtieron en las elecciones más cerradas en la historia electoral de Puerto Rico cuando Carlos Romero derrotó a Hernández Colón por 3000 votos. Estas elecciones estuvieron matizadas por controversias y alegaciones de fraude por el PPD. El PPD alegaba que mientras Hernández Colón estaba en la delantera el sistema eléctrico colapsó y cuando se mudaron al Edificio Valencia, Romero estaba en la delantera. A raíz de esto el PPD pidió un recuento como establece la ley, que se le conoció como "El Recuento de Valencia" debido al nombre del edificio y el sector de la Capital donde se llevó a cabo el histórico recuento. Romero Barceló ganó la elección, pero su partido perdió la Cámara de Representantes y el Senado.

Hernández Colón finalmente ganó las elecciones de 1984 luego de que el PNP sufriera una división en la que Hernán Padilla, alcalde PNP de San Juan, fundara el Partido de Renovación Puertorriqueña ya que Romero Barceló no lo dejó postularse para la gobernación. En 1988 el PPD revalidó nuevamente con Hernández Colón derrotando al candidato del PNP y alcalde de San Juan Baltasar Corrada del Río.

1990-1999
En el período eleccionario de 1992 Rafael Hernández Colón decidió no correr nuevamente a la gobernación y el PPD nominó a la entonces senadora e hija del fundador del PPD, Victoria Muñoz Mendoza. Luego de 8 años de gobierno el PPD sufre una derrota electoral ante el candidato del PNP, el Dr. Pedro Rosselló González.

Plebiscito de 1993
En 1993 el gobernador Rosselló convocó a un plebiscito de estatus en el que él y su partido favorecían la Estadidad, el Partido Popular el Estado Libre Asociado y el Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño la Independencia. El PPD resultó ganador cuando el ELA derrotó la Estadidad 48 % a 46 %.

Primarias de 1994
En el 20 de marzo de 1994, el Partido celebró por primera vez primarias para escoger su presidente y candidato a la gobernación para las elecciones de 1996. El entonces alcalde de San Juan, Héctor Luis Acevedo, prevaleció sobre el excomisionado residente Antonio "Tito" Colorado, José Alberto "Beto" Morales, el agricultor Víctor de la Cruz y el entonces senador Marco A. Rigau.

Referéndum
En 1994 el entonces gobernador Pedro Rosselló, convocó a un referéndum para enmendar la constitución de Puerto Rico, pero la mayoría del pueblo voto "no". El PPD y el PIP hicieron campaña en contra de las enmiendas.

Elecciones de 1996
En 1996, el PPD nomina al entonces alcalde de la ciudad capital de San Juan, Héctor Luis Acevedo, como su candidato a la gobernación. En las elecciones generales de 1996 el PPD sufre una derrota ante el Dr. Pedro Rosselló.

Luego de esta derrota, Héctor Luis Acevedo decide renunciar a su cargo de presidente del PPD y en una elección de delegados se escoge a Aníbal Acevedo Vilá como presidente de la colectividad para que liderara el proceso de re-estructuración del partido.

Plebiscito de 1998
En el 1998, el gobernador Dr. Pedro Rosselló propulsó un plebiscito en donde se escogiera el estatus político de Puerto Rico. En las fórmulas de estatus que aparecerían en el plebiscito al PPD no se le dejó redactar su definición de Estado Libre Asociado y la que aparecía en la papeleta no era la que ellos han defendido. Ante esta situación, el PPD decidió respaldar la opción de "Ninguna de las Anteriores" como boicot al plebiscito y llevando el lema de campaña El ELA está en la quinta columna. El PPD salió triunfador en este proceso cuando "Ninguna de las Anteriores" se alzó con el 50 % de los votos, derrotando así la opción de estadidad defendida por el PNP y el entonces gobernador Pedro Rosselló. Este triunfo se le atribuyó en gran medida a la gestión y organización que hizo el entonces presidente del PPD, Aníbal Acevedo Vilá.

Primarias de 1999
En el 1999 Sila María Calderón, la entonces alcaldesa de la ciudad capital de San Juan, fue seleccionada como la candidata a la gobernación por el PPD. José Alfredo Hernández Mayoral anuncia su aspiración para Comisionado Residente el cual se enfrentaría al presidente del PPD en ese entonces Aníbal Acevedo Vilá. Sila Calderón apoyo al entonces Presidente del PPD y este venció a José Alfredo Hernández Mayoral ampliamente en dichas primarias.

2000-2004

El PPD obtiene la victoria en las elecciones de 2000, cuando Sila María Calderón vence a Carlos Pesquera, el candidato del PNP. Así Calderón se convierte en la primera mujer en ser electa gobernadora del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico.

En el 2003 Calderón decide no aspirar a la reelección y nomina a José Alfredo Hernández Mayoral, hijo de Rafael Hernández Colón, y a Roberto Prats como la papeleta del PPD en el 2004 dejando fuera al entonces comisionado residente, Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, quien ante este escenario decide postularse como representante por acumulación. A los dos meses de haber sido nombrado candidato a la gobernación Hernández Mayoral decide retirar sus aspiraciones por, supuestamente, la salud de su hijo, aunque se especuló que esa no fue la verdadera razón de su renuncia. Ante esto Aníbal Acevedo Vilá decide correr a la gobernación en las elecciones del 2004 y enfrentarse al exgobernador y gran rival del PPD, el Dr. Pedro Rosselló.

En estas elecciones Aníbal Acevedo Vilá recibió el favor del pueblo de diversas maneras entre ellas el voto mixto a los cuales se le denominaron como "pivasos". Los "pivazos" fueron aquellas papeletas estatales en las cuales se elige a un Gobernador y a un Comisionado Residente en Washington D.C. donde un grupo del Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño escribieron tres marcas para elegir dos posiciones electivas. Dichas papeletas de votación con tres marcas fueron impugnadas por el Partido Nuevo Progresista ante los tribunales. El Partido Popular Democrático defendió dichas votaciones alegando que se trataba de un voto mixto a favor de sus candidatos realizado por militantes del Partido Independentista. El Partido Independentista por su parte defendía que se contaran las votaciones íntegras de esas papeletas a favor de su partido y de sus candidatos. En las papeletas de votación indicaba claramente como votar correctamente y en las páginas 52-53 (Sección 59.2) del manual del reglamento oficial de la Comisión Estatal de Elecciones de 2004 indicaba a los funcionarios de colegio como adjudicar votos mixtos en dicha papeleta e incluía ilustrados ejemplos de las formas correctas de votos mixtos en reglamento y ley. Dicho manual de reglamento fue aceptado por los comisionados electorales de los tres partidos. Para que existiera un voto mixto en la papeleta estatal debían aparecer solamente dos marcas una marca bajo la insignia de cualquier partido y otra marca al lado de uno de los candidatos de otro partido diferente o el nombre de un candidato en la columna de nominación directa ya que en esa papeleta solo se escogían dos candidatos a puestos electivos. Luego de litigios en corte el Tribunal Supremo de Puerto Rico, decide la intención de los electores y declara que se cuenten a favor del Partido Independentista como voto mixto y a favor de las posiciones de Gobernador y Comisionado Residente del Partido Popular Democrático. Contabilizados estos, el Gobernador electo democráticamente por los puertorriqueños fue Aníbal Acevedo Vila con una ventaja de poco más de 3 mil votos de ventaja sobre Pedro Rosselló. De esa manera en el 2004 el PPD logró en los comicios obtener la rama ejecutiva de Puerto Rico. Sin embargo, el PPD pierde la asamblea legislativa, el Comisionado Residente y la mayoría de las alcaldías frente al PNP.

2005 - 2012

Luego de obtener el favor del pueblo de Puerto Rico, en el 2006 la Legislatura del PNP le niega al Gobernador el presupuesto presentado por este y como resultado de esto cierra el gobierno por primera vez en la historia, luego de reabrir el gobierno el Gobernador Acevedo Vila firma una medida del PNP el cual tenía el control legislativo y propuso en la campaña política el impuesto al consumo dicho impuesto fue de 7%. En marzo de 2008 el gobernador es objeto de acusaciones federales las cuales al año siguiente todas fueron desestimadas. Acevedo Vila perdió las elecciones de noviembre del 2008. Aníbal Acevedo Vilá se retira de la política dejando vacante la presidencia del PPD. Es entonces cuando el representante de la Cámara por el PPD, Héctor Ferrer, asume la presidencia del PPD y la tarea de reorganizar un partido destrozado por las acusaciones federales, que al final resultaron fueron desestimadas, además de la derrota ante el PNP. No fue hasta el año 2011 que le entrega la presidencia del partido al entonces senador del PPD Alejandro García Padilla quien anuncio el 6 de marzo de 2011 en la municipalidad de Coamo su aspiración a la gobernación de Puerto Rico. Hoy en día, el Partido Popular Democrático es el segundo partido con más electores afiliados en Puerto Rico. El PPD participó en las primarias realizadas el 18 de marzo de 2012. En su participación, el partido no presentó candidato opositor para la candidatura a la gobernación. De igual manera, no contó con primarias notables para alcaldías, salvo en el municipio de Ponce, donde Ramón Torres Torres derrotó mediante abultado por ciento al exalcalde, Francisco Zayas Seijo. En la Legislatura, los representantes por acumulación que más votos lograron fueron Carmen Yulín Cruz y Luis Vega Ramos, ambos portavoces del sector soberanista. En el Senado, las candidaturas fueron dominadas por el senador Eduardo Bathia y el exsecretario de la gobernación bajo la administración de Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, Aníbal José Torres.

Alejandro García Padilla juramentó como gobernador del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico el 2 de enero de 2013, recibiendo al territorio en una crisis fiscal nunca antes vista heredada por la administración del los pasados gobernantes enfrentando retos jamás vistos y teniendo que tomar duras decisiones ante una crisis fiscal de grandes proporciones.

2015-2020

El 16 de diciembre de 2015, el actual Secretario del Departamento de Estado, David Bernier anunció sus intenciones de aspirar a la gobernación del país desde la residencia de sus padres en Patillas, Puerto Rico. Luego de perder las elecciones generales del 2016, David Bernier abandonó la presidencia del partido el 28 de febrero de 2017. Su sucesor fue elegido en un Consejo General donde compitieron Aníbal Acevedo Vilá y su compañero de papeleta Héctor Ferrer Ríos, este último fue el que salió vencedor.

Ferrer falleció el 5 de noviembre de 2018 y Aníbal José Torres asumió la presidencia del Partido. En agosto de 2020, se efectuaron las primarias para la candidatura a la presidencia del partido y la gobernación. El ex-alcalde de Isabela Carlos Delgado Altieri prevaleció sobre la alcaldesa de San Juan Carmen Yulín Cruz y el expresidente del Senado Eduardo Bathia Gautier. El exsenador Roberto Prats Palerm y el exalcalde de Vega Alta Juan "Mane" Cruzado también aspiraron a la gobernación, pero Prats retiró su candidatura y Cruzado fue descalificado.
En las elecciones de 2020 Charlie Delgado Artieri fue derrotado por el aspirante del PNP Pedro Pierliussi Urutia, estas elecciones fueron objeto de senalamientos de irregularidades debido al reciente nuevo codigo electoral.

Ideología

Los líderes del sector "conservador" del PPD consideran que en 1952 hubo un acuerdo "con la naturaleza de un pacto" entre Puerto Rico y los Estados Unidos que le dio al territorio un gobierno local tipo commonwealth y lo sacó de la lista de colonias de la Organización de Naciones Unidas.

Bajo el actual Estado Libre Asociado, el sistema de impuestos es manejado por el Gobierno de Puerto Rico, parecido a los otros estados de la unión,  así como todo menester local, mientras que otros asuntos como las aduanas y la defensa militar, entre otras cosas, siguen recayendo en manos del Gobierno Federal de Estados Unidos. Puerto Rico carece de poderes para establecer tratados con otros países, comercio internacional, pero participa en ciertas organizaciones internacionales cuales no requieren ser un país soberano como la CEPAL, CARICOM y OEC, debido a que la soberanía esta bajo el congreso federal.  Los puertorriqueños definen a Puerto Rico como una nación. Por ejemplo, Puerto Rico tiene participación en los Juegos Olímpicos y una historia relativamente distinta a los estados federados, así como también una cultura y una identidad nacional propia puertorriqueña relativamente distinta a la estadounidense. Puerto Rico está bajo la cláusula territorial de los Estados Unidos y como todo estado o territorio de la nación siempre la bandera federal tiene que estar presente en toda oficina del gobierno del ELA.  Todo funcionado electo tiene que juramentar lealtad a la constitución de los Estados Unidos primero y a la constitución del ELA segundo.

El PPD es considerado un partido de  centro-derecha y centro-izquierda. En sus inicios, se identificaba con la justicia social y el rol del estado de proteger a los más desprotegidos. Ejemplo de esto es la insignia del partido, el perfil de un jíbaro puertorriqueño, poblador humilde del Puerto Rico de la era fundacional del PPD. La posición institucional del partido en cuanto al estatus político del país es que debe darse un "desarrollo autonomista" hacia una versión "no colonial, no territorial" de este. El sector soberanista del PPD exige la soberanía para Puerto Rico como alternativa de búsqueda de mayores poderes para Puerto Rico, enfatizando en relaciones diplomáticas y tratados de libre comercio. Por otro lado, el sector conservador propone aumentar el grado de autonomía dentro de la relación actual según lo permita la Constitución de los Estados Unidos, sin remover a Puerto Rico de la cláusula territorial. A diferencia de los anexionistas e independentistas, este partido no tiene una definición clara sobre el estatus que defienden al tener una división entre soberanistas y ELA actual.

Líderes importantes

Candidatos a la gobernación del PPD
 Luis Muñoz Marín - Fundador del partido y exgobernador de Puerto Rico; candidato en las elecciones de 1948, 52, 56 y 60, siempre ganó.
 Roberto Sánchez Vilella - Exgobernador de Puerto Rico; candidato a la gobernación por el PPD en el 1964, ganó; candidato a la gobernación por el Partido del Pueblo en el 1972, perdió.
 Luis Negrón López - Candidato a la gobernación por el PPD en el 1968, perdió.
 Rafael Hernández Colón - Exgobernador de Puerto Rico; candidato en las elecciones de 1972 (ganó), 1976 (perdió), 1980 (perdió), 1984 (ganó) y 1988 (ganó).
 Victoria Muñoz Mendoza - Candidata en las elecciones de 1992, perdió.
 Héctor Luis Acevedo - Candidato en las elecciones de 1996, perdió.
 Sila María Calderón - Exgobernadora de Puerto Rico; candidata a la gobernación 2000, ganó.
 Aníbal Acevedo Vilá - Exgobernador de Puerto Rico; candidato a la gobernación en el 2004, ganó.
 Alejandro García Padilla - Exgobernador de Puerto Rico; candidato a la gobernación en el 2012, ganó.
 David Bernier - Candidato a la gobernación en el 2016; perdió.
 Carlos Delgado Altieri - Candidato a la gobernación en 2020; perdió.

Otras figuras importantes
 Antonio Fernós Isern - Abogado, escritor, Profesor de Derecho Constitucional, e ideólogo de la Libre Asociación como opción descolonizadora).
 Teodoro Moscoso - Arquitecto del programa "Manos a la Obra", Director Ejecutivo de la Compañía de Fomento de Puerto Rico.
 Felisa Rincón de Gautier ("Doña Fela") - Fundadora del Partido Popular, primera mujer alcaldesa de la Ciudad Capital de San Juan Bautista.
 Jaime B. Fuster Berlingeri - Abogado, comisionado residente del Partido Popular, juez asociado del Tribunal Supremo.
 Severo Colberg Ramírez ("El Látigo") - Expresidente de la Cámara de Representantes, legislador, profesor de Ciencias Políticas, decano de la Escuela Graduada de Administración Pública de la UPR y ensayista. Promotor de la soberanía de Puerto Rico, a través de un nuevo pacto de asociación, dentro del PPD.
 Jaime Perelló Borrás - Presidente de la Cámara de Representantes de Puerto Rico, ex Asesor de Asuntos Municipales durante la gobernación de Aníbal Acevedo Vilá y Ayudante Especial del exalcalde de Carolina, José Aponte de la Torre.
 Roberto Prats - Abogado, portavoz del Partido Demócrata de los EU en Puerto Rico, senador del PPD 2000-2004.
 Antonio J. Colorado - Comisionado Residente del PPD, y promotor de la soberanía de Puerto Rico dentro del PPD.
 Héctor Ferrer Ríos - Abogado, Portavoz Alterno de la Mayoría del PPD 2001-2004 y Portavoz de la Minoría del PPD 2004-2012 en la Cámara de Representantes de Puerto Rico, Presidente del PPD 2009-2011 y 2017- actualidad.
 Cirilo Tirado Rivera - senador electo por el Distrito Senatorial de Guayama del 2000 al 2008. Senador electo por Acumulación desde el 2008 al presente.
 José Luis Dalmau - Abogado, músico y senador. Presidente del Senado de Puerto Rico 2021 al presente. Vicepresidente del Senado de Puerto Rico, 2013 al 2016. Portavoz de la Mayoría del PPD en el Senado 2001-2004. Portavoz de la Minoría PPD 2004-2012 en el Senado.
 Eduardo Bathia - Abogado y senador, Presidente del Senado de Puerto Rico. Ex Director de la Oficina de Relaciones Federales en Washington.
 William Miranda Marín - Abogado, Alcalde de la Ciudad de Caguas 1997-2010, Ayudante General del Ejército de los Estados Unidos, promotor de la soberanía de Puerto Rico dentro del PPD.
 José Aponte de la Torre - Alcalde de la Ciudad de Carolina 1984-2007, y promotor de la soberanía de Puerto Rico dentro del PPD.
 Carlos "Charlie" Hernández - Abogado, fundador del Frente Autonomista Mayagüezano, Representante por la Ciudad de Mayagüez 2001-2012, Presidente Comisión de lo Jurídico 2001-2004, Presidente de la Asociación de Abogados Populares y promotor de la soberanía de Puerto Rico dentro del PPD.
 Aníbal "Jossie" José Torres - Abogado, locutor, Director de la Oficina de Asuntos de la Juventud 2001-2004, Secretario de la Gobernación 2004-2006, y Secretario del PPD 2006-2008. Portavoz de la Mayoría PPD en el Senado 2013 al presente.
 Carmen Yulín Cruz - Presidenta de las Mujeres Populares, exrepresentante por Acumulación a la Cámara, desde 2013 alcaldesa de San Juan, y promotora de la soberanía de Puerto Rico dentro del PPD.
 Carlos Delgado Altieri - Comerciante, vicepresidente del PPD hasta el 2011, Alcalde de Isabela 2000-actual y promotor de la soberanía de Puerto Rico dentro del PPD.
 Luis Vega Ramos - Abogado, escritor y ensayista, expresidente de PRO-ELA, Director Oficina de Asesores de la Cámara de Representantes, 2001-2004, Representante por Acumulación 2006-2012, 2013-. Promotor de la soberanía de Puerto Rico dentro del PPD.
 Prof. Jorge Colberg Toro - Ex-representante a la Cámara (2003-2013) ex secretario general del PPD (2001-2002 y 2015-2016) comisionado electoral alterno del PPD, secretario auxiliar de educación policita y miembro de la Junta de Gobierno del PPD.
 Lcdo. Antonio Fas Alzamora - Expresidente del Senado, exrepresentante y exsecretario general del PPD.
 Lcdo. José Alfredo Hernández Mayoral - Abogado constitucionalista, miembro de la Junta de Gobierno del PPD y exsecretario de asuntos federales del PPD.

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Resultados electorales

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Gliniewicz trial on hold again after prosecutors file another appeal
Melodie Gliniewicz
Lee Filas
Melodie Gliniewicz's ongoing legal battle may be in line for another lengthy delay now that Lake County prosecutors have filed an appeal to a previous court ruling involving her cellphone text messages.
Assistant State's Attorney Ken LaRue filed a motion Wednesday to send the case to the state appellate court in an effort to overturn a ruling by Judge James Booras that blocked some text messages between Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz and his widow, Melodie, from being introduced at her trial to determine if the couple conspired to misuse charitable funds.
The decision could delay the case for an undetermined amount of time while awaiting a decision. It took about 18 months for an appellate court ruling on the first appeal of a similar issue in the case.
Melodie Gliniewicz's trial, previously scheduled for July, is on indefinite hold and no new court dates have been set.
The delay didn't sit well with defense attorney Don Morrison, who said in court, "we'll see you in 18 months, judge."
Morrison and LaRue did not comment on the case after the brief court hearing Wednesday.
Text messages between Melodie and Charles Gliniewicz are the crux of the case for prosecutors, who allege she conspired with her husband to misuse thousands of dollars earmarked for the Fox Lake youth Explorer post before his death Sept. 1, 2015.
Melodie Gliniewicz, 53, of Antioch Township, has pleaded not guilty to felony unlawful use of charitable funds, conspiracy and money laundering. She could face up to seven years in prison if found guilty at trial.
Judge James Booras ruled April 10 that some text messages discovered on her cellphone could be introduced at trial because she previously signed a waiver allowing officers investigating her husband's death to examine her phone records. However, Booras ruled in the same hearing that prosecutors cannot introduce text messages from Charles Gliniewicz's cellphone at her trial because he never granted law enforcement access to his phone before his death.
LaRue said some text messages between the couple were found during a data extraction of Charles Gliniewicz's phone, but were not found on Melodie Gliniewicz's phone. LaRue did not allege some messages were erased intentionally from Melodie Gliniewicz's phone, but said the text messages in question do not exist.
Morrison has argued successfully that electronic communications between the couple are protected under Illinois marital privilege laws. Those laws ensure spouses can communicate with each other without fear of court disclosure.
This is the second time the appellate court is being asked to rule on these text messages. In 2017, Booras initially barred prosecutors from using all communications between the couple at trial because of marital privilege. Prosecutors sent the case to the state appellate court, which ordered Booras to hold another hearing on the issue because of the waiver Melodie Gliniewicz signed.
Authorities allege Charles and Melodie Gliniewicz stole thousands of dollars from the Explorer post and used that money to pay for a trip to Hawaii, movie tickets, pornography websites and more than 400 restaurant charges.
The allegations surfaced after Charles Gliniewicz was found shot to death in a secluded area of Fox Lake on Sept. 1, 2015. Investigators initially believed he was shot in the line of duty, but later determined he killed himself and made it appear as if he'd been gunned down.
Appeals court reverses Lake County judge, rules Gliniewicz texts admissible
Gliniewicz case could head back to state appellate court
Judge allows some text messages between Gliniewicz, widow during trial
Trial set for widow of police lieutenant who killed himself
Gliniewicz case delayed pending appellate court decision
Judge denies motion to dismiss charges against Melodie Gliniewicz
Charges filed against widow of discredited police lieutenant


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First Case of HIV Infection for a PrEP User Makes Others Nervous
posted in #News on March 24, 2016 by Shim Clinic
For the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community, as well as for other sexually active individuals, the risk of HIV/AIDS is a constant source of concern. Sexually transmitted diseases can ravage a person's health, damage personal relationships, and eventually result in death. Fortunately, modern medicine here in Singapore and around the globe has taken some great leaps forward in the realm of preventative care. One such aspect of preventative care is medication like Truvada, which many had considered to be a no-fail protection against HIV. So what happens when that 100% success rate is suddenly broken?
Here's what happened. A gay man was taking Truvada, an anti-HIV medication, in the form of daily PrEP. This drug is a pill that you take once each day to prevent HIV infection. If users miss doses or fail to take the product as recommended, there are no guarantees; but every person who has taken the recommended dosage consistently has been protected against HIV— until recently, when the 43-year-old man taking the drug contracted a rare strain of HIV.
While it's impossible to determine whether or not the man missed a dose or more, pharmacy records and blood tests back up his claims that he took the pill every day. According to Dr. David Knox, who documented the case, the man was exposed to a dangerous strain of the virus that was able to resist both of the active drugs in Truvada. Fighting off the emtricitabine and the tenofovir, this particular strain of HIV was able to infect the man.
According to research and studies, the PrEP medication works very well. In almost all cases, it did exactly what it was intended to do— keeping HIV from infecting the exposed individual's body. However, researchers and users have to be realistic, acknowledging that exceptions exist in any situation. There is a long history of various viruses eventually developing resistance to the drugs being used to fight them.
Let's imagine that you're taking Truvada or PrEP regularly as suggested by your doctor. You have a sexual encounter in which you are exposed to an HIV strain that is resistant to one of the drugs in the pill. Since it wasn't resistant to both drugs, you won't be infected; however, your body may react differently to the pills from that point on. The effectiveness of the medication could decrease because of that one encounter with the semi-resistant strain.
The individual who became infected while on Truvada lives in Canada, where 10% of British Columbia's HIV-positive residents carry emtricitabine-resistant HIV. That percentage varies from region to region, but it's important to be aware of the risk factor in our area of Singapore.
The Necessary Action
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High-risk individuals who haven't contracted HIV yet should definitely pursue PrEP as a way to protect themselves against this virus. The PrEP medication significantly lowers your risk of infection, with benefits that far outweigh the tiny chance of contracting a tougher kind of HIV. Doctors recommend condom use along with the daily pill, as a safeguard against those rare resistant strains. For an HIV test or information about Truvada, PrEP, and similar anti-HIV medications, contact Shim Clinic today.
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A lawyer (Merchant) successfully obtained an order quashing a decision of the Law Society of Alberta ("Law Society") disbarring him, on the basis that there was a reasonable apprehension of bias due to an ex parte communication between the chair of the hearing committee and a witness
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Administrative law – Decisions of administrative tribunals – Law Societies – Barristers and solicitors – Disciplinary proceedings – Penalties and suspensions – Judicial review – Procedural requirements and fairness – Bias – Reasonable apprehension of bias – test – Witnesses – Compliance with legislation – Remedies – Alternative remedies
Merchant v. Law Society of Alberta, [2007] A.J. No. 1226, Alberta Court Q.B., November 2, 2007, C.A. Kent J.
In late January 2007, a hearing committee found Merchant guilty of six citations. The issue of penalty was adjourned to a later date. The day before submissions were to be heard on sanction, the Chair of the Hearing Committee telephoned a complainant in the proceedings and asked whether Merchant had sent him a letter of apology. The complainant indicated he had received a letter of apology.
The hearing reconvened and the Committee ordered that Merchant be disbarred immediately. The telephone conversation between the Hearing Chair and the witness was not made known to Merchant.
When the prosecutor contacted the complainant to advise him of the outcome, the complainant told the prosecutor that he had been contacted by the Hearing Chair. The prosecutor wrote to counsel for Merchant and advised him that the telephone call had taken place.
On the application for judicial review, the Law Society admitted that the conversation between the Chair and the complainant should not have occurred. The Law Society also admitted that if the Court found that the telephone call had tainted the process, the entire process should be set aside and not just the sanction portion of the hearing.
The Court first considered whether there was a reasonable apprehension of bias created by the telephone conversation between the adjudicator and the witness. The Court applied the test of whether a reasonably informed bystander could reasonably perceive bias on the part of the decision maker. The Court indicated that the analysis should include a review of the facts, and whether these established a real likelihood or probability of bias. The threshold for finding real or perceived bias is high. The Court defined this high threshold as follows: "…the apprehension of bias must be real in the sense that there must be some fact from which a reasonable person would conclude that the adjudicator may not have an open mind".
Merchant argued that where any person acting in a quasi judicial capacity has private communications with a party or witness outside of the hearing process, there is a reasonable apprehension of bias. The Court held that ex parte communication does not automatically void the process. The pragmatic and functional approach adopted by the Canadian courts when engaged in the judicial review of the decision of an administrative tribunal requires that the Court consider the content and nature of the communication, and the surrounding circumstances, to determine what an informed person would conclude.
Turning to the facts of the case, the Court found that although the response of the witness to the hearing Chair's inquiry was favourable for Merchant, the telephone call was clearly made to determine whether a representation made by Merchant about sending a letter of apology was true. The contact between the adjudicator and the witness was intentional, for the purpose of gathering information about Merchant. The Court concluded that "a reasonable person could conclude that by making the call, the hearing chair stepped out of the role of impartial adjudictor and took on an investigatory role. It is not the content of the call that is significant. Rather, it is stepping out of the role of impartial adjudicator which is critical. That creates a reasonable apprehension of bias".
The Court then turned to consider the issue of whether the finding of a reasonable apprehension of bias mandates that the decision of an administrative tribunal be quashed. The Court held that, as with the analysis of whether ex parte communication between an adjudicator and a witness automatically gives rise to an apprehension of bias, the pragmatic and functional approach requires that not every breach of procedural fairness renders the decision of a tribunal void. However, the Court went on to find that where an irregularity gives rise to a reasonable apprehension of bias, the decision of the tribunal is fundamentally undermined.
The final issue for the Court was whether, despite the Court's jurisdiction to review the Law Society decision, the Court should abstain from reviewing the decision because the legislation provided an effective right of appeal from the decision. The Court held that although a finding of bias does not automatically result in the exclusion of a legislated appeal, here the finding of a reasonable apprehension of bias was made on the part of the Hearing Chair, and anybody sitting on appeal would be a Bencher, and therefore worked in other capacities alongside the Bencher whose conduct had been called into question. The Court held that an appeal could not be an adequate alternate remedy and Merchant's application to quash the findings of the Hearing Committee, both on the merits and on the sanction, was granted.
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Spain's Sabadell sticks to 2019 targets on lower TSB tech costs
By Jesús Aguado
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's Banco Sabadell SABE.MC almost doubled its third-quarter net profit as provisions related to IT failings at its British bank TSB fell, lifting its shares close to 1% on Friday.
FILE PHOTO: The Sabadell bank branch in Barcelona, Spain October 6, 2017. REUTERS/Yves Herman
Spanish banks have gone abroad in search of higher revenues, but Sabadell's 2015 purchase of TSB has been marred by major technology glitches, which last year led to losses of 240 million euros at the British bank.
For the first nine months of 2019 TSB lost 5 million euros, after booking a restructuring charge of 15 million euros in the third quarter.
Sabadell's chief financial officer Tomas Varela told analysts in a call that TSB could book some additional charges in the last quarter of the year.
TSB will present its strategic plan on Nov. 25, which is expected to focus on costs and growing small business lending.
Sabadell said its overall net profit for the quarter was 251 million euros ($279 million), compared to 127 million euros a year before and higher than the 231 million euros forecast in a Reuters poll of analysts.
In the same quarter last year Sabadell had one-off costs of 88 million euros related to the TSB IT outage.
Spain's Sabadell plans to close around 10% of its branches in Spain in 2020
Although third quarter net profit was down 8% against the previous quarter, Sabadell said it was on target to meet its return on equity target of more than 6.5% by the end of 2019 after it finished September at 6.9%.
"A sound set of numbers ... that should support the stock, also in the context of management confirming most points of this year's guidance, which should reassure consensus and provide further support to our forecasts," UBS said in a client note.
RATES SQUEEZE
Ultra low interest rates squeezed Sabadell's net interest income (NII), a measure of earnings on loans minus deposit costs, which fell by 2.9% in the third quarter to 906 million euros from a year earlier, but was slightly better than forecast.
Like other European banks, Spanish lenders are struggling to increase earnings from lending because of ultra-loose monetary policy.
Sabadell lowered its NII guidance to between 0 and -1% in 2019 in July, before the ECB cut rates deeper into negative territory in September. It had previously forecast NII growth of 1%-2% for 2019.
In an attempt to offset increasing competition, Spanish banks are focused on cost-cutting and shifting to more profitable consumer and enterprise business, while also building up their capital positions.
At the end of September, Sabadell increased its core tier-1 capital ratio by 21 basis points to 11.4%.
Taking into account real estate asset disposals, Sabadell said its pro-forma core-tier 1 capital ratio was 11.8%, which its CFO said would be its reported target for the end of the year.
Sabadell also announced a 0.02 euros gross per share dividend against 2019 results to be paid in treasury stock.
Reporting by Jesús Aguado; Editing by Ashif Kassam and Alexander Smith


ALTUS, Okla._Altus firefighters are gearing up to compete against the quickest crews in the world at the Scott Firefighter Combat World Challenge, and they hope to come away victorious for a second time.
The competition is this week in Alabama. Competitors perform a series of five events, from a high-rise climb to victim rescue. All the events use techniques that firefighters use in emergency situations.
The Altus team is hoping for a medal, but they are expecting at least a race without any penalties, which come from mistakes. This team has competed for four world championships, and won once in 2004.
For the older members, they say they aren't the fastest, but use precision to compete.
Assistant Fire Chief Jimmy Rogers competes in the over-50 division and has been competing in the challenge since the group's inception in 1998, with one thought remaining constant.
"I wasn't what I would call in athlete in high school, but each one of us do our parts and we do it well," Assistant Chief Rogers said.
Because of that, the team has won multiple championships, but Assistant Chief Rogers knows that the possibility of mistakes are always there, like when he tripped during a U.S. national event.
"I wasn't strong to the finish. I wasn't pulling hard, and I tripped and fell. It cost us the race. Even doing it as long as we've done it, we still make mistakes," he explained.
Tommy Sadler, a retired firefighter with 37 years of experience, has been competing with Team Dr. Pepper since the second year. He uses it as a way to stay healthy away from his farm.
"I wasn't in the best of shape when we started, but as we kept competing…I kept working out," Sadler said.
He now owns the over-65 tandem world record time, which he broke during the first weekend of this month at the U.S. nationals.
"Now we have a record that everyone can shoot at now," Sadler said.
He says that moment and the 2004 championship are the highlights of his career, but he wouldn't mind another before he calls it a day.
"Maybe one more year, but this might be my last year. I will have to re-evaluate next year and see how I feel, but that would be the way to go out. That would be awesome," Sadler said.
No matter the result, they use these events to build lifelong friendships with other firemen across the globe. For Assistant Chief Rogers, it's also about showing that a department of 32 firefighters, like Altus, can compete with those, like Toronto, who have 2,000.
"That makes you feel good, because sometimes you wonder if these guys know who you are, but when we started hearing them say, 'dang. Team Dr. Pepper is here,' that's when we know we arrived," Assistant Chief Rogers said.
Team Dr. Pepper will leave Tuesday morning. They have runs on Wednesday and Thursday, and bracket-play on Saturday. You can watch a live stream of the events here.
The team has a lengthy group of sponsors, including Dr. Pepper, which help pay the team's expenses.


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OKC rookie Chet Holmgren sustains foot injury, potentially torn ligament
Oklahoma City Thunder rookie Chet Holmgren recently played in Jamal Crawford's CrawsOver Pro-Am along with Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James in Seattle. In that game, Holmgren was seen to land in an awkward position as he attempted to defend James on a fast break.
This is a piece of unfortunate news as people are expecting the former Gonzaga Bulldog to make a major impact as a rookie this season.
What happened on the court
FOX23 sports director Nathan Thompson shared the news and a short clip on his social media platform. According to his tweet, it was unclear how exactly Holmgren got hurt.
"Here's the play where Chet Holmgren got hurt tonight. He was guarding @kingjames one-on-one. It's hard to tell how he got hurt. He might have just stepped weirdly. @chetholmgren @thecrawsover #thunder."
Thompson also tweeted about Holmgren's condition at that time. The rookie limped while he tried to make his way out of the game. However, it did not look too serious.
"Well, Chet Holmgren limped out of the game and just left the court. Didn't look like anything too serious, but [crossed finger emoji]. #Thunder @thecrawsover," tweeted Thompson.
Holmgren was one of several other NBA players who joined pro-am basketball. Names like LeBron James, Jayson Tatum, No.1 pick Paolo Banchero, Dejounte Murray, and Aaron Gordon also participated in the tournament this year.
Holmgren's current condition
According to Shams Charania of The Athletic, test results showed possible torn ligaments in his foot. For now, the time of Holmgren's return is still in discussion.
Previously, Charania also reported that the court where the game was played had to be stopped midway due to unsafe and slippery course conditions. However, Holmgren's injury did not seem to be related to the poor court condition.
A team spokesperson of Oklahoma City said that their team will communicate once they have an update. "Chet is in the process of undergoing evaluation, and when we have an update, we will communicate," the spokesperson told ESPN.
Holmgren's return date is yet to be determined. The date will be determined by how long the rookie will rest. However, he is most likely to miss the new NBA season opener.
Outstanding rookie
OKC wrapped last season with a 25-58 record. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander the star guard missed 26 games due to injury. On the other hand, rookie Josh Giddey missed 28 games as well even being in the NBA Rookie of the Year Competition.
Holmgren is considered a generational talent with his rare 7-footer 190 pounds figure. Not to mention his outside shooting ability and great defensive ability. Back in the year 2021, he was picked as the No. 1 overall recruit in the nation out of Minnehaha High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Holmgren recorded an average of 14.1 points, 9.9 rebounds, and 3.7 blocks in 26.9 minutes per game in his lone season with the Bulldogs, as per Sportsnaut. Moreover, in three summer league games, he averaged 12 points and 7.7 boards per game while blocking two shots.
Currently, the Thunder are in wait-and-see mode. Further information will be aired as soon as they become available.
If everything went smoothly, Holmgren is expected to make his NBA debut against the Minnesota Timberwolves, his hometown team, on October 19 at Target Center.
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