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Vintage Playmobil Fairy Tale Castle
#3031 Royal Washroom Complete
Near Mint-Mint (ret.) (D)
Have you ever wondered how it would be like at the end of a long day to soak in a tub
such as this and be pampered by a maid? Here is a complete, Playmobil Fairy Tale
Castle #3031 Royal Washroom to scrub away your ills. Produced between 2000-2005,
this set was created as an add-on accessory set for the magical Playmobil #3019
Fairy Tale Castle. This set is 100% complete and is in NEAR MINT-MINT condition.
The set consists of an obedient maid, clothed in a deep blue dress trimmed in dark
pink, a white apron trimmed in magenta and light blue, a saucy white head bow, two rare gold sandals, and two rare dark blue puffed sleeves. The maid scurries to pour clean, warm water into the clear, light blue high backed tub with scalloped feet and to ready the necessary towels and washcloth for the Princess' bath. Nothing is too extravagant for this Princess. The maid sets out a rare, white clam shell with a rare, soft, pink sponge for her Highness to use in the tub. Once finished with her bath, the maid secures one or two towels from the gold towel rack and hands it to the Princess. A green canister of perfume is also available for the Princess' pleasure. A privacy screen preserves the Princess' privacy while she dresses.
FYI, Playmobil toys are renowned for their high quality, durability, attention to detail, and the extendibility of their underlying toy system. All figures are scaled to fit in a child's hand with add-on accessories (e.g. hats, skirts, aprons, collars, scarves, armor, headdresses, shoes, sandals, jewelry etc.) lending authenticity to the different characters involved. The jointed figures are able to clasp items in their hands and move about through "child power." A wide assortment of vehicles, animals, furniture, and buildings are realistically scaled according to their "real-life" equivalents and to reflect actual life scenarios. Several of the animals have mouths that open and close and the elephants' trunks can pick up buckets by their handles etc..
All of Playmobil's play sets revolve around established "themes" familiar to young children (e.g. Medieval Castles and Knights, Pirates, Western Forts, Native Americans, Trains, Stage Coaches, Gold Mines, Circuses, Zoos, Victorian Mansions, Fairy Tale Castles, Sherwood Forest, Construction, Doctors and Dentists' Offices, Hospitals, Airports, Modern Homes etc.). Due to the level of detail, children's imaginations are afforded endless open-ended play opportunities. Not only do these toys broaden a child's imagination, creativity, attention, and use of
elaborate oral narratives, they also facilitate a child's cooperative and dramatic play skills and fine motor capabilities.
These toys have won numerous national and international toy awards and conform to the highest production standards of quality and safety in accordance with European and American safety guidelines. The toys, while primarily manufactured in Germany, also are produced in Malta and Spain. They are distributed in more than 70
countries throughout the world.
Due to the small, intricate parts, Playmobil recommends that these toys be reserved for children 4 years of age and up. However, my daughter, who never mouthed her toys and was advanced for her age, received her first Playmobil toys at 2 1/2 years of age. Adult supervision is highly recommended for children under 3-4 years of age.
This set comes without its original box. It weighs approximately 4 oz. UNWRAPPED. My location is Lafayette, IN (47905). I will probably be sending this set via First Class Mail.
I also will be thoroughly Q-tip cleaning this set and all of its accessories prior to sending it to its new owners. My sets are immaculate.


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Timbuktu Manuscript Destruction: An Academic's view
International Affairs — 30 January 2013
The following is a statement by researcher Mohammad Mathee regarding the alleged destruction of manuscripts in Timbuktu, Mali.
"I work as a researcher on the Timbuktu manuscripts once part of the UCT-Tombouctou Manuscripts Project though based at the University of Johannesburg now. I do not think it is as straightforward as BBC and other media are reporting it of Islamic extremists burning the Ahmad Baba Centre. From the news coming in from Mali, the report in the Guardian, BBC etc. is exaggerated. The new building has not been torched (in fact, it seems the Ansar al-Din guys and ilk took care quite nicely of the building).
According to a senior researcher at the Ahmed Baba Centre, 10 000 ms were placed in the volt of the new building (the archival library built by the South African government and civil society). However, according to Dr. Mahmoud Zoubeir, first director of the Ahmed Baba Centre and advisor to former and ousted President Ahmadou Tomane Toure the 10 000 mss were long removed to safety.
It is possible that the empty boxes are of manuscripts destroyed during the process of restoration. Restoration is a continuous process at the Ahmed Baba Centre – and other private libraries such as the SAVAMA consortium – as mss come in from all over the region (Azawad); this I saw when doing research at Ahmed Baba. However, a colleague doing her research in Timbuktu as well told me that these are a few mss.
It is also possible that the empty boxes are of mss stolen; mss are stolen all the time in Timbuktu and sold (usually to some Westerner for a variety of motives).
While it is possible that the Ansar al-Din destroyed things in their hasty retreat, it must not be ruled out that the French created the story to, 1. Give greater legitimacy to their illegal invasion, and 2. That in the case of them destroying mss in Timbuktu (as happened in Iraq), the blame will then fall on the stupid Ansar al-Din. The media (BBC and ilk) as embedded pen mercenaries were all too happy to report on torched buildings and mss.
What is important for academics is not simply to be shocked and flabbergasted, but to pay attention to Timbuktu (now and always). This great African city with its intellectual heritage has a lot to offer. If there are reportedly 100 000 mss of which 31 000 are at the Ahmed Baba Centre then academics must think what a tragedy it is for knowledge that perhaps only 1 000 have been read and worked on (here I exclude those Malians and Timbuktians, not professional academics). Here we too must pay tribute to John Hunwick (who is probably devastated), other academics and especially the UCT-Tombouctou Mss Project that has been working without on the mss for the last 9 years.
Most importantly, we pay tribute to the brave people of Timbuktu.
Perhaps it is fitting to share the words of the scholar Ahmad Baba al-Sudani (1556-1627) after whom the library is named; Ahmad Baba was writing from exile (forcefully taken there by the invading Moroccan Sadian State in 1593) and then prison
0 traveller to Gao, turn off to my city.
Murmur my name there and greet all my dear ones,
With scented salams from an exile who longs
For his homeland and neighbours, companions and friends.
The French invasion (notwithstanding that the takeover by the Ansar al-Din and the Mouvement National de Libération de l'Azawad's (MNLA) was wrong and heinous) is not unlike that of the 1591 invasion of Songhay and the destruction of its State. If anything, it is worse in an age of "equality" between nations; but also, because in the last one and a half decades we have seen the carnage that unilateral invasions cause."
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When Borger Group of Companies won the contract to complete the underground infrastructure of Rogers Place in Edmonton — the new home of the Edmonton Oilers — the Calgary-based company was faced with the challenge of maintaining its award-winning safety culture in a new market with new sub-trades and new workers.
The 18-month project, which began in 2015, required an extremely quick expansion into Edmonton from zero workers to 40 in just 30 days. All new workers received extensive orientation and were brought to Calgary to shadow a local crew for up to one week. Each Edmonton worker was paired with a Calgary worker with a similar role. This involved performing their duties with the Calgary team, working with the lead hand for safety and quality assurance and attending safety clinics and tool box meetings.
Recognizing the challenge of instilling the Borger Group culture, the company relocated a key manager and five long-term workers from Calgary to Edmonton. They became safety champions and helped pass along the safety culture.
Borger made his expectations clear right off the bat by mandating a safety stand down upon the first minor incident at the project. He also visited the project every week.
Borger Group completed the $20-million arena project with no loss-time incidents.
Rewards and recognition are very important at Borger Group. The multi-faceted approach recognizes individuals, crews, divisions and the entire company daily, weekly and annually. Daily, supervisors recognize individual safety excellence by awarding Borger Bucks, an internal currency that can be redeemed for a wide variety of prizes.
Weekly, a new safety champion is crowned and crews are recognized for site excellence with the Golden Hard Hat award. The Golden Hard Hat is displayed in the work site trailer and all team members receive decals for their own hart hats.
Annually, cash prizes are awarded to the safest individuals.
Award winners are mentioned on the weekly Borger Broadcast, where Borger and the senior leadership team promote safety messages and give company updates.
All 386 Borger Group employees also receive prizes, such as Borger Bucks or parties, when the entire company hits safety milestones.
"These kinds of things absolutely build morale in and around the company and that is extremely important for a healthy culture," says Hassan Hussein, safety manager, who reports directly to Borger.
When it comes to annual performance bonuses for field workers, safety is the top consideration.
The point system for safety is well defined and communicated. It's tracked by the safety team through ticketing (safety non-compliance) or points rewards (safety compliance). Non-compliance tickets are compiled for assessment to identify trends and areas of opportunity.
Borger Group's corporate social responsibility platform focuses on social, environmental and economic factors. Some initiatives include charitable fundraisers, such as a barbecue for Fort McMurray, Alta., wildfire victims; the Save a Tree program that re-plants trees lost due to construction activities; and a sustainability committee that identifies new environmental opportunities.
In 2016, the Borger Unity Crew was formed whereby employees on underutilized sites work on community-related initiatives. Workers' valuable skills and knowledge are dedicated to various causes as opportunities arise.
The company works closely with the Heavy Equipment Operator program at Olds College in Alberta. Borger Group donates equipment, attends curriculum meetings and is available as an industry liaison to support program development.
Workers at Borger Group are held accountable for health and safety through an "interconnected spider web of things," says Borger, citing checklists, emergency response plans and job-specific roles and responsibilities as examples.
Perhaps the most pertinent example is the S.O.S. card that every worker has in his pocket. If a worker has any concerns around incident potential, she can hand the card to any leader and the site will be shut down immediately. The site will not restart production until approved by two safety officers and a senior management team member, and a safety stand down has occurred.
Project managers, superintendents and managers at Borger Group are required to complete a minimum of one weekly safety site inspection and hazard assessment for every site they are involved in.
Borger's management team also contributes to the curriculum design and program creation for Borger University — an in-class and online education and training program. The leadership team facilitates in-class sessions and lunch and learns.
Prior to a subcontractor commencing work on a Borger Group site, a member of the leadership team and a safety officer complete a thorough orientation outlining Borger's safety program, site expectations and requirements, operational policies, environmental responsibilities and cultural accountabilities.
Leaders also have an open door policy — and workers are not afraid to use it.
This article originally appeared in the October/November 2017 issue of COS.


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Chef stays cool as a cucumber turning out 4,500 meals daily
Executive chef Chris Hoffman looks over trays of steaming sweet potatoes in the kitchen of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in Phoenix Nov. 17. Society staff and volunteers prepare 4,500 meals a day and will do more for Thanksgiving and Christmas. (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec)
By Nancy Wiechec • Catholic News Service • Posted November 21, 2016
PHOENIX (CNS) — Chris Hoffman is cooking for 4,500 guests this holiday season, yet he's cool as a cucumber.
"It should go well," he said. "We did it last year and it went very smoothly."
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The confident executive chef runs the sprawling kitchen of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in Phoenix. He credits his staff and cadre of volunteers with making his job practically stress-free.
"I have a reliable staff, a reliable kitchen team," Hoffman told Catholic News Service as he made kitchen rounds one week before Thanksgiving. "We do a lot of food for a lot of people."
Beef stew simmered in a huge vat. Pork loin sizzled in a roaster. Large trays of freshly baked cookies were being pulled from hot ovens. Volunteers, who execute much of the food prep, were busy slicing and dicing a number of fresh fruits and vegetables.
The food would be dished out to the homeless population and to families in need at several dining rooms in the Phoenix area.
Chris Hoffman, executive chef for the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in Phoenix, keeps calm as he and his staff prepare meals Nov. 17. His staff and volunteers prepare 4,500 meals a day and will do more for Thanksgiving and Christmas. (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec)
Preparing thousands of meals is nothing new for Chef Hoffman's kitchen. The staff and volunteers accomplish it every day. The holiday menu though is special.
Hoffman said St. Vincent's turkey-day feast will include more than 200 oven-roasted birds, 50 gallons of gravy, 2,000 pounds of potatoes, 2,500 pounds of stuffing, lots of cranberries and 4,800 slices of pumpkin pie.
His kitchen will also turn out holiday specialties such as sweet-potato pies, tamales and decorated cookies.
"I'm very fortunate to be part of the St. Vincent de Paul team," the chef said. "We have wonderful volunteers, a wonderful staff, a staff that cares very much about our clients."
He said he is grateful to the society, and not only because he's head chef.
"St. Vincent de Paul helped me a number of years ago with my family."
Raised in New York, Hoffman was cooking at an early age because his mother worked many hours. He said he learned more about cuisine from an uncle, a Catholic priest who enjoyed good food.
After receiving his degree in the culinary arts and cooking in several restaurants, Hoffman was hired by the Ritz Carlton in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Later, he returned to the States, resettling in Arizona with his wife and their infant daughter.
"I'm a chef because I love to feed people and see people smile and make them happy. We're not here to put out perfect food. We're here to put out good food, nutritious food for our guests. And the main thing is, we're kind to people. We help people." — Chef Chris Hoffman
In a new state with his young family, "it was just hard getting back into the workforce," he recalled.
The family had some setbacks, so he called on St. Vincent de Paul for assistance. The society provided him with food boxes, help with rent and utilities, and a car to use while he looked for work.
"I'm forever grateful for that help," he said. "It's something that I will always remember and (it's) why I'm here now."
He worked as a chef at the Phoenician, a luxury resort in Scottsdale, before answering an ad for the executive chef position at St. Vincent's in the summer of 2015.
As the chef moved around the kitchen during the interview with CNS, he stopped next to volunteer Joe DeLibero, who was busy breaking down a 50-pound bag of onions.
"Want some help?" Hoffman asked, and he sharpened his knife and started in on the onions.
DeLibero, who volunteers in the kitchen two days a week, seemed immune to the eye-watering effluvium of cut onions. He worked methodically next to the chef.
When Hoffman was called away from the cutting board, DeLibero offered his thoughts.
"He's a great chef and a wonderful person," he said of Hoffman. "He shows a lot of respect for the workers and volunteers. And the food is really good."
Hoffman joked that he's a chef because he loves to eat, but what motivates him is the ability to provide people with a base necessity.
"I'm a chef because I love to feed people and see people smile and make them happy," he said. "It's a real good feeling to know that you're providing for people.
"We're not here to put out perfect food. We're here to put out good food, nutritious food for our guests. And the main thing is, we're kind to people. We help people."
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Guy Cassiers will end in 2021 – after fifteen years, quit as artistic director of Toneelhuis.
"A theater should be for the five years to reinvent," said theatre director Guy Cassiers ever meet The Standard. The following vernieuwingsronde will be no more for him. Three years Cassiers continues as artistic director and then to a yet to be identified successor.
Cassiers was the Toneelhuis for a fixed ensemble of actors around one or more fixed directors' to 'a house of makers', as the board of directors describes his legacy.
An important point of reference is also one of his latest projects, P. U. L. S. Because young theatre-makers with ambition for the big stage are scarce, he decided together with Jan Fabre, Alain Platel, Jan Lauwers and Ivo van Hove to young wolves time and space to offer and is ready for the big stage of the stadstheaters.
Cassiers directed the recent years are two pieces on refugees and was also in France. He was in 2017 appointed a French officer in the order of arts and letters.


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Hi, I'm Dr. Jeff McCombs, developer of the McCombs Anti-Candida Plan for Health, Vitality, and Transformation. Today, I'd like to spend a little time with you and discuss the Candida spit test. The Candida spit test was promoted as a marketing tool in the mid-90s by a multilevel marketing company that sold an anti-Candida product. It was promoted as a fast, easy, reliable test for people to perform in their homes to validate that they had a fungal Candida infection. I'd like to explain to you a little bit why that is not a valid test and give you some more information behind valid testing.
To perform the test, you take a glass of water, first thing in the morning, and spit into it. If the spit or mucus forms legs, little extensions down into the water, this is a sign, supposedly, that you have a Candida infection. Of course, this doesn't differentiate between a Candida yeast or a Candida fungal infection. But the truth of the matter is there are many things which can cause the mucus to thicken to such an extent that it would form these legs down into the water. A common one is dehydration. Now, if you've been sleeping all night, and your mouth is closed, you haven't been drinking water. When you wake up in the morning, you're gonna be a little dehydrated, so the mucus will be thicker and form these strands, or legs, into the water.
Other things that can cause the same thickening of the mucus could be airborne allergies, food allergies. You could have a virus, bacteria, yeast, mold, fungal infection, or parasite infection. Cold weather can also cause thickening of the mucus, and anybody who has lived in a cold climate can attest to that. Weather changes can also cause thickening of the mucus. So there are a lot of things that can cause thickening of the mucus.
If you consider the body burden that most Americans and most people around the world hold in terms of toxin, there are generally over 1000 different toxins that are in the body at any time. Each and any one of these can cause the mucus to thicken. So when we're doing a Candida spit test, we're not testing for anything, specifically, because thickened mucus can be a general indicator of many different types of allergic reactions or responses by the body and its immune system. If you want to do a saliva test, you would do a saliva antibody test. This is a valid test that's performed at a lab. Laboratories like BioHealth Diagnostics, Genova Diagnostics, Diagnostics Labs will perform saliva antibody tests.
An antibody is a protein that is produced by our bodies' white cells in response to a substance that is non-human, or non-self. This is a way that the body uses to identify that substance again should re-exposure occur later on.
Other valid tests would be blood tests, stool tests, direct cultures of blood or stool or another tissue. Metametrix Labs does PCR testing, which is a genetic testing that can be with the stool or blood. Great Plains Laboratories does organic acid testing. This is testing of by-products of cellular metabolism from Candida. These are all different tests that can be performed to evaluate whether or not you have a systemic fungal Candida infection.
The best way to use this information is to use several tests in conjunction with each other, along with a case history, present signs and symptoms, past history of antibiotic use, and whether or not you've done a Candida protocol and whether it's produced good results for you. If you take all this information, combine it together, you're going to get a clearer picture of whether or not you have a Candida infection.
This is Dr. Jeff McCombs, and thank you once again.
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I took a small group down to Salalah where some enjoyed birdwatching at Khor Rori after visiting the site of Sumhuram.
Some of the group enjoyed birdwatching at Khor Rori after visiting the site of Samharam.
And having visited the UNESCO sites – I was very happy to hear that Al Roya, the publisher of my book about the 4 UNESCO sites 'Walking through History', has organised a book signing session – in Muscat on February 14th.


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package org.spongepowered.api.data.manipulator.mutable.entity;

import org.spongepowered.api.data.key.Keys;
import org.spongepowered.api.data.manipulator.DataManipulator;
import org.spongepowered.api.data.manipulator.immutable.entity.ImmutableVehicleData;
import org.spongepowered.api.data.value.mutable.Value;
import org.spongepowered.api.entity.Entity;
import org.spongepowered.api.entity.EntitySnapshot;

/**
 * A {@link DataManipulator} that handles the current "vehicle" if
 * the owning {@link Entity} is considered to be a "passenger" or another
 * {@link Entity} is currently being ridden by the owning {@link Entity}.
 */
public interface VehicleData extends DataManipulator<VehicleData, ImmutableVehicleData> {

    /**
     * Gets the {@link Value} for the current "vehicle" being ridden.
     *
     * @return The value for the vehicle being ridden
     * @see Keys#VEHICLE
     */
    Value<EntitySnapshot> vehicle();

    /**
     * Gets the base {@link Value} for the "base vehicle" being ridden
     * such that the current vehicle may be riding another {@link Entity},
     * causing that entity to be called the "base vehicle".
     *
     * @return The value for the base vehicle
     * @see Keys#BASE_VEHICLE
     */
    Value<EntitySnapshot> baseVehicle();

}

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The Nahel bond is a connection between a sentient Spren and a Rosharan human. This bond is a symbiotic relationship, granting the human participant the power of Surgebinding and the spren participant the ability to manifest into the Physical Realm and retain their mind. At least part of the bond is dependent on the use of Connection and Identity, since storing those attributes into a metalmind will affect the bond.
Originally, the Nahel bond granted power to individuals with no affiliation with one another. Eventually, the Knights Radiant were formed and the Surgebinders were gathered into ten different orders of Knights, each order's members bonded to the same type of spren.
A Nahel bond can theoretically be passed from one person to another, similar to that of a seon. In fact, this has happened a few times in the past.
Spren seem to bond with people who share in their perspective or personality. However, some types of spren are more discerning than others when choosing their human partners. Additionally, some types of spren are more free-spirited and choose the humans that they bond with individually. Others are more organized and will choose a human to bond with by committee, then send one of their members to the chosen human.
Spren bond with people that share beliefs similar to the Spren's own Concept. As the Bond progresses, the holder of the Bond will move along a path bringing the holder's thinking more in line with the Spren they are bonded to. Each Ideal said by the Radiant progresses the bond. Only the first Ideal is said by all Radiants, as the later ideals are Order specific. Lightweavers say Truths rather than Ideals. Without saying the words, the Radiant's ability to use Stormlight will not increase. If the Radiant stops acting according to their oaths, they will weaken or completely destroy the bond, which can result in killing the Spren.
The Nahel Bond grants the human the ability to Surgebind. Surgebinding allows one to use Stormlight, which grants superhuman abilities to the user, such as increased strength, agility, and healing abilities. It also perfects innate skills of the user but does not grant additional skills; for example, an expert spearman will become a spearman without equal, but will not become a master swordsman. In addition, Stormlight fuels the primary magic of Surgebinding: the usage of Surges.
Each type of spren will grant its human Surgebinder two different Surges. Which two is decided by the type of spren to which they are bonded, and thus, which order of knights they belong to. There are ten different types of surges, and ten different orders of knights, so each surge is used by exactly two different orders of knights. There is a cognitive connection between all people who are bonded with a certain type of spren. This mental connection provides telepathy and recognition between the Bond members. Some Orders of the Knights Radiants have additional, unique abilities. For example, Lightweavers are known for their mnemonic abilities (which manifests differently in each person) and Skybreakers can divide the innocent from the guilty. This is a result of the two surges overlapping, producing an effect like mixed chemicals.
When the Nahel bond is at a sufficient strength, the bonded spren can instantly manifest itself as a Shardblade in any number of forms. For example, when Kaladin and Syl are in battle, Syl is able to manifest herself as a sword, a spear, and a shield. Lift proved in her story Edgedancer that they can manifest as anything metal, including a fork. A human using a Shardblade without a Nahel Bond (these shardblades are dead spren) must wait ten heartbeats before the summoning will take place, and are limited to using the Shardblade in the form of a large sword, as Shardblades were patterned after the original Honorblades.
The Nahel Bond also grants the ability for spren to manifest themselves into the Physical Realm, outside of the form of a Shardblade. Additionally, the spren gains greater self-awareness, intelligence, and access to their memories the stronger their bond is with their human.
The only known way to sever a Nahel Bond is for a Bonded Person to act in a manner contrary to the limitations of the Bond. This can kill the spren, sending them back to the Cognitive Realm. Revival is possible, but difficult. It is even more difficult for the spren to bond with a different person after severing the bond, and they will only do this if the person they originally bonded with is dead. While difficult, it is possible for a Spren to safely break the bond on their own.
The word "Nahel" is a Rosharan word that means "the bond to divinity", while the word "bond" was added to the term to avoid confusing readers.
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Q: Grid-like Inline editing with QTableView and QSqlTableModel I am trying to make QTableView behave like a grid table, i.e there is always one empty row in bottom where user input new records to be inserted. Think MS Access subform, or in web dev I think we call it inline editing.
I am using Qt 4.7.4,
pretty standard code:
model = new QSqlTableModel(this);
model->setTable("order_details");
models->setEditStrategy(QSqlTableModel::OnManualSubmit);
model->setFilter(QString("parent_id = '%1'").arg(ID->toString());
model->select();
model->insertRow(model->rowCount());  //worked womehow
//QSqlRecord rec = model->record();
//rec.setValue("fieldName", var);  //useful for initializing some fields
//model->insertRecord(-1, rec);  //internally call insertRow(rowCount()) then setRecord

ui->tblGrid->setModel(model);

If insertRow or insertRecord is put in constructor, nothing happens. no row added.
But if I create a pushbutton that calls either of them, a new row is added but it is uneditable.
To observe this try modifying Qt's cached table example, adding insertRow() will do nothing if put in constructor. In a slot called from a push button, however, then it will add the row just fine. uneditable, of course.
So my question is:

*

*Why is this happening? I've had enough look at the QSqlTableModel's source code, but to understand it we also need to understand QSqlRecord, QSqlQuery, QAbstractItemModel etc... can't wrap my mind around it.

*To get around uneditable row thing I've subclassed QSqlTableModel overriding flags() to return Qt::ItemIsEditable and Qt::ItemIsenabled to no avail. What did I do wrong?

*I know I will eventually subclass QTableView to get this behaviour, so I will appreciate it if anyone has some pointers for me, perhaps some project's source I can read.

Thank you,
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I love your stories of "The Book of Three."
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Hey, friend! Happy Monday! How was your weekend? This weekend it seems like we were out and about more than we were home. There were several super fun events in Nashville this weekend! Steeplechase, hot air balloon festival, strawberry festival, rodeo…but we didn't do any of that! Haha!! Maybe next year, but it's hard to go to crowded events with an 8 week old and two other small kids. We just aren't in that season of life right now and that's ok! We will be there soon enough. So instead we did toddler friendly activities while simultaneously getting errands taken care of.
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On April 17, 2018, the Supreme Court of the United States published an opinion in an immigration case called Sessions v. Dimaya. This case caused waves because the left-leaning justices split with right-leaning justices evenly at 4-4 and the deciding vote was the freshman justice Gorsuch.
In what has conservatives raging against their new justice, is really not much of an immigration issue. Well it is, because it brings some civil immigration cases into the constitutional realm of criminal cases. In this case, the question was whether or not a statute which anticipated possible/potentially violent conduct was too vague to withstand constitutional scrutiny.
What did the Dimaya Case Accomplish?
You can skip this section entirely if you're not interested in the legal analysis of this case, although it does help explain how and who this case helps.
This opinion, with dissents, is nearly 100 pages long, so there is a lot to unpack. However, the essential part that impacts federal inmates has to do with sentencing enhancements for violent crimes.
What the Dimaya case decided was that the residual clause of 18 U.S.C. §16(b) was unconstitutionally vague and violated the U.S. Constitution's 5th Amendment, which guarantees due process.
Lets make that simpler to understand. That law above, 18 U.S.C. §16(b), is the second part of a 2-part definition of what constitutes a "Crime of Violence." The first part says that violence has to be used, attempted, or threatened for the underlying crime to be considered a violent one.
The problem with this phrasing is that a "substantial risk" is subjective and vague. A court could assume that violence could be a result of many different types of felonies. While holding a gun, threatening to kill somebody to facilitate a robbery is certainly a crime of violence under the first definition above.
The Supreme Court decided to rely on it's criminal definition of what makes a law unconstitutional for being too vague. The definition of a violent crime is generally made by §16, as is addressed above. Criminally, however, the definition of a crime of violence is defined in §924(e)(2).
This, by the way, is why this case caused an uproar, because it treats deportation as a punishment severe enough to cross over into criminal punishment, rather than a civil process. And treating deportation as a criminal matter gives non-citizens constitutional due process rights.
The Supreme Court decided in Sessions v. Dimaya that the residual clause of the definition of a "crime of violence" from §16 is void for being too vague, just like the residual clause of a "crime of violence" for criminal prosecution from §924(e)(2) is void for being too vague, which they had decided in 2015 with Johnson vs. United States, 576 U.S. ___, ___.
Very basically, Dimaya reinforced Johnson's decision that the residual clauses of the definition of a "crime of violence" in both 18 U.S.C. §16(b) and §924(e) were unconstitutional because they were too vague.
What this means in terms of reducing sentences for federal inmates falls out of this. If a federal inmate had his sentence increased because their crime was a "violent" one, even if there was no violence, then the basis for that sentence increase is now considered unconstitutional.
In order to get this sentence increase eliminated, effectively getting a sentence reduction, involves filing a Motion to Vacate, Set Aside, or Correct Sentence. Sometimes called a 2255,1 this allows a judge to correct a sentence for constitutional reasons (like the Dimaya decision here). However, there is a time limit.
The law that regulates the use of a 2255 motion sets a 1-year time limit on filing one. Four things can start this 1-year clock, but the relevant part here is that the Dimaya decision starts the clock for any inmate that can take advantage of it.
That means that any inmate who is affected by the Dimaya decision, meaning their sentence could potentially be decreased by using it, has until April 16, 2019 in order to file a motion to "Correct a Sentence" before they are no longer eligible to do so.
Its a sad fact that Obama has pardoned and commuted less sentences in his presidency than any other president in modern American history. In a positive recent action, Obama issued 22 sentence commutations to federal inmates serving time for drug-related crimes.
These 22 sentence commutations nearly double the number of these actions that he took in the first three-quarters of his presidency. In an article from The Atlantic, snarkily titled, "Obama Offers Commutations to 22 of 209,155 Federal Prisoners," David A. Graham delves into the good and bad news surrounding these commutations.
For opponents of the War on Drugs—a group that seems to be growing—and those who think the U.S. incarcerates too many people, Tuesday brought some good news and bad news.
The Good News: President Obama has announced that he's issuing commutations to 22 individuals. They all share convictions for drug offenses; eight would have died in prison if not for clemency.
The Bad News: As The Huffington Post notes, that more than doubles the number of commutations and pardons Obama has issued through the first three-quarters of his presidency. As my colleague Matt Ford noted in December, Obama has been stingy with his mercy, even by the standard of recent presidents, who have used their power more infrequently (though George W. Bush issued only 11 commutations over two terms). Ron Fournier also wrote an excellent analysis of Obama's pardons in 2013.
Sometimes these two words get used interchangeably, and their meanings get lost, so lets clarify. A presidential pardon comes to ex-cons who are out of prison and want their crimes wiped off their criminal record. Pardons usually come at the end of a president's term to wealthy donors who have no other criminal history besides the one federal conviction to which the pardon is being requested. Translation: pardons are for free men who want to get rid of their criminal record.
Commutations are a different animal. Sentence commutations don't take away the underlying conviction, it only erases the remaining sentence so an inmate can go free immediately. The 22 people who received sentence commutations on Tuesday would have already been free had they been sentenced under current sentencing guidelines, so these commutations aren't controversial at all.
Obama is to be applauded for his actions, while still encouraged to do more. As the title of the Atlantic article points out, over 200k inmates are still incarcerated in the federal Bureau of Prisons. Considering America has about 5% of the world's total population, but 25% of the world's prison population, Obama could do much more to leverage his pardon and commutation power to affect a lot of change.
Sentence Commutations are a good start, though.
An interesting question arose for PCR Consultants the other day. With the growing trend the United States these days to legalize pot, what would happen if the federal government actually gave up the Weed branch of its War on Drugs.
Plenty of people believe that locking up citizens in the US for simple Marijuana possession, especially non-violent offenders, is a waste of taxpayer money. Federal felonies can lock up these offenders for decades, given a sufficiently long rap-sheets to justify large sentencing enhancements.
What would happen, then, if pot was legalized? Would non-violent federal felonies for Marijuana crimes be erased, and the offenders relieved of their weed-based criminal record?
Maybe, but then again maybe not.
To explore this issue further, we look at Honest Services Fraud and CEO-turned-convict Jeffrey Skilling. What, you may be wondering, does a high-profile-former-Enron-CEO have to do with weed?
Skilling took his federal felony to the US Supreme Court, who decided that some of what Skilling did was not actually a crime. This was a groundbreaking restriction on the application of Honest Services Fraud, and enough to call into question plenty of felonies that stood upon a broader definition of this type of fraud. In effect, many inmates were incarcerated for what may not be a crime any longer.
The Supreme Court's June decision in United States v. Skilling doesn't give former Illinois Gov. George Ryan a "get out of jail free" card, a U.S. district judge has ruled.
Judge Pallmeyer, in a detailed 59-page opinion, turned aside all of Ryan's arguments. The "conduct for which [Ryan] was convicted – steering contracts, leases, and other governmental benefits in exchange for private gain – was well-recognized before his conviction as conduct that falls into the 'solid core' of honest services fraud," the judge wrote, noting that this conduct was exactly what the Supreme Court said in Skilling was the "proper target" of the "honest services" law.
U.S. District Judge Mary A. McLaughlin ruled that Nicholas Panarella, Jr., convicted in a political corruption scheme, is entitled to a "writ of error coram nobis" to vacate his conviction based on an honest services wire fraud scheme, according to The Legal Intelligencer.
Judge McLaughlin ruled that Panarella's conviction is no longer valid in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 ruling in Skilling v. Untied States, which significantly narrowed the scope of the honest-services-fraud statute.
"Where a person is convicted and punished for conduct that is not a crime, such circumstances constitute the sort of fundamental error that may warrant coram nobis relief," McLaughlin wrote.
In one case above, the underlying conduct of former Governor Ryan did not become lawful from the Skilling ruling. In the other, the Writ of Error Coram Nobis was used successfully when the underlying conduct of that person was declared "not illegal".
Today we have a couple of stories from around the country that will interest those searching for some sanity in American criminal justice.
To start, we have a story from the Federal Criminal Appeals Blog. It turns out that the government believes riding in a car with drugs, even if a defendant had no idea drugs were present, is still a crime worth many years in federal prison. The story goes like this: a construction worker (Mr. Tavera) was riding to Tennessee to do a roofing job.
Tavera's driver had lots of construction equipment in the back of the truck, including a bucket of nails and a large quantity of methamphetamine below those nails.
The US Attorney for the case was told by the truck driver that Tavera had no idea the Meth was there, but forgot to mention that at Tavera's trial which ended up netting him over 15 years in prison.
AUSA Taylor never told Mr. Tavera's lawyer that Mr. Mendoza said Mr. Tavera isn't guilty.
And, as a result, the jury never heard that the only other guy in the car told the prosecutor that Mr. Tavera didn't know about the drugs.
The Supreme Court has said that the government has to hand over all information that is exculpatory and that if it fails to do that, the prosecution is fundamentally unfair.
The prosecutor, as the Sixth Circuit explained, figured it was Tavera's fault for not doing a good enough job on defense. However, US Supreme Court history is very explicit that it is the prosecutors job to be forthcoming with any such evidence to ensure a fair trial.
With the deck already stacked so squarely in favor of the prosecution in federal cases, do they really need to act this poorly? The Sixth Circuit decided that this was so clearly unfair, that it ordered a new trial.
How long will this new trial even last with this evidence on the record for a jury to see? My guess: not long.


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La República Dominicana estuvo representada en los Juegos Olímpicos de Los Ángeles 1984 por un total de 19 deportistas, 15 hombres y 4 mujeres, que compitieron en 7 deportes.

El portador de la bandera en la ceremonia de apertura fue el boxeador Pedro Julio Nolasco.

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El equipo olímpico dominicano obtuvo las siguientes medallas:

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 Base de datos olímpica del Comité Olímpico Internacional .

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República Dominicana en 1984


FOR Guam summer interns ended their internship with a final presentation on August 14, 2018 to local partners that participate in conservation on Guam. Click here to view their presentation.
Job well done for completing the FOR Guam summer internship program!
We started off this week in the office to go over our project. Marilyn, Alysha, and I had a short meeting with Val to discuss our presentation. In addition, Val helped each one of us with the topic we chose to conduct background research for our literature review.
Two days later, Val, Alysha, and I made our way down to Merizo. It was a nice sunny morning with a slight breeze, but as soon as we climbed down to the shore, we were met by the high tide. Rock surfaces that are normally exposed were totally submerged and the water looked like chocolate milk! We thought we would have to reschedule. Val made her way toward our transect sites and to our surprise the water was clear once we got closer! Alysha and I quickly put on our gear and made our way to Val.
Because it has been a few weeks since our last day out in the field, it took some time for us to lay out all six transects. Some of the zip ties were camouflaged as algae grew on them. On one transect, one zip tie had completely come off! Not only was it a little difficult to find the zip ties, but the current was a little stronger than what Alysha and I were used to. This presented an additional challenge to locate our transects.
while Alysha and I did macroinvertebrate surveys. When surveying the transects, Alysha and I noticed that there was already algal growth on the corals that we had removed algae on top a few weeks ago. The two recent storms that passed over and near us over the past few weeks came to mind for this observation. The excess nutrients in the water could have helped with the algae to regrow in these transects. However, it did look like there were more fish in the area after algal removal. The fairly choppy conditions made the hunt for macroinvertebrates a little difficult, but Alysha and I were glad that the water was crystal clear.


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Today is the big day where we hope to see hundreds, if not thousands turn out to protest our broken judicial branch that tends to not hold anyone accountable for anything, unless of course they happen to be regular court staff the ranks of which have been decimated in droves.
We're not positive how many will ultimately turn out but we would like to see big numbers today. Everyone has a stake in reforming "Dysfunction Junction" from the newest judicial branch hires to attorneys who have watched justice become less accessible year after year after year, to judges that watch their budgets go up in smoke over judicial council projects projected to cost billions, to litigants who have to navigate systems where there is neither justice nor accountability.
As Californians, we have had to sit back and watch things disintegrate while unelected appointees of the Chief Justice promulgate a host of new, more complicated forms that even attorneys and judges can't figure out. We've had to sit back and watch fellow Americans be stripped of their constitutional rights to speak out via new 'opinions' that cite certain subject matters to be ethical violations subject to CJP action. We've had to sit back and watch our legal system disintegrate because our legislators prefer funding boondogglers over boots at the front counter or an open courthouse within reasonable distances to where we live or work because the boondogglers who don't represent the courts insist this is the way it should be.
We've had to sit back and watch as some courts modify or destroy the court record to protect themselves from the "law firm full employment act" because some people have stakes in those very same law firms and know they can get away with just about anything because there is no one to hold them accountable.
We've observed years of whistleblowers being fired over revealing avoidable off the chart costs….for case management systems…..for courthouses that were delivered at a cost of over a billion dollars while others with a similar amount of courtrooms were delivered for a few hundred million (Long Beach vs. Stockton would be a fine example here…)…for divulging embezzlements where no one is held accountable.
We've seen new courthouses built at the cost of millions only to watch them shut down four years later. We've observed that more than twice as many courthouses have been shut down due to a lack of operating funds than have been built to replace them. We watch as even the new courthouses contemplate shutting down because they can't afford to staff them.
As citizens, consumers of court services and employees of the courts, we can clearly define what we as a society need. Yet there are unelected appointees who wish to ignore our wishes and go off in a boondoggling direction that costs billions and robs us of our ability to find the justice that we seek.
Todays rally will start at 11AM on the steps of 350 McAllister in San Francisco and end somewhere around 3PMish. If you have a voice….. please let it be heard loud and clear.
We're fed up with rigged systems that cast aside the needs of the common man so that they can build a new mausoleum to justice built like a palace, yet can't seem to scratch up enough funding to operate them.
The appointed enablers that lead us are doing an incredibly swell job at making things just a little more dysfunctional every day they sit in those star chamber seats. Their priorities are entirely messed up and they want to blame sacramento and say that if Sacramento just gave them more money, they wouldn't be so dysfunctional. Yet the proof is already there. Every dollar that goes to the judicial council costs the courts four when others observe how money is wasted.
Today, you have the opportunity to make a big stink, to get peoples attention and turn things around.
So if you can, make it a point to show up en masse and voice your concerns. It is up to you to turn things around. The boondogglers, the fraudsters and their enablers believe they can get away with anything.
It's time to tell them and show them that they are wrong.
Nice work once again JCW.
The Superior Court Judges in Kings County have concluded that this temporary closure of outlying divisions and/or limitation in staffing levels and hours of the Hanford Courthouse is necessary in order to address the continued fiscal crisis that the Court faces. The limitation of hours and services set forth above is just one of many cost-saving steps taken by the Court to address California's fiscal crisis.
Law360, San Diego (September 03, 2014, 3:47 PM ET) — A recent law severely restricting the rainy day funds that California's 58 trial courts can sock away will seriously test Golden State courts over the next couple of years, as courthouses with shuttered benches and failing computer systems struggle to provide adequate services, a state Judicial Council member told Law360 last week.
Legislation aimed at creating a statewide reserve by barring the trial courts from reserving more than 1 percent of their operating budgets took effect at the end of June and could create challenges for courts that face unexpected costs, according to Associate Justice Douglas Miller of the Fourth District Court of Appeal, who chairs the executive and planning committee for the Judicial Council, the state courts' policymaking body.
In light of the law, courts that have been traditionally underfunded, such as those in Riverside and San Bernardino, will be severely challenged and hindered in their ability to provide adequate service to court users, he said.
In preparation for next year's budget negotiations, Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye is expected to revise her three-year blueprint proposal unveiled in January that sought a $1.2 billion cash infusion for the state's judicial system, according to Associate Justice Miller.
Hearing repeatedly from the governor and the state Department of Finance that the courts need to find ways to do more with less, the chief justice in July formed the Commission on the Future of California's Court System to study how to improve state court operations and accessibility.
The commission, which will be chaired by California Supreme Court Associate Justice Carol Corrigan and is expected to hold its first meeting sometime this year, will focus on looking at big-ticket proposals to streamline procedures across the judicial branch, according to Associate Justice Miller.
Associate Justice Miller said one issue the commission may review is how to get funding for 50 new judgeships that were approved by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2007, noting that Riverside, San Bernardino and Fresno counties in particular are in desperate need of judges. S.B. 1190, which sought to appropriate funds for the judges, stalled in the state Senate this year.
The Judicial Council is also moving forward with a new governance and strategic plan for court technology to improve the public's electronic access to the courts, the latest attempt since its project to create a central software system for the 58 trial courts was abandoned in 2012 amid criticism from judges and state officials.
The council in March 2012 voted to pull the plug due to a lack of funding for the so-called California Court Case Management System, a 10-year-old project aimed at linking trial courts electronically as part of a statewide integrated system that would enable e-filing capabilities, make it easier to share information between courts and increase venue transparency. The project had already cost taxpayers more than $500 million, and a state auditor and a group of Superior Court judges claimed that the original cost estimate of the project had swelled from $260 million in 2004 to $1.9 billion.
Associate Justice Miller said the Judicial Council has learned from that experience and has taken steps to avoid past mistakes. Unlike the old project, the new technology proposal comes with a funding plan and is overseen by a committee that includes judges, technology specialists and administrative employees from the trial courts — those who will be directly affected by the computer reforms. The plan involves 19 trial courts and three appellate courts.
–Editing by Katherine Rautenberg and Richard McVay.
Quick question: How many times has the BSA audited the JC/AOC in the past five years? Is it three times?
Too bad dishonesty can't get you booted off the appellate court. CCMS V4 had an obsolete framework that, if deployed would have cost a complete re-write of the code based on more modern framework. They tinkered with getting it to work for so long that it was obsolete before it was ever deployed, so said the state auditor. By virtue of redefining deliverables that would be required to make it work, they were able to declare the product complete.
Sort of like buying an F-35 with vertical takeoff capabilities that just so happens to be missing a lift fan.
The new proposal comes with a funding plan and is overseen by many of the exact same people that brought us CCMS, plus quite a few "feigned stakeholders" to provide cover for the hundreds of millions of dollars they're planning to lay waste to, if only the legislature gives them another chance and more judicial branch funding. The system remains their focus and holds a higher priority than staffing local courthouses.
The dumbest thing the branch could possibly do is to go back to the drawing board and develop another system themselves. They didn't own the code to CCMS even though they swore the whole time that they did. They're not savvy enough to not run into copyright issues where they ultimately end up paying someone (or in the case of ccms, a while bunch of someones) for product licensing.
The smartest thing they could do is buy a judicial branch enterprise license of an already existing, well supported system tailored to functional and performance specifications.
But it it hard to bury the employment of friends and family and kickbacks in such an endeavor because the figures aren't mind-boggling where a few hundred grand can disappear here and there like they easily can with a custom developed system written from scratch.
Thanks, Anonymous, for pointing out the true historical facts! I guess some believe that if erroneous statements are repeated often enough, they will be accepted. Absolutely outrageous comment made by Justice Miller. Such a shame. Dishonesty should mean more in an appellate position. And if he actually believes what he says, now, that is scary.
Oh, and thanks to our wonderful UMan for tirelessly working to educate us all and remind the rest of us of what's happening! He's always got his finger on the pulses and a sense of humor to boot!
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – With California's Judicial Council facing a $22.7 million revenue shortfall that will likely be backfilled or funded, a committee declined Wednesday to offer an alternative recommendation on allocation.
At its meeting Wednesday led by Court Executive Officer Jake Chatters, the second this year to be open to the press and public, the Trial Court Budget Advisory Committee (TCBAC) deftly bypassed the option to revisit the original four allocation options.
Insider J Walsh was quoted as saying " we can't efficiency our way out of a deep budget reduction ". This is what all the insiders at 455 Golden Gate want you to believe. The best and most effective way to reduce judicial branch waste is to scale back all that goes on in the Crystal Palace including moving their operations to Sacramento. In addition the branch would get a lot more support if the current leadership like J Miller wouldn't make some of the claims that they do. Saying that CCMS was ready and would have operated effectively is beyond belief. Statements like that just lose all credibility for the entire branch. J Miller, please do us all a huge favor and just get out and resign .
After I read Justice Miller's comments about CCMS I had to rejoin this great site. What in the world is this Judicial Council "insider" thinking? Everybody knows CCMS wasn't going to work so saying it failed due to lack of further funding ( a half billion wasn't enough) is an incredible misrepresentation of the truth. What I find very disturbing is how and why are people like Miller even commenting at all and representing the Judicial branch? How did he become my representative to anything ? Lando is right. Justice Miller needs to be thanked and excused and given a one way ticket back to Indio or better yet Blythe.
JCW, thank you for this post.
Hello everyone. The dust has settled after Friday's rally/protest which was very productive.
Security was careful to tell us what we could and could not do, and what would get us arrested. We went from the outside speaking event to the cafeteria, where some of us convened with the intention of taking the elevators to the Judicial Council. (Some rally participants remained outside, fearful of retaliation. Indeed, several of the lawyers who spoke described the personal retaliation they had suffered for speaking out, and various other protest participants also described retaliation they had suffered. Geez, what country do we live in?) Anyway, Security told us if all of us in the cafeteria went up to the Judicial Council, people would be arrested, so they took 8 or 10 of us up to Floor 3 (where they hold the JC meetings), telling us that the Judicial Council had someone waiting to speak with us. The person they had waiting to speak with us was the Director of Reception. LOL. We said we wanted a meeting with the Chair of the Judicial Council and he said we had to request that in writing. We told him a June 9, 2014 letter had been written to the Chair of the Judicial Council along with various others governmental officials, and that we had been directed by the Governor and Attorney General to take our concerns to the Judicial Council, but three months later the only person/entity we had not heard back from was the Judicial Council. We told them that the Judicial Council had received the letter on June 12th, and the chief's personal secretary had reported it was sent to the Office of General Counsel, and that she would call and tell them we were waiting for a response. We told them follow up calls had been made to OGC, but we got no response at all, so here we all were, in person, people from 16 California counties, taking our issues to the Judicial Council as directed by the Governor and Attorney General, and we wanted to set a meeting with the Chair of the Judicial Council to discuss our concerns. We asked the Director of Reception to get someone from OGC. After a time Robert Buckley, managing attorney of the OGC arrived, and told us we could not set a meeting with the Chair (Tani) but we were at the right place (the Judicial Council) and that we should go to the October Judicial Council meeting and she would be there.
We asked Mr. Buckley to go downstairs to speak with the people waiting in the cafeteria who had traveled from 16 counties, which he did. In response to a direct question about who had oversight authority of the judicial branch, if not the Governor or the Attorney General, he said the Chief Justice. He reiterated, over and over, that we were in the right place and that we needed to go to the October Judicial Council meeting. We asked if the concerns set forth in the June 9, 2014 letter were only going to be addressed at the meeting, and not in writing earlier, and he said he had not even seen that letter (notwithstanding Tani's secretary stating it had been sent to OGC, and that she would make a call to let them know we were awaiting a response). He was provided a copy of that letter, and a Center for Judicial Excellence letter stating its very broad concerns about the branch, and asking for a meeting with the Chair of the JC and a public hearing open to the press, at which people from around the state could come and testify to the JC about their issues with the branch. He kept saying we had to go to the October JC meeting.
We will be there. And that, my friends, is when everyone should show up en masse. We got the invitation to the party, and we should all show up.
For decades the California Judicial Council has been the recipient of ongoing reports of misconduct and waste within the Judicial Branch. Yet, misconduct and waste continue unabated. Governor Brown and Attorney General Harris have denied they have the authority to act on complaints of misconduct within the branch, and have referred complainants to the Judicial Council. Complaints have been made to the Judicial Council, but have gone unanswered. This happened most recently in connection with a June 9, 2014 letter complaint about the involvement of former Judicial Councilmember Kim Turner and Marin Judge Beverly Wood in the backdating of a register of actions and minute order. The Governor, Attorney General, and Marin County Counsel have all referred the complainant to the Judicial Council. Yet, although Judicial Council Chair Tani Cantil Sakauye has been in receipt of that complaint since June 12, 2014, and follow- up calls have been made seeking a response, as of last week, the Judicial Council still had not responded.
statutes; the elimination of court reporters who provide an official record of substantive court proceedings, notwithstanding Commission on Judicial Performance concerns and recommendations about the need for an official record; ongoing branch waste while court fees and penalties are operating to deny the public access to the courts; rampant document destruction by branch members with Judicial Council approval; improper record-keeping within the branch; the withholding of court records by court personnel; the thwarting of legislative investigative and oversight efforts; record tampering and backdating by members of the Judicial Branch; abuse of the assigned judges program; the lack of adequate data collection and management by the Judicial branch, notwithstanding the expenditure of millions on court computer systems; the abuse of ex parte procedures such that judges are having secret non-emergency hearings with one side of the case, and issuing secret non-emergency orders withheld from the other side of the case, thereby repeatedly denying basic due process rights to notice and an opportunity to be heard by an impartial decision maker, and equal protection of the laws; the denial of affordable legal resources and adequate fee orders for financially disadvantaged litigants; cronyism within the branch; the lack of diversity of viewpoints and public representation on the Judicial Council; the practice of judges picking judges, via the assigned judges program, and the selection of Court Commissioners who exercise full judicial powers and are then often converted to judges; the improper delegation of judicial power; and the lack of adequate oversight of the Judicial Branch as a whole.
Members of the judicial branch are supposed to be guardians of the law, but who is guarding the guards? It is time for the public's concerns about this to be heard and addressed by the Judicial Council, via a public hearing.
Connie Valentine, California Protective Parents Assn.
"It's Official! We've been personally invited to the next Judicial Council meeting by Bob! We tried to arrange a time to talk quietly with the Chair of the JC yesterday (see video), but heck, if they want us to air all of this filthy laundry in public, with the media in the room, then by God, we can certainly do that. The gloves are off, folks. It's our Year to Demand Justice for all Californians. Won't you please join us in SF again on Oct. 27 and 28? Get your red t-shirt to show our strength in numbers at the CJE website today. We CAN DO THIS!" Kathleen Russell, on Center for Judicial Excellence Facebook page.
Answer: As recently stated by the Cal Chief Justice, who has obviously twisted the meaning and usage of a word to justify the unjustifiable, "countermajoritarian".
This happens regularly at 455 Golden Gate Avenue.
California Public Utilities Commission employees expressed outrage at a staff meeting over a judge-shopping scandal involving top agency officials and Pacific Gas and Electric Co., with some demanding the resignation of the commission's president.
At an extraordinary gathering that filled the commission's auditorium in San Francisco to overflowing, attorneys, administrative law judges and other staffers voiced their frustration with officials who promised to help PG&E get the administrative law judge it wanted to hear a rate case that could cost customers more than $1 billion.
Peevey did not attend the staff meeting Thursday. Officials at the agency's San Francisco headquarters called the session after Peevey's chief of staff resigned and three PG&E executives were fired over what the commission called "inappropriate" back-channel communications to pick an administrative law judge for the rate case.
In e-mails that PG&E released Monday, one of the fired utility executives told Peevey's aide that the judge initially assigned would pose a "major problem," and that the utility had been "screwed royally" by a prospective replacement judge.
Peevey aide Carol Brown, who responded that she was "working on" changing the judge, resigned as the president's chief of staff this week but remains with the agency as an administrative law judge. Peevey said he would recuse himself from hearing a proposed $1.4 billion penalty against PG&E for the San Bruno explosion.
Another commission member, Mike Florio, who e-mailed PG&E that he would "do what I can on this end," has apologized but has not recused himself from any cases. He says he took no action to help PG&E in the rate case.
That case will decide how the cost of post-San Bruno pipeline improvements will be divided between customers and shareholders. PG&E is seeking to have its customers pick up nearly $1.3 billion in costs.
The company's choice, administrative law Judge John Wong, was named to the case in January. He has not issued a ruling.
Thursday's staff meeting was restricted to agency employees, but The Chronicle obtained a tape of the hour-long session. Much of the criticism was aimed at Peevey, whose nearly 12-year tenure atop the agency was marred by the National Transportation Safety Board's finding that the utilities commission had been overly lax in its regulation of PG&E before the San Bruno disaster.
One employee who addressed the commission's executive director, Paul Clanon, threatened "a mass staff rebellion" should Peevey be reappointed by Gov. Jerry Brown to another six-year term in December.
Clanon acknowledged at one point that "judge shopping" had occurred and said he was "shocked" when he read the e-mails. He promised a "root and branch" review of how well the commission is following rules barring informal communications with the utilities it regulates.
But many in the audience were not convinced.
"Are we just going to throw a couple of people under the bus, or are we going to look at the real causes in our culture that create this kind of corruptness and basically sleazy environment?" one staff member asked.
Florio, a former longtime attorney for the consumer watchdog group The Utility Reform Network, has said he was unaware of the rules against informal communications with utilities. The staffer said she didn't believe him.
Clanon told the employees that he would seek outside help in making changes. "We need a look from somebody who is not part of our culture," he said.
On Friday, two state legislators and the mayor of San Bruno demanded that state Attorney General Kamala Harris open a criminal investigation into whether commission officials broke the law in the judge-shopping case.
"I'm not an attorney, but if this isn't collusion, I don't know what is," said Assemblyman Kevin Mullin, a San Mateo Democrat who joined state Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, and San Bruno Mayor Jim Ruane in delivering a letter to Harris' office in San Francisco calling for a criminal probe.
A woman who introduced herself as the Chief Administrative Law Judge for the Public Utilities Commission was at the "Informed Voters – Fair Judges Project" meeting here in SD on the 11th. I think her name was Karen Something-or other and she seemed to be traveling with a small entourage. It was a relatively small group of maybe 80 to 100 people at the meeting. Tani was the keynote (only) speaker.
So glad that Justice California and her associates were able to get an Oct public meeting scheduled with the Judicial Council regarding rampant Cal court corruption. Its becoming more apparent by the day that the double-speak and cronyism has literally reached a crisis level of criminality in our courts.
Does anyone screen these posts on JCW? I'm no fan of McConnell's but the above is really unfair. It would be nice if we could stay on message which is reform of the Judicial Council not one blogger's personal deal.
I guess I'm missing something here . . . what posting about McConnell???
Two paragraphs of Sharon Kramers post were moderated.
Moderation is sometimes a necessary evil.
I'm sorry I asked the question.


The following series was Fleur's first exploration of building tableux and it features a story centred around her daughter and her dog. Titled The Excellent Adventures of Heidi and Kilbey, the inspiration for this series was born on February the 4th 2005. Her name was Heidi and she dramatically changed the way Fleur experienced the world. Suddenly the world changed from black and white to colour! Heidi reacquainted Fleur with the magical world of children's books. Fleur's not sure who was more captivated by their colour or more moved by their messages, Heidi or her!
"As she drifts off to sleep Heidi imagines the aquarium wallpaper on her bedroom wall coming to life. Heidi's room fills with water like a giant fish tank as her bed floats across the room on a floating magic carpet. All the while Kilbey tries to catch the fish in a net!"
"All of sudden there is a strange sound coming from the bottom of the garden. Kilbey has been busy building a translation machine! "Fantastic" squeals Heidi as she gently leans across and turns it on... "Rumble, Rumble, Pop, Wiz, Zip, Pfff!" With a Woof and Giggle, now everyone can understand what they are saying."
"Heidi imagines all her favourite things... her toothbrush, Daddy's mobile phone, Woolly Bear, the bath taps, a clothes peg, her scooter, Marj Simpson, her ball, and of course Heidi's most favourite, Kilbey Dog!"
"Heidi's morning begins with a warm bath. She watches as the bath fills with water and bubbles. Suddenly there is silence... you can hear a pin drop. The look on everyone's face is shock. Oh No, Heidi has done it again! She has pulled the plug out of the bath."


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