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Whitey Bulger's girlfriend now lives with his relatives
FILE - This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Marshals Service shows Catherine Greig, longtime girlfriend of Whitey Bulger, captured with Bulger in 2011 in Santa Monica, Calif. Greig pleaded guilty and received an eight-year sentence for identity fraud and conspiracy to harbor a fugitive. The Boston Globe reported on Friday, Sept. 27, 2019, that Greig, 68, is serving the final year of her sentence in home confinement while living in a home in Hingham, Mass., that is owned by a daughter and son-in-law of Whitey Bulger's brother, William Bulger, the former president of the Massachusetts Senate. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshals Service, File)
HINGHAM, Mass. (AP) — The longtime girlfriend of the late Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger now lives with his relatives in an affluent suburb.
The Boston Globe reports that 68-year-old Catherine Greig lives in a home in Hingham owned by a daughter and son-in-law of Bulger's brother, William Bulger, the former president of the Massachusetts Senate.
Greig is serving the last year of an eight-year sentence in home confinement for helping Whitey Bulger evade capture for 16 years. The sentence ends in July.
The 89-year-old Bulger was killed in prison last October.
Greig declined to comment Thursday when approached by a Globe reporter.
Her sister, Margaret McCusker, says Greig loved Bulger and misses him.
Greig's attorney, Kevin Reddington, says his client has paid her debt to society and should be allowed to "live her life with happiness."
Information from: The Boston Globe, http://www.bostonglobe.com
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Brad Pitt Opens Up About Divorce And Quitting Drinking In New Interview
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Things You Might Not Know About Angelina Jolie
Eight months after Angelina Jolie shocked everyone with her abrupt filing of divorce from Brad Pitt, the actor has given his first candid interview about the split and his life now.
For GQ Style, the 53-year-old opened up about the split which included Jolie's claims of Pitt's alleged out of control drinking and anger issues. "You know, I just started therapy," Pitt said in the interview. "I love it. I love it. I went through two therapists to get the right one."
After Jolie's filings, more shocking reports came out claiming that while the Pitt-Jolie family was aboard their private plane from Paris to L.A. there was an alleged altercation between Pitt and his eldest son, Maddox. The claims resulted in the involvement of Child Protective Services and the entire family underwent therapy.
"I was really on my back and chained to a system when Child Services called," Pitt said, publicly addressing the legal matter for the first time. "After that, we've been able to work together to sort this out. We're both doing our best. I heard one lawyer say, 'No one wins in court — it's just a matter of who gets hurt worse.' And it seems to be true. You spend a year just focused on building a case to prove your point and why you're right and why they're wrong, and it's just an investment in vitriolic hatred. I just refuse. And fortunately my partner in this agrees. It's just very, very jarring for the kids, to suddenly have their family ripped apart."
Pitt added that despite initial attacks on each other, he and Jolie eventually agreed to handle the split with "great care and delicacy" for their children. "There's a lot to tell them because there's understanding the future, there's understanding the immediate moment and why we're at this point, and then it brings up a lot of issues from the past that we haven't talked about. So, our focus is that everyone comes out stronger and better people—there is no other outcome."
Since it was "too sad" for the A-lister to live in his Hollywood Hills home alone, he has been living with friends, and says he is now "squatting" at his friend Thomas Houseago's place and has focused his energy on learning sculpting. "You know, I surprise myself. But it's a very, very lonely occupation."
In the revealing interview, he also admitted that at first he didn't want to divorce Angelina, but has slowly come to terms with what has happened and how his life is now, and also admitted he is working hard to stop using substances to help him face and not mask the problems in his life. "I can't remember a day since I got out of college when I wasn't boozing or had a spliff, or something. Something. And you realize that a lot of it is, um—cigarettes, you know, pacifiers. And I'm running from feelings. I'm really, really happy to be done with all of that. I mean I stopped everything except boozing when I started my family. But even this last year, you know—things I wasn't dealing with. I was boozing too much. It's just become a problem," Brad admitted. "And I'm really happy it's been half a year now, which is bittersweet, but I've got my feelings in my fingertips again. I think that's part of the human challenge: You either deny them all of your life or you answer them and evolve."
He went on to open up further about just how bad his drinking had become, "I mean, we have a winery. I enjoy wine very, very much, but I just ran it to the ground. I had to step away for a minute. And truthfully I could drink a Russian under the table with his own vodka. I was a professional. I was good," said the actor, who ultimately decided that he didn't "want to live that way anymore."
For now the actor says his number one priority is protecting his family and not worrying what the public thinks or says about him. "I know the people who love me know me. And that's enough for me."
Read the entire revealing interview here.
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CBS Sports Network will present a 90-minute telecast of the $1 million Hambletonian, live from The Meadowlands Racetrack, East Rutherford, N.J., on Sat., Aug. 4, from 4 to 5:30 p.m. [EDT] The Hambletonian is the first and most prestigious leg of the Trotting Triple Crown.
CBS Sports Network, which has been the broadcast home of the Hambletonian since 2012, also will air the $500,000 Hambletonian Oaks, and provide coverage of the $286,650 John Cashman Memorial Trot, featuring Horse of the Year Hannelore Hanover and 2016 Hambletonian and Triple Crown champion Marion Marauder.
"We are proud to continue the 40-year tradition of televising the Hambletonian," said John Campbell, president and CEO of the Hambletonian Society. "Daytime harness racing is an exciting and colorful sport and I believe every year harness racing fans of all levels anticipate and expect to watch the Hambletonian on the first Saturday of August.
The on-air team for the Hambletonian is a stellar trio of award-winning harness racing veterans. Gary Seibel, a former host of racing coverage on ESPN, NBC, CBS and TVG, will anchor the coverage. A member of harness racing's Communicators Hall of Fame, Seibel will be appearing on his 26th straight Hambletonian broadcast.
Dave Brower, one of harness racing's most respected handicappers, will co-anchor. Brower, a staple of The Meadowlands airwaves, hosts the nightly broadcast of "Racing from the Meadowlands" as well as the SportsNet NY Meadowlands live television programs. Brower is an alumnus of Fox Sports New York, MSG Networks and TVG's "Drive Time". He is the author of the bestseller Harnessing Winners: The Complete Guide to Handicapping Harness Races.
New to the Hambletonian coverage this year is Canada's Greg Blanchard. Blanchard will provide pre-and-post race interviews, along with information from the backstretch throughout the day. The Director of Racing at Ontario-based Western Fair for the past eight seasons, Blanchard has previously worked for Woodbine Entertainment Group in Toronto as a television commentator, hosting both network and simulcast broadcasts for both Standardbred and thoroughbred breeds and also served as Manager of Media Communications for the Standardbred division.
Emmy Award winner Mike Trager and the Trager Group have been executive producers of the Hambletonian broadcasts for the past 26 years. The award winning team will be lead by producer Peter Lasser and director David Newman, both Hambletonian and harness racing broadcast veterans.
The 93rd Hambletonian show will re-air Saturday night, Aug. 4 at 8:30 p.m. [EDT].


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In adults, the crisis position tends to sexualise every issue because it is tied to a developmentphase which is itself sexual. The process is often unconscious, but it can be very obvious toother people as a sort of continual seductiveness in the person's behaviour and body language,or conversely as an 'uprightness', an extraordinary heightened sensitivity to sexualimplications which makes one scared of offending them with quite innocent remarks. Bothattitudes can even appear in the same person at the same time.It's clear that these are attitudes traditionally validated in women, either separately or incombination: the virgin and the vamp. They mask panic, and represent an inability tosurrender to deep sexual feelings for fear of being overwhelmed and losing control (whichmay literally have happened in childhood abuse). At the same time, there is a strong
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reaction to deep panic. The panic is completelyrational in origin: dangerous and scary things
happen. Freud worked with extreme crisischaracters who experienced 'hysterical paralysis' with no physical causation: a pretence in onesense, but outside any willed control or awareness. Often, though, the game-playing is bothconscious and unconscious: panic and anxiety fog the ability to look coolly at what one isreally doing. It can be amazing how a crisis character in a state of chaos can 'snap out of it'when asked.Yet crisis characters can play games for very high stakes. Living permanently on their nervesand by their wits, out on the edge, they develop a strange sort of coolness. Like combat


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We are really enjoying working with Swansea University with regards to their LEAD Wales programme. It is a development programme for owner managers that we feel confident in recommending to others. We like the way it is experiential in nature and based around principles that have been evidenced to work in helping SMEs grow.
In addition to short, sharp workshops enabling owner managers to learn the kind of skills you'd expect to see any any senior level development programme, embedding coaching and action learning within the programme is something we applaud particularly. This really makes the learning stick and makes the programme specifically relevant to the owner-manager's company. This shows in the impact the programme demonstates on companies where the owner manager has attended a previous programme.
The LEAD Wales course is free in Convergence areas of Wales. The next course runs in Bridgend but other locations are scheduled. To learn more, drop us a line.


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Picture: Jessica Simpson performs live for 'Good Morning America's Summer Concert Series' in Times Square New York City, USA - 09.09.08
Jessica Simpson saved a suicidal schoolfriend from killing herself when the superstar was 16 years old.
Emily Usher, 26, has revealed how depression and bullying drove her to take an overdose of painkillers in 1996, when she was 14.
Usher tells Star magazine, "I swallowed a bunch of pills I found in my family's medicine cabinet. Over-the-counter stuff."
She called schoolpal Simpson, who rushed to her aid: "I didn't tell her what I had done, but I was sobbing hysterically and begged for someone to come and get me."
She claims the singer rushed her back to the Simpson home, where dad Joe spotted something wrong: "I was lethargic and nauseous, and Joe started yelling at me, 'Did you take something.'"
When she admitted to taking the pills, she was rushed to hospital and her stomach was pumped.
Twelve years on she says, "I haven't spoken to them since they moved to Los Angeles, but I'll always be grateful for their kindness."
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ENID, OK – Taco Bueno in Enid has closed as of Monday, September 10. A sign on the door thanked guests and team members. They directed customers to go to the nearest location in Guthrie. The Enid location has already been pulled from the locator map on their website.
One employee posted on social media that staff was told at 2:00pm they would be closing without any prior notification. She reported that eight people lost their jobs.
Following an in-depth review of the brand's entire restaurant portfolio,Taco Bueno® announced today it will be making a number of strategic closures in order to position the brand for future growth. Effective today, Monday, September 10th, the popular quick service Tex-Mex restaurant chain will permanently close 16 locations across Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri. Impacted managers and employees were offered the opportunity to transfer to other restaurants within the Taco Bueno system where available.
"We continually review our restaurant portfolio performance. These closures were a strategic decision based solely on business demands and changing traffic patterns. It is our plan to reinvest in new locations and to remodel others to better serve our guests," said Omar Janjua, the new Chief Executive Officer for the brand. Janjua was brought on board in mid-2018 to lead the brand towards expansion and growth opportunities. One of his first orders of business was to identify underperforming business areas and reallocate resources towards more productive pursuits.
Taco Bueno is committed to providing an authentic, better-tasting Tex-Mex experience through the made-fresh-daily preparations, hand-selected ingredients, and genuine friendly hospitality. Founded in 1967 in Abilene, TX, Taco Bueno is a privately held company that operates more than 170 restaurants throughout the American South and Southwest– including Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. To learn more about Taco Bueno, please visit www.TacoBueno.com or www.facebook.com/BuenoHeadquarters.


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by Nicola Kemp January 08, 2019
In a business that's all about people, there's the problem with people... welcome to the backlash against the backlash.
In 2018 the crack that you heard, which you may have thought was the glass ceiling giving way, was actually the sound of concrete setting. Leaders publicly espousing the importance of diversity in the creative industries were at risk of appearing little more than nodding dogs; agreeing vigorously while steadfastly following the same old path. Employing the same types of people, despite extolling the virtues of diverse "talent", all the while seeking out the same world view and wallowing in unabashed nostalgia for "the good old days".
The "Who are we?" report from the Advertising Diversity Taskforce revealed that 31% of the industry's senior leaders were privately educated, compared with the national average of 7%, and only 8% of senior leaders come from black, Asian and minority-ethnic backgrounds. Despite the industry's focus on diversity, only half of agency employees think companies go out of their way to hire diverse talent.
Meanwhile, the IPA has cited privacy and confidentiality concerns as preventing it from naming individual agencies in its annual agency diversity tables for Campaign. The overall data paints a picture of incremental change, with the proportion of employees from a BAME background at IPA member agencies at 13.8% up from 12.9% in 2017. The percentage of women in C-suite roles is also progressing slowly, at 32.7%, up from 30.5% in 2017.
Questions remain as to whether this pace of change is keeping up with society at large. From the #MeToo movement to the impact of the extreme transparency ushered in by the likes of Fishbowl, Glassdoor and the suspended Instagram account Diet Madison Avenue, business leaders are being forced to consider experiences of the world they had never previously recognised, let alone understood. In the wake of this, a backlash against diversity and inclusion is in full swing – advertising has a people problem.
It is an ecosystem where instead of tackling the problem, we skate nervously around the edges. It's far easier to dismiss a view counter to our own as "virtue-signalling" than to accept the challenge presented by seeing the world through a different lens. It is focusing the discussion on issues such as whether it is acceptable to add a kiss to the end of an email now, rather than questioning the endemic use of non-disclosure agreements to cover up and enable sexual harassment carried out by serial perpetrators that has thrived unchecked over decades.
Then, of course, there is that omnipresent message that "Debbie Downers" need to "cheer the fuck up". Because, yes, even in 2018, it was the women in advertising that needed to be silenced.
Yet in Brexit-battered Britain there is perhaps nothing more commercially and culturally vital than showing that the creative industries are an open and inclusive space. That this is a space where the best people – regardless of class, age, race, physical ability or gender – can thrive.
Rather than being a "downer", this is a challenge the industry must embrace wholeheartedly. After all, is there anything more negative than not believing in our own capacity for change, that the industry can be better, more inclusive, more creative and curious in its outlook? Self-improvement doesn't necessitate self-loathing.
Nonetheless, the uncomfortable truth remains that many in the industry have already retreated into the comfort of proclaiming "it's all gone too far" before meaningful change has even got off the ground.
If 2018 was the year in which the industry held a collective mirror to itself and revealed some ugly truths, then 2019 must be about something different altogether. If the industry wants to be relevant to the brands it serves, it needs to reflect the diversity of the community it seeks to connect with. One crack is all it takes for the light to get in.
Get shit done
Xavier Rees
Chief executive, Havas London and Havas Helia
When I unveiled my ambition for Havas London to be certified as a B Corporation – a company that puts people, planet and profit on an equal footing – one of the biggest challenges I faced was getting the buy-in of the rest of the management team.
Given the myriad pressures we're under, they were understandably wary of spreading ourselves too thin, particularly during a period of rapid growth when we already had plenty to prioritise.
But as I went around the room and asked everyone whether they wanted to go for it, the answer was a resounding "yes". So, with minds focused and concerns about cost, time, feasibility and focus put to one side, we cracked on.
We've spent the two years since then changing, adapting, learning and doing stuff that feels right for our employees, customers, suppliers, community and the environment. It's a do-and-learn approach. We're still doing. We're still learning.
The biggest thing I've learned has been about the power we have as an industry to make a genuine difference. And I don't just mean through the work we do for our clients, which is not our only area of impact, but as large businesses in our own right. The UK advertising and marketing industries employ almost 200,000 people, while UK advertising spend reached £22.2bn in 2017.
That's a lot of people – and a lot of money. Imagine if you used it just a bit more responsibly than you do now. This needn't cost more but does require a change in attitude: actively think about the impact of every decision you make and go from simply making money to making a difference.
I hear more and more agency leaders starting to talk about this, but I still don't see enough real action. In 2019, I'd urge everyone to stop making pledges and start getting some shit done.
Focus on near-term actions, not long-term goals. Empower individuals at all levels to develop and champion initiatives. People genuinely care about this stuff and want to be part of it. More than anything, we must apply our (self-proclaimed) world-leading creativity to the way we operate as businesses, not just the work we create.
Success will take many forms, but failure will take one. Because none of this is a "nice to have". People want to work for, buy from, and invest in businesses they believe in. With clients, talent and society in general increasingly demanding this stuff, this is the new battleground.
So, do you want to be a company that's a force for good?
Real change is slow, messy and hard
Ali Hanan
Founder and chief executive, Creative Equals
A couple of months ago, I was presenting some Creative Equals insight to a chief executive. "I'm disappointed," he said. "I thought you had the silver bullet."
Change is slow, messy and hard. Having put the sector's most forward-thinking companies through our Equality Standard, they'll tell you that it's deeply uncomfortable. But then real change comes soon after. And that's what matters.
The fact is that the sector is in the second of five stages on the inclusion journey: "polarisation" – a feeling of "us" and "them" (look no further than allegations of discrimination against J Walter Thompson from a group of former employees – straight, white men, whom the agency had made redundant).
It's the stage straight after "denial" (a suggestion that "there's nothing wrong here", at a time when movements such as #AdvertingSoWhite, #MeToo and #TimesUp tell a different story).
If we follow the change curve, this year we'll collectively shift to "minimisation", where we acknowledge privilege, moving to an idea of "we're all the same, underneath".
This doesn't acknowledge that we need to alter our cultural perspectives, to understand inequities and make adjustments.
If we stay on the road after that, we'll fast-track to "acceptance", where we'll shape our workplaces around a deep appreciation of difference and cultural patterns. Lastly, we'll accelerate to "adaptive", moving in culturally appropriate ways, using powerful empathy skills.
While we want the end credits to roll, this isn't the ad break. It's a series that goes on and on for years. And, while there is no silver bullet, there are a thousand tiny arrows shot in the air, every day. So, seek to understand your company cultures and keep pushing the pedal down, adland.
2019, we're on the way.
Embracing change is truly empowering
Founder, IfWeRanTheworld and MakeLoveNotPorn
1 The rise of the female-founded holding company
At a time when holding companies are struggling, MDC Partners contends with activist investors, as it looks for a sale, and WPP proves how little it understands what drives our industry by killing off the J Walter Thompson brand, the Martina Sorrells, for whom I've been asking for years, are finally here.
Carrie Kerpen of LikeableMedia has started Likeable Ventures, the first holding company dedicated to acquiring the ad ventures of the future founded by women, people of colour and anyone our industry currently considers "other". Judy Shapiro of adtech platform EngageSimply has started TheTrustWeb, the first holding company looking to acquire adtech ventures focused on brand-trust creation.
Carrie and Judy are based in the US, but looking for global acquisitions – so, investors and founders, hit them up.
2 The exposure of the Harvey Weinsteins of our industry
Despite being inundated over the past year with #MeToo stories, it has been very difficult to get those stories broken, because everyone (men and women alike) is too terrified to name names publicly. This is because the powerful men in our industry doing the harassing are the gatekeepers of everything – jobs, pay rises, promotions, awards, careers. But as I told the 3% Conference in November last year, I'm not giving up. To the powerful men of our industry, who think they have got away with it – you haven't. Neither have the powerful women of our industry, who've enabled and covered up for the powerful men. 2019 will show that.
3 The increasing number of right-minded men who really get it
The men of our industry who will own the future are the ones who understand that progress is not a zero-sum game. More women, people of colour, disabled people, LGBTQ and those who are older getting equality of opportunity will mean more opportunity for everyone, as we reinvent our industry together. In 2019 I look forward to less male lip service being paid to diversity, and more of the men who speak at events such as Creative Equals and the 3% Conference sticking around after their panel or speaking slot, to meet and network with as many "others" as possible, as much as they would with other men at Cannes.
4 Racism tackled in the open
The rarest unicorn in our industry is the black, female executive creative director. In 2019 our industry will finally wake up to the 21st century and commit to eradicating racism. Every recruitment brief should lead with ensuring the candidate pool includes the least-represented segment in our industry – black women. And, as someone who is half Chinese, I would really like not to get as excited about Crazy Rich Asians as I did this year, because our agencies will be as multicultural as humanity is, and our advertising will be far more creative, innovative and groundbreaking because of the diversity of people creating it.
5 Older people valued as 'experts', hired and retained in droves
My favourite quote of all time is from US computer scientist Alan Kay: "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." So I'm telling you now that in 2019, off the back of my partnership with AARP (a US action group for older people) to #disruptaging through the dialogue we're having with many industry allies and the action plan we're working on, we will begin the end of ageism in our industry. Want instant, effective analysis and solutions to any business problem thrown at you? Calm under pressure? Inspirational people-management that keeps your employees motivated, happy and productive? Craft skills and technical expertise that result in time- and cost-efficiency? Infinite resources of creativity? Hire the candidates who've honed all those capabilities that we so badly need, over years – older people or, as I like to call us, "experts".
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He is a British actor who became famous at a young age when he played a big part in the star-studded romantic comedy "Love Actually." This made him famous. Edgar Allan Poe's life was on stage in Prague when he was 10 years old, and his parents made him want to be an actor after he saw them in the play. This means that he learned how to act from his parents and never took any acting lessons. It doesn't matter how old he is, he still has a lot to offer. The interesting thing is that he is often cast in roles where the characters need a young but wise portrayal. Game of Thrones cast him as 12-year-old Jojen Reed, a mystic seer, in his early twenties. He leads one of the main characters, Bran, to his fate. Even though Sangster is 25, he was cast as Rafe Sadler, a 15-year-old who is wise enough to help when needed. He has worked on a lot of successful movies and TV shows so far, and he has worked with a lot of Hollywood stars. He will appear in the new Netflix drama series "Godless" in 2017.
This is a picture of Thomas Brodie-Sangster. He was born on May 16, 1990. His parents, Mark Sangster and Tasha Bertram, are both actors in the theatre. Ava is his younger sister. It turns out that his father is also a musician, and he taught him how to play bass and guitar from him. His father also taught him how to play the drums for his role in "Love Actually," which he played. In 2001, Thomas Brodie-Sangster got his first acting job at the age of 11 in the BBC TV movie, "Station Jim." After that, she played the lead in more TV movies, like "The Miracle of the Cards" and "Bobbie's Girl," which were both made for TV.
In 2002, he starred in six episodes of the TV miniseries "Stig of the Dump." Next, he played young Hitler in the two-part TV movie "Hitler: The Rise of Evil." First, he played Liam Neeson and Hugh Grant in the 2003 movie, "Love Actually." This was his first big role, but it wasn't his first movie. His portrayal of a child who was orphaned quickly won over the people who saw it.
In 2004, he played Robert Nobel in the miniseries "Feather Boy." He was in six episodes of the show. He worked with Emma Thompson in the movie "Love Actually." In 2005, Sangster had a big part in "Nanny McPhee," which was very popular. Also, this was his second movie with Colin Firth and Adam Godley after his first movie with them.
As young Tristan in the movie "Tristan and Isolde," he was younger than James Franco's character. In the movie, he can be seen taking part in a sword fight.
Charmed the audience with his mesmerising performance as the child ruler Romulus Augustus, the last Roman Emperor, in the action adventure movie 'The Last Legion' in 2007, when he was just 13. In the movie, Colin Firth and Sir Ben Kingsley are also in it with him.
He played Timothy "Tim" Latimer, a schoolboy in two consecutive episodes of the British science fiction show "Doctor Who" in 2007. Because of his work, he also did voice work in two Big Finish "Doctor Who" audio dramas.
The Disney Channel show "Phineas and Ferb" had its first episode on August 17, 2007. He worked on the show. He did the voice of Ferb Fletcher in the show, which ran for four seasons and had 222 episodes in the whole thing. When Sangster worked on two biographical films in 2009, he did it.
He was in a movie about John Keats and Fanny Brawne called "Bright Star." It was based on the love storey between Keats and Brawne. John Lennon's teenage years were told through the eyes of Paul McCartney in the movie, "Nowhere Boy." He played McCartney. Even though he could play the guitar, he had to learn how to play it with his left hand so that he could play it like a left-handed person.
In 2011, he starred in an Irish movie called "Death of a Superhero," which was based on the book of the same name. It was the same year that he also played Liam in the movie "Hideaways."
When he played Jojen Reed in the TV show "Game of Thrones" in 2012, it won an award. In 2013 and 2014, he played the character in 10 episodes of season three and four.
As Newt in the dystopian science fiction movie The Maze Runner, he was cast in 2014, and he did very well. It was the next year, and he did the same thing in the sequel, "Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials." He will also be in the third and last part of the series in 2018.
When Thunderbirds Are Go was made in 2015, he was chosen to be a voice actor. He is the voice of John Tracy in the show, which is now in its second season. 'Love Actually' is one of Thomas Brodie-most Sangster's important works, and he is still thought of fondly by the people who saw it. A "Golden Satellite Award" and a "Young Artist Award" were given to him for his role in the movie.
Another role for which he has been praised is Newt in the "Maze Runner" books. In 2015, he was nominated for a "Choice Movie: Breakout Star" award for his role in the movie. This happened at the 43rd Annual Monte Carlo TV Festival in 2003. For his role in the miniseries 'Entrusted,' he won the Golden Nymph award that year.
In 2016, he won a Teen Choice Award because of how well he and Dylan O'Brien worked together in the movie "Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials."
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It was in 2008 that the couple started to date. The next year, they didn't stay together very long, so they broke up in 2009. With Isabella Melling, who used to be an actress when she was younger, they are together now Back in December of last year, they started to date each other.
In just a few years, he started making more money than his parents did, so he had more money than they did. People in Vauxhall and Camberwell bought both of them from him, so he bought both.
To help new British movie stars get their start, he and his mother, Tasha Bertram, started Brodie Films in 2006. However, the company went out of business in May 2013.
As of 2010, he has been in the band "Winnet," which is called "Winnet." For them, he plays the bass. A member of his family is also a member of the band, and his mother sings the songs. Son: Mark Sangster and Tasha Bertram have a son named after them. In his family, he has a sister named Ava Sangster.
Are Hugh Grant's cousins? There was a sister relationship between one of Thomas' maternal great-grandmothers and Hugh's maternal grandmother, Margaret Isabel Randolph. Barbara May Randolph was the sister of Margaret Isabel Randolph. To play drums for his role in Love Actually, he learned how to play from his father (2003).
This is what Richard Curtis, the director of Love Actually, said when he told him that at the age of 13, he had never seen a 15-rated movie. At that age, he had never seen one before. In three movies with Colin Firth, he has been in Love Actually (2003), Nanny McPhee (2005), and The Last Legion (2008). (2007).
His mother, Tasha Bertram, helped him start Brodie Films in 2006. Brodie Films is an independent film company based in London with the goal of giving new British talent a chance to work in the film industry. Innovative writers, actors, and directors are all welcome to apply. For Nowhere Boy, he had to learn how to play the guitar with his left hand so he could (2009).
His father is from Banchory, Scotland, and he is from there. Her ancestry is mostly English. She also has a small amount of Scottish, Channel Islander (Jersey), Welsh, Cornish, French, and Belgian ancestry.
Good friends with Dylan O'Brien, Will Poulter, and Kaya Scodelario, the co-stars of The Maze Runner movie. In his free time, he loves to ride motorbikes. They have been together since December 2012. In the band Winnet, he plays the bass. The band also has his mother, sister, and father in it, as well. Patience Harding and I were together from 2008 to 2009.
Actor Tim Latimer has played a character who can see the future on two different TV shows. First, as Tim Latimer in "Doctor Who" (2005), "Human Nature (#3.8)" and "The Family of Blood (#3.9)," and then as Jojen Reed in "Game of Thrones" for many episodes (2011).
Petty Officer Thanisson had a small part in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. He played a small part in the movie. Actor: He played the First Order Officer who told someone else that Finn and Poe were getting out of the Finalizer.
How do people get so excited about a celebrity? I think it's weird. Friends of my friends will ask: "Is that kid from Love Actually on the phone?" The phone gets passed around, so I have to talk to this person and ask: 'Are you famous?' My answer isn't clear.
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Konzertierte Aktion ist in der Wirtschaftspolitik ein abgestimmtes Verhalten zwischen Bund und Ländern und der Deutschen Bundesbank einerseits sowie Gewerkschaften und Unternehmensverbänden andererseits insbesondere über die künftige Lohnpolitik der Tarifparteien.

Allgemeines
Es handelt sich bei der konzertierten Aktion um einen Abstimmungsprozess der Interessen zwischen unterschiedlichen wirtschaftspolitischen Akteuren, um unter Hintanstellung divergierender kurzfristiger oder nachrangiger Zielsetzungen ein mittel- oder langfristig besseres Gesamtergebnis zu erreichen.

Insbesondere die Ziele der Interessengruppen der Arbeitgeber und Arbeitnehmer divergieren untereinander und können auch zu Interessenkonflikten mit der Wirtschaftspolitik der Regierung führen. So können über der Arbeitsproduktivität liegende Lohnerhöhungen die Lohn-Preis-Spirale in Gang setzen und somit das ökonomische Staatsziel der Preisniveaustabilität gefährden, ohne dass der Staat in die Tarifautonomie der Tarifparteien eingreifen könnte, um die ihm auferlegten Staatsziele erfüllen zu können.

Geschichte
Die Idee zur "konzertierten Aktion" entstammt dem zweiten Gutachten des Sachverständigenrates vom Dezember 1965, worin er einen Sozialpakt () als Abstimmung des Verhaltens von Bund, Ländern und Gemeinden, der Bundesbank und der Sozialpartner empfiehlt. Im Stabilitätsgesetz (StabG) vom Juni 1967 wurde diese "konzertierte Aktion" aufgegriffen und eine turnusmäßige Abstimmung von Bund, Ländern und Gemeinden (als Träger des Staatsverbrauchs und der staatlichen Investitionsgüternachfrage), der Bundesbank (als Träger der Geldpolitik) und der Sozialpartner (Arbeitgeber als Träger der privaten Investitionen, Arbeitnehmer als Träger des privaten Verbrauchs) herbeigeführt.

Die erste Sitzung fand am 20. Februar 1967 statt. Auf weiteren Sitzungen waren die Lohnleitlinien als Bestandteile der Jahreswirtschaftsberichte der Bundesregierung ein umstrittenes Gesprächsthema. Im Jahre 1977 verließen die Gewerkschaften nach 40 Versammlungen die kooperative Gesprächsrunde, weil neun Unternehmen und 30 Arbeitgebervereinigungen im Mai 1976 Verfassungsbeschwerde gegen das Mitbestimmungsgesetz beim Bundesverfassungsgericht eingelegt hatten. Zudem gab es Konflikte zwischen Bundesbank und Arbeitgeberverbänden auf der einen und den Gewerkschaften auf der anderen Seite. Deshalb blieb der DGB einer Sitzung im Juli 1977 fern. Auf dem DGB-Kongress im Mai 1978 wurde aus der vorläufigen eine endgültige Absage. Im Juli 1985 und Oktober 1985 kam es zu Dreier-Runden ohne Gewerkschaften.

Im Juli 2022 wurde die konzertierte Aktion im Hinblick auf eine drohende Energie- und Wirtschaftskrise und Inflation wiederbelebt.

Inhalt
Das Stabilitätsgesetz (StabG) gibt in  StabG vor, dass Bund und Länder bei ihren wirtschafts- und finanzpolitischen Maßnahmen die Erfordernisse des gesamtwirtschaftlichen Gleichgewichts zu beachten haben. Die Maßnahmen sind danach so zu treffen, dass sie im Rahmen der marktwirtschaftlichen Ordnung gleichzeitig zur Preisniveaustabilität, zu einem hohen Beschäftigungsstand und außenwirtschaftlichem Gleichgewicht bei stetigem und angemessenem Wirtschaftswachstum beitragen müssen. Das StabG fordert mithin die gleichzeitige Einhaltung dieser ökonomischen Staatsziele, die teilweise untereinander jedoch mindestens einem Zielkonflikt unterliegen.

Die Einhaltung einiger Ziele kann zudem durch Bund und Länder im Rahmen ihrer Konjunkturpolitik nicht alleine sichergestellt werden, weil insbesondere Preisniveaustabilität und Beschäftigungsstand auch durch die Lohn- und Personalpolitik der Gewerkschaften und Unternehmensverbände beeinflusst werden. Deren Tarifautonomie wird durch § 1 StabG nicht angetastet. Um auch diese Interessengruppen einzubeziehen, sieht  StabG vor, dass im Falle der Gefährdung eines der ökonomischen Staatsziele die Bundesregierung Orientierungsdaten für ein gleichzeitiges aufeinander abgestimmtes Verhalten ("konzertierte Aktion") der Gebietskörperschaften, Gewerkschaften und Unternehmensverbände zur Erreichung der Ziele des § 1 StabG zur Verfügung stellt. Damit ist die "konzertierte Aktion" ein Rechtsbegriff. Die Teilnahme der Interessenverbände ist freiwillig; das StabG macht keine Angaben darüber, in welcher Form die konzertierte Aktion zu institutionalisieren ist.

Wirtschaftspolitik ab 1967
Mit dem Sturz Ludwig Erhards wurde der Wirtschaftsliberalismus in der Bundesrepublik zunächst beendet, und die Politik orientierte sich vorübergehend stärker an keynesianischen Ideen, die bereits seit längerem in den Vereinigten Staaten und anderen Ländern praktiziert wurden. Dies kam zunächst vor allem in dem Versuch einer Globalsteuerung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Nachfrage zum Ausdruck. In Deutschland flossen derartige Vorstellungen der SPD in das im Mai 1967 verabschiedete Stabilitäts- und Wachstumsgesetz ein. Entgegen der keynesianischen Folgerungen ließ es jedoch die Handlungsautonomie der Bundesbank völlig unangetastet.

Stattdessen sollte eine Abstimmung (Konzertierung) des makroökonomisch relevanten Verhaltens zwischen Regierung, Gebietskörperschaften, Gewerkschaften und Bundesbank durch aufeinanderfolgende Gesprächsrunden bewirkt werden. Ziel war es, einen hohen Beschäftigungsstand, Preisstabilität und ein angemessenes Wirtschaftswachstum zu erreichen. Wirtschaftsminister Karl Schiller sprach vom "Tisch der gesellschaftlichen Vernunft". Am 14. Februar 1967 trat erstmals eine entsprechende informelle Gesprächsrunde zusammen.

Trotz eines Anfangserfolgs konsolidierte sich die Konzertierte Aktion nicht zu einer dauerhaften korporatistischen Einrichtung. Für die Arbeitgeberverbände und Bundesbank verblieb sie ein unverbindliches Diskussionsforum, in welchem die Spitzenverbände ihre divergierenden Einschätzungen der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Situation austauschten. Für die Gewerkschaften mit ihrer eher dezentralen Struktur von Einzelgewerkschaften und ihrem in der Bundesrepublik vergleichsweise niedrigen Organisationsgrad stand die Tarifautonomie auf dem Spiel. Ebenso befürchteten sie eine Einschränkung ihres Handlungsspielraums zur Vertretung der wirtschaftlichen Interessen ihrer Mitglieder. In den ersten Jahren sahen sich die Gewerkschaften zur Lohnzurückhaltung veranlasst, und die Bundesbank kehrte zu einer weniger restriktiven Geldpolitik zurück. Nachdem aber die Unzufriedenheit der Beschäftigten sich in zwei Wellen wilder Streiks (September 1969 und 1973) kundgetan hatte, verlor die Konzertierte Aktion an Bedeutung und endete 1977/78 ganz.

Kritik
Die konzertierte Aktion ist im Sinne der Ordnungspolitik umstritten, denn sie versucht, Löhne und Preise zu manipulieren und nicht dem Preismechanismus (Lohn-Preis-Spirale) und den Tarifverhandlungen zu überlassen. Sie ist ein Makrokorporatistischer Versuch, unterschiedliche Interessen im Sinne der Volkswirtschaft anzugleichen. Es fehlte der konzertierten Aktion an Entscheidungskompetenz, es tauchten wachsende Diskrepanzen zwischen den Interpretationen der Wirklichkeit durch die Beteiligten auf.

Abgrenzungen
Die konzertierte Aktion im Gesundheitswesen und das Bündnis für Arbeit, Ausbildung und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit haben ebenfalls ökonomische und die gesamte Volkswirtschaft betreffende Auswirkungen, sind jedoch fachlich von der konzertierten Aktion zu trennen. Das "Bündnis für Arbeit" sollte durch korporatistische Abstimmung zwischen Staat, Arbeitgeberverbänden und Gewerkschaften sicherstellen, was jedoch nicht gelang und im Februar/März 2003 als endgültig gescheitert erklärt wurde.

Bündnis Zukunft der Industrie / Netzwerk Zukunft der Industrie
Im November 2014 riefen der Bundesminister Sigmar Gabriel, der Präsident des Bundesverbandes der deutschen Industrie, Ulrich Grillo, und der damalige 1. Vorsitzende der Industriegewerkschaft Metall, Detlef Wetzel, zur Bildung eines "Bündnisses für die Zukunft der Industrie" auf. Am 3. März 2015 bildeten daraufhin neun Industrieverbände, drei Gewerkschaften und der DGB sowie der Bundeswirtschaftsminister das Bündnis "Zukunft der Industrie". Dieses Bündnis "Zukunft der Industrie" besteht aus insgesamt 15 Partnern. Neben den drei Initiatoren, dem Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (BMWi), dem Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie e. V. (BDI) und der Industriegewerkschaft Metall (IG Metall) sind dies der Verband der Chemischen Industrie (VCI), der Verband der Automobilindustrie (VDA), der Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau (VDMA), der Zentralverband Elektrotechnik- und Elektronikindustrie (ZVEI), der Hauptverband der Deutschen Bauindustrie (HDB), die Bundesvereinigung der Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbände (BDA), Gesamtmetall, der Bundesarbeitgeberverband Chemie (BAVC) sowie auf Gewerkschaftsseite der Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund (DGB), die Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie (IG BCE), die Industriegewerkschaft Bauen-Agrar-Umwelt (IG BAU) sowie die Gewerkschaft Nahrung-Genuss-Gaststätten (NGG).

Ziel dieser gemeinsamen, konzertierten Aktion ist es, im Dreiklang aus Politik, Unternehmensverbänden und Gewerkschaften konkrete Verabredungen und prioritäre Maßnahmen zu treffen um die industrielle Wettbewerbsfähigkeit in Deutschland zu stärken. Ziele und Aufgaben wurden von den Bündnispartnern in einer gemeinsamen Erklärung festgehalten. Zunächst sollen fünf Arbeitsgruppen Handlungsempfehlungen zu den Kernthemen der Industriepolitik erarbeiten. Mit der Gründung des Bündnisses wurde auch vereinbart, künftig ein jährlich fortzuschreibendes Arbeitsprogramm zu entwickeln. In der zweiten Sitzung des Bündnisses am 13. Oktober 2015 wurde das Arbeitsprogramm 2015–2016 für Bündnis und Netzwerk beschlossen. Es trägt den Titel: "Für eine moderne und nachhaltige Industriepolitik in Deutschland".

Die im Bündnis "Zukunft der Industrie" beteiligten Industriegewerkschaften und Industrieverbände beschlossen, ein gemeinsames Netzwerk "Zukunft der Industrie" zu bilden, dass die Arbeit des Bündnisses koordinieren, dessen Beschlüsse umsetzen und Anregungen für die weitere Arbeit des Bündnisses entwickeln soll. Das Netzwerk wurde am 1. Oktober 2015 als Verein gegründet. In ihrem Koalitionsvertrag für die 19. Legislaturperiode beschlossen die Regierungsparteien CDU, CSU und SPD die Fortsetzung des Bündnis "Zukunft der Industrie", um "wesentliche industriepolitische Belange auch künftig unter Beteiligung von Sozialpartnern, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft zu erörtern und abzustimmen". Die Federführung für die Bündnis-Zusammenarbeit mit dem Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie liegt auf Seiten der beteiligten Verbände beim Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie (BDI) und auf Seiten der Gewerkschaften bei der Industriegewerkschaft Metall (IG Metall).

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 Andrea Rehling: Die Konzertierte Aktion im Spannungsfeld der 1970er Jahre: Geburtsstunde des "Modell Deutschland" und Ende des modernen Korporatismus. In: Knut Andresen u. a. (Hrsg.): Nach dem Strukturbruch? Wandel der Arbeitsbeziehungen und Arbeitswelt(en) seit den 1970er Jahren. Dietz, Bonn 2011, S. 65–86.
 Michael Ruck: Die Republik der Runden Tische: Konzertierte Aktionen, Bündnisse und Konsensrunden. In: André Kaiser, Thomas Zittel (Hrsg.): Demokratietheorie und Demokratieentwicklung. Festschrift für Peter Graf Kielmansegg. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-531-14118-X, S. 333–356.
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At nearly 200 years old, St Mark's is a Grade II listed church.
Occupying a tight plot, the west end adjoins a street with the remaining three sides are bounded by a park. The church was closed off from the street and local community by heavy railings and had no accessible entrance. The vision was to encourage wider, uninhibited use by creating an welcoming frontage; providing an accessible entrance; renovating the existing main entrance and steps; and encouraging interaction and engagement.
The scheme sought to provide a dignified, inclusive approach for all and enhance the church's setting. The new ramp was to be beautiful and contemporary while complimenting and respecting the host building. Level access couldn't be provided at the front entrance, requiring a new access with a long ramp to overcome significant height change, so a circular plan form allowed greater travel distance.
Radial finned guarding permits views through to the church from all angles, but appear as one mass when viewed obliquely. The play of solid and void provides a sense of movement, with shifting light and mass enlivening the structure and adding a sculptural quality. New landscaping uses curving paths through feature planting which animate the senses with whispering grasses and fragrant lavenders.
As well as being a conservation area, challenges were presented by mature trees and limited space. The ramp avoids disturbing tree roots and has no structural connection to the church. Bronzed aluminium fins complement the tones of the existing stonework and respect the character and integrity of the church.
St Mark's now has a befitting frontage with new metalwork that enhances its character. The project provides a dignified means of entry, opening the church to a broader community and enabling it to be a place of worship, congregation and interaction, affording equal enjoyment to all.


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STATE SENATOR RONALD YOUNG
General Assembly debates pathway to $15 minimum wage in Maryland
By Samantha Hogan, Frederick News-Post
ANNAPOLIS — Thea Bryan, 49, remembers the eviction notice.
She was working part time as a bartender in downtown Bethesda while completing a required unpaid internship for her Master of Social Work degree. At first, she was making $100 to $200 a night from her three shifts, but when customers stopped coming in, her paychecks plummeted to $50 or less.
Bryan makes only $3.63 an hour before tips, but it is difficult to get a higher-paying office job with her class and internship schedule. She relies on federal food assistance for herself and her son, and when her paycheck declined unexpectedly, she also fell short on her $1,800 monthly rent.
"I did make the decision to go back to school for an advanced degree. ... No one forced me into this situation, but I went back into bartending because of the flexibility," said Bryan, who eventually paid the past-due rent with her student loan money.
Bryan is among the hundreds of minimum wage and tipped workers in Maryland to come to Annapolis this month to ask lawmakers to raise their wages to $15 an hour. But it is unlikely everyone will see an increase to their paychecks as lawmakers began chipping away at the bill in the House of Delegates this week.
Among the cuts was a decision by the House Economic Matters Committee to strike a phased-in wage increase for tipped workers. Starting in 2020, the workers would have seen their base pay jump to $5.25 an hour and increase annually to $15 by 2026, while still allowing tips.
The committee received testimony in support of leaving tipped workers out of the $15 minimum wage change from business owners and some service workers in the industry. Among them was Kelsey Fendlay, who lives in Westminster and has been in the food service industry for 10 years.
She makes between $35 and $40 an hour, after tips, as a server at a restaurant that caters to an upper middle-class clientele. Fendlay said she has built a career around anticipating clients' needs. She strongly disagreed that all minimum wage workers should be entitled to $15 an hour.
"I don't believe a lot of people deserve to be handed $15," Fendlay said.
However, it is dangerous to assume that all women working in the food service industry have the same experience and opportunities as Fendlay, said Diana Ramirez, a policy advocate for the Restaurant Opportunities Center.
Ramirez advocated for Maryland to adopt "one fair wage," which would set the same minimum wage for tipped and non-tipped workers in the state. It's an economic justice issue, she said, and it helps protect women, who often fill low-paying restaurant jobs.
"When you tell women, 'I'll only pay you $3.63 and you have to make the rest on the customer's whim,' they have to put up with customer behavior," which could include sexual harassment that the server does not report because they need the tip, Ramirez said.
By not tying wages to the customers, then servers and restaurants are able to better set a standard of acceptable behavior, Ramirez said.
County choice
There are growing concerns in the less populated areas of the state, however, that a $15 minimum wage may not be appropriate for all counties.
In western Maryland, some towns are only a few miles from Pennsylvania, where the minimum wage is $7.25, and a short distance from West Virginia, which has a minimum wage of $8.75.
"Fifteen dollars would decimate the economy in rural areas," said Del. Wayne Hartman (R-Wicomico & Worcester) as he introduced an amendment to the minimum wage bill on the floor of the House on Wednesday.
His amendment would divide the state into two tiers with Baltimore city, Montgomery, Prince George's, Howard, Anne Arundel and Baltimore counties moving to a $15 minimum wage, and the others staying at $10.10. Del. Neil Parrott (R-Washington) also proposed a separate amendment to allow counties to set their own minimum wage. Both amendments failed.
All three of Frederick County's Republican delegates voted in support of the amendments, as did Del. Ken Kerr (D-Frederick), who supported Hartman's tiered minimum wage approach. Kerr explained he wants the bill to pass, and the amendments he voted for would raise the minimum wage in a way more acceptable to his constituents.
"I sympathize with my fellow delegates who are in rural areas and in areas where neighboring states have much lower minimums," Kerr said by email later on Wednesday. "The convenience for residents in these areas being able to cross state lines — often just a few miles away — and access goods and services at a lower cost, has the potential to do harm to the businesses and workers in these areas."
Ricarra Jones, who is the policy director of the health care union 1199SEIU that is a main supporter of raising the minimum wage to $15, pushed back on the notion that Maryland would be at a competitive disadvantage if it had a minimum wage approximately double that of neighboring states.
"In most cases, most people aren't going to leave Maryland to work for half," Jones said.
Loss of business
The potential loss of business from the higher compensation costs of raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, however, was one of the reasons Del. Jesse Pippy (R-Frederick & Carroll) did not plan to vote in support of the bill.
An adult day care center in Frederick County that receives the majority of its funding through Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements set by the federal government contacted Pippy and asked him to oppose the bill. The business may have to reduce benefits or lay off employees in order to meet the proposed wage requirements, Pippy said.
As currently written, the bill would raise the minimum wage to:
$11 per hour beginning Jan. 1, 2020.
$11.75 per hour beginning Jan. 1, 2021.
Some supporters of raising the minimum wage — including Sen. Ron Young (D-Frederick) — say the bill does not go far enough, because $15 is still not a livable wage. At 40 hours a week, a person making a $15 an hour would make $600 a week before taxes.
"I hear the argument the other side is making, however, the minimum wage is not meant to be a livable wage," Pippy said. "We do our best to provide opportunity for folks, a competitive job market where they have more options [and] jobs that pay different amounts."
The best way to keep Maryland businesses competitive is to leave the free market alone and allow workers to move from low-paying jobs to higher-paying opportunities, he said. He did this himself — moving up from delivering car parts and cooking fries to working at a bank.
As the owner of a law firm in Emmitsburg, Del. Dan Cox (R-Frederick & Carroll) said raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour would personally prohibit him from hiring college students in the summer to get experience working in a law firm.
Cox has hired up to six students at a time, and they have worked for less than $15 an hour, he said.
The Maryland Chamber of Commerce has also opposed the proposed increase to $15 due to its potential negative effects on businesses in the state. More than 100 of its members wrote or provided oral testimony in opposition to the bill, said Sam Schlaich, a policy analyst with the chamber.
The House Economic Matters Committee's amendments improved the bill, but there are still changes that need to be done, he said. The chamber is waiting to see how the Senate Finance Committee amends the bill and what happens in the Senate itself.
"We're not against people getting $15, but when you legislate it, you have to look at the peripheral effects," Schlaich said.
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I am slowly working towards getting the wheelpants on the airplane. However, to do so, I need to be able to lift the wheels off the ground in order to align them properly. I bought a pair of 3 ton long jacks from Harbor Freight (p/n: 36468) today I make some wing jacks. I didn't get very far with its construction.
I went to the airport to work on the project next. Yesterday I ran the right tank pretty low so I could calibrate it. I emptied the remaining 3 gallons out of the tank.
I have been meaning to make this for a while. I took some 1/16" thick plexiglass I bought at Home Depot and put 1/2" border of velcro around it. Boom, instant airworthiness certificate holder! It looks amazingly good too.
My operating limits and weight and balance are tucked in the glovebox.
While I was at the hangar I thought I'd check on the oil cooler blocking plate.
Just as I suspected, the plate had pulled away some. I guess duct tape isn't so great for this either.
I figured I needed something mechanical to hold the blocking plate to the oil cooler. So I made this contraption.
There is a gap where the arrow points to show where it hugs the right side of the oil cooler.
Here it is in place. I used some weatherstripping to apply pressure to the backing plate. To install it I only have to undo the two outboard bolts holding on the oil cooler. the inboard bolt is a real pain to get at, so thats why I made a bracket that sandwiches the flange on the inboard side of the oil cooler. I have a feeling this is the last of the oil cooler issues I've been having of running too cold. Worst case is the blocking plate isn't large enough and/or the rubber weatherstripping might melt. More fun experiments!


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Home Arts & Culture Sports Nine points: The mellow mood and high-offense charms of NHL All-Star weekend
Nine points: The mellow mood and high-offense charms of NHL All-Star weekend
by John Darnielle
John Darnielle lives in Durham and sings around the world for the Mountain Goats. He came to hockey late, but he fell in love with it when he saw his wife lace up her skates in Ames, Iowa. One of the reasons he moved to North Carolina in 2003 was because Raleigh had a hockey team. His new album, All Eternals Deck, is due in March.
1. The line to meet Jeff Skinner is more than 300 people long. It snakes around the floor of the Raleigh Convention Center, looping the children's puffy-sticks hockey area and abutting the DJ.
It intersects the line to see the Stanley Cup, which is considerably shorter, and it crosses a food line or two. You know it's at least 300 people long, though, because of the identically attired people with lanyards and laminates who've begun telling people about three-quarters of the way down that there's no guarantee they'll get an autograph from Jeff Skinner, because he's only promised to sign 300, which he'll start doing once he gets here at 3. I ask one of the workers when the line formed. She tells me, "These people have been here since we opened the building at 2."
2. The All-Star Game is a little strange, because while it's an event that draws people from all over the planet, it doesn't actually count for much. It won't help any team in the overall standings, or hurt any player's plus/ minus rating. It's just a public concentration of power and talent, putting all the best players in the world on the ice at the same time. If either of the two All-Star teams that play against each other were actual NHL teams, they'd be able to hold their own against any team in the history of the game, and they'd run the table against the rest of the league. But when they take the ice here on game day, they'll be playing as teams for the first and last time. And because next week they'll all be playing in games that count, the All-Star game rules out what commentators call, in one of my favorite pieces of sports terminology ever, "the physical game." No fights, no hard body checks, no penalties except for occasional offsides. Just the most elite players in the world, all playing hockey in the same arena.
3. The preshow All-Star media availability mix zone is a slightly elevated stage at the far end of the convention hall. On it stand about a dozen major NHL stars, sometimes with press handlers next to them, sometimes braving it alone. They arrive at one end of the stage and work their way down, giving interviews as they go. Microphones and cameras and Flip videos and cell phones are held up to them in straining clusters which grow thickest as they approach young Jeff Skinner, who looks like he's about 18 years old because that's exactly how old he is. At the time of this writing, he'd scored one goal this season for every year he's been on this earth: 18 goals, plus 22 assists, for a total of 40 points. He is a rising star, a strong contender for rookie of the year, and he plays for your Carolina Hurricanes. Nobody else this week is quite so squarely in the spotlight. Eric Staal, the team captain for both the Canes and one of the two All-Star teams, comes close, and Alexander Ovechkin's a global superstar. But this weekend in Raleigh, Skinner commands his own orbit. It is remarkable to see.
I watch him field interviews for half an hour, adeptly and with great charm and confidence, but toward the end his voice is starting to give. His handler hustles him off, and things seem to be getting quieter, but then Ovechkin arrives, and I see what established celebrity looks like. Everybody closes in on him at once, and he barely blinks. He looks like he's having a conversation with his mailman, only there are 30 mailmen from 10 different countries, all with their own camera crews.
4. NHL All-Star games used to be played conference versus conference, but this year the captains pick their players in a real-time draft that the press watches via live broadcast. What sports geek doesn't love a draft, especially one with a little drama? The big question is whether they're going to break up the Sedin twins, Swedish brothers who've always played on a line together. This gets answered early in the first round: Staal picks Daniel Sedin, and Niklas Lidstrom, the "away" team captain from Detroit, gets Henrik. By the time Team Staal gets to its tenth pick, the people in the crowd who've been yelling "Skinner!" are starting to sound more agitated than amused, but he finally goes, first pick of the third round. This makes him the youngest All-Star in any of the major sports since Steve Yzerman, the only other 18-year-old ever to play on an All-Star team. Let the gentle reader be reminded here that this kid plays for the Carolina Hurricanes.
5. Prior to the red carpet walk of the 2011 NHL All-Star teams, there's the promenade of the mascots. I don't think there's much I can tell you about the promenade that isn't already covered by the phrase "promenade of the mascots," but the deal is this: Getting the teams to the stadium via several buses is a heavily coordinated operation, and fans gather early in the parking lot and in front of the stadium to tailgate, hang out, get autographs and soak up the North Carolina sun.
You'd have to be pretty crummy to not find the whole scene charming. It's oddly low-key; the fans get excited and cheer when the players get announced, but the announcements come over a soothingly high school-auditorium-sounding PA system. The crowd feels like a big, loose family. Sure, during the walk the announcer dude gives some television verve to his voice when announcing Eric Staal. And sure, fans who've traveled from Michigan and California and Finland and Russia are beer-hat stoked to be here. But the whole thingthronging crowds with Sharpies and programs in hands and dancing mascots and allseems pretty mellow, and my local pride swells. One thing our region can teach the world is how to go hard and still stay mellow.
6. The skills competition happens the day before the game: There's goalie races and a speed-gun head-to-head, at which, this year, a new record will get set by Zdeno Chara, the 6' 9" Boston defenseman who's the tallest man ever to play in the NHL. As the hour of the puck drop for the skills competition draws near, though, it becomes clear that somebody's trying to bait me, because the arena lights dim, and the ice is suddenly lit from overhead by a mind-bending green, blue, magenta and yellow pattern, rave-era psychedelic. The music gets loud, and the announcer says something about mascots, and then suddenly there they all are at once, on the ice, mock-battling and vamping and resembling any number of dreams that I had once while on drugs. And then I figure out how to work the little television next to my press box seat, and I learn that I'm missing the All-Star State of the League Address, about which I feel a little bad, but then I think: "State of the League Address"? Really? At which I return, without guilt, to my bird's-eye view of the mascot game below, where, as I write, Stinger the Columbus Blue Jacket has just ripped one past Carlton the Bear.
7. Once the mascot game is over, all our folksy lower-budget charm gets escorted to the nearest exit. Both teams take the ice for warm-ups, and the PA begins blasting music loud enough to give me this involuntary urge to start divulging state secrets for relief. I make up a few and whisper them into my popcorn, hoping it's bugged, but either the wire isn't working or my secrets aren't good enough, because the PA blares "Toxic." The bass shakes my fillings. But then the proceedings begin, and the music changes over to "Carolina in My Mind." Anybody who doesn't like "Carolina in My Mind" is my enemy and I choose pistols at dawn.
8. We take in a little of the tailgating scene on the day of the actual game. Life's sweet, small things often tend to describe themselves, and that's true here, too. People wear jerseys: Lindros & Fleury, Whalers and Canes, Staal and Cole and Skinner, Skinner, Skinner. It feels relaxed, and friendly, and familiar. North Carolina has saved one of its prettiest, warmest winter days for its guests from all over. People gather around cars and lounge in lawn chairs, eating and visiting and drinking and grilling and playing cornhole. And drinking Bud Light, about which, if I weren't already way over word count, I would have few choice words.
9. The game itself, when it finally gets under way, is like a skills competition with added defense. The level of sheer scoring talent present is ridiculous, which accounts for Team Staal's lightning-fast 4-0 lead. At 10:50, Team Lidstrom finally gets one back and proceeds to take three more in four minutes, including one on a gorgeous breakaway from Matt Duchene. We go into the intermission tied at 4. Soon afterward, it's 6-6, and then Team Lidstrom takes its first lead of the game, with 4:29 left to play in the period. Skinner breaks away a minute later, and the room goes nuts, as for one hot second we all feel like we're looking at the same glorious moment about to go down. But he doesn't manage to score. And it's not really a big deal.
It's not really a big deal because the All-Star game is a communal event where, for once, you can actually believe that it's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game. How many times, as a kid, did you hear this and think, "You're only telling me that to make me feel good, because I lost." At the All-Star game, though, the core truth of a hoary cliché glimmers on the ice, goal after goal. I would say that, though. I was for Team Staal, which ended up one goal short of an 11-11 tie, none of them looking even remotely bothered by it, hugging and high-fiving and heading back for one last round of All-Star interviews before the games start counting again.
Issue: 2011-02-02 Sports hockey


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Euzophera pinguis
Euzophera pinguis (Haworth) is a Lepidoptera that causes the young olive trees to die and reduces the production of mature crops. It is considered the third most serious pest for Spanish olive groves.
MORPHOLOGY AND BIOLOGY
In its larval stage, the insect is found inside the trunk of the olive tree at a depth of 4 to 5 mm, making it almost impossible to reach with chemical treatments. It is only vulnerable when its biological cycle is known and the moment of egg laying, which takes place outside the gallery, is determined.
The eggs are oval, flat and have a finely reticulated structure. They are a pinkish-white colour, turning a darker colour as the incubation process advances. The female lays the eggs individually or in small groups of 4 to 5 eggs in the crossings and fissures of the branches.
The larva reaches 25 mm in length and is a light green colour. Its head and thorax are black. The pupa, which is a brown colour, grows inside a fairly dense silk structure of about 10 to 15 mm long.
The adult is a cream-coloured moth with a wingspan of 20 to 25 mm. The forewings have two pale stripes in a zigzag pattern. The hindwings are essentially white with a thin brown border.
DETECTION AND MONITORING
1 to 2 traps per hectare should be placed at the same height as the crops or on a specific support. The traps should be placed in spring.
MASS TRAPPING
Primarily, the males of this species are captured in order to reduce mating, meaning that the unfertilised females will lay unviable eggs. In this way, the pest population is reduced.
For mass trapping, the amount of traps per surface area must be increased, depending on the location and homogeneity of the plots. One trap controls a surface area of 1.000 m2.
This means a density of 10 traps per hectare.
NECESSARY MATERIAL
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PERIOD OF USE
To obtain good control of Euzophera pinguis it is advisable to combine two methods: detection and monitoring; and mass trapping.
In spring, 1 trap per hectare can be placed for the detection of the pest and the observation of its population levels. With tolerance thresholds established in each area, the moment to adopt control measures, in this case mass trapping, can later be defined.
The tolerance threshold for Euzophera pinguis is very low and varies depending on the area. In general, it is approximately 3 captures per trap and per week. For mass trapping, traps should be placed throughout the plots.
SYMPTOMS AND DAMAGES
Presence of fissures and bulges on the bark as a result of galleries that have been perforated by the larva, which block the bleeding of the sap.
The existence of accumulations of excrement and silk threads that are external and a brown colour. They are removed by the larva and accumulated at the entry of the gallery. These prevent both the sunlight and natural enemies of Euzophera pinguis larvae from entering. To recognise them, just raise the bark on the areas with presence of excrements and sawdust. Continue excavating along the gallery until the larva or pupa is found.
Discolouration of the leaves in branches attacked by the insect. This symptom is especially severe at the tip of the highest branches. However, as the attack develops, this discolouration appears on the rest of the tree.
Strong defoliation of the branches that are already infested, which usually means that the branch has dried up. In the case of young olive trees, this can be mortal. The mortality rate is very high in young olive trees between 4 and 10 years old.
Euzophera pinguis attacks mainly healthy trees. The first visible signs in a tree that has been attacked are not very obvious, so they are not noticeable at first.
In general, the only sign that the farmer notices before the first dry branches appear, is the larvae that are in the cuts of the branches, which are exposed after pruning or in the fissures caused by removing the suckers.
With the exception of the winter months, this pest can be found at any time throughout the year and in all and every one of its developmental stages: larva, butterfly, eggs and adults. This makes it very difficult to establish a plan of action against this moth. In addition, it grows depending on the temperature. That is why the olive areas of Cordoba and Malaga are infested with this Lepidoptera all year round. This is due to the extinction of its natural enemies by uncontrolled and mass use of pesticides.
If specialists or farmers use the traps and pheromones correctly, as previously described, especially during the early stages when adults of the first generation appear, then this monitoring system is very effective. A very low level of damage, mainly on organic land, has been demonstrated. A level of control of more than 95% is very common, especially in large areas of crops.
A limiting factor of this system could be when there are small plots distributed all around and the neighbours have a high level of infestation of this pest.
Despite some important basic rules for an effective monitoring of Euzophera pinguis, every farmer or specialist has to find their own system of control to achieve it. They can experiment with this system, even establishing their own tolerance thresholds.
FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THE NUMBER OF TRAPS NEEDED
The pest population, the bordering crops, level of control required, etc….
One important factor is the size of the crops. In small and irregular crops, a greater number of traps are required than in larger and more uniform plots.
Another important factor is the distance between plots that have the same pest. In cases like this, the borders of the plots must be reinforced, so it could be necessary to place up to 20 traps per hectare or even more for mass trapping.
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