The Arnolds Park Library Board met Wednesday, January 10, 2018 at 5:00 p.m. in the Arnolds Park Library.
The minutes of December 13, 2017 were read and corrected. Dreier moved to accept the minutes as corrected. Brown seconded. All aye.
Rice reported on the movie day at Okoboji School that was sponsored by Jensen Realty. She said it went well.
Rice said she is already thinking about the summer reading program and wants to extend it through July 18th. The theme this year is Library Rock. She wants to get the middle school age kids more involved and has many ideas to engage the older students. She is hoping the library can use the Nature Center again this year for some of the programs.
Copier report: Rice said the wireless copier is here and working fine. After giving the company a deadline on delivery, it arrived in two days. Jeff from Computer Zone came to make sure the copier and computers worked together. The printer is working and the Deep Freeze program is working. Computer Zone is going to set up a separate e-mail account for the library for scanning and e-mailing documents.
Proposed Budget FYE 2019: Rice reviewed the changes from last year's budget. The cost of living increase was set at 3% and may change. She added $150 to the clothing allowance to include part time employees. She will petition to the City Council to get this approved. The other changes were increased insurance on library contents and cost of periodicals and books. Under income, the library is only asking for approximately $3,000 more. She will submit the proposed budget by the end of January and meet with a committee of three council members in February to explain the new library budget. In March, the City Council will give final approval. Following discussion, Dreier moved to approve the proposed budget for FYE 2019. Brown seconded. All aye.
Dreier had a question on how the library accreditation process works which Rice explained.
Library Board Continuing Education: The board members had read and reviewed Chapter 6 of the Iowa Trustees Handbook on board members responsibilities and meeting rules.
The bills were presented in the amount for $1,021.29. After review, Dreier moved to accept the bills as presented. Brown seconded. All aye.
Dreier asked how to find out which new books are being added to the library inventory. Rice said she is adding a new section to the library home page listing new books coming out.
The next meeting will be February 14, 2018.
The Arnolds Park Library Board met Wednesday, December 13, 2017 at 5:00 p.m. in the Arnolds Park Library.
Present were Robb Keizer, Mary Dreier, Diana Jensen, Barb Woodley, Mitch Brown, and library director Kara Rice.
The minutes of November 8, 2017 were read. Jensen moved to accept the minutes as read. Dreier seconded. All aye.
Update on the new copier: Rice said the new copier was to be delivered right after Thanksgiving. It didn't come and she had trouble getting a call back from Access Systems Co. When the copier did arrive, it was a wired model, not the wireless they had ordered. She called trying to get an estimated time when a wireless copier could be delivered. The IT guy from Access Systems said he had never installed a wireless copier nor does he want to. The Board members discussed if the library needs to get out of their contract and cancel the order. The board agreed that Rice should give the company an ultimatum of 5 days to get the copier that was ordered delivered or the library would withdraw their order.
IT bills: Rice had received a bill from Computer Zone in Spirit Lake for installing the Deep Freeze virus removal on all the library computers. The bill showed labor of 4 1/2 hours but he charged for 2 1/2 hours and at the non-profit rate. The total was $937.50. In August 2016, the library paid Computer Zone $987.50 for installation of the Rollback virus removal program, but it didn't work. Discussion followed. Keizer said he thinks we have to pay the bill, but there should be free monitoring by Computer Zone for a couple months to make sure the Deep Freeze program is working. The other board members agreed. Rice will talk to Computer Zone about providing this monitoring.
Budget FY 2018: Rice presented a worksheet at the half way point of the 2017-2018 library budget showing a comparison from two years ago, one year ago, and this year to date. She explained that currently the total shows that we are $1500 under budget, but money from Jo Williams estate went into the general fund instead of the Library Foundation fund. When the budget is amended, that gift will be switched and the library expenses will show $6500 under budget.
Proposed Budget FY 2019: Under proposed spending, Rice explained that the employee insurance cost is unknown yet. She increased the equipment maintenance line to cover the Apollo Software, printer contract, and IT assistance. General insurance was increased last year to cover library contents. Postage and programming was increased, the periodicals all went up in price, and they are expecting a 3% increase on books cost.
Reviewing expected income, Rice said Dickinson County, City of Okoboji and West Okoboji, copies and fines and State Funding/Enrich Iowa stayed the same. City of Arnolds Park's contribution would increase by $5,441.09. Rice said next month changes will be reviewed and discussed. At that time, the board will vote for approval and she will send the final budget to the city.
Schedule and Holidays: Rice said on December 22nd the library is hosting a party for the middle school. Jensen Realty is providing a screen and Christmas movie. The library is proposing they be closed Saturday, December 23rd and Saturday, December 30th. Both days are only 2 hours and business is normally slow. The board recommended the library be closed on those two days.
Library Board Continuing Education: The board members reviewed Chapter 5 of the Board of Trustees handbook regarding Board officers and their duties.
Bills were presented through December 13, 2017 in the amount of $3,895.70. In review, Rice said the Advanced Systems bill was for the copier contract that had gotten overlooked. One of the larger payments was to Computer Zone for their IT bills. There being no questions, Dreier moved to approve the bills as presented. Keizer seconded. All aye.
The next meeting is Wednesday, January 10, 2018.


Are judges in Sierra Leone and England punching above their weight?
By Hassan Morlai, Guest Writer, London, UK.
In boxing, a fighter who punches above his weight is in essence a fighter in a lower weight division fighting another boxer in a higher weight division. In such circumstance, the fighter in the higher weight division, in all likelihood, is more dominant with greater power to defeat the fighter in the lower weight division.
The title of this opinion has been drafted deliberately in similar terms but does not pity judges over government ministers or parliamentarians. What I really wanted to discuss is whether judges in Sierra Leone and England (following two recent High Courts' decisions handed down this week) have the constitutional power to decide those cases in the way they did.
A rudimentary glance at the constitutional doctrine of separation of powers will tell you that the three arms of government have distinct and separate powers of government. The parliament or the legislature's role is to make laws which create rights and responsibilities for citizens. The ministers of state or the executive branch of government execute or carries out the laws made by parliament. And judges, sitting as the judicial arm of government adjudicate and determine disputes arising from the execution of the laws of the state. In sensu stricto form of separation of powers, judges like ministers and parliamentarians all have a legitimate claim to carry out their functions in the interest of the state (on behalf of the people) without having to defer to the powers of the other arms of government (subject to checks and balances; a doctrine which is outside the scope of this opinion).
Now let us look at what judges in Sierra Leone did on 2 November 2016 and those in England did on 3 November 2016 and decide whether they were punching above their weight (ie exercising powers they do not possess) or were simply carrying out their constitutional functions as an arm of government.
Sitting at the High Court in Freetown, Sierra Leone on 2 November 2016, Justice Alan B. Halloway ruled that Octea Ltd, a diamond mining company operating in Sierra Leone was liable to pay a citizen of Sierra Leone (Ibrahim Sorie Kamara, former President of Octea Ltd) his full end of employment benefits totally US$231,000.00 (two hundred and thirty one thousand United States dollars). Octea Ltd had (erroneously) argued that as it was not incorporated in Sierra Leone but in the British Virgin Islands; it had not been properly issued with proceedings; and therefore the default judgment made against it should be set aside. In essence, Octea Ltd claimed that it should not have been sued in the courts of Sierra Leone and that the judges had no jurisdiction to determine the case against it.
It appears that Octea Ltd was emboldened to make such outlandish claim following a legal victory it secured earlier in the year, on 7 April 2016, before Justice Bintu Alhadi of The Fast Track Commercial Court in Freetown. Justice Alhadi had ruled that Octea Ltd was not a registered company in Sierra Leone and did not own a mining licence to operate in the country, and therefore was not liable to pay property tax to Koidu City Council. Octea Ltd is a multinational corporation. It operates in Sierra Leone through its Sierra Leonean partner company, Kiodu Holdings Ltd. Koidu Holdings Ltd had received a Sierra Leone Parliament approved exemption in 2005 and 2010 which exempted it from paying any form of taxes in Sierra Leone. It appears Justice Alhadi had used the doctrine of corporate legal personality and corporate veil (from the seminal case of Salomon v Salomon (1897)) to distinguish Octea Ltd (a non-registered company in Sierra Leone) from its partner, Koidu Holdings Ltd (a registered company in Sierra Leone) which was the beneficiary of the tax exemption. As such although Octea Ltd operates in Sierra Leone as a partner of Koidu Holdings Ltd, but Octea Ltd itself was not the holder or beneficiary of the diamond mining licence in Sierra Leone and was therefore not liable to tax in Sierra Leone.
This bizarre decision was more or less corrected (indirectly) by Justice Halloway when he ruled that Octea Ltd was liable to pay end of employment services benefit to Ibrahim Sorie Kamara irrespective of the fact that Octea Ltd was not the beneficiary of any diamond mining licence in Sierra Leone or was not registered in Sierra Leone but was indeed conducting business in Sierra Leone.
Call it what you may – judicial activism, judicial usurpation of parliamentary powers or what have you – Justice Halloway must be credited for deciding the case against Octea Ltd in the way he did. This is what an independent judiciary ought to do as a matter of course and not as an isolated case. In the light of this decision, one wonders why Justice Alhadi's decision in April 2016 was so quite different.
Talking about an independent judiciary, the judges in England's High Court in London also did what the constitutional doctrine of separation of powers requires them to do. On 23 June 2016, the people of the United Kingdom, through a referendum, stated that they wanted the UK to leave the European Union. The government of Prime Minister Theresa May took this as authority that the Crown (acting through the executive arm of government) was entitled to use prerogative powers to trigger Britain's exit (Brexit) from the European Union by giving notice under Article 50 of the Treaty of the European Union 2008 without the UK Parliament having a say or vote on the issue. Two British citizens, Gina Miller and Deir Tozetti Dos Santos, challenged the government's proposed use of prerogative powers as unconstitutional. Gina and Deir's main argument was that the European Communities Act of 1972 passed by the British Parliament gave British citizens certain rights such as the right to vote in European Union elections. If by leaving the EU, British citizens will be losing some of the rights granted to them by an Act of Parliament, it is therefore a constitutional requirement that the loss of those rights must be by a similar Act of Parliament and not by the exercise of an executive prerogative power.
The High Court judges, Lord Thomas (Lord Chief Justice), Sir Terence Etherton (Master of the Rolls) and Lord Justice Sales agreed that the executive arm of government did not have power under the Crown's prerogative to give notice pursuant to the Treaty of the European Union 2008 Article 50 for the UK to withdraw from the EU without parliament (see R (on the application of (1) Gina Miller (2) Deir Tozetti Dos Santos) (Claimants) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union (Defendant) & (1) Grahame Pigney & ORS (2) AB, KK, PR & Children (Interested Parties) & George Birnie & ORS (Intervener)  EWHC 2768 (Admin) – judgement handed down today, 03/11/2016).
So did LCJ Thomas, Sir Terence MR and Sales LJ punched above their weight for deciding this case the way they did on 3 November 2016. I don't think so. This is a decision that vindicated the constitutional doctrine of separation of powers which is closed linked to the doctrine of parliamentary supremacy or sovereignty in the UK. It was the UK Parliament that enacted the European Communities Act 1972 that took the UK in to the EU and granted UK citizens certain rights. It is unconstitutional for the executive arm of government to take away those rights by triggering Britain's exit from the EU without Parliament saying so. The judiciary is indeed the appropriate arm of government to adjudicate this matter as it has done.
So like the judge in Sierra Leone in the Ibrahim Sorie Kamara v Octea Ltd judgment and his English counterparts, they should be proud of themselves for being bold, courageous and feisty in standing up for their respective citizens' rights in front of an all power executive arm of government and sometimes parliaments that forget that they are the people's assemblies and should always seek to protect and advance the rights of their citizens.


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Willi Nix (* 14. Januar 1906 in Solingen; † 27. September 1988) war ein deutscher angeblicher Arzt und katholisch-konservativer Gegner des Nationalsozialismus.

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Willy Nix wuchs bei seinem Großvater väterlicherseits auf und war nach Beendigung der Volksschule in der Landwirtschaft tätig. Die Zeit vom 16. bis zum 21. Lebensjahr verbrachte er in der Erziehungsanstalt Benninghof. Anschließend trat er in die KPD ein, für die er bis 1931 aktiv war. Nix fand dann Anschluss an katholisch-konservativ-rechte Kreise und konvertierte zum Katholizismus.

In der ersten Hälfte der 1930er Jahre war Willi Nix in Hamm als Journalist tätig.
Er wurde am 26. Juni 1935 von der Gestapo in Münster vernommen und war von 1935 bis 1937 im KZ Esterwegen inhaftiert.

1937 emigrierte er in die Niederlande, später nach Österreich und beim Anschluss Österreichs nach Rom. Hier gab er sich als Arzt aus. Seit 1941 war Nix Hausarzt der Pallottiner und Addolorata-Schwestern in Rom. Da er 1940 vom Deutschen Reich ausgebürgert worden war, musste er sich bei der deutschen Besetzung Italiens im extraterritorialen Konvent der Addolorata-Schwestern verstecken. 1944 gehörte er neben dem Regisseur Karl B. Todd, dem Kunsthistoriker Wolfgang Fritz Volbach, dem Kirchenhistoriker Karl Werth, dem Priester Albert Münch (* 25. Februar 1905 in Mainz; † 1980), dem Volkswirt Ludwig Muckermann, dem Grafiker Rudolf Schott (* 1892 in Mainz), dem Buchhändler Heinrich Ohlenmacher (* 12. Oktober 1900), Lebensgefährte von Dinah Nelken, dem Journalisten und Literaturkritiker Erich Stock, dem Bildhauer Toni Fiedler (* 1899; † 1977) und dem Journalisten Anton Marstaller zu den Gründern der Deutschen Antinazistischen Vereinigung (DAV) in Rom. Einige Gründungsmitglieder waren längere Zeit im KZ Esterwegen und im KZ Sachsenhausen inhaftiert. Von 1944 bis 1946 leitete Nix das Zentralbüro für Deutsche in Italien, eine nicht offizielle Institution.

Bis Februar 1947 stellte das Zentralbüro für Deutsche in Italien Italien Ausweise als Kennkarte aus.
1947 behauptete Vincent La Vista vom Counter Intelligence Corps in Rom in einem Bericht an das Außenministeriums der Vereinigten Staaten, bei Willi Nix handele es sich um einen bekannten Nazi-Schmuggler, der mit dem Wohlwollen des Vatikans gehandelt habe, er sei in den Vatikan mit den italienischen Behörden auf den Fersen geflohen. Nix stellte 1984 nicht in Abrede, dass seine Organisation in den Nachkriegsjahren als Anlaufstelle für "Flüchtlinge jeder Rasse und Religion" fungierte, die in Rom neue Ausweispapiere brauchten. Selbst die Alliierten hätten "lastwagenweise" Flüchtlinge zur DAV gekarrt.
Im Archiv des Instituts für Zeitgeschichte befindet sich ein Bestand von Dokumenten von und zu Willi Nix, der bis 2018 gesperrt war.

Veröffentlichungen
 Die erste Tat. Die nationale Regierung verhindert die Stillegung der Zeche Sachsen. Hamm 1933
 Verfall der Hochschulen im Dritten Reich. In: Deutsche Zukunft 1 (1934) Nr. 3 vom 4. August 1934, S. 6
 Jugend in Revolution. In: Deutsche Zukunft 1 (1934) Nr. 8 vom 8. September 1934, S. 2
 Der Arbeitsdienst als Weg zur neuen Volksgemeinschaft und zur neuen Hochschule. In: Westdeutsche Akademische Rundschau 4, 1934, Nr. 1, S. 5–6
 Eredità e destino. In: La difesa della razza 3, Nr. 13, 5. Mai 1940, S. 14–16. Notizie

Weblinks
 Nachlass im Institut für Zeitgeschichte München

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KPD-Mitglied
Häftling im KZ Esterwegen
Fluchthelfer für NS-Verfolgte
Emigrant aus dem Deutschen Reich zur Zeit des Nationalsozialismus
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Geboren 1906
Gestorben 1988
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Mr. Selfish and I are winding down our posts on the blog. We are currently driving cross-country and fondly reminiscing about our epic selfish year. We've had so many wonderful experiences that we both smile every time one of us says, "Remember that time…" We've decided to do some wrap-up posts, including some best of lists.
Mr. Selfish and I took Rick Steve's advice and did a driving tour around the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland. We were so fortunate to have perfect weather that day. It was so lovely that we even considered buying a summer home in Dingle.
Flying in a four-person plane from Queenstown to Milford Sound in New Zealand was truly amazing. It was more beautiful than I could have imagined it to be, and I don't even like the Lord of the Rings series.
We had many wonderful animal experiences during this trip. The one experience that stands out the most for me is holding this 9-month old panda cub in Chengdu, China.
Mr. Selfish and I spent six weeks in Paris and are already plotting another trip there soon. We absolutely loved it, especially walking around the city during sunset.
Marrakech was by far the most exotic locale that we visited during our selfish year. We especially loved the Marrakech markets. You could bargain hard for souvenirs and then eat at the delicious but sanitary food stalls.
Mr. Selfish and I visited our fair share of museums on this trip. The one museum from which I never got fatigue was the Museum of New and Old Art (MONA) in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. You either hated or loved the exhibits but you were never bored.
Mr. Selfish and I had dozens of massages while on this trip, especially in southeast Asia where the cheapest massage we saw was $4 USD for one hour. The best massage we had was at Wat Pho, in which everyone gets massaged at the same time in one large room.
While in Seville, Spain, Mr. Selfish and I went to La Carbonería for a free flamenco performance. We had pretty low expectations since it was a free show, but we were completely blown away by the performance. The level of emotion in the singers' voices was astounding.
Mr. Selfish and I spent a whole day just wandering to and from different onsens in Kurokawa, Japan. The sound from the waterfalls, the steam rising from the water, and the heat that envelopes you when you step in the water combined make for the perfect relaxation atmosphere.
Mr. Selfish and I regret not spending more time in Oktoberfest in Munich, but we will always have the memories of singing and drinking with two older German gentlemen.
I am not the most outdoorsy person, but during this trip, I discovered that I do enjoy some easy to moderate day hikes. I particularly enjoyed the hike up Queenstown Hill.
Mr. Selfish and I took dozens of day trips during our selfish year but the day trip that we remember as being the most ideal is Monaco. We had perfect weather. The food was cheap and delicious. The sights were lovely. And, it was a whole new country!
United somehow lost my seat on our business class flight back to the States. Mr. Selfish complained, and we ended up having two first class seats on the new Lufthansa plane instead. Oh, the joys of first class. I wish every flight was as luxurious.
Although Mr. Selfish and I had high expectations for Angkor Wat, we ended up enjoying the ruins that had not been completely reconstructed, such as Ta Prohm, more. Wandering around these ruins, I felt like Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider.
Scuba diving involves a lot of luck. In Bora Bora, the visibility was perfect, and we happened upon tons of marine life, including dozens of sharks and a large school of blue-spotted eagle rays.
Although Mr. Selfish and I generally found Barcelona to be lackluster, we did enjoy all of the lovely Gaudí architecture. I enjoyed Casa Milà (better known as La Pedrera) the most.
The crowd's loud cheering, the humidity in the air, and the men kicking the crap out of each other all make for the best sporting event we witnessed – Muay Thai boxing in Bangkok.
Mr. Selfish and I decided to go to the part of the Great Wall that was the furthest away from Beijing. Although it was a long drive, it was entirely worth it. For about 2 hours, we had the wall all to ourselves. It was such an awe inspiring experience.
During this past year, I've seen more sunrises than I ever had in my life. The most beautiful sunrise was at the Bay of Fires near St. Helens in Tasmania, Australia. The glow of the sun against the fire orange rocks in the bay is a sight I'll never forget.
I absolutely adore Monet, so when I learned that we could visit the gardens which he painted, I booked the tickets immediately. Even though we didn't go during the bloom of the water lilies, Giverny was still stunning.
And, those are our top 20 best experiences. Tomorrow, Mr. Selfish will go over our favorite accommodations.
I have been following you trip for a while now and actually feel sad that it's over! I used your advice quite a bit as I'm on my own trip right now. I am planning on going to Cambodia soon, and now I will add Ta Prohm to my itinerary. Thanks for all your great posts. I look forward to going to Japan and using your advice there, too!
Great! We're glad to hear that our posts will come in handy for you. Please let us know how your trip goes.


Whether an employee leaves your company amicably on his or her own terms or after being fired, there are a number of steps businesses should take to ensure their security and, in the end, their prosperity. The departure of an employee is far more critical a moment than when one first joins your team, because a new employee knows nothing about your operation. Conversely, departing employees have cultivated and retained a great deal of knowledge about your business, your competitors, your finances and, most importantly, your client list.
Even if the departing employee has performed admirably and has shown no signs of hostility during employment, there is no way of knowing for sure how the person will react when it comes time to part ways. To help your company stay safe, we have consolidated 7 key steps to take when an employee departs. Try not to look at these steps as measures to take for problem employees, but rather as a standard set of rules to follow regardless of who the departing employee is and what kind of employment record he or she had with your business.
All departing employees must be issued a final paycheck, but when they must receive it depends on your state's laws. In some states, an employee's final paycheck must be issued on the last day of work; in other states, the final paycheck may still follow the usual payroll cycle. There is also the matter of accrued unused vacation time, which may need to be included in the final paycheck. After payroll has cut the employee's final paycheck, have the accounting clerk remove the person's name from your payroll files.
Do not let departing employees walk out of the door for the last time while still in possession of a company car, keys, security cards, company credit cards, computers, cell phones, company manuals or any confidential material. While this may seem obvious, it is very easy to forget these items when you trust certain employees.
In addition to collecting company credit cards and phone cards, as mentioned above, you should also cancel them. An employee could have easily copied down the cards' information for personal use, and since there is no way of knowing whether this was done, the best course of action is to cancel those cards.
An employee's departure is always a matter of security, and one of the chief security concerns is access -- access to the building, access to your technology network, etc. Be sure to disable any personal passwords or entry codes to the building, especially if you use a biometric system. Remove any lingering profiles an employee may have on the network and institute a company-wide password change to anything with a generic login.
This coincides with the collection of company property. Since you cannot take back something intangible like knowledge, it is important that you debrief departing employees. Review any non-disclosure agreements and/or non-compete clauses that you may have arranged with your employees. It is crucial that you make clear their obligations to adhere to those arrangements. We also suggest that you give them a copy of the agreement for future reference.
To make certain that your employee's departure does not affect the company's day-to-day productivity, create a plan that distributes his or her responsibilities among other employees. Also, have the departing employee personally brief these employees, but be cautious about this; it can sometimes be caustic if the person is not leaving on good terms. Make sure that you start this process early in order to give everyone involved enough time to get coordinated on picking up the extra work.
Even though an employee is leaving, he or she may still need to communicate with your company for several weeks, especially regarding references. Give the person a point of contact within the company from whom to solicit needed information.
Whether your employee's departure is voluntary or not, you need to remind yourself that the departure is strictly business. Try to keep your emotions in check even though a good friend may be leaving the company. As a reminder, collect the company's property, deactivate all passwords, and debrief the departing employee. These steps will help ensure that your business goes through a seamless transition when employees leave, without any serious hiccups, significant loss or damage incurred.
For more information about how to manage employees leaving your company, contact Carrie Cox via email, or Cindy McSwain using her information below.


The official website caught up with Sophie Hosking at Sunday's Minithon event and the Olympic gold medal winner offered us an interesting update on her future plans.
Former Wimbledon FC Ladies player Sophie admitted she currently faces a tough choice about whether to continue as a rower after her headline-grabbing exploits at London 2012. Sophie's return to our club for the Dagenham & Redbridge match received an overwhelming response and the 26-year-old said she will always treasure the moment when she paraded the gold medal in front of our supporters.
Considering her lack of running experience, Sophie came a respectable fourth in Sunday's Minithon. The event, perhaps unsurprisingly, was won by our fitness coach Jason Moriarty, who won a bottle of Champagne for his efforts. Michael Shepherd was second, closely followed by the author of this article in third place, and Elliott Bolton was the winning child. However, the emphasis was on fun with 61 people completing the 5km course at Morden Park, including Haydon the Womble, Erik Samuelson and Mike Rayner. Funds for charity are currently still being calculated, but Born Too Soon (Kingston Hospital Neonatal Unit), St Raphael's Hospice, and the Dons Trust Fund will be the beneficiaries.
Can you describe to us Sophie just how hectic it has been for you since your gold medal win?
It has been pretty crazy really. It feels like I have not stopped since I crossed the line. I have been travelling around the country doing various things, including going up to the North-East recently to support one of the other guys in the team at an event. I have been talking to people and doing interviews all about the Olympic Games and the build-up to it. It has all been good fun, but it has made the last two months go really quickly.
Will you be aiming towards another gold medal at the 2016 Olympics in Rio?
I have to make my mind up in terms of if I want to carry on in rowing or do something else. If I was to carry on then the next big event would be the World Cup event in Australia in March. The squad has started back now, but there is a bit more flexibility this year with people who have been in the team for quite a while. There is a lot more individuality now, for example if I want to train at a different centre or with a certain coach. Obviously, it all came to a massive peak with the Olympics and everyone needs to relax a bit more and also do things away from rowing. It will all pick up again in the run-up towards Rio.
Considering your success, why are thinking of giving up rowing?
I am not sure if I will carry on. I do not think it will get any better than winning a gold medal at the London Olympics. In rowing, as in other sports, you need to have a huge amount of motivation. When it gets tough in the middle of the winter and you are training three times a day and when it is pitch black you need that motivation. I would not want to be in rowing if I was not 100 per cent dedicated. There are other things in life and I will need to decide what I am going to do in the next few months. I studied physics and chemistry, but I am not sure that is what I want to do in the future. I am thinking of moving into another career and maybe studying to be a lawyer. I will make my decision before Christmas.
The support I have received from the club has been fantastic. It was important after the Olympics for me to say thank-you to everyone at the club who has supported me and all those people who did so much for me during the last few years of my rowing career. I have loved being involved with the club in any way that I can. Erik Samuelson asked me when I was at the match if I would do it and I am more than happy to be involved in the Minithon.
Parading your gold medal before the Dagenham match must have been special for you then?
When you get the gold medal out there is often a bit of a reaction! I was really happy to do that for the supporters. A lot of them were nice about asking me for photographs with the gold medal and to have pictures taken with me. I enjoyed the day and it is something that I will remember in years to come.


"The Second Edition of the IbizaIff will welcome Sir Alan Parker as Patron. Other exciting names that will assist this year are Michael Radford, Michael Nyman, Mike Figgis, Jacqueline Bisset, Mira Sorvino and Kate Ashfield.
Friday May 23rd sees the kick off of the second edition of the IbizaIff – with a great new jury line up and new digital section together with a star studded guest list including Spanish diva Elsa Pataky.
The IbizaIff tagline "celebrating the independent Spirit" continues to be the backbone of the festival with a host of indie films lined up both in and out of competition.
The Baker was written and directed by Gareth Lewis and produced by Damian Lewis and Adrian Sturges for Picture Farm. The film is currently playing at selected theatres in the UK and is also available on Region 2 DVD.
The Radio Times did a survey to identify British actors with the best American accents – including Damian Lewis.
Vote for Damian Lewis in the Hello! Most Attractive Man of the Month contest!


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Chuck Schumer just exposed Mitch McConnell's strategy to betray conservatives in Congress
Mitch McConnell has a lengthy history of betraying conservative voters in back room deals with Democrats. He will go to any length to stay in power.
And Chuck Schumer just exposed Mitch McConnell's strategy to betray conservatives in Congress.
Despite Democrats holding a razor-thin Senate majority during Joe Biden's first two years in office, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) failed to utilize his clout against Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).
Senator McConell cashed in on socialist spending sprees on left-wing special interests, the Green New Deal, and corporate assistance.
He even delivered President Biden a big victory by striking a compromise with Senator Schumer to enact the nation's largest gun control law in about 30 years.
However, in the coming weeks, McConnell appears to be going to deliver Democrats yet another significant triumph on even more socialist spending sprees, which just so happened to be the root of the present inflationary crisis hitting working-class Americans.
Senator Schumer previously stated on CNN that he planned to "sit down with Mitch McConnell" behind closed doors to discuss how Democrats would go about forcing even more of Biden's hardline socialist agenda through.
According to the Majority Leader's most recent Senate floor address, that secret meeting has already occurred, deals have been struck, and Democrats are in the midst of a frenzied effort to enact as much of their socialist program as possible before Republicans take over the House in late January.
After 12 Republicans defected and sided with Democrats, the Senate passed a bill requiring the recognition of gay marriage on Tuesday.
Senator Schumer hailed RINOs who sold out and voted to force same-sex marriage on the country during a floor speech on Wednesday morning.
RINOs, according to Schumer, are ready to negotiate even more deals and "continue working together on difficult issues in the next Congress."
"I hope that yesterday's vote is a signal that both parties can keep working together on difficult issues in the next Congress," Schumer said. "If our Republican colleagues can shake off the MAGA wing of their Party that is holding Republicans down, we can get a lot done. And it's obvious to everyone there are many Republican Senators who don't embrace MAGA."
"We want to keep working with you," Schumer said of the RINOs.
The Senate Majority Leader then revealed that he and Mitch McConnell had already met behind closed doors to arrange the next RINO surrender – another omnibus budget bill to prevent the federal government from running out of cash and shutting down in two weeks.
"Though we have different views of what should be in it, both Leader McConnell and I have said that an omnibus is the best way for supporting our troops, supporting our allies in Ukraine, and keeping Americans safe at home and abroad," Schumer added.
Senator Schumer claims that Senator McConnell has decided to buckle and accept whatever big spending bill Democrats put forward in the next two weeks, regardless of what it contains or the impact it has on inflation.
Mitch McConnell is busy stabbing conservatives in the back rather than fighting Joe Biden's socialist agenda.
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BMW expects COVID-19 hit, shares down
BMW Group (ETR:BMW) shares dropped on Wednesday after the company issued a statement concerning to the evolving COVID-19 outbreak.
Shares in the German company were down by almost 6% during Wednesday morning trade.
BMW said that the uncertainty surrounding the spread of COVID-19 makes it difficult to accurately forecast the group's business performance for the 2020 financial year.
As the virus continues to spread and containment measures begin to be implemented, BMW is expecting a negative impact on delivery volumes in all major markets across the 2020 year as a whole.
Additionally, the group said that automotive segment deliveries to customers worldwide in 2020 will be significantly lower than the level from the year prior.
EBIT margin of the automotive segment is expected to lie within a range of 2% to 4%, BMW added.
The company continued to add that it expects group profit before tax to be "significantly lower" than in 2019.
"Solidarity and responsible action are called for. In our society it is the duty of the strong to protect the weak. The BMW Group therefore fully supports the measures aimed at containing the spread of coronavirus," the Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW, Oliver Zipse, said concerning the spread of COVID-19.
Oliver Zipse continued: "We take our responsibility seriously, both when it comes to ensuring the protection and health of our employees and to achieving the best possible balance in terms of profitability. One thing is certain: coronavirus is here now, but there will also be a time after coronavirus. The approach we are taking clearly reflects the BMW Group's ability to react quickly and flexibly."
"New technologies are key to the future of mobility. Up to 2025, we intend to invest more than 30 billion euros in research and development to underscore our position as an innovation leader. This also expresses our confidence for the future business development," Oliver Zipse said.
This week, the British government accelerated measures to respond to the outbreak of COVID-19.
Shares in BMW AG (ETR:BMW) were down on Wednesday, trading at -6.44% as of 10:04 CET.
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Wang Yi Holds Talks with Foreign Minister Nabeela Tunis of Sierra Leone
On June 23, 2019, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi held talks with Foreign Minister Nabeela Tunis of Sierra Leone in Beijing.
Wang Yi welcomed Ms. Foreign Minister and foreign ministers and friends of African countries to attend the Sherpa meeting on the implementation of the outcomes of the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). The Chinese side is ready to work with African countries to build high-quality and sustainable China-Africa friendly relations. China and Sierra Leone are good friends and good brothers who have always understood and supported each other. At the end of August last year, President Xi Jinping met with President Julius Maada Bio in Beijing, drawing up a blueprint for the development of China-Sierra Leone relations in the new era. The Chinese side appreciates the Sierra Leonean side's firm friendship with China and is ready to work with the Sierra Leonean side to push for greater development of China-Sierra Leone relations in accordance with the consensus reached by the two heads of state.
Wang Yi pointed out that the two sides should continue to firmly support each other on issues concerning each other's core interests and major concerns. The Chinese side will firmly uphold the principle featuring sincerity, real results, friendship, and good faith and the values of friendship, justice and shared interests while carrying out cooperation with African countries including Sierra Leone. The two sides should strengthen alignment of the Belt and Road Initiative and the eight major initiatives proposed at the FOCAC Beijing Summit with Sierra Leone's medium-term national development plan, build a national cooperation plan in line with the actual situation of the Sierra Leonean side, and beef up cooperation in infrastructure, agriculture and fishery, health care, communication, and capacity building. We should firmly support each other in multilateral affairs, advocate mutual respect, promote win-win cooperation, and safeguard the common interests of our two countries and other developing countries.
Nabeela Tunis said that President Julius Maada Bio attaches great importance to relations with China. Sierra Leone is firmly committed to strengthening bilateral and multilateral cooperation with China. China has always understood and supported Africa and always offered timely assistance to African countries in times of difficulty. China's joint efforts with Sierra Leone to fight the Ebola epidemic are a classic example. African countries trust and thank China, regard China as a true good partner, and never believe the unfounded accusations on Africa-China relations. The Sierra Leonean side supports deepening Africa-China partnership and stands ready to maintain close communication and coordination on implementing the sustainable development goals of the 2030 Agenda, the Paris Agreement on climate change, and reform of the global governance system.
After the talks, the two sides witnessed the signing of multiple bilateral cooperation agreements together.
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Q: Google Maps API V3 very slow when adding lots of Markers I have many markers and markerclusterer I need to render on Google Map. I'm currently using the API (v3) and there are performance issues on slower machines.
What should I do please??
I'm using ajax and XML

A: This is a known issue with gmap.  For now, follow the suggestion to bulk add to the DOM as mentioned at this link.
Side note, there are ways to add markers in bulk including MarkerLight and MultiMarker that may be fast enough for your needs without direct DOM manipulation.

A: If your custom marker is using a path, try using a url to an image (e.g. svg) instead.
Path rendering is slow, but a (shared) icon is much faster.

A: I've found that this depends on the marker you are using. If you are using the standard marker, I've had no issues with even 20K markers. When using one of the symbols or a custom path though, it can barely handle 1K. A work around to this though is to use an image as your marker if you need a custom shape/color. You can generate the varying images for your markers and then select which to use based on criteria.

A: I don't use Markerclusterer but I make sure only the markers in the viewport are set on the map. for me this had significant boost in performance.
I used multiple arrays of markers that act as different layers.
These layers are controlled by adding a marker.display attribute after creation wich I later play with. This way these will be ignored even if within the viewport.
Use the "idle" event: the "idle" will fire once the user has stopped panning/zooming, rather then "bounds_changed" event wich fires continuously when panning/zooming.
Add the event to the map in your window.onload function.
        google.maps.event.addListener(map, "idle", function (event) {
            if (map) {
                //This is the current user-viewable region of the map
                var bounds = map.getBounds();
                markerLayers.forEach(function (layer) {
                checkVisibleElements(layer, bounds);
                });
                checkVisibleElements(searchMarkers, bounds);
                //Loop through all the items that are available to be placed on the map
            }
        });

    function checkVisibleElements(elementsArray, bounds) {
        //checks if marker is within viewport and displays the marker accordingly - triggered by google.maps.event "idle" on the map Object
        elementsArray.forEach(function (item) {
            //If the item is within the the bounds of the viewport
            if (bounds.contains(item.position) && item.display == true) {
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                item.setMap(map);
                }
            } else {
                item.setMap(null);
            }
        });
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more info about the API(*) : Google Maps API : To Many Markers!
(*)original link dead, archived version from archive.org

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Charles W. per 1871 Census. Charles per 1861 Census. William C. per 1881 Census.
[S12] Unknown author, Ontario Death Registrations, Record Type: microfilm, Name Of Person: Ontario Archives, #024736-1923.
Mary Elizabeth per IGI Record. M. E. per 1861 Census.
Census: 1824; Conc B, Lot 6, Murray Twp., Carrying Place, Northumberland Co., Ontario; 1824 Census & Assessment: Henry Butler; Carrying Place; Lot 6, 75 acres uncutl., 25 acres cult.
Residence*: circa 1836; Conc B Lot 6, Murray Twp., Northumberland Co., Upper Canada; The location of Conc B, Lot 6, Murray Twp., is just east of Dead Cree, on the north shore of the Bay of Quinte, just east of today's intersection with the road going north, that becomes the Wooler Road. There is only a small wedge of land there that is in Concession B. The 1878 County Atlas Map shows A. Robertson on the lot to the north.
Note: No land shown; listed just under John Blaker? on Conc A, Lot 2, front??
Abigail P. per Memorial & CEMSearch record.
Marie per 1921 Census. Marie A. per 1901 Census.
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People with high expectations can be easily disappointed. Those that have lower expectations can be more easily satisfied. This can result in greater happiness. This is the logic behind thinking that people with lower expectations are more happy. I'm not totally convinced by this.
I don't fully buy into this concept. I think we might be confusing the satisfaction felt from a low expectation being met, with resignation that live is mediocre.
In my opinion, having low expectations will not bring us happiness, at best it might help us avoid some unhappiness. We might avoid disappointment from holding our expectations too high, but it can come at the cost of feeling disappointed with what we are achieving in our lives.
Expectations can range from overly optimistic, to absolutely discouraging.
We will achieve everything we set our minds to, don't settle for any less. We should have great things in our life, aim high.
Don't get our hopes up. We can't change things. We have to accept things as they are.
If we are highly optimistic, but then we don't achieve something we set out to, we may feel bitterly disappointed that our expectations were not met. If we feel discouraged, our expectations may at times even be surpassed, but they were so low in the first place that it may not be enough to bring us happiness. Or it may bring momentary mild happiness, but not the long lasting satisfying kind.
Should we lower our expectations to bring happiness into our lives?
Bear in mind that expectations can affect happiness even before we get to the outcome. For example if we book a holiday, our positive expectations about how good it is going to be may increase our happiness as soon as it is booked, not only when we are there. Many people report to experience increased happiness in the anticipation and build up to something rather than when they are actually there in the moment. If we lower our expectations too much we may miss out on this feeling.
If we have a rose tinted, positive view of the world there is a strong chance we could feel let down when things do not live up to these expectations. There is an element of realism needed here. If we constantly believe things will turn out as they do in the movies, we may be in for a stark realization that this will not be the case. This is less about lowering expectations and more about being realistic about fairytale endings.
There is a subtle difference here on 'aiming' rather than 'expecting'. Expecting lends itself to thinking that things will come to us with ease, with little effort needed on our part. Aiming is about having a vision, taking action and realizing our goals. The main difference is about the action we take to make things happen. It's about not take things for granted, but making a plan to execute them.
In conclusion if we avoid having either high or low expectations, and instead focus on having no expectations, it can help prevent any disappointment. If we change our view to aiming high, but not expecting things to come to us without requiring any effort, we can achieve more. The most satisfying feeling is having an ambitious goal and achieving that goal. Much better than expecting less from life and feeling satisfied that we were correct in our thinking that was all we deserve.
I'd love to hear your thoughts about this in the comments below.
I agree with you in the fact that we shouldn't lower our expectations to try to find more happiness, but I think it is more about having goals that we are trying to achieve rather than high expectations. Setting goals is a more action oriented approach, whereas I feel that expectations is a more passive approach.
When you say 'we will all in all likelihood fail to achieve most if not all the goals/images we set for ourselves.' maybe it is about reframing how we set these goals, so we are not failing at them.
If we feel like we have failed to achieve most of our goals, as you say we will most definitely feel major disappointment.
If you can set more of a vision for yourself or a direction for your life and feel like you are taking steps towards that vision, and you can accept things might look different or might not be exactly as you initially intended, I think you can still aim high, but not feel like you have failed or not achieved a specific goal, but that you are heading in the right direction making progress.
I think each individual is probably different. If setting goals then not achieving them makes you feel unhappy, you are totally correct, it is probably not the best approach for you. For many others, setting goals and then making progress towards them brings much happiness. Maybe the key is understanding where you get your happiness from and following that approach.


Here are the results for this weeks remote view. Did you see the daisy? Did you get the color yellow or white? Did you get any of the shapes? The circle or the elongated ovals? Participation is the key, keep up the great work!
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BURLINGTON — Democrat T.J. Donovan cruised to victory Tuesday over Republican Deb Bucknam and will become the state's next attorney general in January.
Donovan, 42, was easily outpacing Bucknam with 62 of 276 voting districts reporting results to the Associated Press. Donovan had a lead of 63 percent to 33 percent and Bucknam conceded the race shortly after 9 p.m.
Donovan will replace Attorney General Bill Sorrell, who chose not to seek re-election after he was first appointed to the position by former Democratic Gov. Howard Dean 19 years ago.
"Thank you, Deb Bucknam," he said.
He noted his narrow loss to Sorrell in a Democratic primary four years ago, but said he and his supporters continued "to fight to level the playing field for all Vermonters" since then.
"We have stayed the course, we have … finished the race and we have prevailed," he said.
"We should stand up and make sure that the best public safety system means a good and decent job for every Vermonter," Donovan said.
Donovan, the current state's attorney for Chittenden County, focused his campaign on reforming the judicial system with a focus on restorative justice. Donovan in recent years has used his post in Chittenden County as a laboratory of sorts for judicial reform. He launched several programs there have become statewide policy, including a focus on treatment for low-level offenders that are addicted to opiates over incarceration.
Bucknam, 69, struggled to gain traction against the well-known Donovan, who is seen as a rising star in the Vermont Democratic Party. Polling showed Donovan with a wide lead over Bucknam in the weeks before Election Day.
She focused her campaign on tackling the state's problem with opiate addiction, advocating for a task force to review current efforts and create a system of best practices that could be implemented statewide within the legal and health sectors. She wanted the task force to also review medication-assisted treatments, like suboxone and methadone, to gauge their effectiveness.
Donovan enjoyed a massive fundraising advantage over Bucknam. He raised nearly $500,000 for the race, compared to about $80,000 for Bucknam, including $45,000 of her own money that she loaned to her campaign.
MONTPELIER — The Vermont Attorney General's office has reviewed a proposal a proposal from a wind developer to pay registered voters in the towns where they hope to build wind turbines and determined that it does not amount to a bribe. Iberdrola Renewables is looking to erect 24 turbines in the towns of Grafton and Windham in Windham county.
MONTPELIER — The Vermont Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday on whether outgoing Democratic Gov. Peter Shumlin can appoint a replacement for one of its members, Justice John Dooley, before Shumlin leaves office on Thursday. The hearing Tuesday, held in a packed Supreme Court chamber filled with media, lawmakers, statewide elected officials and other observers, was triggered by a petition filed by Rep. Donald Turner and Sen. Joe Benning just before Christmas challenging Shumlin's authority to name Dooley's replacement.


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BTBS Exclusive: the "Baseball Cop" tells his story
Former MLB Investigator Eddie Dominguez talked to Sheryl Ring about Major League Baseball, "Baseball Cop," and baseball's seedy underbelly.
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If you've ever wanted to be a fly on the wall of what goes on inside 245 Park Avenue, 31st Floor, in New York City, you want to talk to Eddie Dominguez. The erstwhile Boston police officer spent the better part of two decades working in various capacities for Major League Baseball, first as MLB Resident Security Agent (RSA) working at Fenway Park as the eyes and ears of the MLB commissioner's office, and then later, in 2008, for the newly-formed Department of Investigations. He ran security for the 2004 World Series in St. Louis, and was there when Rafael Palmeiro pointed a finger at Congress and when Don Zimmer and Pedro Martinez fought in 2003.
But Dominguez was also there for the Biogenesis investigation, for human trafficking investigations, and for the part of baseball that MLB doesn't want you to know. Dominguez wrote a book about it, called "Baseball Cop," that details his experience in baseball. It's a book MLB desperately didn't want people to read, according to the Daily Beast, even hiring law firm Clare Locke to threaten to sue Dominguez and his publisher, Hachette, for defamation if the book was published. Dominguez and Hachette published the book anyway, to largely positive reviews.
Dominguez talked with me this weekend about his book, his experience with MLB, and his post-baseball life.
From his childhood, Eddie Dominguez loved sports. He told me that it was this love of sports that led him, after decades as a police officer in Boston, Massachusetts, to take a job with Major League Baseball. "My whole life I've been a sports fan," he said. "I played a number of them, not well. I played baseball, basketball, football, and my kids did as well. My experience with sports has always been a great experience. To me, sports and the arts are a great way to raise your children, to me it's just a wholesome thing. I went into baseball thinking that's what I was getting into."
MLB asked Dominguez to join its Security Department in 1999 as an RSA, a position he held for 9 years while still a police officer in Boston. He says he saw incidents that, at a minimum, brought into question the integrity of the game, but which were were "swept under the rug." He says he didn't want to be a fixer; instead, Dominguez says he wanted to be a part of rooting out corruption in the game. "I wanted to clean it up," he says. "I thought the integrity of the game was important." Following the release of the Mitchell Report on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in MLB in 2007, the league approached him to be a part of the solution to the problems outlined in that report, and he accepted - with conditions.
Dominguez speaks of the Mitchell Report as though it were a book of scripture, with a reverence that displays a clear respect for the report and its findings, and especially its recommendations. He says that he insisted before taking the job that he would be a part of an independent body, one that would expose unlawful behavior and "wouldn't cover anything up," and a unit that would work hand-in-hand with law enforcement.
He received assurances that although this new Department of Investigations "would answer to the commissioner," it would operate independently from MLB's labor department. Just before he formally accepted the job, he asked Dan Mullin, the first director of the new department, "Are you sure that this is what we're gonna do?" Mullin repeated the question to then-Commissioner Bud Selig, who responded, "Yes."
At first, Dominguez said the new department was functioning exactly as Selig had promised. On the other hand, Dominguez was surprised by the sheer volume of issues he says confronted the league; after years of seeing only the universe of baseball occupied by the Red Sox, seeing it league-wide was eye-opening. "I couldn't believe the magnitude of the issues that brought into question the integrity of the game," he says now, but at first he says that he and his team dove in headfirst. Dominguez recounted for me, as he does in Baseball Cop, the major issues that confronted him in those heady early days.
"At first we were allowed to go overseas and investigate American scouts stealing signing bonuses from young Dominican kids, American scouts changing the ages of young ballplayers, the human trafficking of American ballplayers, the domestic violence issues ballplayers got into that were being swept under the rug," Dominguez said. "Including PEDs and HGH – we were the first professional league investigative unit that suspended a ballplayer for use of HGH. We did it not through testing, but through good old-fashioned gumshoe detective work."
That ballplayer was Jordan Schafer, then a top prospect for the Atlanta Braves, suspended 50 games for the use of Human Growth Hormone. ESPN noted at the time that "Schafer did not test positive for HGH. Rather, he was suspended after Major League Baseball probed anecdotal evidence of HGH . . . Schafer was the first casualty of MLB's new Department of Investigations." And Schafer, despite denying using HGH, didn't dispute that he deserved the punishment.
"I know that I deserved what I got and that 100 percent, I was wrong. I was involved with people that 100 percent I shouldn't have been involved with," Schafer said, according to MLB.com. "Those people that I was involved with aren't going to get suspensions from baseball. Those people can get in trouble with the law and the government. My suspension was a lot less harsh of a punishment than they could have received. I definitely learned to choose who I hang around with and who I trust."
Dominguez says that at first, the Schafer suspension "gave me a lot of hope." It lasted, he said, "for a very short period of time."
Dominguez was born in Cuba, and to this day has a passion for Cuban baseball. He says that when he was invited to travel to Cuba as part of security for an MLB delegation for a tournament featuring teams composed of players 18 and under, he jumped at the chance. During the trip, Dominguez said, he learned that two of the men on the trip—ostensibly there as trainers for the American teenagers—were actually scouts, sent undercover by the league to evaluate Cuban players. One Cuban youngster caught their eye—a sixteen-year-old named Dayan Viciedo, at the time thought to be a future superstar.
Dominguez said that it wasn't long after the trip before Viciedo was trafficked out of Cuba - and sure enough, MLB Trade Rumors reported that Viciedo had defected in June of 2008. Dominguez recounts in Baseball Cop that shortly afterwards, Dominguez says he received a call from then-Red Sox General Manager Theo Epstein.
Dominguez told me that, on the phone, Epstein reported that, "There's something f*****g shady going on here. … It's as if [Viciedo] has a prearranged deal with the f*****g White Sox." Dominguez said that raised a red flag because of rumors he had heard from sources that human traffickers sometimes make arrangements with teams to give player agents upfront money for a specific player, and in turn, the player would sign with that team for less than what the highest bidder would offer.
Dominguez called Viciedo and spoke with Dayan and his father. He said they told him that "If we don't take the White Sox deal, we'll be taken back to Cuba," confirming Dominguez's suspicions. Following protocol, Dominguez reported the incident and his conversation with Viciedo to his boss, Dan Mullin, who turned the information over to the commissioner's office. When Mullin returned his call, Dominguez says a very angry Rob Manfred (then the vice president of labor relations; now the MLB commissioner) was also on the line. Dominguez says that Manfred cursed at him, asking, "Dominguez, what the f**k do you think you're doing?" Dominguez says he responded that he was "following up on a tip." When Manfred demanded he drop the matter, Dominguez says he threatened to quit. Later, Dominguez says, Mullin told him that the Viciedo affair was a "once-in-your-job incident where Manfred got involved." Dominguez says he stayed because he was assured by Mullin that "it wouldn't happen again."
On November 20, 2008, ESPN reported that the Chicago White Sox had agreed to terms on an $11 million contract with Dayan Viciedo. As for Dominguez, in 2016 he testified in a case investigated by FBI agent Hector Ortiz regarding human trafficking of baseball players. Dominguez said that case was a turning point for the league.
In 2014, Dominguez had been approached by Ortiz, who was looking for assistance in investigating the trafficking of baseball players. Two years later, Dominguez testified in trial of agent Bart Hernandez on federal human trafficking charges. Dominguez told me that case was a turning point for the league.
"Yes, [human trafficking] is a league-wide problem," he said. "If you follow MLB'S involvement in human trafficking, they really didn't do much until 2014, and even during the 2016 FBI investigation that I testified in, they said very little. ... We had warned them that their policy on Cuban ballplayers led to various issues. I had interviewed many Cuban ballplayers and explained to [MLB] what was going on. And they knew what was going on, and they did nothing. They started doing something because they were questioned about what they knew and when they knew it."
Last year, a federal grand jury opened an investigation into MLB's involvement with the trafficking of players in Latin America, focusing on the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The Biogenesis investigation is by now fairly well known to even casual baseball fans. In a nutshell, Anthony Bosch pretended to be a doctor at a clinic he called "Biogenesis," and distributed performance enhancing drugs to Major League Baseball players including Ryan Braun, Melky Cabrera, and Alex Rodriguez. But Dominguez told me - and related in his book - that there was much more than that.
"I got involved in investigating Anthony Bosch in 2009 when Manny Ramirez tested positive," Dominguez said. "We consulted with the DEA and the locals, and the DEA was somewhat interested, because Anthony Bosch was claiming to be a doctor. But we couldn't offer them enough evidence at the time to show them there was something to follow up on."
Dominguez said that the DEA was focused on what it considered more pressing matters, such as cocaine, heroin, and fentanyl cases, and performance-enhancing drugs given to professional athletes just weren't that high on the agency's priority list. "For us to convince them to take on Biogenesis, we had to come with evidence that it affected not just MLB, but also society in general," Dominguez told me.
"We had to wait until 2012, when we had enough information and enough informants, and information about PEDs and how they were distributed. And in 2012, we did. We went to the DEA in Florida – me and [fomer NYPD Detective] Tom Reilly, and this was so important that Dan Mullin himself got involved... And the reason we were able to [convince the DEA to take the case] was because we had proof that Anthony Bosch was distributing not only to MLB players, but also to kids. And we had an informant and dealers who were willing to testify about that. And we had to walk the DEA through it. And our bosses were aware – Bud Selig and the current commissioner. They were well aware and they were all for it."
Dominguez told me that Biogenesis was the biggest case the young Department of Investigations had ever tackled. "At the time we had five senior investigators, and each one carried anywhere from 30-50 investigations at any one time. At the time, [because of Biogenesis,] we put those other investigations in the periphery." At first, cooperation between the Department of Investigations and the DEA went well. Then the Miami New Times ran an explosive report that included Bosch's client ledger, and suddenly MLB had a new PED scandal on its hands.
After the New Times report, "Bud Selig and Rob Manfred said they didn't want to communicate with the DEA anymore," Dominguez told me, adding that Selig and Manfred went so far as to monitor Department of Investigations phones to make sure that the unit didn't cooperate with the DEA. "I couldn't understand how they wanted us to turn our backs on a federal agency because they weren't getting it done quickly enough," Dominguez said. Later on, Dominguez found out that MLB had, through its labor department, hired private investigators to run their own investigation without the DEA's involvement and without the participation or knowledge of the Department of Investigations, culminating in MLB suing Bosch, Alex Rodriguez suing MLB, a 211-game suspension (later reduced to 162 games) for Rodriguez, and a four-year prison sentence for Bosch (later reduced).
Dominguez was fired in 2014 along with Daniel Mullin and several other members of the Department of Investigations, after the conclusion of the Biogenesis investigation. As to the reason for his termination, MLB accused Dominguez of forging receipts, a charge he vehemently denies.
"After fifteen years I saw that... It's an ugly business. There's a lot of corruption," Dominguez said. "It wasn't all bad. But if I could take it back I would love to. I've lost my love for sports. It's not the same. That was my primary reason for writing the book – to express what I saw that a lot of people don't see. There's a lot more to it, but that was my primary reason."
The same year he was fired, Dominguez was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Despite the diagnosis, Dominguez continues to work as a private investigator, and is about to welcome his second grandchild. "Life is good. A day at a time. I'm just thankful. I consider myself a very lucky man."
To learn more about pancreatic cancer or make a donation towards a cure, visit https://www.pancan.org/. Dominguez's book, Baseball Cop, is available from Barnes and Noble and Amazon.
Sheryl Ring is a litigation attorney and Legal Director at Open Communities, a non-profit legal aid agency in the Chicago suburbs. You can reach her on twitter at @Ring_Sheryl. The opinions expressed here are solely the author's. This post is intended for informational purposes only and is not intended as legal advice.


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