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Anne McGrath (born ) is the National Director of the New Democratic Party (NDP) of Canada. Prior to this, she most recently served as principal secretary to former Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and as Notley's deputy chief of staff. McGrath was president of the New Democratic Party from 2006 to 2009.

Background
McGrath was born in Aldershot, England to Irish parents. Her family moved to Montreal when she was a child and later to Ottawa. Her father was a school principal and her mother was a teacher.

She studied English literature at the University of Ottawa and in 1979–80 she was President of the Student Federation of the University of Ottawa.

After graduating, she moved to Edmonton to work as a field organizer for the Alberta Federation of Students while studying for an education degree at the University of Alberta and became politically active.

She graduated with a Bachelor of Education from the University of Alberta and began her career as a teacher. She then held a variety of positions with not-for-profit organizations including working as Canadian Programme Officer for Oxfam-Canada and Community Development Team Leader and senior education officer for the Canadian Mental Health Association. She has a master's degree in communications studies. She has worked as a managing director at the lobbying firm Ensight, and is an associate at the public relations firm Hill+Knowlton Strategies. She has also served as a board member and social issues chair of the Elizabeth Fry Society, Vice-President of National Action Committee on the Status of Women, and a member of the Steering Committee for the Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action: Beijing and Beyond.

McGrath is a frequent commentator on national media broadcasts and has been identified as one of the 100 most influential people in government and politics in Ottawa. She has been an activist in the labour, student and women's movements  and had been employed by CUPE National as Director of Equality and as executive assistant to CUPE's national president Judy Darcy, and by Oxfam Canada.

Politics
In the 1984 federal election, while a student, she ran as candidate for the Communist Party of Canada in Edmonton—Strathcona, placing seventh. Of her involvement with the Communist Party she says "I was young, probably naïve, interested in talking about politics. And very influenced by friends and teachers.". At a debate at the Calgary Varsity Centre in April 2019, McGrath apologised for her past involvement with the Communist Party saying she was no longer a Communist stating, "Four decades ago when I was a young student, I was a member [of the Communist Party] and I deeply regret that. It was a mistake and I'm very sorry."

In 1993, McGrath was the Alberta New Democratic Party's candidate in Calgary-Bow. In 1995 she was its candidate in a provincial by-election in Calgary-McCall and came in third place. In 1995, she unsuccessfully challenged Ross Harvey for the leadership of the Alberta New Democratic Party.

McGrath was president of the New Democratic Party from 2006 to 2009; she was elected on September 10, 2006, at the party's convention in Quebec City and her term ended on August 16, 2009 when Peggy Nash was elected president at the party's convention in Halifax. Before that, she had been director of operations for the NDP federal caucus.

As Chief of Staff to Jack Layton (2008–2011), she is credited with professionalizing caucus operations and with helping organize the party's historic breakthrough to Official Opposition status. She stayed on as chief of staff to interim party leader Nycole Turmel and the federal NDP Caucus, during Turmel's interim leadership.

McGrath also served as the National Director of the New Democratic Party (NDP) of Canada (2014-2015).

McGrath served as principal secretary to former Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and as Notley's deputy chief of staff.

McGrath was the NDP candidate in Calgary-Varsity in the 2019 Alberta general election.

She was portrayed by Wendy Crewson in the 2013 CBC Television film Jack.

Electoral record

2019 Alberta general election - Calgary-Varsity

1995 Alberta NDP leadership challenge
(Held on November 11, 1995)
Ross Harvey 177
Anne McGrath 118
Joe Weykowich 30
Lawrence Dubrofsky 3

1995 Calgary provincial by-election

1993 general election Calgary-Bow

In 1993, McGrath was the Alberta New Democratic Party's candidate in Calgary-Bow.

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Women in Alberta politics
Presidents of the New Democratic Party of Canada
Political chiefs of staff
1958 births
English emigrants to Canada
University of Ottawa alumni
Communist Party of Canada (Ontario) politicians
People from Aldershot
Canadian people of Irish descent
Canadian communists
Canadian socialist feminists
Oxfam people
Canadian Union of Public Employees people
University of Alberta alumni


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Review: The Conjuring 2
The Conjuring 2 only bothers to develop its characters in the immediate run-up to its extended finale.
Christopher Gray
Photo: Warner Bros.
In a haunted-house thriller, inanimate objects frequently poses a threat, and one of the modest charms of director James Wan's The Conjuring lied in how it mined chills from spare furnishings. With the exception of its arsenal of analog ghost-hunting equipment, the 2013 film largely ignored the pop-cultural bric-a-brac of its early-1970s setting, instead lingering on the era's clothing and interior design: floral wallpapers, fabric ties, massive armoires, and the shared bedrooms of indistinguishable siblings. The film was a well-executed fount of maximalist chills, but its modest trappings lent The Conjuring a patina of classical elegance.
The Conjuring 2 finds the evangelical paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) housebound, reduced to a voluntary retirement after their work combating the 1976 Amityville horrors, which are recreated in a flashy prologue. For the next hour, the film follows a formula more like Wan's Furious 7 than any of his previous horror efforts. It's a series of undifferentiated, if often extremely entertaining, genre scares, distinguished by judicious shock cuts and roving tracking shots. Before finally sending the Warrens back to work, the film alternates listlessly between PTSD-enhanced terrors experienced by the clairvoyant Lorraine and those wrought upon a new beleaguered family: the Hodgsons of London's Enfield borough, purported victims of a poltergeist haunting from 1977 until 1979.
This wildly undisciplined sequel is the inverse of its predecessor: The Enfield house is small, but it's as full of traps as it is winking jokes. In the living room, the walls are rotting with moisture as a worn leather chair creaks unbidden and the family telly cycles through images of a young Margaret Thatcher. An eerie, vaginal-looking children's play tent lies at one end of a narrow second floor hallway; at the other, young Janet Hodgson (Madison Wolfe) shares a bedroom with her sister, Margaret (Lauren Esposito). Humpty Dumpty sits on a dresser, waiting to fall, surrounded by posters of aging teen idol David Soul.
Such a clutter of empty signifiers is emblematic of the film as a whole, which only bothers to develop its characters in the immediate run-up to its extended finale. Wolfe makes a solid impression as the Hodgson's beleaguered satanic medium, but Frances O'Connor's harried mother is given far less attention than Lili Taylor's equivalent character in the original. On a scene by scene basis, The Conjuring 2 is a model of heightened tension and uneasy release (Don Burgess's camera always feels like it's ready to be jostled), but the tropes propelling these night terrors, particularly the CGI-addled teleportation and Wan's increasingly tired sonic mélanges of ghostly moans and clanking pipes, grow stale pretty quickly.
The film attempts to fold broad thematic concepts—media hysteria about possession, the sanctification of the Warrens' faith in both God and the paranormal, maybe a critique of the British public housing system under Tory rule—into its breakneck final act, but most of these ideas are undercut by a haphazard structure. After an hour of circular camera movements and shock cuts revealing familiar monsters (one suggests an Apocalypto extra in a nun's tunic, another splits the difference between the Babadook and Slender Man), the plot machinery is dependent on both the Warrens and the audience doubting the existence of these demons. The gambit, which transforms humble Lorraine into an egomaniacal religious warrior, is an unmitigated failure, but fans of Wilson will be glad to learn that the film's limp evocation of faith offers him a chance to road-test his Elvis impression.
Cast: Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Madison Wolfe, Frances O'Connor, Lauren Esposito, Benjamin Haigh, Patrick McAuley, Simon McBurney, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Simon Delaney, Franka Potente Director: James Wan Screenwriter: Carey Hayes, Chad Hayes, James Wan, David Johnson Distributor: New Line Cinema Running Time: 133 min Rating: R Year: 2016 Buy: Video
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Thomas Hampson, America's foremost baritone, hails from Spokane, Washington. He has received many honors and awards for his probing artistry and cultural leadership. He enjoys a singular international career as an opera singer, recording artist, and "ambassador of song," maintaining an active interest in research, education, musical outreach, and technology. Comprising more than 150 albums, his discography includes winners of a Grammy Award, five Edison Awards, and the Grand Prix du Disque. Through the Hampsong Foundation which he founded in 2003 he employs the art of song to promote intercultural dialogue and understanding.
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Queen Elizabeth Had Bone Cancer? King Charles' Mother Knew Her Time Was Running Out, New Book Claims
Queen Elizabeth was reportedly aware that she was dying, according to a new book.
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Queen Elizabeth passed due to old age, according to her death certificate. However, a new book claims that she had cancer.
Queen Elizabeth Battled Cancer Before Death?
Gyles Brandreth, a royal confidant, shared more details about the late Queen Elizabeth in his new book Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait. In the book, Brandreth shared the news about Her Majesty's health condition that he heard and hadn't been reported until his recent book.
"I had heard that the Queen had a form of myeloma — bone marrow cancer — which would explain her tiredness and weight loss and those 'mobility issues' we were often told about during the last year or so of her life. The most common symptom of myeloma is bone pain, especially in the pelvis and lower back, and multiple myeloma is a disease that often affects the elderly," he wrote in an extract obtained by Daily Mail.
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According to Russell Myers, royal editor at Daily Mirror, when he appeared on Today, Brandreth is "pretty much a friend of the royal and he know the Duke of Edinburgh for 40 years." He is also a former journalist who is very well-connected. His claim about the Queen's health was "sad", and it's "a bit unsavory", and "certainly not things that we would have published," Myers added.
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The Queen died on Sept. 8. Her death certificate showed that she died from "old age," Showbiz Cheat Sheet reported, noting that it didn't mention "cancer" as what Brandreth claimed in his book.
The palace released a copy of the Queen's death certificate on Sept. 29, three weeks after her death. It noted that she died at 3:10 p.m. at the age of 96. It listed the Queen's official residence as Windsor Castle, although she died at her summer retreat, Balmoral Castle.
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Welcome to my home, my home on the web. This is a new home for me, one that I am entering in my 60th year. For now my home will be patterned on my upper West Side apartment, the apartment that was the home of the Lesbian Herstory Archives for over twenty years. Once a month we would have an "At-Home with the Archives" where lesbian cultural workers would present their slide shows or films or songs or poems to groups that ranged from ten to a hundred and fifty. For all the years the archives shared my apartment, my home was a public place as this home will be. I welcome you into my dining room, my living room, my bedroom, which is also my study, and a place that only exists here, my garden.
I thought as a way to get to know each other, I would share with you the introductions I have written for two collections of writings, A Restricted Country, published in 1987 by Firebrand Books, and A Fragile Union, published in 1998 by Cleis Press. And now just the bare facts: born in the Bronx, NYC in 1940 to a widowed Jewish mother, came out as a fem in the working class bars of Greenwich Village in the late 1950s, protested the HUAC [House Un-American Activities Committee], the Vietnam War, marched against nuclear war, segregation, apartheid, US involvement in Central America, demonstrated for women's rights including abortion and Gay Liberation. In 1973 became co-founder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives, in 1979 started writing erotic stories and in 1982 ran afoul of the anti-pornography movement, thus becoming a fervent pro-sex activist in the "Sex Wars." In 1966 I started teaching writing in the SEEK Program at Queens College and did not stop until cancer forced me to retire in 1995.
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Preface to A Restricted Country (1987)
Introduction to British New Edition of A Restricted Country (1996)
Introduction to A Fragile Union (1998)
I have just returned home, after an afternoon spent demonstrating in the streets with the women of the international lesbian caucus at the women's gathering at the United Nations. Frantically, these women and their supporters are trying to save the forward-looking demands and agreements that came out of the Beijing conference five years ago. Right-wing groups from many countries are accusing these women of forcing a gay rights and abortion agenda on their countries. My Australian lover and I stood in the square facing the United Nations surrounded by women from all over the world, many wearing the iridescent rainbow flags signaling their support for the concept that human rights include the freedom of sexual preference. Women from Guatemala, Mexico, India, Korea, Thailand, South Africa, Canada, indigenous women from many countries, the United States, France, England, Australia, Costa Rica, Sri Lanka, Holland, Poland, Yugoslavia and more, more, calling out their refusal to go back on the Beijing promises, their refusal to allow governments to barter away their hope.
I stood among them, so moved by this international face of lesbianism, once again in the midst of a historical moment when women's desire, so often a secret thing, was shaping new air. I have been on such a journey—from the dark criminalized streets of the 50s where our freedom was so small that sometimes only gestures could speak of our presence to the marble plaza of the world's conscience. In each territory, I found courage and the new green life of resistance.
from "An Open Letter from the Lesbian Caucus to the UN General Assembly, Government Delegates, Representatives from Non-Governmental Organizations and the Media"
We are holding to the promise of the Beijing Platform for Action. We, who have been dispossessed of our human rights, stand in solidarity with the dispossessed. Lesbians come from every region, every country, every religion, every culture, every race, every age group, every class, every part of society. We are citizens of the world. We demand that governments recognize our human rights. We demand that the United Nations guarantee them, as they are bound to do by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The photograph above was taken by Kathryn Kirk and appears on the cover of A Fragile Union.
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Retired Cop Uses Sledgehammer to Save Baby From Hot Car: 'This Shouldn't Happen'
Melissa Chan
August 31, 2016, 12:40 p.m.
A retired New Jersey police officer is being hailed a hero after he saved a 4-month-old baby trapped inside a sweltering parked car by bashing a window open with a sledgehammer.
Steven Eckel, 53, said the baby girl was in distress Monday when he and another woman spotted her screaming in the backseat of a car in a shopping center's parking lot. "She was soaking wet, sweat all over her face and hair. She was screaming. Her eyes were rolling back. Just frantic, frantic," Eckel told TIME on Wednesday.
The infant was wearing a onesie and a T-shirt and had a wool blanket draped over her. "Another 15 minutes in that car and absolutely she would have been dead," he added.
Eckel said he ran to his car in his flip-flops to fetch a sledgehammer he had in the trunk. It took him four strikes before one of the car's windows shattered.
The retired cop then raced the baby into a nearby store, where he took off her clothes and began wetting her body with water to cool her down. "I could feel the baby's heat through my shirt," he said.
Eckel, a father of six, said temperatures were in the low 90s on Monday, but that the temperature easily could have reached 120 degrees as the car was facing the sun. "For me, it just hits home," he said. "It's about humanity. This shouldn't happen in this day and age. There's no reason for babies to die in cars, dogs to die in cars. There's no reason for it."
Police arrested the baby's 33-year-old mother, Karen Gruen, and charged her with endangering the welfare of a child, CBS New York reports. Authorities said she was away from the baby for about 40 minutes.
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The reality that Eckel may have saved the baby's life only sank in after the ordeal was over. "I was kind of just standing there and I almost started to cry," he said. "It finally hit me what would have happened if we didn't do what we did. It was emotional."
Shawanaga First Nation chief understands reluctance of some to receive COVID-19 vaccine
The chief of the Shawanaga First Nation near Parry Sound said he is confident the majority of his people will want to get vaccinated against COVID 19. However, Chief Wayne Pamajewon said he understands the reluctance of some to get the vaccine, adding that it is their prerogative. The chief said he did not have an exact date on when the vaccine would reach his territory. He said he fully understands the reasons some of his people are reluctant to get the vaccine shots, particularly in light of the troubling history of the treatment of Indigenous people in the Canadian health-care system. However, he is advising his people to take the vaccination program seriously. "I think there are a couple of leaders within my council who are a little leery of this COVID needle. I've been a diabetic for 37 years. A needle to me means nothing," the chief said. "I have never pushed my people to do anything they didn't want to do. The call is probably going to be put into their hands. I can't make them do that. I refuse to do that. The Great Spirit will work with them on that one." The chief said he has every reason to believe his people will continue to follow COVID-19 protocols and he is cautiously optimistic that the territory will continue to remain coronavirus-free. Chief Pamajewon said the community has only had to address one COVID case — a student who does not live on the Shawanaga First Nation but attends school there was confirmed to have had the virus last month. That youngster has since self-isolated and has been declared COVID-free. There was no transfer of the virus to his community members. "We isolated that case right away because we were notified about it. We sent all the children from that community where the child was from home because they attend our school. It's just lucky that we cut it off at the right spot and it went nowhere," the chief said. "All the contacts came back negative. That was great that we were able to stop it right in its tracks before it got into our community." The chief went on to say that he and his membership will abide by the latest provincial lockdown protocols, but he wanted to make it clear he does not necessarily classify himself as an Ontarian, but a member of Turtle Island, (the Indigenous term for North America). "Maybe what could've happened was that (the restrictions) had been tighter and longer from the beginning. I don't think we locked the door tight enough," Chief Pamajewon said. "I don't think Premier Doug Ford had any choice, especially in the hot zones. But even some of our political leaders are (travelling). You can't tell someone to do something and you turn around and you don't do that. What is that? To me that's wrong." Pamajewon said that since the pandemic began, no one on the territory has been issued a ticket for hosting large gatherings at their home. "We don't want our people to be charged or anything like that. What we want is preventive policing. We've had co-operation from our people to be mindful of gathering together. I've even approached some of their bonfires and talked with them to remind them to be mindful of the rules in place," Chief Pamajewon said. John McFadden is a Local Journalism Initiative reporter covering Indigenous issues for MuskokaRegion.com, ParrySound.com and Simcoe.com. His reporting is funded by the Canadian government through its Local Journalism Initiative. John McFadden, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Parry Sound North Star
King council okays subdivision, wants traffic calming measures implemented
King wants to mitigate traffic and safety issues before a Schomberg subdivision is built. Councillors approved staff recommendations to pave the way for Forestbrook Hills phase 2, off of Roselena Drive in Schomberg. This "extension" of the existing community has been in the works for years, with plans dating back to 2016. A draft plan and bylaw amendments were submitted by the proponents in 2017 and a public meeting was first held in 2018. The plan has been revised, and now includes 51 single-detached homes on the lands, which will be accessed from an extension of Roselena, crossing the river and forming a new intersection with Church Street. The extension of Roselena, staff said, will facilitate the connection of the existing community as envisioned in the Community Plan. Protecting the Schomberg River is important, and measures will be taken to mitigate any negative impacts. Also, staff said a hardwood forest adjacent to the development will be enhanced with buffers intended for replanting. The plan also includes a reasonable transition of lot sizes. Curbs, gutters and a sidewalk will be installed at the frontage of the development abutting Church Street. Retaining walls will be necessary in some spots. Commenting agencies such as King, LSRCA and York Region have no objections, noting any outstanding matters will be addressed during the draft plan approval stage. This type of development is permitted and even supported by residents. The main concerns surround traffic and pedestrian safety. Residents contend when the extension to Roselena takes place, it will create a bypass through the neighbourhood. Staff said Roselena would be a second principle entrance for the development and would allow water services to be "looped" and provide optimal response times for emergency vehicles. Right now, more than 100 homes are served by a single access at Roselena and Moore Park Drive. "Two fully maintained road access points would also foster better traffic flow and protect for future transportation-transit planning," staff said. Staff also noted that King's new Traffic Calming Strategy can help in terms of alleviating potential traffic woes, such as speeding. Staff suggested that Roselena be considered for "passive traffic calming techniques," which include signage and markings used to slow traffic. Staff also said the developer will have to build and maintain the calming measures, and monitor traffic on an ongoing basis. Residents, however, are not completely convinced. While they support new housing, they point to safety and speeding as major concerns. One resident said compromises need to be made, and he'd like to see a double cul-de-sac, instead of the connection of Roselena with Church. Opening Roselena will only compound the problem, he said, adding this new phase need to be done with safety in mind. One resident did a house-to-house survey prior to the recent virtual council meeting. He said most residents thought the cul-de-sac was the preferred option. Other residents pointed to the quality of life, stressing the character of the existing neighbourhood needs to be maintained. Planner Paul Kulyk aid staff don't support the double cul-de-sac. He noted the Township now has the benefit of the traffic strategy to help guide them. The developer, he said, is obligated to implement the traffic control measures. A lot of the concerns, he said, point to driver behaviour, and it's difficult to design for behaviour. Councillor Bill Cober put forth an addition to the recommendations. It calls for traffic mitigation measures be included in the design. Mark Pavilons, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, King Weekly Sentinel
Mulgrave seeks reduction in policing costs
MULGRAVE – When the Town of Mulgrave prepared its budget for 2020/2021, several issues stood out; in particular, the rising cost of policing, housing and education. At that time, and in the intervening months, Mulgrave's CAO Darlene Berthier Sampson has been in contact with the RCMP and the Department of Justice about the cost of policing in the town. In September, council was informed that a policing review was slated to begin that month. At Monday night's regular council meeting (Jan. 18), Department of Justice liaison Donna Jewers met with council to discuss the policing issue. Mayor Ron Chisholm told The Journal that the meeting was very informative and that the town expected to receive further communications from Jewers on the matters discussed. In other business, Mulgrave continues to wait for acceptance of the CAO job offer that was made in December. Mayor Chisholm said they expect an answer in the coming week. The current CAO has completed her contract obligations and doesn't wish to extend her time in the CAO's chair. Technical difficulties and the pandemic have meant that recent council meetings have neither been open to the public nor live streamed. Mayor Chisholm said they plan to have one of these options available before the next council meeting in February. Lois Ann Dort, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Guysborough Journal
Sundridge-Strong explores plan to grow fire department
Sundridge-Strong Fire Chief Andrew Torrance is working on a plan to increase the size of his volunteer fire department. Attracting and retaining volunteer firefighters is an ongoing challenge, Torrance has admitted. Recently, he started interviewing departing volunteers to better understand why they retire or resign. Those interviews revealed to Torrance "that generally when people do retire it's because they don't have the time or energy to continue with the training mandate," made more demanding several years ago by changes to provincial regulations. Torrance realized for this group there is no way to "stay connected in a productive manner with the fire department," until he learned that departments elsewhere have introduced an auxiliary component to their service. The auxiliary would be open to former volunteer firefighters and the community at large, but conditions would apply. "There would be training on the items they would be allowed to participate in like shuttling resources and equipment, handling radio equipment, but no 'hot zone' jobs," Torrance explains. A 'hot zone' job is where a trained firefighter wears a self-contained breathing apparatus responding to incidents such as a fire or motor-vehicle collision. Torrance clarifies that although an auxiliary member wouldn't be involved in these types of functions, they would respond to the scene in a support capacity. "So someone with a commercial (driver's) licence could be trained to drive the tanker from the station to the scene," he says. "This is done in other places." Torrance says auxiliary members would not be expected to respond to run-of-the-mill calls. But, he says, they are a bonus to the volunteers in large-scale calls "where we need all hands on deck." As well, because of the training auxiliary members "could also help us with public education opportunities." Although the concept is still being developed, Torrance has discussed the idea with former firefighters. "I can say as many as three (retired) firefighters would join right now if the policy was endorsed," he says. "These are people who would have loved to stay involved as volunteers earlier in time, but couldn't make the commitment like they did before." He says the auxiliary would keep them involved, but at a reduced capacity. Torrance also believes there are community members who have considered becoming a volunteer firefighter but don't join because they can't make the time commitment. He says this is where the auxiliary can help out. "So this is an opportunity for someone who can't make the (volunteer firefighter) commitment," he says. "They're already working, but the auxiliary helps them understand how it might fit into their lifestyle and they might realize this is something they can do." Torrance's long-term hope is community members who join the auxiliary might then one day take the next step and sign on as a volunteer firefighter. The Sundridge-Strong Fire Department is set up to have 29 firefighters, but has had between 20 and 23 in recent years. Torrance says Sundridge and Strong councils have approved the idea of an auxiliary, but what remains is their approval of the fine details of the policy, including the pay rate. He hopes to have the final policy before both councils sometime during the second quarter of this year. Rocco Frangione is a Local Journalism Initiative reporter who works out of the North Bay Nugget. The Local Journalism Initiative is funded by the Government of Canada. Rocco Frangione, Local Journalism Initiative, The North Bay Nugget
NEW YORK — As the coronavirus swept across the globe last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sank into the shadows, undermined by some of its own mistakes and stifled by an administration bent on downplaying the nation's suffering. Now a new CDC director is arriving to a mammoth task: reasserting the agency while the pandemic is in its deadliest phase yet and the nation's largest-ever vaccination campaign is wracked by confusion and delays. "I don't know if the CDC is broken or just temporarily injured," but something must be done to bring it back to health, said Timothy Westmoreland, a Georgetown University law professor focused on public health. The task falls to Dr. Rochelle Walensky, 51, an infectious-diseases specialist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, who is expected to become CDC director this week — a time when the virus's U.S. death toll has eclipsed 400,000 and continues to accelerate. While the agency has retained some of its top scientific talent, public health experts say, it has a long list of needs, including new protection from political influence, a comprehensive review of its missteps during the pandemic and more money to beef up basic functions like disease tracking and genetic analysis. Walensky has said one of her top priorities will be to improve the CDC's communications with the public to rebuild trust. Inside the agency, she wants to raise morale, in large part by restoring the primacy of science and setting politics to the side. The speed at which she is assuming the job is unusual. In the past, the position has generally been unfilled until a new secretary of health and human services is confirmed, and that official names a CDC director. But this time, the Biden transition team named Walensky in advance, so she could take the agency's reins even before her boss is in place. Walensky, an HIV researcher, has not worked at the CDC or at a state or local health department. But she has emerged as a prominent voice on the pandemic, sometimes criticizing certain aspects of the state and national response. Her targets have included the uneven transmission-prevention measures that were in place last summer and a prominent Trump adviser's endorsement of a "herd immunity" approach that would let the virus run free. She acknowledged the weaknesses in her resume. "When people write about me as the selection for this position, they will say, 'But she has no on-the-ground public health experience,'" she said during a podcast with the Journal of the American Medical Association. The podcast's host, Dr. Howard Bauchner, who is also editor of the journal, praised her effusively. "I can't imagine the CDC and the country being luckier ... mostly just because you can communicate, which is such an important task for the head of the CDC," he said. Walensky did not respond to interview requests from The Associated Press. She will succeed Dr. Robert Redfield, 69, who came to the CDC with a similar resume as an outsider from academia. Redfield kept a low profile during his first two years in office after being appointed by the Trump administration in 2018. Veteran CDC scientists handled crises such as a deadly national surge in hepatitis A cases among homeless people and illicit drug users, and a mysterious spike in severe illnesses in people who vaped electronic cigarettes. The agency's handling of the COVID-19 outbreak began in a similar way. Staff scientists took the lead, holding regular news conferences to update the public on the emerging problem. But the agency stumbled in February when a test for the virus sent to states proved to be flawed. Then, later in the month, a top CDC infectious-disease expert, Dr. Nancy Messonnier, upset the Trump administration by speaking frankly at a news conference about the dangers of the virus when President Donald Trump was still downplaying it. Within weeks, the agency was pushed off stage. Redfield made appearances, but he was often a third-tier speaker after remarks dominated by Trump, Vice-President Mike Pence and others. The CDC "has been sidelined, has been maligned, has been a punching bag for many politicians in the outgoing administration. And that has had a detrimental effect on the agency's ability to fulfil its mission," said Dr. Richard Besser, a former CDC official who now heads the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. White House officials also took steps to try to control the CDC's scientific reports and the guidance on its website. For instance, the agency removed guidance that advised limiting church choir activities even though studies had demonstrated the danger of transmission of extended singing indoors. The agency also dropped guidance advising that anyone who came into close contact with an infected person should get tested — then re-adopted it after criticism from health experts. "Folks across the political spectrum have had reason to doubt the veracity and accuracy, sometimes, of CDC's messages," said Adriane Casalotti of the National Association of County and City Health Officials. While public health veterans say they do not know everything that happened behind the scenes, they say Redfield apparently failed to stand up for agency scientists, declined to contradict Trump and those around him and passively allowed the Trump administration to post its messaging on CDC websites. "He wasn't willing to resign when it was necessary or to be fired for standing up for principle," said David Holtgrave, a former CDC staffer who is now dean of the public health school at the State University of New York at Albany. Redfield declined to be interviewed. The pandemic also exposed some CDC failures and weaknesses unrelated to politics. The test kit problem was tied to laboratory contamination at the agency's Atlanta headquarters — a sign of sloppiness. The CDC also lost its standing as the nation's go-to source for case counts and other measures of the epidemic after university researchers and others developed better systems for tracking infections. Much of that has to do with cycles of funding for the national public health system that rise in reaction to a crisis and then fall, hurting efforts to prevent the next crisis. Last week, Biden said he would ask for $160 billion for vaccinations and other public health programs, including an effort to expand the public health workforce by 100,000 jobs. Georgetown's Westmoreland called for a law or other measure to prohibit political appointees from having editorial review of CDC science and to ban them from controlling when the agency releases information. He also recommended a review of the CDC to determine if the agency's problems can be traced to mismanagement by Trump's political appointees or whether there are deeper flaws in the organization. Some experts suggest that an administration that values science and increases funding could restore the CDC to preeminence. Biden has pledged to put scientists out front on COVID-19 matters, Besser noted. "That's something I think will be fixed on Day One," he said. "One of the things that gives me hope is I did not see a large exodus from CDC during this past year. I saw professionals doing their jobs. I saw the mental toll they were taking, but I did not see them giving up." ___ The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Department of Science Education. The AP is solely responsible for all content. Mike Stobbe, The Associated Press
PARIS — French university students protested Wednesday on Paris' Left Bank to demand to be allowed back to class, and to call attention to suicides and financial troubles among students cut off from friends, professors and job opportunities amid the pandemic. Carrying a banner reading "We Will Not Be the Sacrificed Generation," hundreds of students gathered to march on the Education Ministry, seeking government help for those struggling. Other student protests were planned Wednesday elsewhere in France. The government ordered all universities closed in October to stem resurgent virus infections, after a similar closure in the spring set many students back academically and socially. Students have increasingly been sharing their woes on social networks under such hashtags as #suicideetudiant and #etudiantphantomes, or ghost students. Heidi Soupault, a 19-year-old student in Strasbourg, wrote an open letter to President Emmanuel Macron last week saying she and her peers have "no more dreams" and have "the impression of being dead." While France tightened its curfew last week as virus hospitalizations grow again, Prime Minister Jean Castex made a gesture toward college students, allowing first-year students to start returning to partial classes as of next week. The government acknowledged that lockdown-related mental health problems among young people are also a public health concern. But the protesting students say the measures don't go far enough to address their woes. France has among the world's highest numbers of virus infections and deaths. ___ Follow AP coverage of the coronavirus pandemic at: https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-pandemic https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-vaccine https://apnews.com/UnderstandingtheOutbreak The Associated Press
At least three people died and eleven were injured on Wednesday afternoon when a building in central Madrid was blown apart by an explosion, with four of the wounded requiring hospitalisation. All available evidence pointed to the blast in Calle Toledo, a street leading out from the city centre, being caused by a gas leak, Madrid's Emergency Services said, although the factors which triggered the leak were yet to be determined. "It was completely nerve-wracking ... I heard and felt the explosion but didn't know where it came from," said local Isabel Romero, whose eight-year-old son is a student at a school next to the building where the explosion occurred.
International border COVID-19 testing pilot at Edmonton airport to begin February 1
Edmonton International Airport officials are guardedly optimistic about the expansion on February 1 of the COVID-19 international border testing pilot program. Currently the pilot is only available to eligible international travellers arriving at the Calgary airport and the Coutts land border crossing. Those participating in the program entering Canada will have to show proof of a negative test — taken within 72 hours before the flight — before being allowed to board the plane destined for the province. Once they arrive in Alberta, they're tested again and must quarantine for 48 hours. If the second test result comes back negative, they can leave quarantine as long as they remain in Alberta for the first 14 days and get a followup test a week later. "We believe this is a great program," EIA vice president Steve Maybee said. "We have to put these in place so when travel does come back and people are encouraged to travel again, that we have the right programs in place to make it safe." Currently, both the federal and provincial governments are discouraging unnecessary travel. Maybee said the EIA isn't encouraging people not to follow the advisories. "We're not suggesting or encouraging travel right now," Maybee said. "We're following along with what the government restrictions and mandates that are in place." Edmonton travel agent Lesley Paull thinks the expansion of the pilot program is a sign of better days ahead for local travellers. "I think it's just going to give people more encouragement to go," she said. "We don't have as many flights as Calgary has, so we'll probably be starting a slower process, but hopefully with testing here, that will bring us more non-stop flights back." The testing is free of charge for eligible participants and the pilot will run until 52,000 people have been tested. No international flights for six months in 2020 at EIA Based on 2020 travel numbers, it may take awhile to get to that 52,000 mark. EIA said 2.6 million people went through their airport last year, compared to 8.1 million the year before, for an overall drop of 67.7 per cent. There were no international flights at all between April and September and flights to the United States were down 78.5 per cent. There was also a 70 percent decrease in domestic flights coming in and going out of the Edmonton airport. The travel agent summed up her business in one word. "Brutal," Paull said with a laugh. But she hopes pent up demand will lead to change. "We're doing so many bookings for 2022 now, and even the end of 2021," Paull said. "I think that people are so anxious to get out of here. They're really quite sick of the whole thing."
Joe Biden, Kamala Harris sworn in: Inauguration Day 2021
The United States swore in its 46th President on Jan. 20, 2021. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris attended their inauguration in Washington, D.C. with a slew of distinguished guests, but few onlookers as the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a need for social distancing.Several past presidents were in attendance, including Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and George Bush Jr., however the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump, did not attend. Trump flew to his golf club in Florida earlier in the day. Outgoing Vice President Mike Pence did attend the ceremony with his wife.For all the latest on the U.S. inauguration, click this link for live updates.
Donald Trump, wife Melania depart the White House
Donald Trump left the White House for the final time as the 45th United States president Wednesday morning, travelling to Florida instead of attending his successor Joe Biden's inauguration. Trump, along with his wife, Melania, walked to the White House lawn and boarded the Marine One helicopter that took off just after 8:15 a.m. ET for Joint Base Andrews in suburban Maryland. "It's been a great honour, the honour of a lifetime. The greatest people in the world, the greatest home in the world," Trump told reporters before heading to Marine One, rotors whirring, on the South Lawn. "We accomplished a lot." Members of Trump's family gathered for the send-off at Andrews along with the president's loyalists, who chanted "We love you!" "Thank you, Trump" and "U.S.A." Four Army cannons fired a 21-gun salute. The couple will land in Florida and make their way by motorcade to their Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach. His arrival at Mar-a-Lago is being timed to get him behind the wall of the resort before Trump's term as president expires at noon. Trump is the first outgoing president to skip the inauguration ceremony for his successor since Andrew Johnson more than a century and a half ago. Trump refused to participate in any of the symbolic passing-of-the-torch traditions surrounding the peaceful transition of power, including inviting the Joe and Jill Biden to the White House for a get-to-know-you visit. He did follow at least one tradition: The White House said Trump left behind a note for Biden. A Trump spokesman, Judd Deere, declined to say what Trump wrote or characterize the sentiment in the note, citing privacy for communication between presidents. Still popular within his party Trump will settle in Florida with a small group of former White House aides as he charts a political future that looks very different now than just two weeks ago. Before the Capitol riot on Jan.6, Trump had been expected to remain his party's de facto leader, wielding enormous power as he served as a kingmaker and mulled a 2024 presidential run. But now he appears more powerless than ever — shunned by so many in his party, impeached twice, denied the Twitter bullhorn he had intended to use as his weapon and even facing the prospect that, if he is convicted in his Senate trial, he could be barred from seeking a second term. WATCH | Presidential historian Thomas Balcerski on Trump's legacy: But although Trump has left the White House, he retains his grip on the Republican base, with the support of millions of loyal voters, along with allies still helming the Republican National Committee and many state party organizations. He also potentially faces a host of other legal troubles unrelated to the presidency. While in Washington, Trump rarely left the confines of the White House, except to visit his own hotel, where foreign dignitaries often stayed, hoping to gain access to administration aide. He and his wife never once ate dinner at any other local restaurant, and never ventured out to shop in its stores or see the sights. When he did leave, it was almost always to one of his properties. In addition to his Florida properties, that included golf courses in Virginia and New Jersey. White House cleaning crews worked overnight Wednesday and were still going as the sun rose to get the building cleaned and ready for its new occupants. In what will be the office of incoming press secretary Jen Psaki, a computer keyboard and mouse on her desk were encased in plastic. A black moving truck had backed up to the door of the West Wing entrance, where the presence of a lone Marine guard usually signals that the president is in the Oval Office. Most walls were stripped down to the hooks that once held photographs, and offices were devoid of the clutter and trinkets that gave them life. The face of at least one junior aide was streaked with tears as she left the building one last time.


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Premier League: Southampton vs Manchester City preview, team news, prediction and tips
Southampton and Manchester City will take on each other in the Premier League matchday 23 at St Mary's Stadium on Saturday. The kick-off is at 19:30 CEST.
Just like it usualy happens with Ralph Hasenhuttl's side since the Austrian's appointment at St Mary's in 2018, Southampton's biggest problem this season has been consistency. The Saints sit in 12th in the PL table with 24 points taken from 21 games and will play hosts to Man City on the back of a 3-1 loss to Wolverhampton last weekend which saw their five-game unbeaten streak across all competitions coming to an end.
Pep Guardiola's side, meanwhile, appear to have secured their fourth Premier League trophy in five years in last Saturday when they defeated then-second-placed Chelsea 1-0 courtesy of Kevin De Bruyne's only strike at the Etihad Stadium. That was the Cityzens' 12th straight victory in the English top flight which means that they are leadring the standings already 11 points clear of runners-up Liverpool who have a game in hand.
Valentino Livramento and William Smallbone are unavailable for the hosts due to injury while Moussa Djenepo is away at the Africa Cup of Nations. Oleksandr Zinchenko and Riyad Mahrez, meanwhile, will not feature for City through an injury and AFCON duties respectively.
Even if So'ton managed to hold City down to a goalless draw at the Etihad Stadium earlier this season in September, it would take a miracle for Hasenhuttl's men to end the Cityzens' outstanding winning run in the league when they lock horns on Saturday. Hence, let's back Guardiola's crop for another confident victory in this one.
Manchester City to win to nil at 2.19 with 1XBET.


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Island Health's Community Care Facilities Licensing Program investigates all allegations of Operations in Contravention of the Community Care and Assisted Living Act.
Concerns regarding operations providing care three or more persons who are not related to the operator by blood or marriage may be reported to your local licensing office.
Operations that are identified through the investigation process to have confirmed violations the Community Care and Assisted Living Act will have summaries of the investigation posted on the website.
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Are you either considering switching careers, or have you begun the investigative process? If you're like most people, you have most likely searched for work opportunities online or in your local paper's job section.
Even though these resources can be very handy, you might wish to take into consideration making use of job fairs, as they're a terrific strategy to locate and apply for available positions.
Generally accessible without charge, career fairs are half-to-full day events set up in open venues, including hotels or even convention centers. Business employers – sometimes from a specific vocational market, sometimes representing a variety of industries – have a table or booth with information all about the company they represent.
Each company available at the career fair will also have 1-3 company reps there to speak with people who come by, walk them through the job application procedure, and even sometimes do an actual interview at that moment.
What Can Be Gained By Going?
The number of organizations represented at a job fair can stretch from a few dozen to hundreds, depending on the size of the location and breadth of business opportunities offered. Searching online or your local classifieds will rarely pull together this many recruiters in such a tiny amount of time. Job fairs are also helpful given that the partnering recruiters generally operate different types of companies.
For example, the array of job prospects at a career fair can potentially feature technology, the professional medical profession, automotive workers, admin assistants, insurance and various others. This is good for any person who might have a general sense of the sort of employment desired though is nevertheless open to many other completely different paths once exposed to various other alternatives which perhaps have never been thought through in the past.
Those who may be concerned about feeling required to give private information they don't want some recruiters to view can indeed be comforted in realizing that who they offer information to is entirely their choice.
A number of career fairs are publicized ahead of time in publications and on the web. You might even spot career fair signs when shopping at your favorite stores.
To have the most effective expectation of success at career fairs, you'll need to make sure you dress appropriately, bring a minimum of 25 copies of your resume to give away to prospective employers, and always be ready for a job interview right on the spot – it is your chance to market yourself!
As a matter of fact, if you come across a profession you really want, do not be timid about promoting yourself. Talk with the company representative in detail about the career, provide some of your personal track record, and ask for a job interview. Several recruiters appreciate such initiative.
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I am trying to add an API proxy to some custom roles using Node.js script. I will be getting "API Proxy Name" & "Custom Role Name" as parameters. I am not sure how to start this. Can someone help me out?
I am trying to use this curl command to add the api proxy to custom role. But it is giving me permission error. Does anyone know what needs to be done to fix permission error?
Have you tried looking at these two documents as a starting point?
Check this repo I built sometime back. You need Maven to deploy the proxy. This proxy will be able to create the API Proxy and assign the specific custom role.


An Irish insulation manufacturer , Kingspan who also have presence in the New Zealand market, has officially opened its new facility in Somerton, creating 50 new jobs, and setting new standards in energy efficiency.
Victorian Minister for Industry and Employment Wade Noonan congratulated Kingspan at a special ribbon-cutting ceremony.
The Victorian Government has worked with Kingspan to develop the Oherns Road factory – worth about $40 million – by providing funding support and assisting with planning and approval.
The company's new Somerton base has become Australia's first ever Green Star rated manufacturing facility.
It includes a 750 kW solar system built into the roof design, and innovative features such as industrial low energy lighting and heating systems.
It's at least 10 per cent more energy efficient than Kingspan's other manufacturing facilities.
Kingspan will supply its insulation products to the Australia, New Zealand, Asia, and Oceania markets, with 35 per cent of output expected to be exported by 2020.
The Victorian Government supported Kingspan's investment in partnership with the Federal Government through the Melbourne's North Innovation and Investment Fund (MNIIF).
MNIIF has since been replaced by the $33 million Local Industry Fund for Transition (LIFT), supporting new investment, and creating jobs for retrenched automotive workers.
These grants have already created an additional 122 jobs from six projects in Melbourne's north – as the Victorian Government works to build a strong, innovative and sustainable manufacturing sector.


The JCR public review of Java Enterprise Edition 6 completed recently , but in doing so, it showed up more evidence of the long running dispute between the Apache Software Foundation and Sun over the Java Compatibility Kit (JCK), specifically it's licencing. If you take a look at the results, you'll see the big red X next to Apache.
"Apache must regretfully vote "No" for JSR-316, as we contend that the spec lead - Sun Microsystems - is not complying with the JSPA with respect to Java SE TCK licensing. We believe that members of the JCP that do not comply with the letter and spirit of the governing rules should not be allowed to lead JSRs"
Of course, the root of the problem goes back to that open letter that Apache wrote to Sun back in April 2007. In that letter, Apache complain that the JCK licence is too restrictive in the "fields of use" specified. Harmony, the Apache Java implementation, uses the Apache Licence rather than the GPL, and as such would need the JCK terms to change. As such, Apache complain that Sun is violating the Java Specification Participation Agreement.
In other news on the voting, SpringSource chose to abstain. While they approve of the introduction of profiles, they are "disappointed not to see a minimal web profile, especially as this has become the choice of most enterprise Java users... Finally, we are not convinced that the end result matches the goals of Java EE 6 as defined in the original specification request, which we strongly supported.".
If you had been given the choice, how would you have voted? And is it right for Apache to keep this dispute going. With the OpenJDK available anyway, does Harmony still have a place in the community?


Gravity pulled our planet together by the process of accretion. Similar to a star, the huge number of particles colliding and squeezing together means that most of the energy is in the center. The energy within a planet is not great enough to cause atoms to fuse but heavier atoms do sometimes split apart, releasing energy that can be reabsorbed by surrounding atoms. Our planet was so hot when it first formed that most of the material was in a semi-liquid semi-solid phase allowing the atoms to flow around.
If you have ever seen oil and water mixed together, you know liquids can have different densities. The denser water sinks to the bottom of the glass and the less dense oil floats on top. If you add an even denser copper penny, it will sink to the bottom of the water layer. The same phenomenon occurred when our planet was first forming.
Elements with more protons in the nucleus, usually called "heavier" elements, were denser and sank to the center of the planet as they experienced a greater force from gravity. The "lighter" elements raised to the top of the mixture. This is the reason the surface of our planet is mostly solid with liquid water atop the solid rock and gaseous atmosphere atop the rock and water. The atmosphere refers to the layers of gaseous molecules surrounding our planet.
A quick aside: our planet was not large enough to have enough gravity to hold onto very light elements like hydrogen and helium, but it could hold onto heavier oxygen, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen gases. The larger planets in our solar system, called the gas giants, are able to hang onto these super light particles. The gas giants are too far from the sun to have many heavy elements because the elements with more mass did not travel far away after the first fusion reaction in the sun.
Back to our planet! The heaviest elements, mostly iron (26 protons), sunk to the center and the gravity of the surrounding atoms squeezed the iron into a solid inner core. Surrounding that core is a liquid iron layer; the heat was great enough to allow the solid to melt but there was not enough pressure to keep it in a solid form. The churning of the magnetic, liquid iron forms a magnetosphere around the planet to keep it safe from high energy radiation from other stars.
Surrounding the liquid outer core is a large chunk called the mantle and here is where we'll take a look at a single atom. Let's say our atom is near the bottom of the mantle and it absorbs some energy that diffuses from the core. The energy our atom absorbed will allow our atom to break free from the grips of gravity and begin its ascent through the mantle towards the surface.
When our atom has used all of its absorbed energy to rise high up in the mantle, gravity will take over and pull the atom back down. This is happening constantly as millions of atoms absorb enough energy from the core to rise up, only use up that energy and fall back down. Because so many atoms are doing this, a cyclical current is formed. Diffusion helps the process along, pushing atoms to fill in where others just left.
This same process is also happening on the surface of our planet. You have probably heard of the Water Cycle and you may even remember some of the names that you were told to memorize in school. Let's look at the path of a single water molecule in liquid form.
Liquid water at the surface absorbs sunlight and our molecule breaks free from the liquid bonds, greatly lowering its density. Our water molecule will rise to the top of the dense air in the atmosphere but will settle at the bottom of the less dense air above it. Yes, the atmosphere has multiple levels of density, you may have heard of these levels called the troposphere or the stratosphere, etc.
Our water molecule will then join other water molecules that made the same journey. The bunching up of water molecules allows a few liquid bonds to reform, causing the water to become denser. We call this semi-liquid semi-gaseous patch of water a cloud. The denser liquid will then be pulled back toward the center of the planet by gravity, we call this rain. The water will fall and trickle to the lowest point possible in order to rejoin the liquid to repeat the cycle.
Earth's liquid water also experiences a gravitational force from our satellite body, the moon. The moon's gravitational pull lifts some of the water toward it. However, the Earth is much more massive than the moon so the water will not lift much before it falls back down.
The cyclical process will occur with many other elements on our planet like carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, and phosphorus. The main difference between these cycles and the water cycle is that water maintains its molecular form while the other elements undergo reactions throughout the cycle.
Carbon also exists as us! We, along with all other living things, are made mostly of carbon. We are part of the carbon cycle; we can only borrow our carbon for so long before we have to give it back to the Earth. We give our carbon back to the Earth when we inevitably die.
Remember, nothing is created nor destroyed, only converted between different forms. Our planet demonstrates sustainability by merely obeying the laws of gravity and density. I find the natural world is even more beautiful when you understand the basic rules that make it work.


What happened on the Memorial Stadium turf on Sept. 29, 2007 is something Kevin Mitchell won't soon forget.
Ditto for what took place off it, moments after Ron Zook's Illini knocked off 21st-ranked Penn State.
"I remember rushing to the end zone, up into the crowd where the new student section was located. I looked over and, not to my surprise, saw (teammate) Will Davis, in uniform, playing a band member's trumpet," Mitchell says.


I started the journey of building Antara Senior Living with a simple yet powerful question: what would it take to give people the best life they could possibly have as they got older. The quest for the answer took me across various parts of the world and the Indian sub-continent. These travels helped me discover and learn that communities such as what we are creating will be a new way to think about later life - a life that radiates energy with a promise of an increase in quality of life. I envisioned progressive individuals joining me in this journey and I can say that I am truly delighted with where we have reached now.
The launch of our relationship building work in May'2013 gave us an encouraging response from our prospective residents and the industry at large. I along with a robust team in place, have had the chance to therefore celebrate many milestones for our first community at Purukul, Dehradun since then. I must share with you that each milestone brought me closer to the actualization of Antara Dehradun.
The past 2 years have been quite remarkable for all my team members, with each and every member putting their best foot forward towards the successful completion of Antara Dehradun and truly embodying our vision and commitment. Our construction work is in its last stages of completion and we are all geared up for our residents to start moving in the first quarter of 2016. With the design journey almost completed, the focus now is towards setting up the community operations. The team now has on board the head of the departments who will be instrumental in smooth functioning of operations.
As we work tirelessly to get the community ready for next year our residents give us the drive to work, bigger and better. I will write periodically on this blog to give updates and interesting anecdotes from our experiences and I look forward to sharing how our journey unfolds with you.
L.K.Gupta - 23 Aug 2016 I want to full details of your project.


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Maximizing Your Success in Mediation | Indiana Civil & Family Mediation Lawyer
Mediation is all about preparation, yet I find many times where the parties and/or the mediator are not thinking about a lot of the underlying questions about mediation, such as the following.
When Should I Mediate?
Generally, everybody agrees that mediation is most effective before both parties have completely prepared for trial and expended all their resources, but in individual cases there may be very good reasons to mediate at different times.
Pre-suit Mediation
Certain cases lend themselves to pre-suit mediation. If both parties have a pretty good grasp on what the issues are and the parties really don't need to exchange discovery, the parties should absolutely look at pre-suit mediation. I mediated a case years ago representing one of the parties to a shareholder/noncompetition agreement dispute. Both the parties were business owners who understood the business and the parties had exchanged letters which pretty much outlined the parties' legal positions. Both parties wanted to move on to separate their business relationship as soon as possible and both parties knew that litigation would simply delay the resolution of that relationship.
In certain cases, the parties don't want the publicity of a public lawsuit to interfere with their business, for example, if the parties anticipate making negative comments involving their ongoing business which could impact the business itself. In certain cases, the parties will continue to have long standing connections even after the present litigation is resolved and want to avoid the adversarial process of litigation because they will continue to have a relationship.
One potential concern is that a party who wants pre-suit mediation may inadvertently give the impression that they don't believe their case is particularly strong. It is certainly better if both parties come to the conclusion that pre-suit mediation makes sense.
Early Mediation
In some cases, the case needs to be filed, but the parties want to mediate very early in the process. If the amount in controversy is not substantial, early mediation before the parties spend a lot in lawyer fees makes a lot of sense. In some cases, the parties need to figure out issues on a very time sensitive basis. In cases involving noncompetition agreements, for example, the issuance of injunctive relief can effectively resolve the case, but in the absence of such relief, the parties may want to mediate early so that both parties know where they stand about how they deal with customers or other employees.
In civil cases, generally both parties need to do their basic discovery before mediation makes sense, but the parties could defer additional discovery such as depositions and more expensive types of discovery after both parties have a good sense of the basic facts. Early mediation may make sense for cases which do not involve insurance. If both parties are paying their lawyers rather than an insurance company, then both parties may strongly consider the need to resolve the case sooner rather than later. If there is a provision for attorney fees however, such as a case involving a mechanics lien or a contractual attorney fee provision, it may make sense to mediate the case early to at least limit the potential exposure for attorney fees.
Medium Stage Mediation
In civil cases, the parties may have completed basic discovery and the depositions of the parties but have not completed expert discovery which typically is extremely expensive. In some cases, that is the right time to mediate before the parties have to spend thousands of dollars recruiting and deposing experts. This is a good time to consider mediation in cases that will typically involve a large number of experts which may be spread across the US, for example, medical malpractice cases. In some cases, it may be worthwhile to schedule mediation before a dispositive motion is resolved because both parties recognize they have risk depending on how the court rules on the dispositive motion. Most family law cases mediate around this time because generally we do not do depositions or expert discovery.
End Stage Mediation
Certain cases do not position themselves well for various reasons until right before trial. For example, perhaps there is a complicated issue involving liability or causation which needs to be fully developed before the case is ready for mediation. Perhaps the insurance carrier insists on seeing how strong the opposing experts are. Unfortunately, mediating at this late stage generally means that both parties have to be fully prepared for trial and therefore defense costs or prosecution costs of the case are largely not an issue. There are also times when, at the last minute, the court orders the parties to go to mediation or return to mediation to see if there's any last-minute chance of resolving the case.
When Is Mediation Not Appropriate?
1. When you don't know enough about your case.
I think it is critical that the parties mediate when they have a comfort level that they know enough about the underlying facts. As a mediator, I find it very difficult to resolve cases when the parties are essentially conducting their discovery during the mediation, particularly when complicated items such as retirement accounts are involved. I've had lawyers who insist upon early mediation because they make very strong allegations against my clients, but really are not providing the underlying evidence to support the allegations. Resist the temptation to mediate on an artificial timeframe.
2. When your client is not ready.
In family law cases, I've had times that simply my client was not in the right frame of mind for mediation. The client was overwhelmed; the client did not feel that he or she understood the underlying issues; or the client was still in the grieving process. Most of these issues can be dealt with by solid preparation, but sometimes you just need to reset the mediation to a later date.
Who Should I Select to Mediate My Case in Indiana?
Not every mediator is right for every case. The mediator does not determine the outcome, but can clearly have a lot of influence on the outcome. You must spend some time learning about potential mediators to mediate your case. I have had lawyers call ahead of time to get some understanding about the type of cases I mediate and my general philosophy on mediation. If you are not familiar with the mediator, I think this is an excellent idea. Here are some things to keep in mind.
Skillset of the Mediator
In some cases, you want a mediator who has a substantial amount of mediation experience, but who does not need a lot of experience in the substantive area of the law. In other cases, it may be important to have a mediator who knows a lot about the substantive law. In a recent case I had, I was local counsel in a litigation case involving a tax sale. I knew nothing about tax sales other than it involved a very detailed statutory process. The opposing party wanted to use a respected out-of-town mediator who was a retired judge but had no experience in the substantive area. I proposed a local lawyer who had not mediated a lot of cases to my knowledge, but had represented similar parties in tax sale cases locally and also had some sense of the local judge. Ultimately, we went with the local attorney and his knowledge of the underlying cases and statutory process was invaluable in getting the case resolved.
In a few cases I've had, one side was insisting upon a mediator that the other side had never used which typically led to a long discussion about other mediators. Both parties should have a comfort level with the mediator selected. That is especially true if the parties see that the mediator has a personal connection with one of the lawyers, but the mediator doesn't know who the other lawyer is. In one case, plaintiff's counsel in a medical malpractice case in which I was defense counsel agreed to a defense medical malpractice attorney to serve as the mediator. His thought process was that the mediator would have a lot more credibility with my insurance company and that his client would hear all the potential bad news about their case as well. It was a smart decision in the case settled.
Gender of the Mediator
This generally does not come up in civil cases, but I know that I've been selected as a mediator in several family law cases because I am one of the few male family law mediators in my area. In family law, at times the husband is more comfortable having a male mediator, especially if everyone else in the case is a woman. I'm not suggesting that gender matters, but sometimes that lets the client feel they have a fair chance certainly cannot hurt.
Philosophy/Style of the Mediator
In certain cases, I may want a mediator who is very good at empathy. In certain cases, I may want to mediator who gets to the bottom line quickly. In a few civil cases, I've leaned towards a retired judge who tried a large number of civil cases to bring that perspective to the table. Each case is different. Again, it's important to know this type of background information, if possible, about your mediator. Talk to other lawyers about their experiences with the mediator.
How Is Family and Civil Mediation Different?
Although in family law cases the mediation training generally encourages the parties to stay together throughout the mediation, that has not been my experience as a practitioner and mediator in Southern Indiana. In my family law practice, on a few occasions the parties have agreed to four-way settlement meetings involving the parties and attorneys only with some success but you absolutely have to have the right lawyers (who can be civil to each other and keep their clients in check) and the right clients (who sincerely want to resolve the issues and not simply pick on the other party), otherwise these type of sessions can cause the parties to go backwards on their negotiations.
In civil cases, an opening statement involving all the parties was the norm, but the last few civil cases I've had both parties have dispensed with this requirement. I have mixed feelings about this. As a mediator, I do think it's important for both people to gauge the other party face-to-face for at least a short time.
I've seen the opposing attorney acknowledge that they caused harm or acknowledged responsibility for certain events which went a long way in helping the parties reach an agreement. I've seen the parties hear for the first time of potential problems with their case that they either did not know or did not really comprehend until the opening statement which made them more receptive to a reasonable compromise. In my personal experience, I've seen insurance adjusters at least rethink their position based upon how prepared the other party's counsel was and how the attorneys addressed each other on the issues.
If you're going to have an opening statement, it is important that each party be civil and respectful to the other. The mediator should reinforce these norms. Good attorneys brief the client ahead of time about this issue, but also realize that a "scorched earth" approach in opening session will probably not be received well.
How Long Does Mediation Typically Take in Indiana?
As a general rule, I always want to allocate a full day for mediation. Most of my practice involves family law issues as a practitioner and a mediator. In cases where the parties are addressing limited issues, a half day may be enough, but I always try to set aside an hour for the parties and the attorneys to draft and review the final mediation agreement. Having a short mediation day may force the parties to move quicker, but when there are multiple issues or emotional issues, I find it very hard to pull that off.
Family law cases can also take a real emotional toll on the parties. In some cases, it may be better for the parties to adjourn the mediation and reset the mediation relatively quickly to give the parties time to do additional discovery. If a party feels rushed to come to a settlement, that party is very likely to blame the lawyer for that outcome. Several years ago, I had a mediation involving a party who had significant ADHD. Out of a mediation lasting over eight hours, the mediator probably spent six hours of that time going through every issue one at a time with that party. There is no way that that mediation would have been successful but for that time commitment.
Where Should Mediation Take Place?
This is an infrequent issue but does come up from time to time. Generally, the mediator will have the parties at the mediator's office. In civil cases involving multiple parties and an out-of-town mediator, there are times where the lawyers will agree that the mediator should come to the local area rather than having multiple attorneys and parties drive to where the mediator is located. In a few family law cases I've had, if the lawyers are a significant distance away from the courthouse, the parties have agreed to mediate at the courthouse if the court is closer to halfway between the parties or their lawyers.
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