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Deliveroo workers protest as shares rise on first day of open trading
Hundreds of couriers across England demonstrate against treatment by online food delivery company
Deliveroo riders stage ride-along strike in London – video
Sarah Butler and Jasper Jolly
Wed 7 Apr 2021 13.31 EDT
First published on Wed 7 Apr 2021 10.15 EDT
Hundreds of Deliveroo couriers mounted protests against their treatment by the takeaway delivery group on Wednesday as the company marked its first day of open trading on the London stock market.
More than 200 Deliveroo couriers joined a demonstration in London, riding their bicycles and mopeds from the Deliveroo HQ in central London, according to the strike's organisers, the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain (IWGB).
Smaller protests were held across England including in Reading, Sheffield, Wolverhampton and York.
Ahmed, 25, one of the cycle couriers protesting in London, said riders wanted better pay, employment rights and safety measures.
"It's outrageous that the company can go on to the stock exchange at this difficult time for so many people and bring in that money for themselves," he said. He claimed that Deliveroo had taken advantage of people losing jobs elsewhere to sign up thousands more riders, affecting earnings for those already working via the app.
Ahmed said he earned about £8 an hour, less than the legal national minimum wage, before any costs, and Deliveroo had not taken seriously riders' complaints about low pay.
The company says its riders are independent, self-employed contractors and so are not entitled to the legal minimum wage, holiday pay or sick pay. The IWGB says riders should be recognised as workers – a status that includes most of those basic rights.
Kerry, 25, another cycle courier, said she had worked part-time for Deliveroo for six years and earned just over £9 an hour on average – slightly more than the legal minimum wage but excluding her costs and the time when she was waiting around for work.
"The [stock market float] is a time for us to be able to get heard. We've been demanding better pay for a long time." She said she worked in another job as well as studying because "it is impossible to earn enough with a bike to get by".
Deliveroo floated on the London Stock Exchange last week, and 70,000 small investors bought up to £1,000 worth of shares through the Deliveroo app. However, trading was open only to large institutions until Wednesday. The shares were sold at 390p but lost 26% of their value on the first day after many City investors criticised the company's structure and its treatment of workers, and refused to buy the shares.
David Cumming, the chief investment officer at Aviva Investors, which has £365bn under management, was among those who chose not to invest. Just before the stock exchange listing, he said: "A lot of employers could make a massive difference to workers' lives if they guaranteed working hours or a living wage, and how companies behave is becoming more important."
Multiple investors said the company's refusal to make its riders salaried employees left it vulnerable to regulatory action. Uber – which also operates Uber Eats, a rival to Deliveroo – has recently been forced to make concessions to its drivers, whom it treated similarly.
Investors also raised concerns about a share structure that gives the Deliveroo founder, Will Shu, control over the company for three years, and intense competition from rivals such as Just Eat Takeaway, which could make it difficult for the loss-making Deliveroo to turn a profit.
Analysis by the thinktank New Financial found that Deliveroo's first-day share price performance put it 1,765th out of 1,775 initial public offerings on London's stock market.
Some UK Deliveroo drivers earning as little as £2 an hour according, survey finds
On Wednesday the shares rose for the first time, climbing just over 2% to 286p. There had been fears that small investors, able to trade for the first time, might dump their holdings in an attempt to limit their losses.
Deliveroo denied that it treated workers poorly. It said a survey it ran on Tuesday showed that 89% of 8,500 riders said they were "satisfied or very satisfied" with the company and flexibility was their priority.
A Deliveroo spokesperson said: "This small, self-appointed union does not represent the vast majority of riders who tell us they value the total flexibility they enjoy while working with Deliveroo alongside the ability to earn over £13 an hour. We are proud that rider satisfaction is at an all-time high and that thousands of people are applying to be Deliveroo riders each and every week."
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Il passaporto belga è un documento di identità rilasciato ai propri cittadini dal Regno del Belgio per i loro viaggi fuori dall'Unione europea e dallo Spazio economico europeo

Vale come prova del possesso della cittadinanza belga ed è necessario per richiedere assistenza e protezione presso le ambasciate del Belgio nel mondo.

Tipi di passaporti

Passaporti standard
I passaporti standard sono rilasciati per viaggi ordinari, come vacanze e viaggi d'affari. Sono bordeaux, disponibili nei formati da 35 e 60 pagine, e sono validi per 7 anni.

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 I passaporti diplomatici sono rilasciati ai membri della famiglia reale belga, ai membri del governo, ai ministri di Stato e ai rappresentanti del Belgio o delle Comunità o Regioni (diplomatici, addetti economici o commerciali, il rappresentante principale di ogni Comunità o Regione).
 I passaporti di servizio sono rilasciati ai funzionari dei servizi pubblici federali, dei ministeri, dei parlamenti e dei servizi giudiziari inviati in missione ufficiale all'estero dalle autorità belghe.
 I passaporti temporanei sono rilasciati in condizioni di emergenza, se c'è un'urgenza giustificabile che richiede un viaggio immediato. Sono di colore verde scuro e validi solo per 6 mesi.
 I documenti di viaggio d'emergenza sono rilasciati dai rappresentanti diplomatici belgi all'estero quando un passaporto precedentemente rilasciato è stato perso. Hanno solo 6 pagine.

Aspetto e caratteristiche
Il passaporto belga rispetta le caratteristiche dei passaporti dell'Unione europea.
La copertina è di colore rosso borgogna con lo stemma del Belgio al centro.
Sopra lo stemma ci sono le parole "EUROPESE UNIE" (olandese), "UNION EUROPÉENNE" (francese) e "EUROPÄISCHE UNION" (tedesco) seguite da "KONINKRIJK BELGIË" (olandese), "ROYAUME DE BELGIQUE" (francese) and "KÖNIGREICH BELGIEN"(tedesco) mentre al di sotto troviamo le parole "PASPOORT - PASSEPORT - REISEPASS" nelle tre lingue ufficiali.
Nel passaporto biometrico belga (e-passport), rilasciato dal 15 novembre 2004, compare anche l'apposito simbolo La sequenza delle lingue in copertina è olandese-francese-tedesco, francese-tedesco-olandese o tedesco-francese-olandese, a seconda della appartenenza linguistica del titolare del documento

La sequenza delle lingue in copertina è olandese-francese-tedesco, francese-tedesco-olandese o tedesco-francese-olandese, a seconda della appartenenza linguistica del titolare del documento.

Pagina di identificazione

 Fotografia del titolare del passaporto: Larghezza: 35mm, Altezza: 45mm; Altezza testa (fino alla sommità dei capelli): 34.5mm; Distanza dalla parte superiore della foto alla parte superiore dei capelli: 3mm

 Tipo ("P" per passaporto)
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 Nome del titolare del passaporto
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 Data di emissione (DD. М.М. YYYY)
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 Data di validità (DD. М.М. YYYY)

Validità
Vale cinque anni dalla data del rilascio

Amministrazione

Rilascio dei passaporti
I passaporti belgi sono rilasciati dal FPS Foreign Affairs, il ministero degli affari esteri del paese. I cittadini belgi possono richiedere un passaporto presso il comune o l'ambasciata dove sono legalmente registrati, che a sua volta procura il passaporto dal ministero.

I passaporti costano circa 93,50 euro a seconda del luogo di rilascio. È possibile fare una richiesta urgente ad un costo maggiore.

L'identificatore del passaporto è un 8 caratteri alfanumerici con la struttura AB123456; 2 alfa seguiti da 6 cifre.

Cittadinanza dell'Unione europea
I cittadini belgi sono anche cittadini dell'Unione europea e quindi godono dei diritti di libera circolazione e residenza in qualsiasi altro paese dell'Unione europea, così come in altri stati dello Spazio economico europeo e in Svizzera. Il diritto alla libera circolazione è previsto dall'articolo 21 del trattato UE.

Passaporti falsi
Secondo la polizia belga tra il 1990 e il 2002 erano stati rubati 19.050 passaporti belgi usati poi per creare documenti di viaggio falsi

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My year that was, 2014
blogsports musings
By NIMROD NL QUIÑONES
www.fullpointcebu.com
I waited for the last day of the year to write my musings again. I must have been too busy or too lazy to write, but who cares anyway maybe nobody reads what nobodies like me write on my blog.
The year that is about to pass, that has been full of ups and downs as in the previous years of my life and probably the coming years. I just don't have any idea how long I have to live, but that is life – it gives you reasons to be happy and reasons to be sad, angry, demoralized, and so on.
So, what made 2014 special? That got me thinking.
There have been lots of reasons from a sporting point of view.
Two of the biggest sporting events I got involved with in 2014 were both about football – the friendly between the Philippines and Malaysia and Kick for Life: Football Marathon 101.
I also found myself surrounded by close to 200 ladies when our golf club hosted the 9th PAL Ladies Interclub.
Receiving a token from PAL President Jimmy Bautista after we hosted the PAL Ladies Interclub.
Personally, what made this year really great for me is the fact that I am back playing and teaching judo again. After going back to the mats last February at the University of San Carlos Gym, our group has moved to Lexmark Plaza 1 where the Hijos de Roa Judo Club and the Lexmark Judo Club now practice.
I try to squeeze in one judo session in my weekly schedule, but there have been times when other commitments and ailments have forced me off the mats.
The Hijos de Roa and Lexmark Judo Club members
In 2015, I hope to do better.
Golf was up at the start of the year then spiraled downward to the end of 2014. I guess I am more convinced now to spend more time practicing judo and playing football than playing golf once or twice a month.
Many don't believe that I shun golf as I work in a golf club, but that is my reality. I would rather play table tennis after judo and football and volleyball, before golf.
Although the year has been quite kind, I continue to miss those good old days when I was beating daily deadlines and putting a newspaper to bed before I temporarily call it a day as I have to stay alert for late breakers.
I spent more than half of my life doing that and it is just hard to get it out of my system. This can also be read as – I am happier working as a journalist more than anything else.
Although I still do the occasional article for a nationally-circulated golf magazine and have my show on myTV, which airs on channel 30 of SkyCable TV Cebu, trying to stay abreast with the latest in sports has been quite a task, but I always try my best to continue supporting sports in my own little way.
This website, www.fullpointcebu.com, has become my avenue to continue writing on a regular basis even if I have been slacking.
There are bigger plans for this website in 2015. Yes, some of them were big plans for 2014 and 2103 also hehehe…
It just takes a lot of extra effort to get them going but I hope to find all the strength and funds to do them in 2015.
As I look back to the year that is about to pass, I also realize the many lost opportunities, which I still hope to come across in the days to come.
To my family, friends, colleagues, detractors, and everyone else, thank you for making 2014 what it was!
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Author: Nimrod Quinones
Nimrod Lebumfacil Quiñones is a veteran sports journalist based in Cebu. He started as a correspondent for the sports section of The Freeman in 1989 while he was still in college and became the assistant sports editor a year after. In 1993, he took over as sports editor of the paper, which he held until 2004 when he moved to the business process outsourcing sector for a few months. In 2005, he returned to The Freeman as managing editor, but continued to write a sports column until he moved to Alta Vista Golf and Country Club to serve as its general manager in September 1, 2012. As an athlete, he played football and volleyball for his school team and represented Cebu in various national and regional judo tournaments. The author is also a sportsman, who currently sits as director in the board of the Cebu Volleyball Association (CEVA) and the Cebu Football Association (CFA). He is also the longest-serving commissioner of the Cebu City Sports Commission (CCSC) having been appointed to the position by Mayor Alvin Garcia in 1998, then by Mayor Tomas Osmeña in 2001 until 2010, and in 2010 to 2013 by Mayor Michael Rama. He is also currently the acting president of the Cebu Chapter of the Philippine Judo Federation and a holder of a 1st Arts Association. For fun, the author dabbles in golf, biking, pistol shooting, and photography. dan blackbelt. The author is also a life member of the United States Martial
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Pentagon Testing Small Robot to Help Hunt Naval Mines
By Patrick Tucker Technology Editor Read bio
Illustration via SAAB
The US military has been looking for an underwater bomb disposal robot for years. It finally has one.
Most of the machines developed to help navies hunt the stealthy underwater predators called mines require a big crew and a ship or helicopter, which is why the U.S. military is excited about a two-person underwater robot that weighs less than 200 pounds.
The Saab Waterborne Anti-IED Security Platform, or SEA WASP, is a small remote-operated drone outfitted with an electric arm, sonar, and radar to collect information on where it is and what's around it. A mine-hunting drone may not sound that advanced compared to space planes and autonomous swarming vessels, but it actually represents a real technological feat. The WASP weighs just 90 kilos, light enough to be carried to by two people. It's hard to get a machine that light to stay in one place to probe for mines against underwater currents.
"One of the reasons we selected Saab," said Ed Bundy, who works for the of Pentagon's Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office, or CTTSO. "They were the only company that actually told us this was a really hard problem."
The Navy's explosive ordnance disposal, or EOD, community is particularly interested, said Bundy.
"Low visibility is a problem wherever the Navy EOD guys work," he said at the Navy League's Sea Air Space conference.
SAAB began marketing the machine just after Christmas and so far has sold three to various government bodies in the United States but has seen "huge interest worldwide" according to Bert Johansson, Saab's director of unmanned underwater vehicle systems.
Mines are a devilishly hard problem to solve. A 2002 study from the University of California, Berkeley, found that just a few mines could be an enormous problem for the United States, potentially bringing shipping to a halt and costing tens of billions in lost revenue. And of the 19 U.S. warships heavily damaged or sunk by enemies since World War II, 15 were the victims of mines.
Patrick Tucker is technology editor for Defense One. He's also the author of The Naked Future: What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move? (Current, 2014). Previously, Tucker was deputy editor for The Futurist for nine years. Tucker has written about emerging technology in Slate, ... Full bio
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Rest assured dear friends, although I have been absent for a couple of months, I am alive and well! Life has just happened and I've been crazy busy.
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Support for Office 64 bit (Version 1908, Build 11929.20254) is now available with Opera 3 2.71.00. However, users of Infor Q&A (Pegasus XRL) must continue to use Office 32 bit as Infor Q&A uses a 32 bit driver to access the Opera 3 datalink.
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This release also includes some general maintenance and a new version of the Scheduler. The new version of the Scheduler (2.20.30) provides improved handling in the creation of backup files when vast amounts of files (usually PDFs) are to be stored.
For a full list of corrected defects for this release please go to the Infor Support Portal –
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Fred Fiske
Fred Fiske was born in Clarence. An all-around athlete in his youth, Fred excelled in hockey with teams in Lawrencetown, Bridgetown, Middleton, Greenwood and Berwick, baseball, boxing and tug-of-war with his dad and brothers. Often a playing coach in hockey, he later officiated at Acadia University and in Middleton. After 20 years of hockey at the Senior and Intermediate levels, two broken ankles in 1947, and too many years of tug-of-war, Fred retired from hockey as a player but not from the hockey life.
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From 1950-58, Fred coached youth hockey and baseball in Bridgetown. With the advent of Minor Associations, Fred continued coaching in Lawrencetown until 1970. From 1945-66, he served as a 4-H leader and in 1966 was recognized for long and outstanding service. In 1967, Fred was the first chairman of the Western N.S. Draft Horse Association and in 1971 he was Honourary President of the N.S. Holstein Club.
The work of which Fred is most proud is as the Chairman of the Building Committee for the Exhibition Youth Arena in Lawrencetown. This fine facility has served young and old in the Lawrencetown area since 1970. In 1974, Fred was President of the N.S. Exhibition Association and a member of the first Annapolis County Recreation Committee.
A farmer in his youth, Fred then worked for 10 years for M.W. Graves in Bridgetown and then 21 years with the Dept. Of Agriculture and Marketing until retirement in 1986. Fred Fiske, always one to think of others over himself, was recognized as the Outstanding Volunteer for the Municipality of Annapolis in both 1988 and 1998.
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9 to 5 and Odd Jobs -En españolː 9 a 5 y trabajos extraños- es el vigesimotercer álbum de estudio de la cantante y compositora estadounidense de country Dolly Parton, lanzado el 17 de noviembre de 1980 por RCA.

El concepto del álbum gira en torno al trabajo como valor humano, y principalmente se centraba la canción "9 to 5", que le dio nombre a la película de comedia Nine to Five del mismo año, donde Dolly debutó como actriz, y que fue protagonizada por Jane Fonda y Lily Tomlin. La canción en cuestión fue un éxito ya que encabezó las listas de popularidad en Estados Unidos de country y pop.

En el 2020 el álbum fue ubicado en el puesto 62 de los 80 mejores álbumes de 1980, lista publicada por la revista Rolling Stone en noviembre del mismo año.

Canciones
 "9 to 5" (Dolly Parton)
 "Hush-a-bye Hard Times" (Dolly Parton)
 "The House of the Rising Sun" (tradicional)
 "Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos)" (Woody Guthrie/Martin Hoffman)
 "Poor Folks' Town" (Dolly Parton)
 "Working Girl" (Dolly Parton)
 "But You Know I Love You" (Mike Settle)
 "Detroit City" (Mel Tillis, Danny Dill)
 "Dark as a Dungeon" (Merle Travis)
 "Sing for the Common Man" (Dolly Parton)

Enlaces externos
 9 To 5 (And Odd Jobs) at Dolly Parton On-Line

Referencias

Álbumes de Dolly Parton
Álbumes de 1980
Álbumes de RCA Records
Álbumes certificados de oro por la Recording Industry Association of America
Álbumes en inglés
Álbumes de country

Los 80 mejores álbumes de 1980 según Rolling Stone


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Atmosphere: The interior of the cafe is small, with just a few counter seats in the front of the space with most people grabbing orders to go. During warmer weather there are benches outside and I've taken a sandwich to enjoy in the nearby park before.
Service: Service is minimal with orders being placed at the counter with your name. Once the order is ready, someone delivers it from the kitchen by calling out the name on the order. Black Camel offers a punch-card loyalty program of a free sandwich after buying a dozen. If you're visiting in the evening, check their twitter (https://twitter.com/black_camel) because they often sell out before closing time.
Food: A sandwich order comes with your choice of 2 sauces/condiments and each additional topping is a charge of 0.90. The toppings range from arugula to a variety of roasted vegetables (like red pepper, onions, mushrooms). On this visit, I ordered the beef brisket sandwich with Black Camel bbq sauce, chipotle mayonnaise and slow-roasted roma tomatoes.
The brisket was tender and full of flavour while the bun soaked up all the sauces and juices of the meat. I liked the sourness of the tomatoes combined with the sweeter bbq sauce and the sandwich disappeared in about five minutes. It's always a challenge to not order a second one while the first one settles. Each sandwich comes with a wet wipe, a necessary accessory to the meal.


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Congratulations! If you find yourself online today (or very late tonight) doing research on what your new-old home really is and want to know how to love and care for it, you're in luck! If you haven't already, you'll be bitten by a virile little bug that will bring you to great lengths to do your home justice.
[T]he little bungalow attracts all eyes even the eyes of those who, with ample means to carry out their most cherished wishes, are yet attracted toward the sweet simplicity of the bungalow types, its freedom from pretense, and the artistic manner in which it fits the landscape.
Who can forgo the charm of the low, broad roof line, the little front entrance with its quaint door opening so close to the ground, the low outlines of the little building which seems to nestle to snugly in its setting and offers so little competition with Nature as it rests modestly against the sky line, instead of rearing itself aggressively above the horizon.
Before 1906, the bungalow was considered a seasonal dwelling, and flourished in areas where vacationers flocked. In 1906, Gustav Stickley wondered if perhaps the bungalow was actually the perfect dwelling for year-round living. The bungalow's peak popularity from 1907-1925 coincided with the peak of the Arts and Crafts movement, which was a backlash to the Industrial Revolution and its treatment of people as workers and produced works as commodities. The movements rejoiced in craftsmanship and the visibility of the hand of the worker in the finished work, as well as harmony with nature.
It is ironic then, that it was modern means of production like the assembly line that allowed this style of home to flourish across the country. Home builders early in the 20th century published catalogs of homes, and aspiring homeowners could order them as entire kits and have them built inexpensively on their own sites. Gustav Stickley sold Craftsman bungalow kits through his magazine for around $1,000, and other mills and builders jumped in the game. Even Sears sold bungalow home kits!
The homes were primarily 1-story (though sometimes 2), allowing for simplicity in plumbing and electrical installation. The simple floor plan with no foyers or parlors and limited hallways meant a maximum of living space in a minimum of square footage. Thousands upon thousands of 800 to 1500 square foot homes were built across the country in what were then the outskirts of most growing American cities.
There were many variations on the theme, with dormers and gables galore, and anything from modest 800 square foot cottages, to grander 2-story homes, but all shared the Craftsman design touches and simple layout that defined this very American home.


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Playback's Newsmaker of the Year: Jean-Pierre Blais
As part of Playback's annual Best of the Year list, we look at the new CRTC chairman's track record of turning regulatory decisions into front-page news.
By Danielle Ng See Quan
This article originally appeared in Playback's Winter 2014 print issue. View it here.
CRTC chair Jean-Pierre Blais is motivated by building a trusted brand.
Blais tells Playback that when he first took the post of CRTC chair in June 2012, his "20,000-foot level" goal was to create a trusted institution by 2015.
"I hesitated to take the job at first, because I knew it was a bit of a daunting task going forward – we knew that technology was changing a lot of things," he says, adding he felt some of the decisions made in recent years had affected the brand's public image.
"On the Twittersphere, we are often to blame for all kinds of things. We have wide shoulders apparently," Blais says, laughing, citing examples such as the airing of Canadian ads during the Super Bowl. "There's sometimes a misunderstanding as to what we do, and things that occur because companies choose to market [their products] in a particular way."
Blais joined the regulator at a time of rapid change in the media space, resulting in a packed agenda during what many have called a transformative time for the CRTC.
Immediately, Blais had to tackle the Bell-Astral hearing ("We're not surprised that some people [are] disappointed by the outcome. If the answer was that obvious, we could replace the CRTC with a computer program"), CBC licence renewals ("It's strange that in a time of so much change there had not been a conversation with the national broadcaster") and the hundreds of applications in the 9(1)(h) mandatory carriage hearings.
He also faced StarlightTV's tribunal of Canadian film heavyweights and an impassioned SunTV News network requesting mandatory carriage for their channels (denying both), instituted a new policy allowing Canadians to cancel their wireless contracts after two-years without cancellation fees; quieted loud TV ads and approved the $1.32 billion sale of MLSE to BCE and Rogers Communications.
The CRTC's actions on some of the agenda's big line items, including the surprise rejection and subsequent approval of the Bell-Astral decision, as well as calling for reviews of current tangible benefits practices and the Category C news service, seem to reflect what Blais said from the get-go – he wants to create a world class communication system for Canadians.
The latest undertaking in that vision is the Let's Talk TV initiative, in which Blais is calling upon Canadians for feedback in a review of the current Canadian broadcasting system, consistently emphasizing that everyone – Canadian consumers, citizens and creators – have a role in public policy.
"I certainly did not want us to be involved in a balancing act between the broadcasters and Canadians. To me that made no sense – [it] suggested that if something was more important for broadcasters, that Canadians would lose out, and that's not the dichotomy I wanted to bring to this decision," he says.
The idea that every citizen plays a role in public policy – versus one iron-fisted regulator ruling the roost – is the golden thread in Blais' management philosophy
He compares his idea of shared leadership to the structure of the internet – a group of webs, in which every point in the information pipeline is connected and part of a process – explaining that Canadians each share in the decision-making load to the advantage, ultimately, of Canadians.
A veteran public servant, Blais is a lawyer by trade who has worked at the Ministry of Cultural Affairs and at the Department of Canadian Heritage, and also held previous posts at the CRTC. He says he taps into his previous experience, where he saw cultural funding programs that were previously locked into an analogue world, in looking at how the current system needs to change in response to the digital revolution.
Despite all the challenges facing Canada's broadcast industry, Blais says the CRTC's approach is one that other countries are looking to as they make fundamental decisions of their own. At the 2013 International Institute of Communications (IIC) conference in London, a forum for communications regulators to discuss issues facing the media industry, the CRTC contingent found itself standing at the head of the class, says Blais.
"There are 40 regulators from around the world, from Mongolia, Hong Kong, Australia, and they're actually asking us what [is Canada] going to do?" he recalls. "The Canadian model has been largely exported. If you look at what the French or British or Germans or South Africans do, they have similar supply and demand models that we created."
Blais at the Prime Time conference in Ottawa in March urged producers to put Canada on the world map by exploring coproduction and co-venture financing opportunities and cash in on new distribution networks.
"Frankly, I think great stories travel," emphasizes Blais. "We've had some success in exporting our content and we should do more, because if you've got a potential audience base of not just the Canadian market, but potentially other markets, you're going to go a little further," Blais tells Playback. "We've got great ideas here. These are challenging times, but you can't sit at home waiting for a subsidy."
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Grand National Tips and Betting Guide
14 April 2018 is a special day for everyone who is into sports betting and horse racing betting in particular. On that date, Aintree Racecourse, based in the heart of Liverpool, will host the most exciting horse racing event in the world — the Grand National 2018. The well-known race has a long history full of joyous and dramatic moments, big victories and bitter defeats. No other horse racing event grabs as much public's attention like the Grand National. Featuring an energy-sapping distance of about 7 kilometres and 30 daunting fences, the race ensures an extraordinary and spectacular show with forty rivals competing for the victory. This event is also known to be the oldest in the world. The establishment date of the Grand National is debatable, however, generally regarded as being 1839. The Grand National is also famous for its numerous champions and heroes that have been fascinating audience more than one and half century. Red Rum is best known among them, he won the greatest event three times in the 1970s. Now the central question is who will be the outright winner of the upcoming Grand National 2018? Let us take a peek at the latest Grand National tips and predictions for the main horse racing event of 2018.
Grand National Tips and Betting Trends
A lot of punters are currently searching for the Grand National 2018 tips through the Internet. Really, the seven-kilometre steeplechase of the Aintree Grand National is one of the hardest challenges not only for runners but also for those who are placing bets oh this thrilling event. Finding the favourite for this epic race is a very complicated task even for the most sophisticated pundits. A huge number of horse racing fans, enthusiasts, and experienced bettors spend a lot of time studying betting markets and trying to find value in the betting odds provided by bookmakers. With that, it is very difficult to collect all the necessary information and make the right betting decision on your own. That is why almost all skilful bettors look for the expert advice and search for the Grand National betting tips on the Internet. By the way, betting companies have already estimated that more than £100.000.000 will be wagered on this exciting contest in 2018.
Best Grand National Betting Tips
While predicting the Grand National results is a very engrossing activity, it is not easy to estimate runners' chances to be the winner of the contest. Indeed, the long distance of the track as well as numerous fences make the Grand National one of the most unpredictable sporting events in the world. This is proved by the fact that there have been a lot of 100/1 race winners throughout history. It is actually the major reason to take advantage of the expert tips for the Grand National. Boasting years of experience, pundits are able to predict the winner with a large degree of probability. Therefore, their Grand national betting tips can definitely make the difference in your betting experience. Fortunately, there are a lot of websites and blogs on the Internet that provide the Grand National tips and predictions. It is very easy to find Scottish grand national tips, the Grand National free tips and so on. All you need is to look through such Grand National free tips and predictions and decide on your number one horse.
Most Grand National runners tips are typically based on stats. In order to make a reasonable betting decision, a bettor needs to investigate the previous results and estimate the racehorses' chances in the upcoming event. When it comes to deciding the favourite of the race, one of the Grand National top tips is to be aware of the runners' age and weight. Some Grand National champions won the title several times, so, it is possible to evaluate which physiological parameters of animals contribute to the achievement of the best results. Experts suppose that the runners that are 8 to 11 years-old have the best chances to win the race. That is why most of the pundits in their predictions and tips for Grand National suggest wagering on runners of this age. With respect to the weight, it is a common belief that runners weighing about 11 stones and 6 pounds are the most suitable for such contests. Another important aspect the majority of punters pay attention to while deciding on their favourites is horse's fitness level. To be able to win the Grand National, the racehorse has to be in top physical condition. Only one rival can cross the finish line first, so, the horse needs to demonstrate an extraordinary strength and stamina to win the title. So, one of the top tips for Grand National is not to wager on a competitor who has recently participated in another racing event.
When it comes to determining the type of wager, there are also some useful tips for the Grand National punts. A lot of bettors, for example, get benefit from the each way bet. This type of wager drastically reduces risks of losing money at stake, especially if you are not sure about your favourite. The each way bet allows you to get the winning even though your chosen runner finished second or third.
Grand National 2018 Tips
Before we turn to the Grand National runners tips, let's have a look at the latest betting odds provided by online betting websites for the best chasers to become the outright winner of the Grand National 2018. By the way, the reigning champion One For Arthur, will not take part in the contest due to injury.
Blaklion – 9/1;
Total Recall – 9/1;
Tiger Roll – 11/1;
Anibale Fly – 13/1;
Minella Rocco – 13/1;
The Last Samuri – 15/1;
Bellshill – 15/1;
Cause of Causes – 15/1;
Gold Present – 19/1;
Vicente – 24/1
As we see, the bookmakers see two clear favourites of the Grand National 2018 — Blaklion (9/1) and Total Recall (9/1). Indeed, a lot of fans and experienced bettors in their tips for Grand National bet on Blaklion, the 9-year-old winner of the 2016 RSA Chase at the Cheltenham Festival. Despite finishing 4th last year, this runner definitely has a lot to show in the Grand National 2018. Recently, he has taken the fight against another serious opponent, Vieux Lion Rouge, in the Haydock Grand National Tria when he finished 2nd. Boasting a lot of experience, the Nigel Twiston-Davies trained chaser heads the market and have high chances to rewrite the history. Including Blacklion in the each way bet is certainly one of the best Grand National 2018 tips you can benefit from.
The 9-year-old Total Recall began his season with impressive wins in the Munster National and Hennessy Gold Cup. In numerous Grand National tips, experts note his brave run and winning approach. The Willie Mullins-trained chaser races with a hundred percent enthusiasm and definitely has a lot of natural ability. Total Recall didn't participate in the Grand National last year, however, betting sites offer pretty short betting odds for him. Placing a bet on this racehorse is currently one of the most popular Grand National betting tips on the Internet.
In two weeks, the best 40 racehorses including numerous graded champions will compete with each other for the prestigious title of the Grand National 2018 winner. If you haven't decided on your favourite, now it is time to benefit from the Grand National tips given by horse racing experts. The best Grand National tips and predictions always based on stats including previous results, the current performance, etc. Taking into account the horse's fitness level is also one of the crucial tips for Grand National. Finally, you want to remember that choosing the favourite just on his name isn't a smart choice!
Article by our expert Paul Morrison Sports Specialist, Independent Sports Betting Expert
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Bay of Plenty Labour Shortage Declaration
07 May 2018.
Ministry of Social Development has today declared a seasonal labour shortage across the Bay of Plenty. An additional 1,200 people are needed in the region to pick and pack an extra 20 million trays of kiwifruit this season.
The declaration will be in place from 7 May until 8 June 2018 and follows discussions with sector leaders, industry experts and other Government agencies.
Regional Commissioner Mike Bryant says there have been a number of factors that led to the shortage being called, including a strong kiwifruit season, a decrease in the number of international students in the region, a bounce back from the PSA virus impacting crop volumes and varieties, and a relatively low unemployment rate in the region.
"The industry's growing after the downturn that followed the PSA outbreak, and forecasts show it will continue to grow. To date around a third of this year's crop has been picked and packed, however the industry's entering the main packing period and more people are needed to help with work," he says.
The forecasted volume for this year's kiwifruit harvest is about 142 million trays, which is a 19 percent increase from last season's crop of 120 million trays. The SunGold variety of kiwifruit, which accounts for 44 percent of total crops, also requires picking in a shorter timeframe and means more reliance on fruit pickers during this period.
"The industry is extremely important to our local economy - 85 percent of New Zealand's kiwifruit is grown in the Bay of Plenty, it contributes $867 million to the region's GDP and the kiwifruit industry provided jobs for nearly 10,800 FTE positions in 2015/16," Mr Bryant says.
"It's an industry we're extremely proud of and want to support, especially when there's a need to find more workers. We want to, and can, help."
Between January and April this year, the Ministry of Social Development placed more than 1,000 people into job vacancies in the kiwifruit industry through providing work brokerage support, training, up skilling opportunities, financial and case management support.
"We're working hard alongside the sector to connect New Zealanders to seasonal work opportunities through Work and Income and to help them overcome any obstacles they're facing," Mr Bryant says.
The 'Work the Seasons' employment portal has been launched, seasonal employment opportunities are given profile in the region's Work and Income's local service centres, and in the weekend the Ministry supported a kiwifruit industry employment expo in Tauranga.
"We're having on-going discussions with leaders in the sector on how to make the industry more attractive to workers by improving employment practices. This is alongside ensuring the industry is forecasting for future labour demands, anticipating growth in the kiwifruit sector and building a sustainable seasonal labour workforce to match," Mr Bryant says.
"We estimate between 80 to 100 additional people from our Western Bay of Plenty Work and Income sites suitable for seasonal employment that could be used to meet the labour shortage. However more workers are still needed, because our clients alone won't fill the estimated 1200 job vacancies in the industry.
"There's a high demand for fruit pickers and people to help post-harvest and by declaring a labour shortage, people from overseas with visitor visas can apply for a Variation of Conditions allows them to work through the declaration period."
The Bay of Plenty has a relatively low unemployment rate of 5.1 per cent and also strong presence of about 2000 Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) workers in the region.
The declaration will be closely monitored and amended if conditions change.
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KIRA SKOV – SPIRIT TREE (an album of duets)
Letztes Jahr, als die Pandemie zuschlug und die Menschen in die Isolation schickte, fühlte sich Kira Skov aufgefordert, diese Situation mit neuer Musik zu 'beantworten'. Und so tat die dänische Sängerin und Songwriterin genau das und nahm Kontakt zu Sängern und Instrumentalisten auf, mit denen sie in der Vergangenheit zusammengearbeitet hatte, aber auch zu anderen, die sie aus der Ferne bewunderte. Ein neues Duett – Projekt war geboren, und trotz der teilweise großen geografischen Entfernungen zwischen den Musikern machten sie sich gemeinsam auf die Suche nach dem Sinn in einer ansonsten bedeutungslosen Zeit und schmiedeten ihn.
Das ehrgeizige Unterfangen war ein Erfolg, denn alle Angesprochenen kamen an Bord. Das daraus resultierende, kraftvolle Duett-Album ist nun fertig und enthält Beiträge von bekannten und neuen Musikerpersönlichkeiten wie Jenny Wilson, Mark Lanegan, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, John Parish, Bill Callahan und Lionel Liminana, sowie Mette Lindberg, Marie Fisker, Stine Grøn und Steen Jørgensen.
"The album came into being through, and as, a musical exchange – in the sense that I've sent the songs around to people as audio files, with the different guests adding vocals as we went. The ground-tapes were all recorded live in Copenhagen. I'm very happy that everyone wanted to join," Kira shares.
The Danish singer – who has built up a large and loyal audience in her home country throughout a musically diverse 20-year career – values collaboration in her music. She's already worked with Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Tricky, Lenny Kaye, and Trentemøller, among others, but until now had never cultivated such a musically communal album as this new collection of duets, entitled SPIRIT TREE.
"There's a common theme on the record that manifests itself both sonically and thematically. In a way, it's a family tree, in that I work with some people who have left their mark on me and my music over the years. The pandemic made me think about what is most important to us… what is it that connects us when we are all forced to be alone. These songs are written with that in mind," she says.
For this recording, Kira is once again joined by the band which has maintained a steady presence on her albums and tours over the last few years: Silas Tinglef on drums and guitar, Anders "AC" Christensen on bass and piano, Oliver Hoiness on guitar and keys, Maria Jagd on violin, and the bandleader and songwriter herself on vocals and guitar. The songs were recorded at STC Studio by Mads Møldgård, with Kira Skov and Silas Tinglef co-producing.
The singles We Won't Go Quietly with Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Dusty Kate (an homage to Dusty Springfield and Kate Bush) with Mette Lindberg have already been released to hungry ears and critical acclaim in the lead-up to SPIRIT TREE, which will be released in its entirety on May 14th on Sundance / Stunt Records.
Kira Skov (born in Copenhagen 1976) moved to London to pursue her musical dreams at the age of 17. It was there she met Eve, a guitarist twice her age at the time, with whom she travelled to the US and formed Butterfly Species – a band that included Danish drummer Laust Sonne. After four years, Kira left the band and returned to London, where she recorded with guitar legend Jeff Beck and began writing her own songs.
Back in Denmark, she formed Kira and the Kindred Spirits and released her debut album HAPPINESS SAVES LIVES in 2002. The singer and band were instant rock revelations and began five years of extensive touring, with two more hit albums on the horizon: 2005's THIS IS NOT AN EXIT and KIRA AND THE KINDRED SPIRITS from 2006. The band members went their separate ways after the third album together, and Kira set out on a solo career which would lead her through an impressive array of musical constellations with celebrated variation in genres, timbres, and collaborators.
In 2005, she released the album FAITH in collaboration with Swedish producer Tore Johansson (Franz Ferdinand, Cardigans) under the name The Gospel, which led to her being discovered by trip-hop legend Tricky in 2007 and then signing with BROWNPUNK (his record label with Chris Blackwell). Kira was the lead vocalist in Tricky's band on their 2008 world tour.
With the band The Ghost Riders, she released THE RAIL TRIAN, THE MEADOW, THE FREEWAY AND THE SHADOWS in 2008, as well as LOOK UP AHEAD and a mini-album entitled RUN WHERE NO ONE GOES, both from 2010. The following year she changed directions and interpreted jazz standards on the Billie Holiday tribute album, MEMORIES OF DAYS GONE BY.
Kira's successful solo career continued to grow, building musical and critical momentum on two full-length, John Parish-productions: WHEN WE WERE GENTLE from 2013 and MAY YOUR MIND EXPLODE A BLOSSOM TREE in 2015.
Between the two recordings, she released EPIPHANIES OF GRANDEUR, a cinematic and atmospheric album with guitarist Peter Peter (from Sort Sol) under the Ingmar Bergman-inspired name Persona.
In 2014, another collaboration – this time with friend Marie Fisker – gave life to a celebrated project and self-titled album called The Cabin Project when they travelled into the deep woods of Canada to record with producer Mark Howard.
Then, in an old Russian Orthodox Church in Estonia, Kira recorded the highly acclaimed album IN THE BEGINNING (2017) together with Estonian-born jazz saxophonist and composer Maria Faust. The dark and sacred-themed recording featured soaring songs and arrangements with music and lyrics inspired by the local folklore – a culture (and an album) that continues to resonate outside of time and space.
That same year, Kira Skov lost her husband and musical partner, bassist Nicolai Munch-Hansen. The grief sparked by his death inspired her next album – an intimate declaration of love and personal artistic milestone, entitled THE ECHO OF YOU (2018).
For her next recording, Kira once again broke new ground by singing in her native Danish language for the first time. I NAT BLIR VI GAMLE, her 14th release, continued honest, musical mourning in emphatic and accessible emotional expression.
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The Bucks Stop Play and Demand That the Real Work Begin
A strike of Wednesday's playoff games diverted the focus in the NBA's bubble back to social justice
By Rob Mahoney Aug 27, 2020, 3:01am EDT
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Acts of protest are improbable by definition: They all seem small, in their way, as even a crowd of hundreds of thousands would in the shadow of the establishment, or as any idea would against the weight of history. That a protest might fail in its goals is what makes it so urgent. The precarity is the point—that there is something so crucial at stake that it absolutely cannot wait, least of all for the fight to feel manageable.
On Wednesday afternoon, the players of the NBA-leading Milwaukee Bucks refused to take the court for their playoff game against the Orlando Magic. Through their absence, they stood against the senseless shooting of Jacob Blake by a police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, which is to say they stood against 400 years of targeted violence and institutional prejudice against Black people. American racism is so calcified that to escape it would mean deconstructing nearly every pillar of modern life. A group of 17 basketball players furthered that effort by turning their attention to Kenosha, a lakeside town not 40 miles south of their home arena.
"We are calling for justice for Jacob Blake and demanding the officers be held accountable," said Bucks guard George Hill, who read from a prepared statement on behalf of his teammates. Hill grew up hard in Indianapolis, where he lost a cousin to gun violence and police negligence. When a Minneapolis police officer knelt on the neck of George Floyd earlier this year, asphyxiating him in front of witnesses in broad daylight, Hill lamented that his talent for basketball may have been the only thing to save him from a similar fate. "For this to occur," Hill continued with the team's statement, "it is imperative for the Wisconsin state Legislature to reconvene after months of inaction, and take up meaningful measures to address police accountability, brutality, and criminal justice reform."
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Standing beside him was Sterling Brown, a victim of that very brutality. In 2018, a group of Milwaukee police officers assaulted and Tasered Brown because he had double-parked in a Walgreens parking lot. One officer put his knee to Brown's neck. The incident became a source of public embarrassment for city officials, but only because Brown—himself the son of a police officer—had played his way out of a small town in Illinois, earned a scholarship to SMU, and beat the odds to make the NBA as a second-round draft pick. A contract with the Bucks was the only thing that separated Brown from any other Black man in a hoodie. The city attorney's office offered Brown $400,000 in an attempt to settle his civil suit. Brown refused, though that total would have added to the nearly $30 million in public funds that police brutality settlements have cost Milwaukee since 1958.
The Bucks made their statement on Wednesday not only with the clout of the NBA's top team this season, but the authority of one based in the most segregated city in the United States. Blake's shooting struck too close to home, particularly for players who were promised that they could use the game itself to promote change from inside the bubble. None has come. Most of the nationwide legislative measures taken since Floyd's death have been insultingly superficial, despite the efforts of the NBA's players and the powerful demonstrations of activists around the country. Every trivial budget cut and incremental restructuring of a police department is an admission of how little our cities value Black lives. The complete failure of imagination in governance comes with its own body count.
Blake was shot seven times in the back at point-blank range, but he was as much a victim of the designs of American policing as he was the officer in question. The same underlying force pulled the trigger that killed 18-year-old Ty'Rese West in nearby Racine, pursued by officers because he rode his bicycle without a light. It empowered an officer in a Milwaukee suburb to kill 17-year-old Alvin Cole, his third shooting victim of color in five years. The Bucks know that they don't have the power to redeem an entire culture of law enforcement. But they can start by seeking justice for Blake, and with a phone call to Wisconsin's attorney general from their locker room.
Within hours of the Bucks' protest, an entire day of NBA games had been called off in anticipation of player strikes—games featuring big-ticket superstars such as LeBron James, James Harden, and Chris Paul. The league itself was dragged toward something closer to real advocacy, after weeks of letting players wear one of 29 preapproved slogans on their jerseys and calling it social justice. Athletes and teams across the sporting world announced that they would sit out their own games in protest, from the neighboring Milwaukee Brewers to tennis sensation Naomi Osaka. Kenny Smith left his seat on Inside the NBA as a show of solidarity. By the day's end, two especially meaningful developments had transpired: in a meeting of every NBA player in the bubble, the Lakers and Clippers—the two best teams in the Western Conference—reportedly voted to leave the Orlando bubble and sit out the remainder of the playoffs; and, more crucially, the U.S. Department of Justice announced an investigation into the shooting of Jacob Blake.
This is leadership. We should know it when we see it, if only because by now, we are so intimately familiar with its absence. Players around the league tried to maintain their message on social justice as scrimmages turned to seeding games turned to playoff series. Yet there was as much coverage of whether the fish were biting in the lakes of the Walt Disney World Resort as of the fight to find justice for Breonna Taylor. The public discussion had shifted from what it would mean to defund the police to what it might take to trade for Ben Simmons. Sports fans at large have a tendency to follow the ball. So the Bucks, moved by a righteous anger, left it on the rack where it belongs.
Every day in the bubble costs the NBA money and time, complicating what was already a delicately scheduled endeavor. This is how a single team mobilized the entire NBA board of governors, the league's billionaire class, into an emergency meeting reportedly scheduled for Thursday morning. The Bucks are done with hollow corporate messaging. Either the real work begins, or the playoffs will come to the kind of an end that exposes the league itself.
These 17 players had millions of reasons to go about their business, compartmentalize their frustrations, and wrap up their first-round series against the Magic. Inertia is the most dangerous human instinct—it's what compels us, with the slightest doubt, to ease back into the drumbeat of our daily lives. Bringing about lasting police reform is an undertaking too massive and complex to fully understand. Racist, complicit systems have been a part of the American experiment since its inception. They go so far beyond the shooting of an unarmed Black man or the honorable protest of a playoff game. And they go beyond a room of basketball players, which is exactly what the Bucks are trying to tell us.
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Maryland House Advances Cannabis Legalization Bills
The legalization of adult-use cannabis in Maryland took another step forward on Wednesday with the advancement of two bills in the state's House of Delegates.
The first measure, House Bill 837, would legalize possession of up to 1.5 ounces of cannabis for adults and create an equitable path to cannabis legalization, according to the sponsor of the legislation. The bill would also allow adults to cultivate up to two cannabis plants at home.
House Bill 837 was created as companion legislation for House Bill 1, a cannabis legalization ballot planned for the November election. Both bills were approved by the House on Wednesday after a second reading and a 90-minute debate.
The legislation is based on the findings of the House Cannabis Referendum and Legalization Workgroup, which began working on a legalization plan in September. The enactment of House Bill 837 is contingent on the passage of a cannabis legalization referendum planned for this year's general election under House Bill 1.
The bills were introduced earlier this month by Democratic Delegate Luke Clippinger, a Baltimore Democrat and chair of the House Judiciary Committee. He also chaired the House Cannabis Referendum and Legalization Workgroup, which focused on the public health, criminal justice, regulatory, and business implementation aspects of cannabis legalization.
Several Amendments Defeated
Wednesday's approval of the bills came after the defeat of several amendments proposed by Republican delegates. House Minority Leader Jason C. Buckel supported one proposal that would increase the proposed $50 fine for smoking cannabis in public.
"This isn't a slap on the wrist, this is a tickle on the wrist," Buckel said of the $50 fine. "I don't know how many of you have gotten a speeding ticket where the fine is less than this. Doing 70 in a 55, you are going to pay more than $50."
Democratic Delegate David Moon opposed a stiffer penalty than a fine, saying that the goal of cannabis legalization for many Democrats is to end incarceration for nonviolent offenses and reduce the racial disparity in the enforcement of cannabis prohibition. He also noted that a survey of adults in Maryland had found half of the respondents had smoked cannabis.
"Half of Maryland residents likely got away with a jailable offense when they did this," he said. "The more disturbing part of this is that white Marylanders have been getting away with this jailable offense at much higher rates than all the rest of us."
Another proposed amendment would have allowed local communities where a majority of voters opposed the referendum to opt out of cannabis legalization, a policy that has led to areas with no access to regulated cannabis in other states that have legalized cannabis. Buckel said that counties that do not approve legalization should not have "this crammed down their throat."
"You don't get to opt out, even when it's based on the will of your voters, the will of your voters who expressed in a democratic referendum they don't want this," he said. "We're gonna cram it down your throat. That's not fair."
Moon, however, argued that Buckel's efforts would only serve to maintain prohibition.
"What the minority leader is proposing to do, both through his attempt to make this a local decision where people could keep perpetuating these inequities, and now in this attempt to re-criminalize, is the opposite of what we're trying to do," Moon said.
If the bills receive final approval in the House of Delegates, the legislation will head to the Maryland Senate, where lawmakers are also working on a more comprehensive cannabis legalization amendment proposal.
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Candour in Context: who's activism should we spotlight?
March 18, 2021 March 18, 2021 ~ Richard Moorhead
The travails of Duncan Lewis, Stephanie Harrison QC and the rest of her team, in the R (DVP & Others) v SSHD
[2021] EWHC 606 (Admin) [the DVP case] can be seen as grist to the Government's anti-activist lawyers mill. It's a toe-curling judgment. I am going to talk about the facts of the case at some length, before turning to look beyond the concerns about professional misconduct discussed in DVP in the second section.
What happened in DVP?
Following an urgent application before the Administrative Division Swift J, "identified significant concerns about the conduct of the claims by Duncan Lewis LLP." The concern was that the Court's urgent procedure had been abused. The concern was that the application was not urgent; failed to provide the required information; made applications on behalf of people who were not clients; and, most importantly for my interest, breached their duty of candour. Note that no concern was apparently raised about Counsels' conduct at this point (it was a team of three). Lead Counsel on the urgent application represented the firm and the named solicitors on the Hamid application to decide whether they should be referred to the SRA.
The duty of candour, arising on without notice applications, "means that the claimant must disclose any relevant information or material fact which either supports or undermines his case." Material facts and "issues that are likely to arise and the possible difficulties in the application or underlying claim" need to be, "presented in a fair and even-handed manner, and in a way which is not designed simply to promote his own case." The court depends on practitioner integrity in this regard partly because urgent applications may be made with without any notice, or with only limited notice, to the opposing party.
Mr Hossain, director of the Public Law and Immigration Departments at Duncan Lewis, is named in the judgment but another solicitor and a trainee who participated in the case are not. The two barristers working with Ms Harrison QC are also not named. The President states in her judgment that, "We do not know when Duncan Lewis instructed counsel, but it was well before the issue of the urgent application."
The case itself concerned six claimants who's detention at Penally Camp ended "well before", the urgent application was issued all the claimants had been moved from Penally Camp. But Duncan Lewis continued to make claims on behalf of those claimants, "for all asylum seekers to be transferred out of the Penally Camp". Lawyers for the SSHD resisted the claim partly on the basis "your client(s) have no standing to challenge other people's accommodation provision. Your firm simply cannot know what is in the best interests of those it does not represent, and this part of your letter suggests a potentially dangerous overreach."
The application for interim relief and expedition, we are told, was settled by counsel and the Court goes through its inadequacies in some detail. I hope I do no one a disservice by paraphrasing the courts view as the application was a prolix mess and containing material omissions. They contrast it with the SSHD's submissions which were, "prepared [at short notice] by the GLD were succinct and to the point. They were just over 4 pages long."
The claimants legal team responded to these submission to criticise the GLD for intervening to give their view. The court is acidic in its assessment:
47. Contrary to what was said by solicitor 2 and by counsel, the court is always assisted on an urgent application if it has been informed by the defendant of its position. This is a matter that should be obvious to any legally qualified person conducting litigation, but in any event, is made clear in the Guide itself (see para 19 above). The position taken therefore by the claimants' legal team, both solicitors and counsel, was inappropriate and wrong.
The Court is doubly concerned because, "It was only that letter that brought the Claimants' circumstances clearly to the Court's attention."
The referral for Hamid hearing prompted a partial response and then a fuller apology. Mr Hossain's (of Duncan Lewis) apologised on behalf of all solicitors and counsel involved in his written evidence the court but the explanation he gave was, according to the court, was "wrong on several levels". In particular no explanation was given as to why the application had been deemed urgent or "why the claimants had taken umbrage at the written submissions filed by the SSHD in answer to the claimants' urgent application, in contravention of what he had been asked to do by the "show cause" letter." I note here the policing of lawyers taking a bad point in litigation, something to which the courts frequently comment on in other contexts.
In advance of the final hearing the court was also provided with a statement from "counsel" (presumably the whole team):
"Counsel wish to make it clear that responsibility for this matter cannot be properly attributed to Mr Hossain alone. The preparation of the claim was a collective endeavour for which counsel, including leading counsel must and do take joint responsibility".
The court makes clear its concerns with counsel. At the hearing itself, "Ms Harrison submitted the matter had become exceptionally urgent on 18 November 2020, but could provide no cogent reason why this was so." And the court found that, "there was nothing urgent, let alone exceptionally urgent about the claimants' request…. This was a clear abuse of the procedures for urgent applications." Nor could Ms Harrison "show us where on the application for interim relief the reasons for urgency were set out." Nor to, "to any document in the electronic bundle which identified the reasons why the claimants' application was urgent, let alone exceptionally urgent. This is not surprising given there were no reasons to justify an urgent application at all." Nor was, the "significant delay in making the application …identified, let alone explained. And, the application, "contained no summary of the SSHD's position on the application." Harrison's stance that the Home Office position on the application was "misconceived" is also rubbished. "The best Ms Harrison could do in this context, which was not good enough, was to draw attention to one sentence in the application for interim relief and expedition which said that the SSHD insisted that the claimants had no standing."
On standing, "Ms Harrison submitted that the claimants brought the claim on behalf of others as part of a "systemic and generic challenge" to, amongst other things, the way people were transferred into the Penally Camp." I would be reasonably confident, and certainly assume for the sake of argument, that the Camp was unsuitable for its use (it is now being closed down, with the Red Cross – amongst others – having criticised conditions); and that there were serious barriers in the way of unrepresented detainees getting legal advice and/or funding to bring a case to challenge their treatment. Indeed, "There were nine "claimants in waiting" at the Penally Camp ready to instruct Duncan Lewis, but they were not the claimants."
70. Further, all lawyers involved were obliged to comply their professional obligations. Duncan Lewis were not instructed by all the people in the Penally Camp, and they could not so act without instructions. This is fundamental. The court relies on the integrity of solicitors and counsel complying with their professional obligations, including that they act only on the instructions of those clients they represent.
Because the claim form did not not identify the information set out above Mr Hossain is identified by name as being responsible for having breached the duty of candour (it seems, at least in part, through lack of supervision). In terms of the hearing of the matter, "The claimant's advocate has particular duty, so far as it is consistent with urgency of the application, to ensure this obligation is complied with. Duncan Lewis and counsel in this case were seemingly oblivious to these obligations, or their importance." No Counsel is named here inspite of the particularity of this duty.
The judgment ends:
80. The court will not tolerate the abuse of its process, and will not hesitate to refer those who do so, to their professional regulators. We have given very careful consideration to doing so here.
81. In determining what should now be done, we have regard to the fact that Mr Hossain and counsel have all accepted responsibility for what happened and have apologised to the court. We also have regard to the regret Ms Harrison expressed on behalf of the lawyers concerned, that Swift J's criticisms of their application had necessitated a hearing before the Divisional Court when the court is under significant pressure in the midst of a pandemic. Mr Hossain too personally expressed his profound regret for his failures and those of Duncan Lewis; and said that training and procedures had been put in place to ensure such failings did not occur again. Mr Hossain told us that he had learned from these failings and, annexed to his witness statement a training note produced for all solicitors working in public law at Duncan Lewis. We accept these apologies and have concluded it is sufficient in this case for the court's disapproval of what happened to be marked by this public judgment.
Beyond the case itself
The case raises all sorts of issues. I have gone through the facts in some detail as I do not want to give the impression I am excusing the conduct here. It looks like the kind of conduct the court has every right to be critical of. There is an interesting question as to whether the regulators should, or could, investigate regardless of the court's view. They have both a broader remit and potentially more information available to them, both now and through investigating, to decide whether a prosecution is merited. Indeed, a related question is whether the practitioners should have self-reported already. And does the court's decision obviate the need for that? It raises interesting questions too about the adequacy of judicial review, and the openness of our systems to group actions, in cases of public interest.
One might surmise too, from the facts of the case, that a sense of humanitarian outrage, or even a desire to protect the rule of law and the administration of justice, drove the lawyers forward to try the standing point. To the extent that this might be used to excuse professional misconduct, I would resist that argument. Moral outrage may well have clouded the lawyers' judgments about the urgency and need for candour in the application, but that is not justification for misconduct.
A second argument might be similar, that the government fails to disclose documents or takes outrageously bad points with sufficient regularity to justify tit for tat. I hear this quite a bit, and it would be good to have systematic evidence of the problem. I thought of the Trojan Horse case when preparing for this blog; the Salmond case (where Counsel stood up straight); and of the Post Office Litigation. In that case there was late disclosure of a document that appears to evidence criminality as one barrister, Paul Marshall, sent that document to the police. One of the Court of Appeal judges was prompted to threaten contempt, a point inelegantly dealt with and then postponed. Marshall, to his credit I think, felt obliged to withdraw feeling conflicted out by the court's approach.
Of course each case turns on its own facts, but there may be a pattern of judges being more tolerant of disclosure failing by government or big organisations, partly, but perhaps not solely, because it is relatively easy for an organisation to say it was cock-up not conspiracy. Judges have understandable, and probably justified, sympathy with the lot of Government lawyers who report more ethical pressure than others working in-house, but the courts and the regulators may need, I surmise, to stand back a little less here.
As a justification for professional misconduct, I think tit for tat is wrong, but it does lead me to the point I really do want to make about this case. The judges have protested about problems in immigration and have begun to do something about it via Hamid hearings. I think there are questions about whether they should do this or simply be more ready to refer cases to the regulators to investigate (either publicly or not). Public referrals get publicity whereas the regulators are barred from revealing private referrals and complaints. It follows there is different treatment in these cases with significant consequences for public debate in the profession and beyond on lawyers failings.
But more broadly than that, is it fair for immigration, or "activist" lawyers, to be singled out? I do not know, if immigration practice is particularly bad then yes, but I do want to raise the question about whether this should be the sole focus. I am heartily sick of reading commercial cases where the judges complain about the culture of commercial litigators without doing anything much about it. Anybody remember the polished witness statements of Berezovsky? The faclitation agreements of Rolls Royce? Barclays flirtation with a Brazilian in-house team (not really but you get my point)? Or this Clifford Chance case? The idea that it is most often high street lawyers, if I can use a more neutral term, stretching the envelope for their clients is very likely false, if for no other reason than their funding almost certainly disincentivises it, whereas for commercial firms… well, you work it out. Contrast the Duncan Lewis case with Valbonne Estates. There are some remarkable similarities, indeed this case may well be significantly worse: a duty of candour breached; misleading evidence; a failure to explain and correct the errors in a timely and appropriate way.
The activists for business clients seem to get away with a somewhat easier ride though. Even in Valbonne the judge is reasonably clear what her concerns: "that the court was seriously misled" and she does, "not accept that the inaccuracy of the information given to the court could have been inadvertent or accidental." But she stops short of saying there was professional misconduct, and may or may not have referred the case to the SRA. That is a reasonable response; she does not have all the evidence before her to enable a clear view. In the Duncan Lewis case, the court dug deeper. The Hamid process provides a vehicle for so doing. Why have such a process for one type of case and not another? Judges have decided to be more active on one type of case and remain relatively passive on another. We should think about that when criticising activist lawyers for letting the side down.
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