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Newsletter > CP Daily: Friday October 19, 2018
CP Daily: Friday October 19, 2018
Published 23:28 on October 19, 2018 / Last updated at 23:28 on October 19, 2018 / Newsletter / No Comments
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Gross misconduct: Revelation of "misleading" EU carbon trading data ruffles market
Data showing record open interest on EU carbon allowance futures and options this year is misleading, Carbon Pulse has learned, with the potential volume to be delivered later this year far below what one exchange is currently reporting, leading to anger amongst some market participants.
Pressure mounts on GCF board as tense meeting heads into final day
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) board wrangled for hours on Friday as nations debated whether to give climate aid to an oil-rich Gulf state.
California's ARB amends November carbon auction to add 1.2 mln V16s
The California Air Resources Board (ARB) on Friday revised its November auction to include an additional 1.2 million Vintage 2016 allowances that had previously been omitted.
California carbon market reform delay due to price band questions, politics -sources
California's Air Resources Board (ARB) postponed its approval of cap-and-trade amendments this week as it grapples with a flood of industry questions about proposed price band levels and political issues tied to the midterm elections, regulatory sources said.
Maine environmental groups say cross-border hydro line could increase NE emissions
An international hydroelectric project set to deliver clean energy to Massachusetts should not proceed, because it may actually contribute to increased GHG emissions in the northeast US, according to a new report commissioned by three Maine environmental groups.
EU Market: EUAs hold above trend support, near €20 despite 3% weekly loss
EUAs ended slightly lower on Friday but held above key trend support and near €20 to post a small weekly loss.
Australia offset issuance drops to 37k
Australia's Clean Energy Regulator issued a below-average 37,185 carbon credits this week, but noted a small uptick in new project registration ahead of the next ERF auction in December.
CN Markets: Pilot market data for week ending Oct. 19, 2018
Below is a table of the closing prices, ranges and volumes for China's regional pilot carbon markets this week. All prices are in RMB, and volumes in tonnes of CO2e. Data sourced from local exchanges.
ICYM – FROM CF2018
CARBON FORWARD 2018: Switzerland lines up first Paris-era carbon trades
Switzerland will start buying its first international credits next year to help meet its emission goal under the Paris Agreement, marking one of the first trades under the pact, an official said Thursday at the Carbon Forward 2018 conference in London.
BITE-SIZED UPDATES FROM AROUND THE WORLD
Still rising – China's Q3 GDP growth slowed down, government data shows, but fossil fuel use kept rising as has been the trend all year long, although at a slightly slower rate. Total power generation rose 4.6% in September y/y and has increased 7.4% year-to-date, the National Bureau of Statistics said. Thermal power generation rose 3.7% y/y and has grown 6.9% ytd, likely pushing China's energy-related CO2 emissions higher, even though renewable and nuclear generation also increased.
Efficiency deficiency – A much larger investment in deployment of existing energy efficiency technologies and stronger policy measures would enable major progress towards meeting the Paris Agreement's climate goals, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA). The report lays out an "efficient world scenario" to help energy-related emissions peak in 2020 and then fall significantly, finding that these goals would require annual investments of $584 billion through 2025 and rising to $1.3 trillion each year from 2026-2040. However, the IEA warned that the expansion of energy conservation policies has actually slowed, with efficiency investments only increasing by 3% to $236 bln last year. Additionally, global energy intensity – an efficiency metric based on energy used per unit of GDP – fell by its smallest amount since 2010 this past year. (Axios)
Drive it faster – Britain should ban gasoline and diesel fueled cars by 2032 to speed up a shift toward zero-emissions vehicles, a panel of lawmakers from the main parties in Parliament said. According to Bloomberg, the Business Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee in the House of Commons said the government should implement the ban by 2032, eight years earlier than the current target, and that failing to do so would undermine promises to reduce air pollution by over two thirds by 2050.
Just you wait – Saskatchewan will have to wait until 2019 for the province's Appeals Court to hear its constitutional challenge to the Canadian federal government's carbon tax. According to Saskatchewan's Environment Minister Dustin Duncan, Ottawa had asked for more time in the case, causing the delay. The minister also questioned why the feds cannot wait until a ruling is made until Ottawa imposes its 'backstop' carbon price of C$20 on the province beginning in January. (Calgary Herald)
Cabin pressure – The National Airlines Council of Canada on Friday sent a letter to three federal ministries cautioning the government about the effect its 'backstop' carbon levy would cause to revenues as well as marginal domestic routes. Airlines will be required to pay the levy – starting at C$20 next year – within provinces that fall under the federal pricing system, with Ottawa slated to work on a system for interprovincial flights. However, lobby group president Massimo Bergamini told The Canadian Press that a higher Ontario aviation fuel tax would combine with the carbon tax to drive up the cost of a flight by as much as $45 for a family of four by 2022 in the province, with resulting higher fares potentially pushing more Canadians to US airports and airlines. Additionally, he said carriers may have to cut the number of flights on marginal routes, including in the country's remote north. Instead, the council is advocating a federal system similar to cap-and-trade where carriers could buy and sell credits from other industries.
Do chime in – The Ontario government is requesting public consultation in developing its "made-in-Ontario" climate plan due for release later this fall. The government said that areas of focus in the plan will include understanding the impacts of climate change across a variety of sectors, creating measures to reduce GHGs, and utilising private finance to drive innovative climate solutions, including an "emissions reductions fund" for technology-based solutions. Comments can be submitted anonymously, with the consultation running until Nov. 16.
Fifteen I'm alright with you – US EPA Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler believes his department has the legal authority to expand sales of 15% ethanol fuel blends (E15), he told reporters at Washington DC food waste event on Thursday. Wheeler also said he hoped the oil industry – which has pledged to file lawsuits against the EPA if it finalises the regulation next year – would join the agency in making the Renewable Fuels Program (RFS) "function better with the American public". However, some experts and stakeholders have questioned whether the EPA has the ability to make that change without Congressional action. (Politico)
Can hardly bear it – A coastal town in the Russian Arctic has been "besieged by hungry polar bears" who are spending more time on land as sea ice melts due to climate change, reports the Daily Telegraph. At least six polar bears were roaming the streets of Dikson, the most northern inhabited place in Russia, during late September when sea ice is at its smallest of the year. A Russian polar bear expert said that the bears haven't adapted to the rapidly-changing variations in the conditions of the ice, meaning that the town will remain "at risk" until the bears go back out on the sea ice, which is not expected to form until mid-November. (Carbon Brief)
15 minutes of Dirk – IETA boss Dirk Forrister was interviewed by CNN Switzerland for a segment covering carbon markets, the Paris Agreement, Trump, a European carbon floor price, the Swiss-EU link, China's ETS, net zero 2050, and other riveting topics from our industry.
And finally… Plant-based diets ain't nuthing ta f*** wit – Meat-based diets have been under heavy scrutiny lately, as the IPCC's Special Report on 1.5C called for a managed reduction in demand for meat and dairy to increase humanity's chances of staying below that critical temperature threshold. Building on that, a new report from the Changing Markets Foundation, Mighty Earth, and Compassion in World Farming has pointed the finger at governments in many EU countries and the US for failing to tackle meat overconsumption to meet climate targets. In contrast, the report does highlight positive market trends like the growth of plant-based foods and innovation in meat alternatives. One recent example of this comes from California-based Impossible Foods, which teamed up with US fast food chain White Castle to sell plant-based sliders nationwide. To help promote the product, three members of hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan joined the companies for a four-part "out there" web series modelled off '60s and '70s sci-fi television shows. The three members, who have all promoted plant-based lifestyles for decades, orbit the earth in their spaceship "Wu-F-O", eat the new Impossible Sliders, and answer questions left by fans. Episodes One and Two are now available for your viewing pleasure. (Sustainable Brands)
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Contact your state Senator to support Senate Bill 93 TODAY!
Tomorrow, the Georgia Senate will consider and vote on Senate Bill 93. SB 93, sponsored by state Senator Bill Heath (R-31), would allow hunters in Georgia to use lawfully-possessed suppressors on firearms while hunting.
Currently, more than half of the states across the country permit hunters to use suppressors while hunting. There are numerous benefits associated with the use of suppressors, including increased accuracy due to reduced recoil and muzzle blast, protection from hearing damage and reduced noise pollution. Noise complaints are being used more frequently as an excuse to close shooting ranges, informal shooting areas and hunting lands throughout the country. Increased use of suppressors will help to eliminate many of these complaints and protect hunting and shooting areas well into the future.
Please contact your state Senator TODAY and urge him or her to support SB 93. Contact information for your state Senator can be found here.


Obviously, you have seen the breathtaking art pieces designed by some master of arts. Art and beauty are everywhere; the only thing we need is to discover them. Decorating the space by broken glass piece, metals and paintings have now become a common norm. But have you seen any art piece in the form of log?
Yes, piling logs can be a form of art. It sounds absurd but when the design by the logs come into a final stage, it gives a stunning look to space. There are even some art galleries that have showcased the varieties of the logs in different colors and have showcased the amazing log arts.
The final touch of the art totally depends on the size and color of the log and the type of the wood that we use.
Turning a trash into treasure is quite common, but it carries a great message. The contemporary art may aware about recycling. So, why not to turn something into an art that have been left useless.
It is incredible to think turning anything into an art, but arranging huge piles of logs into a beautiful picture is a serious artwork. Unfortunately, these beautiful arts gradually disappear in the winter months. Here is the work created by artists that have been ranked at the top 10 list of Stillunfold. Drop your comments below if these works have inspired you to create your own log masterpiece?
These artists have brought thrown away wood back to nature, by piling logs together using different shades, textures and shades.
Wow! What an incredible piece of art it is. The logs are cleverly collected and designed back into a tree form. It is such an appealing way to reconstruct the thing they came from!
Well, it seems that this piece took a long time to plan and put together. The different types of wood are cut in different shapes and then crafted with minute details. The moon in the right seems glowing. The different shapes of wood are clinged together in a beautiful way.
3. And the Wood Igloo!!
Sounds strange? While this design is more basic than any innovation but it is sure that it is no less interesting than the other ones. It might be practical to use in the winter, but unfortunately it will be vanish in winter days. Wondering how did they get this woodpile so accurately round? A great accumulation of logs strung together to form an igloo looks amazing anywhere. What you think?
Wow! That's look so interesting! Seeing so many logs arrange to create a spiral is really amazing. The flow of the water travelling along the wood and that ripple of the water sounds cool at night.
Have you ever thought that the log piles have enough potential to become something so artistic and eye watching? That cute piggy can be crafted anywhere to grace the area.
Can you imagine how much time and the amount of work did the artists utilized to create this masterpiece? Although each pile is temporary but this is worth capturing. Sadly, each pile would be disassembled when there is need of logs for fireplaces.
Beautiful it is! The base of the log is colored with myriads of shades, and is arranged in a way to form a road. Don't know how this type of creativity comes into the mind. But absolutely it is a masterpiece.
It is really impressive! See how beautifully the logs are piled together to create a firewood tower, and the lightings from inside is adding another charm to the design. Obviously, it needs an unbelievable amount of skill and time to create such masterpiece.
This fascinating masterpiece must have taken a long time and deep creativity. Who could think of using the logs into decorative manner while creating a wood house and wheels with the shaded logs?
Now, that is called as a masterpiece – that's a frightening and accurate depiction of the Norway King and Queen. Although, this will also be demolished in the winters till then you can enjoy clicking pictures over here.


Mourinho praised both football stars and said had there been only one of them at a given time, he could have bagged 10 Golden Boots.
Ronaldo had snatched a bad pass from Kevin Malcuit and looked to have a perfect scoring chance when Meret darted out to challenge him and he went down, although it was not clear whether the goalkeeper actually touched him.
Fabio Carille revealed that a conversation with Brazil legend Ronaldo helped convince him to return to Corinthians as head coach.
Figo believes France's World Cup hero and Paris Saint-Germain striker Kylian Mbappe is as good as teenage Cristiano Ronaldo and the Brazilian Ronaldo.
World Cup winner Ronaldo has reached a deal to buy 51% of La Liga club Valladolid a regional daily reported on Saturday, citing "sources close to the operation."
The 33-year-old five-time Ballon d'Or winner said he was eager to give his best with the new club.
Brazil were knocked out of the World Cup after losing 1-2 to Belgium.
With Andres Iniesta having already announced his retirement, we have a look at others who may well have played their last games at the World Cup.
Uruguay have never defeated Portugal at the World Cup.
Brazil vs Costa Rica, held on June 22 was the most talked about match followed by Germany vs South Korea.
Ronaldo carried Portugal through their first two group games, scoring four goals.
Portugal will take on Morocco in their second match of Group B.
Music icon Robbie Williams Russian soprano Aida Garifullina will lead the musical extravaganza on June 14.


From left: Charles Mok, Tanya Chan, Shirley Yam, Maurice Chan, Angie Te. Photo: Charles Mok handout.
The groups said they had previously written to Secretary for Justice Teresa Cheng, who chairs the Law Reform Commission, to ask for a time extension but were rejected.
Activists, politicians and scholars have called for an archives law for more than a decade, arguing that it would help preserve key documents in Hong Kong's history and increase the government's accountability. They have also criticised the existing access to information regime as inadequate and urged reform.
HKJA Vice-chairperson Shirley Yam said that the two proposals will have a direct impact on the work of journalists, and asked for more public scrutiny.
The coalition has launched an online petition to call for an extension, and will hold a public forum next month on the topic. The groups have invited a representative from the Law Reform Commission to attend, Yam said.
Lawyer Maurice Chan from AAG said that it was rare for the government to put out two consultation papers on the same day. The two documents totalled 453 pages, and the three-month consultation period spanned two public holidays, Chan said.
"The [Law Reform Commission] working group spent five years conducting its study. Concerned members of the public need more time to digest the technical details in the report," he said.
Lawmakers Tanya Chan and Charles Mok also pointed to inadequacies in the existing system, such as the government refusing to release statistics on a primary school public exam and occupancy rates of private hospitals.


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LAUSD Schools are closed, but Communities In Schools of Los Angeles is not
Communities In Schools of Los Angeles (CISLA) is usually in schools working towards our mission to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. We provide one-on-one case management for nearly 1,000 at-risk students and their families.
We've had to change the way we approach that mission.
During the COVID-19 crisis, we have shifted our attention to focus on providing additional wraparound support centered around conducting almost daily check-ins, communicating relevant information, and providing basic needs to students and their families.
As you probably know, in high-poverty neighborhoods, LAUSD schools serve a much larger purpose than just providing an education. Nearly 85% of LAUSD students live at or below the poverty line. That being said, as one could imagine, in Los Angeles, a lot of schools are a primary source of food, shelter, medical care, psychological services, and physical safety for some of our most vulnerable students. Schools also provide families with resources, information and translation services.
Now that schools are closed, this pandemic has revealed just how vulnerable students are when they don't have the ability to go to school. It's also revealing how high the actual costs are when it comes to meeting these non academic needs.
Communities In Schools of Los Angeles is working very hard, everyday, to try to meet those non academic needs while schools are closed.
If you want to help us help our students and their families, please visit CISLosAngeles.org and donate today.
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Perils and Pitfalls of Parallel Proceedings
By Kevin Gres, Esq., Law Offices of Kevin Gres
Johnny Doe is being sued. As your initial discovery deadlines slowly approach, you call up Johnny to discuss crafting responses. After a few minutes of pleasantries, Johnny tells you he was recently indicted by a grand jury and has a court date quickly approaching. Talk about throwing a monkey wrench into the mix. How does this impact your case? What are the larger ramifications?
You do not need to be a criminal defense attorney well-versed in constitutional criminal procedure to navigate this. Any civil attorney, no matter the area of practice, should be aware of the perils and pitfalls of parallel civil and criminal proceedings. This article will provide you with a brief overview of the issues and some of the remedies when confronted with this situation.
There are two major obstacles in parallel proceedings, the first, unwittingly waiving Johnny's Fifth Amendment rights in your civil case, and two, having Johnny make incriminating admissions even if his rights are not legally waived.
Johnny can unwittingly waive his right to remain silent if he answers a complaint with specific denials under oath, responds to special interrogatories, requests for admissions, or even requests for production. If you don't spot the issue early enough, trying to assert the Fifth Amendment midway through the discovery process will likely result in a successful motion to compel by opposing counsel. If waived, opposing counsel will have a field day at Johnny's deposition, and there will be very little you can do about it.
But you're smarter than that. You caught it early, and Johnny will not be waiving his rights. Pat yourself on the back…but don't assume you're out of the minefield quite yet.
Many experienced civil attorneys believe that Johnny should be as cooperative as possible without waiving. This is risky. Any admission made in the civil case, whether it results in a waiver or not, can still likely be used in a future criminal proceeding. Under state and federal rules of evidence, a defendant's statement is admissible even if the defendant asserts his Fifth Amendment right and elects not to testify at his trial. If the statement is relevant and has proper foundation, the jury will hear it and the damage will be done.
So, you invoke, and you invoke hard. You will quickly realize invoking is not all it is cracked up to be. Depending on the nature of the case, successfully invoking your client's Fifth Amendment rights can prevent you from meaningfully defending your client from the plaintiff's claims. Discovery comes to a screeching halt. Invoking could even result in an adverse inference jury instruction at trial. Your client is on the horns of a rather prickly dilemma. What to do?
Courts are sensitive to the unfairness of Johnny having to choose between his freedom and his fortune, his rights and his riches. Johnny should petition the court to stay his civil case until the criminal case resolves. That would allow him to assert his Fifth Amendment right in his criminal case without sacrificing his defense in his civil case. Generally, courts look at six factors to determine whether a stay is appropriate, including: whether there is a common core of facts between the two actions, the interests of the plaintiff and burden on defendant, the interests of the court and public, and the status of the criminal case.
If the stay is denied, Johnny should at least request a temporary stay on discovery. If that is denied, a protective order on the discovery should be requested, so if prosecutors attempt to gain access to the discovery in the criminal case, his defense attorney will have a stronger objection.
There are many reasons why prosecutors love parallel proceedings. Civil discovery is often more encompassing than criminal discovery laws. There are depositions, admissions – things prosecutors can only dream of. In my time as a prosecutor, I would often dig through civil discovery, pull domestic violence restraining order transcripts from Stanley Mosk on my lunch hour, and subpoena all kinds of admissions. It was like taking a metal detector to a busy beach on a summer day.
No area of law is immune from potential criminal action. Often, a civil case is a treasure trove of incriminating information for law enforcement and prosecutors. But recognizing the issue and having the legal tools to navigate parallel proceedings gives you and Johnny a substantially higher likelihood of success in both of his cases.
Kevin is a native Angeleno and attorney specializing in criminal defense. He worked as a prosecutor in Los Angeles, and then for the Law Offices of Donald Etra. Kevin now represents individuals and corporations under investigation or accused of crimes, including misdemeanors and felonies (emphasis on white collar/fraud), both state and federal.
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HOW A SAG STRIKE COULD IMPACT L.A.
By Kevin Klowden (Milken Institute) and Elisabeth Browne (Cornerstone Research)
The damage to the economy of Los Angeles from a potential strike by the Screen Actors Guild is undeniable, yet extremely difficult to estimate. The range of estimates of the impact of the Writer's Guild strike that ended a year ago varied from $380 million to $2.5 billion. Kevin Klowden of the Milken Institute wrote a seminal study of the impact of that strike: "The Writers' Strike of 2007-2008: The Economic Impact of Digital Distribution." Here Mr. Klowden discusses how a SAG strike might affect our already battered entertainment economy.
The Current SAG Stalemate
On June 30, 2008, the contract established between the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) expired. Although there was plenty of coverage in the news media concerning another major Hollywood strike so soon after the completion of the October 2007 to February 2008 Writer's Guild strike, no actual strike occurred. Because the SAG leadership could not reach a consensus on the actual need for a strike, none took place. However, instead of being eliminated, the uncertainty over a possible strike has instead been extended all the way into 2009, with only ongoing negotiations and the continued lack of a SAG consensus preventing the occurrence of another strike.
Estimating the Harm from a SAG Strike – the Damage has Already Begun
In examining the economic impact of an actors' strike, there are many factors to consider. First and foremost, the strike's impact on the economy cannot simply be measured by a short-term loss of television advertising revenue. Losses from the writers' strike affected television revenues long after the strike itself was resolved, including cancelled shows, shortened seasons, a lack of new pilots being filmed or picked up, and consistently reduced ratings for all networks, even once the new season resumed. In addition, key economic multipliers should be considered. Not only did people at the studios and production companies lose earnings, but so too did the numerous independent contractors, artists, construction workers, clothing manufacturers, caterers, drivers, cleaning crews and others who directly or indirectly earn revenue from film and television production. The hospitality industry, financing and bonding firms, local restaurants, and other professionals also felt the impact. And though many workers were able to find other jobs, they displaced other people who also could have done the same jobs. The Milken Institute estimated the impact on California alone to be worth $2.1 billion in lost economic growth as measured in terms of Gross State Product.
In addition, the overall economic condition of both the state and the country must be addressed. The Milken Institute report suggested that the writers' strike actually helped to push California into recession in early 2008, ahead of the rest of the country. Currently, the United States is in the deepest recession in decades. This creates possible differences in consequences for a strike in 2009. Overall economic losses are actually likely to be lower in the short term because advertising revenues are already down and the major studios and networks have already engaged in non-strike related layoffs. However, the lingering consequences of any strike will be longer, as it is much less likely that workers who lose their jobs because of a strike will regain them when the strike ends. Finally, in examining the length and scope of the strike's impact, we need to understand that both the long period from the end of the actors' contract on June 30, 2008 to today and the fractured negotiations have created a very different circumstance than that with the writers. The very threat of a strike has already led to economic losses that continue as producers, firms, and studios act cautiously to mitigate the effect of any potential strike. Last Spring and Summer, many productions were either rushed or delayed in anticipation of a possible strike. As no settlement with SAG has yet occurred, many network and studio executives remain more cautious when committing to major projects. Costs from these delayed, postponed, and diverted projects have likely already run into the tens of millions of dollars.
The Strike Dynamics of SAG Differ from the Writers Guild
The most difficult element in estimating the potential economic effects of a strike is the breadth of participation by actors and the subsequent impact on not only the entertainment industry, but all of the other local industries tied into it. In order to understand how the mechanics of a SAG strike would be different than the one by the writers, it is worth examining how the Screen Actors Guild functions.
In theory, the Screen Actors Guild has a wider overall reach than the Writers Guild. Since the 1988 strike, it has expanded to include the Screen Extras Guild in addition to entering into an alliance with the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA). These two changes have resulted in a very different dynamic as to how the guild operates. While many writers are not active at any given time, most members of the Writers Guild earn a living from their writing, either through active projects or through residuals from past work. Because of the presence of so many part-time actors in the current SAG ranks, the vast majority of the guild's members do not actually make a living from acting. This makes it far harder to unify the interests of the guild, and raises the concern that many more actors would be willing to strike (compared with writers), as their short term losses would be minimal when compared to any potential gains they might make if the strike gained them better terms and they then "made it big" by landing a major role.
On the other hand, AFTRA already has a working contract with the producers that it ratified separate from SAG, which calls into question how widespread an actors' strike truly would be. In addition, the extended length of negotiations has resulted in a number of smaller side deals that have been reached to act as buffers to any potential strike. These "in-kind" deals generally state that producers will retroactively honor any final SAG-AMPTP deal when it is reached, thus exempting them from any direct strike action. Also, because SAG is the only major union not to reach an agreement, chances of solidarity from other unions, such as in 1988, is less likely.
Given the actions already taken by so many players to minimize the consequences of a strike, and the question of breadth of participation, unless the actors' strike is significantly longer than the writers' strike, the economic consequences are likely to be smaller. It is very difficult to estimate exact numbers until it is clear who is participating, but a strike of equal length might only have half the impact of the writers' strike. Still, based on prior estimates of the damage caused by the writer's strike, the impact of a prolonged strike could still be easily over $1 billion in an already battered Southern California economy.
Note: Assistance with this article was also provided by Elisabeth Browne and Sean Twersky of Cornerstone Research, a firm specializing in economic damages analysis and support of experts in complex business litigation. Opinions expressed in this article are those of Mr. Klowden and do not represent positions taken by Cornerstone Research or the Milken Institute.
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Good Behavior: Season 1/ Episode 4 "Your Mama Had A Hard Night" – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
ByAmari Posted on November 23, 2016 July 22, 2018 Updated on July 22, 2018
Review (with Spoilers)
Main Plot (with Commentary)
Topic 1: The Best Friend and The Ex (Tiffany [Collette Wolfe], Kyle [Justin Bruening(?)], and Letty)
Topic 2: Me and My Boy (Letty and Jacob)
Topic 3: Momma Don't Fail Me Now (Letty and Estelle)
Collected Quote(s)
Letty's Foundation Fleshed Out
The focus is on Letty's relationships, or lack thereof, with her family and old friends. That and how as much as she may seem like the root of her own problems, that isn't 100% true.
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After a whirlwind of information in episode 1, it was nice to have an episode rooted in getting to know Letty's friends, what the relationship with her mom is really like, as well as see her interact with her son. For while I've come to enjoy her time with Javier by her side, at the end of the day this show is riding off of Michelle Dockery and how familiar we are with her. So, with that said, let's talk about "Your Mama Had A Hard Night."
It has been 14 years since High School and around as much time since Letty's wife went to hell. All thanks to, well at least partly thanks to, Tiffany introducing Letty to Sean. A Black meth head and porn star freak. But while Tiffany carries this guilt she also carries some distrust. If only because her husband Kyle and Letty used to have sex and he still has a thing for her.
Though it should be noted, Tiffany and Letty seemingly were friends before Kyle and Letty were a thing. However, with Kyle giving Letty a job so she has something to fight her court-mandated permanent restraining order, then Kyle doing heroin and Letty taking the fall, so begins the beginning of the end. For, to add icing on the cake, as Letty has more and more flashbacks of Javier, she finds herself kissing Kyle and Tiffany walks in on them. Leading to one serious tongue lashing stopped by a surprising person.
I honestly think a flashback is in order. I need, and I think you do too, to see a young Letty before she fell. For with her, and Kyle to a point, noting how good she was in English and how she may have been wild but perhaps had her stuff together, we need to see her fall from grace. On top of that, we need to meet Sean. Not just because that is likely Jacob's dad, but being that he was the catalyst for all of this, I gotta know what this man had that turned her out and royally screwed up her life?
To some surprise, Letty's mom Estelle (Lusia Strus) didn't end up spending all of that $20,000. In fact, she claims she spent $1,000 on clothes for Jacob and then the rest is tucked away for college. Yet don't think she is a saint yet. She decides, as she goes to have fun with her boyfriend, she'll let Letty see her son for $1,000 a visit. She doesn't care where or how she gets the money, just that it is given upon arrival.
With that, Letty and Jacob get to spend the day together – at Estelle's house. There we learn about how Jacob likes to build things, how he has been lied to about his father being a veteran, and how he has been prepped to be disappointed by his mom.
Actor Nyles Steele, who plays Jacob, works quite well off of Dockery. The mix of familiarity with who she is, with the unfamiliarity of her not often being around, is played on well. Not to the point you wanna cry for the boy, but I think the foundation has been laid for you to see and want Letty to find some way to fight and win her son back. Especially since Jacob, admittedly, is your usual, I'm doing fine without you but would still love to have you are type.
It wasn't made clear till this episode what Letty and Estelle's relationship was like. The first time we met her it seemed like she hated her daughter all her life and is taking care of her child because she doesn't want him to become like her. Well, that impression is partly true. As we see, be it the tattoo of Letty's feet and name on her back, them having the ability to have dinner together, albeit one which leads to a verbal confrontation, or her defending her against Tiffany's tongue lash, it shows there is love for Letty. The only issue is she can't trust her. She probably stole from her and with that, you can understand why she is perfectly cool with Letty dropping off huge sums of money. Not just in terms of child support but also to pay Estelle back for pain and suffering.
But, unfortunately for Letty, as much as she and her mom get along this episode, and apparently Letty got money to spare for some kind of rent, she isn't allowed to stay with her. Thus leading her to call Javier and rejoin him. For Tiffany don't want her in her house, Estelle can't have her in her house, so she goes to the one person who does want her company. Even if it comes with unfavorable rules.
Once again, we have a relationship ripe for a flashback. For like with Tiffany and Kyle, don't you wanna see how Estelle and Letty's relationship went south?
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Who is that actor that played Kyle Dash? He looks so familiar and I can't find him anywhere.
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I've been searching for awhile for this answer. I thought I saw him on Desperate Housewives, but combing through IMDB I couldn't get a match.
Possibly Justin Bruening? I'm basing this off a IMDB posting and him looking similar. That and memories of Switched At Bith.
Yes! Thank you.
Colleen O'Leary says:
He played Jamie Martin on All My Children for 8 years.
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Justin bruening he was in knightrider 2008 Mike knight Jr he's also stared in greys anatomy as matt taylor the paramedic, switched at birth as chef jeff, all my children as Jamie Martin, ringer as Tyler barret and has appeared in csi Miami,new York if this will help you find who justin bruening is .
The main issue was he wasn't listed as a cast member in IMDB.


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Predictive justice: failsafe or false promise?
How we use the legal system is changing in the face of increasingly complex legal norms, both from a volume and technical perspective. Judicial risks are only some of the risks (both negative and positive) for which legal practitioners are solicited by their clients and these risks can be decisive in terms of the penalties or compensation they generate. Consequently, if the use of technology reduces such risk (or increases our chances in the case of an opportunity), it is only to be welcomed. Risk reduction is the promise of predictive justice, the principle of which is to assess "with as little uncertainty as possible what jurisdiction X's response will be when confronted with case Y", based on an analysis of available data, according to Professor Bruno Dondero, Head of the School of Law at the University of the Sorbonne. But is predictive justice really an effective instrument for creating greater legal certainty? An article by Professor Christophe Roquilly*, Director of the LegalEDHEC Research Centre
Written on 02 Oct 2019.
Justice in trial
The determination (or perception, depending on the case) of justice in France is rarely inspiring. The European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice's (CEPEJ) 2018 report on the efficiency and quality of justice in France is not particularly flattering, be it in terms of the resources available to the courts, the lack of speed at which rulings are handed down from the courts of first instance (potentially due to the aforementioned lack of resources?), the online accessibility of information for litigants, or the court rulings themselves. The Odoxa survey conducted in May 2019 at the request of the National Bar Council is no more reassuring: it shows, among other things, that seven in ten French citizens find it increasingly difficult to access the legal system.
What's more, a survey carried out in June 2019 by the Institut français d'opinion publique (Ifop) on behalf of French legal tech company Doctrine shows that the majority of lawyers want a legal system that functions better and is more transparent.
Many people rightly insist that we should have full access to rulings handed down by the French courts. This view is underpinned by Articles 20 and 21 of the French Digital Republic Act of 7 October 2016, which state that court decisions must be made available to the public free of charge. Transparency, however ‒ sometimes elevated to the status of dogma ‒ only makes sense if it is of social and/or economic benefit. Is this really the case here, when the 'public' ‒ in the broadest sense of the term ‒ does not necessarily have the ability to decipher court rulings? Still, such transparency is useful to the legal professions and to certain legal tech companies: court rulings are their bread and butter. To conduct proper 'analysis', they need enough data. And data is a prerequisite to any form of 'predictive justice', if this is, indeed, the correct term.
Legal forecast
Other than economic actors, who base their strategies or tactical decisions on legal uncertainties (or, at least, legal ambiguities, or 'grey areas' that can create opportunities for them), legal certainty is an important principle in any legal system, as it protects citizens from the negative side-effects of the law (for example, complex or changing norms). The judicial power has a considerable role to play here. As Maria-Isabel Garido Gomez, lecturer in Philosophy of Law at the University of Alcalá, Spain, puts it:
"The central elements of legal certainty as a basis for the predictability of judicial decisions are legal certainty and efficiency, as well as the absence of arbitrariness."
Court rulings must, therefore, have certain "predictability" characteristics. When courts (or sometimes the same court) deliver contradictory or extremely different rulings, even though the factual and legal data are similar or even identical, legal certainty is lost, as is the trust of litigants and their counsels.
The term "predictive" justice can lead to misunderstandings.
Is predictive justice synonymous with legal certainty, then? To us, as it is for Magistrate Emmanuel Poinas, author of Le tribunal des algorithmes: juger à l'ère des nouvelles technologies**, 'forecast' is preferable to 'prediction'.
While the Larousse dictionary of the French language considers the words 'prediction' and 'forecast' to be synonymous, it accords a meaning to 'prediction' that 'forecast' does not have – 'divination', 'oracle', 'prophecy'. Referring to 'predictive' justice may make sense from a marketing point of view, but it adds nothing to the usefulness of analytical tools in matters of jurisprudence. Predictive justice is not a fortune-telling machine.
If the quantity of data (in this case, court decisions) is sufficient, then data analytics, with its computational capacity, presents us with an opportunity to identify court trends based on a number of parameters. Companies (or their advisors) ‒ because they are primarily the ones who will have access to and use such tools ‒ will thus be able to determine their level of legal or judicial risk, make an informed decision (to file a plea, seek an alternative method of conflict resolution, proceed with or withdraw a legal action) and make any necessary adjustments, in consultation with their counsels.
By analysing the past, such algorithms "augment the present", to quote French magistrate Antoine Garapon, without really predicting the future. As we will see, they may even narrow down future options. 'Augmented justice' (we far prefer this term) is also useful for judges.
France's Court of Cassation is currently launching a project to use artificial intelligence to identify jurisprudential divergence in its own decisions or those of the Courts of Appeal. In terms of legislative and regulatory power, it finds it incontrovertibly useful to be able to identify whether the legislation that judges must enforce meets its objectives of incentivisation or deterrence. Presented in this way, the idea of 'augmented justice' is attractive. However, we must take into account the possibility that justice will be badly augmented (and thus diminished).
Ensuring that justice remains undiminished and unmanipulated
As mentioned, first, one must have a sufficiently sizeable, if not fully comprehensive, database of case law. However, Article 33 of the French Judicial Planning Act of 23 March 2019 has put limits on the completeness of the data that can be processed, insofar as the names of judges can be kept confidential to protect privacy or for reasons of security. They cannot under any circumstances be used "for the purpose or effect of evaluating, analysing, comparing or predicting their actual or supposed professional practices". The terms 'analysing' and 'comparing' may pose something of a problem here, as users of the justice system are legitimately allowed to identify the criteria on which a court bases its ruling one way or another (including the composition of the court itself).
Conversely, attaching performative goals to augmented justice (for judges) can lead to the diminishment of justice. The use of data analytics should not force a judge into accepting conventional thinking so as to be well rated, thus creating a culture of conformity and inertia. However, non-conformist views should still be backed up by solid argument. Consistency is not conformity but, in the end, what is sought is transparency of criteria and, hence, legal certainty.
To augment justice (and justices) using algorithms or multi-agent accelerators for data science (MAADs), the algorithms must be ethically unassailable and robust. Their neutrality and transparency, as well as their evaluation mechanisms, must be guaranteed. However, this begs the question as to who should provide the guarantee and how: the state, a third-party certifier, or the invisible hand of the market?
Augmented justice is seductive because of its usefulness under certain conditions, once we get over the idea that it is somehow divinatory in character. Shedding light on the present by better understanding the past, the legal system and those who work in it can help create a less worrisome future.
*Dean of Faculty and Research, Director of LegalEdhec and Co-Director LL.M Law & Tax Management
** Available in French and published by Éditions Berger Levrault, the title of the book translates as The court of algorithms: judging in the era of new technology.
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Deadly Smoke and a Door That Did Not Close
Good morning. It's Tuesday. We'll follow up on the fire in the Bronx, which began when a space heater burst into flames. We'll also look back at a devastating fire that this one brought to mind.
The 17 people who died in the fire on Sunday were killed by inhaling smoke, officials said on Monday as they pieced together how a fire that barely spread beyond a single apartment could be so deadly.
The origin of the fire appeared to be straightforward, officials said: a space heater that had been left running for days caught fire. Thick, black smoke poured into the hallway outside the apartment with the space heater because the door to the apartment had not closed by itself when the residents fled, as it was supposed to. The smoke spread through the 19-story building, displacing the oxygen that people needed to stay conscious.
As President Biden called Mayor Eric Adams to offer assistance, officials said that 15 people remained in critical condition. Adams revised the death count, saying officials believed 17 people had died, down from the 19 reported on Sunday. The medical examiner was working to reach relatives and confirm victims' identities by video, a change in procedure brought on by the coronavirus pandemic.
Daniel Nigro, the fire commissioner, said the fire had been confined to the hallway outside the apartment where it started. But the smoke that traveled through the building was what caused "the deaths and the serious injuries," he said. None appeared to have been caused by burns.
The building, considered a model of affordable housing when it opened in 1972, did not have a sprinkler system or outdoor fire escapes. It was equipped with smoke alarms that functioned on Sunday, although many residents said they ignored them because false alarms were common.
The mayor, in only his second week on the job, said officials would "double down" on efforts to raise awareness about the importance of closing doors during a fire. The building's residents did not shut the door behind them as they ran from the apartment. The door had a self-closing mechanism, as required by the city, but it malfunctioned.
Fire Department investigators tested most of the doors in the building in the course of their investigation on Sunday, a fire official said, and most were found to have automatically closed properly. But the door at the apartment where the fire started — and doors at a handful of other units — did not close as designed, the official said.
The building's owners said in an email that all of the doors were self-closing, as required. Maintenance staff members repaired a lock on the door where the fire started in July, and at the time, "the self-closing mechanism" was checked and found to operate properly, they said.
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Remembering another devastating fire
The fire on Sunday was the deadliest in New York since 1990 — a fire I wrote about. I couldn't think about it without calling Mireya Navarro, who was my eyes and ears for that story.
I was assigned to rewrite, which, in the days before smartphones and email and instant-messaging apps, meant talking by phone with colleagues who were on the scene and then constructing a story from the information and quotes they passed along. Mia, as she is known, was one of the Times reporters sent to the burned-out Happy Land Social Club.
It had been destroyed in a fire set by a 35-year-old man who had splashed gasoline in the doorway and struck a match. His former girlfriend was inside. She worked there, taking tickets and checking coats. They had been arguing. The bouncer had thrown him out. He walked to a service station, found a container, pumped a dollar's worth of gas into it and returned to Happy Land.
What I remembered was how, on the morning after the fire, Mia had gone to a school where the authorities laid out snapshots taken before the 87 bodies were sent to the morgue in Manhattan. "Relatives started pouring in, lining up, to look at photographs," she said. "I remember getting in line with them. I remember people running into friends who were coming out — they would run into someone who had recognized someone who had been identified, and everybody would explode in sobs."
Mia said she came away feeling she knew the victims, even though she had talked to their relatives only briefly that day. "I myself used to go to a lot of Latin clubs in Manhattan, so I knew the atmosphere," she said on Monday. "People may drink, they may hook up, but the main purpose is to dance and have a good time. These were people who didn't know what was happening with the fire because they were in the midst of that moment of joy."
I remember talking to her several times as she conveyed the information from her interviews that day. I wrote a story. So did she.
That night, something startling happened.
"I'm not one to have nightmares or a lot of dreams," Mia, now the editor in chief of Brennan en español at the Brennan Center for Justice in Manhattan, told me on Monday, "but after spending the day with the relatives, I woke up and what I heard was a chorus, almost like a church choir. I felt it was the souls of the people who had died trying to figure out what had happened."
The man charged with setting the Happy Land fire, Julio Gonzalez, was convicted and given 87 concurrent sentences of 25 years to life in prison. He died in 2016 in an upstate hospital, where he had been taken from prison.
"I got angry, the devil got to me, and I set the fire," he told detectives.
Durst dies, and his conviction could be thrown out
The strange life of Robert Durst, the errant and eccentric onetime heir to a New York real estate fortune, ended on Monday when he died at 78 in a California hospital. He had been serving a life sentence in the killing of a longtime confidante. But suspicions had trailed him from coast to coast for years, initially after his first wife disappeared following an argument and later after a neighbor was killed and his body dismembered.
Now his one conviction could be vacated because he died before his appeal could be heard.
Under California law, the state's Courts of Appeal can dismiss the appeal and order the trial court to set aside his September conviction, according to Laurie Levenson, a law professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and the author of a treatise on the state's criminal laws.
"The whole world knows the jury found Durst guilty," Professor Levenson said, "but that's not what the legal record will show. He didn't finish his appeal."
He was convicted of the murder of his confidante Susan Berman last September. His lawyer, Chip Lewis, said he soon tested positive for Covid-19 and was briefly put on a ventilator. Lewis said the virus had worsened Durst's existing medical problems.
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Dear Diary:
It was the early 1980s, and I was riding uptown with a friend on the Madison Avenue bus. She was trying to describe a new invention she had just seen at her office: Post-it Notes. They were sticky but didn't really stick to things, she said.
"They can easily be removed," she explained, "leaving no glue on the page."
I was slightly confused.
"Well, how do they stay on if they don't really have glue on them?" I asked.
Just then, a man who was sitting across from us got up from his seat, stuck a small square of yellow paper to the outside of my coat and sat back down.
I looked down and grabbed the piece of paper. Off it came.
Suddenly, I understood.
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IS A EURO-AUSSIE TOUR IN THE WORKS?
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By Torleif Sorenson on 3/18/15
The European Tour is reportedly negotiating with the PGA of Australia to collaborate on professional golf tournaments.
This is according to the sometimes-excitable Derek Lawrenson, writing for the UK Daily Mail. Lawrenson says that negotiations have reached "an advance stage" for an unknown level of agreement. One possibility is that the two organizations could co-sanction important tournaments, such the Australian Masters, Australian Open, and the Australian PGA Championship. This could be a significant boost for the European Tour in November and December, when the schedule gets rather light. It would also benefit golf in Australia, since the Euro Tour schedule did not include a visit in 2014.
A formal affiliation with the Euro Tour could help make attracting sponsors and touring pros from all over the world easier. The young American sensation Jordan Spieth having won the 2014 Australian Open at the Australian Golf Club outside Sydney this past November. Spieth's wonderful performance made for interesting television viewing in the United States over Thanksgiving weekend and provided a refreshing alternative to the avalanche of American football.
At the other end of the scale is the reported (but seemingly less likely) idea of an outright merger between the European Tour and the PGA of Australia.
This development comes less than a year after the European Tour turned down a proposed merger with the Florida-based PGA Tour.
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I'm glad that they added the extra perk and I also heard about new weapons. But are they missing anything that it should be in the game?
Do you mean Modern Warfare 2? It's not a CoD game anymore btw, but yeah, I'm pumped for November 10, and where'd you hear the thing about the extra perk? I guess they're going to have Canada in the game too, judging by all the weapons from Canada.
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Jason Bateman, Colin Farrell eye Horrible Bosses
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Wed, 12 May 2010 11:30AM
Jason Bateman and Colin Farrell are in negotiations to star in Horrible Bosses, a workplace murder comedy in development for years at New Line.
The movie centers on three best friends who, frustrated by their jobs, conclude that the only solution is to kill each other's bosses. Bateman is a man who believes that his hard work will be rewarded but when he gets passed over for a promotion, he hits rock bottom.
Charlie Day (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) would play a hapless guy, always in the wrong place at the wrong time. A part still to be cast is a ladies' man who is good at his job, but gets a rude awakening when his boss passes away and gets replaced.
Farrell is among the A-list names being sought to play the bosses, whose ranks include a master manipulator, a sexually aggressive dentist and a weasely-looking scion. Seth Gordon (Four Christmases) will direct.
The project has attracted a plethora of actors over the years, including Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Ashton Kutcher, Dax Shepherd and Matthew McConaughey.
It got a new boost in light of last year's hit The Hangover, which catapulted relative unknowns - Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis - to new heights. Its success showed it was possible to make a modestly budgeted comedy that could soar if the chemistry was right.


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In the Redcorner theme, is there any way to change the "Person Settings" categories on the "Person" posts from their presets (ex: age, height, weight) to custom ones (such as specialty, rate, etc.)? I have tried changing them via the Custom Fields, but it just reverts to the preset categories when saving the individual "Person" post. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
you can edit the language file, you can find this file in the theme folder -> languages -> sevenleague.po. You want to change only the labels in the front-end, right?
No, I'd like to change the labels throughout. Not having them changed on the back-end would confuse what the fields are supposed to be filled with on the Edit Person Post-type page.
Also, I've tried changing them on the front-end without luck.
Making that addition to the language file did not change "height" to "style" on the single person page.
I actually had already tried that as well.
…which also did not change the wording on the single person post.
Am I putting it into the wrong language file? Or is there another way to change it?
Looks like you've done it right. Do you use a caching plugin? Or have you already tried to delete the browser cache?


Also known as Photovoltaic (PV) panels, solar panels take sunlight (photons) and, through the use of specially designed material (commonly, silicon), create electricity (voltage) that can be used or stored.
Inverters are equipment that converts the type of electricity generated by the solar panels (direct current) into electricity that can be used in your home (alternating current). Modern inverters also prevent electricity from flowing within the solar power system should the local grid go down. This is a required feature designed to protect workers repairing the power grid.
Ross Solar provides a special meter designed to measure the electricity you use, but it can also measure the power you produce and supply to the electricity grid. This special, digital meter that tracks both inward and outward flows allows your local utility to provide you with the credit for the electricity you supplied to the power grid.
State code requires additional protection from a physical disconnect, or power shut-off. It is installed between the AC Breaker Panel in your home and the electricity grid. This equipment is provided by Ross Solar as part of your system installation.
The electricity grid is the system which delivers electricity from power generators to power users. For the owner of a solar power system, the grid can, in effect, be an energy storage device, since you are sending excess power into it when your solar power system is producing electricity, and you can draw electricity from the grid when your solar power system is not producing.
Net metering is a program available in some states that provides credits to you for supplying excess electricity from your solar power system into the grid.
As a homeowner, you can apply for a credit when filing your income taxes under the Solar Investment Tax Credit. This Federal tax credit is used when a solar system is purchased outright and installed in your home. You may want to consult your tax advisor for more details on how it may apply to you.
A device to enable the storage of energy, in a chemical form, which can later be drawn on to supply power.
A battery technology that uses one of a number of possible compositions of lithium ion chemical to store energy. Currently, this technology is the most popular for use in solar applications because lithium ion batteries are compact and offer the longest lifespan at a reasonable cost.
Devices or applications provide details about a solar power system and energy storage system. Data may include energy usage, a display of the amount of stored energy remaining stored, as well as details on the cost for electricity supply at different times of the day.
A watt is a unit of power. A kilowatt is 1000 watts.
A measure of electrical energy equivalent to power consumption of 1,000 watts for one hour.
The amount of energy a battery can store measured in kilowatt-hours.
This is a measure of how much electricity a battery can deliver at one time.
The DoD refers to the amount of battery capacity that has been used.
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The pandemic that has gripped the world for more than a full year has impacted all our lives in untold ways and is also having serious consequences for research in remote regions of the planet. Travel restrictions resulting from COVID-19 have essentially ended study-abroad opportunities for countless students for some time to come. In the most pragmatic sense, this means that the Tiputini Biodiversity Station has had no visitors and essentially no income for more than a year since no scientists or students can get to our facilities in Yasuní to learn about the most biodiverse place on the planet. Gratefully, our parent institution, USFQ, has committed to seeing us through the current crisis while hundreds of previous visitors have selflessly donated to our operation. We invite you to join them in contributing to the Tiputini Biodiversity Station (Donate • Ceiba Foundation) as we return to normalcy; your generosity will help us get through the coming months and to re-establish many research and conservation programs.
Beyond not having researchers and students at places like TBS, COVID has also meant fewer vigilant eyes available to oversee wilderness sites, so negative repercussions in the realm of conservation are expanding globally as well. As a way to bring attention to this tremendously challenging situation, a group of scientists associated with field stations and nature education, including TBS's founding director, have published a series of arguments explaining precisely what is being lost and have issued a plea for solidarity from all sponsoring institutions to sustain their far-flung installations during these trying times as well as being at the ready to get in situ courses underway again as soon as conditions permit safe expeditions. During the last 15 months, the Tiputini Biodiversity Station has gone from being a robust operation with numerous scientists and student groups in the field exploring nature to a bit of a ghost town where nearly empty facilities are being maintained in preparation to open at full throttle at a moment's notice as the pandemic subsides.
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7/6/99: NATIONAL UNION FIRE INS. CO. OF PITTSBURGH P.A. v. HARTFORD INS. CO. OF THE MIDWEST
Collateral Estoppel Does Not Preclude Action for Contribution Against Co-Insurer
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Owner of Vehicle Can Be Held Vicariously Liable Even if Vehicle Not Proximate Cause of Injury.
In its broadest interpretation of Vehicle & Traffic Law §388 yet, the New York Court of Appeals determined that "loading and unloading" of a vehicle constitutes "use and operation" for purposes of the vicarious liability statute and, unlike the No Fault law, the vehicle need not be the proximate cause of the injury before the vehicle's owner may be held vicariously liable.
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These consolidated cases presented "three nuts-and-bolts questions" relating to the calculation of damages. First, the Court was asked whether the proper basis for the "annual payments" is the future or present value of the remaining future damages award and concluded that it is the undiscounted future value of the award that is payable over time. Second, the four- percent statutory additur is to be included in the damage award prior to determining attorney's fees. Finally, plaintiff's recovery is to be offset by social security survivor benefits.
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"Chinese Wall" Does Not Avoid Law Firm Disqualification.
An associate who had handled a litigated matter in one law firm, and who acquired consequential client confidences, joined another firm involved in the same litigation. Although the second firm erected a "Chinese Wall" to assure that the associate was not involved in the litigation, the Court of Appeals held that the second law firm was nevertheless disqualified. If the attorney holds material confidences, screening measures to isolate the attorney are irrelevant and disqualification of the firm is required as a matter of law.
6/29/99: SOMERSTEIN CATERERS OF LAWRENCE, INC. v. THE INSURANCE COMPANY OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA
New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department
Fire Insurance – Cooperation Clause.
The insured's refusal to present its treasurer or bookkeeper for examination under oath for loss claimed under its fire policy constituted a material breach of the policy's cooperation clause and, as such, precluded the insured's recovery of policy proceeds.
6/21/99: PERSAUD V. RAHMAN
New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department
No-Fault Insurance – 90-day Written Notice: Attorney's Letter that Failed to Include Time, Place and Circumstances of Accident Does Not Comply with Written Notice Requirements.
In an action to recover damages for personal injuries and to recover unpaid no-fault insurance benefits, the Appellate Division held that plaintiff's attorney's letter requesting no-fault benefit applications sent several days following the accident was insufficient to constitute proper written notice because it failed to set forth "reasonably obtainable information regarding the time, place and circumstances of the accident" as required by 11 NYCRR 65.11(m)(2). Since the plaintiff failed to file the written notice within the 90-day period and failed to submit "written proof that it was impossible to comply with such time limitation due to the specific circumstances beyond [his] control" (11 NYCRR 65.11(m)(2)), the court properly dismissed the action.
6/18/99: GARRETT v. AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY
New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Fourth Department
Adult Daughter May Be Resident of Both Parents' Households For Purposes of SUM Endorsement.
There is an issue of fact whether plaintiff's 25-year-old daughter may be deemed a resident of plaintiff's household for purposes of the supplementary uninsured motorists (SUM) endorsement of plaintiff's policy of automobile. Although it is undisputed that plaintiff's daughter resided primarily with her father, there is conflicting evidence whether she also resided with plaintiff within the meaning of the SUM endorsement (see, Nationwide Ins. Co. v Allstate Ins. Co., 181 AD2d 1022). The Court rejected the insurer's contention that the daughter's age is a determinative factor inasmuch as the policy has no age restrictions.
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Crude oil exports from southern Iraq are close to a record high so far in September, averaging 3.6 million barrels per day as of Thursday, according to sources who had tracked shipping data to come up with the number.
If the rate stays unchanged or rises, it will beat Iraq's previous record of 3.58 million bpd hit last month.
It is safe to say that Iraq, OPEC's second-largest producer, was only too happy to boost oil production after the organization's June 22 meeting when members decided to start reversing their production cuts agreed in late 2016, Oil Price reported.
Iraq never really managed to reduce production to its assigned quota anyway and it was vocal against the quotas because of its heavy dependence on oil revenues, as its economy is still in ruins after the war with the terrorist group Islamic State.
What is more, the export rate data suggest that civil unrest, which has been rife since the summer, has not affected oil production. Indeed, any intentions on the part of protesters to try and cause production outages at oilfields have been quickly thwarted.
Besides the export growth, Iraq is also understandably eager to increase its oil production. However, according to at least one analyst, this will be difficult to achieve.
According to IHS Markit's Christopher Elsner, as cited earlier this week by Arab News, Iraq faces serious challenges in its quest for boosting its production, ranging from the current political and economic problems to lack of funds to develop new production capacity.
"There is a lot of investment in getting wells out of the ground. And there is a lot of investment in exporting that oil. But the connections between the oilfields and the storage farms in the south and the export points have been what has really led to the bottlenecks in Iraq," Elsner explained.


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Q: How do I get to the Design Tab in Visual Studio 2010 for Windows Form programming? I am new to Visual Studio 2010 and I am trying to develop a Windows Form. I do not see a Design tab where I can toggle between the form design and the .cs code. How can I do this?
Thanks

A: The designer and code will actually be 2 separate tabs.  To view the designer, right click the form in the Solution Explorer and choose View Designer.  To view code, right click the form in the Solution Explorer and choose View Code.
If you have the code file open, you can right click anywhere in code window and choose View Designer.

A: tools -> Options -> HTML Designer then click the Enable HTML designer and restart.

A: I ran into this also.  My problem was that without realizing it, I had deleted the declaration of the class and then saved.
Symptoms of this issue include: Wrong icon in Solution Explorer + no "View Designer" option
Moreover, if you double click the form, you result in an empty sheet.
To fix this, simply declare your class once again by double clicking on your form (in my case frmDialogs.vb), and adding the class declaration.  Because my class is called frmDialogs, my code looks like this:
Public Class frmDialogs
End Class
Save. Then you will notice the icon return to that of a form, and you will have the ability to enter design mode once again: Normal form Icon and View Designer
Once again we can access the Form in Design.
I hope you find this information helpful! I tried to post with more screenshots but Stackoverflow did not let me since this is my first answer.  If helpful please vote for my post as I need 10 reputation points to include more screenshots for future answers. Thanks!

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Q: Arithmetic in Batch? I'm making a game, and I have a Health variable to track how much health the player has as they go through the game. At one point, the player cuts their lip on a can (Uneventful, I know), and lose 2 HP. I'm trying to use Arithmetic to subtract 2 HP from the 'Health' variable (Which is still at 100 at that point), and then show how much health they have left, yet it still shows 100 HP after I tried to remove 2 HP. Am I doing it right?
:Beans
call :colorEcho 7 "You decide you're going to have Canned Beans for     breakfast. Yum. You grab a knife from the kitchen counter and work the top off. You eat the beans straight from the can. Ouch! You cut your lip! It starts to    bleed."
Echo .
set /a "_Health=_Health-2"
Echo.
call :colorEcho C "# ALERT; You have lost 2 Health Points! You are now at %Health% HP!"
Echo.
pause
exit

What happens:

A: Ok, I found out the answer thanks to @dbenham. Thank you!
I had messed up the variable, and as dbenham pointed out, I was expanding %Health% when I was using _Health in set /a _Health-=2. I changed it to just set /a Health-=2, and everything seems to be working fine now.


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Q: Wordpress - Put the_title (); inside an input value of the form As per question you have perhaps been able to guess what my need is, I have several custom post types, without being too crazy I downloaded an excellent plugin for the form called HTML Forms that allows a total customization to us programmers, but now we come to therefore, my goal is to insert the name of the cpt title into the input tag of the form.
Example to make people understand: I have 3 events
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b
c
within the page that shows these events the input name must take the_title (); of the event you are visiting.
how can i do this?
code:

<input type="text" name="NAME" id="form-name" class="form-control">
Your name

<input type="text" name="EMAIL" id="form-email" class="form-control">
Your email

<input type="text"  name="SUBJECT" id="form-Subject" class="form-control">
Subject

<textarea id="form-text" name="MESSAGE" class="form-control md-textarea" rows="3"></textarea>
Icon Prefix

<select name="OK" id="test-OK" class="browser-default custom-select custom-select-lg mb-3">
  <option selected>Hai già un Pr di riferimento?</option>
  <option value="xxx@gmail.com">One</option>
  <option value="xxx@gmail.com">Two</option>
</select>

  <input class="btn btn-light-blue" type="submit" value="Send" />

obviously the answer insert inside the value = "<?php echo esc_html (get_the_title ()); ?>" it is obvious that it is not accepted

A: you need to add a hidden input field for getting Post Title with form submission like this -
<input type="hidden" name="submittedpost" value="{{post.post_title}}" />

You can use {{post.ID}} For Id of those post.


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As Germany prepares to spend €2.7bn on broadband, vectoring fight breaks out
While a plan by the German government to fill in broadband not-spots has been welcomed, Deutsche Telekom's vectoring strategy hasn't won it any friends.
By Sara Zaske for The German View | September 3, 2015 -- 10:03 GMT (03:03 PDT) | Topic: Networking
The German government wants every citizen to have internet speeds of at least 50Mbps by 2018, and is spending up to €2.7bn to help make it happen. However, a Deutsche Telekom proposal to help reach those top speeds through an exclusive vectoring plan has caused alarm among competitors.
Massive growth in LTE and high-speed broadband availability in Europe
LTE availability has almost tripled to 79.4 percent in the past two years, and 68 percent of EU homes can now get fast (30+Mbps) fixed broadband, according to the European Commission.
Alexander Dobrindt, the German minister for digital infrastructure, said the new investment is meant to cover "white spots": places where there is currently no coverage, which in Germany are primarily in rural areas where low population density means telcos are discouraged from rolling out their infrastructure there.
"With the federal funding for the rollout of broadband networks, we will close the white spots on the map," Dobrindt said. "We will invest the funds selectively in regions where commercial network expansion is not expected. This will create fast internet for all throughout Germany by 2018."
Of the total €2.7bn to be invested, almost half, €1.33bn, is coming from the recent spectrum auction in which telecom companies paid the federal government nearly €5.1bn.
The industry group Bitkom welcomed the announcement. "By sending at least a portion of the funds back to rolling out broadband networks, the federal government is taking political responsibility," said Bernhard Rohleder, Bitkom's CEO. "It's important that the promised funds are awarded as soon as possible and are technology-neutral."
But that neutrality is in question, given a recent legal opinion favourable to Germany's biggest telco, Deutsche Telekom. In February, Deutsche Telekom asked the Germany regulatory agency, the Bundesnetzagentur, to change current rules to allow it to use close-range vectoring technology on existing copper lines in both urban and rural areas, without having to allow competitors VDSL (very-high-rate digital subscriber lines) in the exchange.
According to the company, the technology could bring 5.9 million households speeds of up to 100Mbps. However, the plan also means that Deutsche Telekom would control the last mile from the exchange to those 5.9 million households, and existing customers of competitors' VSDL would have to end their contracts and be switched to a different service.
The Bundesnetzagentur has not yet decided whether to allow the change for Deutsche Telekom, but it did say last week that such an agreement was legally possible.
The response from competitors was quick. The VATM, an association that includes major rival telcos such as Vodafone and Telefonica Deutschland, issued a statement the same day warning that such a plan would allow the former state-owned Deutsche Telekom to re-monopolise the broadband market in key areas.
"[Deutsche] Telekom calls for expanding a monopoly with vectoring technology for all the choice items, and in exchange provides a nearly worthless expansion obligation," said Jürgen Grützner, VATM CEO. "Competitors and investors are extremely concerned."
The two issues--the government's new broadband investment and the potential vectoring change in favour of Deutsche Telekom--have the potential to influence the German broadband market for years to come.
Tabea Roessner, the Green Party's spokesperson for media and digital infrastructure, said it was "high time" the government invested in broadband network deployment, especially in rural areas. However, she argued that the government should be supporting more advanced technology instead of vectoring.
"Fibre broadband expansion is especially important. Germany is far behind by international standards," Roessner told ZDNet. "Fibre is a technology that guarantees stable and high transmission rates in the future, unlike radio or internet via copper cables. Investments into vectoring are therefore temporary solutions at best and ultimately not effective."
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Qualcomm sold products below cost to Huawei and ZTE, with the aim of forcing its competitor Icera out of the market, the EC has ruled.
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Title:Perception Over Fact: A Media Case Study of the Life Sciences Cluster in Puerto Rico
Author(s): Moira A. Gunn
University of San Francisco, School of Management, 2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco, CA 94117-1047, USA.,United States
Keywords: Puerto Rico, life sciences, Puerto Rico life sciences, strategic science-business media, bioentrepreneurship.
Abstract: In December, 2015, mainstream media coverage of a U.S. Supreme Court petition led to the revelation that Puerto Rico was $72 billion in debt. In January, 2016, the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) issued a travel precaution to Puerto Rico due to the Zika virus. Given the tenor of public opinion, there was further media speculation concerning the impact on Puerto Rico's tourism industry. However, tourism is a relatively small part of its economy. This paper examines the potential for media impact on the life sciences industry in Puerto Rico, which represents some 25% of its GDP, and over half of Puerto Rico's exports, comprised of $40 billion in pharmaceuticals and $4 billion in medical devices. Included are media ramifications relating to governmental status, specifically with regard to the life sciences industry, and how other governmental actions have impacted Puerto Rico's innovation capabilities. The Strategic Science-Business Media (SSBM) Model is used as guide to examining select media coverage relating to the life sciences industry. Two global industry-related reports/databases were also compared: The Nature Index [4da], which provides a 12-month rolling window of high-quality scientific articles from 158 countries, including the life sciences, and the Scientific American worldVIEW Scorecard, which analyzes and interprets data to rank 54 countries for innovation potential in biotechnology on a yearly basis. This comparison will show how Puerto Rico's life sciences capability was inadvertently underrepresented and/or misrepresented, when combining data from two industry reports/databases, due to confusion regarding the unusual governmental status of Puerto Rico with respect to the United States. As a result of this study, this paper shall also present a revision to the SSBM model, Strategic Science-Business Media Model 2.0, to include the role of industry reports and global databases. Conclusions indicate that constant vigilance is required regarding underrepresentation and/or misrepresentation in the media, industry reports and global databases, and that more recognition in traditional media is now possible given the emergence of Puerto Rico's research community's ability to commercialize and now forge Puerto Rico's reputation as a life sciences innovation cluster in the future.
A. Gunn Moira, Perception Over Fact: A Media Case Study of the Life Sciences Cluster in Puerto Rico, Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship (Discontinued) 2016; 3(1) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/2213809903999160330151503


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