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Carl Hiaasen Sure Knows How to Open a Crime Novel
The 10 Greatest Openings from a Master of Wild Florida Noir
March 12, 2019 By CrimeReads
Few, if any, authors can open a book with quite so much oomph as Carl Hiaasen. His first lines just have that special something that conjures up a whole seedy, ridiculous, Florida world and tells you exactly where you're about to go, headfirst into a whacky, tacky, liquored up and lowdown terrain populated by hustlers, schemers, fishing boat captains, crooked hoteliers, and tourists, always tourists, there for the fleecing, the offing, and the occasional discovery of a corpse.
Maybe it's Hiaasen's background in journalism that gives him such a knack for the strong lede. Since the early 1980s, when he was at the Miami Herald for the city's sleaziest heyday, Hiaasen has been putting out one incredible (and incredibly weird) crime novel after another, all of them quintessentially, riotously Floridian, and all of them with an opening that knocks you backwards and keeps you reading. Tourist Season, Double Whammy, Skin Tight, Native Tongue…These books and the many that followed went a long way toward establishing South Florida's reputation as a contemporary crime fiction mecca. They also put Hiaasen on the literary map and solidified his reputation as a giant of madcap mystery.
To commemorate the author's birthday (he was born in 1953 in Fort Lauderdale—home of Travis McGee, in a nice piece of Florida crime serendipity), we've decided to assemble our favorite Hiaasen openings. From loyal Shiners to South Beach EMTs, from sensible shoes to bloody hands, there's a whole book's worth of character, perspective, and style packed into a paragraph, tops. You know there's plenty more to come, but it's also fun to linger over these weird, seedy lines a while, savoring the anticipation of what's to come. So put on your sandals, crack open a cold one, and enjoy some Hiaasen today.
10. Skin Tight (1989)
"On the third of January, a leaden, blustery day, two tourists from Covington, Tennessee, removed their sensible shoes to go strolling on the beach at Key Biscayne."
9. Chomp (2012)
(Sure, it's a kid's book. So what? Still a great line.)
"Mickey Cray had been out of work ever since a dead iguana fell from a palm tree and hit him on the head."
8. Tourist Season (1986)
"On the morning of December 1, a man named Theodore Bellamy went swimming in the Atlantic Ocean off South Florida. Bellamy was a poor swimmer, but he was a good real-estate man and a loyal Shriner."
7. Lucky You (1997)
"On the afternoon of November 25, a woman named JoLayne Lucks drove to the Grab 'N Go minimart in Grange, Florida, and purchase spearmint Certs, unwaxed dental floss, and one ticket for the state Lotto."
6. Stormy Weather (1995)
"On August 23, the day before the hurricane struck, Max and Bonnie Lamb awoke early, made love twice, and rode the shuttle bus to Disney World. That evening they returned to the Peabody Hotel, showered separately, switched on the cable news and saw that the storm was heading directly for the southeastern tip of Florida. The TV weatherman warned it was the fiercest in many years."
5. Native Tongue (1991)
"On July 16, in the aching torpid heat of the South Florida summer, Terry Whelper stood at the Avis counter at Miami International Airport and rented a bright red Chrysler LeBaron convertible. He had originally signed up for a Dodge Colt, a sensible low-mileage compact, but his wife had told him to go on, be sporty for once in your life."
4. Bad Monkey (2013)
"On the hottest day of July, trolling in dead-calm waters near Key West, a tourist named James Mayberry reeled up a human arm. His wife flew to the bow of the boat and tossed her breakfast burritos."
3. Star Island (2010)
"On the fifteenth of March, two hours before sunrise, an emergency medical technician named Jimmy Campo found a sweaty stranger huddled in the back of his ambulance. It was parked in a service alley behind the Stefano Hotel, where Jimmy Campo and his partner had been summoned to treat a twenty-two-year-old white female who had swallowed an unwise mix of vodka, Red Bull, hydrocodone, birdseed, and stool softener—in all respects a routine South Beach 9-1-1 call, until now."
2. Skinny Dip (2004)
"At the stroke of eleven on a cool April night, a woman named Joey Perrone went overboard from the luxury deck of a cruise liner M.V. Sun Duchess. Plunging toward the dark Atlantic, Joey was too dumfounded to panic."
1. Razor Girl (2016)
"On the first day of February, sunny but cold as a frog's balls, a man named Lane Coolman stepped off a flight at Miami International, rented a mainstream Buick and headed south to meet a man in Key West. He nearly made it."
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You may remember a little while back we raised some concerns about a foster carer agency that were using the social media site Twitter and tweeting what could only be considered inappropriate sentiments in order to attract foster carers. Those sentiments were based around money and they were using huge cash incentives to try to get foster carers on board.
More worryingly, the Twitter account was being handled by someone who refused to tell us if they worked for the agency and what their names were – a fatal mistake in the world of social media, where transparency is prized. And whilst their tweets were not aggressive, they were surly and opaque.
Shortly after we raised our concerns with them in a series of public tweets online, we noticed that they started to change the way they were sending out messages on Twitter – they had back tracked from their position and despite denying any wrong-doing, had simply done a u-turn on their stance and were starting to adopt a slightly different strategy (pardon the pun).
A few weeks later we noticed that their twitter account was frozen – not blocked as such, just undergoing what appeared to be a revamp. And sure enough, once they came back online, their tweets had completely changed in tone and content. We also began to notice that their tweets were almost identical to Simply Fostering's, another care agency. So we had to ask – and we did.
As we hadn't heard back from them and could see they were avoiding the question, we decided to find out for ourselves. And this is what we found.
We discovered that the two agencies were in fact, affiliated; that Simply Fostering considered itself to be the UK's " most successful online independent foster carer recruitment company" and that Foster Care Agent were providing free advice and practical support for families who were thinking of transferring from their existing agency.
There were several things that concerned us – the first was that this agency is independent. Sometimes, in the family sector, that can be a blessing, but in this case it raises issues of quality control. The second was that this agency appears to be turning over a lot of business (although we haven't checked their annual reports), and having seen how they do that, it also raised alarm bells about the culture inside the system – using inappropriate incentives seems to be the norm. The third, was that they also appeared to be trying to 'poach' foster carers from other agencies by offering "free advice and practical support… to ensure that people interested in fostering have their questions answered".
And then we discovered Annette. This is who you can contact if you have any queries about being a foster carer. Annette, though, hides behind a contact form: click her name and all you get is this page. Annette has no job description, no picture and nothing to her name. Annette could be a robot; she could be the agency secretary or she could be the CEO. Given that the agency don't even want to reveal who's doing their tweeting for them, who Annette is, is anyone's guess.
Do you see what we see? Identical tweets, tweeted at almost the same time, and this sample is not the exception to the rule. We also see the rather obvious and tasteless attempt at gaining exposure by asking social media users to retweet, which just means pass on, their tweets if they are concerned about the state of children needing family support. They use an indirect and noble sentiment, to try to subliminally endorse their agency. Yuk.
It is fair to say that many affiliated organisations on Twitter tweet identical tweets (oh my, say that really fast ten times), and whilst it is just downright boring to read, there is no harm in it. What is interesting here though, is that Foster Care Agent has had a social media makeover and we're not sure that there is any sincerity behind the change. And they may even thank us, as they did last time, for giving them some exposure…..
But we'll let you decide. Have we been too harsh? Over to you….
I am unable to find their annual accounts on the site, as I always follow the money.
We are not a Fostering Agency, our qualified social workers give advice and find you the best fostering agencies to choose from.
That is really, really bad considering they are potentially accepting people to be foster carers who do not want their details to be made obvious to Social Services and are not confident in their foster caring abilities. This looks like they'll foster children out to anyone who just wants the cash for doing so. That is extremley bad.
It looks like they are not an actual Fostering Agency, just a middle man go between who like to hide your details from the Local Authorities and Social Services and they take a fee from you for joining up with them for them to find you an agency for you to foster children through and Foster Care Agent is just a linked site that wants you to change over to them so they can get a fee from the actual foster care agencies for getting you onto their books as a foster carer.
All of it looks really, really bad.
Yes, I don't like the set-up either. It's looks like it's nothing more than a skimming exercise.
This is the way the "money chain" performs… 1:-Family allowance for the first child approx £20/week 2:- Foster carers via a private agency receive an average of £400/week. 3:-The private agencies that recruit fosterers receive from the local authorities approx £1500 –£2000/week. 4:- The National fostering agency (one of many many agencies) founded a few years by social workers doubled its profits over the last 5 years in line with the increase in numbers of children taken into care and was sold to a company called Graphite for approx £130million ! (just google "nfa sale graphite " to verify this on the internet).
With figures like this around the children are just pawns in the moneygame, and woe betide any parent who seriously tries to "rock the boat" .All concerned in the childcare busines,from lawyers and experts,to carers and agencies, are on nice little earners so no conspiracy is necessary,but any mistakes are ruthlessly covered up rather than corrected,so that the conveyor belt taking children from their parents to go into care continues unaffected.
This is beginning to look unpleasantly like claims referral for fosterers and we know how well that's playing in accident claims, don't we? The damning part is that they aren't a foster agency. How do they justify their existences then? What value are they actually adding to the process?
http//www.fosterfamilies.co.uk/latest.html what is this new jobs for the unemployed with mega bucks tax free at the tax payers expence.
Thanks Natasha, Have you read the recent news that a foster carer is needed every 22 minuets of the day and night, that is adding up to well over 2.000 children a month, but no mention of grandparents to look after the children.
Would be good to see some more common sense take hold.
With my ongoing research into the bilions of pounds being made from the stolen children, I have discoverd a set up for ex social and care workers to become foster carers, under the name of (specialists foster carers) wow £750 a week with many other benifits, and should you not have a child to foster you will still be paid £350 a week, what a wonderful pension for social workers, as the saying goes keep it in the family. The children in the uk needs a top Q.C who at THEIR own expence and because he /she cares to bring out the truth of what the British Goverment are doing to children who are the silent witnesses.
What is the support package like?
We believe that the better we support you in your new career, the better you're able to help a child to have a brighter future.
•When you have a young person placed with you, you will be paid £750 a week, which includes an allowance for the child to cover their costs and your household expenses.
•When you are in between placements, we will pay you a retainer of £350 per week for up to 12 weeks at any one time.
"ST Christopher's offering you a brighter future" place the above on line ! Are some of us in the wrong job? TWO OR THREE KIDS AT THESE RATES would certainly brighten the future for many readers !


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#define OSRM_EXTRACTOR_SUFFIX_LIST_HPP_

#include <string>
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namespace osrm
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namespace extractor
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class ScriptingEnvironment;

// A table containing suffixes.
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Q: Command Completion does not work on names containing `:` I have been hacking a Linux system (in an attempt to get BlueTooth working, although this is not relevant).
There are directories structured as below
   /var/lib/bluetooth/
    ├── B8:27:EB:8E:A8:4D
    │   ├── 00:12:A1:12:09:51
    │   │   └── info
    │   ├── 34:88:5D:70:53:44
    │   │   └── info
    │   ├── cache
    │   │   ├── 00:12:A1:12:09:51
    │   │   ├── 34:88:5D:70:53:44
    │   │   ├── E4:CE:8F:03:00:6D
    │   │   └── F8:77:B8:AD:BC:AC
    │   └── settings

I have been trying to manipulate these, but Command Completion does not work on any of the names containing :. Is this normal, and is there any way I can get Command Completion to work. Typing these cryptic names in full is tedious, and error prone.
sudo ls /var/lib/bluetooth/B8:27:EB:8E:A8:4D/34:88 shows no completion
sudo ls /var/lib/bluetooth/B8:27:EB:8E:A8:4D/34:88:5D:70:53:44 is OK
Using wildcards e.g. 00* doesn't seem to work either.

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sudo ls

If you are having to use sudo in order to gain access to the directory in order to list it, what makes you think that your shell can list it?
This isn't a problem with command-line completion, wildcards, colons, quotation marks, or the version of your shell.  It's a very simple permissions problem.
Your do not have the access rights to list that directory.  Thus your shell, running as your account, cannot.  Since it cannot list the directory, it cannot complete names within it or expand wildcards.

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Lampard: Protect the players, rethink the schedule
As Chelsea prepare for our longest domestic trip of the season, Frank Lampard has been speaking about the increasingly busy schedule and how he thinks the demands on players can be eased...
If preparation is paramount, how do you get ready for a full-blooded Premier League contest when half your players haven't returned from international duty 48 hours before kick-off? That is the conundrum Lampard has been grappling with at Cobham this week as he waits for his players to trickle back from all corners of the globe.
For some, like Thiago Silva following an 11,000km journey back from Montevideo, it will be too much. For others, they will have no choice but to knuckle down and carry on playing, regardless of the consequences.
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Chelsea's trip to Newcastle for the Saturday lunchtime kick-off is the first of 13 matches for the Blues in 43 days. Simple maths tells you that is a relentless fixture schedule with a game roughly every three days taking us into 2021. For Lampard, player welfare is at risk.
'We've been training with four players generally in these last two weeks,' he explained. 'The majority of our squad have been travelling, they will travel again to fly to Newcastle tomorrow and then back, they'll fly to Rennes on Monday and then back.
'I'm concerned because you can see the muscle injuries are going up across the Premier League. The numbers are there if people want to go and look at them closely so it's clear. There's a correlation between game after game after game, zero pre-season, the schedule being tighter – it's just common sense.'
Lampard believes changes can be made to help the players and protect the Premier League brand, including losing the early kick-off on a Saturday following the international break. He has also called once again for the rule permitting five substitutes per game to be reintroduced.
'The broadcasters have never had as many slots or games as they have now,' he continued. 'With that 12.30pm slot on a Saturday, you have to ask how much does it need to be there? If you're looking over the course of a season at four or five international breaks, can we not change the time?
'With the amount of things we've changed due to Covid-19, Project Restart and now this season because of the incredible times, we have to continue looking for the best way to change it and it's not a difficult conversation to have. The answer is to stop talking and act upon it.
'It's absolutely not the optimum way to prepare for a game in the Premier League, which is an incredible brand around the world. It's very difficult for us to prepare for this game anywhere near our best. I want us to play to our best but these are very difficult circumstances.'
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Разпространение и местообитание
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Обитава крайбрежията и скалистите дъна на сладководни и полусолени басейни, океани, заливи, реки и потоци в райони с умерен климат.

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Теглото им е около 45 kg.

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Home | All news | Politics | Agreements on Nagorno-Karabakh settlement 'almost ready' — Lavrov
Agreements on Nagorno-Karabakh settlement 'almost ready' — Lavrov
Siranush Ghazanchyan Send an email April 7, 2016, 14:25
Almost all the agreements on the settlement in Nagorno-Karabakh are "on the table," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday after talks with his Azerbaijani and Iranian counterparts Elmar Mammadyarov and Javad Zarif, TASS reports.
"Russian President Vladimir Putin pays personal attention to this issue, we regularly meet at the level of ministers with counterparts from Azerbaijan and Armenia," Lavrov said.
"I agree that almost all the components of agreements are already on the table," he said, adding that "in fact, we are very close (to reaching them)."
Lavrov said the talks in Baku with Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev and Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov and his meeting with Armenia's Eduard Nalbandyan on Friday focus on these efforts.
He stressed that Russia is interested more than any other foreign partner that the conflict is resolved as soon as possible. "It is in our common interest to reach settlement."
Russia's top diplomat also urged measures to prevent new outbreaks of violence and called for stepping up efforts for political settlement.


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Patient Access Goes to the Movies
By	Hank Smither
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Imagine you are going to the newest installment of the Star Wars franchise. You go online to check out when it's playing, but can't find any information on their website other than a number to call. You ring them up and finally after talking to what seems like eleven different people, you are told the times and the different pricing options. The next day, you head down to the theater and are faced with multiple entrances – so you go in the closest one. Of course, this is wrong and after about 30 minutes of being redirected, you end up at the ticket counter. Luckily, the times you were told over the phone are correct, but the pricing is all different – and if you belong to different organizations you get discounts of varying degrees. While complicated, you pick the cheapest option and proceed into the theater.
After an agonizingly long wait, the movie starts – but wait – it's not Star Wars! Apparently it was changed at the last minute to Star Trek, but since you're there and wanting to watch a movie – you stay and sit through the movie. As you're leaving you get stopped at the exit and told that since you had a ticket for Star Wars, not Star Trek – you owe the theater more money. Of course – you were never consulted, so you refuse to pay the difference and go home. Over the next few months you receive calls and letters from the movie theater demanding payment for the incremental cost of the Star Trek ticket. Due to this terrible experience, you promise never to go back – no matter what movie is playing.
Of course – this scenario was made up, no one would put up with any of this in a movie theater, but this is an all too common experience at hospitals. When a patient is scheduled for a procedure the following can happen:
Patients are frequently told conflicting pricing information – and often not told any pricing information at all
Patients aren't given information on where to show up, which entrance to use, or at which desk to check-in
When a procedure is changed at the time of service, this is often not communicated to the patient or insurance company, which can result in denials and increased rework
A patient pays their deductible/co-insurance, believing this is all they owe, and then receives a bill after the procedure
All of these scenarios can potentially reduce patient satisfaction and if given options, patients will seek out alternative facilities with more consistent and more customer-friendly practices. While there are often pieces of the puzzle that are out of control of patient access staff (for example – if the physician performing the procedure determines an additional test needs to be performed), there are a lot of steps that can be taken by front-end staff to increase likelihood that a patient will have a positive experience.
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Haslingden murder: two men charged after death of Barry Tyrie
Barry Tyrie (right) died after a fight outside the Regent Street Working Man's Club in Haslingden (top left).
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Two men from Haslingden have been charged with the murder of Barry Tyrie, police confirmed.
John Taylor, 57, and Daniel Taylor, 30, both of Blackburn Road, Haslingden, were originally arrested after a brawl outside the Regent Street Working Men's Club at 10:20pm on Sunday, August 25.
Barry Tyrie, 69, was seriously injured in the fight, and died in hospital.
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Now John and Daniel Taylor are due to appear before Blackburn Magistrates' Court on Thursday, August 29, charged with his murder.
Detective Chief Inspector Gareth Willis, of the Force Major Investigation Team, said: "Our thoughts remain with Barry's family and friends at this difficult time.
"Throughout this inquiry the community of Haslingden have been incredibly co-operative and I would like to thank them for their support."
Two other men, aged 25 and 31, were also arrested on suspicion of murder, but later released without charge.
Anyone with information should contact police on 101 quoting log number 1812 of August 25th or independent charity Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.
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Project Transaqua is under way, the pilot project of a possible win-win cooperation between Italy and China in Africa, within the Belt and Road Initiative. An example to study for our policy makers and companies on how, on the one hand, doing business and, on the other, helping the development and economic stabilization of Africa.
Born from an intuition of the great technician Francesco Curato and executed by the then foreign director of Reclamation (IRI Group) Marcello Vichi, the study "Transaqua" showed more than thirty-five years ago that with a bold construction work it would have been possible to bring water from the basin of the Congo to that of Lake Chad, restoring the dying "Lake in the Desert" in its original dimensions and at the same time giving Africa a water, road, energy and ago-industrial development infrastructure that would have taken off the productive economy of much of the continent.
Today, thanks to the collaboration born a few years ago between the dott. Vichi and the Schiller Institute, that idea, remained a "dream" for too long, becomes possible and becomes a pilot project to demonstrate the feasibility of the cooperation model of the Belt and Road Initiative. It will be an Italian company, Bonifica, and a Chinese one, PowerChina, to perform the feasibility study approved by the heads of state of the coastal countries (Lake Chad Basin Committee), met in the Nigerian capital of Abuja at the end of February, and financed with an initial donation of 1.5 million from the Italian government.
Transaqua is the answer to those who see the Belt and Road Initiative from an exclusively geopolitical angle and do not believe in the possibility of achieving international cooperation on a win-win basis, as President Xi Jinping strongly supports. The strategic cooperation agreement between the Italian Bonifica Spa and the Chinese giant PowerChina is just one example of how this cooperation can be set to benefit not only the partners but above all the third countries that are the subject of this cooperation.
Transaqua is the project of a waterway that starts from the south of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), near the Great Lakes region, and crosses all the tributaries of the right bank of the Congo, collecting, with artificial barriers, enough water from forming a channel of the Nile and, by gravity, "scollina" on the border between the Central African Republic and Chad, pouring up to 100 billion cubic meters of water into the main tributary of Lake Chad, the Chari. The almost thirty dams planned along the 2400 km of the Transaqua route will allow generating large quantities of hydroelectric energy and regulating the flow of rivers, in order to allow the development of agricultural activities, livestock and industrial settlements.
There has been much talk in Europe of "Marshall Plan" to create jobs and development in Africa and to stem the phenomenon of immigration, but so far nothing has been done. Transaqua is the first, real concrete plan able to create jobs for decades and take off production development. It is hoped that the European governments, which have so far sabotaged the project, will seize the importance of this opportunity and adhere with resources and political will, laying the foundations for a "new paradigm" in international politics.
This comment has been kindly written by Claudio Celani, Co-Editor of EIR Strategic Alert Service.
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What happens in the depths of distant worlds?
Silicate minerals make up most of the Earth's layers and are believed to be a major component of the interiors of other rocky planets as well, based on calculations of their density. On Earth, the structural changes that occur in silicates under high pressure and temperature conditions define major boundaries in the deep interior, such as those between the upper and lower mantle. The research team was interested in investigating the emergence and behavior of new forms of silicates under conditions that mimic those found on distant worlds. Credit: Calliope Monoyos.
The physics and chemistry that takes place deep inside our planet are fundamental to the existence of life as we know it. But what forces act in the interior of distant worlds, and how do these conditions affect their habitability?
New work led by the Carnegie Earth and Planetary Laboratory uses lab simulation methods to reveal a new crystal structure that has major implications for our understanding of the interiors of large, rocky exoplanets. Their findings have been previously published Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Rajkrishna Dutta, lead author from Carnegie University, explained, "Our planet's internal dynamics are essential to maintaining a surface environment in which life can thrive — driving the geodynamo that creates our magnetic field and shapes the composition of our atmosphere." "Conditions found in the depths of large, rocky exoplanets such as super-terrestrial planets would be even more extreme."
Silicate minerals make up most of the Earth's layers and are believed to be a major component of the interiors of other rocky planets as well, based on calculations of their density. On Earth, structural changes occur in the silicates below high pressure Temperature conditions define major boundaries deep in the Earth's interior, such as those between the upper and lower mantle.
The research team – which included Sally John Tracy of Carnegie, Ron Cohen, Francesca Mussi, Kai Lu and Jing Yang, as well as Pamela Burnley of the University of Nevada Las Vegas, Dean Smith and Yu Ming of the Argonne National Laboratory and Stella Chariton and Can Vitaly Brakabenka of the University of Chicago Thomas Duffy of Princeton University is interested in investigating the emergence and behavior of new forms of silicates under conditions that mimic those on distant worlds.
"For decades, Carnegie researchers have pioneered recreating the inner conditions of planets by placing small samples of material under enormous pressures and high temperatures," Duffy said.
But there are limitations to scientists' ability to recreate the internal conditions of exoplanets in the laboratory. Theoretical modeling indicated the emergence of new phases of silicate under the pressures expected to exist in the mantles of rocky exoplanets that are at least four times the mass of Earth. But this shift has not yet been noticed.
However, germanium is a good alternative to silicon. The two elements form similar crystal structures, but germanium induces a transition between chemical phases at lower temperatures and pressures, which can be more controlled in laboratory experiments.
By working with german magnesium, Mg2GeO4, which is similar to one of the most abundant silicate minerals in the mantle, the team was able to gather information about potential minerals of super-Earths and large rocky exoplanets. Under about two million times normal atmospheric pressure, a new phase appeared with a distinct crystal structure comprising germanium bonded to eight oxygens. The new and contested octahedron is expected to fundamentally influence the internal temperature and dynamics of these planets. Credit: Rajkrishna Dutta.
Working with Magnesium Granite, Mg2geo4similar to one of the most abundant mantle silicate mineralsIn this article, the team was able to gather information about the possible minerals of the super-Earths and the large rocky exoplanets.
Under about two million times normal atmospheric pressure, a new phase appeared with a distinct crystal structure comprising germanium bonded to eight oxygens.
"The most interesting thing to me is that magnesium and germanium, which are two very different elements, replace each other in the structure," Cohen said.
Under ambient conditions, most silicates and germaniums are organized in what is called a tetrahedral structure, one central silicon or germanium bonded to four other atoms. However, under extreme conditions, this can change.
Tracy explained that "the discovery that under extreme pressures, silicates could take on a structure geared toward six bonds, rather than four, was a total game-changer in terms of scientists' understanding of deep Earth dynamics." "The discovery of an eightfold trend could have similarly revolutionary implications for how we think about the dynamics of the inner exoplanet."
Can super-Earth's internal dynamics set the scale for habitability?
Rajkrishna Dutta et al, Eight-stage coordinated hypertensive disorder of Mg2geo4: analogue of super ground cloaks, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2022). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2114424119
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>> al jazeera journalists mohamed fahmy, baher mohammed are pardoned in egypt. >> the whole nightmare is over. the whole nightmare is over. we can live lie normal people. go back home. enjoy my life, and that's it. that's it. >> hello there. i'm barbara serra. you're watching al jazeera. the e.u. nations pledge an extra billion dollars to the refugee crisis as leaders in brussels discuss the problem.
volkswagen ceo martin winterkon resigns as the fall out from the scandal conditions. and the catholic pope is welcomed by barack obama at the white house. >> jailed al jazeera journalists mohamed fahmy, baher mohammed have been pardoned by egyptian president el-sisi. they have been freed as part of a group of 100 prisoners who were also granted pardons. but none of the journalist who is were sentenced in abstentia were pardoned, including peter greste, who spent 13 months in an egyptian jail before being deported in february ahead of his retrial. >> freedom at last for al jazeera producer baher mohamed and freelance producer mohamed
fahmy. >> what are we going to do? travel the world, celebrate, party. we just really hope that our families have suffered so much since the beginning of this trial, and we're very happy that president sisi took this action. >> the whole nightmare is over. we can live like normal people, go home and enjoy my life. that's it. >> the pardon by president el-sisi is the end of a long ordeal which began in 2013 when they were arrested along with peter greste. he was appearing on an australian tv show. mohamed fahmy was pardoned. >> if he was pardoned, i hope that means that baher is out, too. sorry, i'm feeling-- >> no, no. >> i mean, we've been fighting--fighting for the past eight months for this. >> the three journalists faced charges including aiding the now
banned muslim brotherhood. in june of last year, a court sentenced them seven to ten years in prison. then last january the court threw out their convictions and ordered a retrial. in february peter peter peter was deported to his native australia. mohamed and fahmy were released later that month. last no month the court returned mohamed fahmy and baher mohamed to prison. theory trial was supposed to give them an opportunity to clear their names. instead they were denied once again. the arrest and at the detention of missouri and peter greste damaged egypt's image at home and abroad. there are, though, other al jazeera staff who were convicted in abstain i can't at the original trial.
at the moment we're not hearing that there is a pardon for the rest of us, but it is an egyptian holiday today. we're wondering whether the paperwork just has not been released. if that's not the case, and we're not actually going to be getting a pardon, then we'll be lobbying the u.n. general assembly to anyone who will listen to shout out that we were just journalists doing our jobs in cairo, and this pardon is long overdue. >> for now, though, the happy closure of one chapter. al jazeera. >> well, al jazeera is acting director general released the following statement:
>> european union nations are to give an extra $1 billion to u.n. agencies dealing with the refugee crisis. the news comes in a draft statement from an emergency meeting from e.u. leaders in brussels. the decision come a day after they pushed an agreement of how to relocate 120,000 refugees around the e.u. slovakia, one of the four countries who opposed the deal, is now threatening legal action. germany's chancellor said that europe must come up with a resolution. >> a fair destructio distribution throughout the european union, we can establish registration centers for hot spots and we'll suspect in finding a joint answer based
with a great challenge europe can't say that we can't handle this. that would be quite wrong. i say again and again we can do this. >> well, jackie roland has been following the day's developments in brussels. >> one thing that this meeting on wednesday is intended to do is to look at the practical measures that can be put into place to restrict the number of people entering the e.u. and install better controls of who is entering. there will be discussions about deploying new e.u. forces to help the police, the immigration in countries on the front line like greece and italy, who clearly have been struggling to cope with the number of people coming in. that is also controversial because it is a question of national sovereignty should the greeks and italians be policing their frontiers or should europe. a lot of controversial issues still to be discussed. another thing will be the desire to pledge more money to some of
the countries through whom the refugees travel in the balkans like macedonia and serbia, but also crucially to those front line countries, turkey, jordan and syria, who really have been carrying the biggest burdens so far in terms of sheltering the refugees. >> well, as the diplomacy continues, refugees are continuing to make the dangerous journey across the sea from turkey to greece. on wednesday around 50 rubber dinghies landed on the island of lesbos bringing 2500 people. the mediterranean is expected to be hit by storms as summer comes to an end. >> fall out from the volkswagen cheating scandal has begun.
thceo has resigned and the board director said it is time to get to the bottom of who was involved in the scheme to evade environmental regulations. >> ceo martin winterkorn is out. >> there was an offer by dr. winterkorn to step down. we want to stress the point that dr. winterkorn had no knowledge of the situation. >> he stepped down saying that volkswagen needed a fresh start. they'll look into the investigation to see how software found its way into 11 million vehicles. >> we have the impression that criminal acts have played a role
here. we will bring to light all the proceedings within the company and make sure that the people concerned will be prosecuted. >> germans including those who live in volkswagen's headquarters city wolfsburg. >> that is scheming machinations. that's criminal dealing. that's like a mafia. >> it just can't be true that sufficiently a global firm does this. >> in the u.s. a chicago attorney is taking legal action on what hav behalf of volkswagen owners.
>> the consumer has been harmed for the full purchase price plus damage in associated with that. it could be the entire purchase price, the impact is massive. >> german prosecutors plan a criminal evaluation, and in the u.s. also vw could face charges of wire fraud and lying to regulators. an u.s. lawmaker demandedsive punishment. >> there ought to be some prosecutions and corporate executives that knew this and had done it, and ought to be going to jail. >> volkswagen has already paid a heavy price for the scandal with its stock following sharply and potentially billions of dollars worth of fines looming over it. but the biggest cost of the company cannot be measured in dollars or euros. that is the loss of its reputation. rob reynolds, al jazeera,
wolfsburg, germany. >> let's go to long island, new york state. this is a p.r. disaster for volkswagen, but the chief executive has resigned relatively quickly. any way of rescuing the brand, do you think? >> i think that's a very good question. everybody, when there is trouble, wants a throat to choke, as it were, and winterkorn has taken it and resigned because of it. people's relationships with brands is not a rationale thing. it is emotional. that is based on trust, and that has been broken. that will damage its reputation not just with stake holders, investors, but customers might start to consider other brands whereas they never would have before. >> what do you think would make someone buy that particular brand of car over others, for
example? >> well, there is function. what we look for in brands is what we look for in friends. that's the decisions we'll make when we look at choices. yes, finances is important, but what car do you identify yourself with? and vw has a very distinct design and it's very unique in that way in its position in the market. in fact, i'm sure many people would not believe that it's the biggest carmaker in the world. >> because of that list you had great design, it drives well. do you think people will decide not to buy a volkswagen if there is particular war that they like, for example? >> i'm troubled to think that that would happen. i think we've seen enough chaos and strife happen with big considerations that it has not really changed their sales growth. toyota was a good example.
i think vw will do the right thing. tell all, do the witch-hunt. find the people who are responsible, prosecute them, and provide everything that everybody needs. that's exactly what vw needs to do so consumers can see that they're concerned about this, they're taking it seriously, and they're getting to the bottom of it. that if done right is why i won't look for another type of car. >> assuming that they do those things and they have the witch-hunt, find out what happened, how long does it take for a brand like this, and volkswagen is one of the top 40 brands in the world, correct me if i'm wrong, how long does it take for a brand like this to fully recover? >> quickly. i think again quality of product, quality of image, quality of reputation, which it has. it might be in taxes now but it was a powerful brand and people like that brand. to me, 12 to 18 months usually should be in the clip here.
i can't see them doing it sooner because they're still looking at the problem and who was involved. that might take a few months. but within 12 to 18 months they'll have righted the ship and they'll be all right. their business side might be effected by the cost of doing it, but it won't effect the brand if they do the right thing. >> brand consultant joining us from long island in new york state. thank you. >> thank you. >> now still to come on the program, ending colombia's long-time running civil war, peace talks will begin live in havana shortly. and in burkina faso, it's interim president returning to power after days in a coup. sure, tv has evolved over the years.
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>> now a reminder of the top stories on al jazeera. jailed journalists. >> e.u. leaders pledge an extra billion dollars for the refugee crisis as they gather in brussels to address the problem. and volkswagen chief executive martin winterkorn resign as the fall out from the emissions scandal continues. pope francis is on his first official trip to the united states. he's on day one of his six-day
visit in the capital washington, d.c. where he has been speaking with president barack obama. during the week he'll speak with the u.s. congress and the united nations. patty culhane is following this historic visit. >> it is clear that pope francis is going to take on controversial topics while in the united states bringing up the priest sex abuse scandals with u.s. bishops. >> and we have to hope the crimes never repeat themselves. >> that fell far short for some of the victims. still across the country this pope is overwhelmingly popular. that was clear by the welcome that greeted him as he began his day at the white house. 11,000 invited guests here to witness the pageantry. renown for humble living, he arrived in a fiat and not the traditional limousine. >> your humility, your embrace of simplicities, the gentleness
of your words, the generosity of your spirit, we see a living example of jesus' teachings, a leader whose moral authority comes not just through words but also through deeds. >> pope francis is going to try to use that authority focusing his remarks on climate change. >> when it comes to the care of our common home, we are living at a critical moment of history. we still have time to make the change needed to bring about sustainable and integral betterment. >> he doesn't need to convince the president. he already believes in chim climate change unlike those in
the opposition party. >> i don't see the pope's comments and the pope's visit in the neryer term having any effect on republican positions on immigration reform or climate change. mainly because republican members of congress, and frankly most republicans running for the presidency right now, they don't have any political incentive to shift. >> pope francis inned his first day in washington elevating junipero serra to saint hood. a day of pageantry and controversy for the pope's first-ever trip to the united states. patty culhane, al jazeera, washington. >> well, in the past hour or so pope francis has celebrated his first official mass in the united states. we can cross live to washington, d.c. an, and last time we spoke he just started
his homily. what did he mention in it? >> right, and of course we were all listening not only was it his first mass in the u.s. but his first canonization in the u.s. of junipero serra who oversaw a brutal time over the california coast. he said mistreatment and wrong that is today still trouble us because of the hurt which she cost in the lives of many people. that's very much the line we heard from the catholic church ever since the controversy began when it was announced that junipero serra would be canonized. he said that he was a good man in bad times. native american tribes said that
it was not true and that he ran the system that as we now know and as the church even accepts that these were not lovely you to bean fortresses where native americans were baptized. they were forcebly removed from their tribes by soldiers, tied together, women and men were separated. there was rape, violence, and indentured slaves and forced labor to work the fields. having said that in the end this is an evangelical church, he talked about how great it was how the mission to convert native americans was such a great thing. there was a huge round of applause. in the end, there were bad things that happened, but in the end we were saving their souls. that's not an argument that native americans have accepted, and they say they'll continue their fight to get the sainthood
removed. >> that is the latest from washington, d.c. thank you. peace talks between the colombian government and the revolutionary armed forces of colombia have taken a major step back after the colombian president traveled to cuba to meet rebel leaders. the two sides in talks saying ending the long-running conflict. the apparent break through comes days after pope francis visited cuba, where he called for reconciliation. now, for the latest news let's go straight t live to bogot bogota. as far as we know what are the details of this deal? >> well, barbara, the issue of justice had been one of the biggest obstacles to moving forward in these peace talks. now finally this break through
is happening. we're seeing the negotiators and the president of colombia and the head of the farc gathering in the same room to present this plan. we don't have all the details yet. we know that they will announce the creation of a special jurisdiction for peace that will be alternative to the colombian normal justice system. a special tribunal that will investigate and then eventually sentence and punish the farc rebels that are responsible for the most gross human rights violations. but also they will investigate and then sentence colombian soldiers or other parts of the armed forces here that might have also committed crimes throughout this very long conflict. another point that we know is that the kind of confinement that the rebels are now willing
to accept. there will be something different from a regular prison. the press here is talking about possibly confining them into farms or rural locations where they will essentially see some restrictions to their liberty, but for example, they will still have the right to run for elections. so the details that will come up, but this definitely is expected to be one of the most exciting moments in this peace negotiation, and definitely an historic day for colombia. >> we'll be checking in with you as we get more developments from those peace talks at the moment. live for us in bogota, thank you. now the leader of a coup in burkina faso said that he has given up, and the coup has come to an end. a ceremony has been held for the interim president whose return to power after being taken hostage last week.
the coupe leader said that he realized did he not have the support of the people of burkina faso. >> the popular reaction in particular of our militant youth, the disapproval of the international community, the unanimous condemnation of the coup all reassert our certainty that we're on the right track and that our cause is just. >> china has signed a huge deal with the u.s. civil aircraft manufacturer boeing, which includes building a boeing factory in china. they're buying 300 airliners with list price of $38 billion. the deal has been finalized from the first state visit to the u.s. by chinese president xi jinping, who visited headquarters in seattle. fears of an outbreak of cholera in iraq has caused
authorities to close down elementary schools 200 cases have been registered in the last week, but it is those who live in displacement camps that have most to fear. >> this widow, her husband was killed when isil took over their house in fallujah. >> three days ago my son was someties and had diarrhea. we're living in terrible conditions. i'm afraid he might get it again and it might be fatal. >> clean water and sanitizization is critical. >> people are using tanks like
these and filling it with water and adding chlorine tablets to them. but the tablets are in short supply. >> authorities say they have enough resources to keep it in control. >> we have mobile health clinics that operate 24 hours a day, and we check water cleanliness. >> but with conditions in the camps becoming ever more desperate few here trust or take comfort in what the authorities are saying. [ baby crying ] >> thousands of muslim are gathering in saudi arabia for the hajj. the pilgrimage is a central pillar of islam. the followers of islam must move together through a set of rituals in different sites around the holy city of mecca. two million will take part from all around the world. the final hajj ritual also begin
on tuesday and will last for five days. we have this update. >> the essence of hajj. those who are here, he or she will have their hajj invalidated. this is considered the pillar of hajj. we have 2 million pilgrims who will be asking god for forgiveness, blessings, and repentance. by the end of the day around sunset the pilgrims will leave, and they'll have to continue the rituals of hajj. now having 2 million people in one place poses a security threat for the authorities. we understand that they deployed 50,000 security troops to secure the area, not only here but other areas which is considered the rituals of hajj. we also have a health hazard by
2 million people. they need to deploy a lot of medics. we understand 15,000 medical teams are deployed, and they hope that the hajj season will go smooth and well. >> and you can find out much more on our website www.aljazeera.com. >> it's a week of big visits. the leader of one fifth of the world's people, xi jinping has arrived on the world trade center, and the leader of one fifth of the world's people, pope francis, is on the east coast. we'll look west to east, and america's complicated relationship with an ambitious world power.

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Home Home Page Apopka police officers push back on cuts to merit pay raises
Apopka police officers push back on cuts to merit pay raises
By Reggie Connell/Managing Editor of The Apopka Voice
There are no bad guys in this story.
I know in today's political climate, there is a tendency to villainize the other side rather than debate the merits of an issue. If somehow you don't believe me or don't accept that premise, take a quick look at social media.
Go ahead, I'll wait…
It won't take you long to find an article that proves my case. It's pervasive at a national, state and local level and we read about it, listen to it, and see it on cable news every day.
In many ways, it's the biggest issue to overcome when facing tough decisions.
So let me warn you up front that in this article there are two sides, both with good points and they make their case well. There are no easy answers. It's not as simple as looking to your ideological left or right, seeking like-minded people, agreeing with them and adding your opinion to the bottom of a Facebook post.
There are no campaigns to win, or voters to please. There is simply an issue that needs a solution, and a hard decision to be made.
Apopka Mayor Bryan Nelson and the entire City Council want to do what's right for Apopka. So does City Administrator Edward Bass. Right now they believe that cutting the budget for the fiscal year 2018-19 is the best way to do what's right for the city.
Bass estimates he trimmed $5-6 million from original requests by department heads, which represents approximately 10% of what was in the first draft. He also approved only four out of 50 requests for new hires.
Among the requested personnel not on this budget are four additional officers for the Apopka Police Department (APD). And considering four current officers are transferring to the state-mandated School Resource Officer program, the APD is essentially losing four officers.
The cuts also include rolling back merit pay raises for city employees from a maximum of 6% annually down to 3%.
Given the comprehensive belt-tightening nature of this budget, cutting merit pay seems like a reasonable plan of action, but before a final conclusion is drawn, officers of the APD delivered a strong message to the City Council at their Wednesday night meeting. Dozens of them, their families, and supporters dressed in black and white t-shirts and filled the Council chambers to voice their displeasure with the cut in merit pay.
Sergeant Steve Harmon has been with the Apopka Police Department for 15 years. He is in charge of the Traffic Unit and won the 2017 Supervisor of the Year award. He is also on the multi-agency SWAT team, leads the APD's Honor Guard Unit, and is also involved in many charitable events like Cystic Fibrosis, the Law Enforcement Torch Run, and Special Olympics. The word hero gets thrown around too much in today's society, but by any measure, Harmon is a hero in this community.
He and two other members of the APD spoke against the merit pay cut to the City Council during the public comment portion of the meeting.
Sgt. Steve Harmon: "We've solved several accidents that we wouldn't have been able to do otherwise because of the cameras. I've covered two fatal accidents that were caught by cameras. We wouldn't have had that otherwise."
"We're worried that if it gets moved to 3%, it will be hard to come back to 6%. We also don't think that if the previous administration overspent, we should have to bear that burden. But I know you have to find it from somewhere. So let me give you my opinion as an APD traffic supervisor. Red light cameras are a good way to keep some income. Now I don't want you to think we should run the cameras only because it makes income. I'm telling you it's because of safety. I've been in the traffic division a little over a year and a half now, and I can tell you it's a safety issue. We've solved several accidents that we wouldn't have been able to do otherwise because of the cameras. I've covered two fatal accidents that were caught by cameras. We wouldn't have had that otherwise. If you don't think it's a safety issue and you vote to get rid of them and your family member or someone you know gets hurt or killed at an intersection that used to have a red light camera, if you feel good about that, that's okay, but I think they actually are a safety thing, not a money thing."
It is estimated by Bass that the red light camera program would generate an additional $800,000-$900,000 to this budget cycle.
Nathan Tuck is also an officer with the APD who recently became a homeowner in the area. He worries that this cut might hurt his financial future.
"In December my wife and I purchased a home in Apopka. We recognize the path of growth the city was on and we wanted to be a part of that. I also decided to apply with the Apopka Police Department. Prior to that, I worked for a neighboring jurisdiction for six years. I came here because not only did Apopka have a reputation for taking care of their employees as far as raises in retirement but I also wanted to work where I live. I took an $8,000 pay cut to come here because I recognize the raises were very generous but if these raise cuts go through then it will take my entire career to make up the pay cut."
Sam Anderson was the third APD officer to speak, and he was perhaps the most moving.
"The 3% merit may seem generous but here are some of the things we don't get that the Apopka Police Department that most all of our competition does. No overtime until you reach 11 hours. No callout minimum. No court minimum. No shift differential. No dry-cleaning allowance. No field training incentive. No on-call pay. No collective bargaining and no unions, which is a great savings to the city. We had no cost-of-living adjustments since John Land was mayor. Apopka is the second largest city in Orange County and all of these factors combined would destroy our efforts to recruit and retain quality law enforcement officers the number of experienced officers who would leave will skyrocket. It would destroy our efforts to recruit and return obtain quality law enforcement officers. You'll end up with young novice officers fresh out of the academy that wants to get their feet wet and move on. Service will suffer. Public Safety will suffer. Cutting your pay should be at the bottom of your list."
Before he ended his comments, Anderson held up the door of an APD cruiser with several bullet holes shot into it to illustrate the sort of job a law enforcement officer does and why they deserve the pay they receive. Anderson was getting coffee at 7-11 when he broke up an armed robbery. The door tells the rest of the story.
After public comments, Commissioner Alice Nolan sympathized with the police officers and promised that merit pay will return to 6% by next year.
"I really appreciate the APD coming out and voicing their opinions. I and all of the Council have spent many hours going over this budget and it is not our intention to have you carry it all on your backs. It's on everybody's backs. If we do raise the millage it's on the backs of taxpayers. Not to be disrespectful but when we were going through this for four years and the overspending was happening, where was everybody? We could be cutting people, but were not. And I know for a fact it's not my intention and I'm assuming it's not anyone's intention here to keep this at 3% because that is an incentive we've always had in Apopka. I know that we're working every way to bring this up and hopefully, it won't be this year, but it may, but it's not our intentions to keep it that way. We do appreciate your work more than anything."
Later in the meeting, the millage rate that Nolan referred to was raised a 1/2-mill, which added approximately $1.4-$1.5 million to the budget that at the time had a shortfall of approximately $700,000. There was a discussion about what to do with the extra $700,000-$800,000, and merit pay was discussed as well as economic development.
Commissioner Kyle Becker also pointed out that the budget is still in a proposal stage.
"What you (the APD) do for the city is invaluable. The hazards of your job I can't even fathom. That door is a pretty powerful statement. And the fact is the budget is not approved yet. We've had one workshop and that idea (merit pay cuts) was discussed. It has not been passed. We still have some things we need to do. There's still an opportunity to have another workshop. We need to get that salary study because there is a possibility it will say the APD is behind the curve in terms of salary as it relates to other municipalities, and that opens the door to say we don't make the cut. So I thank you for your comments, but the bow is not tied on the budget yet."
So what is the right decision? What should the City Council do before the bow is tied?
According to spreadsheets provided by Nelson's office that compare the APD to police departments across the state and in Central Florida, APD salary ranks vary depending on what you are comparing. In cities statewide with similar populations (the 10 cities directly below and above Apopka in population), the APD ranks 8th in starting salary (out of 21), 14th in Sergeant minimum salary, and 13th in Lieutenant minimum salary. In a Central Florida comparison of cities in Orange and Seminole Counties, Apopka ranks between 4th and 5th in those same three categories out of 17 cities. It's not the same as a comprehensive salary study of the entire city staff, but it at least shows the APD is neither dramatically overpaid or underpaid.
There is no easy answer, and that's why this City Council gets paid the big bucks. Only kidding, but you take my meaning.
It is the Council's responsibility to make these difficult decisions, and sometimes it extends beyond the will of the people to what is right for Apopka. There is not a clear consensus among residents on this budget. Surely they want the APD and city employees to be paid fairly, but they also want a tight budget as referenced by 2018 election results.
But is there room in the increased millage rate and red light camera revenue to both balance the budget, keep the city employee's merit pay, fund the four officers the APD is losing to the SRO program, and create an economic development department?
The increased millage rate added $1.4-$1.5 million to the budget, which cleared the shortfall, and left an additional $700,000-$800,000. An extra year of red light camera revenue would add an additional $800,000-$900,000 which would currently give the budget an overage of $1.5-$1.7 million. It wouldn't be a popular decision, but the APD argues that RLC's improve public safety, and the money it generates would also go back to improving public safety.
The APD is currently below the state average of 2.5 officers per 1,000 of the city's population. They are also near the bottom of officers per square mile of comparable cities on the I-4 corridor. The APD is at 3.1-3.2 per square mile, while in comparison Orlando is at 6.5. With the hiring of four additional officers, the APD would nearly maintain its level per 1,000 (from 2.17 to 2.16). Without the addition, it drops to 2.09. Four additional officers would add approximately $500,000 to the 2018-19 budget.
It was also learned during the discussion that in order to return the merit pay for city workers to 6% for all city workers would cost approximately $750,000.
Funding both the addition of four new police officers and reinstating merit pay raises would cost $1.25 million, which leaves $250,000-$450,000 to fund an economic development initiative and add reserves back to the general fund.
Maybe this sounds a little too "tax-and-spend" for you. Maybe you are wondering if Senator Bernie Sanders wrote this article, but keep a few things in mind before you sign me up for the Green Party.
There was already $5-6 million cut from this budget and only four out of 50 requests for new hires were granted.
Adding four police officers only replaces the four officers moving off the streets of Apopka and into the classrooms of the SRO program.
Giving employees back their 6% merit pay is not a raise, it's simply returning their salaries back to their status quo.
Budget cuts are rarely popular. A tax increase was never going to be popular. Red light cameras in Apopka (which recently polled at 23.3% approval a couple weeks ago) are even less popular. And keeping employee salaries at the status quo, hiring four police officers, and creating an economic development department aren't the most exciting initiatives to incentivize a millage rate increase, and to keep the RLC program alive another year, but it's what is needed in Apopka in 2018.
This was never going to be a budget that made people happy. This was the budget that everyone was going to find something they didn't like, but sometimes elected officials have to do what is unpopular. They have to do what's best for their community.
Fully fund the merit pay raises for city employees at 6%. Hire four APD officers to take the place of the four moving to the SRO program, and invest in Apopka's future by creating an economic development department.
It's what's best for Apopka.
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TENITA REID July 24, 2018 at 9:50 pm
Mayor John Lamb?…..lol
TENITA REID July 24, 2018 at 10:01 pm
Orange County Sheriff Demings is asking for more money for his budget department because he states that APD officers make higher wages than his officers. From the Orlando Sentinel.
Concerned Citizen July 25, 2018 at 9:06 am
The City of Apopka owns a ton of property they aren't doing anything with. They could sell a few and use that money to help balance the budget. There's a large lot with an empty house on Park Ave. across from the middle school the city has owned for over a decade and it's just sat there. The time to sell is now.
Mama Mia July 26, 2018 at 10:43 am
They ought to sell off that oversized military vehicle, that enormous monster hummer- type vehicle that the APD has, and uses only for kiddy show and tell out at NWRC. That ought to bring in some needed money. What good is that thing? They only bought that thing for the cops to have a play toy, to joy ride around in and get eyeballed…..They could also stop having those "wraps" installed on the cop cars. How much do those graphic wraps cost? They look cool, but are not needed, as they are not necessary. Oh, let's have our garbage trucks have wraps installed, on them, to look so cool! No, everyone would think the COA would have lost their mind, wouldn't they? But it seems so generally accepted to have the cop cars in wraps. They aren't needed, bottom line! Cut the fat!
I would think that if there is any money left over in the budget, after raising the property taxes, and placing the budget burden upon the backs of us citizens, that they would replace the positions of the cops, the four that were moved to the schools, and off the street patrols, that they would hire those positions back, to fill the street patrols vacancies, before giving an extra 3 percent raise back to the employees. We the citizens, are having to be burdened with this 19.2 percent tax increase, and everyone has to share the burdens of the last administration's over spending, and lost city reserves, at this time. As far as the police department, Mayor Nelson has given the police, the fire, and the EMTs his assurances, that they will not be laid off. I don't hear that same assurance for the other general employees, but look at who was up in front of the council complaining……the police members!!! Plus, the public safety, first responders, have a much better pension plan than do the general employees, is my understanding. The first responders get all the glory and honor! And that one police officer, up before the council complaining, that left another job to come to APD, and took an 8,000 dollars pay cut, well that is your own doing, you left and applied for a job here, saying you wanted the job, when you applied, here. Sorry. And Mayor Nelson has taken the job as mayor for half of what Mayor K was paid, and you police members complain over 3 percent less….Mayor Nelson is taking 50 percent less than the previous mayor! So I will give him credit for that! I would have loved to have had a job, that paid well above minimum wages, paid sick time, vacation time, got regular raises annually, and to have had an employer pay for my expensive healthcare…..OMG, I would not have complained, period! I never had jobs like that, and believe me, there are a lot of our citizens here in this city who don't have all those benefits either! Plus a pension when you retire! Plus assurances that you won't be laid off! The police department should reconsider their complaining to the city council members, and I hate to tell you, getting more money won't stop bad guys from shooting at your police cars. Jobs everywhere are dangerous too. It is the way the of the world in these times. Sorry.
d July 26, 2018 at 10:35 pm
It seems to me that Mr. Bass cutting 5-6 million dollars from what was REQUESTED by dept heads is not cutting the budget…taking 5-6 million dollars off of last years budget IS cutting the budget….just reducing money for 'wants' is NOT cutting the spending….just my opinion


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The Walking Dead season 11: Lauren Cohan on final-season news
The Walking Dead	 September 20, 2020
In the event that you didn't know the bittersweet news already, here it is: The Walking Dead season 11 is poised to be the final one on AMC. Granted, it's going to be a larger and more expansive version of the show than we've ever seen before, but we do have to prepare ourselves still to say goodbye over the next few years. There is something more coming in the Norman Reedus – Melissa McBride spin-off show, but who knows how many characters are going to appear in that?
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At least for the next year or so, the news of the flagship series ending will allow people the chance to sit back, reflect, and ponder over all they've gone through — and Lauren Cohan is certainly one of these said people! She's appeared on the vast majority of the seasons, and she's set to come back and have a big part in the series' endgame. In a new, remote interview on Live! with Kelly and Ryan, she did her best to describe the experience of wrapping up the show:
"We have two calendar years' worth of stuff to shoot, so it's still going to be on television for a significant period, but I feel two ways about it. I kind of got excited when we first announced [it was going away], just because fans and everybody who's watched all this time and been part of our invested family is… We're so lucky we've been going so long and it's so exciting to say, 'Okay, let's all key in for this final season and watch it together', and it makes me appreciate it.
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Henry Adair Pickard (12 May 1832 – 28 September 1905) was an English first-class cricketer and clergyman.

The son of Henry William Adair, he was born Worksop in May 1832. He was educated at Rugby School, before going up to Christ Church, Oxford. He made two appearances in first-class cricket while a student at Oxford, but did not appear for Oxford University. His first appearance came in 1852 for Sheffield against Manchester at Manchester, with his second appearance coming the following season for the Gentlemen of England against the Gentlemen of Marylebone Cricket Club at Lord's. After graduating from Oxford in 1855, he became an Anglican clergyman. He later served as an inspector of schools in 1864. Pickard died at his home along the Banbury Road in Oxford in September 1905.

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Typhoon in the Philippines
The horror after Haiyan
A country well used to the rigours of typhoon season has found itself unprepared to deal with the enormity of Haiyan
by J.M. | MANILA
WEATHER forecasters had given warning before Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines that the storm was extraordinarily powerful. That it was extraordinarily destructive became clear to all when the typhoon landed on the east coast November 8th. Three days later it has become apparent that the storm was also extraordinarily deadly; the survivors will require an colossal relief effort just to stay alive.
Before the typhoon landed, meteorologists had detected wind speeds of 313kph (194mph) near the centre, gusting up to 378kph, making it one of the strongest storms ever recorded. It whipped up giant waves that crashed ashore. Between them, the wind and waves ploughed through coastal communities, crushing buildings as if they were cardboard, tossing boats and cars around like toys and sweeping people to their deaths. The storm charged across the middle of country from east to west, drenching everything in its path with driving rain. Homes and crops that the wind failed to destroy were left at the mercy of flooding and landslides brought on by the rain.
A picture of the amount of death and destruction caused began to emerge only after the storm had swept out over the South China Sea, heading towards Vietnam. Witnesses spoke of corpses littering the wrecked city of Tacloban, on the east coast, which felt the full force of the storm. They spoke of dazed survivors wandering streets strewn with debris, begging for help. "From the shore and moving a kilometre inland, there are no structures standing. It was like a tsunami," said the interior secretary, Manuel Roxas, after inspecting the destruction from a helicopter. "I don't know how to describe what I saw."
The responsible authorities were powerless to find out the extent of the disaster, let alone bring relief. In Tacloban and elsewhere, the electricity supply, the water supply and telephone communications were among the first casualties. The local authorities were unable to help survivors as public servants were unable to report for duty. Fallen trees and power lines had blocked roads and floods had swept away bridges. More out-of-the-way places were beyond help.
In the lull between the shock of the storm and the reaction to it, there was an air of desperation. The government sent police reinforcements to Tacloban in response to reports of looting. In some places, the dead were buried in mass graves. Local officials began making wild guesses that many thousands had been killed in their districts.
The guesses might turn out to be correct. But three days after Haiyan struck, the government's National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council was certain only that the storm had killed 229 people and injured 45—displacing 630,000 and otherwise disrupting the lives of 9.5m. A huge international effort to shelter and feed the survivors and treat the ill and injured is still taking shape.
The Philippines is accustomed to tropical cyclones. About 20 pass over or near it each year. As Typhoon Haiyan approached, tens of thousands of people in its path followed the ordinary drill: leaving their homes and sheltering in public buildings regarded as being storm-proof. But tens of thousands more clearly failed to follow the drill. People tend to be reluctant to leave their homes or businesses in times of emergency, for fear of looters. Typhoons rarely hit the central and southern Philippines, and people there tend not to take storm warnings as seriously as do the storm-hardened peoples of northern Luzon island.
So in the centre of the country ordinary disaster risk-reduction and management measures have proven themselves unequal to challenges posed on an extraordinary scale. Ordinary warning measures were insufficient to rouse many people to abandon their homes and now it turns out that the disaster-relief agencies lack the resources they would need to tend to the damage that has been done.
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