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Google backs AV-maker Nuro in latest $600M funding round
Tiger Global Management leads series D round
Jack Daleo
· Tuesday, November 02, 2021
The Nuro R2, pictured, became the first AV to test delivery on public streets last year (Photo: Nuro)
Autonomous vehicle maker Nuro on Tuesday announced a $600 million financing round led by Tiger Global Management to develop and deploy its robot delivery network nationwide. Notably, the series D included new participation from Alphabet property Google and grocery retailer Kroger.
In total, Nuro has now raised over $2 billion to reach a valuation of about $8.6 billion, an anonymous source familiar with the round told TechCrunch. The robo-delivery company's previous funding round brought in $500 million from T. Rowe Price Associates, Fidelity Management and Research Co. LLC (NYSE: FIS) and Chipotle (NYSE: CMG), among others.
Nuro also revealed Tuesday that it will enter into a five-year partnership with Google Cloud. That collaboration will improve the machine learning capabilities of Nuro's robots, store and organize data from the vehicles, and scale the company's capacity to run self-driving simulations.
"We're thrilled to have the backing of these prominent investors and world class companies and honored that they support our vision of improving communities and revitalizing local commerce," said Dave Ferguson, Nuro co-founder and president. "We believe this investment will allow us to accelerate our commercialization strategy and better everyday life with Nuro's technology."
Nuro has been busy over the past calendar year. A month after securing series C funding last November, it acquired trucking technology startup Ike, founded by veterans of Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) and Uber's (NYSE: UBER) Advanced Technologies Group. Just a couple months after that, Nuro became the first autonomous delivery company to test on public roads in the U.S.
Since then, Nuro has partnered with Domino's (NYSE: DPZ) to deliver pizzas in Houston with its second-generation R2, the first AV to receive an exemption from the U.S. Department of Transportation. The company then made its first inroads into parcel delivery through a collaboration with FedEx (NYSE: FDX). Prior to that partnership, Nuro had focused on deliveries of medical supplies with CVS (NYSE: CVS) and groceries with Walmart (NYSE: WMT) and Kroger (NYSE: KR).
"Kroger launched its partnership with Nuro in 2018 to explore grocery delivery through autonomous vehicles," said Yael Cosset, senior vice president and chief information officer for Kroger. "Since then, Kroger and Nuro completed thousands of deliveries to our customers — driving innovation that supports our expanding seamless ecosystem by creating consistent and rewarding customer experiences with scalable, sustainable and profitable solutions."
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Nuro only plans on ramping things up from here. In August, it announced an investment of $40 million toward building its first U.S. manufacturing and testing facilities in southern Nevada. Expected to be finished in 2022, the manufacturing facility will comprise 125,000 square feet of space and will be able to produce tens of thousands of Nuro's upcoming third-generation AV.
The testing facility, described as a "world-class closed-course test track," will take up more than 74 acres of Las Vegas Motor Speedway to develop and validate Nuro's robots before they hit public roads. Both facilities are expected to be fully operational in 2022.
With companies like Amazon shifting consumer expectations closer and closer to instant delivery, AVs figure to play a prominent role in the last mile going forward. According to research from Facts and Factors, the AV market is poised to grow at a compound annual rate of over 20% through 2026, when it will reach a projected value of $55 billion. And while there are currently no overarching federal regulations for AVs, members of Congress are pushing to implement them.
"The arrival of ubiquitous on-demand e-commerce is changing the way we access goods. Demand for local deliveries is exploding. Nuro is the bridge to an era of sustainable, low-cost, autonomous local delivery," said Griffin Schroeder, partner at Tiger Global.
With the additional $600 million in funding from Tiger Global, Google, Kroger and others, Nuro plans on expanding its team and advancing its technology at its planned Nevada facilities to deploy delivery robots commercially at scale.
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Jack is a staff writer for FreightWaves and Modern Shipper covering topics like last mile delivery and e-commerce fulfillment. He studied at Northwestern University, majoring in journalism with a certificate in integrated marketing communications. Previously, Jack has written for Backpacker Magazine and enjoys travel, the outdoors, and all things basketball.


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3 Things That Women Say Yes to that Undermine their Impact at Work
'I'll do it' may be costing you your career
By Deborah Grayson RiegelPresentation and communications skills expert@deborahgriegel
Most of us hope that our colleagues and bosses see us as helpful. Helping in the workplace has been recognized as an important and desirable organizational behavior for decades, from both an interpersonal relationship perspective as well as a business productivity perspective.
When we're helpful, we contribute positively to the social and emotional fabric of the company, as well as to the capacity of the organization to meet, and even exceed, business goals.
It's easy to infer that helpful people are likable people, and that likable people get ahead. For women, however, being likable can be a double-edged sword. Women are rarely perceived as competent and likable simultaneously. In fact, according to Sylvia Ann Hewlett, founding president of the Center for Talent Innovation and author of Executive Presence and Winning the War for Talent in Emerging Markets, "The likability-versus-competence tradeoff is arguably the most tenacious, as well as pernicious, double bind that women in leadership confront."
One of the ways that women undermine the perception of their competence at work is by engaging in what Harvard Business School Professor Rosebeth Moss Kanter calls "office housework." These are the administrative tasks that help keep projects running but don't pay off from a career perspective. Activities range from picking up for the monthly birthday cake and collecting signatures for get-well cards to answering the phone in conference calls and checking to make sure there's fresh coffee for the meeting.
Joan C. Williams, co-author of What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know, says that women are "often asked to play the selfless good citizen" because they are "taking on assignments that men don't want or that the organization doesn't highly reward." A man who doesn't do these tasks is considered "busy," while a woman who doesn't do these is considered "selfish."
Another name for these kinds of activities makes their impact (or lack thereof) even more clear: non-promotable tasks.
According to research conducted at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Melbourne, and the University of Pittsburgh, "workers who spend more time on non-promotable tasks are held back from demonstrating their full potential. If this burden falls disproportionately on women, not only is their advancement stymied, but also corporations miss out on capturing valuable talent."
Of course, regardless of gender, you don't need every single thing you do to directly contribute to your path to promotion. However, you do want to make sure that you're not sacrificing career advancement opportunities for nice-but-not-that-important tasks. If you're a man, research shows that you're more likely to be taking advantage of the former, and expecting--or even asking--women to do the latter.
Stop doing that.
And if you're a woman, you're more likely to regularly volunteer for these jobs. Stop putting your hand up. Or, if asked to do one of these tasks, say, "I've done this in the past, and I'm ready for someone else to do this next time/moving forward."
Then stop talking.
Does this mean you should never offer to be helpful? Absolutely not. Does it mean that you should consider how doing "office housework" impacts your leadership brand, your reputation, your discretionary time--and the implicit messages you're sending to other women, and men? That's a firm yes.
Here are three non-promotable meeting tasks that women should offer to do less, and that men should volunteer for more:
1. Catering
This includes ordering the birthday cake, setting up the food for a meeting that you're attending (or leading), making the coffee and ensuring that everyone has his or her preferred milk/milk substitute and sugar/sugar substitute, passing the menu around for everyone to select his or her lunch order, and making sure that the leftover snacks make it to the break room.
2. Taking notes
This ranges from taking minutes (or whatever today's version of that is) to writing on a flip chart or white board while someone else is speaking. And while we're at it, let's add passing out papers and scrambling to get pens for those who didn't bring anything with which to write.
3. Volunteering for a follow-up
Someone is going to need to send around those meeting notes. Someone is going to need to send out due dates and reminders. Someone is going to need to chase people who missed those deadlines. It's going to get uncomfortable while everyone waits for someone to raise her hand. Let it be uncomfortable.
It's time to dismantle the stereotype that "women take care, and men take charge"--especially if your organization is committed to hiring, retaining, and promoting the most qualified employees.
Published on: Nov 13, 2018

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120 years ago today - Mar 14, 1899; Tuesday
The First Presidency received a call from Sisters Elmina S. Taylor and Maria Y. Dougall, who bore letters from Sister Susa Young Gates, informing them that Mrs. May Wright Sewall, President of the National Woman's Council of America, had invited Sister Gates to become a delegate to the Quinquennial International Council of Women, to be held in London [England] next June. Sister Gates and Sisters Taylor and Dougall as well, desired to know the mind of the Presidency upon this point. They felt that Sister Gates should accept the appointment. The subject assigned her is the same on which she spoke at the Trans-Mississippi Council of Women, namely, Household Economics, and because of the able manner in which she handled it on that occasion, Mrs. Sewall wanted her to speak upon it at the London Council. ...
Sister Anna, a Sandwich Island girl, who went to Washington [D.C.] with other sisters to attend the Council of Women, called and thanked the Presidency for sending her. She brought a message from Queen Lil- ex-monarch of Hawaii, who wished her to say to the Presidency that her presence and her speech in the Council had done more good for the Sandwich Island people than anything else on that occasion.
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Denis Arndt Joins Straight White Men
Mark A. Robinson | June 25, 2018
Denis Arndt, Tony-nominee for his performance in the Broadway production of Heisenberg, has joined the cast of Young Jean Lee's Straight White Men. Arndt, who replaces Tom Skerritt who has departed the production for personal reasons, will join a cast that includes Josh Charles, Armie Hammer, Kate Bornstein, Ty Defoe, and Paul Schneider. Straight White Men is directed by Anna D. Shapiro. The production is produced by Second Stage Theatre.
Denis Arndt portrayed Alex Priest in Simon Stephen's Heisenberg at Manhattan Theatre Club. Among his many and varied theatre credits, Arndt has appeared in The Ballad of Soapy Smith, Richard II (Public Theatre), both in New York City. His regional credits include productions at the Geffen Playhouse, Seattle Rep, Arizona Theatre Company, Alley Theatre, A Contemporary Theatre, The Studio Theatre, Artists Repertory, Kansas City Rep, Mark Taper Forum, Intiman, Arena Stage, Goodman Theatre. TV audiences will recognize him from appearances on Mr. Mercedes, The Good Fight, Grey's Anatomy, Supernatural, Boston Legal, 24, The Practice and CSI. Films include Basic Instinct, Distant Thunder, and How to Make an American Quilt, as well as several others.
Straight White Men, which begins previews at the Helen Hayes Theater on Friday, June 29, 2018 toward a Monday, July 23 opening is described as follows: "It's Christmas Eve, and Ed has gathered his three adult sons to celebrate with matching pajamas, trash talking, and Chinese takeout. But when a question they can't answer interrupts their holiday cheer, they are forced to confront their own identities. Obie Award-winning playwright Young Jean Lee takes a hilariously ruthless look at the classic American father-son drama. This is one white Christmas like you've never seen before."
Playwright Young Jean Lee holds the distinction of being the first Asian-American female playwright to be produced on Broadway. Anna D. Shapiro will be making her Second Stage directorial debut with this production. The Artistic Director of Steppenwolf Theatre, Ms. Shapiro won a Tony Award for her direction of August: Osage County in 2008. The rest of the creative team for Straight White Men will include scenic design by Todd Rosenthal, costume design by Suttirat Larlarb, lighting design by Donald Holder, sound design by M.L. Dogg, choreography by Faye Driscoll and casting by Telsey + Company.
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Is Alexander Ovechkin a Russian spy working in Washington, D.C.? The facts suggest YES.
NHLOpinionBy SportsPickle on February 15, 2017 February 15, 2017
There is Russian espionage afoot in our nation's capital. But while the mainstream media focuses on the Donald Trump administration and its actions in the past days, weeks and months, no one has looked into Russian spying in Washington that is not tied to President Trump. Well, no one save this media organization that is.
What follows are simply FACTS about Washington Capitals left wing Alexander Ovechkin. You can draw your own conclusions after you digest this very damning information.
FACT #1: Alexander Ovechkin and Vladimir Putin have very close ties. See the photo below. They are practically best friends.
FACT #2: Vladimir Putin became president of Russia on May 7, 2000. One year later, an impressionable 16-year old Alexander Ovechkin began playing professional hockey for Dynamo Moscow — located in the very same city as the Kremlin. In fact, the Kremlin and the Dynamo's home arena are just 9.4 km apart. It would have been easy for Putin to groom the young hockey star for a future in the United States.
FACT #3: In 2001, U.S. president George W. Bush said the following of Putin after meeting the Russian leader: "I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy. We had a very good dialogue. I was able to get a sense of his soul; a man deeply committed to his country and the best interests of his country." Putin surely sensed weakness in Washington. Weakness he could exploit to Russia's advantage.
FACT #4: Alexander Ovechkin became eligible for the 2004 NHL Draft, which just so happened to be a year in which the Washington Capitals had the No. 1 overall pick. Making good money in Russia and with an NHL lockout looming , Ovechkin could have stated he would refuse to sign with the Capitals — a historically awful franchise with weak fan support located in a hockey apathetic section of the country — but instead he allowed himself to be selected by the team located in that nation's capital. Interesting, to say the least.
FACT #5: The task for any spy working in plain view is to blend into the local community so people trust them and never suspect what they're up to. So what did Ovechkin do upon arrival in Washington, D.C.? He quickly became the most popular player in Capitals history.
FACT #6: In 2008, Ovechkin signed a 13-year contract to stay with the Capitals. THIRTEEN YEARS. A player of his talent could have signed for any team, teams with championship heritage in bigger and better hockey markets, yet he seemed quite adamant about staying put in the U.S. capital for as long as possible. Curious.
FACT #7: Alexander Ovechkin is a skilled hockey player … but one who has essentially not improved his game at all since arriving in Washington, D.C. He scored his career high in points in 2008 and hasn't scored more than 85 points in a season since 2010. He stands on the point and fires one-timers on the power play. He rarely back-checks. He is a finished product. So if Ovechkin isn't working to improve his game in Washington, what exactly is he doing there in all the time he's not on the ice?
FACT #8: Huh.
With the First Lady! http://yfrog.com/h2yz4ndj
— Alex Ovechkin (@ovi8) April 1, 2011
FACT #9: Despite his hockey skill and the fact that he plays on talented teams every year, Ovechkin has NEVER advanced beyond the 2nd Round of the playoffs in ELEVEN YEARS in the NHL. How is that possible? It's also odd that his production drops off every year in the postseason, no? But by getting bounced out of the playoffs early ever year, Ovechkin gives himself two extra months each spring to do … other things in Washington, D.C. What might they be?
FACT#10: Living a double life is a very stressful existence. Ovechkin's hair turned gray in his twenties. Coincidence?
FACT #11: While meeting with the First Lady is surely one way to try to secure state secrets, no spy would stop there. In the Spring of 2016 — at the very same time Putin was attempting to hack the U.S. election — Ovechkin infiltrated the halls of Congress.
FACT #12: All spies know that a great way to get their hands on information is to create a diversion. Well, when Ovechkin was in the office of Senator John Thune last March, he BROKE THE SENATOR'S CHAIR.
FACT #13: Sen. Thune is on the Senate Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety and Security. You think a spy would want to get his hands on information about U.S. SAFETY and SECURITY? Yeah, probably.
FACT #14: Ovechkin also made his way into Congress in December of 2013.
FACT #15: Oh, guess what? That visit by Ovechkin to the halls of power came just months after then-President Obama cancelled scheduled talks with Putin. Bent on revenge much, Vladimir?
FACT #16: When questioned about their allegiances, spies will always deny, deny, deny. Here is Ovechkin when asked by CNN in January 2017 on his thoughts on Russia's tampering with the U.S. election:
"I have a good relationship with Russians, and with Americans. So I'm neutral."
FACT #17: Alexander Ovechkin has never won a Stanley Cup and Stanley Cup champions get invited into the White House. Is that because he is a flawed player? Yes, no doubt. But it's also very likely that Putin decided he didn't need Ovechkin in the White House when he could just put Donald Trump there.
Those are the facts.
Now you decide.
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Willem Jackson (born 26 March 1972 in Bloemfontein, Free State) is a retired South African footballer who played as defender. A fullback capable of lining up on either flank, he played mostly for Bloemfontein Celtic and Orlando Pirates.

Jackson also played for South Africa, earning 18 caps, and was a part of the squad that travelled to France for the 1998 FIFA World Cup. During the tournament, he appeared in the first-round matches against France and Saudi Arabia, starting both matches at right back. Jackson made his international debut against France on 11 October 1997. His final international appearance came on 29 April 2001, a 3–0 victory over Mozambique in the COSAFA Castle Cup.

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Nestle into a cozy couch as author Barbara K. Richardson reveals the value of a flashlight and the passage of (decades of) time in writing a historical ancestral Western epic. Yes, it's a "Between the Covers" guest blog for Denver's Tattered Cover Bookstore.
At age 36, fresh out of graduate school with a bunch of dead poems and a despondent heart, I had a visitation. Clair and Ada, my two main characters, came riding out of the Void and descended together in a dream. They chatted and revealed themselves and their lives in early Utah, and took up nightly habitation.
These women had a mission. They wanted to be on the page. They knew a greenhorn novelist has a lot to unlearn. Namely, the literary control I'd spent my MFA years perfecting would make writing about my Mormon ancestors nearly as much fun as pushing wet concrete up a slide.
Perfectionism, polishing, cleverness, language for language's sake, intelligence and the desire to be profound—all these went overboard in the first twelve years of writing my novel Tributary, which just hit bookstore shelves this September. I actually remember the pleasure of not remembering grammatical rules. Of not caring whether I came across as literary. Of cutting pretty writing to get to the goods. Of following a character's heart which blazed out of the Void with its own sure track into little black marks that indicated its presence on a page where others could find it . . .
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My disabled children required more assistance than their able-bodied brothers, but a lot can be said for children who are non-verbal and independently mobile. Truthfully, in certain social situations, I have looked at my Mary, and from the expression on her face, I was grateful that she could not express what she was thinking.
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In 2003, my able-bodied son John was driving a fuel truck for the United States Army in the war with Iraq, on roads set with improvised explosive devices. Having fully expected to bury two of my children as some point in my life, I was fearful it would include one child I expected to outlive me. He came home safely and completed his service to his country.
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Pandemic affects everyone, especially autistic kids
Children with autism at The New England Center for Children are having to adapt to daily new routines with the help of staff. (Contributed photo)
Coronavirus, or COVID-19 , has ground most of daily life to a halt for weeks. Small businesses are shut down. Children aren't going to school. People are confined to their homes clinging tightly to toilet paper and hand sanitizer.
Globally, there are more than two million cases of the virus with tens of thousands of deaths. The United States has hundreds of thousands of cases with hotspots in areas of New York and Massachusetts and growing pockets in the South and Midwest. But when it comes to issues surrounding the coronavirus, there is one thing that's been largely overlooked: kids with autism. They need one-on-one care and education. This pandemic has made that nearly impossible.
For children who thrive on structure and routine, going with the flow is not an easy request. Upending a carefully constructed schedule can make them unsettled and even aggressive. Kids on the spectrum have a broad range of behavioral and learning disabilities—some are more high functioning while others are completely non-verbal.
How do you make a non-verbal child understand that they can't leave their home for the foreseeable future?
"Autistic kids have a preference for sameness and predictability. You need to help them make a transition into a new routine." --Jessica Sassi, Ph.D, BCBA-D, LABA, clinical director, The New England Center for Children
Based in Southborough, Mass., The New England Center for Children (NECC) knows first-hand how difficult this epidemic has been for families and their staff. NECC Clinical Director Jessica Sassi, Ph.D, BCBA-D, LABA, said they've been working hard to help families adapt to this change.
"Autistic kids have a preference for sameness and predictability. You need to help them make a transition into a new routine," she said. "Because this is such a shift, there will be predictable anxiety, disappointment, and acting out or disruptive tantrums."
NECC operates 15 homes across six towns within the greater Boston area serving close to 140 children, teenagers, and young adults. Some kids are registered in their day school while others are residential.
Right now, the residential children can't leave the premises. At best, they can reach their families through FaceTime or Zoom. For Roberta Biscan whose 15-year-old son is at the residential school, that's been particularly challenging.
"I can't even see my own son," she said. "He continually asks, 'Why can't I come home?' It's heartbreaking."
Biscan, who works for Dedham-based Riverside Community Care helping mentally ill patients, knows that staying in residence is the safest thing right now. But her son doesn't understand why it has completely disrupted his schedule.
He has come home every single weekend—until now. As a single parent, she doesn't know how she'd manage with her job and her other kids if her son had to be dismissed from the residential school because of the virus. As it is, she knows a number of families are doing their best to adjust with autistic children at home and it hasn't been easy.
"Kids on the spectrum really rely on what's coming next," she said. "Without structure, they get dysregulated. They can't predict. They are literal, concrete thinkers. They need consistency. As much as they may try, parents can't provide that all the time."
Biscan said she can't imagine how tough this situation must be for the staff at NECC. Joshua Jackson, a program specialist who works with teens at NECC's residential school, could tell her. They've tried to maintain structure and routine as much as possible. They've developed specific schedules so that each student has an hourly activity including academics and behavioral programming.
While that's working for now, there's a downside. Some of the kids have had a difficult time not going to school. Part of the problem is there's no end date. No one is sure when kids will be going back. But Jackson said there is a silver lining.
"It's made things a little simpler. It has taken out the variables that happen during the day like going into the classroom, going to the gym, or the pool," he said. "I have had some students decrease their challenging behavior."
Both Biscan and Jackson noted that even if the kids on the spectrum get used to this routine, they will most likely have to reimplement some lessons once they return. As Biscan put it, no one was prepared for this situation to turn out the way it did and it will have repercussions.
"I think when this is all over, kids will struggle getting back to their routine because it will be different than the one they've gotten used to at home," she explained. "These kids will have significant regression, academically and behaviorally. Everyone is going to have to start over."
Sassi agreed. "There is a risk of regression if we don't continue to maintain what they've learned. It's going to be a challenge. Some kids may be able to stay on point but other kids may have more difficulty. We may have to recover some territory when we come back."
So what can you do in the meantime? Sassi said keep it simple. Focus on what you can do, not what you can't. Try to provide as much of a regular structured day as possible—get up at the same time every day, section out the day for academics and leisure time—so kids know what to expect. Giving them a predictable routine that will help them adapt to the change can make their life, and yours, a whole lot easier.
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Everald Compton
The Vision and Politics of Nation Building
EVERALD@LARGE
A BEAUTIFUL SUNSET
DINNER WITH THE FOUNDING FATHERS
THE MAN ON THE TWENTY DOLLAR NOTES
Age Pension Adequacy Report
AGE PENSION TRIBUNAL OF AUSTRALIA
Blueprint for an Ageing Australia
ATEC Rail Group Ltd.
Landmark Water Project
THE SHARED GOOD
CONTINUING THE WORK OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS
On January 27, 2021 By Everald ComptonIn Elections, History, Uncategorized
HELP SEND THREE PETITIONS TO THE AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT
Many of my Facebook friends have read my book DINNER WITH THE FOUNDING FATHERS and have expressed interest in helping to upgrade the work of the Founders of our nation by advocating constitutional changes that modern Australia needs 120 years later.
If you have not yet read my book, I invite you to do so and then consider offering your help also.
I reckon that we can only get three changes through at a Referendum at any one time.
So, here are three for your consideration, outlined in the form with which they can be presented to Parliament.
Continue reading "CONTINUING THE WORK OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS" →
Federal Government must do more for growing population of ageing Australians
On October 3, 2016 By Everald ComptonIn Community and Values, Everald Posts 2016, Funding and Finance, Government, Seniors, Uncategorized10 Comments
GREY POWER article in Courier Mail QWeekend, October 1-2,2016 By GRANTLEE KIEZA
It's high noon in Canberra as Everald Compton gets ready to march toward the microphone and into battle at the National Press Club. A few weeks short of his 85th birthday, he's still hitting his stride. As Compton adjusts his blue and white diamond-patterned tie, straightens the jacket of his dark blue power suit and runs a hand over his shining white hair, there's a touch of the statesman about him.
He is a veteran campaigner who has been shaking the hands of prime ministers since 1956 and twisting their arms for the past 40 years, fighting for increases in the pension and spreading his message that grey is gold – that elderly Australians are a priceless asset.
Of all the prime ministers he has met, Bob Menzies and Gough Whitlam were the most commanding, while at the other end of the spectrum he thought Billy McMahon was a "silly little bloke" – the worst prime minister he had encountered until he met Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott.
He hopes to channel some of Menzies and Gough today. Watching on, the moderator at the Press Club address, David Speers, Sky Channel's political editor, remarks: "When Everald Compton is on the warpath, both sides of politics need to watch out."
Compton casts an eye over the lunchtime audience in the large dining room and as he takes centre stage behind the lectern and adjusts the discreet hearing aid in his left ear, he outlines the reasons why Malcolm Turnbull not only has to appoint a special minister for ageing Australians but why the whole age pension system needs overhauling. There are 1.5 million aged pensioners in Australia, he says, and a third of them are living on or below the poverty line, mashing their food because they can't afford dental care or missing meals so they can pay their rent.
"The age pension in Australia is clearly inadequate," he says, "and the Government of Australia has to face up to it."
He holds up a report labelled "The Adequacy of the Age Pension in Australia" that he and a team of researchers have been working on for 12 months. He says it should have been titled "The Inadequacy of the Age Pension".
Back in 1908, Compton says, Alfred Deakin and Andrew Fisher, who both served as prime ministers that year, "got together and set the age for the pension at 65 because that's the age when they reckoned most people would be dead, and they were going to give the age pension to anyone who survived". He says the pension rate was then £26 a year because that's all the government could afford.
"There was no other scientific calculation involved. Down the years governments have made adjustments on whether they need to win an election, but they have never done an economic study to see what it really costs a pensioner to live." Compton says many pensioners are giving up their phones and their computers because they can't afford the $40 monthly bill – "so we are entering an age of technology where pensioners are going to be cut off from essential medical services".
For the past year, Compton's not-for-profit group the Longevity Innovation Hub, along with Australia's oldest charity, the Benevolent Society, and the research think tank Per Capita, have been researching the needs of pensioners, holding focus groups and public meetings around the country. His research shows the need for "an independent tribunal set up by an act of Parliament that takes the whole pension out of the budget and out of political and election places". Parliamentarians, he says, have a similar tribunal to decide their own salaries and never question the findings. Making the pension adequate and fair, he says, would cost the Federal Government $2 billion, but it could save $8 billion a year by cutting out middle-class welfare and negative gearing. Even if that meant a decline in the value of the home at Aspley, about 13km north of Brisbane's CBD, where he and his wife Helen, 78, live, Compton says it's a bullet he'll take for the team.
We're sitting in the study of that neat, lowset Aspley home two days after Compton's speech. He's behind the desk where, with a tumbler of good Scotch beside him and one finger working tirelessly, he tapped out a biography of his hero, the Reverend John Flynn. He wrote The Man on the Twenty Dollar Notes while winding down from a schedule that includes fighting for the pensioners, consulting on an inland railway from Melbourne to Darwin, writing regularly on his blog, tweeting voraciously under the handle @EVERALDATLARGE, advising on the cattle business, and raising funds for the Uniting Church in Aspley, where he and Helen are both elders.
Already on the day Everald talks to The Courier-Mail, he has had breakfast in Brisbane with Cloncurry cattleman Don McDonald, whose properties cover a land mass bigger than Belgium, and who is backing the inland railway. He followed that with a public meeting with pensioners at Mt Gravatt, in Brisbane's south, hosted by the State Member for Mansfield, Ian Walker. Then it was lunch with a researcher to discuss affordable housing.
Helen is constantly amazed at her husband's workload but Compton swears Flynn's spirit is beside him, urging him to fight for disadvantaged Australians.
"Flynn was always a hero from my earliest childhood memories," he says. "My mother took me to Sunday school at age three and I've been going to church ever since."
Compton was born in Toowoomba and grew up in the logging villages of Linville and Monsildale in the Brisbane Valley. When the local mill closed, his father, Herbert, moved the family to Toowoomba for work at the KR smallgoods factory.
Herbert was descended from a British convict and Compton's mother, Thelma, was the granddaughter of a Lutheran missionary sent from Germany with the charter to "remove sin from the continent of Australia". John Flynn became Compton's idol and exemplar.
"The sheer scope of what he achieved is staggering," he says. "Back in 1912 the Presbyterian Church said to him, 'we are going to make you the head of the Australian Inland Mission to look after the bush' – which was 80 per cent of the continent. They thought he was going to build churches but he went out to spread the word by building a mantle of safety. He built hospitals, started the Flying Doctors and School of the Air. He was a true nation-builder and we don't have nation-builders like him any more."
Compton says writing the book kept his brain constantly firing. "I believe someone who remains active like me will live five years longer," he says. "The more people who keep working into their later years means less money the government has to find for pensions. And the longer a person works, the more money is going into their super fund so they have a better life.
"I'm on a board of directors of a cattle company that I have a minor interest in. All the others on the board are 40, and I'm almost 85. They keep referring to my experience, and that situation should be replicated all over Australia. Every company with young turks should have an old guy on the board, provided they are willing to learn new ways."
At the National Press Club, Jo Toohey, chief executive of the Benevolent Society, follows Compton to the stage and tells the audience that for many pensioners, the daily challenges of medical bills, paying rent or hiring tradespeople are "hugely amplified".
"This has an enormous effect on their health and wellbeing." Out of their pension, she says – a maximum basic rate of $797.90 a fortnight for a single person and $1203 for couples – they have to pay the basics first, so even a dental visit becomes "an extraordinary event". Australia's minimum wage is nearly double the age pension. The lowest-paid Member of Parliament receives almost 10 times the amount. "The poverty line in Australia is $851 a fortnight," Toohey says. "If you're a single person receiving the age pension without any rent assistance because you own your own home – which is quite possibly falling down around you – then your living income is $56 below the poverty line. That's one-third of age pensioners."
Many pensioners, she says, switch off their hot water for months because they can't afford the electricity. "We are a rich country, the fifth-richest in the world (according to OECD wealth-distribution figures) yet we allow a third of our pensioners to live at or below the poverty line."
Compton watches his confederate speak. He has the look of a general commanding troops in attack.
John Flynn knew how to build partnerships with people who could help him, Compton says. He had Hudson Fysh, the founder of Qantas, and fundraisers such as cattleman Sidney Kidman, farm machinery manufacturer H. V. McKay, and author Jeannie Gunn.
Compton started his partnership with Helen when he was 25 and president of the Presbyterian Fellowship for Brisbane. He was at a church camp at Alexandra Headland on the Sunshine Coast. He made a speech to farewell a missionary heading to Vanuatu, cracked a joke and saw a girl in the crowd smile at the remark.
That was 60 years ago. They have four children – Wendy, 57, a high-school teacher in Brisbane; Robyn, 55, a dietitian in Melbourne; Paul, 52, a banker in London, and Lyndel, 49, a cancer nurse at Swindon, also in England. Each of his four children has two of his or her own.
Compton worked at the smallgoods factory, then the Commonwealth Bank in Toowoomba, and studied at night to become an accountant. When he was 24 he heard that the Presbyterian Church was looking for a fundraiser to help build St Andrew's War Memorial Hospital on Wickham Terrace in inner Brisbane's Spring Hill.
He was so successful at tapping wealthy old Scotsmen on the shoulder that he soon set up his own fundraising company, which became Everald Compton International. He ran it for 40 years, establishing offices in Brisbane, Wellington in New Zealand, Johannesburg, Vancouver and London. He raised money for politicians across the spectrum – Gough Whitlam, John Howard, Bob Hawke and Joh Bjelke-Petersen. He met Joh's future wife, Flo, when she was Florence Gilmour and teaching bible classes at St Andrew's on Creek St, in Brisbane's CBD. He ran campaigns for the restoration of English cathedrals – at Ely, Worcester, Gloucester, Winchester and Portsmouth – and raised money for South Africa's Progressive Federal Party, which eventually helped to free Nelson Mandela.
All along Compton wanted to help a group in Australia he saw as being especially needy and in 1976 was one of the founders of National Seniors Australia, which boasts 250,000 members.
Since then, he has lobbied prime ministers for a better deal for older Australians and built three retirement villages – Compton Gardens at Aspley, Comptons at Caboolture, and Brookland Village at southside Sunnybank.
In 2009 he negotiated with then-federal treasurer Wayne Swan, his local member, an increase to the single pension of about $33, but he says much more is needed now to provide the elderly with a decent standard of living.
Compton gives a series of media interviews after his address to the National Press Club and talks over his ideas with Labor powerbroker Anthony Albanese. He ends the night tweeting: "Quiet scotch after 11 hours with #Pension Study Team … A small step towards justice for pensioners".
Back at home with Helen in Aspley, he's preparing for an open day at the nearby Bald Hills mosque to strengthen ties with his neighbourhood's Muslim community. It is a rapidly changing world. He recently tweeted: "As committed Elder of my #Church can I say we have no right to say a word re #samesexmarriage in light of our infamous record on #childabuse".
He has little faith in the present government, saying that he is "terribly disappointed" with Malcolm Turnbull. "I worked with Malcolm during the Republican movement in 1999. He was arrogant then, but decisive. He'd make snap decisions and you couldn't contest them. He alienated so many people. But as Prime Minister, he is now so indecisive."
Compton says the first Federal Budget he heard was delivered by Harold Holt more than half a century ago and the government's funding for pensioners has not improved since then.
He has dealt with every prime minister since Menzies. "I had a fair bit to do with Whitlam," he says. "He was an enormously impressive personality – the problem was he would imagine these great things but couldn't get them done. He had some dreadful hillbillies with him like Jim Cairns and Rex Connor, who dragged him down. Malcolm Fraser was a very ordinary prime minister, and Bob Hawke was the best negotiator I'd met until Julia Gillard.
"Bob had a marvellous ability to be everybody's friend. Paul Keating had the best economic brain but also an ability to make people dislike him. His ideas – such as compulsory superannuation – were brilliant.
"John Howard was probably the best grassroots politician I dealt with. Old John could smell trouble coming a mile away and the Howard era was the most prosperous in my lifetime. We had 11 good years with him at the helm."
Compton says he has "a very low opinion of Kevin Rudd" and cheered his downfall. "You never knew what he was going to do next. He was one of the most intelligent blokes I've dealt with but he couldn't deal with people."
Julia Gillard, he says, had a poor public image, like an old schoolmarm, "but one on one she was superb – a great negotiator. She had an attractive personality, which didn't come through to the public".
Tony Abbott, he says, was "totally out of his depth … a very rigid thinker driven by religion and hard-right ideology" – and he says Turnbull is only surviving because there is no natural successor.
Compton says the present Federal Government must do more for the growing population of ageing Australians. "By 2050 there will be 50,000 Australians over 100," he says, "and the largest population group in Australia will be aged 85-100. The Government seems totally oblivious. Turnbull only has a Minister for Aged Care – that represents only about one per cent of the ageing question."
The clock on Compton's wall chimes and reminds him of more meetings he has scheduled.
When he gets a chance to relax with a smoky, peaty single-malt Scotch, he's working on a new book about Australia's Federation. He says it is "staggeringly stupid" that such a wealthy country as Australia still treats its oldest citizens so poorly.
Last week he told his audience in Canberra: "The Government hopes that by three o'clock this afternoon everyone will have forgotten about this, and I just want to let them know that in whatever short years I may have left on this planet, I'm going to relentlessly pursue them. We've come to the point in the history of Australia where the pension has to come out of politics and enter the area of human justice.
"As Gough Whitlam would have said if he were up here: 'It's time'."
On April 7, 2016 By Everald ComptonIn Uncategorized2 Comments
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On November 13, 2015 November 14, 2015 By Everald ComptonIn Business and Enterprise, Everald Posts 2015, Funding and Finance, Government, Join the Debate, Uncategorized1 Comment
There are thousands of laws that provide the basis of governing our nation. Every one of them can be improved in order to meet the needs of a changing world, particularly taxation laws, as they are an out of date mix of temporary political fixes that were deemed necessary to win elections. Continue reading "Tax Reform and the Politics of Fear" →
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Q: Set Scheduled Task with PowerShell Script on Remote Computers I am trying to create powershell script (new to PS) for setting up a schedule
task entry, to run a bat file.
Entry point: reading the computer names from a security group in AD, then export the list of computers to a .csv file.
What to process? run a .bat file which is already copied to the remote computers C:\tmp\file.bat
What's the askI believe I can set the job, but if the job already existed on the remote computer, I cannot handle the error/catch. I would appreciate it if someone helps me. Thanks for your time!
Function set-TaskSchedule {
  $RPCs = Get-Content ".\List.csv"
  foreach ($item in $RPCs) {
    Invoke-Command -ComputerName $item {Register-ScheduledJob -Name DumpLogs -ScriptBlock {Start-Process C:\tmp\file.bat} -Trigger (New-JobTrigger -Daily -At 05:30pm)}
    Write-Host "$item is set!"
  }
}
set-TaskSchedule

A: You should be using try catch blocks to catch the errors or exceptions, below function should help u with that
function set-TaskSchedule
{
Param($xyz) #ifany parameters for input to function
try
{
    $RPCs = Get-Content ".\List.csv"
    foreach ($item in $RPCs)
    {
        Invoke-Command -ComputerName $item {Register -scheduledJob -Name DumpLogs -ScriptBlock {Start-Process C:\tmp\file.bat} -Trigger (New-JobTrigger -Daily -At 05:30pm)}
        Write-Host "$item is set!"
    }
}
catch
{
    Write-Error " Exception while scheduling task"
    Write-Error $_.Exception.message
    Write-Error " ErrorStack: $Error[0] "
    #exit 1
}
return $abc #if u want to return anything form this function

}

A: If you don't want to write a try-catch the easiest option is to add -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue to your Register-ScheduledJob command.  I would recommend extensive testing and make sure that suits all scenarios.  If not you should take the time to write an error handler.  You can have multiple lines in the scriptblock and adding line breaks will make it easier to read.
Here is an example of using Try-Catch within your Invoke-Command:
Function set-TaskSchedule {
  $RPCs = Get-Content ".\List.csv"
  foreach ($item in $RPCs) {
    Invoke-Command -ComputerName $item {Register-ScheduledJob -Name DumpLogs -ScriptBlock {
      try {
        Start-Process C:\tmp\file.bat -Trigger (New-JobTrigger -Daily -At 05:30pm) -ErrorAction Stop
        Write-Host "$item is set!"
      }
      catch {
        Write-Host "$item failed!"
      }
    }
  }
}
set-TaskSchedule

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#ifndef __ABSTRACT_MEMORY_HH__
#define __ABSTRACT_MEMORY_HH__

#include "mem/mem_object.hh"
#include "params/AbstractMemory.hh"
#include "sim/stats.hh"

class System;

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{
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    void trackLoadLocked(PacketPtr pkt);

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    // requesting execution context), 'true' otherwise.  Note that
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        Request *req = pkt->req;
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Classic Rotation: Gang Starr's "Hard To Earn"
By Chris Tart
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Taking a look at Gang Starr's classic 1994 album, released 21 years ago today.
1994 was a very important year for hip hop music. What 1969 was for psychedelic rock, or what 1977 was for disco, 1994 was for hip hop. It was an absolutely shaping year that prepared an underground art for mainstream explosion. Albums like Illmatic and Ready To Die spearheaded the movement, but albums by O.C., Warren G and Gang Starr also helped to sculp the scene.
Released 21 years ago today, Hard to Earn was Gang Starr's fourth album. The Brooklynites slowly graduated from the 1989's alternative hip hop that their debut No More Mr. Nice Guy brought, to a sound that was a little bit harder, a little bit more in tune with the nitty, gritty New York City that they were dwelling in.
Guru and DJ Premier's 1994 LP was their first that received a parental advisory label, and that is certainly the first step to describing the albums hardness. However, it doesn't stop there. DJ Premier used tons of jazz samples on the group's earlier work, pinning them as jazz-rap to critics and fans alike. Not that the jazz-rap tag is a bad thing; the group even used it to their advantage in getting signed. "Jazz Thing" was a huge record for them, and the jazz samples were a distinguishing factor in Gang Starr's early steeze. But they wanted to outgrow, or at least prove they could do more than, what was being called jazz-rap.
Premier said in an article with Nah Right, "Being that Guru was getting aggravated with us being labeled that, I said, 'I'm gonna strip this album down,' just to show that I could use things other than jazz samples. We both wanted to show that anything I use is going to be a hip-hop beat. We said we were going to make it as raw as possible, and less musical, on purpose, just to show we're good on any track, together."
So the duo were consciously making the decision to separate themselves from what had gained them popularity up until that point. Today, that might be a little more commonplace, especially as we find ourselves in an age of 'alternative-everything,' or so it seems. Back then, however, if you had a thing going on that record labels dug, you usually stuck to that, especially as a rapper. The mere fact that Gang Starr were willing, and even eager, to take stylistic steps forward is a testament to their artistry, work ethic and ultimately their legacy.
"Last year record companies were chumpin me
But now like chicks they all be up on me
and me so horny, I hit em like a groupie
Snatch off my hat wash my dick and keep it movin
Showing and proving on a day to day basis
I rip New York and a million different places"
-Jeru the Damaja on the well-varied "Speak Ya Clout"
Hard to Earn didn't do the numbers that Illmatic or Ready to Die did. It didn't have quite the same impact either. But that isn't to say it didn't have its share of influence. "Mass Appeal," a beat that cleverly flipped a keyboard chop from the prog-jazz guitarist Vic Juris, is about as recognizable as the piano intro of "The World is Yours" or Biggie's spoken-word intro on "Juicy." The songs from Hard To Earn, just as the rest of the tracks from that era, are ingrained in hip hop culture. They are absolute classics that never get old and always hold their own in a gathering of like-minded individuals.
The song "Mass Appeal" has quite the story behind it. ""We were making fun of the radio. It was starting to get a little watered down, and everything was starting to sound like elevator music. And then, when I found the sample that had that type of melody to it, I looped it, and Guru was like, 'That's it.' Then just the programming of it, and the way it started where it's not on the one [was dope]."
It's also worth mentioning that Guru and DJ Premier are one of the most elite duos in hip hop history. There may not be a more dynamic duo in terms of MC / producer combination. Check out the credits for this album, and you'll mostly only find two names. None of that 13 songwriters on one track that you get these days. This was two dudes who had a cosmic connection, changing the world one boom-bap beat at a time, but it wasn't always so easy. DJ Premier, in the same interview as quoted before, describes a scuffle between himself and Guru.
"Me and Guru had a big fist fight. A big one. You see these two marks right here? [Points to his knuckles]. That's his teeth marks from biting into my fist. And they never went away. It was a very bloody fight…It was over something very serious, which I won't get into," Premo said of the fight.
When two people spend that much time together, there are bound to be disagreements, and sometimes that even leads to some fisticuffs. The story came from a quote referring to "Now You're Mine," a song from the White Men Can't Jump soundtrack. Guru raps about basketball in his classic monotone style.
"I'll fake you left and go right, straight down the lane
Here's one in your eye; you'll feel pain
You strain - to put together some strategy
But you're raggedy, and i'll be glad to see
The frown on your grill when I drill and thrill
Set up my offense, commence to kill
I'll be leadin from beginnin to end
And after I pound ya, you're gonna wanna make friends
And make amends for the silly, trash you were talking
Take a walk and your shots I'm swattin
with ease, and the ladies are swoonin
Clockin my swiftness, while you're droolin
You oughtta practice up and get your game refined
I've been waitin to dog you, and now you're mine"
Guru sadly passed in 2010, but his legacy lives on through vivid verses like the one above. His voice was almost always a positive one, and when put over a DJ Premier beat, it was absolutely unstoppable. A true proprietor of hip hop he was.
The album will go down as one of the greatest in hip hop history. From the eerie gangster joint "ALONGWAYTOGO," to the funky ode to Brooklyn "The Planet," to the Gang Starr Foundation posse cut in "Speak Ya Clout," to the rich, stand-up bass and DJ scratch-led "Mostly the Voice," it is certainly a great, great album. Give it a listen today, remember Guru, and respect some of the OGs for keeping rap real and progressing the art form we hold so dearly.
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I believe people become stagnant in their lives because they lack the understanding of generosity. We get stuck in life and we end up going through the motions. Life seems to get very boring and monotonous and we start looking for ways to fix it. It could be a job change or a spouse change for some. It's a tragedy to make those kinds of decisions that adversely affects so many. Our lives would be more productive and exciting if we would become more generous. Generous is defined as, "being of noble birth. Such a person is generous in overlooking injury or insult, rising above pettiness or meanness. It also indicates a willingness to give, share, or to bestow favor". Being generous will cause your life to be more fulfilled and to have greater purpose. Let's work at becoming more generous in everything we do.


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Many discussions about corporate transparency are grounded in the experiences of civil society organisations working in the Global North, and do not take into account the practices of corporate entities as they operate in some parts of the Global South, including Middle Eastern contexts. Our objective in this session will be to bring the needs of MENA-based civil society organisations to the foreground of these discussions, and to outline a set of clear demands for tech companies operating in MENA contexts.
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Flood defence equipment swept away in Leeds following Storm Franklin
Monday 21 February 2022, 5:13pm
Equipment that was being used to build flood defences in Leeds has been washed away after water levels rose on the River Aire in Storm Franklin.
The heavy-duty machinery was washed downstream on Sunday afternoon following heavy rain in West Yorkshire.
Footage shows workers helplessly looking on as the water swept around the equipment.
A footbridge near Armley Mills was also wiped out when debris floated down the river and smashed through it.
A large pontoon floating down the river crashed into the bridge on Sunday afternoon and destroyed a large part of it.
A spokesperson for Leeds City Council said: "Storm conditions in Leeds on Sunday afternoon were particularly challenging and caused a pontoon involved in the Flood Alleviation Scheme 2 (FAS2) construction work to break free from its mooring and travel downstream towards Leeds city centre.
"A structure which was to be removed as part of FAS2 was badly damaged. However, inspections of footbridges in its path found no structural damage and they were declared safe.
"We have begun plans to recover the pieces of the broken pontoon and the plant equipment when river levels return to a safe level. There is no immediate concern about these causing damage in the meantime."
The third named storm in a week caused widespread rush-hour travel disruption, with train operators warning customers not to travel amid gale-force winds and flooding.
Storm Franklin's wind and rain follows the disruption and damage of Dudley and Eunice, with weather forecasters saying it's the first time since 2015 that we've had three named storms in a week.
Across Yorkshire, major flooding had blocked roads and people have been rescued from their homes after several rivers burst their banks.
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Major flooding closed South Yorkshire's Rotherham Central railway station until Tuesday.
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The Self-Starter
How high school dropout Russell "Rusty" McGuire dropped back in, became the state's assistant attorney general and advised the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq
Published in 2007 Virginia Rising Stars magazine By Bill Glose on December 22, 2006
"My rule is 24/7," says Rusty McGuire, assistant attorney general for the state of Virginia. "Any police officer, attorney, or anyone else needs me, they have my cell phone number. I'll tell you …"
Before he can finish this thought, his BlackBerry speaks for him: It vibrates. He glances at the screen and shrugs apologetically. "I have to take this one," he says. During our interview, that BlackBerry would buzz a dozen more times, giving evidence to some portion of that 24/7 availability.
McGuire, 35, is the prosecutorial arm of Virginia's Computer Crimes Section, which deals with crimes ranging from identity theft to child pornography. Few states have anything comparable to his position, but since AOL and hundreds of high-bandwidth providers are based in Virginia, and more than half of all Internet traffic flows through the state, Virginia's needs exceed those of other states.
McGuire's first duty, when he joined the attorney general's office in 2003, was to put together a case against North Carolina resident Jeremy Jaynes, one of the top 10 spammers in the world. Chances are you once received an e-mail from Jaynes; he pumped out more than 10 million emails per day promising get-rich schemes. Only one in 30,000 responded, but that was enough for him to get rich. By the time McGuire indicted Jaynes, he had conned victims out of $14 million to $24 million. Open-and-shut case, right? Except no one had tried a spam case before, and with no precedent, no eyewitnesses, and complex technical details to explain to the jury, the chances of getting a conviction seemed slim.
"Every case that occurs over the Internet is challenging," McGuire says. "It's not a situation where I have a witness saying, He did it. I have yet to have a third party put the defendant at a crime scene at the commission of the crime. I won't get that in my cases. My cases involve paperwork trails going back. In the spam case, I had millions of e-mails to sift through."
A framed copy of the U.S. Constitution hangs behind McGuire's desk, and military mementos fill the shelves. But it's the area beneath his windowsill that gives him the inspiration. That's where his young daughter's crayon artwork is displayed.
"That's my Matisse collection," he says with a smile. "My Monets. I like to say my daughter is an impressionist, not an expressionist. That's her impression of the world. She's my artiste."
Turning back from the drawings, McGuire's face becomes grim. "I've seen children my daughter's age and younger molested, and it's sick," he says. "I can't tell you how scared I am of what goes on, and that's why I have my 24/7 policy. Anyone who needs me can call, because the risks are too great."
McGuire's appearance is appropriately stylish for a lawyer—black suit with an "Attorney General's Office" lapel pin, expensive loafers—and when he discusses serious matters, his pale-blue eyes are unflinching and steady. At the same time, he has a folksy way of telling stories with "y'alls" dotting his speech. With his buzz-cut red hair, boyish features and pronounced drawl, one can't help but think of a young kid from Mayberry.
McGuire's upbringing, however, was nothing like Opie Taylor's. He comes from a family of poor farmers in Hanover County. His alcoholic father ran off one day and, when McGuire was just 4, his mother abandoned her children by the side of the road. "She just couldn't handle the stress of raising five kids. The good thing was she dropped us off at the entrance to our grandparents' apartment complex, so they raised us. Then finally in '82, my father became sober and came back. He got it all together and has lived an outstanding life ever since."
Because military service has long been a hallmark of McGuire's family—his father was an infantryman, his grandfather a sailor in the Navy, and other relatives served as soldiers in World War I and the Civil War—it was no surprise when McGuire dropped out of high school and joined the Army.
"I didn't have much interest in college," McGuire remembers. "I was more interested in trying to make a dollar. I joined the National Guard and figured I could come out and be a diesel mechanic. I'd done the research, and International was paying diesel mechanics $20 an hour. In 1988, that was good money."
McGuire excelled in the military; by 19 he was promoted to sergeant. He went through Air Assault School and the Primary Leadership Development Course. But the National Guard was just part time—his regular paycheck came from working as a laborer for a mason. "I was carrying brick and block all day," says McGuire. "In the winter, you've got to make the mortar. That means sticking your arms in one of those 55-gallon drums in freezing weather to mix the water and sand and cement compound to make the mortar. So I'm sitting out there miserable, and I'm just thinking, 'Man, there's got to be a better way.'"
McGuire considered making the Army a career; but if he wanted to be an officer (and he did), that meant college. "I was an average student in high school," McGuire says. He shakes his head and laughs. "Well, maybe below average. But when I went to [Virginia Military Institute] everything just fell in place. I thought I would be the next George Patton. I really did."
McGuire rose to the top cadet rank in his junior class—regimental sergeant major—and graduated as a distinguished military graduate. A quick scan of his office shows how important the military was to him. Mounted on the wall behind his desk is the saber he carried at VMI, unit coins line the windowsill and a bronze statuette of a fully rigged paratrooper stands on one of his shelves. He loved the Army but he'd gotten engaged in school. That changed everything.
"The Army's a great lifestyle," McGuire says, "but it's not conducive to having a family. There's a high divorce rate. I was a product of divorce, and I didn't want that for my family … so at that point, clearly, law school was the option."
When on furlough from VMI, McGuire worked for a defense law firm, and his mentor, Bradford Johnson, once told him, "Rusty, I'd love for you to come here, but they need good prosecutors out there. It's amazing what I can get away with."
"When he told me that," McGuire remembers, "it emphasized what I needed to do. I knew I'd miss out on more lucrative jobs, but it's that sense of public service. It's the reason we go into the military, or become police officers or firemen.
"Not only that, if you've got the mentality of a career military guy, what are you going to do as an attorney? Go to work for a big firm, work 12 hours a day to bill some rich client? That's not cool. That's not jumping out of airplanes. But this is. Prosecuting is exciting."
McGuire completed his requirements at Thomas M. Cooley Law School in only 18 months and began trying cases in Richmond. "I wasn't [there] long," he says. "But we have a saying that one year in Richmond is like seven. It's like dog lives because of the crime. I was doing a murder trial and running a docket while I was still an intern. That's just the way it works because of the volume."
Trying so many cases in one city, McGuire often squared off against the same defense lawyers—none more so than Richmond attorney Craig Cooley. "Our profession requires us to be intense advocates for our respective positions," says Cooley. "That does not require us to be uncivil to each other. And in the course of doing battle the proper way, we each gain a mutual respect and appreciation for the person we're dealing with. Good advocates don't go at each other; they go at the other person's position. And Rusty does that extremely well. Nobody questions his passion for his position. But he does it properly. He fights hard, but he fights fair."
McGuire used leadership principles he'd learned in the Army and, when the cases were done, he'd conduct an after-action review with Cooley: How was I? What should I have done differently? How can I improve?
"He was always very interested in getting feedback to try to improve his skills," says Cooley. "His skills have always been strong, though, so whatever we discussed would've just been fine-tuning. And these discussions would've been give-and-take, too, not just me saying something to him. I make mistakes every day in trial, so I'm glad to get input as well."
Meanwhile, one weekend every month and two weeks during the summer, he was still with the National Guard, although in 14 years of service he'd never been deployed for fire, flood or search. On Sept. 1, 2001, McGuire, now a first lieutenant, took command of Headquarters Company, 2-116th. Ten days later, his part-time job suddenly became a full-time job.
For the next 10 months McGuire mobilized soldiers and shipped them out for Operation Noble Eagle. Then he and his entire company were shipped to Cuba for six months, where they were charged with defending the coastline for Camp Delta. As U.S. troops prepared to invade Iraq, his deployment in Cuba was extended for another six months. This was no surprise to McGuire—he'd expected it—but when he returned home he received a phone call that caught him off guard: Deputy Attorney General Richard B. Campbell invited him to work for his office.
"When I hired him," Campbell says, "he didn't have any background in [computers]. He had prosecuted generally. But the Computer Crimes Unit is a special team and a special unit, and he really educated himself. … That was really impressive to me—that he buckled down and immersed himself, on his own initiative, and with a lot of extra hours, to learn an area of the law that he's now become, if not an expert, then a specialist in. That began with a lot of selfstarting, which is the hallmark of his character."
For six months McGuire split time between trying cases and traveling the country for classes on cyber-sleuthing techniques. Dr. John Levine, co-author of Internet for Dummies, was an expert witness in the Jeremy Jaynes spam case. "It was the first criminal case I'd ever been involved in," says Levine. "By the time I came in, it was pretty close to trial time, and I don't know how [McGuire] did it, but he figured it all out. I didn't have to explain anything to him about what was going on. We could get ready to work on the issues and what we were going to present to the judges and the jury."
"So," says McGuire, "I've got a great career. I'm arguing the biggest case in my career. And then I got called up again!"
This time the Army Reserves wanted to activate McGuire for a year and send him to Iraq. One problem: a rule stating that if a reservist has been mobilized for a year, he can't be deployed again for two more years. But McGuire felt bad. "I'm not going to shirk my duty," he says. "If they need me, I'll be there. So I said, 'Tell you what. I will waive the two-year rule as soon as the trial is over.'"
The trial wrapped at the end of 2004—Jaynes was sentenced to nine years—and by February 2005 McGuire found himself in Iraq. Initially he was a staff officer with the XVIII Airborne Corps Headquarters, performing a less-thandemanding job. With plenty of downtime, McGuire taught himself to read and write Arabic. His commander took notice and made McGuire the coalition forces liaison to the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq (IECI).
"I actually lived with the Iraqis during that time," says McGuire. "I stayed in the National Joint Operations Center throughout the process and advised them on how to be free, safe and fair in their elections. This was totally new to them. One thing they did, they came to the conclusion that soldiers couldn't vote, that it would be too much for them. Well, I was in the position one day when we were riding around Baghdad to fill out an absentee ballot. What I was trying to show them was that even though I was deployed in a foreign country I was still voting in our election at home." Ultimately, though McGuire believes he had little to do with it, the IECI did allow its soldiers to vote.
Rooting around in a desk drawer, McGuire searches for one of the ballots from Iraq's constitutional referendum. He pulls out a sheaf of papers with the IECI symbol and smiles. "What I did in Iraq was one of the most rewarding things I did in my life," he says.
Now McGuire is back battling cybercriminals. The Army could activate him again in another year, and if it does he'll heed the call. But until then, he'll serve as best he can in the Computer Crimes Unit.
"I never know what's going to happen tomorrow," McGuire says, "but I'm going to try to stay in prosecuting for the rest of my career. I've had lucrative offers, especially since the spam case, to go off and make more money than I could ever imagine. But, you know, money's not everything. Every day I go home and sleep good knowing I did the right thing."
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