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RICARDO NEIRA GONZÁLEZ
1. The present report addresses the admissibility of petition 11.685. The matter was opened by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (hereinafter "Inter-American Commission, "Commission" or "IACHR") pursuant to the filing by Ricardo Neira González of a petition dated April 17, 1995, and received on May 10, 1995, against the Republic of Argentina (hereinafter "Argentina" or "State"). As from a subsequent communication received on May 6, 1996, Mr. Neira's mother, Elisa González Brea, was incorporated in the file as a copetitioner. Following notification received on February 28, 2000 that Mr. Neira had died as the result of suicide, the Commission has maintained communication with his mother (hereinafter mother and son shall be referred to as "the petitioner").
2. The petition alleges that Mr. Neira was prosecuted for aggravated robbery, and absolved at first instance on the basis that the information which lead to his arrest was obtained through torture, and that he himself had been tortured in detention for the purpose of coercing a confession. The petitioner maintains that, on the basis of this torture, as recorded in forensic reports, the presiding judge dismissed the evidence proffered by the prosecution in accordance with the doctrine of the "fruit of the poisonous tree." The decision of acquittal was appealed by both the public and private prosecutors, and was revoked at second instance, through proceedings alleged to have been arbitrary. Mr. Neira sought to appeal the conviction handed down at second instance, but his requests for review were dismissed. The petition contends that, as a consequence of the foregoing, Mr. Neira was subjected to violations of his rights to judicial protection and due process, and to personal integrity as recognized in the American Convention on Human Rights (hereinafter "American Convention").
3. The State, for its part, maintains that the petition is inadmissible for failing to set forth facts demonstrating the violation of any right protected under the American Convention. It indicates that Mr. Neira received full due process guarantees when tried, and did not refer in his defense to the issue of alleged torture. The State contends that Mr. Neira's petition fails to demonstrate any violation of his right to an adequate legal defense, or that he was in fact subjected to torture. While the State indicates that domestic remedies were fully exhausted with respect to Mr. Neira's conviction, it draws attention to the fact that he never filed any denunciation with respect to alleged torture before the Office of the Procurador Penitenciario.
4. As set forth below, pursuant to its examination, the Commission concludes that it is competent to take cognizance of the petitioner's complaints concerning alleged violations which principally relate to Articles 5, 8, 25 and 1(1) of the American Convention, and that the petition is admissible pursuant to the terms of Articles 46 and 47 of that Convention.
5. The Commission acknowledged receipt of the petition and the documents submitted as annexes on May 18, 1995. By note of March 28, 1996, the Commission initiated the processing of the matter by transmitting the pertinent parts of the denunciation to the State, with a response requested within 90 days. By a note of June 25, 1996, the State requested an extension of time in which to respond. By notes of June 27, 1996, the Commission granted the State an additional 30 days, and informed the petitioner that this action had been taken. On July 23, 1996, the State requested an additional extension, and by notes of July 26, 1996, the Commission granted another 30 days and informed the petitioner accordingly. A further extension was requested on August 20, 1996. By notes of August 23, 1996, the Commission granted a 30 day extension, and informed the petitioner.
6. On September 24, 1996, the Commission received a brief communication from the petitioner. On September 25, 1996, the State requested a further extension of time to present its response. By note of September 30, 1996, the Commission transmitted the pertinent parts of the petitioner's communication to the State, with the receipt of all information in response requested within 30 days.
7. The State filed its response by means of a communication dated November 8, 1996. The pertinent parts were transmitted to the petitioners on November 13, 1996. The petitioners presented their observations in response with a date of November 25, 1996. The pertinent parts of those observations were transmitted to the State on December 19, 1996, with any response requested within 30 days.
8. By a note of January 15, 1997, the State requested an extension of time to respond. On January 17, 1997, the Commission granted an additional 30 days. On February 17, 1997, the State requested an additional extension. By note of February 21, 1997, the Commission granted another 30 days. The State submitted its observations on March 19, 1997. That submission was transmitted to the petitioners on April 15, 1997, with the presentation of any observations in response requested within 30 days.
9. On January 28, 2000, the Commission addressed the petitioner to ask whether he wished to present additional information. By note of February 16, 2000, Mr. Neira's mother responded with the notification that he had been released from prison on October 6, 1998, and had completed the requirements to receive his title as an attorney. He subsequently died on January 8, 1999 as the result of suicide. This information was transmitted to the State on November 27, 2000, with any further observations requested within 30 days. The State provided further information via a communication dated January 2, 2001. This was transmitted to the petitioner for her information on January 23, 2001. By note of October 18, 2001, the State submitted a brief communication reiterating its position on the inadmissibility of the petition. This was transmitted to the petitioner for her information on October 29, 2001.
A. The Petitioner
10. For the purposes of this report, which examines the admissibility of the claims raised in the petition, the petitioner's allegations may be summarized as follows. Mr. Neira, a Peruvian citizen and the father of three Argentine children, was subjected to three criminal prosecutions. While he referred to the other two as points of reference, the petition under study concerns only his prosecution for aggravated robbery.
11. That petition indicates that Mr. Neira was charged in process 2915 in connection with an armed robbery that took place on April 23, 1990. Approximately two and a half years later, he was absolved at first instance because the presiding judge excluded the proof against him and his co-accused. The petitioner alleges that this proof was excluded precisely because it had been obtained through torture. The petition contends that Daniel Perrone, the first person detained in presumed connection with that robbery, was tortured to reveal information about the robbery and to implicate Mr. Perrone himself, Mr. Neira and others. The petitioner alleges that, along with Mr. Perrone, he and two others were tortured in detention to coerce confessions, and that this torture was recorded in the respective medical reports.
12. The petition recounts that both the public prosecutor and the private prosecutor appealed the decision of acquittal before the Sala VII de la Cámara de Apelaciones en lo Criminal y Correccional de la Capital Federal. Pursuant to that appeal, the sentence of acquittal was revoked, and Mr. Neira was sentenced at second instance to seven years in prison. The petitioner argues, inter alia, that the sentence at second instance ignores the rule under Article 316 of the old Code of Criminal Procedure, applicable during his trial, that required that any declaration taken into account must have been taken before a judge. Further, he maintains that the court of second instance arbitrarily ignored the concerns of the court of first instance with respect to the credibility of the investigating police officers. The judge at first instance reportedly questioned the version asserted by the police that the defendant first detained, Mr. Perrone, was arrested following a traffic stop, with his papers in order, in the presence of his family, when he spontaneously raised the issue of the robbery to the officers reviewing his papers. The petitioner further emphasized that the court of second instance arbitrarily ignored the evidence of torture recorded in the medical reports.
13. The petition alleges that Mr. Neira was notified of this decision while detained, but was not initially provided the reasons issued in support of it. The petition claims that he then petitioned the Sala VII to receive the reasons, and was denied, and was forced to send a family member to the court to obtain a copy of the sentence in time to file his recurso extraordinario within the ten days provided by law. The petition recounts that the recurso extraordinario was denied, as was his subsequent recurso de queja on November 17, 1994. He argued that he was unable to vindicate his charges concerning torture due to lack of adequate legal counsel. He indicated that his main concern at trial and on appeal had simply been defending himself against the criminal charges brought against him, with the limited assistance of a public defender.
14. With his petition, Mr. Neira submitted copies of (1) the sentence of acquittal at first instance, (2) the sentence of conviction at second instance, (3) a medical report concerning his condition on May 2, 1990, (4) his request that the period provided by law to present a recurso extraordinario be suspended pending his receipt of the reasons for the decision at second instance, (5) the recurso extraordinario he filed on his own behalf, (6) the submission presented by his public defender in relation to that recurso extraordinario, (7) the recurso de queja he filed on his own behalf, and (8) the rejection of that recurso de queja by the Supreme Court with the certificate of notification.
15. The State reports that Mr. Neira was prosecuted for the crime of aggravated robbery using an arm in process Nº 2915 before Secretariat Nº 24 of the Court of Sentencing (Juzgado de Sentencia) Letter "Q."[1] He was absolved on August 28, 1991, and then convicted on appeal on April 15, 1992. The State indicates that it has no record of the filing of any further recourse before the Supreme Court of Justice.
16. The State maintains that the court of appeals carried out the process with full respect for the law and especially the applicable guarantees of due process. The State contends that the police complied fully with their duties. If there had been some irregularity, the State argues, Mr. Neira's defense was perfectly able to raise it before the courts, but failed to allege or establish any such problem at the appeals level.
17. The State maintains that the complaints raised by Mr. Neira in a generic way are not sufficiently explained, that its review of the process reveals no violation of any protected right, that there is no specific argument raised with respect to the right to an adequate legal defense, and that there was no presentation offered before the domestic courts or the Commission as to what Mr. Neira qualifies as torture.
18. With respect to the allegation of torture, specifically, the State reports that Mr. Neira presented no corresponding denunciation before the Office of the Procurador Penitenciario. The State notes that this Office was created specifically to protect the human rights of detainees within the prison system. The State contrasts Mr. Neira's failure to denounce the allegations of torture with the fact that he filed a denunciation with respect to the computation of his sentence and time for release.
19. In summary, throughout its presentations the State indicates that the petition is inadmissible for failing to state facts tending to show a violation of a protected right. On the one hand, the State argues that the petition fails to set forth concrete elements sufficient to support or prove the violations alleged. On the other hand, the State maintains that Mr. Neira enjoyed the full opportunity to litigate his claims before the national courts, and was attempting to relitigate them before the Inter-American Commission. This, the State contends, would place the Commission in the position of acting as a fourth instance of review, a function beyond its mandate.
20. In its final presentations, the State indicates that it regrets the death of Mr. Neira, but reiterates its position as to the inadmissibility of the petition. It argues that, given the failure to state a claim, combined with the procedural inaction of Mr. Neira's mother, who it considers has not insisted on pursuing the petition in her communications subsequent to her son's death, the petition should be declared inadmissible.
21. The Commission is competent to examine the petition in question. In accordance with the terms of Article 44 of the American Convention, the petitioner has standing to present a claim before the Commission. The petition under study indicates that the alleged victim was subject to the jurisdiction of the Argentine State at the time of the alleged facts. With respect to the State, Argentina is a State Party to the American Convention, having duly deposited its instrument of ratification on September 5, 1984. Accordingly, the Commission has the competence ratione personae to examine the claims presented.
22. Insofar as the petition raises complaints concerning rights set forth in Articles 5, 8, 25 and 1(1) of the American Convention, the Commission has the competence ratione materiae to review it.
23. Further, the Commission has the competence ratione temporis to examine this matter. The petition is based on facts alleged to have occurred beginning in 1990, at which time the obligations undertaken by the State under the American Convention were in full effect.
24. Finally, given that the petition alleges violations of rights protected under the American Convention that have taken place in the territory of a State Party, the Commission concludes that it has the competence ratione loci to take cognizance of it.
26. In the present case, the parties agree that the judicial proceedings brought against Mr. Neira have reached the stage of res judicata. The documents submitted with the petition reflect that Mr. Neira was tried at first instance in process 2915 before Judge Ricardo José Galli of the Juzgado Nacional en lo Criminal de Sentencia letra "S" and absolved through the sentence issued on September 4, 1992. The sentence issued by Judge Galli reflects that both Mr. Neira and his codefendant Mr. Perrone presented rectifications shortly after their initial statements before the investigating judge, each complaining of having been subjected to physical abuse while in police custody with the objective of coercing them to provide confessions. That sentence reflects the judge's determination that the results of the police investigation were obtained through the physical mistreatment of defendants Perrone and Maffeo, thereby requiring the exclusion of the corresponding evidence.
27. Following the appeal of the public and private prosecutors, Mr. Neira was subsequently condemned at second instance by the Sala VII of the Cámara Nacional de Apelaciones en lo Criminal y Correccional de la Capital, through a decision dated March 8, 1994. The Sala VII determined that the physical mistreatment had not been proven whereas Mr. Neira's responsibility had been established. The petition indicates that he received due notification of that sentence on April 21, 1994.
28. The recurso extraordinario prepared and presented by Mr. Neira before the Sala VII sought that his conviction at second instance be overturned by the Supreme Court of Justice on the basis that the evidence utilized to convict him was obtained through torture. Mr. Neira argued that the use of such torture forced those subjected to it, namely his codefendant Mr. Perrone and himself, to declare against their own interests, and violated basic norms of due process recognized in the Argentine Constitution. He argued that both law and practice required that the evidence thereby obtained be excluded from the process, and that the Sala VII had arbitrarily ignored the medical reports proving the existence of that torture. The Sala VII rejected the recurso extraordinario as inadmissible in a resolution of May 26, 1994. Mr. Neira thereafter presented a recurso de queja before the Supreme Court of Justice. It was dismissed by resolution of November 17, 1994, on the basis that it did not comply with the requirement of fundamentación autónoma. The notification of this decision was dated November 22, 1994.
29. The State indicated in its presentation of November 8, 1996 that it considered the process before its courts to have been finalized with the sentence dated March 8, 1994, and reported that it had no record of any appeal in process 2915 before the Supreme Court of Justice.
30. On this point, the Commission has reviewed the claims of the petitioner, and a copy of both the November 17, 1994 resolution of the Supreme Court rejecting the recurso de queja filed by Mr. Neira in process 2915 and the notification of that decision dated November 22, 1994, both of which appear to be fully in order. While the State indicates it is unable to locate any record of this appeal, neither has it expressly challenged the petitioner's claims or the authenticity of the documents in question. Accordingly, the Commission concludes that domestic remedies with respect to process 2915 were concluded with the denial of the recurso de queja notified with a date of November 22, 1994.
31. Although the State has only expressly contested the admissibility of the petition on the basis that it fails to state a cognizable claim, there are two points in relation to the requirement of exhaustion that may merit comment. First, at several points in its presentations the State notes that while the matter was on appeal before the Sala VII, Mr. Neira's legal counsel did not attempt to demonstrate any irregularities that could have affected his rights, thus presumably arguing by implication that Mr. Neira failed to fully invoke the remedies that were available to him. The State's position in this regard is somewhat unclear, given that it was the prosecution that had sought the review of the decision issued at first instance, not Mr. Neira. In any case, the Commission's review of the documents, including the decisions issued at first and second instance and the recurso extraordinario indicate that the various instances of the judiciary seized with process 2915 were clearly placed on notice of Mr. Neira's claims alleging torture and asserting the consequent nullity of the proceedings against him.
32. Second, the State refers at various points in its presentations to the fact that Mr. Neira never filed a complaint that he had been subjected to torture with the Procurador Penitenciario.[3] Pursuant to the terms of Article 46, the remedies relevant for the purposes of the present analysis are judicial remedies. In this regard, the Commission reiterates that its review of the record before it indicates that the claims of torture were placed squarely before the judicial authorities charged with exercising jurisdiction over process 2915. Accordingly, the terms of Article 46 requiring that remedies under domestic law have been pursued and exhausted in accordance with generally recognized principles of international law have been met.
34. According to the record before the Commission, in the present case the notification that the Supreme Court had rejected Mr. Neira's recurso de queja was issued on November 22, 1994. His petition before the Commission was dated April 17, 1995, and received on May 10, 1995. Consequently, it complies with the requirement of timely presentation.
36. Article 47(b) of the American Convention provides that allegations which do not state facts tending to establish a violation shall not be admitted. The State has presented three basic arguments to support its contention that the petition is inadmissible under this standard. First, it contends that there were in fact no irregularities in the prosecution of Mr. Neira that could have affected his rights. Second, it maintains that Mr. Neira's defense declined or failed to demonstrate any such irregularities during the judicial proceedings, and that he failed to explain or define what he meant by the torture he alleged, either before the domestic courts or in his complaint before the Commission. Third, it argues that what the petition is essentially seeking is that the Commission review a judicial decision with which the petitioner simply disagrees. This would, in the view of the State, require the Commission to act as a "fourth instance" of review, a function beyond the scope of its competence.
37. The first contention is a matter for review at the merits stage of the Commission's examination. In accordance with the terms of the Convention and Commission's Rules of Procedure, the standard to be met at the admissibility stage is not that the violations have been proven, but that the petition states facts which, if eventually shown to be true, would tend to characterize a violation.
38. The second contention was made and repeated in generic fashion, without reference to specific proceedings or other concrete information. From its review of the record, the Commission notes that Mr. Neira declared before the judge in charge of the judicial investigation that he had been beaten repeatedly while in the custody of the investigating police officers, that the officers had detained his pregnant wife for a short interval, and had thereafter threatened his family. He further alleged that he had been hooded and suffocated, and repeatedly threatened with further harm if he did not cooperate. The record also notes that in his initial declaration, prior to alleging that he was tortured, he indicated that he was in pain, and asked that x-rays be taken. These aspects of his declarations before the investigating judge are reflected in the sentence issued at first instance. These declarations and the sentence at first instance in turn form part of the record upon which Mr. Neira based himself in seeking to overturn the revocation of that sentence by the Sala VII. In this regard, the claims raised before the domestic instances appear to have been defined with sufficient clarity to have enabled the responsible authorities to respond, and with sufficient clarity to indicate that, if shown to be true, they could constitute violations of rights protected under the American Convention.
39. With respect to the third argument, that review of this petition would require the Commission to act as a "fourth instance" beyond the sphere of its competence, it may be recalled that the IACHR is "not competent to review judgments handed down by national courts acting within the scope of their jurisdiction and observing due judicial guarantees."[4] The Commission "cannot serve as an appellate court to examine alleged errors of internal law or fact that may have been committed by the domestic courts acting within their jurisdiction."[5] However, within its mandate to ensure the observance of the rights set forth in the Convention, the Commission is necessarily "competent to declare a petition admissible and rule on its merits when it portrays a claim that a domestic legal decision constitutes a disregard of the right to a fair trial," or alleges other violations of rights protected thereunder.[6] The Commission finds in the present case that the petitioner has stated claims concerning alleged violations of the right to judicial protection and guarantees, as well as the right to personal integrity which, if consistent with other requirements and shown to be true, could tend to establish the violation of rights protected under Articles 5, 8, 25 and 1(1) of the American Convention.
40. Bearing in mind the claims raised concerning judicial protection and guarantees and the principle of jura novit curia, in its decision on the merits the Commission will also address the issue of access to judicial review with respect to a conviction resulting from the revocation of a sentence of absolution issued at first instance.
1. To declare the present case admissible with respect to the alleged violation of the rights recognized in Articles 5, 8, 25 and 1(1) of the American Convention.
[1] The majority of the documents in the record refer to the designation letra "S." In any case, both parties are clearly referring to the prosecution of process 2915.
[3] In this regard, it should be noted that this Office was created in 1993, subsequent to when the initial facts alleged took place, through the issuance of Decree 1598.
[4] See generally, IACHR, Report Nº 101/00, case 11.630 Arauz et al. (Nicaragua), Oct. 16, 2000, in Annual Report of the IACHR 2000, para. 56, citing IACHR, Report Nº 39/96, case 11.673 Marzioni (Argentina), Oct. 15, 1996, in Annual Report of the IACHR 1996, paras. 50-51.
[5] IACHR, Report Nº 7/01, case 11.716 Güelfi (Panama), Feb. 23, 2001, in Annual Report of the IACHR 2000, para. 20, quoting Marzioni, supra, para. 51.


And I get to use not only my training and authority to educate you in things of theology and religion, but I get to put my hand once again to the pencil and the sheet to create for you worlds vastly different from the one you are all too familiar with, where for a few minutes you can suspend disbelief. This story telling, preaching, is part of our Episcopal identity that is as deep as it is wide. We put great emphasis on every part of the service being a moment of potential encounter between you and God in the event of faith. From the first song to the last and everything in between is structured to make that encounter possible. Not least of which is the event of preaching.
In preaching I get to use my words to create for you a moment in time and space for you to get caught up and caught in. I get to use my words to pull you into the rich and verdant possibility of encounter with God in the event of faith. I get to bring eye-to-eye and hand-to-hand with a God who loves deeply and fully. I get to call into being a moment so filled with conflict and comfort, where you are encountered and altered so radically that if you are listening even just a little bit, you can't help but leave a little bit different.
I get to tell you stories about words so imbued with fertility that they spontaneously generate worlds of life (from the smallest plant to the largest mountain and every living thing between). I get to bring you face to face with a mighty, divine power who is deeply impassioned over people and the world that bushes burn, waters part, rains cause floods, food falls from the sky, and the earth quakes. I get to place you among the crowd of people enslaved, freed, and on the run; who cross a sea between walls of water, roam painfully through miles and miles of dessert, are fed from the sky, look to snakes for healing, and struggle with faith and belief that the promise uttered way back when is still valid, will still be fulfilled.
I get to point to the prophets of Israel who were so filled with the spirit and divine presence, that they couldn't be silent anymore and spoke up, calling their people around them to wake up, hear, and return to the truth. I get to seat you at the stage of the greatest and most romantical story of love and desire between two people that Romeo and Juliet blush. I get to recite for you the poetry and songs of a people overcome with love and gratitude, hope and confidence, and sometimes fear and despair. I get to expose you to wisdom so ancient and so true, that there isn't a fortune cookie or a horoscope in the world that could ever hold a match to it.
And then, as a faithful tour guide of this great story, I walk you through the good, the bad, and the ugly of the fits and starts of the early church comprised of people trying to figure out what just happened exactly, people like you and me. And I get to show you—each of you—where you've been grafted into this story since the beginning of time, where you along with all people of all history, are the intended recipient of this great work and act of love of God. I'm not here to give you another syllabus decorated with lists of expectations and to-dos; I'm here to call you out of all of that for a handful of minutes in order to tell you about what I think is the greatest story ever told, to write and speak you into it. I'm here to recreate that story for you in this time and space; to make that story come alive in this place at this moment.
I'm here to hand the story on to you "…just as [it was] handed on to us by those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word, …so that you may know the truth concerning the things about [the great story of God's deep abiding love for God's world and God's people, for you, God's beloved child]" (adapted from Luke 1:1-4).


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Animal shelter mistakenly euthanized dog set for rescue
Officials say a mistake led to a rottweiler being put down at a Maricopa County animal shelter.
By David Caltabiano and Debra Worley
Published: Jan. 20, 2023 at 11:28 AM EST
PHOENIX (KPHO/Gray News) – An animal control and care center in Arizona is under fire after employees mistakenly euthanized a dog that was set to be rescued.
A spokesperson for Maricopa County Animal Care and Control called it an honest mistake that led to the tragic death of a rottweiler.
Shelly Froehlich, who runs Rotten Rottie Rescue, saw 3-year-old Cerrit on MCACC's euthanasia list for behavioral issues and knew she had to save his life.
"He was a scared dog," Froehlich said. "He needed to get out of there; it was a bad place for him."
The rottweiler was once a stray found in Mesa. He was on his way out, but Froehlich planned to take him off the euthanasia list until a staff member on the vet team put him down.
"It was devastating, devastating," said Froehlich. "He was a baby. He had his whole life ahead of him."
Kim Powell, the spokesperson for MCACC, said it was unfathomable to her and her staff.
Powell said a staff member on the vet team missed a critical step and did not see that Rotten Rottie Rescue was going to pick Cerrit up.
"A rescue group was supposed to get Cerrit after he was neutered, unfortunately, there was a note in there that the vet tech didn't see. They didn't see that this dog was a guaranteed pull," Powell said. "It is an irreversible error and the person responsible for this is beside themselves."
Powell admits a similar mistake happened in December, leading to another dog's death. Now, she said the facility is taking a look at its processes.
"Now we are taking a deep dive into what it is and how we can make sure this doesn't happen again," Powell explained.
MCACC said the employee who made the mistake is facing disciplinary action but could not say what that action was.
"There is no going back, it's done, there is nothing that can bring that dog back," Froehlich said.
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I wasn't sure what to expect at O2 Living's Ladies Night. I've never been to a holistic wellness center, and worried running off to one in the middle of a frenetic work week wouldn't be the best use of my time, even if they did have free wine.
Though the event was advertised as a way to try something new with the support of friends, I arrived friendless (thanks Susan, Amy, Liz, Alison and Joyce for being "busy"). But the event was also promoted as an opportunity to make new friends, and indeed the group of women there was approachable and supportive. It was fun trading tips and phone numbers (so long, Susan, Amy, Liz, Alison and Joyce) as we waited for our mini chair massages.
Speaking of, the wait was worth it for five minutes in a chair with massage therapist Jackie Meyers. I'd be happy to interrupt a frenetic week of work for a longer version of that.
was doing to my feet felt nothing like what goes on in the nail salon. Something about reflex points, organs, nervous systems and whatnot.
More of that and one of Eva'a facials, please.
There were sessions on yoga and guided imagery, too. And food, of course. Healthy, of course. And I finally got to try Living Juice's newest flavor of cold-pressed juice, Pineapple Punch.
I had so many free samples of it I forgot to drink the wine.
I have to admit I wasn't sure I'd fit in at a holistic wellness center, the definition of which I had to Google before I left the house. And I'm pretty sure even if I could fit in the cute clothes they had in the store, I wouldn't like what I saw in the mirror.
But maybe, if I keep going, eventually I will.


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Thinking Like a Lawyer - Above the Law
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There's a bird loose in the Harvard Law School library, prompting Joe and Elie to have an impromptu debate over whether or not libraries are still essential in a world of digital research. Speaking of the internet, Deadspin's entire staff resigned last week and the duo discuss the legal and policy implications of the blogosphere's loss. Labor law, private equity business models, the bankruptcy code… it's all involved in the otherwise straightforward demise of a venerable publication.
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Intro: Welcome to Thinking Like a Lawyer with your hosts Elie Mystal and Joe Patrice, talking about legal news and pop culture, all while Thinking Like a Lawyer, here on Legal Talk Network.
Joe Patrice: Hello. Welcome to another edition of Thinking Like a Lawyer. I am Joe Patrice from Above the Law. And today, we are recording in two separate places so I can't see my co-host, but I know he's out there. Elie?
Elie Mystal: I am just happy to be out of goddamn costume.
Joe Patrice: Oh yes, no. For those of you who don't already follow him on Twitter, which I don't know why you wouldn't he's @ElieNYC, you saw the costume that he was forced to wear last night, but tell us a little bit about your turn as a Pokémon?
Elie Mystal: All right, so my kids, my oldest 7-year-old he wants to go as Pokémons and we usually do family costumes so we all go as something, right? So, this year he wanted to go as Pokémon, that's fine. He was Pikachu, the little one was Snorlax, we had this all set. I was going to be Charmander or Charizard depending on whether or not I got the wings in time, right?
So I don't want to do this. I'm not a Halloween fan. I don't like dressing up and having my kids got into the street and beg for candy, that's like not me. But, you know, whatever, you got kids, you do what you got to do and my wife is into Halloween, my mother is like crazy super Halloween person.
So, I get into my Charizard costume so that I can surprise the boys when they're getting off the bus coming home from school. Okay, that all works great. Then my wife gets home and she's all like, you know, obviously, we had planned this. She knew what I was going as and she's like, yeah, your costume, it's just not big enough and I'm like, well, sorry lady, ain't nothing you can do about it, right?
Joe Patrice: So by big enough, were you going as sexy Charizard or —
Elie Mystal: No, she wasn't making a fat joke, at least that's how I interpret it in real time.
Joe Patrice: I actually meant short skirt kind of a thing, but interesting, you took it to that direction. There are many ways this can go, all right, and it's all going badly, go on.
Elie Mystal: It's all going badly for me, right? But, no, I took it as that it wasn't kind of loud enough for my personality knowing that I don't like to have a big personality on Halloween. So I was like basically tough nuggies lady. She's like actually I can do something about it and she pulls out of the closet unbeknownst to me what my actual costume was, which was this giant blow-up Pikachu thing. They literally had to get into then sit still while they inflated around me. I had to take off my glasses because they were fogging up and I can barely see without my glasses besides the fact I'm looking at this thing's mouth hole and I had to waddle around my neighborhood in front of my neighbors in this giant Pikachu costume.
And you might think, oh well, anonymity was preserved. Not on my street. I think my neighbors know my family and so they know, oh, that must be Elie in the giant Pikachu costume. It was — and like the kids at first were just like guiding me because I can't see, but of course as they get into it, they're just abandoning me in the street to go running after candy. So I'm like walking into cars and knocking over trash cans, it was just my wife and like I couldn't see her, but the entire time I just hear my goddamn wife like cackling, cackling in the distance for her — she would call it genius.
Joe Patrice: Yeah — no, I mean, that sounds awful. I am —
Elie Mystal: What you go as?
Joe Patrice: I was regularly dressed in a bar, but you know; actually that's not true. I actually went as dignity.
Elie Mystal: That's not as good as your best Halloween costume. You want to tell the people that?
Joe Patrice: My best Halloween costume? Well, I was going to follow up on dignity. I was wearing a shirt with a weird design on it with no explanation if people asked me what I was, I was going to say, it was dignity, because the design is from the episode of Simpsons where Kirk and Luann get divorced over a Pictionary game because he draws this weird thing, he says, come on Luann, it's dignity.
Elie Mystal: That's right.
Joe Patrice: So I was just wearing that, hoping someone would ask what I was wearing so I could say, you know I'm going to get it. I'll show it to the cat, the cat is going to get it. So, yes, I went as dignity technically.
My favorite Halloween time was an instance where I was hosting a party so I didn't have to go outside, which allowed me to use a wheelchair all day and be FDR and I did up the whole FDR thing. It was pretty elaborate.
It did require me occasionally to stand up and do things around the party at which point I would become Secretary of the Navy, Franklin Roosevelt because I could still move around then, but yeah, that's what I — that was my most elaborate stab at dressing up.
Elie Mystal: That year I went to your house for that party and I went as Jimmy McMillan, the Rent is too damn high guy.
Joe Patrice: That was a pretty good one actually, like I mean, it was no Pikachu, but it was pretty good.
Elie Mystal: In any event that's why I pissed about. I guess technically that was grinding gears but I'm actually happy because I'm out of the Pikachu costume and I've lost ten pounds, so that's also good.
Joe Patrice: Yeah, no, dressing up as animals which brings us to today's episode is brought to you by your cat Mr. Whiskers who's very mad at you and thinking about moving in with your ex, all because you're still at the office slogging through an endless doc review project, make better decisions, keep your pet and work smarter with Logikcull, eDiscovery software that gets you started in minutes. Live in the meow, create a free account today at logikcull.com/atl.
Elie Mystal: You just said "live in the meow".
Joe Patrice: I did say "live in the meow", yeah — no, and I'm feeling great about it. Actually animals have been kind of dominating our legal news lately because we had Lawyer Cat, obviously the greatest episode of the show's history, but also we have now a bird that's loosen Harvard's Law Library.
Elie Mystal: Yeah, can you explain that story because I don't get it?
Joe Patrice: So, there's a bird in the law library, somehow managed to get into the law library and they can't get it out and it's just flying around the library and nobody knows how to get a hold of it.
Elie Mystal: Yeah, can you explain that story because I don't get how that's a story, the bird happens Langdell is large.
Joe Patrice: Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I've been to a lot of large buildings that don't have birds in them. Like you usually find birds getting into large things like, Elie, you'll find them in a department — not a department store, but like a super store, Wal-Mart kind of thing, but that's because they're flying in through the loading and unloading docks.
These large openings that you can't really police, but I would assume a law library is the sort of structure that can only be entered through normal-sized human doors and that's why this is a little weird. But, no, the bird is causing terror all over the stacks. It's getting food from the law students who are in there and that's keeping its energy up.
The bird now has a Twitter account by the way.
Elie Mystal: I didn't know that.
Joe Patrice: The bird has a Twitter account. It has a bunch of followers but it's only following one account, which is the account that exists for the stray cat that occasionally hangs out in Langdell. Obviously, bird needs to keep tabs on that cat. So –
Elie Mystal: I'm still — I mean Langdell is a beautiful building. I think Langdell is easily the most beautiful building on the Harvard Law campus and I think definitely in the top two or three buildings on the Harvard University campus as a whole. I feel like it's outlived its usefulness like I do not know what to tell a young student now, why they would ever need to go into a law library other than like their dorm sucks. So it's like a nicer place to study. But like as a functional building it might as well feed some birds while you're in there because it doesn't do anything.
Joe Patrice: Well, I mean, this is kind of the struggle when it comes to legal research and obviously organizations like Westlaw who sponsors Above the Law a lot, these sort of research engines, and there's more than just Westlaw obviously have taken a lot of the legal research that you would ever need and put it online such that it can be accessed from pretty much anywhere.
And that leads people to feel as though the law library isn't important anymore and there's some truth to the idea that you don't need nearly as much of a footprint. You don't need to have all those federal reporters in print form now that every — all of those cases are digitized.
That said, there's other reasons why the law library is important and it's not just because of a study hall situation, but there are records and primary sources that you can't get in digitized form and they're important for that. Now that's not the sort of work that a 1L, 2L may be doing, but at the point that you're writing a note or some sort of or if you're a faculty certainly and writing something more robust about just general legal scholarship.
Having access to primary sources, handwritten notes of people and stuff like that, that's what a library is still always going to be needed for.
Elie Mystal: I think you're absolutely right in terms of faculty, like the law library exists for faculty, the same way that any research library exists for full time scholars and exactly because you say of the primary documents, of the historical records that are kept in there.
I was talking more from the perspective of a student like it's — for a 1L Langdell is just a prettier place to study.
Joe Patrice: I mean, yeah, totally, and I'll say that as a law student I was there 20 years ago and the library was already at that point no longer a place that you needed to be as a student already the primary works that you would need to interact with as a student had moved into digital form and it was just there as a cool place to study.
Elie Mystal: I do feel though like as is back in those days and I'm just 00:11:08, so 20 or so years ago, I do feel that because Westlaw, Lexis, these technologies were there and established but still kind of emerging. There was some, you could go to the library and get some Boolean search help, right/ Like the research librarian was still kind of a thing at least 20 years ago in a way that, even that position has been digitized out of our existence.
Joe Patrice: I actually don't know about that. I'd pull back on that. I actually think that as a resource while the library is less of a resource, the librarians are still very important, because of the way in which they can see through, and algorithms are obviously always going to be evolving and making this a little bit easier, but research librarians are in a position to say, oh, this is what you're after, did you realize you should be looking over here in ways that sometimes aren't obvious to algorithm.
Elie Mystal: Right, right, right.
Joe Patrice: So I still think that that's a resource that's very valuable and in a lot of ways I feel as though and I haven't gone to AALL, which is the law librarian conference that we usually send someone to, unfortunately it's just always happened during a week that I'm not available to travel to it, but I'd love to because I get the sense that the role of the law librarian is somewhat evolving to be not just a librarian, but also to be kind of a go-to legal-tech expert, because so much of that work is becoming — here's how you deal with the algorithm that's supposed to tell you where to find things. This is how the search should be structured so that you get the maximum of what you want, and that transition into the tech world is an interesting evolution of a job that obviously has existed in a very analog form for a long time.
Elie Mystal: Indeed.
Joe Patrice: Yeah, that we talked about a bird and said some very, very deep things about the nature of legal research. I'm impressed with us.
Elie Mystal: Well, you know, it's better than talking about a cat.
Joe Patrice: See, yeah, well now, that I'm worried about, I'm worried about the birds dealing with the stray cat, who lives in the library. We'll have to see how that Tom and Jerry situation plays out.
Elie Mystal: Fly, fly, fly little birdie, fly, fly, fly.
Joe Patrice: Yeah.
Elie Mystal: Listeners, we come to you today in the midst of a very sad time in our industry, and by our industry, I mean people who like to read.
Joe Patrice: Yes, we're putting on a slightly different hat than our legal hat when we talk about industry to talk about the journalism industry.
Elie Mystal: One of the best websites out there for journalism for writing and certainly for sports, Deadspin is going through a really tough period right now. They have been cannibalized by private equity vultures and this week saw the mass exodus of just some of the best sports writers available following hot on the heels of the mask firing of the other group of the best sports writers available who formerly worked for Sports Illustrated.
I have a belief that sports writing is actually some of the best writing bar none, some of the best journalism bar none of any kind of writing, in part because most people who watch sports think they can write about sports, right, that you watch the game why can't you talk about it.
And so the competition to get a good job as a sports writer is so high that when you reach that pinnacle you're either kind of a shameless hack Stephen A. Smith jerk face who should be banished from society or you are one of the best kind of communicators of information in your field, and I think that Deadspin is much more the latter than the former, and it's been gutted, it's being gutted right in front of our eyes.
And it goes into, to me, lots of different issues, it's a lot about journalism in the future, if there is going to be a future for journalism.
It's also a labor issue, where these bosses, Deadspin, a part of G/O Media now, they are unionized writers and that's supposed to have some protections, but despite being unionized, the private equity vultures were able to, as far as we can understand, take down content without editorial approval and then essentially fire their Deputy Editor for refusing to play the private equity game and putting up the content that the editors wanted to put up as opposed to the owners wanted to put up, and that shouldn't be possible in a world with strong unions.
Joe Patrice: Right. And we will take a second to focus on some of the legal aspects of what you just brought up. So this comes also on the heels of the same organization getting rid of all the Splinter writers, which they did a few weeks ago. The Deadspin — the reason the Deputy Deadspin Editor was the person on chopping block this week is because the actual editor-in-chief had already left over these issues. So Barry was operating as something of the interim head.
Elie Mystal: Right, acting head.
Joe Patrice: Yeah, acting head. So when you say they took things down and that shouldn't be, that's because the union that they — that operates there has a collective bargaining agreement, as one would if you are a union, and that collective bargaining agreement included provisions on how to deal with taking down posts, and required to take down any post according to the agreement between management and the union was that there would have to be a meeting involving the Executive Editor of the publication at the time where a majority vote would be taken between the CEO, the General Counsel and the Executive Editor.
That did not happen and they took down a post that was relatively innocuous in a lot of ways. It was that the site had started running autoplay video ads, and if you are a human being, you hate those. So when you would open up the website, some blaring idiot would start screaming out of your computer and people didn't like that, and the post said we agree, we would rather not have these on our site. If you have a problem with it, you should share that with our business side because they feel these are valuable.
That is a perfectly well-meaning and important customer feedback avenue. It was taken down in the middle of the night without any consultation with editorial, which is violation of the collective bargaining agreement, which was then brought to their attention, which resulted in the removal of the Deputy Editor and over the course of the next probably four days the leaving of everybody.
Elie Mystal: It's an important point to focus on, because I have seen online and in other media outlets people kind of sniggering and saying like oh, how our autoplay video ads are the hill worth dying on. First of all, they are kind of a hill worth dying on.
Joe Patrice: They are the worse.
Elie Mystal: Because they are the worse, and I understand business and advertisers think they are super valuable because it forces people to engage with the ad, just to make it stop, but it's — to me, it's such an invasion and violation, because so many people are trying to read while they are doing other things usually at work, right? So when your computer starts talking to you at work, it is embarrassing in front of your colleagues to basically be outed by the website you are trying to patronize for doing that on "work hours".
Now, we could go into this whole — I could go into a whole different kind of populist, revolutionary way of like we shouldn't be all wage slaves that are afraid of taking some downtime out of the workday, but regardless, since I understand what capitalism is, certainly you should not be forcing your users and readers to out themselves just by clicking on your website, but, but, that's not actually the hill they were dying on, okay.
It could be worth it to die on that hill, that's not the hill that Barry Petchesky and the Deadspin editors were dying on; the hill they were dying on is exactly what Joe says, it is the way in which a post is supposed to be taken down. They have a structure for that. They have a collectively bargained structure for that and their owners just ignored that in order to take down this post criticizing the autoplay ads on the site.
Elie Mystal: That is certainly a hill worth dying on, because you have collectively bargained to be on that hill.
Joe Patrice: Yes, exactly. It's more of a sign of the disrespect they have for the agreement as a whole, making this very much a labor issue. We are talking about a sports site, but I think to a lot of people it meant a lot more than that and that's why Bernie Sanders is tweeting about the Deadspin situation. Like it's astounding to me how this sports site has grown into something that's big enough that presidential candidates feel the need to weigh in on.
But it really is, because this is — because of the way in which labor law has kind of been — labor unions as a whole have been kicked around in this country, this is one of those few situations left where there is actually a union in a nonpublic service sector.
Elie Mystal: And not to go fully into kind of politics 2020, whatever, like one of the key issues for a lot of the people who are leaving Deadspin, what they had is that there was the edict from on high that they "stick to sports". This is a very ESPN, Disney-fide driven view of things. That people come to sports site to want to read about sports. They don't want to hear about anything else. This is their break from the horrible political news.
And I get that. I certainly — when I turn on a game, part of the reason why I am turning on the game and not cable news is that I am sick of cable news and I want to just kind of immerse myself in something that is fundamentally entertainment as opposed to our actual news cycle. But what Deadspin understood and what they did and what they got a lot of traffic for is that there were a whole lot of cultural, social issues that expressed themselves through sports.
Certainly as an African-American I can tell you that for all of the great work of a Rosa Parks or Martin Luther King or the whole Civil Rights Movement, none of that happens without Jackie, none of that happens without Jackie Robinson, and Jackie Robinson doesn't happen without Jesse Owens, who raced the Nazis essentially and won, right, like don't tell me that our sporting culture doesn't have a role to play in the advancement of social issues, okay. That's number one.
Number two, for all of these Democrats who are constantly whining and 00:22:37 about how they are going to get to Trump voters and they have got to get Trump voters coming back to the fold, the way to get Trump voters is not to go on Fox News. You don't go on their home turf and fight the battle on their terms with their white supremacist, state propagandist network. You go get them when they are watching the game. You go get them at the pep rally.
And so one of the things that I think Deadspin did effectively was not just to talk about social issues as they crossover into sports, which is just basic journalism, but also present a way of thinking about the world that was fact-based, that eschewed the bullshit talking points from both sides, if you will, talking to people who were gettable on either side of the political spectrum, because we are all coming here kind of for the same thing, which is to talk about how stupid the Jets are. Like you are getting people in a, I want to say vulnerable moment, but in a moment where I feel like they are more open to conversation and it's not about having a left-right conversation, it's about having a facts-not facts conversation, and that's what Deadspin was doing, and to take that away from them is just frustrating.
Joe Patrice: Yeah. I mean I disagree with large swathes of particular things you said there, but I do think that you hit on the way in which it was — it understood that an audience is not a — people who read sports websites are human beings, not sports automatons who want to see just sports news, and some of the fallout of all this has been a discussion that former salespeople for the Gizmodo and before that Gawker Group point out, where they are saying in social media, this is just not true. The ads that we would sell on those websites were never sports related ads, they were lifestyle ads or something about the culture. The most popular posts were the how-to — the recipes and stuff like that. There were always things that weren't sports, but things aimed towards readers who are sports fans.
And that understanding that your audience is a human being who is more well-rounded and that the sports vector is only the entrée to who they are and may give you some clues as to other things they may be interested in, but that you are serving that audience as a whole and not just as here is my sports vector news, was what they did, and what they were incredibly successful at, which is where I think you transitioned to the one other — the next legal aspect of all this, which is the problem which you already mentioned in passing is that this exists because of private equity as a model of investment, where you have companies who come in and say, I am going to spend a lot of money, usually pension money actually, which is an unfortunate aspect of this, another labor aspect of this, one of the few other places where labor is involved is in public sector labor unions having pension funds and those unfortunately are mostly hijacked by private equity groups for this sort of investment.
That money is thrown in, usually more money than can be afforded, but don't worry, once the company is acquired, all that money is moved into being debt upon that company. So the people who bought it never have to pay it, it goes to that company. And the argument is maybe they can find a way to gussy it up such that it can be sold at a quick turnaround profit and they walk away with everything and somebody else is left holding the bag, or if it goes down the tubes, well, the company is what's charged with the debt, not us. We collected our fees and we move on.
It's that kind of mindset that some candidates in the election have talked about the need to reform our laws, in particular tax and bankruptcy laws, as well as corporation laws, because a lot of this happens because for a lot of the good that it does having LLCs and ways in which you can structure your business so that you don't get destroyed every time you take a risk.
However, the flip side is you embolden kind of a moral hazard behavior of we are going to throw tons of debt on this company that probably can't afford to maintain it, but it doesn't matter, we are never going to be stuck with those consequences.
So that's the other legal aspect of what's going on with this company is that to some extent the incentives got messed up, because when it came to that stick to sports, even though as the salespeople pointed out the real profit to be had in Deadspin was in the appealing to culture, because that was where they were really making their money, but they didn't want to do that, they wanted to make it just sports, because I mean you could say that they didn't understand the business, but if we give them the benefit of the doubt and say cynically what it was, was, it wasn't whether or not they cared about whether it was sticking to sports, they figured the next rummy to come along that they would sell it to would want it to just be sports.
It's not about making money to them, it's about figuring out how to position the company so it's easier to sell to the next person who has no idea what they are doing.
Elie Mystal: That's the point man, like Deadspin was profitable, okay, like everybody talked about, there is no money, no. Deadspin was profitable and the vultures who bought it didn't want to make that profit, they just wanted to sell it, and exactly as you say, they thought it would be easier to sell as an anodyne kind of game box score recap site as opposed to the site that was profitable.
Joe Patrice: Correct, and that's where when we talk about law, talk about this from a legal perspective, that's going to be a real issue and it's happening with Deadspin, but it's certainly not only happening with Deadspin, it's been happening with newspapers across the country, it's happening throughout media.
This model of investment, which could — there are arguments for private equity investment and reasons why it could be very good about helping companies out. Obviously a lot of startups operate with venture capital, raised through private means, that is the only way in which we end up with all sorts of technological advancements.
That said, this model also with the paucity of regulations upon it right now puts us in a position where it is very easy to have incentives go the wrong way and behaviors that are destructive to the economy are privileged as opposed to punished.
Elie Mystal: Yeah. I know a candidate that has a plan for that.
Joe Patrice: Yeah, I am sure, and there are more than one who view this as a problem, but this is going to be a challenge that I think we should all spend more time looking for. It's to get back to the library, maybe this is a way that we go full circle, I don't know. Not a lot of people just read law reviews for fun, but the legal scholarship that is going to be growing out of how we should approach regulating this sort of investment strategy is important work and we should all take a trip down to the library and read the most recent outings of people who are working on that problem, because it's a real one.
Elie Mystal: Oh.
Joe Patrice: See how I did it in a real way, we got back to the library, yeah, we did everything.
Anyway, so with —
Elie Mystal: That's great Joe. Give yourself a cheer on the soundboard.
Joe Patrice: Oh yeah. No. That's a good point. Where is my soundboard? I actually didn't open it up, which is so sad.
Elie Mystal: We will put that in the post.
Joe Patrice: No, no, we got it. So yeah, so with all of that said, thanks for listening, and you should be subscribed to the show, you should give it reviews, not just the stars. I know that's easy, but we will take the little bit extra ask and just throw in some words about, this is a fun way to learn about what's going on in law schools or whatever, all those words are valuable, because algorithms, the things that rule our lives these days, take that and it moves it up the list of recommended podcasts, which means that more people get to listen to it.
You should also be reading Above the Law as always, a website that has good news, not just sticking to law, sometimes we get a field of that, but it's all for you the human being who has a legal interest.
Elie Mystal: We are not owned by private equity.
Joe Patrice: Yeah, true. You should follow @ElieNYC to see his costume; you should follow @JosephPatrice, that's me. I do not have a picture of a costume. You should be listening to the other shows available from Legal Talk Network. There was an episode recently of On the Road that I was a guest on from the Clio Cloud Conference, so that is one you should go check out.
You should listen to The Jabot, which is Kathryn Rubino's podcast. She also has been a guest and guest host of this show sometimes.
And with all of those things said, I think we are done.
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And with that, I think we are now fully done.
Elie Mystal: Peace.
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Q: Compute new rows in r data frame r based on existing rows and columns I would appreciate a hint which command to use for the following:
I want to compute population estimates for the cities in column "Name" and for every year in column "Year". The column "growth" provides the growth rate. So as formula it would be like:
Population[Lucknow,2030] = Population[Lucknow, 2020] * growth[2030]

and so on. Following df:
df <- data.frame(YEAR=c(2020,2020,2020,2030,2040,2050), NAME=c("Lucknow","Delhi","Hyderadabad",NA,NA,NA), POPULATION=c(3704, 29274,10275,NA,NA,NA), growth=c(1.0,1.0,1.0,1.10,1.18,1.24))
Year                Name           Population        growth
2020             Lucknow                 3704     1.0000000
2020               Delhi                29274     1.0000000
2020           Hyderabad                10275     1.0000000
2030                <NA>                   NA   <NA> 1.10
2040                <NA>                   NA   <NA> 1.18
2050                <NA>                   NA   <NA> 1.24

edit: Following what Dom (thank you!) wrote below, the input would be:
df <- tibble( year = rep(c(2020,2030,2040,2050), each = 3), city =rep(c("Lucknow","Delhi","Hyderadabad"), times = 4), pop = c(3704, 29274,10275, rep(NA_integer_, times = 9)), growth = rep(c(1.0, 1.10, 1.18, 1.24), each = 3) )
    year city          pop growth
   <dbl> <chr>       <dbl>  <dbl>
 1  2020 Lucknow      3704   1
 2  2020 Delhi       29274   1
 3  2020 Hyderadabad 10275   1
 4  2030 Lucknow        NA   1.1
 5  2030 Delhi          NA   1.1
 6  2030 Hyderadabad    NA   1.1
 7  2040 Lucknow        NA   1.18
 8  2040 Delhi          NA   1.18
 9  2040 Hyderadabad    NA   1.18
10  2050 Lucknow        NA   1.24
11  2050 Delhi          NA   1.24
12  2050 Hyderadabad    NA   1.24

The output should look like:
Year                Name           Population        growth
2020             Lucknow                 3704     1.0000000
2020               Delhi                29274     1.0000000
2020           Hyderabad                10275     1.0000000
2030             Lucknow               4074.4     1.1000000
2030               Delhi              32201.4     1.1000000
2030           Hyderabad              11302.5     1.1000000
....

How to fill the NAs in the tibble?
I had various attempts with merge and dplyr::mutate, but failed to identify what I need to do here given that this is a vector operation. I'd be happy for any leads towards the correct command to do such a basic operation.
Thanks!

A: Using dplyr:
library(dplyr)
df %>%
  arrange(city, year) %>%
  group_by(city) %>%
  mutate(pop = pop[1] * growth)

# A tibble: 12 x 4
# Groups:   city [3]
    year city           pop growth
   <dbl> <chr>        <dbl>  <dbl>
 1  2020 Delhi       29274    1
 2  2030 Delhi       32201.   1.1
 3  2040 Delhi       34543.   1.18
 4  2050 Delhi       36300.   1.24
 5  2020 Hyderadabad 10275    1
 6  2030 Hyderadabad 11303.   1.1
 7  2040 Hyderadabad 12124.   1.18
 8  2050 Hyderadabad 12741    1.24
 9  2020 Lucknow      3704    1
10  2030 Lucknow      4074.   1.1
11  2040 Lucknow      4371.   1.18
12  2050 Lucknow      4593.   1.24

Using base R:
df <- df[order(df[["city"]], df[["year"]]), ]
df[["pop"]] <-
  unlist(
    lapply(
      unique(df[["city"]]),
      function(x) with(df[df[["city"]] == x, ], pop[1] * growth)
    )
  )

Using data.table:
library(data.table)
setDT(df)[order(city, year), pop := pop[1] * growth, city]

Data:
df <- tibble(
  year   = rep(c(2020, 2030, 2040, 2050), each = 3),
  city   = rep(c("Lucknow", "Delhi", "Hyderadabad"), times = 4),
  pop    = c(3704, 29274, 10275, rep(NA, times = 9)),
  growth = rep(c(1.0, 1.10, 1.18, 1.24), each = 3)
)

A: Is the basis year always 2020? If yes, the following works:
library(tidyverse)

df <- tibble( year = rep(c(2020, 2030, 2040, 2050), each = 3),
              city = rep(c("Lucknow", "Delhi", "Hyderadabad"), times = 4),
              pop = c(3704, 29274, 10275, rep(NA_integer_, times = 9)),
              growth = rep(c(1.0, 1.10, 1.18, 1.24), each = 3) )

uniq <- unique(df$pop)
uniq <- uniq[!is.na(uniq)]

df$pop <- rep(uniq, length(unique(df$year)))

df <- df %>%
  mutate(pop2 = pop * growth)

A: library(tidyverse)
NAME <- c("Lucknow","Delhi","Hyderadabad")
YEAR <- seq(2020,2050,10)
POPULATION=rep(c(3704, 29274,10275),4)
pop_df <- bind_cols(expand.grid(Name=NAME,Year=YEAR),Population=POPULATION)
growth_df <- data.frame(Year=seq(2020,2050,10),growth=c(1,1.1,1.18,1.23))
pop_df <- left_join(pop_df,growth_df) %>%
  mutate(Population=round(Population*growth))

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1 Early History
2 Early Conventions
3 Early Clubs
4 Later Conventions
5 New York Area Science Fiction Links
5.1 Conventions and Meetings
5.3 Stores with Events
Early History[edit]
If fandom can be said to have formed in any single place, it probably happened in New York City which was at the center of so many of the events of the Thirties.
The Scienceers (founded 1929) was the first New York fan club, or the first club ever for those who think the SCC/ISA should be discounted because of its science orientation. Perhaps the ISA was not strictly am SF club, but the NYBISA's officers included such legendary figures as Will Sykora, Don Wollheim, and Fred Pohl.
It's impossible to briefly summarize NY fan politics of the 30s. Read Sam Moskowitz's The Immortal Storm and follow the links on this page to get more details. Basically, NY fan politics revolved around a trio of factors: (1) mundane politics, (2) fannish egos, and (3) youth. The major split was basically political between the left (the Michelists, the Futurians, the Wollheimists) and everyone else (the Queensies, the Triumvirate). The lefties were kids (in the teens and early 20s) in love with the communist ideals of the day, while everyone else (also a bunch of kids) was an assortment of conservatives, moderates, and apoliticals. Read the articles under ILSF, QSFL, GNYSFL, and Futurians for more details.
The major players in the battles were Don Wollheim, John Michel, Sam Moskowitz (who lived in Newark, but was part of NY fan politics), James V. Taurasi, and Will Sykora. Also involved were Isaac Asimov, Fred Pohl, Doc Lowndes, Cyril Kornbluth and many others.
See also: New York State.
Early Conventions[edit]
New York fans took part in one candidate for the title of first convention, and certainly some of the most important early conventions were held there, the Second Eastern States Science Fiction Convention, and, of course, the First Worldcon on July 4th, 1939.
Early Clubs[edit]
New York's fannish history has been driven by its clubs. To start with, the Scienceers and the ISA, the various SFL-related groups and the Futurians. After the war, there were groups like the Fanvets, NYUSFS (CUSFS), the Metrofen, and most importantly the Lunarians. There were also vital invitational groups like the Fanoclasts, and the Brooklyn Insurgents.
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Later Conventions[edit]
While New York played a major role in early Worldcons, hosting NYCon 1, NyCon II, and NyCon 3, it has not had one since 1967 in spite of a variety of Worldcon bids since then: New York in '86, New York in '89, NY in '95, Nieuw Amsterdam in 2004 (though it did host the first SMOFcon). This is caused by the famous fractiousness of New York fandom combined with the very high cost of hotel space and labor in the city. Another consequence seems to be the general decline in organized fandom in the city since the 90s: The Lunarians are extinct (though there was an attempted resurrection in the Lunarians 2). The move of Lunacon (New York's longtime regional convention) out of New York City sparked resistance, including a counter-con, Empiricon, starting in 1978.[1] Lunacon succumbed in 2017 to the above-mentioned New York fannish politics, and was succeeded by HELIOsphere and NASF3.
The annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium, organized by Professor Jason W. Ellis, began in 2016 with Amazing Stories: Inspiration, Learning, and Adventure in Science Fiction. The Asimov Centennial Meetup was held shortly after the one-hundredth birthday of Isaac Asimov (on the ninetieth anniversary of the first official meeting of The Scienceers), at the same location, but organized by a different City Tech professor and her husband.
New York Area Science Fiction Links[edit]
Conventions and Meetings[edit]
HELIOsphere - Facebook (IA)
Science Fiction at City Tech Annual Symposium (IA)
The New York City Sci-Fi/Fantasy Meetup Group: https://www.meetup.com/scifi-22/ (IA) (the first Tuesday of each month)
NYC Fantasy and Sci-Fi Book Club Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/fsfbookclub (IA)
The New York Review of Science Fiction readings (IA) (usually the first Tuesday of each month)
KGB Bar Fantastic Fiction reading series (IA) (the third Wednesday of each month)
Lunacon - Facebook (IA)
Downstate New York Geek Events (IA)
Analog Science Fiction and Fact (IA) Upcoming Events
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (IA)
Asimov's Science Fiction (IA) Conventional Calendar by Filthy Pierre
The New York Review of Science Fiction (IA)
Hour of the Wolf (IA) (WBAI)
City Tech Science Fiction Collection (IA)
Stores with Events[edit]
Books of Wonder - Events (IA) (mostly for children)
Forbidden Planet NYC (IA) (mostly comics, film, and TV)
↑ Personal communication, David Levine 2019-05-07 at the New York City Sci-Fi/Fantasy Meetup Group and Lynn E. Cohen Koehler 2019-12-12 City Tech Science Fiction Symposium.
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Let's get the dark news out of the way first. As I mentioned earlier, we lost many brilliant and intelligent figures in 2018. People from the US searched the deaths of famous people that we lost this year. These included chef Anthony Bourdain, rapper Mac Miller, DJ Avicii, scientist Stephen Hawking, actress Kate Spade, and Marvel's creator Stan Lee.
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There was a lot of good to come out of this year. This included the Fifa World Cup, so searches for match results were also high. Another big event was Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's wedding ceremony, which attracted a lot of attention all over the world.
Simon Rogers, the data editor for Google's News Lab, mentioned the data also show how users searched for ways to do good, across the globe. The question "How to vote" was the most-searched in the US, due to the mid-term elections. The question "how to be a good role model" was quite frequently searched as well.
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Lakers Draft Rumors: Los Angeles Targeting Jonathan Jeanne With No. 28 Overall Pick?
By Brian Rauf May 24, 2017
It's all but a given that the Los Angeles Lakers will take UCLA PG Lonzo Ball with the No. 2 overall pick in the NBA Draft, but what about their other first round pick?
The Lakers also have the No. 28 pick, and there figures to be a wide variety of prospects that will be available to them. What direction will they go? Sports Illustrated's Andrew Sharp thinks they take French big man Jonathan Jeanne in his latest mock draft.
Jeanne is a 7'1" French big man with a 7'6" wingspan and a 9'5" standing reach. He was probably the biggest standout at the NBA Draft Combine. He also only played 13 minutes-a-game for his club team this year, where he averaged 3.9 points and 3.7 rebounds. He'll go first round thanks to Gobert comparisons, but nobody knows what'll happen from there.
Jeanne does have immense upside thanks to his size, athleticism and range stretching out to the three-point line, but he's probably a year or two away from being able to contribute at the NBA level. At only 207 lbs., he needs time to add strength to handle the physicality at the NBA level.
However, Jeanne may not be on the board when the Lakers pick. He is projected to go anywhere in the 20-35 range, and I have him going to the Nets at No. 27.
The Lakers have also been linked to Purdue big man Caleb Swanigan with the No. 28 selection, but he has yet to decide if he will remain in the draft or return to school for another season.
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