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International | Rights, Freedoms and Repression
Desperate actions Tue Jan 31, 2023 10:00 | The Saker
by Hugo Dionísio for the Saker blog Something is changing on Mount Olympus and it is leaving in tatters the union of tendencies connected to the U.S.-state falconry. To understand
Two perceptions of the war in Ukraine, by Thierry Meyssan Tue Jan 31, 2023 07:03 | en
John Church: Calling Bullshit
international | rights, freedoms and repression | opinion/analysis Monday June 29, 2020 22:26 by 1 of indy
Finally there is someone out there and certainly not from the mainstream media who is calling bullshit on the whole Covid nonsense. In this opinion piece by John Church from the hectordrummond blog, many will nod their head in agreement. He really cuts through the crap.
I have had enough. After nearly 3 months of this, I am going to call it for what it is: TOTAL AND UTTER NONSENSE. I cannot watch any news programme anymore, given the 24/7 monochromal pseudo-emotion that is all we ever see.
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And then it's announced that we all have to wear masks in public and will be criminals if we pop out for a newspaper whilst serving our mandatory fourteen-day post-travel quarantine. And like muppets we just swallow it, whilst reading the papers full of pictures of mass, non-socially distant BLM protests. What the hell is that about? Either we are facing a health crisis so severe we have had to be imprisoned for three months (an unprecedented response to a disease by the way), or it's okay to mill around in London with tens of thousands of others. It can't be both. And it isn't.
There is an unholy axis of blind incompetence between our dysfunctional government, the child-like so called 'expert scientists', and the hysterical bedwetters who still have the gall to call themselves news reporters. ....
7. There is nowhere in the world that shows infections continuing to rise exponentially after 20% of a population is infected, even in dense urban centres. The smart money on this is that there are many of us that are naturally resistant. But regardless of the reason, is it any surprise they can't find anybody to test potential vaccines on in Britain? And yet all our pubs and restaurants are going to go bust. Because you can't run a pub if everyone needs four square meters!
9. Sweden didn't even have a lockdown, and they have only three-quarters of the per capita deaths we have had. Duh!
Full text of the entry at link below
Related Link: https://hectordrummond.com/2020/06/16/john-church-calling-bs/
sweden backpeddled.... didn't you hear?
by lefty Sun Jul 12, 2020 16:32
We would handle it differently in hindsight - Anders Tegnall
BRUSSELS — For months, the world has watched Sweden's light-touch approach to fighting the coronavirus pandemic, wondering whether it was genius or misguided. This week, the architect of the strategy acknowledged that too many people have died and said that, in retrospect, he might have pushed something closer to other countries' restrictions. "Should we encounter the same disease, with exactly what we know about it today, I think we would land midway between what Sweden did and what the rest of the world did," Swedish state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell told Swedish Radio on Wednesday. Swedish authorities have consistently denied that they were aiming to achieve full-population immunity by keeping much of their public life humming as usual. They said that if they protected the elderly and other vulnerable groups while allowing others to carry on, the country might be more resilient in the face of a second wave of infections and avoid the economic chaos of a total shutdown. Deaths in Sweden, though, have been eight times higher than in Denmark and 19 times higher than in Norway, even though Sweden is only double each neighbors' size.
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/has-swedens-covid-19-strategy-backfired


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Marijuana stores ready to serve up legal highs as Colorado makes history
The Rocky Mountain state becomes the first jurisdiction in the world to allow the sale of pot for recreational use
• In pictures: Colorado smokers celebrate recreational sales
Rory Carroll in Denver
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Laura Mulloy prepares to welcome recreational customers to the marijuana store in Denver where she works. Photograph: Rory Carroll for the Guardian
Tim Cullen gave up being a high school biology teacher to enter the marijuana business after he and his father were diagnosed with Crohn's disease. He used his knowledge of botany to grow and harvest plants, which treated the condition and eased the pain, and built a business out of it.
By coincidence around the same time the TV show Breaking Bad depicted a fictional high school chemistry teacher, Walter White, morphing into a meth drug lord after being diagnosed with cancer.
Growing and selling pot for medicinal purposes was legal in Colorado but had a shadowy, seedy image. Cullen did not broadcast his career switch. "I didn't tell former colleagues. I kept it to myself. I was afraid how people would judge – not necessarily me, I've a thick skin – but my son."
That fear will melt on Wednesday when Colorado becomes the first jurisdiction in the world to legalise recreational cannabis sales, shining a sudden spotlight on Cullen and dozens of other retailers across the state.
While the Netherlands has allowed the sale and consumption of small amounts of marijuana in "coffee shops" since 1976, it has never formally legalized sales or growing, unlike Colorado which is the first place where marijuana will be legally produced, sold and taxed in state-licensed venues, in a system similar to that used by most countries for alcohol regulation.
"The genie is fully out of the bottle. If people don't like it, well, I'm not going to care about it any more," said Cullen, 41, as staff at his Denver store, Evergreen Apothecary, bustled in anticipation of new customers and regulatory challenges.
Sporting a blazer, striped shirt, jeans and loafers, he looked every inch the successful entrepreneur. Cullen said his son will have no reason to be ashamed as he grows up – unlike Breaking Bad's family trauma. "It'll be no big deal when he learns what dad does for a living."
Supporters and opponents of Colorado's initiative agree that Wednesday is the start of a rather big deal: a landmark challenge to decades of "drug war" dogma which is expected to embolden other states to follow suit, potentially heralding a shift as radical as the end of alcohol prohibition in 1933.
Colorado voted to allow recreational pot sales in a ballot initiative in the November 2012 general election, as did voters in Washington state. Uruguay also recently decided to legalise. As the first to put the law into practice the Rocky Mountain state is a laboratory commanding global attention. After Washington, activists in Alaska, Oregon and Nevada hope they will be next.
"This is a very momentous occasion. A huge milestone in the movement to end marijuana prohibition," said Mason Tvert, communications director for the Marijuana Policy Project. In the Netherlands pot is tolerated, but not legal, a crucial distinction, he said. However many show up on Wednesday to buy recreational cannabis – estimates vary from dozens to thousands – they will be "part of history", said Tvert. He praised state authorities for efficiently converting the voters' verdict into nuts-and-bolt reality.
Questions abound: will zealous regulation strangle the launch? Will stoners celebrate in the streets and provoke a police crackdown? Will tourists swamp the stores? As weeks and months pass, and recreational pot becomes more available, will Colorado be seen as a showcase for a responsible industry that obviates mass incarceration for minor drug offences and generates hundreds of millions of dollars, or will it be deemed a fiasco, evidence that the US's 1937 marijuana ban was wise after all? If the latter, federal authorities could curb the experiment since federal law still bans the substance.
Much hinges on the ability of Colorado's dispensaries to adapt. From serving a relatively stable pool of 110,000 patients with medicinal red cards those with recreational licences must now serve a much bigger, fluid market while jumping through myriad new regulatory hoops intended to track every marijuana plant from seed to sale.
Each plant clipping must be tagged with a unique serial number as it flowers and is harvested, weighed, dried, trimmed, packaged and transported. Stores must record each sale and have a set number of cameras with certain pixelation, among other security requirements.
It is a formidable list but the industry, eager for mainstream acceptance, has assented. "We are the only industry that has lobbied for regulation and taxes because we realise that's what we have to do if we are to keep the Department of Justice at bay and keep public opinion on our side," said Michael Elliott, executive director of the Medical Marijuana Industry Group.
He complained, however, that the Drug Enforcement Administration had pressured security firms and banks to shun the industry, leaving it vulnerable to criminals and unable to claim tax deductions on payroll and other costs.
Colorado has issued 348 recreational pot licences, comprising 136 for retail stores, 178 for cultivation, 31 for infused edibles and other spin-off products, and three for testing. An administrative backlog means only about 40 stores are expected to start selling recreational pot on Wednesday. Doors open 8am local time.
'People are going to open up their eyes'
How many are ready for prime time remains to be seen, but if Cullen's Evergreen Apothecary store is any guide, recreational pot's legal debut should go smoothly. The former teacher has installed extra points of sale, hired extra employees, trained staff to educate a new breed of customer unfamiliar with pot shop etiquette (no photographs, no consuming on the premises), stocked up on child-resistant bags, received official tags and liaised with police and the Colorado Department of Revenue's marijuana enforcement division.
To enter the store you need to show and swipe ID. Once inside it could be Starbucks – clean, bright, hardwood floors, coffee-shop music, products and prices marked on blackboards – except for jars of green buds marked with names like Bubba Kush, Perplex, Afghooey and Red Diesel, plus infused edibles such as CBD-enriched "Mountain High Suckers" lollipops and Karma Kandy Creams. You can also buy glass pipes and books with titles like The Marijuana Chef Cookbook, Marijuana Made Simple and Teaming with Microbes.
Medicinal customers – ranging from twentysomethings in baseball caps to senior citizens with body braces - streamed in on Tuesday to stock up lest recreational buyers clean out limited stocks.
The business was ready, said Cullen. "We've been fortunate that we've been able to comply with all the rules." Pot's black market will disappear and the stigma will ebb as opponents see the sky does not fall, he predicted.
Staff in Evergreen Apothecary and Colorado Harvest Company, another Cullen co-owned outlet which is due to start recreational sales in a few weeks, shared the optimism.
Jahni Denver, 28, a head "bud tender" who advises medicinal customers about different strains, tastes and effects was looking forward to sharing his knowledge, sommelier-style, with recreational customers, including out-of-state friends who promised to visit later this year. "People are going to open up their eyes."
Some employees were flattered but slightly unnerved by the media attention because their parents do not know they work in a pot dispensary.
"I tell them I work for a herbal wellness store," said Laura Mulloy, 25, a nutrition and psychology student from Kentucky, as she sorted the new child-resistant bags. "But I'm getting to the point now that I'm not ashamed of it."
Seeing how cannabis alleviated people's pain, and how the legalisation forces had prevailed, had transformed her view, she said. "I feel it's our movement. It's pretty incredible. We're an example for the rest of the country."
Highs prices
As of Wednesday, there are a number of marijuana recreational products available to anyone aged over 21 to buy in Colorado. State residents are limited to buying an ounce (28 grammes) at a time while non-residents can only buy a quarter of that amount.
Below are some of the options provided by licensed sellers (all prices are subject to an additional 21% sales tax).
• Pre-rolled joints, $10 each. A typical joint contains less than 1 gramme of marijuana.
• 1 oz Indica or Sativa buds: "best", $179; "better", $169; "good", $159.
• Glass pipes: $15-$30.
• Marijuana-infused pomegranate "elixir" drink (75mg): $14.
• Marijuana spearmint dew drops (100mg): $20.
• Marijuana truffles (50mg): $10.
• Marijuana chai mints (100mg): $11.
• Marijuana massage oil (100mg): $14
• Marijuana pain relief lotion
(100mg): $18.
• Marijuana bath soak (100mg): $18.
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Published: 5 Jan 2014
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Marijuana shoppers flock to Colorado for first legal recreational sales
'This is going to be a turning point in the drug war,' says one customer at a cannabis dispensary, 'a beginning of the peace'
Figures for deaths from legal highs 'inflated', say former drugs advisers
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Not regulating 'legal highs' condemns drug users to playing Russian roulette
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*NB – there will soon be posts about: lakes & watersports au Pays du Mont-Blanc / rivers & canyoning au Pays du Mont-Blanc!
There are a few pop-up waterslides not too far from the Pays du Mont-Blanc this summer, as well as the fabulous waterslides within our swimming pool complexes in the area (and a bit further away) . . .
There are great waterslides at the public swimming pools in: Chamonix (indoor and outdoor), Saint-Gervais-les-Bains (outdoor), a Pentagliss (outdoor) at Le Palais in Megève and in Cluses / see below section Swimming Pools & Parcs Aquatiques for more details . . .
The campsite Mont-Blanc Plage (right next to Lac de Passy) has a lovely terraced restaurant decorated with pots of flowers, that looks out over its own private lake (with 45 year old carp, the odd duck, and beautiful water-lilies) . . . if you eat lunch or dinner at the restaurant, then you are allowed to swim in the lake – there is a slide, a diving board and rafts to swim out to. There is a jaded grandeur to this campsite and the restaurant is lovely and peaceful (we tried it out tody!). And there is the added bonus of having a swim, a jump or a slide after eating!
There are fabulous waterslides at these nearby parcs aquatiques: Vitam (Neydens), Aquariaz (Avoriaz), Piscine des Marquisats (in Annecy, next to the lake) and Aqualand (Le Bouveret), Genève-Plage . . . see section below Swimming Pools & Parcs Aquatiques for more details . . .
Over recent years, wibit inflatable structures on lakes have been popping up more and more . . . as well as having one right here au Pays du Mont-Blanc at Lac de Passy, a little further down the valley, you will find a wibit structure in place also at TNA Cable Park (Arenthon), one at Lac des Ecoles (Les Gets) and one at Vitam (Neydens).
This year during the spring holidays, Vitam introduced wibit structures to its indoor pool . . .
We also have the loveliest natural paddling pool at Le Paradis des Praz – for a paddling experience in nature, you cannot beat this gurgling stream running through the woods! / facilities: rafts, playground, sand-pit, pony rides, buvette . . . / see here for MBFF post all about this magical spot.
A visit to the small Lac de l'Etape in Les Contamines-Montjoie is such a bucolic visit en famille . . . you can either hike up there with older children, or you can take the télécabine de la Gorge (this is exciting in itself for little ones; opening hours) / once there, children can paddle or swim in the lake, play with pebbles, take out the mini boats, play in the playgrounds . . . and adults can relax with a cold beer on the terrace of the restaurant, right next to the lake! / there are options for more hikes from here (for example, you can take the Signal télécabine and then hike to the Auberge de la Roselette, via the Col du Joly)) / *good to know – if you book to stay the night at the Hôtel Bar Restaurant de l'Etape, then you can take the télécabine de la Gorge for free! / the MBFF experience: back in 2015, we had an overnight & dinner in the Hôtel Bar Restaurant de l'Etape – it was our luxurious take on a refuge en famille (we weren't quite ready for dortoirs, being still quite sleep deprived with an 18 month old in tow!) / a visit to this small lake can also combine nicely with the activites on offer in the Parc Patrice Dominguez, or a little overnight camp at the campsite Camping le Pontet!
If you are holidaying au Pays du Mont-Blanc, you may be lucky enough to have a swimming pool available at your hotel or chalet. There are also some hotels that allow you to use their pool if you have lunch in their restaurant (for example, L'Hotel Aiguille du Midi in Les Bossons). And there are plentiful options for public swimming pools in the area and a bit further afield! If you are more interested in some parent/adult pampering at a spa, then please head to separate post Chamonix Valley Spas & Massages.
The same brand behind the succesful 14+ spa of Pré St Didier QC Termes in the Aosta Valley, Italy are soon to open in Chamonix! / follow FB page for opening details!
And further afield . . .
If any readers have suggestions for campsites with fabulous pools, not too far from the Pays du Mont-Blanc (up to 2 hours away), then I would love to have your input! Here are some suggestions for campsites we have been to (and loved), or ones recommended to me by friends . . .
We went to this lovely little campsite in Le Vercors just a couple of weeks ago, with some friends who were testing out their new campervan! We dedided to rent one of the on-site semi-tents (Sweet Cocoon), as we arrived late and there were storms threatening . . . another friend came with his fancy trailer, another with a pop-up tent (we were certainly seen as a motley crew!). We loved the campsite – family run, the perfect size (for me), right next to a summer luge, a little restaurant on-site / other activities: bouncy castle, multi-sport terrain, BBQ facilities and an outdoor pool with slides and indoor pool and paddling pool.


As we approach the final weekend for our round robin playoffs, I would like to remind everyone of the tiebreaking format.
If two (2) teams are tied in points following the completion of their 6 games the following tiebreakers will apply.
I three (3) or more teams are tied in points following the completion of their 6 games the following tiebreakers will apply.


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There Is Now Just One Blockbuster Left in the US
AJ Dellinger
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Customers walk into a Blockbuster Video store on November 19, 2002 in the Little Havana section of Miami, Florida.
The last two Blockbuster stores in Alaska are shutting their doors for good next week according to the Anchorage Daily News, which means there is just one remaining relic of the video rental giant still up and operating in the entire United States.
The final Blockbuster storefront standing is located in Bend, Oregon. It outlasted two stores in Alaska—one in the city of Anchorage and one in Fairbanks—that will officially close up shop on Monday, July 16th despite John Oliver's attempts to keep them alive by sending the stores memorabilia from Russell Crowe movies.
When the last two stores in Alaska officially lock up next week, it will mark the end of a quirky final act for the forgotten video rental chain. Though parent company Dish Network started shuttering storefronts around the US in 2013, Blockbuster managed to maintain a stronghold in Alaska, driven primarily by long winters and pricy, occasionally unreliable internet connections, per the Washington Post. According to data from HighSpeedInternet.com, Alaska is third-to-last in internet connectivity in the US, and just 62 percent of its population has access to what would be considered broadband speed connections of 25Mbps.
Anchorage Daily News reported that 13 Blockbuster stores were operating in 2013, and nine were still open in 2016—far from the company's peak of 9,000, but it's something. The stores in Anchorage and Fairbanks were the final holdouts, and the owners told Deadline the stores were still profitable, but their closure was all be inevitable eventually.
John Oliver highlighted the stores on Last Week Tonight earlier this year when he bought up a bunch of movie artifacts that Russell Crowe ditched in a post-divorce auction, including a leather jockstrap from the film Cinderella Man and sent it to the Alaska Blockbuster stores. Somehow, it seems that wasn't enough to save them.
Blockbuster Alaska District Manager Kelli Vey and General Manager Kevin Daymude issued the following statement regarding the closure to its customers via Facebook:
These are the last two Blockbuster stores in Alaska that survived and it is sad to say goodbye to our dedicated customers. We have thought of you as family for the past 28 years. Both Kelli Vey and I (Kevin Daymude) have been with the company since 1991 and have had great memories throughout our career. Thank you for sticking by us throughout all these years. I can't tell you how much it means to us. We hope to see you at our stores during the closing, even if it's just to say "Hello". What a great time to build your media library and share some Blockbuster memories with us.
We will miss all of you!
While the Blockbuster locations will shut down on Monday, they will be open through August as the stores sell off their remaining inventory. No word on whether Russell Crowe's jockstrap will be included in the going out of business sale. If you still have an overdue movie rental you've been waiting to return, it looks like Oregon is your last hope.
[Anchorage Daily News, Deadline]
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California Administrative Law
Finding Administrative Decisions and Guidance
Information on locating California regulations, guidance, administrative decisions, and executive orders and proclamations online and at the UCLA Law Library.
How Regulations Are Made
Tracking Pending Regulations
About Administrative Decisions and Guidance
Tips for Finding California Administrative Decisions and Guidance
California Agricultural Labor Relations Board
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California Commission on State Mandates
California Department of Business Oversight
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California Department of Industrial Relations
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California Horse Racing Board
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California State Personnel Board
California Victim Compensation Board
California Workers' Compensation Appeals Board and Industrial Accident Commission
California Public Employment Relations Board
Executive Orders & Proclamations
The best source for most administrative decisions and guidance is the agency's own website. Usually, you can quickly find the agency website by Googling its name and making sure to select a website on the California government's ca.gov domain. The California government also maintains a directory of agency websites:
California State Agency Listing
Once you've located the agency website, browse or search for pages providing administrative decisions or guidance.
In July 2019, many agencies deleted large swathes of administrative decisions and guidance to comply with Cal. Gov't Code § 11546.7, which mandates that all materials on agency websites by accessible to screen readers. See Wes Venteicher, California Disability Law Has Costly Effects, Sacramento Bee, Oct. 29, 2019, 12:15 PM.
If you check an agency website and see only recent decisions or guidance or lists of decisions or guidance but no links to the full text, check to see if archived versions of the page have any deleted materials:
Internet Archive Wayback Machine
The non-profit Internet Archive provides a tool called the Wayback Machine that regularly crawls the web and saves archived versions of webpages. If you have the URL to the current page for agency decisions or guidance, copy and paste the URL into the Wayback Machine to view versions of the page from before July 2019.
Archive of the California Government Domain, CA.gov
The Internet Archive also provides a subscription tool called Archive-It that allows organizations to pay to archive specific websites. The UC libraries (in partnership with other California libraries) use Archive-It to regularly archive copies of California government websites. If copying the URL of the current page for decisions or guidance into the Wayback Machine doesn't work, search for the agency name in Archive of the California Government Domain to view historical versions of the agency website and locate earlier versions of the relevant pages.
Many California agency decisions and guidance are also available in print or on Westlaw, Lexis, or Nexis Uni, including some older materials that have never been posted to the agency website. To locate these materials, search for the agency name in the library catalog or check the relevant Westlaw, Lexis, or Nexis Uni categories.
California Administrative Decisions & Guidance (Westlaw)
Administrative Materials / California (Lexis)
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Selected materials are listed and linked below by specific agency.
The California Agricultural Labor Relations Board (ALRB) is one of a handful of agencies that systematically publishes its decisions in print.
The ALRB website is the best starting point for researching its decisions:
California Agricultural Labor Relations Board Decisions (1975-)
The ALRB posts full text PDFs of its decisions on its website.
California Agricultural Labor Relations Board Case Digest
The ALRB maintains a thousand plus page digest, exhaustively indexing its cases by topic.
California Agricultural Labor Relations Board Administrative Orders (2004-)
Procedural orders from 2004 forwards.
Some ALRB materials are also available on Lexis:
California Agricultural Labor Relations Board Decisions (1990-) (Lexis)
Lexis provides a searchable collection of ALRB decisions since 1990.
The UCLA Law Library also maintains copies of ALRB decisions and the ALRB case digest in print. However, the library no longer updates the print copies and it's better to use the versions available on the ALRB website.
[Decisions and orders] by California. Agricultural Labor Relations Board.
Call Number: Law Library Stacks KFC562.A35 A492
Case digest covering cases ... / Agricultural Labor Relations Board. by Agricultural Labor Relations Board
Call Number: Law Library Stacks KFC562.A35 A5 1980
Publication Date: Last updated 1988
According to the California Style Manual, ALRB decisions should be cited in the format:
Gallo Vineyards, Inc. (1995) 21 ALRB No. 3, pp. 3-4.
For additional details, see the relevant section of the California Style Manual:
California Style Manual § 1:22[E]
California Alcohol Beverage Control Appeals Board Decisions (1997-)
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California Commission on State Mandates Decisions
Decisions on disputes over mandates imposed by the state government on local governments and schools.
The Department of Business Oversight was formed in 2013 by consolidating the formerly separate Department of Corporations and Department of Financial Institutes and includes the:
Division of Corporations, which regulates the sale of securities and the operations of securities brokers and similar financial professionals.
Division of Financial Institutions, which regulates banks, credit unions, and similar financial organizations.
Its materials are available from the following sources:
Division of Corporations Precedent Decisions (1981-)
The Division has designated a handful of decisions as precedent and posted them to its website.
Division of Corporations Opinion Letters (1996-)
Divisions of Corporations Releases (2004-)
Division of Financial Institutions Letters of Interpretation (1971-)
CA Department of Corporations Decisions (1969-) (Lexis)
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The Department of Consumer Affairs manages the licensing of a wide variety of professions, through various boards and bureaus ranging from the Structural Pest Control Board to the Bureau of Cannabis Control.
The DCA provides a centralized search engine for verifying licenses and checking for disciplinary action against licensee:
Search licenses and disciplinary actions for barbering and cosmetology, security and investigative services, veterinary medicine, and over a dozen medical professions.
For additional information, check the websites of individual DCA Boards and Bureaus, listed on the DCA's website:
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Relevant pages on the websites of selected board and bureaus are linked below.
California Acupuncture Board
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Information on disciplinary actions since 1994 and full text of disciplinary filings and decisions since 2009.
California Architects Board
California Architects Board Enforcement Actions (1997-)
Summaries of enforcement actions since 1997
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California Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, and Geologists Complaints and Enforcement Actions (1987-)
Full text final disciplinary decisions are available since 2006. Summaries of disciplinary actions are available from 1987 to 2007. Citations and criminal actions are listed for the past 5 years.
California Board of Accountancy (CBA)
California Board of Accountancy License Lookup (1993-)
Includes disciplinary records since 1993.
California State Board of Pharmacy
California State Board of Pharmacy Disciplinary Actions (2005-)
Lists disciplinary action against licensees since 2005, with links to selected full text disciplinary decisions. If the full text of a disciplinary decision is not linked, it can be obtained by searching the Department of Consumer Affairs License Search (linked above) or accessing the archived version of the website (linked below).
California State Board of Pharmacy Disciplinary Actions (2005-2018) (Wayback Machine)
Podiatric Medical Board of California
Podiatric Medical Board of California Recent Disciplinary Actions (Past Year)
Disciplinary decisions and filings for the past year.
California Veterinary Medical Board
California Veterinary Medical Board Precedential Decisions
The Board has designated one decision as precedential and posted the decision to its website.
California Board of Parole Hearings
California Board of Parole Hearings En Banc Decisions (2019-)
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California Department of Developmental Services cases are decided by the Office of Administrative Hearings, which posts decisions to its website:
California Department of Developmental Services Decisions
California Public Works Contract Arbitration Program
California Public Works Contract Arbitration Program (1979-)
Statistical information on decisions since 1979.
California Department of Health Care Services Mental Health Letters and Information Notices (1995-)
Prevailing Wage Determinations
To prevent companies from winning public works contracts by underpaying their workers, bidders for public works projects must pay at least the prevailing wage for the type of job and location. On its website, the California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) posts determinations of prevailing wages and determinations of whether specific projects are public works contracts subject to the prevailing wage determinations:
Director's General Prevailing Wage Determinations
Public Works Coverage Determinations (2002-)
The DIR formerly designated some public works coverage determinations as precedent but no longer does so.
Memo Ending Precedential Public Works Coverage Determinations
Other Agencies Within the DIR
The Department of Industrial Relations includes a number of active divisions and boards, listed separately on this guide:
California Workers' Compensation Appeals Board
The California Department of Insurance posts a small number of precedent decisions on its website:
California Department of Insurance Precedential Decisions
The Department of Insurance also produces guidance documents, in the form of bulletins, notices, and Commissioner's Opinions. The Department of Insurance's website posts selected documents dating back to 1956, while Westlaw, Lexis, and Nexis Uni provide more comprehensive collections:
California Department of Insurance Bulletins, Notices, & Commissioner's Opinions (1956-)
CA - California Insurance Bulletins & Notices (1939-) (Lexis)
CA - California Insurance Bulletins & Notices (1939-) (Nexis Uni)
California Insurance Bulletins (1939-) (Westlaw)
Finally, the Department of Insurance produces market conduct examination reports, which evaluate whether insurers are complying with relevant statutes and regulations. These reports are available on the Department's website and on Lexis:
California Department of Insurance Market Conduct Examination Reports (2001-)
California Market Conduct Examinations (1981-)
The California Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) protects the rights of Californians enrolled in healthcare plans, using several tools:
DMHC Independent Medical Review Search (2001-)
Patients who are denied treatment by their health care plan may ask the DMHC for an outside healthcare provider to issue an Independent Medical Review (IMR) decision, deciding whether the treatment should be provided. The DMHC website posts IMR decisions since the program began in 2001.
DMHC Independent Medical Review and Complaint Reports (2000-)
The DMHC publishes annual reports summarizing the number of requests for IMRs and other complaints it receives from consumers.
Health Plan Arbitration Decisions (1999-)
Health plans that resolve disputes with patients through arbitration must file copies of the arbitration decisions with the DMHC, which posts them on its website.
DMHC Enforcement Actions Search (2000-)
The DMHC may take enforcement action against health care plans that violate California law. It posts its enforcement decisions on its website.
OAH Appeals of DMHC Enforcement Decisions
DMHC enforcement decisions may be appealed to the Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH). The DMHC website posts the handful of OAH decisions that have been issued on its website, including two decisions it has designated as precedent.
DMHC Director's Letters and Opinions
The DMHC produces guidance in the form of letters and opinions from its director, posted to the DMHC website.
California Department of Social Services Index to Precedent Decisions
Caltrans Outdoor Advertising (ODA) Precedent Decisions (List)
Caltrans lists a handful of current precedent decisions on outdoor advertising on its website.
Caltrans Outdoor Advertising (ODA) Precedent Decisions (Full Text) (Archive-It)
Caltrans deleted the full-text versions of its precedent decisions, but they remain archived in the Archive of the California Government Domain, CA.gov.
The California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE) enforces a variety of labor laws, including laws regulating minimum wage, overtime, and rest periods.
The DLSE produces an enforcement manual, available at the following links:
Division of Labor Standards Enforcement Policies and Interpretations Manual
CA Div. Labor Standards Enf. Policies & Interp. Manual (Lexis)
CA Div. Labor Standards Enf. Policies & Interp. Manual (Nexis Uni)
The DLSE also produces opinion letters, available at the following links:
Division of Labor Standards Enforcement Opinion Letters (1983-)
California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement Opinion Letters (1986-) (Lexis)
California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement Actions (2000-) (Westlaw)
The DLSE formerly designated some of its opinion letters as precedent but was forced to stop after Corrales v. Bradstreet, 153 Cal. App. 4th 33, 62 Cal. Rptr. 3d 440 (2007) held that it did not have the right to do so:
Memo Ending DLSE Use of Precedent Decisions
The DLSE is also responsible for enforcing the Talent Agency Act, which is used by performers to void exploitative or undesirable contracts with unlicensed talent agents. The DLSE produces administrative decisions applying the act to individual performers, available on its website and on Westlaw:
DLSE - Talent Agency Cases (1971-)
Finally, the DLSE website allows users to verify the licenses of talent agents, studio teachers, and those providing services to child performers:
Talent Agency License Database
Studio Teachers Certification Database
Child Performer Services Permit
Education Audit Appeals Panel (EAAP)
The EAAP hears appeals filed by schools and school districts contesting audits finding that they are not in compliance with state or county educational standards.
EAAP Precedential Decisions
The EAAP has designated two precedential decisions which it posts on its website.
EAAP Panel Decisions and Adoptions (2003-) (List)
The EAAP website lists its non-precedential panel decisions and adoptions. However, as of October 2019, links to the full text of the decisions are broken and full text must be obtained by emailing the agency or accessing the archived website.
EAAP Panel Decisions and Adoptions (2003-) (Full Text) (Archive-It)
Archived version of EAAP website with link to full text of decisions.
EAAP Settlements (2003-) (List)
The EAAP website lists its settlements. However, as of October 2019, links to the full text of the settlements are broken and full text must be obtained by emailing the agency or accessing the archived website.
EAAP Settlements (2003-) (Full Text) (Archive-It)
Archived version of EAAP website with link to full text of settlements.
California Commission on Teacher Credentialing Precedential Waiver Decisions
Precedential decisions regarding waivers of requirements to employ teachers with specified credentials.
Special Education Decisions
Special Education Decisions and Orders (2012-)
Decisions by the Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH) regarding provision of special education services to students.
Special Education Decisions and Orders (2005-2012) (Archive-It)
The OAH's website no longer posts special education decisions from 2005 to 2012 but the decisions remain available from this archived directory of the OAH website.
Special Education Administrative Hearing Decisions (SEAHD) (1993-2005)
Before 2005, special education decisions were heard by the California Department of Education's Special Education Hearing Office (SEHO). These decisions remain available on the California Department of Education's website.
Materials by Other Education Agencies
California Commission on Teacher Credentialing Search for Educator's Credential, Certificate and/or Permit
Search for an educator's credentials and any disciplinary action taken against them.
California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) Employer and Administrative Directives
Administrative directives for for school district and community college employers.
CSU Board of Trustees Resolutions (2000-)
California State University Board of Trustees resolutions.
UC Board of Regents Approved Actions (Past Year)
The University of California Board of Regents posts its approved actions for the past year.
California Energy Commission Precedent Decisions
The California Energy Commission has declared one decision precedential and posted it on their website. The decision begins on page 118 of the PDF.
California Energy Commission Case Settlements (2015-)
Materials for cases settled, resolved through administrative proceedings, or resolved through litigation since 2015.
California Environmental Administrative Decisions (1924-) (Westlaw)
Includes California State Water Resources Control Board decisions from 1924 and selected California Energy Commission documents from 1975.
The California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) coordinates environmental protection in California and includes a number of environmental departments and boards.
California Air Resources Board (CARB)
California Air Resources Board Enforcement Advisories (1984-)
Comprehensive list and full scans of CARB enforcement advisories.
California Air Resources Board Case Settlements (1990-)
California Air Resources Board Enforcement Reports (1998-)
Department of Pesticide Regulation
California Department of Pesticide Regulation Administrative Enforcement Actions (2004-)
California Department of Pesticide Regulation Notices of Proposed and Final Decisions (2019-)
California Department of Pesticide Regulation Notices of Proposed and Final Decisions (1998-2019) (Archive-It)
Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle)
CalRecycle Enforcement Orders (1998-)
Department of Toxic Substances Control
California Department of Toxic Substances Control Enforcement Cases
Decisions and related documents since the early 2000s, with selected earlier documents.
EnviroStor
The Department of Toxic Substances Control's EnviroStor website allows the public to track the Department's cleanup, permitting, enforcement, and investigation of hazardous waste facilities and contaminated sites.
State Water Resources Control Board
California water is managed by a state-wide State Water Resources Control Board and by nine Regional Water Boards, all ten of which are collectively known as the water boards.
The water boards' website provides a map of the water board regions, along with background information:
California State and Regional Water Boards- Map and Background Information
The water boards' website also posts the boards' guidance documents and administrative decisions:
California Water Boards Plans and Policies
California State Water Resources Control Board Decisions (1924-)
California Water Quality Orders (1970-)
California Water Rights Orders (1972-)
California Water Boards Enforcement Orders and Actions (2002-)
California Water Boards Administrative Civil Liability Complaint Actions (2005-)
California Water Rights Judgments/Determinations (1961-)
California Water Boards Resolutions (1967-)
California Wastewater Change Petition Orders (1987-)
California Water Boards Division Decisions (1999-)
California Water Boards Transfers and Temporary Urgency Actions – Orders (1999-)
California Water Rights Enforcement Cease and Desist Actions (2004-)
California Water Rights Enforcement Revocations and Cancellations (2009-)
Lexis and Westlaw also provide access to California State Water Resources Control Board decisions:
CA State Water Resources Control Board (1924-) (Lexis)
California Horse Racing Board Administrative Actions (2004-)
Precedent decisions, non-precedent decisions, and additional documents since 2004.
The California Fair Employment and Housing Commission (FEHC) heard discrimination complaints until 2012, when the California legislature eliminated the Commission and authorized Department of Fair Employment and Housing staff to file complaints directly with the courts.
FEHC decisions are available from the following sources:
CA Fair Employment & Housing Commission (1978-2012) (Lexis)
CA Fair Employment & Housing Commission (1978-2012) (Nexis Uni)
California Fair Employment & Housing Commission Decisions (1978-2012) (Westlaw)
Precedential decisions - Fair Employment & Housing Commission. by California Continuing Education of the Bar
Call Number: Law Library Stacks KFC572.A55 C3
According to the California Style Manual, if possible, FEHC decisions should be cited to the print in the format:
Dept. Fair Empl. & Hous. v. Madera County (1990) No. 90-03, FEHC Precedential Decs. 1990-1991, CEB 1, p. 26
California Style Manual § 1:22[G]
The Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) hears complaints alleging violations of campaign finance laws. Its Enforcement Division issues:
No Action Closure Letters: If it does not believe a violation has occurred.
Advisory Letters: If there is insufficient evidence to prove a violation but the Division believes further advice is necessary to prevent future violations.
Warning Letters: If the Enforcement Division believes a violation has occurred but that it is not serious enough to merit a fine.
Enforcement Decisions: If the Enforcement Division believes a violation has occurred and that it is serious enough to merit a fine.
These materials are available from the FPPC's website:
FPPC Letters (2009-)
FPPC Enforcement Decisions (2014-)
FPPC Summary of Enforcement Decisions (1980-2014)
Older FPPC materials are available on Lexis, on Nexis Uni, on Westlaw, and in print:
CA Fair Political Practices Commission (Letters 1984-) (Enforcement Decisions 1975-) (Lexis)
CA Fair Political Practices Commission (Letters 1984-) (Enforcement Decisions 1975-) (Nexis Uni)
California Public Officials Ethics Opinions (Letters 1985-) (Enforcement Decisions 1975-) (Westlaw)
Opinions & Notebook by California Fair Political Practices Commission, California Continuing Education of the Bar
Call Number: Law Library Stacks KFC710 .A83
Enforcement Decisions by California Fair Political Practices Commission, California Continuing Education of the Bar
Call Number: Law Library Stacks KFC710.A56 C35
The California Law Revision Commission suggests revisions to California statutes. It posts most of its materials to its website:
California Law Revision Commission Reports (1955-)
California Law Revision Commission Tentative Recommendations (1977-)
California Law Revision Commission Staff Memoranda (List 1955-) (Full text 1997-)
California Occupational Safety and Health Appeals Board decisions were formerly available on the board's website but were first partially and then fully removed. They remain available through the Archive of the California Government Domain, CA.gov, Westlaw, Lexis, and Nexis Uni:
Decisions of the California Occupational Safety & Health Appeals Board (1999-2019) (Archive-It)
California Occupational Safety & Health Appeals Board Decisions (1974-) (Westlaw)
CA Occupational Safety & Health Appeals Board (1974-) (Lexis)
CA Occupational Safety & Health Appeals Board (1974-) (Nexis Uni)
Additionally, the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine preserves some decisions of individual administrative law judges formerly posted to the board's website:
Decisions on Occupational Safety & Health by Administrative Law Judges (2014-2019) (Wayback Machine)
About California Public Utilities Commission Decisions
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), formerly the Railroad Commission of the State of California, regulates electricity, natural gas, telecommunications, water, railroad, rail transit, and passenger transportation companies.
The publication and citation format for CPUC decisions is similar to the publication and citation format for California cases:
Decisions are published in both a California-specific official reporter (C.R.C. until 1946, Cal.P.U.C. afterwards) and in an unofficial reporter (Public Utilities Reports) that also includes decisions from other states.
Both the official and unofficial reporter are divided into series. So, for example, in the official reporter, Volume 84 (84 Cal.P.U.C.) is followed by 2nd Series, Volume 1 (1 Cal.P.U.C.2d) and 2nd Series, Volume 86 (86 Cal.P.U.C.2d) is followed by 3rd Series, Volume 1 (1 Cal.P.U.C.3d).
According to the California Style Manual, decisions should be cited to the official reporters in the format:
Matter of Truck Owners' Association (1938) 41 C.R.C. 184
SoCal Gas Co. (1983) 10 CaI.P.U.C.2d 773, 785
If a decision is not published in the official reporters, it should be cited by decision number in the format:
Southern California Edison Co. (1983) Cal. P.U.C. Dec. No. 83-09-007
California Style Manual § 1:22[D]
Finding California Public Utilities Commission Decisions
The most comprehensive, searchable collections of CPUC decisions and materials are available on Westlaw, Lexis, and Nexis Uni:
California Public Utilities Commission Decisions (1969-, Selected earlier coverage) (Westlaw)
Copies of CPUC decisions as published in the official reporter.
CA Public Utilities Commission Decisions (1950-, Selected coverage 1923-) (Lexis)
CA Public Utilities Commission Decisions (1950-, Selected coverage 1923-) (Nexis Uni)
Recent decisions and materials are also available on the CPUC website:
California Public Utilities Commission Decision Search Form (7/2000-)
California Teleconnect Fund Decisions and Resolutions (10/1996-)
California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) Documents (06/2000-)
A variety of documents posted by the CPUC, including documents e-filed by parties in CPUC proceedings, rulings, resolutions, general orders, and statistics on advice letters.
Older CPUC decisions are available in print and digitized on HathiTrust.
The UCLA Law Library owns a complete print set of the unofficial reporter until 2016:
Public Utilities Reports
Call Number: Law Library Stacks KF2085.A2 P8
Publication Date: 1st Series (1915) to 4th Series, Vol. 332 (2016)
The UCLA Law Library owns a complete print set of official reporters until 2000:
Decisions of the Railroad Commission of the State of California by Railroad Commission of the State of California
Call Number: Law Library Stacks KFC455 .A513
Publication Date: Vol. 1 (01/01/1911) to Vol. 46 (11/04/1946)
Decisions of the Public Utilities Commission of the State of California by California Public Utilities Commission
Publication Date: Vol. 47 (11/15/1946) to 3rd Series, Vol. 8 (11/5/2000)
Many of the official print reporter volumes have been digitized and made searchable on HathiTrust. However, because HathiTrust is extremely cautious about copyright, most decisions are not available as full text.
Decisions of the Railroad Commission of the State of California (Vol. 1, 1911-Vol. 46, 1946) (HathiTrust)
All volumes are searchable. Only Volumes 1 through 24 are available as full text.
Decisions of the Public Utilities Commission of the State of California (Vol. 49, 1949-Vol. 84, 1978) (HathiTrust)
Volumes are searchable but not available as full text.
Decisions of the Public Utilities Commission of the State of California (Scattered volumes, Vol. 51, 1951-3rd Series, Vol. 6, 2000) (HathiTrust)
All volumes are searchable. Only Volumes 51 through 74 are available as full text.
Precedential decisions by the California State Personnel Board are available on the agency website, Westlaw, Lexis, and Nexis Uni:
California State Personnel Board Precedential Decisions (1991-)
California State Personnel Board Decisions (1992-, Selected documents from 1991) (Westlaw)
State Personnel Board of the State of California (1991-) (Lexis)
State Personnel Board of the State of California (1991-) (Nexis Uni)
Non-precedential decisions are available on the agency website:
State Personnel Board Decisions Personal Services Contracts (1997-)
The California Victim Compensation Board (CalVCB) posts its precedent decisions and any decisions involving claims by erroneously convicted persons:
Index of Precedent Decisions
Claims for Erroneously Convicted Persons (PC4900)
Industrial Accident Commission
From 1911 to 1935, workers' compensation cases were decided by the Industrial Accident Commission and published in Reports of Decisions of the Industrial Accident Commission of the State of California.
IAC decisions are available in print at the law library and scanned on HathiTrust:
Report of decisions of the Industrial Accident Commission of the state of California (1911-1935)
Scans of IAC decisions, available as full text from 1911 to 1923. Decisions from 1923 to 1935 are keyword searchable but only allowing viewing of short search result snippets.
Report of decisions of the Industrial Accident Board and Industrial Accident Commission of the State of California
Call Number: Law Library Stacks KFC592.A553 C34
Workers' Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB).
Since 1936, workers' compensation cases have been heard through the following system:
A workers' compensation judge makes an initial decision.
The case is appealed to the seven member Workers' Compensation Appeals Board (WCAB). The case may be heard by a three board member panel, which produces a panel decision, or by the full seven member board, which produces an en banc decision. En banc decisions create binding precedent for panels and individual judges. Panel decisions are not binding precedent but particularly significant or noteworthy panel decisions may be published and cited as persuasive.
The case is appealed to the California Court of Appeals through a writ of review. If the court denies review, it can produce a non-binding writ denied summary. If the court grants review, the case proceeds to a California Court of Appeal decision and possibly a California Supreme Court decision, which are binding under the general rules of precedent that apply to cases.
Since 2013, disputes over the appropriate level of medical care an employer must provide to an injured worker have been referred to outside medical professionals who issue non-precedential Independent Medical Review decisions, deciding which treatments are appropriate.
Most significant workers' compensation decisions are published in Lexis' California Compensation Cases, which includes en banc opinions, selected panel decisions, writ denied summaries, and selected Independent Medical Review decisions. Lexis' California Compensation Cases are available on Lexis, Nexis Uni, and in print at the UCLA Law Library:
CA - California Compensation Cases (1936-) (Lexis)
CA - California Compensation Cases (1936-) (Nexis Uni)
California Compensation Cases
Call Number: Law Library Stacks KFC592.A553 C342
Many decisions published in California Compensation Cases are also available on the WCAB website and on Westlaw. Additionally, decisions and other WCAB materials that are not formally published in California Compensation Cases are increasingly becoming available online and in print:
CA - WCAB Noteworthy Panel Decisions (2004-) (Lexis)
Since 2004, Lexis has added additional panel decisions not published in California Compensation Cases, with an accompanying index.
CA - WCAB Noteworthy Panel Decisions (2004-) (Nexis Uni)
Nexis Uni also provides access to the additional panel decisions and accompanying index.
California Workers' Compensation Administrative Decisions & Underlying Documents (1981-) (Westlaw)
Westlaw provides searchable en banc and significant panel decisions from 1981 forward, writ denied summaries and underlying documents since 2007, and additional panel decisions since 2013.
Workers' Compensation Appeals Board Decisions (1997-)
The WCAB website posts PDFs of en banc and significant panel decisions since 1997.
Independent Medical Review (IMR) decisions (2013-)
The WCAB website posts IMR decisions since the program began in 2013.
Workers' Compensation Court Public Information Search
The WCAB website allows searching of its dockets. Users must identify their name, email, and purpose.
California Workers' Compensation Reporter
Publication Date: 1975 (Vol. 3, No.7)-
This monthly print newsletter is created by a small private publisher and includes cases not published in Lexis' more prominent California Compensation Cases.
Citing IAC and WCAB Decisions
According to the California Style Manual:
Workers' compensation decisions from 1911 to 1935 should be cited to Decisions of the Industrial Accident Commission, in the format Rabin v. Metzger (1934) 20 I.A.C. 20
If possible, workers' compensation decisions after 1936 should be cited to California Compensation Cases in the format Czarnecki v. Golden Eagle Insurance Company (1998) 63 Cal.Comp.Cases 742.
If a decision is not published in California Compensation Cases, it should be cited to the California Workers' Compensation Reporter in the format Smith v. ESIS, Inc. (1996) SBA 74576, 74580, 24 Cal. Workers' Camp. Rptr. 139.
California Style Manual § 1:22[B]
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SENATOR SHAPLEIGH, REPRESENTATIVE CAROL ALVARADO TO HOST PRESS CONFERENCE ON LEGISLATION TO BAN TRANS FAT IN TEXAS RESTAURANTS
"Texans cannot afford to suffer from the lingering health effects of heart disease, diabetes, and the other ailments caused by bad cholesterol intake. Many restaurants in the country, including a number of prominent chains already take responsibility for the foods they serve by eliminating trans fat from their menu. I applaud these good corporate citizens and look forward to the day when all of Texas is trans-fat free," Rep. Alvarado said.
AUSTIN - On Monday, April 6, 2009 at 11 a.m. in the Lt. Governor's Press Room in Austin, Senator Eliot Shapleigh (D-El Paso) and Representative Carol Alvarado (D-Houston) will host a press conference supporting legislation they filed to eliminate trans fat from the menus of Texas restaurants.
This legislative session, Senator Shapleigh filed SB 204 and Representative Alvarado filed HB 1523, which amend the Health and Safety Code to prohibit Texas restaurants from packaging, storing or using trans fat to prepare or serve food.
"Across Texas, a silent epidemic of obesity is shortening lives, raising health costs and putting more and more Texans at risk. With SB 204, we can make sure more Texans live strong—and healthy lives. In Austin, the support of the Texas Restaurant Association will help pass this key bill," Senator Shapleigh said.
Most of the trans fat Americans consume is artificial trans fat that comes from oil that has undergone partial hydrogenation, a process in which hydrogen is added to an oil to make it more solid. This process is used in most margarine or shortening.
SB 204 and HB 1523 propose a proactive ban on artificial trans fats in all Texas restaurants and would require that all prepared and served food items contain less than 0.5 grams for trans fat per serving.
Passage of these bills would go a long way in combating rising obesity rates across Texas.
According to the Texas Department of State Health Services, nearly 66 percent of adults in the state and 32 percent of high school students were overweight or obese in 2007. According to a Paso Del Norte Health Foundation report, more than 37 percent of El Pasoans were overweight in 2006, and another 27.2 percent were obese.
High obesity rates translate into enormous health costs from illnesses such as diabetes, heart disease, hypertension and high blood pressure. The Texas Department of Health has reported that economic costs related to obesity could reach as much as $39 billion by 2040.
Since filing SB 204, Senator Shapleigh has worked closely with the Texas Restaurant Association (TRA) to make sure the bill improves Texans' health without putting undue burden on Texas restaurants.
Also attending the press conference will be Representative Eddie Lucio III, Representative Veronica Gonzalez and Representative John Zerwas, along with representatives from the Texas Restaurant Association, the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association.
To combat childhood obesity, this session, Senator Shapleigh also filed SB 352, which prohibits school districts from providing meals to students that contains trans fat or that was prepared using another food that contains trans fat.
SB 204 has been referred to the Senate Committee on Health and Human Services.
SB 352 has been referred to the Senate Committee on Education. HB 1523 has been referred to the House Committee on Public Health.
What: Senator Eliot Shapleigh, Representative Carol Alvarado to host press conference supporting legislation to eliminate trans fat from Texas restaurants.
When: Monday, April 6, 2009 at 11 a.m.
Where: Lt. Governor's Press Room, Capitol Building, 2E.9
Click here to watch the full press conference.


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Chief Justice Mike McGrath wrote in Monday's ruling that "immediate implementation of the court's opinion will cause serious disruption" in the program.
"This is devastating for cancer patients, seizure victims, people in hospice, and other Montanans and their families across the state," said Kate Cholewa, a spokeswoman for the cannabis association.
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Archival Collections Portal > Rare Book & Manuscript Library > Sighle Kennedy papers, 1920s-1996, bulk 1963-1996
Sighle Kennedy papers, 1920s-1996, bulk 1963-1996
Series I: Correspondence, 1937-1992, bulk 1967-1992
Series II: Early scholarly work by Sighle Kennedy, 1963-1969
Series III: Scholarly material for projected Watt monograph, 1969-1996
Subseries III.1: Watt materials at the Humanities Research Center, University of Texas-Austin
Subseries III.2: Watt and other Beckett materials at other universities
Subseries III.3: Notes and drafts for the Watt monograph, undated
Subseries III.4: Notes and drafts for Watt monograph, 1969-1996
Subseries III.5: Assigned research material for Watt monograph, undated
Subseries III.6: Unassigned research material for Watt monograph, undated
Series IV: Scholarly material for related projects on Beckett, circa 1978-1996
Subseries IV.1: Beckett and Arnold Geulincx, 1985-1989
Subseries IV.2: Beckett and Dante, 1980-1996
Subseries IV.3: Beckett and James Joyce, 1978-1989
Subseries IV.4: Scholarly material on other writing by Beckett, 1929-1983, undated
Subseries IV.5: Notes and research material on Samuel Beckett, general, 1934-1996
Series V: Other scholarly and Beckett-related printed material, 1970-1996
Series VI: Published scholarly writing by Sighle Kennedy, 1970-1990
Subseries VI.1: Conference papers and proposals, 1979-1986
Subseries VI.2: Published articles, book reviews, and monograph, 1970-1990
Series VII: Audio and visual material, circa 1920s-1986
Subseries VII.1: Audio cassette tapes, 1966-1986
Subseries VII.2: Records, LP and Gramophone, circa 1920s-1966
Subseries VII.3: Visual Art and Related Material, undated
Subseries VII.4: Photographs, 1963-1974
Series VIII: Books Annotated by Sighle Kennedy
Subseries VIII.1: Books by Samuel Beckett in French
Subseries VIII.2: Books by Samuel Beckett in English
Subseries VIII.3: Books about Samuel Beckett
Subseries VIII.4: Books about James Joyce
Subseries VIII.5: Translation of Books by Dante
Subseries VIII.6: Books about Dante or Related to Kennedy's Dante Project
Subseries VIII.7: Other Books
The majority of the Sighle Kennedy Papers consists of notes, research materials and drafts related to Kennedy's scholarly work on Samuel Beckett's novels, plays, and poetry. Most of this material was produced or gathered from the 1970s–1990s, during which Kennedy worked as a professor in the English department at Hunter College in New York City. The Papers contain correspondence between Kennedy and Beckett from 1967-1988, as well as two autograph letters from Beckett to his relative Harry Sinclair, one written in 1937 and one in 1938. The correspondence also includes letters Kennedy wrote to and received from other Beckett scholars. A small number of audio recordings (including gramophone records from the 1920s), several prints, including four by the Irish artist Jack Butler Yeats, and a number of annotated books complete this collection.
Kennedy, Sighle
13.91 linear feet (21 document boxes 2 note card boxes 2 oversized boxes 4 record boxes)
English , Italian , French , German .
This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Reading Room. Please consult the Rare Book and Manuscript Library for further information.
The Papers are arranged by medium and by genre. The correspondence is arranged alphabetically by sender, while Kennedy's notes, drafts, and journals are arranged chronologically. In series IV-VII, dates in parentheses refer to the date the text was first produced or published; the date upon which Kennedy photocopied and/or annotated the text is very often unknown. Arranged in eight series.
The Papers contain scholarly research-related materials gathered and/or produced by Sighle Kennedy during her years as a graduate student in Columbia University's English department (1963-1969) and as a professor at Hunter College (1968-1985). These materials consist of handwritten notes, note cards, drafts (autograph and typed), photocopies, photographs and annotated scholarly journals and books related to Kennedy's work on Samuel Beckett, with lesser amounts on Joyce, Dante, and other writers in whom Kennedy was interested. The collection also includes correspondence between Kennedy and Beckett; letters to and from and other Beckett scholars, academic and trade publishers, and special collections librarians; copies of several articles published by Kennedy, and her book"Murphy's Bed". The Papers are completed by a small collection of audio materials used by Kennedy in her teaching; by a number of prints, including several by the Irish artist Jack Butler Yeats; and by four boxes of books annotated by Kennedy.
This series primarily consists of letters written to and from Kennedy during her scholarly career. Kennedy kept carbon copies of many of her own letters, including those she wrote to Samuel Beckett. (Kennedy had pasted her letters to Beckett in a protective binder, from which they have been removed and which left their pages striped by glue.) Other correspondents include: Mary Doll, Richard Ellman, John Fletcher, James Gilvarry, Stanley E. Gontarski, Lawrence E. Harvey, John Kelly, James Knowlson, A.J. Leventhal, Jérôme Lindon (of Les Éditions de Minuit, Beckett's French publisher), George O. Marshall, Jr., W. Kelly Morris and Richard Schechner (of the Tulane Drama Review), Eoin T. O'Brien, John Pilling, and representatives of the Columbia, Dartmouth, Ohio State, Texas, and Washington University Libraries, of the Modern Language Association, and scholarly publishers the Associated University Press, Bucknell University Press, and Princeton University Press. Of note are the letters from TDR's Morris and editor Schechner (later a professor at New York University and a major figure in the field of performance studies); they are two very harsh critiques of Kennedy's first journal article attempt. That Kennedy, then still a graduate student, kept the letters is illustrative of her character.
Also present in this series are two autograph letters from Beckett to his uncle's brother, Harry Sinclair, one written in October 1937 and one dated 2 February 1938, and one photocopy of a typed letter draft, in German, from Beckett to his friend Axel Kaun, dated 9 July 1937. The Sinclair letters were written during the time of the libel suit (eventually successful) brought against the Irish writer, politician, physician and wit Oliver St. John Gogarty for his portrayal of the Sinclair family in his 1937 memoir As I Was Going Down Sackville Street. Beckett's affidavit in the case was taken on 12 May 1937. The second letter reports on the status of Beckett's health following his hospitalization for a stab wound to his lung given to him on 7 January 1938 by a Parisian pimp, apparently for no reason. Beckett wrote the letter from the Hotel Liberia in Paris, where he was convalescing.
Located here is the scholarly work that Kennedy produced while in graduate school at Columbia University, including notebooks Kennedy filled while studying for her comprehensive exams, a typed carbon copy of her dissertation proposal, a leather-bound copy of her dissertation, and early drafts and a final copy of an unpublished 1966 article entitled "An Obscure Key to Waiting for Godot" (see Box 1, Folders 25 and 30 in the Correspondence series for letters related to this article).
This series contains materials gathered and produced by Kennedy during the long period in which she researched and drafted what she hoped would be a monograph on Beckett's development of Watt from manuscript to publication. Photocopies of literary and scholarly writings — here called "research materials" — have been separated from Kennedy's loose notes, notebooks and drafts. Many of the research materials are annotated by Kennedy.
Series IV houses notebooks, loose notes, note cards, drafts, and research materials on Beckett's relationships to other writers and thinkers. While these studies may have emerged from Kennedy's work on Watt — and in fact some of her Watt notes appear intermittently here — the projects seem to have eventually taken on a life of their own, and contributed to at least one of Kennedy's published articles and to another projected book (on Beckett and Dante).
Series V features printed programs for a number of events, including productions of plays by Beckett and other dramatists and for conferences devoted to Beckett's work. Also included here are printed materials on Padraic Colum, William Butler Yeats and A.J. (Con) Leventhal; documents gathered or produced by Kennedy for her teaching; and a few printed items (including maps) that she collected during trips to Ireland and France.
Series VI contains typed copies and off-prints of Kennedy's published scholarly work.
Housed in four record boxes are books annotated by Sighle Kennedy. Most are paperbacks.
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Sighle Kennedy papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Papers processed Jennifer Buckley, GSAS 2010 2007.
Finding Aid written by Jennifer Buckley November 2007.
Collection is processed to folder level.
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Sighle Aileen Kennedy was born on 27 July 1919 in the United States to parents who had emigrated from Ireland in the first decade of the twentieth century. She received her undergraduate degree from Manhattanville College. After spending eight years as a reporter for an architectural and engineering journal, and twelve years working for Catholic Relief Services in countries including South Korea, Kennedy began graduate studies in English literature at Columbia University in 1963.
At Columbia, Kennedy was advised by Professor William York Tindall, whom she later honored with an essay in the festschrift Modern Irish Literature (1972). The notebook she kept while reading for her comprehensive exams (Box 2, Folder 1)--part study aid, part diary--shows Kennedy to have been a sensitive, insightful and enthusiastic reader of modern English-language literature, one who was drawn very early in her scholarly career to the writings of Samuel Beckett. Her first comments on Watt, the 1953 Beckett novel that would become her scholarly preoccupation for the next thirty years, reveal Kennedy to have been both horrified by ("His visions are explicitly disgusting. Dear old Ireland--what have we done to ourselves?") and deeply interested in the book. Several entries in the notebook establish that Kennedy was a devout Catholic, one who took her religion seriously enough to question both her faith and behavior and the church as an institution. The diary also reveals the extent to which sexism pervaded academe in the era; one November 1963 entry briefly recounts a visit with a Columbia professor who, Kennedy reports, advised her that "teaching in a college... is something at which a woman is at a disadvantage." Nevertheless, Kennedy pressed on, passed her exams, and moved on to the dissertation stage.
By 1966, Kennedy had decided to make Beckett's writings the subject of her doctoral study, and in 1969 she was awarded the Ph.D. after completing her dissertation"Murphy's Bed: A Study of Real Sources and Sur-real Associations in Samuel Beckett's First Novel." The dissertation served as the first draft of her monograph, which was published in 1971 under the same title. Just before earning the Ph.D., Kennedy, ignoring her Columbia professor's advice, joined the faculty of Hunter College, one of the more prestigious institutions within the City University of New York system. She was an Assistant and then an Associate Professor in Hunter's English department from 1968-1985, teaching courses ranging from "Expository Writing" to "Women's Search for Self" to modern British literature surveys, to seminars on James Joyce and on Samuel Beckett.
In 1967, while working on her dissertation, Kennedy decided to write Beckett a letter related to her research on Murphy. Beckett answered, and he continued to answer her letters for the next twenty years, responding to her questions (to the extent that he ever answered anyone's questions about his writing) and giving her permission to reproduce selections from his unpublished manuscripts. During the early stages of her research for a planned monograph on Watt, Kennedy visited Paris, and met with Beckett for the first time in the summer of 1973. Though Kennedy's attitude towards Beckett was complicated--as would be the attitude of any scholar working with a living writer --the two appear to have gotten along well. Many of Beckett's letters to Kennedy reveal the warmth and generosity for which he was well known among friends and associates, but which was largely unsuspected by the reading public.
In the early 1970s, Kennedy decided that her second scholarly book would focus on Watt, and specifically on how the novel developed across the manuscript and typescript drafts. To that end, Kennedy traveled to libraries to gather material. The most important of these trips was her visit to the Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, which holds the notebooks in which Beckett wrote his first draft of Watt as well as the typescript of his revised version. While Kennedy produced an outline of her book's proposed structure and arranged some of her research materials and notes accordingly, she was unable to complete the monograph. An article-length version of the work was posthumously published through the efforts of her sister, Sr. Ethne Kennedy (1922-2005), in Dalhousie French Studies in 1998.
While teaching and intermittently working on the Watt project, Kennedy also published several scholarly articles on Beckett and on the connections between his work and that of Joyce and Dante. She appears to have taught herself to read Italian so as to read Dante's writings in their original language. Her research materials show that Kennedy had become increasingly interested in Beckett's philosophical influences, including the 17th century Flemish thinker Arnold Geulincx and the 19th century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer.
After Sighle Kennedy's death on 18 August 1996, Sr. Ethne Kennedy (of the Society of Helpers) completed a preliminary organization of her sister's research materials and work-related correspondence. Her handwriting is visible on the covers of many of Sighle Kennedy's notebooks, and in many cases her descriptions of their contents have been retained in this finding aid. Very little purely personal material is included in this collection, though a reading of Kennedy's notes, drafts, letters and especially her notebook entries reveals much about the delight she found in, and the sustenance she drew from, literature during three decades which appear to have been almost totally devoted to reading, research and teaching.


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Review: The Life History of the African Elephant
Stephen Hunt • Calgary Herald
Brian Jensen, David LeReaney and Barbara Gates-Wilson in 2000 production of The Secret Life of the African Elephant
The Life History of the African Elephant by Clem Martini
at Lunchbox Theatre through October 18
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Florence is a little bit anxious.
She's the neighbor (Barbara Gates-Wilson) who chases down zoo elephant trainer Glen (David LeReaney) in his lair, so to speak, one day to confess to accidentally driving through their mutually adjoining fence and flattening the shed in Glen's backyard.
Well – people have to meet somehow.
And Florence is pretty upfront about it – she has even brought along a whack of cash for Glenn to hold onto as a deposit on the repairs, as a way of buying his silence from reporting her mishap to the proper authorities.
All of this unfolds in one of the more improbable settings you're ever likely to see two lonely middle-aged people meet cute in: the elephant cage at the zoo, where Glen tends lovingly to a group of elephants, including Mkuki, who, we learn, has been depressed ever since the zoo traded away her baby for some birds and other lesser species, in an effort to diversify the collection.
The Secret Life of the African Elephant is Clem Martini's lovely ode to the relationship between Glen and his elephant that helps spawn a relationship with Florence.
Originally produced at Lunchbox in 1989, Elephant is being remounted as part of Lunchbox Theatre's 40th anniversary celebration, where they're bringing back a few of their old favourites – and in the case of The African Elephant, which has enjoyed numerous productions and been adapted into a film, it's easy to see why.
It's a charmer.
Featuring the show's original cast – Gates-Wilson, LeReaney and Brian Jensen as Florence's intellectual arsonist brother – and directed by Lunchbox founder Bartley Bard, The Secret Life of the African Elephant is a testimony to what's possible on a stage.
Partly, that's due to Martini's literate and engaging script – the African Elephant is full of words, many of them unwinding in a torrent delivered by Florence, or brother Phillip – or even muted Glen, who spends a large chunk of the show's first 20 minutes staring blankly as Florence talks up a tsunami.
Partly, it's due to the dynamite performances of all three actors, who all performed the original production way back when. (It was Jensen's professional theatre debut).
And partly, it's due to the clever minimalist set (by Terry Gunvordahl), which includes a six ton elephant. (Greatly aided by sound design from Dewi Wood).
Bard coaxes a trio of warm, relaxed – well, maybe relaxed is the wrong word – performances from Gates-Wilson, LeReaney and Jensen, all of whom take their time and let Martini's terrific script do the talking.
It turns out that Phillip, the jailbird arsonist, is an avid reader and the prison where he's a tenant has a terrific library, where he has learned enough about elephants to astound Glen, who immediately warms to him.
Getting close to Florence, a ceramicst who by all appearances spends a little too much time alone, takes more work – and it doesn't help that Glen is the kind of guy who would rather work overtime hanging out with an elephant than a human – but eventually, Florence reveals a history they both share that causes Glen to warm up to her, too.
The Life History of the African Elephant might be 25 years old, but thanks to Martini's deft playwriting, it feels oh so very 2014.
Go see it.
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