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EPA deep sixes whistleblower protection
By revere on September 6, 2006.
On Labor Day, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) issued a press release whose title summarizes its contents all too neatly: Bush Declares Eco-Whistleblower Law Void for EPA Employees. Here's some of it:
Washington, DC - The Bush administration has declared itself immune from whistleblower protections for federal workers under the Clean Water Act, according to legal documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). As a result of an opinion issued by a unit within the Office of the Attorney General, federal workers will have little protection from official retaliation for reporting water pollution enforcement breakdowns, manipulations of science or cleanup failures.
Citing an "unpublished opinion of the [Attorney General's] Office of Legal Counsel," the Secretary of Labor's Administrative Review Board has ruled federal employees may no longer pursue whistleblower claims under the Clean Water Act. The opinion invoked the ancient doctrine of sovereign immunity which is based on the old English legal maxim that "The King Can Do No Wrong." It is an absolute defense to any legal action unless the "sovereign" consents to be sued.
The opinion and the ruling reverse nearly two decades of precedent. Approximately 170,000 federal employees working within environmental agencies are affected by the loss of whistleblower rights.
"The Bush administration is engineering the stealth repeal of whistleblower protections," stated PEER General Counsel Richard Condit, who had won several of the earlier cases applying environmental whistleblower protections to federal specialists. "The use of an unpublished opinion to change official interpretations is a giant step backward to the days of the secret Star Chamber." PEER ultimately obtained a copy of the opinion under the Freedom of Information Act.
At the same time, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking a more extreme position that absolutely no environmental laws protect its employees from reprisal. EPA's stance would place the provisions of all major federal environmental laws, such as the Clean Air Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act, beyond the reach of federal employees seeking legal protection for good faith efforts to enforce or implement the anti-pollution provisions contained within those laws.
These actions arose in the case of Sharyn Erickson, an EPA employee who had reported problems with agency contracts for toxic clean-ups. After conducting a hearing, an administrative law judge called EPA's conduct "reprehensible" and awarded Erickson $225,000 in punitive damages but the Labor Secretary overturned that ruling.
"It is astonishing for the Bush administration to now suddenly claim that it is above the law," said PEER Senior Counsel Paula Dinerstein, who is handling Erickson's appeal of the Labor Secretary's ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit based in Atlanta. "Congress could end this debate by simply declaring that it intends that the whistleblower protections of these anti-pollution laws apply to the federal government."
Of course it's not really astonishing for the Bush administration to claim they are above the law. It would be in fact astonishing if they considered themselves subject to the law. Meanwhile the Republican congress, to its own shame, sits on its hands and clucks about obscenity on television, video games and teenage file sharing. Did I forget gay marriage and the flag burning amendment?
This congress isn't likely to end the debate by allowing whistleblower protection for government employees. Just think of the risk they'd be taking.
Here are the documents, if you have the stomach for them (all .pdfs):
The unpublished opinion of the Attorney General's Office of Legal Counsel
The EPA's brief advocating sovereign immunity from all environmental statutes
The PEER brief against the Bush sovereign immunity claim
Labor Secretary Elaine Chao reopens the sovereign immunity issue
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When the democratically elected Congress assembled, some oppositon leaders to the Nazi Party actually had the nerve to march into the Congress and walk between rows of Nazi Brown Shirts to the podium, and give speeches denoucing the murder and arrest of Communist leaders. Some of these democratic representatives carried cyanide pills, in case they were detained.
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Multinational corporations control our government, and buy the President and the Congress. Now Bush and Cheney want to attack Iran, just as Hitler decided to invade Poland.
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By william (not verified) on 06 Sep 2006 #permalink
I have read the posted information on the .PDF's. What the AAG stated was in his opinion, that it wouldnt make any significant change for a whistleblower in one particular instance relating to the Clean Water Act to receive compensation for a blowing the whistle on water quality in a particular place. It still leaves open the whistleblower remedies that may be pursued. It just limits the ability of the whistleblower from being able to receive compensation for filing the suit. An AG opinion does not prevent them from filing the suit and if it has merit you must remember that the government in a lawsuit is guilty until proven innocent.
Mind, most of this was always motivated by money. The official position of a whistleblower is generally blown and while retained its with so so advancements etc. and thats the reason they put the money damages out there as a percentage. Cant really blame them... By the way the Dems voted against it when it passed.
Bush and Cheney arent the only ones who want to attack Iran. I do too and massively. Lets add Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Oman, Dubai. They just dont have the horsepower William. If you think things are bad now just wait and see what happens if they get a bomb. They will control the Straits and can easily contaminate every oil well in Saudi Arabia with the pop of one cap. Think its bad now? You would see more hard core than it is now. Its dumb to sit there and make this statement that its just BUSH. Bush doesnt write opinions and this is an Assistant AG. He can be over ruled as well by the AG.
No story here and William, Bush as a modern day Hitler isnt there. You simply cant say it and back it up. I defy you to say that even one of your "freedoms." is being limited except when you go to the airport. William, better stay in S. America because the doors are being kicked in and the trains are heading to your camps up here. Say Hi to Fritz and the gang down there. Besides you are on high ground there. Another reason to stay. Wouldnt want you to get your feet wet. I hear that Al Gore has a mansion in La Paz.
By M. Randolph Kruger (not verified) on 06 Sep 2006 #permalink
One other thing on this issue. Regardless of what Dr. Chao of Labor and the EPA Secretary say, the government is three branches. It is as you say Revere the responsibility of Congress to fix this because the law is ambiguous in many respects. Not enough what ifs have been applied to it in the courts. Ericksons appeal will likely have this overturned but no monetary awards which is what the AAG stated. Not that the government is immune, its immune in this one particular case. He will be overruled by the appeal without doubt.
Politically motivated? Certainly. Will it stand? Likely not. I read his arguments and they are founded in good sound common and statutory law. But they are weak as Hell and he is likely a hack, just as the Democrats will have their hacks when they get back in there. Those are the same guys that will ensure that everyone has a "living wage" in this country but they wont have any jobs because they cant compete on the world marketplace. There is something to dump... Minimum wages. Hitler was one of the first to implement it.
Nothing has changed. Shrub ignores the law or changes it to suit himself. Congress is either whimpy or agrees with Shrub and refuses to challenge him. We currently do NOT have a government of the people.
By Ann (not verified) on 06 Sep 2006 #permalink
Aha, Mr. Krueger is actually a secret Marxist! "Dump the minimum wage" indeed!
When I was a kid it was commonly understood that the reason Marxism never had a chance in the US is because we have a solid middle class and anyone with a good work ethic can earn themselves a permanent place in it.
Doing away with the minimum wage would be the end of upward mobility, and thus we would become ripe for the commies to start making trouble. After the defeat of the evil Soviet empire, if you think the commies all went away, you're delusional. They are still around looking to make trouble. And repealing the minimum wage would be a brilliant strategic maneuver, sneaking in disguised as laissez-faire.
Don't forget who has gained the biggest benefits of "globalization." The People's Republic of China. Take a look at their flag. Still red as can be. Oh, I admire China's scientific, engineering, and industrial brilliance as much as anyone. But I don't have any illusions about what-all this globalization stuff is ultimately trying to accomplish. If I'm not mistaken, the stock phrase was something like "the international proletariat" or "the global proletariat."
Sorry, Randolph, I'm not buying.
As for nuking the Saudis, we had our chance after 9/11, since after all 19 of the 20 hijackers came from there. But the idiots in the white house didn't have the sense to go for the big prize, they merely settled for second best with this Iraq thing, and then after the military did its job with characteristic excellence (three weeks to regime change), they (the civilian leadership) slacked off on the post-maneuver phase and let it sink into a quagmire.
That's what happens when you have a president with a mediocre track record. The Republican party used to be the party of meritocracy. Now it's the party of mediocrity. Give me a Colin Powell or a Wesley Clark any day of the week, those are men of merit and excellence, who can stand up to the Russians and the Red Chinese (see, few things really change, do they?) not to mention a bunch of decadent princes collecting welfare from the oil companies. But no. Instead we have "Mr. Gentleman's C" and "Mr. Five Deferments." In a democracy we do after all get the government we deserve. Even if it had to steal two elections to get there.
As for what-all this has to do with public health: all those lovely tropical diseases waiting patiently to expand their range as the temperature slowly but significantly increases as a result of our incessant desire to burn dinosaur juice for amusement.
And so we sail through the air in a graceful and majestic arc. The edge of the cliff recedes behind us, and the jagged rocks come up fast from below, but for now, the view is just stunning.
By g510 (not verified) on 06 Sep 2006 #permalink
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By Darin (not verified) on 06 Sep 2006 #permalink
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By another (not verified) on 06 Sep 2006 #permalink
Wow, somehow Randolph always sneaks the subject back to obliterating the entire arab world in the name of "peace". That must really get your blood boiling, eh Randy> Kicking some Arab a.... But as Darin points out, the issue here is really the Bush administration's ongoing war against the environment this time, not the Middle East. It is interesting that this voiding of protection for whistleblowers is - if I read this right - only against those who are telling of governmental misdeeds connected with the EPA and specifically the Clean Water Act. I haven't read the citations yet, but I will in a minute. Let you know if it changes my mind about anything. However, it seems to me that if people closest to the truth can no longer go public about such things without fear of retaliation, then we are in some serious trouble. We are talking about the limiting factor on this planet, potable water,not some spotted owl or oil futures. To take away our rights to conserve and protect this commodity which is absolutely vital to life goes way beyond economic considerations. I kind of doubt that Ms Erikson reported the EPA's actions just to get some money, nor that the court would award her money if they didn't somehow feel that a) what she reported was true, and b) the EPA had done something to her personally as a result which was "reprehensible." My sister was a judge, and she taught me that the vast majority have the highest respect for law.
By mary in hawaii (not verified) on 06 Sep 2006 #permalink
I don't have time or stomach to read all the pages of legal briefs cited above - the language puts me to sleep -but I did go through the original unpublished opinion of the AG (first citation, above) dated Sep 23, 2005 upon which all the rest are based.
Mr. Kruger opined, after reading the pdfs, that " What the AAG stated was in his opinion, that it wouldnt make any significant change for a whistleblower in one particular instance relating to the Clean Water Act to receive compensation for a blowing the whistle on water quality in a particular place. It still leaves open the whistleblower remedies that may be pursued. It just limits the ability of the whistleblower from being able to receive compensation for filing the suit."
That's not what I read. What it says is that the government is immune with respect to the "whistleblower provision of the Clean Water Act". It goes on to clarify that provision as follows: "The CWA prohibits discrimination against an employee who has filed...any proceeding under this chapter.." It further clarifies this as "no person shall fire or discriminate against any employee" who has filed any proceeding or testified in any proceeding" (related to water pollution matters.) So, if the EPA as a government agency is now immune to this, that means the EPA does not have to honor the whistleblower protection provision. Meaning it is allowed to fire or discriminate against said employee.
The AG's letter goes on to say, as a separate issue, that the government may not be sued without its consent on such matters unless it waives immunity. And since, in this legal opinion, it is now " not waiving" such immunity, this means it can't be sued.)
On page 6 of this legal opinion paper it states that "it is difficult to see how section 1367" [of the CWA] "which establishes remedies for employer whistleblower retaliation is a 'requirement'...respecting the control and abatement of water pollution." I take this to mean that an EPA employee whistleblower has no remedies against employer retaliation if they testify against the EPA regarding problems relating to enforcement of the Clean Water Act.
So, although according to Mr. Kruger's interpretation, the opinion by the AAG is directed at this particular case only, and its sole intent is to save the government $225K in a lawsuit, the far broader implications - which are clearly iterated - are that a whistleblower employed by the EPA is now subject to discrimination and firing in retaliation for their testimony. As well, they are now forbidden any recourse against said retaliation, including being able to sue.
Hi M in H. Its not a misintepretation. The final line of the AAG's opinion is that the W. blower was found to not have the right to compensation for the 225K is all. It doesnt remove the right to appeal, because thats the law. I doesnt remove the right for other whistleblowers to reach for it, because thats the law. If its held later under appeal that the AAG is right or wrong, then thats the law. No one has removed the right to blow the whistle, only in this case that they have to positively prove that one is entitled to compensation for it. It specifically says that the conclusion by some really hard to understand logic that it does not rise to the level of compesnation. It STILL provides the reliefs and remedies as afforded, only that the person in question isnt entitled to any money but all other provisions are still in effect. It STILL will have to stand the test in law. She has to prove that by blowing the whistle that it would have improved the quality and condition of the water. Didnt happen. I looked her complaint up. Its like saying that because of a minor violation that she blows the whistle on, that she would have said that refineries were polluters. Duh! Yeah, we know that.
As for her personal fortunes going up or down, they would be big time bad stupid to keep her from promotions and the such. Now that is actionable and in State and Federal Court-discrimination, harassment, physical and sexual, recriminations. Man now thats something that an attorney can get his teeth in.
Retaliation? She would have a case in an instant and that is already founded in about 50 years of common and statutory law.
Also Mary, you might just have to understand one thing about the Arabs. Its not really the "ARAB" we are dealing with here. It is the Muslim world. The Muslims by definition must convert or kill all the unbelievers by definition of the Koran. Bad for those who want to think for themselves. Fuck dinosaur juice. It doesnt matter, they will just keep right on asserting that they have the right under God to do whatever they think necessary. Kill them all Mary? Okay, lets hear your big plan on how to appease, negotiate or whatever with these people. They are asserting their positions by blowing people up. We are asserting ours. You are defending terrorists?
Most of them if we knocked the crap out of Teheran would fall apart because this is the money pit. But every few years as I have said in the past we would have to tamp them back. You cant sit back and turn on your TV or drive your car and say that you dont agree with this position. By default you do it and by doing so you are funding terrorism. Me too. I dont like it but come up with something viable. I have heard this poor Arab crap for 50 years and its come to naught.
This isnt a science class. Its the killing business. Kill or be killed is where we are heading. Only an idiot would think that we can negotiate with someone who his Hell bent on killing Westerners. You live in Hawaii. What do you think is going to happen if they take down an airliner going into there? HI would fold up like an old tent because the economy would collapse. France's economy took a 3% tumble because of their "Muslim" riots and they got that under control by use of force....The FRENCH used force? Oh my God!
As as to nuking the countries in the Middle East I wouldnt. I would just let them know that I would be doing a little house cleaning in their areas. After a couple of B-1 strikes I think they would get the picture. I would also do it against Saudi Arabia who as it is said sent the boys to do the bidding of a madman. Pakistan yesterday wanted us to give Bin Laden amnesty. To them this made sense? . Okay, another target on the map.
By M.Randolph Kruger (not verified) on 07 Sep 2006 #permalink
Kruger: first of all, you continue to conveniently omit what that legal opinion states regarding eliminating the whistleblower's protection against retaliation by her employers for coming forth to expose a problem or wrongdoing. That's the key point, not whether she can appeal, whether she can get money, etc. The whistleblower no longer is protected from retaliation, including firing, for the simple fact of blowing the whistle. If she/he is no longer protected from such retaliation, then there is NO case for a lawsuit. What would she sue for? I cited and quoted all of that, yet you continue to obfuscate and ignore that entire part of the issue.
Second, I am just flat out sick and tired of your bigotry and war mongering at every given opportunity. You are basically an unabashed racist who lumps all Muslims into one box and labels them according to your own cardboard caricature of what you believe them to be. You state their Koran insists they either convert us all or kill us all. That is just a flat lie. The Koran states those who don't convert to Islam will burn in eternal Hell at the end times, but it leaves that to Allah. Muslims are not compelled to murder off non believers. If they were, there would certainly be a whole lot more killings than there are...millions of them. You put forth as fact your tunnel visioned view of Muslims, pretending they all have the extremist viewpoints held by only the most radical militant fundamentalist sects... That is about as accurate and fair as saying that all Christians are neo-con born again fundamentalist flag waving "Kill a commie/Muslim for Christ" types who believe in Creationism, the Rapture and that God is on the side of Bush and all Muslims are Satan's evil doers. What a load. Sadly you seem unaware of your own prejudices, you can't seem to imagine any other way to resolve things than kill or be killed, and really seem to sincerely believe that anyone who thinks differently is just too stupid and unrealistic to see "the truth". But I tell you what, do not do the sexist condescendension number on me, intimating that I am just the ignorant "little woman". You say "What would happen if those western hating Muslims took down an airliner going to Hawaii..oh, the whole economy of the state would collapse." From the loss of one airliner? What utter bullshit. Where do you come up with this stuff? I guess you really buy into Bush's "they hate us because we're free" rationale, huh? If I seem to personally attack you, Randy, it is because in my opinion you purposely mislead people, you pretend to know it all, parading around as if you have all the inside data, selling hate and fear as if it's the only intelligent response. But I've begun to feel more and more certain it's all a pack of lies. In the case above, I found the lies. In other cases, I can't because you never once back up things you say with any reference that can be verified, so I have to wonder what you are really up to.
First of all Mary, I dont think I have ever called anyone a name here. Watch your mouth or I will unload on you. Dont call me a bigot or a racist as you would have to prove that. I am a realist and that position is Mary that you appease the tiger, he eats you last but you still get eaten. Who gives a crap whether you think that annihilation of an enemy is right or wrong. I would kill them all if it came down to them or one American, that includes YOU!
On the other hand it seems that you want to defend every little poor sack of crap person on this planet that wants to do us harm with the old rant that the US is always wrong. Second of all you are either ignorant of what is going on in the airline industry or you dont know your own economy in HI. They went down almost 15% in one year in 02/03for something that happened several thousand miles away in NY. Those are documented facts. You think people are going to get onto planes to go to Hawaii if there a large chance that someone will take the plane out of the sky? Thats pretty dumb if you really believe that.
As for the whistleblower. She is still afforded the right to appeal and she is doing that as prescribed by law. And she can all the way to the Supreme Court if she wants. AG opinions are appealed all the time. She isnt out one right, only that she has to prove her case. Its a lawsuit and she has filed it.. You are guilty until proven innocent in a lawsuit. So the government will be guilty in every assertion she makes until a judge rules on it. So far, I havent seen this in court. So what do you think they should do? Just accept it and go on? No. She is also afforded the right to sue if they do fire her in both state and federal court. The AG's opinion hasnt removed anything nor has shee been fired. The AG can only write an opinion and it stands until challenged. I havent heard anyone say that she doesnt have the right to sue if she is terminated either, it is implied by opinion. She will just keep wratcheting it until she either decides to give up or she gets the answer she is looking for. You are pretty quick to jump when its not even in the courts yet. Very strange position, pretty indefensible.
As for your rant about Muslims, Yeah I have heard it all before. Lets see the 200 Marines in Beirut, Lockerbie Scotland, Al Khobar Towers, five embassies in Africa in a day, the Aussies in Indonesia, the American contractor compound in Saudi Arabia, 93 WTC 1, 9/11/2001 WTC 1 and 2-3000 dead. No, they arent trying to kill us Mary... I just must be totally uninformed. I dont have any inside track Hmm. Okay you are allowed your opinion. If mine pisses you off, thats just too bad. But I would like for you to watch your racist remarks. I am an equal opportunity killer. I cull none that would attack this country or its assets, or its people anywhere in the world and that includes you. Funny you should sit in Hawaii and make the statements that you do when a bunch of wild eyed crazies with aircraft carriers on Dec. 7 1941 attacked us without warning and a very debatable provocation. I guess we should have just negotiated with the Japanese too. Nanking China? Non Sequitur.
Pull the plug on this one Revere. This is getting nasty and I can rise to the occasion.
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Haystack (formerly Joseph Editions) is about education, accessibility, and fun. The new name speaks to the feeling of discovery that comes with finding art that you understand, and therefore art that you love. It evokes a feeling of exploration, like an improvisational collector who goes where inspiration takes them. The greatest art collections are built by heart, not by hand. Kind of like finding a needle in a haystack.
The identity channels the best qualities of great art; it's whimsical, unexpected at times, and creates an experience around each edition that feels immersive. Each interaction with the brand feels like you're discovering something new, learning a little more, and building a love for art—not just getting caught up in its value.
This begins with a logo that's always in motion, and an identity system that rejects a uniform approach to color in favor of a vivid spectrum, used at random. When the artwork needs to be the star, new color palettes are built around each piece.
As an ecommerce-led business, Haystack's site is all about discovery. Whether you're browsing logically and filtering down art you might like, or jumping from piece to piece impulsively, the site is built to make it easy to find art you love. Shopping each edition is a unique visual experience that educates new collectors through in-depth writing and information about the artists and production. And the site makes it easy to see how a few pieces look together, always keeping the new collector in mind.
Moving into touchpoints beyond the website, the whimsy and spontaneity of Haystack's design system gets turned up a notch. Using the logo and wordmark separately mean they can flex and stretch in fun ways across packaging and merchandise. Brand and artwork colors and imaginative layout make for an eye-catching social feed. And all of this paves the way for approachable language rarely seen in the context of fine art.
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Back from meetings with top officials in Mexico City, Wilson's Mexico Institute Director Duncan Wood offers behind-the-scenes insight on the Mexican government's emerging strategy for dealing with the Trump administration, including the calculus and context for the looming renegotiation of NAFTA.
Duncan Wood is the director of the Mexico Institute at the Wilson Center. Prior to this, he was a professor and the director of the International Relations Program at the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM) in Mexico City for 17 years. He has been a member of the Mexican National Research System, an editorial advisor to both Reforma and El Universal newspapers, and is a member of the editorial board of Foreign Affairs Latinoamerica. In 2007, he was a non-resident Fulbright Fellow and, between 2007 and 2009, he was technical secretary of the Red Mexicana de Energia, a group of experts in the area of energy policy in Mexico. He has been a Senior Associate with the Simon Chair and the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. His research focuses on Mexican energy policy, including renewable energy, and North American relations. He studied in the UK and Canada, receiving his PhD in political studies from Queen's University, Canada, and is a recipient of the Canadian Governor General's Visit Award for contributions to the Mexico-Canada relationship.


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BREAKING |Vizag Gas Leakage Tragedy | NHRC takes suo moto cognizance over deaths & sufferings due to styrene gas leakage; Right to life of victims grossly violated
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Published on May 7, 2020 May 7, 2020 By Devika Sharma
The National Human Rights Commission has taken suo motu cognizance of media reports about the death of eight persons and over five thousand others falling sick due to leakage of styrene gas in Vizag District of the State of Andhra Pradesh early morning today. The leakage of the gas has reportedly affected people within a radius of about 3 kilometers. Many people could be seen lying on roads while some complained of difficulty in breathing and rashes on their bodies.
The Commission has observed that though prima-facie, as of now, there are no reports regarding human error or negligence but the fact that so far at least 8 innocent citizens have lost their lives and thousands have fallen sick, is indeed a serious issue of violation of human rights. Right to life of the victims has been grossly violated. At a time when the human lives across the country are at stake due to spread of COVID-19 virus and everyone is forced to stay indoor, the gruesome tragedy has come as bolt from the blue for the people.
Accordingly, the Commission has issued a notice to the Chief Secretary, Government of Andhra Pradesh calling for a detailed report in the matter including status of the rescue operation, medical treatment provided to the people fallen sick and relief and rehabilitation provided by the state authorities to the affected families.
A notice has also been issued to the Director General of Police, Andhra Pradesh to inform within four weeks about registration of FIRs in the matter and status of the investigation being conducted.
The Commission also considered it appropriate to bring the matter to the notice of the Union Ministry of Corporate Affairs and has asked through its Secretary to examine whether the norms laid down under relevant provisions of the law are being implemented at the particular industrial unit and to submit a report to the Commission. Responses from all the these authorities are expected within four weeks.
As per early reports in the media, the incident has occurred at a chemical plant at LG Polymers Industry at RR Venkatapuram near Naiduthota area of the district around 3.00 AM today on 7th May,2020. The unit manufactures polystyrene and its co-polymers. An evacuation drive has reportedly been started by the police authorities and the District Collector is monitoring the situation. The NDRF and SDRF teams are also deployed in the area as mentioned in the news report.
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Home Israel Foreign Affairs Speeches PM RABIN TO UNGA ON 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF UN-24-Oct-95
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ADDRESS BY PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL H.E. YITZHAK RABIN TO THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON THE OCCASION OF THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Mr. President,
Your Excellencies,
Ladies and Gentlemen.
This podium has heard many cries of joy, as well as many words of despair. This podium has seen justice, but it has also seen evil, cruelty and exploitation.
In the past fifty years this podium has seen empires fall, and borders erased. But it has also seen people awaken to their freedom and the nations of the world display their flags side by side. It has become possible to fulfill the words of the prophet Isaiah, a son of the Jewish people: "They shall beat their swords into plough shares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against Nation, neither shall they learn war any more".
This is the dream which I bring to you today from Jerusalem, the eternal capital of the State of Israel and the heart of the Jewish people.
This morning I appear before you, the Heads of State of the international community, as the Prime Minister of the State of Israel and as the representative of the Jewish people.
I also stand before you today as a representative of those for whom the creation of the United Nations came too late.
I come here today in the name of the six million whose lives were turned into ashes, whose souls ascended to heaven in burning flames. We will never let them be forgotten.
I stand here as a representative of the children who will never smile, in the name of the parents whose children were torn from their arms, of the grandmothers and grandfathers whose screams fell on deaf ears.
But we will also never forget our benefactors who, forty-eight years ago, gave us a chance for independence. Until this very day, we still hear the echoes of the roll-call vote and the two-thirds of the member States, who on that fateful evening voted in support, fulfilling their moral responsibility.
There were also many years that in this hall hurtful and unjust decisions were taken against us. There were absurd resolutions which have since been rescinded, such as the resolution equating Zionism with racism.
Many ideologies have failed and faded away. But it is Zionism that brought the Jewish people to its historical homeland. Zionism won.
We are grateful to the international community for your encouragement at this historic moment which is unfolding on our little plot of land: the agreement between Israel and the Palestinians, and I wish to congratulate Chairman Arafat for for being a partner to this process. The peace treaties between Israel and Egypt, between Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and the significant changes in Israel's relationship with the entire Middle East.
The road is still long. However, we are determined to continue until we have brought peace to the region. For our children and our children's children. For all the peoples of the region. That is our mission. We will fulfill it.
Just as we came to you to protest, we now come to praise the change in the relationship between Israel and the international community and the United Nations.
However, we cannot be complacent. The United Nations must continue giving expression to the new reality in the Middle East. We must all be at the forefront of the fight against the forces which threaten peace and security in the region, to all countries, to all the peoples of the region and in the entire world.
We call upon the international community to assist us in locating our missing in action, and in enabling our prisoners of war to return to their homes and families.
As long as children die from hunger, our job here is not yet finished. As long as there is no peace in every corner of the world, our job here is not yet finished.
The UN must support those who are working for peace. It must intensify the international struggle against terrorism and its supporters. Terrorism is the world's cancer today. Don't fool yourselves, even if you ignore terror it can enter any of your homes. Terror must be defeated. Peace must win. This is a fight that we cannot afford to lose.
Israel celebrates here with everyone who attended here today and with the entire world, fifty years of The United Nations.
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Officers are releasing CCTV images of a suspect following criminal damage to a fast food restaurant in Christchurch.
The incident happened just after 2.20am on Monday 31 December 2018 at Don Ninno Pizza and Chicken on Bargates.
A car was captured on CCTV driving past the window of the restaurant and reversing back before a man got out of the driver's door.
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Police Constable Dominic Upshall, of Christchurch police, said: "The incident has caused the victim a lot of upset, cost and inconvenience and I am determined to identify the person responsible.
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It's not because of anything bad associated with Detroit's beloved Mr. Hockey, it's just that time moves on, and it's kind of sad.
The tradition in the National Hockey league is that every member of the every team that won the Stanley Cup is engraved into it. But it's reached the point where the Cup would be twenty feet tall if it continued to leave them all on it.
So every year, the top rung of the Cup is removed, and a new ring added to the bottom to keep the thing small enough so that teams can carry it around the ice when they win it.
This year, the rung coming off the top includes some huge hockey legends. Among those are Detroit hockey great Gordie Howe, who passed away in June of 2016, and the Detroit "Production Line" teams of the mid-1950s, which includes other iconic Red Wings like Ted Lindsay and Sid Abel.
Other names coming off the Cup this season include Hall of Famers Maurice "The Rocket" Richard of the Montreal Canadiens and Chicago Blackhawk immortals Stan Mikita and Bobby Hull.
Those legends had no idea when they won the Cup that eventually their names would come off, but modern players do, and they often ask the League "when is my name coming off the Cup?"
"Some guys start doing the math," Cup spokesperson Mike Bolt recently told the Detroit Free Press, "They say, 'Oh, I won't be around anyway.' But if you win it when you're young, you're going to be around when your name comes off."
Bolt, who is currently accompanying the Cup on a tour of NHL cities to promote the upcoming playoffs, says the best part of his job is watching fans and ex-players react to seeing it.
On average, a player's name now lasts about 40 years on the award, which goes to the yearly champion of the League's end of season playoffs.
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A Spring Golf Getaway for Couples
February 26, 2014 in Adventure Seekers, Family Fun, Golf
As the beginning of another golf season draws near and the longing to blow the dust off the clubs grows stronger it's time to start planning your first couple's golf getaway of the new season. If you are looking to play a little golf, enjoy some great food, spend some quality time relaxing in the spa, while hanging out in a country setting and you want all this without spending hours in the car en-route, then a couple of days at The Millcroft Inn combined with golf at nearby Osprey Valley is the tonic for you.
Located in the Village of Alton-Caledon (10 km south of Orangeville, a mere 90 minutes west of downtown Toronto) in a stunning countryside setting alongside 100 acres of protected forest you will find the Millcroft Inn. The Inn offers 52 guest rooms, ample meeting space, a four-diamond restaurant and a full service spa. Alton is also home to Osprey Valley Resorts, a three golf course complex design by award winning Canadian golf architect Doug Carrick. Each of the courses is a unique playing experience with the Heathlands offering a links routing, the Hoot serves up wasteland layout and the Toot is a parkland beauty. Package the two together and all your golf getaway needs will be met.
The Story of Millcroft:
The power of Shaw's Creek has been used to drive mills as early as the 1840's to create yarn and blankets. In 1881 Benjamin Ward built a four story stone mill with the stone coming from quarries in Inglewood and the mortar was processed at the Alton lime kilns. The Mill was later purchased by Ward's son-in-law, John M. Dods in1892. A dam break in 1889 damaged the mill and a fire left it in ruins in 1917. Dods rebuilt the mill adding a water tower and sprinkler system. Before passing away in 1923, Dods became a civic leader in the community of Alton. Sons James and Andrew Dods continued to operate the mill before leasing it to the Toronto Millstock Company of Waterford. Millstock ran production out of the mill until closing it in 1965. The contents of the building were sold, preparing its future as a country retreat.
The original stone mill is now Millcroft Inn, Dod's warehouse is now a meeting facility, and his home is the Manor House, consisting of 10 rooms furnished in antiques and heritage colours of colonial days. The Main Mill offers 22 guest rooms featuring a mix of Canadian and European themes with no two rooms alike. The Croft Units, contemporary two story chalets, with walkouts and wood burning fireplaces, rounds out the Millcrofts' accommodation options.
The Centre for Well-Being was added to the Inn in 2004 and boasts 17 treatments areas, steam rooms, hot tub, indoor pool, a fully equipped fitness studio and peaceful spa lounge overlooking the surrounding scenic woodlands. In addition to offering the traditional spa services, the Centre serves up several treatments that are unique such as a malt and barley scrub and soak or the Swiss shower kur. Reiki, Thai massage and morning yoga sessions are also standard issue. For those wishing to extend their post spa bliss an après treatment visit to Spa Café is a must where healthy cuisine is the only choice.
In addition to the aforementioned Spa Café the Inn's four-diamond Headwaters Restaurant presents gourmet dishes that are replete with locally grown fresh, organic and natural foods. For those who have a craving for lighter fair, a cold beer or glass of fine wine in a relaxed atmosphere then the Millcroft Lounge is the spot for you.
The Golf
All three courses at Osprey Valley are visually stunning but offer completely different golfing experiences. The Heathlands is a classic links-land style course routed through mounding adorned with fescue grasses. Perennially rated amongst the finest course in the province, Heathleands offers four sets of tees ranging from 5248 to 6810 yards and is a true test for golf even the best of golfers. The routing of the Hoot is of a wasteland nature and is carved out of tall pine forest with large waste bunkers skirting the fairways on many holes. It is a treat for players of all abilities to enjoy. One gets the feeling of being transported to the Pinehurst/Sandhills area of North Carolina. The locals tend to favour the Hoot with its five sets of tees from which to choose from at 5140 to 7201 yards. Measuring 5372 to 7106 yards, the Toot concludes the Osprey Valley triumvirate. This parkland beauty features generous landing areas off the tee and puts a premium on precise shot making to avoid the well placed and numerous bunkering.
For stay & play package details contact the Inn at 800-383-3976 or visit: http://www.vintage-hotels.com/millcroft/
If you are looking for additional golf getaway options many local, national and international golf destinations will be showing their stuff at the Toronto International Golf Show this weekend running from 12:00 on Friday until 5:00 on Sunday at the Metro Centre downtown. Details here: http://www.torontogolfshow.com/ Don't forget to pop in to the Central Counties Tourism booth, 619-623, and pick up some golf swag.
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Pawn About Town—National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York
Posted by David Miller as Card Games, CCGs, Classic Board Games, Electronic Games, Miniatures, Modern Board Games, RPGs, War Games
What a thrill! Recently, I had the privilege of visiting the National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York. The Museum, an arm of The Strong institute, is dedicated to everything play—toys, games, puzzles, sport, role-play, etc. Among it's current exhibits are one celebrating comic book heroes, one providing kids a fully-stocked scale grocery store to play shopping, and one that brings to life children's literature with a kid-sized fairy tale forest.
The real strength of the Museum, though, is how it integrates play, preservation, and education. Within each of the exhibits, displays of artifacts are side-by-side with related fun activities. This really gives the visitor a good sense of historical trends in play. It also helps make the museum as interesting to adults as it is to children.
In fact, despite all the interactive exhibits and fun activities, one shouldn't be misled into thinking that the National Museum of Play is just a children's museum or playhouse. The Strong and Museum are also dedicated to the serious study of play. The Museum houses one of the largest collections of play objects (toys, games, and other stuff) anywhere (much of which is available for perusal online), maintains a large library of professional publications, manages several unique archives, and offers fellowships for researchers.
My visit to this fantastic institution was facilitated by Nicolas Ricketts, Curator; Susan Trien, Senior Director of Public Relations; and Julia Rossi, Archivist. The three gave me a guided tour of the game-related exhibits, as well as the opportunity to examine the Sid Sackson and Philip Orbanes archives.
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Boardwalk Arcade is a celebration of summer, carnivals, and beach-side resorts. Artifacts on display include vintage advertising posters and models of amusement park rides. For activities there is Skee Ball, Whack-a-Mole, and a variety of pinball machines. Open now through September 8th, Boardwalk Arcade would be a particularly great activity for a rainy summer day.
National Toy Hall of Fame
Inductees to the National Toy Hall of Fame include such classic playthings as marbles, Barbie dolls, Mr. Potato Head, Scrabble, Dominoes, and Star Wars action figures. All are on display in a special section of the museum upstairs. The 2013 inductees will be announced on November 7th.
Starting in 2015, the National Toy Hall of Fame will be combined with the Toy Industry Association's Hall of Fame, which focuses on people in the toy industry. Past inductees to the latter include Walt Disney, George Lucas, F.A.O. Schwarz, and the Hassenfeld brothers (founders of Hasbro). A $4 million project will transform the museum's existing Hall of Fame space with a 100 foot long, 20 foot high LED theatrical screen and interactive play environments.
Monopoly: An American Icon
Monopoly gets its own exhibit at the Museum of Play. Highlighted at the center of Monopoly: An American Icon is Charles Darrow's original handmade board—round, according to legend, to fit his dining room table. Surrounding that board are displays showing the historical evolution of Monopoly from the 1906 Landlord's Game. There are early folk-art versions of Monopoly, Charles Darrow's tie-box Monopoly (his first commercial product, sold in Philadelphia department stores), modern branded games, and Hasbro's recent releases.
Game Time is an exhibit all about our favorite subject: GAMES! Between the giant-sized, free-to-play-with versions of Perplexus, Battleship, Connect Four, and Rush Hour are two main display sections—one exploring games by genre and one showing the history of games in a timeline. The genre displays cover logic puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, word games, matching games, strategy games, roleplaying games, race games, party games, card games, dexterity games, and wealth games—each with both modern and antique examples, as well as information on their historical context. There's so much to learn here about what makes a game, what value games add to play, and how different games tie in to different human needs and social relationships.
But if that's sounds too serious for you, it's also a lot of fun just to see older games compared side-by-side to modern ones of similar type.
The timeline section starts in the 1800s and ends at the present—so it's more of a look at the development of modern games than a study of their ancient origins. Still, there's a lot to learn about trends in game design and how games have been viewed in modern culture. One of the things that's apparent, for example, is that the tension between games being seen as primarily educational tools or entertainment is cyclical.
Not everything at the Museum is on display. Among the archives and collections of the Museum are personal papers and prototypes of game designer, Sid Sackson, and Monopoly expert and former Parker Brothers executive, Philip Orbanes. Getting to examine them in person was the highlight of my visit. Imagine holding in your hands the manuscript to the rules for Acquire!
Did you know that when Sid Sackson received a new game, he'd throw away the box to save on storage space?
Like many game designers I know, Sackson kept a detailed notebook of all his game ideas. But he also used the same diaries to take notes for meetings and record business details. At the end of the year, he'd index them by game and person.
One item in the Philip Orbanes collection was a personal scrapbook of George S. Parker, a founder of Parker Brothers. In it was correspondence of Parker with his company's British representatives following a trip he'd made to assess the market there just after World War I.
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Stay in School, Kids. Don't Do Drugs.
Jacob Sullum | 9.8.2009 5:19 PM
I agree with Jesse Walker and Nick Gillespie that the worst thing about President's Obama's speech to the students today (aside from the fact that he had no business giving it to begin with, since it's well beyond his constitutional job description) is the creepy collectivism implied by sentences like these:
If you quit on school, you're not just quitting on yourself, you're quitting on your country….
Don't ever give up on yourself, because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your country.
The story of America [is] about people…who loved their country too much to do anything less than their best….
What will a President who comes here in 20 or 50 or 100 years say about what all of you did for this country?…
I expect great things from each of you. So don't let us down. Don't let your family down or your country down.
As the positive quotes in this Los Angeles Times story show, Republicans and self-identified conservatives do not necessarily have a problem with this sort of rhetoric, or with the notion of the president as national dad. But individualists should.
One hopeful thing about Obama's speech is something that was not there: There was not a single explicit reference to drugs. The closest Obama came was when he said:
I wasn't always as focused as I should have been [in high school]. I did some things I'm not proud of, and got in more trouble than I should have. And my life could have easily taken a turn for the worse.
But I was fortunate. I got a lot of second chances and had the opportunity to go to college, and law school, and follow my dreams.
In his memoir Dreams From My Father, Obama famously acknowledges that he smoked pot and snorted coke as a teenager, choices he implausibly magnifies into a brush with ruin, the better to reinforce the message that users are losers (except when they become presidents or Olympic champions). But perhaps because his own biography (like those of most people who use drugs, including his two immediate predecessors in the White House) is such a clear refutation of that notion, Obama only alluded to it in today's speech. As Tim Cavanaugh notes, Obama also mentioned "friends who are pressuring you to do things you know aren't right," which could be interpreted as a reference to drug use (but might also be about cheating, cutting class, stealing, vandalism, or some other adolescent misdemeanor).
By comparison with the anti-drug obsessions of Reagan and Bush the Elder or the obligatory anti-drug messages from the two subsequent administrations, Obama's silence on the subject in this speech represents progress. As nice as it would be if the president could discuss drugs honestly, refraining from lying about them is a good first step.
NEXT: The New York Times Endorses Restrictions on Political Speech
Jacob Sullum is a senior editor at Reason.
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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, whose treaty with the FARC was rejected by voters but honored by the Nobel Committee.
In the hours after last Sunday's plebiscite called by Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos to ratify the peace deal he had struck with his country's FARC guerrillas—which was rejected by a margin of sixty-three thousand ballots, out of thirteen million cast—memes appeared showing a cartoonish Santos lying prone on the ground, apparently kicked to death by Álvaro Uribe, his arch-adversary and right-wing predecessor. Uribe had launched and led the successful "No" campaign against Santos's peace deal, opposing it on the grounds that it was too lenient to the FARC, and also exposed government soldiers to possible war-crimes prosecution. In the cartoon, Uribe was depicted as being forcibly led away from the scene by several supporters, with a caption reading, "Enough, leave him, he's dead." Another meme riffed on the expectation that Santos's chances of winning a Nobel Peace Prize—a possibility that had been floating in the atmosphere in recent months—were now doomed.
The surprise No victory threw Colombian society into a tense limbo, and the past week has seen a suddenly weakened Santos government forced to enter into dialogue with Uribe over possible "adjustments" to the peace plan, and an increasingly anxious FARC, which still has an estimated six thousand fighters armed in the field.
Uribe—who evidently did not expect his No campaign to win—has reëmerged as Colombia's top power broker. In several public pronouncements, the former President has sought to effect a magnanimous mien, apparently aware that if his demands are too high, he could doom any possibility of peace and be responsible for a return to war. But Uribe has also made it clear that he seeks something like surrender terms for the FARC, including prison sentences for its leaders (rather than "restorative sentences," as called for under the current peace plan) and a ban on their participation in politics. Such terms give the FARC's battle-hardened guerrillas—who have fought for fifty-two years for a Marxist society—little incentive to come in from the cold. While expressing their commitment to "continue to pursue the path of peace," the FARC's leaders, in Havana, have made it clear that they do not regard the current deal—which was formally signed by Santos and their leader, Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri (known as Timochenko), in a public event on September 26th—as negotiable.
Uribe was Colombia's President from 2002 to 2010, and during his time in office he established an amnesty program for the paramilitaries, but since leaving office and being succeeded by Santos, who served as his defense minister, Uribe has bitterly opposed giving the FARC any concessions in exchange for peace. Uribe's father was killed in a botched kidnapping attempt by the FARC, and he has never forgiven its guerrillas. He regards Santos's dialogue with the FARC as a betrayal.
The victory of the "No" side has triggered a political crisis of unforeseeable proportions. Nobody knows what will happen next.


Persia is regularly invited to present at various community events and fora and has also taken part in community exhibitions in order to promote its services.
Presentations on education and Persia's current areas of focus help encourage and mobilise support and collaboration at the grassroots level in the Greater London community and beyond. They also contribute to professional and academic fora.


The flow-based model of multicast routing in the telecommunications network is developed. The model is represented by a system of linear algebraic inequalities and equations of the network state. Model calculates a set of paths for multicast routing with a maximum bandwidth or a minimum number of hops. The model includes conditions to prevent a possible overload of network links.
Lemeshko, O.V. ; Arous, Kinan Mohamad. The flow-based model of multicast routing // Microwave and Telecommunication Technology (CriMiCo), 2013 23rd International Crimean Conference. - PP. 523-524.
A Design of flow-based model for MPLS Fast ReRoute is proposed in the paper. The model allows calculating two types of paths, i.e. primary and backup ones, for the same flow. Depending on the parameters of the model, different schemes of reservation such as link protection, node protection, or path protection, can be implemented. In the course of solving the problem of MPLS Fast Reroute the classical metric of primary and backup paths is minimized. The nonlinear restrictions, which are responsible for prevention of node, link or path intersection of primary and backup routes, are introduced in the structure of the model.
Lemeshko, O.V. ; Kozlova, H.V. ; Romanyuk, A.A. Flow-based model of fault-tolerant routing in MPLS-network // Microwave and Telecommunication Technology (CriMiCo), 2013 23rd International Crimean Conference. - PP. 509 - 510.
In this paper the mathematical model and two-level hierarchical method of routing jointly with resources reservation in IP/IntServ network are given.
Lemeshko A., Ahmad M. Hailan, Yevsyeyeva O. Mathematical Model and Method of Routing with Resources Reservation in IP/IntServ Network // Modern Problems of Radio Engineering, Telecommunications and Computer Science. Proceedings of the international Conference TCSET'2012. – Lviv-Slavske, Ukraine, February 21-24, 2012: Publishing House of Lviv Polytechnic, 2012. – P. 325-326.
In this paper an approach to the flow-based modeling of two-level routing in multiservice networks is considered. The model supports the source routing. At the low level - the level of edge routers - the routes are directly computed, and at the top level the received decisions are coordinated for excluding overloads of communication channels in a multiservice network.
Lemeshko O., Ahmad M. Hailan, Ali S. Ali. A flow-based model of two-level routing in multiservice network // Modern Problems of Radio Engineering, Telecommunications and Computer Science. Proceedings of the international Conference TCSET'2010. – Lviv-Slavsko: Publishing House of Lviv Polytechnic, 2010. – P. 225.
In the paper the mathematical model of traffic management in the MPLS-TE DiffServ network is proposed. This model describes the processes of routing and distribution channel resource. In article the method of two-level traffic management in the MPLS-TE DiffServ network is offered to improve the scalability of the solutions on the basis of interactions prediction.
Lemeshko O.V., Ahmad M. Hailan, Starkova O.V. Multi-level traffic management in the MPLS-TE DiffServ network // 11-th International Conference THE EXPERIENCE OF DESIGNING AND APPLICATION OF CAD SYSTEMS IN MICROELECTRONICS Polyana-Svalyava-(Zakarpattya), UKRAINE 23 - 25 February 2011: Publishing House of Lviv Polytechnic, 2011. – P. 118-120.


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Education Town Hall Meeting
It's time to fund education... NOW! Help us send a message to the legislature at an Education Town Hall with legislators from the 41st Legislative District. The more people who attend, the stronger message we send. We are counting on you to attend.
Saturday, March 14, 2015 (10:00AM-12PM)
Somerset Elementary School (14100 Somerset Blvd, Bellevue, WA 98006)
Mark your calendar. It takes just 90 minutes. RSVP now.
2016 Bargain Preparations
Nate Ziemkowski (SES), Lisa Radmer (NBES), Tony Manjarrez (CKMS), and Lynn Bradwell (CKMS) attended the Statewide Bargaining Conference on February 7-8.
It's still 2015 and our current contract lasts through August 31, 2016. But our SVEA bargaining team is already preparing for negotiations. Last Saturday and Sunday, 4 SVEA members attended the Statewide Bargaining Conference in at Mount Rainier High School in Des Moines.
In addition to hearing about using research and data to prepare for the bargain, they also learned how to engage members. They're already planning how to involve members leading up to and during negotiations so that the final agreement is one that addresses the needs of your family and your students. Stay tuned for more information about how to get involved in the bargaining process.
SVEA will be ready! Will the district?
Pizza and politics
From OurVoice WEA...
WEA members in different parts of the state often meet after school to discuss what's happening in Olympia, how it affects them and how they can get involved and make a difference. Recently, WEA members in the Sammamish UniServ Council met for "pizza and politics" and share their thoughts about the Legislature.
"I want legislators to understand my students are counting on them to provide them with a quality education. The impact I am able to make is directly related to the support you give me. Class size matters. Professional compensation matters. Respect for educators matters." ~ Nate Ziemkowski, Snoqualmie Elementary, second grade
"I want legislators to know teachers and certificated support personnel are the experts in education. When you want to know what works in education, please ask us and listen to us!" ~ Donna Burns, Issaquah Valley Elementary, Grant Elementary & PCMS, occupational therapist
"In the last decade due to rising healthcare costs — I, as well as many teachers in my building, are taking home considerably less money in the face of our rising costs of living. For years I've had huge class sizes — now with class sizes of about 25 — I can actually teach! The teacher shortage is upon us. Young people aren't willing to be treated poorly and paid poorly. We are having problems getting substitutes for similar reasons." ~ Ann Heideman, Mt. Si High School, art teacher
Evaluation Update
Two bad bills sponsored by Sen. Steve Litzow had hearings on Tuesday, Feb. 10 before the Senate education committee, which Litzow chairs. Senate Bills 5748 and 5749 mandate the use of state test scores in teacher evaluations, even though there is no research showing that doing so helps improve student learning.
Here's TVW coverage of Sen. Steve Litzow's bills that mandate using student test scores in teacher evaluations. Several teachers testified in opposition and urged the Senate to focus on fully funding K-12 public schools.
Our own 5th Legislative District Sen. Mark Mullet co-sponsored SB 5748. Send Sen. Mark Mullet an email letting him know why state standardized tests have no place in teacher evaluations. Be sure to mention SB 5748.
Teacher job security at risk
Under SB 5744, teacher layoffs (RIFs) would be based on principal evaluations instead of experience. Also, the bill would allow a principal to reject a teacher for any reason, and the teacher could be fired six months later. WEA Lobbyist Lucinda Young testified against the bill, which she said "opens the door to ageism, sexism and racism."
"There is no research demonstrating either proposal in the legislation helps students," Young told the Senate education committee. "Instead, let's work to fund laws already enacted such as TPEP, and fund McCleary and I-1351."
Over the weekend, nearly 600 WEA members emailed Sen. Litzow to express their opposition to SB 5744.
Stop Sen. Mullet's anti-teacher campaign
Sen. Mark Mullet and Sen. Steve Litzow, the chairman of the state Senate education committee, are sponsoring legislation that mandates the use of state test scores in teacher evaluations.
Sen. Litzow is also pushing another anti-teacher bill that would base teacher layoffs on principal evaluations – and allow principals to essentially fire teachers for any reason at all, with no guarantee of placement at another school.
Just think about what these bills would mean to you and your co-workers. Send Sen. Litzow and your state senator a message NOW and tell them how this legislation would affect you.
Sen. Litzow's bills are a disrespectful and punitive attack on teachers and the education profession, and none of his proposals does anything to help kids. In fact, Sen. Litzow's campaign against teachers is a deliberate distraction from what the voters and the Supreme Court have ordered Sen. Litzow and the Legislature to do: Fully fund our public schools.
By promoting an anti-teacher and anti-educator agenda, Sen. Litzow is ignoring the Legislature's paramount duty to fully fund the education our kids deserve – including professional compensation and smaller K-12 class sizes. Email your senator now, and let him or her know you won't — and we are not going to — stand for it. Tell them to please oppose SB 5748, 5749 and5744.
Please personalize your message — tell your own story!
When adjusted for regional cost differences, Washington's average teacher salary is 42nd out of 50 states.
Say YES to WEA-PAC
Sometime in the next month one of your colleagues may be asking you a question: "Will you help improve our schools by joining WEA-PAC?" We hope that you answer, "YES!"
Here's why... Every education decision is a political decision. The people we elect are part of the decision making regarding education proposals. WEA-PAC supports pro-public education candidates. Our health care, collective bargaining and full funding for public schools are all up for debate in the 2015 legislative session. Investing in great WEA-PAC candidates just makes sense!
Want to know more? Here's Wendy Smith, a public school teacher in Vancouver, telling why she's a WEA-PAC member: "I belong to WEA-PAC because as a public school teacher, nearly every aspect of my job is touched by politics. Too often, teachers want to just shut the classroom door and focus on our students. But hiding behind our classroom doors is the same as burying our heads in the sand. My colleagues complain about the decisions and actions of the state legislature, but very few do anything in response.Few teachers see themselves as "political" but they do care and they and their students are affected. WEA-PAC is a cheap and easy way to give our "non-political" members a voice, and a way for them to have influence on the decisions that so greatly impact our classrooms."
Download and and print the WEA-PAC Payroll Authorization form to join WEA-PAC. Return it to your building rep.
If you have questions, please e-mail Nate Ziemkowski, at nziemkowski@gmail.com


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Why English is Bad for Learning Math, Backed by Science
by Ofer Tirosh
Recent research (such as a 2014 comparative study by Jo-Anne LeFevre) has suggested that students from an Asian-language background have a greater mathematical ability than English-speaking students of the same age. This phenomenon has led some to speculate that there are intrinsic advantages to learning Math in languages other than English – the Wall Street Journal has even written a recent article on the subject.
This post will outline the basic theory of this line of thought before offering some potential alternative explanations for this ability gap. If you're involved in the translation process, then hopefully this post will help you appreciate the differences that language could make to learning math.
Why English is supposedly bad for learning math?
The main reason why some people think that English is bad for learning Math, is that the English language presents a much broader scope of words to describe number units. In fact, English has more than twenty-four different names for number units, requiring students to memorise more words to perform arithmetic, and obscuring the fact that the number system is based on units of ten.
Why are Asian languages better for learning Math?
In contrast to the English language, Asian languages such as Chinese only have nine words to describe number units. For example, the English word 'thirty-one' is literally 'three-ten-one' in Chinese.
The advantage of only having words for nine number units, so the theory says, is that the Chinese language makes it obvious that the numerical system is based on units of ten. It also goes without saying that having to remember fewer words will allow students to focus more on performing the arithmetic and less on recalling the names of different number units.
In Asian schools, the 'make-a-ten' arithmetic strategy is taught, whereby students focus on making the numbers into a ten first, and then adding the remaining figures to that ten. For example, the equation '9 + 5' would be interpreted as '9 + 1 + 4'. Asian students would subtract 1 from the 5 and add it to the 9 to make 10, leaving them with 'ten-four'. This strategy is helpful when dealing with more advanced equations, and doesn't require the student to memorise words such as 'twenty, thirty, forty etc.'.
Does speaking a certain language really give a mathematical advantage?
Although it may seem that the simplicity of Asian languages provides a greater advantage for learning mathematics, it's possible that other factors could account for the achievement gap between English and Asian-language speaking students.
For example, there are significant cultural differences that could contribute towards the achievement gap: Chinese parents could be more willing to use math in daily life than English speaking cultures, and number-based games are more popular in Asian cultures than they are in English speaking ones.
Moreover, the potential for significant differences between the Asian and English education systems shouldn't be overlooked, and could be another potential explanation for the ability gap. For instance, the former might place a priority on teaching math from an early age, whereas the latter might prioritise other academic subjects.
Regardless of the potential for other explanatory factors, there does seem to be an advantage to having fewer words to describe number units. However, whether or not that makes one language inherently better than another for learning math is still up for debate.
What do you think? Feel free to leave a comment below.
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Besides Asian languages, African languages are really good for learning math as well. These two older languages have the advantage of very little alternate words for things which makes it simpler to do tasks like math.
Where could I find sources that could validate these claims?
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I'm not able to post a link here, but if you look up "Wall Street Journal learning math in other languages," that's a good start
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