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Somali media organisation urged US to respect freedom of press
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Asoj.org - A Somali media group called the president of United States, Donald Trump, to respect the freedom of expression which is enshrined by US constitution and Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Associated Somali Journalist (ASOJ) called Trump not target media house because of their coverage of US presidential election which brought him to the White House.
"We are saddened by action of the White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, who disallowed credible media houses to attend press briefing," said ASOJ Secretary General Dahir Alasow.
"The US government was the most strong defense line of the freedom of expression, " he said.
Reporters for CNN, BBC, The New York Times, Politico, The Los Angeles Times and BuzzFeed were not allowed into a session in the office of press secretary Mr. Spicer.
ASOJ said that the world is silent and failed to condemn the undemocratic exercise by President Trump's administration.
"If a country from the developing world was mistreated the free media the way the USA does there would have been an outcry," Alasow said
"We are calling the US government to respect the freedom of expression," he concluded.
By Asho Hussein
After embrace of war criminals, time to cut off Somalia
The annual U.N. General Assembly is an orgy of symbolism. Who meets whom on the sidelines? Who tried but failed to secure a meeting with the U.S. president? Who walks out of whose speech? Whom do security officers intercept when they try to exceed the permissions of their visa? Full Article
Somalia:Social media shut down over exam leakages unjustified
Responding to reports that Somalia's education minister has announced that social media may be shut down for five days from 27 to 31 May as one of the ways to stop cheating in the national secondary school exams, Amnesty International's Deputy Regional Director for East Africa, the Horn and the Great Lakes Seif Magango said: Full Article
UNDP sanctions 18 Somali entities and individuals over graft, collusion and fraud
The UN Development Programme has blacklisted 18 Somali individuals and organisations from conducting any business with the UN agency over what it termed as their 'engagement in proscribed practices'. Full Article
Somalia suffers from the disgraceful culture of leaders and politicians invoking deceptively legitimate documents like the Provisional Constitution for bolstering false claims and arguments or for obfuscating critical search for truth. That culture has undermined the requirement of truth, good faith, and accountability in the public life and dashed the public hope for democratic state of Somalia governed by the rule of law and democratic values. Full Article


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"I think we could always improve," Melnyk said. "There's no question. I just spoke to (general manager Bryan Murray) and the coach and we're looking for improvement from certain players. They have to step up and show us what they can actually do."
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Ottawa has not won more than three straight games this season.
"I mean we are 32, 33 games into the season. It's about time that we start getting into some streaks," he said. "Nothing beats a nice six, seven or eight game winning streak. Give me six out of eight and I'll be happy."
Melnyk also discussed Murray's future. The general manager is in the final year of his contract and it's widely expected that he will get an extension.
"We've had some preliminary talks, me and Bryan," Melnyk said. "I would love to see Bryan here next year and he would like to finish off with a Stanley Cup and I would like to see him leave with a Stanley Cup. Those are still preliminary so we'll just continue talking and let things work out where they work out."
Melnyk said re-signing Murray is not a priority at this time. He also said that he gave his full support in allowing assistant general manager Tim Murray to speak with the Buffalo Sabres regarding their general manager opening.
Melnyk said he sees no reason to hold individuals back if the right situation arises.
As well as struggling on the ice, the Senators have also been a bit of a disappointment at the box office. Ottawa had struggled to fill the Canadian Tire Centre this year with just four sellouts after 18 home games.
Despite the empty seats, Melnyk says the team is actually generating better revenue than when they offered reduced ticket incentives.
"These are the real numbers," Melnyk said. "There's no more gimmicks. This is what it is. This is the only way we can accomplish really getting a solid number out there for everyone to understand where we are."
Melnyk believes much of the Senators attendance issues have had to do with a "wonky" schedule that has seen Ottawa play a number of matinee games as well as numerous Monday night games.
"We've had a very strange schedule this year that made it difficult to sell the walk-up tickets, but our season tickets are up 2,000 seats and our revenue is up," Melnyk said.
Melnyk also knows he's likely to make money on the Senators upcoming contract for regional television rights. The Senators' current agreement with Sportsnet expires at the end of the season and Melnyk said the team already has competing bids for next season's broadcasts.
"Here in the Ottawa market we are a good market for television and I think people will pay accordingly," he said.
Melnyk was on hand at the Canadian Tire Centre to present Senators jerseys, helmets and skates to over 100 local children as part of the 10th annual Eugene Melnyk Skate for Kids. Over the past decade Melnyk has purchased equipment for over 1,000 kids.


Label owner, music producer & DJ Spencer Hickson, aka Desyfer. Flashback to the late 80s; the onset of the North West rave scene; the upward spiral of the Madchester movement; and a teenager with a stash of tape mixes. Spencer embraced both the early sounds of acid with the influences of indie forerunners, Happy Mondays & The Stone Roses. The integration of alternative rock, acid house & dance that formed the bedrock of Madchester shaped Spencer's music sensibilities & eclectic style. Both the landscape of music and the North West had changed, and with it came picture postcards of a new genre: "Blackpool 1990, a weekend where the sublime James & 20,000 revellers changed the traditional skyline with 24" flares, Reni hats & Oakenfold on the decks". And Spencer was bang in the midst!
By 1992 Spencer was promoting local club nights Relief, Utopia & Confession, and thanks to his obsession buying up vinyl, the aspiring DJ & his well-cultivated collection were headlining monthly club nights. The lack of anywhere local to source vinyl led Spencer to mastermind & back the opening of music store 'Industry Dance Music Specialists', which in turn led to the launch of a shop-based studio and collaborations with industry-expert Mike Bell (production manager & sound engineer, Bell went on to work with the likes of CJ Bolland, Babyshambles & Brazilian band CSS). Between 1995 and 1997 Spencer & Bell released Omnia's 'Embryonic' (Solid Silver Recordings), 'Transparent' by Blue Ice (Koncept Records); as well as a remix of Tarantella's Myobadobe Mix (Wonderboy).
By the mid 90s Spencer was no novice producer. His club work had him well placed amongst diverse & exciting counterparts, all with a common interest at heart - the music! In 1994, a chance introduction with DJ & music producer Scott Latham led to the merging of two like minds. That same year Scott & Spencer were approached by label Solid Silver Recordings to create a track for DJ Sasha. Under the collaborative name Phoenix the debut EP 'Rise Up' found its way onto Radio 1's Essential Mix, was given an exclusive red vinyl run in response to high sales and found its way to the front of Sasha's bag becoming a favourite 1995 set-opener for the DJ. It was a huge club & collaborative success but unfortunately a collaboration on which the curtains tragically fell with Scott's death in 1996: "A true pioneer, so ahead of his time. He's still missed". In 2007, in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the music world losing a genius, 'Rise Up' was revised, given a fresh vinyl run & digitally released. It was immediately signed by new label, Northern Exposure Recordings, sister label to Hooj Choons/Solaris Recordings, finding its way back onto Radio 1's Essential Mix with massive success over ten years on.
And not the first time Spencer has celebrated track success twice over. In 1999, under new artist name Desyfer, came the trance-tastic Gatecrasher anthem '831' featured on the club brands 'Wet' compilation CD, as well as fronting the Gatecrasher TV ad campaign. With a place on Paul Oakenfold's Essential Mix World Tour from Shanghai, an anthem comeback was inevitable and in 2006 Solaris released the X-Cabs, Paradox '831' & Fletch remixes.
Fletch, co-producer & friend, went on in 2008 to collaborate with Desyfer under joint name Sundogs who successfully debuted with track 'Primary Key' (Brown Eyed Boyz Records) - including remixes from Lea D & Proff, the track featured on Pete Tong's Bedroom Bedlam Chart, Proton Radio & the Fast Trax Show and attracted widespread support from the likes of Jaytech. Following a 2008 remix of 'Strata-Metamorphosis' (Canadian label Reticent Recordings), Sundogs real success came in 2010 - warming up with Fletch's 'Honeycomb featuring Sundogs' & Desyfer remix (Lyon Echo Records), Sundogs 'Circumzenithal Arc' (Tactal Hots Music) was described by Dave Seaman as 'one big tune…setting floors alight all over the world' and became a set favourite at Privilege/Ibiza & Eleven Club/Tokyo. The co-producers have also enjoyed screen success after being commissioned to produce the exclusive music for the Yell.com TV advertising campaign - a 2011 update of the iconic yellow pages ad 'Fly Fishing by J.R.Hartley', where former trance DJ, Day.V.Lately, tracks down early 90s 'Pulse & Thunder' record. The track was released by Yell's spoof label, Found Records, but spoof or not, the track got national airtime from Nemone on BBC's Radio 6, XFM's Eddy Temple-Morris, Annie's Mac's/Radio 1's Big Weekend (playing the Riva Starr remix) and 'found' its way onto Ministry of Sounds compilation album 'Back to the Old Skool'.
And again, not a first for Spencer with screen success in 2009 after several Desyfer tracks were selected to feature on the soundtrack for UK movie 'City Rats' starring Tamer Hassan & Danny Dyer (Out of the System, Tula, Ambient Voyage Mix & 831 Xcabs Remix).
With releases spanning the late 90s & noughties the launch of his own label was a natural progression for Spencer and in 2010 came North West digital label Tactal Hots Music - a fitting tribute in anagramming the name of a friend & mentor, Scott Latham. Led by Spencer the label hosts some of the best producers globally with acclaimed DJ's worldwide playing Tactal Hots tunes. From its first signing of French producer Eric Franchet, Tactal Hots, together with new sister label, Environment (2011), now boast in excess of 30 new releases of popular club hits & underground classics. Whilst house & electronica have been Spencer's mainstay, both his labels sign & showcase sounds of house, progressive house, electronica (ambient to dubstep), indie, rock indie as well as pop. Into 2012, Tactal Hots continues to thrive, celebrating multiple successes in the Release Promo Hype Chart. Desyfer's own release 'Then Again feat.Jesse' has gone remix mad, and in particular the Desyfer v Hypnosis playoff, aka Richard Wheatley (you will have caught him touring with The Streets), is definitely not one to miss!
Spencer, aka Desyfer. Label owner, music producer & DJ. Spencer has been writing & producing quality electronic music since the early 90's and has received fantastic support from Sasha, John Digweed, Jimmy Van, Paul Oakenfold, Jaytech, Solarstone, Scott Bond, Nick Warren, Quivver, THG, Pezz, Steven McCreery, Luke Chable, Anthony Pappa, Lemon8, Deep Z, Sasha le Monnier, Ryan Luciano & Dave Seaman!


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Welcome to the historical town of Bath, a 90 minutes train-ride West of London. These pages takes you for a walk in the town, which is a UN World Heritage site. The following pages take you on a scenic walk to Bath University, through the campus of the University of Bath, and then down again via Bathwick Hill. We start at the city's most famous landmark, the Abbey.
A book with these pictures is now available from koodibook.com.
Behind the Abbey are one of Britain's most famous remains of the Roman empire, that rules the country 2000 years ago. The Roman Baths have attracted tourists from Roman times to the present day. In the open air part of the museum, you can wander around the hot springs, and wonder what it might have been if you had come 2000 years ago.
After a visit to the museum you may want to relax and take a walk along the river Avon, and watch the boats by Pulteny Bridge.
Continue your walk through the town, marveling at the architecture of the 18th and 19th century: Pulteny Road, the Guildhall and window shopping.
If you come in early spring, you may also join Bath Rugby Football Club, right in the centre of town.
click here to for scenic walks up to the University, and down again via Bathwick.
© text and photos: Klaus Meyer, 2008
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Trump, Mnuchin Promise "CARES 4" Coronavirus Bill
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin speaks at a White House presser on the economy and COVID-19, July 2, 2020 (White House live stream)
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by Sharon Rondeau
(Jul. 2, 2020) — During a press conference on Thursday morning beginning just after 9:35 a.m. EDT, President Trump touted the record-setting 4.8 million jobs gained last month reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) earlier today.
The prediction had been a gain of 3 million jobs as the country recovers from the coronavirus shutdown.
Citing statistics for certain demographics and other record-setting gains, Trump said a fourth economic-stimulus bill is under consideration, a statement echoed in more detail by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin several minutes later.
Mnuchin called the new stimulus legislation "CARES 4" after the "CARES" bill passed on March 27 aimed at maintaining employees on small-business payrolls and assisting Americans directly with cash payments.
Following Mnuchin's opening remarks and brief comments from White House Economic Adviser Larry Kudlow, Mnuchin resumed the podium and took questions from reporters, who were not as optimistic as to the economic outlook due to rising "positive" coronavirus cases in the Southwest and Southeast.
More than 50,000 new cases nationally were reported Wednesday, one journalist pointed out, and asked if the administration will be issuing a national mandate for mask-wearing.
As an aside, Mnuchin said he and Kudlow were not wearing masks because they were tested for COVID-19 "this morning." To the reporter's question, he said he is not authorized to speak for the White House Coronavirus Task Force.
A "CARES 4" bill will be "much more targeted," Mnuchin said. "Our work is not done," he said, adding that "it's our priority when we get to the CARES 4 bill in July" that businesses which were "particularly hard-hit" are the intended recipients of the "$130 billion left" from previous efforts. "There is no question that this is working," Mnuchin said.
For his part, Kudlow acknowledged that "we have more work to do" on restoring the American economy to pre-COVID-19 status.
The states of Arizona, Nevada, Texas, Alabama, Florida, North Carolina and parts of California have seen sharp increases in cases, while initially-hard-hit Northeastern states are seeing very low infection rates amid slower reopening schedules.
In the states where sharp increases have occurred, Mnuchin said, the administration is carefully monitoring the rates of hospitalization.
After taking a number of questions, at least one of which was off-topic and Mnuchin did not answer, Mnuchin ended the presser at 10:03 a.m.
The White House's Council of Economic Advisors' statement on the economic outlook/jobs report is here.
Few, if any, outlets appear to have aired the full presser. After Trump made his exit and Mnuchin began to speak, Fox News cut away to its current anchor, Sandra Smith.
The full presser was posted by Yahoo! Finance.
Updated, 10:45 a.m. EDT
Tagged: COVID-19, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, U.S. economy


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Susan is school librarian at Inverclyde Academy, and since her appointment, she has had an amazing impact on the school and wider community.
These individual projects have combined with Susan's care and attention in recommending books to individual pupils to create a vibrant reading culture at Inverclyde Academy!
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Golden Stag is a very popular event became a tradition that takes place in Brașov, outdoors, in the Council Square. It is a show-contest which promote talented artists from Romania and abroad. The first festival was held 41 years ago in 1968.
Golden Stag first edition was in 1968 when the Romanian Government's willingness was to demonstrate that Romania is a open country. The festival was originally conceived as a copy of the famous San Remo. The first edition was held from March 5 to 10 at the Dramatic Theatre and the organizers were the Romanian Television. The competition involves 28 artists and live performances were supported by 15 artists.
In 1970, the third edition of the festival from Brasov was transmitted by 30 television stations around the world. In 1971 it takes place the fourth edition of the Golden Stag Festival, last of the communist era. In 1992 it takes place the fifth edition of the Festival. It lies in Brasov, this time in the Council Square, from June 24 to 28. It was built for the Golden Stag an outdoor room with a capacity of 5000 seats. In 1994 the number of spectators has grown to 7000 spectators.
After an absence of nine years, the festival Golden Stag returns with a new edition. It is dedicated to the Romanian Centenary and it will take place in Brașov, from 29 August to 2 September 2018. This year, the festival will be a anniversary gala, two days of competition and a Centenary Gala, where traditional folk music will combine with the modern one. The festival will start on August 29 and it will be attended by winners of previous editions. The show will be completed with archived images from Romanian Television, from previous editions of the festival.
The next two evenings will be dedicated to the competition, which will be a very complex one. The fourth evening of the festival will be a gala where the winners will be awarded. Golden Stag festival will end up on September 2 and will keep the theme of traditional folk music, but reinterpreted in a modern manner.
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Mercury Systems receives $2 million in orders from U.S. Navy for DRFM jammers
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Mercury Systems Inc., a leading high-tech commercial provider of more affordable secure and sensor processing subsystems powering today's critical defense and intelligence applications, announced that its Mercury Defense Systems (MDS) subsidiary has received $2 million in follow-on orders to deliver advanced Digital RF Memory (DRFM) jammers to the U.S. Navy. The orders were received in the company's fiscal 2015 third quarter and are part of a firm-fixed-price, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) time and material contract award issued in 2010. They are expected to be shipped by the end of the company's fiscal 2016 third quarter.
"This award is a further acknowledgement of the company's continuing effort to support the warfighter," said Brian Perry, president, Mercury Defense Systems. "For more than 20 years, our DRFM products have been used for self-protection, vulnerability assessment, training and radar environment simulation. Our successful performance under firm fixed price contracting is the cornerstone of our business."
For more information on Mercury Defense Systems, visit defense.mrcy.com.
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Bob Biesterfeld is taking over at C.H. Robinson for John Wiehoff, who will become chairman of the Board. Photo ILLustration: Jim Allen/FreightWaves
Bob Biesterfeld will succeed John Wiehoff as CEO of C.H. Robinson (NASDAQ: CHRW), one of the world's largest third-party logistics companies.
Biesterfeld, a 20-year company veteran who was named chief operating officer in March 2018, will take over on May 9 at the annual meeting of shareholders.
"C.H. Robinson has always led the industry through our talented people and high performing culture, and we will continue to combine that with a focus on driving innovation and digital transformation," Biesterfeld said in a news release. "We are accelerating our investments in emerging technology to further transform how we create value within our global ecosystem of over 124,000 customers and 76,000 active contract carriers."
Biesterfeld's elevation to CEO comes on the heels of somewhat mixed results in the company's fourth-quarter earnings, in which the company beat Wall Street expectations but missed on gross revenue.
Analysts said after the earnings call that C.H. Robinson's flexible cost model and diversified business model offers some protection in what some have called a softening market.
Biesterfeld told analysts that "automating transactions and direct load matching are certainly part of the reason why operating margin has expanded and why we believe the opportunity to continue to expand operating margin, but it's really only part of the story."
Wiehoff has served as CEO of C.H. Robinson since 2002, and will move into the chairman role after Biesterfeld takes over day-to-day operations. Wiehoff started working for the company as a corporate controller in 1992, and worked his way up to treasurer, chief financial officer, senior vice president, president, director, CEO and chairman of the board.
Prior to his start at C.H. Robinson, Wiehoff worked at accounting firm Arthur Anderson.
Scott Anderson, who will become the firm's lead independent director as part of the move, congratulated Wiehoff for his "extraordinary leadership as CEO of Robinson over the past 17 years."
During Wiehoff's tenure, the company has increased revenue more than 500 percent to $16.6 billion, Anderson said, driving shareholder returns of 13 percent over the past 17 years.
"Most importantly, John has built a strong culture of performance and a team of talented employees that provide industry leading logistics expertise to our customers and carriers," Anderson said.
Biesterfeld also worked his way up through the ranks at the 15,000-employee firm, serving in various sales roles before moving into leadership positions for sourcing, then surface transportation. Finally, he was appointed COO one year ago.
Wiehoff called Biesterfeld "right person" to lead the company as it makes investments toward future growth.
"During his almost two decades at Robinson, Bob has consistently demonstrated deep industry knowledge, strategic vision, and a passion for delivering results," Wiehoff said. "He has been the driving force behind our digital transformation efforts, accelerating the pace of innovation and technology deployment across our platform."
Biesterfield, 43, who received his undergraduate degree from Winona State University, also serves on the board of the Transportation Intermediaries Association and the Winona State University Foundation.
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Architect Robert Turner and Junior Technologist Justin Crawford donned their hard hats and steel toe boots to join Newton Group Ltd and the City of Guelph at the ground-breaking ceremony for the long awaited Wilson Street parking garage.
Excavation crews are now on site to commence construction of the 6 storey, 496 space parkade at Wilson Street and Northumberland Street in Downtown Guelph. The new parking structure will provide much needed vehicle parking for the downtown core and will also feature bicycle parking and electric vehicle charging stations. The facility will be fully Accessible, to the City's exacting standards for public buildings.
The building utilizes Newton Groups' lightweight, prefabricated 'Canadacar' parking structure system, but with a more traditional brick facade. Completion of the project is expected at the end of Summer 2019. To follow the project, you can look to the City of Guelph's website or follow the hashtag #WeDigWilson.


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"Edgar Award nominee Buffa (The Judgment) brings back his protagonist, famous defense attorney Joseph Antonelli, for the trial of the century. The quick-witted and clever Antonelli is asked to defend Sen. Kevin Fitzgerald, who has been accused of and confessed to killing the U.S. president. The accused claims a defense of necessity, which may apply when an individual commits a criminal act during an emergency in order to prevent a greater harm from happening. Fitzgerald, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, claims to have information showing his act was for the greater good of the country. Readers will be drawn to Buffa's riveting plot twists right up to the edge-of-your-seat conclusion. His characters are compelling; the dialog authentic and well crafted.
VERDICT: With the current political upheaval, Buffa's newest novel hits home in more ways than one. The author draws on his own experience as a criminal defense attorney to render realistic courtroom proceedings. Highly recommended!"
–Library Journal 2018
NECESSITY is the riveting new thriller from bestselling Edgar Award nominee D.W. Buffa in which criminal defense attorney Joseph Antonelli finds himself embroiled in the most controversial and explosive trial in American history, representing the man accused of murdering the President.
When renowned lawyer Joseph Antonelli–the defense attorney who has never lost a case–takes on the most shocking and controversial case of his storied career, he has no idea of the depths of trouble he's about to get into. A man has murdered the President of the United States, but has invoked the "Law of Necessity," which states that a crime is justified if it serves the greater good and thus prevents a greater harm from occurring.
As the nation watches the trial of the century, Antonelli must try a case with all eyes on him…and his own life on the line.
NECESSITY will enthrall half of the country and infuriate the other half. Everyone, however, will want to read it.
Interview with the author
Necessity offers a brilliant scenario, which in truth is something I had never really thought about. Several U.S. presidents have been murdered, but none of the killers have ever stood trial…until now, in your book! How did you come up with the plot idea for this book, and how much research did you have to do before sitting down to write it?
Almost from the moment the election of 2016 was decided, there was talk that something would happen, that the president would never serve out his full term. Before he had taken the oath of office, there was talk of impeachment, and that raised a question. If a president was not just incompetent, if he was an actual danger to the country, if his removal from office was the only way to save the country and there was not time for impeachment, what would happen – what should happen – to someone who thought he had no choice, that he had to commit what in an earlier time was called tyrannicide. That was the question I wanted to explore: whether there was defense, what someone would have to show to prove that he committed murder, not to save himself or someone else, but to save the country. That is the situation in which Kevin Fitzgerald, a young and ambitious United States senator finds himself.
I did not do anything in the way of specific research before I began to write Necessity. After spending much of my life reading and studying history, politics, and law, the book wrote itself. In the past, when I was working on a novel, I would write a few hours every day and have it finished in four or five months. I wrote Necessity in forty days, and it was only when I was halfway through it that I realized that the way I had thought it was going to end was not the way it was going to end at all.
This is your first Joseph Antonelli since, I believe, 2005 (Trial by Fire). Why bring him back for Necessity, rather than write it as a standalone with new characters?
After seven Antonelli novels, I wrote Evangeline, and then The Dark Backward, in both of which I used a different lawyer, William Darnell, because I wanted someone old enough to remember certain things about the Second World War. And then, after that, beginning with Helen, which is set in ancient Athens, I wrote some historical fiction in an attempt to show something of the way in which the world, and the way we think about it, has changed. When I decided to write Necessity, I thought there would would be good reason to have both the crime and the trial take place in San Francisco. The defendant, Kevin Fitzgerald, is a United States senator but he began his political career as mayor of San Francisco. I had always intended to bring Antonelli back, and I had always wanted to write another novel in which San Francisco is central to the story, and so it was an easy choice. I have known him a long time.
It's noted that you're a former criminal defense attorney…how did your background as a lawyer help you when writing this book?
It is certainly not impossible to write about the courtroom without having been a trial lawyer. The best courtroom drama ever put on film is Witness for the Prosecution, written by Agatha Christie. But it would have been impossible for me to have written Necessity, or any of the other legal thrillers, had I not had that experience. There is nothing like it. You can watch trials, and you can read about trial tactics and trial procedure; you can get a sense about what makes one lawyer better, more persuasive, than another; but you cannot know what it feels like, how quick your mind can work, when before a witness is three words into her answer you know not only what the rest of the answer is going to be, but the next question you are going to ask. You won't know what it is like when you know that if you make even one mistake the man or woman you are defending may spend the rest of their life in prison, or perhaps even die at the hands of the executioner, for a crime they did not commit. This is especially true in Necessity, where the defendant confesses to murder, insists what he did was right, insists that when every one learns the reason why he did it, he will not only be acquitted but seen as a great American hero, and still refuses to tell his lawyer what that reason is.
Now that Antonelli is back, can your fans expect to see him again after this book?
Antonelli will be back, not in the next novel, but in the one after that. The next novel, The Forty Fifth, follows Necessity, and is the third novel in a trilogy about the 2016 election. It is the story of what might have happened if someone, a conservative in the classic sense who understood the power of language and wanted to restore the predominance of public, as opposed to private, interest, had been elected. The Antonelli novel is called The Privilege because a new client, once he has the protection of the lawyer-client privilege, confesses to Antonelli that he is responsible for a murder for which Antonelli is defending someone else at trial, a trial Antonelli has no chance of winning.
Lastly, who are some of your favorite authors, and which books are currently sitting on your nightstand?
Two of my favorite authors, both of which I have been rereading, are F. Scott Fitzgerald and Jorge Borges. Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, which I read for the first time between midnight and four in the morning the night before I left for a summer in New York after my first year in graduate school, a summer in which, because of that novel, seeing everything through Gatsby's eyes, I kept wondering if I would ever meet a girl that, in Fitzgerald's marvelous and unforgettable phrase had "a voice like money." The short stories of the Argentine writer Jorge Borges, who could put into the mouth of a character of his invention a line I have never been able to forget – "I have often begun the study of metaphysics but have always been interrupted by happiness" – say more in ten pages than most authors could say in a thousand.
What is sitting on my nightstand? The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus, written in the fourth century by a Roman general who, among other things, served under the Emperor Julian. It is not my fault. It was one of Julian Drake's favorite books, and Julian Drake, you will learn if you read The Forty Fifth when it comes out next year, only read interesting things.
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Objects in Artifacts Collection were crafted by members of the Beta Israel or House of Israel community of Jews in Ethiopia.
These traditional pieces of pottery were crafted by members of the Beta Israel or House of Israel community of Jews in Ethiopia. Ceramic work and metallurgy became specialties of the Jewish community, as Christians did not want to engage in those types of handiwork. Historically, Christian Ethiopians believed in buda, or the evil eye, and that those who possessed it had the power to change forms. Ironworkers are often labeled as bearing buda, and thus Jews were forced into that cursed profession and barred from other kinds of work.
These small, fragile statues were made in Wolleka, a small village outside of the city of Gondar, the old imperial capital of Ethiopia and the home of most of the country's Jews. The village was often called "The Jewish Window Village," as in the 1980s it was the only Jewish village accessible by road to tourists.
After the airlift of 14,000 Ethiopian Jews to Israel in 1991, JDC provided job retraining programs to Ethiopian-Israelis to aid them in becoming self-sufficient. Through this program elderly men and women crafted the traditional figurines with modern materials as a cottage industry in order to sell for profit. Today JDC continues its career advancement initiatives by providing Ethiopian-Israeli young adults with customized coaching, training and job placement, to increase their quality of employment and earning capacity, which tends to be much lower than their peers.


John Robinson, a local attorney and president of the Charleston School of Law Alumni Board, fondly remembers the closeness he enjoyed with faculty and fellow students as a member of the private law school's inaugural class of '07. With almost all of the courses being taught in a building on King Street, the students jokingly referred to the law school as a "one-room schoolhouse."
"The idea was that we were all in this experiment together," Robinson says. "The nice thing was that that has continued to be the case — up through this year."
Like many Charleston School of Law students and alumni, Robinson is concerned about the future of the school, whose administration recently entered a nebulous "management services agreement" with Florida-based company InfiLaw System. To put it mildly, the Charleston legal community is highly skeptical about InfiLaw's merits. But why should the rest of us care?
For starters, as one of only two law schools in the state, the Charleston School of Law is going to play a major role in producing South Carolina's next generation of lawyers — the folks who will dissolve our marriages, defend us against lawsuits, and chase our ambulances, among other things. Rep. Stephen Goldfinch, a Republican lawmaker from Georgetown, has taken an interest in the issue and is pushing an alternate solution to save the struggling for-profit law school: Merge it with the publicly funded College of Charleston. "InfiLaw universally, throughout the legal community around here, has a very poor reputation ... People see it as a diploma mill," Goldfinch says. "We don't want someone with a terrible reputation in our backyard. We want the utmost integrity, and we want the best lawyers we can get."
As a privately owned, for-profit college, CSOL stands at a fork in the road. In one direction, the school can continue to pursue a relationship with InfiLaw, an out-of-state company that already owns three for-profit law schools in Phoenix, Charlotte, and Jacksonville. Or, choosing the other direction, it can merge with the College of Charleston and become part of a public, nonprofit institution.
A merger between CSOL and the College of Charleston would require approval from the state legislature, the Commission on Higher Education, and the executive boards at both schools. Goldfinch, whose wife Renee Goldfinch is a new member of the College of Charleston board of trustees, says he has heard support for the idea from members of three of the four governing bodies involved. He says the only ones who have given him the cold shoulder have been the leaders of CSOL, who have remained tight-lipped about the details of the InfiLaw agreement and who have refused to say whether a sale to InfiLaw is in the works. When asked if any of CSOL's board members would be willing to comment on the merger proposal, school spokesman Andy Brack replied with a one-word e-mail: "No."
Goldfinch is encouraging voters to contact their legislators and push for the CofC merger option. And as a self-described "extreme fiscal conservative," he's pitching it as a sound financial decision for the state.
"Law schools are traditionally cash cows for states," Goldfinch says. "So switching this for-profit law school over to a government institution is not another example of big government getting in the way or an extra cog in the wheel. This is going to be a profit center for the state."
In addition to the proposed merger with the College of Charleston, the Charleston School of Law Alumni Board is considering lodging a complaint with the ABA and the S.C. Commission on Higher Education. Students were kept in the dark about the InfiLaw deal until the news broke on FITSNews July 25, less than a month before the start of the fall semester.
Charleston School of Law students weren't the first to complain about InfiLaw. Lawsuits are currently pending against two InfiLaw-owned schools, Florida Coastal School of Law and Phoenix School of Law.
In February 2012, then-current and former students at Florida Coastal sued the school to address what they called "a systemic, ongoing fraud that is ubiquitous in the legal education industry and threatens to leave a generation of law students in dire financial straits."
According to the lawsuit, the school was attracting prospective students by telling them that "between 80 and 95 percent of its graduates secured employment within nine months of graduation." However, the lawsuit says, Florida Coastal was massaging those numbers by including graduates who found any type of employment, whether as attorneys or fry cooks.
The lawsuit alleged that if the school only included graduates who secured full-time, permanent positions for which a JD degree is required or preferred, "the numbers would drop dramatically, and could be well below 40 percent, if not even lower."
InfiLaw CEO Rick Inatome says the lawsuit against Florida Coastal is "without merit." He says the schools' postgraduate employment data is audited by an independent firm and that the data is "comprehensively reported in a manner consistent with American Bar Association and Department of Education standards."
The type of lawsuit being filed against Florida Coastal is by no means unique to for-profit law schools. Jesse Strauss, a New York attorney who helped file the lawsuit, currently represents plaintiffs in 14 similar suits, of which the majority were filed against nonprofit law schools. "The fact that they're a private law school certainly piqued our interest, but we've sued a lot of supposedly nonprofit law schools as well," Strauss says. "It's an industry-wide problem." The lawsuit is still pending in federal court.
• attempting to "reduce or eliminate the ability to attain tenure"
• proposing curriculum changes that would make it more difficult for students to transfer to another law school and retain their credits, a change that Dean Shirley Mays allegedly described as "building a better mousetrap."
O'Connor and Rumann filed the lawsuit against both the school and InfiLaw.
So, what is InfiLaw? The company is listed in the portfolio of Sterling Partners, a $4 billion private equity fund. Sterling Partners is heavily invested in the private health care and education industries, with a portfolio that includes the online for-profit Ashworth College, Sylvan Learning Systems tutoring service, virtual charter school operator Connections Academy, and music education service School of Rock. According to Sterling Partners' profile on the tech company database CrunchBase, the company's strategy is "to invest from $5 million to more than $150 million of equity in each company with which they partner." Other investment firms that have put money into InfiLaw include ABRY Partners and Ares Management, according to an InfiLaw spokesperson.
Inatome, InfiLaw's CEO, was once a co-owner of Computer City, a computer superstore chain that was sold to CompUSA in 1998 for $275 million. He also served as a managing director at Sterling from 2004 to 2012, according to his LinkedIn profile. "Although I started my business career in technology, early on I realized that people needed education more than they needed technology," Inatome said in an e-mail interview. "To meet this requirement, we developed a business model that focused on the intersection of technology and education and partnered with many outstanding colleges, like the University of Michigan, Marygrove College, and Walsh College, where we ran the university's small computer programs." Inatome says he began investing in education companies 30 years ago, starting with Sylvan Learning Systems.
"Although I did not attend law school," Inatome said, "I have been in the legal business for 10 years and have developed a deep understanding of, and appreciation for, the legal academy."
Inatome would not say if money was exchanged as part of the agreement with Charleston School of Law, and when asked whether InfiLaw intended to buy the school, he wrote, "Any comments about the future of our relationship with Charleston School of Law would be speculative."
Some Charleston School of Law students began applying to other law schools almost immediately after news broke of the management services agreement with InfiLaw. Citing fear of damaging their legal careers, few students were willing to speak on the record. One third-year student, speaking from an airport as he flew to an interview at another school, said he expected he would have to answer questions about the quality of his law education in interviews now that the InfiLaw news was creating a buzz in law circles. "Charleston doesn't have the best reputation, but they're not on a level with Charlotte School of Law, Florida Coastal, or Phoenix," he said. "Those are thought of as the bottom of the bottom."
At for-profit and nonprofit institutions alike, law school isn't the surefire career starter it once was. The ABA reported 45,160 law school graduates in the class of 2012, of which only 28,873 found jobs that required passing the bar.
Increasingly, potential law students must weigh the risks and consider whether incurring tens of thousands of dollars in student loan debt is worth it in the long run. This is especially true at for-profit law schools, where tuition tends to be higher. Charleston School of Law, for instance, charges almost $38,000 per year for in-state tuition, compared to $22,000 at the public University of South Carolina School of Law. InfiLaw's schools are not much more expensive than CSOL, averaging about $39,000 for tuition.
As private, for-profit colleges have expanded in the past two decades, they have come under increased scrutiny. A 2011 New York Times investigation found that student loan default rates were much higher at for-profit colleges (15 percent) than at nonprofit colleges (4.6 percent). In July 2012, the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee found that 96 percent of students at for-profit colleges were taking out loans and one in five were defaulting on loans within three years.
What does the steep tuition at Charleston School of Law get you? Not much, if you're going by the data provided to the ABA (see infographic on p. 14). CSOL students are paying $16,000 more per year than USC Law students, and yet CSOL students are passing the bar at a rate nearly 10 percentage points below USC Law's students. And going by self-reported data, CSOL's bar passage rate is identical to the average for InfiLaw's three schools.
Still, some parts of the law school experience aren't quantifiable. Robinson, the CSOL Alumni Board president, says he appreciated the school's emphasis on "the idea of being a professional lawyer as opposed to a businessman in the business of law."
"I came here because everything I read and saw said this was going to be different than any other law school in its orientation toward public interest, its emphasis on pro bono work, this idea that it was going to carry a lot of Charleston legal traditions forward," Robinson says.
But Strauss, the plaintiffs' attorney in the Florida Coastal lawsuit, takes a dimmer view of law schools in general. He says he's "optimistic" that the courts will find law schools guilty of misleading students with their job placement numbers.
"With something like InfiLaw, the veneer of public service wears thin on the law schools," Strauss says. "Whereas a lot of schools are nonprofits and they started saying, 'We have this duty to the bar and to educate the lawyers of the future,' InfiLaw in some ways is a little more honest. They say, 'We're just here to make a buck.'"
South Carolina has only two law schools accredited by the American Bar Association: The public University of South Carolina School of Law and the private Charleston School of Law. USC Law is ranked No. 109 in U.S. News and World Report's ratings of top law schools, whereas CSOL — like InfiLaw's law schools — does not even appear in the rankings. Here's how CSOL stacks up against USC Law and the three InfiLaw-owned law schools, Florida Coastal School of Law, Phoenix School of Law, and Charlotte School of Law.