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CGST West Delhi officials arrest man for input tax credit fraud of around Rs 9 crore
Based upon specific intelligence, the officers of the Anti Evasion branch of Central Goods and Service Tax (CGST) Commissionerate, Delhi (West) have unearthed a case of availment/utilization and passing on of inadmissible input tax credit (ITC) through goods less invoices of Rs 9 crore (approx). The operation involved floating of multiple firms with the intent to avail/utilize & passing on of inadmissible credit.
The primary beneficiary firms in this network are M/s Ishita Ispat and M/s H. M. Trading Company of which Sh. Naveen Bansal is the Proprietor and also the de facto operator for the other two firms as admitted by him on record. These entities are dealing in metal scrap and involved in availing inadmissible ITC using good less invoices. Sh. Naveen Bansal tendered a voluntary statement admitting his guilt.
Therefore, Sh. Naveen Bansal knowingly committed offences under Section 132(1)(b) and 132(1)(c) of the CGST Act, 2017 which are cognizable and non-bailable offences as per the provisions of Section 132(5) and are punishable under clause (i) of the sub section (1) of Section 132 of the Act ibid. Accordingly, he was arrested under Section 132 of the CGST Act on 26.03.2021 and remanded to judicial custody by the duty Metropolitan Magistrate for 14 days. Further Investigations are in progress.
Delhi Zone has been making sustained efforts to check evasion of GST, leading to detection of Rs. 5,319.6 crore in the present FY and 41 persons have been arrested in these matters.
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We always love to find easy science experiments that we can do at home!
Those types of experiments seem to be plentiful when you're studying botany/nature (like our How does a Leaf Breathe? experiment) or physics (see this Does your Food Float? activity).
But if you want to do a little chemistry with the kids, finding a simple project can be more of a challenge so today's Lemon Battery experiment is one of those pleasant surprises!
STEM is a BIG thing at our house -- mainly because I don't think the kids get enough of an opportunity at school to learn everything they really need to know in this area. So many careers are in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) areas that we feel it's important to introduce our kids (along with any friends who visit ;) to new ways to learn and explore these concepts.
Today we're working with Green Works, a company looking for unique and fun ways to continue inspiring young girls to pursue a career in science.
Did you know that only 1 in every 1,000 girls pursuing STEM careers?!! Shocking!
One of the things I really love about the StemBox is that everything you need (except the lemons which you can easily grab at the store) is included! These boxes are perfect to give as birthday gifts (giving experiences not things is our motto) and also fun to have on hand for those busy times of the year.
Feel free to read along with them but it's important with projects like this that they take the lead -- and if they need to read through them twice, that's fine too.
The girls will need to roll the lemons to make them nice and juicy -- and they really smell lemon-y when you do this!
The kit include copper wires and metal nails that need to be inserted into the lemons.
This is really a self-guided activity -- the girls can do everything on their own! Plus, they will learn some great vocabulary that fits with the chemistry and materials used in the experiment.
Basically, the goal is to create a circuit with the lemons acting as a 'juice' (yes, I did just go there ;) to power the LED lights and mini digital clock that are sent in the kit. So in addition to talking about the chemistry (anode, cathode, electrolyte -- all of this is on the instruction sheet), you'll also be discussing the basic idea of a power circuit.
Once all the alligator clips were connected, the last 2 clips are used to power on the LED lights -- go green! Just being able to experiment with items like copper wires and alligator clips is a cool thing for kids.
Also included in the kit is a digital clock that can be inserted into the lemon and powered.
Our next experiment is to see how many hours one lemon will actually power the clock!
The StemBox has a wonderful introductory note inside and the instructions are very detailed with illustrated set-up for the entire experiment. There's also additional challenges offered along with a link to a video tutorial for the experiment.
And I LOVE that a portion of proceeds from each March Green Works StemBox subscription will be donated to AAUW, The American Association of University Women, to continue their work of empowering women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy and research.
If you'd like to learn more about Green works and its continued support of Girls in STEM visit GreenWorksCleaners.com.
Looking for more fun science experiments? Try these!


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Since October 13, 2020, Sign Language of the Netherlands is an official language in the Netherlands. A major step in the right direction, says Floris Roelofsen, linguist at the ILLC. But there is still a long way to go.
2 November 2020, Iris Proff
Closing the hand in front of the face is the sign for understand in Sign Language of the Netherlands. © Arco Mul
Floris Roelofsen is a linguist and has spent much of his career investigating the semantics of spoken languages. But when his daughter was born five years ago, his view on language was about to change radically. Soon after her birth it became clear that she was deaf and would never be able to fully access any spoken language.
For Floris and his partner this meant they had to learn sign language as fast as possible. "In terms of grammar, Sign Language of the Netherlands is very different from Dutch. It's much harder to learn than English, Spanish or French – it's more like learning Mandarin", Floris remembers. Yet, there was no time to waste. While struggling to learn this new form of communication, they simultaneously had to teach it to their young daughter.
Learning to communicate in sign language was an eye-opening experience for Floris. As a father of a deaf child, he recognized the challenges and perils deaf children face as they grow up. And as a linguist, he became aware of the unique opportunity sign language offers to understand human language in general.
"My daughter is severely handicapped in a spoken language environment. But in a sign language environment, she is not handicapped at all."
– Floris Roelofsen –
The Netherlands has a new official language
Since October 13th, Dutch Sign language is an official language of the Netherlands. This means, for instance, that there must now be a sign language interpreter at important speeches by members of the Dutch parliament. This is an empowering step for deaf people in the Netherlands. However, Floris thinks that the new law does not yet tackle the core of the problem. "It leaves children out of the picture", he states. "They don't have any language to begin with. A sign language interpreter doesn't help them!"
More than 95 percent of deaf children have hearing parents, who don't know sign language when their child is born. These parents face a big challenge: learning sign language is difficult, time intensive and expensive. Sign language courses are scarce, as are opportunities to practice outside of the classroom, and health insurance coverage of sign language courses is very limited in the Netherlands.
The result is that only a fraction of parents with a deaf child learn to communicate in sign language. Hence, in their first years, which are so crucial to their development, many deaf children have very limited language input. Recently, neuroscientists have uncovered the devastating effects of this so-called language deprivation.
Floris Roelofsen communicating in sign language with his daughter.
Growing up without language
The human brain has specialized regions dedicated to processing language, which are located in the left hemisphere of the brain. Interestingly, in native signers, sign language is processed in the very same regions. Our brains identify language not by the modality through which it is expressed – visual or auditory – but rather by its structural properties and its function for communication.
A 2011 study by a team at UC San Diego and McGill University investigated whether sign language is processed differently by deaf people who learned it from birth and by those who acquired it only later in childhood or as teenagers. The researchers found that in late learners, sign language evokes less activity in language regions, but more in the visual parts of the brain. In the absence of language input early in life, the brain does not develop specialized language regions. This impacts language skills throughout life, including reading and writing abilities.
But it doesn't end there. Without accessible language input in early childhood, deaf individuals are likely to develop problems with other cognitive and social skills as well. In 2017, every second deaf person in the US was unemployed. In a national survey in Norway in 2008, 20 percent of deaf people stated they felt hopeless – opposed to only four percent of hearing people. Mental health problems, social isolation and cognitive delay are no necessary consequences of hearing loss. Scientists rather believe they are the effects of language deprivation in early life, which could be avoided by providing deaf children access to sign language from birth.
Avatar signing the word house.
Machine translation for sign languages
Having gone through the challenging process of learning sign language himself, Floris decided to investigate how to make it easier for others. For Sign Language of the Netherlands, there is an online video dictionary providing translations of individual signs. But this does not explain how signs are put together to form sentences. With a group of students at the ILLC, Floris has started to develop a machine translation system that translates sentences from written language into sign language and visualizes these translations with an animated avatar.
A first step towards this big goal is a mini-version of such a translation system, specifically made for deaf COVID-19 patients in hospitals. This group of people, though small, faces major issues: sign language interpreters are not allowed in hospitals in times of COVID-19, reading skills of deaf individuals are often limited and face masks make lip reading impossible. To help them cope, Floris and his team are developing a tool that translates common sentences from the hospital setting into sign language.
The deaf community in the Netherlands
There are around 15 000 deaf people in the Netherlands.
More than 95 percent of deaf children have hearing parents.
There are 5 special schools for deaf children in the Netherlands – in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Groningen, Arnhem, and Zoetermeer.
Sign language opens opportunities for linguistics
Next to these practical goals, Floris has also developed a strong scientific interest in sign language. One of the reasons why sign languages are interesting to linguists is that – unlike spoken languages – they make explicit use of space. Consider this sentence: Sue invited Anna for dinner. She proposed to meet on Monday. In spoken language, the word she could refer either to Sue or Anna. A signing person however can resolve this ambiguity: they will place Sue and Anna at two points in space and explicitly refer to one of them by pointing to her location. Thus, the spatial nature of sign languages enables linguists to study aspects of reference-making that cannot be studied in spoken languages.
Floris emphasizes that, while scientific interest in sign languages is clearly growing, it is still a relatively small and young subfield of linguistics. "There are many open questions yet to be addressed and many further discoveries to be made."
Curious for more on the topic? Check out this article by NH Nieuws, listen to an interview with Floris Roelofsen by Radio 1 here or read this interview on Van Horen Zeggen, a platform for care and education for the deaf and hearing impaired (all in Dutch).
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Beyond Boom and Bust
THE (w)HOLE:
Beyond Boom & Bust in Rural America
A documentary-dance-theatre performance inspired by stories from the Illinois Valley.
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About "the (W)Hole: Beyond Boom and Bust in Rural America"
As with many other rural communities, the history of the Illinois Valley, a rural community of about 10,000 situated around the town of Cave Junction, has been shaped by economic booms and their inevitable busts--from gold mining to timber to cannabis. The recent regulation of cannabis and resulting statewide oversupply has signaled the newest bust, forcing the community to again search for ways to 'make a living.'
"The economy, the management of public resources for public good, is a central policy and voting issue--which means it is also a cultural issue," explains artist and ensemble member Eliot Feenstra. The aim of the show is to work culturally to develop an alternative narrative for rural communities which is collaborative, just, resilient, and forward-looking. "In the wake of the 2016 election and a climate of heightened tension in public dialogue, we believe the arts have a key role to play in expressing and speaking to the heart, igniting our imaginations, and connecting us in revitalizing and building resilient economies which care for people, land, and the future of our rural communities," added choreographer and ensemble member Gina Angelique.
The (w)HOLE is one phase of Beyond Boom & Bust, a multi-year initiative exploring the topic of rural economies through an artistic lens, focused on the Illinois Valley in southwestern Oregon. During August and September, collaborating artists will be interviewing local residents, hosting story circles and town halls in Southern Oregon about the economy, and gathering material for the original show.
The ensemble of local and visiting artists brings back together RiverStars co-founders, including: choreographer, farmer, and dancefarm Artistic Director Gina Angelique (Cave Junction); Cave Junction City Council President, arts educator and Dell Arte graduate Lindsey Jones (Cave Junction); dancer and arts educator Kari Kvittem (Selma); and community-based artist and performance scholar Eliot Feenstra (Takilma) who is returning from Toronto for this production. They will be joined by environmental activist and dancer Bianca Ballara (Murphy), videographer Earthen Watson (Port Townsend), lighting designer Chris Hall (Cave Junction), costume designer and farmer Alisa Ocean (Cave Junction), dancer and choreographer Ericka Moore (San Diego), and youth performers Isadora Millay and Finn Franklin. See ARTISTS BIOS page for more info.
The production and process is supported by generous funding from the MAP Foundation, a national foundation which invests in artistic production as the critical foundation of imagining and co-creating a more equitable and vibrant society; and by Oregon Humanities, a statewide organization which is committed to bringing people together across difference and connecting Oregonians to ideas that change lives and transform communities. It is being produced in collaboration with the Illinois Valley Community Development Organization, Southern Oregon Guild, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and the Rural Organizing Project.
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The worst Journey in the World: Antarctic Journey 1910-1913. Volume I+II (Paperback)
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\"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised. It is the only form of adventure in which you put on your clothes at Michaelmas and keep them on until Christmas, and, save for a layer of the natural grease of the body, find them as clean as though they were new. It is more lonely than London, more secluded than any monastery, and the post comes but once a year. As men will compare the hardships of France, Palestine, or Mesopotamia, so it would be interesting to contrast the rival claims of the Antarctic as a medium of discomfort. A member of Campbell\'s party tells me that the trenches at Ypres were a comparative picnic. But until somebody can evolve a standard of endurance I am unable to see how it can be done. Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on earth has a worse time than an Emperor penguin. Even now the Antarctic is to the rest of the earth as the Abode of the Gods was to the ancient Chaldees, a precipitous and mammoth land lying far beyond the seas which encircled man\'s habitation, and nothing is more striking about the exploration of the Southern Polar regions than its absence, for when King Alfred reigned in England the Vikings were navigating the ice-fields of the North; yet when Wellington fought the battle of Waterloo there was still an undiscovered continent in the South.\" ...] This book contains the travel tales of Robert Falcon Scott\'s last Expedition, which in 1910 moved him from England to Antarctica, where he died tragically two years later. The author Apsley Cherry-Garrard was part of the expedition team, and along with others he found the captain and others frozen to death. The expedition should bring the men of British origin to the South Pole before the Norwegian Roald Asmundsen would reach it, but the way turned out to be too hard, they hardly managed their daily stint. In addition the Antarctica gave them a very hard time particularly the harsh weather conditio.
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Governments are struggling to deal with returning jihadists
IN THE FIRST heady days of their self-proclaimed caliphate, foreigners who joined Islamic State (IS) gleefully renounced their ties to the West. Jihadists from France, Canada and other countries filmed themselves burning their passports. But as IS nears its defeat, once-belligerent radicals act now like aggrieved tourists stranded on a package holiday. A Canadian man complains that his embassy has not been in touch. A British woman who had "a good time" in Raqqa wants help to return to London.
Absurd as it is, these IS members are a serious problem for their home countries. More than 41,000 foreigners travelled to Syria and Iraq to join the group. By the middle of last year 7,366 had returned home, according to the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, a think-tank in London. Thousands more died on the battlefield. What remains are around 850 men and a few thousand women held in makeshift camps scattered across eastern Syria.
Until recently their home countries were happy to leave them there. Then came President Donald Trump's decision in December to withdraw American troops from Syria. The Kurdish-led forces who control the area are already ill-equipped to hold thousands of prisoners. It will become nigh impossible after America pulls out. Mr Trump wants foreign governments to repatriate their citizens. "The alternative is not a good one in that we will be forced to release them," he tweeted. A bad alternative indeed—but so are the others.
The simplest is to make the detainees someone else's problem. A law passed in 2015 lets Australia strip citizenship from people who join terrorist groups. It was first used in 2017 against Khaled Sharrouf, a Lebanese-Australian man who photographed his young son holding a Syrian soldier's severed head. International law frowns on making people stateless; Australia's law applies only to dual nationals.
Britain has no such hang-ups. It has cancelled the nationality of Shamima Begum, who joined IS as a teenager, on the ground that her Bangladeshi father makes her eligible for citizenship there. Courts may overturn that decision. Even if they do not, it is unseemly for Western governments to dump their citizens on other states. Mr Sharrouf was born and raised in Sydney, and Australia is surely better equipped to handle him than Lebanon, which has overburdened courts and jails. (A moot point, perhaps; he is thought to be dead.)
Saudi Arabia takes a different tack. In 2004, after a wave of domestic terrorist attacks, it created a rehabilitation centre for extremists. Detainees are held in a pleasant compound with a swimming pool and art therapy. Conjugal visits are allowed. Such efforts are expensive, though. They require prolonged, one-on-one attention from teachers and clerics, and are likely to be unpopular in the West. France set up its own deradicalisation centre three years ago in a chateau in the Loire Valley. Residents studied history and philosophy and met an imam to discuss religion. They were meant to stay for ten months, but the centre was closed after locals protested against the radicals in their midst.
It is also impossible to prove that these schemes work. Scholars disagree on how people become radicalised or even how to define the term. Saudi Arabia claims that less than 20% of its 3,000-plus graduates returned to jihad—which means its curriculum failed hundreds of times. A Somali-American man arrested at the airport in Minnesota, on his way to Syria, was released from custody in 2017 after a seemingly successful year in rehab. What worked for him may not work for hardened fighters who massacred and enslaved innocent people. Sentencing them to a glorified summer camp feels unjust.
Yet putting them on trial is complicated. America has a decent track record. One man was sentenced to 20 years in prison and a second was indicted in June. But it was unable to try a third suspect for lack of evidence. He was released after more than a year in custody. Heiko Maas, the German foreign minister, says his country faces a similar problem. Testimony from battlefield interrogations is inadmissible in court. Documents recovered by Kurdish fighters have no chain of custody.
Australia has a useful tool: the "declared-area offence", which makes it a crime to enter proscribed areas. Only Mosul and Raqqa were labelled as such, however. To use the law, prosecutors must prove that suspects entered those cities. Even that can be difficult. Once they are convicted, states must decide where to hold them. America provided less than 300 fighters and even fewer came back. Jailing them is easy enough. Not so in Europe, where the numbers are often greater. Some European countries already have problems with radicalisation in their prisons. Adding returned fighters to the mix could incubate the next round of extremists.
Faced with such problems, politicians understandably throw up their hands. If their citizens committed crimes abroad, should they not be tried there? But eastern Syria's Kurdish-led administration is not a state. Its rudimentary courts lack due process and may not exist much longer. With their American protectors gone, the Kurds will face attacks by both Bashar al-Assad's regime and the Turkish army. They will probably cut a deal with the former. If their detainees wind up in Syrian jails, history suggests what may happen next. Mr Assad's dungeons have produced generations of radicals, who are occasionally set free to help his regime.
That leaves one last option. "The Pentagon was very clear with us that there's a good chance they get sent to Guantánamo," says a congressional staffer. America has not added prisoners to the camp since 2008. President Barack Obama spent eight years trying to close it, and its population has shrunk from 242 detainees in 2009 to just 40 today. Democrats will probably oppose any attempt to reverse the trend.
Dealing with those who return would require a mix of trials, monitoring and rehabilitation. Police lack resources, and prosecutors need ways to introduce sensitive evidence in open court. Deradicalisation programmes have merit, especially in prisons and for those brought to Syria and Iraq against their will or as children.
No Western politician wants to be responsible for bringing potentially dangerous radicals back home. But leaving them in Syria or dumping them on developing countries does not make the problem go away. It also sends a message that Western governments do not care about the millions of Syrian and Iraqi lives their citizens already helped to destroy.
For more, read our special report on radicalised jihadists.
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Justia › US Law › US Case Law › US Supreme Court › Volume 75 › Gibson v. Chouteau
Gibson v. Chouteau, 75 U.S. 314 (1868)
Gibson v. Chouteau, 75 U.S. 8 Wall. 314 314 (1868)
Gibson v. Chouteau
75 U.S. (8 Wall.) 314
1. It is necessary to the jurisdiction of this Court under the 25th section of the Judiciary Act that the record show either by express words or necessary legal intendment that one of the questions mentioned in that act was before the state court, and was decided by it.
2. Neither the argument of counsel nor the opinion of the court below can be looked to for this purpose.
3. Where there are other questions in the record, on which the judgment of the state court might have rested independently of the federal question, this Court cannot reverse the judgment.
The case purported to be brought here under the 25th section of the Judiciary Act, which gives this Court jurisdiction to review judgments in the highest court of a state where there has been drawn in question the validity of an authority exercised under the United States and the decree is against such validity or where there is drawn in question the construction of any statute of or commission exercised under the United States and the decree is against the title, right, or privilege, or exemption specially set up,
or where there is drawn in question the validity of a statute of or an authority exercised under any state on the ground of their being repugnant to the laws of the United States and the decision is in favor of such their validity.
The record showed that the plaintiff below, who was also plaintiff here, filed his petition in the Land Court of St. Louis to recover of the defendants a tract of sixty-four acres of land. The petitions stated that Mrs. Mary McRee was, prior to August 20, 1862, invested with the title by the United States, and that on the day mentioned, she conveyed the same to him.
The defendant's answer denied the plaintiff's right to the possession, denied that he had the title, denied Mrs. McRee's title, set up the statute of limitations, and alleged that the title acquired by the plaintiff was so acquired as agent of the defendants and in fraud of their rights. To this the plaintiff filed two or three replications going into a minute history of the transaction in which the fraud was supposed to have originated and denying it wholly.
On these pleadings, the case was tried by the court without a jury, and the issue was found for plaintiff, his damages assessed at six hundred dollars, and judgment rendered for that sum, and for the possession of the land. A bill of exceptions which, in the record, made eighty printed pages was signed, filled with surveys, deeds, decrees, and testimony of witnesses, some of which was evidently directed to the questions of fraud made in the pleadings. It also contained some ten or twelve prayers for instructions by the plaintiff which were refused by the court as rulings of law which relate to the validity of plaintiff's title; also, an instruction given by the court to the effect that the patent of the United States to Mrs. McRee invested her with the title which her deed transferred to the plaintiff, and that the patent having issued within the ten years next preceding the commencement of the suit, the statute of limitations could not be relied on as a bar.
On this record the case was carried to the supreme court of the state, where it was "affirmed in all things" on December
3, 1866. Three days after this a motion for rehearing was filed. This was in fact an argument of counsel. It cited decisions and urged reasons to show that the statute should be regarded as a bar -- decisions and reasons which it alleged that the court had not sufficiently weighed. The motion for rehearing was granted on the 10th day of the same month and the judgment of affirmance set aside and the cause ordered to be docketed for a rehearing. This rehearing was had in March, 1867, and in April, the following judgment was entered:
"Now again come the parties aforesaid, by their respective attorneys, and the court, being now sufficiently advised of and concerning the premises, doth consider and adjudge that the judgment rendered herein by the said St. Louis Land Court be reversed, annulled, and for naught held and esteemed; that the respondent take nothing by his suit in this behalf, but that the appellants go thereof without day, and recover of the said respondents their costs and charges herein expended, and have execution therefor. Opinion filed."
It is proper to state that by the code of practice in the state courts of Missouri, an equitable defense may be set up in a common law action, there being no separate chancery jurisdiction in those courts.
The matter which, on this case, the plaintiff conceived to have been decided against him in the Supreme Court of Missouri, and which, as he assumed, gave this Court jurisdiction, was that the statute of limitations of Missouri ran against the title of the plaintiff while the same was in the United States and before it had been transferred by the patent of 1862 to Mrs. McRee. And the question which was before this Court on review for its consideration was whether it appeared from this record, either by express words or by necessary legal intendment, that the court did decide that proposition. If it did, then this Court had jurisdiction under the already quoted 25th section of the Judiciary Act.
MOTION TO DISMISS WRIT OF ERROR
TO THE SUPREME COURT OF MISSOURI
The record presented to the Supreme Court questions the validity of Mrs. McRee's title, the transfer of her title to plaintiff, the trust asserted by which plaintiff's title enured to the benefit of defendants, and the statute of limitations. On all these the court below must have found for plaintiff, for such a finding was essential to his recovery. The first judgment of the supreme court affirming the judgment of the Land Court must also have found all these issues for the plaintiff.
We are asked now to hold that the second judgment of the supreme court, which reversed that of the Land Court, was founded on the question of limitation. If we look to the language used in the judgment of the court in setting aside its judgment of affirmance and granting a rehearing, or in the final judgment of reversal, we can see nothing to justify that inference.
This Court has decided in the case of Rector v. Ashley, [Footnote 1] following Williams v. Norris, [Footnote 2] that the opinion of the court cannot be resorted to for the purpose of showing that a question of federal cognizance was decided by the state court. In the present case, it is said that the application for a rehearing was based exclusively on the question of the statute of limitation. That which is here called a motion for a rehearing is merely an argument of counsel setting forth numerous decisions of the courts and many reasons of counsel why the statute should be held to be a bar, and it insists that this question had not received sufficient attention at the hands of the court. It is not easy to see how this argument can be regarded as a part of the record of the case. It can
have no better claim to be so regarded than the opinion of the court, which accompanies the record.
If, however, it could be treated as part of the record, it affords no conclusive evidence that the rehearing was granted on that ground.
But if we could infer that the rehearing was granted because the court was of opinion that it had not well considered that question, it is to be remembered that the reargument took place four months afterwards, that there is nothing to show what might then have been presented by counsel on either side or what might have been considered by the court, for the case was fully opened, by setting aside the former judgment, to every consideration which could rightfully influence the decision. It is hardly a reasonable inference, under these circumstances, that the court did decide the case on the question of the statute of limitation, and certainly it does not appear that the case was necessarily decided on that question, or that the proposition was essential to the judgment.
It is our opinion, therefore, that under the repeated decisions of this Court, this record presents no case of which we have jurisdiction. The writ of error is therefore
73 U. S. 6 Wall. 142.
25 U. S. 12 Wheat. 117.


The post-mortem on this year's legislative session has been mostly positive. Lawmakers are being applauded for their willingness to place good policy-making above partisan politics. Governor Hickenlooper referred to the 2017 session as "the most productive" since he took office in 2011.
Legislators made big news for finding common ground on some of the state's most critical issues, like construction defects reform and addressing the hospital provider fee. Lawmakers also found common ground – most of the time – on legislation affecting civil rights and civil liberties.
For almost three years now, the ACLU has been working with the Division of Youth Corrections attempting to reverse the punitive culture that has been pervasive within the Division. Earlier in the year, the ACLU, along with other child advocates, released Bound and Broken, a report documenting the harsh and punitive nature of DYC practices. DYC has for years relied heavily on the use of solitary confinement, a full-body straitjacket called the WRAP, pain compliance techniques, knee strikes, leg irons and handcuffs to control kids. This punitive culture endangers both staff and kids. As the state legislature has given DYC more and more money over the years, violence has increased. More money alone is clearly not the answer.
Relying on the facts presented in Bound and Broken and other evidence revealed through investigative journalism, Representatives Pete Lee (D-Colorado Springs) and Lois Landgraff (R-Fountain) sponsored HB 1329 — legislation that mandates DYC retain an outside consultant to evaluate all Division facilities and make recommendations to bring DYC in line with best practices. It also requires the Division to work with an independent consultant to develop a pilot program that relies on non-punitive approaches to caring for kids. The bill also changes the name from the Division of Youth Corrections to the Division of Youth Services and establishes the mission as rehabilitative rather than punitive.
The bill received unanimous support in the House. In the Senate, after some legislative procedural acrobatics, it passed with bipartisan support in a 21-14 vote. It was sponsored by Senators Daniel Kagan (D-Cherry Hills) and Don Coram (R-Durango). The legislation really had only one vocal opponent – Senator Kent Lambert (R-Colorado Springs) and thankfully, his voice was overwhelmed by the majority of those seeking much needed reform.
The ACLU continued its work on municipal courts and correcting harsh penalties that largely affect poor people and particularly people of color in the criminal justice system, and these efforts received great bipartisan support. After extensive research, the ACLU discovered that many people incarcerated on minor municipal offenses – including park hours violations and open container – were held in jail for days and even weeks on end just waiting to see a judge. These individuals were stuck in jail only because they were too poor to post bond. HB 1338 begins to address this problem by requiring that municipal inmates who are not brought before a judge within 48 hours or 72 hours over a weekend, will be automatically released from jail on their own recognizance. This bill garnered unanimous support from both chambers. The bill was sponsored by Representative Jeff Bridges (D-Cherry Creek) and Senator Vickie Marble (R-Broomfield).
HB 1168, another bill supported by ACLU of Colorado, decriminalizes "Driving Under Revocation" when one's license was revoked because of an unpaid traffic ticket. Currently, the Department of Motor Vehicles revokes on average 205,000 driver's license each year. Many of these revocations occur for extremely minor infractions simply because people cannot afford to pay their fines, creating a vicious cycle that punishes people for their poverty. Under HB 1168, jail time is no longer a penalty when a person drives with a license that was revoked simply because they failed to pay. Although the ACLU would have preferred to see revocations for inability to pay eliminated altogether, rendering driving in this scenario to a civil offense is a step in the right direction. We thank Representative Matt Gray (D-Adams County) and Senator Bob Gardner (R-Colorado Springs) for sponsoring this legislation, which passed both chambers with strong bipartisan support.
Other ACLU-supported bills which passed with bipartisan support included Campus Free Speech and Asset Forfeiture Reform. Lawmakers also came together to support legislation that requires insurers to cover a 12-month supply of contraception for women. This legislation has been defeated in the past, but this session, it found bipartisan sponsorship and votes in both chambers. Also of great significance, the Republican-controlled Senate voted down a bill that would have mandated ultrasounds and a waiting period for women seeking an abortion. The bill – titled Women's Right to Accurate Health Care – was voted down 19-16.
These victories didn't prevent several legislative attempts to limit women's access to reproductive care. The House alone saw five bills that would have done just that. One such bill, predicated on "junk science," would have required doctors to inform women about an "abortion reversal" pill. Another bill would have enacted personhood, subjecting anyone performing an abortion to the criminal charge of first degree murder, the potential penalty for which is the death penalty. Personhood has been resoundingly defeated by Colorado voters multiple times.
Partisan politics also persisted in the area of LGBT rights, immigrant rights and a key area of criminal justice reform. For the second year in a row, the Senate State Affairs committee voted down bills that would have limited the use of conversion therapy and made it easier for one to change their gender marker on their birth certificate. Both bills were defeated on a party line vote.
The legislature also refused to advance legislation that intended to benefit our immigrant and refugee communities. And a Senate committee rejected a bill that would have repealed the death penalty. We thank Minority Leader Senator Lucia Guzman for her persistence and passion on this issue.
Much can be and was accomplished in 120 days. ACLU's policy work, of course, continues beyond the legislative session. The policy team will continue to persist in advancing civil liberties and resist attempts to take us backward. Sine die.


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Q: Lifecycle of Db connection objects Details - I have a SQL Database helper in C# with a method (like below) which establishes a connection
    public void EstablishConnection()
    {

        oConnection = oFactory.CreateConnection();

        if (oConnection.State == ConnectionState.Closed)
        {
            oConnection.ConnectionString = StringConnection;
            oConnection.Open();
            oConnectionState = ConnectionState.Open;
        }
    }

For any calls made to db methods like (ExecuteNonQuery etc) this is how a typical method looks like
  public DataSet DataAdapter(CommandType cmdType, string cmdText, Parameters[] cmdParms)
    {

        DbDataAdapter dda = null;
        try
        {
            EstablishFactoryConnection();
            dda = oFactory.CreateDataAdapter();
            PrepareCommand(false, cmdType, cmdText, cmdParms);

            dda.SelectCommand = oCommand;
            DataSet ds = new DataSet();
            dda.Fill(ds);
            return ds;
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            throw ex;
        }
        finally
        {
            if (null != oCommand)
                oCommand.Dispose();
            CloseFactoryConnection();
        }
    }

And the         CloseFactoryConnection(); method is like below
 public void CloseFactoryConnection()
    {
        //check for an open connection
        try
        {
            if (oConnection.State == ConnectionState.Open)
            {
                oConnection.Close();
                oConnectionState = ConnectionState.Closed;
            }
        }
        catch (DbException oDbErr)
        {
            //catch any SQL server data provider generated error messag
            throw new Exception(oDbErr.Message);
        }
        catch (System.NullReferenceException oNullErr)
        {
            throw new Exception(oNullErr.Message);
        }
        finally
        {
            if (null != oConnection)
                oConnection.Dispose();
        }
    }

Questions  - I have this class (DBHelper) being used in all my repositories where the IOC container constructor injects this. The lifestyle of these instances is HttpContextLifecycle (I am using Structuremap which says this lifestyle means that the A single instance will be created for each HttpContext.  Caches the instances in the HttpContext.Items collection.)
Is this the right TYPE of lifestyle for the db connection class i am using?
Should the class creating the connection/ opening  it/ closing it be instantiated as a singleton? Or Per request?
What is the generally accepted lifestyle for these db connection establishing classes? I am using ado.net and there is no ORM.
Thanks

A: Because ADO.NET already uses connection pooling, there is no need to cache/reuse DbConnection instances. Given this, your class doesn't appear to add anything useful, as opposed to simply writing out the code -- the only thing you're abstracting away is the connection string, and that's adequately handled by making it configurable (ConnectionStrings["DatabaseName"]).
Aside from the lack of added value, your class has other problems. Catching NullReferenceException is a big no-no -- a NullReferenceException indicates a serious bug in your code and should be fixed by investigating the crash, not by wrapping it as another exception (and when you are wrapping, do not use Exception, because it's unspecific and clients cannot catch it without catching everything, which is another bad thing to do). Better yet, of course, it should be prevented by appropriately checking for null (see What is a NullReferenceException, and how do I fix it?)
To see why your class is probably not useful, consider that CloseFactoryConnection could be simplified to the following without any loss in functionality:
public void CloseFactoryConnection() {
    using (oConnection) { }
}

So to give a broad answer to your question: if you're not using an ORM, you probably don't want a class for establishing database connections at all, beyond the ones you've already got. If you want to use dependency injection for getting data, don't use it at this level, but at the object level -- you want to be able to abstract away from using the database at all, not merely from how a DataSet is created.

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Every successful business must have a business plan. This plan spells out among others the ways the company intends to rationalize its resources, engage in production and even handle its clients. Most importantly, a sound business plan must also include a strategic marketing plan.
Strategic marketing planning is considered a creative process in its own right. Here, the management and operations teams strive to come up with and implement practical marketing strategies that can guarantee a stable flow of business for the company.
Company Positioning - It should outline the current position of the firm regarding financial results. Such an analysis allows the planning team to identify the strategies that were previously put in place and assess the success of the overall plan against the financial results. In the end, a SWOT analysis reveals the current situation of the company.
Goals and Strategies - The strategic marketing plan is never complete without listing the organizational goals and strategies to be implemented. The goals inform the rationalization of resources in production, distribution, and marketing while the strategies discuss the conversion of targets into realities. For instance, a goal may state the intention to improve brand recognition and image while the corresponding plan defines the most appropriate media or promotion method to achieve desired results.
Market Opportunities - The plan should always assess emerging or existing market opportunities that may be harnessed in the short and long term. By so doing, the planners can easily dedicate resources to the most promising opportunity.
Target Market Defined - It is important to define the target groups for all your products and services. This step allows you to conduct more research on their needs, demands, and even preferences to capitalize on sales. Also, define the demographic and geographic stratification of these groups.
Marketing Budget - Last and most importantly, a strategic marketing plan is considered complete due to the inclusion of a realistic marketing budget and the dedication of an implementation period. Tough decisions have to be made at this point. These include the division of duties and responsibilities.
This process facilitates a common understanding among all stakeholders in an organization. The plan informs management decisions, the behavior of the employees towards institutional goals and also the response among current and potential clients. The plan is also subjected to changes over a period to meet changing demands.
A sound marketing plan allows a corporate entity to grow its market share which results in more revenue and profits. As the firm expands, it can enjoy large economies of scale and thus less operational costs. Overall, the strategic marketing planning process connects the production engine to the consumption transmission.


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After studying Digital Video Production at Valencia College and then receiving a degree in Public Relations and Advertising from Florida Southern College, Larson worked for NFocus from 2007 to 2013 as a producer. Among his many productions was the award-winning documentary Voices From Mariel. From 2013 to 2017, Larson worked at Publix Super Markets as an Art Producer where his responsibilities included procuring crew, collaborating with creatives, managing budgets, and producing hundreds of video, photography, and illustration projects each year. As President of NFocus, Larson directs all facets of the production company and studios – including daily operations, vision forecasting, and client relations.
Over the past twenty-five years as a managing partner of NFocus Visual Communications, Jim has directed, produced, and edited a number of national and international media projects. These include feature-length and short narratives, documentaries, broadcast, commercial work, stories of humanitarian efforts, and live-event production. Jim served as Executive Producer and Editor on NFocus Pictures award-winning feature-length thriller entitled Endure, which garnered world-wide distribution deals. He also directed NFocus Pictures award-winning documentary Voices From Mariel. Most recently, Jim directed NFocus Pictures faith-based short narrative entitled Cross Point and co-directed the feature-length documentary Mr. George.
Rob has been a producer at NFocus for twenty-five years, also serving as its chief operating officer. In this capacity, he gives oversight to projecting, scheduling, and managing all aspects of production.
As Producer of the recent feature film, Endure (2010), he was responsible for securing the $1.4 million budget through equity investments, financing, and state incentives. He has produced an award-winning documentary, Voices from Mariel (2011), and is currently producing and co-directing Mr. George (2014), a feature documentary on the life and legacy of George W. Jenkins, founder of Publix Supermarkets.
Jason is an Emmy award-winning television Producer, Director and Writer with more than 25 years experience creating a variety of successful television shows, such as: "60 Days In" (A&E), "The Biggest Loser" (NBC), "Slimetime Live" (Nickelodeon), "My Yard Goes Disney" (HGTV), "Freak Out" (abc family), "Altered Course" (NBC Sports), "Big Break NFL" (Golf Channel), "The Kids are In Charge" (Travel Channel), "Be Discovered" (Disney), "Feherty" (NBC Sports), "Tailgate Warriors with Guy Fieri" (Food Network) and, "Food Tech" (History Channel). Jason specializes in directing celebrities and developing new talent, while creating storytelling elements which capture and keep audiences.
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Mary has won a number of awards for her production work, including Revolution Film Festival's Best Documentary for her short documentary, LAKELAND DERBY DAMES, which was also Runner-Up in the College Division of the 2014 YLakeland Video Contest, as well as 2nd Place for People's Choice. Some of her early work can be found playing on Collier County's Educational Channel, including a documentary she did on Holocaust survivors in 2012 titled LIBERATION.
Dustin first realized his love for film and video at the age of eight thanks to a video production class. An avid skateboarder, Dustin incorporates his daring physicality into his filmmaking to capture exciting Ronin and drone shots. At NFocus, first as an intern and now as a cameraman and editor, Dustin has expanded his filmmaking skills and has quickly becoming an invaluable member of the team.


Judging from the 1st screenshots, I feared a blocky, relatively empty and boring mission.
There are certainly lots of right angles and a lack of ... organic structures and grime, sometimes it did look a little empty and not-lived in - but this was swiftly forgotten when I was actually playing.
You certainly know how to fit the elements of an enjoyable mission together!
For a beginner mission it seems very remarkable to me that your map, while overall to me "only" being good, lacks not much, at least I didn't notice anything major.
Also, the extra effort going in a nice briefing/debriefing made the mission feel much more meaningful (it's always so much nicer to be gently carried into/out of the thief feeling than to be just "thrown" in a mission like in cold water).
In my opinion, your basic skill level is already quite good - I hope for much in your future, more refined, missions!
Thank you for an hour of good thieving fun.
Wow! This was some good stuff for a first mission. Congrats! Give yerself a pat on the back and call yourself a TDM mapper veteran.
I can't remember the last time I played as solid mission as this. It was probably The Score to Settle.
Interesting plot, briefing/epilogue voice acting!, interesting room layouts, 'ending the beer party', perfect light placement and radius, solid gameplay, well used relighting behavior, and many more... I almost pissed my pants a few times when nearly got caught but still managed to get away.
Occasionally some areas looked a bit bare.
Do not be seen -objective. That's a bit harsh for medium difficulty, but I decided to give that difficulty a go anyway. A bad decision on my part. Couple that with no lockpicks and strict loot quotas, there will be trouble.
No essential gear: no lockpicks. sure a design dispute, but not having the lockpicks means that you really don't give the player full possibility to go and make decisions how to proceed. Rather than forbidding the lockpicks, give lockpicks and put guards on the critical doors. Or some other security measures. The problem not having lockpicks was the headquarters. Nearly everyone in the tavern had a key on them. After picking up a few house keys and cellar keys, I simply assumed the keys I see on people are duplicates of those. Nope, there was the headquarters key which I stupidly missed, which then resulted in the last problem.
If you hate lockpicks, make them purchaseable for a steep price: I'd given anything to have lockpicks on this mission. No spyglass: I'd also loved to have the spyglass, I could have read the notes in the well lit doors from a safe distance, Lantern would have been nice too.
Strict loot quotas: since I didn't get into the headquarters I got into the annoying situation that I've completed the main objective, but cannot leave because of the loot requirement. This is bad situation, which often raises frustration. This would have been avoided by giving lockpicks or lowering the loot quota.
Lost focus: The mission lost a bit focus due to the second tavern. After completing the main objective and getting my hands bloody and awaiting when the corpse is found and the city watch raids the area... I had still go to investigate the other tavern because of the loot quota. I was ready to leave, it felt logical to leave... But I had to still go to the other tavern. Also, the other one was not as interesting as the one with the assassination target. The other tavern felt a bit out-of-place and this mission could have done perfectly, or even better without it: assuming, you spent the time you used on the other tavern to improve the tavern with the target.
High ambient light: the ambient was maybe a bit too bright. You used simple geometry and a bright ambient coupled with that makes things look a bit washed out. I even reduced my gamma setting. You know your ambient is too bright if your lightgem is NOT totally dark when standing in total darkness. Try an ambient of: hue 0, saturation 0 and value 6. I'm sure you will be happy with the result.
Anyways: all in all, this mission was one of the most fun missions I've played for a looong time. And it is even impressive since it is your first mission! I salivate to even to contemplate what kind of masterpiece your next mission will be.
Thanks! I really think that if you choose to carry on with mapping, TDM will have a bright future in terms of high-quality maps.
I really liked your way of getting the assasin back to their room. I wasn't sure what the switch in the basement was for as I hadn't found the journal yet but went with it and eventually figured it out.
1) I got stuck in the bathroom (on the 2nd floor) where there is 2 pails and a brush in the corner. Not sure what I was stuck on as I could see those things but had to noclip to get off there.
2) I had difficulty hearing what was being said - but that could be just me.
I look forward to more from you. Congrats.
thank you two for your feedback.
Don't be seen: My intension was that you concentrate on the essential things that this game provides: stealth! I used lights, materials, and only a few AIs for the danger of the player, but I also wanted to make the player try to do things like shooting moss arrows and take care, instead of running and BJ through the mission, which has not the size to do so.
Lost focus: I'm afraid you didn't like the idea to give the player two taverns to search in. That is what we have talked about above with the keys and the lockpicks. You can give the player the freedom or you can lead him a bit. In this case I thought I give you the freedom to choose in which tavern you start your search. If you chose the right one instantly of course you have one objective done, but yet you didn't find all the loot, so it makes sense to pay a visit to the second tavern even after finding the assassin.
No it wasn't a big problem at all.
I knew it would mean something somewhere so I just had to do one of my favorite things and explore.
Thanks again for a great mission.
Edit - Also nice to meet you.
Edited by Thiefette, 13 April 2012 - 02:55 PM.
I just want to elaborate what I meant with the lost focus.
The main tavern was centered on the map. It was very detailed, I noticed multiple ways in, I could circle around it, I observed guards going in and out the balcony, one door was guarded... It just felt so obvious that this was the main location: it obviously was the centerpiece of the mission. The other tavern was just a window and I assumed that there was only one small room with low value loot behind it, so I left it for dessert after the main course. How could I choose the wrong one as all the unseen arrows pointed towards the first tavern?
I hope my feedback did not hurt your feelings, I don't do it out of spite, but I see your great potential and want to give you some pointers to consider. To reveal things for you to think about so that you can develop your own take on the described facet of mission design. I emphasize that my way is not the 'correct' way, but you need to develop a personal way that appeals to you, but also makes the mission more enjoyable for as many as possible. Many of these things are a matter of taste and when it comes to art, this mission is your art: you do not need to apologize your decisions.
It indeed was a great mission and I enjoyed it a lot.
Wasn't aware of that - I can't have tried to KO many sitting AI's up till now.
Haha - you're a ingenious little spidernoob, aren't ya?
It won't work. I. Will. Find. A. Way.
* May or may not involve crashing, abysmal performance and/or rendering errors.
My philosophy is, if a player can get up there legitimately, he or she deserves the accomplishment.
Everything is legitimate as long as it doesn't involve noclip or flight. Mantling? Legit. Crate stacking? A noble pursuit. Rope arrows in that single patch of wood the author forgot about? Dam straight that's also legit!
Oh you little buggers - you are more annoying than leaks and aas out of dates!! Haha!
SeriousToni: I just have to say WOW This is IMHO one of the best TDM missions I have played!!! Please do a sequel!!! to complete the story.
One question though is there a secret in the bathroom where there appears to be scrape marks on the floor?
There IS a secret but only if you did not knock out it before already..
Enjoyed the new sounds and music, and of course the briefing.
Amusing: I woke up the inventor, he couldn't relight his candle, and then he went back to sleep.
Nice cacti, aka pricklies. Did you make them?
One problem though, the mission completion video failed to work (paused at the beginning) and I had to click through to get to the time/loot/stealth screen as multiple sound tracks tried to jockey into position. I think this is more symptomatic of a TDM mission completion bug than anything SeriousToni added; I've observed this kind of bug several times in the past.
Great animation and sound for the campfire relighting.
Why does "Goods" say "Gooods"?
Thank you a lot jaxa!
All these comments have got me salivating , can't wait to fire it up when I get home to the main computer!
Great to hear! Drive carefully.
Noticed this in jysk's FM too. Has it always been like that and I've only just noticed?
Wow! Great work! Really impressive! I never expected something like that!
Yeah I think it's a misspelling in the mod code. I've pointed it out more than once.


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More Work to Do -- Part I
"It does not happen all at once. There is no instant pudding."
-- W. Edwards Deming
Draft weekend is history, but the work continues. This is "free agent week." Although the unrestricted free agent signing period will not begin until Sunday at 12:00 (Eastern), the jockeying will begin this week, if it has not already with players to be re-signed, and rumors flying about this player or that being moved or his rights surrendered.
The Washington Capitals made a bit of a splash on Friday with the trade of Cody Eakin and a draft pick to Dallas for center Mike Ribeiro. And that move addresses Job One on the summer things to do list. But that job list is longer than one item. There are players to sign and holes to fill. First, the players to sign – the restricted free agents.
Mike Green
The four roster players with restricted free agent status – Mike Green, John Carlson, Jay Beagle, and Mathieu Perreault – have been extended qualifying offers, but those are just first steps in settling with those players for next season and beyond. Mike Green' salary cap burden was $5.25 million last season. His qualifying offer is for $5.0 million (his 2011-2012 salary), and he has arbitration rights. From 2007-2008 through 2009-2010 Green recorded 68 goals and 205 points in 225 games and was a plus-69. He established himself as the premier offensive defenseman in the league and was twice a Norris Trophy finalist. The knock on him was that he was too much an offensive defenseman, a player with deficiencies in his own end of the ice (apparently there is a shelf life for such concerns when it comes to Norris Trophy voting). In the last two seasons he has made improvements in that area, but it has come at a price – both physically and production-wise. Green missed 83 games over the past two seasons to concussion, ankle, and groin injuries. In the 81 games in which he appeared, he was 11-20-31, plus-11.
Speculating on Green's future is hard if for no other reason than there are some strange contracts among defensemen at this level of compensation. Duncan Keith might be worth every bit of his $5.54 million cap hit, but is James Wisniewski worth $5.5 million? In fact, looking at salary comparables, it is hard to fathom that many of these guys – defensemen such as Paul Martin ($5.0 million cap hit), Fedor Tyutin ($4.5 million), or Lubomir Visnovsky ($5.6 million) come to mind – are "worth" those sums. But that is the going price these days for defensemen, a position that commands a compensation premium.
There are left two questions. First, will Green's rights be moved to free up cap space? The Capitals have almost $21 million in cap space (capgeek.com). Moving Green to free up cap space makes sense only if there is a bigger play in store. We think that unlikely (we will get to that on another day). Second, will he be extended with a term similar to those of Alex Ovechkin or Nicklas Backstrom? We think that unlikely as well, given the coincidence of his health issues and decline in production the last two years. Green is eligible for salary arbitration, but given the premium on defensemen and the known commodity that is Green, we think the probability high that he be re-signed (something in the three-year range).
Probability of Return: 80 percent
John Carlson
John Carlson's path seems a bit clearer, because there is a template (and he is not arbitration-eligible). He is 22 with 186 games of experience under his belt. Last summer Karl Alzner was in a similar situation – 22 years old, 133 games of experience. Both had entry-level deals that paid $875,000 in base salary. Alzner did have performance bonus clauses in his contract amounting to an average of $800,000 over the three years of that entry-level contract. Carlson had no such bonuses. Alzner signed a two-year, $2.57 million deal last summer. This would seem the likely path Carlson will follow.
There are two ways to look at Jay Beagle. First, he did a lot – especially late in the season and in the playoffs – to establish himself as a fixture on an energy line. He does the little things that need to be done – blocking shots, applying a physical edge, winning faceoffs, playing responsibly in his own end. In fact, but not for his missing 31 games with a concussion, his season might have been that much more impressive in a grinder role.
On the other hand, the nature of the position is that it is replaceable. There are many more of this specie of player than there are high-skill players. But his contract history is an odd one. In his first two seasons he played a total of only 10 games with the Caps, but the "NHL" portion of his salary was for $687,500 per season with performance bonus clauses for another $187,500; the AHL portion of his contract paid $65,000 (capgeek.com). In the last two seasons, his cap hit was $512,500 and no performance bonus provisions. Beagle is arbitration-eligible, but it seems more likely he would be re-upped for a modest raise in pay.
Mathieu Perreault
None of the restricted free agents have as wide a range of potential outcomes as does Perreault. He had something of a coming out year with 16 goals (tied for fifth on the team) in only 64 games. On the other hand, he sat for the last ten playoff games this spring after going without a point (and only one shot on goal) in the first four games of the opening round series against Boston. The added dimension regarding Perreault is whether he will be moved as part of a package deal to upgrade the top-six forwards or to add depth to the defense. His contract history resembles Beagle's in that his entry level contract carried a cap hit of $716,667 a season over three years, a contract that included both performance and signing bonuses (he played in a total of only 56 games with the Caps over that period); the AHL portion of his contract paid $62,500 a season. Last season he signed a one-year deal that paid $525,000.
Perreault could sign his qualifying offer ($575,000), could be signed to a longer term deal in acknowledgment of his ability to produce as a scoring forward, could go to arbitration (he is eligible), or could be traded. If anything, the direction the Caps went in the draft and the comments of George McPhee might offer a hint as to which direction the Caps could go with Perreault. The Caps drafted two forwards with size in the first round, and with respect to their drafting Tom Wilson – a player with size and an edge to his play – McPhee said, "When we're in the middle of playoffs I made a note after the games: 'Remember these games when you're at the draft. Remember how intense they are, how physical they are, how demanding they are and make sure you get someone who wants to play in that kind of stuff.'"
It will be a while before Tom Wilson is a Capital, but this does open the window just a bit into the kind of team the Capitals are trying to build. And it does raise questions about whether Perreault will be a good fit for it. And from the other side, Perreault might not be sad about moving on. The lack of communication about his performance and reasons for his benching in the playoff seem to have been a source of aggravation – "Obviously I wasn't happy. But they never really told me anything. That's probably the worst part; like you don't really know how you're playing. But it's really been like that every time I get sent down in the past year or get sent down in another year. I never really knew why. It's not fun. I didn't enjoy that."
Of the four, we think Perreault is the one least likely to be a Capital on opening night next season.
Labels: Jay Beagle, John Carlson, Mathieu Perreault, Mike Green, NHL, the peerless prognosticator, Washington Capitals


Conclusion of the tender for medium-range Ballistic Missile Defense ('BMD', codename "Wisła") creates both opportunities and challenges for Poland's defense industry. One of most promising aspect is the transfer of technology and know-how from American providers to local entities. In this respect, important lessons can be learned from the Polish Oil and Gas Sector's ('OGS') shale exploration efforts which share several characteristics with the BMD project.
First, both shale OGS and BMD rely on sophisticated, proprietary technology, which make their implementation a capital intensive process. Hence, localization of production is necessary to cut costs, and ensure profitability of investments. Moreover, prior adaptation of regulation and operational procedures is needed to avoid wasting valuable time and resources during operational phase. Second, both petroleum and defense industries are already functioning in Poland and local entities expect to be a part of future investments. Incorporating local companies in the projects will then build trust and improve the environment in which OGS and BMD operate in Poland.
3. Human factor – establishing mutual trust and understanding.
Appropriate regulations are vital in implementing new technologies associated with shale gas, and are an issue which Poland has been struggling with. The Polish Mining Law (Prawo Geologiczne i Górnicze – 'PGG') serves as a good example of a regulation hindering implementation of new technologies. The law was designed for regulating drilling in conventional hydrocarbon fields. As such, it focuses on procedures used in Poland and does not reflect global industry trends.
For example, PGG specifies the workforce structure along with necessary permits and educational background of the personnel employed on an oil rig. All the above are specific to Poland, so few foreign companies can comply with them without significant organizational changes. Therefore, these companies are effectively forced to implement artificial organizational schemes, creating unnecessary costs, and impeding communication and knowledge transfer. Problems are exacerbated in case of innovative technologies, which generate situations unforeseen by the law. For instance, the PGG proves incapable of naming appropriate trainings or institutions that would certify a person for performing work related to hydraulic fracturing. One interpretation of the law states that fracturing pump operators must obtain a local qualification for 'cement pumping units', which is neither representative of their tasks nor relevant to the safety of their work.
Over the past years, a consensus on norms for shale gas extraction has not been achieved, leading to creation of duplicate sets of procedures. Currently one set is used by foreign companies, based on their experience with innovative technology. The second set is artificially created for submission to state's Mining Authority, and often has little practical use during operations.
One example of this procedural duplication is the Drilling and Completion Program, created vis a vis the Polish 'Plan Ruchu'. For instance, the pumping schedules for hydraulic fracturing are adopted from American OGS and effectively guide the field operations conducted by foreign companies. However, for the sake of time saving, only parts of the schedules are translated and copied to 'Plan Ruchu' for the Mining Authority and for Polish companies reference. Know-how transfer is then impeded, since local and foreign companies work using different sets of documents.
A significant investment in any industry, such as shale OGS, disturbs the status quo, affecting industry's attitude towards a project. For example, political pressure on Poland's national oil company – PGNIG – to drill shale wells adversely affected financing for other, conventional projects. This created industry establishment's hostility towards shale OGS in general and foreign companies with their technology in particular, slowing down the technology adoption. The stakes are high, since PGNIG forecasted 300 mln PLN, or 30 percent of total exploration expenditures for shale wells.
Moreover, foreign companies with their innovative technologies are pushing Polish counterparts out of business. For example, the American-owned United Oilfield Services, won a PGNIG contract for 3 advanced shale wells in North of Poland, promoting discontent in the local competitor Exalo Drilling. Prior to that, Exalo (part of the PGNIG capital group) has had a virtual monopoly on conventional drilling for their mother company. Therefore, a theoretical success of the shale project in Poland is contrary to interests of the part of Polish OGS, which feels it cannot compete in shale industry.
1) Verification of applicable regulations and their implications for the defense industry. For example, the certification problem for fracturing specialists could be avoided in case of foreign electro-technicians that will be co-creating the 360 degree tracking radar technologies in Poland. According to Polish regulations, these technicians should first have to prove their qualifications in front of a Qualifying Commission and obtain certain permits. Cooperation with all tiers of government agencies and business partners could expedite and rationalize this process. A mutual recognition of electro-technical certificates and permits between the US and Poland could be negotiated, minimizing the red tape hassle for field personnel. Alternatively, appropriate trainings could be organized in Poland in advance, and the process of recognizing foreign employees' skills could be streamlined.
2) Standardization of procedures for cooperation with local counterparts. The defense industry can build on OGS experiences by adequately planning the cooperation. With a thorough understanding of the Polish law documentation requirements will facilitate cooperation with Polish counterparts and allow for synergies in standardization. For example, technical procedures should be translated into a format and language acceptable by Polish businesses and/or Polish authorities. The resulting documentation should be used by all involved companies.
3) Incorporating Polish companies in implementation of BMD programme. Sufficient resources should be committed to engaging Polish stakeholders on all accessible levels. A list of Polish arms contractors and associated institutions should be maintained and serve as a reference guide during all implementation phases of the BMD programme. Incorporating Polish providers or universities will build trust and facilitate operations in Poland. Moreover, due to price level difference between the US and Poland, even a relatively small project for an American company could be a significant one for the Polish counterpart. Therefore, offshoring parts of production could not only satisfy government's requirements and build the trusts of Polish defense industry, but also be financially beneficial for the investor.
The challenges facing OGS in Poland can serve as an important lesson for the arms industry as it prepares for transatlantic cooperation. Despite setbacks outlined above, 'shale revolution' in Poland still served as a platform for technology transfer between Poland and the United States. Cutting edge drilling and well completion techniques were adopted by Polish OGS, resulting in highest fracturing pump rates ever achieved outside of North America or longest horizontal wells drilled in the region.
Even greater successes await the defense industry if it builds on OGS' experiences. Success in adapting American BMD technology will depend on engagement of all stakeholders: the investors, local companies, governmental agencies and regulators as well as adequate planning. Unifying standards, certifications and procedures will facilitate the operations in Poland and help the industry to reach its full potential.


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"Who's looney now?": John Armstrong Chaloner's fight to prove his sanity
May 3, 2017 Meghan Lyon
Post contributed by Dr. Paul Sommerfeld, Rubenstein Graduate Intern for Manuscripts Processing and one of Duke's newest PhDs in the Dept. of Music.
By the age of 26, John Armstrong Chaloner (1862-1935)—or to his friends, Archie—had amassed a fortune of $4 million and seemed poised to live the privileged life the wealthy elite of New York City enjoyed in the late nineteenth century. In 1897, however, his family had him involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital. Chaloner spent the next 22 years fighting to prove his sanity. His papers, a mixture of correspondence, legal documents, and writings by Chaloner himself, offer not only a fascinating portrait of Chaloner but also a snapshot of attitudes toward mental health in the early twentieth century.
In the 1890s, Chaloner became interested in psychological experiments. He believed that he possessed a new sense, which he termed the "X-Faculty." Among many claims, Chaloner stated that the faculty provided him a profitable stock market tip, would turn his brown eyes gray, allowed him to carry hot coals in his hands unharmed, and caused him to resemble Napoleon.
Milwaukee Free Press, Oct. 1911
Chaloner's family regarded his claims—in addition to his blasé attitude toward the scandal of his divorced wife, the novelist Amélie Rives—as evidence of insanity. Chaloner continued to live near Rives' estate in Albemarle County, VA, and even befriended her second husband. Chaloner's brother reportedly labeled him as "looney." In response, Chaloner's family had him committed to the Bloomingdale Hospital in White Plains. On 12 June 1899, a New York court declared him insane and ruled that he be permanently institutionalized.
Letter from Chaloner to attorney, 1897 July 3
But Chaloner had other plans. He believed his family had him committed to seize his fortune and stop his experiments. Bitter sonnets composed during his time at the asylum reflect his anger and desire to clear his name. In November of 1900, he managed to escape to a private clinic, whose doctors declared him able to function in society. Thereafter, Chaloner plotted strategies to both overturn the New York verdict and change lunacy laws in America.
During his legal challenges, Chaloner became immortalized by the phrase "Who's looney now?." In the summer of 1910, Chaloner's brother married the opera singer Lina Cavalieri and signed over control of his property to her. The marriage soon broke down, and Chaloner wired his brother the pithy catchphrase. Four years later Chaloner even titled one of his many books The Swan-Song of "Who's Looney Now?" (1914), drawing on the phrase's subsequent popularity.
New York City Evening Mail, 1910 Oct. 4
Chaloner's correspondence, copious notes, and book drafts speak to his dedication in clearing his name. Filled with legal strategy and instructions to attorneys in New York, North Carolina, and Virginia, his letters trace his maneuvering within the legal system, reaching even the U. S. Supreme Court in 1916. In Chaloner v. Thomas T. Sherman, Chaloner sought damages for the withholding of his estate and fortune. Chaloner argued that because he was a resident of Virginia, New York had no jurisdiction. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court affirmed the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeal's decision.
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals legal brief, 1914
Yet the courts of Virginia and North Carolina had declared Chaloner sane in 1901, allowing him to live and maintain business interests in both states. New York continued to declare him legally insane until 1919, when his family no longer challenged the petition and reconciled with Chaloner.
Letter congratulating Chaloner on his legal victory, 1919 July 8
Like his dogged legal challenges, Chaloner's book drafts, including Four Years Behind the Bars of "Bloomingdale," or, The Bankruptcy of Law in New York (1906) and The Lunacy Law of the World: Being That of Each of the Forty-Eight States and Territories of the United States, with an Examination Thereof and Leading Cases Thereon; Together with That of the Six Great Powers of Europe—Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Russia (1906), are also filled with annotations and revisions that fill every bit of available white space. Not even a calendar from the University of Virginia escaped unscathed.
Calendar with Chaloner's notes, 1906
Chaloner's papers offer a fascinating portrait into the mind of a determined, if eccentric, man, while also simultaneously portending the burgeoning changes toward psychiatry in both medicine and the law that developed throughout the twentieth century.
The John Armstrong Chaloner Papers are available for research.
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