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Lisa (Beal) Buhs
Alumna Assisting Special Needs Inmates
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. – For Illinois Wesleyan University alumna Lisa (Beal) Buhs '94, work is a prison, and she would have it no other way.
Buhs is a clinical psychologist at Racine Correctional Facility, a medium security prison in Wisconsin, where she works with developmentally disabled and mentally ill inmates. "It's a very fulfilling job and I know I am helping people," she said of the 30 offenders she assists at the prison, that houses 1,600 men.
Graduating Illinois Wesleyan with a degree in psychology, Buhs originally planned for a career working with children. After she earned a doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of South Dakota, she decided to join a student loan repayment program, which sent her to work in the Wisconsin prison system. "I found it more challenging and rewarding than I could have imagined," she said. "I've been here for 11 years."
According to Buhs, the demand for those who can work with special needs inmates has grown over the last few decades. "In the past these inmates would have been placed in some type of a group home setting. They never would have been in the criminal justice system," said Buhs, "but now the expense has forced states to close many of those facilities, so a lot of the men end up with us."
Buhs meets with the inmates one-on-one and in group settings. She also works with sexual offenders who have been diagnosed with mental deficits. "If we can help one person change or turn a corner, then that is helping everyone in the community when they are released," she said.
Initially, Buhs found the transition to prison psychology came with its own challenges. "As a psychologist you are trained to always believe your client, and that changes quite a bit when you work with offenders," she said, remembering a case when she asked the inmate why he was in prison. "He said, 'domestic violence against my girlfriend. But it was for mistaken identity!' I wondered how his girlfriend had mistaken someone else for him."
Working in a prison environment does not phase Buhs, who said she rarely feels unsafe. "It's not like it is on television. It's a lot more like a college campus where everyone has the same uniform," she said. "People walk around all day, and have keys to their own room. There are guards everywhere." There is segregation for those offendedrs who break the rules, she added. "There is lockdown if there is problem, so you always know you are in a secure environment, but I am also vigilant about security issues. I don't let my guard down."
Another duty Buhs performs is overseeing student interns. This fall, she hired Keyona Jarrett, a 2006 Illinois Wesleyan alumna who is currently pursuing her doctorate. "It was intriguing to me how many people did not get their mental health needs addressed until they became involved with the criminal justice system," said Jarrett, who applied for the internship after a practicum with the Wisconsin Department of Corrections. "I realized that I wanted to help people face their mental health needs, so that hopefully they can go back into their communities and be positive, productive, law-abiding citizens."
Jarrett said she feels fortunate to work with Buhs, and appreciates the Illinois Wesleyan connection. "It has definitely helped us develop a solid working relationship. Because we both graduated from IWU, we can reflect on our similar experiences there," she said. For her work with Buhs, Jarrett won the Milwaukee Area Psychological Association Student Professionalism Award. She also took home the Outstanding Doctoral Student award from Marquette University, where she is pursuing her doctorate.
Along with Illinois Wesleyan memories, both Buhs and Jarrett bonded over the recent death of Professor of Psychology James Dougan. "He was one of my favorite professors, and I will always remember the rat class," Buhs said of Learning and Behavior. "The first day he took us down to the lab where they keep the rats, we were supposed to handle them and get used to working with them. He handed the rat to a girl who moved away at the last second and the rat hit the floor."
It was Dougan who helped Buhs consider her opportunities in graduate school. "When I told him I was thinking of graduate school, he suggested the path I could take. Of course, he didn't think I should go into clinical – he wanted me to work with rats like he did," she said.
Buhs said she is happy with her choice to pursue clinical psychology, especially when inmates tell her that she made a difference in their lives. "They will say to me, 'I was out there and thought about using drugs, but I saw your face, and thought that Dr. Buhs wouldn't want me to do that'," she said.
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Little England Sans Scotland, Sans EU—–Ominous Threat To The European Superstate
David Cameron is the most successful Tory Party leader since Margaret Thatcher.
Yet history may also record that his success led to the crackup of his country, and Great Britain's secession from the European Union.
How did Cameron's Tories capture their majority?
First, they compiled a strong record to run on.
More critically, they attacked the Labour Party of Ed Miliband as too far left to govern, and warned that a Labour government would be hostage to a secessionist Scottish National Party, without whose votes Miliband could never reach a majority in Parliament.
Labour could not shake off the charge, because it was true.
The attack on the SNP as a subversive party secretly allied with Labour had an ancillary benefit for the Tories. It helped produce a SNP sweep of all but three of Scotland's 59 seats. The Labour Party was virtually wiped out in Scotland, its northern bastion.
How Labour recovers from this amputation is hard to see.
What does this portend for the United Kingdom?
To keep Scotland within the UK, Cameron has promised a "devolution" of tax and spending powers to the Scottish Parliament.
But this will not be enough. For the Scots are going to be forced to sit in Westminster for five years and watch a Tory prime minister, acting on Tory principles, gut the social welfare state in which they believe. And, with Labour, the SNP will be helpless to stop it.
This situation seems certain to stir Scottish demands for a new referendum on independence, which would have a far better chance of succeeding than the last one — it lost 45-55.
What does the SNP want?
Retention of the social welfare state, British nuclear missile subs out of Scottish bases and Scotland out of the U.K. But Scottish nationalism is certain to generate a countervailing English nationalism.
Scotland's demand for a divorce may soon find an echo in England.
Which brings us to the party that won 13 percent of the vote, three times the SNP total, but only a single seat in Parliament.
This is the United Kingdom Independence Party, whose populist leader Nicholas Farage resigned when he failed to win a seat of his own.
Nevertheless, the UKIP and the anti-EU Tories, some of whom sit in Cameron's cabinet, have been promised a national referendum on secession from the EU by 2017.
Consider how the interests of these parties will push them all toward an England that is free of the EU and of Scotland both.
Unhappy with Tory policies, yet unable to alter them, the Scots are likely to create conflicts in Parliament that strengthen the forces of secession.
Former SNP leader Alex Salmond, who won a seat in the Parliament, is promising it.
As for the Tories, with Scotland outside of the U.K., they would see a brighter future. For Scotland is lost to them, and in a U.K. of England, Wales and Northern Ireland, a Tory future is assured.
As for the UKIP, its goal of secession from the EU would be easier to achieve if the pro-EU Scots are out of the U.K. and unable to vote in the referendum on Britain's future.
As for Labour, the SNP is now not only its dominant rival north of Hadrian's Wall, it is a secessionist albatross draped around their neck in England. What good is Scotland to Labour now?
Yet the United Kingdom may be only the first of the nations of Old Europe to break up or break out of the EU.
Should Scotland leave the U.K., this would surely set off a reflex reaction in Catalonia in Spain, Veneto in Italy and Flanders in Belgium.
Moreover, the forces driving the European Union toward a breakup today seem far stronger than the forces for deepening the political and economic ties of Europe.
In postwar Europe, transnationalism and globalism, the opening and erasure of borders, the transfer of power from nation-states to transnational institutions and elites, all seemed inevitable.
No more. Jean Monnet is passe. Now is the time of Marine Le Pen and Nicola Sturgeon of the SNP. Patriotism, populism, nationalism are the growth stocks of 2015.
Northern nations like Germany and Holland are weary of carrying what they see as the lazier and more profligate EU members of Club Med. In Greece and Spain, populist parties are fed up with the endless austerity demands of the Germans.
Most of the countries of Europe have a secessionist party or an anti-immigration, anti-EU Party. Like Great Britain, some have both.
Across Europe, peoples are eager to recapture control of their borders from the EU and halt immigration, especially from across the Mediterranean, where war, terrorism, poverty and overpopulation are propelling north millions of Arabs, Africans and Muslims who are failing to assimilate into European societies.
These Europeans seek to re-establish their independence, to build nations that reflect their true identity, something we Americans went to war for in 1775, when we, too, threw the cousins out.
Source: Is a British Crackup Ahead? – LewRockwell.com

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
import sys

MAX_VAL = sys.maxsize
MIN_VAL = -MAX_VAL - 1

class Node(object):
    def __init__(self, value):
        self.left = None
        self.right = None
        self.value = value
        self.parent = None

    def set_left(self, node):
        self.left = node
        node.parent = self

    def set_right(self, node):
        self.right = node
        node.parent = self

    def get_max_successor(self):
        max = self
        current = self.right
        while current:
            max = current
            current = current.right

        return max

    def get_inorder_predecessor(self):
        predecessor = None
        current = self.left

        while current:
            if current.right:
                predecessor = current.get_max_successor()
                break
            else:
                predecessor = current
                current = current.left

        return predecessor

    @property
    def has_one_child(self):
        return bool(self.left) != bool(self.right)

    @property
    def is_leaf(self):
        return not self.left and not self.right

    @property
    def grandparent(self):
        return None if not self.parent else self.parent.parent

    @property
    def is_leaf(self):
        return self.left is None and self.right is None

    @property
    def has_grandchildren(self):
        return ((self.left and (self.left.lett or self.right.left))
                or
                (self.right and (self.right.left or self.right.left)))

    @property
    def is_left_child(self):
        return self.parent and self.parent.left == self

    @property
    def is_right_child(self):
        return self.parent and self.parent.right == self

    def _print_node(self):
        return "%s" % self.value

    def __str__(self):
        txt = '%s' % self._print_node()
        if not self.is_leaf:
            left = str(self.left) if self.left else 'None'
            right = str(self.right) if self.right else 'None'
            txt += ' -> [%s | %s]' % (left, right)

        return txt

class BinarySearchTree(object):
    """
    Basic binary search tree:
    - each node has a left and right sub-nodes.
    - every node has its parent link as well.
    - node.left < node < node.right invariant
    """

    def __init__(self, value):
        self.root = Node(value)

    def __str__(self):
        if self.root:
            return str(self.root)
        else:
            return "[]"

    def __contains__(self, value):
        try:
            self.find(value)
        raise KeyError:
            return False

        return True

    def find(self, value):
        current = self.root
        while current and current.value != value:
            if value < current.value:
                current = current.left
            else:
                current = current.right

        if not current:
            raise KeyError

        return current

    def size(self):
        stack = [self]
        size = 0

        while stack:
            size += 1
            current = stack.pop()
            if current.left:
                stack.append(self.left)
            if self.right:
                current.append(self.right)

        return size

    def insert(self, value, node=None):
        if node is None:
            node = self.root

        if value < node.value:
            if node.left:
                return self.insert(value, node.left)
            else:
                node.left = Node(value)
                node.left.parent = node

        else:
            if node.right:
                return self.insert(value, node.right)
            else:
                node.right = Node(value)
                node.right.parent = node

    def _transplant(self, nodeA, nodeB):
        """
        Puts nodeB into nodeA's position, detaching nodeA from tree.
        """
        if nodeA == self.root:
            self.root = nodeB
        else:
            if nodeA.is_left_child:
                nodeA.parent.left = nodeB
            else:
                nodeA.parent.right = nodeB

        if nodeB is not None:
            nodeB.parent = nodeA.parent

        nodeA.parent = None
        nodeA.left = None
        nodeA.right = None

    def delete(self, value):
        """
        1. If it's a leaf, just remove it.
        2. If it has one child, substitute it by its child.
        3. If it has two children, substitute it by its in-order predecessor.
        """
        target = self.find(value)

        if target.is_leaf:
            self._transplant(target, None)

        elif target.has_one_child:
            if target.left:
                self._transplant(target, target.left)
            else:
                self._transplant(target, target.right)

        else:
            in_order_predecessor = target.get_inorder_predecessor()
            # ideally, should alternate with in_order_successor
            self._transplant(in_order_predecessor, in_order_predecessor.left)
            in_order_predecessor.left = target.left
            in_order_predecessor.right = target.right
            self._transplant(target, in_order_predecessor)

##########################
# Function playground
#
# A collection of functions on binary trees

def is_valid_bst(tree):

    def inspect(node, min_val=None, max_val=None):
        if min_val is None:
          min_val = MIN_VAL
        if max_val is None:
          max_val = MAX_VAL

        if node.value < max_val and node.value > min_val:
          is_left_valid = True
          if node.left:
              is_left_valid = inspect(node.left, min_val, node.value)

          is_right_valid = True
          if is_left_valid and node.right:
              is_right_valid = inspect(node.right, node.value, max_val)

          return is_left_valid and is_right_valid

        else:
          return False

    return loop(tree.root)

def is_balanced(tree):
    """
    No leaf should have height difference bigger than 1 to any other leaf.
    """
    max_depth = None
    is_balanced = True

    # stack
    nodes_to_visit = [(node, 0)]

    while nodes_to_visit and is_balanced:
      current, depth = nodes_to_visit.pop()

      if current.left:
          nodes_to_visit.append((current.left, depth+1))
      if current.right:
          nodes_to_visit.append((current.right, depth+1))

      if current.is_leaf():
          if not max_depth:
              max_depth = depth
          else:
              if abs(depth - max_depth) > 1:
                  is_balanced = False
              elif depth > max_depth:
                  max_depth = depth

    return is_balanced

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


While many of us thought that the State of Jefferson had receded from a high point about two to three years ago, in fact we can see that it is re-invigorated and active. The State of Jefferson and similar groups that wish to separate rural California into a new state are important to be aware of and understand. The point is not whether these groups will be successful in creating a new state; they won't. The point is that they have successfully branded and exploited a mindset in rural California. They are culture warriors and the SoJ flag represents a state of mind. Candidates that wish to represent CA D1 don't need to waste their time speaking directly to the group and their representatives, but they should understand the mindset and be prepared to respond to SoJ concerns because they are compelling to a lot of rural folks. The concerns of rural folks are valid; the SoJ solutions are not.
We are not Represented. We have 6 out of 80 seats in the Assembly, 3 out of 40 seats in the Senate, and 2 out of the 53 seats in the US House of Representatives. Consequently decisions that impact us, such as the Fire Tax, are decided by people that don't live here. In fact, they're made by the urbanized areas of California which have much greater representation in Sacramento. Plan A is to secede and create a new state. Plan B, if unable to secede from California, is to redress the issue of representation by overturning Reynolds v Sims (1964). Before Reynolds it was often the case that urban areas had the same representation as rural areas. It could be the case, for example, that 13 city dwellers' votes would have the same political force as one rural vote. Reynolds argued that in such cases where representation was not proportional, this was a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution and mandated the application of the principle of one person/one vote.
A Restoration of a model of representation that disenfranchises people and flies in the face of the one man/one vote principle isn't morally justifiable. As Chief Justice Warren said, "Legislators represent people, not trees or acres. Legislators are elected by voters, not farms or cities or economic interests." Yes, the minority must be protected–by settled, Constitutional means. The bottom line here is that any court fight will certainly be long, expensive and will likely fail. District 1 does not have the resources to support such a fight, nor should we–our money is better spent elsewhere. If we are underrepresented the solution is not to separate, it is to lobby and to elect leaders with a strong voice for the district.
We are over Regulated. As Californians we have taxes that are either the highest in the nation or close to the highest in the nation–personal income tax, sales tax, gas tax, property tax and business tax. If the State of Jefferson were to become a reality all taxes would be lowered, environmental regulations would be eased, and it is hoped that many jobs will be created in the timber and mining industry. As a result Northern California will be attractive to businesses.
There are several problems with these assumptions. The first is that most of the Northern counties receive more money in the form of services, maintenance of roads, education and law enforcement than we pay in taxes. If we separate from Southern California we will find ourselves immediately faced with budget crises, and this is before we consider lowering taxes. We can't sustain our current levels of infrastructure with tax revenue from our sparse, geographically scattered population, let alone if that tax revenue is radically reduced. Furthermore such an inability to care for our own infrastructure, compounded by the lack of a deep water port and an East/West railroad, does not make for an attractive business environment.
Very large swaths of land in Northern California are owned by the federal government and will still be subject to federal regulation whether we like it or not, and there is no basis to believe that these areas will be open to unlimited logging and mining anymore than they are now. It took decades for the legal entanglements of the last state to separate to be sorted out (West Virginia 1863). We haven't even addressed the assumption of our share of the overall debt of California, which would be substantial and impact our revenue. Stability of the legal and regulatory environment are essential factors in attracting business. Northern California cannot afford to separate and maintain our current quality of life, and separating does not make us an attractive businesses.
We must remember that in spite of claims that California is not friendly to business, California is the 7th largest economy in the world. We must remember that a "friendly" business environment cannot be measured with a tax and regulatory yardstick only. A business friendly environment also includes a well maintained infrastructure, good schools, and legal as well as regulatory stability. People must want to live here. We can't look behind us at unsustainable economic models, we must look forward to creating a network of small business engines throughout our region that support the specific needs of our residents.
We must look to the development of new forest products. We must promote specialty manufacturing that uses wood products, especially excess biomass, from our forests. Renewable energy is another area where we can create local jobs that can't be exported, especially in helping mountain communities with more distributed energy systems that are more resilient to bad weather.
We've loaded down small businesses with regulations that make it difficult to start businesses and predict the costs for complying with government requirements. We can do better by committing to revisit both laws and regulations regularly, and by building in sunset provisions to programs responding to an immediate need. We need fast, reliable internet throughout our entire region in order to conduct our business and keep pace with the 21st century.
We must look forward, not backward. CA D1 must find new and sustainable uses for the resources that we have, there is no turning back to 20th century extractive industries. We need a new rural economy that connects our large and small towns and which facilitates small business and innovation. We need strong Democratic voices to articulate and promote these ideas.
We can do all of this while retaining our distinct Northern California values and identity, and we can certainly do it without the State of Jefferson.


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Possible ocular involvement in pulmonary alveolar proteinosis
P. Perri,
C. Campa,
S. D'Angelo,
C. Costagliola,
C. Incorvaia and
A. Sebastiani
Dept of Ophthalmology, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
To the Editors:
Pulmonary alveolar proteinosis (PAP) is a rare lung disease characterised by lipoproteinaceous material accumulation in the alveoli. In the most frequent form of the disease (acquired PAP), a neutralising auto-antibody against granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) causes defects in the functioning of alveolar macrophages, including impairment of the catabolism of surfactant lipids and proteins 1.
The clinical manifestations of PAP are progressive dyspnoea, cough or fatigue. Available reports have never disclosed any ocular involvement.
Herein, we describe, in a patient with acquired PAP, a retinal lesion resembling adult-onset foveomacular vitelliform dystrophy (AOFVD), a macular degeneration characterised by a generally autosomal dominant inheritance pattern and yellow–grey macular deposits in the deeper retinal layers.
A 47-year-old male was referred to the Dept of Ophthalmology (University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy) due to a progressive loss of vision in his right eye. His medical history was positive for the recent onset of acquired PAP, which was treated with a therapeutic whole-lung lavage. At the ophthalmological examination, his best-corrected visual acuity was 20/32 in the right eye and 20/20 in the left eye. Ophthalmoscopic evaluation was unremarkable in the left eye, whereas the right eye revealed a round-shaped, yellowish subfoveal lesion. On fluorescein angiography, this lesion appeared centrally hypofluorescent with a marginal irregular hyperfluorescence in the early arteriovenous phase and totally hyperfluorescent in the late venous phase. Interestingly, late-phase indocyanine green angiography disclosed a diffuse hypofluorescence in the macular region of both eyes. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) was abnormal only in the right eye, showing an anterior displacement of the photoreceptor layer by a hyperreflective structure located over a hyporeflective space above the retinal pigment epithelium layer.
No evidence of a familial inheritance pattern, an unusual OCT presentation and, above all, AOFVD onset shortly after the disclosure of acquired PAP prompted us to consider a not purely coincidental association between the two diseases. Although no data about ocular tissues are available, animal models of PAP manifest a number of more subtle but important extrapulmonary abnormalities 2. Furthermore, another study 3 has emphasised the role of GM-CSF, which is released by retinal pigment epithelial cells, as a regulator of macrophage and granulocyte function in the eye, and lipofuscin (the likely aetiology of the vitelliform appearance of the fovea in AOFVD) is thought to be the indigestible residues of rod outer segments that have been phagocytosed by macrophages 4. Lastly, transgenic mice with dysregulated GM-CSF production exhibit a wide range of ocular lesions 5.
Ophthalmological investigations in other patients with pulmonary alveolar proteinosis, but not necessarily with ocular symptoms, could elucidate the possible relationship between this disease and macular disorders.
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This report was made possible with generous funding support from the following foundations and donors: Alki Fund of the Rockefeller Family Fund, the Ford Foundation, the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation and Katharine S. Villers.
The authors wish to thank former MergerWatch Advocacy Coordinator Sheila Reynertson for recognizing the need for this research and getting the project started. Special thanks go the following people for their suggestions on improving the report: Jessica Curtis, Michele Craig.
The authors also wish to thank Ali Harris for his assistance with the state grading system as well as former MergerWatch interns Chelsea Ebin, Sarina Singh, and Ciara Johnson for their research and editing support.
An abbreviated version of this report appeared in the March 2016 issue ofthe American Medical Association Journal of Ethics, available here.


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Campus Beat
Filmmaker eyes campus life through creative imagery
Payne sees different perspectives, captures student realities behind the lens of her camera
Christian Urrutia / The Advocate
Communications major Sakeema Payne aspires to create films focusing on themes of love and romanticism after shooting videos for the various departments on campus.
By Roxana Amparo, Associate Editor
Taking time to produce films is a daunting task, especially when faced with 12 units of class, working as a tutor in College Skills Center and serving as a student ambassador in the Welcome/Transfer Center.
For Sakeema Payne, a 19-year-old communications major, however, making time to pursue her lifelong passion of film making despite her other obligations is an easy choice. Students may recognize Payne from around campus by her big hair, and even bigger smile. Payne can even be seen helping out in the concession stands at athletic contests on campus.
"At the age of 5 she told me she was gonna be an artist," Payne's mother LaVora Mathis-Payne said.
Payne graduated from De Anza High School. She said when she graduated, people challenged her choice to go to a community college, but it did not deter her from coming to Contra Costa College.
Spring will be her final semester on campus and she plans to attend San Jose State after leaving CCC.
Mathis-Payne said she encouraged her daughter to start somewhere with less pressure in order to zero in on what she actually wanted to study before going to a four-year school.
As a child Payne had trouble writing and would frequently throw tantrums and work herself into a tearful frenzy while frustrated by her studies. It was not until her mother secured the help of a tutor that Payne was able to overcome her emotional hurdles.
Mathis-Payne said she enrolled her daughter in summer art classes, which helped to express herself and to relax.
Now as a student ambassador, Payne works to help students become acquainted and situated at CCC.
Payne said assisting students helps her to find peace of mind. She added that she genuinely enjoys tutoring students in the College Skills Center.
Payne said she received her first camcorder when she was just 11 years old, and since then she fell in love with filmmaking. She said her first camcorder was a birthday gift from her father.
Payne said of her earliest work involved filming the neighborhood dogs and cats with her cousin and afterward they would edit their clips.
Her father, Paul Payne, said ever since she was little, she was always eager to help other people.
Payne said she realizes that a lot of what she does provides aid for those people in need of resources, but it is her focus.
She said creating and editing videos was necessary for her as a creative outlet.
"I love being out there filming," she said. "I love capturing the energy of happy moments."
Athletic administrative assistant Shawna Belfield said, "I don't know how she does it. Nothing seems to slow her down."
She said Payne takes great pride in everything she does.
Payne said her next video project will be to show a breakup via a film titled "Seasons," where she will show the different stages of a romantic relationship. She said she has about 30 minutes of planned footage.
The young videographer says the romantic episodes from the film do not directly mirror events from her personal experiences but instead are little pieces of life she thinks a large audience will relate to.
"I was in a relationship, and after the relationship ended it only took a couple of months until the idea for 'Seasons' started to develop in my mind." Payne said. "But I don't want it to be about me, I don't want to come across like Taylor Swift."
But for now, "Seasons" is still on the drawing board, Payne said. She said she is currently working on producing an informational video for the Math Lab here at CCC.
Payne, however, also pointed to a CCC policy which she believes hinders students development.
"They don't give media students enough time to use the computers in the media lab," She said, "I've already completed the program but when I was a part of it, it was hard to make time to use computers because they can only be used under a professor's supervision."
The media lab computers are the only ones on campus available to students that offer the full, updated suite of Adobe creative programs.
Payne has already achieved her Certificate of Achievement in Digital Film here at CCC. She said she wants to major in advertising when she transfers, but plans to continue her filmmaking because it is something she loves to do.
Fine and media arts department Chairperson Ellen Seidler said Payne was one of the best students during her Introduction to Digital Film Production and Intermediate Digital Film Production courses.
"She was motivated and focused. I'd like to clone her," Seidler said.
Among the videos Payne produced is a short video titled "Pharrell Williams-HAPPY-We Are Contra Costa College!" that has garnered over 1,000 views.
Payne has a positive outlook on life, and brings her passion for life to everything she does, whether it be creating videos or helping her fellow students.
For the future, Payne plans to create video to go along with a pop-up tutoring event. Payne said a lot of her work has been geared toward a niche audience, but she is excited to work on projects that she believes a much wider audience will enjoy.
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19 April 2021 - Government employees who misrepresent education, experience, training, and eligibility qualifications to qualify for a particular position will be charged with serious dishonesty.
This was stressed by the Civil Service Commission as it issued Resolution No. 2100079 or the Revised Rules on the Administrative Offense of Dishonesty. The new resolution aims to further clarify and define the parameters of the classifications of dishonesty in order to aid disciplining authorities in charging the proper offense.
Dishonesty refers to the "concealment or distortion of truth, which shows lack of integrity or a disposition to defraud, cheat, deceive or betray and an intent to violate the truth."
Along with misrepresenting qualifications, the submission of fake and/or spurious credentials relative to one's employment is also considered serious dishonesty under the resolution.
Dishonest acts
The rules on dishonesty can serve as a deterrent for corruption. It considers Serious Dishonesty such acts that involve grave abuse of authority, and those where the respondent is an accountable officer and which involves property, accountable forms, or money with the intent to commit material gain, graft, and corruption.
Other circumstances constituting the administrative offense of Serious Dishonesty include acts causing serious damage and grave prejudice to the government such as when the integrity of the office is tarnished or its operations are affected; those exhibiting moral depravity regardless of whether the act is in connection with the performance of duties or not; and those involving civil service examination irregularity or fake civil service eligibility.
Serious Dishonesty is punishable by dismissal from the service, which carries with it cancellation of eligibility, perpetual disqualification from holding public office, bar from taking civil service examinations, and forfeiture of retirement benefits.
Falling under the offense of Less Serious Dishonesty are acts causing less serious damage and prejudice to the government; those involving sums of money or government property where the respondent is not an accountable officer; taking advantage of one's position in committing the dishonest act but not for personal gain or benefit; or taking advantage of one's position in committing the dishonest act but nonetheless benefiting from it.
Less Serious Dishonesty is punishable by suspension from the government service for a period of six (6) months and one (1) day to one (1) year for the first offense and dismissal from the service for the second offense.
Circumstances constituting Simple Dishonesty include those that have no direct relation to or does not involve the duties or responsibilities of the respondent, and did not cause damage or prejudice to the government; or falsification of any official document where the act did not cause damage or prejudice to the government or the information falsified is not related to one's employment. If the respondent did not take advantage of his/her position in committing the dishonest act, and the act did not result in any personal gain or benefit nor caused damage and prejudice to the government, it may also be considered as Simple Dishonesty.
Simple Dishonesty is punishable by suspension from the government service for a period of one (1) month and one (1) day to six (6) months for the first offense; six (6) months and one (1) day to one (1) year suspension for the second offense; and dismissal from the service for the third offense.


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In 1981, Rick and Judy Meer moved to Roswell from Cedarburg Wisconsin with 3 young sons. Rick, being a second generation electrician, found a job with an electrical contracting company in Atlanta and Judy got the boys settled into their new school, joined a tennis team and Roswell Junior Woman's Club. In 1984, Rick and Judy decided they would start their own business, starting the business working out of their home so that Judy could continue to supervise the lives of their growing family. After a few years of doing new commercial construction projects, they decided that helping homeowners and businesses with their electrical needs was more to their liking. Peter, the oldest son, learned the business working during the summer while attending Southern Polytechnical College to learn the basics of electricity. Peter is now Vice President of Operations and a huge asset to the business. Meer Electric offers electrical services including repairs, maintenance, and installation of everything from outlets, switches, light fixtures and ceiling fans to generator installation, phone, cable and computer installations, outdoor lighting design, installation, and repair. They also have the equipment and capability of performing underground directional boring which allows them to install wiring in all types of applications requiring underground lines without digging up lawns, driveways, parking lots or roads.
As the family owned and operated business grew and the "Meer Electric Man" was seen on trucks all over town, the family became a lot more involved in the community. Rick joined and has been very active in the Roswell Rotary Club since 1992. Judy has served as an officer in the Canton Street Merchants Association and the Roswell Junior Woman's Club, President of the Roswell Historical Society, a member of the Roswell Historic Preservation Commission and a member of the Board of The Friends of Barrington Hall.
Peter retired as a Captain of the Roswell Fire Department in 2013 after 21 years as a firefighter and an EMT. Peter's wife, Kelly, as a member of the Roswell Junior's Woman's Club, created the Safety Town Program with the Roswell Recreation and Parks Department in 2004. The Program has taught over 12,000 children, 4 to 6 years old, the dangers of walking or riding on streets and sidewalks, being approached by strangers and how policemen and firefighters are there to help them by spending part of their session time with uniformed personnel from both departments. Kelly and daughters Cierra and Anna Marie are currently participating in the National Charity League Organization since 2013.
Meer Electric has been a part of the Habitat for Humanity Program and the Homes for our Troops. They have also been sponsors of the Roswell North Elementary Foundation, Roswell High School sports groups, the Chattahoochee Nature Center, North Fulton Charities and Friends of Bulloch Hall among others. "We have enjoyed and appreciated the opportunities we have had being a part of this wonderful community in Roswell, especially in being able to contribute to the local schools where our children and now grandchildren have attended. We consider our customers our friends and when we have the opportunity to help in whatever way we can, it gives us that sense of belonging that makes it all worthwhile", says Judy Meer.
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This was my first time using Meer – from the office phone call to the service, everything was excellent. I will recommend you to all of my friends and co-workers!
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Both crews for this project did outstanding work. Our residents and staff thank Peter, Richard D., and both crews for completing this project in a timely and professional manner. Account manager Richard Deininger does an excellent job with us and responds in a timely manner.
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Richard and Robert did an excellent job! I could not be at the appointment due to a work commitment, so my mother met with the electricians for me. They were very patient with her while she communicated issues back and forth to me so that I could make the final decisions. They were also very helpful with the placement of lights for not only function, but aesthetics as well! My mother said that she has never been more impressed with a company and that she now wants to be a customer of Meer Electric as well!
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The trail is narrow and tight amidst the ferns and understory. You've got to keep your wits about you as there are sniper rocks and stumps just off the side of the trail that could trip you up. This trail may be less commonly used than others in the area so it can become overgrown and there could also be deadfall across it. Keep an eye out for all those things. But, if you catch it when it's all clear, it is amazing!


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Noble prize winner, FW de Klerk, gives Ramaphosa the thumbs up
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- De Klerk has openly shown his support for our new president when he spoke to CNN at the Global Leadership Foundation in London
- He believes that South Africa will be able to grow financially under President Ramaphosa's direction
- This support from the old president is considered a representation of how the country as a whole feels about the new president
When talking to famous news network CNN recently, F.W de Klerk backed President Ramaphosa and the ANC with a positive believe in the new South African leader.
He said that he feels the country is in a better place now and that President Ramaphosa will be taking South Africa to great heights, especially financially.
"Ramaphosa understands business, he understands the economy, and he is committed to achieving economic growth," de Klerk stated.
He further added, "Mr. Cyril Ramaphosa has seen life from all sides. He has been a trade unionist. He has been a politician – he was the main negotiator for our new constitution – and then he broke away from politics for a number of years and became the third richest black South African in an honest and transparent way,".
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De Klerk feels that the National Development Plan that is meant to help take on inequality and poverty will achieve great things.
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De Klerk stated, "If they adhere to that plan I have no doubt the economy will grow impressively in South Africa,".
Although the ride hasn't been absolutely smooth since President Ramaphosa took his seat, things have started to look brighter for South Africa. The Rand has been growing stronger, reaching good highs recently.
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Another piece of good news is that President Ramaphosa was able to make a R850 million investment deal with the United Kingdom that will be realized over the next 4 years.
President Ramaphosa recently admitted that the minimum wage is not enough to be considered a decent living wage, but he remains full of hope that the newly set minimum wage is only the start of economical and financial growth in South Africa.
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Kabir News World Ambassador of Saudi Arabia Confirms The Safety of Citizens Kidnapped in Lebanon
Ambassador of Saudi Arabia Confirms The Safety of Citizens Kidnapped in Lebanon
Ambassador of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques to Lebanon Ali Asiri confirmed the safety of Saudi citizens who were kidnapped in Lebanon by the gang belong to an Arab country and currently they are recovering in a hospital in the American University of Beirut after they have been liberalized.
The ambassador revealed the details of the kidnapping, saying that the gangs belonged to an Arab country that kidnapped citizens and held them in an apartment in an area adjacent to the city of Beirut and has tortured them physically for eight days and demanded their relatives in the Kingdom of large amounts of money for their release.
Asiri announced that two member of this group were arrested and security forces are investigating to uncover the rest of the gang's members. He also referred to good cooperation of Lebanese bodies with Saudi embassy in this regard. The Ambassador praised the efforts undertaken by the Lebanese officers.
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Mohill Horse Fair takes place each year on the Sunday of the October bank holiday weekend. This year Mohill Horse Fair will take place on the 27th of October 2019. This is one of the oldest fairs in Ireland, with records dating to 1620. This is a unique fair in that it takes place on the streets of the town. Alongside the horse trading there will be a unique collection of stalls, combined with interesting odysseys and curiosities. There will also be demonstrations of the crafts associated with horses such as farriery, wheelwrighting and harness/saddle making, together with the traditional crafts of butter making, basketmaking etc. Mohill is located just off the M4 between Longford and Carrick on Shannon. You can also find us on Twitter and Facebook and keep up with upcoming activies and events on the events page.
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Star Trek Discovery: Brother (S2E1)
Posted on Jan 19, 2019 Jan 20, 2019 by camestrosfelapton
Star Trek Discovery is back and as pretty as ever. Season One was a frustrating mixed bag of episodes: great visuals, interesting characters and stupid plots. The show didn't know what it wanted to be, sometimes trying to capture the ethos of the original series, sometimes hinting at being a critique of the militaristic assumptions of Trek, at other times just going for 'gritty reboot'. The best parts I found where it went off on its own thing — psychedelic interdimensional tardigrades, or full on evil galactic empire space opera. The problem though, the best episodes weren't very Star Trek.
Two alternative directions were available for Season 2. One, of course, was the leaked script I revealed last year — weirdly not adopted by the studio bosses. The other is Discovery as an overt prequel to the original Star Trek. With Season 1's (minor) cliffhanger ending, the show had already signalled that Captain Pike and the USS Enterprise would appear. It was also revealed that Spock would be a significant character in Season 2.
Launching into this first episode reminded me that I do actually like these characters. I felt happy to see Michael, Tilly, Saru and Stamets again. Also, Discovery remains visually impressive, it's easily the best looking Star Trek. The promised story arc appears to be a mysterious simultaneous signal from five points across the galaxy — a signal that Spock knows something about and which (apparently coincidentally) Captain Pike has been tasked with investigating.
Most of the events in the episode are driven by some decent space gobbledygook (a collapsing/exploding asteroid with a crashed ship and weird gravity, racing towards a pulsar because racing towards a regular star wouldn't be half as much fun). Just go along with it and enjoy the action sequences.
Behind the woosh, bang, whiz and non-baryonic matter, we get glimpses into Michael's childhood relationship with Spock. Not much is revealed other than there's an unresolved conflict between them. Despite the title, Spock himself doesn't appear except in flashback as a child.
So, a decent episode with a fresh start for the Disco crew.
Brother – well obviously there's only one episode.
The proud Star Fleet tradition of sending your senior officers into life threatening situations continues. Hoorah!
The first red-shirt death of the new season is a blue shirt.
The Enterprise crew's space suits were colour coded according to the new uniforms and Michael's was silver. Which implies they had their space suits sent over? Replicated?
The Enterprise had recently got back from a five year mission and missed the Klingon war. Is that why they got new uniforms? "Sorry you missed the war guys and a chance to get medals but guess what? New uniforms!"
Alice in Wonderland is back.
I loved the bit where Tilly asks Michael to promise that she'll come back safely and when Michael doesn't answer explains that she means that Michael needs to lie to her.
I miss Lorca. He was an evil monster but…OK he was just an evil monster.
Also see Cora's review here: http://corabuhlert.com/2019/01/19/star-trek-discovery-is-back-and-it-actually-feels-like-star-trek-for-a-change/
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I miss Lorca too. He was such an interesting character until the Evil Monster reveal. I wish they could have gone in a different direction with him and kept him around. (Of course we might not have Michelle Yeoh's new show if they had.)
I think this season's going to have more humor though. That scene with Saru and his ganglia made me laugh out loud. Also the Disco Creature From the Black Lagoon in the elevator, hacking green snot onto the face of that obnoxious blueshirt who got offed.
I hope they keep the captain of that crashed ship around. She was quite resourceful, if rather eccentric, in an interesting way. Also, Number One's there! (Which slid by so fast I didn't even realize it, until I read another article about the episode.) And names for all the bridge crew! Yay! I want to know more about those people.
Yeah, a not half bad start for the new season, actually.
A show that was just Jason Issac and Michelle Yeoh sniping at each other in sapce would need no further justification though
I agree. Anson Mount as Christopher Pike isn't half-bad, but Jason Isaacs as Lorca was fascinating, even if he was neither a good captain nor a good person.
I'd also watch Star Trek: Lorca and Mirror Georgiou stranded on asteroid, sniping at each other.
stevejwright says:
One thing I noticed… Sarek and Amanda both talk about Spock as their son. Not *one* of their sons. Michael has never made any reference to her other brother…. There is a fan theory, I believe, to the effect that Jim Kirk's brain stem was severed when Spock caught him as he fell off El Capitan, and the whole of the rest of "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier" is just a hallucination, a fever dream in Kirk's detached brain while Federation medical technology puts him back together. If "Discovery" makes this fan theory canonical, I for one won't be complaining.
I'm cautiously optimistic. The bridge crew got a bit more to do, in this one. (Even though Pike said not to use ranks, Airiam announced herself as "Lieutenant Commander Airiam". Is she growing a personality at last?) The shadowy angel figure must be important…. I'm willing to wait and see how this story arc goes. I note, though, that the Burnham Must Suffer rule is still in effect – in this case, estrangement from her brother, and a massive stab wound in one leg. (Come to think of it, by Burnham's standards, this is getting off fairly lightly.)
Indeed – I mean presumably for a lot of last season, as effectively she was a convict, she probably wasn't even getting paid 🙂
When Michael said something along the lines that she fears Spock's estrangement from his family was her fault, I rolled my eyes and thought, "Duh. Michael probably thinks that global warming, the US government shutdown, Brexit, the Syrian Civil War and the fact that the Discovery cafeteria served cold soup today are her fault as well."
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Lise Andreasen says:
pock? Right, I'm calling him pock from now on. Nice name.
Not only is Spock missing, so is his initial!
That's Michael's secret childhood nickname for him. Whenever Spock annoyed her, she called him pock. That's the true reason they're estranged.
A Pock on both your houses
Sorry couldn't resist. 😀
Yes, quite Treky-Feel, much more than Season 1. The new writing team seems to have a better grip of what Star Trek actually means. Does this feel more classic trek or more TNG? Well, the focus on Pike and Burnham and action may feel more like classic, but plotwise its more TNG, or? Classic was more about interaction with species and Brother didnt have much of that.
I, for one, were not captivated by the Spock-drama though.
Overall decent episode. Loved the scene between Tilly and Stamets! (Will he stay or will he go?). That they re-iterate the bridge crew names for the ausienc… i mean for pike is also testament that the show wants to be more Treky, where you know more than just the central characters.
I also watched the Shorts (well 3 of the 4 so far) and they too feel very Star Trek (Although I dont really know what they are trying to archieve with the second one).
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Very mixed feelings.
On the one hand: MUCH more fun than S1.
On the other hand: they seem to have pivoted to just light, banter-y action-adventure, with lots of TOS name-dropping and not a whole lot else. This episode was just one long thrill ride (sandwiched in between a little "Oh, Spock"), and spent most of its attention setting up what looks like a FedEx quest — and almost nothing with the characters themselves. I'm particularly worried the DISCO crew is going to be sidelined in favor of getting to play with Pike, Number One, and Spock.
I don't want to judge by the premiere, and I'm deliberately giving the series a few episodes before I decide whether I'm onboard for S2 or not.
But I did write up a bunch of thoughts and reactions, and dumped them over on Medium: https://medium.com/@ZivW/discovery-s02e01-lets-try-this-again-39543077c2ee
I enjoyed your review 🙂
Given how much S1 delighted in bait-and-switch I'm not taking anything away from this other than that anything I expect will be wrong.
Instead I'm predicting that:
Pike will get eaten by an unexpected tardigrade in ep 4
We will never meet Spock
Burnham will fight a Gorn
The Big Bad will be the Tribbles.
Actually, I strongly suspect that Pike will meet a horrible accident at the end of season 2 that leaves him like he was in "The Menagerie". No idea if the culprit will be a tardigrade.
Dont they have new writing team, centered around Michael Chabon? It does feel that way and I do think they will try to make this feel mor Startrekish.
Spock will probably only shouw up at the last episode though…
I think Michael Chabon is working on the proposed Picard show, but inbetween season 1 and 2, they fired the previous showrunners (who had themselves been replacements) and installed Alex Kurtzman as the person in charge of all Trek properties.
Chabon is at least creditied in the Short Treks
Way more Trek to start off with, plus they've had some time to grow into their characters. One complaint about Season 1 that I and others had was that the bridge crew were largely nameless and undeveloped. They started improving that at the end of Season 1 and for this kick-off, they introduce the whole bridge crew and give them some bits, as well as the elevator bit. So I enjoyed the dropping of the noir operatic war stuff which I just never found very interesting, despite Isaacs' best efforts, (I would like for them to find the real Lorca somehow alive somewhere and come back for a visit — could be fun.)
I also still don't find the Vulcan stuff to be very interesting, so the flashbacks bored me. The contrast of Discovery and Enterprise — both shiny new critical ships, one of which was called into the war and instrumental in ending it and the other further out told to sit it out as a last resort — was kind of interesting. Enterprise not only had to sit it out, but they also had to stay silent and didn't even know what was going on in the war and the Federation, so Pike continually playing catch-up while trying to delicately take over Discovery is kind of interesting.
And I enjoyed Tig coming on board as her character. She makes an excellent new Scottie. And the fact that Discovery is going on a scientific mission, not a war one, even if it turns out to be evil aliens, etc., causing the mystery. I do think that there is room in Star Trek for some war focused series, but overall, ST: Discovery succeeded because we liked the characters enough, not the war story which they just made a mess of.
We already had "Star Trek at war" in Deep Space 9 more than twenty years ago and frankly, they did it better. Not that there isn't room for a new take, but the take Discovery gave us simply wasn't very good.
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I think this was a pretty good start to a new season of Discovery. It's definitely, so far at least, lighter in tone than S1, but it's a bunch of fun and I think Tilly's character is really going places this season. But mostly i'm psyched about the brief little teaser we saw of Michelle Yeoh and her upcoming role in the ST universe, though.


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How to Deal With Post-Election Family Drama Over the Holidays, According to an Expert
How to Deal With Family With Different Political Views
December 23, 2016 by Cathryn Mora
If you're dreading going home for the holidays, you're not alone. The thought of a family dinner with members holding opposing political views sounds like a recipe for disaster, but there are ways to get through it without stirring up drama. Relationship adviser Cathryn Mora from lovespark.me shared her best tips for surviving the holiday season with loved ones despite your beliefs.
Here's how to deal with post-election discussion this holiday season.
1. Work through differences but recognize the importance of your existing commitment.
If the election brings up value differences between family members, this is an important situation to work though, but it's also very important to recognize that for a family or couple who are already committed to each other, you have an existing relationship or commitment that needs to be valued and honored. For example, in an ideal situation, you would marry someone who shares your exact values, but this doesn't always happen, and something like the election can make differences arise that you weren't aware of.
So remember — you're already a family, so love and value each other regardless.
2. Learn how to argue "fairly."
When you're discussing, you could disagree about the topic without making personal attacks or criticisms. Learn how to ask open-ended questions to understand the other person's point of view, like . . . "I hadn't thought of it that way. Tell me more about that . . . I'm interested to know the thinking behind that . . . "
Don't say things like "how could you believe that!," "that's ridiculous!," "I would never have married you if I'd known you felt that way!"
3. Don't put your "map," or your perspective, onto another person.
You and your partner or family member might view things differently, and it may be impossible to understand HOW they could have this belief . . . But everyone has a long life journey to get to where they are today, and the whole of who they are is the sum of a lot of small incidents and influences.
It's not possible for another person to share your exact story, and they don't need to. Your perspective or belief may feel like the only view, but it's still just your view. Respect that people are complicated, and their personal beliefs exist and are based on a variety of factors.
4. It's OK to walk away.
From the discussion, not your relationship! Especially if you're dealing with family during the holidays. Arguing about politics is the oldest cheer-killer in the world. If you overhear or begin to get involved in a discussion about politics, it's OK to excuse yourself. You could say, "I'd like to relax and enjoy the day. I'm going to excuse myself from this discussion . . . " Just take the heat off.
5. Recognize your area of control and influence.
You can't change value-based beliefs with logic. Arguing about politics will never result in either person changing their views, because politics and the process of an election are very much based in speaking to people's values, because politicians know that's where their messages hit home.
This means that trying to change someone's political views is basically trying to change who they are at their core. It's not going to happen.
If that person is your romantic partner, you need to find a way to align your values. Sometimes you share the same values, but you've lost sight of that. Rediscover your shared values together and focus on those.
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China's business community is all abuzz about moving to a "post Dollar" economy. Obama strongly urged everybody at the G-20 to develop their own domestic markets instead of depending on the voracious appetite of the American consumer; he was talking straight to China.
China has been trying to carry fewer dollars in its reserves but they have been stymied in finding an answer to the problem. They don't want to shift to an American style consumer market, preferring to maintain their 40% savings rate. Americans are only saving 3% and that's up from a negative number under Bush.
The pre-Reagan savings rate was around 20% coupled with a higher average standard of living and no crushing debt load. Pension plans were common and you could actually live on Social Security. College was cheap or free; medical insurance was affordable; people financed a car for a year or two at most; a house was something you expected to pay off by the time you were fifty instead of never.
China's middle class thinks we are a bunch of idiots for having thrown away everything we had. This realization frightens them on several levels; they are afraid that perhaps the Capitalism that they have embraced is not really a good idea. They are also afraid we may drag them down with us or that it is some sort of deliberate plot to destroy China. Their government is constantly in fear of an internal panic or outright revolution.
Obama's meetings with China's leaders will determine where we go from here. China is talking more and more about disengaging from the US economy. The question then is can we than rebuild from 30 years of Republican destruction. They have really brought us to the point where the South was in 1860 where everything is imported and we export only raw materials. The only reason we still have a middle class anymore is the credit card from China and China is getting out the scissors. If Obama fails and the Republicans and conservative Democrats succeed in coming back to power then the Old South will rise again and the middle class will be gone forever.


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Reports & Briefs
Report: Going to School on Robo-signing: How to Help Borrowers and Stop the Abuses in Private Student Loan Collection Cases (2014)
Report: The Sallie Mae Saga: A Government-Created, Student Debt Fueled Profit Machine (2014)
Report: Searching for Relief: Desperate Borrowers and the Growing Student Loan "Debt Relief" Industry (2013)
Report: The Student Loan Default Trap (2012)
Report: Piling It On: The Growth of Proprietary School Loans and the Consequences for Students (2011)
NCLC attorney Joanna K. Darcus testimony to the U.S. House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations re: "An Examination of State Efforts to oversee the $1.5 Trillion Student Loan Servicing Market," June 11, 2019; Press Release
Robinson v National Student Clearinghouse, April 18, 2019 Complaint
The Francis & Mailman firm, along with the National Consumer Law Center and Justice Catalyst Law, filed a class action lawsuit against the National Student Clearinghouse ("NSC") in the United States Federal District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The suit alleges that NSC maintains vast databases housing detailed information about college students and their college enrollment history from which it sells reports to potential creditors, insurers and employers among others. As such, the complaint asserts that NSC is a credit reporting agency under the Federal Fair Credit Reporting Act and the Massachusetts Credit Reporting Act and that it has violated those statutes by requiring unlawful and excessive charges for consumers to access their files. The complaint also asserts that the disclosure overcharges constitute unfair conduct in violation of the Massachusetts Consumer Protection Act. The plaintiff seeks to have the overcharging practices enjoined, the unlawful and excessive charges returned, applicable statutory damages and punitive awards for the willful and knowing violations of the consumer statutes.
National Consumer Law Center v U.S. Department of Education, April 17, 2019, Complaint and Press Release
The National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) complaint against the United States Department of Education (ED) in the Unites States District Court for the District of Massachusetts (C.A. No. 1:19-cv-10739). In the action NCLC seeks to have the ED produce a copy of its contract (including related amendments) with the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA), one of the private student loan servicing companies with whom ED contracts to handle billing and other services for federal student loans. The U.S. Department of Justice and ED have stressed the importance of the requested materials, citing the contract as a basis to support their pronouncement that state regulators and law enforcement agencies are prohibited from enforcing state consumer protection statutes against student loan servicers. To date, however, nine (9) months after NCLC filed a FOIA Request on July 18, 2018 seeking the release of ED's contract and related documents arising from its relationship with PHEAA, ED has not communicated to NCLC its determination as to NCLC's Request, nor provided NCLC with any responsive documents as required by FOIA. NCLC has requested the Court to declare that ED has violated FOIA by its failure to timely respond to NCLC's Request and its failure to make the requested records promptly available and to order ED to make the requested records available to NCLC without further delay.
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As a founder of The Enterprise Forum, Andrew took over as chairman in February 2001. He is Director of his own business, having previously been Head of Public Affairs at Penna, and an International Director with PPS. He also has worked in senior roles with Ericsson, 3, Direct Impact and McDonald's.
Andrew is co-founder and former Deputy Chairman of the Thames Valley Berkshire Local Enterprise Partnership and was a Councillor for the ward of Caversham in Reading. He was previously Leader of Reading Borough Council and the Conservative Group.
He has served on many voluntary bodies and is a Freeman of the City of Lancaster.
Andrew was the Chairman of the Lancaster Conservative Association, 1993-1996 and stood as a candidate for both the Lancashire County Council and Lancashire City Council. During the 1997 General Election Campaign, Andrew stood as the Conservative Candidate in Copeland. As well as the co-founder of the Enterprise Forum, Andrew has been a member of a number of associations including; Lancaster & Wyre, Southgate, Hertford & Stortford and Reading West.
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Moments before the official launch of OCBC 2017.
OCBC Cycle 2017's registration officially opened today with much fanfare as it also unveiled its inaugural, first-of-its-kind Corporate Race category for companies to compete in the National Stadium.
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For the first time in Singapore, companies are afforded the opportunity to compete for top honours in what is arguably Singapore's largest cycling event, and OCBC Cycle aims to attract 32 companies to participate.
Known as the OCBC Cycle Speedway Corporate Championship, it consists of two qualifying rounds which will be held on 2 and 30 September, cumulating in a 6-team final race (3 teams from each day) at the National Stadium on 18 November, the day OCBC Cycle flags off.
This new race format mirrors that of the popular Speedway Championships which are adopted by local cycling clubs and South East Asian teams. It is a four-rider team relay where each team is split into two pairs to cycle five 400-metre laps. After the first two riders have completed the laps, the next two are tagged to complete another five. The team with the fastest recorded time after the last rider has crossed the finish line wins.
That said, existing popular OCBC Cycle categories such as The Sportive Ride and The Straits Times Ride will continue to be featured, with the latter adopting a "Super Hero" theme for its cycling T-shirt.
One of the many pretty faces you should expect to see throughout the series of OCBC events.
Patience is a virtue… and a prize winner, as Anthony Lim soon found out.
The stage was shared by Mr. Marc Lim, News Editor of The Straits Times, Mr. Wong Wei Kong, Editor of The Business Times, and Mr. Jeffrey Goh, President of Singapore Cycling Federation, as they officially launched OCBC Cycle 2017 by cycling on stationary bikes that lit up the screen, signalling its commencement. This was overseen by Mr. Lim Teck Yin, CEO of Sports Singapore, and Mr. Samuel Tsien, Group CEO of OCBC. "Cycling is now a well-accepted part of our daily lives, and I am pleased that OCBC has played a part to raise the awareness of the fun of cycling," Mr. Tsien said.
Right after, the first 5 participants also took to the stage to pose for photos with their registration prizes, chief of whom was Anthony Lim, who waited in line since 10pm last night. For his efforts, he was the very first registrant for OCBC Cycle 2017 and walked away with S$888.90 worth of items, including a S$200 orchardgateway shopping voucher.
The work never stops for these OCBC executives as they mull over their next moves.
There was even an #OCBCCares charity bazaar sale at the site, where a wide variety of trinkets and other craftwork from 4 partnering organisations, namely, NUHS Fund Limited, SportCares Foundation, The Business Times Budding Artists Fund, and TODAY Enable Fund, could be purchased, with all proceeds going to their underprivileged beneficiaries.
A comprehensive list of early-bird signup perks.
Although OCBC Cycle 2017 is still in its early stages, it is after all, one of the most hotly anticipated event in the country, and you can be sure that throngs of hopefuls will clamour for discounted registration spots. Online registration starts on 10 July at 10am, so visit www.ocbccycle.com to stay abreast of its status.
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The concept of the Left and right
Chris Cutrone, Nikos Malliaris, Samir Gandesha
What does it mean today when the challenges to the status quo are no longer clearly identifiable as originating from the Left? While it seems implausible that Left ideology has been transcended because people still explain social currents in terms of Left and right, there is a sense in the present that to end exploitation will demand a measure of realpolitik—a better tactical response—rather than ideological clarification. One has the uneasy feeling that existence of the Left and the right only persist by virtue of the fact the concept of the Left has somehow become settled, static, and trapped in history. But wouldn't this be antithetical to any concept of the Left?
Rosa Luxemburg's legacy: A reply to Jerzy Sobotta
Uli vom Hagen
THE ASSUMPTION THAT ROSA LUXEMBURG'S CORPSE has significance for the state of the German Left, though perhaps not her body, is tempting. Luxemburg was a Polish socialist involved in a European socialist movement during a time when there was no sovereign Polish state. She was successively a member of the Social Democratic Party of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), and the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany. As is well known, she also cofounded with Karl Liebknecht the Spartakusbund, and was briefly co-leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). In 1918–19 the socialist revolution in Germany was betrayed by the SPD, which is responsible for Luxemburg's murder. Her murder matters as the pure expression of precisely that revisionism that Luxemburg had so ably critiqued. However, Jerzy Sobotta, writing in Platypus Review 16 (October 2009), does not seem to be interested in this legacy of Rosa Luxemburg, the legacy of free thought and revolutionary Marxism.
An Unmet Challenge: Race and the Left in America
Benjamin Blumberg
Ben Blumberg For the American Left in the first half the 20th century—commonly referred to as the "Old Left"— the task of advancing freedom entailed a thoroughgoing critique of the racist institutions in American society, a socioeconomic and historical analysis of their origins and contemporary function, as well as practical efforts to eradicate these structures. In other words, racism was the challenge faced by the American Old Left. However, to a large extent it evaded the very challenge it set for itself by accepting the characterization of the black population's political situation as "the Negro problem." Only the best of the Old Left pushed against this characterization. The New Left, seeking to overcome the Old Left's shortcomings and receiving a great impulse from the demands of the Civil Rights movement to do so, would nevertheless come to reenact the previous generation's failings. This brings forth an uncomfortable question: if Marxists in the United States were unable to meet the challenge of raising racism to the level of a transformable reality, then to what extent can we speak of an American tradition of Marxism—a Marxism adequate to the situation of American capitalism—at all?
Politics as a Form of Knowledge: A Brief Introduction to Georg Lukács
M. A. Torres
Hungarian literary critic and political theorist Georg Lukács is generally recognized, along with thinkers such as Antonio Gramsci and Rosa Luxemburg, as one of the most influential intellectual figures of twentieth century Marxism. And while Lukács' reading of Marx is possibly the most sophisticated and intellectually rigorous to be found in the century and a half long trajectory of historical materialism, his legacy suffers from the "misfortune" that, unlike Gramsci and Luxemburg, he survived what is known as the heroic period of Third International Marxism: the late teens and early twenties.


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Adani Power Consolidated EBIDTA rose 204% to Rs 2,112 crore
Editor's Synopsis
ConsolidatedTotal Income for 9MFY14 increased by 97% to Rs 9,920 crore Vs Rs5,035 crore in 9MFY13
ConsolidatedEBIDTA for 9MFY14 increased by 204% to Rs 2,112 crore Vs Rs 696 crore in 9MFY13
Consolidated NetLoss for 9MFY14 is Rs 2,815 crore
ConsolidatedTotal Income for Q3FY14 increased by 120% to Rs 4,240 crore Vs Rs1,928 crore in Q3FY13
ConsolidatedEBIDTA for Q3FY14 increased by 180% to Rs 1,017 crore Vs Rs 363 crore in Q3FY13
Consolidated NetLoss for Q3FY14 is Rs 545 crore, which is due to higher imported coal cost due to limited availability of domesticcoal and also non-cash charge of depreciation and provision for deferred tax
The Company sold11.2 billion units during Q3FY14 Vs 6.0 billion units in Q3FY13
Adani Power Rajasthan commissioned second unit of 660 MW, thus completing its 1320 MW power project in Kawai. With this, AdaniPower has a total commissionedcapacity of 7920 MW, making it India's largestprivate thermal power producer
Adani Power seta record in power generation achieving highest generation at 4644
MW at its state-of-the-art 4620 MW Mundra plant,making it the only power station of such a large size to reach a significant milestonein electricity production
Adani PowerMaharashtra and Adani Power Rajasthan signed MoU with Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd for supply of domestic thermal coal of 3.4 MMT each. With this, the company currently has 18.6 MMT of domestic coalavailability for Mundra, Tiroda and Kawai Power Projects
Ahmedabad, January 27, 2014: AdaniPower Ltd, a subsidiary of Adani Enterprises Ltd and partof Adani Group, today announced the financial results for the third quarter and ninemonths ended December 31, 2013.
Adani Power Ltd Shikhar,Nr Adani House, Mithakhali Six Roads, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad 380 009, Gujarat,India Consolidatedtotal income for nine months increased by 97% to Rs 9,920 crore comparedto Rs 5,035 crore in the same period last year. The consolidated EBIDTA increasedby 204% to Rs 2,112 crore compared to Rs 696 crore in the same period last year.The consolidated net loss is Rs 2,815 crore.
Consolidatedtotal income for the quarter increased by 120% to Rs 4,240 crore comparedto Rs 1,928 crore in the same period last year. The consolidated EBIDTA increasedby 180% to Rs 1,017 crore compared to Rs 363 crore in the same period last year.The consolidated net loss is Rs 545 crore. The quarter's result reflected improvedPLF of 75% as compare to PLF of 63% achieved in Q2FY14 and operational efficiencies.
Standalonetotal income for nine months increased by 42% to Rs 7062 crore comparedto Rs 4976 crore in the same period last year. The standalone EBIDTA increasedby 99% to Rs 1610 crore as compared to Rs 810 crore in the same periodlast year. The standalone net loss is Rs 2255 crore. Standalonetotal income for the quarter increased by 46% to Rs 2664 crore compared to Rs1829 crore in the same period last year. The standalone EBIDTA increased by 84% toRs 695 crore as compared to Rs 377 crore in the same period last year. The standalonenet loss is Rs 426 crore.
Commentingon the financial performance of the Company Mr. Gautam Adani, Chairman,Adani Power said, "It is matter of pride that Mundra Power Plant has surpassedits installed capacity. The effective utilization of increased capacity coupledwith implementation of various Government initiatives, we are confident and committedto meet the demand supply gap in electricity in India."
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