After the rights were waived and counsel appointed at arraignment, there might be something that was not legally a part of the arraignment. This was known as plea bargaining. It would not take place if the charges were serious. The New York Criminal Court, where these arraignments took place, only had jurisdiction over misdemeanors and preliminary matters on felonies. A plea of guilty could not be entered to a felony and so plea bargaining on serious cases was down the road. It was different for misdemeanors where the maximum penalty was no more than a year in jail.
Court administrators pressure judges to "dispose" of cases quickly. In practice this meant to get pleas of guilty or a dismissal that would clear cases from the docket. If the charges were of a kind that might be plea bargained, the judge would call the assistant district attorney and me to the bench where we would have a conversation that was private and not on the record.
The prosecutor's consent was necessary for any guilty plea to less than all the charges. Thus, the assistant district attorney would indicate to what charge(s) he would allow a guilty plea with the understanding that he would dismiss the remaining one. He might also indicate what he thought the punishment should be. I would indicate whether this was sensible to me and often make a counter offer, not generally on the charges but to the sentence. If I had learned plausible reasons from my interviews why the matter might not be as serious as depicted in the charging papers, the judge would ask the arresting officer or the complaining witness something to weigh in.
Finally, the judge would indicate what sentence he would impose if the defendant did plead guilty to the charges the prosecutor offered. I would then go back to my client standing at a table a few feet away from the bench. I would tell the client in a confidential tone what had happened at the bench. The defendant then had a few moments, and only a few moments, to decide whether he wanted to take that offered plea. If he did want to take what had been offered, I indicated that to the court, and his plea was taken. This required an "allocution." The defendant had to be asked on the record whether he wanted to plead guilty. He had to answer "Yes." He was then asked whether he understood that he was giving up various constitutional rights, including the right to a trial, by pleading guilty. He had to answer "Yes." He would then be asked whether he had been forced or coerced to plead guilty or whether he had been offered any inducement to plead guilty other than the offered plea bargain. He would have to answer "No." Such an allocution took about a minute, and the defendant would then be led back behind the courtroom. If the plea included immediate release, some paperwork had to be filled out and then he could go. If he had people in court for him, I would go to them and tell them what had happened and where they could go to meet the defendant.
There was an advantage if I had worked with the assistant district attorney and the judge before. If so, I often had a good idea of what a plea offer would be before it was made, and I would have discussed that possibility with the client back in the holding cell before the arraignment so that he could think about an offer before having to make a snap decision in court.
The limited time that an accused had for the important decision of whether to plead guilty bothered me. I was also often disturbed when I was representing multiple defendants and a plea was offered. The prosecutor and judge were dealing partly to get the case over with, and that would require a disposition from all the defendants. If three out of four were willing to plead guilty but not the fourth, the case continued and would take basically the same amount of time in the future as if none had pleaded guilty. Thus, the deal was for all or for none. This presented an ethical dilemma. If the case went on, each defendant would have a separate attorney, but at the arraignment I was representing them all, and this presented a conflict. I was simultaneously the attorney for someone who wanted to plead guilty but could only do so if all pleaded guilty and a person who did not want to plead guilty. A way out of this ethical conflict was to have the case continue so that separate attorneys could be appointed, but that conflicted with the court's desire to get dispositions at arraignments and the desire of those defendants who wanted the case over immediately. The court never cared about the ethical conflict, and I never found a good way to handle it.
While many cases were plea bargained, defendants often rejected the offered deal. Many other cases were not plea bargained because the charges were too serious to be resolved by a misdemeanor plea. Such cases would live beyond that initial court appearance. Then the proceedings returned to another formal part of the arraignment—the setting of bail, but I will leave that for another day.
When I was working arraignments, after examining the court papers, I would head to the holding cell behind the courtroom and call out the name of my client. That person would move to the bars where I stood. I would introduce myself and present my card. I would tell him that I was the lawyer who was going to represent him. I would tell him the allegations in the court papers and explain his rights and what would happen in the courtroom.
A brief interview followed. This was legally problematic. Conversations between a lawyer and client are privileged; that is, the government cannot force disclosure of privileged conversations from either the client or the lawyer. However, normally the privilege applies only if the conversation has been conducted in a confidential manner, that is in a way that other people do not hear what is said. The person I would interview, however, was not alone in the holding cell. There might be a half dozen or more other arrested people waiting to be arraigned; court officers who staffed the holding cell area were present; and other attorneys also meeting clients were around. These people could easily hear what was being said; there was no true privacy. Even so, it was often important to try to get some information from the client.
If the rap sheet indicated a criminal record, I would ask the client about it to get his version of the dispositions that were not recorded. I would go over the information from the pre-trial agency report and ask whom I might contact to verify anything that could aid the client. I would ask whether any of his family or friends were in court so that I could talk to them.
I would also ask his version of the charged crime. I did this for several reasons. The judge would only have the prosecution's version, and for plea-bargaining and bail-setting reasons, I might want to indicate the defendant's alternative as to what happened. And getting the client's version could be important for starting an investigation. If the arrested person indicated that he had an alibi–that is he was at some other place than the scene of the crime–it would be important to seek out and interview witness who might confirm that alibi. If the crime arose out of some sort of altercation, it was important to interview those who witnessed the altercation to learn their version of the event. Time mattered. Witnesses became harder to find the longer the search for them was delayed, and their memories often became less useful as time elapsed. For example, if I asked where you were and who you were with yesterday at 6PM, you could probably tell me. If I asked where you were and who you were with at 6PM three weeks ago, your answer might not be as certain. Add to that the fact that many people who might be witnesses lead what might be called irregular lives that make it difficult to recall actions from weeks or even days before. In short, prompt witness interviews were essential. A delayed investigation might lose evidence entirely. For example, many surveillance cameras erase or record over what had been recorded in the last week or so.
If an investigation seemed beneficial, I would ask investigators that were on staff to do so in the coming days, or if I had the time, I would do it myself or in conjunction with an investigator. But that depended on what the client said, and clients were seldom fully forthcoming in these initial interviews. That was hardly surprising. The client had met me only moments ago. He had not selected me. He had little reason to trust me. I could tell him that anything he told me was confidential, but surely few of the clients were aware of the attorney-client privilege. And somehow talking with bars between us with others around was hardly conducive to building up the bond often necessary for forthright conversation.
From the time of the arrest until arriving incourt, the arrested person probably desired sleep, but sleep could only have been grabbed in a cell without beds. A metal bench or the floor would have been the only place for sleep, but that rest was unlikely with others around who may have been violent or mentally disturbed or simply talkative. After a day like this, when fear and anxiety and degradation have been ever-present, it is not surprising that many arrested people are not exactly loquacious when they first meet their appointed attorney.
After interviewing my new client in the holding cells behind the arraignment courtroom (also, revealingly, called the pens), I headed to the audience section of the courtroom. When there was a break in the action up front, I would ask if there was anyone there for the interviewed defendant. If there was, I would motion them out to the corridor where I would ask who they were and seek more basic information about the defendant. I might have a ballpark idea of the bail that would be set, and I would inquire about the ability of those present to post it. This could be important for getting the defendant out of jail that day. Perhaps the judge was about to set bail at $2,500 (more on bail-setting later), but the relatives had told me that they had brought $2,000 to court. I would give the judge that information, and the judge might then lower bail to $2,000. In addition, often those who came to court had information about the charged crime. Many of the crimes were neighborhood affairs and had been witnessed by relatives or friends of the defendant, or the relatives or friends had been told about the crime from others. This information could be useful in the plea bargaining and the bail-setting that might take place or in a subsequent investigation.
After talking with any people who were in court on the defendant's behalf, I would go back to the courtroom, and ask the audience whether the complaining witness was there. If so, I would ask to talk with the person in the corridor. I would tell the complainant that I was the attorney for the defendant and tell them they did not have to talk with me but that I would appreciate it if they would. Perhaps under the impression that if they talked with me it would speed up the process, most were willing to speak. I would ask them to describe the crime to me.
After talking with the complainant, I went to talk to the arresting officer. The police did not have to talk with me either but were usually eager to do so because they knew that I could delay the calling of the case in court and, thus, extend the officer's day. (A case would go before the judge after I indicated that I was ready for the case to be called.) I never delayed a case to try to get the complainant to talk, but cops, who almost never liked being in court, were generally eager to go home or back to duty. Sometimes there had been enough repeat business between me or my colleagues and a particular cop that opinions about the officer had developed. Most of the police were professional in dealing with defense attorneys, but a few were known as nasty, untrustworthy, or liars, and yes, sometimes I delayed the calling of the case if it would irritate such a cop or if he would not talk with me.
After all these interviews, I would indicate to the court officers that the case was ready to be called. When it was announced, court officers would lead the defendant from the holding cell into the courtroom. In New York, the defendant was generally only handcuffed, and the cuffs were removed when he was brought before the judge. In other cities, defendants are brought into court with belly chains and leg shackles that are not removed. I still find this a sickening sight, and I always think of engravings of slavery. I am sure that the places that use chains and shackles cite safety as their reason for the practice, but New York, with its more civilized practice has no more violent incidents than these other places.
Once the case was called, I would stand in front of the judge. I would state my name as representing the defendant and spell it for the court reporter, although that reporter already knew it from other appearances. I was then asked by the presiding court officer whether I waived the reading of the rights and charges. One of the formal reasons for an arraignment is to inform the defendant of the charges against him and various rights granted him, such as the right to a jury trial and the right to cross-examine witnesses. I would have gone over this stuff with the client while he was in the holding cell, and I would waive this part of the formal process in court, as did all other attorneys. Going over again what attorneys should have already explained needlessly delayed the proceedings and would have, at a minimum, irked the judge and court officers making unnecessary enemies.
One of the rights granted a defendant is his right to an attorney. If he could afford an attorney, he would have to retain one. In many places, judges really make the determination whether the accused is indigent and enitled to appointed counsel, but this was not case in New York City when I did public defender work. Instead, there was a working assumption that the Legal Aid Society would be representing a defendant unless the Legal Aid lawyer had determined that the client was getting a private attorney or had the resources to do so. Even if the defendant was going to retain an attorney, the practice was that the Society would represent the accused at the arraignment.
When there were multiple defendants in the case—a common situation—the public defender would represent them all at the arraignment, but each defendant would be entitled to a separate appointed counsel after that initial court appearance. In these situations, the Legal Aid attorney would say who she would represent after arraignments and ask the court to appoint counsel for the other defendants. The Appellate Division, an intermediate appellate court in New York, compiled a list of private attorneys who were certified to be appointed in criminal cases. These attorneys would be appointed for the other defendants for future court appearances. The Legal Aid attorney would get to choose which defendant would remain the Society's client. My selection of a client was often random, but sometimes my choice was affected by an instant like or dislike of an accused. Sometimes, however, it was clear that defendants were likely to have differing criminal liabilities. Many Legal Aid attorneys would choose the defendant with the least likelihood of a long sentence because it would be easier to represent that person. I probably did that some of the time. But I had found the lawyers on the Appellate Division list to be of mixed competence. The quality of the attorney would not matter much to the defendants who were going to be easy to represent, and since I thought I was as good as any of those attorneys and better than most, I generally selected the defendant who appeared to be hardest to defend.
We see footage on TV of some famous person being arrested and led off in a black and white. Later we see a noose of news people shouting outside a courthouse and are told what happened inside the courtroom where the arrestee has appeared. It is all highly scrutinized, and "experts" may be talking about that first court appearance for days on the news sites. Most people who are arrested do not draw this attention, and their traumatic event–for it is always traumatic–draws little scrutiny. Perhaps if court proceedings for "ordinary" people were better understood, we would have a better perspective when famous and influential people are arrested and brought to court. What follows, then, is a description of what happened to someone who was arrested when I worked in the New York City courts.
The process goes by different names around the country and is not precisely the same everywhere, but in New York City when I was doing public defender work for the Legal Aid Society, it was an "arraignment." Of course, before that first court appearance came the arrest. After being arrested, he (much more likely to be a he than a she) would be taken to the local police station where he was fingerprinted, photographed, and when the technology advanced, swabbed for a DNA sample. The police asked and would record basic "pedigree" information: name, age, and address. The arrested person would be placed in a small cell to await transportation to a more central police facility. From that central place, he was taken to court.
After coming from a police facility, the arrested person was put into a lockup facility behind the arraignment courtroom. As in other courtrooms, a waist-high railing separated the audience portion from the section where the judge's bench loomed. The court clerk had a desk off to the side of the bench. Within the railing but on opposite sides of the room facing each other, the assistant district attorneys and the legal aid attorneys each had a desk.
Three of us "legal aids" worked during arraignments. Court officers deposited copies of the legal papers onto our desk. Those papers were parceled out among us based on the seriousness of charges, the age of the defendant, and the experience of the attorney.
If it was my case, I was given several documents. The first contained the charges and brief description of the alleged crime. It might report something like this: The defendant is charged with robbery in the first degree. On a specific date at a particular time at a stated location the defendant displayed a gun and forcibly took the wallet of James Smith who, in courthouse lingo, was the complainant or the complaining witness. The charges would say little beyond this unless there were additional charges. If, for example, the defendant had been apprehended with a gun, a firearm charge would be listed. If the defendant had the complainant's wallet, the crime of possession of stolen property would be added.
A defense attorney learned some basic information from the totality of the charges. If a gunpoint robbery was alleged, but no firearm or stolen property charges were lodged, the case looked different from one in which other charges were included. Caught with a gun and the stolen property, the defendant was unlikely to have much of a defense. If he did not have a gun or property when arrested, a viable defense might exist. The time of the crime was also important. If it was in the last twenty-four hours, the defendant was undoubtedly arrested shortly after the crime, perhaps even at the scene of the crime. However, if the crime had occurred earlier, then one would want to know how the defendant was identified. The court papers would not give me that information; I would have to ferret it out.
A criminal history of the defendant was also in the defense packet. This was often called the "rap sheet." When I started out it was also called the "yellow sheet" because back then, for reasons I never knew, it was printed on yellow paper. This document was invariably misleading. It would show where and when the defendant had been previously arrested and charged with a crime, but it only contained the charges lodged by the police officer following an arrest. That officer, for his own career, had a stake in making the alleged criminal behavior look as serious as possible. The charges in the court documents, however, were drawn up by an assistant district attorney (ADA) and were often different from, and lesser than, those on the rap sheet. When I started, the rap sheet did not list the official ADA charges, and it seldom contained the outcome of the case, which might have been a dismissal or a guilty plea to lesser charges.
When I worked in a test case unit at the Legal Aid Society, we sued to require that the disposition to each arrest appeared on the rap sheet. We had some success. More of the outcomes were presented, but few rap sheets were complete and gaps in the disposition column were too common.
The third important document in the court papers given to the defense attorney was a report from a pre-trial agency that had interviewed the defendant and presented a report that could later be important in setting bail. The information obtained was to gauge, in the court lingo, the defendant's "ties to the community." How long had the defendant lived in New York? How long at his present address? Whom did he live with? Mother? Father? Spouse? Girlfriend? Children? What was his education? Did he have a job? If so, where and for how long? What income and assets did he have? The interviewer tried to verify information through phone calls, but the verification was often spotty. If the interviewer was calling at night, the business where the defendant worked might not be open. And many people back then did not have a phone so much of the supplied information could not be checked before the court appearance. After examining at these documents, I headed to the holding cell behind the courtroom to meet my client.
Clymer maintained that the fight over the Panama Canal Treaties helped fuel the rise of the modern Right. The two treaties were signed in 1977. One treaty authorized the United States to use force to assure that the canal would remain open to ships of all nations. The second treaty gave Panama, starting in 2000, control over the canal.
The treaties, of course, had to be ratified, and after Panama did so in a plebiscite, a political battle ensued in the United States Senate, which under our Constitution must approve treaties by a two-thirds majority. According to Clymer, this battle led to the emergence of Richard Viguerie, a founder of modern conservatism, the use of direct-mail marketing, and the rise of single-issue PACs to raise money to defeat moderate Republicans.
Although it was President Jimmy Carter who signed the treaties, the negotiations had started under President Nixon. The treaties were thought desirable because they gave America the right to ensure the canal's neutrality and they removed a flashpoint for much of Latin America, and Panama in particular, by giving Panama control over the canal. Those supporting the treaties maintained that the treaties would increase the security of the canal by helping to remove the threat of guerrilla attacks, which were almost impossible to defend against.
The treaties were backed by prominent conservatives, including Henry Kissinger and William Buckley, but the treaties were also attacked by other conservatives in near-hysterical terms. This, they argued, was a surrender of American sovereignty, and furthermore, the military leader of Panama was pro-Communist. Communists would control the canal and Panama, and the subsequent harm to the US would be incalcuable.
What is surprising and heartening to a surveyor of the contemporary political scene is that some Senators supported the treaty simply because they thought it was right even though they knew that their ratification vote might harm them politically. The single-issue PACs targeted pro-treaty Republican Senators and, through direct-mail marketing, inflamed a cadre of voters. Some moderate Republicans who supported the treaties were defeated when they stood for reelection or had their political influence dissipated. Robert G. Kaiser, the Washington Post's Senate correspondent during this period, in his book Act of Congress: How America's Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn't, expresses admiration for Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee, who was a Republican leader in the Senate. Kaiser writes, "Baker had presidential ambitions for 1980 and new conservatives viewed him warily, but nevertheless decided to support the treaties, provided they were modified slightly. This, Baker told me privately, was the right thing to do, though he knew it could cost him dearly in the political arena. In fact it probably ended his career." Sixty-eight Senators, one more than needed, voted for the treaties.
This issue is now largely forgotten even though its aftermath still affects the United States. A lesson from the controversy has been absorbed, even if that lesson's source is not remembered. Republican politicians fear that if they don't toe some single-issue lines, a portion of conservatives will target them and defeat them in the primaries or otherwise destroy their careers. The result is that the politicians cannot develop nuanced positions; compromises are verboten. There must be complete acceptance of the NRA's positions. Abortions are absolute evil. Tax cuts are always essential. All government spending, except on defense, is bad.
Back in 1978, however, some Senators studied a complex situation and decided that a ratification vote was in the best interests of the country even though their decision would harm them politically. What is remembered is not that their position was right, but that they were harmed politically. The takeaway message was don't to try to figure out what is best for the country; take the action that avoid personal political harm.
This history is also striking because the treaty opponents have been proven wrong. The Canal functions just fine. Panama is not a hotbed of anti-American Communism. Those who were wrong, however, did not pay a price for their gross error. They continued in office, and one notable politician benefited handsomely from his opposition. Ronald Reagan opposed the Treaty, and some, including Bill Buckley, maintained that the treaty controversy helped make Reagan president.
Pay a price for being right. Gain from being wrong. Ah, America.
The reason that we were outnumbered by blacks at theaters nearby our home is that then, and for most of my years in Brooklyn, we have lived in neighborhoods where whites are the minority. I regarded this as neither undesirable nor desirable. It was just a fact. Not surprisingly when I played basketball in one of the local schoolyards, which I did frequently before blowing out my knee in my 30s, I was in the minority.
It was an especially eclectic crowd at the courts nearest to home. The neighborhood had a few whites, but also a sizeable group of Native Americans, who had been in construction in New York City, and were frequently, it seemed, on crutches. They had grown up near Montreal, and when they learned that the spouse and I were going in that direction for a vacation, they were quick to give advice about the places for food and drink on the way to Canada. There was also a group of Puerto Ricans that had been established in the neighborhood for quite some time having come to work at the then-functioning, nearby ExLax factory. There were blacks with relatives in the Carolinas and some Argentinians who had migrated to South America from Italy before coming to the United States. As I said, an eclectic mix.
One day playing basketball, an argument broke out. I am not sure what triggered it, but soon I heard one kid yell an epithet at the other, "You're white." "No, I am not. You're white." Both were high schoolers. I knew one of them, whose mother was Puerto Rican and whose father Native American. I did not know the other one, but he looked to be mixed race white and black. As the argument went on, I looked around and realized that I was the only white there. For a moment, with the "W" word being tossed around, I wondered whether I should be concerned but decided not to be. I was older and a fixture in that schoolyard and had done favors for the families of some of the other players. My guess is that I was not so much the white guy, as the old guy. I am not sure how the argument was settled, but it did not escalate into anything major. This was not a typical incident. Although I played basketball for countless hours in the neighborhood, I don't remember another time when anything intended as a racial epithet was hurled.
These methods almost always worked when I ran in "bad" neighborhoods, but for some reason, I found they did not work to defuse any tensions in parts of Harlem, and mostly I stopped running there.
My running led to another incident that was not overtly racial but once again led me to think about my whiteness. I was running through a lily-white, affluent suburb north of New York City. I was not running in fancy running clothes, but, as was my wont, in cast-offs with hair that most would have thought needed a cutting. Why affluent communities can't afford sidewalks I don't know, but as a result I was jogging on the side of the road. I was coming up to a nice car at a stop sign with a young woman in it. She saw me and the slightest look of panic came over her face. And then I heard the car locks click shut. I was amused. In the thousands of miles I had run, I was not aware of this happening before, but then I thought, I bet a lot of young black males have heard that clicking sound many, many times.
Recent news suggests that he did not die naturally of congestive heart failure stemming from pneumonia but that he was murdered. I know little about these reports, but they made me think back to all the times I had loved seeing him on TV and that I became excited because he was coming to the RKO Albee Theater, just a few blocks from my apartment.
The RKO Albee was one of those grand vaudeville/movie theaters built in the 1920s. It was said to be the second largest theater in New York City after Radio City Music Hall. The Albee, by the time I made it there, was in serious decline. It was situated in downtown Brooklyn that once had many similar theaters, but neither the Brooklyn neighborhood nor large movie houses remained fashionable. The grandeur that had once been in the Albee was there, but seeing it took some faith and imagination, except for the bathrooms which were still magnificent.
Now, however, it was not a movie coming to the RKO Albee, but James Brown. The Hardest Working Man in Show Business. The Godfather of Soul. Mr. Dynamite.
Finally, the warmup was over, and there he was! Our good seats started to be less desirable. Not because anything happened to them, but because it seemed as if everybody who had been behind us left their seat and rushed towards the stage. Still we could see, but then all those seated in front of us stood up. Now to see we, too, had to stand, which we did. But then those in front of us stood on their seats so we had to stand on our seats. And finally, those in front of us stood on the arms of their seats, and soon, feeling precarious, we, too, were standing on the arms. And we saw a great show.
As we were leaving and I saw the crowd heading towards the exits, it hit me then that besides the spouse, I was not seeing another white person. I had not been uncomfortable before, but this realization made me a bit uneasy. Would all those thousands of black faces think there was something wrong with whites going to see James Brown? There was no reason to think so. The crowd was noisy and excited, but everybody was as polite as you could be in a crowd that size. But still, we seemed to be the only whites. Wasn't there a good chance something bad might happen to us? At least this white had not confronted this situation before—one that many blacks no doubt had faced—of being the only one of his race in the place.
The Duffield theater was only a few blocks from the RKO Albee, but it had never been a palace, only a neighborhood movie house. It was there we saw The Great White Hope, with James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander. (I have had the privilege of seeing Jones on the stage a number of times, but from years ago the most memorable performances were Fences and Othello, the latter in a production with Christopher Plummer, Dianne Wiest, and, in a much smaller part, Kelsey Grammer.) The Great White Hope is the fictionalized account of the black boxer Jack Johnson. Once again, we seemed to be the only whites in the theater, but this time during the performance we were acutely aware of that. In the James Brown concert, our reactions were not much different from the rest of the audience, but that was not true at this movie. In this story about an extraordinary man's confrontation with race and racism, there was a scene with a country preacher encouraging Johnson to prayer. The spouse and I were moved, but, to our surprise, the scene brought derisive laughter from around us, the kind of laughter reserved for an Uncle Tom. I was acutely aware that I had not experienced what others in the audience had, and as we left the theater, I did wonder if all those other exiting people were wondering what that white couple was doing there.
A recent survey showed that the majority of Americans in forty-nine states (with Vermont being the exception) would fail—not even get a D—answering U.S. citizenship test questions. Another reason to support immigration: The naturalized immigrant knows more than the native-born citizen. Is it surprising to you that the most solid red states scored lowest?
Why does the Academy Awards have separate male and female acting categories? Isn't good acting good acting no matter the gender of the performer? Should the Academy also give gender-based awards for directing and writing?
"He knew the story because he had heard it said that really there are only two kinds: one in which a hero goes on a journey, the other in which a stranger comes to town." Kevin Powers, A Shout in the Ruins.
The open satchel carried by the middle-aged man was filled. I spied a top hat and a Miss Piggy wig with luxurious hair. I wondered. . . .
The appraiser on the Antiques Roadshow stated that the item came from "circa about" 1906. Surely, she should have known better.
"She did not recall how they had agreed that one can be anything but dead, that the two words together created an antimony." Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky.
A news story a few months back suggested that some of our President's fortune was amassed by cheating on taxes. Another story suggested that although Jared Kushner has an income significantly higher than mine (ha ha), he has not paid any federal income tax in a while and that his failure to do so may have been legal. The stories made few waves. If you even noticed them, you may have quickly forgotten them. Stories about the rich cheating on taxes or avoiding them are commonplace. Every so often, we learn of someone prosecuted for cheating on taxes, but a common reaction is that person simply got too greedy, and we don't give it much thought.
On the other hand, legal tax dodging is expected. People are chumps if they don't seek to pay the least amount of taxes legally required, right? And if they push the envelope too far, and the IRS determined that they underpaid, we don't normally think of them as bad guys. We expect people to walk on that tax-no-tax line. (Of course, with the big cuts to the IRS over the last decade, the chances of being caught for underpayment is increasingly unlikely.) We certainly don't want our "public servants" to be chumps, and therefore we don't criticize them for seeking to avoid taxes. It would probably count against candidates for public office if we saw their tax returns and they "stupidly" paid too much to the government.
I have mixed feelings about this oft-praised statement. It just isn't right, or at least it is misleading. It suggests a dangerous false dichotomy, and it comes close to presenting a totalitarian sentiment that the overriding responsibility of citizens is to serve the state.
Our country does not exist simply to be supported by its populace, or at least our government does not. Our government was formed not for the citizens to serve it but for it to aid its citizens in leading productive, happy, prosperous, and safe lives. Kennedy was wrong to suggest that you were doing something wrong if you asked what the country was doing for you. It was almost as if JFK forgot the Preamble to the Constitution, which states that the United States was being formed to "establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty. . . ." The government is there to serve the people.
There is nothing wrong in asking what your country does for you, but it should be asked with open eyes. Many, because they don't use food stamps or grow federally subsidized crops, think that the government does nothing for them. Presumably they don't work in a defense industry, don't have government assisted flood insurance, don't get social security or medicare, don't have federal student loans, don't work for the federal government, don't drive on the interstate highway system, and don't bank at an FDIC institution. And, of course, neither do they benefit from our national defense.
Our government helps us in so many ways that we seldom think about it. Try a thought experiment: However successful you are, imagine that you have the same intelligence and skills but had been born and raised in Cambodia. How successful, how prosperous, how happy, how safe would you be compared to now? Doesn't the United States and its government give you a lot?
President Kennedy really should have said that it was all right to ask what the country does for you, but only if you accept honest answers to the question. With the blessings we get from living in the United States in mind, then we should ask what we can do for our country. If we get much from the country–and we do–we should give back to the country.
How does one give back to the country? Too often all we think about is military service, but there are many different means of governmental and non-governmental public service. And we also give to our country when we obey the law and when we pay our taxes. So why our cynical attitudes about taxes? If you volunteer for the military, you are patriot. If you volunteer extra taxes, you are weird. If you evade the military when there is conscription, you are considered unpatriotic. An art dealer, Mary Boone, was recently sentenced to 30 months for evading taxes of more than $3 million between 2009 and 2011. (In case you are wondering, tax evasion prosecutions are rare and seldom severely punished. In 2017, 584 tax evaders were sentenced to prison with an average prison term of 17 months, according to a recent report in Axios.) Many in the art world and beyond gave support to her. Would she have received this support if they had seen her crime as an act to intentionally harm the United States, one that showed that she was deemed unpatriotic, one that made her akin to an Army deserter? A person who evades taxes, however, while having made a misstep, is not labeled unpatriotic. Military deserters may provoke the cry that they should lose their citizenship but not the tax evader.
And the tax avoider we actually applaud.
So. What can you do for your country?


Outspoken Hollywood mother-of-two Kristen Bell is demanding that anyone who wants to hold her baby get vaccinated.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the 34-year old "House of Lies" star explained she is pro-vaccination and is literally keeping friends who aren't at arms length.
"When Lincoln was born [in March 2013], the whooping cough epidemic was growing," Bell said. "Before she was 2 months old, we simply said [to friends], 'you have to get a whooping cough vaccination if you are going to hold our baby.' "
And now she's doing the same for her daughter Delta, who was born in December.
"It's a very simple logic," Bell added. "I believe in trusting doctors, not know-it-alls."
According to the Daily Mail, the former "Veronica Mars" star and her husband Dax Shepard live in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles, where twenty-two percent of kindergarten students are vaccine exempt -- meaning their parents have opted out of vaccinations on the grounds of "personal beliefs."
Pro-vaxxer Bell may have a long list of friends who can't hold her children, as she lives in the anti-vaxxer capital of Los Angeles.


A car was reset footwell module two days back... And after that I was driving and the airbag light went on and the radio audio cut what can be the cause?
fusible link - the battery would have 2 wires connected to the + terminal. The big wire goes to the starter, the smaller of the two is the electrical systems main wire. This normally goes to the fuse/relay box. Check for frayed ends, loose connection, corroded terminals. In some instances instead of being at the battery's + terminal, it is connected to the end of the big cable down at the starter motor.
ALL connectors with big wires - these carry the main +12 either as always ON, ACC or IGN. If a connector has a wire bigger than the others, check them. It may be necessary to disconnect to enable you access to the inside pins/terminals. Scrape them clean.
look at the battery connection in the boot it tends to get seperated after a accident , you need to the replace the battery plus connection , yo get this from the main dealer for around 100 euro ??
something in the airbag system is at fault. it could be the airbag(s) itself or any of the sensors that detect a crash to deploy the airbag. i would really take it into BMW and have it checked & repaired. the airbag(s) will not deploy with this light on so your safety is at risk if you are ever in an accident..
SOURCE: BMW E90 323I, ABS resetting.
hey hassa, if you swapped an ABS control unit from another vehicle, it needs to be coded to your vehicle. If your vehicle does not recognize the replacement vin, it will set a fault. also, make sure to have the ABS sensors calibrated after the control unit is coded. most dealers charge about 1hr labor to perform coding and sensor calibration.
SOURCE: Would a crankshaft sensor fault cause my BMW to just cut out?
Short answer is yes it would. Not the only thing it could be but to answer your question, yes.
No reversing lights on BMW 320d 06.
You'll need to take it to a body shop and have the airbag replaced and have inertia switch reset.
This is most probably one of two problems, if the light goes on and off whilst turning the steering wheel, it is most probably is the slip rimg which sends the neccesary signals to the steering wheel components. it could possibly have a break in it causing eratic contact.
However, these cars are known to give problems with the passanger and driver seat occupation sensors. these are pads within the seat that detects whether someone is sitting there in order to know which airbags to deplyoy in the event it would be neccesary.
The only way to determine wich component is faulty the vehicle will have to be tested with diagnostic equipment.
YOUR BATTERY SAFTEY TERMINAL MOST LIKELY BLEW (ON POSITIVE BATTERY CABLE ON RIGHT SIDE OF TRUNK). NEEDS TO BE REPLACED. SEE A DEALER.
no, the airbag module needs replaced.
Hi there, I think you might have a main fuse that is blown or a main relay not working. Check also all earthing points as well as the ecu earthing points could have been damaged or having poor contacts.
Let us know how you get on.Cheers.


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The PSD2 directive is now applicable in almost all EU countries, but there is one important element missing: the Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on strong authentication and secure communication due to take effect on 14 September 2019. And, before 14 March 2019, banks are expected to have made their APIs available for market testing.
To foster a smooth understanding of, and compliance with, the RTS, the EBA has published a number of documents included a June 2018 Opinion, Guidelines on the exemption from the fall-back mechanism, an opinion on the use of eIDAS certificates, questions and answers on its website, etc.
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Q: When attempting to crop image that is partially hidden below the viewport, jcrop jumps down the page So i've got a task where i have used jcrop to to select areas on an image. But i have run into this
particular issue where if the jcrop container is partially hidden below the screen it scrolls down when trying to make a selection. I don't know where to look or how to fix it.
Here's how you can recreate it
Head over to this website
View it in responsive design mode with a screen size such that half of the image is hidden below the viewport, Then try selecting an area.
I am using vanilla jcrop alongside React. I referred to this issue on github but it was no help.

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NEON Year 5 Box Set - Blu-Ray
***PRE-ORDER NOW. SETS WILL SHIP FOR MARCH 1st 2022 DELIVERY***
For the first time ever, NEON presents the exclusive year-end Blu-Ray box set including the following eight (8) new releases from our 2021 release calendar:
AILEY (Blu-Ray exclusive)
ALL LIGHT, EVERYWHERE (Blu-Ray exclusive)
IN THE EARTH (Blu-Ray exclusive)
THE YEAR OF THE EVERLASTING STORM (Blu-Ray exclusive)
Featuring stunning cover designs by Phantom City Creative celebrating NEON's 5th anniversary, and additional surprises too cool to spoil.
*The Year 5 Box Set will be INELIGIBLE for Free Shipping. Multiple sets may be purchased, but must be ordered separately where full shipping charges apply. Unfortunately, this is a US only release and will not be available for international delivery.*
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Director: Jamila Wignot
Cast: Alvin Ailey (archival footage)
Synopsis: Alvin Ailey was a trailblazing pioneer who found salvation through dance. AILEY traces the full contours of this brilliant and enigmatic man whose search for the truth in movement resulted in enduring choreography that centers on the Black American experience with grace, strength, and unparalleled beauty.
1080p High-Definition
Audio: English - DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Subtitles: English SDH
Runtime: 95 Mins.
Color/B&W
ALL LIGHT, EVERYWHERE
Director: Theo Anthony
Synopsis: ALL LIGHT, EVERYWHERE is an exploration of the shared histories of cameras, weapons, policing and justice. As surveillance technologies become a fixture in everyday life, the film interrogates the complexity of an objective point of view, probing the biases inherent in both human perception and the lens.
Runtime: 109 Mins.
Director: Jonas Poher Rasmussen
Synopsis: In FLEE, the Grand Jury Prize winner at the 2021 Sundance Festival, filmmaker Jonas Poher Rasmussen tells a poignant story of belonging and the search for identity. Amin's life has been defined by his past and a secret he's kept for over 20 years. Forced to leave his home country of Afghanistan as a young child with his mother and siblings, Amin now grapples with how his past will affect his future in Denmark and the life he is building with his soon-to-be husband. Told brilliantly through the use of animation to protect his identity, Amin looks back over his life, opening up for the first time about his past, his trauma, the truth about his family, and his acceptance of his own sexuality.
Audio: Danish, Dari - DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, English - DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Subtitles: English, English SDH
Bonus Material:
New York Film Festival Q&A with Jonas Poher Rasmussen
Director: Ben Wheatley
Cast: Ellora Torchia, Joel Fry, Hayley Squires, Reece Shearsmith
Synopsis: As the world searches for a cure to a disastrous virus, a scientist (Joel Fry) and park scout (Ellora Torchia) venture deep in the forest for a routine equipment run. Through the night, their journey becomes a terrifying voyage through the heart of darkness, the forest coming to life around them.
The Making of IN THE EARTH
Director: Michael Sarnoski
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Alex Wolff, Adam Arkin
Synopsis: A truffle hunter (Nicolas Cage) who lives alone in the Oregon wilderness must return to his past in Portland in search of his beloved foraging pig after she is kidnapped.
Nicolas Cage Cooks…
Three-Mushroom Tart
Pigeon and Pommes Anna
Director: Pablo Larrain
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Jack Farthing, Timothy Spall, Sally Hawkins, Sean Harris
Synopsis: The marriage of Princess Diana (Kristen Stewart) and Prince Charles (Jack Farthing) has long since grown cold. Though rumors of affairs and a divorce abound, peace is ordained for the Christmas festivities at the Queen's Sandringham Estate. There's eating and drinking, shooting and hunting. Diana knows the game. But this year, things will be profoundly different. SPENCER is an imagining of what might have happened during those few fateful days.
The Making of SPENCER
Director: Julia Ducournau
Cast: Agathe Rousselle, Vincent Lindon, Garance Marillier
Synopsis: From the ingenious mind of Julia Ducournau (RAW) comes Cannes Film Festival sensation and Palme d'Or winner, TITANE. Featuring dynamic and daring performances from Agathe Rousselle and Vincent Lindon, TITANE is a feverish and frequently jaw-dropping ride. With a titanium plate surgically fused to her skull following a car crash as a child, car model Alexia embarks on a wild and ultimately unpredictable journey that questions our assumptions about family and love.
Audio: French - DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
New York Film Festival Q&A with Julia Ducournau, Vincent Lindon, and Agathe Rousselle
THE YEAR OF THE EVERLASTING STORM
Director: Jafar Panâhi, Anthony Chen, Malik Vitthal, Laura Poitras, Dominga Sotomayor, David Lowery, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Cast: Mokarameh Saidi Balsini, Jafar Panâhi, Zhou Dongyu, Zhang Yu, Bobby Yay Yay Jones, Francisca Castillo, Rosa García-Huidobro, Catherine Machovsky
Synopsis: A love letter to cinema, shot across the US, Iran, Chile, China and Thailand, by seven of today's most vital filmmakers. New life in the old house. A breakaway, a reunion. Surveillance and reconciliation. An unrecognizable world, in the year of the everlasting storm.
United States, Chile, China, Iran, Thailand
Audio: English, Farsi, Mandarin, Spanish, French, Thai - DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
© 2022, NEON

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I am a Gen 10 XB1 player for TF1. I had earmarked $80 CDN for TF2. Played the Beta and will spend my money elsewhere. This isn't the fast paced, wall running, building climbing, Titans are Gods TitanFall 1 I loved - this is COD 3 with a easily killable Mech dropped in as your Kill Streak reward. It's Clunky, slow, you die really fast, campers are kings and the 2 enclosed maps are perfect for being spawn or camp killed. I would suggest you remove Titan Drops altogether and add in MineCraft type Crafting tables so new players can build there own. That way you can also try and entice the MineCraft Players and COD Campers to this new game and we TitanFall 1 players can go elsewhere.


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PhD-student: Cathodoluminescence microscopy: nanophotonics and quantum physics with electrons and light shut down Back to previous
PhD-student: Cathodoluminescence microscopy: nanophotonics and quantum physics with electrons and light
The Photonic Materials group at NWO-Institute AMOLF in Amsterdam, the Netherlands is looking for PhD students and postdocs for a new project on quantum cathodoluminescence microscopy. In this new program, funded by the ERC, we will gain coherent control over electron-light-matter interaction in a wide variety of material systems. We will build a unique cathodoluminescence scanning electron microscope (SEM-CL) that carries out Photon-Induced Near-field Electron Microscopy (PINEM) in which 1-30 keV energy electrons interact with strong light fields. This interaction dresses the electrons into a quantum superposition state which creates a way to tailor the spatial and temporal distribution of electron wavepackets at will.
We will use PINEM spectroscopy to probe optical near fields with nanoscale spatial resolution at low electron energy. Employing our extensive toolbox of nanophotonics we will create 2D metasurfaces and 3D metamaterials to strongly amplify the PINEM effect. The program exploits two time-resolved SEM-CL microscopes that were developed in our group that can deliver ultrashort (single-)electron pulses. We will investigate how electron wavefunctions in an SEM can be tailored by interaction with suitably tailored optical near fields in nanophotonic geometries so that we gain coherent control over electron-light-matter interaction.
The CL microscope is then operated as a quantum instrument with well-prepared initial electron states that can be entangled with materials excitations. This enables studies on correlations in time and space, and real-time studies of excited states by their spectroscopic signatures. The new PINEM-SEM-CL technique opens up a new world of electron microscopy applications in integrated optics, nanophotonics, and opto-electronics and will provide detailed insights into fundamental electron-light-matter interactions.
The Photonic Materials group (www.erbium.nl), led by Prof. Albert Polman, studies light-matter interactions at the nanoscale. The group is composed of an international team of 8-10 PhD students, postdocs and masters students that work in a collaborative atmosphere with many social group activities. Every week we hold group meeting, CL team meeting, and departmental colloquium and poster sessions, in addition to regular journal clubs. We also regularly organize an international group labtour.
Our group is part of AMOLFs Nanophotonics and Light Management in new Photovoltaic Materials research centers that are composed of 8 research groups (45 PhD students and postdocs) that share an extensive cleanroom for nanofabrication and characterization and many other facilities.
You have a master's degree in physics or related field, and have very strong social, organizational and communication skills.
The position is intended as full-time (40 hours / week, 12 months / year) appointment in the service of the Netherlands Foundation of Scientific Research Institutes (NWO-I) for the duration of four years, with a starting salary of gross € 2,441 per month and a range of employment benefits. After successful completion of the PhD research a PhD degree will be granted at the University of Amsterdam. Several courses are offered, specially developed for PhD-students. AMOLF assists any new foreign PhD-student with housing and visa applications and compensates their transport costs and furnishing expenses.
Prof. dr. Albert Polman
Research program leader
E-mail: a.polman@amolf.nl
Phone: +31 (0)20-754 7100
To apply: submit an application letter with a motivation why you like to join our group, and your resume with the names of three references.
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Open Positions from AMOLF
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2021 Gulf South Men's Cross Country Championship preview and how to watch
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Watch the 2021 Gulf South Men's Cross Country Championship
2021 Gulf South Men's Cross Country Championship preview and how to watch
The 2021 Gulf South Men's Cross Country Championships get underway on Saturday and you can watch and follow the live streaming coverage now!
World Track
By GULF SOUTH CONFERENCE
No. 11 Alabama Huntsville heads to the 2021 Gulf South Men's Cross Country Championship seeking to capture its third-consecutive team title and sixth-overall since 2007. Watch live streaming coverage of the championships on Saturday.
How To Watch The 2021 Gulf South Men's Cross Country Championship
2021 GSC Men's Cross Country Championship
Location: Choctaw Trails – Clinton, Mississippi
Time: 10:00 am CT
Links: CHAMPIONSHIP CENTRAL | LIVE RESULTS | WATCH ($) on FloTrack
The Chargers, who topped the GSC preseason poll, will be led by three-time All-GSC First Teamer and 2019 individual champion, Jay Day. In addition, the UAH lineup will also feature All-GSC First Team runner Harold LaCroix as well as Second Team runner Allan Anderson.
READ MORE: How to watch 2021 Southwestern College Mid-States Classic
Last year's runner-up, Lee (No. 8 National Poll, No. 1 Regional Poll) will take another run at hoisting the team title. The Flames are the last program to win four or more consecutive GSC crowns, which ran from 2015 to 2018. Lee's lineup is headlined by three-time GSC Runner of the Year, Christian Noble, who looks to make conference history by becoming the first runner to capture four individual titles in a career (2017, 2018, 2020). Silas Eckenroad and Adan Rodriguez, both 2020 All-GSC First Team, will also be runners to watch.
Mississippi College (No. 17 National Poll, No. 3 Regional Poll) will be tough competition for the rest of the field, as it will run in familiar surroundings as this year's event host. The Choctaw lineup returns All-GSC First Team selection, Evan Del Rio, as the senior takes another shot at the Individual title. Gabe Poulin will look to return to a spot on the All-GSC Team after a slip up in 2020.
Thomas Wolfe and Chance Cofield, each with one top ten finish this season, are Auburn Montgomery's top contenders for the individual crown.
Montevallo's Joseph Leventry, the 2020 GSC Individual Championship runner up, and Joseph Pittard lead the way for the Falcons.
Shorter's freshmen runners Dalton Sprayberry and Bryant Blandon show promise for high finishes this weekend and a bright future for the Hawks.
Tristan Kelly and Cornelius Kipchumba will look to propel the Union Bulldogs to a strong finish this year.
Senior Nick Flatt and junior Brishen House, who was an All-GSC Second Teamer last season, have led Valdosta State to top 20 finishes in every race this season.
West Alabama's Kevin Cooley holds the team's fastest 8K time this year. He and Audrick Pyronneau will lead the way for the Tigers.
Graduate student Solomon Komen and junior Timothy Feezor are both runners to watch for West Georgia.
Underclassmen Zach Fenton and Hailey Myddleton have been West Florida's top two finishers in every race this season. The young pair will look to stand out in this year's championship.
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Q: Can't get the correct index of a clicked slide I'm writing this function for a slider, when I click on a slide I want to get its index.
When I log clickedSlide it outputs the correct slide, but for some reason clickedSlideIndex only returns odd index numbers (1, 3, 5, etc.)
slides.forEach(slide => slide.onclick = handleSlideClick);

function handleSlideClick() {
    let clickedSlide = event.target;
    let clickedSlideIndex = Array.prototype.indexOf.call(clickedSlide.parentNode.childNodes, clickedSlide);

    // some stuff..
}

What am I missing?

A: The odd index numbers can be explained by the following example:

document.getElementById('slides').onclick=handleSlideClick;

function handleSlideClick() {
  let clickedSlide = event.target;
  let clickedSlideIndex= Array.prototype.indexOf.call(clickedSlide.parentNode.childNodes, clickedSlide);
  console.log(clickedSlide,clickedSlideIndex);
}
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Here each div.slide is followed by an   (a "non-break-space") node. In the index-count this little entity counts too! If you want to avoid this from happening you could replace .childNodes with .children:

document.getElementById('slides').onclick=handleSlideClick;

function handleSlideClick() {
  let clickedSlide = event.target;
  let clickedSlideIndex= Array.prototype.indexOf.call(clickedSlide.parentNode.children, clickedSlide);
  console.log(clickedSlide,clickedSlideIndex);
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slides.forEach((slide, index) => {
   slide.onclick = () => handleSlideClick(index)
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function handleSlideClick(index) {

   console.log(index) // prints the index

    // some stuff..
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Canopy Growth wins UK's first medical cannabis bulk import licence - Financial Times
The world's largest publicly traded cannabis company, Canopy Growth, will be the first to be allowed to import medicinal cannabis in bulk into the UK.
The company's pharmaceutical division — Spectrum Therapeutics — told the Financial Times on Tuesday that it had been granted a licence by the Home Office that will allow it to import cannabis from Canopy's distribution facility in Germany and 430,000 sq ft greenhouse in Denmark, and to store it in its Buckinghamshire facility.
Currently, patients in need of medical cannabis, which was legalised last November, can wait up to three months for specialist wholesalers to be granted an import licence and transport the product to the UK. Licences are granted on a prescription-by-prescription basis only.
Paul Steckler, managing director of Canopy's European business, said the Home Office licence and Canopy's ability to store the drug in bulk will mean that it could send cannabis products out the next day, as it does in Germany where medical cannabis has been legal since 2017.
The Canopy announcement comes a week after analysts at Jefferies downgraded its shares from 'buy' to 'hold', citing poor customer feedback on its main products and high levels of inventory on the balance sheet suggesting a lack of demand.
Canopy's Buckinghamshire warehouse, which is in a secret location for security reasons, can store enough cannabis to supply 5,000 patients a month. However, the strict regulations mean that only 1,765 prescriptions have been issued since last November.
The company's share price rose more than 2,700 per cent from its flotation in 2014 to highs in October 2018 as the wider market soared. It has since fallen more than 65 per cent as investors have become concerned about its ability to deliver profits.
Shareholders were further spooked by the sudden departure of co-founder and chief executive Bruce Linton in July. Mr Steckler said the company was now in "phase two, where we're more focused on driving revenue and profitability". In August, Canopy said it would first turn a profit in 2022. Rival Aurora expects to become profitable next year.
Canopy is backed by Constellation Brands, the maker of Corona beer, which owns a 35 per cent stake.
Mr Steckler said Canopy was "not even looking" at recreational cannabis opportunities in Europe. "It's enough of a challenge getting product to patient where it is actually legal," he said.
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News and notes from Tom Crean's radio show
Hailey Hernandez
12/06/2016 9:07 am in
Inside IU basketball with Tom Crean was live on Monday evening from the Holiday Inn in Bloomington. The Hoosiers had three games in five days and are now 7-1 following wins over No. 3 North Carolina, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and Southeast Missouri State. Collin Hartman was the player guest.
Below are news and notes with comments from Crean and Hartman on Monday evening:
· After playing four games in an eight-day stretch, Crean said it's been a while since IU had a real practice. His main concern is it's been hard to work on some of the things they need to work on. Things slow down a little bit over the next week and Crean said it'll be good to have some time to go against each other and work with lineups a little bit.
· Crean on the atmosphere against UNC: "Tim Garl (longtime IU athletic trainer) has seen every atmosphere possible and he's been there for so many years. He was literally blown away by that level. He usually texts about our injury update late at night but he usually doesn't text at the fact at how great that crowd was. He's seen it all. Bottom line is when you get a guy like Tim excited, it's a special night. The energy in the building never waned. There's nothing like it…it gave our players an incredible amount of strength."
· Defensive improvement: Last year through eight games, IU allowed opponents to shoot 45.5 percent from the field and 36.7 percent from behind arc. This year through eight games, IU is holding opponents to 37.4 percent from the field and 26.4 percent from the 3-poing range. Crean said, "We're getting better, no doubt about it. A year ago we were left for dead on the side of the road." Specifically, defensive rebounding has improved from everyone, including guards.
· Crean's comments on Juwan Morgan stepping up to fill in during OG Anunoby's absence: "Juwan comes in and takes over the starting role and puts up a double-double. He's becoming a leader, taking responsibility vocally, rebounding well, defending well and making shots." Morgan was 12-12 from the field over IU's last two games and led the way on defense and rebounds.
· On De'Ron Davis increasing playing time: "We knew it was coming, and it'll get even better. It's just a matter of time, playing longer stretches, learning how to play with Thomas (Bryant), it opens up so many more options through the post." If Davis can play the post, that allows Bryant to move around the perimeter more.
· Concerning Anunoby, Crean said it's difficult for anybody to come in and make up the way he makes shots and plays defensively. But they've made up for the loss in rebounding, with Morgan and Davis especially. Right now, his status is "day-to-day, we'll see how it goes," according to Crean. He mentioned Anunoby has been doing mechanical work shooting from the chair working on follow through and building range.
· For Josh Newkirk adapting into his leadership role: "The bottom line is that he needs to make better decisions with the ball, he's making some turnovers right now that can't be made but he's shooting the ball better." Crean also emphasized there are times where IU is out on the court looking at each other, and that's when Newkirk needs to take command of the team.
· IU is off until Dec. 10 when it faces Houston Baptist at home. Crean's comments on the matchup: "They score a lot of points, their average time of possession is 15 seconds so they have a fast pace of game. We don't want to be out there trading baskets, we want to get out and get our break. But this week is time to get ourselves better and focus on them later in the week."
· Hartman's comments on the team this season: "They're extremely talented, they have all the talent in the world. They're smart guys and they love to win. Put all that together with a little bit of experience, a lot of coaching, and it's dangerous."
· Crean has given Hartman new roles to focus on inside practices and games. Hartman said his experience makes it easy for him to give tips to the younger guys with things to tweak or tips of how to improve. One guy that Hartman said has impressed him is Zach McRoberts. "He's diving on the floor for balls, has high energy, moves the ball, makes hustle plays, crashes the boards, that kind of thing. It's not on stat sheet, but it keeps game going."
Filed to: Tom Crean
Film Session: SIU Edwardsville
Film Session: Southeast Missouri State


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One day, a girl named Lena moved to town. She lived next to some woods. She never went in there because her parents told her not to. Well on her nineth day of living in her new town, she heard a strange noise coming from the woods, and she went in the woods.
Lena went into the woods and followed the noise and found a hurt Pichu. "Are you ok little guy? ", Lena said. The Pichu shook it's head no. So Lena checked the Pichu's leg and found out that it's leg was broken, so Lena took it to a Pokémon center, got it healed, and the Pichu joined her team. "I will name you Buddy ", Lena said. So Lena and Buddy went off to go on an adventure. TO BE CONTINUED!
Buddy! That is so cute!!!
It said no. That thing can apparently endure pain,then.
Uh oh. What's going to happen now?
Next time, try to describe more of the area.


ETE has gone to a log in format, due to flaky posters and such, too bad that happened, makes one appreciate the members and moderaters here.
Many of the problems were from "taiwanspam411" or some such filling the Q&A forum with unreadable trash, as well as the folks who had a problem with some of the mods.
I offered to mod the "tips of the trade" forum, since it hadn't been updated in 6 months (then). Got a polite "Thanks, but no thanks" response.
Doug, I would put it down to a few people there.
But,not to name names, a big part would have to be blamed on the Moderator(s) there.
If things got out of control in the first place, they really only have themselves to blame.
That's only my opinion, not that of ECN.
However, it is good to see things have been cleaned up there.
As NORCAL did mention, it was becoming just a free-for-all over the Internet, and that is wrong!.
The moderator at that site does not have the ability to delete posts like we do here and the other forums, and the owner does not visit his site very often to clean up the problems.


Wood's 100, the 150 year old dark rum brand has launched a campaign in the UK to discover "what makes a modern day hero".
The activity includes the release of a study which reveals what kind of professions society considers to be the most heroic – with the navy and army coming out in pole position.
A supporting PR campaign, targeting naval titles in particular, will see new serve suggestions being pushed at target consumers via an email campaign this summer.
Regional PR and radio activity aims at broadening the brand's appeal to the younger market, whilst encouraging other dark rum drinkers to trial the brand and re-think rum.
Gemma Adams brand manager for Wood's 100 says: "The research is a fascinating snapshot into what it means to be a hero in 2009 and its great to see our armed forces being recognised like this. The navy, in particular, is an important part of our heritage and Wood's 100 remains a much loved drink with a rich history.
The "What make a modern day hero" campaign will be supported by the monthly men's magazine GQ.


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Crossley's Bridge, one of the main routes between Blackpool and Bispham, Cleveleys, and Fleetwood, has reopened this evening.
Some motorists even beeped their horns as six months' of traffic misery were brought to an end shortly before the advertised time of 8pm.
However, restrictions will remain in place until late July as work continues on the Plymouth Road bridge, which the town hall said had to be replaced in a £6.1m project because the old one was rotting.
It was heightened at the same time to allow Network Rail, which contributed £1m, to carry out electrification work on the railway line running below.
Earlier today, Adam Norman, the project manager at Story Contracting, hired by the council to complete the work, said it was a 'great achievement from all involved in the project'.
He added: "It's fantastic to have reached this significant milestone in the bridge replacement project ahead of the Easter holidays."
For more information, including on the bus stops in Westcliffe Drive and Layton, which are now 'under review', the impact on emergency service response times, and what's now going to happen to the historic plaque from the original bridge, see tomorrow's Gazette.
April 8, 2017: The latest on the bus stops in Layton, which are under review, the old bridge's plaque, the impact on ambulances, reaction, and more.


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The NASCAR Foundation Partners with Dead On Tools To Host Speediatrics Fun Day Festival at Darlington Raceway
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DARLINGTON, S.C. – The NASCAR Foundation announced today that Dead On Tools will serve as the presenting sponsor of the first-ever Speediatrics Fun Day Festival at Darlington Raceway on Friday, May 6th. The event will take place prior to the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race, the Dead On Tools 200 (7:30 p.m. ET on FS1, MRN, SiriusXM).
As part of the program, children from the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Pee Dee will participate in healthy living curriculum provided by The NASCAR Foundation, introducing them to NASCAR while encouraging them to adopt the same healthy habits employed by NASCAR drivers and pit crew members to see success on the race track.
"Dead On Tools' commitment to making an impact in local communities has made them a great partner of The Foundation," said Nichole Krieger, The NASCAR Foundation's executive director. "The Speediatrics Fun Day Festivals have expanded to nine markets this year, including Darlington, and we couldn't do that without the support of partners like Dead On Tools."
This is the second time Dead On Tools and The NASCAR Foundation have partnered together in the Darlington community. In 2021, the two organizations worked together to build a backyard playset for Eevie, a four-year-old battling pediatric cancer.
"This is why we do it. For these moments right here", said Brian Ranallo, Marketing Manager, Dead On Tools. "To be able to dive deep into the communities that we are involved in with NASCAR is what keeps us coming back. We are proud to be a part of such an amazing initiative with The NASCAR Foundation and to take the weekend further than racing."
Now in its sixth year, The NASCAR Foundation's Speediatrics Fun Day Festival brings the sport of NASCAR to life for children ages 7 – 12 through a specialized curriculum and a NASCAR-themed at-track festival held during NASCAR race weekends in select markets each year. The program is a part of the Foundation's Speediatrics Children's Fund, which supports needs expressed by hospitals, specialty clinics, camps and other organizations providing children's medical and healthcare services.
Earlier this year, Kaulig Racing partnered with The NASCAR Foundation, helping to expand the Speediatrics Fun Day Festival to nine race markets. With the help of Dead On Tools, the festival makes its debut in Darlington as the fourth event of the year, following events at Auto Club Speedway, Phoenix Raceway and Martinsville Speedway. The program will also travel to World Wide Technology Raceway, Pocono Raceway, Michigan International Speedway, Darlington Raceway and Homestead-Miami Speedway later in the year.
Since 2017, The NASCAR Foundation has encouraged more than 3,700 children to live a healthy lifestyle through the Speediatrics Fun Day Festival program. In addition, the Foundation also provides a charitable donation to the community partner in each market to help support ongoing healthy living programs long after the festival is over.
2022 NASCAR Season
Darlington Raceway will host the Official Throwback Weekend of NASCAR on May 6-8, featuring all three national series with the Dead On Tools 200 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race on Friday, May 6 at 7:30 p.m., Mahindra ROXOR 200 NASCAR Xfinity Series race on Saturday, May 7 at 1:30 p.m. and Goodyear 400 NASCAR Cup Series race on Mother's Day, Sunday, May 8 at 3:30 p.m.
The Tradition Continues at Darlington Raceway with the Labor Day Race Weekend on Sept. 3-4, featuring the Sport Clips Haircuts VFW Help A Hero 200 Xfinity Series race on Saturday, Sept. 3 at 3:00 p.m. and start of the Cup Series Playoffs in the 73rd running of the crown jewel Cook Out Southern 500® over Labor Day weekend on Sunday, Sept. 4 at 6:00 p.m.
NASCAR tickets are available for purchase via phone at 866-459-7223 or online at darlingtonraceway.com.
Stay connected to Darlington Raceway on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and the all-new NASCAR Tracks App.
About Darlington Raceway
Darlington Raceway, nicknamed The Lady in Black and the track Too Tough To Tame, is home to the award-winning Official Throwback Weekend of NASCAR and annually hosts two NASCAR Cup Series race weekends, along with the NASCAR Xfinity Series and/or NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. Opening in 1950, Darlington Raceway is "A NASCAR Tradition" and NASCAR's original superspeedway with its famed 1.366-mile egg-shaped oval, challenging the sports best in one of the most iconic NASCAR races, the Southern 500®. For more information about Darlington Raceway, visit darlingtonraceway.com.
About Dead On Tools
Dead On Tools: A collision of serious tool using professionals and a lifestyle lived out loud. Dead On Tools sets the highest standard for precision tools and work gear products in the industry today, representing innovation and quality that was born from actual users in the trade. Dead On Tools is headquartered in the Midwest and distributes professional tools and work gear products throughout North America. For more information, visit deadontools.com.
About NASCAR
The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is the sanctioning body for the No. 1 form of motorsports in the United States and owner of 16 of the nation's major motorsports entertainment facilities. NASCAR consists of three national series (NASCAR Cup Series™, NASCAR Xfinity Series™, and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series™), four regional series (ARCA Menards Series, ARCA Menards Series East & West and the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour), one local grassroots series (NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series) and three international series (NASCAR Pinty's Series, NASCAR Peak Mexico Series, NASCAR Whelen Euro Series). The International Motor Sports Association™ (IMSA®) governs the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship™, the premier U.S. sports car series. NASCAR also owns Motor Racing Network, Racing Electronics, and ONE DAYTONA. Based in Daytona Beach, Florida, with offices in eight cities across North America, NASCAR sanctions more than 1,200 races in more than 30 U.S. states, Canada, Mexico and Europe. For more information visit www.NASCAR.com and www.IMSA.com, and follow NASCAR on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat ('NASCAR').
About The NASCAR Foundation
The NASCAR Foundation is a leading charity that works to improve the lives of children who need it most in NASCAR racing communities through the Speediatrics Children's Fund and the Betty Jane France Humanitarian Award. Since 2006, The NASCAR Foundation has contributed more than $41 Million to impact the lives of more than 1.5 million children across the country.
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I am currently studying to be a curator. I have a background in Contemporary Art. I have developed a new interest in text.
I also write bad poetry from time to time.
#tbt to my time in Orkney. The Ring of Brodgar looked so beautiful this time last year.
This has got to be one of the best pieces from my collection.


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Jerzy Stefan Stawiński (* 1. Juli 1921 in Zakręt bei Warschau; † 12. Juni 2010 ebenda) war ein polnischer Schriftsteller, Drehbuchautor und Filmregisseur.

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Stawiński begann 1938 an der Universität Warschau Jura zu studieren. Als am 1. September 1939 der Zweite Weltkrieg begann, wurde er Soldat und nahm an der Verteidigung Warschaus teil. Nach der Kapitulation der polnischen Armee ging er in den Untergrund und schloss sich der polnischen Heimatarmee an. Als bereits hochdekorierter Soldat nahm er im August/September 1944 am Warschauer Aufstand teil. Während des Aufstandes geriet er in deutsche Kriegsgefangenschaft und wurde nach Deutschland verschleppt. Nach seiner Befreiung im Mai 1945 ging er nach Italien und schloss sich dem 2. Polnischen Korps an, später ging er nach England und kehrte erst 1947 nach Polen zurück. Wieder zurück in Warschau nahm er sein 1938 begonnenes Studium wieder auf und schloss es 1952 ab. Über literarische Übersetzungen fand er 1949 zur Literatur und begann in einem staatlichen Verlag zu arbeiten. 1952 gab er mit der Erzählung Licht im Nebel sein literarisches Debüt.

Zu seiner frühen Erzählung Das Geheimnis des Lokomotivführers Orzechowski schrieb er sein erstes Drehbuch, das der Regisseur Andrzej Munk mit dem Titel Der Mann auf den Schienen 1956 verfilmte. In seinem zweiten Drehbuch (ebenfalls basierend auf einer seiner Kurzgeschichten) verarbeitete er seine Erlebnisse im Warschauer Aufstand. Der Film unter dem Titel Der Kanal machte seinen Regisseur Andrzej Wajda weltberühmt. Er reiste mit Wajda und polnischen Offiziellen 1957 zu den Filmfestspielen in Cannes und der Film gewann den Spezialpreis der Jury. Stawiński bekam von französischen Filmemachern Angebote, auch für sie Drehbücher zu schreiben, da sie seine Einfälle für Fiktion hielten, er jedoch nur beschrieben hatte, was er tatsächlich erlebt hatte. Er kam diesen Angeboten nie nach, blieb aber dem polnischen Kino als Drehbuchautor und später auch als Regisseur erhalten. Außerdem arbeitete er als künstlerischer Leiter bis 1981 für mehrere polnische Filmstudios.

Filmografie
 1956: Der Mann auf den Schienen (Człowiek na torze)
 1956: Der Kanal (Kanał)
 1958: Eroica (Eroica – Symfonia bohaterska w dwóch częściach) – Regie: Andrzej Munk
 1958: Dezerter – Regie: Witold Lesiewicz und Janusz Weychert
 1958: Attentat (Zamach) – Regie: Jerzy Passendorfer
 1960: Eine Geschichte von heute (Historia współczesna) – Regie: Wanda Jakubowska
 1960: Die Kreuzritter (Krzyżacy) (nach Henryk Sienkiewicz) – Regie: Aleksander Ford
 1960: Das schielende Glück (Zezowate szczęście) – Regie: Andrzej Munk
 1962: Liebe mit zwanzig (L'Amour à vingt ans) – Regie der polnischen Episode: Andrzej Wajda
 1963: Rozwodów nie będzie – Regie: Stawiński
 1964: Pinguin (Pingwin) – Regie: Stawiński
 1965: Wir fahren in die Stadt (Andremo in citta)
 1966: Przedświąteczny wieczór – Regie: Stawiński
 1967: Poczmistrz – Regie: Stanisław Lenartowicz
 1967: Zabijaka – Regie: Stanisław Lenartowicz
 1970: Kto wierzy w bociany?
 1970: Pogoń za Adamem – Regie: Helena Amiradżibi-Stawińska
 1972: Fortuna – Regie: Helena Amiradżibi-Stawińska
 1973: Auf dem Gipfel des Ruhms (Godzina szczytu) – Regie: Stawiński
 1973: Wielka miłość Balzaka – Regie: Wojciech Solarz
 1974: Matyldas Geburtstag (Urodziny Matyldy) – Regie: Stawiński
 1977: Akcja pod Arsenałem – Regie: Jan Łomnicki
 1978: Rückfahrkarte (Bilet powrotny) – Regie: Ewa Petelska und Czesław Petelski
 1979: Godzina "W" – Regie: Janusz Morgenstern
 1979: Der Vater der Königin (Ojciec królowej) – Regie: Wojciech Solarz
 1980: Bo oszalałem dla niej – Regie: Sylwester Checiński
 1980: Urodziny młodego warszawiaka – Regie: Ewa Petelska und Czesław Petelski
 1984: 5 dni z życia emeryta – Regie: Edward Dziewoński
 1988: Obywatel Piszczyk – Regie: Andrzej Kotkowski
 1993: Straszny sen Dzidziusia Górkiewicza – Regie: Kazimierz Kutz
 1995: Die tollkühne List des Oberst Kwiatkowski (Pułkownik Kwiatkowski)

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Literatur (Polnisch)
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Träger des Ordens Polonia Restituta (Komtur)
Träger der Gloria-Artis-Medaille für kulturelle Verdienste
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Gestorben 2010
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President Barack Obama will ask the US Congress for $1.8 billion in emergency funding to combat the Zika virus.
The Zika virus, which is transmitted primarily through mosquitoes, has spread rapidly through the Americas.
It has been linked to a condition called microcephaly, in which babies are born with underdeveloped brains.
The money will go to mosquito control efforts and vaccine research programs among other initiatives.
The White House says that some of the money will go towards "enhancing the ability of Zika-affected countries to better combat mosquitoes and control transmission" of the virus.
The Zika virus is currently being transmitted to new patients in 26 countries in the Americas, according to the Pan American Health Organization.
Additionally, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has confirmed 50 cases of the virus in the United States among people who had travelled to affected regions and returned to the US.
There is a growing fear that as warmer months approach in the northern hemisphere and mosquitoes become active, local transmission could become a problem – especially in the southern US.
Last week, the first case of locally transmitted Zika was reported in Dallas, Texas. Notably, the virus was spread in this case through sexual contact, not a mosquito bite.
The Zika virus has had a considerable impact in Brazil, which has seen a spike in microcephaly cases – totaling around 4,000 in recent months, stirring fears ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympics.
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared an emergency over the cases last week, prompting research and aid to be fast-tracked.
The Reuters news agency reported that the US Olympic Committee has told its athletes and staff who are concerned about the virus to consider skipping the games.
However, the Zika virus did not keep revelers home from Carnival in Rio de Janeiro over the weekend – some 70,000 fans were said to have been in attendance.


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Many Question the Professionalism of Sac PD's Underground Facebook Page
in: Breaking News, Civil Rights, Law Enforcement, Sacramento Region
by Jerika L.H.
The Sacramento Police Department has taken to Facebook to show its true feelings amidst ongoing controversy on a page known only as "SPD Underground." The page moderator (whose name and position within SacPD remains unknown) seems to have several axes to grind, as they single out several people by name, including the Sacramento Bee's Anita Chabria and Black Lives Matter's Tanya Faison.
The page claims to be: "The unofficial voice to the hardworking men and women of the Sacramento Police Department," however, its authenticity has been unverified.
The page's numerous posts railed against anti-police sentiment, refuted claims of police brutality, and overwhelmingly sought to deny any racial bias within the police force. They continuously refer to BLM as "Black Lies Matter," and called its followers "ignorant," among other things.
A general sampling of their posts best illustrates the aggressive tone of their page:
With a meager 270 likes, the page does not appear to have attracted a sea of supporters. In fact, many are questioning the professionalism of the page, as the clear grudge against BLM supporters have raised concerns that police have openly admitted hate for the very communities they're sworn to protect.
General insensitivity has also been a point of contention. As the previous excerpt showcases, the SPD moderator accuses Mikel McIntyre's mother of wanting to profit financially off his death. This comment was made in the recent aftermath of his shooting, as she was still mourning the loss of her son.
The page vows to continue its uncensored rants and keep the page public, as well as swears to bring down the Sacramento Bee and remain at war with the local BLM chapter.
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7 thoughts on "Many Question the Professionalism of Sac PD's Underground Facebook Page"
Keith O June 4, 2017 at 6:02 am
We will wait to pass judgement on the videos that were released and we should remind everyone else especially BLM and our City Leaders to do the same.
Let's not forget Ferguson where people made up their own facts and when the evidence came out it didn't matter any more because it didn't fit the narrative. Thats why we still have BLM protesters walking around showing their ignorance by chanting "Hands up don't shoot".
What's there to argue with here?
David Greenwald June 4, 2017 at 6:25 am
That was I believe in response to the Nandi Cain situation where there was a video – unlike Ferguson.
What's your point?
It's reasonable to argue for withholding judgment when there is no video. We all saw the Cain video, even SPD came out with a quick denunciation, so in this case, I think their view is arguable at best. That said, that's probably the most innocuous of their posts.
I find all of the examples quoted here in this article as fairly innocuous.
John Hobbs June 4, 2017 at 6:06 am
The Sac PD page is tame compared to most cop blogs. Cops have killed 503 people in the USA so far in 2017. We overpay them for this disservice. They are the deadliest gang in America.
"'Thats(sic) why we still have BLM protesters walking around showing their ignorance by chanting "Hands up don't shoot'."
Only ignorant in their hopefulness that some humanity exists within the ranks of the police force.