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DPAC Week of Action Events Announced – Please Organise And Spread The Word
Posted on August 19, 2013 by johnny void | 66 Comments
Latest details for the upcoming week of action beginning August 29th – please help spread the word!
Disabled People Against Cuts, Black Triangle, Mental Health Resistance Network and the WOW petition bring you:
*Reclaiming Our Futures*
From 29th August – 4th September DPAC and other campaigns will offer a range of activities you can get involved in. These events will bring together our anger at what is happening now, and celebrate our victories won, both in the past and to come.
The plan below is only half the story. We want YOU, your Deaf and Disabled People's Organisation, your campaign group, your community, your friends to put on events and get involved too. Can't get to our exhibition? – then put on your own. Can't get to our direct action? – then do your own or organise barbecues, debates, quiz nights, family days, picnics – whatever! ACT – in celebration or in anger! (PS don't forget to let us know what you're doing).
Thursday 29th August – YOU launch our 7 days of action
A range of resources will be available for your use as we ask all supporters to start our week of action with an online blitz. You will be the ones creating the buzz and the hype sending letters and twitter messages to targets of your choice ranging from MPs to disability charities to the media. We will be producing twibbons and memes but make and circulate your own. If you haven't got a Social Media account (such as Facebook & Twitter) set one up now, link to DPAC ( twitter: @Dis_PPL_Protest) and let's create a cyber wave. #dpacrof
The launch will coincide with Transport for All's Day of Action to make CrossRail accessible: http://dpac.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4d6df6fd8405aff8805b464e6&id=7411f431ef&e=c62d97673f
Friday 30th August – Local Protests
Last year during the ATOS Games over 30 local actions took place around the UK Local actions mean you get to choose the target of your choice. You could take the Reclaiming Our Futures manifesto to present at your local MP's constituency office, spread it through social media, protest on the streets against segregated education, the proposed ILF closure or show solidarity at your local Remploy site (for those few factories in their last weeks of operation). Alternatively, you might want to lobby your local Council on the Bedroom Tax and cuts to local services/support. Oh, and as we know ATOS offices are still around too….we're sure you have other great ideas to add… Remember to let us know what you are doing so we can promote your actions. We will be producing local action resource packs but any materials you develop please send us copies to share with other protests and online.
Saturday 31st – Disability, Art & Protest Exhibition and Fundraising Gig
An exhibition and sharing of work exploring disability, art and protest followed by a ticketed fundraising gig run in partnership with Madpride and Tottenham Chances. Come during the day and join in our banner making workshop to prepare for the big Freedom Drive on the 4th September. If you would like to nominate an artist, collective and/or piece of work please let us know (including any links) and we will try to get them involved. If you want to do a local, street or online art protest too-this could be the day to do it.
Venue: Tottenham Chances, 399 High Road, London, N17 6QN
12 – 7pm Exhibition: disability, art and protest
1 – 3.30pm Banner and placard making workshop
4 – 6pm Sharing of Work
7.30pm til late Gig
Sunday 1st September – Reclaiming the Social Model: the social model in the 21st Century
Key speakers : Anne Rae: former UPIAS and current chair of the Greater
Manchester Coalition of Disabled People (GMCDP), Colin Barnes: Professor of Disability Studies at Leeds Centre for Disability Studies
As government and the private sector increasingly use a so-called 'modern understanding of disability' to redefine who is and who isn't disabled it is more important than ever that we understand, defend and promote the social model of disability. This isn't helped when the social model is not fully supported within our movement. This event will be a chance to hear from a range of speakers and to discuss why the social model is still relevant today to our lives and our futures and to map out what we need to do to fight for it. The event will be live-streamed with the opportunity for people to participate in the discussion virtually. We will also be promoting a range of resources around the social model.
Venue (tbc): University of London Union, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HY
Time: 12.30 – 4.30pm
Monday 2nd September – Direct Action
Despite the huge efforts of thousands of disabled people throughout the country, it is increasingly difficult to find spaces where lies, inaccuracies and mis-use of statistics can be challenged. DPAC recently released a study into how the DWP uses all of these to vilify and demonise disabled people. But why is this down to us? People should be presented with both sides of the story and this isn't happening. Disabled people are having to find ways to make sure our truths will be heard. Watch this space…
Tuesday 3rd September – 'I Dare' day
A day of online action to reinforce that we want Rights not Charity and a society where we are able to operate on our own terms as disabled people. Dare to ask for Rights not Charity. Dare to be an activist. Dare to ask more of 'our' organisations. We aren't asking for Care, we want Power: Power to write the script for our own lives, and not to be written out or written off by others. A range of actions and captions will be available for you to capture in an image and circulate online.
Wednesday 4th September – FREEDOM DRIVE
A final-day march and events in and around Parliament. Four themed 'blocks' will meet at 4 Government departments, central to the lives of disabled people. After handing over our demands, blocks will then move towards Parliament for a lobby where we will formally launch the UK Disabled People's Manifesto and present our demands to our elected representatives.
Choose your 'block' and meet at 12.45pm at one of:
• Department for Education to oppose government attacks on inclusive education and a return to segregation (Sanctuary Buildings, 20 Great Smith Street, London, SW1P 3BT)
• Department of Energy and Climate Change if you're angry about the numbers of disabled people living in fuel poverty while the energy companies rake in ever growing profits (3 Whitehall Pl, City of Westminster, SW1A 2AW)
• Department for Transport to challenge inaccessible transport, the opening of new inaccessible stations for Crossrail and proposed cuts to rail staff further reducing customer assistance (Great Minster House, 33 Horseferry Rd, London SW1P 4DR)
• Department of Health to defend our NHS and demand our right to levels of social care support enabling choice, control, dignity and independence (Richmond House, 79 Whitehall, London SW1A 2NS)
Lobby of Parliament: 5 – 6pm – launch of the UK Disabled People's Manifesto
WE WANT EVERYBODY TO JOIN US ON THIS MARCH ideally in person, but also online-this is for everyone everywhere. There will be accessible transport from a variety of towns and cities throughout the country (details to follow) and there is some funding available for transport but we will need your co-operation and patience to make this work for everybody, so please bear with us and note that while DPAC members will be given priority we want to support as many people as we can. If you can't get there send a photo or your name and you can march with us.
For more details of the week of action, info on how to get involved and the latest news visit: http://dpac.uk.net/
Lets Reclaim Our Futures, together!
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66 responses to "DPAC Week of Action Events Announced – Please Organise And Spread The Word"
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Annos | August 19, 2013 at 3:07 pm | Reply
"Re: Universal Jobmatch Mandatory?
Postby assassin » Sun Jul 21, 2013 5:45 am
Had a case just this week where I represented someone none too bright, but a nice individual; it started:
Hello, I'm John ****** are you Mr ******, no answer was given and we went and sat down, he asked who I was and I told him his lay adviser in such matters and he told me I couldn't be there, I told him I could and would be, they asked me to leave so I refused and quoted a FOI request I submitted which stated clearly you can have representation and I was that representation.
Round 1 to us.
He went on to explain that a tough new regime was in place and he would be expected to do more to find work, I asked when his agreement changed and where was his signature was on such an agreement, he said he would have to sign a new jobseekers agreement and it was included in this, I asked under what law he HAD to sign any new agreement and to produce it. He said he didn't have it to hand, so I said produce it, he couldn't so I stated very clearly that I had a copy of a FOI request which clearly stated that nobody is required to sign any new agreement and their old one can remain in force indefinitely, and showed him.
He said he would have to get advice and summoned a manager, the usual bullshit ensued and stated clearly they were saying something totally different to the hierarchy of the DWP who had sent the response to my FOI request, so I asked them both to put this in writing and sign it with their true signature to make them liable, they refused. I merely asked why they were making oral claims and were not prepared to back up their claims in writing bearing their signatures.
They then went on to tell us he would have to sign up to UJM as it was compulsory, I asked them to prove jurisdiction to enforce this and show us the legislation, they couldn't, but provided a document from management which proved it was not actually legislation, merely policy, so I asked how they could even enforce policy without jurisdiction, they claimed they had it. I asked them to prove it as jurisdiction could only be gained if he signed the new agreement and he hadn't and wouldn't as he wasn't obliged to and this was confirmed by a FOI request from their upper echelons and not the muppets they were.
I also told them to open a UJM account they had to open a Government gateway account and they cannot force anyone to open such an account and backed this up with another FOI request confirming this, so they could do nothing.
They then went on to say they could use a jobseekers direction or mandate him to do this, I asked if they were aware they were operating under contract law and they cannot mandate anyone as this mandate under contract law is actually a judicial command or order, and they are neither a court, judge or magistrate, and no actual law exists, only their policy which is unenforceable as he hasn't signed their new agreement, so no jurisdiction. I also informed them that impersonating a court, court official, judge, or magistrate carries up to 10 years in clink, were they aware of this, it went very quiet.
At this point I went into full legal mode and said they were guilty of several civil and criminal offences and these included:
Fraud by misrepresentation (Fraud Act)
Fraud by false representation (Fraud Act)
Fraud by failing to disclose information (Fraud Act)
and by all the above they would make a gain for themselves and expose another to the risk of loss (benefits)
Fraud by failing to disclose information (Fraud Act and Contract Legislation under full disclosure rules)
Possession of articles for use in fraud, namely paperwork which purported to be legislation when it was only policy and they weren't having it back as it was now evidence.
Permanently depriving him of his property, tangible or intangible, i.e. personal information (Theft Act)
Belonging to another – his personal information (Theft Act)
Robbery by intentionally depriving him of his personal information (Theft Act)
Blackmail by using menaces (threats to sanction him) to obtain his personal property (Theft Act)
Failing to provide full disclosure
Failing to ensure both parties are fully aware of all contractual conditions including all benefits, liabilities, and penalties.
Making misleading statements in a contract.
Using threats, intimidation, and coercing him into signing a contract.
All covered by contract law.
I went on to say I could go as far as intellectual property legislation, or even the Bill of Rights, or European Human Rights legislation article 6 or even Habeas Corpus.
They relented.
We won the war."
http://www.getoutofdebtfree.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=108&t=48749&p=177515&hilit=Universal+Jobmatch+Mandatory#p177515
johnny void | August 19, 2013 at 6:05 pm | Reply
hmmm, a lot of this seems incorrect and may pull the wool over the eyes of an advisor, but wouldn't pass a decision maker and would be likely to leave the claimant at risk of sanction – that site is not a legitimate source for legal information.
Lucozade | August 19, 2013 at 8:23 pm | Reply
Most of this is utter nonsense and is dangerous for the jobseeker. There is no FOI response which states that you never have to change your original JSAg. Oh and ask the author to produce it and he'll tell you he lost it in a computer crash…hahaha!
I'm being too kind, this is utter bollocks from a nutter who thinks he's some kind of common law Arnold Schwarzenegger. Far from quaking in their boots, most Jobcentre staff would bust a ball laughing this crap out of their office.
Freewo/man of the Land | August 20, 2013 at 5:39 pm | Reply
Rubbish, Lucozade, there is a FOI that clearly states that you never have to change your original JSAG…. I had it on my hard drive but my computer crashed!
I challenge you to find it and produce it then. If you've found it once you can find it again. It's like everything you come up with – no one ever challenges you and you NEVER provide proof to back up your wank-headed freeman of the land crap.
Apart from that there are many FOI responses from the DWP which make it quite clear that this is nonsense. If an adviser chooses to vary your original or any subsequent JSAg they have that right written into the legislation. If you refuse it goes to a DM and you'll have 21 days to agree to the variation or make a case for why it shouldn't be varied.
So if the change is, say, a reasonable upping of your job search from one thing a week to four things a week you'd have no hope of challenging it and your JSAg would be renewed or you'd lose you JSA.
overburdenddonkey | August 20, 2013 at 10:16 pm | Reply
lucozade spot on..
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/143059/response/349698/attach/2/FoI%205088%2014.01.13.pdf
His latest wheeze is slapping a "commercial lien" onto Jobcentre advisers for a million pounds a time! This is one deluded fuckwit!
overburdenddonkey | August 19, 2013 at 3:46 pm | Reply
"focus on what you can do, rather than what you can't do", even though what you can't do, stops one from doing anything else unless the lack of energy and supply of this, is somehow mitigated, with better facilities of on sort or another.
a "modern understanding of disability",disability is front loaded it comes before anything else can be done, one cannot owe oneself the affects of disability,one cannot choose to be or not to be disabled, it can never be an after thought, sure some disabled people can do more than other disabled people..ie a "mild" heart attack is serious.. where is this "modern view of disability", written and consented upon by all concerned with disability the loudest voice of all must be the voice of the disabled person themselves…
i am furious, at the govt that weren't elected attempts to redefine disability, which is basically to pretend disability no longer exists, to save the investment of energy required to mitigate disabilities, their answer being that ones mind and body should develop magical powers to overcome disabilities. all disabilities come down to one factor, lack of energy and/or access to it, as compared to a fit person.
one cannot bridge this energy gap without extra energy input, however it is infrastructurally provided..this loss or lack of energy must somehow be made up and this is costly, to do.
which is why this mean spirited bunch of despots, dump the affects of disabilities back onto the victim to be burdened with…under these circumstances disabled people cannot have the same fullness of life, a non-disabled person can, we can only make the most of what we have at our disposal..i agree that more energy should be poured into facilitating disabled people into having a fullness life in every sense. we must not only reverse the current attitudes towards disability and cuts in our benefit entitlement, but also reverse it, we can only do the best we can…
shirleynott | August 19, 2013 at 5:43 pm | Reply
Some of the meanings they've attempted to re-define lately –
Disability (physical & mental ill health); Unemployment/being unemployed; Caring for/Caring commitments; National Insurance contributions; Being in work; Help; Support; Agreement/Commitment; Advice/Adviser; Flexibility; Customer; Volunteering; Respect; Reasonableness; Social Security; Benefit; Match/matching (in traditionally accepted/understood form); Job Site; Safety; Right to a Private Life; Incentive; Motivate; Moving closer to.
Is this the same DPAC that recently co-sponsored an ATOS or Workfare providers jolly?
lucozade…no!
johnny void | August 19, 2013 at 10:36 pm | Reply
you're thinking of DRUK. DPAC are a grass roots direct action group.
Lucozade | August 19, 2013 at 11:13 pm | Reply
Yeah I did think it weird but for some reason I had DPAC in my head! Too many bloody acronyms. In this case it's nice to know I'm wrong.
Kittycat58 | August 19, 2013 at 10:31 pm | Reply
The tories view of the disabled seems to been formed by the paralympics "these disabled can play sports so they all can". Not everyone,ablebodied or not, is sporty so it's a very weak conculsion to draw, but it seems to have become the criteria that's used.
GEOFF REYNOLDS | August 19, 2013 at 10:42 pm | Reply
Soon be winter, my joints are starting to hurt bad as the temperatures subside.
Looking forward to gazing at the beautiful patterns in the ice on the insides of my windows. The gas fire has not been lit for four years now but the glow from the cuppa soup and several layers of clothing should ease the pains………….
Some will be celebrating, but i doubt the poor, homeless and disabled, will not be taking part this year.
The DWP party, with its banter about achieving sanction tables and "how i made them suffer", will be in full swing.
Staff bonuses from the £44 million they stole from us will help pave the way for a great night out, alcohol running freely as their victims idly stare at the clocks, shivering and wishing they could end it all………
Ofgem and its ilk will also be on a jolly up, talk of how they misled the public once again and sided with their paymasters to push the energy prices beyond the realms of the most vulnerable.
As the clock strikes midnight on christmas eve, many will have perished. Hopefully they will transfer to a better life where people treat people like human beings. Their are no shirkers with closed curtains or disabled being spat at.
They might have considered the alternative, the infernos of hades, at least it would be warm!
What would we do if we had a bonus for failure? Could you ever consider a real branded item from a top shelf or would it be the usual, economy line plain wrapper item that you have grown so used to buying?
Yes, Christmas is coming and the goose is getting fat, and so is, Duncan Smith, the evil fucking prat!
……..as the last chimes of Christmas eve, herald in Christmas day, those of you who can still manage, raise an empty glass to those who could not see the error of their ways………….
Doth your cap as the hearse of welfare reform sneaks past your window, crunching tyres on the newly fallen snow as the crackers are pulled in Downing Street………..
all i hope is that it is not like the last few winters, i prey for a "mild" winter..
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2013/03/dying-of-the-cold-a-very-british-disease/
GEOFF REYNOLDS | August 20, 2013 at 10:33 am | Reply
GEOFF REYNOLDS says:
On last nights BBC news there was a snippet of a story relating to physiotherapists being given the right to prescribe medicines. This morning the story had mysteriously vanished….
Forgive me for my tenacity in following up things, but i have a feeling that something else is unfolding without our knowledge.
I found this article in the Independent;
Physiotherapists in the UK will be the first in the world to be able to independently prescribe medication to their patients, the Department of Health has announced.
Confirming plans that were first outlined last year, the care and support minister Norman Lamb said that the new legislation, which will also empower podiatrists to prescribe medicines, would speed up treatments and free up GP's time.
Currently, physios and podiatrists must refer a patient to a GP in order to get a prescription. Practitioners who want to issue prescriptions will have to complete a training course and will only be able to prescribe medications in their specific area. The changes will come into force when the first wave of training courses has been completed in summer 2014.
"This change will not only benefit patients by making it more convenient to get treatment but it will also free up valuable GP time," Mr Lamb said. "We are showing the world that the NHS is at the forefront of healthcare, paving the way for other countries. Physiotherapists and podiatrists are highly skilled professionals and these changes will allow them to give better care to the millions of people with acute and long term conditions."
Phil Gray, chief executive of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, said: "This is a landmark moment that will lead to patients receiving faster, more effective treatment for their condition."
Nothing may seem sinister, but on the BBC news it also reported that at present, nurses can also prescribe medicines as well……..
When you put Physios and Nurses into one sentence the word ATOS and HCP's, springs to mind.
Our government, the crooks who purport to pull the strings on behalf of their paymasters, have just come up with a plan to try and introduce the disabled back into mainstream work. It is mandatory to attend a briefing by a HCP, ALTHOUGH TAKING PART IS SAID TO BE VOLUNTARY.
Upon seeking clarification about the, so called course, a freedom of information request was submitted to the DWP, requesting many points to be made clearer.
These actual questions were asked…..
Can a doctor, nurse or physio employed in conjunction with the DWP, enforce a course
of action or taking of medicines, against the wishes of the claimant, the claimants own GP, or the
claimants specialist advisors?
By virtue of the fact that you have chosen to include, "they will not replace a persons GP"
casts much doubt on the inabilities of the health team who will carry out the procedures. Will the
claimants own GP have the authority to deny any procedures that are prescribed?
This is the answer they gave in response;
If the HCP was unsure of any aspect of the claimant's treatment the claimant would be
referred back to their own GP. Claimants' GPs will not have the authority to deny any
procedures recommended in the 18-24 months prognosis pilots.
What they are saying is, they have the authority to overrule your own GP!
Meaning a physio or nurse wields more power than a qualified doctor, in this case, your doctor, the person who knows you best and has treated you……..
I see this as being absolutely preposterous and wonder what other "SHABBY",short cuts they will try to implement.
If your GP is in a position where, he or she, has a damning workload, will you be hived off to a "SECOND BEST", who will have the ability to prescribe medicines and treatment?.
Watch this space carefully, the dirty tricks department is in full swing to cut costs and endanger even more lives, hiding beneath the banner of welfare reform!!!
overburdenddonkey | August 20, 2013 at 11:47 am | Reply
geoff..
here's the story..people need to do their own research on painkillers..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23752418
something survived... | August 21, 2013 at 6:15 am | Reply
So what will be next, brain surgery by Eddie Stobart (trucks)?
GEOFF REYNOLDS | August 20, 2013 at 2:20 pm | Reply
"DIRTY LITTLE CIRCLES WITHIN CIRCLES"
How the British Public are getting conned, lied and cheated by the very people who purport to represent our interests…….
Taken from the independent;
George Osborne was facing fresh questions yesterday over his controversial push to make Britain a worldwide hub for fossil fuels, after it emerged that his father-in-law is the head of a lobbying organisation for big oil and gas companies.
Lord Howell of Guildford, who is an energy minister at the Foreign Office, is also the president of the British Institute of Energy Economics (BIEE), which is sponsored by Shell and BP – prompting suggestions of a conflict of interest.
Green campaigners demanded to know whether Lord Howell, a former energy secretary under Margaret Thatcher and who was a political influence on the young Mr Osborne, had pressed his son-in-law to promote oil and gas from inside the Treasury while weakening the renewable energy sector.
Last week, the Chancellor and the Energy Secretary, Ed Davey, reached a compromise deal over the coalition's energy policy after a cabinet showdown, with Mr Davey fending off an attempt by Mr Osborne to slash wind energy subsidies by 25 per cent, instead agreeing to 10 per cent cuts. However, the deal alarmed environmental campaigners as it contained a £500m tax break for offshore drilling for North Sea gas as part of Mr Osborne's mission to make the UK a "gas hub". There was also no commitment for all electricity generation to be green by 2030, a demand of the Department for Energy and Climate Change (Decc).
While Lord Howell, whose daughter Frances married Mr Osborne in 1998, has declared his role at the BIEE on the Register of Lords' Interests, there was criticism that this clashes with his ministerial brief. The Conservative peer is a Foreign Office minister with responsibility for international energy policy, which involves him travelling around the world setting out British energy policy to foreign governments. Whitehall insiders alleged that Lord Howell, who has been sceptical about climate change and is an enthusiastic supporter of shale gas as well as traditional power generation, has told ministerial counterparts that the British Government is not serious about renewable energy.
Mr Osborne has not hidden his scepticism for green policies, declaring in his Autumn Statement last year: "We are not going to save the planet by shutting down our steel mills." He has also pushed for the Government to keep a third runway at Heathrow on the table. Yet the revelation about his father-in-law's interests will only heighten concerns about the Chancellor's "dash for gas".
Louise Hutchins, senior energy campaigner at Greenpeace UK, said yesterday: "We'd hate to think that the UK's direction of travel on energy policy was being decided over claret and duck chez Osborne. But Lord Howell's links with big oil and gas special interests are well established. Questions must surely be asked about whether he has been bending the ear of his son-in-law to help his friends in the fossil fuel lobby."
Lord Howell and his son-in-law share their enthusiasm for shale gas extraction, through the controversial method of fracking. Two years ago, the 76-year-old minister told the House of Lords: "There is the fascinating development of shale gas, which has changed the energy landscape in the US. If it is replicated elsewhere, it could be fundamental in altering the energy vista in every continent."
Mr Davey has become increasingly frustrated by the belief held by some in the Conservative Party that global expansion in shale gas will lead to lower bills in Britain. A senior Lib Dem source said: "There is a Tory obsession that somehow there is going to be this revolution in gas and the price is going to plummet. We shouldn't be banking on it being a big game-changer."
As the Treasury and Decc fought it out over energy policy last week, Tim Yeo, the chairman of the Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee, accused Mr Osborne of undermining green energy policy, ahead of the Government's Energy Bill this autumn, to please backbench Tory MPs.
It also emerged that Mr Osborne has not met a single renewable energy representative since becoming Chancellor, but has held eight meetings with oil and gas companies.
In an interview in 2006, Mr Osborne praised his father-in-law, who was a key member of Mrs Thatcher's cabinet. He said: "I grew up during the 1980s and the achievements of the governments of the 1980s are phenomenal. Whether it was the battle against trade unions, reform of the economy or defeating the Soviet Union."
A spokesman for the Foreign Office said: "There is no reason for the minister in the Foreign Office responsible for international energy policy not to continue to hold the honorary position as president of the British Institute of Energy Economics, which is sponsored by Decc. The UK Government is clear that it supports the UK energy industry."
The most heinous shower of shit that ever took office, corrupt from top to bottom.
Not one of them could hide behind a corkscrew!……….
guy fawkes | August 20, 2013 at 2:43 pm | Reply
You have to hand it to these dpac activists they are all hero's in my eyes.
i agree, for me the activism of human rights should put before all other types of activism, then imho, everything else will fall into place.
Conflicts of interest: what could have been all about green energy, was turned into DECC: The emphasis on climate change (as if that was the only issue ever, and all previous issues suddenly went away), so that they can basically be a pro-nuclear lobby.
DEFRA links farming with the environment though there are loads of conflicts of interest and opposite aims of the two things. One aspect is animals, the environmental lobby is left out of the debate since it's now about food production and 'the economy' above the environment. Interdepartmental business with DECC can get it linked to nuclear and to other polluting/dangerous industries.
The Home Office COULD be a place promoting human rights, in fact it is interested in removing rights; and linked to the Borders Agency (a lot of fascists/racists there) and terrible treatment of immigrants (legal entrants and asylum seekers/refugees and economic migrants.).
And the 'minister for murdering disabled people' is a bitch. A staffing decision matched only by the one the other year, when a woman who hates gays was given the post of diversity/rights/equalities minister (I forget which one; every time I try to think of them lately, their faces all kind of morph into Margaret Thatcher). As I recall she is something to do with Opus Dei and/or some of those nutty 'family values' groups.
Kittycat58 | August 21, 2013 at 11:41 am | Reply
Somethig Survived – you're thinking of Maria Miller, the current incumbent.
Have you ever asked yourself how some of the most twisted, heinous and shocking reforms in UK welfare are ever able to proceed?.
You don't have to be a brain surgeon to work out that someone, somewhere, has given the green light for these things to be introduced………
What you must first consider is, who has given the go ahead, what they represent and what do they gain?
The government use a particular criteria for choosing who actually does an "IMPACT ASSESSMENT".
The usual criteria that comes first, is who can we choose who will give us the very answers that we require?
In laymans language, to push a policy through, we need someone on the same wavelength, who has something to gain other than the service that they are supposed to be carrying out and getting paid for.
All the impact assessments contain a section that asks the author of the report if the measures will have any Social impacts on health and wellbeing.
Guess what the report says, NO!
Will it infringe human rights, NO!
Impact on justice system, NO!
Of course it won't. They have taken away every means of challenge for the working classes by stealing the rights of legal aid………..
One must ask, "How the fuck do these comedians get away with it?"
……………….and more importantly, "Which government minister, signed off the impact assessment as being ok?"
At present there is a call for a "Cumulative Impact Assessment" because of the fallout, in human terms, of the WELFARE REFORM ACT 2012.
The impact on the poor and disabled is being played down by the " in pocket" media, yet the tragedy of the impacts are yet to be fully known. We are just experiencing the first phase of casualties of which a huge deluge will certainly follow……
For many, the cruelty and stress will never be reversed, they have already been uprooted as their benefits have been systematically raped by the DWP, the government hit squad.
Our country is so deep in red tape and legislation that it is fast becoming a dictatorship.
Freedoms are long gone, the talk of a free country are a thing of history……………….
Wake up and start challenging the system………
yeah, we all wrapped up in tests, checks, and endless admin.
first, we have to prove we deserve our human rights, to those in charge, which as they control our entitlement to our benefits, is no longer us.
Landless Peasant | August 21, 2013 at 4:32 pm | Reply
*Off Topic
Liam Byrne has finally revealed that Labour want to help the Tories to SAVE the Work Programme and Universal Credit:
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/aug/21/labour-to-cut-benefits-bill-2015
DON'T VOTE LABOUR !!!!
landless peasant..
they are beyond contempt..like turkeys would vote for christmas…they must think that the electorate are stupid..
Trouble is, many of them are!
l p they run a hell of any election strategy, "vote for us, lets make the rich and powerful, even richer and more powerful."
It just occurred to me as I was setting up another 'Government Gateway' profile on the Universal Jobshat site (because the other one seems to have been hacked), that we could all do this, i.e. set up more than one profile, using different email addresses. That would certainly confuse maters, and possibly overload the system? You could even upload different CVs to them. But if you do set up any profile on there then DON'T check the box to allow the DWP to monitor your jobsearch, of course!
Not a good idea. The only measure the Government use to measure the "success" of UJM is the number of people signed up to it! You'd be helping them.
But it would be the same number of people, except many more accounts.
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Did you hear the one about the Atos examiner who passed a lie detector test?
No, and i bet no fucker else did either……………
"DISABLED LANARKSHIRE WOMAN THROWN ONTO THE STREETS DUE TO BEDROOM TAX"
" HEARTLESS, EVIL, FUCKING SCUMBAGS, THE LOWEST OF THE LOWEST………………..
Words fail me. i don't think there is a category that exists that would best describe this vile act…….
From the government front benches, down to the North Lanarkshire Housing Officials, every one should hide their faces in shame.
People should take to the streets and drive these "faceless yellow bastards", away from where decent people live.
While Cameron is enjoying his fourth holiday, a disabled lady is getting kicked out of her home and pushed onto the streets…………….
People often refer to a NAZI regime, this is much worse and much more sinister in its concept.
We are supposed to have learned from our past about the atrocities that man has done to man?
Propaganda by the septic tank DWP, with its gestapo style rules have seen this country turn on its most vulnerable.
We are witnessing ethnic cleansing made possible by ill thought out welfare reforms.
William Hague is dying to intervene in the Syrian conflict, describing the cause as defeating a crackpot dictator who is taking human lives to sustain his aims…….
Whats the bloody difference? Our government are doing the same.
Ask the electorate who wants to enter into a war that is nothing to do with us. The majority will say stay well away!
One thing is certain, the public schoolboys are way out of touch with the general public.
If i could pay into a fund to raise money to assassinate the very people who victimise us, i would.
They do not belong on this earth……………….
Now they want to turf her out for failing to pay just £248 in bedroom tax arrears.
Lorraine, 46, said: "Where will I go? I need a specially adapted home just to survive.
"What kind of people would throw a disabled woman and her kids out on the street?
"They have no compassion or conscience."
North Lanarkshire Council have sent Lorraine a series of hard-hitting letters, warning her that eviction proceedings are under way.
The latest letter, dated August 8, states: "I can advise you that North Lanarkshire Council has commenced court action to evict you from your home."
She has also been told she faces paying for the authority's "considerable" legal costs.
Lorraine receives disability living allowance. And even before the bedroom tax, she struggled to pay her bills and feed her family.
here's the news story,everyone should read..
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/bedroom-tax-disabled-mum-of-two-lorraine-2204216
Allen | August 23, 2013 at 10:21 am | Reply
This is off topic but important none-the-less. Its the 'Zero hour contract' abuse. Its shocking and disgraceful. If you want real news you will find it on this site as well:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/08/23/320044/zerohour-contracts-at-1-in-4-uk-firms/
Yesterday i received a plea from the 38 DEGREES website………..
Apparently, government officials are trying to get rid of on-line websites that utilise the voice of the people to try and change government policy.
38 DEGREES actively promote people power by the use of of direct petitioning.
The organisation has had lots of successful campaigns which have forced government to do changes to ill thought out policies.
Their remit has been far and wide and includes issues amounting from the NHS reforms.
It is crucial that these organisations exist because they are the backbone of true democracy.
Under the guise of anti-lobbying legislation, the powers that be, are hellbent on trying to silence the voice of the people.
They control the media and now they want to control the internet……..
This is the email they sent to me;
38 Degrees is facing its biggest ever threat.
The government's rushing through a new law which, if it passes, will stop us running the type of campaigns which have made us who we are. [1] The campaigns which have saved our forests, fought privatisation in the NHS, and defeated the snoopers' charter. [2] The campaigns which have seen 1.7 million of us act together, locally and nationally, for over four years. In fact, if the new law passes, and we continue campaigning as we do now, the office team could even risk being sent to jail. [3]
The law's called the 'Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill'. And if it goes through without any changes, it'll wipe out our campaigning by slashing what we can spend during the year before elections. Not just general elections, either. Local elections, European elections and referendums, too. [4]
But if we act now and we act together, we could make the government reverse their plan. Chloe Smith, the minister responsible for pushing this law through parliament, is coming under more and more pressure to re-think. If hundreds of thousands of us speak up now, we could swing her decision.
Can you email Chloe Smith now to tell her why it's important that we're able to campaign during elections, and what you think of her plans to stifle us? There's no template email, because it's really important that Chloe Smith hears your personal reasons for being a member of 38 Degrees. Anything you write to her now is better than her not hearing from us at all.
Click here to get started:
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/lobbying-bill
This is the thin end of the wedge, imagine what power the government would wield if they could close sites like " BLACK TRIANGLE", JOHNNY VOID, etc etc down.
No dissent from the people is the first step towards a fascist state.
Strangely we choose to highlight China's freedom of information controls and the way it controls the internet and media.
We are following this trend very closely. Already we are seeing hidden courts, hidden inquiries, classified material and evesdropping by GCHQ Cheltenham on private phone information and computer logging……………
Where will it all stop?
Your rights to challenge the laws have been taken away piece by piece. The overall picture is becoming alarming. What happened to appeal rights and legal aid?………….
Your voice is the mainstay of what happens in our nation.
Politicians are no longer representative of the views of the electorate, this disappeared many moons ago as the multinationals and banks poisoned the chalice of right and wrong.
We have to act fast and form a resistance to the onslaught of corporate greed as it engulfs its victims like no other time in history…………………………
guy fawkes | August 24, 2013 at 11:39 am | Reply
It's seems funny that Chloe smith who is asking for names addresses etc and has put forward the petition to keep 38 degrees is a conservative mp.
Not many of the party faithful go against their own party unless there is a reason behind it. Yes I am suspicious.
Rick | August 23, 2013 at 6:21 pm | Reply
Annemarie on 07913300383
WE ARE A LONG RUNNING ESTABLISHED ADULT CHAT SERVICE WHO REQUIRE HARD WORKING LADIES TO AND TALK ON THERE MOBILE PHONE , WE REQUIRE YOU TO BE HONEST HARD WORKING POLITE AND ABOVE ALL WILLING TO DO AT LEAST 10 hours a week , we also have different types of chat ranging right down to just socialising weekly pay and extra cash is what you get all we ask is that you work hard , we will start the right applicants straight away so you can start earning today .
MY PARTNER WAS ASKED TO APPLY FOR THIS JOB FROM HER ADVISER AT SLOUGH JOB CENTRE. MY PARTNER REFUSED TO DO SO HER ADVISER COULD NOT UNDERSTAND WHY NOT AS SHE USED TO WORK FOR A CALL CENTRE AND HER REPLY WAS ITS THE SAME SORT OF WORK MY PARNTER GOT UP AND LEFT BUT HER ADVISER SAID SHE WOULD STOP HER INCOME SUPPORT AND OUR CHILD'S DLA CAN SEE DO THIS OR NOT????
Landless Peasant | August 24, 2013 at 12:34 pm | Reply
Contact your MP right away.
Cepahlus | August 24, 2013 at 2:07 am | Reply
Rick go to the press. No way can they do this and always record when you go to see these nazis.
Another Fine Mess | August 24, 2013 at 3:32 am | Reply
Here's their ad. Take 'em to the cleaners.
http://www.gumtree.com/p/jobs/an-adult-chat-job-from-home-ladies-make-money-from-home-on-your-mobile-phone/1029644543
Overheard in Jobcentre | August 26, 2013 at 9:51 pm | Reply
JCP+ "adviser" [in German accent] [stomps, "draws" Hilter moustache and gives Nazi salute]: "I vas vonly vollowing vorders" *chuckle, chuckle*, *titter, titter* go fellow "advisers".
PAUL MALPAS made several freedom of information requests to the DWP.
On one of his requests, he asked if a GP could issue a "STATEMENT OF FITNESS FOR WORK".
This is the DWP's response;
In the decision dated 2 July 2013 (ref VTR2728/13), it was confirmed that General
Practitioners are not trained to make an assessment on a person's capability for work
according to legislation.
Furthermore the DWP state;
In the decision dated 2 July 2013 (ref VTR2728/13) it was confirmed that GPs are able to
provide "simple fitness for work advice to aid their patient's recovery and help them return to
I am making reference to this because when the DWP stopped my Incapacity benefit due to a biased ATOS examination, i was informed that to carry on getting payments i had to tender a statement of fitness for work from my GP.
Twice i have cited the freedom of information reply and they are choosing to ignore it………..
I think the DWP are deliberately trying to keep the issue under wraps. Ask yourself why they choose to ignore their own documentation?
Something sinister is being played out………
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/162095/response/417463/attach/html/3/IR587%20P%20Malpas%20Final.pdf.html
well spotted, they have abandoned all logical in the conversation, and painted themselves into a corner..so what now is the gp's role? the gp can no longer act in the best interests of the patient, but must now take advice from a 3rd party contractor?
A FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST WAS SENT IN TO THE DWP, ASKING WHY THEY PERSIST IN TELLING CLAIMANTS THAT THEY CANNOT APPEAL AGAINST A DECISION.
they replied by sending this………
Why do you therefore persist in telling people that they cannot appeal, knowing full well, it is
not in your remit to do so?
The Department for Work and Pensions in its Guidance states that: The customer has the
right to dispute, or appeal against, any decision of the Decision Maker (DM) that carries appeal
rights. These are decisions which in law clearly carry the right of appeal. Neither the
department nor the tribunal can interfere with these rights – nor give approval for them to
However, there are decisions which do not carry the right of appeal, and this is set out in law
(see Schedule 2 of the Social Security Act 1998). But it is not unknown for claimants to appeal
against one of these decisions. When this happens the Secretary of State will ask a tribunal
Judge to strike out the appeal because it is out of jurisdiction, that is, it should not be put
before an appeal tribunal because there is no right of appeal. So here the final decision lies
with a tribunal Judge. Indeed, the Tribunal's own procedure rules provide for this process.
Again, this is not the Secretary of State interfering with the appeals process.
TO PUT THIS IN LAYMANS LANGUAGE, YOU CAN APPEAL ANY AND EVERY DECISION THAT THEY THROW AT YOU……………
THE REMIT TO DISALLOW ANY APPEAL LAYS WITH THE APPEAL PANEL JUDGE, NOT THE DWP.
Paul | August 24, 2013 at 4:25 pm | Reply
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/home/finance-and-practice-life-news/lmc-leaders-plan-campaign-to-encourage-gps-to-just-say-no-to-benefit-requests/20004039.article#.UhjPvRVwacw
More GP's trying to stop helping claimants with benefit appeals
Another Fine Mess | August 24, 2013 at 11:25 pm | Reply
Gov. is to name and shame workfare exploiters.
"The government will start actively naming and shaming employers who flout national minimum wage laws this autumn."
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/aug/23/minimum-wage-offenders-named-shamed
Another Fine Mess | August 25, 2013 at 4:52 pm | Reply
"Theresa May said it was 'scarcely believable that there is slavery in Britain' but that 'in 2013 there are people in this country forced to exist in appalling conditions and often against their will'."
http://www.theguardian.com/law/2013/aug/25/modern-slavery-bill-human-trafficking
We know, go and see DC, IDS, MH, and the DWP for details.
GEOFF REYNOLDS | August 25, 2013 at 9:46 am | Reply
The BMA represents the GP's, and they are probably distancing their members from the chances of being sued by their own patients for making wrongful fitness for work declarations…………………..
If the freedom of information reply from DWP is correct, which it must be, the doctors are outside their remit anyway, what they are being asked to do is illegal………
Read this carefully; its the response from the FOI request submitted by Paul Malpas;
Legislation is being broken as we speak.
The DWP are instructing GP's to break the law!!!!!!
No ifs or buts………………………..
All this talk about submitting substantial evidence to the DWP in regard to a claim is "ONE BIG PISSTAKE"…….
The DWP already hold all information about your health history in their archives……….
I requested that the DWP send me all the information they held on me. Anyone can request this, it costs you nothing but it costs them a lot of time and effort to collate it all…………
Drop them a line, recorded delivery of course, and ask for your files. They must provide them by law!!!
My files came in three huge envelopes. The paperwork was seven inches high…………
They contained every sick note and visit to my doctor, every questionnaire i had ever filled in as a result of my benefits and all relevant scoring of my rights to have the benefits….
In other words, they are sending you on a "WILD GOOSE CHASE" to furnish them with information that is already at their disposal.
"ANOTHER BIG CON TRICK"………………..
Meredith Ong | August 26, 2013 at 9:45 am | Reply
I asked, via the freedom of information act, if any of the staff, at whatever level of the DWP, received PRIVATE HEALTH CARE.
Strangely, they first said the information was not held!
They then retracted this statement and said that no one at the DWP received PRIVATE HEALTH CARE.
Upon inspecting the pages on the request, it seems they have removed their answers completely.
,,,,,,,,,,,another cracker from this totally honest department!
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/private_health#incoming-419451
BBC | August 27, 2013 at 7:46 am | Reply
Brain injury victim's family disgusted at 'work' letter
A Londonderry man left in a permanent vegetative state following a sectarian attack has been asked by the Social Security Agency if he is fit for work.
Paul McCauley, 36, was attacked by a gang at a barbecue in the Waterside area of the city on 16 July 2006.
He suffered severe brain injuries and requires round-the-clock care. One man is serving 12 years for his part in the assault.
Mr McCauley's family told the BBC they are "disgusted" by the letter.
His father, Jim, said a 12-page document with 30 questions had been posted around the Christmas period in 2012.
"In the majority of the questions we had to record that our son is in a permanent vegetative state," he said.
"I tried to phone the department but I didn't get through to anyone.
"I was later sent a second form and I assumed it was an error.
"I filled in the first form myself and attached the specialist neurosurgeon report along with a report from Paul's GP."
Mr McCauley told the BBC that he felt he had responded adequately to the Social Security Agency the first time and said Christmas time was an "extremely insensitive period" to send such document.
"Something the Social Security Agency should look at is how they collect information," he said.
"This was quite distressing for the entire family at the time and talking about it now brings back memories.
"All the agencies are entitled to collect their information but some greater sensitivity should be shown for those involved in an industrial accident, a road accident, a sectarian or drunken attack.
"There is a lot of trauma for the family and it's not eased when forms like this really rub salt in the wounds."
Man in Permanent Vegetative State asked if he is "fit to work" by callous DWP
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The Guardian, Wednesday 12 September 2012 21.00 BST
This week the sixth International Forum on Disability Management, IFDM 2012, takes place at Imperial College London. It is sponsored by some of the world's largest medical insurance companies, Unum among them, and speakers include DWP chief medical adviser Dr Bill Gunyeon and Professor Sir Mansel Aylward, formerly DWP chief medical adviser and director of the Centre for Psychosocial and Disability Research at Cardiff University, which was sponsored by Unum from its inception in 2003 until 2009.
Unum's website states that during this sponsorship period "a series of papers was published, identifying the range of factors that determine why some people become long-term absentees". The Cardiff papers advocated a "biopsychosocial model" of disability which Unum says "informed its approach to medical underwriting". It is the same approach upon which the current Atos work capability assessment (WCA) is based. Concomitantly, the company were advising the UK government on welfare reform.
Dear Ms Ong,
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request received 30 July 2013. You asked;
The number of disability assessment centres provided by the controversial IT company Atos
will only be one seventh of the number it promised when it won a £184 million government
contract, Disability News Service (DNS) can reveal.
What action, if any, will be taken against ATOS, for its flagrant deception to win a major
contract [Personal Independence Payment assessments] that has seen its bosses salary
boosted to an unprecedented level, while the disabled have been stripped of benefits by poor
medical reports…….
The providers for the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) assessment service were
appointed following a robust, open and fair competition and were assessed against established
and published selection criteria.
In their bid, published on the Contracts Finder service on the GOV.UK website, Atos described
their delivery model, based on working with supply chain partners already established in the
healthcare sector. On 18 February 2013 Atos published its full list of those partners. The
Disability News Service story refers to Atos tender for Lot 3 (London and Southern England)
and changes to their supply chain since the original tender.
It is usual for there to be changes between contract award and delivery and the Department
would not expect any bidder to have entered into binding contractual arrangements with
potential subcontractors at the tender stage. What is important is that Atos has kept the
Department informed about these changes. The mention, or not, of any particular organisation
in the bids to deliver PIP was not material in the evaluation of the competition and had no
impact on the decision. It was the subcontract delivery model and Atos' ability to develop and
manage a diverse and local supply chain which was evaluated.
Any of Atos' partners' sites could be used for PIP consultations providing they meet DWP's
requirements and as such represent a large, flexible network of sites including back up
locations and additional capacity in the event that volumes are higher than forecast. Atos have
demonstrated they have sufficient coverage to meet the current forecast demand for assessing
new claims for PIP and will make additional sites from their network available as the volume of
PIP assessments increases during the lifetime of the contract.
DWP is working closely with Atos to ensure that we deliver PIP in a way that meets the needs
of disabled people and is confident the providers in each lot have been properly selected.
If you have any queries about this letter please contact me quoting the reference number
DWP Central FoI Team
From: MEREDITH ONG (Account suspended)
You recently wrote the following in response to the removal of
Lifetime and Indefinite Awards…
Finality
01150 A decision made by a DM, the FtT or the UT is final1 unless
1. revised (decisions of DMs only)
2. superseded
3. terminated after an award has been suspended
4. changed or replaced on appeal
5. corrected or
6. set aside (decisions of the FtT or the UT only).
Note: See DMG 01180 – 01191 for guidance on finality of
determinations.
1 SS Act 98, s 17(1)
01151 Where a decision is changed or replaced as in DMG 01150, the
new or revised decision becomes
the final decision on the claim or application, even where it does
not change the outcome1. But see DMG
01152 – 01153 where an outcome decision is not replaced on appeal.
With reference to the above;
Can an award that was made at a tribunal hearing that was attended
by one or maybe two professional GP's, be taken away by a DWP
decision maker who has no medical background?
The aforementioned text seems to imply this.
Why would an award be retracted if the claimants condition had not
altered or got worse?
How many claimants have had their "lifetime or Indefinite awards"
taken from them, having attended the controversial ESA examination?
MEREDITH ONG
Almost sinister……..
Ask yourselves, why have they not responded to such a simple question?
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Singh-Perez staying neutral in race by former running mate
Victor Ashe: Singh-Perez staying neutral in race by former running mate Amelia Parker
Singh-Perez staying neutral in race by former running mate Victor Ashe: Singh-Perez staying neutral in race by former running mate Amelia Parker Check out this story on knoxnews.com: https://www.knoxnews.com/story/opinion/2019/07/01/singh-perez-staying-neutral-race-former-running-mate-amelia-parker/1569174001/
Victor Ashe, Shopper News columnist Published 5:15 a.m. ET July 1, 2019
Two years ago, Seema Singh-Perez ran for City Council and won on a ticket with Amelia Parker, who was a write-in candidate against Lauren Rider. Yard signs carried both their names. Mailers had both their names.
But 2019 is a different year. Singh-Perez won her election and Parker, who won an impressive 2,200 write-in votes, is running again, but for the at-large Seat C on City Council. Amy Midis, Hubert Smith, Bob Thomas and Dave Williams are also on the ballot for the same seat. When I asked Singh-Perez if she would be backing Parker this time around, she hesitated and then said she would be neutral.
Seema Singh-Perez through the years
Seema Singh-Perez, government and politics Submitted
Seema Singh, Third District, at a city council meeting in the City County building in Knoxville Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. Caitie McMekin/News Sentinel
Seema Singh Submitted
Third district Knoxville city councilwoman Seema Singh-Perez talks with David Bolt during a tour of a Richmond Orchard tiny home on Tuesday, April 17, 2018. Saul Young/News Sentinel
Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero with the new city council members. From left to right: Seema Singh-Perez, Gwen McKenzie, Lauren Rider, Rogero, Stephanie Welch and Andrew Roberto. Submitted
Seema Singh Perez, a candidate for City Council District 3, wants to take the burden off the police caused by increased violence and the opioid epidemic. "We need more social workers and first responders to pick up that portion that we have been putting on police," said Singh Perez. Ali James/Shopper News
Knoxville City Council candidates were invited to participate in a forum at the Fountain City Business and Professional Association's Oct. 11 meeting. Pictured left to right: Andrew Roberto, Wayne Christensen, James Corcoran, Seema Singh Perez, Harry Tindell and Jennifer Montgomery. R. Larry Smith (right), who is campaigning for a Knox County Commission seat in 2018, served as a moderator for the event. Ali James/Shopper News
Seema Singh Perez protests outside the Wellsley Park gated community on Thursday during a private fundraiser attended by Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz. (SAUL YOUNG/NEWS SENTINEL) Saul Young
Frankly, I was surprised, given the cooperation of their campaigns two years ago. I do not know the reason she is not vocal for her prior running mate this time around. Parker no doubt is surprised. If elected, Parker would be a likely person to second Singh-Perez's motions.
Wallace, Fugate not picking sides in mayoral primary
Mayoral candidate Eddie Mannis recently appeared in a photo in Knox Focus with former vice mayor Nick Pavlis, City Councilman George Wallace and City Council candidate Lynne Fugate.
The photo accompanied an article about the Mannis campaign, but the reception was actually hosted by Pavlis for Fugate for City Council. Pavlis is also a strong Mannis backer. Mannis attended, as is often the case of mayoral hopefuls who go to countless events even if they are neutral in the contest.
However, for those who had the impression that Wallace and Fugate are backing Mannis, they are actually neutral in the Aug. 27 mayoral primary. Wallace made it clear that he might endorse a candidate in the city runoff but not for now. The photo was good coverage for both Mannis and Fugate, who are on the ballot Aug. 27.
Who's ahead in yard signs?
In the battle of yard signs, it is often fun to see where they are and which candidate is prevailing. (However, yard signs do not yet vote). For example, on Lyons View Pike where Marshall Stair grew up, there are 16 mayoral yard signs, and all are for Stair except for one lonely Mannis sign in the Brewington yard. Mrs. Brewington hosted a reception a few months back for friends to meet Mannis.)
Over 15,000 cars a day go east and west on this street one mile long. Some of Knoxville's most prominent residents live on this street.
However, when one reaches nearby Sequoyah Hills, the yard sign coverage becomes much more even with Indya Kincannon actually leading in total signs to date. But Mannis and Stair are not far behind. This suggests Sequoyah may split fairly evenly among the three major candidates, which is a win for Kincannon.
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While several phone polls have been taken (my house has received two), it is unclear by which candidate and more uncertain as to the outcome. No one has emerged as a strong favorite to win, as Bill Lee was against Karl Dean for governor last November.
Fritts and the First Amendment
Recently Knox County deputy Grayson Fritts made some appalling comments about LGBT people, suggesting they should be executed. While Sheriff Tom Spangler said First Amendment concerns made him not fire Fritts, there is an argument to be made that there are limits to the First Amendment when your words violate your duty as a law enforcement officer.
The First Amendment, which I strongly support, still does not allow one to shout "fire" in a crowded theater.
Public records and TVA accessibility
The legislature may need to change state law to make it clear that Tennessee residents are not to be charged for inspecting public records — which is what Knox County is trying to do despite Mayor Glenn Jacobs making it clear he does not favor it and his office is NOT charging. It is amazing that a few Knox County officials paid by taxpayers want to charge the same taxpayers to see public records. They must not understand who pays for their lunch.
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Why is TVA barring the media from meetings with elected officials from Anderson County to discuss the Bull Run coal-fired power plant? Has TVA not learned that closed meetings are bad public relations? Why were Roane County officials not included in the luncheon? Many people with ties to Bull Run live in Roane, not Anderson County. This is a time for CEO Jeff Lyash to step in and overrule his large but inadequate communications staff for their bad decisions. At some time, Lyash must appear to be making changes and to be in charge.
Mark Esper, Secretary of the Army, whom President Donald Trump has named as the new secretary of Defense, has Tennessee ties, having worked for former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist on his national security team.
June 30: Mayoral candidate and City Councilman Marshall Stair is 41 (he is not the youngest candidate). Retired Knox Chancellor and state Rep. Sharon Bell is 75. Businesswoman and civic leader Sherri Lee is 73. Tony Cappiello is 55.
July 1: Former Gov. Winfield Dunn is 92. Former Knox County Schools superintendent Jim McIntyre is 52. Retired UT professor Paul Watkins is 85. Ann Bailey, sister of former Gov. Bill Haslam, is 63. Rev. Johnnie Skinner, pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist Church, is 69. Former Knox County school board chair Dan Murphy is 64. Physician Sarkis Chobanian is 68. Former state Sen. Earl Sharp is 81.
July 2: Former city parks director, Austin-East High School football coach and Knox County school board chair Sam Anderson is 66. July 3: Sen. Lamar Alexander is 79. Anne Crais, West Hills neighborhood activist, is 69. Kelly Burchett, wife of U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett, is 48. State Rep. Bill Dunn (future acting House Speaker) is 58.
July 4: Catholic Bishop Richard Stika is 62. Dr. Gene Overholt is 82. Rev. Harold Middlebrook is 77. Mark Heinz is 50. July 5: Sessions Judge Geoff Emery is 71. Dr. Monica Crane is 55. Judy Morton is 82. Mike McClamroch is 55. Dr. Paul Ambrose is 75.
July 6: Former city councilman Gary Underwood is 63. Developer John Turley is 69. Former president George W. Bush is 73 (he spoke in Athens, Tennessee on June 22).
Victor Ashe through the years
Victor Ashe in November, 1978. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel,
Victor Ashe in his 30th birthday, Jan 1, 1975. News Sentinel Archives,
A three-year-old Victor Ashe poses in this photo from 1948 according to his wife, Joan. Victor Ashe, Victor Ashe/Special to the News
A four-year-old Victor Ashe poses with grandfather Dr. James Victor Henderson at his home in Knoxville. Victor Ashe, Victor Ashe/Special to the News
Mother Martha Ashe poses with her two boys, Lawrence, left, and Victor, right, in this photo from 1947 according to Joan Ashe. Victor Ashe, Victor Ashe/Special to the News
Lawrence, Victor and Martha Ashe pose by a Christmas tree at their home in this photo from 1947. Victor would have been almost two years old in this photo. Victor Ashe, Victor Ashe/Special to the News
A four-year-old Victor Ashe poses in this photo at his Knoxville home in 1949. Victor Ashe, Victor Ashe/Special to the News
Victor Ashe in a photo taken circa 1950. Victor Ashe, Victor Ashe/Special to the News
Lawrence, left, and Victor Ashe in a 1949 photo. Victor Ashe, Victor Ashe/Special to the News
Mayor Victor Ashe sits on a mechanical bull in 2001 at a news conference to promote the Bullmasters' tour appearance at Thompson-Boling Arena. Dan Daily, the winner of 29 rodeo titles, is at right. Joe Howell/News Sentinel Archives, Joe Howell
In a Sept. 14, 1987, photograph, mayoral candidate Victor Ashe canvases a neighborhood two weeks before the primary election. The former state senator was faced a crowded field of nine other contenders including Randy Tyree who was seeking his third term as mayor. (Al Fuchs/News Sentinel) Al Fuchs/News Sentinel Archives, Al Fuchs/News Sentinel
Former Knoxville mayor Victor Ashe, now U.S. ambassador to Poland, holds Antena, a Sealyham terrier from Poland, outside Regas Restaurant on Dec. 18. ÒIÕm happy to see a Polish dog living here in Knoxville,Ó he said. News Sentinel Archives,
Victor Ashe in 1984. News Sentinel Archives,
Victor Ashe 1984. News Sentinel Archives,
U.S. President Ronald Reagan and U.S. Senate Candidate Victor Ashe arrive together on Air Force One in September 13, 1984/ News Sentinel Archives,
President George H.W. Bush, right, stands with Mayor Victor Ashe on Feb. 19, 1992, at the Civic Auditorium. "We are proud, Mr. President, that you came here twice during your first term of office and will welcome you back at least twice during your next term," Ashe told the crowd. Bonnie Jo Mount/News Sentinel Archives, KNS Archive
Victor Ashe, U.S. Ambassador to Poland, meets with President George W. Bush Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2005, in the Oval Office. The Ambassador was greeted by President Bush shortly before the arrival of Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski to the White House. Paul Morse/News Sentinel Archives,
Former Knoxville Mayor Victor Ashe, left, with Donald Trump Jr. in Cleveland on Wednesday at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Victor Ashe,
Victor Ashe during a campaign run in 1987. News Sentinel Archives,
Knoxville Botanical Garden and Arboretum board member Jenny Jukes and former Knoxville Mayor Victor Ashe tour the gardens in 2006. Jukes was the last private owner of the historically significant East Knoxville property that was originally established as a plant nursery in 1786. J. Miles Cary, The Knoxville News Sentinel
Victor Ashe with Governor Lamar Alexander in 1984. News Sentinel Archives,
Knoxville Mayor Victor Ashe, left, and former Gov. Ned McWherter share a laugh during a groundbreaking ceremony for the extension of the James White Greenway on October 10, 2003. Cathy Clarke/News Sentinel Archives, Knoxville News-Sentinel
Gov. Phil Bredesen was in town Friday for a meeting with Mayor Victor Ashe. News-Sentinel staff photo by Cathy Clarke. ASA200 Image# DSC_0010.JPG Cathy Clarke/News Sentinel Archives, Cathy Clarke
Former Knoxville Mayor Victor Ashe (left) talks with Mayor Bill Haslam as they overlook Victor Ashe Park in north west Knoxville on Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2010. Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam, Councilwoman Brenda Palmer and Parks and Recreation Director Joe Walsh accepted a $50,000 donation from Ashe and his wife Joan toward a land purchase to expand the park. Amy Smotherman Burgess/News Sentinel Archives, Knoxville News Sentinel
Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett, left, is greeted by Monsignor Xavier Mankel and former Knoxville mayor and former ambassador to Poland Victor Ashe during a dedication ceremony for the Ladies of Charity's new facility Friday, March 18, 2011 in North Knoxville. The Ladies of Charity focus on emergency assistance for food, clothing, utilities and medicine needs, as well as layettes for newborns. Paul Efird/News Sentinel Archives, Paul Efird/News Sentinel Wade Da
Former Knoxville mayor and ambassador to Poland Victor Ashe, left, gets an autograph from journalist and author Todd Purdum, during an event at the Beck Cultural Exchange Center, Wednesday, April 23, 2014. The forum focused on the 50 year anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Amy Smotherman Burgess/News Sentinel Archives, Knoxville News Sentinel
Victor Ashe, 1968. News Sentinel Archives,
Victor Ashe, left, talks with Mount Calvary Baptist Church members Hildrith D. Gillespie and her son Dr. J. Harvey Gillespie after the ground breaking ceremony for Mount Calvary's new sanctuary on Sunday, May 6, 2012. The original sanctuary was destroyed in a fire on December, 6, 2010. Saul Young/News Sentinel, Saul Young/News Sentinel
Former Ambassador to Poland and former Knoxville Mayor Victor Ashe congratulates Charlie Daniel as as former Senators Howard Baker and Nancy Kassebaum celebrate the work of the Knoxville News Sentinel cartoonist at the Baker Center on Thursday, May 17, 2012. Amy Smotherman Burgess/News Sentinel Archives, Knoxville News Sentinel
Former Ambassador and Knoxville Mayor Victor Ashe in 2002 in front of his boyhood home at 1811 Melrose Ave. J. Miles Cary, J. Miles Cary/News Sentinel
Victor Ashe and attorney Author Seymour Jr. reminisce about growing up in the Melrose and Terrace Ave. area in October 1993. Ashe's childhood home is now the new Baptist Student Center on UT's campus. Steve Morrell/News Sentinel Archives,
Mayor-Elect Bill Haslam, left, with his wife, Crissy, receives a copy of the city charter from Mayor Victor Ashe in 2003 during a news conference Wednesday at Ashe's home on Kingston Pike. The Mayor's wife, Joan, is at right. Paul Efird/News Sentinel Archives, Knoxville News-Sentinel
A News-Sentinel caption writer recorded a milestone in Victor Ashe's political career on Nov. 5, 1974: Hurrah for Mom! Mrs. Robert L. (Martha) Ashe is joined by her sons after winning the Seventh District Senate race as the Republican candidate. Mrs. Ashe ran as a stand-in for her son, Victor, right, after the Supreme Court ruled he didn't meet the age requirement. Her other son, R. Lawrence Ashe Jr., came from Atlanta where he is a lawyer, to help celebrate the occasion. (KNS Archive) News Sentinel Archives, KNS Archive
In an Aug. 6, 1987, photograph, former state senator Victor Ashe, with his wife, Joan, meets the press after filing his petition to run for mayor. Ashe told reporters that addressing the frustrations of firefighters was a priority for him if elected. The News Sentinel reported that Ashe was a veteran of eight political campaigns, losing only to Al Gore in the 1984 U.S. Senate race. (KNS Archive) News Sentinel Archives
In a Sept. 24, 1991, photograph, seeking his second term as mayor, Victor Ashe, with his wife, Joan, and their son, J. Victor, walks to the Tennessee Theatre to meet supporters on primary election night. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel, Michael Patrick/News Sentinel
Knoxville City councilwoman Barbara Pelot, left, Mayor Victor Ashe and many other dignitaries watch the streamers fall after the ribbon cutting ceremony for the Knoxville Convention Center in 2001. Cathy Clarke/News Sentinel Archives, Knoxville News-Sentinel
In a Nov. 5, 1998 photograph, newly elected legislators Tim Burchett , left, and Jamie Hagood attend a luncheon hosted by Mayor Victor Ashe at the City County Building. Political newcomer Hagood was elected to the state house and Rep. Burchett was elevated to state senate. Paul Efird/News Sentinel Archives, Paul Efird/News Sentinel
Mayors of Knoxville, left to right, Daniel Brown, Madeline Rogero, Victor Ashe, Randy Tyree and Bill Haslam, pose for a photo before the inauguration of Rogero at Chilhowee Park on Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011. City of Knoxville, City of Knoxville
Former Tennessee quarterback Peyton Manning and Mayor Victor Ashe dedicate the naming of a street Peyton Manning Pass in 1998. Hayley Pennesi/Tennessee Athletics, Hayley Pennesi/Tennessee Athleti
Former mayor and ambassador to Poland Victor Ashe, right, meets the Dalai Lama Monday, July 11, 2011 in Washington, D.C. The meeting occurred at Radio Free Asia where Ashe is chairman of the board. Radio Free Asia/News Sentinel Archives, Radio Free Asia/Special
U.S. Ambassador to Poland and former Mayor of Knoxville, Victor Ashe is greeted by Ron and Julie Humphrey in December 2004 during the dedication ceremony of Victor Ashe Park where a bust of the Ambassador was also unveiled. Saul Young/News Sentinel,
Victor Ashe stands with his mother Martha Ashe during a press conference in an October 13, 1974 photograph. Martha Ashe was running for a state senate seat as a stand-in for her son who would not meet the senate age requirement until his 30th birthday on Jan. 1. News Sentinel Archves, Knoxville News Sentinel
Betty Dunn, the wife of former Gov. Winfield Dunn, left, Mrs. A.W. Diddle, state Sen. Victor Ashe, and state Rep. Buddy Scruggs on Oct. 24, 1978. News Sentinel Archives, KNS Archive
U. S. Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr., left, and state Rep. Victor Ashe confer during a campaign reception on Nov. 3, 1972, at Bearden High School. Ashe was in a race with Mike Rowland for the state's Sixth District seat and Baker was vying with U.S. Rep. Ray Blanton to win a second Senate term. The News-Sentinel noted that Baker shook the hands of 2,000 well-wishers at the reception. News Sentinel Archives, KNS Archive
Entertainer Naomi Judd introduces President George H. W. Bush during a campaign appearance on Sept. 29, 1992, at McGhee Tyson Airport. Sharing the stage, from left, are Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander, U.S. Rep. Don Sundquist, entertainer Ricky Skaggs, Mayor Victor Ashe, U.S. Rep. James Quillen, and U.S. Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. Former senator Howard Baker stands behind Judd. Paul Efird/News Sentinel Archives, Paul Efird/News Sentinel
Art department head Kermit 'Buck' Ewing gives state legislators a tour of art and architecture facilities on April 25, 1975, at the University of Tennessee. Taking part in the walk-through are state Sen. Victor Ashe, and Reps. Mike Rowland, Bill Owen, Sandra Clark, and Ted Ray Miller. News Sentinel Archives, KNS Archive
Sam Furrow, right, Mayor Victor Ashe, and Mel White are among the officials taking a bite out of a 20-foot hot dog to raise money for the United Way campaign on Sept. 23, 1993, at the Whittle Building. News Sentinel Archvies, Margaret Bentlage/News Sentinel
Former ambassador to Poland Victor Ashe speaks during a Chief of Mission Flag Ceremony at the State Department on Tuesday, September 29, 2009 in Washington D.C. Kris Connor/News Sentinel Archives
Victor Ashe, center, former mayor of Knoxville and the Ambassador to Poland greets Holocaust survivors Regina, left, and Sam Spiegel during the March of the Living. Joel Gluck who is a orthodontist in Nashville is at right. Gluck grew up in Knoxville. Joe Howell/News Sentinel Archives, Knoxville News Sentinel
Gov. Ned McWherter and Mayor Victor Ashe visit with school children during a ceremony creating the Tennessee Bicentennial Commission June 1, 1992 at Blount Mansion. McWherter, governor from 1987 to 1995, died April 4, 2011 in Nashville at 80. J. Miles Cary/News Sentinel Archives, J. Miles Cary/News Sentinel
While Knoxville Mayor Victor Ashe was presiding over a reception honoring the national basketball champions Lady Vols, his son, J. Victor, held by the mayor's wife, Joan, was making friends with Tyler Summitt, who was held by his mother, Lady Vols Coach Pat Summitt. The reception was held April 30, 1991 at Candy Factory at the World's Fair Park. J. Miles Cary/News Sentinel Archives, J. Miles Cary/News Sentinel
Vice President Dick Cheney, left, talks with Victor Ashe, United States Ambassador to Poland, right, as White House Chief of Staff Andy Card, center, and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, far right, look on during President Bush's meeting with Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2005 in Washington. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press, AP
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, left, and Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka, right, smile as they walk from talks in Warsaw, Poland, on Saturday, Feb. 5, 2005. Visiting one of the United States' most durable allies in Iraq, Rice thanked Poland for placing troops in Iraq early and keeping them there. Czarek Sokolowski/Associated Press, AP
Knoxville City Councilman Gary Underwood, left, and Mayor Victor Ashe braved the snow and cold in November 1991 to plant a Liberty Elm tree during their participation in the program "Rooting For America, A Lide Community Tree Planting Program. Jack Kirkland/News Sentinel Archives,
Victor Ashe tours the Knox County intake center in February 1988. J. Miles Cary/News Sentinel Archives,
Victor Ashe in June 1987. News Sentinel Archives,
Knoxville resident Dave Bebergal chats Mayor Victor Ashe in April 1988. Bebergal said he was generally satisfied with Knoxville and Ashe's performance as mayor. News Sentinel Archives,
President Ronald Reagan endorsed Victor Ashe for U.S. Senate during a visit to Nashville in 1984. News Sentinel Archives,
Knoxville Mayor Victor Ashe records memos and observations on the trash and abandoned buildings he sees during one of his forays into city neighborhoods in February 1989. The Mayor says he wants to drive all 900 miles of Knoxville's paved roads to find eyesores and safety hazards. Jack Kirkland/News Sentinel Archives,
Knoxville Mayor Victor Ashe announces the creation of the Film and Tape Advisory Commission August 1993. The Commission was formed film-making in the area. Paul Efird/News Sentinel Archives,
Victor Ashe helps load Christmas toys into the back of Knoxville Police Department officer Ivan Green's cruiser in December 1993. The toy were collected at Knoxville Fire Stations and distributed to 450 families. J. Miles Cary/News Sentinel Archives,
Knoxville mayor Victor Ashe and Sue Clancy, Director of Special Events, open a gift basket from the mayor of Columbus, OH, Greg Lashutka in January 1996. The basket pays off a wager between Ashe and Lashutka over the outcome of the 1996 Citrus Bowl. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel,
Victor Ashe and vice mayor Jack Sharp, right, and First Tennessee CEO and Chairman Larry Martin withdraw money from Knoxville Fire Department Station #17 at 4804 Oak Ridge Highway in March, 1996. Installing ATM's at fire stations was due to concern for neighborhood safety. News Sentinel Archives,
Victor Ashe helps Joanna Miller, 10, a 4th grade student at Christian Academy of Knoxville, with recycling telephone books. Miller is the winner of the poster contest for the annual telephone book recycling. J. Miles Cary/News Sentinel Archives,
Victor Ashe kayaking on Fort Loudon Lake in June 1988. News Sentinel Archives,
Victor Ashe, left, along with Knox County Executive Dwight Kessel, raft the Ocoee River in Auguest 1992. Also in the raft are Mikes Ragsdale, Teddy Phillips, Bobby Denton, and Ron McMahan. Paul Efird/News Sentinel Archives,
Mayor Victor Ashe announces plans to build the Knoxville Convention Center in 1997. Clay Owen/News Sentinel Archives,
Mayor Victor Ashe, right, former KFD chief Bruce Cureton, far left, and legal staff arrive to Federal Court in February 2000 on charges of civil rights violations brought by former KFD firefighters who claim they were demoted for supporting the Mayor's political opponent. Paul Efird/News Sentinel Archives,
Host Katie Couric waves to the crowd after interviewing, from left, Knoxville Mayor Victor Ashe, Knoxville Fire Department Capt. Jim Stephens, and Fire Department of New York City Capt. Stephen Damato during a broadcast of NBC's Today Show March 21, 2002 at Rockefeller Center. The show spotlighted Knoxville's Freedom Engine campaign which raised $950,000 for a new ladder truck for New York City. Paul Efird/News Sentinel Archives, Paul Efird/News-Sentinel
Mayor Victor Ashe looks to see if anyone is home during a Mobile Meals delivery in October 1993. With Ashe is Richard Huffaker and Volunteer Ruth Stone. Huffaker, a 14-year-old student from Washington Academy, wants to be mayor of Knoxville some day and followed Ashe all day to learn about his volunteer work. Clay Owen/News Sentinel Archives,
Mayor Victor Ashe helps public service employees with leaf pickup on Myrtlwood Rd. in November 1997. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel,
Victor Ashe and mother Martha Ashe in 1975. News Sentinel Archives,
Victor Ashe, Feb. 1977. News Sentinel Archives,
Mayor Victor Ashe serves as crossing guard at Sequoyah Hills Elementary School in December 1997. The task is one of the duties for parents with children at the school. Clay Owen/News Sentinel Archives,
Knoxville Mayor Victor Ashe makes his official announcement for his reelection campaign at Fountain City Park while accompanied by son J. Victor in August 10, 1995. Byron E. Small/News Sentinel Archives,
Victor Ashe in July 1973. News Sentinel Archives,
Victor Ashe points at the time on stage at the Republican National Convention in Houston, TX in 1992. News Sentinel Archives,
Mayor Victor Ashe, other elected officials, and fire fighters walk along Papermill Dr. in September 1991 after the closing of Knoxville Fire Department Station #18 to be moved their new facility on Weisgarber Rd. The old station was demolished for the construction of the new I-40 exit at Papermill Rd. Jack Kirkland/News Sentinel Archives,
Victor Ashe with actor David Keith at a barbecue party at Universal Studios in 1988. News Sentinel Archives,
Victor Ashe with Knoxville Police officers Tammy Byrd, left, and Tim Snoderly during a domestic disturbance call in May of 1990. Michael Patrick/News Sentinel,
From left, Rep. Bill Brock, Bill Timmons, John C. McLaughlin Jr., and Victor Ashe in August 1965. News Sentinel Archives,
Victor Ashe in 1982. Jack Kirkland/News Sentinel Archives,
Tennessee state legislators from left, Sen. Ben Atchley, rep. H.E. Biddle, and Sen. Bud Giblert announce their endorsement of Victor Ashe for his reelection to mayor in July 1991. Connie Grosch/News Sentinel Archives,
Mayor Victor Ashe meets with members of the Knoxville Police Department during his campaign for reelection in September 1991. Patrick Murphy-Racey/News Sentinel Archives,
Victor Ashe i 1972. Jack Kirkland/News Sentinel Archives,
Ambassador Ashe straps in for a flight in an F-16 on September 23, 2004. News Sentinel Archives, U.S. Embassy
Ambassador Ashe visits Biebrza National Park in northeast Poland on April 22, 2006. News Sentinel Archives, U.S. Embassy
Ambassador Ashe and Joan at home in Warsaw with their children, J. Victor and Martha. Katie is the Schnauzer. Wojciech Mandal, U.S. Embassy
Mayor Victor Ashe packs away memorabilia in his office in 2003 at the City County Building. Ashe has 12 days remaining in his 16 year run as Knoxville's chief executive. He will preside over his last regularly scheduled meeting of the City Council tomorrow. Paul Efird/News Sentinel Archives,
Victor Ashe is a former Knoxville Mayor and former Ambassador to Poland. He is a columnist for Shopper News.
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Gold was choppy overnight in a range of $1329.90 - $1337, fading movements in the dollar (DX from 89.37 – 89.75). Early during Asian hours, gold rallied to its high, taking out resistance at $1331-32 (double top, 2/7 and 2/13 highs, down trendline from 1/25 $1366 high) as the DX slid to support in front of its 2/6 low at 89.36 from a stronger yen (107.89 -106.85) - despite a miss on Japanese GDP.
During European time, gold retreated back to $1330 as the dollar strengthened (DX back to 89.75) against the euro, as the common currency was pressured by a weaker than expected reading on German GDP (euro from $1.2385 - $123.40).
A rebound in the US 10-year bond yield (2.808% - 2.844%) and mostly firmer global equities were a headwind for gold with the NIKKEI off 0.4%, the SCI up 0.5%, European markets were +0.7% - 0.8%, and S&P futures were +0.5%.
However, a pullback in oil (WTI from $59.20 - $58.59) from larger than expected builds in US oil and gasoline inventories from yesterday's API Report weighed on equities.
Markets had an initial violent reaction (heavy algorithmic activity), as the S&P futures collapsed (2675 – 2628), and the 10-year yield spiked to 2.891%. The DX shot to 90.13, and gold was whacked down to $1319. However, within two hours, US stocks recovered (S&P +15 to 2678), with banks and tech leading the rebound.
US 10-year yield continued to climb, though, and reached a fresh 4-year high at 2.904%. The dollar turned down sharply, taking out its overnight low and support at 89.36 to reach 89.23.
Gold rocketed past mild resistance at $1331-32, and then ran through a vacuum to another patch of mild resistance at $1346 (2/6 high). It pushed through that to reach $1349 by late morning, where resistance at the triple top at $1350-52 (1/29, 2/1, and 2/2 highs) held.
Into the afternoon, US stocks continued to advance (S&P +27 to 2690), helped by a rebound in oil (WTI from $58.19 - $59.78, EIA reported a smaller than expected build in US oil inventories).
The 10-year yield ticked up further to 2.911% (another 4-year high), but the DX sank to 89.05, pressured by a firmer euro ($1.2441) and pound ($1.4006). Gold continued to climb, and took out resistance at $1350-52 to reach $1355.65, just shy of its 1/26 top at $1357.
Open interest was up 1.6k contracts, showing a net of new longs from yesterday's gain. Volume was lower with just 213k contracts trading.
All markets will continue to focus on the volatility in the equity and bond markets, geopolitical events, developments with the Trump Administration, corporate earnings, oil prices, and will turn to reports tomorrow on Japanese Industrial Production, Eurozone Trade Balance, US Empire State Manufacturing Index, Jobless Claims, PPI, Philly Fed Index, Industrial Production, Capacity Utilization, and the NAHB Housing Market Index for near term direction.


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Q: Resistance in parallel with MOSFETs
Here I have a P-channel transistor (Q1) and two N-channel transistors (Q2 and Q3). I would like to know more about the resistors (R1 and R2) in parallel with these MOSFETs.
Are these resistors pull-up and pull-down resistors? Or do they have something to do with the value of the tension of VGS of these MOSFETs, to allow the MOSFETs to act as a switch?

A: They are pullup/pulldown resistors than ensure the gates take the correct voltage in the absence of any input.
The gate of a MOSFET is basically a capacitor. Pressing the ON button in this schematic charges the gate of Q3 with respect to the source, turning it on. When the button is released, the gate discharges through R3 and turns Q3 off again. Without R3, the gate would simply stay charged and Q3 would stay turned on.
The same happens with Q1 and R1: turning on either Q2 or Q3 turns on Q1, and R1 ensures that when Q2 and Q3 are both turned off that Q1 turns off too.
Assuming the gates are driven with a low enough impedance, the resistors have no effect on the value of Vgs.

A: Yea. They make sure that the gate input of mosfet/transistor is at valid logic level. Here R2 is pulls down the gate of Q2--> '0' and R1 Pulls up the gate of Q1 ---> '1'. Without these, the inputs are said to be 'floating'. Floating inputs may pick noise and leads to unpredictable transitions at the output.

A: They're essentially pull ups/downs. They keep the gate at a fixed potential rather than floating so charge does not accumulate and incorrectly turn on the MOSFET.

A: Si2365EDS is a very low Ron logic level PFET switch , Q1.
PB2 is a momentary pushbutton high to turn on both Q3 and Q1.
Then PB0 can be driven high to latch ON Q1 as logical NOR.
The R values can be high since the switch off time is not important. T=R*Ciss

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Plus, a look at the game's voice customization.
Our latest update on Freedom Wars introduce new characters Elfriede "Sakamoto" Cabrera and Carolus "Theodosius" Jinnah, City-State War Mode, and the game's first-print purchase bonuses.
Consumers who pick up the game early will receive a "Formal Wear" costume, the large sword "AAW-M2" and rocket launcher "TB-32/H" weapons, a limited decal set, and a battle item pack including a large set of recovery items.
Elfriede and Carolus were both previously detailed. Elfriede is a battle maiden and champion of the "Royal Round" illegal underground arena. And Carolus is a Nog Panopticon Criminal who stands as Uwe Cabrera's rival.
In City-Star War Mode, players will start from one of the 47 prefectures off Japan, choosing one Panopticon at the start. Panopticons can demand restricted resources in every region, and invade Panopticons of other regions. Players will battle against fellow convicts which, different from fighting giant Abductors, are smaller and move faster. Players will need to decide whether using long distance weapons or short range weapons are more beneficial to each situation.
As a result of battle, players will be awarded resources, which can be used to power up your Panopticon. Strong Panopticons will control weaker ones, and the weaker ones can become affiliated with stronger ones by contracting with the survivors. Alliances and takeovers are by no means uncommon.
You will be able to see the difference in every Panopticon development status through a City State ranking. Your Panopticon ranking will be proof of your commitment.
Freedom Wars will launch for PS Vita in Japan on June 26. At launch, the game will include Story, Free Volunteer, ad-hoc four-player co-op, and City-Star War modes. The first update after launch will add new Volunteer Missions, infrastructure online play, eight-player support, and player-versus-player mode. The second update will add an Ideology War mode.
View a new set of screenshots at the gallery. Watch a new video demonstrating the game's Accessory voice customization system below.


However, I would be VERY shocked if there was an upset tonight.
Go Bobcats. Miracles happen let's get the upset..
Welp, got to the @WestHardinBball game just in time for the last 3:00 of the 4th, but they were able to defeat Hull-Daisetta 69-48!