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Alex Jones told to pay $965m damages to Sandy Hook victims' families
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The dude forms an opinion and expresses it and has to pay almost a Billion dollars in compensation, seriously?:-
The shock jock is ordered to pay huge damages after branding the Connecticut school shooting a hoax.
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Alex Jones told to pay $965m damages to Sandy Hook victims' families
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
Alex Jones now acknowledges that the Sandy Hook shooting was "100% real"
By Gareth Evans
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $965m (£869m) in damages after falsely claiming the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax.
The families of eight victims, and an FBI agent who responded to the attack, had sought at least $550m in the defamation trial in Connecticut.
They alleged the right-wing radio host's misinformation led to a decade of harassment and death threats.
Twenty children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Jones, who founded the conspiracy-laden Infowars website and talk show, argued for years that the massacre was a "staged" government plot to take guns from Americans and that "no-one died".
He called the parents of victims "crisis actors" and argued that some of them never actually existed.
"I gave up... until I decided to fight"
He now acknowledges the attack was "100% real", a concession he made in August at a separate defamation trial in Texas.
As the verdict was read out on Wednesday in Waterbury, Connecticut - some 20 miles (32 km) from the site of the 2012 shooting - many of the families were visibly emotional with some in tears.
The three-week trial was marked by emotional testimony from a succession of parents.
Some described receiving a deluge of online hate and others said they had to move homes repeatedly for their own safety. A father, Mark Barden, recounted hearing that people were desecrating his son Daniel's grave by "urinating on it and threatening to dig it up".
Jurors also heard evidence that Jones and his company, Free Speech Systems, made millions of dollars selling nutritional supplements, survival gear and other products on the Infowars catalogue.
Jones broadcast himself watching Wednesday's verdict and scoffing at the court proceedings. He also appealed to his followers to make urgent donations, and pledged that the funds would not go towards his legal costs.
"The money does not go to these people," he said. "It goes to fight this fraud and it goes to stabilise the company."
His lawyer Norm Pattis told reporters that they will appeal the decision.
"Candidly, from start to finish, the fix was in in this case," he said outside the court.
BACKGROUND: Sandy Hook: What happened that day
LEGAL CASE: Sandy Hook parents sue for defamation
In closing arguments, plaintiffs' attorney Chris Mattei said: "When every single one of these families were drowning in grief, Alex Jones put his foot right on top of them."
Jones, for his part, had slammed the proceedings as a "show trial" run by a "tyrant" judge and argued he was not to blame for the actions of his followers.
"I've already said I'm sorry hundreds of times, and I'm done saying I'm sorry," he said in dramatic testimony late last month that brought some in the courtroom to tears.
His lawyers urged the six-member jury to ignore political undercurrents in the case and award minimal damages.
His lead defence lawyer, Mr Pattis, also drew a stern rebuke from the judge after he accused the opposing legal team of "inventing anger".
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The trial follows a similar case in Texas in August that saw Jones ordered to pay $49.3m in damages to other Sandy Hook parents.
The plaintiffs - who said they had endured harassment and emotional distress because of the Infowars founder's misinformation - had sought $150m.
It is unclear how he will pay. He and his company have filed for bankruptcy protection in Texas, where a forensic economist has testified that he and his company are worth around $270m. Jones has disputed that figure.
Jones and his entourage flew to Connecticut from Texas for the trial in a private jet. They stayed in a rented villa with a pool and tennis court, according to the New York Times.
Jones still faces a third defamation trial over the Sandy Hook shooting that begins in Texas later this year.
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nahtanbob
getting paid is the tricky part
villageidiot
MAN, you is dumb.
AJ is a dick, but this decision by the court was an absolute travesty of justice and mockery of the law.
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SecularNationalist
Does he have such a large sum to pay?
Never understood such fines imposed by courts when the criminals doesn't even have that much money. Or these sentences are just for the symbolic display of justice?
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he has to watch every move he makes because the court can authorize the seizure of the assets
Maula Jatt
This is too much- 100 , 200 max imo
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khansaheeb said:
When he intentionally lies, that's no longer his opinion. That's outright a lie.
Then in the court, the victim can demonstrate he actually benefit from said lies. Hence that's lead to the astronomical amount of compensation.
Bear in mind it is very hard to convict a public figure of defamation, you have to prove that he knowingly lies to achieve personal gain or defame the other, the court proved both.
You don't want to believe in a bunch of kiddies got shot to death, that's your problem, but when you use that and formulate theories (such as FBI is behind that to take away the 2A right) you know that is not true and profit from it, that's defamation.
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Problem is the white line between a lie and an opinion, it is impossible to validate but easy for someone to side one way or the other. It's also trampling on freedom of expression, we see so many conspiracy theories flying around the internet and every one has the right and privilege to create and spread them. President Biden saying Pakistan is a dangerous country is clearly defamation, should Pakistan demand a billion dollars in compensation?
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nahtanbob said:
He'll file bankruptcy since this is a civil case and get the debt written off. Thus, in the end, it was a waste of time and money.
PakFactor said:
He'll file bankruptcy since this is a civil case and get the debt written off.
the bankruptcy judge won't be that easy
I've seen worse who have gotten out. The only issue will be him trying to hide funds, but nothing else will stick.
hiding funds and lying to a judge is a risky strategy
Again, the problem is not what he purposed as "Conspiracy" theory.
He can say all these victim of Sandy Hook are actors, and it's the federal government who is behind this. This is a very common conspiracy theory, if he had stop at that, that would have covered by 1A.
Problem is, he didn't, he keep pressing on the theory and ultimately using said theory to profit from his own Radio show and merchandise. To a point he basically disregards the court case and tell his follower to keep buying his item to pay the "Fine" which is now set at 965 million, which is quite hard to do.
Defamation is not just about purporting lies, but also to profit from such lies, what Biden said about Pakistan is bad intention, but not defamation, because Biden personally would not gain from said remark (Unless he also runs a company who run tour in India, then that's another story) but what AJ said is bad intention, then he profit from it, which is what Defamation means.
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*. Movie 43 (the title has no meaning) was widely hailed on its release as being one of the worst movies ever made. This is a judgment that has various meanings though. For example, it can mean that the film is a good-bad movie or that it's just terrible. I've often said that the real worst movies and books are ones that no one has ever seen or read because they are so dull. Those are the "just terrible" ones, whereas Plan 9 from Outer Space or Troll 2 are seen as classics of the good-bad genre.
*. Another way of being one of the worst movies ever made is to be totally incompetent and technically inept (think Manos: The Hands of Fate), or a colossal waste of talent and money (think most Hollywood blockbusters). Or "worst" can be interpreted through a political or moral lens, with the worst movie being one that's seen as particularly objectionable on those grounds. Even classic films like The Birth of a Nation or Triumph of the Will may be considered here.
*. I think most of the reaction against Movie 43 took the line of colossal waste. Indeed, I found one pull quote from Elizabeth Weitzman in the New York Daily News that directly wrote it off in these terms (a "colossal waste of talent, time, and money"). Now in fact Movie 43 didn't cost much (the budget was only $6 million) but the talent brought on board was surprising, and all the more surprising given what the stars were made to endure. Hugh Jackman with a pair of balls hanging from his chin? Elizabeth Banks soaked in cat piss? Halle Berry turned into a freak by plastic surgery? Well, why not. Actors like to try something new every now and then.
*. But there is new as in artistically daring, and then there's stupid. Tony Curtis, for example, went way out on a limb playing Sidney Falco in Sweet Smell of Success. Universal even tried to talk him out of it, saying it would ruin his career. It ended up being arguably his greatest performance. That was a risk worth taking. I'm not sure what the calculation was for the all-stars here, but this sure wasn't Sweet Smell of Success.
*. One point about the cast, however, is worth flagging. While it's a list of A-listers, it's not one that's riddled with great comic talent. With better writing and in better roles some of these actors can be funny, but they aren't comedians. Aside from the shock value of seeing them so degraded, they don't bring anything to the table.
*. Basically this is an anthology comedy, along the lines of Kentucky Fried Movie or Amazon Women on the Moon. As each of the separate stories had different writers and directors you can expect a wide range of quality. Unfortunately, this mostly goes from the not-very-funny to the truly terrible.
*. For what it's worth, the "Super Hero Speed Dating" episode is probably the best. That said, it's only about the level of an average comedy skit you'd find on YouTube these days. The only part of the movie where I actually laughed out loud was seeing Chris Pratt explode into a giant shit bomb in "The Proposition." That might also give you some idea of where the jokes are aimed at. Shit, piss, farts, menstrual blood. That's it.
*. The lowlights aren't the most outrageous but the dullest and most pointless. Like "Happy Birthday," which has Gerard Butler playing a foul-mouthed leprechaun. And that's it. That's the joke. Gerry Butler is a foul-mouthed leprechaun. Then "Victory's Glory" has a Black basketball team wiping the floor with a team of white guys in the 1950s. Because they're Black. And that's it. That's the joke.
*. Linking this together, somewhat, is a frame story involving Dennis Quaid as a strung-out screenwriter trying to pitch all this crap to Greg Kinnear. Again there's nothing at all funny about this.
*. Writer-producer Peter Farrelly tweeted: "To the critics: Movie 43 is not the end of the world. It's just a $6-million dollar movie where we tried to do something different. Back off." I'm not sure how strong a defence this is. Despite the low budget, the cast meant that this was always going to be something more than "just a $6-million dollar movie." And I'm not sure how "different" what they were attempting was. The real hook here was that disjunction between the cast and the material, not the material itself.
*. It's not a movie I hated. I've seen worse comedies. That is, comedies that were even less funny. But it's not so bad it's good either. Overall, I'd characterize it as just stupid and embarrassing because almost none of it works. A waste of time then. My time, and that of everyone involved.
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film-authority.com August 10, 2022 at 4:58 am
Why did Shakespeare even write this? Why does she do it?
Alex Good Post author August 10, 2022 at 5:00 am
Just going with the times. Nobody cares about grumpy old men trying to raise ungrateful daughters anymore.
Bookstooge August 10, 2022 at 5:23 am
"I" could have changed my life and a lot of peoples' lives I know with 6million dollars. Instead, it gets wasted on something like this?
Judgement is coming….
Well, critical judgment was pretty condemnatory. Did you mean judgment by an even higher power than Internets movie reviewers?
Words schmords. That kind of judgement is meaningless. Because the directors and actors just ignore it and go on and waste even more money and talent in other disgusting excesses.
I'm talking an actionable judgement in the here and now. I already know that they've got coming in the final judgement….
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As the Hogs gear up to take on a team coached by a guy who's said to know a thing or two about the passing game, I figured now would be a good time to comment on an item I saw over at the always-excellent Hog Database.
The gist of it is that, with his 385 yard game against Tulsa, Mr. Casey Dick now has three of the 10 highest single game passing totals in Arkansas history. Granted, the Razorbacks have had a somewhat checkered relationship with the concept of the forward pass over the years, but that achievement still deserves a shout-out.
Here's the full top 10 (courtesy of the Hog Database):
* at this point a year or two ago, how surprised would you have been if someone from the future had shown you this list?
* Clint Stoerner has four games on the list...with three (or four...fingers crossed) left in his Razorback career, what are the odds that Casey will match or surpass him?
* what will this list look like in a few more years? Something tells me we'll be seeing the name Ryan Mallett on here more than a few times.
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Peon arrested for raping 4-year-old girl in Mumbai school, massive protest reported
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Massive protests have been recorded outside a reputed ICSE school in Mumbai's Malad region in Upper Govind Nagar after several people alleged that a peon from the school raped a 4-year-old girl.
The peon allegedly sexually assaulted the girl inside a washroom of the school between 1 and 4 August, senior police Inspector of Dindoshi police station, Rajaram Vhanmane said. Her mother filed a complaint on 5 August.
Angry parents gathered around the Seth Juggilal Poddar Academy (SJ Academy) in Malad, in protest demanding better safety for their children. The police are also examining school's CCTV footage from August 1 to August 5 between 11.30 am to 1.30 pm, during which the alleged offence took place.
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Parents demanded to meet with the school's trustees. As their protest intensified, BJP MLA Ashish Shelar came to the school and made an aborted attempt to broker peace. Parents, however, heckled the school manager and a teacher who denied the incident ever took place.
The peon's name has not been revealed and the school authorities are yet to comment on the allegation. Police have also registered a case against the people.The peon has been arrested by the police and will remain in police custody till August 11, following which further steps would be taken after corroboration.
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Inter win Champions League as coach Mourinho leaves
Diego Milito scored both goals as Inter Milan beat Bayern Munich 2-0 in the Champions League final at the Santiago Bernabeu on Saturday as charismatic coach Jose Mourinho engineered an historic treble.
Argentine striker Milito embarrassed each of Bayern's centre-backs in turn as the Bavarians' vulnerable defensive core was ruthlessly exposed.
In their first Champions League final since 1972, Inter won their third European title and first since 1965.
They also became the first Italian team to achieve the treble of Serie A, Italian Cup and Champions League.
But the celebrations were tempered by Mourinho admitting that the match would almost certainly be his last as he seeks new challenges having become only the third coach to win the European title with two different clubs.
"I want to be the only coach to win the Champions League with three different clubs," he said. "It's more likely that I will leave rather than stay."
Real Madrid are widely expected to be Mourinho's new employers.
Bayern coach Louis Van Gaal, who once worked with Mourinho at Barcelona, was not impressed by the Italian side's tactics.
"Inter are a hard team to play and I think we played attractive football," said the Dutchman.
"We tried to attack in tight spaces. We choose to play offensively. Inter won and they have every right to play the way they want."
Milito said: "I'm 30, I had to wait a long time to win a trophy like this but this is football and football always gives you a chance to make amends.
"I thank Jose Mourinho and the president for bringing me here last summer, tonight was just fantastic."
Inter's Samuel Eto'o became only the fourth player to win the competition in successive seasons with different clubs having been on the Barcelona winning team a year ago.
Bayern came closest early on as Arjen Robben beat Cristian Chivu and Walter Samuel with some wing wizardry down the right but Ivica Olic prodded his cross wide of the near post.
Hamit Altintop then created space on the edge of the Inter box on 13 minutes but his shot was deflected for a corner.
Bayern had a decent penalty shout when Daniel Van Buyten's header hit Maicon's arm.
Wesley Sneijder tried his luck with a 40-yard free-kick which skimmed off Altintop's head but goalkeeper Hans-Jorg Butt was alert to punch clear.
Robben had an opportunity with Inter bodies around him but he hurried it and shot embarrassingly off target.
Milito's first goal on 35 minutes came against the run of play and from a defensive lapse as Inter targeted the fragile heart of Bayern's defence.
Goalkeeper Julio Cesar punted the ball upfield and Milito held off Martin Demichelis to flick it on to Sneijder.
The Argentine forward then turned and left his compatriot on the wrong side of goal before taking Sneijder's return pass and exploiting the gap behind Demichelis to clip the ball over Butt.
Inter should have scored a second before the break when Milito dragged Demichelis out of position again, wide left this time and played in Sneijder through the middle but the Dutch playmaker shot straight at Butt.
If the nervy and cautious first half was a disappointment, the start of the second quickly made up for that.
From the kick-off Bayern opened up Inter thanks to a flick by Olic to Altintop, who then slipped in Thomas Muller but he overstretched as he shot and hit Cesar's legs.
A minute later Samuel drove out of defence, played the ball to Goran Pandev and he played it out to Milito who cut inside Van Buyten and pulled the ball back for Pandev, but the Macedonia forward's left-foot curler was tipped over acrobatically by Butt.
Lucio then took an unecessary risk in his own box and put Maicon in trouble with the full-back losing the ball to Altintop who shot narrowly wide.
Sneijder had a couple more free-kick chances but shot over with the first and Butt easily saved the second.
Up the other end Esteban Cambiasso headed a high bouncing Muller effort off the line before Cesar made a one handed save to stop a Robben inswinger from wide right that was heading for the top corner.
Samuel then made a couple of timely blocks to deny Muller as Bayern pressed.
But Milito settled the match 20 minutes from time.
He beat Van Buyten one-on-one, dropped a shoulder before stroking the ball home past Butt with aplomb for his sixth goal in the tournament this season.


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First visit to a new field
With new land to try I couldn't resist a trip out, so after an early lunch yesterday I took myself off for an exploratory visit to the largest of the new fields open to me. I drove onto the largest of the fields, still under stubble, and parked up by the entrance.
With a field this size it's difficult to know quite how to tackle it, especially when the field is about 40 acres and a strange stretched triangle shape. Round the edge? Straight across the middle? Zigzagging from one prominent feature to another? Eventually I decided to detect parallel with the road which runs past, but about 10 yards in from the field boundary. Half way along that side I turned and cut across one corner and followed the line of a strip which had been deep ploughed.
A little over half way up that side I started to find very rough ceramic shards scattered across the surface. They were a pale orangey-pink or biscuit colour, most with a curved profile as though they were broken pieces of pipe except that they were roughly finished and not glazed in any way so I can't imagine they were pipes. Besides, judging by the profile of the curve they'd have had to have been pipes several feet in diameter.
So what to make of them? I started to wonder if they are pieces of Roman roof tile. If so, taking into account the quantity I saw scattered around a particular area, it's possible there was a Roman building of some sort on the site, especially as there's a lot of Roman stuff in the area. In aerial images of the spot there are no clear crop marks suggesting a former structure, but there is an undefined, slightly darker shadow in the soil. It's something to run past the FLO when I next see her, but in the meantime does anyone know if these things really could be bits of Roman roof tile?
In contrast with all the broken bits of ceramic, there were virtually no genuine metal signals. I found several pieces of chewed up drinks can, a piece of foil, one modern button and one copper alloy ring of around 1.25 inches diameter. And that was the sum total of digable signals. How absolutely weird. I know the field runs along a road but surely it couldn't have been nighthawked so completely?
My session was cut short when my phone battery died, as I no longer detect if I am unable to track my progress and precisely log my finds by GPS and photograph them on the spot. I could kick myself, and will now invest in a powerbank so I can recharge my phone in the field.
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1 piece of red and pink flint-like stone – jasper?
Selection of possible Roman roof tile fragments pieces of drainage pipe.
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Tiptoe through the brassicas
On Sunday I was once again out with The Metal Detectives, this time in Oxfordshire not a million miles from Witney.
The dig site was 150 acres spread over two large fields set at right angles to each other with the parking area in the corner between the two. One of the fields ran for about half a mile right to the outskirts of the nearby village and on paper looked rather promising. The soil was largely a sandy loam and easy to dig, and since there had been a fair bit of rain in the 24 hours preceding the dig hopes were high that the soil had been moistened enough to produce good signals.
The fields had been planted with brassicas, the seedlings of which were anything from an inch to six inches tall, interspersed in patches with the remains of the previous year's bean stalks. Most of the latter were not a problem but there were enough stumps hidden amongst the brassicas to catch on the coil and cause a fair bit of falsing. I found the site very chattery in places and had to drop Deus Fast to 8khz in a few areas, while in other areas there was no chattering at all.
So what came up? By all accounts most attenders found very little. Around 90 minutes after the start of the dig people started to trail back disconsolately towards the cars from what should have been the most promising area over by the village. Elevenses consumed, most then tried their luck on the second field which in theory should have been the less productive of the two yet most people seemed to spend most of the rest of the day there. Unlike most digs where nothing much comes up, there wasn't a disappointed mass exodus at lunchtime. In fact, most were still swinging away by mid-afternoon.
In terms of finds, I saw a very nice little Roman bronze coin and a photo of a bronze lion-head mount (age unknown) found over towards the village. There was a report of a denarius. I imagine there was more but if so I've not yet heard about it.
My own finds were OK – not spectacular, but I came home with one or two bits which are likely to interest the FLO.
1 book clasp
1 curtain ring
1 Roman coin – badly corroded
September 5, 2016 by whitedragonmagazine	Categories: Club Digs, Detecting sessions	| Tags: button, curtain ring, Roman grot, The Metal Detectives, xp deus | 1 Comment
Another afternoon on pasture
Brimming with renewed enthusiasm for my generally barren first pasture permission I went out to have another swing at it yesterday afternoon.
The first hour was spent on a triangular field that I hadn't tried before, criss-crossing back wards and forwards in one corner to get a flavour of what might be there. Bugger all but a few scraps of foil.
So it was back to Tuesday's field. During the course of the afternoon I tackled one area quite intensively, which produced a few odds and sods but nothing to get excited about, headed up to the top of the field in a straight line and then back across towards another landmark. The rest of the session was spent in the lower part of the field in the general area which produced Tuesday's finds. A few bits and pieces came up, though it was not as rewarding a session as the one earlier in the week.
What's interesting is that the top half of the field, which lies above a shallow rise, produced nothing at all. The farmer has previously told me that in the past there has been some marl digging from that field, so it's possible that any finds that might have been in that area have already been stripped away. Presumably though they should be elsewhere on the farm.
1 lead weight
1 lead disk
2 tombac buttons
1 pewter spoon handle
2 fragments of pewter spoon handle
1 corroded coin, probably a Georgian halfpenny
2 small 4-hole buttons
1 flint thumbnail scraper
1 fragment of black-glazed terracotta
March 13, 2015 by whitedragonmagazine	Categories: Detecting sessions	| Tags: button, lead weight, metal detecting, pewter spoon, xp deus | 1 Comment
First detecting session in yonks
On such a glorious spring day yesterday there was no excuse for not getting out to do some detecting. So out I went yesterday afternoon.
Not only was it my first detecting session since the autumn, it was the first trip back to my first, or No 1, permission in about a year. Nos 1 and 2 are pasture permissions so, in theory, available all year. However No 2 has cattle in and No 1 has sheep, and if I am to risk getting between livestock and their young I would rather it was sheep and lambs than cows and calves.
To be honest I wasn't expecting to find much at all. No 1 produced a few nice bits and bobs from one particular field when I first stated detecting there, but since then it has been pretty barren – so much so that I have toyed with simply abandoning it. Still, a permission is a permission and the farmer is happy to have me there.
Part of the farm is inaccessible at present. One field that leads to several others is currently occupied by a handful of alpacas and half a dozen or so rheas. The alpacas I knew about. The rheas I didn't. The young male rhea is apparently rather frisky at present and he and the older male have had a few set-tos recently which I didn't fancy ending up in the middle of, so I went off to a field that I've detected before, albeit briefly, but which has produced only a few uninteresting finds in the past.
I started by detecting along the line of a public footpath and bits and bobs started coming up almost immediately. Part of a pewter spoon, then a buckle, a button, another buckle, an iron ring, another button and so on. Over 4 hours of wandering around one end of the field it turned into the most productive session I've had on this farm for quite a while and makes me think that while it's never likely to produce anything spectacular, it's worth going back for the odd session from time to time.
The most interesting item of the day was a long, thin, copper alloy item (at the bottom of the finds photo) which at first I thought was just a bolt, but when the mud was brushed off started to look like a pipe tamper (I've not found one of those so far so it would have been a first). However it has a nobble on the end which, when I researched it at home, sounded more like the handle of a litten spoon, which were frequently cast in a copper alloy and in use from c1550 to c1650. It's one for the FLO anyway, along with at least two of the buckles.
It was a surprisingly warm day, with a clear sky and not a breath of wind, so I ended up shedding the fleece and detected in a t-shirt. I detected almost until sunset, when it was still warm enough (OK, about 10º C) for just the t-shirt. It's strange how you get these odd really spring-like, almost early-summer, days in March.
1 copper alloy latten spoon (I think)
1 spectacle buckle, broken at one end
1 copper alloy buckle, outer only
1 small spectacle buckle, complete with pin
1 Elizabeth II half groat
1 funny-looking doodah (broken fragment, probably nothing)
3 small plain buttons
March 11, 2015 by whitedragonmagazine	Categories: Detecting sessions	| Tags: buckle, button, funny-looking doodah, latten spoon, metal detecting, pewter spoon, spectacle buckle, xp deus | Leave a comment
NCMD Shakespeare Hospice Rally
I very rarely attend open metal detecting events. I've been to a few in the past and found virtually nothing at any of them apart from rubbish. In fact on one such I came back with several dozen mastitis treatment tubes and bugger all else. Yesterday however I attended the NCMD charity rally in support of The Shakespeare Hospice at Stratford upon Avon. My finds for the day were precisely two buttons and the usual scrap.
There were around 200 detectorists on some 150 acres of arable land spread over 4 fields. The land had been roughly disked and roughly tilled, both superficially, with large clods of dried clay liberally spread across the surface of at least 2 of the fields. This made it very difficult to get a good rhythm of low swings and there were a few examples of people more or less waving their detectors about like Simon Rattle conducting the Berlin Phil. 6″ down was more or less solid, sticky clay of the sort to excite artisan potters. The surface had been baked and the dry shards of clay were like rough gravel when you put your hand on them. The field between the parking area and the registration tent was fairly rough and uneven, but the far field was reported to be much worse; indeed one chap told me it was "bad enough to break your ankles". It was, overall, bloody hard work.
One field was fairly smooth but both fields I tried were contaminated by broken bricks, pieces of glass (including much weathered, old glass with large bubbles in it), tiles and other roofing materials, pieces of cement or mortar and by small, shapeless pieces of metal which were very light and therefore probably melted alumimium of some sort.
There was a lot of dissatisfaction with the state of the land, including several comments that it would have been better left as stubble. A couple of people mentioned a lot of problems with falsing but that may have been down to their particular detectors. As with all large rallies people had come from all over the place to attend including Sheffield, Brighton, Northants and London, thus incurring significant travelling costs. The first person left at 11.30am; he was an elderly chap with arthritis who had come from near Heathrow but couldn't cope with the uneven ground. There were more departures over lunchtime, including a group of 3 who went off to finish the day at one of their local permissions, and a few more by the time I left at around 2.30pm, but most people seemed determined to give it "just another half hour" and to "get their money's worth" as one chap put it.
It's surprising what people will complain about. I overheard one chap saying it was a poor do that the NCMD had not arranged for a trade stand or a burger bar to be there, and that next year he would be joining the FID instead. Since most mobile burger vans seem to be of the greasy-donkey-burger-for-50p variety that didn't seem much of a loss. The same chap bemoaned the lack of "fun" aspects to the rally, specifying that there was no token hunt (in which the organisers bury tokens for people to dig up and win prizes for doing so).
By the time I left I'd heard reliable reports of 5 hammered coins, a gothic florin, an unspecified number of Roman grots and a half sovereign. After the rally additional finds reported on one of the forums included a "nice small Saxon cruciform brooch apparently with loads of enamelling intact", a lead bale seal, a 16th century harness bell and a silver item which may have been a mount or strap end (date unknown). The FLO was in attendance but whether she had enough to keep her busy I have no idea.
Finds: 2 buttons.
September 23, 2013 by whitedragonmagazine	Categories: Detecting sessions, Rallies	| Tags: brooch, button, hammered coin, metal detecting, NCMD, rally, Saxon | Leave a comment
2nd session on new permission
This afternoon I spent a few hours at the new 60 acre pasture permission, this being my second visit to the site. I'd planned to stay for about 4 hours but in the end gave up after two and a half hours. The ground has been baked solid in last month's heatwave, so digging is bloody hard work and reinstating the holes properly afterwards even more difficult, and I'm reluctant to dig unless I know I'm not going to leave a mess. Also, my knee is still giving me gyp a full two months after I injured it.
I also had a brief repeat of last session's wild chattering from the Deus; I'd laid it down while I dug a hole and when I picked it up again it was chattering hysterically. In the past month a number of other Deus users have reported this phenomenon and worked out that it is caused by interference from the Garret Pro-Pointer since upgrading the detector's software to v3.0 in June. Once I'd rebooted the detector and ensured that the pro-pointer was kept well away from it, I had no further problems with the chattering.
After the session, while I was changing my footware at the car, the farmer arrived and stopped for a chat. He told me that he believed there had once been a row of cottages in the field across the stream, and that towards the top end of the land he had once found some WWII military stuff including buttons and dogtags. Both areas sound very promising.
Finds: 2 plain buttons, 1 small modern key and 1 cheap modern buckle made from thin metal.
August 3, 2013 by whitedragonmagazine	Categories: Detecting sessions	| Tags: buckle, button, key, metal detecting, xp deus | Leave a comment
First session on the new permission
I made a first visit this afternoon to the new 60 acres of pasture and spent about 3 hours there with the intention of just having a general wander about the field nearest to the farmhouse.
The first find of the day was a George V halfpenny dated 1931 which turned up in more or less the first hole I dug. It's in nicer condition than appears from the photograph and virtually all of the detail is crisp. Only the most prominent parts of the union flag device on the shield show any signs of wear so it must have been lost not long after coming into circulation.
After about half an hour of detecting the Deus suddenly started to play up, chattering wildly. I had wandered close to the end of a minor or local power line and assumed this had upset it, but despite switching the control unit and the headphones off and on repeatedly the chattering kept on recurring. I must have switched it all off and back on again several dozen time, and at one point the control unit sent up the worrying message "No coil". Some programs seemed to be worse affected than others, or rather programs Basic 1, Basic 2 and GMaxx (1, 9 and 5 respectively) seemed to be the least affected. I tried other areas of the field and kept switching programs to see what worked best but I found that if I laid the detector down for the minute or so it took to dig a hole it was chattering away again when I picked it up. I'm not sure what's going on here, and really hope the coil is not about to pack up on me, but I will try it again in the garden and see about rolling back the software to v2 and then forward to v3 again in case something has been corrupted.
The only other finds worth mentioning were a modern button and yet another copper alloy ring of the belt ring or curtain ring variety. The stuff not worth mentioning (but I will anyway) included a strip of copper, a scrap of lead or pewter and a lump of coke.
The afternoon was uncomfortably warm and there were a few blood sucking insects about, especially under the line of trees along one edge of the field. I was also troubled by my knee which is still bloody painful to kneel on even using heavy duty knee pads. By the end of 3 hours and a dozen or more holes dug, it was very tender and I'm starting to wonder if it will be a couple of months yet (ie, the end of the summer) before it's back to normal. 3 hours detecting seems to be my limit at present because of this.
Finds: 1 button, 1 George V 1931 halfpenny and 1 copper alloy ring.
June 30, 2013 by whitedragonmagazine	Categories: Detecting sessions, XP Deus	| Tags: button, copper-alloy ring, George V, metal detecting, penny, xp deus | Leave a comment


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The MEI is a weighted average of 128 state and regional indicators encompassing the entirety of the five states in the Seventh Federal Reserve District. It measures growth in nonfarm business activity from four broad sectors of the Midwest economy: 1) manufacturing, 2) construction and mining, 3) services, and 4) consumer spending.
As with similar indexes of regional economic activity, the majority of the indicators in the MEI are based on data from the Payroll and Household Employment surveys and State Initial Unemployment Insurance claims. However, for the manufacturing and construction and mining sectors, the MEI also captures production indicators, while for consumer spending it additionally includes data on personal income and home and retail sales.
The MEI incorporates indicators that are observed at both a monthly and quarterly frequency. To express the monthly index at a quarterly frequency, we translate all 128 indicators into a common frequency by taking a three-month moving average of the monthly indicators. In this sense, the MEI's closest national counterpart is the three-month moving average of the CFNAI (the CFNAI-MA3). Every indicator is then given a stationary transformation and standardized to have a zero mean and unit variance.
The weight each indicator receives in the MEI depends upon the relative degree to which it explains the overall variation among all the indicators. In this fashion, greater influence in the index is given to those indicators that are able to best explain broader fluctuations in the Midwest economy. The degree to which this is true for any individual indicator is captured in the absolute value of its weight. A full list of indicators and their weights can be found here.
To be able to incorporate indicators that differ in originating date and reporting frequency, we follow the estimation strategy outlined by Stock and Watson. This strategy is based on a statistical method called "principal component analysis" and is used to create a system of relative rankings, or weights, for the indicators. These weights are re-estimated each month, but in practice change very little given the substantial history of the index.
To illustrate the role played by each of the four sectors and five states, the pie charts below show what percentage of the variation in the 128 indicators explained by the MEI can be attributed to each sector (figure 1) or state (figure 2). Broad fluctuations in Midwest nonfarm business activity have historically been explained by the manufacturing sector and, to a lesser extent, the service sector, as well as by the three largest District states (Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin).
Our motivation in creating the MEI is to better understand the relationship between growth in national economic activity and growth in Midwest economic activity. The MEI is a measure of regional economic activity in much the same way as the CFNAI is a measure of national economic activity. CFNAI values above zero indicate growth in national economic activity above its historical trend, and values below zero indicate growth below trend. Similarly, MEI values correspond to deviations of growth in Midwest economic activity around its historical trend.
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However, over shorter periods this has not always been the case, particularly around the beginnings and ends of recessions (the shaded regions in the figure as defined by the National Bureau of Economic Research, or NBER). To highlight such differences, we construct two separate index values: an absolute value and a relative value. The MEI (absolute value) captures both national and regional factors driving Midwest growth, while the relative MEI (relative value) provides a picture of Midwest growth conditions relative to those of the nation.
A positive value of the relative MEI indicates that regional growth is further above its trend than would typically be suggested based on the current deviation of national growth from its trend, while a negative value indicates the opposite. To obtain this interpretation for the relative MEI, we use the standardized residuals from linear regressions of each of the 128 indicators on the CFNAI-MA3 to construct the index. This construction accounts for differences in national and regional growth trends and volatility that prohibit comparisons of magnitudes in the figure above.
Figure 4 shows the relative MEI in comparison to the CFNAI-MA3. The unit of measurement is again standard deviation units, so that a value of 1 for the relative MEI indicates that Midwest growth is 1 standard deviation greater than would typically be suggested given the level of the CFNAI-MA3. This figure shows that the Midwest business cycle was particularly pronounced during and after the recessions of the late 1970s, early 1980s, and 2007–09.
Other significant periods in which Midwest growth deviated substantially from national growth include the 2001 recession, which more adversely affected the Midwest region, and the 1990–91 recession, which was milder regionally but was preceded by a period of relative weakness.
Additional information on the sources of growth in Midwest economic activity can be found by decomposing the MEI and relative MEI into contributions from the four broad sectors of the Midwest economy. The figure below plots the time series of these contributions over the history of the index.
Much of what we see in this figure can be summed up by the following: When manufacturing has thrived, so has the region. However, the contributions of the service sector to Midwest growth over time have become increasingly important. Consumer spending indicators show a similar pattern, making sizable contributions at business cycle peaks and troughs. Finally, the region has historically been less prone to large fluctuations in growth coming from the construction and mining sector than other parts of the nation.
Looking at regional versus national growth, the manufacturing and service sectors explain the vast majority of movements in the relative MEI. However, the contribution of services to the relative MEI is larger than it is to the MEI and nearly equal to that of manufacturing. This feature of the relative MEI reflects the importance of the service sector during periods where the Midwest economy has expanded or contracted faster than the nation. A good example of the former is the early to mid-1990s, while the early to mid-2000s exemplify the latter.
Using only the indicators for the respective states in the Seventh District, we construct state-level contributions to the MEI and relative MEI. Figure 7 plots the time series of these contributions over the history of the index. No single state dominates growth in Midwest economic activity, although Illinois tends to make the largest contribution to both; and growth trends in nonfarm business activity across states are similar, with the exception of the weakness of the Michigan economy over the past decade.
During the recent recovery, all five Seventh District states have made positive contributions at one time or another to the MEI and relative MEI, suggesting that the manufacturing-driven recovery has benefited the region disproportionately. In the future, we invite you to track these developments through the charting utility for the Seventh Federal Reserve District found here.
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Rosochatka – część wsi Potok Wielki w Polsce, położona w województwie świętokrzyskim, w powiecie jędrzejowskim, w gminie Jędrzejów.

W latach 1975–1998 Rosochatka należała administracyjnie do województwa kieleckiego.

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Potok Wielki (województwo świętokrzyskie)

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Take a step forward with your right leg and bend your right knee as you do this, quitting when your leg is parallel to the ground. Ensure that your right knee does not extend beyond your perfect foot.
Drive off your right foot and return to the starting location. Repeat with your left leg. This really is one rep.
Complete 10 repetitions for 3 sets.
Drop and give me 20! Pushups are among the most basic yet successful weight moves you can perform on account of the number of muscles that are recruited to perform them.
Begin in a board position. Your core should be tight, and shoulders pulled down and back, and also your neck impartial.
Bend your elbows and start to lower your body all the way down to the floor. When your torso grazes it, stretch your elbows and return to the beginning. Focus on keeping your elbows near your body throughout the movement.
Total 3 sets of as many repetitions as you can.
In the event that you can't quite perform a standard pushup with good shape, then drop down to a modified stance on your knees — you'll still reap many of the advantages from this exercise while building strength.
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Brace your core as well as keeping your chest and chin upward, push back your hips and bend your knees as though you should be likely to sit in a chair.
Ensuring your knees don't bow inward or outward, drop down until your legs are parallel to the ground, bringing out your arms before you in a comfortable position. Pause for one moment, then extend your legs and come back to the starting position.
Entire 3 sets of 20 reps.
Compound exercises, which utilize numerous muscles and joints, are great for busy bees since they work several components of the human body at once. A standing overhead press isn't only among the very best exercises you can do to help the shoulders, but in addition, it participates your upper back as well as the heart.
Decide on a moderate set of dumbbells — we urge 10 pounds to start — and then begin by position, either with your feet shoulder-width apart or staggered. Proceed the weights overhead, therefore, your upper arms are parallel to the ground floor.
Bracing your core, begin to push until your arms are fully extended above your face. Keep your neck and head stationery.
Following a brief pause, then bend your elbows and lower back the weight off until your tricep is parallel to the floor again.
Entire 3 sets of 12 reps.
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Start having a dumbbell in each hand. Be certain not to arch your back. Let your arms hang straight down. Ensure that your neck is in accordance with your spine as well as your own core is engaged.
Beginning with your right arm, flex your elbows and then pull the weight right up toward your torso, making sure to engage your lat, and stopping just below your chest.
This is another exercise that challenges your balance. Single-leg deadlifts require equilibrium and leg strength. Catch a light to medium elbows to complete this particular move.
Begin position using a dumbbell in your hands along with your knees slightly bent.
Hinging at the buttocks, begin to kick your left leg straight back to you, lowering down the barbell to the ground.
If you reach a comfortable height together with your left leg, slowly go back to the starting position in a restricted motion, squeezing your best glute. Make sure your pelvis stays square to the ground throughout the movement.
Duplicate 10 to 12 repetitions before moving your weight into your hand and repeating the exact steps on the left leg.
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Start by standing upright with your feet squared apart and your arms down at your sides.
Together without your hands before you, begin to squat. When the hands reach the ground, pop up your thighs directly back into a push-up position.
Keep coming up to the starting pushup position and jump up your feet to your palms with hinging at the midsection. Make your feet as close to the hands because you could possibly get, landing them out of the hands if needed.
Stand straight, bringing your arms above your face and jump.
That really is one rep. Total 3 sets of 10 reps as a newcomer.
A healthy human body requires a powerful core at its foundation, and therefore do not neglect core-specific moves such as the side plank. Give attention to the mind-muscle connection and regulated movements to ensure you're completing this move effectively.
Bend on your side with your left leg and foot stacked on top of one's right leg and foot. Prop your torso upward by placing your right forearm on the ground, elbow directly under your shoulder.
Contract your heart to stiffen your spine and lift your hips and knees from the soil, forming a direct line with the physique.
Go Back to Begin at a controlled fashion. Repeat 3 sets of 10-15 reps on one side, then switch.
Even though they receive a bad rap as being overly basic, situps really are a good way to focus on your abdominal muscles. When you have spine issues, then stick with a crunch, which necessitates just your upper spine and back to lift off the bottom.
Start with lying on the ground in your back with your knees bent, feet flat, and also the hands behind your mind.
Keeping the feet glued to the ground, start to roll up in the face, engaging your center during. Do not strain your neck through the up motion.
When your chest reaches on your legs, then begin the restricted phase down to the starting position.
Total 3 sets of 15 reps as a beginner.
The glute bridge efficiently works your whole posterior string, that will be not only good for you but will make your booty appear perkier as good.
Start with lying on a floor with your knees bent, feet flat on the soil, and arms straight at your sides with your palms facing downward.
Pushing throughout your heels, then raise your buttocks off the ground by squeezing your heart, glutes, and hamstrings. Your upper back and shoulders still ought to be in contact with the bottom, and also your core down to knees should form a direct line.
Pause 1-2 seconds at the very top and return to the starting position.
Complete 10 12 repetitions for 3 sets.
Yet another method to switch this up? Twist the routine to some time-under-tension workout, completing each movement for a set amount of time rather than to get a set variety of reps.


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This statement has been published in accordance with Section 54(1) of the Modern Slavery Act 2015. This statement articulates the policies and practices around recognising and preventing human trafficking and slavery in the global supply chain implemented by Watchfinder.co.uk Limited ("Watchfinder").
This statement has been approved by the Board of Watchfinder.
Watchfinder has a zero tolerance approach to modern slavery and we are committed to acting ethically and with integrity in all our business dealings. We recognise that no supply chain is without risk of modern slavery and it is our responsibility to ensure we understand these risks and work together with our suppliers to mitigate them.
Watchfinder.co.uk Limited is the largest pre-owned watch retailer in the UK and was established in 2002, and located predominately in the South East of England at the heart of the UK's road and rail networks, we specialise in the procurement, servicing and sale of luxury pre-owned watches which we sell on-line and in our specialist boutiques. We purchase stock from the general public, reputable watch dealers and other watch retailers.
Watchfinder employs over 200 members of staff in a number of locations throughout the UK. We recruit our employees from many locations worldwide and employ them in the UK. As part of our commitment to combating modern slavery, we predominantly recruit our workforce internally. Our Human Resources department carry out all necessary checks to ensure that the prospective employees are eligible to work in the UK.
Watchfinder are committed to maintaining and improving systems and processes in order to eliminate all forms of forced and compulsory labour within our supply chain and our business.
Raising Standards – continuously improving standards of labour provision and to raise labour standards beyond base compliance.
Responsibility to workers – Supporting labour providers and users to meet their legal and ethical responsibilities to the contingent workforce and to treat temporary and full time workers fairly and with respect.
Sustainable Supply – Facilitating the definition and application of fair pay and charge rates that enable business sustainability and do not foster worker exploitation and tax evasion.
Proportionate Regulation – Advocating proportionate regulation of labour provision that facilitates fair competition.
Sector Support – Championing work and careers in UK horological sector through our apprentice scheme.
Annual due diligence checks on our labour suppliers.
As part of our due diligence process into slavery and human trafficking, the supplier process will incorporate a review of the controls undertaken by the supplier. The level of management control required for these will be continually monitored. We ensure that all our suppliers adhere to our ethical standards and anti-slavery policy. We enforce a strict code of compliance and do not tolerate slavery and human trafficking within our supply chains.
We plan to take further steps to increase our suppliers' awareness of our policies to ensure our supply chain is compliant.
We adhere to standards of responsible conduct and we train our employees to treat each other with respect in the workplace. We plan to take steps to increase employee awareness and engagement regarding slavery and human trafficking issues.
I certify that the Board of Directors has approved the information contained in the above statement.
Director, on behalf of Watchfinder.co.uk Limited.


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Glass Lewis and ISS issue new policy guidance on impacts of the coronavirus
By Jaclyn Jaeger2020-04-10T16:00:00+01:00
Glass Lewis and Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) both issued new policy guidance this week on how they intend to approach a variety of matters around the coronavirus pandemic, including executive compensation. Companies with questions about what changes may be ahead would be remiss to not read what these influential proxy advisory firms have to say.
In its new guidance, Glass Lewis said it "expects all governance issues and most proposal types to be impacted by the pandemic" and that it will exercise its existing "discretion and pragmatism to prioritize timing, certainty, disclosure, and voting on any affected proposals." Glass Lewis said it's likely that this will continue to be the case through 2021.
Among specific governance areas Glass Lewis said its paying attention to include:
Compensation and balance sheets: Glass Lewis said that changes to compensation programs that are likely to receive wide shareholder support will be those that "take a proportional approach to the impacts on shareholders and employees." It added that "responsible companies hit hard by the crisis have taken early and decisive action to roll back planned salary increases or above-target bonus outcomes, sharing the pain felt by employees and shareholders."
Glass Lewis also said to "expect a marked increase in shareholder concerns on repricing, dilution, burn rates, hurdle adjustments, changes to vesting periods, caps and cuts on incentives, and the quality of disclosure concerning the limits and exercise of board discretion. Companies with strong pay structures will be challenged to abide by them, and firms with less robust programs will be forced to choose between lying in the bed they've made or changing arrangements and all but guaranteeing shareholder ire."
Glass Lewis added that boards and executives for at least the next 18 months have a "heavy burden of proof" to justify their compensation levels in a drastically different market for talent. "Trying to make executives whole at even further expense to shareholders and other employees is a certainty for proposals to be rejected and boards to get thrown out—and an open invitation for activists and lawsuits onto a company's back for years to come," Glass Lewis said. "Even those companies who project a 'business as usual' approach to executive pay will face opposition if employees and shareholders see their own 'paychecks' cut. Companies would be wise to avoid this."
Disclosure and explanation: Glass Lewis emphasized that "effective disclosure and rationales provided by companies will be particularly critical to [the] exercise of discretion in making judgements about whether changes made as a result of this crisis are justified and address material shareholder concerns. We will also assess the reasonableness of proposed changes and outcomes by considering if they are consistent and in proportion to the impact on shareholder interests and employees."
Regarding executive pay, specifically, Glass Lewis said it expects boards "to proactively seek changes that align with employee and shareholder experiences, recognizing that executives might need to take a pay cut. Further, companies that we believe have a good track record on governance, performance, and the use of board discretion prior to the pandemic will be afforded more discretion in our analysis than those that do not."
Timing and clarity: "In times of crisis, it is particularly important that the timing of decisions is not delayed or postponed significantly on matters that are material to a company's ability to address risks, manage operations, and maximize shareholder returns," Glass Lewis said. "Companies that move fast and decisively during a time of crisis, in cooperation with their shareholders, are more likely to contain the damage and identify opportunities for positive outcomes that are in all parties' interests."
ISS guidance
ISS released its own guidance on April 8. Regarding compensation matters—the adjustment of performance goals and stock option repricings, specifically—it has emphasized that it will take a case-by-case approach in analyzing company decisions in response to the pandemic.
ISS said, while decisions by directors to make such adjustments to 2020 compensation programs generally will be analyzed and addressed by shareholders in 2021, "boards are encouraged to provide contemporaneous disclosure to shareholders of their rationales for making such changes. Such disclosures will provide shareholders with greater insights now and next year into the board's rationale and circumstances when the changes are made."
Regarding long-term compensation plans, ISS reiterated that its benchmark voting policies "generally are not supportive of changes to midstream or in-flight awards, since they cover multi-year periods." Accordingly, it said it will look at any such in-flight changes made to long-term awards "on a case-by-case basis to determine if directors exercised appropriate discretion and provided adequate explanation to shareholders of the rationale for changes."
For boards that may be considering altering the structures of their long-term plans taking the new economic environment into consideration, ISS said it will assess such structural changes under its existing benchmark policy frameworks.
Regarding stock option repricing actions, ISS said that where "boards undertake repricing actions without asking shareholders to approve or ratify their actions in a timely fashion, the directors' actions will remain subject to scrutiny under the U.S. benchmark policy board accountability provisions (and equivalents in other market policies where relevant)." If boards seek shareholder approval/ratification of repricing actions at 2020 meetings, ISS said it will apply its existing case-by-case policy approach for the relevant market.
Under U.S. market policy, for example, ISS said it will "generally recommend opposing any repricing that occurs within one year of a precipitous drop in the company's stock price." Among other factors it will examine are whether (1) the design is value-neutral to shareholders, (2) surrendered options are added back to the plan reserve, (3) replacement awards are vested immediately, and (4) where executive officers and directors are excluded. "We consider this approach to continue to be appropriate during the circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic," ISS said.
In their guidance documents, both ISS and Glass Lewis address other areas as well, including virtual meetings; poison pills and other defensive measures; and board and management changes.
Industry-specific matters
The Glass Lewis guidance goes a bit further by addressing concerns related to certain industries, particularly oil and gas and the plastics industry. "While many sectors will be hard hit during this time, the unique triple threat to oil and gas companies is worth specific mention," Glass Lewis said. "The accumulation of high and poorly rated debt, the Saudi-driven plunge in oil prices and shrinking demand due to the pandemic, and social distancing measures threaten the continuing business of many companies in the sector. The threat will be particularly notable for companies involved in fracking, where higher levels of poor debt are now harder to repay or refinance as the price of crude oil falls toward and below the cost of shale oil production."
Glass Lewis said it will be "closely monitoring how companies respond to protect shareholder value in exceptionally challenging conditions that will likely include many restructures and bankruptcies." It will also be monitoring "how the closely related plastics industry is impacted given the high level of shareholder concern and proposals related to plastics we expect to see this year."
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Staff, students and the Somerville House community have been hard at work preparing for the new Queensland Certificate of Education (QCE) system in the Senior School which will come into play for Year 11 students in 2019, and Year 12 from 2020.
Newly-revised academic programs at Year 10 level are already implemented to equip students with the skills required to transition into the new syllabuses and assessment processes, while still ensuring current requirements for the Australian Curriculum are met.
Set in place by the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority (QCAA), the review and refinement of the Senior syllabuses have been a collaborative effort involving teachers and stakeholders across the state, including Somerville House Academic staff.
"One of the many strengths of our School is that we have very highly experienced teachers," Dean of Teaching, Learning and Innovation Ms Laura Duffield said.
"Somerville House teachers have always worked very closely with the QCAA. Our teaching teams are not only very familiar with the current syllabuses and requirements, but have also been actively engaged with QCAA preparing for the new processes: providing feedback, serving on panels and advisory committees. They are equipped to support our students in the new system successfully, with excellent insight into what's required."
The incoming system focusses on revised syllabuses and new processes to strengthen the comparability of skills taught and assessment requirements. Changes will include the implementation of one external assessment in combination with school-based assessment, numerical grades instead of A to E standards for individual assessment, and the introduction of an Australian Tertiary Admission Rank (ATAR). This ranking, a 2000-point numerical scale from 99.95 (highest) down to 0, in increments of 0.05, will be used for tertiary entrance in place of the Overall Position (OP).
"The current system was designed decades ago, in an era when fewer Queensland students were completing Year 12 and seeking entry to university, and so was due for review," Ms Duffield said.
She said some requirements of the new system means greater attention to teacher planning and time spent working with students.
"There will be less assessment overall, which means teachers will be able to focus more class and planning time on the content and skills students need to learn."
Ms Duffield said that while some aspects will change in the way that Senior students and teachers will work, there will be many that remain the same.
"Yes, assessment requirements and processes will be different, the mechanism for applying to university will be different, but what will stay the same at Somerville House is the high quality of teaching in Senior classrooms," Ms Duffield said.
"Our teachers will remain committed to working very closely with QCAA and strongly committed to their students, as they always have done."
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What we want from iOS 7
By Decoded Solutions
22 May 2013, 15:03 p.m.
Apple, Design, iOS, iPad, Platforms, Testing
It was almost a year ago that Apple was showing off iOS 6, widely regarded as a disappointment after its banner feature, Apple's in-house maps solution, proved difficult to love. But there's been a change at the top in Apple's iOS division and a chance to bring iOS, largely looking the same as it did in 2007, up to speed with recent innovations from Android and Windows Phone. Here's what we reckon the OS needs.
Down with skeuomorphism – It looks like we're going to get this wish, with rumours suggesting that iOS 7, as the first version to be designed by Sir Jony Ive, will be throwing out the designs so beloved by Scott Forstall, the former iOS design chief who was removed following the maps debacle. Skeuomorphism, the process of simulating real-life equivalents within the software design, such as the green felt gaming table of Game Center or the torn pages of Calendar, has proved controversial since it began appearing in Apple's software, but its days seem mercifully numbered.
Let us change default apps – Apple makes a big deal about the size of its app ecosystem, but what happens if you want to use a third-party alternative to the built-in ones? Even with Chrome installed, say, you're stuck with links in your email opening Safari. Ditto if you want to use Fantastical instead of Apple's calendar, or Camera+ instead of the usual photo app. What's more, it would really showcase the sterling work that software developers have been doing. It's time to loosen the reins a bit. And on that note...
Make the stock apps removable – Apple's been showing signs of moving in this direction by putting official apps with non-essential functionality like Podcasts and iTunes U into free downloads on the App Store. Since those can be removed and reinstalled at will, why am I stuck with a bare bones Stocks app that I never use? Why do I have to hide Newsstand, Apple Maps and Passbook on the last page so that I don't have to see them? Being able to completely define the user experience in this way could have a huge impact on mobile app development.
Get over the Google aversion – This is probably never going to happen, but it would be nice if Apple would swallow its pride and put Google Maps back into iOS. Making the above two changes would even let it be done without losing face: let us remove Apple Maps and we can add in Google's equivalent without Apple having to pay Eric Schmidt a visit, cap in hand.
Make Notification Center more useful – Since the pull-down notification tray was 'borrowed' from Android, Apple should take another idea by putting widgets and toggles in there, like allowing users to turn Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and Airplane mode on or off without having to hunt down the settings. This concept video for what iOS 7 could end up looking like has gained a lot of traction and ably showcases the potential of an upgraded, widget-fuelled Notification Center.
Live tiles – It hasn't gone unnoticed that iOS has the potential to update app icons in real-time, such as the way Calendar always shows today's date, but that has remained the only example. Even if Windows 8 has stolen its thunder with live tiles somewhat, Apple should open up this ability, putting the day's weather on the Weather app icon, for instance, since most days around here it is resolutely not 23 degrees and sunny.
Open up Siri to developers – It may not be perfect, but Siri is cool and increasingly useful as new features get added. But as it took the App Store and third-party software developers to really let iOS meet its potential, so it goes with Siri. Do it, Apple. Let some mobile app developers get their hands on the Siri API.
User accounts – As much as Apple might like it to happen, an iPad for everyone in the family just isn't realistic; unlike a computer these days, it's still considered a luxury. For that reason, how about making it easier for people to share one? Let users of a single iPad have their own email accounts and calendars, choose which apps to let their children use, turn off in-app purchases for the kids, set their own wallpaper and more. Do something clever with it like using the front camera to recognise you and log you in. Anything to stop other people installing 15 Angry Birds games on our work iPad.
The word is that iOS 7 is a big update, with Apple pulling engineers off the overdue OS X 10.9 and in full-on crunch mode to get it ready for the WWDC reveal. An overhaul of the design is clearly going to consume a lot of resources, so does Apple have the software development manpower to add significant features and redo a design that's held up for six years now? We'll find out in a couple of weeks.
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The premiere episode of "Lost L.A." on KCET (PBS) is Wild L.A. It unwraps the complicated relationship between the city and its natural environment.
Los Angeles once had an amazing diversity of wildlife in a place that is not a desert, as we are so often told, but a semi-arid region with marshlands, woods, rivers, lakes, and a magnificent ocean with many beaches.
Why did you kill me after centuries?
This program explores the Native American origins of Tongavar, "the world," to the Tongva Indians who were the original inhabitants of the area for ten thousand years before invasion and displacement by genocidal Europeans.
Before gun-toting fortune seekers became a blight on the land, a friendly and frolicking giant roamed wherever it listed, down from the mountains and foothills to play in the sand, swim in the bay, and gorge on washed up whales.
(National Geographic) "How Wolves Change Rivers" shows the need for apex predators.
Sasquatch, European, black and brown bear.
What led to the demise of the grizzly bear in Southern California? It was once the apex predator, an animal revered by indigenous peoples but soon targeted by Europeans as a threat to safety and security.
Grizzly bears are now EXTINCT in California; the last one, "Big Bear," was killed in 1908 near San Diego and the Mexico border. They do not exist even in Yosemite National Park.
Extinct here, let's hitch to Alaska.
The infamous "Santa Ana winds" of Los Angeles, an infamous weather phenomenon that triggers allergies, frayed nerves, and terrifies fire-prone communities.
The series "Lost L.A." continues on local PBS stations like KCET Los Angeles.


If you wish to study in Canada, you will most likely be required to apply for a study permit. Like most immigration programs, there are a few steps in the application process that is worth discussing.
If these situations do not apply to you, you will require a study permit.
When you begin an application, there are lists of documents that must be collected. You can use the document checklist as a guide when you are doing so. Depending upon where you are coming from, there may be some country-specific materials that need to be submitted.
Once you have completed all your forms and gathered all the correct materials, you will need to pay the processing fee. It is important that you pay the correct amount or your application will be returned to you or be delayed until the correct amount has been received.
The final step is to submit your application. You can either do so at a Canadian visa office or Visa Application Center responsible for your area, or online.
If you require further assistance, at Akrami & Associates, one of our legal representatives will be eager to assist you. Call today to find out how we can help.


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