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Chattanooga school bus driver found guilty of 6 students' deaths in crash
Johnthony Walker
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — A bus driver on trial for his role in the death of six elementary school students was found guilty Thursday on numerous charges relating to a crash in November 2016.
Johnthony Walker was transporting 37 students from Woodmore Elementary School in Chattanooga, Tennessee, when the bus he was driving flipped over and crashed into a tree, killing six children between the ages of 6 and 10.
The breakdown of the jury's verdict was:
• Guilty on 6 counts of criminal negligent homicide
• Guilty on 11 charges of reckless aggravated assault
• Guilty on 7 charges of assault
• Guilty of reckless endangerment
• Guilty of reckless driving
• Guilty of the use of a portable electronic device by a school driver
• Not guilty on 6 counts of assault
Walker originally faced 34 charges, according to online court records, including six counts of vehicular homicide, but was found guilty on six lesser charges of criminal negligent homicide.
He also faced a slew of assault charges, in addition to one charge of reckless endangerment, one charge of reckless driving and one charge of the use of a portable electronic device by a school bus driver.
Walker pleaded not guilty to the negligent homicide charges in March 2017, WTVC reported.
During the trial, prosecutors argued Walker was driving well over the 30 mph speed limit and was on his phone when the school bus ran off the road.
"It all could have been avoided if Johnthony Walker had slowed down and gone the speed limit and stayed off his phone," prosecutor Crystle Carrion said, according to WTVC.
Walker took the stand Wednesday to defend himself, saying a white vehicle had encroached into his lane and he had swerved to avoid it.
"I chose to veer out of the way," Walker said. "I figured I had gotten out of the way of the other vehicle and our route would continue." He added that he was not on his phone at the time of the crash and did not remember how fast he was going.
CNN has reached out to Walker's attorney for comment.
Defense highlighted mystery white bus
Walker's attorney Amanda Dunn said on WTVC that Chattanooga police didn't investigate the case properly. She says they didn't interview witnesses at the scene and jumped to conclusions rather than letting facts develop.
Dunn said as Walker was driving the bus, a white "transport type of vehicle" was driving in the opposite direction and came around a curve in the road going into the same lane as Walker's bus.
"There was never an investigation about the white bus, there was never any attempt to take evidence from the roadway or speak to any eyewitnesses about this white bus," Dunn said. "There was never an investigation on any of the facts that would have led to a conclusion other than the one the Chattanooga Police Department had already made about Johnthony."
During her cross-examination of Chattanooga Police Investigator Joe Warren, Dunn asked about his investigation methods.
"If I was going on only tire marks, that'd be one thing, but there are other indications that speed was a factor," Warren said.
He said in December 2016 he estimated the speed of the bus at between 50 and 52 mph, about 20 mph above the posted speed limit.
Other witnesses at the scene, such as state witnesses Ann Jones Pierre and Michelle Brogdon, said Walker was going fast.
"He left the stop sign a little fast," Pierre said. She lives in the neighborhood where the crash took place and was driving behind Walker's bus before the crash, WTVC reports.
"You could tell he was going over the speed limit," Brogdon said. She lived near the crash site, according to WTVC, and rushed to the scene when she heard the crash.
In addition, investigators discovered that Walker wasn't driving on his designated route when the crash took place. However, in court on Wednesday, Walker said that older drivers gave him a route sheet, but that the route had since changed as certain students had been added or taken off the route.
Prosecutors said Walker was on the phone with Takiesha Nixon for four minutes before the bus crash. The two work together at Amazon, Walker's second job.
Nixon said as soon as she learned Walker was driving a bus during their phone conversation, she hung up. Dunn said during Nixon's cross-examination that she didn't know Walker was involved in the crash until much later.
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President Barack Obama needs to take military action in Iraq, before things get worse in the region, said one of the top former United States military commanders of the war.
"I vote for sooner and we must strike them with a hard blow," said Retired Marine Corps Gen. John Allen, who was deputy commanding general of Multi-National Forces-West in Anbar province from 2006 to 2008, and helped lead the Anbar Awakening, which turned the tide of the Iraq War. Allen said the U.S. has "an obligation" to help the Iraqis now that terrorists from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, have taken over large swaths of Iraq more than two years after the war officially ended and U.S. troops left.
"The U.S. will have to act to stop this onslaught. After all we've invested in Iraq's stability, including nearly 4,500 American lives, we have an obligation, and indeed we have the capability, to help now," Allen told Defense One.
"We did not ask for this emergency, but it is upon us, and this is a moment for U.S. strategic leadership. The Iraqis badly need our help, and our friends and partners in the region are, once again, turning to the U.S. for leadership and decisive action," he said.
Allen, who was also top commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan in 2011 and also served as acting commander of CENTCOM in 2010, said that events are unfolding so quickly in Iraq that the U.S. national security team needs to approve "rapid action" to combat the wider security threat of ISIS and other factions spreading in the region.
The Iraqi government has asked for U.S. assistance as members of ISIS captured the strategic cities of Mosul and Tikrit, making their way toward Baghdad.
Allen said Obama needs to send a strong signal that even though the war in Iraq is over, the threats to the region and to U.S. national security are not.
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I don't know anything from direct user experience, but when I did a brief review of the Class Bs at the Houston RV show last year, I was not impressed with Regency's fit and finish (I didn't have time to inspect the mechanicals, given the setting).
Regency appears to be painting conventional RV graphics on this new model you mention... that will not be good for future resale value. Who makes these design decisions?! The trend is toward greater sophistication and relative stealth, or at least preserving the integrity of the van's original automobile-like appearance. The trend is NOT back toward "Grandma-mobile" swoopie-doopie styling, making it look more like a $16,000 plywood box trailer instead.
I have been in one and it was solid black, no graphics. High ceiling for sure. Pretty basic looking construction, no idea about the mechanicals.
I've not been in one. The smallish freshwater tank is kinda no good for me. The on demand hot water heater is a definite no go for us as most of our camping is without hookups. and on demand water heaters waste too much water. Even when getting a site with electric to deal with running the A/C we generally do not hook up the water unless we will be draining/filling holding tanks. With the 35 gallon capacity of our old 200 RT we can go 4-7 days without dealing with the tanks and upwards of two weeks when I'm traveling solo. I like the independence that that provides.
That all said, I'm sure it will work for some folks.
Thanks all, I just hadn't seen the brand before. Appreciate your input n thoughts.
We have the regency Xalta and really like it. Finish inside and out nice. We moved from a class A to the B We almost always use hookups to the hot water system works well for us.
The high roof version looks interesting. Looks like they have only been making RVs for a few years but the management have been doing conversions for a while.
A recent review by MotorHome magazine.
When I first read about this super high-top National Traveler article, I was very excited to hear about the extra height (I'm 6'2"). But then I discovered they used the standard short wet bath and a short bed. That really burst my bubble.


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Thursday, May 11th, 2017 by Cliff.
In a largely safe and pleasant world, we occasionally hear in the news about the fraud, corruption, and terrorism that is threatening our personal safety, our organizations and our countries.
A key tool in this the environment is Elicitation. It is used against us. And we use it against the 'bad- guys/gals'. So how do you know when it is being used against you to steal your identity, access your business or penetrate national security? The chances are that you won't. If elicitation is done well you won't notice it during the episode, and even on reflection won't walk away feeling that you have been 'elicited'. So let's highlight a few features to help you protect yourself.
A process used to draw out information from people, during a communication with a purpose, often without them realizing the elicitor's purpose for doing so.
Elicitation is the subtle extraction of information during an apparently normal and innocent conversation.
A technique used to discreetly gather information.
It is a conversation with a specific purpose: collect information that is not readily available and do so without raising suspicion that specific facts are being sought. It is usually non-threatening, easy to disguise, deniable, and effective. The conversation can be in person, over the phone, or in writing. Conducted by a skilled collector, elicitation will appear to be normal social or professional conversation. A person may never realize she was the target of elicitation or that she provided meaningful information. (Elicitation Techniques, FBI [accessed 20 Aug 2012]).
It works so easily because many people are keen to be liked, to be polite, to appear intelligent and knowledgeable, to be flattered and praised and to correct wrongs and errors. This exerts an internal pressure which can easily be released by a skilled Elicitor. The Elicitor also needs to be skilled in knowing when others are telling the truth or lying. We cover the 27 indicators of deception in our book, Getting to the Truth, though Elicitation skills are best developed in live practical workshops and real-world contexts. When this is done well the performance of those we train quadruples (see White Paper here ).
Suggest you would need to clear this with others before you share sensitive information.
These tips and others can be found in a Homeland Security leaflet, Elicitation – Would You Recognize It that is not much use to the Elicitor, but a useful guide to those wanting to insulate against the process.
If you are a 'bad- guy/gal' then I am afraid this will not help you. As when elicitation is applied by those highly trained you will not notice it. And any tactics to defend yourself against a professional Elicitor will mean that you will leak clusters of the 27 indicators used in behavior analysis that are triggered by emotional and cognitive load within 500 milliseconds and are preconscious and therefore impossible to control.
Stay vigilant, be curious and don't abuse such skills if they can potentially harm others.


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DfT releases second tranche of Emergency Active Travel funding, but with further scrutiny for councils
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The Department for Transport (DfT) will release the £175 million second tranche of its Emergency Active Travel funding.
This time, local authorities will be expected to publish detailed plans showing consultation with communities and businesses, submit evidence of further consultation prior to implementation and thereafter submit monitoring reports on schemes for between 6 and 12 months after their opening showing how each has been modified on ongoing community feedback.
The annoucement comes after much criticism of temporary cycle schemes including from a group of 14 Conservative MPs who called for the funding to be scrapped altogether.
The new money, part of the £2 billion announced for cycling and walking in May, will fund measures including:'School Streets', where streets around schools are closed to motorists at school times, low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs), where residential side streets are closed to through traffic to stop rat-running, segregated cycle lanes, pedestrian improvements.
These will give people more opportunities to choose cycling and walking for their day-to-day journeys, as part of wider government plans to boost active travel.
The funding comes as a survey undertaken by Kantar Media last month reveals that 65% of people across England support reallocating road space to cycling and walking in their local area. Nearly 8 out of 10 people (78%) support measures to reduce road traffic in their neighbourhood.
In London, independent polling by Redfield & Wilton shows 19% of people oppose LTNs, 52% support them and 25% are neutral. Surveys are also being conducted of residents in individual LTNs where roads have been closed. The first of these, in south London, found 56% wanted to keep the scheme, against 38% who wanted to remove it.
The multi-million-pound investment marks another step towards the government's ambition to deliver more active travel options in communities across the country and build back greener – benefitting the nation's health and the environment.
Evaluation of early School Streets projects has shown traffic outside schools has reduced on average by 68%, children cycling to school has increased by 51% and harmful vehicle pollution outside schools is down by almost three quarters.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said: "It has been great to see so many people build cycling and walking into their daily travel habits. To support them, we know it's vital to have the right infrastructure in place so everyone – cyclists, pedestrians and motorists – can use our roads. Whether you're walking, cycling, driving or using public transport, people must have the space they need to get around safely."
Local authorities will be required to engage closely with the Department for Transport (DfT) throughout the process – while Active Travel England, when set up, will further assess plans for active travel schemes to ensure they are of the highest quality.
To help councils implement better schemes, updated guidance, which has also been released today, emphasises the need for practical and pragmatic solutions.
Councils will receive funding based on how well they have complied with the criteria set out by the Transport Secretary in July.
In a letter to council leaders outlining the new funding allocations, the Transport Secretary said that while most schemes were of genuine value in promoting cycling and walking, other schemes implemented through the first tranche of funding had made less meaningful change to the status quo.
Mr Shapps said he had in mind many of the pavement widenings put in town centres by many councils using barriers. These, he said, could "prevent pedestrians from crossing the road, cause congestion for buses and motor traffic, and impede access for kerbside businesses," yet were also "relatively little used by pedestrians".
The funding is part of the most ambitious plans yet by government to encourage even more people to choose active travel and build back greener.
Commitments from the plan include making cycle training available for every adult who wants it, setting new, higher standards for cycling infrastructure and boosting access to e-bikes.
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Man who dressed as Madeleine McCann for Halloween apologises: 'It was stupid, vile and disgusting'
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A Scottish man who posted a picture online of himself in a bright blue Everton shirt and messy blonde wig has come under fire for dressing as missing British tot Madeleine McCann for Halloween. There's no wondering who Daniel Gearie is trying to imitate for Halloween.
Daniel Gearie (25) meant it as a good-natured joke, but his costume has been branded "distasteful" and "sick". He's since apologised for his insensitive attire.
Daniel tweeted a picture of himself alongside an image of Maddie – who went missing while on vacation with her family in Portugal in 2007 – at the weekend.
He sarcastically captioned it: "You've taken it too far, Daniel."
The award for best fancy dress goes to.... @DanielGearie ?????????????????? pic.twitter.com/tdP34zc3du
— Carl (@spikes_bandana) October 29, 2017
When his "joke" was received with harsh criticism, Daniel at first tried to defend himself.
"And before you say 'this is sick', etc., I know it is but I'm not the one who left a child unattended in a Portuguese hotel," he wrote on the social network.
But he later realised his mistake and deleted the offending tweets before posting an apology.
"At the weekend I made the most incredibly stupid, vile and disgusting decision of my life.
"I can honestly say that I am embarrassed and disgusted by my own behaviour and can only apologise for any offence that I caused anyone."
He went on to apologise to his family for the hurt he caused them and added that he will now be taking some time to reflect on who he is and how he can better himself as a person.
Maddie's parents, Kate and Gerry, have responded via a spokesperson for their family.
"Kate and Gerry have never dignified this sort of offensive and cretinous behaviour with any sort of comment at all and they're not going to start now," the spokesperson told Mirror.co.uk.
"It's right the material has been deleted."
Others who were slammed for their costumes
The reality TV star got major backlash for one of her Halloween outfits (she had three) this year.
Kim dressed up as singer Aaliyah – who died in a plane crash in 2001 – and was deemed "racist" for dressing as a black woman. Kim's late dad, Robert Kardashian, was of Armenian descent.
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Users quickly hit back at Kanye West's wife, calling her costume "offensive" and "cultural appropriation".
This is offensive
— Kelly (@vnyvsh) October 29, 2017
Legend or not Aaliyah is a black woman and you're not. It's offensive and you shouldn't push this limit, but ok... ??
— Blogger Cassie (@LAGrlCrookdSmle) October 29, 2017
Kim is yet to comment.
This American political commentator and former TV host is no stranger to controversy and it seems she's struck again.
Tomi's "patriotic" American flag Halloween costume has sparked debate around wearing the national flag as an outfit, with many calling her a hypocrite in light of her comments about NFL players "taking the knee".
A few weeks ago she criticised NFL players for kneeling during the playing of the American national anthem. (African American sport stars have started kneeling during The Star-Spangled Banner as a form of protest against police brutality in the US.)
"I would like to ask these players, 'What exactly are you kneeling for and why have you chosen the flag and the anthem to do it?' " she said.
After sharing the Halloween photo on Instagram, users quickly commented on the fact that kneeling in protest isn't illegal, but wearing the American flag violates a portion of the US code which states: "No part of the flag should ever be used as a costume or athletic uniform."
Oh LA get ready to find your safe spaces! What am I? Well if you're a conservative, I'm American AF. If you're a lib, I'm "offensive." Let's go. #TeamTomi #halloween #MAGA #Merica #makeHalloweenGreatAgain
A post shared by Tomi Lahren (@tomilahren) on Oct 28, 2017 at 7:15pm PDT
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United Nations iLibrary | What is the business of your enterprise?
What is the business of your enterprise?
This guide presents the concept of business management system (BMS) as a generic structure for managing business enterprises. It explains principles of BMS and describes BMS components and how they interact with each other. The guide also reviews various phases of the strategy cycle of business management; deals with developing business capabilities and its importance for the business and outlines the transaction cycle of business management, explaining the tasks involved and their importance in exporting business. The appendices include BMS's failure mechanisms, a glossary of related terms, and Nomenclature of BMS.
The business of an enterprise is defined in terms of what it produces and for whom. That is what the production and marketing functions do. Defining one's business is the first step of strategy planning.


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Sir John Major KG CH
Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 1990-1997
SPEECHES BY DATE
1996 Prime Minister (1990-1997)
PMQT – 18 January 1996
January 18, 1996 admin 1996, NHS, Trade Unions
Below is the text of Prime Minister's Question Time from 18th January 1996.
PRIME MINISTER:
Q1. Mr. Pearson: To ask the Prime Minister if he will list his official engagements for Thursday 18 January.
The Prime Minister (Mr. John Major): This morning, I presided at a meeting of the Cabinet and had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. In addition to my duties in the House, I shall be having further meetings later today.
Mr. Pearson: In view of the renewed speculation about the right hon. Gentleman's leadership, can the Prime Minister tell the House what difference to his party or the country was made by his decision to precipitate a leadership contest last year?
The Prime Minister: We have this silly speculation almost every week in which there is a Thursday. It has been nonsense in the past and it is nonsense now.
Q2. Mr. Gallie: To ask the Prime Minister if he will list his official engagements for Thursday 18 January.
The Prime Minister: I refer my hon. Friend to the reply I gave some moments ago.
Mr. Gallie: Is my right hon. Friend aware that there are more shareholders today than trade unionists? Indeed, many trade unionists are shareholders. Is he further aware of the Labour party's cynical plans to introduce shareholding for workers? Is not that a case of attempting to justify a tired and meaningless slogan?
The Prime Minister: My hon. Friend is quite right about the growth in the number of shareholders and the fact that they now exceed the number of trade unionists.
Mr. Galloway: Resign.
The Prime Minister: Well, the trade unionists seem to have been doing that–that is one of the reasons why there are more shareholders than there are trade unionists. My hon. Friend the Member for Ayr (Mr. Gallie) is equally right about the slogans from the Labour party. As the hon. Member for Nottingham, South (Mr. Simpson) said last night:
"It is amusing that Labour's new slogan might be a long way round to rediscovering clause 4 and common ownership."
If the Labour party really believed in stakeholding and personal ownership, it would not have opposed every privatisation we have had–privatisations that have dramatically increased share ownership. The only stakeholders in their society would be the unions–Mr. Edmonds, Mr. Monks and their colleagues.
Mr. Blair: Can the Prime Minister confirm that, on the latest statistics, since 1989, when the Government changes to the health service were introduced, the number of nurses has fallen by 50,000 and the number of senior managers has risen by 18,000? Is not that a mistaken set of priorities for the health service?
The Prime Minister: The mistake is the misleading way in which the hon. Member for Peckham (Ms Harman) and now the right hon. Gentleman talk nonsense by distorting figures in the health service, as elsewhere. What the right hon. Gentleman clearly has not been advised about, or has chosen to ignore, is that there are more than 50,000 more nurses and 4,000 more midwives today than when the Government took office. They are providing effective health care close to where people live and work. Unlike the right hon. Gentleman, I take pride in the national health service and its achievements, and I very much regret that all that he and his colleagues can do is to take statistics, misuse statistics and try to run down the health service.
Mr. Blair: We take pride in the health service–we created the health service. We just do not like it being undermined by the Conservative party. The statistics that I quoted are from the Department of Health. The Prime Minister said that an extra 50,000 nurses had been created. Will he confirm that if one takes the full-time equivalent of nursing and compares like with like, there are fewer nurses now than there were in 1979? Furthermore, has not the decline happened entirely since 1989, when the changes were introduced? Does that not show that one is the consequence of the other and that there is a mistaken set of priorities in the health service?
The Prime Minister: The right hon. Gentleman is still distorting, and he overlooks the extra 1.5 million patients who are being treated. Patients statistics do not concern the Labour party. I will give the right hon. Gentleman a statistic that really shows what is happening in the health service–66 per cent. of health service staff are now involved in direct patient care, up from 60 per cent. only 12 years ago. That is because we have invested directly in front-line care and that is why more patients are being treated, and treated better and more speedily than ever before. I hope that, one day, the right hon. Gentleman will acknowledge the improvements in the health service, congratulate the people in the health service on making the improvements and acknowledge that we have repeatedly put more funds into the health service to enable those improvements to take place.
Mr. Blair: I notice that the Prime Minister did not dispute the statistics on nursing. If he wants an objective view, why does he not ask the doctors and nurses in the health service? Does he not understand that many people fear that money is being pumped into bureaucracy rather going to front-line nursing care, and that they are angry that the party that the Prime Minister calls a one-nation Conservative party is breaking the health service in two?
The Prime Minister: Yet again, the right hon. Gentleman distorts and twists reality to make his political point. If the right hon. Gentleman does not accept what I say, I advise him to listen to the hon. Member for York (Mr. Bayley), who told the Fabian Society,
"Labour's health policy will not look credible at the general election if we do not commit ourselves to matching the rate of growth delivered by the Conservatives."
Perhaps the right hon. Gentleman will contemplate that. The truth is that his party has no health policy. Labour lurches from one headline to the next and from one distortion to the next. Labour downgrades and runs down the health service day after day, as it moves to the next soundbite.
Mrs. Roe: Does my right hon. Friend agree that one of the reasons why unemployment is falling is that British firms are now able to compete free from overwhelming union control? Does he further agree that that would all be thrown away under the Opposition's plans for a stakeholder society, which would simply hand power back to the unions?
The Prime Minister: That certainly seems to be the view of the trade unions, as Mr. Monks, the general secretary of the TUC, has confirmed. He said:
"This country needs more influential unions",
and added that the proposals for new rights to representation at work also rest on the stakeholder idea. He is not alone. Mr. John Edmonds said:
"I think ultimately we need changes in legislation."
The hon. Member for Brent, East (Mr. Livingstone) said:
"Labour cannot govern without the support of the trade unions."
Just to show that I do not always quote Opposition Back-Benchers, let me quote the deputy leader of the Labour party–who appears to be missing. He said:
"I am at heart a trade unionist before a politician."
And he is right. We know Labour's heart, we know who pays for the Labour party, we know who owns the Labour party and we know what the leader of the Labour party is now about.
Mr. Ashdown: When the Prime Minister's predecessor, Mrs. Thatcher, said last week that his Government had lost touch with the hopes of ordinary people, whom does he think she was blaming?
The Prime Minister: It hardly loses touch with ordinary people if one removes what wrecked their savings by producing the lowest inflation levels for 50 years, the lowest mortgage rates for 30 years, the lowest unemployment rate of any major European country, the lowest basic tax rate for 50 years, and the biggest fall in crime for more than 40 years. That is what my right hon. Friend, when Prime Minister, sought to achieve; it is what we have delivered.
Sir Michael Grylls: When my right hon. Friend next meets his fellow Heads of Government in Europe, will he do all that he can to persuade them to make progress on liberalising the energy market within the European Union? Is not one of the Government's great successes the fact that we have created a competitive market in the UK, and would not our firms benefit from a competitive market throughout the European Union?
The Prime Minister: Yes, my hon. Friend is entirely right. While the single market has been an enormous success, both for us and for the rest of Europe, there remain areas across Europe where it is still not operative, and my hon. Friend mentions one of them. We shall continue to press to spread the single market to that area and others.
Q3. Mr. Mullin: To ask the Prime Minister if he will list his official engagements for Thursday 18 January.
The Prime Minister: I refer the hon. Member to the reply that I gave some moments ago.
Mr. Mullin: I am sorry to see that the bastards are plotting again. The Conservative party's current difficulties are not the Prime Minister's fault. He simply has the bad luck to be Prime Minister when the bills for the Thatcher decade are coming in. May I offer him a word of advice? He should offer members of his party not a leadership election but a general election. That would shut them up.
The Prime Minister: I know that the hon. Gentleman has some experience of leadership elections. If I remember accurately, he ran the leadership election of a losing candidate in a previous Labour party leadership election, so although I take what he says with some interest, I shall not follow it to the letter.
Mr. Mullin: He got 49 per cent., though.
The Prime Minister: Maybe, but it was not enough.
Q4. Mr. Luff: To ask the Prime Minister if he will list his official engagements for Thursday 18 January.
The Prime Minister: I refer my hon. Friend to the reply that I gave some moments ago.
Mr. Luff: Can my right hon. Friend confirm that he will respect the constitutional freedoms of this country at all times and will not seek to undermine them by entering into shabby, shoddy backroom deals, like those promised by the Leader of the Opposition with the Liberal party, British Telecom and the trade unions?
The Prime Minister: I think that I can give my hon. Friend the assurance that he requires without reservation.
Q5. Mr. Ainger: To ask the Prime Minister if he will list his official engagements for Thursday 18 January.
Mr. Ainger: Has the Prime Minister seen the figures produced by the Royal College of Nursing, which show that the number of nurses qualifying each year has fallen from some 37,000 in 1983 to only 13,000 last year? The resulting staff shortages have caused a crisis in our accident and emergency and intensive care units. Do not those figures confirm that the NHS is no longer safe in Tory hands, and never was, or is the Royal College of Nursing distorting the figures?
The Prime Minister: I will just give the hon. Gentleman the figures. There are 22,000 more doctors than there were in 1979, and 34,000 more qualified nurses. It is not the Conservative party or the Government who have cut back on the health service. The only time that that has occurred was when the hon. Gentleman's party was in office. He should recall that and bear in mind that the Conservatives have delivered increased investment to the national health service, which means better service, more front-line care, which is better and earlier, and a wider range of care.
Mr. Key: My right hon. Friend will no doubt recall the excitement and pride shared by millions of children, including him and me, at the Festival of Britain, part of which for me meant visiting the capital city for the first time. May I, as a non-Londoner, assure him that it is unthinkable that the millennium celebrations should be held anywhere other than in our capital city, and that the best possible place would be Greenwich?
The Prime Minister: My hon. Friend touches on a matter that may be controversial in the west midlands and elsewhere. The reality is that the decision will be taken by the Millennium Commission, independently of the Government, and it is therefore not appropriate for me to comment on particular bids or to speculate about the outcome. I am sure that many others will do so, but I will await the decision of the Millennium Commission.
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Category: Lightner Creek
Is Silverton ready for a cleanup? — The Durango Herald
Bonita Mine acid mine drainage
From The Durango Herald (Chase Olivarius-Mcallister):
The stream of heavy-metal pollutants gushing out of Silverton's mines and into its waterways has grown so toxic that between 2005 and 2010, three out of the four trout species living in the Upper Animas River south of Silverton have disappeared.
Yet for two decades, vocal Silverton residents have torpedoed the Environmental Protection Agency's many attempts to designate Silverton's worst mines as Superfund sites, which would allow the agency to clean up the pollution and make any parties it deems responsible pay for it.
Though the environmental catastrophe has, if anything, worsened, Silverton residents long have argued against Superfund, saying federal intervention would sully the town's reputation, deter mining companies and appall tourists.
Even three years ago, it was impossible to imagine, let alone hear, a Silverton resident publicly clamoring for federal intervention in Cement Creek, said Mark Esper, editor of The Silverton Standard. Yet in the last year, he said, there have been signs that locals' hostility to Superfund is softening.
[Last February], Skinner said a Superfund listing would "raise property values here, provide great jobs that people here can do, bring new people in and get more kids in the school."
Silverton resident John Poole said, "Many people, including myself, think Superfund, frankly, is the best thing that could happen to Silverton. It's certain to open up jobs. In Leadville, Superfund certainly didn't hurt tourism."
There's still local animosity toward Superfund. In 2014, at meetings of the Animas River Stakeholders Group (ARSG) and the San Juan County Commission, residents such as Steve Fearn, co-coordinator of the ARSG, warned a Superfund designation would hamper, if not ruin, Silverton's economy.
Poole said he thought the notion of Silverton's overwhelming opposition to Superfund was "grossly overblown."
"As far as I'm concerned, all the opposition is coming from a few people with conflicts of interest, who oppose the EPA because they profit financially from keeping the myth of mining – the idea that mining will come back to Silverton – alive," Poole said.
More water pollution coverage here.
Posted on April 26, 2015 by Coyote GulchPosted in Animas River Watershed, Climate Change, Colorado River Basin, Colorado Water, Lightner Creek, San Juan BasinLeave a comment
Animas River trout in decline — The Durango Herald
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From The Durango Herald (Mary Shinn):
The number of brown and rainbow trout in the Animas River swimming through Durango has declined, according to an ongoing study.
In particular, a decline has been noted in fish from 32nd Street to the Lightner Creek confluence with the Animas, said Jim White an aquatic biologist with Colorado Parks and Wildlife, who worked on the fish survey.
The section of the Animas classified as Gold Medal, from Lightner Creek to Rivera Crossing Bridge (behind Home Depot), also saw a decline, but it was not as dramatic. The area maintained its classification as a prime fishing destination, but the researchers found a decline in large fish.
This is the first time the area hasn't met the Gold Medal standard for large fish since 1996, White said.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife stocks the Animas with both kinds of trout, and the stocking practices have not changed in about 20 years.
However, the most recent survey in September revealed a worrisome decline in both young and large brown trout compared with prior years, White said.
"We're concerned over the absence of these young brown trout," he said.
White plans to start monitoring brown trout specifically and tracking their population fluctuation. He completes fish surveys along this stretch of the Animas every two years.
No clear reason has been identified as to why the fish populations may be declining, but there are many circumstances that might be playing a role…
Zinc and cadmium from the mines near Silverton have had an adverse effect on the fish and the environment upstream of Bakers Bridge, said Peter Butler, coordinator of the Animas River Stakeholders Group.
Some other negative factors could include warmer water in the summer, sediment levels, low water levels and other possible factors.
An insect-population study done this fall may reveal more information about river health next year.
The Ecosphere Environmental Services study focused on the food supply for fish, and it will be compared to a similar study completed 10 years ago. The results will be released in the spring, Skillen said.
Anecdotally anglers have noticed a decline in caddisflies, pale morning duns, midges and blue-winged olives, he said.
Some of these insect populations may be affected by sediment flowing into the river because it fills in areas where they live, White said.
More Animas River coverage here.
Posted on December 8, 2014 by Coyote GulchPosted in Animas River Watershed, Colorado River Basin, Colorado Water, Lightner Creek, San Juan BasinLeave a comment
Restoration: Contractors inspect Boston Mine erosion control project near Durango
From The Durango Herald (Dale Rodebaugh):
State Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety officials on Thursday visited the site north of Twin Buttes off U.S. Highway 160 with seven potential bidders interested in restoring and revegetating 5 acres of steep hillside. The target is the Boston Mine, also known as Perin's Peak No. 1, which operated from 1901 to 1926. The site produced more than 1 million tons of coal and left behind about 4,000 cubic yards of coal waste…
The mine is within the Perins Peak Wildlife Area, which comprises 12,000 acres of Colorado Parks and Wildlife and Bureau of Land Management holdings. The area is closed to the public Nov. 15 to July 15 as a winter haven for deer, elk, turkeys and snoozing black bears and in the spring for nesting peregrine falcons. The western half opens April 1 because no peregrines nest there…
Efforts to clean up the Boston Mine site, which at one time leaked 20 gallons a minute of toxic iron, copper, manganese and zinc into Lightner Creek, aren't new. In 1992, grants from the Office of Surface Mining and the Bureau of Mines funded construction of wetland retention ponds to treat seepage and to assess the effectiveness of certain work.
"We stopped the leaks with the wetlands and by closing a collapsed spot that was allowing water to fill the mine workings and create seepage elsewhere," Brown said. No seepage is seen today, she said.
The restoration will include closing a shaft, contouring a hillside, redirecting a ditch to carry runoff to one of the old retention ponds and seeding, mulching and applying 8 inches of compost and biochar – woody material reduced to charcoal through anaerobic processing – that retains a lot of water.
More restoration/reclamation coverage here.
Posted on November 10, 2012 by Coyote GulchPosted in Animas River Watershed, Climate Change, Colorado River Basin, Colorado Water, Lightner Creek, Restoration/reclamationLeave a comment
Animas River watershed: Lightner Creek sediment is fouling the river
Here's a call to action from Buck Skillen writing in The Durango Herald. From the article:
Why is this sort of turbidity – what I choose to call the Lightner Creek problem – happening at this time of year? One possible cause of the current problem is a substantial rain event back on Sept. 13 that dumped upwards of an inch of water on Durango and the Perin's Peak area.
The Perin's Peak geology is predominately Mancos shale, which is easily eroded. This area drains into Lightner Creek predominantly through Perin's Canyon, where there is a 4-foot-diameter culvert delivering the canyon's flow into Lightner Creek.
The storm on Sept. 13 delivered a huge volume of sediment to the creek, damaging the culvert and depositing a substantial amount of sediment in the creek bed. Since that time, and especially after the more recent storms, we are seeing the slightest amount of current in Lightner Creek pick up the fine sediment and transport it to the Animas River.
Why should we care? The Animas River is the city of Durango's crown jewel. It's a playground for all of us, visitors and locals, both in the water and walking along the River Trail, and a source of revenue from recreation. A good portion of our drinking water comes from the intake structure downstream of Lightner Creek and just above Smelter Rapids, although I am told this is not a big concern for the water treatment plant.
More Animas River watershed coverage here.
Posted on October 24, 2010 by Coyote GulchPosted in Animas River Watershed, Colorado Water, Lightner CreekLeave a comment
Durango: Study of sediment sources in Lightner Creek underway
A coalition of public agencies has acquired funding for a three-phase hydrological study to answer questions that have stumped observers for years: Where does the sediment that Lightner Creek periodically dumps into the Animas River come from, and why? Field work on the study, begun this week, could be done by the end of the year and lead to answers to an environmental problem seen as a potential source of harm to renowned fishing waters. "Sediment comes and goes, but no one knows whether it's natural or human-induced," Meghan Maloney, river campaign director at the San Juan Citizens Alliance, said recently. "The reason for concern is that Lightner Creek runs into the Animas at the head of a trout fishery that the Colorado Division of Wildlife gives its highest rating – gold medal."[…]
Three organizations put up funding for a study – Trout Unlimited $1,000, the Colorado Water Conservation Board $5,000 and the Southwestern Water Conservation District $2,600 – to hire Mark Oliver of Basin Hydrology. Oliver started his field work this week. "I started at the mouth where Lightner Creek runs into the Animas and I'm working my way upstream," Oliver said. "I'm looking at the channel and flood plain for sediment sources that could come from bank erosion or land-use modification. "The Tech Center watershed and Perins Canyon seem likely sources of silt," Oliver said. "But my study will confirm whether the deposition is coming from there." At certain points, Oliver will do sieve analysis – measuring the size of sediment particles. Along with a cross-section analysis of the channel – width, depth and slope – he can determine the movement of sediment. "I'll focus on sediment sources and the mechanics of how sediment gets to the mouth," Oliver said. "Then I'll try to determine if the sediment is natural or caused by people – for example, the landfill above the Tech Center."
More Animas River watershed coverage here and here.
Posted on October 31, 2009 October 31, 2009 by Coyote GulchPosted in Animas River Watershed, Colorado Water, Lightner Creek, San Juan BasinLeave a comment


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Paul Boos learned Net-Map when I facilitated a session at the Society for Organizational Learning (SOL) and even though I rushed them through the activity and we didn't have much time to go into details, he immediately picked it up and started using it for strategic planning in his work environment. And what's even more exciting, he did achieve some goals that he might otherwise have missed AND he wrote it all up in a 4 page case study for us to learn from it.
Paul and his colleagues are involved in the labeling of pesticides at the Environmental Protection Agency. Currently the pesticide producers who apply for registration send PDF documents with the contents to the EPA, somebody has to type these into a document and follow up if the initial PDF doesn't actually fit the requirements. Pauls group asks: Wouldn't it be nice if the pesticide producer could type in discrete data elements following a turbo tax-like interview process and spit out a controlled label that meets the rules?
For someone who stands outside of government hierarchies like me it's easy to say: Yes! Go for it! But we all know that having a good idea and getting approval from the right people in a hierarchical organization are two very different things and figuring out who to ask when and how can make all the difference. Through Net-Mapping Paul and his colleague realized which leaders had to be involved in the process early so that they don't get miffed and don't feel disrespected. They came up with 8 concrete networking steps they needed to take and achieved at least a partial success, as you can read here: Net-Map Case Study EPA pesticides.
As you will see in the case study, Paul is strongly involved in the Agile Software Development movement which promotes iterative, open and crowd sourcing approaches to software development and I will have the pleasure to play around with Net-Map with them at their Agile Coach Camp's Games Day, 23 September, 2011 in Columbus Ohio.
Have you used Net-Map in your work? Send me your case study and let's build this community of practice together!
After you introduced me to the Net-Map exercise I have now used it three times, working with women entrepreneurs in Eastern Africa.
I was particularly keen to learn about Net-Map, as I provide a workshop in networking for companies and organizations called Mobilize Networks! – see http://www.netsheila.com. The first part of the workshop provides participants with a basic knowledge of how networks can be used as an economic resource by any business or organization. The participants are seated four, five or six people to a table and by the end of the basic session (2.5 hours) they have learned to identify their needs and to use the networks of the people at the table to take the next steps in resolving their needs. This is pure magic. We look at the business theory related to networks – that networks provide you with access to markets or knowledge or people that are otherwise difficult to reach, they provide the possibility of developing unique knowledge, an essence of competitive advantage, and they provide connectedness and trust (but can also be exclusive, so beware!).
After laying the basis I usually insert elements into the workshop that are relevant to the organization or company I am working with. In the case of one multinational corporation I worked with, we looked at benchmarks for diversity across several industries and the participants developed a strategy to improve the score of their company. I often have a session using the skills developed in the morning to develop strategies for mobilizing financial resources. The exact content of the second half of the program is determined after careful consultation with the client.
I am presently consulting with associations of women entrepreneurs in Uganda, Tanzania and Ethiopia and providing the Mobilize Networks! workshop is part of the work. Between 25 January and 1 February I used the Net-Map exercise in my workshop, to create an understanding of the environment in which women entrepreneurs operate and the network of actors and linkages this entails. In Uganda for example we had a table with poultry farmers and they wanted to know who influences the market for poultry farmers. In Tanzania we had three tables of people in the honey industry and in Ethiopia we had the service industry, the honey industry and the coffee industry. Each country also had a handcrafts table.
We had many and varied maps, and people were glued to the process. We started the Net-Map before lunch. In Tanzania women came in from lunch early so they could keep working together on their maps. I found that 3 hours was a good amount of time to spend on this exercise.
After completing the maps and sharing the results, I ask people to write down what their next step will be to put the learning into action. The poultry people realized they needed to improve their relationship with the bank. In Tanzania the handicrafts people saw that too few organizations and institutions are concerned with quality and their next step will be to work to change this.
At the end of the session there was lightness in the room: people had developed a deep understanding and that was empowering.
All 100 participants received a link to your blog. Quite a number of the participants are trainers themselves, and I hope some of them will take the exercise into their practice.
Have you used Net-Map in your work and want to contribute your experience to our growing community of practice? Write it up and send it to me (eva-schiffer@web.de) so that I can add your voice to this blog. And feel free to send pictures as well.