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Greynolds, AD/CVD Operations, Office 3, Import Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482–6071. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background On January 20, 2010, the Department of Commerce (Department) initiated the countervailing duty investigation of drill pipe from the People's Republic of China. See Drill Pipe from the People's Republic of China: Initiation of Countervailing Duty Investigation, 75 FR 4345 (January 27, 2010) (Initiation). Currently, the preliminary determination is due no later than April 2, 2010.1 1 We note that the original deadline of the preliminary determination was March 26, 2010. However, as a result of the snowstorms that occurred in the Washington, D.C., area during the E:\FR\FM\08APN1.SGM 08APN1 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 67 / Thursday, April 8, 2010 / Notices Postponement of Due Date for Preliminary Determination sroberts on DSKD5P82C1PROD with NOTICES Section 703(b)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), requires the Department to issue the preliminary determination in a countervailing duty investigation within 65 days after the date on which the Department initiated the investigation. However, if the Department concludes that the parties concerned in the investigation are cooperating and determines that the investigation is extraordinarily complicated, section 703(c)(1)(B) of the Act allows the Department to postpone making the preliminary determination until no later than 130 days after the date on which the administering authority initiated the investigation. The Department has determined that the parties involved in the proceeding are cooperating and that the investigation is extraordinarily complicated. See section 703(c)(1)(B) of the Act. Specifically, the Department is currently investigating alleged subsidy programs involving loans, grants, income tax incentives, and the provision of goods or services for less than adequate remuneration. Due to the number and complexity of the alleged countervailable subsidy practices being investigated, it is not practicable to complete the preliminary determination of this investigation within the original time limit (i.e., by April 2, 2010). Therefore, in accordance with section 703(c)(1)(B) of the Act, we are fully extending the due date for the preliminary determination to no later than 137 days after the day on which the investigation was initiated.2 However, as that date falls on a Saturday, the deadline for completion of the preliminary results is now June 7, 2010, the next business day. This notice is issued and published pursuant to section 703(c)(2) of the Act. month of February 2010, this deadline was tolled 7 days pursuant to the Memorandum issued by the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration. See Memorandum to the Record from Ronald K Lorentzen, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, regarding ''Tolling of Administrative Deadlines As a Result of the Government Closure During the Recent Snowstorm,'' dated February 12, 2010 (Tolling Memorandum) a public document on the record of this proceeding that is available in room 1117 of the Central Records Unit (CRU) of the main Commerce Building. 2 Normally, under section 703(c)(1)(B) of the Act, the Department extends the due date of a preliminary determination to no later than 130 days after the day on which the investigation was initiated. 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[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 67 (Thursday, April 8, 2010)]
[FR Doc No: 2010-8056]
[C-570-966]
Drill Pipe from the People's Republic of China: Notice of
Postponement of Preliminary Determination in the Countervailing Duty
AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration,
Department of Commerce.
EFFECTIVE DATE: April 8, 2010.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eric B. Greynolds, AD/CVD Operations,
Office 3, Import Administration, International Trade Administration,
U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW,
Washington, DC 20230; telephone (202) 482-6071.
On January 20, 2010, the Department of Commerce (Department)
initiated the countervailing duty investigation of drill pipe from the
People's Republic of China. See Drill Pipe from the People's Republic
of China: Initiation of Countervailing Duty Investigation, 75 FR 4345
(January 27, 2010) (Initiation). Currently, the preliminary
determination is due no later than April 2, 2010.\1\
\1\ We note that the original deadline of the preliminary
determination was March 26, 2010. However, as a result of the
snowstorms that occurred in the Washington, D.C., area during the
month of February 2010, this deadline was tolled 7 days pursuant to
the Memorandum issued by the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import
Administration. See Memorandum to the Record from Ronald K
Lorentzen, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration,
regarding ``Tolling of Administrative Deadlines As a Result of the
Government Closure During the Recent Snowstorm,'' dated February 12,
2010 (Tolling Memorandum) a public document on the record of this
proceeding that is available in room 1117 of the Central Records
Unit (CRU) of the main Commerce Building.
Postponement of Due Date for Preliminary Determination
Section 703(b)(1) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act),
requires the Department to issue the preliminary determination in a
countervailing duty investigation within 65 days after the date on
which the Department initiated the investigation. However, if the
Department concludes that the parties concerned in the investigation
are cooperating and determines that the investigation is
extraordinarily complicated, section 703(c)(1)(B) of the Act allows the
Department to postpone making the preliminary determination until no
later than 130 days after the date on which the administering authority
initiated the investigation.
The Department has determined that the parties involved in the
proceeding are cooperating and that the investigation is
extraordinarily complicated. See section 703(c)(1)(B) of the Act.
Specifically, the Department is currently investigating alleged subsidy
programs involving loans, grants, income tax incentives, and the
provision of goods or services for less than adequate remuneration. Due
to the number and complexity of the alleged countervailable subsidy
practices being investigated, it is not practicable to complete the
preliminary determination of this investigation within the original
time limit (i.e., by April 2, 2010). Therefore, in accordance with
section 703(c)(1)(B) of the Act, we are fully extending the due date
for the preliminary determination to no later than 137 days after the
day on which the investigation was initiated.\2\ However, as that date
falls on a Saturday, the deadline for completion of the preliminary
results is now June 7, 2010, the next business day.
\2\ Normally, under section 703(c)(1)(B) of the Act, the
Department extends the due date of a preliminary determination to no
later than 130 days after the day on which the investigation was
initiated. However, pursuant to the Tolling Memorandum, we are
extending the due date of the preliminary determination to no later
than 137 days after the day on which the Department initiated the
This notice is issued and published pursuant to section 703(c)(2)
of the Act.
Dated: April 2, 2010.
John M. Andersen,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration.
[FR Doc. 2010-8056 Filed 4-7-10; 8:45 am]
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After spending a year at a college with coursework tailored to students with special needs, Mark lacked direction. The university environment had supported him academically, but he needed structure outside of the classroom that his program did not provide. Though he craved independence and had the potential to achieve it, he didn't have the life and work skills he needed to take on adult responsibilities. Even moving back home became a struggle, and he often fought with his parents when they encouraged him to be a more thoughtful member of their home.
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On April 24 2013, 1134 people were killed and 2,500 were injured when the Rana Plaza building in Savar, Bangladesh collapsed on top of garment workers inside its factories. It would be known as the worst accident in the garment industry anywhere.
This happened only five months after a horrific fire at a similar facility prompted leading multinational brands to pledge to work to improve safety in the country's booming but poorly regulated garment industry.
Labour groups, Western clothing companies, the Bangladeshi government and others have made some progress toward preventing similar tragedies, but more still needs to be done.
There was never any doubt that improving working conditions in Bangladesh, one of the world's poorest countries, would be incredibly difficult. The collapse of Rana Plaza was just one, though by far the worst in a series of industrial accidents in Bangladesh's garment industry, which has become one of the biggest exporters of clothes to the United States and Europe because of its low wages.
It was later discovered that 28 brands that sourced clothes from the plaza included Primark, Bennetton, Mango, Matalan and Bonmache, prompting public concern
about the working conditions of garment factories around the world which contribute to western high street fashion stores.
Ethical consumerism encourages people to think about how the products they buy are sourced and produced which are not harmful to the environment and society. This can be evidenced through simply purchasing eggs that are free-range or boycotting goods/companies which promote child labour or unsavoury working conditions.
Ethical consumerism is a growing market. A recent report from the Co-operative Bank showed a third of UK consumers claiming to be concerned about ethical consumption, with a large number of the public willing to challenge and boycott companies which do not comply with ethical standards.
You are required to write an analytical business report that covers the following tasks:
• Discuss the ways in which companies, like the ones mentioned in the extract above, that sourced clothes from the Rana Plaza can help improve business practices to prevent recurrence of events of this nature.
• Choose any company, research and evidence how they operate ethically, taking into account their approach to consumerism, values and environmental friendliness.
This report involved a critical analysis of the ways in which the purchaser from westernised countries could avoid the situations similar to that of Rana Plaza from occurring in future and also the approach of Tesco towards ethical consumerism. The conduct of analysis has indicated different important ways in which the purchaser could avoid such occurrence of building collapse from taking place further. These initiatives are mainly in terms of providing higher pay, sourcing materials from suppliers that comply with the terms on providing best working environment to their employees, and many more. The analysis of ethical approach of Tesco Plc indicated that the company is highly ethical and adapts a range of ethical practices as a part of its daily performance of business practices.
This is a case study analysis based on the case of Rana Plaza as provided. An analysis of the case indicates the event at Rana Plaza that has killed 1134 people and 2500 were injured. The case questions the role of companies that sources their requirements from this plaza, and their roles and responsibility towards such incidents. Businesses across the world are concerned with making their own profit and they are not concerned with the labour or workers that are actually involved in the manufacturing of such products and services. As a result, the case questions the concept of ethical consumerism in particular which indicates that the consumers of product should be aware of the processes that are being carried out by the companies in sourcing or producing such products. Overall, the case deals in the ethical values in the purchasing process, and raises significant such questions regarding the product sourcing by these companies.
This report therefore analyses the ways in which the western companies that sourced their requirements from such Rana Plaza can achieve improvement in respect to their business practices in avoiding such collapses. In addition to this, the analysis also focuses on selecting a company with a view to analyse the ways in which they operate in an ethical way by taking into consideration their approach to consumerism, values and environmental friendliness.
Ways of Improving Business Practices in Preventing Recurrence of Such Events
The case analysis of Rana Plaza in particular has indicated that there are westernised companies that have primarily become the customers of the garment industry that was operating in it. The collapse of Rana Plaza has killed many people and also raised questions on many such firms that are sourcing their requirements for garments from this Rana Plaza. Although such incident in the form of collapse of such Rana Plaza has taken place, yet there can be several such measures that could be employed in order to ensure that similar kinds of incidents can be prohibited from occurrence in the future. These important initiatives are discussed as follows:
An analysis of the case of Rana Plaza indicated that before the incident actually taken place, it was identified that there were certain cracks that have been discovered in the building. However, despite identifying such cracks, no major initiatives have been considered and the resulting impact is therefore the final collapse of the building. In this kind of circumstances, the companies that have sourced their requirements from Rana Plaza should have avoided purchasing their requirements for garments by claiming that their premises need to be changed or they need to be repaired before allowing the employees to work on. This could be an important strategy that could have prevented the occurrence of such incidents as evident in respect to Rana Plaza In Bangladesh (Rana Plaza Victims Still Await Compensation, 2013).
Apart from the above major initiative, the case analysis of Rana Plaza has indicated that majority of the companies that sourced garments from Rana Plaza are the westernised companies based in UK and US. The main concern of these companies as identified from the case analysis is that they are focused towards purchasing their requirements at cheaper cost. Availing garments at lower cost has been the prime motive factor behind their sourcing of garments from Bangladesh. This has been possible to them because of the cheap availability of labour. Their lower payment for the purchases has been a major factor which forces this labour to work under such adverse situations whereby they have identified that the working conditions are not favourable to them. Such policy of lower payment for the purchases is therefore a major factor that can be regarded as a potential factor contributed towards the collapse of Rana Plaza. The situation can therefore by avoided by raising the standards through increased payment to the labour so that they have better opportunities of working across efficient working conditions (Bangladesh: Rana Plaza Victims Urgently Need Assistance, 2014).
Another major factor that could have restricted the occurrence of such collapses of building is by way of developing the overall infrastructure across the country. In this respect, the role and contribution of such westernised companies is significantly higher as they could potentially contribute towards the overall improvement in the infrastructure of the country. This is mainly because they could make larger payments for the purchases of garments as made by them, and this could contribute largely towards taxation liability. As a result, the earning could have been utilised by the government in the development of infrastructure across the economy, and the resulting impact is therefore efficient overall working processes being carried out by Bangladeshi people.
The companies making purchase from the operators in building such as Rana Plaza could also avoid making use of the garment products as produced by these manufacturers that exploits local people. These westernised companies could include purchasing terms and agreements which must be complied by the local manufacturers. These terms could be in the form of providing safe working environment to their employees, or making it essential that the employees are paid reasonably higher for the contribution of efforts as made by them. This would require the local manufacturers in Bangladesh to make use of efficient policies aimed at meeting out the expectations of these westernised companies positively and thereby in satisfying their terms (Gomes, 2013).
These above indicated policies and procedures are certain important ways through which the prevention of the occurrence of such events can be ensured. However, it is not only these companies that could account for the restriction of such practices or exposure of employees to threats, rather there is a requirement for collaborative efforts from large number of people and authorities. As for instance, the role of government of the economy is significantly important because government can devise strategies and initiatives that could ensure the development of infrastructure and also provides the local people with sufficient level of opportunities. There can be the formulation of policies and procedures by the government which could restrict the usage of child labour from the process, and there could also be the restriction with respect to the over exploitation of workers across the country. Apart from this, the employers are also required to make arrangement of proper working environment condition for their employees so that the threats of collapses of buildings could be restricted from occurrence.
Selection of a Company that Operates Ethically
The analysis in this section is now focused towards performing a critical assessment of a company that claims to operate in an ethical way. The company as selected for the purpose of analysis is Tesco Plc which has been a UK based Retail Company. Tesco is operating at a larger level and it accounts for covering majority of the retail markets in UK and also has its operations across majority parts of the world. This section of analysis is now focused towards evaluating the ways in which Tesco operates ethically and also analyses the approach of the company towards consumerism, values and environmental friendliness.
Ethical Operations by Tesco Plc: An analysis of Tesco Plc indicates that the company claims to operate in a highly ethical way. The ways in which the policies and procedures are carried out at Tesco Plc are identified as highly ethical. As for example, Tesco makes it sure that ethical values are observed in respect to all the major areas of its operations whether it includes the sourcing of raw material or the management of wastes in its processes and activities. The ethical values are also evident in respect to the employee management process that has been carried out across the company, and with respect to the environmental performance, there has been specific level of emphasis being placed at Tesco to achieve environment compliance processes and procedures (Harrison, Newholm and Shaw, 2005).
Approach to Consumerism, Values and Environmental Friendliness: The approach of Tesco Plc towards consumerism, values and environmental friendliness can be better assessed by way of examining the policies and practices that are being carried out across the company. An analysis of practices at Tesco Plc indicates that the company focuses on the welfare of society at large, and this is evident from the positive waste management practices as adopted by the company. As Tesco is operating on such a larger basis, it results into the generation of wastes across the company on huge level. This has been addressed at Tesco through its FairShare initiative through which the surplus production of foods are provided to the community people that need meals (Tesco Foodwaste, 2014). In addition to this, Tesco has strict sourcing policies whereby its suppliers are required to meet out all its requirements in order to become its suppliers. As for example, Tesco has policy aimed at protecting the domestic suppliers and this shows that the company is extremely concerned with operating in ethical way. Tesco does not allow the activities such as performance of animal testing, as they are completely prohibited from performance. It is not only these moral obligations that are being fulfilled at Tesco, but the company also accounts for fulfilling the legal aspects in performing the management of its business (Tesco Animal Welfare, 2014). The important codes of conduct that are being complies by Tesco Plc includes the UK Bribery Act 2010, UN Global Compact Principle 10 (Trading Responsible, 2014). The environmental initiatives that are being considered by Tesco Plc includes operating zero carbon stores by the company, conserving water resources and looking towards making minimal use of water resources etc (Guido, 2009).
The above analysis indicated that there has been positive level of approach to Tesco Plc towards the concept of consumerism, values and environmental friendliness.
A critical analysis of the case of Rana Plaza has been performed and it is evaluated that the role of purchasers from the westernised countries could play an important role in restricting the occurrence of such cases as evident in respect to Rana Plaza. They are required to make it sure that they purchases from the suppliers that pay adequate attention in providing good working conditions. They can also increase the pay to employees who work under such factory, and many such initiatives have been identified. Apart from this, a case company Tesco Plc has been selected in order to analyse its approach towards ethical consumerism and it is evaluated that Tesco has good approach towards ethical consumerism. There are a large range of initiatives that are considered by the company such as ethical trading, responsible sourcing of raw materials, water resource conservation and many more.
There are certain recommendations that are considered essential and these are indicated as follows:
Companies should focus more on trading in an ethical manner in their operations. They should emphasise the concept of consumerism (Harrison, Newholm and Shaw, 2005).
The responsible sourcing of materials is essential for an organisation to succeed (Tesco Resources, 2014)
There should be adequate importance that should be placed on the environmental performance by the company (Harrison, Newholm and Shaw, 2005).
Paying adequately to the employees is essential so that they get better working environment conditions and the chances of building collapses are eliminated.
Government of an economy plays an important role and they should contribute positively towards making it sure that the infrastructure levels are efficiently addressed and managed (Harrison, Newholm and Shaw, 2005).
Bangladesh: Rana Plaza Victims Urgently Need Assistance, (2014) [Online]. Available at: https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/04/23/bangladesh-rana-plaza-victims-urgently-need-assistance [Accessed: 23 March 2015].
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Volunteer with TWC
Day 1 Club
The Welcoming Committee is preparing to go national with our launch in Washington, DC. Read on to learn more about how you can be involved!
The Welcoming Committee is a movement of LGBTQ people who want to experience the whole world, and not just gay bars, in outrageous comfort. How do we it? Easy. First, we build a huge community of LGBTQ folks. And then we simply bring hundreds of our members to concerts, theaters, sports games, nightclubs, and travel destinations in and around the city.
We're already in Boston and Philadelphia, and we're preparing our debut in the District. Read on to learn more about how you can get involved, and let us know if you're interested!
What you'll find on this page:
More about Community Managers, who bring people together to make takeovers happen in DC
Info on joining the Day 1 Club, the welcomers who make TWC friendly (and awesome!)
How to get in touch with us about becoming a CM or D1C member!
Community Managers are the face of TWC in DC.
The Welcoming Committee is nothing without it's Community Managers. Being a CM is about being more than just a member. They bring the city what it needs most: community. They inspire, they play, they send hugs, they laugh, they listen but most of all they bring the magic. Here's a few things you can look forward to doing as a CM:
Making a lot of new and awesome friends. (Sounds like the worst, right?)
Being the face and name behind your city's TWC chapter and the key liaison to TWC Headquarters.
Launching and maintaining the flagship TWC event: Guerrilla Queer Bar (GQB), plus other non-bar events!
Scoping out iconic bars, events, and travel destinations that for one reason or another the LGBTQ community doesn't find themselves going to.
Spreading the TWC mission like wild fire.
Sound amazing? Contact us here. Want to know more? Read on.
Community Managers never work alone. While we've built our wishlist of what qualities make a good CM, we think it's more important that two CMs fulfill these together rather than having one person who embodies all of these qualities.
Love of connecting people and reaching new ones
Willingness to go new places and see different parts of the city
Ability to talk to strangers
Fun and excited!
Social media savvy
A good listener
Excited by travel and new adventures
An influencer and motivator
The perks? Here are a few, plus testimonials from Community Managers in other cities.
Pride in building the largest LGBT community your city has ever seen
Meeting and building a network of incredible passionate and dedicated TWC employees & volunteers nationwide
Many more perks for events and travel!
Sound like you gig? Let us know here (or just scroll down)!
"You know when you find something and then wonder how you went your whole life without it? Well, that's what happened with being a CM for me. My life changed. And I never knew I had the capacity to do so much and make such an impact. It's a mutually beneficial relationship being a CM."
- Mary Pitek, Philly CM
"Being a Community Manager has been such a positive and wonderful experience. I've met so many people and I couldn't be happier. Seeing our community come together in support of one another is satisfaction in and of itself. I look forward to future events and hope the community continues to strive and grow together and that each individual feels that they are welcome in any type of environment."
- Kevin Haines, Philly CM
If Community Managers are the face of TWC, the Day 1 Club is the ready-to-hug set of arms, welcoming newbies into the fold and making sure everyone is having a great time.
The Day 1 Club is the life blood to our movement. If you dig what we are doing and want to be a part of it, then Day 1 Club is for you. The Day 1 Club is a group of 10-15 individuals who opt in because they want to make an impact. Are you a social media savvy person who has a million marketing ideas? Or do you just love meeting and talking to new people? Are you energized by being able to seek out and scope out new spaces for our community to access? Or do you want to involve yourself in an exciting group and make new friends? Any of these reasons are good reasons to join the Day 1 Club.
Here's some of what the Day 1 Club does:
Has fun!!
Leads the movement and empowers others to get involved
Gets together about once a month to strategize and plan for what their city wants and needs
Spreads the word and gets people to sign up for TWC and come to our events
Comes up with original ideas for marketing and events
Helps build a list of bars, events and travel destinations for their community to go to
Works directly with the city's Community Managers to execute ideas
Is at most GQBs to engage with people who have showed up alone or just want to know more about TWC
Makes hats (not a requirement, but Charles from Philly loves TWC so much he printed this fabric and got these made. And Jordan in Boston made these. So... it's basically a tradition at this point.)
We think that the Day 1 Club members usually embody some (not necessarily all) of these qualities:
Excited by TWC and wants to do more than just show up to events
Is totally committed to coming to at least 1-2 events per month
Likes to connect with people and have fun
Is passionate about building community
Can walk up and talk to a stranger
Sound awesome? It is. Drop us a line to let us know you're interested!
"I've been involved with other LGBT groups but it's been awesome having a community here in Philly that I can connect with and hang with at least once a month. Being a part of D1C is pretty cool because it gives me a voice in what events/places I think could use some more rainbows and glitter (and we get swag!). I've gained great friends through TWC and am excited to see where TWC takes us next!"
- Erica, Day 1 Club Philly member
"So far, I've really enjoyed meeting other Day 1 Clubbers. They're an energetic bunch who, like me, enjoy new adventures and experiences every now and then. More so, they're thrilled to share these experiences with others."
- Marquise, Day 1 Club Philly member
"I like being in on the ground floor of a movement that I'm so passionate about. A movement that I get to help shape and decide what it looks like. And with The Welcoming Committee you get what you put into it, tenfold. By being an active member of the community you get back so much community in return."
- Rada, Day 1 Club Philly member
"Being a member of the Day 1 Club has given me a whole new take on what it means to be LGBT in the city. I usually feel uncomfortable whenever I go places that aren't specifically LGBT bars, and D1C and The Welcoming Committee has helped show me that any space can be a safe space when you bring in 400 gays."
- Michael, Day 1 Club Philly member
"Things I love about being a D1Clubber: Welcoming Philly Noobies to the City of Brotherly Love. Encouraging LGBTs to invade neighborhoods outside of the Gayborhood. Bringing people together. Spreading the love. And dancing. ALL OF THE DANCING."
- Tammarah, Day 1 Club Philly member
I'm new to the ranks of the D1C and it's kind of hard to put into words how excited I am about it. As a leader of a lot of Latina-related organizing efforts, I learned, sometimes the hard way, the complexities of ally-hood. Being an ally isn't just about lip service, though it is about showing up, and it's more often about listening than it is about making yourself heard. So, I've chosen to channel my ally-hood full-throttle into The Welcoming Committee. It's a privilege to help out however I can. It's also hella fun, I can't lie. The people in TWC and the D1C are top-notch, prime cut, first class. They literally give me faith in the human race.
- Joey, D1C Philly
"Engagement. Involvement. New Friends. Having the time of your life."
- Charles, Day 1 Club Philly member
Ready to help TWC take over DC? So are we. And we couldn't be more excited to meet you.
Thanks for helping us take over DC! We're pumped to work with you. Let us know who you are:
My name is... *
And this is my email address: *
Anything else you'd like to tell us? *
Thank you! We'll be in touch soon. In the meanwhile, check out our plans for DC!
If you just want to keep in touch and find out more, you can also become a TWC member.


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North Carolina DUI crash leaves 3 injured
On Behalf of Woody White Law PLLC | Dec 14, 2011 | Drunk Driving Accidents |
No one in Wilmington wants to be involved in a serious car accident. Yet these types of incidents take place everyday across the state and the nation as a whole. In the worst cases, a car accident can lead to serious injury or even death to those involved. Such was the case on a recent Saturday when a car accident left several people hurt and one young girl perhaps fighting for her life.
The accident happened on U.S. 17 in Holly Ridge. The highway had to be closed down afterwards as police and rescue crews worked to help the injured and clear debris. In total, three vehicles were involved in the crash, and the driver of one vehicle was charged with drunk driving. As a result of her injuries, one 13-year-old girl had to be airlifted to a local hospital when rescuers found her unconscious and suffering from internal bleeding. According to police, the incident happened at around 5:30 in the evening.
Allegedly, a vehicle traveling over 80 mph crashed into the rear of another car, in which the 13-year-old girl was riding. Two others in the car were also injured and had to be transported to a hospital to receive treatment for their injuries. The alleged drunk driver then struck another car, but fortunately no further injuries were sustained. After hitting the other cars, the first vehicle then attempted to leave the scene, but the driver was later apprehended by police and charged with driving while impaired.
Source: The Daily News, "3 hospitalized, 1 charged after wreck," Lindell Kay, Nov. 26, 2011


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Alternative Insight
A Changed Israel
Only route to Middle East peace
The world hosts many oppressions -- Royhingya in Myanmar, ethnic groups in both North and South Sudan, Shi'a communities in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain are just a few examples. Although a large part of the international community sympathizes with the oppressed groups, petitions world bodies to relieve the oppressions, and provides some relief and support, substantial action is not taken to alleviate the suffering and reverse the destructions. The complacency bewilders those who labor for equality and justice.
Inaction occurs when nations adjacent to the oppression are not affected or cannot adequately respond, when the oppressed group is insufficiently represented in other nations and is unable to rally support, and when the mayhem does not greatly affect other nations around the world. The Royhingya dilemma generates television melodrama, a tug on the heart, a few gentle tears, but gathers no relief to their suffering and pain.
The crisis for the Palestinian people is different and unique; their suffering and pain under extreme oppression does not contain limitations to action. Adjacent nations react aggressively, partisans of Israel and Palestine exist in force in western nations, especially the United States, and struggle to advance their positions, and the oppression of the Palestinians alerts almost the entire world. The crisis that attends the Palestinian people is unique and moves much of the world to demand an equitable solution.
The only equitable solution to the Palestinian crisis exerts pressure on Israel -- to have Middle East peace, Israel must have a makeover. This salutary demand needs explanation, an explanation that answers four questions:
Why must Israel change?
What will happen if Israel does not change?
Can Israel change?
What will be the new Israel?
From the day that UN Resolution 181, Partition Plan, squeaked through the General Assembly by one vote, Israel has embarked on an expansionist campaign that features ethnic cleansing, constant wars, unlawful land seizures, illegal settlements, and criminal acts against the Palestinian people. In effect, Israel governments have pursued the implementation of the proposals made by the World Zionist Organization at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, whose claims to Palestine are shown in the figure below. Note their Greater Israel extends close to Beirut in Lebanon, Damascus in Syria, and Amman in Jordan. The boundary captures all the aquifers and facilitates use of a previous Hedjaz railway.
In 1948 Israel extended its UN awarded territory to double its size.
In 1956 Israel seized the entire Sinai Peninsula until United States (US) President David Eisenhower forced its withdrawal.
In 1984, after a protracted war in Lebanon, Israel established a 5-15 mile security zone in southern Lebanon. In 2003, Israel, after suffering military losses, vacated the security zone.
In 1967, after the 6-day war, Israel occupied the Golan Heights, all of Jerusalem. the West Bank, Gaza, and the Sinai Peninsula.
From 1967-present, Israel established settlements in the Golan Heights, West Bank, and East Jerusalem. Settlements were also established in the Sinai and Gaza, but Israel vacated these settlements and all of the Sinai in later years.
Israel also seized the entire Lake Kinneret aquifer from Syria, control of the Mountain aquifer in the West Bank and control of flow of the Jordan River.
At the Paris Peace Conference, the Zionists stated their mission, and Israel has intended to fulfill that mission -- incorporate all of former Palestine, and maybe more, into one Jewish state, an all or nothing proposition that no Israeli Prime Minister dares to contradict. Remember what happened to Rabin. Israel has never abided by resolutions from the International community that condemned its policies, and never will. It continues its oppressive policies, regardless of world opinion, damage to other Middle East nations, and total destruction to the Palestinian community. Forget the two-states, one-state, bi-national state; Israel will determine its own fate, which may be a "no-state," a nation without borders. If Israel does not change and achieves its mission of an expanded nation without borders, it will initiate catastrophes that will engulf the entire Middle East region
Similar to Napoleonic France and Nazi Germany, Israel has and will always face enemies, and the last of those to stand -- Iran, Shi'a militias in a revitalized Iraq, and Hezbollah -- seem willing to fight aggressively. These foes might be temporarily contained, but Israel cannot subdue them forever. If faced with possible defeat, Israel will exercise the Sampson option, and a nuclear holocaust will destroy the Middle East. Unrestrained and continuous warfare is the major reason that Israel must change.
With continued seizure of Palestinian lands, expanded settlement activity, and purposed denial of the Palestinians to agriculture, water rights, fishing rights, livelihood, and employment, Israel's actions forecast the destruction of the Palestinian people. Israel has shown no sympathy with the Palestinian plight, and the international community has shown itself incapable of reversing the negative trend. The severe Israeli repression assures that the Palestinians lack what they most need -- ontological security -- a stable mental state derived from a sense of continuity in regard to the events in one's life. The absence of ontological security accelerates deterioration of a community, and, therefore, propels the destruction of Palestinian life to an eventual outcome, a genocide. Because it is not a genocide until the vicious act is completed, few will realize the trajectory of the destruction. Recently, the US Congress voted to recognize the genocide of the Armenian people, 100 years too late after the happening, but refuses to recognize and halt the potential genocide of the Palestinian people while it is happening. Present Israel activities assure the demise of the Palestinian community, and to prevent it, Israel must change.
The ISIS Caliphate has been defeated and reduced, but what is not reduced are two causes of international terrorism -- Israel's oppression of the Palestinian people and Israel's conflict with the Muslim world in Jerusalem. Osama bin-Laden clarified those positions in an interview with CBS reporter Joel Arak, October 30, 2004, who related that Osama bin Laden said he was first inspired to attack the United States by the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon in which towers and buildings in Beirut were destroyed in the siege of the capital. "While I was looking at these destroyed towers in Lebanon, it sparked in my mind that the tyrant should be punished with the same and that we should destroy towers in America, so that it tastes what we taste and would be deterred from killing our children and women." In the biography, Growing Up bin Laden, St. Martin's Press, Omar bin Laden, Osama bin Laden's son, relates that his father told him, "In reality, America and Israel are one country, not two." Granted that Osama bin Laden had paranoid and schizophrenic conditions, but why were his views sustained and not contradicted by U.S. government policies? Why did Americans have to suffer because their government condones oppressive actions by Israel?
International support for actions that provoke extremists tend to increase their motives for international terrorism. Included in this terrorism are increasing attacks on Jewish and Muslim persons, victims of the hate that propels the terrorists. Until these situations are satisfactorily resolved, one driver of international terrorism will remain and create innocent victims for decades. A major factor for deterring terrorism is for Israel to change
The trajectories to war, community destruction, terrorism, and devastation are clearly marked. Nevertheless, the world and regional institutions, which have the power to prevent the gloom and doom, react with a combination of confusion and complacency, which hastens the ultimate to occur. Time has become essential; ponderous steps by the world community to redo fall behind Israel's rapid measures of doing. Much can be done but not without consideration to the mechanisms that prevent complete understanding of the crisis, which is sadly lacking. Israel's deceptive practices that confuse the issues, dupe the public, and muzzle attempts to resolve the Middle East crisis are the principal ingredients that give it clout and voice much above its fighting weight. Never in history have so many been fooled by an extensive, calculated, and ingenious plan to subvert minds and rearrange positions. External forces can assist in resolving the Middle East crisis by pushing Israel to accomplish that task, by convincing its leaders that Israel must change.
In the film, Valmont, the Casanova look-alike asks his soul-mate friend, "Can a seducer of women, a wastrel, and completely self-centered person change?" She replies, "Of course, he can become worse." A valid description of Israel.
Each year, Israel becomes more self-centered in its attitude, more deceptive in its approach, and more oppressive in its operations. The drift of the electorate has been continually toward the political Parties that urge more theft of Palestinian lands, more constraints on Palestinian life, and more movement to a Greater Israel. As one example, David Elhayani, mayor of the Jordan Valley Regional Council Arvot Hayarden settlement (ED; an illegal organization), says simply that, "Any unity government must include a commitment to annex the Jordan Valley to Israel."
In an article, Welcomed, Then Attacked by Yitzhar, by Max Buchdahl, November 5, 2019, at https://newvoices.org/2019/11/05/welcomed-then-attacked-by-yitzhar/, Max Buchdahl relates the viciousness of tne extreme of the settlers, and their disregard for fellow Jews.
At the beginning of September, I began a nine-month program at the Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem.The same friend who suggested the settlement tour also suggested that I volunteer with Rabbis for Human Rights, an organization which recruits folks every year to assist Palestinian olive farmers during the harvest
Then, suddenly, Mohammed, whose farm we were on, started running towards us and telling us to run. We thought he must have seen settlers coming, but we had no idea what would come next. We quickly retrieved our backpacks and began running. When we turned around, a group of 15-20 masked settlers were behind us. Many of them had iron crowbars in their hands. Others started picking up stones and throwing them towards us.
A friend of mine was pushed to the ground and hit in the knee with a crowbar. Another, after being bludgeoned by crowbars, was hit in the back of the head by a stone as we were running away. As he started bleeding, we wrapped a scarf around his head and kept going. As we were chased out, the settlers started fires next to the grove.
That was all the time it took to make it clear that there is no "both sides" when it comes to the brutalizers of Yitzhar and the nearby Palestinian villagers who are brutalized by them.
Although, settlers gain nothing more than what they could have by living in Israel, except to fulfill an imaginary and neurotic concept of being a "Chosen People' who are reclaiming their chosen land, they eagerly displace themselves to live in the West Bank territory, and, without compunction, cause harm to the Palestinians.
In the year 2019, the speeding train that is Israel has a momentum that seems unstoppable, and a trajectory that is unimpeded. However, the single track does not lead to a final destination -- regardless of where Israel extends, it will meet an enemy; no matter how it meets hostility, the hostility will grow faster, and as it increases the oppression, external opposition will also increase. Somewhere, sometime, an Israeli leader will gain power who recognizes that Israel is on a suicide mission and his/her nation must change. Similar happenings occurred when Charles deGaulle gained power in France and ended a 100 year occupation of Algeria, which eventually prompted removal of all French settlers, when Frederik Willem de Klerk, South Africa's last head of state dismantled the apartheid system, introduced universal suffrage, and ended the era of white-minority rule, and when Boris Yeltsin dismantled the Soviet Union. Despite protests, these transitions occurred without incidents.
Of course, it will not be that simple -- Israel has extremists that rival those of the Radical Islamists and a mindset that has an "all or nothing" philosophy. So, where do we begin?
Jews migrated to Israel for three principal reasons:
Economic improvement characterized by the East Europeans and Russians,
Removing the hindrance of minority status, characterized by the North African and Middle East Jews, and
Fulfilling Biblical prophecies, characterized by some American, and European orthodox Jews.
The first two former reasons no longer exist; Jews are welcome and able to compete successfully, with a few exceptions, in most western nations. If they feel threatened, physically or by an economic downfall, they will be able to emigrate to other nations. As Israel drifted away from Political, Labor, and Cultural Zionism, and Revisionist, Revolutionary, and Religious Zionism received impetus, emigration became a constant feature, with estimates of more than one million Israelis living abroad. https://www.newsweek.com/2018/05/18/israel-brain-drain-technology-startup-nation-religion-palestinians-economy-919477.html Unfortunately, the emigration has weakened the more moral, social, conciliatory, and peaceful elements of Israeli society and strengthened the racist, aggressive, and expansionist elements.
Israel's increased oppressive tactics and a large body of its dissidents residing in foreign nations have prompted a more open discussion on the Middle East crisis, and led to a growing awareness of the legitimacy of the Palestinian cause. These phenomena are reflected in the comments by many Democratic Party principals, in university campus activities, increased numbers of Jewish people involved in reforming Israel, and in direct confrontations, such as the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. The more that Israel gains on the ground, by theft of Palestinian lands, the more it loses in the court of public opinion. Israel is in a no-win position. The rapid growth of a worldwide movement that recognizes Palestinian rights and Israeli wrongs will coalesce into a realization of the more cogent reasons for containing and changing Israel:
The present trajectory of the Middle East crisis is to enhanced violence that will affect the western nations.
International terrorism will never abate until the Palestinian issue is fairly resolved,
Israel is a criminal nation that has seized Palestinian lands and brutalized Palestinian life, and
Resettlement of Israel is based on fabrication and led by religious extremists from both the Jewish and Christian communities.
The more the arguments against Israel's oppressive actions grow, the more oppressive and anxious will Israel behave in an effort to fulfill its chosen destiny. At some time in the future, the arguments against Israel's oppressive tactics will force concrete actions – reduction in tourism, arming of its antagonists, possible sanctions, and trade embargos. Already in internal chaos, a divided Israeli constituency does not allow formation of a viable government. Economic pressure upon the political pressure will make rational Israelis think, act, and seek control.
The third reason is based on falsehoods, which is that Jews of today are directly related to the Hebrews, that the Hebrews had a vital and unique civilization in the Levant, that Jerusalem was a consistent capital of the Jewish people, and that the Jews are a unique people who deserve a unique nation, regardless of the harm that gathering may inflict upon others.
Combating the Religious Right in the United States, which stirs the oppression by fostering the concept of a Chosen People and a valid return to their ancient lands, and the Israel ultra-orthodox extremists, who are no different than other fundamentalist extremists, should be done in the same manner as done to contain the radical Islamic extremists -- they are a danger to others, a danger to themselves, and a danger to civilization, and must be subdued. Anyone uttering the phrase that "God gave us this land," should be treated similarly to someone who stands in Times Square, New York and exclaims. "God sent me to rule over all of you."
A society that exists on false justifications cannot continually validate its existence. Israel society will break down on the weight of its criminal actions, which they cannot indefinitely excuse by reciting mendacious remarks of reclaiming a land they never owned and inheriting a mantle from deceased they never knew. A sharp difference of opinion between rigid and non-compromising sectors of society as to Israel's future has led to political stalemate and increasing anarchy. Israel is a state without borders and a state with enclaves -- orthodox, ultra-orthodox, Russian, Falasha, hostile settlements, secular, dissidents, and intertwined communities of struggling Palestinians. The citizens are engaged in a Civil War, that appears entirely civil, with few harmful actions toward one another, but is becoming more overtly hostile with attacks by settlers against security forces (https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israel-tolerated-settler-attacks-on-palestinians-now-they-re-attacking-the-idf-1.8017149), arrests of human rights activists, (https://972mag.com/south-hebron-hills-activists-israeli-army/141268/), and refusals to serve in the Israel military (https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/The-myth-of-compulsory-military-service-in-Israel-569779)
In order for its citizens to survive and not take much of the Middle East into an otherwise accompanied destruction, Israel must change and will change – into what?
The new Israel
The world has two choices -- destruction of the Middle East or a new Israel. Israelis have two choices -- their partial destruction or a new israel. By it's "all or nothing" strategy, Israel, has decided its fate; it can never obtain all and must settle for nothing; Israelis will survive but not the present Israel state.
Survival of all -- Jews, Palestinians, and Middle East Arabs means an Israel for all -- Jews and Palestinians. The process to peace and reconciliation starts with recognition by Israel's defenders that supporting criminal activities makes one guilty of aiding and abetting criminals. It means righting the wrongs of the past. It means open borders between Gaza, West Bank, Jerusalem, and present day Israel. It means Right of Return for all Palestinian refugees. How this will come to fruition is not determined; assuredly it will be a slow and carefully planned process. Undoubtedly, preparations will be made for the more socially and politically aware Jews to gain authority and then invite compatible Palestinians into a formation of forces that can maintain control of their communities. From that point, a mass exodus of Israeli Jews to other lands and a retreat of ultra-orthodox settlers to less controversial enclaves will occur. Harsh measures against those who impede the process to a final and just resolution of the Middle East crisis will be made.
Finally, falteringly, and with some strife, the new Israel will be a democratic and just state, composed of Palestinians and Jews sharing control of the government and infrastructure. Syria will regain the Golan, Hezbollah will no longer care, and Hamas will become just another political Party. There is no other way to resolve the Middle East crisis. All this will happen one day in the future; so, why wait and cause misery to tens of millions before the final act of this human drama?
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As anyone who's ever been to a hospital knows, medical tests and procedures can be uncomfortably invasive. A patient might have to undergo a variety of unfamiliar medical procedures and be prodded in order to detect the underlying problem. However, thanks to research efforts of a team at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) headed by professor Dina Katabi, a doctor's visit may now be quicker, cheaper, and less intrusive. The CSAIL team is working on a system nicknamed ReMix, which detects the location of implants inside the body with the help of wireless signals (1). These implants are ingested by the patient and function as sensors that can be used to monitor basic bodily functions. For example, Katabi's team has been testing ReMix with technology that tracks breathing, motion, and heart rates. With ReMix's incredible accuracy, the group suggested it could someday be used to deliver drugs to specific areas within the body (1).
Wireless signaling was one of the first obstacles that the researchers encountered; many competing signals bounce off (and within) a person's body and can interfere with the signals from the marker inside the body. The team designed an elegant solution to this problem: a semiconductor device (a diode) that mixes signals so that skin-related signals are filtered out (1). Skin reflects signals at certain frequencies, which the diode then combines; only these combinations are picked up by the system, eliminating other noise.
Researchers hope ReMix will be able to revolutionize proton therapy, a cancer treatment in which tumors are bombarded with beams of magnet-controlled protons. If a tumor moves during the radiation process, then healthy regions may be exposed to radiation. This uncertainty has forced doctors to prescribe this treatment only for certain types of cancers (1). With ReMix, however, a doctor might be able to track a tumor's location and movement, and to adjust the proton beam, improving precsion and protecting healthy tissue. With proton therapy becoming less dangerous and cheaper, cancer would be able to acquire treatment more readily at an affordable price, alleviating a huge burden on patients.
Looking ahead, the CSAIL group aims to integrate medical information with wireless data to further improve the system's accuracy. Individualizing ReMix-based procedures and accounting for the anatomical complexity of each individual are major components of the team's future goals. While ReMix-based procedures aren't yet ready to be implemented in a clinical setting, this technological breakthrough is likely to surge in popularity as it proves useful in advances not even imagined yet and makes it way to local hospitals.
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Physicians face cut in Medicare reimbursements
By Barbara Pash
Barbara@MarylandReporter.com
In what the American Medical Association calls an "annual crisis," physicians are once again facing a cut in Medicare reimbursements – almost 30% in 2012 – unless the U.S. Congress acts by January 1. This year, though, there appears to be an added layer of uncertainty because of the supercommittee, whose decisions are due this week.
"I wouldn't call it panic but there is more urgency this year than usual, an elevated level of concern," said Michael Lachance, referring to the U.S. Congress Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, which is tasked with cutting $1.2 trillion from the national budget.
"Medicare accounts for 30 percent of total health care spending, and that could be a major trigger," continued Lachance, legislative liaison for the state Department of Aging. "No one knows what will come out of the supercommittee."
Joseph Gribbin expressed a similar opinion. "What is the tipping point? What will it take to actually reduce health care costs?" Gribbin, professor and graduate program director of the Erickson School of Aging, Management and Policy at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, said of the supercommittee.
Doctor reimbursement is a perennial problem
But Paul Van de Water, for one, doesn't see it that way. "It's a problem every year and this year is not appreciably different," said Van de Water, a senior fellow art the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a Washington, D.C. nonprofit that works on fiscal policy at the federal and state levels.
Last year, he pointed out, with physicians facing a nearly 30% cut in Medicare reimbursements, Congress waited until mid-December to block the cut. "The fix went down to the wire," said Van de Water.
The issue predates President Obama's 2010 Affordable Care Act. In the 1997 balanced budget act, the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) was created for Medicare. Every year since then, following the SGR formula reimbursements are automatically scheduled to be cut unless Congress intervenes. In only one year, fiscal 2002, has Congress not acted.
Lachance said that the Medicare reimbursement provision was not addressed in the Obama health care reform because its goal, like the reform itself, is to save money, not spend it. "The provision was already part of the law," he said. "We were told $96 billion would be saved in Medicare spending over a 10-year period by allowing that provision to take effect."
For 2012, physicians across the country will have a 27% percent cut in Medicare reimbursements unless Congress intervenes. In Maryland, according to the American Medical Association (AMA), the result would be a reduction of $420 million in health care for Medicare patients, and would reduce practice revenue an average $35,000 per Maryland physician.
Doctors would drop patients
Several groups besides the AMA are opposing the reimbursement reduction. In fact, Lachance said he is not aware of any group that is actually in favor of the reduction.
"Anyone who knows Medicare knows that if that cut goes into effect, access for Medicare patients will be seriously restricted. Many of the doctors won't accept" such patients, he said.
The AMA statement is nothing if not blunt on the subject. The cut will "worsen access problems and make it extremely difficult to pay for office space and other expenses and avoid staff layoffs," it stated.
Gribbin, a former associate commissioner for the Social Security Administration, knows one surgeon who has closed his practice and now works for a hospital, and a second surgeon who is considering doing the same.
"Doctors call it 'back door rationing' because hospital salaries and bonuses can be maximized before the end of a year," he said. "The implications are huge not just for physicians but for the beneficiary community, and they're not well understood."
Greg Crist, vice president public affairs for the American Health Care Association, a non-profit federation of state organizations in the skilled nursing sector, raised patient access and staff cuts in that sector as well.
"Our concern is any effort to fully fund the 'doc fix' could result in additional cuts to nursing homes and post acute care facilities – centers that work hand-in-hand with hospitals to care for the elderly patients who can't immediately go home from a hospital," he said in a statement.
Proposals to solve reimbursement issue
Various ideas are being floated to solve the annual Medicare reimbursement issue. The AMA is recommending that reimbursement payment remains at a stable level for five years while the SGR is eliminated and other proposals are tested. For example, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), an independent congressional agency, called for repeal of SGR and a gradual reduction in physician payout rates.
But the current options have been estimated to cost between $200 to $350 billion over 10 years, said Van de Water, and the longer Congress waits to act, the more difficult and expensive a solution becomes.
"It's hard for Congress to agree to that much money and make cuts elsewhere in Medicare to offset costs," he said. "Congress has been doing it one year at a time. It's not great but it gets the job done."
Another aspect of the health care situation is Medicare Part B premiums, which were announced earlier this fall. The standard monthly Medicare Part B premium will be $99.90 for 2012, a $3.50 increase for most people, to a projected $110.50 in 2013 and $115.80 in 2014. Higher-income beneficiaries (minimum $85,000 annual income per individual; $107,000 per couple) will pay $139.90 to $319.70 per month in 2012, based on a sliding scale.
In a statement, AARP applauded the lower-than-expected increase in 2012 Part B premiums. Lynn Nonnemaker, senior strategic policy advisor for the Public Policy Institute of AARP, in Washington, D.C., said of Part B premiums and physician reimbursement:
"Premiums are set based on expectations for Part B spending each year and the number of enrollees. CMS [Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services] is projecting how much Medicare will spend for Part B in 2012. They assume payment rates will not fall by 30 percent because Congress will act."
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Q: How can I capitalize letters before a certain character? (^) I would like to convert this:
foo^bar
ba^rfoo
oofrab
raboof^

To this:
FOObar
BArfoo
oofrab
RABOOF

Anything before the "^" (or another special character if it makes it easier) gets capitalized
Also, the removal of the "^" is also not required if it makes it easier.

A: Using GNU sed (Ubuntu's default) (thanks to pabouk for the -r option suggestion):
< inputfile sed -r 's/^(.*)\^/\U\1\E/' > out

Using perl (thanks to Oli for the shortened regex):
< inputfile perl -pe 's/^(.*)\^/\U\1\E/' > out

Command #1 breakdown:

*

*< inputfile: redirects the content of inputfile to stdin

*-r: allows the use of extended regexes

*> out: redirects the content of stdout to out
Command #2 breakdown:

*

*< inputfile: redirects the content of inputfile to stdin

*> out: redirects the content of stdout to out
Regex breakdown:

*

*s: performs a substitution

*/: starts the regex

*^: matches the start of the line

*(: starts the first capturing group

*.*: matches any number of characters

*): stops the first capturing group

*\^: matches a ^ character

*/: stops the regex / starts the replacement

*\U: starts converting to uppercase

*\1: replaces with the first capturing group

*\E: stops converting to uppercase

*/: stops the replacement

A: Using vim:
vim -es '+g/\^/normal gUf^' +wq foo

*

*The -es turns on the venerable ex mode, and silences vim (mostly).

*+ is used to provide vim commands as command-line arguments.

*g/\^/ - run the command on all lines matching /\^/

*normal - run the rest of the command as a normal mode action.

*gUf^ - convert to uppercase (gU) until ^ (f^). While using a range g/.../ in this case), the cursor is placed at the start of each line before executing the command.

*Then save and quit (wq).

f looks for the first ^, so lines with multiple ^ would have only the field converted. There's no simple motion for finding the last ^. You can try going to the end of the line and searching backwards ($F^), but that would fail if ^ is the last character. So, you would need to do it in two steps:
vim -es '+g/\^./norm $F^gU0' '+g/\^$/norm gU$' +wq foo

A: EDIT
So after about hour and half , I came up with this:
awk -F' ' '{ gsub(/\^/,"@ "); for (i=1;i<=NF;i++){ if($i ~ /\@/) $i = toupper($i);};gsub("@ ","");gsub("@",""); print   }  ' removecharsfile

Basic ideas:

*

*get rid of ^ and replace it with @ plus space

*Treat space as field delimiter; now we have fields to play with

*for loop to step through each field in each line, and check if there is @ character.

*if there is @ character, convert that field to upper. Why $i = toupper($i) ? Because otherwise it doesn't get stored anywhere

*after the loop is done, get rid of @+space, and any @ at the end of fields.

*print everything

Perhaps better approach to writing all this on one line is to put it in a file ( neatly organized bellow ), and run that with awk like so awk -f awkscript theinputfile
# awk script to capitalize
# whatever comes before caret(^)

{
  gsub (/\^/, "@ ");
  for (i = 1; i <= NF; i++)
    {
      if ($i ~ /\@/)
        $i = toupper ($i);
    };
  gsub ("@ ", "");
  gsub ("@", "");
  print

}

And here it is in action:

ORIGINAL POST
I'll contribute my own code version with awk:
awk -F'^' '{print toupper($1)$2}' thefile
And of course you can redirect output with > output.txt
And here it is in action:

A: I would set ^ as field separator in awk in upper case the first field:
$ awk 'BEGIN{FS="^"; OFS=""} NF>1{$1=toupper($1)}1' file
FOObar
BArfoo
oofrab
RABOOF

By saying OFS="" we set the output field separator to the empty string, so that the ^ is removed. If this is not needed, awk -F"^" '{$1=toupper($1)}1' file alone would make it; it converts all ^ into spaces.
Note we use NF>1 in order to perform the upper case in case there is at least one ^.

A: Bash can also do this, so I'll throw a bash answer into the mix.
#bash
while IFS= read -r line; do
    if [[ $line = *^* ]]; then
        tmp=${line%%^*}
        line=${tmp^^}${line#*^}
    fi
    printf '%s\n' "$line"
done < inputfile > outptufile

This is just iterating the inputfile line-by-line (BashFAQ 1), and using parameter expansions to do the splitting and uppercasing (BashFAQ 73).

A: Through python3,
Without using re module,
with open(file) as f:
    for line in f:
        if '^' in line:
            m = line.strip().split('^')
            print(m[0].upper() + m[1])
        else:
            print(line, end="")

With using re module.
import re
with open(file) as f:
    for line in f:
        print(re.sub(r'(.*)\^', lambda m: m.group(1).upper(), line.strip()))

Replace file in the above scripts with the actual file path. And run the script using python3 command.

A: An other awk version:
awk '{ a=$_; ismatch=sub(/\^.*/, "", a); b=gensub(/.*\^(.*)/, "\\1", "", $_); if(ismatch==1) { print toupper(a) b} else { print b} }' testdata

human readable ;)
awk '{
  a=$_;
  ismatch=sub(/\^.*/, "", a);
  b=gensub(/.*\^(.*)/, "\\1", "", $_);
  if(ismatch==1) {
    print toupper(a) b
  }
  else {
     print b
  }
}' testdata

A: Another python approach:
#!/usr/bin/env python2
with open('/path/to/file.txt') as f:
    for line in f:
        if '^' in line:
            index = line.find('^')
            print line[:index].upper() + line[index+1:].rstrip()
        else:
            print line.rstrip()

Output :
FOObar
BArfoo
oofrab
RABOOF

*

*index = line.find('^') contains the index of the character ^

*line[:index].upper() prints the characters before index (^) in uppercase (upper())

*line[index+1:] prints the characters after ^ literally

*rstrip() will remove the trailing newlines added by print by default.
EDIT :
Now if you have a file like this (multiple ^) :
foo^bar^spam
ba^rfoo^egg
oofrab
raboof^spamegg

and you want to make it like:
FOOBARspam
BARFOOegg
oofrab
RABOOFspamegg

In this case you can use:
#!/usr/bin/env python2
with open('/path/to/file.txt') as f:
    for line in f:
        if '^' in line:
            index = line.rfind('^')
            print line[:index].upper().replace('^', '') + line[index+1:].rstrip()
        else:
            print line.rstrip()

Output :
FOOBARspam
BARFOOegg
oofrab
RABOOFspamegg

Only replacements are rfind('^') instead of find('^'), which will find the index of rightmost ^ and replace('^', '') will replace all ^s with blanks.

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