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The Defence Toolkit – May 18, 2019
This week's top three summaries: R v Chioros, 2019 ONCA 388, R v Flintroy, 2018 BCSC 1777, and R v Goddard, 2019 BCCA 164.
R v Chioros (ONCA)
[May 10/19] Charter s.9 - Grounds for Arrest - Anonymous Tip and the Debot Factors - 2019 ONCA 388 [C.W. Hourigan J.A., David M. Paciocco J.A., and A. Harvison Young J.A.]
AUTHOR'S NOTE: The Ontario Court of Appeal gives a pithy and useful treatment of the Debot factors applied to an anonymous tip. In this case, the tip was a bald assertion that the Appellant was a drug dealer. Consequently, much was required to corroborate it. The Court found that rumours regarding the appellants acquaintances and some surveillance suggesting "counter surveillance driving" was insufficient. No surveillance of transaction-like activity and no observations of attendance at known drug dealer's address was conducted. The state's efforts fell woefully short.
Pertinent Facts
"In September 2015, the Saint Thomas police received an anonymous Crime Stoppers tip that the appellant was trafficking large amounts of cocaine in St. Thomas. The police conducted surveillance of the appellant over a two-month period and he was eventually arrested in London. On a search incident to arrest, the police discovered cocaine on his person and in his vehicle. As a result of this discovery, the police obtained a warrant to search the appellant's home. That search revealed more cocaine and marijuana. The appellant was charged with possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking, possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking, and possession of oxycodone." (Para 1)
"The Crime Stoppers tip was received by Cst. Spicer on September 3, 2015 and included the appellant's name and address. It also referenced the fact that he drove a silver Audi and the licence plate number of that vehicle. In addition, the tipster advised that there was a Harley Davidson motorcycle and a Ford Mustang in the driveway of the appellant's residence. Cst. Spicer was able to confirm that day that the appellant resided at the address provided and that the silver Audi was registered to him." (Para 5)
"The police commenced surveillance of the appellant's residence on September 17, 2015. On that date, Cst. Spicer saw the appellant driving the Audi. The other two vehicles mentioned in the tip were never seen at the appellant's residence, nor was the appellant ever seen driving either vehicle." (Para 6)
"On September 23, 2015, Cst. Spicer observed the appellant driving with Jason Daniels. Cst. Spicer knew Mr. Daniels from high school. He believed that Mr. Daniels was a drug dealer when they were at school. In addition, he had been told by several sources, including credible informants, that Mr. Daniels was a drug dealer. Cst. Spicer testified that at the time Mr. Daniels was the subject of a drug investigation. However, Cst. Spicer did not know if Mr. Daniels had ever been convicted of drug related offences or arrested for same." (Para 7)
"The police followed the appellant and Mr. Daniels to an apartment on Ross Street, where they entered unit 11. Cst. Spicer believed that this unit was occupied by Mr. Daniels." (Para 8)
"The following day, September 24, 2015, the police observed the appellant pull his vehicle over and lift the hood. He examined the vehicle for a few minutes and then drove off. The officers saw him cut through a parking lot, do a U turn, and then continue down the street. Both Cst. Spicer and Sgt. Johnstone described these actions as counter-surveillance techniques" (Para 9)
"Later that day, the officers observed the appellant arrive in the driveway of a group of high-rise apartment buildings on Windermere Drive in London. Each building had approximately 150 units. The appellant entered 655 Windermere Drive, but the officers did not see which apartment he visited. He was there for over an hour and was observed exiting the building carrying a bag that appeared to be weighted. Sgt. Johnstone obtained information from London Police that they had received an anonymous tip that a major drug dealer lived at 655 Windermere Drive and that his apartment was being used as a stash house." (Para 10)
"On October 27, 2015, Cst. Spicer observed the appellant drive to the Ross Street building." (Para 11)
"On November 5, 2015, the police observed the appellant return to 655 Windermere Drive. The appellant went inside the building. He did not appear to be carrying anything. He came out about an hour later carrying a bag. Again, the officers did not know which unit the appellant entered." (Para 13)
"The police arrested the appellant shortly after he left the building. They searched him incident to arrest and found no drugs on his person. A small amount of marijuana and multiple cellphones were found in his vehicle at that time. A search at the police detachment located approximately 249 grams of cocaine in the appellant's boxer shorts. A subsequent search of his home turned up 20 grams of cocaine and 214 grams of marijuana." (Para 14)
Section 9 Analysis
"Pursuant to s. 9 of the Charter, the police must have reasonable and probable grounds to believe that they have sufficient evidence of a crime to facilitate an arrest. When the grounds to arrest stem, at least in part, from a confidential informant, the court must conduct a Debot analysis and look at the totality of the circumstances to determine if the confidential information is sufficiently credible, compelling, and corroborated to support the arrest. Weaknesses in one area may be compensated by strengths in the other two: R. v. Debot, 1989 CanLII 13 (SCC), [1989] 2 S.C.R. 1140, at p.1168." (Para 17)
"Given that this was an anonymous tip, there was no evidence regarding the tipster's credibility. Nor was there evidence regarding his reliability or motivation in providing the information. It was an error, therefore, for the trial judge to find the tip to be credible." (Para 18)
"The tip was also not compelling. It consisted of a bald assertion that the appellant was engaged in drug dealing without any information regarding the details of his alleged activities, whether the tipster had firsthand knowledge of the alleged activities, or the currency of the information. It included readily available public information regarding the appellant's address and car, along with information about some, but not all, of the vehicles that were sometimes parked in his driveway." (Para 19)
"The trial judge further erred in finding that the tip was corroborated. There was no meaningful corroboration. At no time did the police observe the appellant engage in any drug activity. Nor did they witness him enter the apartment of the alleged major drug dealer. The counter-surveillance evidence might be considered to a modicum of corroboration. However, its significance is diminished by the fact that there were no alleged counter-surveillance moves on the second trip to 655 Windermere Drive. The evidence regarding Mr. Daniels was uncorroborated by objective evidence, such as a police record. At its highest, it amounted to an assertion that the appellant associated with a suspected drug dealer." (Para 20)
"A proper balancing of the Debot factors leads inexorably to the conclusion that the police lacked sufficient grounds to effect an arrest. The arrest amounted to a violation of the appellant's s. 9 rights and the searches that flowed from the arrest breached his s. 8 rights." (Para 22)
24(2) Analysis
Seriousness of the State Violation
"With respect to the seriousness of the state conduct, this was not a close call. It should have been clear to the police that they had, at most, unconfirmed suspicions about the appellant's possible involvement in drug dealing. Throughout their investigation, the police failed to undertake even the most rudimentary steps to verify information, including the extent of Mr. Daniels's prior drug involvement, the source of the information about the apartment at 655 Windermere Drive being used as a stash house, and confirmation of whether the appellant ever visited that unit. The investigation was not time-sensitive and there was no reason why the police could not have investigated further in an effort to gather truly corroborative evidence. It is serious state misconduct when the police make a choice not to conduct a proper investigation, but instead choose to effect an arrest on a member of the public based on unconfirmed and unreliable information. This factor pushes in favour of exclusion of the evidence." (Para 24)
Impact on the Charter Protected Interests of the Accused
"The impact of the breaches on the appellant's Charter-protected rights was profound. He was detained against his will following a dynamic public takedown by the police. Searches were then undertaken of his person, his vehicle, and his residence. This factor also militates in favour of exclusion of the evidence." (Para 25)
"In our view, a balancing of the Grant factors results in the conclusion that the inclusion of this evidence would bring the administration of justice into disrepute. The court cannot be seen to endorse the type of misconduct engaged in by the police in this case." (Para 27)
Acquittals entered on appeal (Para 28)
R v Flintroy (BCSC)
[Oct 12/18] Charter s.8 - Seizure of Passport Photo from Federal Government Agency - 2018 BCSC 1777 [Williams J.]
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Sometimes a defence lawyer just needs a tiny wedge and big sledge hammer. Here, that wedge was the administrative disclosure of a passport photograph. In a recently released series of judgements (R v Flintroy), Justice Williams went through the reverberations of a decision he made in October. The end result was reported by the news here: Global News. At the core of the analysis was the finding made in this summary - interpretation of federal case law that allowed the Passport authorities to share a picture of the Accused. The judge found that it did not allow the police to seize it as they are still bound by the Constitutional protections in s.8. In other words, authorization for one agency to share is not authorization for another agency to seize or search. The photograph was used for surveillance - the surveillance could not have happened but for the use of the photograph...
"In the course of the Vancouver Police Department ("VPD") investigation into suspected drug dealing activities by Dennis Halstead and others, the VPD made a request of CIC, asking to be provided with Mr. Halstead's passport photograph. The request, in a memorandum format, was transmitted to CIC. The request was made pursuant to s. 8(2) (f) of Privacy Act, R.S.C. 1985 c. P-21. On September 3, 2014, a delegate of the Director of Access to Information and Privacy responded, providing a copy of Mr. Halstead's most recent passport photo. The police subsequently used that photograph in their investigation." (Para 2)
"It is undisputed that the police did not have a warrant in their search." (Para 4)
Charter s.8 Analysis
"The basic principle applicable to the issue at bar was succinctly spelled out in the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in R. v. Spencer, 2014 SCC 43(CanLII) at para. 68:
[68] A warrantless search, such as the one that occurred in this case, is presumptively unreasonable: R. v. Collins, 1987 CanLII 84 (SCC), [1987] 1 S.C.R. 265 (S.C.C.). The Crown bears the burden of rebutting this presumption. A search will be reasonable if: (a) it was authorized by law; (b) the law itself was reasonable; and (c) the search was carried out in a reasonable manner: p. 278." (Para 5)
s.8(2)(f) of the Privacy Act allows disclosure under an agreement with an agency or other government for the purpose of enforcing laws or carrying out lawful investigations - the Federal Government and BC have such an agreement (Paras 12-13)
"In the submission of the Crown, the clear import of s. 8(2)(f) of the Privacy Act and the Agreement, read together, is to authorize the disclosure of Mr. Halstead's passport photograph by CIC to the police. Accordingly, the Crown says the disclosure was therefore authorized by law." (Para 14)
"I am unable to accept the argument because it incorporates a fundamental premise that I reject: that the disclosure of the photo by CIC encompasses a search by the VPD. To my mind, that fails to consider the lawfulness of the process whereby the VPD obtained the photo from the possession of the government. If the simple issue here was whether the CIC acted unlawfully in providing the photo to the police, then it seems quite likely that CIC could point to s. 8(2)(2) (f) as a lawful authority for disclosing the photo. But that would ignore the real issue: what lawful authority did the VPD have to search for and seize the item? As the discussion which follows attempts to make clear, the matter of the disclosure is only part of the issue; it is not the whole issue." (Para 17)
"In regard to the requirement that the state have the authority to search for and seize materials, it must be able to point to a specific statute or common law rule that authorizes the search. In R. v. Caslake, [1998] 1 S.C.R. 51, Chief Justice Lamer said this:
12 In order to be reasonable, searches and seizures must be authorized by law. The reason for this requirement is clear: under both the Charter [_] and the common law, agents of the state can only enter onto or confiscate someone's property when the law specifically permits them to do so....First, the state authority conducting the search must be able to point to a specific statute or common law rule that authorizes the search. If they cannot do so, the search cannot be said to be authorized by law." (Para 22)
"I begin with a consideration of the plain wording of s. 8(2)(f). In my view, and particularly when examined in the context of the statute's stated purpose and the principles governing the law of search and seizure, it cannot reasonably be construed to authorize a search. Instead, it allows or permits the keeper of the record, in this case the CIC, to disclose the document where certain conditions are present. However, allowing disclosure is not by any means the functional equivalent of a lawful authority for some other individual agency to search for and seize the record. At best, to find otherwise would require this Court to infer that authority." (Para 26)
"Given the value placed upon an individual's reasonable expectation of privacy in the record, there is simply no reasonable basis to infer a clear and unambiguous authority to search." (Para 27)
"If the Crown's position were to prevail, the police would have a wide open means to search for and seize records, without there being any basic standards met: including prior judicial authorization, an articulated basis for the search and the requirement to meet and some standard of probability, among other considerations." (Para 29)"
"In the circumstances at bar, the record was disclosed on nothing more than a very cursory memorandum from a representative of the VPD, stating that Mr. Halstead was a "person of interest involved in a VPD s. 5 (1) and 6 (1) CDSA investigation"." (Para 30)
"However, for the reasons I have attempted to explain, when examined in the light of relevant search and seizure authority, the practice cannot be characterized as lawful. That the raison d'être for the particular provision is unclear, leading to the view that "it must mean something", is not a basis to find it provides the necessary lawful authority to search, nor is the apparent good faith of those who disclosed the material." (Para 37)
"As indicated, I consider the privacy intrusion to be at a modest level, but I am not prepared to agree that it is minimal. It is my considered view that the privacy interest is sufficient, in concert with the conclusion I have reached that the power to affect the search must be clearly articulated." (Para 54)
"In all the circumstances, I find that the search process whereby the police obtained the photograph was not authorized by law. The Crown has not rebutted the presumption of an unreasonable search." (Para 66)
R v Goddard (BCCA)
[May 10/19] – Sentencing - Using Increased Frequency of Reporting to Force Consent Searches – 2019 BCCA 164 [Reasons by Fitch J.A., Bauman C.J.B.C., Newbury J.A Concurring:]
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Keeping judicial "ingenuity" in probationary conditions in check is a struggle that sometimes surfaces at the appeal level. Trial judges, Crown and defence lawyers focused on the necessities of a single case sometimes miss the implications of their decisions for the rest of the justice system. Here a probationary condition was imposed that essentially punished the probationer with daily reporting if he failed to consent to a search of his electronic devices. While for this particular offender, the conditions seemed warranted - a repeat of this condition for others would be an atrocious erosion of s.8 Charter rights.
"The appellant pleaded guilty to breaching a condition of his probation that prohibited him from possessing a cell phone capable of accessing the internet contrary to s. 733.1(1) of the Criminal Code, R.S.C. 1985, c. C-46 [Code]. He was sentenced to one day of imprisonment, in addition to eleven months' credit for pre-sentence custody, to be followed by a three-year probation order. He applies for leave to appeal and, if leave is granted, appeals a number of conditions of the probation order, arguing they are unreasonable, overbroad, vague, or unconstitutional." (Para 1)
"The appellant, who is 29 years old, has a criminal record dating back to 2010. His substantive offences include sexual offending against vulnerable individuals, including minors. He also has a history of breaching conditions of his probation." (Para 2)
On sentencing, he was given the following two conditions: (Para 33-34)
Condition 17 provides:
Condition 17: You shall, upon your consent, allow any peace officer and/or probation officer to examine any device in your possession and permit any peace officer to bring any device in your possession to the police department to verify compliance with this order. You shall provide any peace officer and/or probation officer any passwords, access codes and manuals associated to any device in your possession to enable examination of the device. If you do not consent, you shall forthwith report to your probation officer and thereafter report daily to him or her until the probation officer decides that daily reporting is not necessary.
Condition 18: You shall, upon your consent, allow any peace officer and/or probation officer to access your residence to confirm your compliance with the conditions of this order. If you do not consent to allow a peace officer and/or probation officer access to your residence to confirm compliance with conditions of this order, you shall forthwith report to your probation officer and thereafter report daily to him or her until the probation officer determines that daily reporting is no longer necessary.
"He can refuse to provide consent to these searches. Significantly, however, his refusal comes at the price of daily reporting to his probation officer for as long as the probation officer deems necessary." (Para 41)
Analysis of the Conditions
"To put this issue in context, I begin by noting that the threat of daily reporting was not imposed as an alternative means of ensuring compliance with conditions designed to prevent the appellant from using the internet to prey upon children. It appears to me to be wholly unrelated to the community safety concerns that motivated Conditions 17 and 18. There is no evidence before us that it would do anything to ameliorate the risk that the appellant will use the internet for nefarious purposes. Rather, it is, in its effect, a retaliatory and punitive measure that appears to be designed to pressure the appellant to waive his constitutional rights." (Para 48)
"For a waiver of constitutional rights to be valid it must, among other things, be voluntary, meaning that the individual can choose one course of conduct over another, free from coercion: Goldman v. The Queen, 1979 CanLII 60 (SCC), [1980] 1 S.C.R. 976 at 1005; R. v. Reeves, 2018 SCC 56 (CanLII) at paras. 13, 49‑52. From a constitutional perspective, the problem with the conditions is that a refusal by the appellant to consent to the searches entails a significant consequence: the threat of daily reporting." (Para 49)
"I find particularly instructive on this point the reasons for judgment of Justice Doherty in R. v. Wills (1992), 1992 CanLII 2780 (ON CA), 12 C.R. (4th) 58 (Ont. C.A.), cited with approval in R. v. Borden, 1994 CanLII 63 (SCC), [1994] 3 S.C.R. 145, and Reeves. At issue in Wills was whether the appellant's consent to provide a breath sample to a police officer investigating a fatal accident was valid in law. In addressing that point Doherty J.A. made these observations:
69. In my opinion, the application of the waiver doctrine to situations where it is said that a person has consented to what would otherwise be an unauthorized search or seizure requires that the Crown establish on the balance of probabilities that: ...
(iii) the consent was voluntary in the sense that that word is used in Goldman [[1980] 1 S.C.R. 976 at p. 1005] and was not the product of police oppression, coercion or other external conduct which negated the freedom to choose whether or not to allow the police to pursue the course of conduct requested;" (Para 50)
"Given the manner in which Conditions 17 and 18 are drawn, any consent given by the appellant pursuant to those conditions would be susceptible to an argument that because such consent was obtained through coercion (in the form of the threat of daily reporting), the alleged waiver of constitutional rights was involuntary and, thus, invalid. In my view, sentencing courts should avoid imposing terms that are likely to give rise to a violation of constitutional rights." (Para 51)
"For the foregoing reasons, I would strike out Conditions 17 and 18 in their entirety. While the conditions would likely be unobjectionable without the daily reporting proviso, no purpose would be served by striking out this part of each condition and leaving the rest. The conditions would then provide that the appellant may consent to a search, which is simply a statement of the law (see Reeves at para. 13) and not a condition that should form part of a probation order." (Para 53)
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Delores Christopher (27 October 1947 – 16 October 2018) was a British Virgin Islands politician and businesswoman. She was the third woman elected to the House of Assembly of the British Virgin Islands. She was first elected in the 2003 general election as a representative for the Fifth District on behalf of the National Democratic Party, and subsequently served from 2011 until her death in 2018.

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Christopher contested the 1999 general election as an at-large candidate for the National Democratic Party, the first elections that the party contested. She was first elected to the Legislative Council of the British Virgin Islands in the 2003 general election, becoming the third woman to be elected to the legislature. From 2003 to 2007, she served as a representative for the Fifth District and as a government backbencher. Although she lost her seat in the 2007 general election, she was re-elected in 2011 and 2015. Following the 2011 general election, Christopher was elected to serve as deputy speaker, a position she would hold until her death. She represented the Fifth District for eleven years.

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On March 29, proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) updated its frequently asked questions (FAQs) for US proxy voting procedures and policies (excluding compensation-related policies and procedures). The following is a brief summary of the new/updated FAQs.…
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Sparks, NV – The City of Sparks Parks and Recreation Department is in the process of developing two new neighborhood parks. Both park sites are located in the Foothills at Wingfield, one on Truth Drive and the other on Black Hills Drive. Both parks are in the early stages of design and the City of Sparks is interested in obtaining ideas from the community on naming each site.
Additionally, with the community's input, new names will be considered for the amphitheater located in Victorian Square.
Park naming forms must be received by the Recreation Office no later than Wednesday, September 19. The required form and park naming policies are available online at www.sparksrec.com and at the Recreation Office located at 98 Richards Way. Office hours are 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday through Thursday.
The City's Park Naming Committee, comprised of three Parks and Recreation Commissioners, one staff person and two appointed citizens, will consider potential names at a meeting scheduled for Tuesday, September 25 at 4:00 p.m. in the Pyramid Room at the Recreation Office. The public is welcome to provide testimony on all potential names at this meeting.


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34-й егерский полк

Места дислокации
В 1820 году — крепость Хотин. Полк входил в состав 17-й пехотной дивизии.

Формирование полка
Сформирован 19 октября 1810 г. из Виленского мушкетёрского полка. По упразднении егерских полков 28 января 1833 г. 1-й и 3-й батальоный были присоединены к Колыванскому, а 2-й — к Томскому пехотным полкам. Старшинство 34-го егерского полка сохранено не было.

Кампании полка
В 1812 году оба действующих батальона состояли в 4-й пехотной дивизии 2-го корпуса 1-й Западной армии; гренадерская рота 2-го батальона была назначена в 1-ю сводно-гренадерскую дивизию 5-го корпуса той же армии; запасной батальон находился в гарнизоне Риги. Полк принимал участие в отражении французского нашествия и в последующих Заграничных походах.

Знаков отличия 34-й егерский полк не имел.

Шефы полка
 19.10.1810 — 01.09.1814 — полковник (с 21.11.1812 генерал-майор) Пиллар, Егор Максимович

Командиры полка
 15.01.1814 — 17.04.1822 — полковник Полешко, Степан Григорьевич 1-й
 09.01.1823 — ? — подполковник (с 26.11.1823 полковник) Гавриленков, Иван Игнатьевич

Примечания

Источники

 Габаев Г. С. Роспись русским полкам 1812 года. Киев, 1912
 Шенк В. К. Гренадерские и пехотные полки. Справочная книжка императорской Главной квартиры. СПб., 1909
 Энциклопедия военных и морских наук // Под редакцией Г. А. Леера. Т. I—VIII. СПб., 1883—1895

Егерские полки Российской империи
Воинские части и формирования, созданные в 1810 году
Воинские части и формирования, расформированные в 1833 году


A few years back there was a debate about "thick" versus "thin" libertarianism. The question was, should libertarians be concerned only with coercive restrictions on freedom, particularly from the state, or with softer, subtler, and more organic forms of social pressure as well? At this point the "thin" position was associated with the Right, since the archetypical moral scold was a right-winger, and the "thick" position with the Left, since they wanted to be free from moralization.
Interestingly the partisan valence of this debate has reversed 180º since then, as the Left consolidated its hegemony over popular culture and took over the role of moral scolds. Now we see left liberals taking the line that "freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences", and the Right countering with a "thicker" defense of free speech that takes into account the chilling effect of private norms.
This is a misconceived debate. But if you take "freedom" as the ultimate value of your political philosophy, you'll inevitably get sucked into it. At that point you can construct a workable philosophy by settling on an unsatisfying and wishy-washy definition of freedom (like Hayek), or maintain the hard line on freedom by adopting a dogmatic philosophy that discards other values.
The problem is, norms are necessary for social life, and norms – almost by definition, and whether organic or coercive – are restrictions on freedom. There's some number of potential actions available, but due to internal or external pressure people consistently choose one of them. Along certain margins, unthinking conformity like this is required for any cooperation at all. Yes it's true that some restrictions can expand the range of feasible action if everyone follows them – for example property norms, which allow me to use my property as I see fit without interference provided I do not interfere with anyone else's. And some people in the liberal tradition have argued for such norms on the ground of "maximum [effective] freedom". But it's not clear that liberal norms are in any meaningful sense a maximum, nor is it clear that an actual maximum would be desirable. It is at least conceivable that "maximum freedom" could look very different from a liberal society and be substantially less conducive to human flourishing.
To think of political philosophy in terms of freedom, regardless of how you define it, commits you to judging norms on the basis of form rather than content. A norm is legitimate if it arises non-coercively among a community. Or if it conforms to certain more abstract principles like a generality norm. Or if it passes a legislative body according to a certain process. Or some other criterion. In any case, you can't judge based on the content of the norms.
But people need to judge norms based on content, at least in the last resort. This seems clear from the first example, where changes in content (i.e. whose norms are being enforced) caused a switch in the meta-level question of the appropriate form (i.e. the definition of freedom). Something similar happened with the question of states rights as the moral hegemony changed hands. We might disparage these switchers as hypocrites, or object-level thinkers. Or we might admit that the meta-level isn't a good way to judge all normative questions.
Does this cast us back into the abyss of object-level tribalism? The point of judging based on form rather than content is to avoid irreconcilable tribal conflict, and to give us a basis on which to judge between them besides simply "this one's mine". If we have to judge the content rather than their form, what basis do we have besides tribalism?
There's a role here for social science to play. It's clear enough that certain norms are stunting, norms like "assertive egalitarianism", or brutal induction rituals, or certain family structures. It's also clear that certain norms are conducive to human flourishing and cooperation on large scales, like the aforementioned property norm, or a general respect for freedom (though note that this is freedom as a norm alongside others, rather than freedom as a judge of norms). Independently of that, some norms are self-destructive, like piety contests or overcredentialing, and some are self-reinforcing, like market competition. To the extent that social science can tell us which norms fall into which categories, they can inform our sense of what norms are desirable and which aren't, irrespective of tribalism.
Now, how do you make that criterion self-enforcing? How do you make sure people actually do what the social science says? That's a tougher question. Since there's always room for defection in any social game, social science can also tell you exactly how to exploit any particular norm for your own benefit. Maybe the student of human cooperation must be a Straussian in public then, supporting beneficial norms for their own sake rather than for the sake of their effect on cooperation and stability?
Such would be the virtue of a defense of liberalism centered on freedom. And yet, people have figured out how to exploit liberal norms on the basis of its own mythology of freedom, whether they realize this is what they're doing or not. This being the case, it's not enough simply to reiterate the value of freedom, as if we could put Humpty-Dumpty back together again. In the last resort, when the inside-perspective defense and the Straussian defense fail, they must be replaced by either a different Straussian defense – such as utilitarianism and efficiency – or a desperate appeal on the basis of the social science to people's basic desire to cooperate.
I fear we're already to the latter point, with liberalism teetering on the edge of irretrievability. Then again, the Neoliberal memes are pretty dank.


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2. This South African opening batsman became wicket keeper in this One Day International as Mark Boucher got injured in the previous match, in which this man was Man of the Match for scoring 37 runs and taking 2 wickets for 8 runs. In this match he kept wickets for the whole of the match except the second last over which he bowled handing gloves to Gary Kirsten. Who?
3. Ivan Lendl reached the finals of 8 consecutive US Open finals till in 1991 he had an unexpected quarter final loss. This man went on to win the Championship and was the youngest to do so. Who?
4. To whom and on what memorable occasion did Viv Richards say this, "Man, it don't matter where you come in to bat, the score is still zero."
5. Before Azhar who has been the only Ranji player from Hyderabad to become a Test captain?
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SB-801 Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility: electrical grid data: electricity demand reduction and response: energy storage solutions.(2017-2018)
SB801:v88#DOCUMENT
Senate Bill No. 801
An act to amend Section 972 of, and to add Sections 2104.7, 2836.7, 9616, and 9618 to, the Public Utilities Code, relating to energy.
SB 801, Stern. Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility: electrical grid data: electricity demand reduction and response: energy storage solutions.
(1) Under existing law, the Public Utilities Commission has regulatory authority over public utilities, including electrical corporations, while local publicly owned electric utilities are under the direction of their governing boards. Existing law, enacted during the energy crisis of 2000–01, requires a local publicly owned electric utility to review at the earliest practicable date its rates, tariffs, and rules to identify barriers to and determine the appropriate balance of costs and benefits of distributed energy resources in order to facilitate the installation of distributed energy resources in the interest of its customer-owners and the state, and to hold at least one noticed public meeting to solicit public comment on the review and any recommended changes.
This bill would require a local publicly owned electric utility that provides electric service to 250,000 or more customers within the Los Angeles Basin to make publicly available, upon request of any person, electrical grid data necessary or useful to enable distributed energy resource providers to target solutions that support reliability in the area where electrical reliability has been impacted as a result of reductions in gas storage capacity and gas deliverability resulting from the well failure at the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility.
(2) Existing law requires each local publicly owned electric utility, in procuring energy to serve the load of its retail end-use customers, to first acquire all available energy efficiency and demand reduction resources that are cost effective, reliable, and feasible. The California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program requires each local publicly owned electric utility to procure a minimum quantity of electricity products from eligible renewable energy resources, as defined, to achieve the procurement requirements established by the program.
To the extent doing so is cost effective, this bill would require a local publicly owned electric utility providing electric service to more than 250,000 customers within the Los Angeles Basin to maximize the use of demand response, renewable energy resources, and energy efficiency to reduce demand in the area where electrical reliability has been impacted as a result of reductions in gas storage capacity and gas deliverability resulting from the well failure at the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility.
(3) Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission to determine appropriate targets for each load-serving entity to procure viable and cost-effective energy storage systems to be achieved by December 31, 2020. Existing law requires the governing board of each local publicly owned electric utility to determine appropriate targets for the utility to procure viable and cost-effective energy storage systems to be achieved by December 31, 2020.
Existing law requires the Public Utilities Commission, in consultation with the State Air Resources Board and the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission, to direct the state's 3 largest electrical corporations to file applications for programs and investments to accelerate widespread deployment of distributed energy storage systems, as defined. Existing law authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to approve, or modify and approve, programs and investments in distributed energy storage systems, up to a maximum capacity of 500 megawatts in aggregate, as provided.
This bill would require the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, in coordination with the city council of the City of Los Angeles, by June 1, 2018, to determine the cost-effectiveness and feasability of deploying a minimum aggregate total of 100 megawatts of cost-effective energy storage solutions and, if it determines that doing so is cost effective and feasible, to consider deploying those cost-effective energy storage solutions after June 1, 2018. The bill would require an electrical corporation serving the Los Angeles Basin, by June 1, 2018, to the extent doing so is cost effective and feasible and necessary to meet the reliability requirements of the electrical system in the Los Angeles Basin, to deploy a minimum aggregate total of 20 megawatts of cost-effective energy storage solutions and would authorize the electrical corporation to count these cost-effective energy storage solutions towards the capacity requirement for purposes of the distributed energy storage requirements described above.
(4) The Public Utilities Act provides for the assessment of criminal fines and civil penalties for violation of the act or an order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission. Existing law requires that fines and penalties imposed by the Public Utilities Commission pursuant to the Public Utilities Act be paid to the General Fund.
Notwithstanding this requirement, this bill would require certain moneys collected by the Public Utilities Commission from a gas corporation serving the Los Angeles Basin pursuant to an administrative enforcement or legal proceeding relating to the well failure at the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility to be deposited in the Aliso Canyon Recovery Account, which the bill would create. The bill would authorize moneys in the Aliso Canyon Recovery Account to be allocated, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for purposes of mitigating impacts on local air quality, public health, and ratepayers resulting from the well failure at Aliso Canyon.
(5) Existing law creates the Gas Storage Facility Leak Mitigation Account and requires the commission to deposit moneys from penalties assessed against a gas corporation in regards to a natural gas storage facility leak into the account. Existing law specifies purposes for these moneys, including purposes solely applicable to moneys from penalties assessed for the Aliso Canyon gas leak.
This bill would repeal the provisions establishing the account and the provisions concerning the expenditure of moneys deposited in the account.
(6) The bill would state the intent of the Legislature that the Public Utilities Commission and specified public utilities shall take immediate actions to support rapid compliance with the bill's provisions, and would state the intent of the Legislature that local governments strongly consider taking immediate actions for these purposes.
(7) Under existing law, a violation of the Public Utilities Act or any order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the Public Utilities Commission is a crime.
Because certain of the provisions of this bill would be a part of the act and because a violation of an order or decision of the Public Utilities Commission implementing its requirements by an electrical corporation would be a crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program by creating a new crime.
Because the bill would impose additional duties upon local publicly owned electric utilities in the Los Angeles Basin, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for specified reasons.
(8) This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Los Angeles Basin.
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YES
Section 972 of the Public Utilities Code is amended to read:
(a) A penalty assessed against a gas corporation pursuant to this part in regards to a natural gas storage facility leak shall at least equal the amount necessary to reduce the impact on the climate from greenhouse gases by an amount equivalent to the impact on the climate from the greenhouse gases emitted by the leak from the natural gas storage facility, as determined by the State Air Resources Board. In determining the amount necessary to fully offset the impact on the climate from the gases emitted by the leak, the commission shall consider the extent to which the gas corporation has mitigated, or is in the process of mitigating, the impact on the climate from greenhouse gas emissions resulting from the leak.
(b) This section shall not affect or be interpreted to affect the authority of the State Air Resources Board to adopt rules and regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at natural gas storage facilities or to require mitigation of natural gas leaks from those facilities.
Section 2104.7 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to read:
(a) Notwithstanding Section 2104, all moneys collected pursuant to any settlements, unless restricted by a court for another purpose, abatement orders, fines, or penalties by the commission from a gas corporation serving the Los Angeles Basin pursuant to an administrative enforcement or legal proceeding relating to the well failure at the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility first reported to the commission in October 2015 shall be deposited in the Aliso Canyon Recovery Account, which is hereby created in the State Treasury. Moneys in the account may be allocated, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for purposes of mitigating impacts on local air quality, public health, and ratepayers resulting from the well failure at Aliso Canyon, including evaluation of any negative effects on public health and enhancing the cost-effectiveness and feasibility of implementing Sections 380.6 and 2836.7.
(b) For purposes of this section, "Los Angeles Basin" means the area identified as the "Aliso Canyon Delivery Area" on page 11 of the Aliso Canyon Risk Assessment Technical Report, dated April 5, 2016.
By June 1, 2018, all of the following shall occur:
(a) (1) The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power shall, in coordination with the city council of the City of Los Angeles, if it chooses to participate, determine the cost-effectiveness and feasibility of deploying, on an expedited basis, a minimum aggregate total of 100 megawatts of cost-effective energy storage solutions to help address the Los Angeles Basin's electrical system operational limitations resulting from reduced gas deliverability from the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility.
(2) If the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power determines pursuant to paragraph (1) that deploying the cost-effective energy storage solutions, as described in paragraph (1), is cost effective and feasible, it shall consider deploying those cost-effective energy storage solutions after June 1, 2018.
(b) The commission shall, to the extent that doing so is cost effective and feasible and necessary to meet the reliability requirements of the electrical system in the Los Angeles Basin, direct an electrical corporation serving the Los Angeles Basin to deploy, pursuant to a competitive solicitation, a minimum aggregate total of 20 megawatts of cost-effective energy storage solutions to help address the Los Angeles Basin's electrical system operational limitations resulting from reduced gas deliverability from the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility. An electrical corporation may count any cost-effective energy storage solution that it deploys pursuant to this subdivision towards the capacity requirement established pursuant to Section 2838.2 if the cost-effective storage solution that it deploys is a distributed energy storage system, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 2838.2.
(c) (1) It is the intent of the Legislature that the commission and all public utilities having jurisdiction affected by this section or by actions taken pursuant to this section shall take immediate actions to support rapid compliance with this section, including by allowing or developing fast-tracked permitting, interconnection studies, and interconnection processes, and through rule waivers or adjustments where appropriate to support rapid or more rapid site acquisition for energy storage project developments and customer acquisition of energy storage solutions. This paragraph is not intended to in any way modify the obligations of the commission or a public utility under the California Environmental Quality Act (Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code).
(2) It is the intent of the Legislature that local governments having jurisdiction affected by this section or by actions taken pursuant to this section strongly consider taking immediate actions to support rapid compliance with this section, including by allowing or developing fast-tracked permitting, waiving or adjusting procedural requirements, to support rapid or more rapid site acquisition for energy storage project developments and customer acquisition of energy storage solutions. This paragraph is not intended to in any way modify the obligations of a local government under the California Environmental Quality Act (Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code).
(d) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:
(1) "Cost-effective energy storage solution" means any grid-connected energy storage facility developed on or after the effective date of this section of any type or technology, including transmission-connected, distribution-connected, and behind-the-meter sited or located resources, that will mitigate the limitation on gas storage capacity and gas deliverability resulting from the well failure at the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility. Cost-effective energy storage solutions shall be designed to be capable of providing a four-hour duration resource adequacy service, which may include energy delivery for the full four hours at a rated output, and shall be capable of delivering electricity to the source of demand and required to accept and execute reasonable remote or centralized dispatch commands.
(2) To "deploy" means to procure a cost-effective energy storage solution on or after the effective date of this section that may be a third-party-owned solution, or a solution procured pursuant to a power-purchase agreement or rebate program, or pursuant to any other third-party ownership structure, as allowed by applicable rules governing electric service and procurement, sited or located where the project will mitigate the limitation on gas storage capacity and gas deliverability resulting from the well failure at the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility.
(3) "Los Angeles Basin" means the area identified as the "Aliso Canyon Delivery Area" on page 11 of the Aliso Canyon Risk Assessment Technical Report, dated April 5, 2016.
Section 9616 is added to the Public Utilities Code, to read:
(a) To the extent that doing so is cost effective, a local publicly owned electric utility providing electric service to 250,000 or more customers within the Los Angeles Basin shall maximize the use of demand response, renewable energy resources, and energy efficiency to reduce demand in the area where electrical reliability has been impacted as a result of reductions in gas storage capacity and gas deliverability resulting from the well failure at the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility first reported to the commission in October 2015.
(a) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), a local publicly owned electric utility that provides electric service to 250,000 or more customers within the Los Angeles Basin shall make publicly available, upon request of any person, electrical grid data necessary or useful to enable distributed energy resource providers to target solutions that support reliability in the area where electrical reliability has been impacted as a result of reductions in gas storage capacity and gas deliverability resulting from the well failure at the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility first reported to the commission in October 2015.
(2) A local publicly owned electric utility shall not make data available pursuant to paragraph (1) that is prohibited from being disclosed pursuant to state or federal law.
(3) The data made available pursuant to this subdivision shall be available pursuant to the California Public Records Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 6250) of Division 7 of Title 1 of the Government Code), commencing within 60 days of the effective date of this section.
The Legislature finds and declares that a special statute is necessary and that a general statute cannot be made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution because of the unique circumstances surrounding natural gas storage and electrical reliability in the Los Angeles Basin.
No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because a local agency or school district has the authority to levy service charges, fees, or assessments sufficient to pay for the program or level of service mandated by this act or because costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution.


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Q: Animation not working correctly When the phone is shaked it is supposed to display an animation. The animation works the first time but the next shake it wont do it. Everything else is working correctly because every time I shake it it display the new text each time. Its just the animation wont do it again after the first. I do have the animation set for oneshot but that shouldnt effect the animation from triggering again?
Here is the activity I'm working with this on. Followed by its xml layout.
public class Ask extends Activity{
    private SensorManager mSensorManager;
     private ShakeEventListener mSensorListener;
     @Override
        public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
            setContentView(R.layout.ask);

            mSensorListener = new ShakeEventListener();
            mSensorManager = (SensorManager) getSystemService(Context.SENSOR_SERVICE);
            mSensorManager.registerListener(mSensorListener,
                mSensorManager.getDefaultSensor(Sensor.TYPE_ACCELEROMETER),
                SensorManager.SENSOR_DELAY_UI);
          final ImageView v = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.talk);

            mSensorListener.setOnShakeListener(new ShakeEventListener.OnShakeListener() {

              public void onShake() {
                  v.setBackgroundResource(R.anim.budtalk);
                  AnimationDrawable talking = (AnimationDrawable)v.getBackground();
                  talking.start();
              }
            });
        }

}

    <RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:background="@drawable/page1"
    >

  <ImageView android:background="@drawable/page2ani1" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:id="@+id/talk"></ImageView>
</RelativeLayout>

A: Does this work?
final Animation ani = AnimationUtils.loadAnimation(this,R.anim.budtalk);
//later
v.startAnimation(ani);

This is how I have applied animations repeatedly to TextView elements.
Failing that, because you have changed the ImageView , perhaps you might need a v.postInvalidate() afterwards?

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View our press releases for the latest CareAllies announcements and read articles in which CareAllies is featured.
BLOOMFIELD, Conn. – June 9, 2016 – The nation's health care system is moving from volume to value, yet it remains fragmented and complex. Health care providers are facing increased pressure to move from fee-for-service to value-based payment, yet current market solutions to accelerate this journey have been criticized as too rigid to meet complex provider needs. Cigna (NYSE: CI) has partnered with health care providers for many years to help them align their financial incentives with patient health outcomes, resulting in joint success through shared risk.
Cigna is now assembling assets, resources and talent from across the enterprise to create a new service company that will work closely with more provider organizations of all types to help them focus on improved patient outcomes and achieve better health care quality and affordability for the populations they serve.
The new company, CareAllies, Inc., will deliver the systems, capabilities and management services that providers need to be successful under a variety of value-based and risk-sharing models across the value-based reimbursement spectrum. CareAllies will offer services to help ease providers' administrative burden across payers and can even help providers launch and manage their own health plans.
The new CareAllies will combine assets from Cigna, Cigna-HealthSpring's management services division for independent physician associations (IPAs), and QualCare Alliance Networks, Inc. (QANI), which Cigna acquired in 2015. It will leverage these companies' extensive histories of successful and innovative provider collaborations. Dr. Julian Harris has been named president of CareAllies, Inc., which will operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cigna.
"Our aim is to enable all of our provider clients to succeed in an extremely competitive and disruptive health care environment," Harris said. "Whether a provider's business is focused on commercial, Medicare, or Medicaid patients, the new CareAllies has the know-how and patient health engagement experience to help deliver better quality and financial outcomes as providers navigate the transition to value-based payment."
CareAllies will focus on advisory and management services, technology, and analytics, which are all fundamental to transforming physician practices and delivery systems as they move from volume to value. Not all providers will need the full suite of services, however.
"We will meet provider organizations where they are with the services and capabilities they need," Harris said. "Some will need us to provide or build core capabilities, and we will also work collaboratively with provider clients that already have those capabilities in place to help them achieve greater physician alignment and clinical integration."
Cigna has been a leader in the accountable care organization (ACO) and volume-to-value movements since 2008 and now has 150 Cigna Collaborative Care arrangements with large physician practices. Earlier this year, Cigna started a joint venture arrangement with St. Joseph Hoag Health to offer HMO and exclusive provider organization (EPO) plans in Orange County, Calif. Through another joint venture agreement, Cigna is collaborating with Seton Health Plan to introduce a group health plan in Austin and Waco, Texas.
Cigna-HealthSpring, which Cigna acquired in 2012, is a leader in helping doctors participate in value-based care and has management agreements with more than 40 IPAs. It helps prepare them not only to share the incentives they earn for delivering better care at a lower cost, but also to assume greater financial risk while improving patient health outcomes across a variety of products and payers.
For nearly 25 years, QANI has worked with and for hospitals, physicians and health systems through the development of private-label, multi-tiered health plans for both the commercial and Medicare markets. Its modular, plug-and-play operating platform helps providers evolve their practice and business models to meet local market needs, and its analytic tools support providers as they transition to value-based care.
The establishment of the new CareAllies will enable these and other collaborations with a variety of health care provider organization types at varying levels of organizational maturity.
Cigna Corporation (NYSE: CI) is a global health service company dedicated to helping people improve their health, well-being and sense of security. All products and services are provided exclusively by or through operating subsidiaries of Cigna Corporation, including Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company, Life Insurance Company of North America and Cigna Life Insurance Company of New York. Such products and services include an integrated suite of health services, such as medical, dental, behavioral health, pharmacy, vision, supplemental benefits, and other related products including group life, accident and disability insurance. Cigna maintains sales capability in 30 countries and jurisdictions, and has more than 90 million customer relationships throughout the world. To learn more about Cigna®, including links to follow us on Facebook or Twitter, visit www.cigna.com. For more information about CareAllies, Inc., visit www.careallies.com.


Renowned Nigerian gospel Singer & songwriter Progress Effiong releases a brand new single titled OLUWA. this follows his trending single "God Over Everything" released in January 2019.
In a world where whom you know matters almost in everything you want to achieve in life, the people who know nobody seems to be disadvantaged in many things, but one with God is a majority. This song, OLUWA, is a prayer of a great person who is seemingly a common man who has nobody but GOD. Our help comes from Oluwa (GOD).
The song was written and Produced by Progress Effiong.


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"Sometimes it's best to tear up the past and start again. But whose past, and who does the tearing?"
Happy Family by James Ellis is a darkly humorous tale about the filters and frames we use to shield ourselves from reality, and what might happen should we discard them.
Germaine Kiecke was a foundling, an orphan, brought up by the infamous 'Motherhood' in a Belgian orphanage. Now she is a successful art academic who defines herself by her profession and prefers to experience the world through art and an augmented reality game called Happy Family.
But when the artist Tom Hannah, the creative force behind Happy Family, moves to Spain, surrounds himself with high walls, three large guard dogs called Harpo, Chico and Groucho, and a runaway who teaches him to think like a tree, his existential melt-down threatens all Germaine holds dear.
She is forced to re-engage with life and travels to Spain to try to make things right. Along the way she meets people who are also, for one reason or another, dependent on Tom's fictional world to augment their own 'real' lives.
Happy Family is published by Unbound Books and is available in both paperback and eBook format in high street bookshops and online.
Publisher: Unbound Digital (6 February 2020)
Reviews for Happy Family…
Happy Family is a novel about an artist thrown into existential crisis by the loss of his mother and the influence of his work on an art critic who prefers the augmented reality he created to her real world. At the same time it's a novel that introduces us to a salamander father, an actor specialised in bodily noises who is stuck in a love triangle, and a family living through a soap-opera like murder mystery in Spanish hotel. James Ellis not only pulls off this rare and spectacular feat of merging philosophical questions about life, reality and human connection with juicy soap-opera melodrama in an utterly believable and compelling way, his mastery of hilarious and unexpected details brings a dose of fun and wonder to the story. Reading this book is a thrilling, thought-provoking and ultimately uplifting experience. Read it if you're ready for a ride!
Bette Adriaanse
Funny, enigmatic, layered and above all warm, this is an extraordinary novel.
David Quantick
There are more reviews on Happy Family's Goodreads page.


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Home Chicago Parent Archives Court strikes down CPS desegregation order
Court strikes down CPS desegregation order
The almost three-decade-old court order that required Chicago Public Schools to reserve spots for minority students at its magnet schools was struck down by a federal court on Thursday.
The so-called "consent decree" was essentially a desegratation order, and gave white students a maximum of 35 perce of spots at the city's top schools.
The ruling also ended court supervision over bilingual programs in the school system.
Chicago Public Radio had the story Thursday:
CPS had argued the district should no longer be bound by the order. The district says it no longer operates a system that favors white students, who now make up only 8 percent of the system.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois said without federal oversight, more responsibility falls on parents and community leaders to protect the education of minority children, in an interview with Catalyst Chicago, an online news site monitoring Chicago school reform.
"We are very concerned about what this will mean in terms of access to selective enrollment schools for minority children," [spokesman Ed] Yonka said. "What clearly will be needed is for parents, activists and those who really care about school reform in Chicago to monitor the school district to ensure appropriate representation."
What does this mean for parents looking to take advantage of school choice in Chicago? Right now, it's unclear.The population of black and Hispanic students has been falling at many of the city's premier magnet and charter schools, and with the cap on white students now lifted, it's possible that more spaces will be open for non-minority students. But Catalyst Chicago notes that CPS has hinted at using socioeconomic status rather than race as a criterion in admission to the city's most selective schools.
What do you think? Join the conversation below!
Do your kids attend a Chicago Public School? Will this affect you?
Should diversity be mandated in the form of quotas?
Is your child's school diverse? What does that add to his or her education?


MARK, Esther Onyinyechi, Journalist, Writer, Education Ambassador is Content Developer/ Editor Scholars Hub Africa and News Editor of Edufrica.com.
A graduate of Mass Communication from University of Jos, Esther's exciting journalism experience dates back to her days in the University where she not only held various position in campus publications and broadcast station, but was a reporter for the Campus-Life section of The Nation and Vanguard Newspapers.
Our nominee for today's award is a Member, Nigeria Union of Journalist, (NUJ) Plateau state chapter and Associate Member, Institute of Customer Relationship Management (ICRM)-Nigeria.
Her hobbies and interest includes, Development, Academia, Education, Children, Books, Music, Dance, Feature Writing.
Ebenezar Wikina is a 24-year old digital journalist and development communication expert whose seven-year experience in the media has exposed him to working in the public, private, and non-profit sectors.
Wikina who is very passionate about covering stories related to new media, technology, digital education, diplomacy, and Africa's evolving development landscape is best known for "The Stroll Live"— an international podcast series which he started in 2013 and has so far featured over 120 global leaders from over 30 countries around the world.
His writing has been featured on various local and International Platforms including The United Nations Website (Geneva and New York), the World Economic Forum blog, The Huffington Post, UNICEF Voices of Youth, Ventures Africa, YNaija, to mention a few.
Wikina who is a digital communications and research officer for the Rivers State Government Sustainable Development Goals Office is also a TEDx Organizer, World Economic Forum Global Shaper, and Sustainable Development Goals Advocate.
He was recently named journalist of the month by the International Journalists Network (IJNET) website.
Tayo Elegbede is a multimedia freelance journalist and creative communicator with a bias for digital practice for human, organisational and social development.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Linguistics from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, amongst other academic certificates and professional training with the BBC, Radio Netherlands, NIPR, IFBA, Commonwealth of Learning, FRCN, Hootsuite, et al.
With over six years of robust journalistic adventure, Tayo has crisscrossed the Radio, TV, Newspaper and Online landscape of the media industry.
As a writer, digital strategist and communicator, he has been involved in the execution of myriad of offline and online media-centric projects of local and global repute including the African Development Bank's #AEC2016, The Social Media Africa Summit and Awards, Let's Do It Africa, Nigerian Elections Projects, and lots more.
As a journalist with one of Africa's fastest rising news platforms, TheNewsGuru.com, Tayo has produced diverse reports of industry standard, including an investigative report into the state of the Presidential aircraft handed over to the Nigerian Air Force by the Presidency in 2016; #MyRecessionStory, an insightful documentary narrative into the effect of the current economic recession on Nigerians, their businesses and lifestyle.
Tayo has held several editorial roles including serving as the Editor for DevelopmentDiaries.com, an Assistant Editor for London-based YourCommonwealth.org, Editor for Social Media Africa Hub, amongst others. He has been a columnist on frontline national dailies and magazines both offline and online.
Tayo is an upholder of positive social, cultural and Godly values. He is thrilled by every opportunity to enjoy and produce good music, engage in robust convo and explore new ideas as well as meeting creative minds.
Tayo is currently on a mission to demystify and deliver the unexplored gains of technology to African journalism and the continent as a whole.


Featured Artist: Dictate | osu!
A rapidly rising talent in the electronic music scene, Dictate is an American music producer well known for his highly technical and rhythm-focused style of music, sporting strong influences from genres such as neurofunk and experimental.
He has been with Renraku, the label he currently calls home, since early 2016 with the release of Temple, and then his first EP, Scavenger in the closing months of the year. He has also worked alongside a variety of highly acclaimed artists, including widely known talents such as Culprate - with his track Pencilina featured in the second part of the Unity Project.
Sporting an incredible command of sound design and arrangement, Dictate's work is highly rhythmically varied - a signature theme of his neurofunk origins, with gritty, industrial synths twisting and intertwining with heavily syncopated basslines and percussion. Experienced mappers fond of experimenting with highly technical mapping will find no shortage of sound to carve their ideas into.


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package boofcv.applet;

import boofcv.alg.filter.derivative.GImageDerivativeOps;

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;

/**
 * @author Peter Abeles
 */
public class FactoryVisualPanel {

	/**
	 * Creates a new instance of the component.  Looks for a constructor
	 * which takes in one or two image types.
	 */
	public static JComponent create( String path , Class imageType )
	{
		try {
			Class<JComponent> compType = (Class<JComponent>)Class.forName(path);

			return findConstructor(compType,imageType);

		} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
			System.err.println("Couldn't find path name");
			return null;
		} catch (InstantiationException e) {
			System.err.println("Couldn't create a new instance from constructor");
			return null;
		} catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
			System.err.println("IllegalAccessException");
			return null;
		} catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
			System.err.println("InvocationTargetException");
			return null;
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Invokes process() with a single image.
	 */
	public static boolean invokeProcess( JComponent comp , BufferedImage image ) {
		try {
			Method methods[] = comp.getClass().getMethods();
			for( Method m : methods ) {
				Class<?> params [] = m.getParameterTypes();
				if( params.length != 1 || m.getName().compareTo("process") != 0)
					continue;
				if( BufferedImage.class.isAssignableFrom(params[0])) {
					m.invoke(comp,image);
					return true;
				}
			}
			return false;
		} catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
			throw new RuntimeException(e);
		} catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
			throw new RuntimeException(e);
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Find a constructor with image types as input
	 */
	private static JComponent findConstructor(Class<JComponent> compType , Class imageType )
			throws InvocationTargetException, IllegalAccessException, InstantiationException {
		Constructor<?> cs[] = compType.getConstructors();
		for( Constructor<?> c : cs ) {
			Class<?> params[] = c.getParameterTypes();

			if( params.length == 1 || params.length == 2  ) {
				boolean allGood = true;
				for( int i = 0; i < params.length; i++ ) {
					if( params[i] != Class.class ) {
						allGood = false;
						break;
					}
				}
				if( allGood ) {
					if( params.length == 1 ) {
						return (JComponent)c.newInstance(imageType);
					} else {
						Class derivType = GImageDerivativeOps.getDerivativeType(imageType);
						return (JComponent)c.newInstance(imageType,derivType);
					}
				}
			}
		}

		// try a no argument constructor instead
		for( Constructor<?> c : cs ) {
			Class<?> params[] = c.getParameterTypes();

			if( params.length == 0 ) {
				return (JComponent)c.newInstance();
			}
		}

		System.err.println("Couldn't find an appropriate constructor.");
		return null;
	}
}

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Off The Record: Has Anyone Seen My Mojo?
Can you believe that it is the 1st of September?
I don't know about you but I really struggle to get back into the swing of things after taking a long weekend off. It's official, I am the most unmotivated person ever, so to get myself back on track I am setting myself a 9 week challenge to whip myself into shape. I have some dietary, fitness and career goals I want to achieve in the next 9 weeks, which I have broken down into manageable pieces so as to avoid setting myself too big of a challenge. I won't be sharing with you right now what the goals are, but once the 9 weeks are up I will be sure to let you know how I have got on.
♥ Finding another 27 Gromit's at Bristol's Gromit Unleashed.
♥ Exploring Bristol! Honestly I have never taken the time out to explore Bristol and I was completely amazed by the beauty of the city, we had drinks by river, listened to music in the park and and had a boogie at a Jazz festival – all in one day.
♥ Clothes shopping!! The most amazing feeling after taking a year off buying new clothes.
♥ Taking the time to give myself a manicure, my nails have been seriously neglected these past few months.
♥ Poaching Wars on ITV presented by Tom Hardy, I am not going to lie the show has had me in tears but it is also amazing the lengths people are going to to protect some of Africa's most endangered animals. I have found tickets to a lecture by the Royal Geographical Society called 'The Changing Face of the Rhino", next month which I would really like to attend.
♥ Catching up with all my old school friends, it must have been over a year since I saw them last and it was lovely to hear what they have been getting up to.
♥ Getting my eyebrows done-HD style! It included dying them, plucking them, cutting them, waxing them AND threading them! It sounds intense and I bet you're thinking I must have had some sort of serious mono-brow for all of that but I promise I didn't! I would totally recommend this treatment though, my eyebrows look really defined now!
♥ Having a tapas date with James! Mussels, pitta, calamari, feta, spinach, olives, etc ohhhh it was so yum!
♥ Celebrating Lauren's birthday with a garden party, acoustic music and a hog roast! It was perfect. Our last little grasp of summer!
♥ Cake pops! (Pah! As if I couldn't include them in this round up!) If you follow us on Instagram you'll know I went a little crazy with them this week and made a whole bunch of them for the weekend festivities!
♥ A Lake Tahoe real wedding – complete with the family dog!
♥ Business tips with Ryan Gosling – Answer Your Emails!
Enjoy the rest of your weekend my lovelies, I'm off to relax for the rest of the day in the hope that tomorrow I wake up feeling wayyyyyy more motivated!
Thanks for including my faux wax seals in your lovely roundup!
Our pleasure Sara! I wish Ryan Gosling would open his emails because I have heard nothing back from him 😀 Lucy has had such an amazing idea with that post, I for one am hooked!


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